Character Design

The following is a character "designed" while play-testing a storytelling dice game in GDD101. The storyline tends to get ridiculous, but I think this type of role-playing exercise has the potential to develop interesting characters that aren't as absurd as this one.

Character Design – The Mummy Lord

Positive Traits – This mummy can only communicate telepathically, but understands the thoughts of camels, ostriches, English-speaking humans, and other undead. Since becoming a mummy, he gained control of an Egyptian pyramid and its resident mummy horde. He knows the location of a spacecraft hidden deep within the pyramid, left behind by the extra-terrestrials who built the structure.

Negative Traits – The Mummy Lord is very bitter, spiteful, petty, and vindictive. He despises ostriches after one almost killed him inside the pyramid, and seeks revenge against that ostrich. Before he was a mummy, this man was a blind, deaf mute wandering the desert, and his mummification hasn’t restored his sight or hearing. He can now make unpleasant hissing and grunting sounds, but is still incapable of speech.

Visual Characteristics – The mummy lords has had little time to decay, and is very bulky for a mummy. His bandages lack the dull, yellow color of older mummies. His left arm is missing several chunks from a run in with a camel before his mummification.

Back-Story – While trapped within a pyramid in the Egyptian desert, the blind, deaf mute was almost killed when an ostrich nearly caused part of the pyramid to cave in. In his attempt to kill the ostrich, he allowed the pyramid’s undead horde to mummify him and came to rule over the pyramid.

*For this week, I did options 1 and 2.