A wizard/Druid that tries to make a beastiary of the area, and an artificer who doesn’t believe in magic, and thinks that wizards simply “hide gadgets in their sleeves.”
Mr. Rogers the rogue. He's lawful good and will talk all the other players out of their murderous ways. But not by berating them but in true Mr Rogers fashion. "We're all scared sometimes. And when we're scared we want to lash out. But I know deep down inside you don't want that. You are so much more than your anger and there's so much more you can give to the world. Isn't it exciting that each and everyone of us has a beautiful gift to give to the world? I wonder what your gift will be"
@@thegooseking818 I have not had the good fortune yet. But since my Mr Rogers comes from a clandestine background he is used to violence. And he has all the patience and perserverance to convince his fellow players over many, many discussions about how they're much better than murderhobos. Also I'd imagine that there'd be a story arc where we'd be up against someone so incredibly evil that he'd be just like "Yea this one's an exception"
I doubt he'd be a Rogue. I feel like he'd be a Cleric (like in real life. He was an ordained minister) or a Bard (Kid's show host probably would be one of those)
I hope this is reserved for actual murderhobos. Deploying this against someone who's just enthusiastic about fighting (and killing) their enemies seems extremely annoying.
A merfolk who was captured by hunters. They cut off the Merfolk's tail to sell to an eccentric collector. An artificer on the team felt for the poor merfolk and saved their life, then created a pair of robotic legs for them. This merfolk is now hunting their own tail
I'm so happy another one of my characters was posted! Pebblerock was fun to write up for my friend in one of my campaigns. FYI, he was written up atlevel 15 and has had quite a time so far. His story has almost completed its arc, and he has failed upwards in spectacular fashion.
I was really annoyed with the character for being too overpowered in his backstory. Now that I know he was written as a level 15 rather than a level 1-3, he actually sounds cool.
An existential Warforged that starts out as an Artificer after the Last Great War in Eberron trying to understand its own body and purpose in life after the war. His experiments on himself later lead him to the realisation that all war is futile as he multiclasses into a Peace Domain Cleric.
Not sure if this will get any attention but I’ve made a kobold character that speaks in third person (but can speak in first person whenever they want but believes that will make people dislike her), always tries to order beef stew and apple juice at every tavern, has an intense fear of spiders and will always run away at the sight of even the smallest one, would rather be with friends or family than by their-self in a crowd of people, and despite how skilled they are at fighting they always think that they are never good enough for the party. Not to mention, they don’t like speaking up and prefer to be quiet most of the time and are quite gentle with everything. But it doesn’t stop them from trying to fiddling with things and accidentally breaking them sometimes. And the way I got the idea of making this character was when I played a game at a convention and met this unnamed kobold that in the dungeon that helped us take down the BBEG in pretty much 2-3 turns. Her name is Meeko Aramel and she is precious. Still need to have a drawing of her but I’m getting close.
I'm new and I want to learn before I go after this one, but I love the idea of a character who is a little girl with a really high charisma stat but low wisdom and intelligence. In universe, she's a precious cinnamon roll who everyone wants to protect, and she's really gullible so anyone from a chaotic evil necromancer aiming to turn the entire world into his undead army, to a lawful good paladin who's life goal is to stop him, could probably convince her to tag along. The party just happens to be the ones who convinced her first, and it would give the DM a fun chance to make some enemies try to convince her to turn on them and turn it into a persuasion off. For class I'm thinking some kind of multiclass paladin warlock or something. The story behind that is her patron convinced her to follow it, and a god promptly sent one of its followers to convert her. She's essentially the child in a supernatural custody battle between the two, and her level ups are only half because she earned them and half because one of them bribed her. Probably true neutral with a slight lawful good leaning, but so naïve that her alignment is more of a mirror.
Cardini: A assassin who runs a gambling/stealing business and try's to make people gamble their life away sometime literally, uses a deck of cards to kill/help ally's or enemy's
I have a few!! Tragic prince who is told by a fortune teller (divination basically) and is told he would die before his thirtieth winter. Cutting a lot of backstory he becomes an adventurer and actually follows the path the fortune teller because she forsaw him walking away from the city with a group. Bastard child of a king turned court jester/assassin Um… and the other one i’m willing to share is something like a demon king reincarnated as a sorcerer or warlock and working their way back up in power. (I’ve gotten a lot of comments regarding this as main character vibes, which is fair, but I was actually intending for this character to have subtle quests in the background of a campaign rather than a solid storyline for five to ten sessions before a plot hook arrives. Basically, I would use this character as a way for the dm to bs a new storyline through a convenient dungeon crawl/whispers about an artifact or something like that. I dunno, literally just came up with that concept.)
In D&D 3.5 I played a full Orc ranger. In his backstory, he was charmed by a group of adventurers to help them on his quest. At the end of the quest, he had decided that he preferred being "good" as a result of the spell and did not want to revert to "evil" when the spell wore off. The adventurers gave him a talisman of good, which the orc could wear to remain good permanently. Years later, the Orc still wears this talisman with a short iron chain so it can never come off his neck without breaking the chain. He considers the amulet of greater worth than his life, as losing the amulet will forfeit his soul back to the service of evil.
For me it was a Half-Orc Warlock, he had a spear and purple ish corruption that grow like vines or blood vessels that grow from his left eye and hands. He can curse stuff with his hands and where’s a mask and gloves
An Astral elf solider ( fighter) who was kidnapped by flesh dealers ( Mind flayers ) who tortured him with psionic magic and spells before selling him he ofc has PTSD turned to alcholism has a Austalian accent and is depressed but wears a happy smile but ... because of his torture at the hands of the mind flayers he devolped headaches and became a Psi warrior / psionic fighter who drunks to quell his PTSD and headaches
Avereus The Unyielding. A longsword wielding full plate armor wearing human. Wizard of war domain. Signature spells disguise self and counter spell. He was a commoner of 2 common parents. Went to wizarding school whilst learning sword fighting from both parents. Can handle blade decently well and has lots of counter magics and control of battles. While having a vorpal sword and constatly casts foresight daily. His ac as a wizard is 26. hp is 120. But with robes of displacement he is scary to hit
forgot a small note. he is worried about his appearance to people he does not want to be considered another swordsman that kinda uses magics. so he casts disquise self constantly to make him fully look like wizard by hiding his plate armor he got from his home town as a graduation present. but when its time to protect those around him he jump headlong into battle and slaughters and uses magics to be immune to magic attacks and hard to hit with swords
NPC who is always popping up out of nowhere (sometimes literally) just to annoy the PCs for a minute or so. The NPC is unaware that he is cursed to never get what he wants and if he is killed the curse will pass to whomever killed him therefore preventing the PC/PCs from completing thier personal goals or at least, letting them complete it but with really tragic and/or unfortunate circumstances
So this character concept was something I came up with literally yesyerday in response to MythicalSausage, he's a minecraft youtuber, asking for his fans to give him their Empiresona. Empires SMP is the series he's doing with lore in it. Anyway, I came up with a Half Elf Artificer name Z.K. He's the last member of his family left alive and had lived on the streets for a while till being by a tinker, named Archibald, who made him their apprentice/assistant. Eventually he outlived his men, Archibald was like 89 when he died while Z.K. was only 36. Anyway, Z.K. learns a bit of magic so he can expand how creative he can be with the items he can create, making him into an Artificer as a result. So one day the town he's living in is attacked by a literal army of bandits. With very little time to save anyone, Z.K. just grabs what he can and escapes. Forever haunted by the cries of help. And as a result, he wants to move on from his past. But he can't. So to keep himself districted he just makes basic items that can be used by anyone. All the while creating a gaunlet mounted Shield that can become a magic infused Crossbow that he can use to shoot spells that had been condensed into various bolts at his enemies. He may make a second one so he can dual wield them or act like Ironman if he were to also create boots that lets him fly for a short amount of time. Also he has a sweet tooth. So cookies tend to be a form of snack he carries around with him wherever he goes. And he's thinking about getting a pet. Namely a Giant Dire Wolf that he'll name Fenrir.
I haven't played anything DND related except for the Dark Alliance games, but if I ever get into a group and learn how to play, I would like to experiment with a blood mage (assuming that's not a character class). Basically, after using the spell slots, it would damage itself when using those spells, two rolls total for damage and health per spell. A 20 would be a free spell, a 1 would be 20% of max or current health. And being a blood mage, would be able to weaponize any blood in the area to an extent.
i have one im using right now and one I want to use later: 1. A dragonborn shadow magic sorcerer that was Wished into taking the form of a pseudodragon; he keeps all his spells, speech, stats, but also gains as much pseudodragon traits as possible (if traits overlap, the pseudodragon trait would be used). He had to learn how to fly from some dragons nearby (long story) and is planning on never talking to anyone in case they get a heart attack and die. He also has no storage and cant use weapons of any kind, no feats can change that. And if I didnt use strength as a dump stat i would've reduced it to -1 anyway. 2. An Aaracokra who is both male and female, non-binary, and bi. thats as far as I got
A chaotic evil druid from fantasy australia. Wildshapes into a giant tarantula hawk wasp to carry off townsfolk or summons a swarm of murder hornets to kill a family, takes out the barbarian with a "Suicide Plant" (look it up) and uses their smoke to protect his bunker entrance from aerial attacks. Summons a pack of velociraptors to dart out of the underbrush and ambush people, flies around on a Quetzalcoatlas (flying lizard the size of a T. Rex) dropping hornet's nests on people. Best of all; it's the party's villain, and he's a gnome. Just a harmless little gnome with so many viscious tricks up his sleeves that the party will never trust nature again. He'll poison the party's water supply with lethal, semi-microscopic iriconji box jellyfish if he's captured or gets close to them while they're sleeping. He'll eat the wizard whole as a giant saltwater crocodile or sick a colony of fire ants on the paladin. I swear I'm making that the next villain.
My concept is a polydactyl Tabaxi Ranger who was abandoned in a tree as a kitten and sees herself as the guardian of wherever she is, starting with the forest she starts in, and then anywhere she is taken with the party.
I have a character named Damakos. He's a human fighter, except he has a twist. After unknown events (unknown to Damakos due to amnesia), he was turned into a sorts of shadow/fog creature. A ghost in a way, made of thick, cold, dark fog. Instead of holding weapons or wearing objects, he absorbs them, either taking their properties (ex: absorbing armor makes his fog denser) or being able to recreate them using his body (ex: turning his arm into a blade made of shadow fog). Anything else that's not weapons, armor, or magic items, he stores them in a self-contained pocket dimension, which he can access at any time. He has a limit to how much he can store/have memorized (a carry cap.), and on death all of his items fall out of his dimension/fog and he evaporates. He can go through things, but its hard and can hurt him. Damakos has a main goal of returning back to a person, since a floating cloud of shadows with glowing eyes is scary to most people. He doesn't eat, drink, or breathe. but he does go into a sorts of dormant state, where he becomes a small floating cloud to 'sleep'
My idea was a group of adventures found there way into a dungeon and came across this extremely powerful magical artifact. When they tried to identify it a pulse of energy irrupted combining the concessions of all the adventures into on body. Now each body fights for control and takes over depending on the time. Maybe every long rest I’ll role to see who takes control or maybe it’s one main person in control and the others chime in on key moments. Anyways that’s my character I made two plus years ago but my DM said it would be too hard so I couldn’t do it.
a Halfing Rogue, an orphan who despite all the blows of life and learning the job of a thief don't go Edgy and remains a cherryful, honest fellow, that wanted to be a wizard, an incapable of be acepted as a wizard aprentice, self teached himself using the book of young female wizard his party was traying to rescue. becoming an Arcane trickster. an the party treasurer.
my favorite character concept is Vozdir, a changeling Warlock/bard his concept came from wanting to play monsters like doppelgangers, oni and fey so I chose changeling as a race not realizing at first changelings weren't considered fey in D&D lore like their namesake in real life fey folkore. but I then decided to embrace that, having him want to be a fey just like I wanted to play one (inception lays of meta, I know) Vozdir was raised by his patron and adoptive mother, a powerful fey lady. living among the fey he became enamored by their ways and wished to become one himself. he now adventures seeking power and a way to turn himself into an actual fey. he openly uses his shapeshift abilities, chock it up to his fey powers as he claims to be one, his main form being an elf with long brown hair, purple eyes and antlers on the top of his head. he also has glowing vines that look like tattoos that fade in and out on his skin that are from him being "fey touched" from living in the feywild so long. personality wise he's upbeat and whimsical, fascinated by the material world and unfamiliar with its customs. his main abilities are illusions and charm spells, having unlimited silent image as a warlock invocation to put on a show however he wants in addition to his natural disguise abilities. as a bard he isn't much for music, his spells instead words of power taught to him by the fey, the purest form of his silver tongue he uses to charm and deceive even without magic. and though he uses magic heavily as a mortal he also knows the power of the mundane. he makes his own disguises with weavers tools and disguise kit for his physical changeling disguises, something that can't be dispelled like magic. he also has his fighting ability as a sword bard as back up when his cover is blown and can make his fists into natural weapons if unarmed (a changeling racial feat from the unofficial Exploring Ebberron book)
I’ve put this on a few vids now, but I’m fond of my “Reformed Lich” idea, named King Gizzard the Lizard Wizard. That’s all you need to know. He’s a lich (blue fire wreathing a skull for a head, flowing robes, etc) and he summons lizards as minions. He does see the error of his old life and is trying to redeem himself, and he has a generic evil villain voice to top it off
Okay so i thought up this concept character because i want to play a bard but i am not musically inclined at all: Goblins enjoy shiny objects, and that fuels their greedy ways, so what if you have a goblin that cannot see shiny objects? He would focus on stimulating his other senses. Meaning instead of constantly seeking visual stimulation, he focuses more on auditorial, olfactory, and taste-based stimulation. Hoards different types of musical instruments, cooking ingredients, flowers, and uses prestidigitation to save smells he enjoys, but still has that goblin-esque greed when it comes to his belongings. On top of all of that, a blind goblin using vicious mockery to kill people with "based off of your mouth breathing, maybe it's a blessing that i'm blind" and tone-deft singing in a horrid raspy voice could be so much fun
haven't used it (and somehow i doubt i will) but here's the concept of Bheg the skeleton. Bheg was cursed for burning down a temple, thus rising from said temples ashes as an undead, with no memory of who he was. Bheg is a pragmatic but friendly guy. But due to being a skeleton, he poses as a bit crazy wizard that walks around covered in thick wraps and rags(which are actually just to cover up his lack of flesh) As for RP, i know he'd try to talk to all undead. Probably would dislike necromancers, clerics and paladins. Basically a wacky undead rights activist
I've got 2 concept characters I haven't had a chance to build yet. Brace yourself for a wall of text . . . 1: "Nick Wilde," the Half-Elf Wild Magic Sorcerer. He was an ordinary guy who wanted to be an adventurer. During his early exploration, he stumbled upon a magical Macguffin that accidentally made him a sorcerer. Due to the unusual origins of his magic, it's a little . . . unstable. 2: "Tinker," the Warforged Artificer. I haven't thought up much of any backstory for him, but he likes to build thing, fix things, and help people. He's also an excellent cook and enjoys making good food for people, even though he himself doesn't need to eat. His personality is seasoned with sarcasm as well.
A warforged warlock named cezanne who is an robot ankylosaurus who was an old guard of a art gallery but comes into contact with a hexblade which gives it sentience
a Monk/Barbarian Minotaur Ex-Tribal chief. their backstory is that they used to be a boss, but was overthrown by an adventurer, most if not all of his subjects being killed.
I have two: - one of them, which I’m actually gonna play in the near future is a homebrewed warforged Druid made of an ancient tree wood, which served a misterious scientist called Laputa (spanish people will know jajaja) in the conservation and care of nature and it’s cicles in a distant mountains. The warforged, named Quercus, became a protector of nature, tending the apparently utopia in which they lived, but then one day Laputa disappeared, leaving no trace. Quercus still tended their duties for months after that but then some kind of feeling they had never thought of grew in them (it is actually sadness and nostalgia) so Quercus decided to wander the world in search of the truth, unbeknownst for them, Laputa has been long dead, and so Quercus is search for a false hope in the distance. (Still not sure if making them circle of the land-mountain or circle of the wildfire). - the second one is of a selkie (homebrewed also) which was born with a peculiar song that was known to be cursed by his people, the voice of the spirits (she is a bard college of spirits). She grew always distant from her people, as she knew of the burden she carried. Still, she accepted her fate and seved her purpose of mourning the dead and warning about impending disasters. One day she met a human which she feel in love with. Day by day, she stopped attending her duty to meet with the mysterious man, until one day she forgot to tell her family of an impending danger, leaving her the only survivor of her people. Filled with regrets and blame, she decided to flee the coast of her family, but the man, revealed to be a trickster tarotists decided that she wanted her to be hers, taking away her seal skin. Angered after this betrayal and still mourning her family, her full potential exploded, and through her cursed voice, she turned the man mad and made him jump of the same cliff her family died. Now accompanied by the souls of her family and the man, she wanders from town to town, only with the man’s arkana cards as a reminder to not trust anyone, bringing evil men into madness and avenging those who suffer.
Duskwalker race in PF gave me an idea for a Gloomblade Fighter with the feat chain that gets her a Nosoi Psychopomp familiar who is in short a mortal interning as a psychopomp to a bureaucratic god of death in the wake of an undead apocalypse- basically all the actual psychopomps are kinda stretched thin dealing with all the out-of-place souls so she was offered a second chance at life in exchange for helping settle discrepancies in the records i.e. destroy undead. Her "Familiar" is actually her supervisor, a Nosoi Psychopomp who's not naturally fit to tackle the undead hordes itself but knows and understands the rules and bureaucracy of life and death well enough to serve as her supervisor and guide her on her quest.
I once made a Barbarian Lizardfolk named Tarth who had ended up in the hands of some really crazy cultists. The cultists managed to subdue him and brought him through a portal into a really deep level of hell. There they presented him to a Sibriex. The Sibriex started working on changing his body. Merged his two eyes into one eye so he had bad depth perception, but also changed the eye so it looked like a black void as he gave the Lizardfolk darkvision 120ft. Made his left leg stumpy so his speed was decreased by 10ft, but grew two of his front teeth to give him big tusks that he could use as a bite attack in combat. At that point Tarth managed to break free of the cultists hold and escape back through the portal to safety. He had a very bad hatred for all devils, demons, and people who worship fiends.
I've made tons of characters but the game I'm currently in is my first play. And the character I made for it is my proudest. A Tiefling rogue mastermind. Officially his backstory has him adopted from an orphanage at age 7 by a noble family who own a fabrics factory. At age 18 his parents were poisoned by the cook after discovering he was embezzling money from them in secret. He then ran their estate and factory for years. However, in his early 30s, he realized the loss of his parents only made him more and more depressed as years went on. He then set out on a journey to discover himself and find peace of mind at last. Truth is he poisoned his parents in anger after realizing he wasn't their son but a trophy for them to show off how kind and charitable they were. He framed the chef (who actually was caught embezzling) then ran everything until he got bored. He decided to go travelling and find a suitable monarchy to kill and overthrow, taking the power for himself. He's Chaotic Evil but portrays himself as Chaotic Good. He often gets a kick out of sneakily starting fights, killing people and even causing wars without getting caught. Only I and my DM know the truth.
I’m currently playing a changeling named Ilan who has forgotten that they are one, they’ve woke up from a major injury presenting as a drow named Katrah for one reason or another, (backstory partially written by dm) they will only be able to control their transformation at one of two points; if their backstory is ever concluded in a fashion that helps them regain their memories, or upon reaching level 6 of the phantom rogue subclass and channeling the tokens they have around their waist. They sometimes run into their parents, who through paternal/maternal instinct recognize their child no matter what form they occupy, but due to the loss of memory they have no knowledge of these parents. With my current roll20 game (bless the DM and party these guys are frickin awesome) I’m getting to see this backstory unfold firsthand and it’s bittersweet so far, there is definitely tension as any questioning of this prompts no answers, and one of the party members has seen their true form for a brief moment due to a failed bravery roll (wis save).
NPC character I have thought of was a gunslinger who is meant to protect the castle in the sky, a grand library of ancient magics that travels around the world. She is unkillable while on castle grounds but tends to head to solid ground to interact with others. Her personality is rather cheerful and a little seductive if she is interested enough but she is rather pacifistic despite the trigger finger but if she has no choice, she won't hesitate to pull the trigger at someone, especially if it has to deal with the castle in the sky as the last remaining protector. PC Character, I made a Druid half elf, long forgot his name but he was the twin brother to his sister, a ranger who is possessed by a demon. The one thing about the druid is that he isn't actually a half elf and isn't related to his sister at all, but is a Dryad who was healed by her and wished to help free her from the demon. He tries to be logical but ends up getting a migraine when talking with the barbarian for to long as his intricate knowledge of how the ancient technology changes the forest had to be simplified to "Magic Forest" if he didn't want to die of stupidity. Sadly the campaign was cut off before the twist could be revealed to the rest of the party.
My tiefling artificer im playing right now is one of my favourites. She was very young when she "won" hinde and seek. (Her mother abandoned her when she could no longer hide the horns and tail) She found a cave system that was once a gnome workshop. Growing up, she taught herself to read in the library area, and how to use the workbench to make stuff. She foraged and such for food, and has no real concept of how money works. By no means stupid, but she is somewhat naïve. (Intelligence of 20, wisdom of 14, charisma 10) Shes starting to want to find her mother to figure out what her name was, because shes going by "Stahp" due to merchants always yelling "Stop!" At her when she was in town, due to her not grasping what money is for. She always went back and left some kind of trinket or something for them that she made as payment.
A wolfborn named Dana whose pack worships Selune goddess of the moon. Most of her pack are either twilight domain clerics who's patrons are selune, or paladins whos deity is selune. However Dana the "black sheep" of the pack decided to be a druid. (although she is a circle of stars druid because she still worships selune.)
Ive been thinking about this dude who was drafted to fight for his country, forced to leave his wife of 2 years behind. More and more soldiers die in the war with the neighboring country, and are turned into war forged, without ever realizing it. The war forged were made so thier reasoning was flawed, like revenant in apex legends. He wakes up in a giant field, struck by lightning in the worst storm to ravage the land in decades, surrounded by skeletons and robotic chassis, stumbling home, still thinking hes human, only to find his town under curfew, with warforged chassis posted as guards everywhere, and his wife had been married to another for 11 years. Hes a warfarged that still believes hes human, in a world where they are feared.
A black tabaxi bard/divination wizard that oddly shows up before bad luck befalls a town, whether he is simply drawn to places where tragedies occur or he is just unlucky himself is up for debate, seems to get wrapped up in misadventures with groups of adventurers in said towns
A good friend of mine has a bard that's haunted by a ghost. But not any ghost, this ghost is deathly afraid of music so my friend must break out in song at very random times to keep the ghost away.
Recently, I played a Florest elf that had like 1.3k years old. He was so old, that he even had a beard. Very funny shenanigans about being that old grumpy alcohoolic smoker with thousands years old
I have always been a huge fan of crossovers so I always wanted to play a Starfleet officer from Star Trek desperately trying to maintain the Prime Directive. Ideally the DM would be in on it and have encounters with Klingons and the like, all while my character tries to convince the other players that this is a normal D&D campaign
I started a Half-Orc. He's 1st lvl Barbarian and took his second lvl in Fighter. The concept is to take 3 lvls of barbarian, bear totem for resistance, 5 lvls of fighter, Champion, to make his crit range 19-20 with action surge and extra attack... then go 12 lvls of paladin. At 20th level, he'll be 3 Barb, 5 Fighter, 12 Paladin. As Half-Orc, he's got relentless endurance and savage attacks. As 3rd Barb Bear Totem, he's got resistance against all damage except psychic. As 5th Fighter Champion, he gets crit range 19-20, action surge and one extra attack. As 12 lvl Paladin, he gets divine smite powered by up to 3rd lvl spell slots. Dual wielding with two-weapon fighting style and dual weapon feat with long swords. So, at 20th lvl, he will get 3 attacks per round... all that can be smites powered by 3rd lvl slots... action surge... take 3 more attacks with smite powered by 2nd lvl slots... bonus action.. .take another attack with smite powered by a 1st lvl spell slot... with crit range of 19-20... where any crit not only does double damage but brings another 1d8 for savage attack. And raged... will get raging damage and STR modifier with each attack. He'll likely one-shot anything in his one round.
Just started a campaign with a Swarmkeeper Ranger. His Swarm is a bunch of snakes and flying snakes. When he uses an arrow, he has one of his snakes wrap around the arrow to bite at range. His name is Veras
I had a character who was part of an experiment made by wizards. She was a green half-dragon with wings, but she couldn’t fly, and she didn’t have a breath weapon, unlike her four siblings. Her four siblings were all the other chromatic colors, and they could fly, use their breath weapons, and were exceptionally strong. However, my character, (her name was Ivy,) was just as strong as a normal human. She was despised by her siblings, and they imprisoned her and tormented her. She was eventually saved by a human, who she fell in love with. She decided to start adventuring so she could get money to stay alive, but she never got revenge on her siblings. I’m thinking about DM’ing a campaign where Ivy is an NPC who tasks the PC’s with hunting down and killing her siblings for what they did to her.
A 102 year old monk/fighter marine minotaur ex fleet admiral named Elmo Drinkard(first name is of the youngest man to be an admiral and last name is of the oldest man to retire from being an fleet admiral) who gets ecstatic and optimistic when seeing the sea and will laugh and see humor in the most stressful situations, he is brave, wants to give everyone hope to anyone who gives up, and can't stand civilian life. And he spent 147 hours trying to perfect his triangle playing just to perfect it on day 57 and then perfected it even more for the rest of the other days and i made his dart weapon those badges that get stabbed into you so you can throw it at them or interrogate them with it.
Dual Character Concept A Human Artificer & A Warforged Sorcerer The human can work on the warforged for 1d10;2d4 days to level-up both people once, therefore giving a new gift to the warforged. The human can work on the warforged for 1d6;1d8 days to transform the warforged to a seen 'gift-state'. The gift given is decided on random chance, which means level 20 isn't always the best. (Note: This will need conversations with a DM as this concept doesn't level-up via. XP nor DMs Choice) (Note 2.0: I don't have any idea on what is special about the human other than the fact that (s)he has warfoorged blueprints, so please expand as much as you like)
Amon was a Warforged Eldritch Knight, wandering the lands as a mercenary, working for gold and materials with which they could use to improve and upgrade their body. As was common, Amon was treated more like an object than a person, but it was still better treatment than what the people of other races were subjected to. Many cities didn't even allow the beastfolk races into their walls and everybody reached for their weapons when they saw an Orc, half or full blooded, waiting for them to enter a frenzied bloodlust and go wild. Thankfully, as a Warforged, Amon wasn't subject to such emotional biases and found themselves a good company of allies to work alongside, to the point where they considered one another, to borrow the organic term, friends. While on one job, however, Amon's torso was pierced by a thrown javelin and, to the surprise of their friends, the Warforged dropped to the ground unmoving, despite them having seen Amon take more serious and abundant damage before. They finished the battle with the rival mercenary company quickly before rushing to Amon's side, fearful some critical component within their friend had been damaged and not knowing who to bring them to for repairs. However, one of them noticed some kind of fluid leaking from the wound and tainting the javelin that had been removed. A thorough check of the Amon's back revealed a small latch that, when pulled, opened the hatch that was Amon's back to reveal a small Gnome lying within, struggling to remain conscious as they held their stomach, trying to prevent their insides from spilling out. The group's cleric, a follower of the God of Truth, instantly moved to heal the true form of their friend, though did feel some resistance from their divine patron, assuming it was because the Gnome had 'deceptively' portrayed themselves as a Warforged. The real reason was soon revealed as the Gnome's form changed as they were pulled out of the Warforged shell, growing and smoothing as they became a featureless humanoid. Amon confessed the obvious; they were a Shapeshifter; a race who were hunted down and exterminated wherever they were found, hated as the spawn of the nameless featureless entity that had spawned all the evil gods and goddesses, devils, demons, and everything else foul and disgusting in the world; the reason murder, betrayal, and other vile acts existed. Only, like everything else people believed about other races, none of it had any truth to it; they were just excuses to justify their own evil acts and place the blame on something else. Amon knew this very, very well. But Amon knew, liked, and trusted Warforged. One had been a protector of their hometown, learned what Amon was, and kept it secret, taking Amon's actions to help repair the Warforged after bandit attacks with fingers that were a little too long and nimble to reach where sword tips and arrow points reached their internal components was evidence the superstitions were simply that with no logic behind them. It was years later when Amon used their knowledge from repairing their home's guardian that they constructed a Warforged 'suit' they could 'pilot' using parts and pieces taken from less protective Warforged so they could see more of the world without being persecuted and, like many Warforged did, seek answers behind the creation and origin of the Warforged race. Of course, Amon had difficulty finding parts that were compatible with their Sorcerer abilities, so they portrayed themselves as a warrior with limited magical abilities that would increase as they found more appropriate materials. While the group was shocked, and some were a little wary, they agreed to keep Amon's existence as a Shapeshifter a secret to themselves; something the cleric knew put them at odds with their always-truthful-adamant patron, but when the truth would mean the mobbing and murder of someone who had saved lives, silence was a good compromise. Some did take issue with Amon's existence, the group's rogue was an edgy and rather selfish sort whom they all got along with only professionally, but they couldn't deny the benefit that came from Amon popping open the back of their Warforged suit, exposing their true form for a moment before unleashing a powerful arcane spell that would deliver their foes to oblivion, no longer needing to not do that for what they really were might be exposed. Aside from the dead, they would be the only ones to know the truth about what Amon really was, but they were happy with just their friends knowing.
Handfull of Warlock characters for most of the subclasses. Only two one's that are closes to finished are: A Dwarf who survived a traumatic life altering event, where he devoted himself to a Celestial, but unlike using the methode of a Cleric, he chose to form a more direct pact (warlock pact) with the Celestial to further show his devotion, claiming he only wants power in return for doing their good work, and believing in that philosophy. He will help out others in need, but will always expect something in return, not necessarily gold or items, but effort. Those he saves have to improve their lives or become better people (as he is lawfull good, he will not actual harm them if they don't, but he will keep lecturing and pushing them until they either crack.) At the same time, if he receives help from anyone else, he will consider himself indebted to whoever did so, and will strive to repay them. He will take the pact of the Talisman, and focuses on using that along with various protection/buff spells to aid the party and NPC's. So if a party member helps him out on many occasions, he will offer his Pact Talisman/Amulet to safeguard them. My favorite is the captain of a ship who travels around from port to port as merchants rent his ship's services. He has the Pact of the Blade, but his focus is instead on Eldrich Blast, putting all evocations into improving it. He has a contract with The Deep One (pact terms currently unspecified) giving him many wind and water/ice themed spells too. His arcane focus is actually a broken Flintlock Pistol. (purely for aesthetic) what he uses to "shoot" his Eldrich Blasts. in his other hand he wields a rapier that's enhanced with the pact of the blade's features. His reasons for traveling with the party will be tied to his pact, but those reasons will be up for discussion with the DM depending on what the setting is about in the first place. The character is Chaotic Good, so considering The Deep One Patron is said to mostly value information/knowledge, it could be said it just demands the PC travels the world and explores, learning as much as they can so that information can be passed on to the Deep One.
Literally just a peasant looking for somewhere to stay with enough food that accidentally ended up in the court of a famous vampire-king-count-thingy acting and imitating a strange but super intelligent and philosophical hermit, who works as the philosopher of the court. He is basically just Diogenes.
Best I've got is a Dragonborn Psion who's powers could possibly rip holes in reality, though this power came at a cost. He is forever unable to use magic and lacks a breath weapon. He also suffers from chronic migraines so he has to use potions to numb the pain. The migraines "flare up" from time to time when he uses his powers. Lost his parents to bandits at a young age. They kill his parents in front of him, traumatizing him and causing a psychic freakout that caused the heads of the bandits to explode.
I have a fun one that I haven't gotten to work with yet, but hopefully will get to, as part of a pair I and a friend cooked up. Their character-if we get to do it-is to be a warlock, and mine a ranger of the Beastmaster sort. The warlock's more neutral, while the ranger is leaning slightly towards evil (Like, he'll kill livestock or pets on occasion to sell the leather without talking to the locals first. Little things.). Yeah, yeah, common enough. Story is, the warlock is his niece (Not a child, just a young lady in her twenties) and, upon making her contract with a dark Fey patron, accidentally got the contract signed using his soul due to misunderstanding the offer. He's still got it, of course, but if he dies, the Fey gets to have it. Or if she dies, for that matter. Sounds like a win for the warlock, but she'd still lose her powers as the contract would be over, and he'd die anyway if she gets killed, so they work together, though hopefully not to the detriment of their allies. Now...this 'glitched' contract has...side effects, if we were allowed to go through with it. This patron of hers deals in a blend of druidic magic and necromancy, and the negative energies of the pact will slowly turn her uncle into an undead, should any degradation he shows be allowed to progress. Think cheap knock-off lich without the powers, and that he's not aware of that particular effect just yet. Like, a little flesh degrades along an arm or his face, a bit of bone is visible...little, terrifying things despite the fact that he's clearly alive to start. Now, some of those druidic spells are able to heal. Simple stuff. Any time she notices he's starting to degrade she quickly finds ways to heal him without his knowing or others noticing-he has enough problems just getting ownership of his own soul back!-though eventually someone would have to notice, and that'd raise the biggest question. The hope would be that the party would be willing to help with his problem and possibly convince the Fey to at least give him back ownership (or transfer it to the correct recipient, whom wouldn't suffer the negative effects), as getting his soul back would cure the issue. Oh, and worse? If she uses her powers too much it accelerates the process. If it's allowed to progress, he'd essentially become something akin to a wight, or said knock-off variant of a lich eventually-still sentient, but clearly an undead. Perhaps he could still be saved at that point, but...we suspect the party would rather kill him then. He might not be thirsting for their blood, but who would want to have such a thing on their side usually? Anyway, nice stuff this time around! Worth the subs. Would post this on Reddit, but...banned, apparently?
The armored punch mage. 1 level in artificer, 2 levels in Wizard Bladesinger then Rest of the levels in Armorer artificer. Take light armor as the arcane armor. Also this armorer has access to shield spell in addition to free temp hp. ALSO its primary stat for damage is his primary stat for AC. Punch with your intellegence fists wild blade singing. Also you can bladesing with an intellegence based ranged weapon if you go with infiltrator armor.
I have a few, mostly for game systems my friends don't want to play. For D20 Modern's _Urban Arcana_ : Brewer the New York gnoll. A Strong Hero born of two Shadow-born gnolls who lost their evil upbringing in the transition. Raised as a devout Catholic, he enjoys helping people when he isn't working construction. When things go bad, that's when he breaks out his two sets of brass knuckles and pounds the problem into submission. He has a hard time of it, not least because he's smart enough to warn people about what most *other* gnolls are like if they don't already know. For _Victoriana_ : Norman Rathskeller, "Ratsy" to his friends, a Rat Beastman. Son of a chimney sweep and an Eldren girl, he actually apprenticed as a thief... only to find, once his training was complete, that he didn't have the heart to hurt and kill people for their belongings. Now, when he isn't working as a sign painter (he's actually pretty good at it), he keeps an eye out for those in need. Knowing that if they need a Rat Beastman's help, they're pretty bad off. (He's a fatalist -- meaning he believes in fate -- so he assumes that any problem that happens with him around might be meant for his assistance.) For _Starfinder_ : "Munch", a tubby ratfolk mechanic and professional vidgamer. Always has snacks on hand, and does love his vidgames, but lives for repairing and building tech. Uses his exocortex implant to his advantage both in his vidgames and in combat -- and to help figure out when the stuff in the fridge has gone off. Also for _Starfinder_ : "Shiver", a Vlaka (wolf-man) Solarian. Blind since birth, he's one of many vlaka to flee their dying world in search of a new home, but he's always ready to use his Solarian training to defend the weak and downtrodden. He always gets a kick out of people being surprised when the blind guy can shoot, though... Also for _Starfinder_ : "Frisson", a Vlaka Envoy and Icon. Another blind vlaka, Frisson took to acting like a Ysoki takes to scavenging. His natural talent for talking people into things has occasionally landed him (and his friends) in hot water, but his wits (and his gun) get them out more often than not. Which means, of course, that people who need a "face" will come calling... and he does so love a challenge... For D&D 5e: Arrk, a gnoll barbarian. A hunter in a nomadic tribe, Arrk isn't sure how he came to find himself waking up in a healer's rest, recovering from a traumatic head wound. The head wound gave him an extreme case of what the real world knows as Broca's Aphasia -- the part of his brain that creates words to communicate is severely damaged. He can read and understand all right (though complicated sentences and the passive voice can confuse him), but the brain damage prevents him from speaking or writing very well. (It's like that time when you know you know the word but can't think of it... only it's every word you try to say or write.) Falling in with a group of adventurers who came to the healer's rest, he seeks not only to find out what happened, but hopefully to someday find a way to speak and write normally again.
A Tiefling Circle of Stars druid who's actually a star-based Elemental whose powers were locked away. Her star map is a stone that looks like it has little stars inside it, like it's a piece of the night sky. It's actually her true body sealed away by her mother, the moon, to protect her from her father, the sun. As she levels up she gets more of her power back and has to find her mother who was kidnapped by her father
My favorite concept character was a joint creation between me and the DM. My Chaotic Good female High-Elf Monk and the Neutral Good female Drow Warlock, fused together with the Twins of Light. (Homebrew goddesses based on the Olsen twins, and DAMN were they hot. Literally. The one based on Ashley, (Her name was Ashorah,) could transform into a being made of pure fire.) Due to this fact, she had INSANE bonuses to Charisma, Wisdom and Intelligence. (Charisma was her top stat, Strength was her dump.) To say she was powerful was an UNDERSTATEMENT... She could kill 3 Tarrasques in a single round and violently obliterate any bad guy within a 30 mile radius. Used to be her name was Eryn. Now, she's only known as "The Amalgam". I still have her character sheet. She has 20 levels in Monk, 20 levels in Warlock, and 20 levels in Sorcerer. #OPAsFuck
While it would only be able to be created via homebrew, my GM did like my idea of a creature created from sin in physical form (commonly called Sinspawn in Pathfinder) but instead having one come out the complete opposite and become a PC. Their middle-section bodies tend to vary depending on the sin (attractive for Lust, very muscular for Wrath, etc), but they all share the same features of a skull like head, claws, and digigrade legs and clawed feet.
My most recent idea is a Devotion Paladin/Wild Sorcerer Tiefling. He's terrified of his Wild side because when he first Wild Surged he cast Fireball on himself and damn near killed everyone in the bar around him. He sees himself as a danger to the people around him (an in-character reason to use Sorcerer spell slots for smites only at first). So he devoted himself to the Goddess of magic, Mystra, hoping she would remove his "curse" or at least teach him to control his perpetually growing sorcerous power
I've had this only as an idea, but when I write it down it become super long, so sorry for that in advanced. Sam, a regular human. He's not special in any way. He's honestly just a random npc. His backstory begins as regular guild member, weaving carpets for his family business. He lived an isolated life, spending most of his days drawing his own designs or taking in commissions. He rarely left the house and the furthest he's traveled was to the market when he was a small child. They used to deliver carpets to other outside towns and had commissions regularly come from them. But that was a task for his brothers instead of Sam. One day, one of his brother just wanted to get a break from delivering and spend time with his children. Which the family understood and gave him permission. Although with no co-rider they reflected on who should fill his role, which eventually went to Sam who is someone who's never got to see the world. Sam agreed upon it and were off to the neighbouring town, just a 2 days travel. They got the wagon loaded with the carpets that Sam made himself, and they were off to unfamiliar lands. During the night of camping their luck got turned and Sam and his brother was robbed by thieves. They threatened to give every valuables they had, which were unfortunately only some rations and carpets. In anger the thieves started cutting the carpets, which caused Sam to retaliate which only sparked chaos. Sam's brother has been robbed multiple times in the past, and because of the current circumstances he sacrificed and gave Sam enough time to run away back to civilization. Sam being scared shitless and in distress for that night be just wanted to go back home, but because of the dangers that road could possess, he doesn't want to go alone. He eventually finds a tavern, an adventures' guild of powerful and strong people who travel far and wide. Sam's plan was to ask an adventuring party to be his guardians as they guide him so he can travel back home. But because he can't offer much and all, and they had so many things on their to do list that just becomes low on the list. But Sam doesn't insist because he knows they can kill him outright. My plan for him is that during the journeys he begins to spark the hero within him. Sam doesn't consider himself as a "hero", but only as a regular carpet maker. Hero is a title too high for him. But being told he saved others and is a hero his confidence grows and get motivation to get better and purse this life. Edit: Now I am in a creative rush so I'll just list a few more Mad Damnian, Goblin Barbarian. He goes by many names within the locals, but he refers himself as both Mad and Ian. He's one of the most wanted men in the region with hundreds of gold coins as the reward for his capture. His crime? Disturbing the peace, lack of manners and minor thieving. It all started with him just stealing a coat which he cherishes more than anything. After that Mad began stealing jewellery and small wooden trinkets which he adorned his coat with. But also one or few of the things he's stolen and adorned his coat with was powerful and mythical totems that radiates energy enough to exceed human strength, thus giving him his barbarian abilities. Stanfield, AKA "The Titan God", human fighter who could multiclass to barbarian (idk) The Titan God still makes soldiers and monstrous beasts shiver in fear when hearing that name, even decades after his disappearance. Many suggests that his disappearance is caused by his passing, or that he still lurks around in the world. He was a legendary warrior. But the man behind his plate dragon helmet, Stanfield wanted an out from the fighting. It brought him wealth and glory, but for no purpose. An out is eventually if given to him, the birth of his daughter. He spent the next decade and a half raising his daughter in his handmade tavern which he ran as well. It was themed after Stanfield's old days as The Titan God, which bought in customers as it was a small market for themed taverns. During this time he gained masses of weight (like he weighs 500 lbs, with muscles underneath the fat) but he was happy. Stanfield's daughter eventually and sadly died from an illness and his tavern was burned to the ground after an attack. And with nothing left to his life, he reunited with the legendary armor and returned to his life of adventuring and fighting, because that was all he had left. Gwen Hilda, human fighter (yes I like human fighters. I live vanilla ice cream) An ex-archer mercenary who was discharged from the military due to "excessive drinking" Bone, tiefling bard A street urchin who was picked up, sheltered and feed by a "whore house" Sevin O'Nein, half-elf wild magic sorcerer. A puppeteer who used his magic to bring life in to his puppets. He loved performing for the children in the streets, bringing them a sense of joy in their lives. One of the children stood out for him because it was a face he will never forget, the face of agony and pain as it burned to crisps with screams of pain in front of Sevin's very own eyes. When casting one of his illusory spells he mistakenly casted fireball killing most of the children in his audience, and almost even himself. Sevin wasn't convicted for the crime because of a studier of wild magic defended him and was counted as an accident. But it doesn't change his mentality as he now spends his days in mental distress and agony for the lives that was lost and he swore to never cast spells that could harm others. Sevin began adventuring to train and learn how his magic works so he could possibly prevent something like that to occur once again.
A bard with a curse he will allways have one more charisma then anybody he’s speaking to so that means if sombody he’s talking to has 1 he has 2 one of my fav characters
Altion "Tik-Tik" Galanodel. Pseudodragon Alchemist raised by an Elven Wizard. The idea is a recon/bombadier scout capable of flight, telepathy, and occasionally stinging.
My dragonborn sorcerer draconic bloodline with opposite alignment from who he was born as , causing him to have a personality disorder and being inconsistent in his decision making skills
So I have a twist on this put in a chromatic dragon as bloodline or race and non chromatic dragon as bloodline/race so it’s a literal split personality disorder and a there are literally to voices in there head telling them to do opposite things
I only got to play him for a few sessions but… Long story short in the set up session where we were playing characters before we actually got to play our characters, we were tricked into a plot and ended up dying at the hands of God who didn’t want to be replaced. I was the only one that rolled a constitution check high enough to not immediately pass out, and when the God came closer I spat my blood in his face. He found me amusing and decided that he would resurrect me with strings attached. I gave DM discretion and said that he can move it how he wants to as to whether I’m going to be just a puppet or I can sever my ties or eventually being forced to betray the party or whatever. and I took a few spells that I normally don’t such as friends and disguise self so I can take on secret missions whenever I am being being used by the god. I was actually a little excited to play all of the possible scenarios for role-play
A bear that is so charismatic it convinces everyone it is human and eventually becomes a diplomate and There is only one person who it failed to convince that is out to kill it.
lawful neutral rogue who picks locks for the challenge then turns around and sells the better locks he's made to the people who's locks he picked. perfectly legal I tell you.
Unmariel, reborn undead life cleric. For centuries, he was put asleep from the attack of an enemy church and a powerful spell. When he finally woke up, nature had done its course and Unmariel saw all of his acolytes and brothers dead. He wondered why he didn't stay dead and tried to exit the church, finding a whole new world to explore. Now he has to travel to bring his sleeping divinity back to praise and to find out how he became the thing he swore to destroy
Okay so, a human varient artificer making his own weaponry, including a four shot pepperbox and a two shot western style double-barrel rifle. But wait, there's more! His mind was fractured by an event in his past in which he saw the party he was traveling with be massacred in front of him, this caused his mind to fracture to deal with the loss and gave him amnesia, replacing the memories he had with them of memories he had with four voices taking the names and personalities of the party. Later on, to replace his companion he made with the battle smith subclass, was four prosthetic arms. It was Doc Ock with a glock and four voices in his head. Probably my best character yet.
My cousin once played a wizard gnome in a campaign he told me about. Basically he rolled for his stats and got the highest possible roll for int. Then got the most unlucky, god awful rolls for everything else. So he decided to say that his gnome was dissabled and could barely move. Some time into the campaign they decided to get a backpack and have the barbarian wear the disabled gnome wizard ,who had the intelligence of god, on his back in battle.
I have one concept for an Oath of Conquest paladin where he starts as a simple town guard captain with like four levels in fighter. Idea is to have him rise higher and higher, becoming a militia man, then a general, then a marshal or something. Just basically make him a mounting war hero as time marches forward.
One of my favorites was a Reflavored Archane Archer to be a gunslinging bounty hunter. The archane arrows were either recontextualized to be things like instead of binding arrow, it was a bolo or were bullets instead of arrows like Piercing shot being just a really low density over powdered round. My stats were weird as I had rolled stats with a method we used at the table of 6 d4 drop the lowest, and rolled decent stats. Highest was an 18 lowest a 10. So I stacked it 18 Int, 16 con, 15 Dex, 15 Charisma, 13 wis, 10 strength. (Dex is a better build, fight me). I played a aasimar, and He was essentially Erron Black from the mortal kombat franchise.
A "bipolar" dragonborn that's just a hydraborn(exactly how it sounds)one head always casting an illusion spell all 3 different alignments and everyday there's a chance of a different head to take over for that day (1d4 1&2 for the middle head 3 for one and 4 for the other)
I really wanna play Klaus, a tiefling rogue. Klaus is a demon that leaches off of peoples happiness in order to receive inspiration (homebrew stuff). the happier person he leeches off, the higher die he gets. However instead of making everyone miserable, Klaus sneaks presents into people pockets and benefits from their joy.
Mine would have to be The Hairy Scary Babaloo, a hermit, circle of mutation druid gnome. He was raised in the deep wilds until one day he was captured by a giant spider. After managing to escape he had to learn from a young age survive on his own by enhancing his physical capabilities, and those of the animals around him. As a way of scaring away any would be dangers he takes the form of a hairy version of any creature because that is what he remembers most of the spider. I just love the idea of a paranoid gnome turning into a hairy alligator, snake, or other fun ideas to scare away enemies. beware The Hairy Scary Babaloo!
A warlock who serves a patron that doesn’t actually exist, instead making a pact with an eldritch god of deception. Part of the player’s development is unwittingly making their “patron” more powerful while simultaneously slowly realizing that he or she is serving something non existent and bringing about the end of the world. A band of bards and a rogue mastermind play through:Metalocalypse.
I've had an idea for a Halfling Cleric of Urogalan. Just this miserable grave digging sod along the lines of Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I think it would be fun to play something so diametrically opposed to the typical life loving Halfling ways.
Got GM approval to play a a Githyaki but without any mind mojo, as they had been raised by adoptive parents. he goal was to unify the gith races by reaching out to the gods of both races.
I have never played DnD but if I could I would absolutely use either Lucian or Samski (two characters of mine. Though they'd have to be in homebrew settings.) Lucian is a trans man vampire who was a elf before being turned. He lived in a large city, and spent his childhood trying to defy his parents forcing him to be a girl despite his loud and major protest and vocalizations on how much it emotionally and mentally upset him. Eventually he ran away as a teen, and was turn into a vampire while living on the streets. Eventually an older vampire who had heard his story and empathized with Lucian, would take him under his wing as a parental figure and mentor. During this time Lucian picked his name, and would learn magic and potion-brewing. He'd later get a job as a baker for a local bakery, and move out of his mentor's place. Eventually he'd meet an adventuring party and go on quest. I think thst he'd be an excellent healer and support to a DnD party. Samski on the other hand, is a hybrid of an elf and a revived frozen zombie. I won't go into depth about his backstory as it's quite long and has a lot of stuff that is me using his backstory to cope with trauma. But I think him being a fighter- sorcerer multi-class with a focus on fighter (since his character tries to deny that he has magic and can use magic) but during the course if the campaign grows to become more comfortable with his magic, but still is a dominant fighter. These characters are already in a story I'm working on, but I do think they'd be cool to see by themselves without the other members of their story in a DnD campaign.
Sooooo..... a little history to this one. Corgis (the dog breed) are said to have the markings on them because they are the marks of saddles and reigns that were used by fairies when they apparently brought them to England. A corgi riding, barbDruid, fairy who flies into a bloody rage at threat to their corgi. Will 100% stab through your eyes to tear apart your brain if you touch their precious little boi.
Twin half mushroom Goblins/gnomes. Found and ate a cursed mushroom as children, but since neither consumed the entire shroom, they become part shroom, part goblin. But since they both ate the same shroom, they become connected by the mycelium hivemind, and now share a single mind. They have telepathy over short distances, or in proximity of other mushrooms. Since the twins have separate bodies, they can act independently of each other, but cannot think without each other. Kinda like siamese twins, but inverted.
So it's not D&D but kinda is. I play Starfinder, which is Pathfinder in space more or less. The Starfinder society character I made is a Sonic the hedgehog-inspired character. He is a Ysoki (ratfolk in the game) Armorstrom Soldier and at his level he is, he can as a run action run 420 anywhere on the map..in a single round. And because of how run action mechanics work in-game, can fly at 400 feet a round. In vehicle chases, he will literally jump out and run beside the enemy vehicle spouting insults about how slow they are. He will then jump on their vehicle, and being a soldier with a big minigun held 1 handed, gun them down at point-blank, before running back to the party's vehicle. The best part is with being in heavy armor with a high AC of like 39 energy and 41 Kentic, he is incredibly hard to hit. Made even harder with feats that boost AC against AoO and ranged attacks.
I was taking a nap during my lunch break and this literally woke me up: An orc bard. But wait there's more. He tried to go the bard's college but they wouldn't accept a full-blooded orc so he just went to a college who luckily had a bard group for him to join. At least he thought they were bards. They danced and shouted in rhythm with each other, many of the words rhymed too. Yep, he's a cheerleader. Skirt, sweater, long socks, pompoms. The whole shebang. His bardic inspiration comes out as cheers but he is still an orc so: "Ra ra ree, kick them in the knee! Ra ra rass, kick them in the other knee!" OR: "D fence!(yes he holds up a D in one hand and a piece of fencing in the other) Over and over. His vicious mockery is mean cheers. He carries around a giant megaphone too(like this 📣). He wears a blonde wig because he thinks he's supposed to.(nobody told him otherwise) Meet Marbog the Powderpuff.
Husband and Wife Artificers who have developed technology to make use of the souls of their enemies. One contraption they built is a horseless carriage which revolutionizes the city they live in. In their later years society learns of what their machines run on and are run out of the city. Upon learning how their constructs are looked upon they decide to change their ways and retire. One of their final acts is to take a deal with a patron to change the source of the power for their constructs. Regular input of magic keeps the constructs operating. Finally they take on students from Royal families to teach this Artificer Engineer skill.
Professor Enochian Phishbole, a marine varient of a Warforged. He is an Artificer Artillerist who long ago commanded a small navy and defended the harbor town of the Fisher King. His head is a Fishtank with mana-like liquid inside and Gibberish the Goldfish, which acts as his pet. The seams on the tank have various runes that give him his access to the five senses without having the required receptors such as eyes or a mouth. After the war came to end The Professor decided to turn his attention away from warfare and towards gaining knowledge. His first act was to learn to read and write. Taking up residency in a library he spent over a year or more trying to grasp the concept of language that was not spoken, he remained nameless up until this point, however did respond when people referred to him as “The Fishbowl Man”. Warforged often take up the nicknames given to them by their friends, colleagues and superiors though they also name themselves after their rank, job title or something that describes an aspect of themselves. The Professor’s name comes from a theory he had, ie: *longer names give importance*. Enochian comes from a bit of religious text in which the name Enoch means "trained and vowed, dedicated; profound". The last name Phishbole is both a reference to the fishtank-like appearance of his head and the fact that his first attempts at spelling were done phonetically. Proud of his accomplishments he kept the name, considering it the first victory in his quest for knowledge. “Professor” is admittedly an honorary title as he has never attended professional school and instead is self-taught (anti-warforge sentiment kept him out of the schools of his preference). He has seen the way his people are treated and now seeks to uplift them by creating a culture all their own. As such he is studying Sociology, History, Archeology, Anthropology, etc to understand how to do so. The idea of the Lord of Blades or the Great Becoming One disgust him and he has also set up various spies and agents to aid in sabotaging them at any given opportunity. While on a dig in some ancient Dwarven Ruins he stumbles across a strange compass with a sundial acting as its protective lid. It is actually a cursed item. To anyone under a certain level, they see a simple compass, to anyone with a good Perception they would see if the task that was done was either a good thing or a bad thing via a little meter, but if you were to get an additional roll you would see where you sit on the morality chart... it is literally Phishbole's Moral Compass. (Destiny says he is to be evil, but he refuses to play as a puppet of Fate and as such he is openly using the compass to defy the will of the Gods and play for the side of good instead) In fact, the entire reason he has Gibberish the Goldfish is because of the compass. Meeting a Wandering Trader, Phishbole saw amongst the wares, a goldfish in a busted bowl. The fish hadn't been attended to in a long time and was desperately trying to live in water just under it's own dorsal fin. After consulting the compass he scooped up the poor animal and plopped him in his tank, claiming that the animal is speaking nonsense The Professor named him Gibberish and as long as he stays in the liquid of the tank then Gibberish will never suffer from Old Age or Hunger, essentially making the fish immortal. He is almost monomaniacal when it comes to his goals, only accepting "simple tasks" such as the campaign, because it will further his various schemes, he has even betrayed Party Members before (cleared it with the DM first) because they had something he needed to complete his task. But after every dubious act he consults the compass and then will go off and compete various good deeds to make up for the bad karma he has accrued. The thing is, he doesn't explain the importance of the compass to anyone and so to the rest of the Party, he is a basically a mad scientist who gets strangely obsessive about helping people for some reason. He is a lot of fun to play, loud when he speaks, brooding when he needs to be, Egotistical, Narcissistic, always trying to out think everyone else, and a deadly shot with his Crossbow.
i had a warlock who instead of taking his soul and he took his mind and made him have 2 personality so at the beginning of every round roll d4 if its even you play as the lawful good guy if its odd evil guy
My Dragonborn Barbarian is actually a meat suit mecha for a level 20 kobold necromancer that will only come out of the meat suit of the suit: A. Dies B. Is downed, but not dead, but no other party members are conscious
A wizard/Druid that tries to make a beastiary of the area, and an artificer who doesn’t believe in magic, and thinks that wizards simply “hide gadgets in their sleeves.”
Bestiary*
*beastiary
It can be spelled both ways
Mr. Rogers the rogue. He's lawful good and will talk all the other players out of their murderous ways. But not by berating them but in true Mr Rogers fashion. "We're all scared sometimes. And when we're scared we want to lash out. But I know deep down inside you don't want that. You are so much more than your anger and there's so much more you can give to the world. Isn't it exciting that each and everyone of us has a beautiful gift to give to the world? I wonder what your gift will be"
Is that a actual character you have played?
If so has anyone just killed a guy right in front of you as your talking
@@thegooseking818 I have not had the good fortune yet. But since my Mr Rogers comes from a clandestine background he is used to violence. And he has all the patience and perserverance to convince his fellow players over many, many discussions about how they're much better than murderhobos.
Also I'd imagine that there'd be a story arc where we'd be up against someone so incredibly evil that he'd be just like "Yea this one's an exception"
@@fabiansuckfull9446 kinda reminds me of caduceus.
I doubt he'd be a Rogue. I feel like he'd be a Cleric (like in real life. He was an ordained minister) or a Bard (Kid's show host probably would be one of those)
I hope this is reserved for actual murderhobos. Deploying this against someone who's just enthusiastic about fighting (and killing) their enemies seems extremely annoying.
A merfolk who was captured by hunters. They cut off the Merfolk's tail to sell to an eccentric collector. An artificer on the team felt for the poor merfolk and saved their life, then created a pair of robotic legs for them. This merfolk is now hunting their own tail
Wouldn't one have to do saving throws all the time because of oxygen deficiency ? Still a cool idea tho
@@v.e.l.pianist7848 the idea came with a breathing apparatus
I'm so happy another one of my characters was posted! Pebblerock was fun to write up for my friend in one of my campaigns. FYI, he was written up atlevel 15 and has had quite a time so far. His story has almost completed its arc, and he has failed upwards in spectacular fashion.
Can we hear the story of pebblerock and his quest for vengeance?
Awesome
What's his class? Rogue? Vengeance paladin? A multiclass of the 2?
He is a damn compelling character.
I was really annoyed with the character for being too overpowered in his backstory. Now that I know he was written as a level 15 rather than a level 1-3, he actually sounds cool.
An existential Warforged that starts out as an Artificer after the Last Great War in Eberron trying to understand its own body and purpose in life after the war. His experiments on himself later lead him to the realisation that all war is futile as he multiclasses into a Peace Domain Cleric.
Not sure if this will get any attention but I’ve made a kobold character that speaks in third person (but can speak in first person whenever they want but believes that will make people dislike her), always tries to order beef stew and apple juice at every tavern, has an intense fear of spiders and will always run away at the sight of even the smallest one, would rather be with friends or family than by their-self in a crowd of people, and despite how skilled they are at fighting they always think that they are never good enough for the party.
Not to mention, they don’t like speaking up and prefer to be quiet most of the time and are quite gentle with everything. But it doesn’t stop them from trying to fiddling with things and accidentally breaking them sometimes.
And the way I got the idea of making this character was when I played a game at a convention and met this unnamed kobold that in the dungeon that helped us take down the BBEG in pretty much 2-3 turns.
Her name is Meeko Aramel and she is precious. Still need to have a drawing of her but I’m getting close.
Thanks for making my day better, Dave.
Oh your welcome, lol, I'm Dave that makes NO noises....His evil twin.
A blessing from the lord
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I'm new and I want to learn before I go after this one, but I love the idea of a character who is a little girl with a really high charisma stat but low wisdom and intelligence. In universe, she's a precious cinnamon roll who everyone wants to protect, and she's really gullible so anyone from a chaotic evil necromancer aiming to turn the entire world into his undead army, to a lawful good paladin who's life goal is to stop him, could probably convince her to tag along. The party just happens to be the ones who convinced her first, and it would give the DM a fun chance to make some enemies try to convince her to turn on them and turn it into a persuasion off.
For class I'm thinking some kind of multiclass paladin warlock or something. The story behind that is her patron convinced her to follow it, and a god promptly sent one of its followers to convert her. She's essentially the child in a supernatural custody battle between the two, and her level ups are only half because she earned them and half because one of them bribed her.
Probably true neutral with a slight lawful good leaning, but so naïve that her alignment is more of a mirror.
A warforged artificer who was created by another artificer. She was inspired by her creator and wanted to build stuff too.
Warforged Druid Circle of the forged, really interesting semi-official subclass for Druid. Aarakocra Monk Kensei, I am SPEED.
Cardini: A assassin who runs a gambling/stealing business and try's to make people gamble their life away sometime literally, uses a deck of cards to kill/help ally's or enemy's
I have a few!!
Tragic prince who is told by a fortune teller (divination basically) and is told he would die before his thirtieth winter. Cutting a lot of backstory he becomes an adventurer and actually follows the path the fortune teller because she forsaw him walking away from the city with a group.
Bastard child of a king turned court jester/assassin
Um… and the other one i’m willing to share is something like a demon king reincarnated as a sorcerer or warlock and working their way back up in power. (I’ve gotten a lot of comments regarding this as main character vibes, which is fair, but I was actually intending for this character to have subtle quests in the background of a campaign rather than a solid storyline for five to ten sessions before a plot hook arrives. Basically, I would use this character as a way for the dm to bs a new storyline through a convenient dungeon crawl/whispers about an artifact or something like that. I dunno, literally just came up with that concept.)
In D&D 3.5 I played a full Orc ranger. In his backstory, he was charmed by a group of adventurers to help them on his quest. At the end of the quest, he had decided that he preferred being "good" as a result of the spell and did not want to revert to "evil" when the spell wore off. The adventurers gave him a talisman of good, which the orc could wear to remain good permanently. Years later, the Orc still wears this talisman with a short iron chain so it can never come off his neck without breaking the chain. He considers the amulet of greater worth than his life, as losing the amulet will forfeit his soul back to the service of evil.
For me it was a Half-Orc Warlock, he had a spear and purple ish corruption that grow like vines or blood vessels that grow from his left eye and hands. He can curse stuff with his hands and where’s a mask and gloves
Ah what a beautiful video full of fun stories, told you I’d see you in the next vid Haha!
An Astral elf solider ( fighter) who was kidnapped by flesh dealers ( Mind flayers ) who tortured him with psionic magic and spells before selling him he ofc has PTSD turned to alcholism has a Austalian accent and is depressed but wears a happy smile but ... because of his torture at the hands of the mind flayers he devolped headaches and became a Psi warrior / psionic fighter who drunks to quell his PTSD and headaches
Avereus The Unyielding. A longsword wielding full plate armor wearing human. Wizard of war domain. Signature spells disguise self and counter spell. He was a commoner of 2 common parents. Went to wizarding school whilst learning sword fighting from both parents. Can handle blade decently well and has lots of counter magics and control of battles. While having a vorpal sword and constatly casts foresight daily. His ac as a wizard is 26. hp is 120. But with robes of displacement he is scary to hit
forgot a small note. he is worried about his appearance to people he does not want to be considered another swordsman that kinda uses magics. so he casts disquise self constantly to make him fully look like wizard by hiding his plate armor he got from his home town as a graduation present. but when its time to protect those around him he jump headlong into battle and slaughters and uses magics to be immune to magic attacks and hard to hit with swords
NPC who is always popping up out of nowhere (sometimes literally) just to annoy the PCs for a minute or so. The NPC is unaware that he is cursed to never get what he wants and if he is killed the curse will pass to whomever killed him therefore preventing the PC/PCs from completing thier personal goals or at least, letting them complete it but with really tragic and/or unfortunate circumstances
So this character concept was something I came up with literally yesyerday in response to MythicalSausage, he's a minecraft youtuber, asking for his fans to give him their Empiresona. Empires SMP is the series he's doing with lore in it.
Anyway, I came up with a Half Elf Artificer name Z.K. He's the last member of his family left alive and had lived on the streets for a while till being by a tinker, named Archibald, who made him their apprentice/assistant. Eventually he outlived his men, Archibald was like 89 when he died while Z.K. was only 36. Anyway, Z.K. learns a bit of magic so he can expand how creative he can be with the items he can create, making him into an Artificer as a result.
So one day the town he's living in is attacked by a literal army of bandits. With very little time to save anyone, Z.K. just grabs what he can and escapes. Forever haunted by the cries of help. And as a result, he wants to move on from his past. But he can't. So to keep himself districted he just makes basic items that can be used by anyone. All the while creating a gaunlet mounted Shield that can become a magic infused Crossbow that he can use to shoot spells that had been condensed into various bolts at his enemies. He may make a second one so he can dual wield them or act like Ironman if he were to also create boots that lets him fly for a short amount of time.
Also he has a sweet tooth. So cookies tend to be a form of snack he carries around with him wherever he goes. And he's thinking about getting a pet. Namely a Giant Dire Wolf that he'll name Fenrir.
A wizard/bard personal trainer who only gives bardic inspiration to people who train with him and activates different spells with different exercises
I haven't played anything DND related except for the Dark Alliance games, but if I ever get into a group and learn how to play, I would like to experiment with a blood mage (assuming that's not a character class). Basically, after using the spell slots, it would damage itself when using those spells, two rolls total for damage and health per spell. A 20 would be a free spell, a 1 would be 20% of max or current health. And being a blood mage, would be able to weaponize any blood in the area to an extent.
Just found your channel and I love it already!
i have one im using right now and one I want to use later:
1. A dragonborn shadow magic sorcerer that was Wished into taking the form of a pseudodragon; he keeps all his spells, speech, stats, but also gains as much pseudodragon traits as possible (if traits overlap, the pseudodragon trait would be used). He had to learn how to fly from some dragons nearby (long story) and is planning on never talking to anyone in case they get a heart attack and die. He also has no storage and cant use weapons of any kind, no feats can change that. And if I didnt use strength as a dump stat i would've reduced it to -1 anyway.
2. An Aaracokra who is both male and female, non-binary, and bi. thats as far as I got
A chaotic evil druid from fantasy australia. Wildshapes into a giant tarantula hawk wasp to carry off townsfolk or summons a swarm of murder hornets to kill a family, takes out the barbarian with a "Suicide Plant" (look it up) and uses their smoke to protect his bunker entrance from aerial attacks. Summons a pack of velociraptors to dart out of the underbrush and ambush people, flies around on a Quetzalcoatlas (flying lizard the size of a T. Rex) dropping hornet's nests on people.
Best of all; it's the party's villain, and he's a gnome. Just a harmless little gnome with so many viscious tricks up his sleeves that the party will never trust nature again. He'll poison the party's water supply with lethal, semi-microscopic iriconji box jellyfish if he's captured or gets close to them while they're sleeping. He'll eat the wizard whole as a giant saltwater crocodile or sick a colony of fire ants on the paladin. I swear I'm making that the next villain.
My concept is a polydactyl Tabaxi Ranger who was abandoned in a tree as a kitten and sees herself as the guardian of wherever she is, starting with the forest she starts in, and then anywhere she is taken with the party.
I have a character named Damakos. He's a human fighter, except he has a twist. After unknown events (unknown to Damakos due to amnesia), he was turned into a sorts of shadow/fog creature. A ghost in a way, made of thick, cold, dark fog. Instead of holding weapons or wearing objects, he absorbs them, either taking their properties (ex: absorbing armor makes his fog denser) or being able to recreate them using his body (ex: turning his arm into a blade made of shadow fog). Anything else that's not weapons, armor, or magic items, he stores them in a self-contained pocket dimension, which he can access at any time. He has a limit to how much he can store/have memorized (a carry cap.), and on death all of his items fall out of his dimension/fog and he evaporates. He can go through things, but its hard and can hurt him.
Damakos has a main goal of returning back to a person, since a floating cloud of shadows with glowing eyes is scary to most people. He doesn't eat, drink, or breathe. but he does go into a sorts of dormant state, where he becomes a small floating cloud to 'sleep'
My idea was a group of adventures found there way into a dungeon and came across this extremely powerful magical artifact. When they tried to identify it a pulse of energy irrupted combining the concessions of all the adventures into on body. Now each body fights for control and takes over depending on the time. Maybe every long rest I’ll role to see who takes control or maybe it’s one main person in control and the others chime in on key moments. Anyways that’s my character I made two plus years ago but my DM said it would be too hard so I couldn’t do it.
a Halfing Rogue, an orphan who despite all the blows of life and learning the job of a thief don't go Edgy and remains a cherryful, honest fellow, that wanted to be a wizard, an incapable of be acepted as a wizard aprentice, self teached himself using the book of young female wizard his party was traying to rescue. becoming an Arcane trickster. an the party treasurer.
my favorite character concept is Vozdir, a changeling Warlock/bard
his concept came from wanting to play monsters like doppelgangers, oni and fey so I chose changeling as a race not realizing at first changelings weren't considered fey in D&D lore like their namesake in real life fey folkore. but I then decided to embrace that, having him want to be a fey just like I wanted to play one (inception lays of meta, I know)
Vozdir was raised by his patron and adoptive mother, a powerful fey lady.
living among the fey he became enamored by their ways and wished to become one himself. he now adventures seeking power and a way to turn himself into an actual fey.
he openly uses his shapeshift abilities, chock it up to his fey powers as he claims to be one, his main form being an elf with long brown hair, purple eyes and antlers on the top of his head. he also has glowing vines that look like tattoos that fade in and out on his skin that are from him being "fey touched" from living in the feywild so long.
personality wise he's upbeat and whimsical, fascinated by the material world and unfamiliar with its customs.
his main abilities are illusions and charm spells, having unlimited silent image as a warlock invocation to put on a show however he wants in addition to his natural disguise abilities.
as a bard he isn't much for music, his spells instead words of power taught to him by the fey, the purest form of his silver tongue he uses to charm and deceive even without magic.
and though he uses magic heavily as a mortal he also knows the power of the mundane. he makes his own disguises with weavers tools and disguise kit for his physical changeling disguises, something that can't be dispelled like magic.
he also has his fighting ability as a sword bard as back up when his cover is blown and can make his fists into natural weapons if unarmed (a changeling racial feat from the unofficial Exploring Ebberron book)
I’ve put this on a few vids now, but I’m fond of my “Reformed Lich” idea, named King Gizzard the Lizard Wizard. That’s all you need to know. He’s a lich (blue fire wreathing a skull for a head, flowing robes, etc) and he summons lizards as minions. He does see the error of his old life and is trying to redeem himself, and he has a generic evil villain voice to top it off
Okay so i thought up this concept character because i want to play a bard but i am not musically inclined at all: Goblins enjoy shiny objects, and that fuels their greedy ways, so what if you have a goblin that cannot see shiny objects? He would focus on stimulating his other senses. Meaning instead of constantly seeking visual stimulation, he focuses more on auditorial, olfactory, and taste-based stimulation. Hoards different types of musical instruments, cooking ingredients, flowers, and uses prestidigitation to save smells he enjoys, but still has that goblin-esque greed when it comes to his belongings. On top of all of that, a blind goblin using vicious mockery to kill people with "based off of your mouth breathing, maybe it's a blessing that i'm blind" and tone-deft singing in a horrid raspy voice could be so much fun
haven't used it (and somehow i doubt i will)
but here's the concept of Bheg the skeleton.
Bheg was cursed for burning down a temple, thus rising from said temples ashes as an undead, with no memory of who he was.
Bheg is a pragmatic but friendly guy. But due to being a skeleton, he poses as a bit crazy wizard that walks around covered in thick wraps and rags(which are actually just to cover up his lack of flesh)
As for RP, i know he'd try to talk to all undead. Probably would dislike necromancers, clerics and paladins.
Basically a wacky undead rights activist
I've got 2 concept characters I haven't had a chance to build yet. Brace yourself for a wall of text . . .
1: "Nick Wilde," the Half-Elf Wild Magic Sorcerer. He was an ordinary guy who wanted to be an adventurer. During his early exploration, he stumbled upon a magical Macguffin that accidentally made him a sorcerer. Due to the unusual origins of his magic, it's a little . . . unstable.
2: "Tinker," the Warforged Artificer. I haven't thought up much of any backstory for him, but he likes to build thing, fix things, and help people. He's also an excellent cook and enjoys making good food for people, even though he himself doesn't need to eat. His personality is seasoned with sarcasm as well.
A warforged warlock named cezanne who is an robot ankylosaurus who was an old guard of a art gallery but comes into contact with a hexblade which gives it sentience
Ilithid/Mind Flayer Bard. Uses people's memories for the lyrics, all he does is set the tone for the song, and their minds do the rest
a Monk/Barbarian Minotaur Ex-Tribal chief. their backstory is that they used to be a boss, but was overthrown by an adventurer, most if not all of his subjects being killed.
I have two:
- one of them, which I’m actually gonna play in the near future is a homebrewed warforged Druid made of an ancient tree wood, which served a misterious scientist called Laputa (spanish people will know jajaja) in the conservation and care of nature and it’s cicles in a distant mountains. The warforged, named Quercus, became a protector of nature, tending the apparently utopia in which they lived, but then one day Laputa disappeared, leaving no trace. Quercus still tended their duties for months after that but then some kind of feeling they had never thought of grew in them (it is actually sadness and nostalgia) so Quercus decided to wander the world in search of the truth, unbeknownst for them, Laputa has been long dead, and so Quercus is search for a false hope in the distance. (Still not sure if making them circle of the land-mountain or circle of the wildfire).
- the second one is of a selkie (homebrewed also) which was born with a peculiar song that was known to be cursed by his people, the voice of the spirits (she is a bard college of spirits). She grew always distant from her people, as she knew of the burden she carried. Still, she accepted her fate and seved her purpose of mourning the dead and warning about impending disasters. One day she met a human which she feel in love with. Day by day, she stopped attending her duty to meet with the mysterious man, until one day she forgot to tell her family of an impending danger, leaving her the only survivor of her people. Filled with regrets and blame, she decided to flee the coast of her family, but the man, revealed to be a trickster tarotists decided that she wanted her to be hers, taking away her seal skin. Angered after this betrayal and still mourning her family, her full potential exploded, and through her cursed voice, she turned the man mad and made him jump of the same cliff her family died. Now accompanied by the souls of her family and the man, she wanders from town to town, only with the man’s arkana cards as a reminder to not trust anyone, bringing evil men into madness and avenging those who suffer.
Duskwalker race in PF gave me an idea for a Gloomblade Fighter with the feat chain that gets her a Nosoi Psychopomp familiar who is in short a mortal interning as a psychopomp to a bureaucratic god of death in the wake of an undead apocalypse- basically all the actual psychopomps are kinda stretched thin dealing with all the out-of-place souls so she was offered a second chance at life in exchange for helping settle discrepancies in the records i.e. destroy undead. Her "Familiar" is actually her supervisor, a Nosoi Psychopomp who's not naturally fit to tackle the undead hordes itself but knows and understands the rules and bureaucracy of life and death well enough to serve as her supervisor and guide her on her quest.
I once made a Barbarian Lizardfolk named Tarth who had ended up in the hands of some really crazy cultists. The cultists managed to subdue him and brought him through a portal into a really deep level of hell. There they presented him to a Sibriex. The Sibriex started working on changing his body. Merged his two eyes into one eye so he had bad depth perception, but also changed the eye so it looked like a black void as he gave the Lizardfolk darkvision 120ft. Made his left leg stumpy so his speed was decreased by 10ft, but grew two of his front teeth to give him big tusks that he could use as a bite attack in combat. At that point Tarth managed to break free of the cultists hold and escape back through the portal to safety. He had a very bad hatred for all devils, demons, and people who worship fiends.
I've made tons of characters but the game I'm currently in is my first play. And the character I made for it is my proudest.
A Tiefling rogue mastermind. Officially his backstory has him adopted from an orphanage at age 7 by a noble family who own a fabrics factory. At age 18 his parents were poisoned by the cook after discovering he was embezzling money from them in secret. He then ran their estate and factory for years. However, in his early 30s, he realized the loss of his parents only made him more and more depressed as years went on. He then set out on a journey to discover himself and find peace of mind at last.
Truth is he poisoned his parents in anger after realizing he wasn't their son but a trophy for them to show off how kind and charitable they were. He framed the chef (who actually was caught embezzling) then ran everything until he got bored. He decided to go travelling and find a suitable monarchy to kill and overthrow, taking the power for himself.
He's Chaotic Evil but portrays himself as Chaotic Good. He often gets a kick out of sneakily starting fights, killing people and even causing wars without getting caught. Only I and my DM know the truth.
I’m currently playing a changeling named Ilan who has forgotten that they are one, they’ve woke up from a major injury presenting as a drow named Katrah for one reason or another, (backstory partially written by dm) they will only be able to control their transformation at one of two points; if their backstory is ever concluded in a fashion that helps them regain their memories, or upon reaching level 6 of the phantom rogue subclass and channeling the tokens they have around their waist. They sometimes run into their parents, who through paternal/maternal instinct recognize their child no matter what form they occupy, but due to the loss of memory they have no knowledge of these parents.
With my current roll20 game (bless the DM and party these guys are frickin awesome) I’m getting to see this backstory unfold firsthand and it’s bittersweet so far, there is definitely tension as any questioning of this prompts no answers, and one of the party members has seen their true form for a brief moment due to a failed bravery roll (wis save).
A Tiefling Monk who seeks redemption for their Infernal bloodline
NPC character I have thought of was a gunslinger who is meant to protect the castle in the sky, a grand library of ancient magics that travels around the world. She is unkillable while on castle grounds but tends to head to solid ground to interact with others. Her personality is rather cheerful and a little seductive if she is interested enough but she is rather pacifistic despite the trigger finger but if she has no choice, she won't hesitate to pull the trigger at someone, especially if it has to deal with the castle in the sky as the last remaining protector.
PC Character, I made a Druid half elf, long forgot his name but he was the twin brother to his sister, a ranger who is possessed by a demon. The one thing about the druid is that he isn't actually a half elf and isn't related to his sister at all, but is a Dryad who was healed by her and wished to help free her from the demon. He tries to be logical but ends up getting a migraine when talking with the barbarian for to long as his intricate knowledge of how the ancient technology changes the forest had to be simplified to "Magic Forest" if he didn't want to die of stupidity. Sadly the campaign was cut off before the twist could be revealed to the rest of the party.
I'm the only one that heard Imerzeel as "In Brazil" ?
yes
My tiefling artificer im playing right now is one of my favourites. She was very young when she "won" hinde and seek. (Her mother abandoned her when she could no longer hide the horns and tail) She found a cave system that was once a gnome workshop. Growing up, she taught herself to read in the library area, and how to use the workbench to make stuff. She foraged and such for food, and has no real concept of how money works. By no means stupid, but she is somewhat naïve. (Intelligence of 20, wisdom of 14, charisma 10) Shes starting to want to find her mother to figure out what her name was, because shes going by "Stahp" due to merchants always yelling "Stop!" At her when she was in town, due to her not grasping what money is for. She always went back and left some kind of trinket or something for them that she made as payment.
A wolfborn named Dana whose pack worships Selune goddess of the moon. Most of her pack are either twilight domain clerics who's patrons are selune, or paladins whos deity is selune. However Dana the "black sheep" of the pack decided to be a druid. (although she is a circle of stars druid because she still worships selune.)
Ive been thinking about this dude who was drafted to fight for his country, forced to leave his wife of 2 years behind. More and more soldiers die in the war with the neighboring country, and are turned into war forged, without ever realizing it. The war forged were made so thier reasoning was flawed, like revenant in apex legends.
He wakes up in a giant field, struck by lightning in the worst storm to ravage the land in decades, surrounded by skeletons and robotic chassis, stumbling home, still thinking hes human, only to find his town under curfew, with warforged chassis posted as guards everywhere, and his wife had been married to another for 11 years.
Hes a warfarged that still believes hes human, in a world where they are feared.
A black tabaxi bard/divination wizard that oddly shows up before bad luck befalls a town, whether he is simply drawn to places where tragedies occur or he is just unlucky himself is up for debate, seems to get wrapped up in misadventures with groups of adventurers in said towns
A good friend of mine has a bard that's haunted by a ghost. But not any ghost, this ghost is deathly afraid of music so my friend must break out in song at very random times to keep the ghost away.
Recently, I played a Florest elf that had like 1.3k years old. He was so old, that he even had a beard. Very funny shenanigans about being that old grumpy alcohoolic smoker with thousands years old
I have always been a huge fan of crossovers so I always wanted to play a Starfleet officer from Star Trek desperately trying to maintain the Prime Directive.
Ideally the DM would be in on it and have encounters with Klingons and the like, all while my character tries to convince the other players that this is a normal D&D campaign
I started a Half-Orc. He's 1st lvl Barbarian and took his second lvl in Fighter. The concept is to take 3 lvls of barbarian, bear totem for resistance, 5 lvls of fighter, Champion, to make his crit range 19-20 with action surge and extra attack... then go 12 lvls of paladin. At 20th level, he'll be 3 Barb, 5 Fighter, 12 Paladin. As Half-Orc, he's got relentless endurance and savage attacks. As 3rd Barb Bear Totem, he's got resistance against all damage except psychic. As 5th Fighter Champion, he gets crit range 19-20, action surge and one extra attack. As 12 lvl Paladin, he gets divine smite powered by up to 3rd lvl spell slots. Dual wielding with two-weapon fighting style and dual weapon feat with long swords. So, at 20th lvl, he will get 3 attacks per round... all that can be smites powered by 3rd lvl slots... action surge... take 3 more attacks with smite powered by 2nd lvl slots... bonus action.. .take another attack with smite powered by a 1st lvl spell slot... with crit range of 19-20... where any crit not only does double damage but brings another 1d8 for savage attack. And raged... will get raging damage and STR modifier with each attack.
He'll likely one-shot anything in his one round.
Just started a campaign with a Swarmkeeper Ranger. His Swarm is a bunch of snakes and flying snakes. When he uses an arrow, he has one of his snakes wrap around the arrow to bite at range. His name is Veras
I had a character who was part of an experiment made by wizards. She was a green half-dragon with wings, but she couldn’t fly, and she didn’t have a breath weapon, unlike her four siblings. Her four siblings were all the other chromatic colors, and they could fly, use their breath weapons, and were exceptionally strong. However, my character, (her name was Ivy,) was just as strong as a normal human. She was despised by her siblings, and they imprisoned her and tormented her. She was eventually saved by a human, who she fell in love with. She decided to start adventuring so she could get money to stay alive, but she never got revenge on her siblings. I’m thinking about DM’ing a campaign where Ivy is an NPC who tasks the PC’s with hunting down and killing her siblings for what they did to her.
An arakocra that's looks like a sparrow named Jack that's a swashbuckler, catch phrase "why is the rum gawn?"
A 102 year old monk/fighter marine minotaur ex fleet admiral named Elmo Drinkard(first name is of the youngest man to be an admiral and last name is of the oldest man to retire from being an fleet admiral) who gets ecstatic and optimistic when seeing the sea and will laugh and see humor in the most stressful situations, he is brave, wants to give everyone hope to anyone who gives up, and can't stand civilian life.
And he spent 147 hours trying to perfect his triangle playing just to perfect it on day 57 and then perfected it even more for the rest of the other days and i made his dart weapon those badges that get stabbed into you so you can throw it at them or interrogate them with it.
Dual Character Concept
A Human Artificer & A Warforged Sorcerer
The human can work on the warforged for 1d10;2d4 days to level-up both people once, therefore giving a new gift to the warforged.
The human can work on the warforged for 1d6;1d8 days to transform the warforged to a seen 'gift-state'.
The gift given is decided on random chance, which means level 20 isn't always the best.
(Note: This will need conversations with a DM as this concept doesn't level-up via. XP nor DMs Choice)
(Note 2.0: I don't have any idea on what is special about the human other than the fact that (s)he has warfoorged blueprints, so please expand as much as you like)
Amon was a Warforged Eldritch Knight, wandering the lands as a mercenary, working for gold and materials with which they could use to improve and upgrade their body. As was common, Amon was treated more like an object than a person, but it was still better treatment than what the people of other races were subjected to. Many cities didn't even allow the beastfolk races into their walls and everybody reached for their weapons when they saw an Orc, half or full blooded, waiting for them to enter a frenzied bloodlust and go wild. Thankfully, as a Warforged, Amon wasn't subject to such emotional biases and found themselves a good company of allies to work alongside, to the point where they considered one another, to borrow the organic term, friends.
While on one job, however, Amon's torso was pierced by a thrown javelin and, to the surprise of their friends, the Warforged dropped to the ground unmoving, despite them having seen Amon take more serious and abundant damage before. They finished the battle with the rival mercenary company quickly before rushing to Amon's side, fearful some critical component within their friend had been damaged and not knowing who to bring them to for repairs.
However, one of them noticed some kind of fluid leaking from the wound and tainting the javelin that had been removed. A thorough check of the Amon's back revealed a small latch that, when pulled, opened the hatch that was Amon's back to reveal a small Gnome lying within, struggling to remain conscious as they held their stomach, trying to prevent their insides from spilling out. The group's cleric, a follower of the God of Truth, instantly moved to heal the true form of their friend, though did feel some resistance from their divine patron, assuming it was because the Gnome had 'deceptively' portrayed themselves as a Warforged.
The real reason was soon revealed as the Gnome's form changed as they were pulled out of the Warforged shell, growing and smoothing as they became a featureless humanoid. Amon confessed the obvious; they were a Shapeshifter; a race who were hunted down and exterminated wherever they were found, hated as the spawn of the nameless featureless entity that had spawned all the evil gods and goddesses, devils, demons, and everything else foul and disgusting in the world; the reason murder, betrayal, and other vile acts existed. Only, like everything else people believed about other races, none of it had any truth to it; they were just excuses to justify their own evil acts and place the blame on something else. Amon knew this very, very well.
But Amon knew, liked, and trusted Warforged. One had been a protector of their hometown, learned what Amon was, and kept it secret, taking Amon's actions to help repair the Warforged after bandit attacks with fingers that were a little too long and nimble to reach where sword tips and arrow points reached their internal components was evidence the superstitions were simply that with no logic behind them. It was years later when Amon used their knowledge from repairing their home's guardian that they constructed a Warforged 'suit' they could 'pilot' using parts and pieces taken from less protective Warforged so they could see more of the world without being persecuted and, like many Warforged did, seek answers behind the creation and origin of the Warforged race. Of course, Amon had difficulty finding parts that were compatible with their Sorcerer abilities, so they portrayed themselves as a warrior with limited magical abilities that would increase as they found more appropriate materials.
While the group was shocked, and some were a little wary, they agreed to keep Amon's existence as a Shapeshifter a secret to themselves; something the cleric knew put them at odds with their always-truthful-adamant patron, but when the truth would mean the mobbing and murder of someone who had saved lives, silence was a good compromise. Some did take issue with Amon's existence, the group's rogue was an edgy and rather selfish sort whom they all got along with only professionally, but they couldn't deny the benefit that came from Amon popping open the back of their Warforged suit, exposing their true form for a moment before unleashing a powerful arcane spell that would deliver their foes to oblivion, no longer needing to not do that for what they really were might be exposed.
Aside from the dead, they would be the only ones to know the truth about what Amon really was, but they were happy with just their friends knowing.
Handfull of Warlock characters for most of the subclasses.
Only two one's that are closes to finished are:
A Dwarf who survived a traumatic life altering event, where he devoted himself to a Celestial, but unlike using the methode of a Cleric, he chose to form a more direct pact (warlock pact) with the Celestial to further show his devotion, claiming he only wants power in return for doing their good work, and believing in that philosophy.
He will help out others in need, but will always expect something in return, not necessarily gold or items, but effort.
Those he saves have to improve their lives or become better people (as he is lawfull good, he will not actual harm them if they don't, but he will keep lecturing and pushing them until they either crack.)
At the same time, if he receives help from anyone else, he will consider himself indebted to whoever did so, and will strive to repay them.
He will take the pact of the Talisman, and focuses on using that along with various protection/buff spells to aid the party and NPC's. So if a party member helps him out on many occasions, he will offer his Pact Talisman/Amulet to safeguard them.
My favorite is the captain of a ship who travels around from port to port as merchants rent his ship's services.
He has the Pact of the Blade, but his focus is instead on Eldrich Blast, putting all evocations into improving it.
He has a contract with The Deep One (pact terms currently unspecified) giving him many wind and water/ice themed spells too.
His arcane focus is actually a broken Flintlock Pistol.
(purely for aesthetic) what he uses to "shoot" his Eldrich Blasts.
in his other hand he wields a rapier that's enhanced with the pact of the blade's features.
His reasons for traveling with the party will be tied to his pact, but those reasons will be up for discussion with the DM depending on what the setting is about in the first place.
The character is Chaotic Good, so considering The Deep One Patron is said to mostly value information/knowledge, it could be said it just demands the PC travels the world and explores, learning as much as they can so that information can be passed on to the Deep One.
Literally just a peasant looking for somewhere to stay with enough food that accidentally ended up in the court of a famous vampire-king-count-thingy acting and imitating a strange but super intelligent and philosophical hermit, who works as the philosopher of the court.
He is basically just Diogenes.
Best I've got is a Dragonborn Psion who's powers could possibly rip holes in reality, though this power came at a cost. He is forever unable to use magic and lacks a breath weapon. He also suffers from chronic migraines so he has to use potions to numb the pain. The migraines "flare up" from time to time when he uses his powers. Lost his parents to bandits at a young age. They kill his parents in front of him, traumatizing him and causing a psychic freakout that caused the heads of the bandits to explode.
I have a fun one that I haven't gotten to work with yet, but hopefully will get to, as part of a pair I and a friend cooked up. Their character-if we get to do it-is to be a warlock, and mine a ranger of the Beastmaster sort. The warlock's more neutral, while the ranger is leaning slightly towards evil (Like, he'll kill livestock or pets on occasion to sell the leather without talking to the locals first. Little things.). Yeah, yeah, common enough. Story is, the warlock is his niece (Not a child, just a young lady in her twenties) and, upon making her contract with a dark Fey patron, accidentally got the contract signed using his soul due to misunderstanding the offer. He's still got it, of course, but if he dies, the Fey gets to have it. Or if she dies, for that matter. Sounds like a win for the warlock, but she'd still lose her powers as the contract would be over, and he'd die anyway if she gets killed, so they work together, though hopefully not to the detriment of their allies.
Now...this 'glitched' contract has...side effects, if we were allowed to go through with it. This patron of hers deals in a blend of druidic magic and necromancy, and the negative energies of the pact will slowly turn her uncle into an undead, should any degradation he shows be allowed to progress. Think cheap knock-off lich without the powers, and that he's not aware of that particular effect just yet. Like, a little flesh degrades along an arm or his face, a bit of bone is visible...little, terrifying things despite the fact that he's clearly alive to start. Now, some of those druidic spells are able to heal. Simple stuff. Any time she notices he's starting to degrade she quickly finds ways to heal him without his knowing or others noticing-he has enough problems just getting ownership of his own soul back!-though eventually someone would have to notice, and that'd raise the biggest question.
The hope would be that the party would be willing to help with his problem and possibly convince the Fey to at least give him back ownership (or transfer it to the correct recipient, whom wouldn't suffer the negative effects), as getting his soul back would cure the issue. Oh, and worse? If she uses her powers too much it accelerates the process. If it's allowed to progress, he'd essentially become something akin to a wight, or said knock-off variant of a lich eventually-still sentient, but clearly an undead. Perhaps he could still be saved at that point, but...we suspect the party would rather kill him then. He might not be thirsting for their blood, but who would want to have such a thing on their side usually?
Anyway, nice stuff this time around! Worth the subs. Would post this on Reddit, but...banned, apparently?
The armored punch mage. 1 level in artificer, 2 levels in Wizard Bladesinger then Rest of the levels in Armorer artificer. Take light armor as the arcane armor. Also this armorer has access to shield spell in addition to free temp hp. ALSO its primary stat for damage is his primary stat for AC. Punch with your intellegence fists wild blade singing. Also you can bladesing with an intellegence based ranged weapon if you go with infiltrator armor.
I have a few, mostly for game systems my friends don't want to play.
For D20 Modern's _Urban Arcana_ : Brewer the New York gnoll. A Strong Hero born of two Shadow-born gnolls who lost their evil upbringing in the transition. Raised as a devout Catholic, he enjoys helping people when he isn't working construction. When things go bad, that's when he breaks out his two sets of brass knuckles and pounds the problem into submission. He has a hard time of it, not least because he's smart enough to warn people about what most *other* gnolls are like if they don't already know.
For _Victoriana_ : Norman Rathskeller, "Ratsy" to his friends, a Rat Beastman. Son of a chimney sweep and an Eldren girl, he actually apprenticed as a thief... only to find, once his training was complete, that he didn't have the heart to hurt and kill people for their belongings. Now, when he isn't working as a sign painter (he's actually pretty good at it), he keeps an eye out for those in need. Knowing that if they need a Rat Beastman's help, they're pretty bad off. (He's a fatalist -- meaning he believes in fate -- so he assumes that any problem that happens with him around might be meant for his assistance.)
For _Starfinder_ : "Munch", a tubby ratfolk mechanic and professional vidgamer. Always has snacks on hand, and does love his vidgames, but lives for repairing and building tech. Uses his exocortex implant to his advantage both in his vidgames and in combat -- and to help figure out when the stuff in the fridge has gone off.
Also for _Starfinder_ : "Shiver", a Vlaka (wolf-man) Solarian. Blind since birth, he's one of many vlaka to flee their dying world in search of a new home, but he's always ready to use his Solarian training to defend the weak and downtrodden. He always gets a kick out of people being surprised when the blind guy can shoot, though...
Also for _Starfinder_ : "Frisson", a Vlaka Envoy and Icon. Another blind vlaka, Frisson took to acting like a Ysoki takes to scavenging. His natural talent for talking people into things has occasionally landed him (and his friends) in hot water, but his wits (and his gun) get them out more often than not. Which means, of course, that people who need a "face" will come calling... and he does so love a challenge...
For D&D 5e: Arrk, a gnoll barbarian. A hunter in a nomadic tribe, Arrk isn't sure how he came to find himself waking up in a healer's rest, recovering from a traumatic head wound. The head wound gave him an extreme case of what the real world knows as Broca's Aphasia -- the part of his brain that creates words to communicate is severely damaged. He can read and understand all right (though complicated sentences and the passive voice can confuse him), but the brain damage prevents him from speaking or writing very well. (It's like that time when you know you know the word but can't think of it... only it's every word you try to say or write.) Falling in with a group of adventurers who came to the healer's rest, he seeks not only to find out what happened, but hopefully to someday find a way to speak and write normally again.
A Tiefling Circle of Stars druid who's actually a star-based Elemental whose powers were locked away. Her star map is a stone that looks like it has little stars inside it, like it's a piece of the night sky. It's actually her true body sealed away by her mother, the moon, to protect her from her father, the sun. As she levels up she gets more of her power back and has to find her mother who was kidnapped by her father
My favorite concept character was a joint creation between me and the DM.
My Chaotic Good female High-Elf Monk and the Neutral Good female Drow Warlock, fused together with the Twins of Light. (Homebrew goddesses based on the Olsen twins, and DAMN were they hot. Literally. The one based on Ashley, (Her name was Ashorah,) could transform into a being made of pure fire.)
Due to this fact, she had INSANE bonuses to Charisma, Wisdom and Intelligence.
(Charisma was her top stat, Strength was her dump.)
To say she was powerful was an UNDERSTATEMENT...
She could kill 3 Tarrasques in a single round and violently obliterate any bad guy within a 30 mile radius.
Used to be her name was Eryn.
Now, she's only known as "The Amalgam".
I still have her character sheet.
She has 20 levels in Monk, 20 levels in Warlock, and 20 levels in Sorcerer.
#OPAsFuck
While it would only be able to be created via homebrew, my GM did like my idea of a creature created from sin in physical form (commonly called Sinspawn in Pathfinder) but instead having one come out the complete opposite and become a PC. Their middle-section bodies tend to vary depending on the sin (attractive for Lust, very muscular for Wrath, etc), but they all share the same features of a skull like head, claws, and digigrade legs and clawed feet.
12:23 It's kinda cool that I had the same character concept.
My most recent idea is a Devotion Paladin/Wild Sorcerer Tiefling.
He's terrified of his Wild side because when he first Wild Surged he cast Fireball on himself and damn near killed everyone in the bar around him. He sees himself as a danger to the people around him (an in-character reason to use Sorcerer spell slots for smites only at first). So he devoted himself to the Goddess of magic, Mystra, hoping she would remove his "curse" or at least teach him to control his perpetually growing sorcerous power
I've had this only as an idea, but when I write it down it become super long, so sorry for that in advanced.
Sam, a regular human.
He's not special in any way. He's honestly just a random npc. His backstory begins as regular guild member, weaving carpets for his family business. He lived an isolated life, spending most of his days drawing his own designs or taking in commissions. He rarely left the house and the furthest he's traveled was to the market when he was a small child. They used to deliver carpets to other outside towns and had commissions regularly come from them. But that was a task for his brothers instead of Sam.
One day, one of his brother just wanted to get a break from delivering and spend time with his children. Which the family understood and gave him permission. Although with no co-rider they reflected on who should fill his role, which eventually went to Sam who is someone who's never got to see the world. Sam agreed upon it and were off to the neighbouring town, just a 2 days travel.
They got the wagon loaded with the carpets that Sam made himself, and they were off to unfamiliar lands. During the night of camping their luck got turned and Sam and his brother was robbed by thieves. They threatened to give every valuables they had, which were unfortunately only some rations and carpets. In anger the thieves started cutting the carpets, which caused Sam to retaliate which only sparked chaos. Sam's brother has been robbed multiple times in the past, and because of the current circumstances he sacrificed and gave Sam enough time to run away back to civilization.
Sam being scared shitless and in distress for that night be just wanted to go back home, but because of the dangers that road could possess, he doesn't want to go alone. He eventually finds a tavern, an adventures' guild of powerful and strong people who travel far and wide. Sam's plan was to ask an adventuring party to be his guardians as they guide him so he can travel back home. But because he can't offer much and all, and they had so many things on their to do list that just becomes low on the list. But Sam doesn't insist because he knows they can kill him outright.
My plan for him is that during the journeys he begins to spark the hero within him. Sam doesn't consider himself as a "hero", but only as a regular carpet maker. Hero is a title too high for him. But being told he saved others and is a hero his confidence grows and get motivation to get better and purse this life.
Edit: Now I am in a creative rush so I'll just list a few more
Mad Damnian, Goblin Barbarian.
He goes by many names within the locals, but he refers himself as both Mad and Ian. He's one of the most wanted men in the region with hundreds of gold coins as the reward for his capture. His crime? Disturbing the peace, lack of manners and minor thieving. It all started with him just stealing a coat which he cherishes more than anything. After that Mad began stealing jewellery and small wooden trinkets which he adorned his coat with.
But also one or few of the things he's stolen and adorned his coat with was powerful and mythical totems that radiates energy enough to exceed human strength, thus giving him his barbarian abilities.
Stanfield, AKA "The Titan God", human fighter who could multiclass to barbarian (idk)
The Titan God still makes soldiers and monstrous beasts shiver in fear when hearing that name, even decades after his disappearance. Many suggests that his disappearance is caused by his passing, or that he still lurks around in the world. He was a legendary warrior. But the man behind his plate dragon helmet, Stanfield wanted an out from the fighting. It brought him wealth and glory, but for no purpose. An out is eventually if given to him, the birth of his daughter.
He spent the next decade and a half raising his daughter in his handmade tavern which he ran as well. It was themed after Stanfield's old days as The Titan God, which bought in customers as it was a small market for themed taverns. During this time he gained masses of weight (like he weighs 500 lbs, with muscles underneath the fat) but he was happy.
Stanfield's daughter eventually and sadly died from an illness and his tavern was burned to the ground after an attack. And with nothing left to his life, he reunited with the legendary armor and returned to his life of adventuring and fighting, because that was all he had left.
Gwen Hilda, human fighter (yes I like human fighters. I live vanilla ice cream)
An ex-archer mercenary who was discharged from the military due to "excessive drinking"
Bone, tiefling bard
A street urchin who was picked up, sheltered and feed by a "whore house"
Sevin O'Nein, half-elf wild magic sorcerer.
A puppeteer who used his magic to bring life in to his puppets. He loved performing for the children in the streets, bringing them a sense of joy in their lives. One of the children stood out for him because it was a face he will never forget, the face of agony and pain as it burned to crisps with screams of pain in front of Sevin's very own eyes. When casting one of his illusory spells he mistakenly casted fireball killing most of the children in his audience, and almost even himself. Sevin wasn't convicted for the crime because of a studier of wild magic defended him and was counted as an accident. But it doesn't change his mentality as he now spends his days in mental distress and agony for the lives that was lost and he swore to never cast spells that could harm others. Sevin began adventuring to train and learn how his magic works so he could possibly prevent something like that to occur once again.
A bard with a curse he will allways have one more charisma then anybody he’s speaking to so that means if sombody he’s talking to has 1 he has 2 one of my fav characters
Altion "Tik-Tik" Galanodel. Pseudodragon Alchemist raised by an Elven Wizard. The idea is a recon/bombadier scout capable of flight, telepathy, and occasionally stinging.
My dragonborn sorcerer draconic bloodline with opposite alignment from who he was born as , causing him to have a personality disorder and being inconsistent in his decision making skills
So I have a twist on this put in a chromatic dragon as bloodline or race and non chromatic dragon as bloodline/race so it’s a literal split personality disorder and a there are literally to voices in there head telling them to do opposite things
@@wierdpeopleotherdude1422 yeah that was the idea ! That's what I meant by opposite alignment oops
@@AlexDudeCrazy sorry with the way you wrote it I thought it meant your character was evil while you’re bloodline was good or the other way around
I only got to play him for a few sessions but…
Long story short in the set up session where we were playing characters before we actually got to play our characters, we were tricked into a plot and ended up dying at the hands of God who didn’t want to be replaced. I was the only one that rolled a constitution check high enough to not immediately pass out, and when the God came closer I spat my blood in his face. He found me amusing and decided that he would resurrect me with strings attached. I gave DM discretion and said that he can move it how he wants to as to whether I’m going to be just a puppet or I can sever my ties or eventually being forced to betray the party or whatever. and I took a few spells that I normally don’t such as friends and disguise self so I can take on secret missions whenever I am being being used by the god. I was actually a little excited to play all of the possible scenarios for role-play
A bear that is so charismatic it convinces everyone it is human and eventually becomes a diplomate and
There is only one person who it failed to convince that is out to kill it.
lawful neutral rogue who picks locks for the challenge then turns around and sells the better locks he's made to the people who's locks he picked.
perfectly legal I tell you.
Unmariel, reborn undead life cleric.
For centuries, he was put asleep from the attack of an enemy church and a powerful spell. When he finally woke up, nature had done its course and Unmariel saw all of his acolytes and brothers dead. He wondered why he didn't stay dead and tried to exit the church, finding a whole new world to explore. Now he has to travel to bring his sleeping divinity back to praise and to find out how he became the thing he swore to destroy
Okay so, a human varient artificer making his own weaponry, including a four shot pepperbox and a two shot western style double-barrel rifle. But wait, there's more! His mind was fractured by an event in his past in which he saw the party he was traveling with be massacred in front of him, this caused his mind to fracture to deal with the loss and gave him amnesia, replacing the memories he had with them of memories he had with four voices taking the names and personalities of the party. Later on, to replace his companion he made with the battle smith subclass, was four prosthetic arms. It was Doc Ock with a glock and four voices in his head. Probably my best character yet.
My cousin once played a wizard gnome in a campaign he told me about. Basically he rolled for his stats and got the highest possible roll for int. Then got the most unlucky, god awful rolls for everything else. So he decided to say that his gnome was dissabled and could barely move. Some time into the campaign they decided to get a backpack and have the barbarian wear the disabled gnome wizard ,who had the intelligence of god, on his back in battle.
I have one concept for an Oath of Conquest paladin where he starts as a simple town guard captain with like four levels in fighter. Idea is to have him rise higher and higher, becoming a militia man, then a general, then a marshal or something. Just basically make him a mounting war hero as time marches forward.
One of my favorites was a Reflavored Archane Archer to be a gunslinging bounty hunter. The archane arrows were either recontextualized to be things like instead of binding arrow, it was a bolo or were bullets instead of arrows like Piercing shot being just a really low density over powdered round. My stats were weird as I had rolled stats with a method we used at the table of 6 d4 drop the lowest, and rolled decent stats. Highest was an 18 lowest a 10. So I stacked it 18 Int, 16 con, 15 Dex, 15 Charisma, 13 wis, 10 strength. (Dex is a better build, fight me). I played a aasimar, and He was essentially Erron Black from the mortal kombat franchise.
A "bipolar" dragonborn that's just a hydraborn(exactly how it sounds)one head always casting an illusion spell all 3 different alignments and everyday there's a chance of a different head to take over for that day (1d4 1&2 for the middle head 3 for one and 4 for the other)
I really wanna play Klaus, a tiefling rogue. Klaus is a demon that leaches off of peoples happiness in order to receive inspiration (homebrew stuff). the happier person he leeches off, the higher die he gets. However instead of making everyone miserable, Klaus sneaks presents into people pockets and benefits from their joy.
Mine would have to be The Hairy Scary Babaloo, a hermit, circle of mutation druid gnome. He was raised in the deep wilds until one day he was captured by a giant spider. After managing to escape he had to learn from a young age survive on his own by enhancing his physical capabilities, and those of the animals around him. As a way of scaring away any would be dangers he takes the form of a hairy version of any creature because that is what he remembers most of the spider. I just love the idea of a paranoid gnome turning into a hairy alligator, snake, or other fun ideas to scare away enemies. beware The Hairy Scary Babaloo!
The Circle of mutation druid here is from grimhollow. It's very OP and I love it.
A warlock who serves a patron that doesn’t actually exist, instead making a pact with an eldritch god of deception. Part of the player’s development is unwittingly making their “patron” more powerful while simultaneously slowly realizing that he or she is serving something non existent and bringing about the end of the world.
A band of bards and a rogue mastermind play through:Metalocalypse.
An accidental Warlock (doesn't know he made a pact) who thinks he is a sorcerer
I've had an idea for a Halfling Cleric of Urogalan. Just this miserable grave digging sod along the lines of Marvin from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I think it would be fun to play something so diametrically opposed to the typical life loving Halfling ways.
Got GM approval to play a a Githyaki but without any mind mojo, as they had been raised by adoptive parents.
he goal was to unify the gith races by reaching out to the gods of both races.
I have never played DnD but if I could I would absolutely use either Lucian or Samski (two characters of mine. Though they'd have to be in homebrew settings.)
Lucian is a trans man vampire who was a elf before being turned. He lived in a large city, and spent his childhood trying to defy his parents forcing him to be a girl despite his loud and major protest and vocalizations on how much it emotionally and mentally upset him. Eventually he ran away as a teen, and was turn into a vampire while living on the streets. Eventually an older vampire who had heard his story and empathized with Lucian, would take him under his wing as a parental figure and mentor. During this time Lucian picked his name, and would learn magic and potion-brewing. He'd later get a job as a baker for a local bakery, and move out of his mentor's place. Eventually he'd meet an adventuring party and go on quest. I think thst he'd be an excellent healer and support to a DnD party.
Samski on the other hand, is a hybrid of an elf and a revived frozen zombie. I won't go into depth about his backstory as it's quite long and has a lot of stuff that is me using his backstory to cope with trauma. But I think him being a fighter- sorcerer multi-class with a focus on fighter (since his character tries to deny that he has magic and can use magic) but during the course if the campaign grows to become more comfortable with his magic, but still is a dominant fighter.
These characters are already in a story I'm working on, but I do think they'd be cool to see by themselves without the other members of their story in a DnD campaign.
Sooooo..... a little history to this one. Corgis (the dog breed) are said to have the markings on them because they are the marks of saddles and reigns that were used by fairies when they apparently brought them to
England.
A corgi riding, barbDruid, fairy who flies into a bloody rage at threat to their corgi. Will 100% stab through your eyes to tear apart your brain if you touch their precious little boi.
Twin half mushroom Goblins/gnomes. Found and ate a cursed mushroom as children, but since neither consumed the entire shroom, they become part shroom, part goblin. But since they both ate the same shroom, they become connected by the mycelium hivemind, and now share a single mind. They have telepathy over short distances, or in proximity of other mushrooms. Since the twins have separate bodies, they can act independently of each other, but cannot think without each other. Kinda like siamese twins, but inverted.
So it's not D&D but kinda is. I play Starfinder, which is Pathfinder in space more or less. The Starfinder society character I made is a Sonic the hedgehog-inspired character. He is a Ysoki (ratfolk in the game) Armorstrom Soldier and at his level he is, he can as a run action run 420 anywhere on the map..in a single round. And because of how run action mechanics work in-game, can fly at 400 feet a round. In vehicle chases, he will literally jump out and run beside the enemy vehicle spouting insults about how slow they are. He will then jump on their vehicle, and being a soldier with a big minigun held 1 handed, gun them down at point-blank, before running back to the party's vehicle. The best part is with being in heavy armor with a high AC of like 39 energy and 41 Kentic, he is incredibly hard to hit. Made even harder with feats that boost AC against AoO and ranged attacks.
I was taking a nap during my lunch break and this literally woke me up: An orc bard.
But wait there's more.
He tried to go the bard's college but they wouldn't accept a full-blooded orc so he just went to a college who luckily had a bard group for him to join.
At least he thought they were bards. They danced and shouted in rhythm with each other, many of the words rhymed too.
Yep, he's a cheerleader. Skirt, sweater, long socks, pompoms. The whole shebang.
His bardic inspiration comes out as cheers but he is still an orc so:
"Ra ra ree, kick them in the knee! Ra ra rass, kick them in the other knee!"
OR: "D fence!(yes he holds up a D in one hand and a piece of fencing in the other) Over and over.
His vicious mockery is mean cheers.
He carries around a giant megaphone too(like this 📣).
He wears a blonde wig because he thinks he's supposed to.(nobody told him otherwise)
Meet Marbog the Powderpuff.
Husband and Wife Artificers who have developed technology to make use of the souls of their enemies. One contraption they built is a horseless carriage which revolutionizes the city they live in. In their later years society learns of what their machines run on and are run out of the city. Upon learning how their constructs are looked upon they decide to change their ways and retire. One of their final acts is to take a deal with a patron to change the source of the power for their constructs. Regular input of magic keeps the constructs operating. Finally they take on students from Royal families to teach this Artificer Engineer skill.
Hexblade (Fiend)/Bard who won a Gold Viol from a demon and offered a open challenge to it whenever it pleases.
Oh come on, i want to know what happens with Peddlerock!
Professor Enochian Phishbole, a marine varient of a Warforged. He is an Artificer Artillerist who long ago commanded a small navy and defended the harbor town of the Fisher King. His head is a Fishtank with mana-like liquid inside and Gibberish the Goldfish, which acts as his pet. The seams on the tank have various runes that give him his access to the five senses without having the required receptors such as eyes or a mouth.
After the war came to end The Professor decided to turn his attention away from warfare and towards gaining knowledge. His first act was to learn to read and write. Taking up residency in a library he spent over a year or more trying to grasp the concept of language that was not spoken, he remained nameless up until this point, however did respond when people referred to him as “The Fishbowl Man”.
Warforged often take up the nicknames given to them by their friends, colleagues and superiors though they also name themselves after their rank, job title or something that describes an aspect of themselves. The Professor’s name comes from a theory he had, ie: *longer names give importance*.
Enochian comes from a bit of religious text in which the name Enoch means "trained and vowed, dedicated; profound". The last name Phishbole is both a reference to the fishtank-like appearance of his head and the fact that his first attempts at spelling were done phonetically. Proud of his accomplishments he kept the name, considering it the first victory in his quest for knowledge. “Professor” is admittedly an honorary title as he has never attended professional school and instead is self-taught (anti-warforge sentiment kept him out of the schools of his preference).
He has seen the way his people are treated and now seeks to uplift them by creating a culture all their own. As such he is studying Sociology, History, Archeology, Anthropology, etc to understand how to do so. The idea of the Lord of Blades or the Great Becoming One disgust him and he has also set up various spies and agents to aid in sabotaging them at any given opportunity.
While on a dig in some ancient Dwarven Ruins he stumbles across a strange compass with a sundial acting as its protective lid. It is actually a cursed item. To anyone under a certain level, they see a simple compass, to anyone with a good Perception they would see if the task that was done was either a good thing or a bad thing via a little meter, but if you were to get an additional roll you would see where you sit on the morality chart... it is literally Phishbole's Moral Compass. (Destiny says he is to be evil, but he refuses to play as a puppet of Fate and as such he is openly using the compass to defy the will of the Gods and play for the side of good instead)
In fact, the entire reason he has Gibberish the Goldfish is because of the compass. Meeting a Wandering Trader, Phishbole saw amongst the wares, a goldfish in a busted bowl. The fish hadn't been attended to in a long time and was desperately trying to live in water just under it's own dorsal fin.
After consulting the compass he scooped up the poor animal and plopped him in his tank, claiming that the animal is speaking nonsense The Professor named him Gibberish and as long as he stays in the liquid of the tank then Gibberish will never suffer from Old Age or Hunger, essentially making the fish immortal.
He is almost monomaniacal when it comes to his goals, only accepting "simple tasks" such as the campaign, because it will further his various schemes, he has even betrayed Party Members before (cleared it with the DM first) because they had something he needed to complete his task. But after every dubious act he consults the compass and then will go off and compete various good deeds to make up for the bad karma he has accrued. The thing is, he doesn't explain the importance of the compass to anyone and so to the rest of the Party, he is a basically a mad scientist who gets strangely obsessive about helping people for some reason.
He is a lot of fun to play, loud when he speaks, brooding when he needs to be, Egotistical, Narcissistic, always trying to out think everyone else, and a deadly shot with his Crossbow.
i had a warlock who instead of taking his soul and he took his mind and made him have 2 personality so at the beginning of every round roll d4 if its even you play as the lawful good guy if its odd evil guy
My Dragonborn Barbarian is actually a meat suit mecha for a level 20 kobold necromancer that will only come out of the meat suit of the suit:
A. Dies
B. Is downed, but not dead, but no other party members are conscious