{"id":347,"date":"2012-12-18T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/supporting-character-quirks\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T00:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:38:37","slug":"supporting-character-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/supporting-character-quirks\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Character Quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supporting characters are a lot more interesting when there&#8217;s something weird about them. While you don&#8217;t want to give every single GMC the characters meet a quirky trait (unless you&#8217;re playing a David Lynch-style game), important or recurring characters will be more memorable if they&#8217;ve got an unusual trait. The list below is for modern games, but most of them will work for other settings if you tweak the details a bit. <!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Believes that he is the descendant of Emperor Norton I, and expects to be treated accordingly<\/li>\n<li>Is constantly trying to solve a Rubik&#8217;s Cube<\/li>\n<li>Is obsessed with Tom Brokaw<\/li>\n<li>Always wears a Star Fleet uniform<\/li>\n<li>Claims that he invented Google and was screwed out of his share of the company<\/li>\n<li>Always trying to give people creepy neck messages<\/li>\n<li>Has an incredibly annoying, high-pitched voice<\/li>\n<li>Break dances whenever possible<\/li>\n<li>Always wearing the perfect hat for the occasion<\/li>\n<li>Full-blown paranoid conspiracy nut<\/li>\n<li>Talks like John Wayne<\/li>\n<li>Carries a pocket full of peanuts that he eats constantly and just throws the shells on the floor no matter where he is<\/li>\n<li>Dresses like WHAM!<\/li>\n<li>Won&#8217;t shut up about the time he met Tom Arnold<\/li>\n<li>Constantly getting into arguments with his ventriloquist&#8217;s dummy<\/li>\n<li>Gives everyone nicknames<\/li>\n<li>Only speaks in song lyrics<\/li>\n<li>Drives an AMC Pacer Wagon painted in swirling day-glow colors<\/li>\n<li>Carries a Lincoln Hawk action figure in his pocket, which he consults when making decisions<\/li>\n<li>Won&#8217;t stop quoting <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i>, no matter how much you beg<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Supporting characters are a lot more interesting when there&#8217;s something weird about them. While you don&#8217;t want to give every single GMC the characters meet a quirky trait (unless you&#8217;re playing a David Lynch-style game), important or recurring characters will be more memorable if they&#8217;ve got an unusual trait. The list below is for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1996],"tags":[400,756,886,1193,1625,1761,2533,2534,2535,2536,2537,2538],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumb-tables","tag-john-wayne","tag-star-trek","tag-dumb-tables","tag-monty-python","tag-david-lynch","tag-npcs","tag-emperor-norton-i","tag-tom-brokaw","tag-rubiks-cube","tag-break-dancing","tag-wham","tag-tom-arnold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}