D&D Players, Tell Us About That One REALLY Dumb Character...
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- Have you ever had a character idea that was just… ridiculous. Stupid. Impractical. Still, it stuck in your head like a catchy tune you heard in a Walmart, and it stayed with you… never used, always lurking. Tell us about that ridiculous bastard!
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The horse and his sister work together to steal carts from merchants. They steal from every other town to reduce suspicion.
that's what you get for putting the cart before the horse.
Completely as a throwaway NPC I had a kobold run in with a bomb that was essentially twenty vials of alchemist's fire mixed with moonshine and blow up a bunch of bad guys but also kill himself in the process. The party revivified him, at which point the rogue had to teach the kobold a secret ultimate technique:
Light bomb, then THROW bomb.
Now he is a full fledged artificer PC with a flamethrower backpack, pre-made insurance claim vouchers for the inevitable property damage he causes and the childlike wonder of a sweet innocent soul watching fireworks for the first time whenever he uses his "ultimate technique". His name is Baboomza
i love it
My dumbest character was Soupcan, an 9’6 800 pound orc who was named such because in his family, you’re named by the first thing that touches your face after you’re born. His siblings in descending order by age, is raven feather, orchid petal, dads wallet, staircase, and nobleman’s carriage (it was an unsolved mystery how our youngest sibling perished but it wasn’t long after birth). Our father was an artificer of sorts that invented child abandonment while our mother was an alchemist that resorted to consuming more and more potions after our fathers breakthrough, causing mother to speak in a slurred manner and hit us children. While growing up, he spent a lot of time in the woods, months on end, because mother must’ve wanted Soupcan to be a great ranger. While in the woods he was kidnapped by a hag who was frustrated she couldn’t steal his soul, thanks to his red hair preventing him from ever having one, thus earning the fey touched feat. He then accidentally received his neighbors invitation letter to strixhaven, mixing it up as he never learned to read and just assumed it was for him. His mother said it definitely was for him after all and she pushed him out the door as soon as he received it! What a proud mother. As a powerful wizard, Soupcan was unmatched at dueling as he would blitz his opponents and club them down with his wand (a great club made from an uprooted tree). He dueled so often in fact, he ran out of students to challenge, resorting to dueling his own shadow, which he won as well, earning the shadow touched feat. He was eventually kicked out because too many students feared for their safety, but not before picking up a few spells and knick knacks from students defeated. His goal after leaving was to become the powerful wizard he was destined to be and meet Santa Claus who made his siblings so happy. His older siblings would cry a lot and work all day every day, not ever buying things for themselves, only their younger siblings and to replenish mothers potions. The only day they smiled was Christmas when they would receive a kind gift from Santa and play with their siblings.
TLDR He was a wild magic barbarian with the strixhaven student background, every ASI he took a feat that granted spellcasting, and he did eventually get to meet and thank Santa. He was also not stupid with an intelligence of 7 but dense enough to not understand what was going on at home xD Srry if this was meant to be characters we didn’t play but I got to play this mfer to lvl 20!
I had a monk with multiple personalities. He was a European style monk, complete with a friers haircut and woolen robes. Always smiling and quick with a stupid Dad joke. He just learned to fight from a traveling martial artist. The other personality was even different class, a barbarian with improved unarmed fighting and improved improvised weapons. They didn't switch places randomly though. The monk was in control 90% of the time. He was also a functioning alcoholic. The party tried to take his alcohol away for a night, and regretted it. In the middle of nowhere, the monk got sober. And switched personalities. He raged and went all Hulk on the party, not stopping until he got his booze back. Once the booze hits his lips, the monk's personality takes back over, and he starts questioning why the party got all beat up and the camp got wrecked. The DM was 100% in on it, and was waiting for someone to hide the booze so it would happen. The only regret is that it didn't happen in a dungeon or town. However, the party did use that switching personalities to their advantage, hiding the booze or spilling it on purpose and telling the monk that the enemies did it. It worked wonders sometimes, and was a lot of fun, even if it was stupid as hell playing a drunk guy all the time.
So a monk that is always drunk, but whenever it gets sober it hulks out and becomes an unstoppable force of nature, death and destruction.
I love it
We had an NPC kiwi bird who thought of himself as a raging barbarian. Constant rage. Imagine toaster from FO NV DLC, but in kiwi form. A flightless bird the size of a fist, shouting at everything, with dreams of total annihilation of the universe.
A warforge barbarian that’s a hybrid of Hellboy and Iron Giant.
“Query: What if I don’t want to be a killing machine?”
We have a warforged PC who was created by an ancient civilization as a weapon (well, at least most likely), but due to some shenanigans ended up identifying as a cat (not even tabaxi, just sentient cat)
Well your resent punch card say war machine but we can alway try the underdark basket weaving your ok with spider right
A dog with a rubber ball.
The dog is just a dog, happy to have it's ball, however there's this telepathic voice that follows the dog around, the voice insists it is NOT the dog, though it can't prove otherwise. The dog has packs with some equipment, food, and money, magic is regularly cast in proximity to the dog, and a mage hand appears in combat which uses the rubber ball as a weapon, which, of course, the dog will chase.
A crow driving a wardorged
I played Don Quixote in a one shot several years ago.
I saw stuff that wasn’t really there and led the party into events that they would have preferred to avoid.
The other players thought that I was intentionally being a pain in the ass that night.
I was trying out some Google glasses that month. The DM was sending me texts. Our party had an issue with analysis paralysis.
I had an idea for a warlock. In my planning of it they were a yuan-ti pure blood hexblade but it can work with most subclasses and races. The concept was both the character and the patron wanted to take over the world. The patron was in someway sealed or tied to the warlock so they needed the warlock to do their bidding, but the warlock is incredibly incompetent in their "evil" actions and misunderstanding the ways of the civilized world. It was sorta like Invader Zim but if the Tallest actually wanted Zim to take over Earth
I proposed to my table a genie subclass warlok who did robin williams impressions and a swashbuckler figher who was basically johnny depp. mty DM glared at me both times and shot my ideas down knoing i was going to go off the rails with them
A lizardfolk necromancer who uses ice spells his name is gizzard the wizard lizard blizzard
Frog with a gun. Dumb idea that turned into pure total nonsense.
Don't you mean toad al nonsense
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@@edwardconner3335 Murder. Like a disturbing amount of murder. And a child ended up on the wrong end of a catapult spell. I have no idea what the fuck I was on that day.
@@beancandev7818 so exactly like Kermit from The DAU gotcha. Seriously you should check out DevilArtemis he used to be an animator for Death Battle before Warner axed that division of the company. His vids almost always make me laugh.
A plasmoid Paladin reflavored as a human who got hit with Disintegrate spell and was reduced to a pile of dust, but were so devoted to their oath, they managed to pull themselves together into a functioning humanoid form. They use the plasmoid race as a base, they're just made of animated sand.
Always wanted to play a plasmoid had this idea for a plasmoid samurai fighter who teacher was a crab with a knife and a headband of intellectual or a plasmoid great old one warlock whose a art model and a master of disguise
PANR has tuned in.
Current dumb as shit character that I am playing? Ok.
Imagine, if you would, a mix of Cyberpunk and Fallout. The world went to hell, nukes were launched, AI were destroyed, magic appeared in the world in a destructive fashion, and 150 years later we have an overpopulated cyberpunk city with magic races.
Now imagine a 5’3” human woman, moderately pretty, who despite growing up in the above city is an absolute cinnamon roll that is the moral compass and bleeding heart of the party. She is a cleric of Sarenrae, part of a struggling temple that was persecuted for years, and only knows healing magic. She avoids cybernetics like stereotypical cats avoid water.
Here is the capstone to why this character is ridiculous- We arent playing a cyberpunk based system. We arent even playing Pathfinder. Nooo. We are playing in the GURPS system.
This character has a 40% chance to either receive Sarenrae’s aid when the party gets in deep trouble or trigger a special ability known as her Divine Investment- which basically turns her into a paladin for a literal minute. It has its downsides though.
"Noone would ever believe you" is such a power line of intimidation
I was in a homebrew cyberpunk-inspired CoC campaign that ended recently; I played a cop through the whole thing. Name? Johny Johnson. CoC’s rules generally require all ability scores to be at least 15 before modifiers. However, Intelligence must be at least 40 before modifiers because of how many things relate to it. I played him as being very dumb but smart enough to realize he isn’t very smart. Was very fun since he was blunt to a fault at times. His low Intelligence and high Willpower made him very sane due to not comprehending the scariness of eldritch horrors and his high constitution with decent Size meant he had high hp and was generally tough for enemies to deal with.
A centaur healer cleric.
He would be the centaur for disease control.
The breakfast paladin. He gains his powers from the worship of breakfast food. (Which is really a Hag disguised as a chef having a laugh.)
He does whatever the great chef in the sky tells him and uses breakfast puns for just about everything. I made all of his character traits awful breakfast puns. Which includes, but isn't limited to: "His coffee beam (Moonbeam) will really wake you up, and you're toast if he uses his eggsplosion." (Thunderous Smite)
His name is Gordoff Goatsy.
A Pixie bear Totem Barbarian that just wants to make friends.
They were convinced there were traps everywhere no matter where they went, always doing checks, and complained when they didn't find any saying that I was wasting their time, even though they were the ones wasting everyone else's time looking for traps where there weren't any.
I did put traps in, not infrequently, but since they were so Gung ho to find them I had to start upping how many there were, but disguised them as regular objects; a poisoned coin from a merchant hired by an assassin, a seemingly harmless feather used as alchemical ingredient having diseased spores dormant within, a random branch that can explode while you're camping because you pissed off a dryad and decided to burn her remains, a compass that magically slightly alters direction when you blink.
He liked investigation so I gave it to him, but it felt like giving a kid a fidget spinner while the rest of the group focused on the task at hand.
cluck clovk sounds exactly like the main villain of the tower of time adventure pack for skylanders swap force
I made a character in a campaign that was a mute, cannibalistic, demon child. Her name was Charlie, age 6. She's fun to play
Three simple words,Dragonborn fairy barbarian,picture Tinker Bell with rage!😂😂😂
Kobold that believes it is a paladin.
It's not a paladin, it's actually probably a fighter/barb multiclass, but it _believes_ it is a paladin.
Basically, this kobold was in a cave with a bunch of other kobolds, probably licking moss of the walls or something, when a party of adventurers come through. Most of the kobolds and adventurers die fighting each other and a lot of poison traps get triggered. The last standing fighters are this single kobold and the adventuring paladin, both facing each other and on deaths door. And so the paladin cries out to his god to help him defeat the little beastie, lifts his sword, charges forth...
And he immediately trips, cuts himself on his own sword, succumbs to the poison and dies. (Basically, that paladin rolled a 1 and TPK'd).
The kobold now believes the paladin's god chose them over the dead paladin, so therefore they must be a paladin now! But they don't know how to be a paladin, or even what a paladin really does, so they just insist they are a paladin to people and scream a mispronounced version of the dead paladin's god's name every time they attack (or when they remember to, at least). They're not only prideful about it, but easily tricked. You could tell them "Paladins always cough twice before eating a meal" and the kobold will do it, because they're a paladin now so they _must_ do things that paladins do!
Not mine, but a player in my campaign wanted to play a tumbleweed possessed by the avatar of a minor wind god, it was called Tinnitus. My brother kept putting it in campfires, but it was revived every 24 hours. He couldn't talk and was highly flammable so I thought it was fair.
I think I might’ve talked about this one before, but it’s a tortle druid who can only wild shape into other turtles or turtle like creatures
Artificer cursed by wild magic if he tries any spell outside of engineering ( only a nat 1 means spell works nat 20 = tarask ( sp) ) who doesn’t understand that artificers use magic of sorts
During the 2e years, I was asked by a friend who sat in with us sometimes to run a one-shot for some of his other gamer friends, and I agreed to do it. The next weekend, two guys and my friend showed up and I began getting out my notes, setting up the DM screen, etc. During this time, one of the guys is telling me that he's playing a Wizard and had played so much D&D that there was nothing I could do that would fool him or make him fail in the quest because he was "too smart for me. He literally said this. His partner sat there and nodded along.
I started the game with the two players having marched a long, long way from their last adventure and they saw a small manor house atop a hill. Thinking they might find lodging there, they headed toward it. Once they got to the manor house grounds, I described a water grate in the path. It was made of iron and secure enough to walk on. Wizard says, "I want to look into the ditch underneath the grate". I tell him OK and he spies a dagger, the hilt covered in muddy but still visibly valuable-looking gems. He thrust his arm down through the grate and grabbed the dagger. A cartoon spring sound greeted him as he did so. I told him to roll a saving throw (it's been so long I don't remember what it was against) as a blade scythed sideways from a space underneath the grate toward his arm. He made his save but left the dagger. He told his friend that it just HAD to be magical because it was decorated so lavishly. Grumbling, they continued toward the manor, where they were greeted warmly by the family who lived there. After a hearty meal and an evening of storytelling in front of the fireplace, everyone turned in for the night.
The next morning, our heroes thanked their hosts and left. Wizard made straight for the grating over the ditch. Without a word, he fell to his stomach, thrust his arm into the space below, and grabbed the bejeweled hilt. There was a loud "sproing" sound and this time he failed his saving throw, losing his arm. I was being cursed out by the player at the top of his lungs and I just sat there expressionless. I told them they could see a large-ish town across the valley, so Wizard made the other guy run to the city and find a Cleric. He succeeded and the Cleric regenerated the Wizard's arm. He IMMEDIATELY shoved his arm back into the hole and failed his save again. This time I said the blade was stuck in the humerus of his right arm and he couldn't move his arm anymore. He was stuck fast. The Cleric shrugged and gave him a "there, there" pat on the head because he had only memorized the spell for the day one time.
Now the player was screaming at me for cheating for not letting him have "his magic dagger". I sighed and said, "Have you ever heard of a sucker trap? Because that's what you fell for. The dagger was made of tin and the jewels were paste and glass. It was not magical". I folded my DM screen and turned on the television as they stormed out of my house. My friend who brought them laughed all the way to their car.
Feel sorry for the last guy. All that hard work, all for it to just be burned before your eyes due to it holding too much insanity as you are pinned down.
Here's a dumb one: A small group of crabs working together to operate an Apparatus Of Kwalish
Juke B Oxal is a kenku wild magic sorcerer. he has made his entire life revolve around chaos and thinking after a situation. I was sent on a solo "escort" mission due to my teleportation ability where i biped into the tavern and got the woman out without too much trouble before a raid on the fortress. now out of game we knew something was up with the mission but we needed to do the job.
2 things in and out of game.
1. in game i had charmed person her to prevent her from screaming her head off due to telepathic communications. meaning i could have found out if she was happy in the situation she was in, and the overall gist of why she was to be "escorted"
2. on the way out i had used thunder step to start the raid due to it being heard 300 meters away... i forgot about the fact that the spell damages anyone 10 feet away from the casting area (not the people in the spell) and i think the other person in the bed got a little bit of concussion at the very least. but in game, juke has no idea the might have unalive a guy on the "escort mission"
TL:DR "escort" mission goes right i didn't think about the details
NOT MY IDEA, JUST ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE TABLE BEING OBNOXIOUS:
female dwarven warrior who sabotaged my ranger every possible time. was trying to pry through a door, she throws the ranger aside and knocks. was trying to strike a deal with a female wizard, shes against it. was trying to breed/acquire more horses, shes against it. was trying to intervene in a fight between harpies and she pulls him away while hes literally leaving clawing marks at the ground. to top it off, she finally killed my character to hook up with a hot blue tiefling sorcerer "to give him a chance for redemption". she gaslit the paladin and the rogue into opposing me as well.
HER REASONING: "MY CHARACTER JUST DIDNT LIKE YOURS"
Oh boy this is my yam... I think my silliest character ides were both barbarians... (by sheer coincidence I've played two barbarians and they were both small)
The first was Zang the Anklebiter. A goblin Path of the Ancestors barbarian.
She was raised by orcs, and so every time she rages she would be surrounded by the ghostly visage of her orcish ancestors who were super supportive of her. She always attacks recklessly and likes to take trophies from all her fights (she once picked up the horn of a yeti which was about as big as she was..)
Only played her in oneshots but if I ever did get to play her in a real campaign I like the idea of her arc being about learning about her goblin heritage, and the more she learns about them the more goblins start appearing in her "ancestral cheerleading squad". They would never completely replace the orcs though. No matter what happens those orcs were her real family.
The second is Sapphire Twinkletoes (bonus for finding the cartoon reference hidden in her name...has nothing to do wth her I just thuoght it was funny when it showed up on a random name generator.) She's a super anxious fairy. Her backstory was never fully fleshed out but presumably at one point in her life she was traumatized out of using magic. But she's a magical creature... so she has magic coming out her ears... Years of attempting to supress that magic makes it explode out with random effects every time she panics (which is...every fight)
So she's a Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian. Rage reflavored to panic. Her first ever fight was pretty silly because she got hit with a fear effect in the first round, when that effect ended I announced "Now that Sapphire is no longer feared, I would like to panic".
I think Hugs also deserves a special mention. They are a kobold thief rogue, created when our DM annonunced an "evil" oneshot... I decided "I'm not great at making evil RPG characters...I'll just make your average thief rogue..." they were anything but average as it turns out.
The name Hugs is yet again a joke created from Fantasy Name Generators, but they absolutely despise being hugged and will scream bloody murder if anyone ever manages to pick them up.The only one allowed to hug them is their romantic partner... named Kisses, naturally.
Like the stereotypical rogue they were supposed to be Hugs steals anything that isn't nailed down, but has a special love for spaghetti. It became a running gag that everywhere they went they left traces of cooked spaghetti behind... they kept it in their pockets. Along with any other food items they happened to come accross. They turned into an urban legend in their hometown, where someone might wake up to find their house robbed and the only trace was a patch of spaghetti on the ground...
While reading Volo's guide to monsters I discovered kobolds could apparently change their sex depending on the gender ratio of their tribe, so Hugs and Kisses uses this to take turns laying eggs. They have a lot of kids... they're not great parents. Their parenting strategy is like that of rodents, just have a ton of kids and hope at least SOME of them survive their shitty parenting tactics. All this backstory...for a oneshot character... and most of this didn't even come to light until weeks after that oneshot ended.
I have a Kobold Wizard named Math. When asked ANYTHING, he always responds with "MATH!" and presents his arcane focus: a cursed abacus that always gets the right outcome with the wrong equation. Trying to figure out what 7*8 is? Well it's 56, but for some reason the abacus ended up as showing 14*4.
Oh, also, he's a Divination Wizard so if somehow the abacus is wrong, the "correct" answer it shows is the portent dice used. And yes, my DM has allowed me to gaslight people into thinking their understanding of math was wrong
I made a dragonborn akademik once. Monk klass.
He was trying to unvale the secret behind the ancient dragon speech. And he alwhays introduced himselfe with the exact same sentence. "I Am Kubo Ta, a Dragonborn!"
Jes, my inspirations were Tiberius Stormwind (from CrittRoll) and a Skyrimm trailer.
OMG I'm an idiot!!! I just looked at the description for the first time and realized your name is Brian Vaughn and you have VA after because you're a voice actor. I've literally spent the last 2-3 years thinking you're name was Brian von Viay or something to that effect. OMFG!!!! LMAO
Ork the orc was an orc i rolled spectacularly on. Max strength, high wisdom, high dex, midling charisma, high con... Minimum int. In pathfinder, orcs had -2 int and had a racial you could take for another -2. Then i took a feat that gave me -1 int for a truly dumb, but clever, 1 int orc fighter. He couldnt communicate, didnt understand language, but his high wisdom meant he was trainable and could read body language very well.
Ok here's one: A god who periodically incarnates as a mortal for fun. There's a few ways I thought to play this but essentially you don't have the powers of a god just your character so it's not OP. The god either wipes himself of important god knowledge not meant for mortals or knows everything the god would know but will not reveal it to mortals. This cuts down the possibility of metagaming and adds a bit of humor they can get things wrong "Oh yes I know what that is that's Wyvern" (it's a dragon) or "I know exactly what that is." "...aren't you going to tell us?" "Oh no can't sorry god stuff you understand." But above all everything this god does is a game to him. Even getting stabbed by an enemy is fun to him because well he never gets stabbed or if he does his godlike power makes it like a pinprick. So you have this god who is just overly enthusiastic about everything "Think drink is revolting!" "Another?" "yes please!"
A few NPCs from a setting I put together...
First is "Silverback Jack", a mob boss who has the personality and demeanor of your standard Italian mafia don. He has a young adult white dragon in his service named "Chilly Willy" that he... "inherited" from the previous boss (actually kept and abused like a caged animal by the last boss, Jack treats him pretty well), and Jack himself is an unarmed Magus (closest approximation to a Magus would be a Hexblade Warlock who gets their magic from a spellbook instead of a patron).
Jack is also an _awakened gorilla_ who despises monkey jokes of all kinds... and the only person in that campaign who ever succeeded in killing a member of the party.
The other is a pair of NPCs. Ben and Gerry, a couple of retired adventurers and best friends who opened a bar/ice cream parlor in the undead kingdom's capital city. They're also incomplete skeletons - Ben the Fighter is missing his head, while Gerry the Bard is missing everything _but_ his head.
Ben communicates with Gerry skelepathically.
One of my favorite I've come up with is a goblin cleric. He was meant to scout a village for his clan to attack but am old lady's cat fought him off. He thinks pretty highly odd himself so for the cat to beat him in a fight, it obviously had to be a god. He gets his powers by worshipping the cat. As far as the cat... It's just a cat. When the cleric would speak with his deity I just imagine the cat hanging out in the old lady's lap then it starts hearing a goblin praying to it. I love for these characters that will just get a wild reaction or if people halfway through a campaign after all the buildup.
I had a tortle paladin oath of the open seas, which often gets drunk has dementia and is very stupid
I’ve had many crazy characters. I’ll go one I REALLY want to play.
Name: BUCKET REALDRAGONBORNMAN
Class: Fighter, Bard, rogue
Race: Kobold
Backstory: Huebert (red kobold), Dewbert (blue kobold), and Luiebert (green Kobold) all were the reason adventurers killed the dragons. With no one else to turn to they found eachother. Knowing how other races fear dragons, they decide to put on a charade of being a “real Dragonborn”. Resulting in 3 kobolds in a trench coat. Each kobold is a different color, gender, and class. I stat them as a Drogonborn, but with kobold race bonuses… but each kobold only has 1/3 of the HP. They then each get their own character sheet stating them as a kobold as every day they change up who is head, body, and legs. It will additionally help if they ever split up and individually travel in a campaign.
Yes the names and colors are a reference to Huey, Dewey and Louie from Duck Tails.
new player: I wanna play just an old man with a large spoon
i’m glad i wasn’t the only one to notice that the one person was describing dave strider
My first ever character was a meme character. In my friends homebrew setting he had a system for “narcotic effects” let’s say. Thus I created Gary Scouse the King of Drugs. A pacifist chaotic neutral druid who only used druidcraft in combat as well as a homebrew “Psychedelic Mushroom Spore” to disorientate a group of enemies. He was an absolute blast and the best moment I think we had was when I scored a crit and the max effect roll with the mushroom blast and this Dwarf literally broke the 4th wall and knew he was in an imaginary game and proceeded to decapitate itself!
My crazy character idea is a centaur druid pirate
I knew a guy who played a necromancer who was delusional and could not comprehend that his undead creations were actually undead. (He called them his cousins. )
If I ever get into a Star Wars game, get ready for the horror that is Jo Jo, the Bomb Bad Bounty Hunter.
I was once in a game session where one entire side of the table had a combined 16 INT between three characters. My Dwarf fighter, Gundarr INT 5. An Orc Bard named Rock Lobster INT 5, whose spell focus instrument was a drum. The third character was a slimefolk monk named Bloop INT 6, "My master was wise, he taught me many things. He tasted like peppermint."
Again Shin split a gnome zealot barbarian with maxed strength using a grat axe a big as he is with the character trait of insanity all he wants is to be yeeted into battle while he screams insanely
A couple. Here's two.
Dave the Magic Squirrel
Used to be the animal companion of a druid until they died in a dungeon. Dave's master had a pouch of magic nuts he never let Dave eat. Each nut had a random magical effect that would mutate the eater.
Dave got 10 random magic mutations that didn't transform him physically but granted him intelligence, telepathy, self-awareness, adamantine teeth, and magical powers. Wild Magic Sorcerer. All of his magical powers would be boosted whenever he ate cake.
He was still a tiny little squirrel and could not speak common, but telepathy helped.
Dave was a foody and would dedicate all of his magic to making, conjuring, attacking, defending, and supporting with food. His spell focus was the single magic nut he never ate, all that remained of his old master.
He also had diabetes because of his need to eat cake to fuel his magic. Not a piece of cake, but a whole cake. If he didn't eat a cake during a long rest he never regained spell slots.
Mug the Thug
A Christmas elf (gnome) trickster rogue.
Formerly he was Muggy Sprinkles, one of many workers in Santa's workshop. He was good. But after getting addicted to pixie dust he became a bit... off.
He was eventually expelled from Santa's workshop for making inappropriate toys, like Lora the Pixie Dragon, a toy dragon that would release a spray of colorful sparkles from its mouth when its wings were spread. The sparkles caused hallucinations, diarrhea, nausea, and dizziness, Color PSray essentially.
And who could forget Heffy the Obese Hippo, a massive hippo plushie that would open and close its mouth and say "Feed Me" in a hilariously high-pitched voice? The problem was that the hippo was also designed to swallow anything put in its mouth and swallow it into its big belly, which because of designer errors, lacked a zipper. And it was airtight.
His choice of weapon was. A mug. A magic mug that would fill with any non-alcoholic liquid with a word command.
His favorite beverage for battle? Hot chocolate. But he would vary his choice of combat drink every day. Sometimes it would be tea, others coffee, sometimes it would be boiling hydrochloric acid, hot non-alcoholic cider, chili oil, you know the basics.
His ranged weapon of choice was an automatic hand crossbow shooting crossbow bolts made out of sharpened candy canes and pixie sticks.
Whenever he is not sneakily stealing cookies or playing pranks on foes and allies alike, he will be crafting weird toys as a side business.
Planned him for a Christmas session but I didn't use him.
A catapult duo in Pathfinder. Small boulder becomes gargantuan when thrown.
A gurren lagan reference? It's been YEARS, if not decades at this point.
character thats extremely dumb but i really want to make is a pink skinned Loxodon rogue who has low stealth but high intimidation. i know there was something done but about an orc (you dont see krood) but this would be more a silent intimidation.. we just dont speak of the elephant in the room
A PC that is a warlock that has their player as their patron, they can only see and hear the player and not the other players or the DM. The Player cannot actually do anything other than play the character and roll dice but the Character believes his Patron can only access his power this way and will always follow the commands or ideas of the player. Dm can have fun by having the character misinterpret the players instructions. Example( Player: I want to sneak past the guard. Character cannot see the guard since he is around the corner and suspiciously prowls around the corner into the guard.) Other Characters are played normally unaware anything is amiss. Dice roll to determine how well the instruction are followed. Another Example (DM: roll perception, Player: its a 15, DM: you see a hidden switch, Player: Okay, Hey (insert Character's name) there is a hidden switch behind that statue. Character walks over and finds switch to the amazement of the party. Character: My patron told me where it was)
10:21 Okay, the lumberjack's my favorite.
Before I talk about my character, I gotta talk about the game he may one day appear in. See, a friend of mine DMs a homebrew game, freely inspired by the general concept of D&D, but with more "freestyle" rules. One feature of this game is that pretty much all the fantasy races ever are represented, and most can be playable characters: Gnome, troll, murloc, orc, fairy... anything goes as long we can figure out a stat bloc and justify that the "civilized world" wouldn't just execute them on sight.
The second feature that needs explaining is the magic system. If you choose to play a magic user, you won't get a spellbook with clearly defined spells. Instead you must choose a "school" of magic (light, dark, arcane) and allocate your mastery over the classic 4 elements, each school-element combination granting you acces to a "flavor" of spells you can cast.
For example: light-wind allows shielding magic and speed buffs, arcane wind is the domain of illusions, and dark-wind rules over pestilence, poison gas and such. From there on, whenever you wanna cast a spell, you just describe the effects you want, the DM decides wether or not your magic domains allow for that, and a roll of the dice will determine how succesful the casting was.
With that explanation out of the way, let me introduce Grod "Peace-Hands". Race : Ogre-Magi, Profession: Massage Therapist.
While newcomer clients in the massage parlor would be surprised to encounter such a lumbering brute among the staff, connoisseurs testify they have never felt more relaxed and refreshed than after a session with Grod. That is because Grod was born with an extremely unusual talent among his kin.
Ogre-Magi are a rare enough occurence among Ogre tribes, and usually become Shamans for their tribe. But Grod was even more unusual... From birth, he was always naturally attuned to the magic school of light and the element of water.
Light-water is the domain of healing magic, and also of empathy, allowing a skilled user to detect and even influence the emotions of people around them. In Grod's case, he channels his magic into his massages, communicating to his clients a sense of serenity, an ease of mind, and a wish that this peace could last forever...
But the thing about Grod's magic is... it is POWERFUL. Unusually powerful. More powerful than his feeble Ogre mind can handle, and he doesn't really control it. Especially the empathy aspect. Grod is basically a walking radio tower of emotions, capturing and internalizing the feelings of everyone around him, and then broadcasting it all uncontrollably...
That is why Grod's wandering led him to make a living in a place of peace, relaxation and harmony. A place where he can just enjoy life day after day. A place where he doesn't have to think about his childhood, and that one day where his entire tribe suddenly got very angry for no clear reason, and everyone started fighting and fighting... until only little Grod was left alive, cowering under a collapsed tent...
TL;DR : Your party's healer is an Ogre, so quite tanky but very dumb, and also a potential emotional nuke that could make everyone around go berzerk if things get too intense...
I feel taking that guy on a adventure could be a lot of fun, and lead to some very chaotic situations.
Rock golem with high swim speed😂😂😂
A druid named Kim was cursed by some malign force so he could not control his Wild Shape abilities. When he sleeps, he shapeshifts into a random animal that they have decent knowledge of. When he tries to use Wild Shape, he becomes a random creature based on dice rolls. When he uses magic, it sometimes misfires and forces him to Wild Shape. This is made much worse by his circle affiliation, that of the Moon, which can force him to turn into a more vicious and unpredictable animal. Thankfully, he can undo the Wild Shape on a whim once transformed but will not recover the usage.
Having run this concept, it's a complete gambit whether you are getting something good or something useless. I encountered a moment where the phrases "That might help us" and "We should probably kill him" were uttered on the same turn.
I think one of the silliest characters I ever made was the time I built Spamton G. Spamton (yes, the Deltarune character) in D&D. He was a Warforged Bard with the Charlitan background.
A half dragon dragonborn monk way of the ascendant dragon named Agon Wyrm (His nickname is Doctor due to the precission of the blows reminiscing of a doctor with a scalpel, thus making him Dr Agon Wyrm). The whole point of the character is that he's oblivious to the dragon paraphernalia around him.
IDK if I would call them "stupid" but here's a couple of character ideas that came to mind
Espazido Esparanda *insert 3rd part that starts with E here*
or E3 for short (though he hates that nickname)
A red dragonborn who is a full caster (what kind can vary depending on if it is normal leveling, gestalt leveling or dichotomous leveling) who favors a some very frilly and puffy red clothing, including a trench coat, and a big red hat
he also favors a rapier for a weapon, and loves to go charging into battle and start stabbing people whenever he is not in the back slinging both arcane damage and divine support
flamboyant, charismatic...and more than a little narcissistic, he travels the world working miracles for the common folk and leaving the wicked a smoldering pile of ash
Name pending:
A warforged shaped like a dragonborn
Beast Barbarian+either hex blade warlock or Kensai Monk (still not sure on which)
he was once the Steel Defender of an artificer who fell in battle. with their final breath, they activated a subroutine in their programing to free him, and make him his own master
when he rages, he pulls a cord that is on his chest causing chainsaws to sprout from the blade at the end of his tail, the center of his head and the back of each wrist (the latter of which would be reflavord longswords)
any who survive his rampage refer to him as "the bladedrake"
with his new found freedom, he travels the lands trying to find his way and figure out what it means to be free, all while doing what his fallen master did:
Helping people however, wherever and whenever he can
Not really dumb, but unsettling and "why did I even come up with it". A human who is deeply fascinated by ritual cannibalism. Don't do it themselves, as they know that it would kill them, but won't shut up about how important it is that everyone in the orkish squad would get a peace of the fallen commander's heart. Possibly a necromancer, as they decided that letting dead to stay part of the community is the closest they can do
Warforged druid. Got the idea when coworkers and I began to wonder what wildshape autognomes or warforged would do. Our best guess is something like beastwars robotic animals?
A paladin of the flying spaghetti monster. Weilding his mighty mace (a stale baguette adorn with toothpicks) Ceasar Lil pledges to provide endless food to the hungry. This Earl of Sandwiches is best known as The Olive Gardian.
Came up with one just last night actually. This is Pathfinder as it has a fully realized crafting system allowing for insane creations. Make a blacksmith whose entire goal is just to make legendary weapons. Excalibur, mjolnir, the spear of destiny, stuff like that.
Now have the entire party screw with him by ordering increasingly stupid weapons! The Sword of Baneful Yodeling, an ACME anvil turned into a warhammer, or a weaponized teapot.
Just to torture the DM.... a Chaotic Neutral Spellscale Factotum with all Luck feats.
There's chaos....and then there's CHAOS.
So how does that work?
I'm gonna copy and paste a concept a friend showed me a few years ago.
A high elf druid named "Bigg Smoke" with the following stats:
STR: 8
CON: 8
WIS: 22
INT: 12
CHA: 10
DEX: 8
His WIS is that high so he has the ability to talk *_with the literal players of the game,_* but the other PCs just think he's incredibly high since he acts high all of the time.
My brother. This guy killed a party member, tried to drug the water supply, got life in prison, got out. Then, he went to court, I was his lawyer. After a little while, his sentence was a fine and community service. He them admits to everything and gets excecated.
Chicken with a wizard wand, classified as a wizard- not awakened- just a regular chicken who found a cool stick. Complete with explosive eggs.
We love you Tim the Chicken, can’t wait until I get to play you l.
I never played this character yet, but I had an idea that a fox found a magic hat, and turned into a human because of the hat. He always wanted to be a human so this is a dream come true but if the hat gets knocked off in any way, he turns into a fox again.
A revenant sun soul monk. Guy is a complete jokester who never takes anything seriosuly and never picks a fight with anyone until someone pisses him off enough. At which point, a pair of dragon skulls would appear from behind him. No matter what angle you are looking at him from, they just seem to casually rise up from the other side of him, as if they had been floating there just out of sight. At this point he looks at his enemy, and calmly asks them, one eye glowing a pale blue "do you wanna have a bad time?".
Yup! A character that seems intereating and original,, right up until it turns out to be a supremely dumb undertale reference
That last line killed me xD
I have one thats a Banana Leshy who onkyy uses Grease.
A halfling pacifist, who is also a bloodthirsty werewolf with a split personality.
Baker: What would you like
Werewolf half: The Innocent, so I may bath in their blood.
Halfling half: A bagel
Werewolf half: What?
Halfling half: 2 bagels
Werewolf half: NOOOOO.
I have a character for a fallout themed campaign named adam, adam is a fog crawler that escaped after he was experimented on by the scientists at big mountain and is now an intelligent alcoholic 9ft6 mutated shrimp that for some reason hates molerats and is obsessed with being super analytical when it comes to things, instead of a glass of wiskey he'll say something like "approximately 4.26 fluid onces of 180 proof or higher alcohol", needless to say i love him
I love the Slay the Spire shop music you picked for this one!
I've got a silly idea that never really made past the concept stage, I call it wrong Spell Caster. Take a spell caster and role play them as a different one. Picture this a Wizard who works really hard to master the arcane, now has to pass themselves off as a Sorcerer who does magic and easy as they breath, they try to pass off everything they do as "natural talent". The inverse of a Sorcerer pretending to be Wizard has energy of someone who guessed an answer on a test, got it right and now has to show their work to the teacher and class about how they came to that answer. A Cleric who thinks their a Warlock worshiping an eldritch forgotten being, when it's just an outdated name for a commonly worshiped god. A Warlock who thinks their a Cleric, comply unaware their deity isn't a one, but still blindly serving them and converting other to their "faith" just the same. A Druid who thinks their wild shape is thier familar, an Artificer who is pretending to be a paladin because their god won't give them power, so they had jury rig a substitute.
I played a Dragonborn barbarian. He was banished from his clan for being born black scaled in a clan of coppers. His name was Barrack. 😂
A great old one warlock who has to manage Cthulu's onlyfan, have to make sure that the other gods don't find out, and help Cthulu get more people to look at it videos.
Mine is to make a whole clan of kobolds. Basically I'd have to make separate versions of the character sheets for every class. The other PCs would have a device that allows them to switch out the different clan members when they want like a magical horn or contract scroll that the kobolds have no control over.
I think this would be fun to be a goofy character as the kobolds don't see themselves as equals to the other players. might make them lower level than the rest of the party.
10:31 Vietnatreese
I’ve had two ideas, both have been played and so don’t qualify for “dumb characters that you have never played.” Of course neither was played for long, so maybe they count.
One was a dwarven barbarian and former raider who runs around attacking people with his axe fitted with lute strings and looking to get his former compatriots to help rescue his mother and sister from their captors. He’s a metal stereotype that is trying to get the band back together.
The other who is a barbarian (again) with low CHA, but instead of being Clogdor the in at able or whatever, she is super shy and way too overly apologetic. I dubbed her “Fluttershy the Barbarian.”
Didn't know Uncle Sheo was in this thread.
I actually played a heavy elf not strong just fat.
A catgirl barbarian princess from a far off kingdom. Not a tabaxi, an anime catgirl! She's accompanied by her twin brother, a stereotypical femboy cat mage.
that last one was hilarious
i wasnt sure if you said shoot an orc today or shit an orc today XD
Dunno man. This last campaign I didn't want to expend the effort of finding a unique Billy Badass Tortle Ninja or something. So I said "screw it" and made a regular human fighter. He had no path in life because his backstory was "he left the knighthood because of corrupt politics."
His name is Jon Snow. His mount is a Warhorse cursed to have 6 extra spider legs, granting wall- and ceiling-climb, has earned the blessing of Paladine, is raising a dragon hatchling, and while he can't cast spells he has half a dozen items to bring people back from the dead because he's died 4 times himself. Making a "too common" Human Fighter has turned into the best decision I've ever made in the campaign.
That last one isn't dumb. King Penguin was freaking hilarious!
Bad character idea: A dragonborn who breathes fire but is also pyrophobic (fear of fire)
One word, ankylosaurus!!!
An albino dragon character. His name is Spyrm. He is a completely white Spyrm Wyrm.
Yo, Slay the Spire merchant shop music!
Ser Alistair Munster keeper of titles! He, obsessed with titles from a young age haa decided to collect as many titles as he can. He starts out as Ser Alistair Munster Keeper of One Title. That is his title by the way. As he goes he will always have his last title be Keeper of X Titles.
He counts his kills to keep them as part of this titiles ie slayer of 8 goblins. He will even accept bad titles that are given to him as he feels they only add to his importance.
I had , or maybe have, a stupod idea, even tried it, i wanted to play a Crazy old man, just a farmer that gone insane and now goes life of adventurer because he just a mad man! Dm allowed it after my character died in sort of pvp situation, where our dwarve were a lil bit too much warhammery. Didnt figure out how exactly to play crazy old man tho, so dm allowed me to switch to artificer that wanted to creat perfect mechanical boar! Was nice till next game we stopped playing due to scheduel.
That would be the
warforged bard with a tiny fae spirit j pop singer with the warforged becoming the stage /band think final fantasy x-2 real emotion stage we still dont know were the j pop fae spirit came from
she is an elf, blonde, cute, and she is every class on lvl 20, and 20 points in everything. or at least she thinks she is.
others however perceive her as a 45 years old woman, blond but overweight, and a barbarian, who always wants to speak to managers.
Did you seriously create a Karen in D&D!? XD
@@cyborg428105 it's just an idea.
should only be used for problem-DMs.
@@cyborg428105 did my first reply just vanish?
it's a concept, maybe I can use it some day.
@@cyborg428105 what happens to my postings.
this is just a concept. do the youtube gods now hate that?
10 pounds of crap, magically transformed into halfling rouge, with implemented memories, so he doesn’t know he is literal crap, hear me out, only DM would know so if at any point party discover any barrier with dispel magic effect or spell/item with similar effect he will instantly turn into manure in front of whole party; imagine the horror…
My world has a god of atheism.