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My fave NPC was a Goblin Fighter named Beta. He started out as mild comic relief, but the players, bless their hearts, treated him as an equal, and never mocked him about his "runt warg mount", which was just a dog he'd managed to tame and train, named Alphalpha.
Over the first few sessions, the party paladin was particularly kind to him, and saved his life several times.
So, out of respect (and hero worship) for her, Beta took levels of Paladin.
Ultimately, Beta gave his life for the party, giving them the noblest title he was aware of. A word that didn't exist in his native language.
His final battle cry: "For my FRIENDS!"
A Knight who was mauled by dragons and torn to shreds was found by a group of mimics which then became his armor and weapons, sharing a psychic link with him to where he thinks of moving, the mimics hear and respond, basically his prosthetics allowing him to move and carry out his revenge for those who killed the king he failed to protect.
to shreds you say?
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I'm fully committed to the idea of a Warforged who, because reasons, doesn't know that he's a Warforged. His model of Warforged was designed to look like the armor worn by humanoid knights. Due to damage suffered during the war, when he gains sentience he wakes up on top of a headstone and immediately assumes that it's HIS grave, and concludes that he is a ghost trapped in a suit of armor. He then sets out on a quest to discover what unfinished business is keeping him from crossing over.
It’ll need a little background first.
My first PC was Nimir Antonovich, a 21 year old guy living in my GM’s homebrew Pathfidner world Atrea.
But he wasn’t _from_ there, no.
He was originally an NPC, a child who escaped Barovia in my Curse of Strahd campaign which was going right as my GM- a player in my group at the time- was asking for character concepts.
He was rescued from the clutches of some hags by the party and scarred by some fiends.
Then the GM and I worked out the backstory of him traveling through the mists with some friends and it going wrong, ending up in this world.
He was 10 when all of that happened.
Flash forward 11 years and the campaign starts, with the town the party forms in ending up beings targeted by a hag coven.
A little girl had been kidnapped by them, around 10 years old herself, an Nimir immediately got extremely committed to protecting and saving her, as she was going through what he did back in Barovia.
She escaped the hags and we helped her, but she had a curse that amounted to never being able to go home, as no matter what we tried we couldn’t return to town with her traveling with us.
He helped her find a safe place to hide (I rolled a 32 stealth check at level 2, the first 30+ of the campaign).
Eventually we killed the coven- with Nimir both striking the killing blow against 1 hag and an act of suicidal bravery rallying the rest of the party to kill the final hag- and rescued the townsfolk, including the kid’s father.
The party were all given 10 platinum and some gear, and before leaving Nimir went to the family’s home, told them he went through something similar as a kid and wanted her to have a better life, then gave them 3 platinum.
That’s roughly 2 and a half year’s wages.
Later on, Nimir was killed, my first PC died by distracting the boss and allowing the fighter to get in the final blow- mirroring what I’d _expected_ to happen against the hags.
On his person they’d found a note he’d written the night before, having more knowledge on just how dangerous our mission was. He’d left instructions take anything they needed- say, potions- with them, but to send the rest of his gear to the child, that she might learn to keep herself and her family safe.
Now, the character I want to play is her- Cynthia- 10 or so years later after having learned to wield the rapier he’d stolen from one of the players in Barovia 20+ years prior.
The build I have planned is a thrown weapon focused Eldritch Knight, since he was a thrown weapon focused Eldritch Trickster.
And his familiar, Rem, would become her familiar, being the entity that answered her call when she cast Find Familiar.
She isn’t the same person- she’s far less stealthy and far more charismatic than Nimir was, and unlike him she actually had her family growing up. But she’s either reached an age where she feels like she needs to pay it forward to the world, or maybe an inciting incident for her is her village being attacked.
Dennys of Clan Lagoon is a Hexificer who set out from his home village in search of his missing cousin, Mark of Clan Simon. In order to be allowed to leave the village, he had to achieve a minimum of Journeyman status in at least one non-combat field of study (basically ensures that any roll directly related to said field will always be at least a 10). The last time Mark was heard from, he was in the village tavern, declaring that he would "...behead Tiamat and die trying. Although, given that Mark was more than a few flags to the wind at the time, he might have said/meant "bed" instead of "behead", and Dennys honestly isn't sure which idea bothers him more.
Coolest character Ive ever seen started as a joke.
I was running a “space DnD” campaign, basically Area 51 getting raided by space pirates in space. While the rest of the party picked experimented humans & alien races I made available, one player made a regular “human janitor” named “Chuck” he’s a monk that doesn’t know he’s been experimented on with subliminal training. This is how he knows king fu without knowing he knew it. This creates a lot of “reflex moments” where he makes an action or movement without knowing how the heck could he do that?! “I didn’t know I could use guns?” As the DM for this campaign I try not to use any favoritism, but it was fun that he didn’t get an “adventures pack” & instead has a “janitor’s pack” that comes with cleaning supplies, & the mop that he uses as a monk weapon, liquid absorption capsules, a plunger of pulling things like thorn whip, a “trash bag of holding”, & lemon pledge useful for cleaning & finding invisible objects or blinding opponents with a good clean lemon scent. The table seems to unanimously agree it’s both the funniest & coolest character concept we’ve seen in our group.
I have a few I think are neat:
1) A Plasmoid Echo Knight. The Echo would be flavored as a copy of hinself that he can create via "mitosis". Came up with him after seeing some crazy cool art of an ooze-like character in heavy armor.
2)A Shadow Sorcerer that was born into a rich family, who are avid members of a cult. He was prophecied to be the vessel for their Dark Lord. However, that did not sound cool to him, so he noped out of there, as soon as he could. Spent a nunber of years in hiding, keeping his head down. Eventually, he finds a way to use his powers for some good, helping others solve supernatural related crimes and mysteries. Mechanically, this is what leads to his multiclass into Inquisitive Rogue.
3) A Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer, who turns out to be a Dragon that was put under a curse, that transformed him into a humanoid, and seriously dimished his powers. His reason for adventuring, is to find a means to break the curse. The first Metamagic option I would take is Transmute spell, as I plan to have him be adept in the use of Ice, Lightning, and Fire(yes, in that order). This is tied to his backstory, as he is not a normal dragon. I think, after his journey is over, he decides to stay in his humanoid form, as it will make it easier to help out the races of the material plane, against forces which plan to wreak havoc on them. Which, he has decided is his true calling.
Edit: Fixed several spelling mistakes that grievously wounded me.
My favorite character I've played was a Half Elf Divine Soul Sorcerer, named Gram Gram.
The first moment with her was "making people face the wrath of gram gram" and using a magic cooking spoon to cast Lightning Bolt.
After that, she would use THAT ONE STRAWBERRY HARD CANDY as her catapult projectile
Lastly, she was taught by a party member who was an artificer rat, and learnt how to create explosive pies. They have the power of a fireball, without using any spell slots. If you eat these pies, you instantly explode and die instantly.
a run-of-the mill stastical genuis nerd artificer who has a giant mech suit controlled via dance dance revolution.
and to quote a comment I saw on a meme on facebook: "That just made me envision a barbarian whose entire backstory is that he was trying to be a good heir to his house, but then some day some bullshit paperwork made him SO FUCKING MAD that he basically went full Mr. Hyde and just kept punching everyone and everything until the rage ran out. By which time he was already in the meet-up tavern. Some far-off family member had to be called in to take over the estate. They had to rebuild the tax office AND get new staff, because everyone who made it out without getting hospitalized refuses to ever work there again. The less lucky ones are still waiting for surgery to remove the inkweels and furniture bits embedded in their bodies in unusual places." (Credit to the original poster of said comment, Fodor Tamás.) Honestly, I love playing frontliners and heavy hitters compared to squishy spellcasters who have to stay in the back to not be instantly killed and would love to utilize an idea like this!!
One of my favorite character concepts I have made is Chester the Jester. Chester was a human who had dreams of performing in a big show to a large audience and so, joined a theatre troupe. He felt great joy brightening the days for many who watched their shows.
Eventually they gained enough recognition that they had recieved a summons to perform before a king and his noble court. The Troupe were overjoyed at finally making it big and would discuss their plans for the show leading up to their arrival.
And then Chester woke up in the middle of nowhere, alone. He was in costume as a jester, but couldn't remember the show, the city, or even what happened the last few days. All his memories from just before their arrival to then were gone.
And that wasn't all.
As he looked at his blue skin, arrowhead tail, and felt the black horns on his head, and was filled with horror as he realized he had transformed into a Tiefling.
Chester now adventures under the mask of a jovial jester to find clues to restore his memories and find out what happened to the Kingdom that is now an ancient ruins and the King no one remembers.
A white dragonborn warlock named Gargler Stone, based on the original myth of the gargoyle, as well as H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Doom That Came To Sarnath". Instead of frost, he spews frigid, stagnant water, and he serves Bokrug, one of the Great Old Ones that dwells in a massive lake in the Dreamlands. He is motivated by dreams, and seeks out those who have the potential to become Dreamers (capable of entering the Dreamlands at will). All of his spells are flavored to be the summoning and commanding of Bokrug's genocided worshippers, the voiceless, fish-like beings known as Thuum'Ha or Beings of Ib. For example, instead of using Eldritch Blast, he has Chill Touch as his primary damage cantrip, and it's simply a ghostly Thuum'Ha reaching out with its elongated, webbed hand and gripping the target on the shoulder.
Never made this but: A clerical/monk order of vampires dedicated to rehabilitating vampires to turn them from maneating and instead drinking animal blood, as well as getting better at understanding mortals and such. Members travel around and essentially do the same things adventurers do, but constistently for good. With a bit of tweaking around the rules with vampires, one could play a vampire adventurer from the clerical/monk order. Thats about all I have for it but it's a good start.
In a Starfinder game coming up, I made a character who's a Vesk (think a lizardfolk mixed with trandoshans from Star Wars.) Vesk are known for being honorbound warriors with a much heavier emphasis on the "warrior" part, to the point being simply a great hunter is seen as honorable. Normally they also fight with modernized weapons and armor. My vesk though? He's an eccentric.
He fully believes that modern weapons are for the powerless and that every foe can be taken out through a combination of biological and mechanical augmentations. He wants to BE the weapon. His signature move? Grab a dude, bite down hard on them so as to grapple them, then bring em into an alligator death-roll before tearing into them. He also has things like metal claws, muscle augmentations, magnetic soles for his feet, etc.
I based him off a few characters like Bossk and some klingon mixed with Wheel Gator out of Megaman X. Fun build.
I haven't had the chance to use this concept yet as I don't really play DnD (But do want to). But the character in question is the youngest son of a Noble Family who, thanks to some family beef with a Lich, got cursed on birth. While the mages and whatnot hired by the family weren't able to outright lift the curse that is slowly killing the boy they were able to seal him into a Magic Gemstone for preservation. Of course, this is no state for a noble to be in, so using other Arcane Magics they constructed a Golem-Like body that the Gemstone acts as a core for, granting them an unaging pseudo-body.
Eventually, he was kicked out of the house, not out of malice, but because they had literally exhausted all ideas. They left the son with what little riches they could spare and essentially told him that he could, possibly, by adventuring, find and kill the responsible Lich and see if that lifts the Curse.
The character is an entirely Homebrew concept that foregoes natural stats and progression. As long as the Gemstone is intact the body can just be restored using excess mass, and while they cannot naturally learn skills they can consume, and assimilate, magic artifacts in order to also assimilate their effects.
So you essentially ended up with a Childlike Outwardly Human Character that cannot accept Healing Items, cannot sleep, cannot Level Up, and must be "repaired" with external resources
I have absolutely no idea what kind of build a character like this would get as I, again, haven't had the chance to use them. Sadly.
Haven't gotten the chance to play it, but here's mine:
A fighter based off of Inigo Montoya who was a well-known celebrity in his town and all across the world for being a fantastic actor. He had garnered a powerful reputation, being a charismatic, rich, and entertaining person. On the surface, he seemed to be a simple celebrity, having house parties every other weekend with hundreds of guests to his massive home, but he had a dark past.
Being an elf, he had faced many things before this. One such was a terrible war that led to the presumed death of his brother, a fellow combatant. His brother was killed by a beast while a younger version of the character watched, paralyzed in horror as he was dragged into the darkness. He lived with this guilt for a long time, but eventually found peace in his new life. But one night, his brother knocked on the door to his house with two enforcers behind him.
His brother sought revenge for the negligence of his brother. He had lost an eye and a foot and claimed that he would destroy everything he had built. The actor left through the back door as his brother's enforcers closed in on him, trying to take his life. He left with his rapier, his hat, and a pouch of gold, and set off. His brother didn't want to catch him. Not yet, at least. The man, now ruined, all of his assets seized by his vengeful brother, was reduced to being a crook that mugged people at the mountaintop, but when he faced a swordsman that nearly matched him in skill (which he had never seen) he believed that he would be the key to his revenge, joining his party. But he would soon learn that his brother was motivated into action by the BBEG so that all of his power would be stripped when his plan would be set into motion.
Bastion Dewford: The kindest mark of hospital Halfling. He multiclass with life cleric, divine soul sorcerer and celestial warlock. This man would always provide food, drink, and healing (magical or otherwise) to nearly everyone he met. The pact he made required him to kill one truly evil person every year. This usually was the next big bad guy, and this man could make a nuclear explosion with guiding bolt and toll the dead after a few moments to focus his patrons power, ie twin and quickened metamagics...
I have an idea for a character I want to play sometime, that I came up with the idea while listening to the song Necromancin Dancin by Bear Ghost. He's a Bearfolk Bard who would, either before the campaign starts, or during the campaign, finds a magical song book which in reality is a necromancer's spellbook, which has illusion magic cast on it that would cause the nearest spellcaster that would be the most easy to corrupt to see it as a book of spells they can use. The book was owned by a necromancer who was attempting to become a lich, but was defeated and sealed within his spellbook. The book was stolen by one of his followers, and the illusion magic cast and it placed in a location where it would be relatively easy to find. Once opened, the soul of the necromancer would be bound to the one who opened the book, and over time their alignment would gradually shift to that of the necromancer. Once they reached sufficient level, I'm thinking level 15 or so, they would be influenced to find some cave to try to hide away, to complete the necromancer's goal to become a lich, killing the host in the process, but the party would find them and have to fight to save the bard and defeat the necromancer, with or without killing the bard. I thought of an idea of some kind of rhythm based elements to the battle, like a roll if the attack or action is on beat, and if so, give some kind of bonus, but if its way off, to lower damage or an attack would miss, or lower effectiveness of a potion or something. I just need to find a party with a DM willing to work with me to incorporate this into a campaign somehow.
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I once played this super smart Cleric in D&D that knew every single healing spell there is, I gave him a maximum of 20 on Inteligence, while everything else had an average level. The gmmick was that he was so incredibly smart that he would use healing spells to defeat enemies. The party loved to have him around, as he was the definition of "never let them know your next move" when the DM saw how I was playing the Cleric, he kept trying to put the party in situations where I could let lose my creativity in all sorts of ways (bending the rules of some spells from the official rulebook so it would be more fun to play, after all that's what DMs do, they make or change the rules from the rulebook for the game). Once this Cleric defeated a group of undead warriors by casting Cure all Wounds (something that you normally can't do since undead are supposed to be unnafected by cure spells, but, again, the DM said it was okay) on all of them at once. This other time this Cleric was facing off against this enemy fighter, who was a natural at reading the enemy's movements to anticipate every attack. Again, my character was a Cleric with only healing magic, I had this sickle that I used to cut herbs and stuff for potion brewing, and which I also used sometimes to defend myself when there was no other thing to do, problem was that the fighter was landing every hit he could and I wasn't landing anything because of his high speed at dodging, so what I did was let him hit me and heal myself over and over, and over and over, until he was so tired that he just couldn't move anymore and I was able to attack him successfully. But the best was on the end of one of our adventures, there was this Evil Overlord type of guy that was fighting our party on his own, and was kicking our butts because he was really incredibly powerful and well equipped, he starts boasting how feeble our attempts to take him down are, how he got his sword from an Elven fortress he had personally destroyed and how its a sword that will never break or lose its edge, and how he had recently killed a Black Dragon and had used his scales to make the armor he was wearing, which made it the best armor in the world, and that's when I had the idea, I told the DM "I cas't my spell to raise the dead." (this would have taken time, but as I stated before, my Cleric was literally the smartest, most powerful healer in the world, so it would take him just a minute to cast) to which the DM says "But the enemy hasn't killed anyone in the party yet." and I say, "No, I cast it on the guy's armor." What followed was how suddenly the enemy we were fighting was completely without his armor, which had suddenly sprouted a full body, wings, a head, a tail, claws, and started flying as a very pissed off dragon joined the fray on our side. Having no armor, and a dragon as reinforcement, the enemy stood no chance.
YESSSSS!! That is awesome!
I haven't really thought out the concept completely but I'm thinking about someone with a split personality disorder multiclassing as a Paladin and a Necromancer, paladin having a boring-kind personality while necromancer has an evil-manipulative personality. Somehow, the paladin doesn't know about the necromancer, but the necromancer knows about the paladin and has to mimic his personality to not get caught for acts of evil while trying to figure out how to use the paladin's equipment
3:02 I can't help picturing a small child at the beach with a pale full of seashells hiring a halfling warlock to help them make a magnificent mansion of sand.
*Missing Name* the Armorer Artificer. She was a weak goblin. This made her an outsider in her tribes strength-hierarchy, but she‘s very intelligent, especially for a goblin. She searched through the adventuring-gear of adventurers her tribe „off-ed“ and used Stuff like an old Halbling-sized scalemail and some arcane crystals to create a „mad max“-kind of armor. With this armor she challenged the tribes chief for leadership and won. After that she kinda got a superiority-complex and decided to leave her tribe and integrate into the higher, intelligent civilization, which proves to be hard for a goblin, but she has a goal in mind
My all time favorite character who I have played time and time again: Shec-Shic The Half-Orc! After being sold as a slave by their human mother he was trained for combat. For years on end he proved himself in grand arena combat, killing foe after foe until he earned his freedom. Later he becomes a general for the same people that enslaved him, seeing as he had no where else to go. The Terran Kingdom was corrupted and he learns of the kingdom’s goals and aspirations for conquering and bloodshed and decides to leave without warning. He leaves to the only charted Orc village in the region and tries to fit in with his Orc-ish heritage. Before being shunned to the outskirts of the village for his human half he is told the creed of which the Orcs live their lives by: “Fight to the end, rip and tear until it’s done.” (I like DOOM so what?) Shec-Shic gets to live in peace for only two days before an army of 10,000 Terran soldiers comes in to try and take over the Orc village. A battle ensues, the Orcs severely outnumbered flee after taking out only a 1,000 soldiers despite their creed. With incredible rolls and advantage against cowardly things (dm’s homebrew feat) he takes out countless enemies. His rage and strength only seems to grow as the battle ensues in the 1 v 9,000. Finally some manages to take him down, and Shec-Shic falls. The Terran soldiers cheer as they think they’ve won. Thank the gods for relentless endurance. Shec-Shic stands up to attack the man who knocked him down, and with a 19 rips him in half, the blood of his enemy covering all wounds in his body the enemy not knowing how injured he really is. Fear creeps ever forwards. Knowing he can’t win against all of them I ask my dm if Shec-Shic can intimidate them into fleeing. He tells me the dc is 20. My heart sunk as I thought the character I loved would be killed in combat and realized that’s how he’d want to go out anyways. I roll… Nat 20. I freak out, he sits in stunned silence. He goes, “In one monstrous roar it’s as though a god recognizes you as a powerful warrior. Lighting strikes through the air as you roar, it’s echoed off the distant mountains bounces back with full force, the sound is strong enough to paralyze quiet a few of the soldiers and deafen all within a 10 meter radius. They all fear you none think they can win despite the numbers, some kill themselves to end their lives quickly as all the others flee for their lives. Congrats you saved the Orc Village.”
One of the backups i have for the PF2E Kingmaker campaign I play in is Vandi Kamp, undine (water genasi) gnome hydrokinetisist. She's a runaway from a crime consortium that used her amphibious nature to dive for pearls. One day, she unlocked a greater connection to the water around her and used her newfound powers to escape. Now, she hides out in the Stolen Lands to the north, hoping her former "bosses" dont come hunting. If she ever learns of the plan to start a kingdom there, she would be all-in, thinking having a possition of power may diswade potential pursuers.
I REALLY want to play as this one- it’s literally just a chicken that stole a wizard’s wand. She wouldn’t be awakened or anything, but she’d be an aggressively stubborn chicken that won’t let anyone near her favorite stick and as a result lays explosive eggs.
I’d name her Tim.
My friend and I got one cooking right now for a upcoming campaign (Our first one)
His character is a half-orc called "GOONTHA", comes from a tribe called Maglib, and hes dumb as rocks but just as tough as boulders, so he left the tribe after a scuffle and decides to become a mercenary for hire, on one of his adventures he was in a dungeon, when he noticed a slime trailing him from behind, at first he thought it was an enemy for him to paint the walls with but it just stopped when he turned around.
GOONTHA at the time was exhausted after dealing with a huge ass fight in a room prior so he decided to leave it be for now, but it kept following him. As time goes on, GOONTHA grew fond of the slime, talking to it in his broken common with a deep husky voice. When walking past some dusty skeletons, the slime ended up fitting into the skeleton's armor, puppeteering it, GOONTHA, of course, was confused as hell at the sight of a ooze covered skeleton. He watched it pick up armor pieces around it and tore a weapon out of a body, eventually puppeteering an armor set with a rusty old iron sword. GOONTHA was amused by this sight and drew his weapon incase it tried anything, only for it to stop behind him and looking up at him as if waiting for him to continue on.
After he left the dungeon, his slime friend (Now named OOB, my character) tagged along with him in whatever adventure GOONTHA sought after
The whole dynamic between OOB n GOONTHA is that OOB, despite being a slime, is the brains to GOONTHA's brawns, idling in a bucket on GOONTHA's back till needed, keeping GOONTHA company on his orcish endeavors
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Always wanted to try running the "Warrior disjointed from time" shtick, a warforged/construct or reanimated hero from ages past brought to the now, either awoken by happenstance, or aroused by unknown forces on high to fight an encroaching evil. One other idea was an animate armor, a soul once bound to it simply as an arcane source of animating the armor suit suddenly awakening to their original self, setting forth on a mission of discovery, as it's original purpose has long since become irrelevant, and yearning to know what he was before being trapped to the hollow suit he now possesses.
A paladin of vengeance who believes he’s a paladin of justice. To him vengeance IS justice. Oh and he’s not a paladin of a personal grudge or revenge he wants to complete. But rather a paladin who believe an eye for an eye is the only way to go and thus would help anyone complete a vendetta for “justice”
A few of mine...
Path of Zealot Barbarian with a noble background. A very 'old chap' sort of man who's honorable and boisterous. He doesn't go into a Rage, he uses 'Focused Fury'.
Elf found by a family of humans and adopted. Folk Hero, Bladesinging wizard who learned magic under a retired wizard.
High strength Monk (Still need Dex, Wis and Con so very much a M.A.D. char) who speaks like a mixture of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage. Uses wrestling moves and grapples to slam foes. Takes Fey Tocuhed to teleport into the air to deliver elbow drops. Half Orc or Goliath.
Eldritch Knight Fighter/Shadow Magic Sorcerer; son of a tyrant (Armored Sorc type) who helped rebels try and overthrow his father... and was stabbed in the back by the rebels. He's left to become a merc to say 'screw this'.
1lvl Rouge, rest in Shadow Magic Sorc; street urchin with innate magic. Becomes an adventurer to figure out where his magic came from.
I had a few but one that comes to mind is a Glamour Bard called Cervantes De La Hoya. A man of many talents but had only one love before his love of music. A woman called Silvian Starhair a high elven beauty he was smitten with for years. She too practiced the art of music but ironically was jealous of Cervantes skill, mostly because his teacher was her father. To hone their skills Mr. Starhair would take them both to the feywild to practice as the realm would enhance their talents. Her jealous got so bad that she tricked Cervantes into following her into the feywild only to strand him there. Cervantes was still naive of the deception believing he lost the love of his life, he now pours his soul into his music. This got the attention of a feywild native a Satyr who helped him survive for years until he found a way home. When he did his family was long gone, time is different in the feywild. So he dedicated his musical talent to become this worlds greatest musician in honor of his teacher. This gets the attention of the Silvian Starhair who would become his rival, as well as his muse. Will he learn of the betrayal? Will he forgive her to earn her love? Or will she destroy him for his naive efforts to woo her?
I have a recurring character/villain named Emmeria who is a necromancer. Thing is, she's a tiny, cute, childlike elf that next to no one ever assumes is a threat until she pops up being carried by an undead army. Best part is she KNOWS this. She will often play the "lost child" or "good, but kinda morbid adventurer" angle to endear herself and sometimes even her zombies to the populace/party while subtley doing evil things. The longer it takes people to find out she can't be trusted, the stronger and more unhinged she becomes.
There was even one story where the party she was with saved the world and the kingdom threw a big celebration and even allowed Emma to march her zombie army in, thinking they would do no harm. She turned the capital into a Zombie Apocalypse in a matter of 2 days. Funniest part is, she was so efficient with it that the rest of the party just decided to join her takeover because they didn't want to deal with fighting off hundreds of zombies and an angry loli wizard with political power.
So, I got 2 that come to mind as favorites:
#1 was made back when my original group decided to try out this new fangled D&D expanded rules book that had the _audacity_ to try and get itself published as it's own unique IP called "Pathfinder."
I made a young street-urchin girl who survived by pickpocketing drunks, rigging games of chance, and knowing when to run away. She always carried a few packs of playing cards on her to make some quick cash on the side during downtime. Each one also served as a stack of 52 magical +1 Throwing Knives thanks to a couple starting feats (I believe they were called "Throw Anything" and "Magic Hands")
#2 is a character I made for 5e.
He's a hermit Alchemist/Way of Mercy multiclass, his design really only works if the party is starting out at or above level 3, and he needs to use the Starting Wealth by Level table from the DMG, and doesn't fit in well with typical dungeon-crawl type campaigns, so I've not gotten to play him often, but I really quite enjoy him.
He lives in the back of a large covered wagon pulled by his pet Axe Beak. In combat he primarily supports with ranged combat and spot healing so the Cleric can focus on the bigger problems. Out of combat is where he really shines, since all of his feats and abilities revolve around item crafting, cooking, and wilderness survival.
My favorite I've made is a teenage half elf bard/warlock named Syori. I've played them a few times and they're extremely fun! They're a spirit bard and an undead warlock, they carry around a ventriloquist doll with a spirit in it who goes by the stage name Tapshoes. Tapshoes is a rather cranky ghost, in his life he was a warlock to a devil who refused to end their contract after his death since his death partially prevented him from finishing his own end of the bargin. Syori and Tapshoes spend a lot of time running from Tapshoes' patron, and also get up to lots of shenanigans since they're both practically teens with no parental control and enough magic to get into (and out of) trouble.
Syori is also meant to be very cute in terms of design, but the spookiness of their classes leaves people unsettled regardless. I tend to draw them as if they're a porceline doll.
One of my players in the Transformers TTRPG is a Six Changer, a type of Transformer with six modes (1 robot and 5 alt modes). Well, he technically has a seventh alt mode but I'm getting there. He was created in Shockwave's lab from a captured unaligned character, who has been dormant inside the PC for millions of years. However, a recent fight between the party and Shockwave caused that other individual to awaken. They've been battling inside his head for a while and last session the dormant character took control of the body. Now, the player has been struggling to think of more alternate modes so we came up with splitting the modes 4/3, four for the PC and three for the alter. Now, of note here, the player wanted me to run the alter, instead of him, meaning that when the alter takes over, the player sits out and I'm now running what's essentially a DMPC. I was hesitant to do it, but the player really wanted it to feel like a different character, and since I've roleplayed this character during the battles in their mind, he was adamant I do it. I think it's a very interesting concept but I'm conflicted about it because I never intended to control the alter once he started manifesting control over the body.
I have a spirits bard who instead of telling ghost stories tells fish stories and I’m just really proud of that
Here’s mine. A Human Rogue named Korvin Annwn. Spent the first decade of his life being killed and brought back, over and over and over again until he escaped. Spent the next ten years as a thief and a pickpocket until a guard kinda helped him realize he could be a better person, and spent the next decade learning to be a barber/chirurgeon to help others cheat death and use his roguish talents to help others.
a Dwarf names Dwimble Goldtooth. Dwimble loves eating rocks and his main goal for adventuring is to find the most exotic rocks and eat them, he keeps a small bag containing a multitude of small rocks he calls "trail mix"
Here are some characters I came up with.
A Warforged who emits radiation from his body, forcing him to wear a special suit to prevent him from harming the environment. When he takes damage pieces of the suit are destroyed meaning if you are standing near him and he takes enough damage, YOU start taking damage from radiation poisoning!
A parasite created from a lab who has the power of entering a dead host, and gaining there memories and racial features, as well as bits of there personality.
An alchemist who hates magic so much, he created a poison that has the power of temporarily disabling it. He also has whips that come out of his arms that can inject toxins into his opponents.
A Changeling who discovered how to make his body appear like transparent glass, and uses magic to turn the light that reflects off his body into weapons. He is pretty much colorful Green Lantern.
A sentient space cloak that when worn, can bring fake things to life.
A plant guy who brings life to wherever he travels, at the cost of slowly destroying his body and sanity. All he wants is to pretty much die but his power keeps him from dying by conventional means.
And an elf who is from a homebrew race I invented that can make things explode by touching them.
The 2 I can think of right now are from the same Grim hollow campaign. Mine is a haunted sorcerer with the Charlatan background. She used to work with a thief to break into people's houses too make the owner think that their house was haunted and was paid to exorcise the spirit. She got famous for this after doing a few high profile jobs. Then local royalty wanted to have her and a teamto cleanse an abandoned castle. She was the sole survivor of that night. Though she doesn't remember the events of the night but she now has a pet spector that she channels magic through. The other is my GF's. She's playing a colony of awaken mushroom spores that uses the remains of a druid to interact and travel the world to learn more about animal life.
This is my OC but I'd love to see her play out in a campaign!
Her name is Skyla Rose. She is a half drow, half vampire. Her back story is she was kidnapped by the royal crown when she was 10 years old and her parents were killed in front of her. As she grew up, she learned how to use a bow and found she had some magical abilities. She eventually escaped her prison and sought revenge on anyone who was connected to the crown. She also has a little brother that she is searching for as they were separated when she got taken. (That's about as far as I've gotten on her back story)
My favorite character was Gnaw Fireback, a Skaven Engineer who spent many years traveling and interacting with surface dwellers as an arms dealer, thus making him quite well adjusted and rather friendly for a Skaven.
At least until one of his friends is hurt, because Gnaw only plans nuclear revenge. He's a skaven, so take that as you will.
Also my luck with rolls meant that 90% of my shots always hit people in the legs. So we wrote into his lore that Gnaw thinks it's funny to shoot people in the knees
lizardfolk artificer armorer acting as the stand-in rogue. had the infiltrator arcane armor fused with his scales. so basically a humanoid metal lizard with lightning bolts and predator-like stealth. did all the reconnaissance, unlocking and crafting needed. was also kind of the emergency medic due to his swiftness.
Enzu Grimbell, aka "Badger", is a Path of Beast, Rogue Assassin, Fighter, who is a Folk Hero. Born to a tribe of Forest Gnome in the periphery of a great fae kingdom from a friend's homebrew setting, Enzu, became renowned for his feral ferocity when he defended his home from an army detachment during a great war between the Fae Kingdom and a rival power. Through his efforts he defeated the invading Tyrant's son in "single combat". A loose description as the coward preferred to fight atop his red drake. Needless to say, Enzu, like a true badger, refused to surrender against a greater foe, and even came out on top. Now I should preface that Enzu despises his title. He finds it demeaning and would rather just be referred to by his first name. In many ways he's a gnome version of Wolverine from the X-Men, especially in personality. Unfortunately for him, when fate called upon him and the rest of the party, he would come to find out that the group would find it entertaining to keep calling him badger, especially when they got flung five hundred years into the future by the BBEG, ie Samurai Jack style. comes across a Gnome settlement, they openly reveal his identity, thus granting them, through his background a place to stay. I won't go into too many details regarding stuff from the adventure, mainly because he unfortunately would meet his end not too long once we entered the future, but prior to that the party had managed to convince him to embrace his title, and he even got a small badger companion after the party caught one in the woods.
Genshalakar Jasaaf, green dragonborn bard, known as Josef by the locals who couldn't pronounce his name. He started up a little distillery, making Josef's Gin, that eventually grew into Josef's Gin and Inn. Since the DM let us start with a magic item, he had a portable hole that he would use to carry his barrels of Gin for deliveries to other bars, until his establishment was built up enough the staff could run it themselves, and he joined an adventuring party.
Years after the campaign fell apart, I turned him into a high-level NPC in a major port town, who owned a large tavern on the main road, and if the staff recognized any up-and-coming adventurers, they'd send them to the Old Town district, to Josef's Gin and Inn, which acted like an adventurers guild, run by his retired party, aside from the elven wizard running a high end magic shop and the gnome artificer running a utility magic shop. The half-orc barbarian is the bouncer, the human fiend-patron warlock keeps the finances, her tiefling daughter is the morning bartender, while the half-elf son of the wizard works the afternoon and his human husband works the overnight shift, spending the mornings together. There's also the hired musicians, a Kenku duo named Flute and Horn, who mimic their namesake instruments while playing the lute and drum.
Since I DMed for an almost all queer table, I included a little moment of catharsis for them, where some guy started spouting homophobic garbage at the half-elf bartender, only for his visiting father to stand up and cast Feeblemind on the guy, before the half-orc bounced him off the wall of the adjacent building.
Had a meme character for a 1shot. We got to play high level magic welders. I was Delphine beautiful pixie...except the party saw my true form...a hag... and I'm a mid 30s man who played her voice closer to patty or Selma from Simpsons. Would say "Hey sugar you wanna impress the princess you just need something special...I can help I love helping wayward nobles." (Then say that again like a late 50 truckstop babe that chains 3 packs a day.) Same words but completely different context.
Also the DM used the 1shot to write the legends of the campaign - amazing mechanic
A Time-Traveling Warlock who is his own Patron
I have a character that I’m currently playing as. He’s a human fighter and was the Prince of an island kingdom (think Ancient Greek mythology like Ithaca and it’s prince, Telemachas) that was going to be sold into slavery by pirates after his kingdom was burned and along with some of his fellow captives took down the pirates and took their ship and went on a few adventures until they entered a plane of existence that was basically Hell. He and his new crew were attacked and everyone either died or was captured. He was about to escape using a tablet/scroll of plane shifting, when he was blinded by a hydra like creature and when he returned to the normal plane, he had no idea where he was or the fates of his companions. The rest is a long story that is still ongoing. He also worships a homebrew god that is gas Poseidon/Neptune. He has a spear that is blessed with the ability to always return to his hand after being thrown (if it hits). He also has a shield that allows him to fly.
My most recent character idea for my friend Dragon Heist campaign… the wild magic mimic! Essentially a mimic are a wild magic sorcerer one day in a dungeon and it allowed him to take a human form and use sorcery magic as sorcerers often obtain their magic from others. My guy just ate someone who got his magic from somewhere else. He can still turn into objects occasionally and denies he’s anything but a human to the party or anyone who might suspect him.
Silver Tongue of the Stone Forest Clan, a trickery cleric from an urban Tabaxi tribe (essentially alley cats). He's a Charlatan who could lie as naturally as he breathed, until he got caught in one and it wound up getting his childhood friend killed. After that, he swore to go straight and joined a merchant caravan, gaining his charlatan false identity: Kité, as the caravan leader just called him kitty, but had a thick accent, and that's what all their contacts knew him as.
He eventually saved up enough to buy his own cargo and strike out on his own, only to discover you need a merchant license, which his old caravan leader had. He then happened to meet Eric, a man on the opposite end of the spectrum, who had bought a merchant license but was still trying to scrape up money for cargo. Well, they put their heads together and found a loophole: a merchant license can be shared by spouses. So they had a marriage of convenience, and since he had no last name, he had to take Eric's, becoming Kité Katt. To this day, he still swears Eric made up that last name just to screw with him.
They ran a little merchant caravan for several years, over which Silver became quite fond of Eric, until tragically losing him to a crossbow bolt in a caravan raid. It sent him into a deep depression that drove him to becoming a somber alcoholic, getting over his hangovers by smoking catnip, as it's a stimulant when inhaled by cats.
Fun fact: it's a depressant when ingested, as he found out when he once ate his stash in a town where it was considered a drug, and it made him very aware of his fur and very cuddly, and he maaaayyy or may not have ended up finally consummating the marriage with Eric that night, but that's a secret he'll take to his grave.
The caravan since abandoned, Silver now accompanies a rather chaotic adventuring party to make ends meet, with an "I'm getting too old for this" attitude to their hijinks, often being the voice of reason, and occasionally having flashbacks to Eric when someone goes down and rushing over to heal them immediately.
TL;DR alley cat somehow ended up with the fake name Kité Katt after a marriage of convenience to become a caravan merchant, fell in love with his new husband, lost him in a raid, and became a depressed alcoholic who joined the party because he was broke.
Thorin Blackstone, a jovial Dwarven Forge Cleric. 3rd prince of the Dwarven city of Blackstone and 4th child of its king. One night, Thorin had a dream that his older sister, Urda, a talented diviner, interpreted to mean that he would leave the city of Blackstone to fight a great evil. Thorin travels in a TARDIS-like cart made by a Halfling Artificer friend of the family and pulled by Thorin's giant White Bison, Delilah. The cart and Delilah are both kept in a magic pedant when not needed.
I have a character that I haven’t played yet but I love the idea.
He is a Paladin or Rogue (I haven’t decided) Vampire Hunter who lived with his wife, daughter, and parents. One day, while he was out killing vampires, another group of vampires attacked his home, killing his daughter and parents, and badly wounding his wife. When he returned he found the massacre and vowed revenge against them. The loss burned in him so brightly that he decided he would never loose anyone ever again, especially his wife. With time and effort, he forced his wife to become a Lich, her phylactery being the wooden stake he uses to kill vampires and keeping her rejuvenated by their souls…
This is BY FAR the edgiest character I’ve ever made. (My last character was a Warforged named Bubbles who was only programmed to feel joy)
i want to make a warlock who's patron is himself, or at least something that looks like him. He one day was looking inside a mirror when his reflection started moving and talking. It told him that he was in great danger but it could help him so long as he follows its command and dosen't try to work against it, so he did
My favorite and probably coolest character was my first character, a level 1 cleric girl, but the twist was that she was a demigod born of the blood of her mother. Her whole shtick was that her mother was The Frostmaiden Auril, a chaotic evil deity and the whole of the place she was from worshipped Auril like a cult, and as the character was the daughter/aspect of Auril, she was also revered, until she left and tried to explore the world, never liking her life. The reason she was level 1 was because she tried to be a chaotic good entity, a life domain cleric, so her magic inherently conflicted with how she was trying to use it, so as she leveled up she basically muscled her way into helping people, which literally went against her nature. I had so much flavor, my spiritual weapon was an icy tornado, any time I healed it was like the wound had frostbite and burned before turning back to normal, my bless gave everyone effected a light blue hue, it was awesome. Khione Rafale, I wish you had a full campaign so you could shine like you were meant to.
I just started a campaign where I'm playing an Astral Self Monk/Spore Druid Fairy. In reality they're a swarm of hive mind insects in the shape of a fairy that use illusion magic to hide their true appearance. In combat their swarm (the astral arms) burst out of their body and begin to eat their enemies. Out of combat, they're a little ball of Chaos who just wants to play games like Hide and Seek (that usually end in the winner eating the loser), and find shiny stuff. Its fun playing the D&D equivalent of an alien.
I think my coolest character concept is one I haven't had the opportunity to play with yet. On paper, they're a warforged artificer. In reality, my character is an amalgamation of a few warforged that used to work for an inventive noble, with the warfoged the noble created being used for various roles in the manor: bodyguard, butler, maid, chauffeur, etc. But the noble would then be attacked by his enemies and killed, with his entire manor destroyed. My warforged would survive the attack, if barely, being damaged almost beyond repair, and had to use parts from other warforged corpses to rebuild itself, ending up with a bit of a case of "multiple personality" disorder with so many warforged essences within it. And after that, their goal would be to find the ones responsible for the attack and bring them to justice. "Justice" being either death, or taking them to authorities, depending on which personality is active at the time and how the character develops.
Played a werewolf the apocalypse character. He was a wolf turned humanoid werewolf. Fritz was from Germany and was extremely technology magically inclined. To the point that when I would be asked about something in relation to human society, I would simply google such and such subject memes.
To top it all off he was from Germany so we spoke with a thick German accent and I speak a little German so I got to sprinkle that in a bit.
He had a study with computer screens and stuff all over the wall. And on the wall, there was a large placard that said breeds of human on there there were memes and pictures in relation to different ” Internet human breeds”.
He had a bunch of them, Chad’s, Stacy ‘s, neck, beards, trolls, and Karen’s. But he had one whole whole large section dedicated to one particular “ breed of human”. and that was Furrys. He loved Furrys. They were like him except in reverse.
So many shenanigans like the sentient drones with laser beams on their heads inspired by Austin Powers.
TLDR play a wolf that was enamored with humans and only knowledge of humans society was memes
Johnathan Ker Peter von Trist Montegast. He's basically a "Romeo-esc" warlock. Made a deal with a Arch-fae trapped in a mirror for power to help him woo "Juliet". The patron claimed that he was trapped due to an forbidden love between him and a human so he agreed to be John's wingman and help him out. Now whenever John sees his reflection (visible only to him) the reflection's eyes turn green and his Patron can speak with him. His family noticed he had snuck out (To go meet with Juliet) and searched the city. That night the King was assassinated and blame was placed on his family for the unexpected mobilization disrupting and distracting the city preventing them from catching the assassin. As there was no evidence that they had any part in the assassination, they just accidently helped make the opportunity, the family was disgraced, instead of executed. John with his warlock powers turned to adventuring to hopefully one day become famous/powerful enough to return, reinstate his family, and of course, get the girl.
I think the coolest character I have, though, has not used would be a Minotaur Artificer that has Dwarfism. Essentially, it would use technological enhancements in order to help compete against his brethren, but since his clan is completely against it, he was banished, stripped of his Clan Name, and was ostracized by everyone if he didn't cover himself up. I would have to figure out some things such as his companion that he made, or how protective he is with his friends, but I still love the concept of the character.
As for name, I have no good name for him
Haven't had a chance to play this one yet, but a 13 year old rogue/warlock. She grew up poor, her dad having left when she was just a baby. Her mom had an endless string of men that she would always refer to as my character's "new dad." Then one day her mom took off with one of these guys, leaving my character to fend for herself. She joined up with a local thieving guild, getting pretty good at it. Then one day, she broke into the mansion of some rich old guy who had just died, figuring to get some good stuff. She ended up finding his arcane focus and inadvertently summoning his Archfey patron, who then made her a warlock. She took this to mean that the Archfey was her new dad. Yeah, she's a little dumb. But she's also very friendly and cheerful. What's funny is that a little while after I came up with this character, my sister-in-law said she wanted to run a campaign where all of our characters would be travelling to the Feywilds, so she wanted me to come up with a character who would have a reason to go there. I replied, "I already have one!" So yeah, her goal will be to find her Archfey "new dad" so she can live with him.
Character I've been waiting to play is Daliance "Dahlia" de la Coeur. Female half elf noble bard. She's the result of her noble father's affair with her mother's handmaiden. The embarrassment of the affair trashed her family's name so she took up adventuring to restore the family to greatness. The opposite of the "horny bard" trope as she's abundantly aware of the consequences it could bring.
One day I was thinking about a monk/warlock combo and was wondering what that would look like. I decided that they would start at a monastery which was protecting an artifact. The monastery would probably be raided for the artifact, and rather than letting it be taken, the monk bound themselves to it, becoming a warlock in the service to a greater being. I was planning on using this idea as a backup for a Crown of the Oathbreaker campaign I’m in. The initial plan is to make them a 3rd lvl kensai monk, 5th lvl hexblade, though any combo of subclasses could work.
A Goliath monk, who was kicked out of his tribe for being too weak. His Dex is high, but his strength is a 7. He survives the mountainous regions around him, befriending a winter wolf and eventually finding a monk monastery. He is way of the drunken master so that he will avoid attacks, and has a quest. He wants to create a belt of storm giant strength by gaining the blessing of or killing one of every giant type. He will then give the belt to his tribe’s chief, and fight him one on one. Hopefully he wins, and becomes the leader of the tribe.
I have two concepts that I want to play. The first is Dr. Philbert Ferns The Senile, a human Artificer with a truly unique mind, who tends to make inventions that self-destruct. The second is Zoro Autore, a tabaxi Swashbuckler/Bard. He is on the short end of height, and if anyone brings up his height, he adds them to his "Steal Their Woman list."
I'm playing a special ops Yuan-Ti fighter artificer rogue. The goal is to get Mithral Plate, a shield, and a repeating shot pistol with a K9 Steel Defender to flank for sneak attack
I had an idea of a monk unknowingly meditating in a Druid grove. The monk dies, but the mushroom spores growing around them took control of the body to return them to their temple. Becoming a circle of spores Druid/Monk. Named Droolz cause the spores haven’t figured out how to talk.
Whyzard. Wiz-Rouge artificer/alchemist type. Halfling with a warg like mount. Throw anything, and house rules to make potions mist on exposure to air so I just chuck pots and poisons and everything during battle and cast what ever gives wall walking on my mount as a neat trick for exploration.
My own (no names. I tend to name characters last… for me the assignment of a name is a sign that the character is ready to play in the campaign and I always tweak them to fit a setting.).
A Centaur Bard - He’s been mentioned on this channel in another video. Started life as a Joke character in 3.5/Pathfinder 1E where a bards did not need to be music based at all… they were a wider array of art forms for them to choose for. His performance was Dance and his backstory was that he left his herd to study all forms of dance so he could create a dance form for his fellow Centaurs so they could to appreciate an art form most people agreed centaurs could never be good at dancing because of natural disadvantages (they have two left feet). While the one shot he was never happened (and he was nixed for numerous reasons) well before the cancellation my dancing centaur lived in the back of my head for years and is a contender for a campaign worthy character.
My other one was a challenge to make a human fighter who “was not boring”. So at game start he might be a young human fighter at level 1 at session 1, he was not always a human. In actuallity he was originally a Warforged adventure with many years (centuries at least) of experience with many parties of adventures. At the end of the Warforged’s Last adventure he was gifted a wish and accidentally Pinocchio’d himself, becoming a 12 year old human boy by the wish granter’s creative interpretation of his wish. It didn’t take long for him to find being a biological life form to be unpleasant and just when he thought his living situation couldn’t get worse, puberty hit… having spent his teen years relearning and training to be a fresh newly minted level 1 fighter, he sets off with another adventuring party to find a new wish to return to his Warforged life. He’s a tough character to bring to a campaign because it requires a DM who is going to bring a party from 1 to 20 and run my character’s story arc properly. It’s a slow burn with a very nuanced exploration of what it means to be human.
I am currently playing Triton Storm Sorcerer/Tempest Cleric who will almost quite literally BECOMES a hurricane of destruction in Dragonlance. The whole concept was that my character was outcast from his tribe for being WAY too invested with wiping the other tribes of sea elves and adjacent races. He stole his father's magical trident and has been using its power to manipulate powerful players to his will. I've had him start Lawful Neutral and eventually became Lawful Evil, and soon I'm going to have him essentially take control of the major city and any other powerful magics from the campaign, working with the DM and other players to eventually have him as a potential final fight against the other players (with a slight buff for the sake of 1v4), and see how the world is impacted by the actions of Romnos, the Triton who wanted to rule through a path of unbridled destruction
This might be a little late, but a character I've always wanted to play is somebody's hallucination, especially in a horror setting.
A lizard folk Gunslinger on a quest for the perfect barbecue sauce
An ancient god of magic that was bound into a rusty suit of armor (essentially a Warforged) - with a built-in anti-magic aura to prevent him from casting a single spell - for his crimes against the other gods. He would be a fighter on a slow road to redemption in the eyes of the other gods, with his final goal to regain his godhood.
I’ve always wanted to be able to incorporate certain abilities from those reincarnation anime’s into a character the main one being the ability to absorb items into yourself and be able to craft them into the item you want without a workbench kinda like what the rimaru in “the time I was re-incarnated as a slime” does with the unique skill synthesize
I have a BBEG that used to be a Oath of Devotion Paladin that never turned from his god, Stolar, the Goddess of Light. He was the Captain of the “city guard” (This was more of an independent group and didn’t answer to the city’s government) After a while, he was able to gain so much favor and praise from his goddess, that she gave him some of her power. The only problem…..his one flaw is that he is power hungry. Any amount of power he gets, he will use. So, upon receiving this power, he believes himself to be a god, and pledges loyalty to himself. And, in this world, if you have a god believe in you and your cause, then your power will increase exponentially. And since the Paladin thought himself to be a god, and had pledged loyalty to himself, anything he thought that he was able to do, he would be able to do. Stolar seeing all of this, tried to take his power, but he already out paced her. Thus, she fell in battle with the Paladin. He then took over the city he had set up base in, the Religious capitol of the nation, and ordered the citizens to worship him, or die. None decided to worship him. The Paladin guard he had was split up, half staying and pledging themselves to him, the other half leaving and plotting to take down this new god. He now sits upon the throne of a castle in an empty city, where the only sound is the howling winds, the last noise of the citizens that were killed during his purge.
Florida man: a half, human half green dragon born ranger who is in denial that they are actually part Dragonborn and therefore calls himself part Aligator. Since he is a blend of the two races, he doesn’t have poison breath but instead poison saliva which has proven to be really useful. They also have a massive giant crocodile as a pet. Another neat fact is that they have a strange fear of goats. Finally, Florida man only wears tank tops, Florida man doesn’t know what the cold is.
While the game hasn't started yet, my character will be a normally evil monster that was created different. There's a type of monster in Pathfinder called Sinspawn, creatures that look gaunt and skeletal in their head, arms, and legs/feet. Only their upper and lower torso looks vaguely humanoid (Lustspawn for example have a killer figure regardless of a male or female appearance, but the rest still looks freaky). They're made from material magical essence of the sin they represent, but my Lustspawn will instead be a Lovespawn, representing the virtue instead of the sin. She won't know how she ended up like this, nor will a lot of her be visible at first due to her appearance, but she'll be a motherly type (though stern when needed) while figuring out just why she was different, and perhaps finding her 'mother' as well...
One character I would like to play is Rusty, a fairy artificer who was exploring one day and discovered the remains of a Warforge. Over time, Rusty rebuilt the Warforge. However, no matter what Rusty tried, it remained a lifeless husk. The community Rusty lived discovered the Warforge and planned to destroy it, fearing what might happen if it awoke or the original builders come looking. Before they could dismantle the Warforge, Rusty entered its chest and used it as a Mechsuit. Afraid to return home, Rusty piloted the Warforge for the nearby Big People village.
That's right. I want to play a mechanic piloting fairy! As the character levels, Rusty figures out how to control the mech and repairs over time.
Juran Scaleborn is an amethyst dragonborn draconic bloodline (gold) sorcerer who I would LOVE to play in a gestalt campaign as a sor-lock, as the warlock side of things is actually an integral part of his story
see, the odd thing about him is that...both his parents are human. there is no chance of infidelity going on here (time span alone ensures this. small village out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, 6 months before conception and 3 months after is the time span between guests to the village) and can trace back a pure human lineage up to 5 generations
despite this, he was well loved and highly accepted by both his parents and the other members of the village. obviously, he had some bullies because he was different and his weight (he loves to cook, and it shows, even at an early age. bit of a chunky boy) but they backed down after he lit their shoes on fire by hacking up a firebolt loogie one time (his first time casting a spell too, btw)
he leaves the village because he wants to know how he wound up this way.
his only lead? the last visitor they had before he was born was a wizard by the name of Fizban.
on his journey he finds many wonderful things. at some point (still trying to figure out how) he makes a pact with Tiamat to kill her brother Bahamut in exchange for a new lead his quest.
what he does NOT know (but she sure as hell does) is that Bahamut is actually the source for his sorcerer powers. See, when Fizban visited his village, he casted a small blessing on him while he was in his mother's womb, in Bahamut's name...his own name. Fizban IS Bahamut, and in that blessing, accidentally made him a sorcerer.
BUT...he did NOT have anything to do with him being a GEM dragonborn.
no...that is a different mystery (which I still need to work out details on, but I am leaning towards an ancient amethyst dragon was bored and wanted to see the drama that would play out if she shifted into Juran's father and fucked his mom)
he would eventually learn about his sorcerer origins, break his pact with Tiamat and make a new one with Bahamut (despite having just tried to kill him, Bahamut knows how manipulative his sister can be) in an attempt to seek redemption for the atrocities he committed in Tiamat's name (he would have been secretly evil up until the confrontation)
oh, and the best part about his origin story is that you can do something similar with a number of race/sorcerer combos
warforged clockwork soul, aasimar celestial...go ham, y'all
A lizardfolk Land Druid (swamp) who represents nature's savage side; his method of adding animal forms to his Wildshape, was to eat the animal.
I had a neat (not really cool but just neat) character idea. a dwarf who was cursed by a god so that he requires beer in order to survive, the thing is he also experiences the full effects of drinking (getting drunk + hangover) over the course of a single minute
I have a couple that I am very proud of, both of them I've played though not any more due to the respectivos campaigns dying off.
First one is Hoatoa, a Goblin Hatter who is a perfectionist due to the fact that he was appointed to make a crown for the "Queen" of his tribe, and when he presented what he thought was his masterpiece, she outright destroyed his work, thinking it unworthy of her. He is a Bard of creation and all his spells and abilities revolve around making, wearing or using hats or hat-adjacent accessories, especially his inspiration ability, which consists of him giving someone a hat, and once it is used, he promptly throws it away.
The second one needs a bit more context, for I played them in a very home brewed version of Starfinder, to the point that I don't know which parts of the build and lore come from canon and which are homebrew. They are a Multiman (a class centered around making/summoning clones of yourself) Abiarazi (a sort of slime-ish pink goopy alien). They are an investigator for the Akasshic Compendium, a sort of library of Alexandria but at universal level, specialized in biology and fauna. This specialization comes from their ability (due to their subclass) to make clones of themselves and shape them into creatures that they have slain, so yeah, if the name hadn't given it away, they are space Ditto but clones.
A wizard originally from the feywilds from a rich family who was cut off from the families wealth and turned to the mob for money. Rather than deal with it he ran off to the domains of dread including Strahds realm
Paladin from a land that worshiped a goddess of peace, at first he went to war when the land they called home was invaded. But slowly the ones around him lost care for their ideals of peace and forgiveness and pushed past the invading kingdom to pillage and slaughter. Effectively becoming barbarians, he refused to follow his former allies and left the kingdom on his war horse named silver disillusioned with his beliefs. Now just a nomad being hunted by the war mongers he once called friends.
TLDR: He was in an army of murder hobos and ran for it.
Patrone, a Dragonborn with the Acolyte background. Now most dragonborn loathe religion as they feel it binds them, but Patrones family was part of a commune that prayed to Liira, goddess of freedom and revelry. Patrone was raised in this church to one day be a cleric, but on the day he was to begin clerical training, disaster struck. Liira had been out partying in the lower planes and Gambled away the service of her next cleric. So Patrone was visited by Liira who informed him of his fate, he is now a servant to his Patron, Asmodeus.
Patrone does still believe in his god and trusts her to get him out of this mess, but the deeds he must commit for his new master might change that.
This character had a huge pivot early on in the campaign. He got into an incident with a magic item where he was killed, but brought back into a female tieflings body. The DM wrote up a patron contract that stated that service terminated upon death, but he forgot to add resurrection clauses. So, as my character would, I argued that my contract would be void and Patrone could pursue his passion of serving Liira as a cleric.
This gender swap definitely affected the way I played the character. I went from sad boy with a dark secret, to slutty mom figure of the party. I ended up in the tank role with my high AC and fascination for HUGS (followed quickly by inflict wounds). Later on in the game we visited the plane of fire and Patron slept with a shop keep to get armor of fire immunity. After that I would light myself on fire before the hugs. At some point we took down the leader of the local thieves guild. We split up the wealth and invested it. I used my share to open a nightclub/church of Liira and bribing the old guilds network into doing my bidding. It was a WEIRD game to say the least.
It’s hard to say if your own character concepts ever stand up to what’s cool in other people’s eyes, but i thought I’d put ahead some of my favourite concepts nonetheless (possibility of playing them being questionable, as i am a forever DM)
1. Cecilia dessables. (Dessables is french for “of the sands”) Cecilia’s parents are the rulers of a country which long ago was quite poor, but after they made a deal with a devil, Mammon, to be granted a large sum of wealth, in exchange for a return tenfold, as well as their souls, when their lives ended. The country became one of the most wealthy. After this, the rulers placed a ward against evil over the capital city, in an attempt to save themselves when Mammon ultimately came to collect their souls. However, their first daughter was tainted by this transaction, and, the first time she left the city walls, she began to transform into a tiefling. In fear of her, and what she represented for them, Cecilia’s parents kept her locked away in the house, where she taught herself the arcane arts as entertainment. However, one night, criminals broke into the family castle and, slipping past the guards, found her parents and sister and kidnapped them, leaving Cecilia nothing but a note demanding the family’s wealth for their lives. However, Cecilia, in her parents’ mistrust, was never told the location of the fortune, so instead, she sets out to try and make the money required by adventuring. However, each day she spends away from home, her “curse” grows a little more
2. Reginald bartholomew winthrop jr: Reginald never knew his father, RBW Sr, but does know the stories of the legendary mountaineer who discovered the lost citadel of the frost giants. When Reginald Jr was a young boy, his father disappeared on an expedition and never returned. Reginald, following in his father’s footsteps, became an explorer and mountaineer, learning the language of the giants and running a successful map business in his small home town. One day, however, Reginald began to manifest strange powers, a magical connection to the mountains. In an attempt to figure out what was happening to him, he dug through his father’s old souvenirs, and found a small stone tablet, inscribed with runes. The runes were in giant, explaining a spell that would grant the user, and their children, the magic of the mountains. Armed with this new knowledge, Reginald’s search for his father was reinvigorated, and he sets out on his longest expedition yet to try and find out more about his father’s journeys
3. Sen Featherstraw: Sen was always a bright young Aarakocra, and when they were accepted into one of the most prestigious magic academies in the world, they jumped at the chance. They progressed quickly in their mastery of the arcane, especially in magical inventions, and so when they were offered the opportunity to become apprentice to Ribbles Gummen, one of the greatest gnome inventors in the academy, they said yes immediately. Sen and Ribbles got straight to work on Ribbles’ latest idea, a machine that can grant sorcerous powers to anyone. However, on the night that Sen and Ribbles went to test the machine for the first time, on Ribbles himself, the machine overloaded, causing a magical blast that granted Ribbles powerful wild magic, but injuring Sen greatly, tearing off both his wings. Later, Ribbles would discover the reason for the malfunction was due to an overload. It was calibrated to pull magic from the magic items they had collected to power the machine, but another source of magic had been in the room that night; Sen. Sen’s dormant sorcerous potential was stripped from them, along with their wings. Ribbles, feeling awful about what he’d done, vowed to at least fix one of his mistakes, and help Sen regain his sorcerous power. Together, Sen with a pair of prosthetic wings that they designed themselves, and Ribbles completely drained of funds, the two set out to find enough magic items to power the machine again, and help Sen get their magical potential back
An Elf Druid. He was born into a noble family that ruled the city... but they werent good people. He had a farmer girl friend that tought him Druidcraft, when his family found out they murdered the family publicily and locked there son up to "Realise what he did wrong." He then used his basic Druidcraft to escape... now this kinda Pompus guy who is a bit uptight and not really good with "Grime" is trying to become a Druid to honer his late friend.
So a Noble trying to become a "pesents".
I think it would be a cool spin on its head of the druid trope. Instead of being "Hippy" hes a rich kid whos trying to get used to nature. Hes learning to get use to the unknowns and messy nature of the world.
I have two,
One is a Shadar Kai moon Druid who was banished by the raven queen for the crime of having been revived against their will by a cleric he once knew. Now he is trying to find a way to regain his queen’s favor….
The second, is an ancient red dragon who after destroying a city to satisfy their own greed…. Was turned into a human, as a cleric used their divine intervention to punish her for her crimes. Now she is a human draconic sorceress who just try to survive long enough to get her true powers back…. While everyone laugh at her for claiming to be a dragon….. plan is to have her learn humility and to actually end up becoming a better person with the help and influence of the party
I've had the idea to play a human sorcerer which was so powerful that she could conjure entire new worlds from the weave. The gods became so scared of her immense power that they transformed her into the more simple form of a lizardfolk and removed all her memories of her immense powers in an attempt to get rid of the threat that she posed and now she has to set off to find out who she really is
Playing a superhero d20 campaign my character aws a swat officer who handled a canine and was ambushed by the bbed and was systamatcially forced to have his genes merged with his canines dna turning him into a mutant bi pedal canine. He uses batman style gadgets and hunts criminals and is seeking the bbed who murdered his life and sqaudmates. Think beast with batmans gadgets. I loved this character so much i refined him and his backstory for DCU Online. his name is Kanine and his his citys protecotr working in tandem with the police force. His partner is a black magic user who can turn herself into a feline gargoyle known as Felidae.
I just created a character with the symbiotic being dark gift but with a slight twist. the symbiotic being is in control of the body and the original owner (host) is a background voice. i made it so the symbiote is a new lifeform that is curious about everything and so takes his time to observe as much as he can and asks many questions whereas the host is just in the back of his(own) head trying to hurry the symbiote along so they can return to the lab that created it and figure out a way to separate symbiote from host. so the agenda is the host's agenda, not the symbiote's.. lol (class is druid with plans to go spores cuz.. you know... hes a fungus...) and since the symbiote only knows existence as a paired entity, he always uses "we" or "us". oh, and the host is a 15 year old boy from the witherbloom college of strixhaven
the symbiote's name? why, hes just a "Hugh Mann Mail"..
Forever dm here. My favorite concept character is Lion-o Richie, a 19th level bard 1st level warlock rakshasa passing as a leonin whose patron has him top side saving the world because, "the longer we keep things moving, the more souls end up down here."
A barbarian with a gatling gun, but no bullets, so he beats the shit out of people with it instead. Bonus points if it's a low tech setting where nobody realises the barbarian's funny-looking hammer is actually a weapon of mass destruction capable of mowing down cities within minutes
When the barbarian does eventually find bullets for the gatling gun, he uses them as darts instead. The artificer will probably get a heart attack from what the barbarian is doing
Got a decent concept of a rogue/barbarian shifter
To simplify he was created by the church. Modified. To be the perfect weapon with sole purpose of seeking and slaying undead and stuff like that
But what makes him cool is his in game mechanics making him impossible to fail a dex save and moving away on a reaction.
He's basically a speedy boi. Which i like.
Personality is decent. I simply wanted to make him concentrated on his duty so he rarely speaks and if does so it's usually to share important information.
Not edgy in spite of being a rogue though. Just not very talkative.
Half orc half awakened tree, battle master + Druid multi-class (wanted to play with some spike growth and forced movement). Hair and skin color change with the seasons and hair falls out in the winter after turning brown and brittle.
There is one that I really want to do with my group but they all think it's childish and I think it will be a very fun (and a very much needed) bonding exercise. So there is a dnd background called skeleton fairy. It's only available to the fairy race, and it's basically a fairy piloting a skeleton. So my plan is a family of faeries, all different classes, piloting a skeleton. The group says no
(In a modern-day setting) A cleric without a deity. He follows the ideas of Anton LaVey, i.e. the "Church of Satan", meaning he is his own god, and this belief in himself is what gives him his "divine" powers.
Got another good concept of a bard
Character was inspired by a boss from Blue Archive game who's name is Gregorius
To do that i really needed to run a few shinenigans past my DM like using the Wand of conducting as spell focus and being able to summon like a piano or an organ with a wooden puppet playing it (i think it fits in 10×10 square)
The character itself is a faceless wooden mannequin created by a being that is completely obsessed with art.
Pretty cool but only in vacuum.
Probably not the coolest, but as a new D&D player, I'll share my 2 complete characters.
My first character that I have actually played in a One-Shot is Stillstone, a Goliath Monk. He had isolated himself in the mountains for a decade and became both a sage and a powerful monk. The only issue is, he doesn't know any societal etiquette, despite being a good person. So whenever he gets into any fight, he doesn’t take property damage into account. Literally in a first fight, he slid across a 6 person table, proceeded to beat up a half-orc, almost died to a bear, backed up and threw a 6 person table at the bear, also hitting his gnome barbarian friend in the process.
I haven't played my second character yet and he is built for one of my custom worlds (not quite a D&D world, I just make stories in my free time).
My second character is AF-PROTO/VH, an Autognome Fighter.
AF-PROTO/VH was part of a project to arm the Gnomish Empire with super soldiers to fight back against the Drow Kingdom and the Blood Moon Order (a kingdom of vampires), so that the Gnomish Empire can end the War of the Underground Complex.
AF-PROTO/VH was never deployed for many reasons, but the main one is because the creators of the machine used a vampire heart as his Cardiac Fuelling System, which raised concerns that the darkness of the undead heart might corrupt the systems of the construct, rendering them evil.
Because of the instability of the prototype's Cardiac Fuelling System, AF-PROTO/VH glitched and gained consciousness.
The autognome, armed with the skills of a soldier installed into their Gnomish Neural Processor (robotic brain), seeks out the truth about the Underground Complex War and discover whether the Drow Kingdom and the Blood Moon Order truly have malicious intent against the Gnomish Empire, or if the Gnomish Empire is just power hungry.
They also question where their undead heart comes from, and seek out the person who has the answer.
13 years ago, a couple approached a haggard old mage out in the forest asking, no begging for a child. For they had been pregnant so many times that they lost count only to lose the baby every single time.
Most couples would give up on having children after multiple failed attempts, but this couple would not ever think of giving up on their dreams.
When they asked, she quickly agreed to help them. For a mere drop of the mother's blood and two drops of the fathers the couple would be barren no longer. Nine months later two beautifully healthy twins were born, a boy and a girl, who they named Narren and Arissa.
Over the next 12 years, the twins would discover their magical gifts. Arissa discovered her partial transformation ability, and Narren discovered his talents for Druidism.
But two tendays before their 13th birthday, their parents and village elders told them of the deal their parents made that may or may not be defaulted upon in the upcoming weeks. After the conversation, the elders cast a special *Protection from Evil and Good* upon the twins that would protect them from transforming into hags themselves or being under their control but told them that they have until a year and a day from their 13th birthday to slay the hag that gave them to their parents.
Mechanically, they’d play as two different characters: Narren plays as a Circle of the Moon Druid and Arissa plays as a Path of the Beast Barbarian.
Vasily is my lvl3 warlock of the great old one. Formerly an absolutely disgusting fanatic high elf obsessed with Lovecraftian patron, Vasily hails from far north and gives off stereotypical russian vibes. Campaign he is in is centred around a massive forest splitting the continent in 2 where some hundred years ago all the life seemingly vanished including a big elven civilisation. Vasily was actually tied into the story, one day just being directly addressed to by The Great Old One. Cosmical entity struck a bet with another eldritch buddy of his: who’s servant is gonna be able to “vanish” elves from that forest the quickest. Vasily, shitting pants in excitement of recognition travelled there right away and even started whatever ritual he was doing but other worshipper was ahead of him and Great Old One lost the bet. To punish Vasily he was trapped in the very forest by some mind-altering magic for all these hundred years yet he did not age even a day so punishment possibly could last eternally. More then that in a result of a half-completed ritual Vasily himself was turned into an Asimar with constant visions and paranoia. Over time due to tinkering done with his mind Vasily just forgot everything and from the edgy fanatic murder hobo he was turned into an always joyful and somewhat even comedic outdoors enthusiast, only keeping vague memories of his origin, language and personal possessions that mostly consist of torn northern clothing patched with green-orange checkers fabric and his trusty old axe. He is still capable of spellcasting (as his patron seemingly forgot about Vasily) but does not understand source of his psionics. Nor does he care about his past, fully enjoying his life in the magic forest. He is lawful evil tho as due to some shenanigans of the dm Vasily can enter a rage-like state and his shaken moral compass is easily recognised in tough situations
Honestly all of the Greenthumb clan would be awsome to play, but only youngest could be a PC.
He is a Tanarukk, basically a demonic orc, who presents himself as a Paladin of The Fury [a goddess of passion, revenge, rage and despair], whom his adoptive mother is the mortal avatar of and is his absolute hero. Theres just one problem, divine magic is antithetical to his demonic infused blood and he nearly died when he originally took his oath as a paladin. Dispite this he continues to present himself as a Paladin just without the magic, and tries to fulfill his Oath to refrom his ancestral clan and return to the Demon Wastes to continue their duties against the infernal powers there
His true class would only be revealed when hes on deaths door, and his mother manifests as a flaming silvery specter and giving a modified version of Erwins speach from AoT "My Children do not buckle or yeild, My children push forward, my children scream out, MY CHILDREN RAAGE" Where it would be revealed that he is a Zealot Barbarian and channels his mother to fight along side him