What Fictional Military, Order, or Fellowship would you Join... but only be an Average Member?

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Eh.. A small price to pay, plus I'm very disloyal to organizations in general since I'm very individualistic, being realistic I shouldn't be on any organization, last time I joined the Harpers I was working for so many different factions that I don't remember all of them, since I kept being resurrected with the Reincarnation spell and per homebrew rules of the GM I also switched genders as well as race it was super easy to infiltrate an organization die and then be free because I no longer looked like anything else and was releived of all identification tattooes and marks, I even killed myself once to get out of the hands of Xentharim, but since I came back with all my knowledge I exploited the shit out of it.

Basically I'd likely die in an attempt to double cross them because even though I can be fiercely loyal to people I couldn't care less about organizations since they are always corrupted, still it would be fun for a while I think.

I used to be a Harper agent like you, but then I reincarnated into a kobold? :3

3.x druids and bards easily rank as my equal first favourite PC classes. Basically there was a stretch of time where if we already had one, I'd simply play the other. Pre-written character sheets even before rolling to one sesh. Argh, I forget the name of the spell but there was one that allowed you to be reincarnated without level loss?

I'm fairly sure it was in the spell compendium... or it might have been 3.0 Masters of the Wild.

So Moonsea/Dalelands campaign? You know, what would you think of a middling Hathran if we're going all FR with it? Wychlaren always seemed lke a fun group to belong to.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Can I be a computer and network techie on the Starship Enterprise?

As long as I can be a medical and science officer on Discovery! I thought about Enterprise, or even Voyager, but then Discovery gets to do all the cool shat that will all likely become classified later when they go to tie it into the original series and that seemed more interesting to me since they get to break all the rules.

You can have Discovery, as far as I?m concerned that shitshow doesn't exist.


Oh I thought of another one. Spectrum, one of the random lieutenants who works at ops for Colonel White.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Can I be a computer and network techie on the Starship Enterprise?

As long as I can be a medical and science officer on Discovery! I thought about Enterprise, or even Voyager, but then Discovery gets to do all the cool shat that will all likely become classified later when they go to tie it into the original series and that seemed more interesting to me since they get to break all the rules.

You can have Discovery, as far as I?m concerned that shitshow doesn't exist.


Oh I thought of another one. Spectrum, one of the random lieutenants who works at ops for Colonel White.

!! Are you out of your Vulcan mind?! Discovery is awesome as far as I am concerned. I think I may even like it as much as the Borg fan collective, and I have watched every Star Trek ever made. Time will tell. I even think they did a great job casting Pike. What is it you don''t like about it?

 

[SckizoBoy]

'Cos I'm playing an RPG about it in a party of five (well, the DM's wife should be in it as well, but she's abroad atm): Mage Hunter... Retribution of Ios from Iron Kingdoms... I'm an average member but I'm kicking a bit of ass (got the highest kill count so far, and my character is rabidly racist... but sort of getting over it), so yeah, I'll go with that.

For something a bit more mainstream, I was going to go Jedi Knight 'cos Force and a lightsabre will never get old, but it seemed to easy. So instead, I'll say an Eldar Harlequin from 40K, and since I'm an 'average' member, I'll never be the Solitaire! For all she's a total badass, I do not envy her lot in life... -_-

 

[Thaluikhain]

A random crewman on a Federation ship wouldn't be so bad. Sure, every time you visit the holodeck there's a 50-50 chance of being killed by Genghis Khan or whatever, but avoid those and you'll probably be fine.

(I discount the war with the Dominion in DS9, because I don't watch DS9)

Despite knowing how terrible the warhammer 40k universe is, I'd still choose to join the imperial guard as either a sniper or pilot OR the space marines (no specific chapter) in pretty much either of the same roles.

The Testicular Fortitude on you... It is amazing.

You would CHOOSE to be apart of the Astra Militarum?! The part of the God-Emperor's Military with the slogan "Shoot all you want, we'll make more". Respect.

Eh, you could end just as easily end up guarding some backwater place nobody bothers invading and do nothing your entire life. If you are a marine or a sister, you will end up in combat and most likely die there. Mind you, pick the right chapter and you've got a good chance of fighting morally just wars and making a difference.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I just figured it was slightly out of the spirit of the question to deliberately select a faction which is overpowered compared to the opposition.

Hey, it's completely in the spirit of the rules. Grey Knights are a faction, even if they are mighty. You're not saying "I'm going to be Supreme Grand Master Kaldor Draigo". You're saying you'd be one of the mighty grunts. They all don't survive. Go on and have all the psyker fun that you can have.

There's no deep reason for that choice either. I just think some of the imperial guard units have some interesting history/lore (admittedly I'm not super up to date with current lore, but still) I think the imperial guard's deeds get forgotten/ignored for the most part, because space marines appear and claim glory (atleast in my opinion)

If that's the case, I think you want to be Cadian. Some... stuff has happened with them...

Eh, you could end just as easily end up guarding some backwater place nobody bothers invading and do nothing your entire life. If you are a marine or a sister, you will end up in combat and most likely die there. Mind you, pick the right chapter and you've got a good chance of fighting morally just wars and making a difference.

Like Commissar Cain did? All of the Backwaters that house dormant Necrons, Genestealer Cults, Chaos Cults or the relics that drive entire worlds mad, Feral Orks, or Dark Eldar raiding parties?

Backwaters are dangerous as hell. Especially with the Splinter Fleets coming in.

'Cos I'm playing an RPG about it in a party of five (well, the DM's wife should be in it as well, but she's abroad atm): Mage Hunter... Retribution of Ios from Iron Kingdoms... I'm an average member but I'm kicking a bit of ass (got the highest kill count so far, and my character is rabidly racist... but sort of getting over it), so yeah, I'll go with that.

For something a bit more mainstream, I was going to go Jedi Knight 'cos Force and a lightsabre will never get old, but it seemed to easy. So instead, I'll say an Eldar Harlequin from 40K, and since I'm an 'average' member, I'll never be the Solitaire! For all she's a total badass, I do not envy her lot in life... -_-

Hmm... you're bringing up a good point. Perhaps I should have also delved in my LARP days. My Avenger Hunter [https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Avenger_(HTR)] should be dusted off.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Rank-and-file Jedi Knight- oh, what? Multiple people said that already? I guess it's no surprise.

Rank-and-file Shinigami from Bleach. I'm almost impossible to kill unless we're fighting a certain expertly trained army of Quincies. I can hunt down evil ghosts, learn spells, get a sword whose spirit and special powers reflect my personality, and it gets stronger if I train harder, even if I will never be as strong or skilled as a Lieutenant or a Captain or that mouthy orange-haired substitute Shinigami everyone's always going on about. And there are 13 squads to chose from who accept new members based on character traits that they cherish!

 

[Saint of M]

Grey Wardens: Join to fight Dark Spawn and get away from old life, die a hero regardless of how big or in this case how small a role.

Jedi: I work in the Library

Colonial Marines: Face Huggered first page.

 

[Kae]

Eh.. A small price to pay, plus I'm very disloyal to organizations in general since I'm very individualistic, being realistic I shouldn't be on any organization, last time I joined the Harpers I was working for so many different factions that I don't remember all of them, since I kept being resurrected with the Reincarnation spell and per homebrew rules of the GM I also switched genders as well as race it was super easy to infiltrate an organization die and then be free because I no longer looked like anything else and was releived of all identification tattooes and marks, I even killed myself once to get out of the hands of Xentharim, but since I came back with all my knowledge I exploited the shit out of it.

Basically I'd likely die in an attempt to double cross them because even though I can be fiercely loyal to people I couldn't care less about organizations since they are always corrupted, still it would be fun for a while I think.

I used to be a Harper agent like you, but then I reincarnated into a kobold? :3

3.x druids and bards easily rank as my equal first favourite PC classes. Basically there was a stretch of time where if we already had one, I'd simply play the other. Pre-written character sheets even before rolling to one sesh. Argh, I forget the name of the spell but there was one that allowed you to be reincarnated without level loss?

I'm fairly sure it was in the spell compendium... or it might have been 3.0 Masters of the Wild.

So Moonsea/Dalelands campaign? You know, what would you think of a middling Hathran if we're going all FR with it? Wychlaren always seemed lke a fun group to belong to.

Well it I was never a Kobold but I was a male Half-Elf, then a Male Dwarf, then a Female Human, then a female Dryad, then a Male Drow Elf and finally I went back to my original form, it was kinda funny because my character was 15 years old by the end .

And while this character was a Rogue and I do favour Rogues over any other class I actually am one of those people that is willing to play any class so long as I have a good idea for a character, but since my party is always weak at subterfuge I almost always end up as a Rogue which can get tiring, Druids are very neat, I have one in the works, I'll see if I'm able to play it soon.

And yeah, a campaign in that region does sound kinda fun, though I"ll admit that I'm not welk versed on FR most of what I know is from what I've plaued and we mainly play on DragonLance.

 

[Asita]

...Point of order: What would an average Tenno (Warframe) entail? Because I can't for the life of me tell whether the player character is supposed to be the exception or the rule.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

...Point of order: What would an average Tenno (Warframe) entail? Because I can't for the life of me tell whether the player character is supposed to be the exception or the rule.

Since I haven't really seen that much Lore, I'm going to rule that anything not Prime is average. So Tenno it up!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Like Commissar Cain did? All of the Backwaters that house dormant Necrons, Genestealer Cults, Chaos Cults or the relics that drive entire worlds mad, Feral Orks, or Dark Eldar raiding parties?

No, one of the backwaters than nobody bothers invading. Most places do not contain webway portals, Necron tombs or ancient chaos relics.

Hell, even when some minor unimportant planet gets invaded, it's almost always the worst/only war there in centuries/ever. Even on the infamously war torn world of Armageddon, people have lived there for millennia, and there have been 3 recorded wars, with some 300 years between the First War for Armageddon and the Second War for Armageddon. You'd have many generations of Guardsmen not doing too much.

 

[Samos205]

There's no deep reason for that choice either. I just think some of the imperial guard units have some interesting history/lore (admittedly I'm not super up to date with current lore, but still) I think the imperial guard's deeds get forgotten/ignored for the most part, because space marines appear and claim glory (atleast in my opinion)

If that's the case, I think you want to be Cadian. Some... stuff has happened with them...

Nah, I know their planet got blown up recently. If had to go between one of the two 'default' guard factions, I'd go catachan because they sound badass

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

I would've said N7 if I'd remembered, but 40k was on my mind at the time

 

[Asita]

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

...Point of order: What would an average Tenno (Warframe) entail? Because I can't for the life of me tell whether the player character is supposed to be the exception or the rule.

Since I haven't really seen that much Lore, I'm going to rule that anything not Prime is average. So Tenno it up!

...So you're telling me that I can have (or get) access to an armory with 38+ warframes, each with unique abilities, to say nothing of a weapon arsenal and the spoilery tricks learned in the Second Dream and especially the War Within?

Sold.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

Like Samos205, 40K was on my mind at the time (since previous comments mentioned Space Marines and Grey Knights, plus that weirdo for the IG...! =P Though I gotta say, being a highly tech'd and gene modded space warrior monk would presumably play havoc with your chances for smexy times... *snrk* *I'm so mature*) but I really should've remembered the Spectres given I'm about 1/4 way through ME2 again... -.-

 

[Satinavian]

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

I liked to play the series, but living it? Way to deadly.

Personally, Star Fleet seems nice. Most of the time they are not actually in some wars and it is basically an utopian fantasy.

For other than that i can't ignore the allure of supernatural powers. Myranic Optimat would be nice. Or Mage of the Order of the Merlon. Something with interesting, reliable, powerful but not setting breaking and varied powers that is also not Vancian. The Ars Magica Order of Hermes would probably work too but non-magic living conditions are a bit bad. Or we could go to Shadowrun and have a nice cushy job at a corporate magic group like the Divinanten von Gold und Wasser, while enjoying magic superpowers and all luxuries of modern and future society.

Somehow organizations from tabletop RPG settings seem interesting than those from video games and books. Probably because those settings tend to lack the big overarching threat/conflict that is about to make your life a living hell or just end it.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

Being a SPECTRE or an N7 is the opposite of average. I mean sure, you could say you'd just like to be a rifleman in the Alliance Marines, or a Flight Officer in the Navy. Or hell, even a beat cop with C-Sec.

But an N7 is the top tier military combat specialist rating in the entire Alliance military. And a SPECTRE is literally James Bond with an even broader remit and less oversight. You cannot be average and be either of those things.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Going to have to echo Jedi, since even the average dudes there get all kind of magic powers and your own laser sword. Or perhaps Sith, can you be an average Sith? I don't want to be a Darth or anything, I just want to be a dude who can occasionally shoot lightning at things that make me angry

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Any fellow World of Darkness players? I dipped my toe in RPGs before, but my first real campaign was a Vampire Masquerade run through the mean streets of Westchester County, Ny!

... we had to use our imaginations way more that Westchester County could ever be pivotal in anything rather than us being Vampires.

Gotta say, I expected a few N7's or Spectres.

Being a SPECTRE or an N7 is the opposite of average. I mean sure, you could say you'd just like to be a rifleman in the Alliance Marines, or a Flight Officer in the Navy. Or hell, even a beat cop with C-Sec.

But an N7 is the top tier military combat specialist rating in the entire Alliance military. And a SPECTRE is literally James Bond with an even broader remit and less oversight. You cannot be average and be either of those things.

The thought exercise... hell, that's too generous. That game is that you can be apart of ANY fictional military, faction, order or Fellowship, but you wouldn't be the star.

You could be apart of the Heavenly Host, but you wouldn't be Michael or Raphael. Yeah, sure, N7's and Spectres are the best of the best. But there's only one N7 headlining the original Mass Effect series. There are N7's who are doing what they can, but they aren't out saving the Galaxy like Shepard was.

No, one of the backwaters than nobody bothers invading. Most places do not contain webway portals, Necron tombs or ancient chaos relics.

Hell, even when some minor unimportant planet gets invaded, it's almost always the worst/only war there in centuries/ever. Even on the infamously war torn world of Armageddon, people have lived there for millennia, and there have been 3 recorded wars, with some 300 years between the First War for Armageddon and the Second War for Armageddon. You'd have many generations of Guardsmen not doing too much.

I hear what you're saying. And sure, there have to be some backwaters that have no value. But I read enough Lore and books to realize if you actually want to be save... be as close to Holy Terra as you can be. Just going by number of incidents. The Milky Way Gets hit, but not as much as the Fringe.

...So you're telling me that I can have (or get) access to an armory with 38+ warframes, each with unique abilities, to say nothing of a weapon arsenal and the spoilery tricks learned in the Second Dream and especially the War Within?

Sold.

Live your best Tenno life.

Like Samos205, 40K was on my mind at the time (since previous comments mentioned Space Marines and Grey Knights, plus that weirdo for the IG...! =P Though I gotta say, being a highly tech'd and gene modded space warrior monk would presumably play havoc with your chances for smexy times... *snrk* *I'm so mature*) but I really should've remembered the Spectres given I'm about 1/4 way through ME2 again... -.-

Being Mature is for Common people. We're geeking out Fiction here! Don the N7 armor and romance a Quarian!

... Real talk, I have no idea why I find Quarians so damn attractive. No one can tell me a thing if they didn't pick Tali'Zorah vas Normandy. That woman revs my Tantalus Drive Core.

And I think that's my first real dirty joke on the Forum since I joined! Yay me!

 

[Leg End]

Long live MSF. Replace with Outer Heaven as appropriate provided I survive Ground Zeroes.

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Any fellow World of Darkness players? I dipped my toe in RPGs before, but my first real campaign was a Vampire Masquerade run through the mean streets of Westchester County, Ny!

New World/Chronicles of Darkness, if that counts. Mostly Mage and Werewolf at the moment.