Just before a new campaign was about to begin I was sitting home trying to decide what character to be, and I happened to be watching Disney's "Aladdin" because I just love Jafar. So I decided to play Jafar as a character. Only I made him a brass dragonborn because I love dragonborn and it fit with his desert environment. Sorcerer - obviously. Draconic subclass. Noble background.
The backstory was that he was the second son of a minor noble house from a distant desert, so he was destined to be the grand vizier for his older brother and inevitably for his eventual nephew. But of course he wanted more. He wanted the crown! His name was "Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands." And yes, he introduced himself by that whole thing to everyone he met.
I played Ikram as a bit of a pompous but overly-polite-to-the-point-of-being-a-jerk-about-it stuck up noble. He hated to get dirty, or cold, and took threats and insults way too personally. He would rather spend the 50 gp he found on a new outfit rather than a healing potion.
His father, the king, had sent him on this quest. Before he would be promoted from vizier-in-training to Grand Vizier he had to complete a hazardous quest. He was ordered to travel to a distant land by the ocean (Waterdeep), and organize a group of ragtag non-dragonborn into an organized and effective team. It was basically a team-building exercise because his father knew that Ikram was really NOT a team-oriented person.
Well... things went well for the first nine levels, but being away from the discipline of his home life, and the fact that his father had yet to call him home, began to cause Ikram's alignment to slowly shift southward. At one point he ended up making a deal with a devil lord to betray the rest of the party. This subterfuge went on for several months before the rest of the party caught on to what was happening.
Before they could kill me, though, the devil arrived and we bamf'd out. In the blink of an eye we were standing under the blazing sun of the Desert of the Burning Sands. My home, the brass-walled Citadel of Ra'ad, was just a mile away at the base of the eastern hills. The devil told me that I would be granted powers, but that I would have to prove myself and earn my way up through the hierarchy of the Hells like any other devil. He turned me into a fire elemental myrmidon (though I got to keep my Elemental Adept feat) and he told me that my first test was to kill everyone in my home city.
So I did.
And I burned more cities after that one.
And it's been all downhill since then.
If you're curious to see how well Ikram has advanced, you can find him in the homebrew monster section under his name.
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
It's practically a hobby in its own right for me, I roll up a lot of my favorite characters just because I have fun figuring out what they'd be, though I haven't played/planned to play most of them, but having them in my back pocket means if I'm in a party that REALLY NEEDS a specific class, I might have something. I like going with cult films for inspiration, because anyone who calls me out on one of my really deep cuts, I know I'm going to like.
I rolled up Buckaroo Banzai as a monk once just for kicks, but the sheer amount of things he'd multiclass at would make him... difficult to actually try to play. At the very least, cleric and bard, but I'd think some other type of caster as well... (however, I am holding onto a couple Cavaliers in case they're ever what's needed)
(And, should I ever be in a group small enough that an experienced player might be asked to take on two characters, I have a Tiefling/Aasimar duo straight out of my favorite novel...)
"She can't be serious, can she? Vaporize the whole damn planet?" - Casper Lindley
"You wanna roll all those dice, Casper?" - Buckaroo
Damn! Now I need an RPG based on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai! The big bad evil guy can be John Bigbooté.
"It's BigbooTAY! TAY!"
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Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Not so much 'based off of' as 'drawing from', but I have a Changeling right now who's primary personality is a haggard, skeptical, jaded private detective. Took a little bit of the character from Detective Miller from The Expanse (novels and show).
It's practically a hobby in its own right for me, I roll up a lot of my favorite characters just because I have fun figuring out what they'd be, though I haven't played/planned to play most of them, but having them in my back pocket means if I'm in a party that REALLY NEEDS a specific class, I might have something. I like going with cult films for inspiration, because anyone who calls me out on one of my really deep cuts, I know I'm going to like.
I rolled up Buckaroo Banzai as a monk once just for kicks, but the sheer amount of things he'd multiclass at would make him... difficult to actually try to play. At the very least, cleric and bard, but I'd think some other type of caster as well... (however, I am holding onto a couple Cavaliers in case they're ever what's needed)
(And, should I ever be in a group small enough that an experienced player might be asked to take on two characters, I have a Tiefling/Aasimar duo straight out of my favorite novel...)
And it would be a great tie-in with Critical Role because Jeff Goldblum played New Jersey, and a donkey wearing a Jeff Goldblum mask is running for the President of DnDBeyond!
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Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Just before a new campaign was about to begin I was sitting home trying to decide what character to be, and I happened to be watching Disney's "Aladdin" because I just love Jafar. So I decided to play Jafar as a character. Only I made him a brass dragonborn because I love dragonborn and it fit with his desert environment. Sorcerer - obviously. Draconic subclass. Noble background.
I was in a similar boat a couple months ago! I had Aladdin on in the background as I was trying to create a character for a one-off. Ended up with an off-brand Aladdin. Rogue/Bard who knew every little about stealth but lots about disguises, running amok of the town guard, and inspiring others with his upbeat songs! :)
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
After seeing all 3 movies I've decided to make D&D sheet of John Wick. I've created a Variant Human Lv14 Monk\Lv6 Rouge and giving the subclasses of Way of the Long Death and Assassin.
looking to make a build based on the character bebedora from arc the lad any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Not familiar with Arc, but when I looked up the character on the wiki, it sounded very much like it could work with the Warlock class to me. If its okay with your DM, maybe you could say that your Warlock has no soul and that the character's body is inhabited by an ancient spirit similar to the one in Bebedora. This could be the Warlock's pact (she had to give up her soul to be inhabited by the spirit who gives it power. For all intents and purposes, your character would operate as a mortal, via the mechanics of the rules, with the powers of a Warlock serving to recognize that she is an ancient spirit. This way you wouldn't be some super powered god while the other players were regular adventurers, and you could still get the flavor you wanted. Just spit balling ideas though.
In short, Warlock seems like a good starting point. Check out their powers and skills and see if it works for you!
I twice played the 10th Doctor, once in a 3.5 game, and once in a 4e game as a wizard multi-classed into artificer.
Id love to hear about him. I want to make a 5e version in spirit at least (its the doctor after all, shes already level 20+). Probably flavoured more like either the 11th or 12th.
I've always projected characters into D&D. I tried to do so for 5e, but it was tough.
In 3.5e, Darth Vader was a LE half-iron-golem psychic warrior. I suspect he'd be a psychic warrior in 5e as well, with a mind blade or sun blade, urchin background, and at least the lucky and mage initiate feats. The dark side can manifest as indefinite madness.
Batman is tough in 5e as well, because of all the level dips. Gear is important too. Background is some combination of noble and haunted one. He also has a form of indefinite madness. I'd say a LN but the classes are tough. Thematically, he's a vengeance paladin, easy. Shadow monk gives him the ability to disappear and move about the darkness. Finally, he must be an inquisitive rogue, being the greatest detective and specializing in sneaky attacks. Observant and skulker feats. Gear is fun to think about. The Batmobile is a Tormentor, from BG:DiA. He also has a utility belt of holding, boots of striding and springing, bracer of batarangs, cloak of the bat, dread helm, dust of disappearance, eversmoking bottle, goggles of night, and a spies' murmur pair. I may have missed some. Alfred is also his personal (very high-level) artificer.
The Overwatch cast give a lot of inspiration for me personally, I just swap out their guns for more D&D-centric weapons and the personality/motivations are ready-made for me. I've done Moira as a dark Celestial Warlock, Lifeweaver as a Dreams or Stars Druid, Reinhardt as a Rune Knight Fighter or Glory Paladin, Sombra as an Arcane Trickster, Roadhog as a Bear Totem Barbarian, Birgitte as a Life Cleric, Hanzo and Genji as Hunter Rangers or Kensei Monks etc.
I’ve wanted to create a character based off of Will Graham from Hannibal/Red Dragon.
Just before a new campaign was about to begin I was sitting home trying to decide what character to be, and I happened to be watching Disney's "Aladdin" because I just love Jafar. So I decided to play Jafar as a character. Only I made him a brass dragonborn because I love dragonborn and it fit with his desert environment. Sorcerer - obviously. Draconic subclass. Noble background.
The backstory was that he was the second son of a minor noble house from a distant desert, so he was destined to be the grand vizier for his older brother and inevitably for his eventual nephew. But of course he wanted more. He wanted the crown! His name was "Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands." And yes, he introduced himself by that whole thing to everyone he met.
I played Ikram as a bit of a pompous but overly-polite-to-the-point-of-being-a-jerk-about-it stuck up noble. He hated to get dirty, or cold, and took threats and insults way too personally. He would rather spend the 50 gp he found on a new outfit rather than a healing potion.
His father, the king, had sent him on this quest. Before he would be promoted from vizier-in-training to Grand Vizier he had to complete a hazardous quest. He was ordered to travel to a distant land by the ocean (Waterdeep), and organize a group of ragtag non-dragonborn into an organized and effective team. It was basically a team-building exercise because his father knew that Ikram was really NOT a team-oriented person.
Well... things went well for the first nine levels, but being away from the discipline of his home life, and the fact that his father had yet to call him home, began to cause Ikram's alignment to slowly shift southward. At one point he ended up making a deal with a devil lord to betray the rest of the party. This subterfuge went on for several months before the rest of the party caught on to what was happening.
Before they could kill me, though, the devil arrived and we bamf'd out. In the blink of an eye we were standing under the blazing sun of the Desert of the Burning Sands. My home, the brass-walled Citadel of Ra'ad, was just a mile away at the base of the eastern hills. The devil told me that I would be granted powers, but that I would have to prove myself and earn my way up through the hierarchy of the Hells like any other devil. He turned me into a fire elemental myrmidon (though I got to keep my Elemental Adept feat) and he told me that my first test was to kill everyone in my home city.
So I did.
And I burned more cities after that one.
And it's been all downhill since then.
If you're curious to see how well Ikram has advanced, you can find him in the homebrew monster section under his name.
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
It's practically a hobby in its own right for me, I roll up a lot of my favorite characters just because I have fun figuring out what they'd be, though I haven't played/planned to play most of them, but having them in my back pocket means if I'm in a party that REALLY NEEDS a specific class, I might have something. I like going with cult films for inspiration, because anyone who calls me out on one of my really deep cuts, I know I'm going to like.
I rolled up Buckaroo Banzai as a monk once just for kicks, but the sheer amount of things he'd multiclass at would make him... difficult to actually try to play. At the very least, cleric and bard, but I'd think some other type of caster as well... (however, I am holding onto a couple Cavaliers in case they're ever what's needed)
(And, should I ever be in a group small enough that an experienced player might be asked to take on two characters, I have a Tiefling/Aasimar duo straight out of my favorite novel...)
"She can't be serious, can she? Vaporize the whole damn planet?" - Casper Lindley
"You wanna roll all those dice, Casper?" - Buckaroo
Damn! Now I need an RPG based on The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai! The big bad evil guy can be John Bigbooté.
"It's BigbooTAY! TAY!"
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
Not so much 'based off of' as 'drawing from', but I have a Changeling right now who's primary personality is a haggard, skeptical, jaded private detective. Took a little bit of the character from Detective Miller from The Expanse (novels and show).
Looking for new subclasses, spells, magic items, feats, and races? Opinions welcome :)
There was supposed to be a Buckaroo Banzai RPG several years ago. Not quite sure what happened to the project. Makes me sad.
Looking for new subclasses, spells, magic items, feats, and races? Opinions welcome :)
And it would be a great tie-in with Critical Role because Jeff Goldblum played New Jersey, and a donkey wearing a Jeff Goldblum mask is running for the President of DnDBeyond!
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
I was in a similar boat a couple months ago! I had Aladdin on in the background as I was trying to create a character for a one-off. Ended up with an off-brand Aladdin. Rogue/Bard who knew every little about stealth but lots about disguises, running amok of the town guard, and inspiring others with his upbeat songs! :)
♫ PRINCE ALI, FABULOUS HE, ALI ABABWAAAA.... ♫
Tayn of Darkwood. Lvl 10 human Life Cleric of Lathander. Retired.
Ikram Sahir ibn Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad, Second Son of the House of Ra'ad, Defender of the Burning Sands. Lvl 9 Brass Dragonborn Sorcerer + Greater Fire Elemental Devil.
Viktor Gavriil. Lvl 20 White Dragonborn Grave Cleric, of Kurgan the God of Death.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
After seeing all 3 movies I've decided to make D&D sheet of John Wick. I've created a Variant Human Lv14 Monk\Lv6 Rouge and giving the subclasses of Way of the Long Death and Assassin.
https://ddb.ac/characters/12683276/deKNu7
looking to make a build based on the character bebedora from arc the lad any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Not familiar with Arc, but when I looked up the character on the wiki, it sounded very much like it could work with the Warlock class to me. If its okay with your DM, maybe you could say that your Warlock has no soul and that the character's body is inhabited by an ancient spirit similar to the one in Bebedora. This could be the Warlock's pact (she had to give up her soul to be inhabited by the spirit who gives it power. For all intents and purposes, your character would operate as a mortal, via the mechanics of the rules, with the powers of a Warlock serving to recognize that she is an ancient spirit. This way you wouldn't be some super powered god while the other players were regular adventurers, and you could still get the flavor you wanted. Just spit balling ideas though.
In short, Warlock seems like a good starting point. Check out their powers and skills and see if it works for you!
"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
Fat Bastard from Austin powers.
An obese dwarven monk/fighter. May or may not have eaten corn.
Ranger: Beastmaster
Id love to hear about him. I want to make a 5e version in spirit at least (its the doctor after all, shes already level 20+). Probably flavoured more like either the 11th or 12th.
i like that alot thatnk you
I've always projected characters into D&D. I tried to do so for 5e, but it was tough.
In 3.5e, Darth Vader was a LE half-iron-golem psychic warrior. I suspect he'd be a psychic warrior in 5e as well, with a mind blade or sun blade, urchin background, and at least the lucky and mage initiate feats. The dark side can manifest as indefinite madness.
Batman is tough in 5e as well, because of all the level dips. Gear is important too. Background is some combination of noble and haunted one. He also has a form of indefinite madness. I'd say a LN but the classes are tough. Thematically, he's a vengeance paladin, easy. Shadow monk gives him the ability to disappear and move about the darkness. Finally, he must be an inquisitive rogue, being the greatest detective and specializing in sneaky attacks. Observant and skulker feats. Gear is fun to think about. The Batmobile is a Tormentor, from BG:DiA. He also has a utility belt of holding, boots of striding and springing, bracer of batarangs, cloak of the bat, dread helm, dust of disappearance, eversmoking bottle, goggles of night, and a spies' murmur pair. I may have missed some. Alfred is also his personal (very high-level) artificer.
Looking for ideas to make a fair character based off of dragon ball super. Anybody got ideas or suggestions?
Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
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The Overwatch cast give a lot of inspiration for me personally, I just swap out their guns for more D&D-centric weapons and the personality/motivations are ready-made for me. I've done Moira as a dark Celestial Warlock, Lifeweaver as a Dreams or Stars Druid, Reinhardt as a Rune Knight Fighter or Glory Paladin, Sombra as an Arcane Trickster, Roadhog as a Bear Totem Barbarian, Birgitte as a Life Cleric, Hanzo and Genji as Hunter Rangers or Kensei Monks etc.