I have a 7'3 human brawler, hardened in years of slave cage fighting to the death since he was 7 years old. Master of hand to hand combat. Has become a legendary god of strength, he has statues of himself all through 2 sepeperate relms, his signature weapon is bar couch. Has faced demons, gods, dragons and come out on to every time... He is terrified of spiders. So much so that he is frozen in fear and nearly sobs uncontrollably if it's within 10 feet of him. He has picked up and thrown his own party members across the room to kill a small jumping spider.
@Knightly Knowledge best part is, no one knows that he is terrified of spiders. Even the party members he threw because each time it he saw one it was in a dungeon or combat and he would step on a trap to say that he was saving his friends or that he was throwing them to get in a better position to attack the enemy. He never failed a bluff or strength check. Making everyone believe it was always part of a plan he had. He once killed an entire cult alone because he was alone in the basement and a small spider landed on his shoulder, causing him to freak out and crash into every support pillar trying to get it off, causing the entire building to come crashing down.
I have a phantom rogue character with a soldier background -- learned her slight of hand as a child slipping money INTO her single mom's pockets and is VERY BAD at lying (negative charisma stat, very blunt and awkward), and is EXTREMELY protective of her 'team'. She's the sort to hand money back to people. I have a tiefling hermit dream druid who's fascinated by civilization, having never really encountered it before becoming an adventurer, thinking of them as the "anthills of humanoids' since people are also animals and learning about cultures and such and the different structures they developed makes him curious and ask questions and he's a general sweetheart.
Two of my favorite characters. A h*rny teifling bard who could talk his way into anyone's bed but was actually extremely broken as a person, using s*x and humor to cover up the fact that he never trusted anyone after multiple abusive relationships and parties. A Lizardfolk Goliath who was a monk /barbarian that only used WWE style moves and who's main weapon was a cast iron chair. Not the smartest but he had his moments.
(This isn't abt my cherector rekah) ik a character that is human and hates being called short but givin the situation he is in there is almost no way for him to o be taller until the end (he's 5'5 in the beginning) though he is still short in the end I love him and his brother the characters name is Edward Eric and his brother is Alphonse Eric
All good points, although I feel like too many people avoid cliches like the plague because they feel it's been done too often. Cliches are good, just make sure your charceter isn't ONLY your cliche.
I completely agree, I’ve played all kinds of characters but one of my favorites was a Dragonborn barbarian with major brain damage (6 intelligence) talked like a caveman 90% of the time and would rush into any fight without hesitation
I have a germophobic Ranger, an arachnaphobic Drow (to be fair, she was raised by Dragonborn, and her limited knowledge of Drow culture is all secondhand,) a Barbarian who's very passionate about Koi fish, a Paladin who's hobby is cooking, and a Half-Orc with severe anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and that's just my player characters. Notably weird NPCs include an Orc Barbarian attempting to create a breed of dairy aurochs that can be ridden into battle, a Githyanki Fighter-Bard who keeps wanting to make her dead enemies into jewelry but is otherwise a ray of sunshine type (she does NOT get along with others if her species,) a very tired Githzerai trying her best to reign in the afore mentioned Githyanki that almost never speaks but is somehow still really popular with my players, two dragons pretending to be elves that hate each other partially because they had the same idea, and a priest who's actually a Rouge rather than any sort of divine caster...
I made an emo water genasi bard. Because he was a genasi, his dark hair always seemed wet and he always had dripping eyeliner down his cheeks. He had this whispering voice and never sung, just played instruments. All the voiced spells were whispered. He seemed really edgy but was actually shy and loved to write romantic poems .
Honestly didn’t even think of making my rouge greedy in my first campaign. He gave 40% of his gold as soon as he earned it as an offering to his god.(Vhaeraun) He also kinda misunderstood funeral rights and started to collect body parts of dead people / people who died who’d helped him incorporating into weapons/ loot he associated with them. (if he becomes a great hero one day ha can attempt to resurrect them to repay their help! :D).
I have a 7'3 human brawler, hardened in years of slave cage fighting to the death since he was 7 years old. Master of hand to hand combat. Has become a legendary god of strength, he has statues of himself all through 2 sepeperate relms, his signature weapon is bar couch. Has faced demons, gods, dragons and come out on to every time... He is terrified of spiders. So much so that he is frozen in fear and nearly sobs uncontrollably if it's within 10 feet of him. He has picked up and thrown his own party members across the room to kill a small jumping spider.
God I'm glad this video reached the right people!
@Knightly Knowledge best part is, no one knows that he is terrified of spiders. Even the party members he threw because each time it he saw one it was in a dungeon or combat and he would step on a trap to say that he was saving his friends or that he was throwing them to get in a better position to attack the enemy. He never failed a bluff or strength check. Making everyone believe it was always part of a plan he had. He once killed an entire cult alone because he was alone in the basement and a small spider landed on his shoulder, causing him to freak out and crash into every support pillar trying to get it off, causing the entire building to come crashing down.
I have a phantom rogue character with a soldier background -- learned her slight of hand as a child slipping money INTO her single mom's pockets and is VERY BAD at lying (negative charisma stat, very blunt and awkward), and is EXTREMELY protective of her 'team'. She's the sort to hand money back to people.
I have a tiefling hermit dream druid who's fascinated by civilization, having never really encountered it before becoming an adventurer, thinking of them as the "anthills of humanoids' since people are also animals and learning about cultures and such and the different structures they developed makes him curious and ask questions and he's a general sweetheart.
Two of my favorite characters.
A h*rny teifling bard who could talk his way into anyone's bed but was actually extremely broken as a person, using s*x and humor to cover up the fact that he never trusted anyone after multiple abusive relationships and parties.
A Lizardfolk Goliath who was a monk /barbarian that only used WWE style moves and who's main weapon was a cast iron chair. Not the smartest but he had his moments.
Love this! Thanks for sharing!
Deeper, fast, and joyful for a halfling fighter. Got it
Vegetarian Orc ? Did it with an Orc of Mordor =)
I aggree with most except the third. Stereotypes are a thing because often, they work
The Rest, I can completly get behind.
I agree they’re classic for a reason, but it’s fun to mix it up too
I love to lean into stereotypes. Why defy expectations when you can just prove them all right. :)
(This isn't abt my cherector rekah) ik a character that is human and hates being called short but givin the situation he is in there is almost no way for him to o be taller until the end (he's 5'5 in the beginning) though he is still short in the end I love him and his brother the characters name is Edward Eric and his brother is Alphonse Eric
Fullmetal > Literally any other piece of media
@@KnightlyKnow fullmetel is amazing and I love it an I would DIE if al did his lil smile at me
All good points, although I feel like too many people avoid cliches like the plague because they feel it's been done too often. Cliches are good, just make sure your charceter isn't ONLY your cliche.
I completely agree, I’ve played all kinds of characters but one of my favorites was a Dragonborn barbarian with major brain damage (6 intelligence) talked like a caveman 90% of the time and would rush into any fight without hesitation
I explode at the opposite sex- I mean, what?
I have a germophobic Ranger, an arachnaphobic Drow (to be fair, she was raised by Dragonborn, and her limited knowledge of Drow culture is all secondhand,) a Barbarian who's very passionate about Koi fish, a Paladin who's hobby is cooking, and a Half-Orc with severe anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and that's just my player characters.
Notably weird NPCs include an Orc Barbarian attempting to create a breed of dairy aurochs that can be ridden into battle, a Githyanki Fighter-Bard who keeps wanting to make her dead enemies into jewelry but is otherwise a ray of sunshine type (she does NOT get along with others if her species,) a very tired Githzerai trying her best to reign in the afore mentioned Githyanki that almost never speaks but is somehow still really popular with my players, two dragons pretending to be elves that hate each other partially because they had the same idea, and a priest who's actually a Rouge rather than any sort of divine caster...
I made an emo water genasi bard. Because he was a genasi, his dark hair always seemed wet and he always had dripping eyeliner down his cheeks. He had this whispering voice and never sung, just played instruments. All the voiced spells were whispered. He seemed really edgy but was actually shy and loved to write romantic poems
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Honestly didn’t even think of making my rouge greedy in my first campaign. He gave 40% of his gold as soon as he earned it as an offering to his god.(Vhaeraun) He also kinda misunderstood funeral rights and started to collect body parts of dead people / people who died who’d helped him incorporating into weapons/ loot he associated with them. (if he becomes a great hero one day ha can attempt to resurrect them to repay their help! :D).
Be a rogue who isn't in the biz to steal for themselves, but to wreak chaos by swapping out everyone's belongings. Even NPCs
so a bard living in celibate?
Ai art? Cringe