gameplay wise this was really fun to rp as well as the homebrew class had some restrictions starting with your con and str being capped at 12 AT MOST with even amulets of health and belts of strength couldnt increase it as 'your innate magic and perhaps fate touch from whatever accident granted you your innate magic prevents whatever injuries and mortal limitations from being alleviated as if they were the cost by fate itself for this' with than you could have a total of 17 spells with aside from the joker cards which each could have WHATEVER spell you wanted on them which does also mean you could make your joker a 5th level spell or below which would be upcast to 5th level like warlock spells so they scale later in the game, your other cards would be too numerous to EACH have a unique spell but luckily and again, almost as if ordained by fate itself, you could hold roughly 17 spells which again, ignoring the jokers means you could have 4 casts of 13 chosen spells at any given time AND this works like wizard and cleric prep where you choose when you make your cards (you can make them during short rests or if you dont need to sleep like if your undead for example, you could even make them during long rests) with on top of that, you ALWAYS have access to some additional spells being a reskined eldtrich blast called flying card, a reskined sword burst called, card burst, spray of cards, a reskined version of cloud of daggers called cloud of cards, a reskined version of blade barrier called card barrier, and a reskined version of blade of disaster all following the warlock spell slot level progression meaning you only get spray of cards and cloud of cards when you get your 2nd level spell upcast level, card barrier when you get your first chosen 6th level spell, and card of disaster when you get your first 9th level spell and you also got a unique version of shield with all of these not using spell slots PER SE but still having a unique mechanic where they use your cards themselves meaning you can either cast your non damage spells cause again, you cant use evocation, necromancy, or cleric/druid related spells being restricted to abjuration, transmuation, enchantment, and illusion or you can expend your cards at 1 card per dice with for both card barrier and card of disaster, we said that card barrier was 3 cards per dice and card of disaster was 4 and both of those 2 were once a day casts anyways cause 'they drained you too much and needed a long rest between each use' with cloud of cards was once per short rest and only spray of cards, card burst, and flying card were as free as you had cards left to use. all of this paired with me making my magic items focused on ace and evasion with a ring of evasion and a ring protection fashioned as a bracelet of evasion and a bracelet of protection as well as a cloak of protection with the dm was cool and also let my shield be a bracelet that made a magic barrier of force especially since it was our first magic item and was a shield of rebuke i kept till the end of the campaign especially cause he also let me use it as a reaction my proficency modifer times per day which saved my ass more times than i care to count as i stuck to 10 con and 6 str with 20 chr cause that was my spellcasting modifer as a magician with than i even maxed out my dex cause i did a 2 level dip into warlock for armor of shadows and the great old one telepathy ability (didnt bother with the patron stuff and me and the dm decided to ignore it) with than a 2 level dip into wizard with i chose divination to again, save my ass some more with my feats were keen mind, alert, and i than just put asi's into my dex and chr with some into int and wis for the saves. all in all it was hella fun to play a charlatan wizard capable of casting 9th level spells but at the same time never actually able of ACTUALLY casting even just a simple 2nd level spell properly always believing himself to be a fraud and a shame even as he started to make demi planes consistantly and with a unique arcane artifact my dm made cause in his hellscape, having cards run out cause i had to keep blasting at times was a challenge, he let me AT FUCKING EXPENSIVE FOR MID GAME ADVENTURES AND EVEN SOME LATE GAME ADVENTURERS make a magic item and retconned in a new feature to my class which we decided should be a level 1 feature being that your constantly slow healing over time effect allows you to not need to sleep, eat, or drink as your body basically just subsits on breathing in magic itself and is constantly healing itself and in no need of SLEEP meaning you can spend your long rests simply making cards and with my jacked perception stat i hard focused along with insight since i got to start with both my backround and chracter class, slight of hand, pressuasion, performance, and deception, i would basically keep watch over everyone until eventually we got to the point where my jokers would ALWAYS have 1 demiplane card if not 2 or 3 and often when battles would start to go bad, i would call forth a demiplane arena i would use to aide my friends as the mastermind of the plane and try to control and turn the fights in our favor though the dm also used the 'you subsist on breathing in magic itself' to their advantage at times letting people hit me with a dispel magic which in low magic density areas, would LITERALLY suffocate me in a wide range as i would have to try to run to an area where magic existed with we agreed that people could see a LOT of magic on me which would LOOK LIKE i was casting a spell so people would think 'oh shit hes channeling something, i should take this chance to shut this down!' only to than basically drown me without realizing thats what they were doing.
I loved meeting y’all! It was awesome. For the record I did recognize your wife’s voice I was just very shook in the moment😭😭 Feel free to come back to the store tho I’ll give y’all some discounts lmao
The whole “you can’t make the same character twice” I feel like is pretty true. Twice now I’ve had a campaign fall out and end relatively quickly after they began. Both times I really liked my characters, and so I just played them again. And both times, even though I’ve kept the same through lines and traits, the party and world have ultimately changed how my character acted in ways I couldn’t predict.
There was a time when I was depressed and couldn’t play my main guy (his name is Cain) because I had a falling out with a group. Ever since then I played different characters with a different skill set. But whenever I tried to make“Cain” again, replicating the multiclass and gimmicks, it felt like something was off and I didn’t want to play that copy character. Well, at least I liked playing “copy characters” with different personalities and have a single aspect of Cain’s kit dialed higher. That was a year ago. Now I’m alright and still playing as Cain, if the game allows all players to be powerful. Or I play as his kid variation who is very fun to roleplay as, probably a lot more than his adult-self. I’ve made many more characters that are my stylings and hard multiclass ideas, but that dude is my champion. So much so that half my DnD friends just refer me as Cain instead of my real name. Character references: Dante, Deadpool, Red Hood, Toji Fushiguro, Kevin MacCallister, Caelus, Bennett
One character I have in development is a undead gunslinger, he was sewn together from the parts of legendary heroes that were considered their “best parts” things like the fastest Draw, the best eyesight, even an arcane tattoo or two that no one else could copy in truth. He travels for the sake of trying to live up to all the legacy’s defiled to make him just for the sake of winning a war. He feels unworthy of his life cause it in practice ruins and mutilates those who died with honor and glory, so he throws himself into danger for the sake of it. So that way he could try and be just as great and grand despite in the shadows.
Oh dang, that’s crazy cool I love that. It makes me curious of how he came to be and who was responsible for sewing him together. It also reminds me a lot of the book Frankenstein. Really though, that’s super cool. I would love to hear more.
Question: Is the science a backbone, structure, or basis? Is it integrated with the art or are they separate and distinct? Idk I don’t cook and I wanna know.
@EmilyMemily-it3xp the full saying is "cooking is an art with a little bit of science, while baking is a science with a little bit of art." It references how they are different; Baking requires complex ratios and formulas, making it less forgiving. Meanwhile cooking is a lot more free form, you can get the same outcome by following a thousand different processes. So in the words of Bilbo Baggins, "All of them all at once, I suppose."
@@herosam93 Oh, ok. So “science” is physical restrictions on what can function as a food, whereas art is what tastes good? Meaning, cooking has few restrictions leaving you open to creativity, whereas baking leaves little open? Edit: Also, thanks!
7:15 There are 5 steps 7:30 Step 1: List your favourite characters and find the throughline between them 10:12 Step 2: Identify the core conflict in the story, either individual or at the campaign level; to find the core battle that your character is going to have 11:30 Step 3: Make your 'trauma' fit within the campaign, tie it to the conflict from step 2 12:45 Step 4: Figure out want vs need, internal conflict which may or may not be achieved but can be progressed 14:26 Step 5: Talk to your DM about your character progression ideas 15:35 Last point: Go with the flow, pursue the changes to these ideas that come up in game
I actually find that there is one trick that works more than anything else to make a unique character. You don't have to plan out all the things that make them unique. Instead, start be figuring out the archetypical, most generic version of the character you want to make, and pick _just one thing_ about them that contradicts that archetype. Make a Rogue who's too trusting, a Wizard who's learned a lot of misinformation, a greedy Cleric, a Barbarian who's well versed in proper etiquette, or a nearsighted sharpshooter who wears glasses. Once you have a contradiction for your character, you can build from there by asking yourself questions about why they're like that, how it affects them, and what makes them pursue the career they're in despite it.
I've made a med-huge(at lvl7) character who's specialty is hand to hand and grappling, tanky as hell, comes from a criminal past and he's in his twilight years for his race which is about 300yrs total. But his quirk is he's taken up cooking over the years as a therapeutic activity. I plan on introducing him to the group as hired muscle
My friend made a greedy Cleric. It was so fun and annoying omg, but yeah it kinda made it difficult for the party since he charges for gold every time he heals people.
My character is a changeling who was adopted by humans and then ran out of his city after he fell in love with the mayor’s daughter and told her his secret. He’s overly friendly because he’s terrified of being alone but he also believes the people who called him a monster. He fights at a range because if he drops to half health he has to make a concentration check to maintain his disguise and he’s oddly aggressive in combat for such a cheerful guy. He also loves making desserts for people.
That hiding a piece of yourself while acting like its all alright was a core theme for my first Homebrew race an OC they exploit people under false context they act super innocent like there child body or play into how adult they truly are but forgo themselves as a person which makes NPC options go dummy crazy
I think I get the cooking analogy. If I come in with a character that's Tikka Masala and you're making Garlic Bread, they still work great together with some adjustments, like I might bring down the spice level so the party can enjoy it, while you might make Garlic Naan to help mesh with the character at the table
As a DM, I put thought into the lives of key NPCs in my settings, just enough so that I have an idea of what sort of person they are. If the party decides to befriend them, I develop them a bit more. For a rare few, I get to give them their own short story.
Good video, I have a character concept already I just don’t have a group yet. My character is basically an Aasimar born to a human society. Her older brother who is also an Aasimar serves as competition for her. Think of it like a Thor and Loki marvel situation. Both are great but her brother takes advantage of his age and quickly latches onto certain concepts before her. Her admiration slowly over time turned into Envy and she slowly feels inferior. The truth is her brother does this because he wants her to have a normal life and not be the spotlight all the time. I haven’t made the part of when or how she leaves because I don’t have a group yet but I am excited for when I get to play her.
my wife and best friend are really good at roleplaying and acting so they tend to be the "main characters" when we play dnd. I have a harder time being the interesting character that gets the spotlight. I tend to be the side character that lowkey carries the party in niche areas ( i like building characters that are good at a specific thing). This video helped me a lot to help make a character that makes roleplaying and acting much easier as I have a difficult time fully " becoming" my character.
Thank you, Jay, that head chef analogy toward the end basically explains how I viewed my "job" as GM in the role of character creation in a more concise manner than I could have put into words :P
I had a character I made that was a Skeleton who was kept alive using a Magic item, specifically a necklace. He pretends to be a normal person but it absolutely terrified of dispell magic because he is not sure what it will do to him and he loves being “alive”. He ends up leading this almost Robin Hood like group of bandits that try to help out people of less wealthy towns in exchange for shelter. Most of his “bandits” are aware of what he is but he’s such a good guy that they don’t care at this point.
Usually i pick a part of my personality and turn it up to eleven when i make a new character, some examples of this are: Braddley Dough, the half orc fighter from a family of great bakers. With his greatest flaw being racism and stupidity. He treats mages and any arcane user as a different and inferior species. Percival Tatsu-Tengu Nephele Richarles Mc.Condor, the Air Genasi Bard with greek ancestry and a nudist tendency. He's also a rich noble from a toxic family household, his mom was the only one that supported his artistic talents, after she passed away, he fell for all the lustfull things in life: Women, men, alcohol, parties, etc... These two are my favorites, but there's a thousand ways for you to try and do the same
My most recent character is a shade, a being who exists between life and death through their own willpower. Her physical form is just a manifestation of her memories of her past life as a high elf. Her class is a special rogue that can use radiant energy like a cleric for their sneak attack. Think of them as an agent of a church that has to deal with dirty situations of the criminal element. She has taken up a level in cleric for her devotion to Corelion. But I want her to open up more and form connections better with others.
My character is a lightfoot halfling fighter/rogue who survives by robbing rich noble’s graves for valuables. His family were the hamlet’s morticians and he’s very different from what you’d expect from a halfling, normally they’re really sociable and friendly but my character is more rough around the edges. He’s quiet and broody. He does have a dumber and wilder side to him but he doesn’t show it if he can help it. His family and entire hamlet was brutally murdered by a half Dragonborn half Hobgoblin named Ra’Gulg the Butcher. He’s one of those bloodthirsty bandit chief types who literally just wanted to kill my character’s village because he stumbled on them accidentally. Ra’Gulg has lightning magic alongside being a monk and ended up scarring my character’s eye permanently. I basically made him a Sasuke type wanting revenge but an unconventional one since his race is seen as the nice and merciful type so he’s often underestimated and made fun of which leads to his wilder moments. He has anger issues unbecoming of a Halfling as well as a Wolverine level of potty mouth so he’s pretty funny when he gets mad. He’s a bit weird though, being from a family that specializes in preparing dead bodies so he’s very morbid but knowledgeable about death and his ultimate goal is to learn necromancy in order to revive his dead hamlet to help take part in his revenge on Ra’Gulg. He basically wants the zombified remains of his people to rip the dude apart. But since he has no aptitude for magic or at the very least he doesn’t believe he does so he basically has a spell book he stole from a dead necromancer’s grave that he can’t do anything with at the moment. I haven’t got a chance to fully play out his story since it’s hard to find good groups but I keep hoping one day I’ll be able to play with people so my character can finally get his revenge 😂
So my current character Todoh at the beginning of the campaign I only gave them 1 goal: To Make Friends. They are the shadow of a paladin of Helm who took what he saw as darkness inside himself and separated it from himself making a shadow. Helm and the Raven Queen gave life and well Helm did this so Todoh could try to steer him back to the light and accept the things the paladin didn't like about himself. All that is what Todoh recent learned. What is so great about this is that their original goal is that now that they have it, they now have something to lose. The more friends they make the more people they feel responsible for protecting. This is a constant struggle because todoh believes they are expendable if it keeps their friends safe. They have to learn to not jump in front of every danger that comes their way.
A great example of goku still being empathetic even in the most serious of scenarios is when he continues to fight moro, he sees this guy with such incredible power but once he realizes their massive gap in actual fighting skill he crouches down in front of him and just asks "have you ever trained?"
i notice that i enjoy very wildly different characters. i am in love with the drab/abrasive tactical mastermind such as General Tullius or Makoto Nijiima, but i also love characters that are categorically silly like Denji, i also deeply desire a more feminine character but often have trouble getting that across. i also tend to have characters' turning moments be "lock in" more so than traumatizing
I made an artificer thief for a one off of one of the only times i had actually played dnd and his name was Sneakore very reserved until it actually came to doing things, then and only then was he very extra like doing backflips to get over traps and stuff it was great
I character idea I'm messing around with is a Paladin, Oath of Conquest, who's desire for supremacy and revolution conflicts with a kinder, compassionate soul within him. How does one balance dominance and bloodlust with a disdain for oppression and abuse of power? If he topples those in power, is he any better?
I so many character like but my core resicipy is undergod plus hardship plus one element that brake the normal mold is a winner. My latest NPC is for a Halloween Dragonlance or Ravenloft Dungoncraft modual. If you dont know what that is it is how new moduals are made for Adventure League events. But the NPC is named Nibbles and he wants you to stop the Sisterhood of Morgane from doing the ritual of rejuvinations which will cause the candy of the Night of the Black Rose festival to spead a plague that kids of the city you are in. If you question Nibbles more you figure out the Kinder is also a vampire. He was named Nibbles because he is so small and his appitite is so little to drain a medium size humanoid he would have to Nibble at them for days. He is freindly and nice but I would not call him good because the main reason he is doing this is because the ritual made the city a bad hunting area for a decade after.
Hello Jay, just wondering if you have any advice about playing a character with imposter syndrome? My first ever d&d session is starting and I want to try celebrity adventurer's scion background who convinced he's nothing special. Similar to Ciaphas Cain or Felix Jaeger from Warhammer 40k and fantasy.😊
You've probably had this requested before, but (as a gamer) I would love it if you could do a character study/deconstruction on some of the characters from the Horizon game franchise. Kotollo, Aloy, Edend... I love these guys and I'd love to see your opinions on any of them. Seriously, HZD/HFW have cool stories and great characters. My dad and I have been deconstructing the Tenakth as a whole (it started as a funny little comment under The Game Theorists and it's up to *9 pages* at the time this comment is written) and it's been.. eye opening. Seriously, I think these guys should have a little attention brought to them. Love your videos!
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gameplay wise this was really fun to rp as well as the homebrew class had some restrictions starting with your con and str being capped at 12 AT MOST with even amulets of health and belts of strength couldnt increase it as 'your innate magic and perhaps fate touch from whatever accident granted you your innate magic prevents whatever injuries and mortal limitations from being alleviated as if they were the cost by fate itself for this' with than you could have a total of 17 spells with aside from the joker cards which each could have WHATEVER spell you wanted on them which does also mean you could make your joker a 5th level spell or below which would be upcast to 5th level like warlock spells so they scale later in the game, your other cards would be too numerous to EACH have a unique spell but luckily and again, almost as if ordained by fate itself, you could hold roughly 17 spells which again, ignoring the jokers means you could have 4 casts of 13 chosen spells at any given time AND this works like wizard and cleric prep where you choose when you make your cards (you can make them during short rests or if you dont need to sleep like if your undead for example, you could even make them during long rests) with on top of that, you ALWAYS have access to some additional spells being a reskined eldtrich blast called flying card, a reskined sword burst called, card burst, spray of cards, a reskined version of cloud of daggers called cloud of cards, a reskined version of blade barrier called card barrier, and a reskined version of blade of disaster all following the warlock spell slot level progression meaning you only get spray of cards and cloud of cards when you get your 2nd level spell upcast level, card barrier when you get your first chosen 6th level spell, and card of disaster when you get your first 9th level spell and you also got a unique version of shield with all of these not using spell slots PER SE but still having a unique mechanic where they use your cards themselves meaning you can either cast your non damage spells cause again, you cant use evocation, necromancy, or cleric/druid related spells being restricted to abjuration, transmuation, enchantment, and illusion or you can expend your cards at 1 card per dice with for both card barrier and card of disaster, we said that card barrier was 3 cards per dice and card of disaster was 4 and both of those 2 were once a day casts anyways cause 'they drained you too much and needed a long rest between each use' with cloud of cards was once per short rest and only spray of cards, card burst, and flying card were as free as you had cards left to use. all of this paired with me making my magic items focused on ace and evasion with a ring of evasion and a ring protection fashioned as a bracelet of evasion and a bracelet of protection as well as a cloak of protection with the dm was cool and also let my shield be a bracelet that made a magic barrier of force especially since it was our first magic item and was a shield of rebuke i kept till the end of the campaign especially cause he also let me use it as a reaction my proficency modifer times per day which saved my ass more times than i care to count as i stuck to 10 con and 6 str with 20 chr cause that was my spellcasting modifer as a magician with than i even maxed out my dex cause i did a 2 level dip into warlock for armor of shadows and the great old one telepathy ability (didnt bother with the patron stuff and me and the dm decided to ignore it) with than a 2 level dip into wizard with i chose divination to again, save my ass some more with my feats were keen mind, alert, and i than just put asi's into my dex and chr with some into int and wis for the saves.
all in all it was hella fun to play a charlatan wizard capable of casting 9th level spells but at the same time never actually able of ACTUALLY casting even just a simple 2nd level spell properly always believing himself to be a fraud and a shame even as he started to make demi planes consistantly and with a unique arcane artifact my dm made cause in his hellscape, having cards run out cause i had to keep blasting at times was a challenge, he let me AT FUCKING EXPENSIVE FOR MID GAME ADVENTURES AND EVEN SOME LATE GAME ADVENTURERS make a magic item and retconned in a new feature to my class which we decided should be a level 1 feature being that your constantly slow healing over time effect allows you to not need to sleep, eat, or drink as your body basically just subsits on breathing in magic itself and is constantly healing itself and in no need of SLEEP meaning you can spend your long rests simply making cards and with my jacked perception stat i hard focused along with insight since i got to start with both my backround and chracter class, slight of hand, pressuasion, performance, and deception, i would basically keep watch over everyone until eventually we got to the point where my jokers would ALWAYS have 1 demiplane card if not 2 or 3 and often when battles would start to go bad, i would call forth a demiplane arena i would use to aide my friends as the mastermind of the plane and try to control and turn the fights in our favor though the dm also used the 'you subsist on breathing in magic itself' to their advantage at times letting people hit me with a dispel magic which in low magic density areas, would LITERALLY suffocate me in a wide range as i would have to try to run to an area where magic existed with we agreed that people could see a LOT of magic on me which would LOOK LIKE i was casting a spell so people would think 'oh shit hes channeling something, i should take this chance to shut this down!' only to than basically drown me without realizing thats what they were doing.
After hearing your cooking analogy, part of me wishes there was a Chef variation for Bards
I loved meeting y’all! It was awesome. For the record I did recognize your wife’s voice I was just very shook in the moment😭😭 Feel free to come back to the store tho I’ll give y’all some discounts lmao
We now need someone to just full on fangirl over his wife and for some reason not recognize him lol
The whole “you can’t make the same character twice” I feel like is pretty true. Twice now I’ve had a campaign fall out and end relatively quickly after they began. Both times I really liked my characters, and so I just played them again. And both times, even though I’ve kept the same through lines and traits, the party and world have ultimately changed how my character acted in ways I couldn’t predict.
There was a time when I was depressed and couldn’t play my main guy (his name is Cain) because I had a falling out with a group. Ever since then I played different characters with a different skill set. But whenever I tried to make“Cain” again, replicating the multiclass and gimmicks, it felt like something was off and I didn’t want to play that copy character. Well, at least I liked playing “copy characters” with different personalities and have a single aspect of Cain’s kit dialed higher.
That was a year ago. Now I’m alright and still playing as Cain, if the game allows all players to be powerful. Or I play as his kid variation who is very fun to roleplay as, probably a lot more than his adult-self.
I’ve made many more characters that are my stylings and hard multiclass ideas, but that dude is my champion. So much so that half my DnD friends just refer me as Cain instead of my real name.
Character references: Dante, Deadpool, Red Hood, Toji Fushiguro, Kevin MacCallister, Caelus, Bennett
One character I have in development is a undead gunslinger, he was sewn together from the parts of legendary heroes that were considered their “best parts” things like the fastest Draw, the best eyesight, even an arcane tattoo or two that no one else could copy in truth.
He travels for the sake of trying to live up to all the legacy’s defiled to make him just for the sake of winning a war.
He feels unworthy of his life cause it in practice ruins and mutilates those who died with honor and glory, so he throws himself into danger for the sake of it. So that way he could try and be just as great and grand despite in the shadows.
Oh dang, that’s crazy cool I love that. It makes me curious of how he came to be and who was responsible for sewing him together. It also reminds me a lot of the book Frankenstein. Really though, that’s super cool. I would love to hear more.
Call him Patchy. The Patchwork Slinger
I’m stealing this for an NPC, I’m not asking permission
Love this.
This is actually pretty sick
As a chef, I appreciate the food analogy. Some that I would add is "cooking is an art with a little bit of science"
Question:
Is the science a backbone, structure, or basis? Is it integrated with the art or are they separate and distinct?
Idk I don’t cook and I wanna know.
@EmilyMemily-it3xp the full saying is "cooking is an art with a little bit of science, while baking is a science with a little bit of art." It references how they are different; Baking requires complex ratios and formulas, making it less forgiving. Meanwhile cooking is a lot more free form, you can get the same outcome by following a thousand different processes.
So in the words of Bilbo Baggins, "All of them all at once, I suppose."
@@herosam93 Oh, ok. So “science” is physical restrictions on what can function as a food, whereas art is what tastes good? Meaning, cooking has few restrictions leaving you open to creativity, whereas baking leaves little open? Edit: Also, thanks!
We need to fund raise a chair and ac for Jay's recording room.
If he named it Chairy II i think it'd fund in 5 minutes
Read this as a choir.
Couch is more comfortable tbh why have him sit on anything else?
7:15 There are 5 steps
7:30 Step 1: List your favourite characters and find the throughline between them
10:12 Step 2: Identify the core conflict in the story, either individual or at the campaign level; to find the core battle that your character is going to have
11:30 Step 3: Make your 'trauma' fit within the campaign, tie it to the conflict from step 2
12:45 Step 4: Figure out want vs need, internal conflict which may or may not be achieved but can be progressed
14:26 Step 5: Talk to your DM about your character progression ideas
15:35 Last point: Go with the flow, pursue the changes to these ideas that come up in game
I actually find that there is one trick that works more than anything else to make a unique character. You don't have to plan out all the things that make them unique. Instead, start be figuring out the archetypical, most generic version of the character you want to make, and pick _just one thing_ about them that contradicts that archetype. Make a Rogue who's too trusting, a Wizard who's learned a lot of misinformation, a greedy Cleric, a Barbarian who's well versed in proper etiquette, or a nearsighted sharpshooter who wears glasses. Once you have a contradiction for your character, you can build from there by asking yourself questions about why they're like that, how it affects them, and what makes them pursue the career they're in despite it.
I did exactly that. I made a half orc who be smol. She was fun.
I've made a med-huge(at lvl7) character who's specialty is hand to hand and grappling, tanky as hell, comes from a criminal past and he's in his twilight years for his race which is about 300yrs total. But his quirk is he's taken up cooking over the years as a therapeutic activity. I plan on introducing him to the group as hired muscle
My friend made a greedy Cleric. It was so fun and annoying omg, but yeah it kinda made it difficult for the party since he charges for gold every time he heals people.
@@ashrunzeda4099 You teach him a lesson with, "Why would I pay you when potions don't make me wait?"
Half-Orc Druid. He’s wierd, he expects everyone to be afraid of him, but he does his best to help everyone. This is my life!
Half orc artificer who be smol was mine. She was great
My character is a changeling who was adopted by humans and then ran out of his city after he fell in love with the mayor’s daughter and told her his secret. He’s overly friendly because he’s terrified of being alone but he also believes the people who called him a monster. He fights at a range because if he drops to half health he has to make a concentration check to maintain his disguise and he’s oddly aggressive in combat for such a cheerful guy. He also loves making desserts for people.
That hiding a piece of yourself while acting like its all alright was a core theme for my first Homebrew race an OC
they exploit people under false context they act super innocent like there child body or play into how adult they truly are but forgo themselves as a person
which makes NPC options go dummy crazy
I think I get the cooking analogy. If I come in with a character that's Tikka Masala and you're making Garlic Bread, they still work great together with some adjustments, like I might bring down the spice level so the party can enjoy it, while you might make Garlic Naan to help mesh with the character at the table
As a DM, I put thought into the lives of key NPCs in my settings, just enough so that I have an idea of what sort of person they are. If the party decides to befriend them, I develop them a bit more. For a rare few, I get to give them their own short story.
Good video, I have a character concept already I just don’t have a group yet. My character is basically an Aasimar born to a human society. Her older brother who is also an Aasimar serves as competition for her. Think of it like a Thor and Loki marvel situation. Both are great but her brother takes advantage of his age and quickly latches onto certain concepts before her. Her admiration slowly over time turned into Envy and she slowly feels inferior. The truth is her brother does this because he wants her to have a normal life and not be the spotlight all the time. I haven’t made the part of when or how she leaves because I don’t have a group yet but I am excited for when I get to play her.
Jay: I’m very empathetic.
Jay: 12:39
Do we let him cook or is he getting lost in the sauce?
my wife and best friend are really good at roleplaying and acting so they tend to be the "main characters" when we play dnd. I have a harder time being the interesting character that gets the spotlight. I tend to be the side character that lowkey carries the party in niche areas ( i like building characters that are good at a specific thing). This video helped me a lot to help make a character that makes roleplaying and acting much easier as I have a difficult time fully " becoming" my character.
Thank you, Jay, that head chef analogy toward the end basically explains how I viewed my "job" as GM in the role of character creation in a more concise manner than I could have put into words :P
I had a character I made that was a Skeleton who was kept alive using a Magic item, specifically a necklace. He pretends to be a normal person but it absolutely terrified of dispell magic because he is not sure what it will do to him and he loves being “alive”. He ends up leading this almost Robin Hood like group of bandits that try to help out people of less wealthy towns in exchange for shelter. Most of his “bandits” are aware of what he is but he’s such a good guy that they don’t care at this point.
You don't present short. You're a titan, Jay.
Usually i pick a part of my personality and turn it up to eleven when i make a new character, some examples of this are:
Braddley Dough, the half orc fighter from a family of great bakers. With his greatest flaw being racism and stupidity. He treats mages and any arcane user as a different and inferior species.
Percival Tatsu-Tengu Nephele Richarles Mc.Condor, the Air Genasi Bard with greek ancestry and a nudist tendency. He's also a rich noble from a toxic family household, his mom was the only one that supported his artistic talents, after she passed away, he fell for all the lustfull things in life: Women, men, alcohol, parties, etc...
These two are my favorites, but there's a thousand ways for you to try and do the same
Paused to video to message my DM. Thanks, Jay!
create unique spaghetti, gotcha
My most recent character is a shade, a being who exists between life and death through their own willpower. Her physical form is just a manifestation of her memories of her past life as a high elf. Her class is a special rogue that can use radiant energy like a cleric for their sneak attack. Think of them as an agent of a church that has to deal with dirty situations of the criminal element. She has taken up a level in cleric for her devotion to Corelion. But I want her to open up more and form connections better with others.
My character is a lightfoot halfling fighter/rogue who survives by robbing rich noble’s graves for valuables. His family were the hamlet’s morticians and he’s very different from what you’d expect from a halfling, normally they’re really sociable and friendly but my character is more rough around the edges. He’s quiet and broody. He does have a dumber and wilder side to him but he doesn’t show it if he can help it. His family and entire hamlet was brutally murdered by a half Dragonborn half Hobgoblin named Ra’Gulg the Butcher. He’s one of those bloodthirsty bandit chief types who literally just wanted to kill my character’s village because he stumbled on them accidentally. Ra’Gulg has lightning magic alongside being a monk and ended up scarring my character’s eye permanently. I basically made him a Sasuke type wanting revenge but an unconventional one since his race is seen as the nice and merciful type so he’s often underestimated and made fun of which leads to his wilder moments. He has anger issues unbecoming of a Halfling as well as a Wolverine level of potty mouth so he’s pretty funny when he gets mad. He’s a bit weird though, being from a family that specializes in preparing dead bodies so he’s very morbid but knowledgeable about death and his ultimate goal is to learn necromancy in order to revive his dead hamlet to help take part in his revenge on Ra’Gulg. He basically wants the zombified remains of his people to rip the dude apart. But since he has no aptitude for magic or at the very least he doesn’t believe he does so he basically has a spell book he stole from a dead necromancer’s grave that he can’t do anything with at the moment. I haven’t got a chance to fully play out his story since it’s hard to find good groups but I keep hoping one day I’ll be able to play with people so my character can finally get his revenge 😂
Every Tortle: My parents died. ....But thats pretty normal for us.
So my current character Todoh at the beginning of the campaign I only gave them 1 goal: To Make Friends.
They are the shadow of a paladin of Helm who took what he saw as darkness inside himself and separated it from himself making a shadow. Helm and the Raven Queen gave life and well Helm did this so Todoh could try to steer him back to the light and accept the things the paladin didn't like about himself. All that is what Todoh recent learned.
What is so great about this is that their original goal is that now that they have it, they now have something to lose. The more friends they make the more people they feel responsible for protecting. This is a constant struggle because todoh believes they are expendable if it keeps their friends safe. They have to learn to not jump in front of every danger that comes their way.
Character concept: a world famous garlic bread chef who gets bitten by a vampire
A great example of goku still being empathetic even in the most serious of scenarios is when he continues to fight moro, he sees this guy with such incredible power but once he realizes their massive gap in actual fighting skill he crouches down in front of him and just asks "have you ever trained?"
6:09 I genuinely burst out laughing at that image combined with the Weezer guitar riff.
Are there any character lessons we can learn from Emmet from The Lego Movie?
i notice that i enjoy very wildly different characters. i am in love with the drab/abrasive tactical mastermind such as General Tullius or Makoto Nijiima, but i also love characters that are categorically silly like Denji, i also deeply desire a more feminine character but often have trouble getting that across. i also tend to have characters' turning moments be "lock in" more so than traumatizing
I have some bad news about General Tullius. He died. Every single time I played the game.
The food analogy is the definition of ''Wait, lemme cook''
My favorite part of these videos is always the husband wife banter😂😂😂
I made an artificer thief for a one off of one of the only times i had actually played dnd and his name was Sneakore very reserved until it actually came to doing things, then and only then was he very extra like doing backflips to get over traps and stuff it was great
That Yung Gravy drop was unexpected 😂
I was just needing something like this and as soon as I open my UA-cam this video pops up lol, time to watch it.
I character idea I'm messing around with is a Paladin, Oath of Conquest, who's desire for supremacy and revolution conflicts with a kinder, compassionate soul within him. How does one balance dominance and bloodlust with a disdain for oppression and abuse of power? If he topples those in power, is he any better?
These edits 😂 great vid Jay
0:46 translation; "aw don't leave, I'll miss you"😢
I agree about characters, but the cooking thing is just you not having enough xp in front of the stoves 😂
I dont know about that ingredient analogy, taco bell is the same thing served 8 different ways
I so many character like but my core resicipy is undergod plus hardship plus one element that brake the normal mold is a winner. My latest NPC is for a Halloween Dragonlance or Ravenloft Dungoncraft modual. If you dont know what that is it is how new moduals are made for Adventure League events. But the NPC is named Nibbles and he wants you to stop the Sisterhood of Morgane from doing the ritual of rejuvinations which will cause the candy of the Night of the Black Rose festival to spead a plague that kids of the city you are in. If you question Nibbles more you figure out the Kinder is also a vampire. He was named Nibbles because he is so small and his appitite is so little to drain a medium size humanoid he would have to Nibble at them for days. He is freindly and nice but I would not call him good because the main reason he is doing this is because the ritual made the city a bad hunting area for a decade after.
Wife has returned, we can call off the search
Hello Jay, just wondering if you have any advice about playing a character with imposter syndrome? My first ever d&d session is starting and I want to try celebrity adventurer's scion background who convinced he's nothing special. Similar to Ciaphas Cain or Felix Jaeger from Warhammer 40k and fantasy.😊
I love garlic bread... I'm allergic to garlic, annoyingly.
Thank you for the tips❤
I cant understand what characters are my favorite :(
I always assume everyone is just a bit taller than me for some reason, meaning 5’6”-5’10”. 🤷🏻♀️
my charecter is a giant rat (small size), on whoom was cast the spell "awaken"
the thumbnails confusing, is it supposed to be "Make your character that work"?
No, no.... let him cook...
You've probably had this requested before, but (as a gamer) I would love it if you could do a character study/deconstruction on some of the characters from the Horizon game franchise. Kotollo, Aloy, Edend... I love these guys and I'd love to see your opinions on any of them. Seriously, HZD/HFW have cool stories and great characters. My dad and I have been deconstructing the Tenakth as a whole (it started as a funny little comment under The Game Theorists and it's up to *9 pages* at the time this comment is written) and it's been.. eye opening. Seriously, I think these guys should have a little attention brought to them. Love your videos!
Toronto
Might want to fix the grammar in the thumbnail
I would love the opportunity to meet your wife and yourself. If you are ever in SC.
The Food Channel propaganda is strong with this one.
Make your character a raging racist war criminal to make him truly special
He alluded to this at 10:08 .