FPSMC:
In reply to WarynJasra (msg # 10):
An Ironborn House would be very interesting, we could sail all over and the politics of the Isles are pretty interesting when they are at home. But the GM requested no evil characters, and since the Ironborn seem to revere pillaging and raping I think they might qualify as evil by default unless our characters were very exceptional Ironborn like Baelor Blacktyde or Rodrick Harlaw.
Hmm... yeah that's true.
I generally view the Ironborn as "bad guys"... though to be fair, I'm not sure who the "good guys" are in ASOIAF. ;)
I suppose there's really no more raping, pillaging, raiding going on with the Ironborn than there are among the other Houses (they just use "knights" like how Tywin uses The Mountain for his dirty work).
Alternatively... what if the game was set either just after or shortly after the Greyjoy Rebellion? We could be a crew of Ironborn who refused to "bend the knee" to Robert even after Lord Greyjoy surrendered.
We would be "fugitives" (although secretly some of the Ironborn might support us) who are basically carrying on our own private guerrilla war against the Iron Throne (sort of like "The Undefeated") through raids and such. Of course all we would own would be the clothes on our backs, the weapons in our hands, and a share of the ship we sail upon. But perhaps when things got too hot around Westeros, we would travel across the sea to sell our "swords" as a mercenary ship (basically the nautical equivalent of a Free Company).