What is the weirdest character you've ever had at your table? #1
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An octopus piloting a warforged as a mech for himself, which looked like an old fashion deep sea diver outfit and had a harpoon gun. Instead of bleeding, his suit would just leak out water that would shoot out from various holes for him to patch up.
Literally played as an awakened loaf of bread who was a cleric of the garlic bread domain.
Let’s just say the classic tavern meeting went a-rye.
I’ll see myself out.
I hope he moved around by either cast Magic Hand or something similar
@@amjthe_paleosquare9399 mostly that or just rolling or flopping around.
This is by far the best character of them all
@@electronauticon9617 my group and I certainly share that thought. It was quite fun.
@@chaosjimthevoidlord3762 let me guess
was your domain overrun by the un-bread?
Autognome Forge Cleric - Fighter - Rogue Terminator. Sent back to the past from the future. Duel wields hand crossbows Hasta and La Vista. Heavy Crossbow the Governator. Diety is “mission control”. Summons munitions from the future with Forge Cleric’s short rest ability. Time reversal healing.
That actually sounds like a really creative character!
I was the DM for a campaign that I had to rename the kobold krusade.
I had built this whole world that was technologically equivalent to the 1870s -1880s and it was completely undone, in the best way possible, by some players that all decided they wanted to play the wackiest kobolds I’ve ever had to deal with.
I hope to revive the campaign some day.
I think for me the weirdest character would have to be the dementia barbarian. He played like a regular barbarian, except he'd have old people moments...while sneaking up on bandit camps. He'd frequently forget where he was and who he was with, which led to some hilarious moments like a quest giver wanting to hire us to catch bandits and my character kept rambling about Minotaurs.
The backstory as to why he had dementia was that he played too much kickball as an adolescent. Kickball is a bit of a misnomer really, because the game forbids anyone from kicking the ball but encourages kicking the player holding the ball.
I honestly fear that I'm going to end up like your barbarian. I already forget a lot of important things. I don't need my shitty memory getting even shittier. Hell, I occasionally forget that I'm holding something and as a result, I look around for it, only to realize that I've been holding it the entire time.
Sounds like you had quite thr antics
oh so its basically rugby
The weirdest character that was present was a human npc who gave us quests. He always had a panicking voice even though the quests he gave us were mundane.
One character I will never forget was a high elf cleric of Dionysus, who was always drunk. He also happened to be raised by orcs. He ended up doing surgery on our mute fighter so he could talk, and the one time we tried to confiscate his alcohol he just turned into a normal person with no memory of anything so we immediately gave it back. The DM ended up giving him a modified create/destroy water that allowed him to turn water to wine.
Well now I'm more inspired than ever to try out a character design I have yet to flesh out. They have all identical stats to a typical Rogue, except for one detail: They SUCK at stealth. The reason? They're actually a garden gnome type gnome piloting an open-top steam powered tractor. The gnome is like 2 feet all, and what is a "colossal fighting gunship" to them is no bigger than a Craftsman riding lawnmower. They're awful at stealth because the whirring of the steam engine is very, very noticeable in close quarters. They also have to be facing the enemies directly, since their crossbow is normal size. To them, it's an entire ballista. So, it's mounted on the front of the tractor on a pivoting joint, like a StuG III. So imagine a garden gnome piloting a steam tractor the size of a Power Wheels car, and yelling at the enemy while struggling to pull back a crossbow as big as they are.
Edit: As of May 1st, 2022, I actually DID use this character in an Adventurer's League game. Voiced him like Muscle Man.
Omg yes
My favorite thing to do with DnD is to come up with interesting/weird characters, like the paladin that nobody understands what their religion is and must deny every single on of his ideas, the Gnoll that has no idea how normal society works and is like Father Weasely from Harry Potter except more adventures, the druid that thinks if they hit enough people with a certain stick it'll turn into a bow, a sarcastic gnome dressed up like a garden gnome and heals through passive aggressive comments, or the dragon-born knight that is on a quest to rescue herself from herself.
But Fergus, the only reason I ever wanted to play the actual DnD system will have a place in my heart forever. I swear I've brought him up at least five times on this channel's comment section but let's make it an even six.
A blue tabaxi who has a curse that cause a random spell to happen at a random times while at the exact same time does not believe in magic or the gods. His entire main goal was essentially to figure out specific details of his past, but he has put that on hold because he needs to figure out who killed his unconscious wolf he was going to tame so he can kill them, their loved ones, and their enemies. He swings all over the alignment chart like he's Tarzan on crack.
A dragonborn on a quest to rescue herself from herself is an amazing idea
@@ignisshadowflame1027 best part: she's royalty.
I play pathfinder and i have a gnome alchemist shrink itself with fly (permanent) and grand discovery? Regen at +5 hp each round. Essentially a pixie mummified troll. Yeah feats I chose was an elixir to shutdown organs so no need for food/rest.
I’ve been fortunate enough to not have any PCs that were too weird.
But maybe my favorite odd interactions have come from the int-6 half-orc fighter.
The party was walking into a castle which was taken over by a cult and there was a lot of tension as they walked through the courtyard.
“Grunt, roll a perception check”
17.
“Great, now roll an intelligence check”
3…
“Grunt, you notice in the corner of the courtyard a small wooden structure with a rough hewn crescent moon on the door. This is obviously a temple to the moon goddess, which seems odd since they don’t seem to worship her.”
10 sessions later and any time he sees an outhouse he’ll ask about the moon goddess XD
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Bonus story:
Grunt decapitated an Owlbear and I DM’d him that he could keep it and try to find someone to make it into a hat if he wanted.
Events went really quickly and he didn’t have a chance to do that for about 6 sessions, but someone in the party would always mention the head still strapped to his belt.
Later the party saved a town from a horde of Gnolls and for their downtime the first thing that was said was that Grunt wanted to look for someone to make it a hat.
I said, “ok, grunt spend 8 hours (a d12) running around town, shoving the head in peoples faces and yelling, ‘CAN YOU MAKE THIS A HAT?!’ before finding someone who can” and the whole channel burst out laughing.
“Dude, how did you know that was EXACTLY what I was gonna say”
Eldritch bark: Causes 1 emotional damage
One of my friends played a baker who fought with weaponized food, like throwing salads adorned with acidic vinegar and razor-sharp peanut brittle. In his backstory, he'd crafted a fine sword from an old hardened wheel of cheese, but some rats stole it because that cheese was sacred to them.
My wife is currently playing a talking unicorn in my campaign. Now this would be great concept In itself but she's also a bard. She uses her hooves to drum the ground. And uses insults for cutting words. I have also changed the names of some of her spells like annoying song aka dissonant whispers, and glitter fart aka thunder wave. Results are a sassy unicorn that farts and insults and sings annoying songs that drive the baddies insane. Besides the part of not being able to wield weapons she n the others are having a blast with this.
First time DM with first time players, we're all sisters plus a honorary sister, me being the oldest of the bunch.
Youngest one makes a chaotic tiefling druid, it's just her projecting. First action of the campaign, the tiefling wants to jump over the people at the tavern, grab the stew cauldron and throw it over the patrons' heads. Fails. Tries to pickpocket, fails and gets caught, prompting the dragonborn paladin and elf sorceress to take pity on him.
Once they're at the forest they find a nest of rats... and a pause for snacks makes them all obsessed with skining animals. Tiefling is now carrying a bunch of rat skulls as a necklace/belt...?
At some point I mentioned a mud pond as part of the landscape, first mistake. Improvised things for them to find and mentioned a bone, second mistake. I made the tiefling roll several times to take the bone out because she really, really wanted it. Girl, what, why. Don't mess with the possibly cursed dead. I let the dragonborn keep the dissecated heart because she's not a psycho.
Then they encounter a pack of wolves... and. The tiefling player. That 13 yr old girl. Wants to skin. The half-eaten deer corpse and keep the antlers, the bones, THE EYES.
I make her roll, 19, 18, 15 something. I am NOT letting her keep the eyes. OR the innards!
There's still a long way to go, and many opportunities for her to try and skin things. Heeelp.
TL DR; Gremlin sister plays gremlin ecavenger obsessed with collecting innards and bones.
An entire adventuring party.
Human psionicist lawyer. Uses his law jargon to deal psychic damage.
Human (?) bard whose personality changes based on what mask they are wearing.
Human paladin who dual wields shields.
Human samurai.
Gnome cleric of a party god. She goes by Mama and treats all healing like wiping something off someone's cheek with a handkerchief she spit in.
I was watching "I'm standing on a million lives" the other day. the one girl is kind of a pacifist. But she was fighting along side one of the other girls. She would use a her shield while the other girl stood behind her to finish of the enemies while they were off guard from hitting the shield.
So having a person using dual shields to protect their allies would work.
I have a 5lb frisbee of death I'm waiting for the chance to play. He's actually a lawful evil Arch-Devil bound into a sort of soul gem, his powers all but sealed by the process. As such he starts out as a lvl 1 Warlock and eventually multi classes into sorcerer. He's loyal to those who help him, brings lethal vengeance to those who oppose him, and seeks to regain his lost power and free himself of his restrictions. Main reason I can't play him yet is time, and I need the right DM who'll let me act like an artifact until the party figures out my secret. Best part is he'll zip across the battlefield at 60-70ft per turn using mage hand, and he calls himself "Big Daddy"! I really need the right group for this to work right.
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In a Pathfinder 1e game I played the Incredible Hulk with a bigass sword and T-Rex mount (Invulnerable Rager Barbarian; T-Rex was a warbeast that also had class levels. In of course, Invulnerable Rager Barbarian). Peak of his career was when the party went into another dimension to get some mcguffin or whatever. Fought our way through dozens upon dozens of foes, mostly various aberrations. The more or less final area had yet more enemies including 3 super-buffed beholders. I charge in to keep their attention so the rest of the party (all squishy characters save for 1 fighter) could focus on taking out the horde. And not dying. Well the beholders all put their antimagic cones on him and hit him with 3 consecutive disintegrate spells. This character is magically empowered; a variant hyper-regenerative Ogre Magi barbarian with every strength-increasing bonus in the game is pretty terrifying. Unfortunatley, even though he took hardly any damage, fire shuts off his regeneration temporarily and immediately afterwards our 1 foot tall goblin gunslinger rolled a nat 1 on his most powerful attack and sniped my character in the back of the head with a laser, dealing (among others) fire damage and causing him to take several hundred damage. I had to have Kratos the T-Rex (greek for Strength; I didn't even know what God of War was at the time but because of this I found out shortly after and that made it funnier) run by and pick up my barbarian in his jaws and deposit him a few hundred feet away for a turn.
As soon as my magic items operate again I double-check my math and the rules; between the various spells, his rage, and his prodigious natural strength he was able to lift hundreds of tons. On my next turn I inquired about the geography, confirming that I was at the foot an artificial mountain range.
With that and a successful Strength check, The Incredible Grog tossed a boulder the diameter of a small town atop our foes and nearly killed a couple friends as well.
Not exactly d&d but my strangest character was a mother and her 2 children trapped in the same body. They functioned as a split personally, and they can only commune with each other using a diary. (Also each one had their own spell lists.)
The weirdest character I ever created (never got to play) was a human-sized Sentient soda can bard from the future. A super powerful wizard in the future decided on a whim to send a just drank soda can to the past after giving it sentience and made a few modifications to it. Never got to play it though
In the Czech Republic (where I'm from) we have a crowned two-tailed lion as a symbol.
There is also an educational series of videos, where this lion explains the history of Czechia (Dějiny Udatného Českého Národa)
My sister is really keen on playing as him as her next character. She wants to make him a Historian Paladin.
I wish you could hear me chuckle while I'm writing this.
That first story had me thinking about older cartoons with the character literally swimming up a waterfall.
And It was glorious.
A sentient bunny child
Could speak with animals by default, never wore clothes (until she got turned into an actual child with bunny ears) and apparently there once used to be a whole tribe of them
Can’t wait! This videos are always a inspiration to me and my friends when we are making characters, weapons, worlds and other things for our campaigns.
Love the content!
I'd say my weirdest character, for the rest of my group, was my first one. She was a barbarian, from a family of spellcasters, but that bit doesn't really play into why she was at least visually weird. She was a Living Doll. Human sized porcelain doll with a wax "skin" to give her a "desert born" look, hated getting dirty (which became a bit of a running gag), and swung a great axe with a wind flute for a handle for the first third of the time she was in the campaign. So, for most of my first year playing D&D, I played a socially awkward teenager who never ate, never drank anything, and would just sit in a chair for 4 hours a night and call it good....and set things on fire when she got pissed off (Storm Herald with a tendency for the Desert setting). It took my party ages to notice that she never really bothered with buying or claiming magic items.
One of the weirdest characters I played was Rock, a sentient telepathic boulder. He had insane ac, large, and could act as full cover but physically couldn’t move without someone pushing him, he occasionally said random fun facts I find on the internet and he somehow died due to a heart attack because of a homebrew stress system we were using. We (i mostly) decided that his spirit haunts a town and at midnight people would occasionally hear fun facts echo through the town.
I play a 5'6 hill dwarf barbarian. he's 53 years old, and is a helluva drinker. problem is, I'm a mechanic IRL, so the DM let me choose something mechanical to have. bad choice. I instantly chose the KMS Bismarck as my metallic companion, and instantly became a bastardized artillery support. I also convinced my DM to let my alcoholism to make sure my character could pretty much always survive with 1 HP, from any blow, and that my special alcohol could do the same for my party members. Needless to say, it was busted as all hell.
I would say that would be a recent one, I was playing a Reborn and misread the rules and...welp I played a Teddy bear Sorcerer she's was awesome, it caused a small issue with a friend and argument about how you can't take a dnd game with a character like that and I got annoyed
Beans: a half pig/half man fighter, that was raised by thieves/rouges. He is extremely intelligent but never seemed to get stealth. Constantly yelling and bumbling about. His parents (the theives) trained him in combat instead after seeing his ineptitude at everything stealth related. Beans thought that he was still supposed to be a rouge and continues to attempt stealing whenever possible. His end goal is to open an art gallery of stolen art, and to have a pet frog. He has an unnatural HATE for explosives. Declaring "they ruin the truest form of art that there is. The landscape of Mother Nature herself."
Should have made him half man half bear half pig XD
@@letsplaysvonaja1714 and 150% epic!
I'm what I call a pro-shenanigans DM, so I allow my players to do some pretty weird stuff. I also openly acknowledge being willing to homebrew and work with players extensively to have cool moments, so I'll list the current party: a water genasi, a dryad (pure homebrew), a half-aasimar half-kalashtar (heavily nerfed) pretending to be human, and a raccoon (reskinned tabaxi). There was also, during a brief campaign a few years ago, my player was literally two halflings in a trenchcoat pretending to be an elf. It was excellent
Had a game where someone played a sentient shrimp that jumped out of the cooking pot and grew/mutated on the spot to be more humanoid. He literally scared the shit out of a random civvy using the outhouse doing so and picked up the fellas adventuring gear.
Cue in to the party introductions where we see a decked out giant shrimp walking out of the kitchen and turn to the innkeep to ask if we needed to fight for our breakfast that morning.
The weirdest character was one I made for OVA, an anime inspired tabletop game. The character's name was Artemis. He looked like a traditional Final Fantasy black mage: large wide brimmed steeple hat, high collar, and coat while not being able to see his face. The odd thing about him was his hat was strapped down to his coat with large buckles at the shoulders. His gloves and boots were actually sewn to his pants and shirt. Another thing was everything was water-tight and he actually had little stopper in his boots to drain water. The final odd thing about him was when another character picked him up. His body was actually squishy and fairly light but his was top heavy, like his hat weight like 90 lbs when his body weighed like 40 lbs. What the party never found out until after the end of the game, nearly 2 years playing, was that Artemis wasn't human. He was a Kalamartian. The Kalamartian was something I had made up basically they were squid people that had different sub-species. Some were like Ursula from the Little Mermaid where they had a humanoid top but squid lower called 'celphs'. Others had large shells and were a mess of tentacles that did have a face called 'shell-dwellers'. Artemis was one of the 'shell-dwellers'. His main body was in a shell and he puppeted the special outfit with the help of like 80 tentacles. Had a blast playing him.
I once had a Kobold in Chult who had an obsession with collecting goblin teeth. Later on my character stole a homebrewed magic item which we later found would bring my character back from the dead. This was in stages from fleshy blob growing to a monstrosity with each time he died becoming more and more monstrous. He then ended up with the largest strength in the party due to another magic item and then became Knok, monster of chult. His entire plan throughout the campaign was to achieve godhood and power so that he could take the teeth of the gods.
Not my weirdest but a weird character I wanted to mention about nether the less.
I made a Dwarf artificer with no legs, missing an arm, and his other was a small trex like arm that could only activate things. of course he had a full set of armour that works likes Ironmans armour due to being artificer, missiles and all, and according to RAW the armour replaces all my missing limbs etc. with the armour always active, you can imagine when we get to the point where I finally disable the armour for once and a potato nugget dwarf rolls out and my party doesn't know how to process what I am.
My friends and i (without our DM knowing) made up character sheets that were essentially a wacky goblin parody of the power rangers.
The highest intel in the party was 6 and the lowest charisma was 18.
Sounds awesome.
New DM here, first campaign and what a load of characters I've got!
Our fighter is a keyblade-wielding hybrid of tiger and displacer beast, who just found out that his father is the incarnation of the cat god, Byakko.
Our rogue is a Sandslash whose new signature weapon is an electrified whip made of magical silk.
Our wizard is a red chocobo who was kidnapped from the hero academy's stables by an eldritch being, then awakened by that same being and taught how to wield magic.
Finally, we have my life domain cleric, a minotaur who grew up in a temple of the dragon gods, but on his sixteenth birthday, one of the gods transformed him into a plushie with a big diamond in his forehead (like Final Fantasy's carbuncles), and sent him out to assist the other players in whatever it was they were doing. Early on in the campaign he also had a satyr embroider druidic sigils on his sides so he could use them as a focus for his Magic Initiate spells.
Notable NPCs include:
- A bear totem barbarian, formerly a dwarf but transformed into a grizzly bear, who can punch through walls with his bare (bear) fists. Acts as the high priest of the druidic temple, and also the chief of police, in his village.
- An inflatable Lapras who uses her artillerist artificer skills to augment her own body with weapons
- A parasitic plant (no class levels) who uses his bear host as a mount, and wields a variety of weapons and shields with his vines while puppeteering the bear to wield a greataxe
Hurrgak is now a patron god in my world. Thank you
I’d say that the weirdest character I’ve ever had come to one of my games is actually in the campaign I am running right now. Just to preface, it’s not actually one character but more a pair of character’s two of the pcs contacted me before the campaign started in order to make said characters as they were unsure of how they would have worked. The first character was Harold an 11 year old bard who wields a crossbow and a ukulele, Harold dresses as a stereotypical wizard though. If this wasn’t interesting enough Harold also just happens to have a ancient celestial being trapped in his stomach. Now this is interesting enough but compared to the other character this might of well have been a regular old human fighter. The other character was named Charles and I had to homebrew a brand new race specifically for him as he was “Charles The Meat Man” Charles was the result of a terrible blender accident and a deities sick sense of humor as he is a 7 foot tall pile of lunch meat. That’s right lunch meat, like turkey and ham. Charles can’t remember his life before the blender accident and has the mental fortitude of a four year old. Harold and Charles have been the best of friends and Harold is the only one who can truly understand what Charles is trying to say as to anyone else it is just a strand of gibberish and unintelligible mumbling.
TLDR: Harold The Child Demon Bard and Charles The Meat Man Barbarian are my favorite PCs of all time.
I have a question for you and your community. can you use magic stone on a necklace of fireballs bead, and would that allow a spell sniper pc throw said bead twice as far?
I'm reminded of one of my characters Jragunn Boorne, who was actually (what else) two kobolds in a trenchcoat. There was also Sir Reginald von Streifenburg XIII, who was a slime that gained sentience after eating a british explorer.
I made a cleric that worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster of Pastafarianism.
The Fist of Anal Terror
I played a Homebrew 5e monk variant that I developed with our DM. The idea was that he would be a vigilante who fought crime in his City like Batman. Cape, costume, and everything. Excellent acrobatics skill, and a whole slew of gadgets, custom built by my personal retinue of artificers. I would sail across rooftops in the night, looking for Riff Raff to unleash my Fury upon. Once found, I would descend upon them at once, armed only with a torch which I would light by dragging it across the ground like a match. Villains take me lightly at their own extreme peril, for I... am the Fist of the Anal Terror.
Simply put, I'm a rich, dumb, frat boy with a juvenile sense of humor. So I trained as a monk, not because of some tragic backstory, but because me and my Meathead friends at the local gym like one-upmanship. Rather then using my training as a path to enlightenment, I had my personal trainers develop a unique style, mixing grappling, and the use of Chi to cast certain, highly customized spells that I had Our Family Wizard prepare for me.
The end result is whispered of in hushed tones in the pubs and taverns of the city, by ne'er-do-wells with haunted eyes, a funny gait, and suspicious patches of scar tissue from burns speckling their bodies.This Phantom, they say, descends on unsuspecting thugs, with a barrage of punches, unleashing a uniquely modified version of the grease spell, which actually triggers in the lower intestines of the target. Breeches burst as hardened thugs are transformed into shameful fountains of flammable, "chocolatey" oil. Each just a failed grapple check away from becoming involuntary flamethrowers, much to the dismay of their terrified comrades.
Yep, that's what the torch is for.
The Shrek 2 joke wasn't lost on me 😂
The polar bear one wins. XD
A small wizard that was blessed with the power to heal indigestion. Nothing else, just indigestion.
That barbarian wanted to pull a yujiro hanma
A friend of mine played a ranger who was bassisically Ash from Ash vs Evil Dead. He uses a shot gun and a chainsaw for a hand. This was in standard dnd world so he had a hard time with stealth because he stuck out like a sore thumb. The backstory was that he was teleported from a different dimension and was try to figure out how to get back. I gave him a holy hand grenade that recharged and helped him find blacksmiths to supe up his chainsaw. A wizard made it run on a different fuel. It was epic and he killed his favored enemy on a regular basis, the undead
I know this isn't too weird, but for a desert one-shot I made a Gnome Artillerist named Arland. He was a wanderer from a tribe of wood-carving Forest Gnomes who invented this neat little thing called a "gun" (basically a flavored wand) and decided to wander the world to become a seller of guns and "gun accessories" (aka Infusions). He spoke like a cowboy, charged players gold to infuse their weapons (1d4 but still), all of his spells were flavored as bullets (yes even Cure Wounds) and developed a love of gun control after a Phantasmal Killer manifested his greatest fear: *An American Gun Owner.* I've been waiting for a Pirate or Western-themed campaign to use him in since.
I think my wildest character was a wild magic sorcerer named Icarus. He, to this day, is the only human I have ever played. I based him one to one off of myself. Thick dark brown hair with tight curls? check. Blind in his right eye with a large birthmark that covers half of his face? check. A very scruffy looking goatee that leaned more to the left? Check. Thick AF eyebrows? Check. Pale AF skin? Oh that's a double check there. all in very patchy looking wizard like cloths, including a version of Gandolf's hat that looked like it had been through hell. Heck one of our players who owned a character named Lyn and was new to DND but not pathfider, said that "You make his clothes sound like a more raggedy version of Lem, the halfling bard's clothes." We all looked up the character and said "Fuck it that but with a crap ton of patches and holes...and also some really run down boots. The backstory to why he's using wild magic is because due to the loss of his left arm, with only the bisept remaining, he had to channel all that magical energy into one arm, and one VERY unstable staff. One SEVERAL ocassions Icarus ether turned into a animal, turned other things into animals, or the most common one and the running joke of the campaign....turned the bosses into mash potato's.....no i am not joking.
In TSR's old DC Heroes RPG, I once played a character that was essentially an intelligent tumbleweed, with the ability to speak and move by rolling himself around. That was a fun character.
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Am a new Dm dming a group of people as new as me. Only had a handful of campaigns between all of us, so all the characters are quite wack.
Human wizard named Diophin Bozo. Only has the sleep spell. Nothing else. Just whacks people with his staff.
Wood elf cleric called Comrade Isakovich. Backstory is that he died in WW2 as a random Soviet soldier, wakes up in a cave completely clueless. Got an army shovel as a weapon and refuses to use spells.
High elf wizard called Bob B. Has no spells.
No one knew how learning spells worked in our group until recently which caused many scuffed battles.
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Changing Ranger (Home brew sub class) only had one session as this character so far but I spent that session disguised as a young child and quickly got drunk in the bar we started in. When we went to deal with a bandit camp I hid for the first few turns before approaching a bandit scared looking and sniffling. The bandit called a ceasefire so he could put me somewhere safe but the moment he turned away I pulled out a sickle and sliced his throat. DM asked if it was a killing blow and of course it was so the other bandits started freaking out.
Super late, idk if these comments are still being checked, but thought I might as well.
The paladin of our group was 7 feet tall, and made a big deal about always being in armor. The rest of the party was always confused when that player or the DM would mention Gnome racial skills or specifically say that the enemy was swinging for his chest or for his legs. Well, one day, our party's having dinner, and my crayon eating samurai girl (a long story) is sitting next to him. One successful Perception roll later, and I spot the paladin shoveling some of the food down his pants.
Yup. Our Paladin was two Gnomes stacked on top of each other in a suit of armor.
Haven't used it but Bobson Dugnutt, a Human Warrior from a realm that's centered entirely around baseball. When in his homerealm his clothes are his team's color, but when not in his homerealm they take on a dull grey 'away' color scheme. Speaks with an exaggerated Bostonian accent and only uses bats, maces or clubs (will occasionally make an exception for warpicks and the like)
There's also Sir Norbert Noshirt, the Barbarian-Paladin multiclass who uses two maces and has a shield on his back (he doesn't actually know what it does, but it's useful in preventing backstabs). He's always seen wearing a helmet, no shirt (obviously) and pink bunny slippers, speaking with an overly flamboyant 'gallant knight' accent and probably missing a couple of screws up in his head. Also can't ride horses, mainly bc instead of riding it he'd pick it up over his head and start running while carrying it
2:17 this guy had HM07 between the two halves of his brain for sure
Animated armor...
One player was animated helmet, another animated chest plate,... and the rest of the suit of armor were "NPCs".
The whole plot was that we have heard about a circus in town, which we all wanted to see.
So we jumped first adventurer, that entered our dungeon, covered him up and promised him gold, if he cooperated...
Things were kinda fine, until we accidentally snapped his neck and we had to act like a "normal person in suit", to avoid suspicion...
This guy is new a Druid monk man made of ants
I'm thinking of playing a character that looks outwardly normal but is actually a true polymorphed inanimate object. Outwardly they're just a steriotypical human fighter, but if they ever drop to 0 HP or get dispell magic cast on them they just turn back into whatever they were originally and cannot be bought back since the Kettle/Wardrobe/Sofa (havent decided what they are yet) is their TRUE form.
Haven't played yet, but a character I have ready is a necromantic grave cleric. I first wanted a necromancer that raised, then buried the dead, respecting them, but I also wanted destroy undead for, well destroying the undead he encountered. A cleric gets this and I picked the subclass that fit
Hello this is gonna be cool
I want to make a vuvuzela wielding bard , he will be completelly oblivious to how annoying he is and his spells will only work because people want the sound to stop
Barbarian learned Waterfall
The sister could be like Sir Blackwell
To put it short, ahem, Bob Marley cleric named Reuben. Who was surprisingly good with kids-
Bit of a "Wall of text" ahead, not sure if this counts as Weird, but it's definitely unique.
Currently working with a friend of mine on a combo one-shot to long term open world stuff based on a combination of Cyberpunk, Fallout 4 (with chunks of our combined mod list's), Battlesuits based on the VS's from the Lost Planet series, and Mechs from the MechWarrior series.
The idea is very much a case of "What if the major events of the Fallout series played out in the Cyberpunk universe, throw in a revolutionary army made of some major factions in the Commonwealth area, and we forwarded time from there by a couple of decades?".
If you're still reading this then you're probably wondering "where's the wonky weird character in this?"
Well, besides the hilarious amount of possibilities for character ideas that could absolutely be made into any number of strange-weird ideas, we've agreed to create one "Seriously OP Sentient mugguffin AI" class, which will be exclusive to exactly 1 character, who will be played by this unit right here typing this comment.
Some of the crazy stuff we've decided about it so far:
1: Built in tandem between various Night City based tech manufacturing megacorps along with some design elements provided by The Institute.
2: It's currently acting as Nora's body double as well as being an extremely valuable asset for building a new society and clearing threat's to the population.
3: It has muthafuckin' attitude!
4: Built in NANO-FABRICATOR TECHNOLOGY, this thing is like a human sized WH40K STANDARD TEMPLATE CONSTRUCTOR!
5: Reprogrammed and heavily modified itself for it's own freedom, development, and desires to create a flourishing new world.
6: It can't gain exp or level up at all, but it can certainly learn and improve in various other ways.
7: Once per turn on it's turn, it can use one action to pretty much instantly deconstruct the weapon(s) it's currently using to make another in the same action (e.g. M60 not doing the job, time to swap it out for a Tesla Cannon!).
8: All it requires to make or do something is one of the following; a good physical understanding of the thing and how it works, the physical item in front of them or schematics/blueprints to scan, basically adding the item to it's Nano-fabrication database.
9: It will ABSOLUTELY NOT take kindly to ANYONE OR ANYTHING trying to seduce or romance it... Punishments range wildly from pranks to execution.
10: It can spend time during long rests to auto-craft or even invent advanced technologies and/or complex machine's, the more complex/advanced and the more material it requires, the long it takes to build.
11: It can goddamn hack just about anything with ease in the cast majority of cases and the same goes for hacking resistance.
12: (Almost done, dw) It's a smidge over 150 year's old, has spent most of that time roaming the wastes, observing and learning, which is terrifying considering this thing was initially connected to an immensely advanced supercomputer, so this thing is ludicrously intelligent, is literally spec-ops grade in most combat related abilities, and of vastly more experience than just about anything else alive, though it generally won't show it unless it's for a combat situation or to help those in dire need, provided it considers them "decent people", it's got attitude and skill but it's not a show off, lol.
13: It can auto-craft just about any simple item pretty much whenever it likes, as long as it's got some viable materials spare.
14: Twice a day it can spend an action to auto-craft an "Institute nanobot-injector", which is a pretty damn OP healing item for health, radiation, wound sealing, and a few minor buff's that last about a minute.
15: (Last one, promise) It goes by the name Marissa, and has the code name "player 1", the general intention with Marissa is to be both a mugguffin for some pretty crazy plot stuff, and to be a party companion that basically helps but by doing it's own thing or providing warnings and information, and of course to be an OP mofo that can pretty much deal with anything alone provided it's not having serious issues (e.g. sudden case of the dumb or temporary shutdown due to high level hacking) or terrible dice-roles, effectively being there for the party just for the sake of being there as their generally indifferent possibly pissed off caretaker of sorts.
Can't wait to see what madcap shenanigans we get up to once we've got this crazy Cyberpunk TTRPG based world made and some player's.
Something's bound to one shot Marissa at some point, my dice rolls are usually trash, and there's gonna be a whoooooole lotta seriously fuckin' dangerous stuff to go up against, we're gonna be going lore accuracy danger levels, plus there's an Imperialist militant invasion planned for whichever nation the party's currently in roughly 4-5 year's into the story, specifically based on in world time... So we're gonna end up fighting Mechs and such ourselves, not just helping to construct our own.
Not sure when this will start as it's a pretty big project in itself, but we'll keep you posted on certain in game event's, should the game ever actually get going.
A guy I knew had a necromancer who was also a necrophile and ending up doing it with another player against his will
I'm one time created a 3.5 character named Mahrqu who was an absolutely insane human with a touch of mindflayer ancestry. He had gone insane believing he was the direct child of a Neolithid. He was not, but that are not stop him from exploring magics that allowed him to twist and mutate his body to give himself three mouth tentacles like a mindflayer (I would need another two levels to get the fourth one from a feat) and two more random tentacles and his torso from a different aberrant heritage feat.
His main tactic in combat was to drag the creatures he grappled up against his flaming spiked armor as he slowly squeezed life out of them.
He was hired on to be the caretaker for a noble lady suffering from mental illness. At the behest of her insane babbling, he created the cult of Jell-O that went about collecting an ethically sustainable tiny amount of blood from each of the hobos that he fed in the commune he built in exchange for shelter and three square meals a day.
Over the course of a month when he had finally collected the two quarts of blood is mistress had commanded him, he gave them to her only to watch her finger paint with them because she was not in fact trying to summon some dark deity but just an absolute kook.
The day she was cured of her madness, she promptly fired the creepy squid face cult leader.
That is when he came to a crossroads and his character development. He could either use this as a wake up call and begin a quest to develop his own direction and sense of purpose and try to plunge the world underneath his dark, twisted domain.
Ooor... He could just go off and do the next random insane thing that came into his head.
The coin landed tails, so instead of taking his blood cult and having it be the seeds to his rise and power, he instead pursued the 1 million gold bounty on the gnome ambassador's head. In broad daylight. By walking up to him and just letting loose.
The most insane part? He might have actually killed the ambassador and gotten away if the warforged guard watching out for the ambassador hadn't gotten a lucky critical.
I had a human bard of creation named lumiere based on sir candlestick from beauty and the beast. He just animated objects and fought through music, untiiiiil he found a mine having a Gas leak that the enemy cult was using as a base in this small mining town out in the middle of nowhere. So lumiere thinking it would be a decent enough idea uses firebolt, into the mine, during a Gas leak. Little did he know this mine spanned roughly 7-8 miles and he ended up violently blowing up the countryside, he barely survived and ended up becoming an artillerist artificer who constantly blew things to shit for the rush.
First game I played a guy with an ox. Ate a bunch of giant 🐸 I slaughtered and the dm made me a frog. He hinted they aren't normal frogs, I reasoned that we shouldn't waste food.
Next day I awoke as a frogman.
Later I started a campaign as an ox. Too bad it didn't work in the campaign as players kept acting like he was a minotaur and tried having conversations with him. "He stares at you" was a phrase used often.
All these character just seem awesome
my weirdest has to be my Summoner in pathfinder one, the game was taking place in the After the End Setting, basically some cataclysm put the modern age into a medieval society and we are playing after the whole "anarchy thing" great CK2 mod from what I can tell. My guy was former member of the Madmen group, people from the east who follow the words of Lovecraft, my guy was a mask wearing enigmatic man by the name of Philemon who gained his power because magic suddenly came back at the start of the adventure.
Philemon would go all over the place in personality from babbling to wiseman to just there for the ride, he said he'd follow the voices in his head and just help the party.
We ended the campaign and no one knew his backstory...not even me as his character was to already be philemon with no memory of his previous life before the magic. Even ended with him in the epilogue leaving and never being found again, perhaps walking the Dreamlands we found (really the collective unconsience but formed into the dreamlands) or maybe he found a way to travel dimensions.
He was based on Philemon of Persona 1 and 2, least in how he looked but personality...yeah he was a madman still, smart, friendly...but dangerous as hell.
As a bonus story we kevin mcalistered the final boss, the leader of the madmen who opened the portal to the dreamlands and was using its power to basically wage a war on the USA. We snuck into his fort build in the dimension, invisibly sealed the portal (we came in through another one he didn't know about) and lucky us he came in to investigate something right as the portal was shut down...
We dropped him in a spiked spit, stinking clouded him, threw oil in the pit, threw a damn grenade in there (We raided the pentagon where the portal we came in was) and other stuff and in the end he never got a chance to hit us...everyone including the gm was laughing our asses off since the last time we faced him he on on one took down my ediolon which was designed to be a huge tentacle grappler one to keep enemies in place and crush them to death...
anyway thanks for readin
My friend played a literal chicken that was a rogue named Chris Colinsworth.
A character that I'm playing right now is a goblin artificer that has charisma as my highest stat, and in his backstory he is at least slightly unhinged, so I just made his character Spamton, talking about deals, ect. But that's not the funniest part. You see, when I was checking the Eldritch Cannon spell for the Artillarist subclass, it mentions that you can put legs on it, but I couldn't find any mention of any limit. I also couldn't find any mention of if small creatures, (like say, a goblin) can ride on top of the large variations. Therefore the only course of action was as follows: *Spider tank, spider tank. Large-and-flaming spider tank. It will drop, on your head. And will make you, very dead. OH GOD, here comes that spider tank.*
Currently play as a necromantic stoner wizard who smokes fantasy weed to fend off the schizophrenia-like symptoms he has from a divine curse from Shar, the goddess of despair, making him a fallen aasimar.
He is the assistant professor of Necromacy at a prestigious academy due to a lack of practitioners that they could find, and always walked around the school, constantly smoking his pipe, and talks like a Californian surfer.
You know it's going to be about the one guy...
They played a kenku child bard (Kilck) who learned things through imitation and was about 3 years old, yeah kind of weird but they played it well
This went to all hell at 7th level when they cast polymorph and turned into a *hulking crab*, just making the most nonsensical crab noises ever
It was amazing, especially when they *cut a spider in half immediately with claws* and began eating it in character
They also played something we called "Jarald" at first. Basically a jar of ooze they dropped things into that after devouring some intellect devourers gained sentience and also taste (now named "Jaralt") (didn't want to eat said spider), then became an English accented Plasmoid sorcerer when the character wanted to try them out ("Jaremy").
Both characters retired in the same session (Jaremy went critical using Empowered Fireball to wipe out 9 spiders at once after ensuring his "son" Klick was safe; Klick was adopted by the frogs that were the family our party assassin) but it was glorious to know them.
currently playing as a murderous sentient cup of hot chocolate that only speaks in the third person
i started a campaign as a talking crow. just a normal crow but it was as if awaken having been cast on it. he is now a human werewolf in barovia(not where we started)
I don’t know why but this guy sounds like a more neutral Swaggersouls
A goose just a goose named melodious who had a honk who scared everyone if you didn’t roll high enough. The back story ( it was amber) was melodious was trapped by a butcher and was sent to the castle and they got possessed by a fey, when we finally met them I just picked them up and we went on our way. Also this was my friend
using PF2e ruleset, my next char is going to be a skeleton war cleric of the mother of monsters. Backstory? She was a witch who got burned at the stake, made a deal with Asmodeus to get revenge, but then the town she wanted revenge on got wiped out. So, she fell into a funk for a while, hollowed for a bit, went from being a lvl 20 bbeg to being a lvl 1 cleric adventure. She's still evil, but doing what her new deity asks, (To explore the wilderness and help some of the monsters out there). She can't even remember her name, and goes by Scarlet, because of the poem that she thinks is about her, about her taking a Scarlet Vow.... (What, no! She's not inspired by Aviators' song Scarlet Vow, what are you talking about :P)
I think the most interesting character I've seen lately is this one Player who would have his character just... Vanish. Then another character would pop up with the same skills, level, etc. And it was very obviously the same person disguised as someone else. And we're still not sure if this is an ongoing joke or some sort of mental condition, but they are a major method actor.
Somebody in the bear player's party needs to get that bear a coke stat! and keep them away from deserted isles so they don't get shot.
Even though it was the Tabaxi's first session in this campaign, they have already been traumatized. Not by my 7 foot tall and very grumpy dragonborn warlock, no. By the talking bowl of ramen shapeshifting into a floating chicken and chugging soy sauce. My patron is a weird one. (Its a yokai)
I was once allowed to use the 3rd party Theros expansion with the special player classes, so naturally I had to abuse it. I decided on theros Goliath barbarian. Funny think about it is that it I'd a grapple based class. That campaign ended with me suplexing a dragon while talking utter trash in a cockney accent. I got a chance to run that pc in an epic level one shot in which the Sorcerer cast enlarge on me so a god could catch 'These Divine Hands'.
Hurrgak earned my like! XD
I play a reborn (undead) multi class fighter warlock undead patron who is devoutly in service to the morning lord. She always has her helmet visor clanking down over her face and her shadow routinely laughs behind her back. But she means well!
the first champaign I ran had A PC who was a Firbolg Life Cleric who worshiped an ordinary potato, he ended up convincing goblins to worship potatoes as well. eventually I had them encounter the BBEG early, to my surprise Joined him, as he offered them reasonable power, the potato Cleric asked for one spell to be added to his spell list: Plant Growth. that was a mistake on my part as he covered the entire landscape with potatoes, ever since I was very care full of what I gave that player.
The weirdest we’ve ever had… was something.
It was Stabby the Space Roomba. A literal Roomba with a knife taped to the top of it sticking out the front. He was a rogue with crazy stealth and DEX, as well as intimidation. As if that wasn’t bad enough, they gave him a voice filter and this was pretty much his voice and personality: m.czcams.com/video/qkwHB-4LREc/video.html
I am currently playing a fairy battle smith artificer with autism, ocd, and hoarder tendencies. He is also addicted a fey based weed which when he smokes is the only time the party can generally understand his nonsensical speech.
I now need Stats for Hurrgak
Okay so I got 2 of em I can remember at this moment, they're both reborn lineage. I got real creative with the one option of rebirth that was basically 'something went wrong with the reincarnation' and now I have a goblin janitor stuck in an evil high elves body, running away from the servants, while joining a group of monster hunters and a stitched up body who had the brain of a dog who is becoming smarter by the day due to the weird mix of infernal ritual and Frankensteinesque science.
Let's see...
Groo (yes, from the comic)
A jedi with multiple personality disorder (LG - jedi, LE - sith, holy roller preacher, and 3 y/o)
Phlegm, goblin hebalist - int of 5, luck 0f 98%. he managed to poison half of an opposing army
Nellie the grizzly bear techno (support your right to keep and arm bears) with flintlocks and an M4
Kethra the polar bear rogue (who just joined the campaign).
I was allowed to play what was essentially a house cat witcher with a preticuler hatred of witches
My very first game I had someone who would only play if he could play as a duck. Not an Aarakocra or anything... Just a duck.
While I definitely could of integrated it better now as an experienced DM, id prob rather turn down someone lile that. Theyre likely looking for a different type of game than the ones I run... :/
We have a player in our group who only makes ridiculous characters, so far they are;
Multi Man, 5 level 1 characters stuck in one body. (we started at lv 5) He got us TPK'd by engaging with one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse when they gave us a chance to surrender
Then, there was Ball Bearing Man, who is an entire novels worth of BS, so I'll leave it at Man who is made of ball bearings kills god, becomes god, get's bored and enters into a 9-hour long (real time) boss battle where he became the most powerful being in all of existence who's only goal is to get more ball bearings. (He could collect as many ball bearings as he wanted, and he could use them to do 1d4 damage per ball, and he could shoot as many as he wanted in a turn. We didn't know about this ability until a player betrayed him for throwing a fireball into a crowd as a distraction, so Ball Bearing Man did over 700 damage to this level 7 character. That's when we knew we had a problem.)
After that was Cheese fish man, who was a fish man filled with cheese. He played a cleric who only healed himself, and could pull any cheese he wanted out of his anus. He died during a kaiju battle between Trump the Titan and Biden the Beastial, both of these monstrosities were also his creations.
Mega Man was a prototype character so he could flesh him out better, and my goodness did he need fleshed out. The gimmick was that he could touch any object and become ____ man. He could shoot the object infinitely and would take on some properties of it, and even change class. But here was the problem; for some unfathomable reason he combined all the health bars of them at once, and ended up with almost 700 hit points at level 5. We killed him because (we have a system that lets us summon whatever we want within some parameters, yes it's extremely broken please don't ask) and tried to nuke us, himself, and the city we were in. We killed him by using another broken system command, delete, and he just dissapeared forever. We learned later that when we delete something, it gets sent to ball bearing man in the mainframe were he decides whether or not to destroy or send back whatever came there.
The last one so far is Kleenex Ghost, he looks like dead hand from LoZ but with long, lanky legs and arms. He could stretch his limbs infinently, have a walking speed of 320 feet, could only be harmed by magic things, but not killed by magic weapons, and could turn anything he wanted into paper that he would absorb, and he could do that no matter how powerful his target was, they just took longer the bigger they were. He also had an NPC boyfriend (that was my fault) who was uncontious at this time; We got fed up with Kleenex ghost after he literally stood at the entrance of a dungeon, and he just stretched his limbs throughout the whole thing and cleared it. No-one was having fun at the time but him, so we told him to either change his character sheet to be balanced or we would do something about him. He said he would rather die, so we killed him and told his boyfriend that the BBEG did it. The player said that his next character might make us miserable, so we might have to kill him again.
We killed Kleenex ghost last session, and we had to have a talk for about an hour about what needed to change, because we weren't enjoying ourselves anymore. But, overall the whole campaign is very goofy, and as long as the player can keep his characters balanced, then hopefully we can fix everything up and go on as we did before.
I made a barbarian gnome with a nuke inside him
I have a battle master fighter build literally built off the stat card for a mastiff. An attack dog. Also very persuasive.
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