When you Create a Character that ALREADY Exists in Dungeons and Dragons
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- What character did you create that you later found out was already made?
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To quote one of my D&D friends: "There are no original ideas."
You forgot to add...
"...just original way's of interpreting that idea."
Tell that to my cleric rogue Warlock hybrid who is just the lower set of satire legs.
Genus Chicas McClappes
yep, I created a Dwarf who was banished from his clan. Was taken in by Goblins and through magical mutations, basically became a goblin. (dwarf stats but goblin appearance) I wanted to look like the Leprechaun (Nevara Goblin) Then a couple weeks roll by and saw a clip for the new Critical Roll campaign. and guess who Sam was??? Nott the Goblin. I was crushed and had to scrap the character.
There could be in the movie world. Though many ideas already exist in books there are still movies that don't already implement said ideas.
"... just obscure references."
"The most original character possible"
"I dont believe you"
"He had a good childhood with no traumatic event recently"
"Oh !"
"He have 2 parents that love him a lot."
"OH !"
"He have a good relationship with his wife and their son is not dead."
"DAMN !"
"And he is a bard that focus on art and dont try to fornicate."
"You mad man !"
has*
You just described Thomas Jefferson.
@@timesthree5757 he had an affair with the likely half sister of his deceased wife which has been likely proved by dna analysis that showed she fathered at least one if not all of her children. so the last line wouldn't really apply here because since they were unmarried that is the textbook definition of fornication
@@timesthree5757I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson's son is dead
@@freewithpurchase 😂
I tend to go through the five stages of grief when I made an already-existing character.
Denial: There’s no way they’re similar!
Anger: How could I be so blind?!
Bargaining: Ok, they have a few different traits that set them apart! That’s unique, right?
Depression: I’ll never make an original character again.
Acceptance: Screw it, I’m playing this character because they’re awesome.
To quote Duke: "Frick yeah"
Omg same
or you can embrace it and somewhat parody character. Like I saw an idea for Pathfinder 2e of a shoony(an humanoid pug) investigator who seeks to catch his arch-nemesis the cat-burglar(litteral catfolk burglar) and mastermind, Meowriarty.
My brother always manages to make the wrong character by accident but just rolls with it. For an example, he tried to translate Illidan into D&D, but somehow made Mal'Ganis.
Once i Made Buck the human guard(a haldberd figther). Generic Yet a very fresh start for me.
I've been in campaigns where virtually every character was based off of something else. Batman, Hawkeye, Spike (Cowboy Bebop)... Funniest thing was they were accompanied by one of the most vibrant original characters I've ever seen played. And then there was my half-orc, who just tried to keep missions on track. It was honestly some of the most fun I've had as a player, honestly.
I even had a player who had a character based on Warlock from the New Mutants, and one based on the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes. In the SAME campaign.
so true
In one campain we have paladin "doomslayer", basically Pekora as a artificer war criminal, Gimli-ripoff and pretty basic half-dragon draconic sorc. In other one I made a char that I straight up dreamed about (awakened cat). D&D be like that - just a clusterfuck of ideas, new, old and stupid, meshing together as long as people are being cool.
I have a bad habit of wanting to match characters I like aesthetics while trying to make them different from the character.
Case in point: an anime series I like features a hot blooded, fire ball throwing druid who will just as likely as, if not more likely, try to throw down in melee with his cudgel than hock a spell. Imagine my joy when wild fire druids became a thing.
Is your character fun to play as/with? If yes, congratulations, it's a great character! =D
Every writer takes inspiration(whether they know it or not) from every movie, show, game, play, campaign, etc. they've ever been exposed to. Dnd isn't any different. If it bothers you that its too similar, add in some twist to make it feel more like your work.
"There is nothing new under the sun"
- Solomon
I like the idea of an iterative character/NPC/setting based on something that already exists. Start by 100% basing it on something else then make multiple passes where you change things, and not just minor things like "his hair was white blond, but now it's sandy blond!" Make enough of these decently large changes enough times (5-10 would probably be enough) and now you have a character that's your own while still being an homage to what it originally was.
And by acknowledging that it wasn't an original idea to begin with, you can more clearly see what is and isn't your idea and needs to be changed to actually make it at least somewhat unique.
@@Reyn_Roadstorm I kinda like iterating on the fly
You start with your unoriginal concept, but watch it self iterate in the course of the game
"Whoops they're an arsonist now" kinda thing
And an hypothetical human who never saw any work of fiction would be lacking in creativity and only come up with simple things already seen a million times.
Y'all forgot writers who base fiction off of their own real world experiences (like Tolkien)
By not copying existing works, they are able to create stories with elements and plot turns never before seen in fiction
As somebody who is planning to make an already existing character my own (Loz albw, Yuga, chaotic evil), this is majorly amusing
That name reminds me of Ainz
How in God's name do you pronounce that?
Nice
@@JacobL228 the name is just Yuga. Loz albw is short for "Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds," the game Yuga comes from.
*gasp* evil Bob Ross! : D
A lot of my arcs in my campaign are loosely based on movies or arcs from anime. It has become a fun game with my player to see if they can figure out what I'm ripping off based on plot beats and easter eggs. What's even better, is if they can figure it out earlier enough they'll start tailoring their roleplay to the story arc I'm hijacking.
Or they'll go trouping off in the opposite direction because they know what's coming next.
That sounds like a ton of fun
I played Toriko, except as a fairy. None of the people I play with watch anime, so they will never know!
my dm set up a system were we get 100 xp each reference he makes on purpose
It’s safe to assume everything you do falls under a trope
Just put your own spin on ideas that sound cool and you’ll have fun playing
That's a reminder of all my campaigns and almost every player I had.
I laughed a lot the entire video, just for the nostalgia of my first characters.
Respects from a roleplaying community from Chile!
My most creative one was a half orc monk...
Who was a pacifist...
And his lifetime goal was to find the single greatest cow in the world, milk it and make the best cheese ever.
He had a surprisingly emotional arc tho, and in the end got his cheese, after beating Demogorgon to death with a stick because he was going to kill the said cow.
Edit: deleted a few irrelevant sentences
Deerstalker Pictures - Pacifist Barbarian | 1 For All | D&D Comedy Web-Series
I bet he was fun to play
@@midnights2631 indeed he was
@@elion1941that's what i thought as well
I swear to God, I once made a half-orc monk pacifist whose dream was to brew the best beer
Now I kinda want to see a video about making characters that already exist, but you don't know them.
Like, the DM congratulates everyone on their creative reinterpretations of various characters, and no one in the group has any idea what the DM is talking about.
"what do you mean my billionaire playboy who lost his parents when he was young and donned a disguise to fight crime as a flying mammal-themed superhero is a "creative reinterpretation"?"
"Batman?"
"Never heard of him."
@@drchicken2477 To be honest, I was thinking of more niche characters.
Old Man Henderson is apparently a recreation of the Dude from the Big Lebowski despite the creator having never seen it
Lol that would make me mad ngl, and at that point its still kinda originality, it's from your own mind at least and that counts for something
@@Kartoffelkamm But if the characters are too niche, the audience might not even understand the joke.
This is just like Daniel Thrasher's when you accidentally write music that already exists series and I love it
HAHA YES
The thumbnail is an exact parody of it
So good, keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a light upon the D&D community.
This makes me question things about myself. My favorite character I made is a female Nagaji called Zaka. Her INT is 5, she always refers to herself as "Zaka" and is a powerful bloodrager who never realizes she is casting spells. Instead she just thinks it's something she can do, like using the spell Jump to leap great bounds or believes when she uses Thunderstomp, she is just causing the ground to shake from her sheer strength. She is very naive and loyal, and being a bloodrager she is surprisingly good at social situations, and makes friends easily. Also never learns anyone's name, instead giving them a nickname based off the first thing she recognized about them. Like "Zaka's short friend!" She also never went into her bloodrage unless she saw an injustice happening or a friend getting attacked. Even if she was getting plummeled she wouldn't get angry enough for it. One time she got "baleful polymorph" cast on her, and she failed the save against the polymorph but made the save against the mental asset that makes you lose who you are as a person. Then during that same fight as a squirrel, she activated her bloodrage, growing one size larger and getting long limbs for extra reach cause that is what she gets from her bloodline. So the caster that polymorph her suddenly had this large demonic squirrel with abnormally large legs leap on his face and start trying to bite his wind pipe out from his throat! God do I wish I could play her again.
So for me, I actually love the tropes, the classics, the wise old knight or elven ranger. But what I find even more fun is letting them grow to and become their own being, and slowly through that change they become new and unique (as much as it can anyway!).
Indeed. They act as a great starting point and as the story goes along, you get a feel for them as their travels and experiences shape them into the person they will be.
I made a strength based ranger named Stefan Everwind. He was a variant human who took the grapplers feat. He loves to travel the world discovering new creatures and grappling the bigger ones to test his strength against them. He had an Australian accent and his special item was an orb that would record his adventures. Those recordings would be sent out for people to watch and he titled his adventures "Kobald Hunters."
These are some pretty fun concepts for translating characters into D&D!
You should check out Tulok the Barbrarian (yes that spelling is right). His entire channel is basically "how can you play fictional characters as legal characters in 5e"
Harengon are begging to be just bugs bunny with a sword...
I came up with the idea of a business man that is a necromancer. Basically if you need physical labor you go to him and pay him hourly and he summons a bunch of skeletons for you. Kinda like home depot. I was showing him off to one of my DM's and at the end he said "Im playing that character right now in one of my games" Although my pride shrunk like a balloon i still plan on using him lol.
May I use this?
@@dave1411 lol its not like its mine
Still seemed polite to at least ask since it wasn't my original idea
@@dave1411 fair
Sounds like Torvald from The Weekly Roll.
Torvald is on the run from the law. Not because he did anything wrong with necromancy, it was all consensual and legal, but because he didn't pay his taxes.
I haven't done this (as a player) but a friend of mine who is really into Marvel made his character essentially Starlord by accident and then after realizing it decided to name him Quill just to hammer it home. Our group name is the Guardians of the Galaxy, for no apparent reason in game (it's Curse of Strahd)
Curse of Strahdlord
Bring him into king maker and you could make him Star Lord.
I'm in a Curse of Strahd campaign and my character is a female headless Reborn who is a Oath of Vengeance Paladin who before her wrongful beheading swore an oath of revenge against the wicked noble family that condemned her and the rest of the noble family she belonged to wrongful executions by having her family accused of a crime they didn't commit and after a disrespectful burial aka her still fresh headless corpse with her signet ring and scroll of pedigree were thrown into a ditch but her cry for revenge was heard by the Raven Queen so the Raven Queen brought her back to life and gave her the power to exact her revenge but in exchange she has to serve the avian-esque elven goddess of Death, and Winter who is queen of the Shadowfell as one of her champions aka one of her eternal knights of vengeance against evil and she accepted.
Yeah my main character inspiration was The Crow.
I always start with “this character mixed with this other one, with a third character’s power set” and by the third game night, they barely resemble any of them and feel super original, lol. Just except they start as based off of something, and they will grow into their own people, that’s my method.
I feel like it also helps me create a good playlist for them too. 🎶
Ok but... I really want to see a campaign with all of them now...
My first character was accidentally Drizzt D'Urden with a giant owl. I didn't even know the lore, just thought the idea seemed cool.
My fist character was drizzt do'urden and I decided that after reading the first 6 books in the series
For a oneshot I wanted to play as the Dragonborn from Skyrim. I was a Draconic Sorcerer that multiclassed into Barbarian. Somehow they noticed it at the last hour.
I created a Half Orc Fisherman Cleric, age 35 who never really talked with anyone and lived alone in his home at the lake. Had an intelligence of 8 or so and realized he reminded me of Baelin from Epic NPC Man
Vivaaaaaaaa
Mornin, nice day for fishing
@@dtsayshi8039 I made sure to not say that TOO much, but tried to fish every chance I could.
Dingo!
Ain't it? Ha-ha!
This actually happened to me by accident. So, I was still pretty new to d&d, circa 2017, and we were playing 3.5e. I made a character I thought was original: Faalure Omarralu, a drow swashbuckler who, despite still having the psychology of a normal drow, had morals and ethics. She was a good person at heart, but she was born from a noble family in the Underdark (I based it off a family from the Drow of the Underdark book) where she was supposed to become a priestess, but she spared the man she was supposed to kill as part of the ritual by giving him a poison which causes an individual to appear dead before the fight she was supposed to have, which resulted in it looking as if she had killed him, but in sparing him she angered Lolth. So, Faalure ran away from home somehow surviving to make it to the surface, where she made it her personal vocation to be a good person, show the world that not all drow were inherently evil, and hoped to accrue enough power to kill Lolth (which would probably have never happened but at the time we figured since she had a stat block she could be killed). Then I found out the whole "I'm not evil and ran from the Underdark" drow trope was inspired initially by Drizzt, so the entire concept as a whole was unoriginal. I still had fun with the character, and the whole reason I named her "Faalure" was that it seemed elvish enough and basically said "failure" (but I pronounced it Fall-lure-ay) and she was rather enjoyable for me to play.
My most recent campaign had me playing as a Reborn Lineage, Path of the Beast Barbarian. He has an abnormally high Dex making him good with both ranged weapons and stealth and he wears red. My table has yet to figure out I am playing Vincent Valentine but there are still jokes that my character is a vampire.
I asked my DM who they want me to play since I had no ideas. They said, archaeologist. Thus she became the Indiana Jones of the their world and also accompanied by a shadow bunny from the "upside down" of the world whom she sometimes needs to follow to get out of sticky situations. She's her own thing but also full of weird and obscure references. And she became one of my most loved characters :)
If you're playing an Archeologist, you'll basically always be either Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. Maybe some leeway for Nathan Drake, if you stretch archeologist a bit thin and include treasure hunter. Which, technically, Indy and Lara are too.
My first ever dnd character was Legolas. Exact name and appearance. I was extremely boring in my early days of dnd. Now I make characters like a Gunslinging Rogue Kenku that is flavored as a Rooster named Bok Bok Bakaw, who's catchphrase is "Fastest Cock in The West."
So basically Foghorn Leghorn, but more edgy.
Edgy Foghorn Leghorn/Futurama Space Chicken sounds like a _fantastic_ character. :D
Stealing Bok Bok Bakaw for the "Odd NPCs you only notice with a 25 or higher passive perception" folder
I personally don't find exotic or "exciting" character design interesting by themselves and would assume you're trying a bit too hard to not be like any other, I'm more interested by what you're going to do than what you are. So copypaste Legolas or Gunslinger Kenku Rogue both works fine to me. Yes I've yet to play a campaign...
That's amazing. My current character is an Aarakocra warlock named Zephyr Stormwind that essentially used to worship Slaanesh and now sees horrifying shadow creatures everywhere. She's completely fucking unhinged and has a penchant for binge drinking, causing serious collateral damage, and ruthlessly executing any adversary that threatens the party. Also, I've been known to pick up our crit-monkey rogue Elf and fly around with her basically as an aerial turret. My DM got so tired of our shenanigans, he had carrionettes body snatch us. So when we get our bodies back, I'ma fireball them into oblivion.
@@xenogorwraithblade2538 I love bringing Warhammer flavours into D&D. In my case it's Greenskins and Gork and Mork. To better place it into the world, they are just one of the old gods. Same can be true for any Chaos god from Warhammer. Then you just go with stuff like Aberrant mind sorcerer or warlock or whatever you want to flavour. Point is, they now exist in any D&D universe you want to play, and shouldn't be a much of a problem for your DM to include them in larger lore etc.
I love theory crafting existing fictional characters in D&D, and use my favorites in games. I think it’s interesting to think how an existing character would think and operate in a different setting and storyline. How you play the character is where the originality comes from.
My favorite and least favorite thing about being a creator is seeing my audience make comparisons to other works. Part of it hurts because I want to feel original, but part of it is really encouraging because people usually make those comparisons positively.
Once again we are reminded that the whole fun of D&D (or any TRPG for that matter) comes from playing worlds and characters that we've all seen before, but because WE are the ones playing those worlds and characters, we make them our own. :D
I like the fact you put a Tri-Force in one of the branches, plus a Duku-Leaf on the bottom one.
The description from Link just made me realize how "original" the traveler from genshin impact is.
My first character was pretty much exactly the Bounty Hunter from darkest dungeon, and I was fully aware of that too. What I *wasn't* aware of it first was that my second character ended up basically being a gnome version of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. XD
I once played a tiefling warlock called Seymohr. He was based on the main character of The Little Shop of Horrors, and his patreon was an eldritch plant thing called The Great Emerald Matron from the Far Realm.
Honestly though I love putting pre existing characters into DnD for the absolute chaos of it. Very funny to mess around with them imo lol.
I have Scooby Doo and the gang in my campaign as a group of adventurers who always seem to show up ahead of the main party. Scoobys collar boosts his intelligence and let's him speak
One of my characters is a tall, pink-haired eccentric Raven Queen warlock and mortician obsessed with death. My friend took one look at her and said “That’s Just Szayelaporro Granz from Bleach.”
As long as she doesn't fight a mad scientist with a counter measure to everything she does while dressed in a mix of gaudy emperor clothing, shes good
i mean as long as she's not the child of the evil queen or goes to a school with children of folk tales
She's for Pathfinder, but the most recent character I've made is one I've had the most fun creating by orders of magnitude. Her name is Nymphetamina. She's from Cradlethorp, her love interest is named Dani, and her backstory is basically Her Ghost in the Fog with a twist: it was the guy who died in the woods and the girl who burned the villagers in retribution.
She now seeks to get him back by any means necessary.
The moral of this story: there is no such thing as originality anymore. We as a species and the art of storytelling have simply existed for too long for this to be achievable. So, take an idea, make it yours, and have fun. :)
Forgot the 100 year nap in his backstory
I basically modeled my Hexblade after Deadpool. Lots of teleports, crazy melee dmg. Good ranged attacks. Batshit crazy...He breaks the 4th wall to make modern references in an ancient world. He has a pet rock named Jagger, and tosses him into trap rooms while whispering the sacred word "yeet.".
2:37 I started laughing so hard as soon as I heard him start
I have the issue that I tend to make all my OCs way too similar to each other
Also, amazing content as usual, Woo!!
Honestly I've seen that problem way more than the ones here.
I made a sorcerer whose backstory was just essentially Aang from Avatar. He had a legendary heritage that would grant him insane abilities, but he flew away afraid of the responsibility. He started at only being able to cast fire spells, but he started casting cold spells by accident.
My friend: "Dude, you can make a tortle that's a ninja turtle!"
Me: "Yeah, you are not the first one to come up with the idea. You're not even the first one today"
If someone was this idiotic, to know the material, and create a character that is identical to the material, and say it's original, and then realize it's not original.... I mean....
(Also, sonic being a cat person XD)
This entire sequence is completely accurate, and I was laughing so hard I was crying. Especially the last line. I am setting up a Dragon age Origins campaign for my friends (hey haven't played), that is literally the exact game plotline, but with more pcs. And less romance, because they aren't that kind of role players
"A literal rock"
"Dwayne the Rock Johnson"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💜
Another amazing skit! @OneShotQuips but now that it's October cannot wait to see what you do this year for a d&d Halloween skit last year's was amazing :)
"I made a renegade drow- uh, why are you looking behind me like that..?"
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I’m a simple barbarian. I see a new One Shot Quips video, I pin my opponent for a moment to watch the new video and then bash that like button!
The number of times I've made a character, was satisfied with how it turned out then realized the similarity to a preexisting character.😅 then it's all I can think about 🤣
The character concept I’m most proud of came from a combination of two characters in a live play game I watched. It was neat how taking bits and pieces from two characters in the same campaign managed to become something different from them.
She was a Tiefling Life Domain cleric named Osira. As a baby she was abandoned on the side of a road and found by a kind couple of Dwarven nobles. Unable to have a child of their own, they took this as a sign from the gods and adopted her. The couple were close advisors to the Dwarven King, and so Osira was often in the company of the King’s son. They became best friends, though Osira struggled to befriend others due to prejudice against Tieflings. As she grew older, Osira decided she would combat this prejudice by becoming a healer and dedicating her life to helping others.
Unfortunately her efforts weren’t enough. One day when she and the Dwarven Prince were adults, they joined the Dwarven army in a great battle. The prince was terribly injured and on death’s door. During a break in her ministrations to him, Osira was approached by some unscrupulous individuals. They offered her a large sum of money in exchange for allowing the prince to die. Naturally she refused. Sadly, despite her best efforts the prince died anyways. Then she was arrested and her tent searched. Inside the guards found planted evidence that she had taken the deal. Enraged by this perceived betrayal, the king tried to throw Osira in prison. She escaped, but is now on the run from Dwarven authorities. Even worse, she’s stuck on a difficult question: how does one be good in a world that doesn’t believe you can?
i remember the time i made a character based on something, but someone else in that campaign already had the exact same idea.
enter the DM creating a plot element for our characters that we're from different timelines, but were called into the same one because just one of us wouldn't be enough
You’re now the Daniel Thrasher of DnD, good sir! Use that title well!
Is he closer to Daniel Thrasher or Ryan George?
@@-starrysunrise-2908 I think he’s more like Daniel Thrasher because he has other videos that star people other than his clones, and this specific video is like an homage Daniel Thrasher’s most popular series.
@@NikFromm I see!
Happens EVERY TIME (the ending is to true.)
The message behind this video is so good. It really sums up what it means to be a master (or a player). I'm about to start a campaign for my player in my own world... And I love what I created, I wanted it to feel fresh and alive, but never I would say it's completely original! It's a mashup of all my favourite things, all things that works well in a traditional RPG... And I can't be more happy about that ;)
For a curse of strahd campaign I played a warforge fighter/life domain cleric multi class. It wasn't until after the campaign was over that someone pointed out I had basically made Baymax.
I had even based a lot of my role playing on Baymax's personality, but I had somehow missed the fact that I had even picked the right build for him.
I once had a player give me his character thinking that he made the most original character ever. And after I looked it over, I realized that it was lion king. He was blown away with that realization. It was so funny.
You mean Hamlet ... With animals.
one of my fav,characters was an arakoocra rouge based wholey on Scrooge mc.duck. I made him a parrot and used the kilt colours as the feather colours, made it so his cane was a disguised rapier(he is seen fencing with it several times in comics :) ) wich was forged by his younger sister. the older sister made him his tophat. Donald duck had his lucky nr.1 to throw off the witch trying to get it :) I even practiced the scottish accent he have in duck tales. I loved playing him :D His background was jeweller (merchant) so I had his obsession with riches be jewlerry only.
"a changeling that can copy abilities"
me: "rogue from x-men?"
"kirby"
Me: "oh, god that's much worse for a dnd character... imagine eating all of your enemies"
3:22 I did NOT to be called out like this lol
My current game is in a meticulously crated, very original world the DM has been working on for years.
I am playing a character based *heavily* off Gawain.
So far it's going great!
This kinda gives me the same vibe as Daniel thrashers sketches about writing songs that already exist. Both are good.
I just roll on the adventure equipment table and base my character around that. It's really fun! I have a rope-based fighter that uses a makeshift flail that can be thrown and then reeled in as a bonus action
0:58 Pretty much Link
My first character is a moon elf ranger whose alignment true neutral
She is also bonded with a Wendigo(the pop culture one not the mythological one), and comes from a woodland community of moon elves where everyone else is also individually bonded with a Wendigo. They’re surprisingly friendly folks, only eating humanoid meat from beings they killed in self defense or found already dead. She also has a good relationship with both of her parents.
I was looking for and considering a better monk build by just reflavoring another class or maybe a multi-class.
Turns out that's just a Spear or Quarterstaff fighter with Polearm master and crusher feat. Maybe a few other things for flavor or utility but it works pretty well with most subclasses, and you can pull in more utility or skills through your race, background depending on how you work it.
I literally took Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza, made him a Half-Orc (before Mordy’s race redo), and switched the order of the kanji. My PC was Ryuki Mazuka and I had no shame or regrets
It's funny that Duke was sitting behins the support beam with the hidden detail of the triforce in the wood grain (top-righ hand of the screen)
Even if the character is not original, they can evolve into a unique character all on their own. My best character that I have ever played was originally a carbon copy of Plague Knight from Shovel Knight, but has evolved into his own thing.
My favorite character I've played. Leonardo Brovinci. A character with no class type, only proficient in things like calligraphy, masonry, carpentry, etc etc.
Basically just an amalgamation of DaVinci and Lebowski.
Every encounter and puzzle was so much more thrilling.
You'd be surprised how efficiently you can break a campaign with just a rope tied to a brick.
I have literally played Yangus from Dragon Quest 8 in a campaign before, and I mark it as one of the most fun characters I've ever played.
Honestly, even if the stats look like an already existing character, that still sounds like so much fun! Because the oc, most of the time, isn't from a dnd-like setting.
Actually, this sounds like I could take a goron, make it a fire-version Goliath/earth genasi who grew up close to a volcano, and have them be on a quest to prove themselves haha
The way you play it is what matters.
(Also, if someone actually committed to play an existing character in a dnd setting while staying as true as possible to the character? That sounds legitimately hilarious if done well)
I think I have a few unique characters. A super wealthy unwise Tortle who loves to attack people with his pike, a one-armed barbarian Myconid capable of bringing back the dead, and a completely broke Verdan in every way who is haunted by... well I haven't finished that character yet, but he/she will be awesome!
Any character I create is often inspired by different stuff I know or people I met
I’ve returned a few characters I’ve made in the past. However some of them were made with homebrew before we cleansed ourselves of HB. So with my Zabrak Ghost Rider, now Human Paladin/Warlock, Tapal Storm was reborn in Ravenloft into a new body in hopes to carry out the necromancers plans for world domination. Before any brain washing could begin, Tapal escaped the lab with a scroll of Plane Shift and escaped to Discordant (my HB campaign plane’s name) where the Planar Hub party currently was located.
I actually appreciate basing characters off existing ones. My first D&D character was basically just my Skyrim kleptomaniac who (unintentionally out of game) changed into a somber and dutiful type over the course of an irl year. Cool progression for me, but only because I didn't have a solid grasp of what I wanted him to be. My next character was based on an existing one, but I tweaked certain aspects of her to suit me, while still being able to use the base characterization to guide me. Then you have stuff like Tulok, where I want to play every single character he ever makes.
My favorite bit was the green Goliath xD There's only 2 of those in mainstream media, loved disinterested Duke just listing everything off like he's been through this before
Love these kinds of videos, I want more.
I rarely get to play but I'm endlessly thinking about character. I love taking things I see and making character concepts from them. I have whole Google Sheets dedicated to the idea
Honestly a lot of my favorite characters to play have been "what if x character, but y?" So for and example out of this video "What if Link but he's getting old and has lost his edge (hence his low starting level)".
Honestly, one of the things I actively like doing is taking a character from somewhere and actively challenging myself to build them using the mechanics of the game. I usually put my own spin on them personality-wise so I'm not just playing a fanfic of the character, but in terms of BUILDS, I like trying to achieve a specific flavour often inspired by a given character. EG, "Can I make a character who fights with unarmed strikes and by throwing his shield?" xD
That was a great line at the end!
bro every character i make in any rpg are based on a novel or book i recently read
the fun is to recreate them with the tools you have
my first character was literally a plagarism of my own character from the book I was writing at the time but before she started human experiments, like, pre-villain arc.
anyway now I have a character that I want to put into a different book im writing but dont know how he'd act so im basically method acting
2:07 Arthur Currie aka Aquaman.
2:17 John Nada from They Live.
2:20 Jonah Hex.
I came up with a character recently that I altered and this happened. Original idea was a shardmind Paladin/Wizard, but I can't find a good legit shardmind for 5e. So I changed him to a Warforged. Combined with the backstory I came up with and I've just made Robocop
My friend wanted to make a vulpin ranger, then realized that was just Robbin Hood
I made a half elf wild magic sorceror, that through a series of unfortunate (and edgelordy to some) circumstances as a lab experiment, had gems embedded in her arm that rather than channeling and focusing the magic as intended, causes it to go wild instead (also homebrewed wild magic to "build" whenever i didnt surge. Starts as 1, if doesnt roll, next roll is a 2. If still didnt surge, next rolls a 3 etc,, with other factors ramping it up like stress, made more surges occur, and was genuinely fun to play), who also had an irrational fear of both forks, and of water fowl, convinced the two were in cahoots for world domination, and launched fireballs (yes, BALLS, not BOLTS) at them when ever possible..... there were many a rough encounters without spell slots XD
Nice touch on the triforce in the tree decoration. Kick @$$ and chew bubble gum is originally from rowdy roddy piper in “They live”. Duke nukem stole it but often gets credit.
I am amazed the comments didn't mention it. But the DM comment was spot on. My favourite was getting the party to get the pieces to restore the Imperium Silverlight Crystal.
I'm the DM of my group and we are one session to the end of it all and only now i realizes all the similarities my story has with jojo's bizarre adventure and it makes me feel good because it is my favorite anime and makes me happy by seeing the impact it has on my creative process
Having your dm let you create any of those characters. AWESOME
Somebody’s been watching Daniel Thrasher.
Love it, Duke!
Black silence library of ruina immediately came to mind from the first description of the first one
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I have never played a Zelda game, so the first one seemed original to me.
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My most "original" character was a bard who was captured by an evil spellcaster who turned him into a raven to be able to torment him (along with others he had captured) with less upkeep.
The bard escaped his cage one night, stole a ring of shapeshifting (perhaps the item the spellcaster was trying to make a spell to duplicate?) and flew away to rejoin the party.
He would use the ring of shapeshifting to be his original human form most of the time, and the party never knew his new "natural" form was the raven he turned into for specific mission reasons.
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My least original character(s) would probably be about half of the characters I've ever played, though I do try to mix-and-match my literary and movie/tv inspirations to camouflage the sources.
owlin monk with prosthetic swords as legs :( gazelle from kingsman, the storm hawk from elden ring. really thought it was never thought of before.
I homebrewed an Ocarina that could be attuned to by any spellcaster as a spellcasting focus... and gave it to my Ranger character.
I once accidentally made Adam Ant, but he's an elf poorly pretending to be a human
Those first 20 seconds are fantastic.