I'm a relatively new player and im looking to build my own character and I'm not sure which class would best fit my concept. The idea was they were someone who had skills and knowledge around witchcraft or divination type stuff. A sort of crazy off the board witch type character. I've looked into like druid and warlock classes but not sure they fit any tips?
This sounds like either a Diviner Wizard or a Pact of the Great Old One. The second is definitely a little kooky, and the first could be played as “all that knowledge drove them insane”
By the way, I know that this is a thread about character concepts, but your question was just a tad out of the thread’s relevance. Now, you’re a new user, so you are certainly forgiven, but for the future I suggest creating your own thread.
Centaur oath the ancients paladin (centaur for disease control) and a cavalier fighter rider. The centaur qualifies as a mount do to poor wording in 5e. Incredibly abusable
A spoiled, rich-kid rogue who is just a kleptomaniac, and doesn't actually need to steal, but they've got a pretty good heart. They're super annoying, and pretty young, but trying to be rebellious so they go off to become an adventurer instead of being nobility or the head of a family business or something else like that.
A barbarian with a really high intelligence score, and wisdom, who tries to keep their composure, but can only rage when useful. Like when a pack of goblins is bearing down on the cleric, they need everybody else to roast them until they become so upset that they can rage. Pretty much the hulk.
A character who thinks they're dead, and no matter how much evidence is put against them on this, they insist they are a ghost and that every action they want someone else to do is somehow avenging their death.
A drangonborn wizard, (Sage) that on an expidition, ran into something secret, and started the transformation into an Allip because of it. Yet luckily, their companion was able to erase part of their memory before that happened.
I have a Black Dragonborn that will be a Warlock (The Kraken Subclass) Wizard (Lore Master Subclass). He was essentaially an information gatherer for his clan, and went out on a journey to gather more information abroad. He was sailing on a ship that ended up sinking, and the Kraken saves him so that the patreon can use him as his eyes and ears on the land. In this crash and contract, the character get's amnesia, however his books help him remember his name and mission, just not his home. His name is Darwinian (Based of of the Scientist) and his unseen Servant's Name is Beagle (Based off the ship the scientist rode). Essentially he is proficient in all Intelligence based skills but Arcana (Before Lore Master) and is a curious little bean that goes around writing and documenting all of his travels and things he learns.
EDIT: Further details: Monster Hunter. Preferred Enemy: Humanoid: Human, Elf - Language: Elvish. Dual Wield. (Hill Dwarf.) Criminal background. (Fence. Not sure how that fits, yet.) Neutral Evil (follower of Abbathor, the Trove Lord).
Created almost completely through random rolls, including characteristics. Abbathor was the only evil dwarf deity I could find, which happened to line up perfectly with one of the character's random personality traits of Greed (evil) and also happened to line up perfectly with the Neutral variant.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Hello, Stix here. Stix is trained in the art of the fighter, stix is variant human who can brawl in the tavern. Stix uses sticks for weapons, like his pointy stick (spear) and 3 pronged pointy stick (trident) and all forms of slashy sticks. (pretty much any slashing weapon) Stix carries net of sticks with him so stix can be ready for any situation. stix does not part with his stix unless stix is given golden stick (gold pieces), golden stick is worth several of stix sticks. stix once found stick of life, stick of life said he was tree of life, and taking him would kill everyone, stix didn't care, he took stick of life and almost died. but through perseverance stix survived and took slice of stick of life. stix than absorbed stick of life, and turned into new stick of life. stix is now happy in stix heaven for stix became stick.
A Bugbear Fighter/War Cleric with a glaive. (for massive range) but he also is an elephant rider. He doesnt say muc, but he believes he can talk to the elephant (roll a d20 of how 'well i can understand him'. The higher the roll, the more i can decide what the elephant 'said'. low numbers mean I have to beg the DM for mercy..). Its always fun to get the elephant everywhere. His background is that he just rode around on his elephant, playing some lute and entertaining the locals. so like a homebrew entertainer/folk hero kinda thing. It was very fun.
I like to random roll most of the character, including the character's personality and background. I am having a really tough time fleshing out a Level 3 Neutral Evil Dwarf Ranger Monster Hunter with a Criminal specialty of a Fence that I mentioned earlier.
The Ideal chose Evil by roll. I chose Neutral thinking it would be easier than Lawful or Chaotic. It doesn't seem to be easy for me at all. I've been trying an Assassin route, but that's not working out so great. There are so many conflicts that I want to de-dramatize (or de-"edge") for the character's history. I don't go for "evil just to be evil" with Player Characters born in the Material Plane with Material Plane ancestry. To me, Material Plane characters are shaped a lot by experiences and not simply created a certain way, but I also think heroes become heroes in the campaigns and not before. I like the drama to be (as someone called it) "frontstory" and not "backstory". This one is proving to be particularly difficult and might end up too difficult for me to RP if I can't simplify it down.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I've had a pretty good idea for a human wild magic sorcerer that upon first using his magic to defend his village from a monster attack had gotten a wild magic surge so massive that it transformed him into a tiefling and he now wanders around looking for a way to get back to normal and/or trying to fit in somewhere.
He's a blonde hair blue eyed human who resents every other race and species except other humans, and constantly berates and undermines his non-human companions while justifying it with religious zealotry, and blindly trusts anyone who holds similar views.
At least once, I'll tell a companion the classic "Despite [insert companion's race] accounting for only 13% of the population..."
Fire and ice warlock. Take a silver or white dragonborn and make them a fiend warlock.
Sunshine boy. Halfling sun soul monk with entertainer background. He just wants to literally and figuratively spread the light.
I have a future character that became a wizard just to teach his dad, someone who can do minimal magic but doesn't understand how it works, that anyone can do magic if they put their mind to it.
A goblin rogue that is more of a vigilante detective that wants to prove themselves to be part of the city guard.
A dwarf soldier who was the only survivor from his company. He's completely mad; he believes that his company are still alive, just very cunningly hidden. Sometimes, when he thinks no one is watching, he'll have "conversations" with plants, walls, or particularly large dogs, thinking that he's talking to an old comrade.
The twist? He's actually an Ancestral Guardians barbarian, and the ghosts of his company are really helping him. They just can't seem to convince him that they're dead...
Former pirate with a happy, though bloody, childhood aboard a vicious predator of a vessel, of whose crew the ex-pirate still considers to be the only family and would gladly risk life and limb to save any one of the blaggards.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I made a tiefling gunslinger as my backup character for an upcoming one shot. He's a bounty hunter for the hells, as he and all his ancestors were tasked with seeking out the wicked and killing them so the hells could have their souls for the blood war. After I made him, I thought it was kind of funny that I had created a lawful good character who works for Hell. Also his name is Admonishment P Fitzroy.
*Edit* yes, the Ghost Rider comparison has occurred to me. I stand by it haha
I'm a relatively new player and im looking to build my own character and I'm not sure which class would best fit my concept. The idea was they were someone who had skills and knowledge around witchcraft or divination type stuff. A sort of crazy off the board witch type character. I've looked into like druid and warlock classes but not sure they fit any tips?
Hi,
This sounds like either a Diviner Wizard or a Pact of the Great Old One. The second is definitely a little kooky, and the first could be played as “all that knowledge drove them insane”
By the way, I know that this is a thread about character concepts, but your question was just a tad out of the thread’s relevance. Now, you’re a new user, so you are certainly forgiven, but for the future I suggest creating your own thread.
Centaur oath the ancients paladin (centaur for disease control) and a cavalier fighter rider. The centaur qualifies as a mount do to poor wording in 5e. Incredibly abusable
A spoiled, rich-kid rogue who is just a kleptomaniac, and doesn't actually need to steal, but they've got a pretty good heart. They're super annoying, and pretty young, but trying to be rebellious so they go off to become an adventurer instead of being nobility or the head of a family business or something else like that.
A barbarian with a really high intelligence score, and wisdom, who tries to keep their composure, but can only rage when useful. Like when a pack of goblins is bearing down on the cleric, they need everybody else to roast them until they become so upset that they can rage. Pretty much the hulk.
A character who thinks they're dead, and no matter how much evidence is put against them on this, they insist they are a ghost and that every action they want someone else to do is somehow avenging their death.
A drangonborn wizard, (Sage) that on an expidition, ran into something secret, and started the transformation into an Allip because of it. Yet luckily, their companion was able to erase part of their memory before that happened.
I have no personality.
I have a Black Dragonborn that will be a Warlock (The Kraken Subclass) Wizard (Lore Master Subclass). He was essentaially an information gatherer for his clan, and went out on a journey to gather more information abroad. He was sailing on a ship that ended up sinking, and the Kraken saves him so that the patreon can use him as his eyes and ears on the land. In this crash and contract, the character get's amnesia, however his books help him remember his name and mission, just not his home. His name is Darwinian (Based of of the Scientist) and his unseen Servant's Name is Beagle (Based off the ship the scientist rode). Essentially he is proficient in all Intelligence based skills but Arcana (Before Lore Master) and is a curious little bean that goes around writing and documenting all of his travels and things he learns.
A Dwarf Assassin... using only the Ranger class.
EDIT: Further details: Monster Hunter. Preferred Enemy: Humanoid: Human, Elf - Language: Elvish. Dual Wield. (Hill Dwarf.) Criminal background. (Fence. Not sure how that fits, yet.) Neutral Evil (follower of Abbathor, the Trove Lord).
Created almost completely through random rolls, including characteristics. Abbathor was the only evil dwarf deity I could find, which happened to line up perfectly with one of the character's random personality traits of Greed (evil) and also happened to line up perfectly with the Neutral variant.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Hello, Stix here. Stix is trained in the art of the fighter, stix is variant human who can brawl in the tavern. Stix uses sticks for weapons, like his pointy stick (spear) and 3 pronged pointy stick (trident) and all forms of slashy sticks. (pretty much any slashing weapon) Stix carries net of sticks with him so stix can be ready for any situation. stix does not part with his stix unless stix is given golden stick (gold pieces), golden stick is worth several of stix sticks. stix once found stick of life, stick of life said he was tree of life, and taking him would kill everyone, stix didn't care, he took stick of life and almost died. but through perseverance stix survived and took slice of stick of life. stix than absorbed stick of life, and turned into new stick of life. stix is now happy in stix heaven for stix became stick.
A Bugbear Fighter/War Cleric with a glaive. (for massive range) but he also is an elephant rider. He doesnt say muc, but he believes he can talk to the elephant (roll a d20 of how 'well i can understand him'. The higher the roll, the more i can decide what the elephant 'said'. low numbers mean I have to beg the DM for mercy..). Its always fun to get the elephant everywhere. His background is that he just rode around on his elephant, playing some lute and entertaining the locals. so like a homebrew entertainer/folk hero kinda thing. It was very fun.
A halfling Barbarian that is from a noble background. He is spoiled rotten and rages when he doesn't get his way.
I like to random roll most of the character, including the character's personality and background. I am having a really tough time fleshing out a Level 3 Neutral Evil Dwarf Ranger Monster Hunter with a Criminal specialty of a Fence that I mentioned earlier.
The Ideal chose Evil by roll. I chose Neutral thinking it would be easier than Lawful or Chaotic. It doesn't seem to be easy for me at all. I've been trying an Assassin route, but that's not working out so great. There are so many conflicts that I want to de-dramatize (or de-"edge") for the character's history. I don't go for "evil just to be evil" with Player Characters born in the Material Plane with Material Plane ancestry. To me, Material Plane characters are shaped a lot by experiences and not simply created a certain way, but I also think heroes become heroes in the campaigns and not before. I like the drama to be (as someone called it) "frontstory" and not "backstory". This one is proving to be particularly difficult and might end up too difficult for me to RP if I can't simplify it down.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I've had a pretty good idea for a human wild magic sorcerer that upon first using his magic to defend his village from a monster attack had gotten a wild magic surge so massive that it transformed him into a tiefling and he now wanders around looking for a way to get back to normal and/or trying to fit in somewhere.
Male Aarakocra Barbarian folk hero that cooks for my party.
one of my favorite characters was dump stat Intelligence, dump stat Charisma Half-Orc Monk
she was a true font of Zen Stupidity
My best idea I'll ever come up with:
A Grand Wizard
He's a blonde hair blue eyed human who resents every other race and species except other humans, and constantly berates and undermines his non-human companions while justifying it with religious zealotry, and blindly trusts anyone who holds similar views.
At least once, I'll tell a companion the classic "Despite [insert companion's race] accounting for only 13% of the population..."
Fire and ice warlock. Take a silver or white dragonborn and make them a fiend warlock.
Sunshine boy. Halfling sun soul monk with entertainer background. He just wants to literally and figuratively spread the light.
I have a future character that became a wizard just to teach his dad, someone who can do minimal magic but doesn't understand how it works, that anyone can do magic if they put their mind to it.
A goblin rogue that is more of a vigilante detective that wants to prove themselves to be part of the city guard.
A dwarf soldier who was the only survivor from his company. He's completely mad; he believes that his company are still alive, just very cunningly hidden. Sometimes, when he thinks no one is watching, he'll have "conversations" with plants, walls, or particularly large dogs, thinking that he's talking to an old comrade.
The twist? He's actually an Ancestral Guardians barbarian, and the ghosts of his company are really helping him. They just can't seem to convince him that they're dead...
Former pirate with a happy, though bloody, childhood aboard a vicious predator of a vessel, of whose crew the ex-pirate still considers to be the only family and would gladly risk life and limb to save any one of the blaggards.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I made a tiefling gunslinger as my backup character for an upcoming one shot. He's a bounty hunter for the hells, as he and all his ancestors were tasked with seeking out the wicked and killing them so the hells could have their souls for the blood war. After I made him, I thought it was kind of funny that I had created a lawful good character who works for Hell. Also his name is Admonishment P Fitzroy.
*Edit* yes, the Ghost Rider comparison has occurred to me. I stand by it haha
You should run her as a grave domain cleric, works better than necromancer for the character concept