If it helps, I’m now excited to see almost all of these characters (obviously the Lantern is just sort of there as a backup).
And just like you, I figured I’d share some of my current ideas (subject the change, as always).
The Harbinger/Exile/Lantern: A wizard of some distant order. They want to keep their heads down and not draw the Overlord’s ire (or maybe secretly helping them), while our hero decides “screw that, I’m going to do what’s right.” Not horribly original, but it’s what I like.
The Elf: A person from a space colony which fell to the planet due to Overlord shenanigans (maybe they stole the satellite’s power source as one of their Sources of Power). The elves cannot easily survive on the planet, so they outfit their champion with an hi-tech environment suit so that they can fight the Overlord with the rest of the Fellowship.
The Collector: A champion of the small gods who are being crushed by the Overlord without the Overlord really even realizing it.
The Pair: Fezzik and Inigo from the Princess Bride. I’m going to throw my own style at it, but that’s basically what you’re going to get. Definitely the comedic option out of all these.
Now I’m picturing a Roger/Jessica Rabbit deal where there’s some smoking hot catgirl totally loyal to this potato of a feline swashbuckler, but she loves him for his wit, so what are you going to do?
Temporary forum avatar aside, I’m trying not to draw too heavily on the Dreamworks Puss in Boots swashbuckler/romancer … though, depending on the party dynamics and what playbook he ends up in, I could totally rip off the Dreamworks Puss in Boots swashbuckler/romancer (sans Banderas accent, because, really, none of us want me to maintain that for an entire campaign).
To be honest one of the aspects that drew me to Fellowship was the fantasy nature of it. I’m not very interested in space elves and giant mecha. I was looking forward to a more Tolkien-esque world
I updated the Stewpot post (a suggested starting list of topics), posted here. Does this list look better? Anything you want to take off? Anything you’d like to add?
Space elf was a second choice at best, but even then the most “sci-fi” I would want to go is something along this line (note the foreground character’s right arm). Too much?
Though the game is happening tonight, I though I would throw in the characters I was thinking of. Partially to lay claim or, if it overlaps, this gives me time to think of another character.
My first choice would be the Remnant. They seemed like a lot of fun and I have a most of a character developed around it. Otherwise I also had the base for a Dragon, Harbinger, or Rain.