“Still not used to these voice-logs” John was a soldier, he never liked the machines slowly creeping all over the military world. The new mandatory Report Recorder, now standard issue with Ludsburg military was just another gadget he didn’t need. “Euhm… We’ve been waiting by the road for three days, waiting for that pint-sized bastard Wick, should be over any minute now.”
Wick was a crook, or, as he prefered, a “solicitor of illicit and profitable goods”. Drugs and illegal magick was his trade and made is fortune. The military had finally issued a warrant, John’s squad was to ambush Wick’s caravan. The soldiers had enough guns to fuel both sides of the war and a pair of spellsingers borrowed from the Golden Brigade. “At this point, nothing can go wro…”
John was interrupted by a clicking from behind him. “Turn ’round slowly capt’n, not looking for a fight, but if I have to, ain’t gonna hesitate, you ain’t my first.” John turned around slowly to see the Flintlock Repeater, goverment issue for soldiers as a side-arm in war time.
“Are you with Wick?” John said, visibly angry, a simple mission failed to a goon with a gun.
“Wick? Who the hell’s Wick? Nah, I work for myself, soldier-boy. Jus’ want some o’ your guns, and whatever cash you tools are packin’ and I’ll be on my way” The man must have been six and a half foot tall, his head shaved in the last few days and sporting a 3-day beard. He looked like he would be covered in scars, but wasn’t. Was he that good?
John signaled to one of the mage’s to stand down, he didn’t want to accidently be set on fire or covered in magical acid.
“Tell you what, bastard, we’re here waiting to raid one of the most powerful smuggler from Ludsburg. Help us out and you can have some of the loot.”
Thus Started Jode Klank’s military career.
The idea for this character comes from listening to “Ain’t no Rest for the Wicked”, from Cage the Elephant, for 3 days straight, on repeat. I don’t know what it is about this song, but it is such a great inspiration for a game.
Looks
Klank has everything of a thug. He’s huge, seemingly carved out of rough stone, his skin like leather. He has little more body hair then his tiny eyebrows, over his small eyes, hiding deep in their sockets. He wears a pair of thick, brown leather pants, dirty with oil and mud, and sporting a pair of suspenders he never actually bothers wearing. Has a shirt he wears as little as he can, depending on the weather and the area. Generally staying topless (proves more intimidating, when you can see that your opponent as more muscles in a square inch of his body than in the the whole of you), unless in civilized lands, in which case he’ll wear a tank-top at most.
He carries a pair of goverment issue repeater pistols, and has a wrench strapped to his leg, covered in old blood and various tiny pieces of sharp metal, apparently stuck there to make the weapon look as nasty as possible.
Personality
Jode believes in one thing : cash. He’s nothing more than a highwayman with a bit of creativity who wound up with the adventuring party after a series of random occurences bringing him to become a military grunt. He loves laughing at the suffering of others, thinking all irony is hillarious and cares little for his own pains. At first look, one might think this is a man who needed a few more hugs when he was a child, but it becomes clear after being with him for a while that he sees physical and emotional pain as a game, in himself or others.
One thing is for sure, Jode Klank never backs down. Whatever the ridiculous amount of punishment he takes, he gets up and fights until somebody dies, seeing his own pain as both hillarious and a proof that he’s still alive (alive and kickin’, even). He’s ultimately a crazed masochistic psychopath who ultimately, just wants to be part of the action.
Side note : Evil characters in good campaigns
I love evil characters. Love them, especially when most of team is good-aligned, but I loath PvP in my RPGs. To most, it’s hard to picture evil characters collaborating with the good guys, being a useful member of the team and not slowing the game to a crawl. Hell, I’ve seen good aligned characters refusing outright to work with an evil-aligned character (paladins in 3.X, unsuprisingly).
My best example for an evil character working with the good guys is Jayne from Firefly. The man’s a criminal and selfish douchebag, but hey, he’s a good fighter and probably won’t betray the whole team that much. Klank is evil, hell, he’s not in the prisoner taking buisiness, won’t leave much survivors, will even have fun making one die slowly, but he’s not a leader and he’s not stupid. He’s in hostile territory and needs the rest of the party to survive. Of course, he’ll push the line as far as he can, will get into shouting matches with the crew’s more vocal goody-two-shoes, but he’s ultimately a valuable member of the team. He would probably get things done faster than most, skipping over the moral aspect of a situation if the rest of the party is willing to close their eyes, this once (with a Firefly example, like Mal sometimes would do). Plus, nothing stops you, as a DM, to stick a little bit of red tape to make sure the team sticks together (IE, in the new Heroic Orchestra campaign, Klank could be the military envoy, and doing anything to him would end up hurting the relationship between the Golden Brigade and the Ludsburg military, having consequences on the choice of the new emperor, for example.
How would I build Jode Klank
In 4th edition, I’d make him a brutal scoundrel rogue, fighting with his trusty spiked wrench, occasionnally shooting his gun at people. He would be much more at home staying in the heroic tier, being as gritty as he is.
Don’t forget I played an evil character in a good campaign myself!
Dorian Hemlock McGee. If Jhonny the homicidal maniac was an anchor for evil thoughts, then Dorian was an anchor for cowardice.
Oh gawd… I’ll try not to brawl him, then. I don’t want no death due to a fist fight.
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