In the Nal Hutta source book the listing for the Ganks says that trophy collecting is very important to Gank culture. I'm playing a Gank in an upcoming game and wanted to include that with his backstory, but I'm unsure what to have him collect. Things like ears or fingers are a little played out in my opinion and I'm also a little worried about him getting weighed down with having to carry a bunch of trinkets around. He's going to be a Mercenary Soldier with an interest in Sniping if that helps. Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Gank trophies
Holocam attachment in the scope that snaps a pic a moment before the shot is fired.
Selfies?
Recordings of da lamentations of der women?
On a serious note, how about the weapons they used to fight back with?
Edited by 2P51Teeth...their ID...Their weapons...Their girlfriends... buh dump ching.
The Holocam attachment is pretty funny, I'll cross my fingers it doesn't use up any hard points!
My only problem with him gathering weapons is an encumbrance issue. He could gather parts I suppose, like scopes or power packs or something.
Their teeth isn't a bad suggestion. They're small enough to carry around and are a little more unique than the usual body parts. I didn't even think of ID's funnily enough. I guess it never really occurred to me that everyone in the Star Wars universe would be carrying one around with them.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
Ideas off the top of my head:
- Fingernails
- Toe nails
- a single hair
- eyeballs
- small cuts of skin in the shape of a triangle or some such
- a part cut off then burned to ash and added to a vial
- ground bones or exoskelton
- vials of bodily fluids (blood or whatever the thing killed oozed when shot)
- The bullets used to make the kill
- photos of the bodies
The Holocam attachment is pretty funny, I'll cross my fingers it doesn't use up any hard points!
My only problem with him gathering weapons is an encumbrance issue. He could gather parts I suppose, like scopes or power packs or something.
Their teeth isn't a bad suggestion. They're small enough to carry around and are a little more unique than the usual body parts. I didn't even think of ID's funnily enough. I guess it never really occurred to me that everyone in the Star Wars universe would be carrying one around with them.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
Trophies don't have to be carried on your person...
Celts and Japanese used to take heads...
Ooh Selfies.. I like that Idea.. I am going to get my character a Holo recorder.
Ideas off the top of my head:
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- a part cut off then burned to ash and added to a vial
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Disgusting as it is, this one is really, really good!
[...] Things like ears or fingers are a little played out in my opinion [...]
Thank you!
It seems like every D&D/Pathfinder game I play in, someone has to play that character that collects body parts. It bothers me on too many levels to count.
My Gank collects random stuff. I left it up to the GM really. The idea is after a noteworthy job/conflict/enemy, I usually go rummaging through their pockets/stuff. This is providing I have the time in game to do so. What I find tends to be small enough to fit in the pocket, very personal to the "victim" and chalked full of story potential. Not to mention the oddities. Found a small book of poetry in the pocket of a stormtrooper. Another time I found a fortune cookie's fortune written in a language no one can seem to understand.
Ideas off the top of my head:
- Fingernails
- Toe nails
- a single hair
- eyeballs
- small cuts of skin in the shape of a triangle or some such
- a part cut off then burned to ash and added to a vial
- ground bones or exoskelton
- vials of bodily fluids (blood or whatever the thing killed oozed when shot)
- The bullets used to make the kill
- photos of the bodies
Those sound more like souvenirs of a serial killer 
Which, disturbingly enough, is probably accurate...
He could do a Dexter thing and take blood samples. Just goes up to the body after with a pipet and a slide, does a quick collection, and stashes it away to go in his box of slides on the ship.
GM thoughts:
If I were your GM I'd give it the usual twist: When they go to dock
someplace, a routine inspection turns up the slide box and suddenly the PCs
have a big problem. What is this guy doing with all this blood? A couple
slides came back linked to the victims of a slew of murders in the sector;
one of them the son of the local Moff. Out of nowhere you big gun guy is going
to get hit hard in the dump stat because he'll need some strong social checks to
talk his way out of this one.
Watch a season or two of Criminal Minds. You'll have all the ideas you could ever need.
Selfies?
I'm finding myself liking this waaaaaay more than I want to. The character concept of snapping a selfie with a corpse they made is just.. AWESOME
As I noted before.. So do I LethalDose :-)
The Holocam attachment is pretty funny, I'll cross my fingers it doesn't use up any hard points!
My only problem with him gathering weapons is an encumbrance issue. He could gather parts I suppose, like scopes or power packs or something.
Their teeth isn't a bad suggestion. They're small enough to carry around and are a little more unique than the usual body parts. I didn't even think of ID's funnily enough. I guess it never really occurred to me that everyone in the Star Wars universe would be carrying one around with them.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
Trophies don't have to be carried on your person...
I know, I meant more in the sense that at the end of a battle I don't want him to be weighed down carrying the guns of the three guys he killed or something. I suppose if he only takes a weapon from the biggest baddie there then it's less of a problem.
I'm not going to lie, the selfies/pictures are growing on me. I'm just imagining converting my room in the ship or at the base into a darkroom for photo processing and none of the other team members wanting to come near the room because they think it's weird. I can also imagine it turning into an awkward situation like Dbuntu outlines. Although it might be a bit more incriminating than the vials of blood. I might also just wait until the first session and see if the GM comes up with something real quirky on the fly and then just roll with it; finding little books of poetry entices me as well.
Thank you all for the suggestions.
My take on Ganks is a bit more... visceral.
Personally, I like teeth.
small, verifiable, easy to transport, and... disconcertingly... personal.
In the group I GM our Gank wanted to collect....
Legs....
I dont know why he said legs, maybe the pressure of the moment or something. The grp started to laugh until he said he wanted to mount them as trophies on their ship...It didn't happen in the end
The selfies/pictures idea is great. Especially if he goes about bringing out the albums like a family member would at a gathering.
"...and this is the trando I killed in Nal Hutta, because he made fun of my repulsor fist..."