I've wanted to make a Hobogoblin Artificer (Alchemist) so I could play D&D as The Green Goblin on a Giant Bat Mechanical Servent. Rain Alchemist Fire death from above!
I wanted to give my friends something that they like in my first campaign, in the hopes that they would continue to enjoy D&D, so I created a the Always Sunny gang.
Dennisar (Dennis) was one of the main bosses, as well as Charlie the Rat (Obviously Charlie), Frankward (Frank) Macwell (Mac) and Winged Dee (Dee, but an actual bird, Kenku)
One of my players threw acid in Dennisar's face, and another attack caused Dee to explode before I had an opportunity to do anything funny with her, but her guts covered the player and the room. Offal everywhere. Charlie and Macwell were disposed of, leaving Frankward to charge for the door with a prompt "Oh Shit!" but was trapped, and they slowly poured the acid onto his face to finish him off.
My very first D&D character ever was based off of Zoro from Onepiece. A dual-wielding fighter who was always drunk. And even with no negs to my rolls I still rolled poorly but when I did happen to hit I did massive damage
I recently did Patches from the souls series, more in personality than in combat or skills. Basically, I went to the DM saying "I want to be the guy who screws over the party after befriending them all." One player caught onto my ploy, but luckily he was good about not metagaming. In the campaign we were doing the party was investigating a faction that was kidnapping magic users. We were down in a cave system below a keep and the party got surrounded by warriors. I had bonded with the mage in the group over some thieving antics earlier so when things started looking bad I grabbed him and we ran further into the tunnels. We eventually came to the room where the big baddies were chilling and before initiative was rolled I patted mage-bud on the back and whispered "Sorry friend, but this is just the way things are." And with that, I turned him over and everyone in the room flipped their collective shit.
The DM decided that was a good place to leave off and we haven't played since. I still occasionally get angry messages.
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"When I finally find a pen I have nothing to say..." ~Some graffiti I found once.
I got my geek on by attempting to create various superheroes.
Raven from DC Teen Titans, I created her as a (Hermit) 17th level Warlock of the Raven Queen but modified some of the Pact Features and created a Homebrew Eldritch Invocation.
Empathic Raven Expanded Spells
1- Shield of Faith, Cure Wounds
2- Calm Emotions, Lesser Restoration
3- Blink, Sending
4- Confusion, Phantasmal Killer
5- Greater Restoration, Wall of Force
Features:
Level 1- Sentinel Raven
Level 6- Soul of the Raven
Level 10- Ravens Shield
Level 14- Dimensional Travel (Planeshift 1/day or Teleportation 1/Day), (Replaces Queen's Right Hand)
**Shadow Steps of the Raven (15th level Warlock) Eldritch Invocation
At will Misty Step, without using a spell or pact slot
I like to borrow names or elements of names from books. I had a half elf wizard a named Antryg Windrose (from a book by....I think it was Barbara Hambly?)
I love playing "what class would the D&D version of this character be" but don't often actually play them. For instance in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Buffy is a paladin. Willow is obviously a wizard.
Sillva started on the Avengers. I think Hawkeye is more of an Eldritch Knight or an Arcane Archer to explain his exploding arrows, grappling Arrows. I would homebrew an Artificer specialist who adds magic abilities to a suit of armour for Iron Man. Black Widow is an assassin, Thor is a Tempest Domain cleric, Cap is a paladin with Shield Mastery. Bruce Banner has no class levels but turns into the Hulk. To approximate him as a character you could have a Beserker who doesn't fit the normal class archetype but changes more than usually when he rages.
For the D&D Next playtest, I made a Way of the Open Hand Monk based on One Punch Man. While he never quite rose to that level of strength, he did feel very much out of one of my Japanese anime (like Fist of the North Star or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).
Not necessarily in terms of Class, but I played a sorcerer who ended up on a stolen military vessel. I built up his charisma traits and personality a bit like Jack from Traders, eventually becoming the captain (with a silent partner as an engineer and a fighter conscience to keep me a bit moral) and in charge of all the finances of the ship. Apparently, the fictional world of high finance translates really well into a semi-piracy campaign with magic, elves, and evil shapeshifters.
I've wanted to make a Hobogoblin Artificer (Alchemist) so I could play D&D as The Green Goblin on a Giant Bat Mechanical Servent. Rain Alchemist Fire death from above!
I have an NPC villain based on the Green Goblin LOL! He is awesome. He rides a magical flying device much like a flying carpet and uses potions as weapons and a limited spell casting ability. Also a Hobgoblin. I read way to many comic books as a kid.
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JT "You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
My very first D&D character was a wizard based on Raistlin. He is and forever will be my first fantasy crush. I even took the spells that he starts out with in the first book like Sleep. It helped that I had the Annotated Chronicles so I had a lot of useful info on his actual D&D character.
I tried to make an Air Genasi Monk based on Aang from the Last Airbender. Sadly that game didn't pan out and fell apart so I never really got to try him.
My very first D&D character was a wizard based on Raistlin. He is and forever will be my first fantasy crush. I even took the spells that he starts out with in the first book like Sleep. It helped that I had the Annotated Chronicles so I had a lot of useful info on his actual D&D character.
I tried to make an Air Genasi Monk based on Aang from the Last Airbender. Sadly that game didn't pan out and fell apart so I never really got to try him.
Raistlin was an easy character to love. He was the only reason I kept reading the Dragonlance series. I've done up a wizard in much the same fashion. I think If I every began being a player again vs a DM I would re-create him.
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JT "You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
When D&D Next was in playtest, I took the rules and ran an 80s Fantasy Film based game. The players played Merlin (from Excalibur - Illusionist Wizard), The Dread Pirate Roberts (aka Wesley from The Princess Bride - Rogue) Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (from Highlander - Fighter) and Conan the Barbarian ('nuf said). They were twentieth level characters, with abilities I customized to help emphasize the character to embody the character in the movie. Ramirez had a vorpal sword, Merlin had the ability to transform some illusions into reality, Dread Pirate had a 'battle of wits' ability (aka Lucky Proficency), and Conan had a 'Riddle of Steel' ability (fighting stance = use intimidation for more damage).
The adventure began as each of the heroes were transported to an unknown land by strange magic, where they were all brought together by a mysterious and powerful entity from somewhere in the multiverse. The being set forth a quest before them to test their might, promising only to reveal himself to those who could succeed on the quest. The quest was three parts that led them to a Skesis domain (Dark Crystal) and had them fight against the heroes from that cheesy D&D offshoot Dragonstrike. They fought Tiamat before the final quest and when they succeeded, they were forced into a golden, spike-topped-wall maze with a shining ziggurat rising from its center. Yes, it was the maze from the great Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and at its center was Venger! Venger had only brought the heroes forth to syphon the life from the most powerful heroes for his own uprising! Venger summoned allies to fight the heroes (nemisises from the movies of course). After a giant battle on the steps of the ziggurat, beneath a golden glowing portal to their respective homes, Venger transformed into a weird cartoony spider thing. But the heroes prevailed. In the end, Dungeon Master appeared to help send them back home and wished them well.
That was the only time I ever ran a game with movie characters but it was exactly how I wanted it done. It beckons thoughts to my mind now... all good 80s movies do have sequels don't they? (Cue evil echoing laughter)
I would create a fighter based on Samurai Jack. Technically my Gnome gunslinger is a combination of Stitch and Roland Deschain..because I like making characters that have impulse control issues at the totally wrong moment...but when it is time to go to work they go to work.
I'm currently playing a Dwarf Barbarian modeled after Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec. Roleplaying was fun until I took double duty with DMing. Now I have to dial it back otherwise I'm just talking to myself.
I made a Half-elf Wizard named Luna whose arcane focus was two Colt Buntline Special, etched with mystical runes much like Peacemaker from the Wynonna Earp tv show. Luna was a demon hunter like Wynonna as well, but her guns were broken and so couldn't shoot any bullets and were mainly there just to make her look cool.
She used them to shoot out spells from the barrel and it was hilarious and awesome to see her shoot magic missile from the guns during combat.
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I've wanted to make a Hobogoblin Artificer (Alchemist) so I could play D&D as The Green Goblin on a Giant Bat Mechanical Servent. Rain Alchemist Fire death from above!
I wanted to give my friends something that they like in my first campaign, in the hopes that they would continue to enjoy D&D, so I created a the Always Sunny gang.
Dennisar (Dennis) was one of the main bosses, as well as Charlie the Rat (Obviously Charlie), Frankward (Frank) Macwell (Mac) and Winged Dee (Dee, but an actual bird, Kenku)
One of my players threw acid in Dennisar's face, and another attack caused Dee to explode before I had an opportunity to do anything funny with her, but her guts covered the player and the room. Offal everywhere. Charlie and Macwell were disposed of, leaving Frankward to charge for the door with a prompt "Oh Shit!" but was trapped, and they slowly poured the acid onto his face to finish him off.
My players are messed up.
Can I roll for that?
I have considered doing a Jaime Lannister-esque Oathbreaker Paladin.
My Ranger is somewhat based on Aragorn/Strider.
One of my friends has a character based on Rincewind from the Discworld series. He plays him well too.
My very first D&D character ever was based off of Zoro from Onepiece. A dual-wielding fighter who was always drunk. And even with no negs to my rolls I still rolled poorly but when I did happen to hit I did massive damage
Its all about having fun!
I recently did Patches from the souls series, more in personality than in combat or skills. Basically, I went to the DM saying "I want to be the guy who screws over the party after befriending them all." One player caught onto my ploy, but luckily he was good about not metagaming. In the campaign we were doing the party was investigating a faction that was kidnapping magic users. We were down in a cave system below a keep and the party got surrounded by warriors. I had bonded with the mage in the group over some thieving antics earlier so when things started looking bad I grabbed him and we ran further into the tunnels. We eventually came to the room where the big baddies were chilling and before initiative was rolled I patted mage-bud on the back and whispered "Sorry friend, but this is just the way things are." And with that, I turned him over and everyone in the room flipped their collective shit.
The DM decided that was a good place to leave off and we haven't played since. I still occasionally get angry messages.
"When I finally find a pen I have nothing to say..." ~Some graffiti I found once.
I got my geek on by attempting to create various superheroes.
Raven from DC Teen Titans, I created her as a (Hermit) 17th level Warlock of the Raven Queen but modified some of the Pact Features and created a Homebrew Eldritch Invocation.
Empathic Raven Expanded Spells
1- Shield of Faith, Cure Wounds
2- Calm Emotions, Lesser Restoration
3- Blink, Sending
4- Confusion, Phantasmal Killer
5- Greater Restoration, Wall of Force
Features:
Level 1- Sentinel Raven
Level 6- Soul of the Raven
Level 10- Ravens Shield
Level 14- Dimensional Travel (Planeshift 1/day or Teleportation 1/Day), (Replaces Queen's Right Hand)
**Shadow Steps of the Raven (15th level Warlock) Eldritch Invocation
At will Misty Step, without using a spell or pact slot
I then had a go at simulating Other Teen Titans:
Beastboy: (Druid (Moon) 9th level, Fighter (Battlemaster) 5th level, Rogue 2nd level, Monk 1st level), (Outlander)
Starfire: Fire Draconic Sorcerer 14, Fighter (Champion) 3, (Noble)
Robin: (Rogue (Thief/Swashbuckler) 12th level, Fighter(Battlemaster) 5th level, Urchin (He was an orphan before he was adopted by Batman)
Cyborg: Fighter(Battlemaster) 11th level , Paladin (Devotion) 6th level, (Sage) or Fighter(Battlemaster) 11th level , Paladin (Devotion) 1st level, Warlock (Hexblade Blade) 5th level, (Sage)
I also had a go at simulating some Marvel Heroes.
Magik- Seeker Blade Pact Warlock (Variant Human) with an Alter Ego Darkechilde (Fiend Blade Pact (Tiefling))
Iron Gnome (rather than Iron Man), Captain Faerun or Captain America, Professor X, Storm, Nightcrawler
I like to borrow names or elements of names from books. I had a half elf wizard a named Antryg Windrose (from a book by....I think it was Barbara Hambly?)
geek dad with 3 geek kids
I love playing "what class would the D&D version of this character be" but don't often actually play them. For instance in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Buffy is a paladin. Willow is obviously a wizard.
Sillva started on the Avengers. I think Hawkeye is more of an Eldritch Knight or an Arcane Archer to explain his exploding arrows, grappling Arrows. I would homebrew an Artificer specialist who adds magic abilities to a suit of armour for Iron Man. Black Widow is an assassin, Thor is a Tempest Domain cleric, Cap is a paladin with Shield Mastery. Bruce Banner has no class levels but turns into the Hulk. To approximate him as a character you could have a Beserker who doesn't fit the normal class archetype but changes more than usually when he rages.
For the D&D Next playtest, I made a Way of the Open Hand Monk based on One Punch Man. While he never quite rose to that level of strength, he did feel very much out of one of my Japanese anime (like Fist of the North Star or Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).
Not necessarily in terms of Class, but I played a sorcerer who ended up on a stolen military vessel. I built up his charisma traits and personality a bit like Jack from Traders, eventually becoming the captain (with a silent partner as an engineer and a fighter conscience to keep me a bit moral) and in charge of all the finances of the ship. Apparently, the fictional world of high finance translates really well into a semi-piracy campaign with magic, elves, and evil shapeshifters.
JT " You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
My very first D&D character was a wizard based on Raistlin. He is and forever will be my first fantasy crush. I even took the spells that he starts out with in the first book like Sleep. It helped that I had the Annotated Chronicles so I had a lot of useful info on his actual D&D character.
I tried to make an Air Genasi Monk based on Aang from the Last Airbender. Sadly that game didn't pan out and fell apart so I never really got to try him.
JT " You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
When D&D Next was in playtest, I took the rules and ran an 80s Fantasy Film based game. The players played Merlin (from Excalibur - Illusionist Wizard), The Dread Pirate Roberts (aka Wesley from The Princess Bride - Rogue) Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (from Highlander - Fighter) and Conan the Barbarian ('nuf said). They were twentieth level characters, with abilities I customized to help emphasize the character to embody the character in the movie. Ramirez had a vorpal sword, Merlin had the ability to transform some illusions into reality, Dread Pirate had a 'battle of wits' ability (aka Lucky Proficency), and Conan had a 'Riddle of Steel' ability (fighting stance = use intimidation for more damage).
The adventure began as each of the heroes were transported to an unknown land by strange magic, where they were all brought together by a mysterious and powerful entity from somewhere in the multiverse. The being set forth a quest before them to test their might, promising only to reveal himself to those who could succeed on the quest. The quest was three parts that led them to a Skesis domain (Dark Crystal) and had them fight against the heroes from that cheesy D&D offshoot Dragonstrike. They fought Tiamat before the final quest and when they succeeded, they were forced into a golden, spike-topped-wall maze with a shining ziggurat rising from its center. Yes, it was the maze from the great Dungeons & Dragons cartoon and at its center was Venger! Venger had only brought the heroes forth to syphon the life from the most powerful heroes for his own uprising! Venger summoned allies to fight the heroes (nemisises from the movies of course). After a giant battle on the steps of the ziggurat, beneath a golden glowing portal to their respective homes, Venger transformed into a weird cartoony spider thing. But the heroes prevailed. In the end, Dungeon Master appeared to help send them back home and wished them well.
That was the only time I ever ran a game with movie characters but it was exactly how I wanted it done. It beckons thoughts to my mind now... all good 80s movies do have sequels don't they? (Cue evil echoing laughter)
"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
I would create a fighter based on Samurai Jack. Technically my Gnome gunslinger is a combination of Stitch and Roland Deschain..because I like making characters that have impulse control issues at the totally wrong moment...but when it is time to go to work they go to work.
I'm currently playing a Dwarf Barbarian modeled after Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec. Roleplaying was fun until I took double duty with DMing. Now I have to dial it back otherwise I'm just talking to myself.
I did a bard of valor in 4e based off Link from Zelda
i also did a Paladin/Fighter who's was based off The Punisher
I have yet to put it into action, but I am seeking to create a plethora of Fate/stay night characters as enemies for my players to face.
I'm thinking Barbarian and possibly multi-classed as monk for Beserker
I made a Half-elf Wizard named Luna whose arcane focus was two Colt Buntline Special, etched with mystical runes much like Peacemaker from the Wynonna Earp tv show. Luna was a demon hunter like Wynonna as well, but her guns were broken and so couldn't shoot any bullets and were mainly there just to make her look cool.
She used them to shoot out spells from the barrel and it was hilarious and awesome to see her shoot magic missile from the guns during combat.
- The Mad Hatter