Your favorite NPC to play?

[Artaxastra]

So, Loremasters, who are your favorite NPCs to play? Who do you just love it when the player characters have a scene with?

I love doing Thranduil. "Our ill-tempered king" is always such fun. I also love doing Balin. I love Agatha from the Easterly Inn, good old Hartfast of Mountain Hall (though he's passed away at a ripe old age in my campaign now), and Radagast is a hoot, especially when he can't quite remember the key thing he was going to tell them. And honorable mention has to go to Lord Celeborn when three Woodmen and a Wood Elf attempted to drive a herd of cattle through Lorien....

Who do you love to play?

[Otaku-sempai]

But (outside of the movies) is Thranduil normally ill-tempered? Or is that only when he is dealing with obstinate Dwarves, invading Orcs and potential spies?

[Artaxastra]

I'm kind of cutting a middle ground between books and movies. I'm sticking to the timeline of the books, but some of the movie elements that the players love are staying, like Radagast's bunnies. So my Thranduil is very influenced by movie Thranduil, though background details are different. For example, his wife wasn't killed fighting Angmar as per the movies, but was a granddaughter of Cirdan who has left him and gone over the Sea.

[Throrsgold]

Radagast is my favorite.

My Radagast is very much like Peter Jackson's version, but my version predates PJ's version by months...no bird crap on his head, but VERY quirky. In addition to having animal "servants" (think like at Beorn's), my version had Radagast handing PCs orphaned baby animals for which to care...if they did so successfully, I restored Hope to them. A Beorning that was handed a piglet kept making 'bacon' comments...he received no boon and I was sorely tempted to have him make a Corruption check.

[Elmoth]

The madman of the woods!!! Monty Python on a killing spree! I can get real silly with him or extremely serious and knowledgeable. And sad. Usually a mix of it all that always leaves the PC confused and double thinking everything

We just got introduced (again) to the (new) goblin king, and the other LM in our group seems to have a blast playing him. Other memourable characters this far in our campaign are Valten and Shanker. Valten is taking on the role of the disgrunted woodman leader from DoM, and is a recurring character that is not doing silly things like attacking Beorn at home. Shanker is a grey character that so far has left the PC wondering if he is just a wanderer, a spy of mordor or an agent of the white council since he has done all kind of acts, showing morals from the highest ideals to the lowest sins. They tend to be played by the other LM, that tens to be the narrator in the areas west of Mirkwood, though.

[Artaxastra]

A Beorning that was handed a piglet kept making 'bacon' comments...he received no boon and I was sorely tempted to have him make a Corruption check.

Heh. My sister had a stuffed pig as a child she named Hamlet. For obvious reasons.

That sounds like a lot of fun. Radagast is really a blast. And he's kind of the perfect patron because he can ask them to do pretty much anything without explaining it completely.

[zedturtle]

Radagast is fun. I also had fun with Hartwulf; making him into a bit of the 'madman really knows what's going on, if you understand his riddles'.

DJ Tommy B will be fun, for similar reasons. I'm looking forward to playing him too.

[Majestic]

Shanker and Witherfinger were a lot of fun to play, as was the Dragon Raenar.

[Elmoth]

Shanker and Witherfinger were a lot of fun to play, as was the Dragon Raenar.

Looking forward to play Raenar myself

[Robin Smallburrow]

I would love to play a dragon, that would be as close as it gets to playing Morgoth himself

No creatures are more selfish or self-centred!

Robin S