I want to make a “failed” barbarian, his backstory would be that the tribe he was born into is only focused on how strong you are, how sculpted your body is, and how strong the creatures you can takedown are. Imagine him as looking like skinny Hercules and having an interest in cooking only. He wouldn’t be considered a combat character, unless you screwed with his cooking or insulted it which could result in a Dr. Jeckle/ Mr. Hyde transformation
I have a player at my table who works with this idea, only she just decided to dump strength while still being a barbarian. It's interesting to say the least, but it makes for a nice change of pace
This reminds me of Hicks from How to Train a Dragon instead: Still a good idea tho, you dont get such ideas played out very often succesfully without making them unnessesarly edgy or some stuff.
I've been wanting to try a character named Jubinan. Idk the race, but she'd definitely be a wizard of some kind. Her whole thing is that she's a god of knowledge, but she goes through an infinite cycle of learning all information on earth, then willingly forgetting it all so the enjoyment of learning can repeat forever and ever. When the campaign begins she's right at the start of cycle
I ended up having to ban multiple personality characters at my table when all five players wanted to be schizophrenic in one way or another. That session was insane and never made it out of the town before they were all dead or imprisoned.
Maybe it would be cool to have two players use the character. Each one would play their respective head, and every now and then would (like the character) bicker and fight for control of the character.
@@leviathan1082 oh yeah! That would be cool. Whenever one of them wants to take control while the other is using it, they have to roll. Or perhaps if they can’t decide who gets control, they could each roll for it. Highest roll wins.
A Kenku paladin who uses the voice mimicry thing to copy a hero from a puppet show he used to watch, so he constantly sounds like duddly do right and says stuff like "halt villain!" And "stop! In the name of justice!"
I have this amazing idea for a character that would require a bit of working with the DM to fit his backstory into the setting's lore. Get ready, this is a long one. Medrash was a member of a nomadic tribe of Bronze Dragonborn that wandered the desert. As he grew up, he felt the need to venture out on his own and left his tribe. He traveled the world, picking up some fighting skills along the way. But he eventually felt the calling of his family again and went to search for them. However, he never found his tribe. At least, he didn't find his tribe alive. He came across a desolate wasteland that had seemingly corrupted a small part of the desert. The Sea of Rust. Any metal that entered the Sea of Rust instantly decayed and crumbled into orange and red dust. he had to prepare himself before he could enter. As he searched the Sea of Rust, he found the remains of his tribe. Their bones were scattered across a battlefield marked by a giant crater. It was horrific. But, in the center of the crater, Medrash saw something gleaming through the rust. The most beautiful glaive he had ever seen lied there, untouched by the decay. Its blade, made of some steel-like metal, shone like the full moon, and perfect gold accents highlighted unknown runes carved into the metal and down the metal shaft. A crimson scarf, wrapped around the base of the blade, whipped in the wind. Medrash was enchanted by the beauty of the weapon and reached out to touch it. As he grabbed it, arcane energy surged through his arm and he bonded to it. The glaive was actually a cursed weapon, housing the spirit of an entity named Delron (who has a funny quirk of speaking in Shakespearean) within it. Grabbing the weapon formed a pact between Medrash and Delron, turning the Dragonborn into a warlock. Medrash is a Hexblade Warlock that would also have some levels in Fighter. He would likely have a story arc around accepting Delron as a friend while Delron learns to accept his situation. There could be a point where Delron is temporarily removed from the glaive and Medrash loses his warlock levels while Delron is trapped in a crystal or something (whatever the DM plans are fine with me). Eventually, the party rescues Delron and he is returned to his rightful home and he and Medrash become full friends.
I have an idea for a half elf who I really want to play, his whole shtick is that he is a great swordsman, but due to growing up on a farm he really would rather stick to helping animals, so he'd have a potential druid multiclass later on.
I had a great idea for a little goblin cleric. He considers himself as Thor, God of thunder (the actual one, not Marvel's one). The only problem is : he isn't. He is incredibly weak, but since Thor finds him hilarious, he secretly imbued him with great strength. The goblin forged himself a hammer "only he could lift" (actually, all his friends can lift it, but they pretend not to because they are nice). So he wanders around, trying to start a religion for him and just being a funny/pathetic goblin with a hammer that keeps yelling "kneel before me mortal" to all his ennemies, no matter how OP they are.
I once was talking with a guy who’s “character” was he would always play a guest character for his wife’s campaign for a bunch of new players (allowing him not to be the “DM’s Girlfriend” and was essentially an NPC for his wife’s plots. A co-DM if you will who took comic relief and filled out roles in the party that they lacked) and was looking for one shot character ideas for new concepts and I gave him the idea to role play… himself but if he was sucked into a fantasy world from real life. I told him to coordinate with the GM and when the party first meets him get her to describe his character as he was at that very moment but from a perspective of a medieval POV (have her describe him drinking from an odd red cylinder hip flask as he literally took a swig of coke from a can and his shirt with an odd white bird in a blue shirt and no pants as he looks at his Donald Duck T-Shirt.). Then have him explain that he was sitting down to play an overly complicated dice game with his friends and wife and suddenly is meeting everyone in a tavern. He would also be a little bit Deadpool and break the games 4th wall, occasionally calling PCs by their real names because they sounded like their friend or comment that aside from the party everyone sounds just like his wife OR when his wife does a voice for a burly manly man character, throw an odd comment about how that for some reason, that husky manly man’s voice makes him think of his wife *swoones*.
Started watching because I love them stories. Stayed because I like being called a sparkle of cosmic star dust turned into a cute muffin. Found a group on the discord server and have been playing with for 6 months now. 10/10
I don't have a name for it buts a neutral evil fashion obsessed headless horseman who is constantly searching for the perfect head to go with his latest outfits
@7:44 I never thought my comment would be picked for one of these videos, so thank you Dave for bringing my assortment of characters to life so brilliantly (you nailed Nathan Explosion btw)!!! I have Hero Forge links to all of them, so if people want to see them, I'm happy to oblige!
Lol i can do the voices of each of the members of dethklok as well as Doctor Rockso but i could never stick Charles Foster Ofdensen's voice for some reason
@@davemakesnoises Amazing! I mean, it's expected since you're a VA and all that, but it's still cool! I've been trying to get them all right as well as a matter of fact, and I think they're OK??? Lol who knows an entire Dethklok-styled party could be fun...or chaos... *furiously headbangs to Awaken*
Gimble Garrik, a gnome/halfling alchemist that specializes in magic candies. His candies are all extremely experimental, and has become an adventurer in order to research new recipes and earn enough to build a candy shop!
I’ve always wanted to play a bard mummer. Basically they’re people who try and not seem like they’re who they really are by dressing up in crazy different clothing then who they are. They would need to make a saving throw to not say “Any mummers ‘loud in?” When entering somewhere. Would use an accordion and his weapon would be a quarter staff that’s made to look like an ugly stick
This was my mum’s from when she was my age- a dwarf who had an extremely low IQ. Nobody could hear them through their beard, and they were only good in a fight. Basically, she would sit there, “mumbling and hitting things every now and then” as she put it. I want to play as this character
A character I have rattling around in my head is Cyrus Steelhearth, a Steel Half-Dragon Artificer. First some background on Steel Dragons. They look like they're dragon shaped armor, unlike Silver dragons who look like one piece of metal. They spend their lives living various other lives of human-esque people. They always become craftsmen. After one "life" is done, they deposit that life's masterpiece into their hoard, and spend the next few years in a meditative state sealing that life's memories away so they don't interfere with the next one (this is called "vaulting"). They can have one super best friend which gets a bunch of little perks that allow them to live with the dragon. The SBF gets to essentially have their lifespan on pause as long as the dragon is alive. When the dragon dies, the SBF must distribute the masterpieces all over the world. Cyrus's story begins with his mother, Steelhearth. She was just like any old steel dragon, living as a human seamstress. She met her SBF and soon husband, a human blacksmith conscript named Albus Arum, while she was mending his uniform. They hit it off, and soon got married. A few months in, she decided to reveal her true form to Albus. Albus, strangely enough, wasn't perturbed by the fact he married a dragon. Albus got SBF status. Albus told Mrs. Steelhearth about a couple half-dragons he's seen in his tour of duty, and considering the was married to a dragon, thought a half-dragon kid would be a cool idea. Mrs. Steelhearth was initially hesitant, but agreed. Thus Cyrus Steelhearth was born. Cyrus was taught as his father was, and learned to be a blacksmith. However, Mother Steelhearth (Which she was now known) refused to teach Cyrus to vault. The reason steel dragons do what they do is because they are essentially craftsmen of the Dragon God of Gods, Io. When Mother Steelhearth refused to teach Cyrus how to vault, this angered Io, who stripped both her and Cyrus of many powers of steel dragons, chief of which was the SBF. Albus was no longer semi-immortal, and Cyrus couldn't get a SBF. Cyrus also lost his ability to shapeshift, but Mother Steelhearth kept hers (It would be too much to suddenly expose the local seamstress as a dragon). By the time the campaign would begin, Albus would be dead, and Cyrus would've learned artifice (Mother Steelhearth was an enchantress a couple times.). His quest is to prove to Io that he could produce the same quality of work in one life as any other steel dragon could in a hundred.
I personally want to play the kobold that survived its dragon master being brutally beaten by the team of adventurers (my players) when it was a sorcerer for it... that inspired him to become an adventurer, and while it had no name before, the name ended being Victoble Orissa (mix between the 4 player's names: Victor, can't remember the second, Oriana and Alysssa)
I've played him a little but not more than a session or two at various games. A paladin that was banished to the Far Realm in the far past, with his lover. The King in Yellow captures them to see what they are and what he can do with them. His lover is split into three separate people before their minds are ripped from them. He is tortured to the point of insanity then his lover's mind is planted in his. Then the King in Yellow sends him back. At this point he is insane and sees the three women with him, but only he can see them and talk to them. He comes back as a Chaotic Neutral Oath of Vengeance Paladin, everyone thinks he has lost it because he constantly talks to these three "squires" that travel with him. Somewhere in his mind he know that they were his lover at some point, but he can't get a grasp on it. They are completely real, each has Int, Wis and Chr scores but each of them are insane too, think Harley Quinn, Jinx and Poison Ivy.
I have always wanted to start a campaign with a gnome bard, that was born tone deaf, but made a deal with a God for talent. The deal was he had to cut the tip off one of his ears and he would get the talent. TO KEEP the talent he had to cut an ear off of any and all enemies that fell to the party. It was stated, "To get an ear for music, you must give an ear for music. To KEEP an ear for music, you must take an ear for music." Imagine the intimidation stats, of a gnome with a necklace of ears.
It would be great flavour if, upon being subjected to a Regenerate spell for a severed limb (which would also make the character's ear grow back to normal), he would temporarily lose that power unless and until he went back through the ordeal of cutting the ear once again.
The Mount Rushmore party idea is missing a small detail, Abraham Lincoln would definitely be both a cleric and monk multi-class, because before he was a president we was a champion boxer, and also because that really would have been very useful to him, considering how he died
Ive wanted to make a Goblin/Kobold Paladin. His backstory was he was made one as some sort of joke. He acts super serious and talks in a deep heroic voice. But eventually have come out that he's miserable because his very existence was a joke and no one ever was expecting him to do anything of value because he is still just a goblin dressed up as a paladin.
I've yet to have a chance to play D&D, but I have this overly elaborate idea for a double character. A mute Goblin Merchant (homebrew class I found online) named Feither and his adoptive brother, a large Kenku named Gobo with the curious ability to read his brothers mind. The idea being that since Kenku can perfectly mimic anything that they hear then theoretically speaking if he hears his brothers inner thoughts he can mimic them out. Basically becoming his brother's mouthpiece. I haven't decided on a class for the Kenku yet. and would likely put them on the Chaotic Neutral side of things. Backstory wise, when he was still incredibly young Feither's parents were complete idiots who decided to raid a heavily guarded caravan by themselves pulling him in with them. Needless to say his parents were killed and in the chaos he suffered a severe wound that combined with the trauma of parental murder left him mute. Before being killed himself the head of the Caravan, an eccentric and very successful merchant, stopped the knights from killing the young goblin and decided to take him home. The curious man had a bizarre habit it seems for taking in young non-humans and raising them as his own, especially weird ones. This is how Feither would end up at the Merchant's mansion and eventually meet Gobo. The two would become as close as brothers and soon learn of their mind reading quirk. The young Goblin inspired by his adoptive fathers kindness towards others, as well as being able to taste the finer things in life for the first time aspired to be like the man who saved his life, to become a rich and powerful merchant able to take in others while also never having to resort to living the life his parents did... Gobo to has a dream, as a giant flightless bird he wishes for little more than to be able to fly through the skies as birds should, to travel the world.... This brings us to the reason they ultimately join whatever party they do, a quest to amass as much money as they possibly can and track down a master Airship craftsman, one that can build for them the largest fortified airship they can possible design, a small town in the sky! Their ultimate goal is to build a flying merchants caravan and guild, one that travels the world selling goods and wares while giving protection to those that live within its walls, trading rarities from all over the globe. Of course Gobo intends to be the one flying it, and that will be one happy bird!
A warforged/variant human, draconic sorcerer who was created by a wizard by being powered with dragon's blood, who was chased down by a dragon-worshipping cult that wanted to sacrifice him to awaken a long-dead dragon using his blood, who became a pirate to survive and eventually became captain; who now wants to track down his creator and protect him, as well as take out the dragon cult.
I love the idea of the painter Warlock so much! I might need to try it at some point, though I'm currently struggling with a character idea that, while basic, works with a lot of classes and I don't know that to choose. A Variant Human with the Chef Feat that could either be a pastry chef or a normal chef. The classes I've thought of and some basic backstories may be: -Archfey Warlock (Either an amazing pastry chef that caught the attention of the Fey and was forcefully given power in exchange for sweets, or a Hexblood that uses their Mother/Hag's weird magic in their cooking bringing a unique and secretly disgusting and bizzare dining experience) -College of Creation Bard (Reflavoring Song of Creation to fit the cooking theme, the main part of this would be to be able to create exotic/hard to find items to add flair or flavor to your cooking. Even being able to animate the dishes and/or pastries to fight alongside you. The main backstory for this one would be a Bard that focuses on the cooking arts and their motivation is to travel the land to gain more knowledge regarding ingredients for their cooking and finding new items that they could use. Also Nathair's Mischief is too good for this theme.) -Transmutation Wizard (Similar concept to Bard in regards to backstory, except being able to fully transmute a hard to chew item into a softer, more apt to eat item, and bringing out good flavor from this odd choice sounds fun. Nathair's Mischief too good once again.) -Alchemist Artificer (Changing all of the Alchemist creations to food items is an easy fix, making food items give support through not only healing, but also magical effects. Backstory would be a similar to the Bard and Wizard, but also adding a little bit more tame in terms of ingredients but instead focused on infusing the food items with magical effects. I have no clue what to choose! They all sound really fun! And I'm sure I could make this work with a Druid and a Fighter as well...
Had this idea for a homebrew character... Dorian. Half-fae bard who frequents and plays the local tavern. He had a twin who died at childbirth (Locrian). Besides his musical talents, Dorian works as a gravedigger and keeper of the hallowed grounds of the cemetery. He makes silent pacts with those recently deceased with the aid of his dead brother who is the go_between link. Dorian often helps with final requests from the deceased ("give money to my daughter", "help my family", "tell my wife an inside joke and make her laugh one more time"). Always saw him using illusionary magic so when he plays his lute, he can 'show' what his song is about. Also had a neat idea to use magic to create 8D haunting sounds to throw off a chase or search out in the woods/forest (to get advantage on stealth/hiding/escape rolls).
A fun character that i always wanted to play is a Obi Wan Kanoby(AKA the negotiator) from the clone war series. human bard/fighter class. The reason i went with bard is because i need him to learn magic like mage hand to copy using the force, charm person to imitate the jedi mind trick, charm animal, ect. Also since he is known as the negotiator he needs good persuasion and diplomacy to talk to his enemies. Essentially bard would be his mind jedi training. Once he gain the bard level needed to get the spells i need he would train as a fighter to train his body and properly fight when needed.
I want to play a fairy with a anime trope 'poisoned cooking'. I thought it would be funny since fairy cooking is SO good all other food turns into ash in your mouth if eaten. But since this fairy is so bad at cooking, all the food is good for non-fay, but all fay are poisoned (or just very sicken to half-fay). The fairy would also be an alchemist, so all potions made will have a wild magic table effect added with the intended effect.
I have one for this. A barbarian who thinks he's a wizard, and casts his "spells" in various physical ways. For example, for "Sleep" he would literally run up to people and yell "Sleep now!" as he bonked them on the head with his "magic staff"... Which in reality is just a long club. For "Misty Step", he just runs real fast to another place while throwing dust everywhere. His "Lightning Bolt" is just a Javelin of Lightning he throws at people. And for everyone's favorite spell, Fireball... He literally hucks a bottle of Fireball and throws a flaming javelin at it so it explodes where he wants it to.
A character who has an identical twin who is unknowingly following the party around because they want to make sure my character comes back alive so the other is not alone in life. Except for my character, who knows they are there and switches out with them on a daily basis. The party would be unable to tell who's who. They've mastered the same personality. They've tricked the party into thinking that there's only one of them and they don't know who the stranger in the hood trailing them in a random town is the guy's brother.
I have 2 characters I haven't had a chance to build yet . . . Half-Elf Wild Magic Sorcerer, "Nick Wylde" >>> he was an ordinary guy who wanted to be an adventurer. During his early explorations, he stumbled upon a Wabbajack-esque magical Macguffin that accidentally made him a sorcerer. Warforged Artificer, "Tinker" >>> not as much of a backstory here, but he likes to build/fix things, help people, and cook.
A Gnome Druid with a Giant frog as a familiar and mount who is dead-set on convincing everyone and everything he happens across that he is a god wandering the world to gain more followers with a temper. Whenever someone saw through his lie or ignored him he would sicc his Frog onto them for "IGNORING ONE OF THE MIGHTY GODS!!" Often getting in trouble for doing so. (I also thought of a homebrew item where it looks and feels like a godly sword, but does absolutely nothing in terms of damage crumpling as soon as it hit anything harder than just bumping into it, and un-crumpling after 3 hours or something.)
I have a fun idea for an 'alternative' Barbarian. Race isn't really important, but I originally envisioned them as a pretty generic tribal half-Orc. The story is what made them interesting - They were a rank-and-file warrior of their tribe, but know for their above-average intilect (above average scores in both Wis & Int, charisma being their dump-stat), but 'average at best' physical atributes. This was until one day, during a 'meeting' with the tribal shaman(s), they were discovered in a daze, having slaughtered everyone in the tent, but with ZERO memory of what happened. They fled (or were exiled) and decided they needed to put as much distance between themselve and their people as he could, for their safety - And so he could 'purge the demon that possessed him'. He is indeed fully convinced that he was possessed by some sort of malevolent entity that used his body to kill. Exactly WHAT that entity is/was, and whether the possession was temporary or on-going was not something I worked out fully... But one factor I did decide on is that he was normally 'neutral good' (kind, helpful, caring, etc - And honourable and loyal, but not beholden to 'civilized' notions of law and order). But as a Barbarian class, he didn't actually have control of his RAGE - It could be triggered by any number of stimuli determined in conjunction with the DM, and would require him failing a wisdom save (the DC of which would depend on the 'strength' of the trigger - and how long it had been since his last 'episode'). The final twist on this is that when he entered the RAGE state, his allignment would shift to 'Chaotic Evil', possibly even to the point of causing him to turn on the rest of the party. He would be unable to end the RAGE by any voluntary means, without also succeeding a wisdom save (DC being the same as the one he failed to enter the RAGE), though any external effect that could 'stop' the RAGE would stop it as normal. I think it could be an interesting storyline to play out - Does he figure out what happened? Does he get control, or does the 'demon' take over entirely? Do they (the Barb and the 'demon') maybe reach an accord of some kind, allowing the character to then multi-class into warlock perhaps? All things that could be played into over time. ~JD
Oh, that’s mine at 8:59 :o I actually ended up making that character for a campaign, but the party is actually insane so I ended up being the voice of reason haha
One I want to do: The king of a module campaign wished on the genie. “Summon a hero with the power to solve this kingdoms greatest problems!” The genie, interpreting the wish, realized it couldn’t solve things itself, nor use a local being. And while the [module] was a great problem, so too was safe transportation between cities and starvation throughout the kingdom So the genie turned his search outwards to the forbidden planes, seeking a young adult. One that played D&D and knew the story. With college education, focusing on engineering. One with a brave heart and a sense of equality and justice. That person… was *supposed to be* my roommate. Hi. I’m Jacob Smith. While I did take engineering classes with my roommate, I’m a shut-in that plays video games and watches anime. All I know about D&D is what I overheard my roommate playing with his group in our apartment every week, most of which I didn’t pay attention to. This world is scary. Green dragons when you try and cross a forest? Giant crabs at the beach? No electricity, indoor plumbing, or even medieval entertainment? NO THANKS! I want out, and I know the Wish Spell is available. So I want to level up, but I’m a coward who doesn’t want to die. Did I mention that I have no idea how to use magic? Maybe that party who just spoke to [NPC] about [why does that plot hook sound familiar?] can teach me. But at least I can summon a bayonet (Pact of the Genie Warlock) that doesn’t need ammo (third level artificer). I also have dreams of my past life, and sometimes overhear my roommate playing the current module (Kalashtar).
a 15 year old Divine soul sorcerer kenku, named Odin, abysmal int, fantastic chra. believes he's the mortal incarnation of the Norse god, trained under a bard who did dramatic Viking stage plays so he speaks like Thor from the 1st Thor movie ... he may or may not be the eye the real Odin sacrificed for all the magic knowledge...
My most interesting character design is probably this: Ronnie Rustbucket, a multiclass Artificer and Bard. He's a mad scientist but instead of being a musician on the side like most bards, he's a clown. He likes to entertain the masses with his comedy and is a genius in his workshop. I haven't thought about his backstory yet since I haven't used the character, but I already love him
I’m the kind of person who has a lot of characters planned…..but only gets to use one. And because DnD Beyond only made me create 6 characters but I’m gonna explain 5 of them because one of those characters would be spoilers to another character’s backstory Vladimir Natas: Tiefling rogue and famous thief. He used to steal good so he can sell them back to support his family in poverty but the greed consumed him and he went out to steal more valuable treasures instead. (He’s now the main NPC in a campaign I’m currently DMing) Melody Otamatone: Halfing bard. No, her main instrument isn’t an otamatone, it’s an ocarina. She would also have and gain homebrew spells that are based off of the Ocarina of Time songs, as of now she only knows how to play Song of Storms which would summon an actual storm. Her main goal is to find and master these other magical songs for her ocarina. Beat Otamatone: Halfing wizard. He’s Melody’s older brother who left his hometown to become a wizard instead of a bard. Beat’s was pretty much created only in case Melody ever dies. Ke’Dra Scalestorm: Dragonborn fighter. Came from an abusive childhood she ran away from home so she won’t deal with the abuse and neglect of her parents. She was then attacked by a monster and lost an arm in the process. Afterwards she was nursed back to health thanks to a half-orc family and became a fighter only to give herself more confidence and have the willpower to fight back anyone who used to bully her in her hometown. She’s also selectively mute and would only talk when it’s necessary and/or when she’s around people she would truly trust Ka’Raine Skyward: Aarakocra sorcerer. Her race has been missing for 1500 years and she’s the last known Aarakocra alive. She was raised by a village of elves and doesn’t know how to fly. Her goal is to find where her race went as well as to teach herself how to fly, and to keep herself from getting hurt in the process she wears a ring of feather falling. (Yes, she is named after an NPC in Skyward Sword)
There"s 2 concept i want to play but i am always DM: 1. Old wise Wizard gentlemen wearing puffy robe. When he's out of spells he surprise enemies by taking off robes and showing this muscular, ripped body (like 18 on str and con) and talent to fist fight from few lvls of monk. 2. Half orc barbarian but with hawaian twist- palm leaf short pants, tribal tatoos and spear and ahield made from wood and teeths of shark. He's very friendly, likes to make friends with everybody, and just have fun. Raging only when his friends will be in danger. (Sorry for english, not my native language).
I have a Player character idea for a "Frankendryder." This character was once a normal human woman, but she was kidnapped and killed by a psychopathic wizard/scientist (a BBEG) to be used in necromantic experiments. The experiment with her was to see if he could crate a dryder by attatching a human half with the abdomen of a large spider, which would be of a large size via naturally or magically. The character wakes up, seeing her spider lower half, her skin blue and covered in stitches, and suffering from a slight case of amnesia (she can't remembered how she died or much of her old life.) She escapes the laboratory that same day and flees into a deep, dark forest. There, she makes a new life for herself by becoming a Druid of the Spores and thanks to the experiments, she can commune with spiders of all kinds. She'd have a tendency to offer various mushrooms to her party for either food or if they want to get high. (She's Good, so she won't poison them.) I'm still putting her together as she is completely homebrew. But I would love to play as her one day.
I want to make a fighter who is mostly just a folk hero and stand-up citizen, with a fighting style focusing on protecting and reinforcing his party members. However, on the side, he is a big drinker who seeks after the world's most powerful spirits. He grew bored of whiskey, then gin, then vodka, and then even moonshine. So now, as his second priority, he seeks to either employ or enslave (depending on how nice they are) a god who can break the fundamental properties of mathematics in order to give him an alcohol with a proof exceeding 200.
At some point, I really want to play a Druid, Warlock, and/or Wizard whose magic and racial abilities are reskinned as the powers of a hag. She'd be the solitary villainess of a tier-1 game if it weren't for the fact that she was either somehow forced into working with the party, or had a common enemy or goal that she needed to help the players with. Also, this is a character concept I was going to have as a backup character and probably won't use now that the campaign is almost over. Basically, this campaign has one of those settings where gods need worship to keep their powers and sustain their existence. However, due to the present setting being overrun by a corrupt monotheistic church-state, all of the old, pagan gods are dead or dying. So, my backup character was an old nature deity with Druid stats, either a Moon Druid as a god of the hunt or a Spores Druid as a god of death and rebirth. In either case, the character's Wild Shape would not be framed as being a human with animal forms, but rather as being a formless entity who defaults to human form out of convenience.
I've always wanted to play a Kobold Monk with an "Eighthstaff," which is literally a Quarterstaff with half the radius and length so he can hold it. It's pretty much just a Kobold running around with a glorified tree branch smacking people over the head.
A cat who master was a Warlock. Created a magical item so I could speak and shapeshift. After my master passed I started. Traveling the world pretending to be a drawf barbarian. Have not had a chance to play him, but could be interesting
A barbarian wanted to pull out the sword from the stone...he was not the chosen one. He suspiciously fights with a war hammer that looks a lot like a sword in a stone
I always wanted to make a plague doctor themed kenku sorcerer/cleric. Absolutely edgy in battle, hosing down bandits with acid and poisoning bugbears in their sleep; but then becomes a proper friendly small town doctor outside of battle, fretting over Mr. Lotric's blood pressure, and making sure Little Timmy's broken arm mends the right way. Might mix a little rogue in too so he could throw scalpels like throwing knives and slit throats with a bonesaw
One of the characters that I have is that a fighter was/in a war and losing. He pray to a god/demon and to get some power or a weapon to win which s/he does do. But have to go out in the world as a warlock or hexblade to get or kill something or someone that they want. Another one is a dwarf paladin that is also a drunk. S/he saw all of the horrors that the chruch and wants nothing to do with them. But don't know if they want to destroy the church or drink they sorrows away
Ivan the bardbarian. He’s a bard that likes to make mosh pits and he’s searching for a devil so he can challenge him to a battle of music for a golden fiddle. 🤷🏻♀️
I thought about making a warlock who loves a certain food (I imagined candy) and she made a pact with a fiend as a child. The fiend asked her what she wanted in return for her soul, and she instantly shouted said food that she enjoys. Ever since, she makes pentagrams to send rare material components to the fiend, and in return he gave her a pack of her favorite food; but the food is magical, and it grows back after long rests and partially after short rests. Whenever she eats one she breathes out the effects of the spell. I thought it was a good way to emphasize spell slots. And whenever it requires currencies she has to pay the fiend for it
A couple weird ideas I thought of: some guy, Druid or Wizard, worried about the affects of Dihydrogen Monoxide, a Kenku Rogue with proficiency in trap making, and making bombs (if you know the board game, you know), and a really old Gnome (I think) Cleric/Rogue with a penchant for gemstones and insists on calling himself an assassin
Thought of this recently. A firbolg merchant who stopped in a small village for local goods and instead becomes the 'sacrifice' to their 'god'. When the ritual is finished, the village is demolished, he's alive, and he's pregnant with his new patron! Haven't figured out who or what the patron is, but his ultimate goal is to get rid of it and go back to being a merchant/artificer. Best way to do that? Become an adventurer. Kinda homebrewed effects about the magical pregnancy, but they should be fun. Pregnancy lasts for 2 in-game years, and from months 6 to 18, he'll look 6mo pregnant with his movement halved. after 18mo, he can barely move at all until delivery, growing larger and larger each day. The delivery will cost about 1/4th of the patron's adult form's HP, so leveling up and gaining as much hp as possible is a goal. This is relatively easy though since while pregnant, all warlock spells/abilities are double dice and they gain the half-orc feat of 'saying no when you die!' to keep the patron alive. All these extras are lost though the moment you give birth or abort the pregnancy. Still working on the concept. Another one has an Isekaied human turned Aasimar bard with Vax (yes, that one) in her head being smart with her. Strangely she's lawful good but has a strange set of rules that allow her to polymorph people who annoy her just to teach them a lesson. She never wants to kill innocents but if someone pretends to be her family back home, she will cackle evilly as she attacks them, saying things about 'repressed anger issues'. Her greatest goal is to send word home that she's fine and happy but has no intention of going back to Earth. Mostly she just wants to travel and have fun while enjoying her new world.
i’ve never played dnd before, and i dont have a full grasp of all the rules/lore (my main source of dnd knowledge comes from watching dnd youtubers and dimension 20 clips) BUT if i ever were to play dnd, i really wanna play a tabaxi paladin (or cleric ? idk, whatever classes worship gods) who was originally a normal housecat, but their owner (who was a powerful spellcaster) ascended to godhood and transformed them into a tabaxi and now they are their owner/god’s most devout follower :)
I always wanted a blade dancer bard/warlock. Super dope charisma and the bard has no idea that his prowess comes from his patron. Nor do the other PCs in or out of game. Over time his alignment shifts from chaotic good to chaotic evil as he becomes more powerful and his patron seeps into his mind.
Really easy to describe my character: Gnome berserker. Yes. 2 feet tall buff and angry gnome knocking on people's kneecaps with a great axe. I love it.
A dwarf artificer that specializes in yeeting thermite grenades And it’s not improbable in a high fantasy setting either All you need is rust, aluminum powder and a fire bolt cantrip
A polearm master sentinel, that uses a firelance as his main weapon. Essentially a spear with an iron tube filled with black powder on the tip, but it didn't shoot a projectile but a stream of fire, a portable medieval flamethrower if you will, and with a little dabbling in alchemy you could add poison to it for toxic gas, or add magnesium for a shower of blinding sparks, having more then one tube on the weapon means more fire power and possible combinations.
Race: Fairy Background: Fey lost Class: Warlock (Archfey) Pact: Chain Familiar: Sprite Alignment: Chaotic Good Name: Aeden Rainbowbush Aeden was born and raised in the Fey Wild, growing up in a beautiful and terrifying land of magic. They always wanted to be an adventurer, even going so far as trading for adventuring supplies, just in case. One day they were wandering through the woods, looking for curious creatures or plant life, but found themselves wandering a bit too far and ending up in the material plane. They tried turning around and heading back, but found nothing but normal woods and empty fields. Trying to reach out and plead for help getting home, they unknowingly contacted one of the Archfey, who, instead of assisting Aeden in returning home, decided it would be more fun to watch them earn their way home. The Archfey said “I will offer you assistance in getting home, but it would take more magic than you could currently handle. My offer to you is power, and once you’ve learned to control it enough, we can get you back home.” Aeden quickly took the deal, happy to finally have a reason for adventuring, and excited at the promise of power from an Archfey. Overall Aeden just wants to help people, and maybe have some fun along the way.
At some point, if I ever get to play D&D again, I would like to play a warlock who doesn’t realize their a warlock, has no memory of becoming a warlock, and literally just thinks they’re going crazy. I have no idea what kind of patron they would have, but other party members could notice them acting a bit strangely and can actually figure out that they’re a warlock and then have to decide if they’re going to tell my character. Then, at some point during the campaign they break down, decide that they can’t take this anymore, and ask the party’s healer what’s wrong with them. Oh, there are SO many ways that conversation could go…
A few of mine: A 12 yr old child prodigy wizard whose family are known as respected scholars and diviners; however, she would rather be setting fire to orcs/goblins/bandits/anyone who ticks her off. A sweet, naive seeming young village woman whose patron is her 'granny'; an ancient hag who has protected(/experimented on) her isolated village for hundreds of years. This warlock is chaotic evil, and has no issue with using any living being she can for haruspication (entrail reading). Another warlock whose patron is the great Infinity Ball, who he would constantly ask about future decisions, getting a possible 20 answers back to divine his path. A fallen Aasimar paladin oath of vengeance/hexblade A druid who was raised by an awakened tree A Don Quixote style goblin who, after taking a mace to the skull, wakes up believing he is a paragon of virtue and justice; imagine your stereotype LG character, in a goblin body with armor made from scrap metal, with the mangiest, nastiest looking and ill tempered mastiff you can imagine as his valiant steed.
The basic idea is a Mark of Hospitality Halfling, Dao Genie Warlock named Rayleigh Lazybottom who used to be a barkeep and chef at a small tavern with a dream to own their own tavern but never seemed to earn enough to escape and make their dream come true. One day the tavern burned down (may or may not possibly be because they fell asleep and something cooking burned the building down). Rayleigh fled and soon after came across a Dao Genie, a giant countryside looking woman sleeping on a mountain with giant braids of green-greyish earthy colored hair, they talked about anything and everything; Rayleigh's dreams and aspirations, what brought this Dao to fall asleep on this mountain and why no one seems to notice them, etc. Regardless, she ultimately bestowed upon Rayleigh a portion of her powers, making a pact with each other and the Dao gave them a stoppered bottle with a label saying the name of their dream tavern that they discussed, inside they have the perfect space to make their dream tavern. So they've been buying and storing all kinds of high shelf life foods, wines, ales, ingredients, planted herbs and they tend to it every single day. Rayleigh will often talk about their tavern and how it'll "soon be open for business" (at level 10). And eventually Rayleigh will invite them in once and a while whenever they want and cook for their group, offer drinks, etc. I haven't fleshed it out much yet because I want it to fit the story of whatever campaign my DM creates, but no matter what I play them in, I'm super excited to try them out. That is... if I ever get to, this is one of many many of my "back-up PCs."
I have an idea for a character that I’ve really wanted to play for a long while but just haven’t had a campaign where he could work. An Elven Bard, once a prince, whose real name is kept secret but is called, often mockingly ‘Johnny Giant-Cock’, now, with a bard one may imagine that this is due purely to endowment. But nope. This is because he was the typical kind of bard, slept with anything with a heart beat, was very promiscuous, and cheated on lovers constantly; until one day he crossed the wrong partner and they cursed him to take in the form of a Dire-Rooster. Hence the name. Having spent years trapped like this, he was eventually broken from it, and completely renounced his ways. His family completely disowned him to the point that they have threatened to have him exiled or even killed, his reputation and connections are utterly destroyed. He is now an eccentric wandering playwright who is just trying to get by. Having sworn an oath of celibacy, sworn off liquor and other intoxicants, he now strives after his art and merely wishes to forget his past, but the mocking nickname always rears it head, which is perhaps another part of the curse. Like a slow burn affect.
Warforged Wizard named Mulligan-42 I have character sheets for each individual level... On purpose. He is introduced to the group by either falling out of a portal or being pushed through one then having something throw his spellbook at him (and hit him with it) through the portal just before it closes. He sees the group, opens a pouch to retrieve a scroll. He opens it up, and shows everyone that there's a picture of one of the group members and two words "Help Them". He's always the same average level as everyone else. But usually doesn't know what level he is until he looks at his spellbook. Which he hardly ever does. But when he does, he's always looking for a spell that isn't there... Yet. Basically a DnD version of Quantum Leap.
I always give my characters a quirky or two. First was a orphan dwarf fighter who was adopted by a family of humans, but the family and him,he was adopted as a baby, never saw a dwarf, so he think he was a human, giving him some confusion and troubles until he reunited his clan, he was one of the sons of the leader. Later he accidentally make a pact with the Death and became her champion until he killed a bid number of sentient beings, or would turn into a specter, and after completing the task I could keep the benefits! Later in made a dwarf cleric who was haunted by the ghosts of the former leaders of the clan, like the ghosts of the princes in Stardust but we could interact with each other, previously mentioned, until the BBEG from the campaign be defeated (the system was difficult and dangerous, and always playing as the tank cost me 3 characters deaths but finalized as mage), and I got to recruit the party after our first tpk, and I received information of what to do from my former characters. Later I play as a mage, same campaign but higher level, who was a leader of a college of magic, that didn't care for the ethics and focused on knowledge and breakthroughs. He became schizophrenic from making too many clones and experiments with himself. After breaking the magical system from the game system, and by addition of the world, he and the party saved the gods and the world from the bbegs, he post campaign objectives were rebuilt him college and challenge the god of magic for, in his view, being too incompetent for the job. That campaign we got to level 1 to 20 XD. Now I'm playing a tiefling templar that follows every god in the homebrew campaign, so he has some screws loose, after all some gods has ideals that oppose others, because "all gods are important and deserve our respect and devotion, after all they made the world and everything on it". So every time I cast a spell I reflavor its appearance to a different deity. Also I play him as a parody of the edge lord playstyle. I still want play as a warforged druid, with his wild shape being a golem/construc like animals, and a aasimar paladin that tries to redeem "necessity made criminals", while applying in the moment the penalty of the crime on the true criminal, and some problems with the high authority because that, but as he/she is a agent of the law and apply the sentence as the law says, didn't have any problems so far.
This would require a mid-level campaign, but it would involve a Rogue that failed his last mission and is now on the run from royal guards, to throw them off his trail he picked up the Arcane Trickster skill set out of necessity and has been going around with a wand of presdigitation pretending to be a magician. While hiding out in a small town, doing little tricks for some kids the party was passing through they needed a wizard for their group to deal with some meguffin that needs magic to solve, being that he only has presdigitation he refused, until he got wind from a contact that the town guards were tipped off that he was there. Using the black market he acquired a pair of wands of magic missel, and joined the group, acquiring more wands and pretending to be a wizard for as long as possible, if his wands were ever out of juice he used the presdigitation wand to mimic a spell while slight of handing a thrown dagger.
Ichika: my warrior priestess (cleric/ fighter). I haven’t used her yet as she is my third character in line in case something happens to my other characters. As mentioned; she is a Shinto esq. priestess who is also a warrior/ fighter. She is a herbalist as well as using healing magic and wields a mystical sword that can reveal its powers when the need is most dire or until she can activate its powers at will at much higher levels.
Hashi, the mostly stoned human druid and his animal companion Rodriguez. Hashi usually rides on top of Rodriguez, a tortoise, and usually would beg Rodriguez to slow down, because he is afraid that his need for speed would kill them both. Hashi was kicked out of his druid circle because he is... well a failure as you would expect. He can't even shape shift into an animal properly and only gets it done partly. The clue - Hashi is actually a Kitsune and his failed shape shift is only his true nature. As his Archetype is Feyspeaker and he is heavily specced into Charisma he uses mostly disguise, diplomacy and bluff skills to play the fool. His background would be that he is a Fey spy infiltrating humans and using his deceiving skills to keep his cover. His Fey Lords agenda would be subject to change by the DM to make it work in the campaign. I would play him as a supportive part in the group dynamic with heals and as a comedic relief...
For funny: This Triton woman who as a young girl with no friends would wander into this abandoned Kuo-toa temple and make believe the statue they worshipped was her boyfriend. Much like the Kuo-toa she eventually started to believe it was real which is was becoming much like Kuo-toa backstory for their gods. Her parents found out and had her locked away in an asylum to get her mind straightened out into believing her "boyfriend" didn't exist. Now here's where it gets funny. The boyfriend deity is basically brand new as far as deities go and really only has the personality traits she ascribed to it "typical doting boyfriend" so naturally he gave her warlock powers. So now she is a fathomless warlock and with the statue of her boyfriend destroyed carries around a small figure of him that she made around her neck. And she talks to it because above table he's real. So she treats this thing as the flesh and blood love of her life....but nobody else can hear it naturally. So the world sees her and think she's crazy or at least mildly unhinged. If the party votes on something she will insist on voicing her boyfriend's vote (even if it's the opposite of hers). She will argue with him and give it to another party member (pact of the talisman) saying she needs some time away from him right now. All she ever asks of people she helps is to say a prayer to her boyfriend so that he (and by extension her) can get more powerful so he can eventually manifest an aspect and marry her properly. For cool: A half-orc dragonmark of finding war cleric. So for those who don't know the creation story for orcs, they kinda got screwed when the gods were allotting space for their races. So this guy imagine Magneto crossed with King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist. This guy united the orcish tribes and waged a war in the name of correcting the injustice done to orcs. He brings the oppossing races to the brink....and then promptly gets his butt finally handed to him. By some stroke of luck (I would probably leave that to the DM's discretion) he is only knocked unconscious and wakes up in the care of these sort of neutral faction of healers. They don't take sides just heal people but they have no clue who he is. He is so taken aback by how much they genuinely want to help him heal that his heart softens and he begins to lose his faith (hence why he's as powerful as a level 1 cleric and not a level 20 one at the onset of the campaign). He heals and vows to one day repay their kindness. He returns only to find they had been slaughtered by a wayward band of orcs splintered after his earlier defeat. A shadow of his former self, his changes his name and wanders as a sword for hire usually in the name of justice. All he has left is his magic eye (dragonmark flavored as a blessing from Gruumsh) and a whisper of the power he once held. He still dreams of an Orcish homeland but he understands that would require change not only for himself but his people and so he starts the adventure with a fresh perspective and the burden of his past sins he keeps secret.
I shameless want to play a Godzilla like character. A Red Dragonborn that is born with a semi prehensile tail. He's accepted into a monk school and specializing in wrestling and grappling--i.e. judo, akido, etc--but also experiments in ways that he can use his tail. During attempt to perform the "Sliding Drop Kick" ('Godzilla vs. Megalon' for reference) he ends up dislocating the base of his tail and is sent to a hospital that is right next door to a Magical University. There is some sort of accident and the hospital and the uni and swallowed up in massive magical explosion, killing everyone...except The Red Dragonborn. Only he is no longer red. He suffers a full body burn, replacing his red scales with grey scars. His breath weapons becomes OP. In stead of 2d6 at level one, it's 1d10+1d6, and it doesn't projected in cone but a narrow beam of brilliant blue energy that is neither fire nor electricity. However to prevent the character from begin too OP, the Dragonborn enters a catatonic state for six hours and can't speak for another six after coming to. Basically making the Breath Weapon an attack of last resort.
I still want to make a character from the underdark just because of the humor of a character who has no understanding of the surface and is surprised by the party's reactions when he goes to butcher dead enemies from extra food.
An utterly devoted follower of Anath, the god of misdirection. If you don't get why that is both so awesome a character idea, and so *WILDLY* frustrating and overwhelming to RP... Oof. I don't know what to tell you. Maybe Matt/Brennon/etc. could play it, but I had to give up; infinitely recursive wheels within wheels is just too hard to keep track of.
i have a Warforged Cleric of the forge/Rune knight character that i haven't had the chance to play in an ongoing campaign in years. His name is Siege, he was created for war like many warforged, however this war was suppose to free many of his warforged brethren from slavery, i would have loved to rescue as many warforged as i can and over time and then create a haven for them (and all other races hopefully) Apearence wise siege is an 8ft tall hollow suit of black armor, he wears a steel crown and broad red cape, fire billows at the center of his bieng, magically sustaining his life. with the immunity to fire at 17th level of forge cleric i also had the fantasy of casting heat metal on myself and then fist fighting an oponent!
god this idea for a druid/barbarian multiclass. basically a druid multiclass. One day he was out from the grove on bussiness when he returned the entire druid grove had been destroyed. Now he will destroy all those that refuse to live in harmony with nature.
I played this guy for a level 6 Halloween one-shot and really wanna play him in a campaign! Fritzl Quickfingers was a Chaotic Evil (but still friendly) Svirfneblin (Deep Gnome) who grew up in the comforting Underdark, but dreamed of the wonders of the Overbright. Shunned for his deranged desire, Fritzl found himself praying to the legendary Sun, promising himself to its eternal service in return for a life on the surface. A deeply unsettling presence entered his mind. Without words, with only one concept. Agreement. A contract made of pure light appeared before Fritzl which he promptly poked his finger into and squiggled around. At that moment, an earthquake rocked his familial home. A great chasm opened overhead and millions of gallons of seawater rushed in, somehow leaving Fritzl mostly undamaged as it buoyed him to the surface. Upon reaching the surface world, blinded by a scorching sun, Fritzl was consumed by remorse, realizing that everything he had known was now dead and drowned in the depths of a newborn sea. Despair racked him, his mind broke, and he swore in that moment to get revenge against himself and the evil being who perpetrated this heinous act. He promised himself that his only goal in life would be the utter destruction of the Sun. Therefore, he must always stay hidden from it's sight, so that it does not see his plans. (Remember, mind = broken) Fritzl was a level 3 Pact of the Chain warlock, level 3 Arcane Trickster Rogue. His patron was the Great Old One, because the Sun is basically Cthulu (blinds you if you look at it, prolonged exposure causes cancerous growths, exists in a void of darkness, will eventually consume the world, etc). His Pact familiar was the first surface animal he met, a donkey named Hotey. (Donkey Hotey) He lived inside Hotey's saddle bags, and used the Great Old One telepathy feature to pretend to be a donkey wizard whose body was transformed while experimenting with a new type of polymorph. He would use his invisible Mage Hand (from Arcane Trickster) to manipulate things in his vicinity and cast his spells through his donkey's bites and kicks. If he ever needed to exit the saddlebags, he would cast Darkness on Hotey, which his Devil's Sight Invocation allowed him to ignore. When another player opened his saddlebags, they just found a bunch of rocks. (Within which he was hiding, as per the Deep Gnome Stealth ability.) He was ridiculously fun to play for the one session I ran him. The other players only discovered that he wasn't a donkey wizard named Hotey after the session, and we all had a good laugh! I actually concocted a plan to turn the sun dark by transforming it into a black hole of equal mass, thereby keeping the planet in orbit while plunging it into eternal night. (It was a super convoluted plan, I only remember bits and pieces)
Kinda new to dnd so maybe actually not original but here it goes: I wanted to make a healer without magic and came up with a surgeon. The concept is this: rogue with expertiese and proficiencie in perception, sleight of hand and medicine combined with the Aaracocra race as i thought it was fitting (bird = good eyesight and talons = skalpel) as well as proficiencie in alchemist supplies for healing potions/medicine. I also dumped charisma so i play him as the most arrogant and smug god in white. Instead of the rogue cliche (criminal, edgy, flanking, stealing, sneaking etc) you get the doktor cliche (from a wealthy background, privileged and borderline arrogant). "What do you mean he's dead? Well maybe an amateur like you would think that because of the severed head but i am no amateur and i see a challange. For me a small one at that." Should make for some interessting role play :D
So this character was among my favorite to craft a backstory for, but sadly I only got to play him in three sessions between two separate campaigns. Still waiting for the day I can bring him to the table to see what a dm could develop for him. Hopefully that counts for this. The inspiration was quite simple, I wanted to play a character that only has one arm, and the rest just came as a result of my crafting a story to accommodate it. Shall I begin? Gar was the only son of a moderately well off couple who doted on him to a degree that most people can feel his embarrassment that only truly loving parents can cause. He was on the course to being a perfectly normal child until one day when he was eleven. The parents were awoken one night to hear awful screaming from Gar's room. He described the pain as numb but also burning more intensely than he had ever experienced before coming from just under his left arm. In his armpit they saw it, a small amorphous black Mark that emanated death itself. The pain was constant and worse yet, constantly changing. Burning, numbing (as before), but then came bouts of pinching, aching; it radiated throughout the young boy's body. His parents brought him before the town's local herbalist to ease the pain and maybe gain some insight into what this could mean. The herbalist could lower the pain to a more manageable level, but she had no idea what this mysterious Mark could be. Over time the Mark began to grow and spread, and it became increasingly clear that it was not just skin deep. Over time his whole shoulder was overtaken by the Mark. He also began feeling pain in his ribs then coughing as it went deeper into his body. Eventually his left arm fell off entirely. While this terrified his parents, Gar was strangely relieved to have one less body part to feel pain in. Nearly a year had passed since its appearance and Gar's folks spent all of their resources in contacting the churches across the country, searching for someone who could cure this, but no paladin's lay on hands nor cleric's lesser or even greater restorations did a thing. They tried everything short of Divine Intervention and the Wish spell in searching for a cure. The last of the clerics (highest rank in his order on the continent) provided two sets of medicine, one to ease his pain as much as possible for a time and the other being a painless poison for if they ever gave up and wanted to end his pain. Before the arm had come detached there came a strange man, in a plague doctor's mask, who wished to conduct research on this new disease. Skeptical at first, his parents gave in as he offered pain medications, money, and the promise that if he were to find a cure, Gar would be saved. He only wished to be called "Doctor." When it became apparent that the arm would eventually fall off, the good Doctor paid a large sum of money to be able to take this sample back to his lab, as no blade seemed up to the task of removing even an inch of this infected flesh from the young boy's body. So one day off came the arm, and off went the Doctor to begin his research in earnest. Some time after his 12th birthday, Gar's parents were on the verge of giving up. When one stormy night, a Stranger came knocking at the door. The Stranger refused to show their face, but the parents had already dealt with the Doctor. So this wasn't such a concern. What did catch their attention was the words and tone that came from the Stranger. "Your son is dying; I can prevent that." Such confidence was not something the parents were familiar with when dealing with the previous medical professionals. The Stranger told them to wait outside his room and wouldn't take no for an answer. A minute passed, and Gar's voice rang out. Though they could not tell in the moment, this was the first time in a year that he sounded unstrained. Bursting through the door, his parents were only greeted by an open window, curtains in the wind, and their son, sitting up with gray scars across his body where the black Mark once was. Gar panicked as he gasped for air and for the first time, felt no pain. His lungs were marred by the Mark, his arm, still gone, and his voice much more raspy than the last time he tried to speak, but still no pain. He only refers to this THING as The Mark now. Gar is now 18, and his parents have finally let him off the leash. Their boy had barely survived the unthinkable. So of course they didn't want him to leave the nest, but he felt a calling. Keeping his scars covered, he ventures out into the world. You wouldn't take him for more than a child at a distance. The Mark had halted his growth and left him permanently weaker than he could be, but he has strength of spirit. His goal? To seek the adventures that he by all rights should never have had the opportunity to go on. To help as many people as he could but with no intentions of being credited for his aid. Just as this Stranger had helped him with no thought of reward or glory. Gar would aim to follow such philosophy. Lastly, Gar would ask in his travels, searching for any hint at who this Stranger could be so that one day he may thank this individual with a handshake. Sorry for the novel there. Literally all of this came from the inspiration that I wanted to play a character that only had one arm. The idea for the Mark came from my own, thankfully brief, experience with the staff infection known as MRSA. It pretty much just slowly eats away at the cells of your body, spreading with no limits. Bones, skin, organs, MRSA will just chew through someone if it is left untreated. I know of people who have lost an eye to the infection and others who had it chew through their spine paralyzing them. Both of those cases particularly scared me as I had it on the skin of the small of my back and right under my eye. I got it treated early and haven't seen hide nor hair of it in years. Part of the reason I enjoyed making Gar's backstory so much is that I was able to weave in many opportunities for the dm to expand on it. Who was the Stranger? The Doctor? Where is his arm now? Is the Mark a one time case, or have others experienced this pain? Also I set it up so that I could get to the table and fill any roll needed within the party as we made our character sheets. The only class I couldn't really make fit would be barbarian as Gar is canonically very weak. Otherwise, need a frontline? He meditated to become one with his ki to aid for his lack of strength, or he studied fencing. Need a healer? Gar did see one thing about this Stranger, a holy symbol, and now he takes his oath to protect the innocent. Spellcaster? The Stranger offered a contract, and now Gar owes an other worldly power but doesn't know what the price was, or he studied magic as he was too weak to return to playing in the town like a normal kid, or this individual had powerful dragon blood or passed on what they saw as their own curse of wild magic. The possibilities were endless and so was my excitement. Sadly, as I mentioned before, Gar has yet to see more than 10 hours of play time. Crossing my fingers that anyone actually even reads this whole thing. Gosh I over describe things. TL:DR Boy gets magical disease that can't be cured, loses his arm to it, and then is saved by a Stranger in the night. Now he seeks to help others as the Stranger helped him.
Recently I have been wanting to make a half Goblin/dragonborn (more goblin than dragon). The dragonborn part of him would be more of a mutation that halves his size compared to normal goblins with scales of a lizard but gained high intelligence. He would be an alchemist/arcane trickster rogue who makes poisons and potions while also making it difficult for the enemy to know where he is by making illusions to create fake hims to distract the enemy while he does hit and run tactics with his powerful and varied poisons. As a DM, I would instead make this character have the ability to make the "Illusions" turn into clones that have 10% of his hp and he would be a ship captain. Giving him a high level I would allow him to make about 5 clones that would trip up anyone that would try to make trouble on his ship. The backstory I would have for him is because he is a mutated goblin and looks weak, he was chased from his village, using a plank of wood to escape and ending up in a city nearby. His small height allowed him to move around unnoticed, using the land to help in his survival till he ends up getting a book off a merchant on alchemy. After working hard on it and testing the waters for interacting with humans, he opens a shop where he heightened his alchemical skills further. After a great amount of time passed, he became more famous, taking in some students and deciding to advance his shops further by using a ship. He uses the ship to go between his stores that opened in major cities connected to the ocean waters, all the shop owners being students of his that he is making sure has both enough supplies and checking if they have improved.
I had a character concept for an evil campaign which just had as high charisma and diplomacy as possible to get out of any situation and also get favors from people to make my job easier and I know my friend will be a tank so he would be my backup and bodyguard
Stagnum marinus. Sea elf artificer who wants to build glass bottom boats and open a tour service so people may see his coral reef village and love it just as much as he does. He has a high intelligence and charisma so he can go straight business man to guilds and in taverns while keeping things lively
I wrote way more than I intended, so for those who want the short of it, a changeling inquisitive rogue named Viers who excels in deception, manipulating the enemy in whatever way the party needs. For her backstory, she impersonated the child of a noble family when she was young, and in order to survive that stressful situation, Viers practiced shapeshifting into the servants and civilians, snuck around her home and city to learn/read/observe what a noble should know/act like, and studying her 'parents' every word and response to ensure she didn't slip up. For her career, she trained to eventually join the state's order of info brokers/assassins for the use of those in high society. Continue if you want the longer version. I've had a character concept that I keep thinking about for a year. She's a changeling inquisitive rogue, but her background is what I really like about it. She grew up as an orphan in the slums of a sizable city, with each day being a struggle for survival (the usual, tragic street urchin, blah, blah). This was her life until she was 6, when she wandered into the more wealthy, noble section of the city and saw a boy around her age, who was eating a delicious pastry on his way home. Never having seen or even experienced such a prepared food, she watched him over the next few days. Almost every day, he would go through the town, sometimes with his parents, and she saw a style of living that she never knew existed. Each day, her desire to live like he did, to be him, intensified, so she continued to watch every aspect of the boy's life, disregarding her growing hunger. One day, after a couple weeks of watching this likely noble child, she found herself on the front door of the family's home while the boy was away, her body barely functioning from starvation. She wasn't thinking as she knocked on their door, only the desire to live that child's life filled her mind, to have people to care for her and be without worry. And as the door opened, her wish became reality, for her appearance changed to match that of the boy. The boy's parents showed concern at seeing their child in rags, and not long after, their actual child appeared, confused. The changeling, unaware of her race, was also confused, but upon seeing the boy, despite still being young and naive, she knew they both couldn't exist and live that perfect life she saw. Perhaps calling on her race's nature or the stress of the situation urging her on, she cried and screamed with a fearful appearance and called the boy a monster, begging to not let it take her. The child only had the chance to put on an angry face and take a step towards the imposter before he burst into flames, courtesy of his parents. As the innocent child tried to cry out as his body was turned to ashes, the imposter heard the mother say, "It'll be okay now Viers, we're here. You're safe now." Feeling the caring warmth of her 'mother' and the searing heat of the child corpse, she was guided into the manor. Thus, that is how the imposter gained a name and a lie to maintain. For the next years of her life in the Jadnosti House, Viers did her best to impersonate the boy in every aspect, as well as understanding what she was. Using her relative freedom, she practiced shapeshifting into the servants and random civilians of different ages, races, and bodily shapes. Similar to how she did with Viers, she snuck around the noble quarter to see how other nobles are expected to act and listen to what she is supposed to know. But she was the most cautious and focused when it came to her 'parents', court mages that adored Viers and were now quite protective. She observed every word, every action, every response she could from them to ensure she didn't reveal who and what she truly was. But in between these stressful moments, her life was a dream. Food, safety, comfort, wealth. Everything she didn't have as an urchin she now had in spades. However, after the shock passed, and years later, the feeling of contentedness passed, she turned her gaze to the upper sections of the city. Other manors, more extravagant than hers, were not uncommon, and some of her parent's friend's lived in even better lifestyles. It was this realization that sparked a new desire, a desire to reach further heights. She wanted to see and experience the peak lifestyle she could, and using, no, being Viers Jadnosti, she would do just that. During her time in the Jadnosti House, it was quickly revealed that she did not have the magical talent that her parents possessed. Thus, she chose and trained for a profession that fell in line with what she had to do everyday of her life. There was an order for the members of high society (royals, nobles, wealthy merchants, etc.) that specialized in gathering and trading information about individuals and politics. Members were respected for their known talent and usefulness, yet loathed due to the nature of their business and what their presence entailed. Furthermore, if the client had the right social standing or the right price, individuals could be 'removed' by high-standing members of the order. It was here that Viers felt she could best put her talents to use to pursue her goal. Her self-imposed upbringing and training would assist her in getting what she wanted to know, and using her concealed racial features, she'd be one measure better than the others. She would gain a reputation among her colleagues and clients, all for the purpose of living the best way she can. Whether that greed will drive her towards success or destroy her, only the campaign (whenever it happens) will tell.
I want to make a “failed” barbarian, his backstory would be that the tribe he was born into is only focused on how strong you are, how sculpted your body is, and how strong the creatures you can takedown are. Imagine him as looking like skinny Hercules and having an interest in cooking only. He wouldn’t be considered a combat character, unless you screwed with his cooking or insulted it which could result in a Dr. Jeckle/ Mr. Hyde transformation
I have a player at my table who works with this idea, only she just decided to dump strength while still being a barbarian. It's interesting to say the least, but it makes for a nice change of pace
That sounds like King Darius from the Disney Hercules TV series.
This reminds me of Hicks from How to Train a Dragon instead:
Still a good idea tho, you dont get such ideas played out very often succesfully without making them unnessesarly edgy or some stuff.
sound like...1 lvl undead warlock(scary form) phantom rogue...he ingridents are death biomass
I've been wanting to try a character named Jubinan. Idk the race, but she'd definitely be a wizard of some kind. Her whole thing is that she's a god of knowledge, but she goes through an infinite cycle of learning all information on earth, then willingly forgetting it all so the enjoyment of learning can repeat forever and ever. When the campaign begins she's right at the start of cycle
I love the two headed thing. tha'd be tough to roleplay constantly tho
I ended up having to ban multiple personality characters at my table when all five players wanted to be schizophrenic in one way or another.
That session was insane and never made it out of the town before they were all dead or imprisoned.
Maybe it would be cool to have two players use the character. Each one would play their respective head, and every now and then would (like the character) bicker and fight for control of the character.
@@aduckwithayoutubechannel bicker and fight and roll a d20.
@@leviathan1082 oh yeah! That would be cool. Whenever one of them wants to take control while the other is using it, they have to roll. Or perhaps if they can’t decide who gets control, they could each roll for it. Highest roll wins.
Sounds a bit like Two-Face from Batman stories. Complete with black and white colour scheme
3:20 Thank you for reading my submission, I wasn't expecting you to.
7:44 I love that all these voices extremely entertaining
Hope you loved the ideas as well, after all, they were mine :)
God damn, never thought of the Rushmore presidents that way
A Kenku paladin who uses the voice mimicry thing to copy a hero from a puppet show he used to watch, so he constantly sounds like duddly do right and says stuff like "halt villain!" And "stop! In the name of justice!"
I have this amazing idea for a character that would require a bit of working with the DM to fit his backstory into the setting's lore. Get ready, this is a long one.
Medrash was a member of a nomadic tribe of Bronze Dragonborn that wandered the desert. As he grew up, he felt the need to venture out on his own and left his tribe. He traveled the world, picking up some fighting skills along the way. But he eventually felt the calling of his family again and went to search for them.
However, he never found his tribe. At least, he didn't find his tribe alive. He came across a desolate wasteland that had seemingly corrupted a small part of the desert. The Sea of Rust. Any metal that entered the Sea of Rust instantly decayed and crumbled into orange and red dust. he had to prepare himself before he could enter.
As he searched the Sea of Rust, he found the remains of his tribe. Their bones were scattered across a battlefield marked by a giant crater. It was horrific. But, in the center of the crater, Medrash saw something gleaming through the rust. The most beautiful glaive he had ever seen lied there, untouched by the decay. Its blade, made of some steel-like metal, shone like the full moon, and perfect gold accents highlighted unknown runes carved into the metal and down the metal shaft. A crimson scarf, wrapped around the base of the blade, whipped in the wind.
Medrash was enchanted by the beauty of the weapon and reached out to touch it. As he grabbed it, arcane energy surged through his arm and he bonded to it. The glaive was actually a cursed weapon, housing the spirit of an entity named Delron (who has a funny quirk of speaking in Shakespearean) within it. Grabbing the weapon formed a pact between Medrash and Delron, turning the Dragonborn into a warlock.
Medrash is a Hexblade Warlock that would also have some levels in Fighter. He would likely have a story arc around accepting Delron as a friend while Delron learns to accept his situation. There could be a point where Delron is temporarily removed from the glaive and Medrash loses his warlock levels while Delron is trapped in a crystal or something (whatever the DM plans are fine with me). Eventually, the party rescues Delron and he is returned to his rightful home and he and Medrash become full friends.
10:05 I'd be down to play a Half-Elk Barbarian!
Basically an antlered Centaur, right?
Hahaha I heard that too
I have an idea for a half elf who I really want to play, his whole shtick is that he is a great swordsman, but due to growing up on a farm he really would rather stick to helping animals, so he'd have a potential druid multiclass later on.
I had a great idea for a little goblin cleric. He considers himself as Thor, God of thunder (the actual one, not Marvel's one). The only problem is : he isn't. He is incredibly weak, but since Thor finds him hilarious, he secretly imbued him with great strength. The goblin forged himself a hammer "only he could lift" (actually, all his friends can lift it, but they pretend not to because they are nice). So he wanders around, trying to start a religion for him and just being a funny/pathetic goblin with a hammer that keeps yelling "kneel before me mortal" to all his ennemies, no matter how OP they are.
I once was talking with a guy who’s “character” was he would always play a guest character for his wife’s campaign for a bunch of new players (allowing him not to be the “DM’s Girlfriend” and was essentially an NPC for his wife’s plots. A co-DM if you will who took comic relief and filled out roles in the party that they lacked) and was looking for one shot character ideas for new concepts and I gave him the idea to role play… himself but if he was sucked into a fantasy world from real life. I told him to coordinate with the GM and when the party first meets him get her to describe his character as he was at that very moment but from a perspective of a medieval POV (have her describe him drinking from an odd red cylinder hip flask as he literally took a swig of coke from a can and his shirt with an odd white bird in a blue shirt and no pants as he looks at his Donald Duck T-Shirt.). Then have him explain that he was sitting down to play an overly complicated dice game with his friends and wife and suddenly is meeting everyone in a tavern. He would also be a little bit Deadpool and break the games 4th wall, occasionally calling PCs by their real names because they sounded like their friend or comment that aside from the party everyone sounds just like his wife OR when his wife does a voice for a burly manly man character, throw an odd comment about how that for some reason, that husky manly man’s voice makes him think of his wife *swoones*.
Started watching because I love them stories. Stayed because I like being called a sparkle of cosmic star dust turned into a cute muffin. Found a group on the discord server and have been playing with for 6 months now. 10/10
I don't have a name for it buts a neutral evil fashion obsessed headless horseman who is constantly searching for the perfect head to go with his latest outfits
Oh my God, yes on the Kermit and Nathan Explosion!
@7:44 I never thought my comment would be picked for one of these videos, so thank you Dave for bringing my assortment of characters to life so brilliantly (you nailed Nathan Explosion btw)!!! I have Hero Forge links to all of them, so if people want to see them, I'm happy to oblige!
Lol i can do the voices of each of the members of dethklok as well as Doctor Rockso but i could never stick Charles Foster Ofdensen's voice for some reason
@@davemakesnoises Amazing! I mean, it's expected since you're a VA and all that, but it's still cool! I've been trying to get them all right as well as a matter of fact, and I think they're OK??? Lol who knows an entire Dethklok-styled party could be fun...or chaos...
*furiously headbangs to Awaken*
Gimble Garrik, a gnome/halfling alchemist that specializes in magic candies. His candies are all extremely experimental, and has become an adventurer in order to research new recipes and earn enough to build a candy shop!
I know this is very belated, but that’s a really creative concept! That could go in so many directions for you and your table.
I’ve always wanted to play a bard mummer. Basically they’re people who try and not seem like they’re who they really are by dressing up in crazy different clothing then who they are. They would need to make a saving throw to not say “Any mummers ‘loud in?” When entering somewhere. Would use an accordion and his weapon would be a quarter staff that’s made to look like an ugly stick
This was my mum’s from when she was my age- a dwarf who had an extremely low IQ. Nobody could hear them through their beard, and they were only good in a fight. Basically, she would sit there, “mumbling and hitting things every now and then” as she put it. I want to play as this character
A character I have rattling around in my head is Cyrus Steelhearth, a Steel Half-Dragon Artificer.
First some background on Steel Dragons. They look like they're dragon shaped armor, unlike Silver dragons who look like one piece of metal. They spend their lives living various other lives of human-esque people. They always become craftsmen. After one "life" is done, they deposit that life's masterpiece into their hoard, and spend the next few years in a meditative state sealing that life's memories away so they don't interfere with the next one (this is called "vaulting"). They can have one super best friend which gets a bunch of little perks that allow them to live with the dragon. The SBF gets to essentially have their lifespan on pause as long as the dragon is alive. When the dragon dies, the SBF must distribute the masterpieces all over the world.
Cyrus's story begins with his mother, Steelhearth. She was just like any old steel dragon, living as a human seamstress. She met her SBF and soon husband, a human blacksmith conscript named Albus Arum, while she was mending his uniform. They hit it off, and soon got married. A few months in, she decided to reveal her true form to Albus. Albus, strangely enough, wasn't perturbed by the fact he married a dragon. Albus got SBF status. Albus told Mrs. Steelhearth about a couple half-dragons he's seen in his tour of duty, and considering the was married to a dragon, thought a half-dragon kid would be a cool idea. Mrs. Steelhearth was initially hesitant, but agreed. Thus Cyrus Steelhearth was born.
Cyrus was taught as his father was, and learned to be a blacksmith. However, Mother Steelhearth (Which she was now known) refused to teach Cyrus to vault. The reason steel dragons do what they do is because they are essentially craftsmen of the Dragon God of Gods, Io. When Mother Steelhearth refused to teach Cyrus how to vault, this angered Io, who stripped both her and Cyrus of many powers of steel dragons, chief of which was the SBF. Albus was no longer semi-immortal, and Cyrus couldn't get a SBF. Cyrus also lost his ability to shapeshift, but Mother Steelhearth kept hers (It would be too much to suddenly expose the local seamstress as a dragon). By the time the campaign would begin, Albus would be dead, and Cyrus would've learned artifice (Mother Steelhearth was an enchantress a couple times.). His quest is to prove to Io that he could produce the same quality of work in one life as any other steel dragon could in a hundred.
I personally want to play the kobold that survived its dragon master being brutally beaten by the team of adventurers (my players) when it was a sorcerer for it... that inspired him to become an adventurer, and while it had no name before, the name ended being Victoble Orissa (mix between the 4 player's names: Victor, can't remember the second, Oriana and Alysssa)
I've played him a little but not more than a session or two at various games.
A paladin that was banished to the Far Realm in the far past, with his lover. The King in Yellow captures them to see what they are and what he can do with them. His lover is split into three separate people before their minds are ripped from them. He is tortured to the point of insanity then his lover's mind is planted in his. Then the King in Yellow sends him back. At this point he is insane and sees the three women with him, but only he can see them and talk to them. He comes back as a Chaotic Neutral Oath of Vengeance Paladin, everyone thinks he has lost it because he constantly talks to these three "squires" that travel with him. Somewhere in his mind he know that they were his lover at some point, but he can't get a grasp on it. They are completely real, each has Int, Wis and Chr scores but each of them are insane too, think Harley Quinn, Jinx and Poison Ivy.
I have always wanted to start a campaign with a gnome bard, that was born tone deaf, but made a deal with a God for talent. The deal was he had to cut the tip off one of his ears and he would get the talent. TO KEEP the talent he had to cut an ear off of any and all enemies that fell to the party. It was stated, "To get an ear for music, you must give an ear for music. To KEEP an ear for music, you must take an ear for music." Imagine the intimidation stats, of a gnome with a necklace of ears.
It would be great flavour if, upon being subjected to a Regenerate spell for a severed limb (which would also make the character's ear grow back to normal), he would temporarily lose that power unless and until he went back through the ordeal of cutting the ear once again.
The minowolf is probably a good fit in a racenloft campaign.
The Mount Rushmore party idea is missing a small detail, Abraham Lincoln would definitely be both a cleric and monk multi-class, because before he was a president we was a champion boxer, and also because that really would have been very useful to him, considering how he died
Ive wanted to make a Goblin/Kobold Paladin. His backstory was he was made one as some sort of joke. He acts super serious and talks in a deep heroic voice. But eventually have come out that he's miserable because his very existence was a joke and no one ever was expecting him to do anything of value because he is still just a goblin dressed up as a paladin.
I've yet to have a chance to play D&D, but I have this overly elaborate idea for a double character. A mute Goblin Merchant (homebrew class I found online) named Feither and his adoptive brother, a large Kenku named Gobo with the curious ability to read his brothers mind. The idea being that since Kenku can perfectly mimic anything that they hear then theoretically speaking if he hears his brothers inner thoughts he can mimic them out. Basically becoming his brother's mouthpiece. I haven't decided on a class for the Kenku yet. and would likely put them on the Chaotic Neutral side of things.
Backstory wise, when he was still incredibly young Feither's parents were complete idiots who decided to raid a heavily guarded caravan by themselves pulling him in with them. Needless to say his parents were killed and in the chaos he suffered a severe wound that combined with the trauma of parental murder left him mute. Before being killed himself the head of the Caravan, an eccentric and very successful merchant, stopped the knights from killing the young goblin and decided to take him home. The curious man had a bizarre habit it seems for taking in young non-humans and raising them as his own, especially weird ones. This is how Feither would end up at the Merchant's mansion and eventually meet Gobo. The two would become as close as brothers and soon learn of their mind reading quirk.
The young Goblin inspired by his adoptive fathers kindness towards others, as well as being able to taste the finer things in life for the first time aspired to be like the man who saved his life, to become a rich and powerful merchant able to take in others while also never having to resort to living the life his parents did... Gobo to has a dream, as a giant flightless bird he wishes for little more than to be able to fly through the skies as birds should, to travel the world....
This brings us to the reason they ultimately join whatever party they do, a quest to amass as much money as they possibly can and track down a master Airship craftsman, one that can build for them the largest fortified airship they can possible design, a small town in the sky! Their ultimate goal is to build a flying merchants caravan and guild, one that travels the world selling goods and wares while giving protection to those that live within its walls, trading rarities from all over the globe. Of course Gobo intends to be the one flying it, and that will be one happy bird!
A warforged/variant human, draconic sorcerer who was created by a wizard by being powered with dragon's blood, who was chased down by a dragon-worshipping cult that wanted to sacrifice him to awaken a long-dead dragon using his blood, who became a pirate to survive and eventually became captain; who now wants to track down his creator and protect him, as well as take out the dragon cult.
I love the idea of the painter Warlock so much! I might need to try it at some point, though I'm currently struggling with a character idea that, while basic, works with a lot of classes and I don't know that to choose.
A Variant Human with the Chef Feat that could either be a pastry chef or a normal chef. The classes I've thought of and some basic backstories may be:
-Archfey Warlock (Either an amazing pastry chef that caught the attention of the Fey and was forcefully given power in exchange for sweets, or a Hexblood that uses their Mother/Hag's weird magic in their cooking bringing a unique and secretly disgusting and bizzare dining experience)
-College of Creation Bard (Reflavoring Song of Creation to fit the cooking theme, the main part of this would be to be able to create exotic/hard to find items to add flair or flavor to your cooking. Even being able to animate the dishes and/or pastries to fight alongside you. The main backstory for this one would be a Bard that focuses on the cooking arts and their motivation is to travel the land to gain more knowledge regarding ingredients for their cooking and finding new items that they could use. Also Nathair's Mischief is too good for this theme.)
-Transmutation Wizard (Similar concept to Bard in regards to backstory, except being able to fully transmute a hard to chew item into a softer, more apt to eat item, and bringing out good flavor from this odd choice sounds fun. Nathair's Mischief too good once again.)
-Alchemist Artificer (Changing all of the Alchemist creations to food items is an easy fix, making food items give support through not only healing, but also magical effects. Backstory would be a similar to the Bard and Wizard, but also adding a little bit more tame in terms of ingredients but instead focused on infusing the food items with magical effects.
I have no clue what to choose! They all sound really fun! And I'm sure I could make this work with a Druid and a Fighter as well...
Had this idea for a homebrew character...
Dorian. Half-fae bard who frequents and plays the local tavern.
He had a twin who died at childbirth (Locrian).
Besides his musical talents, Dorian works as a gravedigger and keeper of the hallowed grounds of the cemetery. He makes silent pacts with those recently deceased with the aid of his dead brother who is the go_between link. Dorian often helps with final requests from the deceased ("give money to my daughter", "help my family", "tell my wife an inside joke and make her laugh one more time").
Always saw him using illusionary magic so when he plays his lute, he can 'show' what his song is about. Also had a neat idea to use magic to create 8D haunting sounds to throw off a chase or search out in the woods/forest (to get advantage on stealth/hiding/escape rolls).
A fun character that i always wanted to play is a Obi Wan Kanoby(AKA the negotiator) from the clone war series. human bard/fighter class. The reason i went with bard is because i need him to learn magic like mage hand to copy using the force, charm person to imitate the jedi mind trick, charm animal, ect. Also since he is known as the negotiator he needs good persuasion and diplomacy to talk to his enemies. Essentially bard would be his mind jedi training. Once he gain the bard level needed to get the spells i need he would train as a fighter to train his body and properly fight when needed.
7: 43+ i just love its so mudge that had o give thums up :)
I want to play a fairy with a anime trope 'poisoned cooking'. I thought it would be funny since fairy cooking is SO good all other food turns into ash in your mouth if eaten. But since this fairy is so bad at cooking, all the food is good for non-fay, but all fay are poisoned (or just very sicken to half-fay). The fairy would also be an alchemist, so all potions made will have a wild magic table effect added with the intended effect.
I have one for this. A barbarian who thinks he's a wizard, and casts his "spells" in various physical ways. For example, for "Sleep" he would literally run up to people and yell "Sleep now!" as he bonked them on the head with his "magic staff"... Which in reality is just a long club. For "Misty Step", he just runs real fast to another place while throwing dust everywhere. His "Lightning Bolt" is just a Javelin of Lightning he throws at people. And for everyone's favorite spell, Fireball... He literally hucks a bottle of Fireball and throws a flaming javelin at it so it explodes where he wants it to.
I feel like i have seen this barb concept before!
@@davemakesnoises Admittedly, I did steal the "Sleep now!" bit from the popular All Barbarian Party story.
PANR has tuned in.
A character who has an identical twin who is unknowingly following the party around because they want to make sure my character comes back alive so the other is not alone in life. Except for my character, who knows they are there and switches out with them on a daily basis. The party would be unable to tell who's who. They've mastered the same personality. They've tricked the party into thinking that there's only one of them and they don't know who the stranger in the hood trailing them in a random town is the guy's brother.
I have 2 characters I haven't had a chance to build yet . . .
Half-Elf Wild Magic Sorcerer, "Nick Wylde" >>> he was an ordinary guy who wanted to be an adventurer. During his early explorations, he stumbled upon a Wabbajack-esque magical Macguffin that accidentally made him a sorcerer.
Warforged Artificer, "Tinker" >>> not as much of a backstory here, but he likes to build/fix things, help people, and cook.
One day i will get to play my character... Blizzard the Lizard Wizard, im kinda holding off playing wizard for that reason
And his chicken companion Gizzard?
Sure why not lol
Does he have a vizard (a mask)?
A Gnome Druid with a Giant frog as a familiar and mount who is dead-set on convincing everyone and everything he happens across that he is a god wandering the world to gain more followers with a temper. Whenever someone saw through his lie or ignored him he would sicc his Frog onto them for "IGNORING ONE OF THE MIGHTY GODS!!" Often getting in trouble for doing so. (I also thought of a homebrew item where it looks and feels like a godly sword, but does absolutely nothing in terms of damage crumpling as soon as it hit anything harder than just bumping into it, and un-crumpling after 3 hours or something.)
I have a fun idea for an 'alternative' Barbarian. Race isn't really important, but I originally envisioned them as a pretty generic tribal half-Orc. The story is what made them interesting - They were a rank-and-file warrior of their tribe, but know for their above-average intilect (above average scores in both Wis & Int, charisma being their dump-stat), but 'average at best' physical atributes. This was until one day, during a 'meeting' with the tribal shaman(s), they were discovered in a daze, having slaughtered everyone in the tent, but with ZERO memory of what happened. They fled (or were exiled) and decided they needed to put as much distance between themselve and their people as he could, for their safety - And so he could 'purge the demon that possessed him'. He is indeed fully convinced that he was possessed by some sort of malevolent entity that used his body to kill.
Exactly WHAT that entity is/was, and whether the possession was temporary or on-going was not something I worked out fully... But one factor I did decide on is that he was normally 'neutral good' (kind, helpful, caring, etc - And honourable and loyal, but not beholden to 'civilized' notions of law and order). But as a Barbarian class, he didn't actually have control of his RAGE - It could be triggered by any number of stimuli determined in conjunction with the DM, and would require him failing a wisdom save (the DC of which would depend on the 'strength' of the trigger - and how long it had been since his last 'episode'). The final twist on this is that when he entered the RAGE state, his allignment would shift to 'Chaotic Evil', possibly even to the point of causing him to turn on the rest of the party. He would be unable to end the RAGE by any voluntary means, without also succeeding a wisdom save (DC being the same as the one he failed to enter the RAGE), though any external effect that could 'stop' the RAGE would stop it as normal.
I think it could be an interesting storyline to play out - Does he figure out what happened? Does he get control, or does the 'demon' take over entirely? Do they (the Barb and the 'demon') maybe reach an accord of some kind, allowing the character to then multi-class into warlock perhaps? All things that could be played into over time.
~JD
Oh, that’s mine at 8:59 :o
I actually ended up making that character for a campaign, but the party is actually insane so I ended up being the voice of reason haha
Ayyyy
One I want to do:
The king of a module campaign wished on the genie. “Summon a hero with the power to solve this kingdoms greatest problems!”
The genie, interpreting the wish, realized it couldn’t solve things itself, nor use a local being. And while the [module] was a great problem, so too was safe transportation between cities and starvation throughout the kingdom
So the genie turned his search outwards to the forbidden planes, seeking a young adult. One that played D&D and knew the story. With college education, focusing on engineering. One with a brave heart and a sense of equality and justice.
That person… was *supposed to be* my roommate.
Hi. I’m Jacob Smith. While I did take engineering classes with my roommate, I’m a shut-in that plays video games and watches anime. All I know about D&D is what I overheard my roommate playing with his group in our apartment every week, most of which I didn’t pay attention to.
This world is scary. Green dragons when you try and cross a forest? Giant crabs at the beach? No electricity, indoor plumbing, or even medieval entertainment? NO THANKS! I want out, and I know the Wish Spell is available. So I want to level up, but I’m a coward who doesn’t want to die.
Did I mention that I have no idea how to use magic? Maybe that party who just spoke to [NPC] about [why does that plot hook sound familiar?] can teach me. But at least I can summon a bayonet (Pact of the Genie Warlock) that doesn’t need ammo (third level artificer). I also have dreams of my past life, and sometimes overhear my roommate playing the current module (Kalashtar).
a 15 year old Divine soul sorcerer kenku, named Odin, abysmal int, fantastic chra. believes he's the mortal incarnation of the Norse god, trained under a bard who did dramatic Viking stage plays so he speaks like Thor from the 1st Thor movie ... he may or may not be the eye the real Odin sacrificed for all the magic knowledge...
My most interesting character design is probably this:
Ronnie Rustbucket, a multiclass Artificer and Bard. He's a mad scientist but instead of being a musician on the side like most bards, he's a clown. He likes to entertain the masses with his comedy and is a genius in his workshop.
I haven't thought about his backstory yet since I haven't used the character, but I already love him
I’m the kind of person who has a lot of characters planned…..but only gets to use one. And because DnD Beyond only made me create 6 characters but I’m gonna explain 5 of them because one of those characters would be spoilers to another character’s backstory
Vladimir Natas: Tiefling rogue and famous thief. He used to steal good so he can sell them back to support his family in poverty but the greed consumed him and he went out to steal more valuable treasures instead. (He’s now the main NPC in a campaign I’m currently DMing)
Melody Otamatone: Halfing bard. No, her main instrument isn’t an otamatone, it’s an ocarina. She would also have and gain homebrew spells that are based off of the Ocarina of Time songs, as of now she only knows how to play Song of Storms which would summon an actual storm. Her main goal is to find and master these other magical songs for her ocarina.
Beat Otamatone: Halfing wizard. He’s Melody’s older brother who left his hometown to become a wizard instead of a bard. Beat’s was pretty much created only in case Melody ever dies.
Ke’Dra Scalestorm: Dragonborn fighter. Came from an abusive childhood she ran away from home so she won’t deal with the abuse and neglect of her parents. She was then attacked by a monster and lost an arm in the process. Afterwards she was nursed back to health thanks to a half-orc family and became a fighter only to give herself more confidence and have the willpower to fight back anyone who used to bully her in her hometown. She’s also selectively mute and would only talk when it’s necessary and/or when she’s around people she would truly trust
Ka’Raine Skyward: Aarakocra sorcerer. Her race has been missing for 1500 years and she’s the last known Aarakocra alive. She was raised by a village of elves and doesn’t know how to fly. Her goal is to find where her race went as well as to teach herself how to fly, and to keep herself from getting hurt in the process she wears a ring of feather falling. (Yes, she is named after an NPC in Skyward Sword)
I love the great emu war reference.
There"s 2 concept i want to play but i am always DM:
1. Old wise Wizard gentlemen wearing puffy robe. When he's out of spells he surprise enemies by taking off robes and showing this muscular, ripped body (like 18 on str and con) and talent to fist fight from few lvls of monk.
2. Half orc barbarian but with hawaian twist- palm leaf short pants, tribal tatoos and spear and ahield made from wood and teeths of shark. He's very friendly, likes to make friends with everybody, and just have fun. Raging only when his friends will be in danger.
(Sorry for english, not my native language).
I have a Player character idea for a "Frankendryder."
This character was once a normal human woman, but she was kidnapped and killed by a psychopathic wizard/scientist (a BBEG) to be used in necromantic experiments. The experiment with her was to see if he could crate a dryder by attatching a human half with the abdomen of a large spider, which would be of a large size via naturally or magically. The character wakes up, seeing her spider lower half, her skin blue and covered in stitches, and suffering from a slight case of amnesia (she can't remembered how she died or much of her old life.)
She escapes the laboratory that same day and flees into a deep, dark forest. There, she makes a new life for herself by becoming a Druid of the Spores and thanks to the experiments, she can commune with spiders of all kinds. She'd have a tendency to offer various mushrooms to her party for either food or if they want to get high. (She's Good, so she won't poison them.)
I'm still putting her together as she is completely homebrew. But I would love to play as her one day.
I want to make a fighter who is mostly just a folk hero and stand-up citizen, with a fighting style focusing on protecting and reinforcing his party members. However, on the side, he is a big drinker who seeks after the world's most powerful spirits. He grew bored of whiskey, then gin, then vodka, and then even moonshine. So now, as his second priority, he seeks to either employ or enslave (depending on how nice they are) a god who can break the fundamental properties of mathematics in order to give him an alcohol with a proof exceeding 200.
At some point, I really want to play a Druid, Warlock, and/or Wizard whose magic and racial abilities are reskinned as the powers of a hag. She'd be the solitary villainess of a tier-1 game if it weren't for the fact that she was either somehow forced into working with the party, or had a common enemy or goal that she needed to help the players with.
Also, this is a character concept I was going to have as a backup character and probably won't use now that the campaign is almost over. Basically, this campaign has one of those settings where gods need worship to keep their powers and sustain their existence. However, due to the present setting being overrun by a corrupt monotheistic church-state, all of the old, pagan gods are dead or dying. So, my backup character was an old nature deity with Druid stats, either a Moon Druid as a god of the hunt or a Spores Druid as a god of death and rebirth. In either case, the character's Wild Shape would not be framed as being a human with animal forms, but rather as being a formless entity who defaults to human form out of convenience.
I've always wanted to play a Kobold Monk with an "Eighthstaff," which is literally a Quarterstaff with half the radius and length so he can hold it. It's pretty much just a Kobold running around with a glorified tree branch smacking people over the head.
The "quarter" in quarterstaff is not 1/4, but that it "gives quarter" ie: non-lethal damage. nice attempt at a pun, though.
@@sherylcascadden4988 I always figured it was meant as the radius of the weapon. Learn something new everyday I guess.
@@sniclops15 I'm 62 and still learning things.
A cat who master was a Warlock. Created a magical item so I could speak and shapeshift. After my master passed I started. Traveling the world pretending to be a drawf barbarian. Have not had a chance to play him, but could be interesting
A barbarian wanted to pull out the sword from the stone...he was not the chosen one. He suspiciously fights with a war hammer that looks a lot like a sword in a stone
I always wanted to make a plague doctor themed kenku sorcerer/cleric. Absolutely edgy in battle, hosing down bandits with acid and poisoning bugbears in their sleep; but then becomes a proper friendly small town doctor outside of battle, fretting over Mr. Lotric's blood pressure, and making sure Little Timmy's broken arm mends the right way. Might mix a little rogue in too so he could throw scalpels like throwing knives and slit throats with a bonesaw
Hearing my Bob the Town's Guard here made me happier than I expected :D
One of the characters that I have is that a fighter was/in a war and losing. He pray to a god/demon and to get some power or a weapon to win which s/he does do. But have to go out in the world as a warlock or hexblade to get or kill something or someone that they want. Another one is a dwarf paladin that is also a drunk. S/he saw all of the horrors that the chruch and wants nothing to do with them. But don't know if they want to destroy the church or drink they sorrows away
a immortal black knight that always wished to be like his brother that guarded a small bridge
Ivan the bardbarian. He’s a bard that likes to make mosh pits and he’s searching for a devil so he can challenge him to a battle of music for a golden fiddle. 🤷🏻♀️
I wanted to play a clown character named bingdo dingdo who’s like a comedian who mocks people with inappropriate jokes and fourth wall breaks
I thought about making a warlock who loves a certain food (I imagined candy) and she made a pact with a fiend as a child. The fiend asked her what she wanted in return for her soul, and she instantly shouted said food that she enjoys. Ever since, she makes pentagrams to send rare material components to the fiend, and in return he gave her a pack of her favorite food; but the food is magical, and it grows back after long rests and partially after short rests. Whenever she eats one she breathes out the effects of the spell. I thought it was a good way to emphasize spell slots. And whenever it requires currencies she has to pay the fiend for it
The Mount Rushmore one is hysterical!
A couple weird ideas I thought of: some guy, Druid or Wizard, worried about the affects of Dihydrogen Monoxide, a Kenku Rogue with proficiency in trap making, and making bombs (if you know the board game, you know), and a really old Gnome (I think) Cleric/Rogue with a penchant for gemstones and insists on calling himself an assassin
Thought of this recently. A firbolg merchant who stopped in a small village for local goods and instead becomes the 'sacrifice' to their 'god'. When the ritual is finished, the village is demolished, he's alive, and he's pregnant with his new patron! Haven't figured out who or what the patron is, but his ultimate goal is to get rid of it and go back to being a merchant/artificer. Best way to do that? Become an adventurer.
Kinda homebrewed effects about the magical pregnancy, but they should be fun. Pregnancy lasts for 2 in-game years, and from months 6 to 18, he'll look 6mo pregnant with his movement halved. after 18mo, he can barely move at all until delivery, growing larger and larger each day. The delivery will cost about 1/4th of the patron's adult form's HP, so leveling up and gaining as much hp as possible is a goal. This is relatively easy though since while pregnant, all warlock spells/abilities are double dice and they gain the half-orc feat of 'saying no when you die!' to keep the patron alive. All these extras are lost though the moment you give birth or abort the pregnancy. Still working on the concept.
Another one has an Isekaied human turned Aasimar bard with Vax (yes, that one) in her head being smart with her. Strangely she's lawful good but has a strange set of rules that allow her to polymorph people who annoy her just to teach them a lesson. She never wants to kill innocents but if someone pretends to be her family back home, she will cackle evilly as she attacks them, saying things about 'repressed anger issues'. Her greatest goal is to send word home that she's fine and happy but has no intention of going back to Earth. Mostly she just wants to travel and have fun while enjoying her new world.
i’ve never played dnd before, and i dont have a full grasp of all the rules/lore (my main source of dnd knowledge comes from watching dnd youtubers and dimension 20 clips) BUT if i ever were to play dnd, i really wanna play a tabaxi paladin (or cleric ? idk, whatever classes worship gods) who was originally a normal housecat, but their owner (who was a powerful spellcaster) ascended to godhood and transformed them into a tabaxi and now they are their owner/god’s most devout follower :)
I always wanted a blade dancer bard/warlock. Super dope charisma and the bard has no idea that his prowess comes from his patron. Nor do the other PCs in or out of game. Over time his alignment shifts from chaotic good to chaotic evil as he becomes more powerful and his patron seeps into his mind.
Really easy to describe my character: Gnome berserker. Yes. 2 feet tall buff and angry gnome knocking on people's kneecaps with a great axe. I love it.
A dwarf artificer that specializes in yeeting thermite grenades
And it’s not improbable in a high fantasy setting either
All you need is rust, aluminum powder and a fire bolt cantrip
A polearm master sentinel, that uses a firelance as his main weapon. Essentially a spear with an iron tube filled with black powder on the tip, but it didn't shoot a projectile but a stream of fire, a portable medieval flamethrower if you will, and with a little dabbling in alchemy you could add poison to it for toxic gas, or add magnesium for a shower of blinding sparks, having more then one tube on the weapon means more fire power and possible combinations.
Race: Fairy
Background: Fey lost
Class: Warlock (Archfey)
Pact: Chain
Familiar: Sprite
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Name: Aeden Rainbowbush
Aeden was born and raised in the Fey Wild, growing up in a beautiful and terrifying land of magic. They always wanted to be an adventurer, even going so far as trading for adventuring supplies, just in case. One day they were wandering through the woods, looking for curious creatures or plant life, but found themselves wandering a bit too far and ending up in the material plane. They tried turning around and heading back, but found nothing but normal woods and empty fields. Trying to reach out and plead for help getting home, they unknowingly contacted one of the Archfey, who, instead of assisting Aeden in returning home, decided it would be more fun to watch them earn their way home. The Archfey said “I will offer you assistance in getting home, but it would take more magic than you could currently handle. My offer to you is power, and once you’ve learned to control it enough, we can get you back home.”
Aeden quickly took the deal, happy to finally have a reason for adventuring, and excited at the promise of power from an Archfey. Overall Aeden just wants to help people, and maybe have some fun along the way.
At some point, if I ever get to play D&D again, I would like to play a warlock who doesn’t realize their a warlock, has no memory of becoming a warlock, and literally just thinks they’re going crazy. I have no idea what kind of patron they would have, but other party members could notice them acting a bit strangely and can actually figure out that they’re a warlock and then have to decide if they’re going to tell my character. Then, at some point during the campaign they break down, decide that they can’t take this anymore, and ask the party’s healer what’s wrong with them. Oh, there are SO many ways that conversation could go…
A few of mine:
A 12 yr old child prodigy wizard whose family are known as respected scholars and diviners; however, she would rather be setting fire to orcs/goblins/bandits/anyone who ticks her off.
A sweet, naive seeming young village woman whose patron is her 'granny'; an ancient hag who has protected(/experimented on) her isolated village for hundreds of years. This warlock is chaotic evil, and has no issue with using any living being she can for haruspication (entrail reading).
Another warlock whose patron is the great Infinity Ball, who he would constantly ask about future decisions, getting a possible 20 answers back to divine his path.
A fallen Aasimar paladin oath of vengeance/hexblade
A druid who was raised by an awakened tree
A Don Quixote style goblin who, after taking a mace to the skull, wakes up believing he is a paragon of virtue and justice; imagine your stereotype LG character, in a goblin body with armor made from scrap metal, with the mangiest, nastiest looking and ill tempered mastiff you can imagine as his valiant steed.
I’ve been wanting to play a halfling who was raised by a tribe of Goliath barbarians, he would very loudly introduce himself as the great hugh mungus
The basic idea is a Mark of Hospitality Halfling, Dao Genie Warlock named Rayleigh Lazybottom who used to be a barkeep and chef at a small tavern with a dream to own their own tavern but never seemed to earn enough to escape and make their dream come true. One day the tavern burned down (may or may not possibly be because they fell asleep and something cooking burned the building down). Rayleigh fled and soon after came across a Dao Genie, a giant countryside looking woman sleeping on a mountain with giant braids of green-greyish earthy colored hair, they talked about anything and everything; Rayleigh's dreams and aspirations, what brought this Dao to fall asleep on this mountain and why no one seems to notice them, etc.
Regardless, she ultimately bestowed upon Rayleigh a portion of her powers, making a pact with each other and the Dao gave them a stoppered bottle with a label saying the name of their dream tavern that they discussed, inside they have the perfect space to make their dream tavern. So they've been buying and storing all kinds of high shelf life foods, wines, ales, ingredients, planted herbs and they tend to it every single day. Rayleigh will often talk about their tavern and how it'll "soon be open for business" (at level 10). And eventually Rayleigh will invite them in once and a while whenever they want and cook for their group, offer drinks, etc. I haven't fleshed it out much yet because I want it to fit the story of whatever campaign my DM creates, but no matter what I play them in, I'm super excited to try them out. That is... if I ever get to, this is one of many many of my "back-up PCs."
I have an idea for a character that I’ve really wanted to play for a long while but just haven’t had a campaign where he could work. An Elven Bard, once a prince, whose real name is kept secret but is called, often mockingly ‘Johnny Giant-Cock’, now, with a bard one may imagine that this is due purely to endowment. But nope. This is because he was the typical kind of bard, slept with anything with a heart beat, was very promiscuous, and cheated on lovers constantly; until one day he crossed the wrong partner and they cursed him to take in the form of a Dire-Rooster. Hence the name. Having spent years trapped like this, he was eventually broken from it, and completely renounced his ways. His family completely disowned him to the point that they have threatened to have him exiled or even killed, his reputation and connections are utterly destroyed.
He is now an eccentric wandering playwright who is just trying to get by. Having sworn an oath of celibacy, sworn off liquor and other intoxicants, he now strives after his art and merely wishes to forget his past, but the mocking nickname always rears it head, which is perhaps another part of the curse. Like a slow burn affect.
Warforged Wizard named Mulligan-42
I have character sheets for each individual level... On purpose.
He is introduced to the group by either falling out of a portal or being pushed through one then having something throw his spellbook at him (and hit him with it) through the portal just before it closes.
He sees the group, opens a pouch to retrieve a scroll. He opens it up, and shows everyone that there's a picture of one of the group members and two words "Help Them".
He's always the same average level as everyone else. But usually doesn't know what level he is until he looks at his spellbook. Which he hardly ever does. But when he does, he's always looking for a spell that isn't there... Yet.
Basically a DnD version of Quantum Leap.
ARHNOLD SWARZENHAMMER
Orc Barbarian who speaks only in quotes from 80s action movies.
A elephant barbarian who say violence is not the answer but will hack anyone to pieces in a moments notice
I always give my characters a quirky or two. First was a orphan dwarf fighter who was adopted by a family of humans, but the family and him,he was adopted as a baby, never saw a dwarf, so he think he was a human, giving him some confusion and troubles until he reunited his clan, he was one of the sons of the leader. Later he accidentally make a pact with the Death and became her champion until he killed a bid number of sentient beings, or would turn into a specter, and after completing the task I could keep the benefits!
Later in made a dwarf cleric who was haunted by the ghosts of the former leaders of the clan, like the ghosts of the princes in Stardust but we could interact with each other, previously mentioned, until the BBEG from the campaign be defeated (the system was difficult and dangerous, and always playing as the tank cost me 3 characters deaths but finalized as mage), and I got to recruit the party after our first tpk, and I received information of what to do from my former characters.
Later I play as a mage, same campaign but higher level, who was a leader of a college of magic, that didn't care for the ethics and focused on knowledge and breakthroughs. He became schizophrenic from making too many clones and experiments with himself. After breaking the magical system from the game system, and by addition of the world, he and the party saved the gods and the world from the bbegs, he post campaign objectives were rebuilt him college and challenge the god of magic for, in his view, being too incompetent for the job.
That campaign we got to level 1 to 20 XD.
Now I'm playing a tiefling templar that follows every god in the homebrew campaign, so he has some screws loose, after all some gods has ideals that oppose others, because "all gods are important and deserve our respect and devotion, after all they made the world and everything on it". So every time I cast a spell I reflavor its appearance to a different deity. Also I play him as a parody of the edge lord playstyle.
I still want play as a warforged druid, with his wild shape being a golem/construc like animals, and a aasimar paladin that tries to redeem "necessity made criminals", while applying in the moment the penalty of the crime on the true criminal, and some problems with the high authority because that, but as he/she is a agent of the law and apply the sentence as the law says, didn't have any problems so far.
This would require a mid-level campaign, but it would involve a Rogue that failed his last mission and is now on the run from royal guards, to throw them off his trail he picked up the Arcane Trickster skill set out of necessity and has been going around with a wand of presdigitation pretending to be a magician. While hiding out in a small town, doing little tricks for some kids the party was passing through they needed a wizard for their group to deal with some meguffin that needs magic to solve, being that he only has presdigitation he refused, until he got wind from a contact that the town guards were tipped off that he was there. Using the black market he acquired a pair of wands of magic missel, and joined the group, acquiring more wands and pretending to be a wizard for as long as possible, if his wands were ever out of juice he used the presdigitation wand to mimic a spell while slight of handing a thrown dagger.
Ichika: my warrior priestess (cleric/ fighter).
I haven’t used her yet as she is my third character in line in case something happens to my other characters.
As mentioned; she is a Shinto esq. priestess who is also a warrior/ fighter. She is a herbalist as well as using healing magic and wields a mystical sword that can reveal its powers when the need is most dire or until she can activate its powers at will at much higher levels.
Four Presidents champaign sounds fucking awesome.
Holy shit Dave that was.. goddamn. Used to be able to do voices in my youth. Kinda miss it
An artificer who becomes a tempest cleric after getting stuck by lightning while flying a kite
Hashi, the mostly stoned human druid and his animal companion Rodriguez. Hashi usually rides on top of Rodriguez, a tortoise, and usually would beg Rodriguez to slow down, because he is afraid that his need for speed would kill them both. Hashi was kicked out of his druid circle because he is... well a failure as you would expect. He can't even shape shift into an animal properly and only gets it done partly.
The clue - Hashi is actually a Kitsune and his failed shape shift is only his true nature. As his Archetype is Feyspeaker and he is heavily specced into Charisma he uses mostly disguise, diplomacy and bluff skills to play the fool. His background would be that he is a Fey spy infiltrating humans and using his deceiving skills to keep his cover. His Fey Lords agenda would be subject to change by the DM to make it work in the campaign. I would play him as a supportive part in the group dynamic with heals and as a comedic relief...
For funny: This Triton woman who as a young girl with no friends would wander into this abandoned Kuo-toa temple and make believe the statue they worshipped was her boyfriend. Much like the Kuo-toa she eventually started to believe it was real which is was becoming much like Kuo-toa backstory for their gods. Her parents found out and had her locked away in an asylum to get her mind straightened out into believing her "boyfriend" didn't exist. Now here's where it gets funny. The boyfriend deity is basically brand new as far as deities go and really only has the personality traits she ascribed to it "typical doting boyfriend" so naturally he gave her warlock powers. So now she is a fathomless warlock and with the statue of her boyfriend destroyed carries around a small figure of him that she made around her neck. And she talks to it because above table he's real. So she treats this thing as the flesh and blood love of her life....but nobody else can hear it naturally. So the world sees her and think she's crazy or at least mildly unhinged. If the party votes on something she will insist on voicing her boyfriend's vote (even if it's the opposite of hers). She will argue with him and give it to another party member (pact of the talisman) saying she needs some time away from him right now. All she ever asks of people she helps is to say a prayer to her boyfriend so that he (and by extension her) can get more powerful so he can eventually manifest an aspect and marry her properly.
For cool: A half-orc dragonmark of finding war cleric. So for those who don't know the creation story for orcs, they kinda got screwed when the gods were allotting space for their races. So this guy imagine Magneto crossed with King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist. This guy united the orcish tribes and waged a war in the name of correcting the injustice done to orcs. He brings the oppossing races to the brink....and then promptly gets his butt finally handed to him. By some stroke of luck (I would probably leave that to the DM's discretion) he is only knocked unconscious and wakes up in the care of these sort of neutral faction of healers. They don't take sides just heal people but they have no clue who he is. He is so taken aback by how much they genuinely want to help him heal that his heart softens and he begins to lose his faith (hence why he's as powerful as a level 1 cleric and not a level 20 one at the onset of the campaign). He heals and vows to one day repay their kindness. He returns only to find they had been slaughtered by a wayward band of orcs splintered after his earlier defeat. A shadow of his former self, his changes his name and wanders as a sword for hire usually in the name of justice. All he has left is his magic eye (dragonmark flavored as a blessing from Gruumsh) and a whisper of the power he once held. He still dreams of an Orcish homeland but he understands that would require change not only for himself but his people and so he starts the adventure with a fresh perspective and the burden of his past sins he keeps secret.
I shameless want to play a Godzilla like character.
A Red Dragonborn that is born with a semi prehensile tail. He's accepted into a monk school and specializing in wrestling and grappling--i.e. judo, akido, etc--but also experiments in ways that he can use his tail. During attempt to perform the "Sliding Drop Kick" ('Godzilla vs. Megalon' for reference) he ends up dislocating the base of his tail and is sent to a hospital that is right next door to a Magical University. There is some sort of accident and the hospital and the uni and swallowed up in massive magical explosion, killing everyone...except The Red Dragonborn. Only he is no longer red. He suffers a full body burn, replacing his red scales with grey scars. His breath weapons becomes OP. In stead of 2d6 at level one, it's 1d10+1d6, and it doesn't projected in cone but a narrow beam of brilliant blue energy that is neither fire nor electricity. However to prevent the character from begin too OP, the Dragonborn enters a catatonic state for six hours and can't speak for another six after coming to. Basically making the Breath Weapon an attack of last resort.
I still want to make a character from the underdark just because of the humor of a character who has no understanding of the surface and is surprised by the party's reactions when he goes to butcher dead enemies from extra food.
An utterly devoted follower of Anath, the god of misdirection. If you don't get why that is both so awesome a character idea, and so *WILDLY* frustrating and overwhelming to RP... Oof. I don't know what to tell you. Maybe Matt/Brennon/etc. could play it, but I had to give up; infinitely recursive wheels within wheels is just too hard to keep track of.
i have a Warforged Cleric of the forge/Rune knight character that i haven't had the chance to play in an ongoing campaign in years. His name is Siege, he was created for war like many warforged, however this war was suppose to free many of his warforged brethren from slavery, i would have loved to rescue as many warforged as i can and over time and then create a haven for them (and all other races hopefully)
Apearence wise siege is an 8ft tall hollow suit of black armor, he wears a steel crown and broad red cape, fire billows at the center of his bieng, magically sustaining his life.
with the immunity to fire at 17th level of forge cleric i also had the fantasy of casting heat metal on myself and then fist fighting an oponent!
god this idea for a druid/barbarian multiclass. basically a druid multiclass. One day he was out from the grove on bussiness when he returned the entire druid grove had been destroyed. Now he will destroy all those that refuse to live in harmony with nature.
How does "Lay on Hands" work? Like, do I need my hands attached or can my warrior ally just pocket one?
I played this guy for a level 6 Halloween one-shot and really wanna play him in a campaign!
Fritzl Quickfingers was a Chaotic Evil (but still friendly) Svirfneblin (Deep Gnome) who grew up in the comforting Underdark, but dreamed of the wonders of the Overbright.
Shunned for his deranged desire, Fritzl found himself praying to the legendary Sun, promising himself to its eternal service in return for a life on the surface.
A deeply unsettling presence entered his mind. Without words, with only one concept. Agreement.
A contract made of pure light appeared before Fritzl which he promptly poked his finger into and squiggled around.
At that moment, an earthquake rocked his familial home.
A great chasm opened overhead and millions of gallons of seawater rushed in, somehow leaving Fritzl mostly undamaged as it buoyed him to the surface.
Upon reaching the surface world, blinded by a scorching sun, Fritzl was consumed by remorse, realizing that everything he had known was now dead and drowned in the depths of a newborn sea.
Despair racked him, his mind broke, and he swore in that moment to get revenge against himself and the evil being who perpetrated this heinous act.
He promised himself that his only goal in life would be the utter destruction of the Sun. Therefore, he must always stay hidden from it's sight, so that it does not see his plans. (Remember, mind = broken)
Fritzl was a level 3 Pact of the Chain warlock, level 3 Arcane Trickster Rogue.
His patron was the Great Old One, because the Sun is basically Cthulu (blinds you if you look at it, prolonged exposure causes cancerous growths, exists in a void of darkness, will eventually consume the world, etc).
His Pact familiar was the first surface animal he met, a donkey named Hotey. (Donkey Hotey)
He lived inside Hotey's saddle bags, and used the Great Old One telepathy feature to pretend to be a donkey wizard whose body was transformed while experimenting with a new type of polymorph.
He would use his invisible Mage Hand (from Arcane Trickster) to manipulate things in his vicinity and cast his spells through his donkey's bites and kicks.
If he ever needed to exit the saddlebags, he would cast Darkness on Hotey, which his Devil's Sight Invocation allowed him to ignore.
When another player opened his saddlebags, they just found a bunch of rocks. (Within which he was hiding, as per the Deep Gnome Stealth ability.)
He was ridiculously fun to play for the one session I ran him. The other players only discovered that he wasn't a donkey wizard named Hotey after the session, and we all had a good laugh!
I actually concocted a plan to turn the sun dark by transforming it into a black hole of equal mass, thereby keeping the planet in orbit while plunging it into eternal night.
(It was a super convoluted plan, I only remember bits and pieces)
Kinda new to dnd so maybe actually not original but here it goes:
I wanted to make a healer without magic and came up with a surgeon.
The concept is this: rogue with expertiese and proficiencie in perception, sleight of hand and medicine combined with the Aaracocra race as i thought it was fitting (bird = good eyesight and talons = skalpel) as well as proficiencie in alchemist supplies for healing potions/medicine. I also dumped charisma so i play him as the most arrogant and smug god in white.
Instead of the rogue cliche (criminal, edgy, flanking, stealing, sneaking etc) you get the doktor cliche (from a wealthy background, privileged and borderline arrogant). "What do you mean he's dead? Well maybe an amateur like you would think that because of the severed head but i am no amateur and i see a challange. For me a small one at that." Should make for some interessting role play :D
Rogue is a great choice. If you go arcane trickster, you may want to consider a 3-4 level dip in artificier for the alchemists quick healing potions.
So this character was among my favorite to craft a backstory for, but sadly I only got to play him in three sessions between two separate campaigns. Still waiting for the day I can bring him to the table to see what a dm could develop for him. Hopefully that counts for this.
The inspiration was quite simple, I wanted to play a character that only has one arm, and the rest just came as a result of my crafting a story to accommodate it. Shall I begin?
Gar was the only son of a moderately well off couple who doted on him to a degree that most people can feel his embarrassment that only truly loving parents can cause. He was on the course to being a perfectly normal child until one day when he was eleven. The parents were awoken one night to hear awful screaming from Gar's room. He described the pain as numb but also burning more intensely than he had ever experienced before coming from just under his left arm. In his armpit they saw it, a small amorphous black Mark that emanated death itself.
The pain was constant and worse yet, constantly changing. Burning, numbing (as before), but then came bouts of pinching, aching; it radiated throughout the young boy's body.
His parents brought him before the town's local herbalist to ease the pain and maybe gain some insight into what this could mean. The herbalist could lower the pain to a more manageable level, but she had no idea what this mysterious Mark could be.
Over time the Mark began to grow and spread, and it became increasingly clear that it was not just skin deep. Over time his whole shoulder was overtaken by the Mark. He also began feeling pain in his ribs then coughing as it went deeper into his body. Eventually his left arm fell off entirely. While this terrified his parents, Gar was strangely relieved to have one less body part to feel pain in.
Nearly a year had passed since its appearance and Gar's folks spent all of their resources in contacting the churches across the country, searching for someone who could cure this, but no paladin's lay on hands nor cleric's lesser or even greater restorations did a thing. They tried everything short of Divine Intervention and the Wish spell in searching for a cure. The last of the clerics (highest rank in his order on the continent) provided two sets of medicine, one to ease his pain as much as possible for a time and the other being a painless poison for if they ever gave up and wanted to end his pain.
Before the arm had come detached there came a strange man, in a plague doctor's mask, who wished to conduct research on this new disease. Skeptical at first, his parents gave in as he offered pain medications, money, and the promise that if he were to find a cure, Gar would be saved. He only wished to be called "Doctor." When it became apparent that the arm would eventually fall off, the good Doctor paid a large sum of money to be able to take this sample back to his lab, as no blade seemed up to the task of removing even an inch of this infected flesh from the young boy's body. So one day off came the arm, and off went the Doctor to begin his research in earnest.
Some time after his 12th birthday, Gar's parents were on the verge of giving up. When one stormy night, a Stranger came knocking at the door. The Stranger refused to show their face, but the parents had already dealt with the Doctor. So this wasn't such a concern. What did catch their attention was the words and tone that came from the Stranger. "Your son is dying; I can prevent that." Such confidence was not something the parents were familiar with when dealing with the previous medical professionals.
The Stranger told them to wait outside his room and wouldn't take no for an answer. A minute passed, and Gar's voice rang out. Though they could not tell in the moment, this was the first time in a year that he sounded unstrained. Bursting through the door, his parents were only greeted by an open window, curtains in the wind, and their son, sitting up with gray scars across his body where the black Mark once was.
Gar panicked as he gasped for air and for the first time, felt no pain. His lungs were marred by the Mark, his arm, still gone, and his voice much more raspy than the last time he tried to speak, but still no pain.
He only refers to this THING as The Mark now. Gar is now 18, and his parents have finally let him off the leash. Their boy had barely survived the unthinkable. So of course they didn't want him to leave the nest, but he felt a calling. Keeping his scars covered, he ventures out into the world.
You wouldn't take him for more than a child at a distance. The Mark had halted his growth and left him permanently weaker than he could be, but he has strength of spirit.
His goal? To seek the adventures that he by all rights should never have had the opportunity to go on. To help as many people as he could but with no intentions of being credited for his aid. Just as this Stranger had helped him with no thought of reward or glory. Gar would aim to follow such philosophy.
Lastly, Gar would ask in his travels, searching for any hint at who this Stranger could be so that one day he may thank this individual with a handshake.
Sorry for the novel there. Literally all of this came from the inspiration that I wanted to play a character that only had one arm. The idea for the Mark came from my own, thankfully brief, experience with the staff infection known as MRSA. It pretty much just slowly eats away at the cells of your body, spreading with no limits. Bones, skin, organs, MRSA will just chew through someone if it is left untreated. I know of people who have lost an eye to the infection and others who had it chew through their spine paralyzing them. Both of those cases particularly scared me as I had it on the skin of the small of my back and right under my eye. I got it treated early and haven't seen hide nor hair of it in years.
Part of the reason I enjoyed making Gar's backstory so much is that I was able to weave in many opportunities for the dm to expand on it. Who was the Stranger? The Doctor? Where is his arm now? Is the Mark a one time case, or have others experienced this pain?
Also I set it up so that I could get to the table and fill any roll needed within the party as we made our character sheets. The only class I couldn't really make fit would be barbarian as Gar is canonically very weak. Otherwise, need a frontline? He meditated to become one with his ki to aid for his lack of strength, or he studied fencing. Need a healer? Gar did see one thing about this Stranger, a holy symbol, and now he takes his oath to protect the innocent. Spellcaster? The Stranger offered a contract, and now Gar owes an other worldly power but doesn't know what the price was, or he studied magic as he was too weak to return to playing in the town like a normal kid, or this individual had powerful dragon blood or passed on what they saw as their own curse of wild magic.
The possibilities were endless and so was my excitement. Sadly, as I mentioned before, Gar has yet to see more than 10 hours of play time. Crossing my fingers that anyone actually even reads this whole thing. Gosh I over describe things.
TL:DR Boy gets magical disease that can't be cured, loses his arm to it, and then is saved by a Stranger in the night. Now he seeks to help others as the Stranger helped him.
I love the idea, cool story!
I just want to play a feral monke monk.
Recently I have been wanting to make a half Goblin/dragonborn (more goblin than dragon). The dragonborn part of him would be more of a mutation that halves his size compared to normal goblins with scales of a lizard but gained high intelligence. He would be an alchemist/arcane trickster rogue who makes poisons and potions while also making it difficult for the enemy to know where he is by making illusions to create fake hims to distract the enemy while he does hit and run tactics with his powerful and varied poisons. As a DM, I would instead make this character have the ability to make the "Illusions" turn into clones that have 10% of his hp and he would be a ship captain. Giving him a high level I would allow him to make about 5 clones that would trip up anyone that would try to make trouble on his ship.
The backstory I would have for him is because he is a mutated goblin and looks weak, he was chased from his village, using a plank of wood to escape and ending up in a city nearby. His small height allowed him to move around unnoticed, using the land to help in his survival till he ends up getting a book off a merchant on alchemy. After working hard on it and testing the waters for interacting with humans, he opens a shop where he heightened his alchemical skills further. After a great amount of time passed, he became more famous, taking in some students and deciding to advance his shops further by using a ship. He uses the ship to go between his stores that opened in major cities connected to the ocean waters, all the shop owners being students of his that he is making sure has both enough supplies and checking if they have improved.
Halfling warlock who made a pact with his sleep-paralysis demon.
I had a character concept for an evil campaign which just had as high charisma and diplomacy as possible to get out of any situation and also get favors from people to make my job easier and I know my friend will be a tank so he would be my backup and bodyguard
Stagnum marinus. Sea elf artificer who wants to build glass bottom boats and open a tour service so people may see his coral reef village and love it just as much as he does. He has a high intelligence and charisma so he can go straight business man to guilds and in taverns while keeping things lively
I wrote way more than I intended, so for those who want the short of it, a changeling inquisitive rogue named Viers who excels in deception, manipulating the enemy in whatever way the party needs. For her backstory, she impersonated the child of a noble family when she was young, and in order to survive that stressful situation, Viers practiced shapeshifting into the servants and civilians, snuck around her home and city to learn/read/observe what a noble should know/act like, and studying her 'parents' every word and response to ensure she didn't slip up. For her career, she trained to eventually join the state's order of info brokers/assassins for the use of those in high society. Continue if you want the longer version.
I've had a character concept that I keep thinking about for a year. She's a changeling inquisitive rogue, but her background is what I really like about it. She grew up as an orphan in the slums of a sizable city, with each day being a struggle for survival (the usual, tragic street urchin, blah, blah). This was her life until she was 6, when she wandered into the more wealthy, noble section of the city and saw a boy around her age, who was eating a delicious pastry on his way home. Never having seen or even experienced such a prepared food, she watched him over the next few days. Almost every day, he would go through the town, sometimes with his parents, and she saw a style of living that she never knew existed. Each day, her desire to live like he did, to be him, intensified, so she continued to watch every aspect of the boy's life, disregarding her growing hunger.
One day, after a couple weeks of watching this likely noble child, she found herself on the front door of the family's home while the boy was away, her body barely functioning from starvation. She wasn't thinking as she knocked on their door, only the desire to live that child's life filled her mind, to have people to care for her and be without worry. And as the door opened, her wish became reality, for her appearance changed to match that of the boy. The boy's parents showed concern at seeing their child in rags, and not long after, their actual child appeared, confused. The changeling, unaware of her race, was also confused, but upon seeing the boy, despite still being young and naive, she knew they both couldn't exist and live that perfect life she saw.
Perhaps calling on her race's nature or the stress of the situation urging her on, she cried and screamed with a fearful appearance and called the boy a monster, begging to not let it take her. The child only had the chance to put on an angry face and take a step towards the imposter before he burst into flames, courtesy of his parents. As the innocent child tried to cry out as his body was turned to ashes, the imposter heard the mother say, "It'll be okay now Viers, we're here. You're safe now." Feeling the caring warmth of her 'mother' and the searing heat of the child corpse, she was guided into the manor. Thus, that is how the imposter gained a name and a lie to maintain.
For the next years of her life in the Jadnosti House, Viers did her best to impersonate the boy in every aspect, as well as understanding what she was. Using her relative freedom, she practiced shapeshifting into the servants and random civilians of different ages, races, and bodily shapes. Similar to how she did with Viers, she snuck around the noble quarter to see how other nobles are expected to act and listen to what she is supposed to know. But she was the most cautious and focused when it came to her 'parents', court mages that adored Viers and were now quite protective. She observed every word, every action, every response she could from them to ensure she didn't reveal who and what she truly was. But in between these stressful moments, her life was a dream. Food, safety, comfort, wealth. Everything she didn't have as an urchin she now had in spades. However, after the shock passed, and years later, the feeling of contentedness passed, she turned her gaze to the upper sections of the city. Other manors, more extravagant than hers, were not uncommon, and some of her parent's friend's lived in even better lifestyles. It was this realization that sparked a new desire, a desire to reach further heights. She wanted to see and experience the peak lifestyle she could, and using, no, being Viers Jadnosti, she would do just that.
During her time in the Jadnosti House, it was quickly revealed that she did not have the magical talent that her parents possessed. Thus, she chose and trained for a profession that fell in line with what she had to do everyday of her life. There was an order for the members of high society (royals, nobles, wealthy merchants, etc.) that specialized in gathering and trading information about individuals and politics. Members were respected for their known talent and usefulness, yet loathed due to the nature of their business and what their presence entailed. Furthermore, if the client had the right social standing or the right price, individuals could be 'removed' by high-standing members of the order. It was here that Viers felt she could best put her talents to use to pursue her goal. Her self-imposed upbringing and training would assist her in getting what she wanted to know, and using her concealed racial features, she'd be one measure better than the others. She would gain a reputation among her colleagues and clients, all for the purpose of living the best way she can. Whether that greed will drive her towards success or destroy her, only the campaign (whenever it happens) will tell.
Why the hell did I write so much for a UA-cam comment? I must be bored out of my mind....