A high INT/high CON, low WIS/low CHA wizard. Really smart, really tough, can't make a good decision or a friend to save his life. Painfully socially inept, but has tons of niche knowledge and a lot of spellcasting power. Sometimes eats things he shouldn't. Its fine he hasn't gotten sick since... basically ever.
"Hey guys I hear y'all talking about how to stealthily infiltrate the very scary evil lava castle, but I just knocked on the door. The fire elemental told me to tell you guys its totally find to come in--why are you all staring at a distant point behind me all horrified? Why is it so warm in here?"
Not my character, but I once played in a group with a bard that came from a noble family & was out adventuring to collect exotic creature parts to make musical instruments from.
An tiny old halfling barbarian woman who's a baker but uses her bakery as a means to smuggle drugs. She rages by eating one of the brownies she's made, which contain "Granny's secret ingredient". Her primary weapon is an oversized rolling pin.
An tiny old halfling barbarian woman who's a baker but uses her bakery as a means to smuggle drugs. She rages by eating one of the brownies she's made, which contain "Granny's secret ingredient". Her primary weapon is an oversized rolling pin.
Oh and she's Scottish, of course.
For extra fun, after many arcs it turns out that "granny's secret ingredient" is nutmeg. She uses the bakery to smuggle drugs, but she never used any in the cooking. As for the raging, that's from the sugar.
I saw this on reddit and ended up building this character. My DM hates me though it might be for this or it might be the fact that I get very creative with shape water
An artificer who's supposed to be a wizard, but they're massively incompetent at spellcasting and compensate by cludging together all sorts of workarounds and temporary magic items.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Here are some I'm coming up with from the top of my head:
A Halfling college of eloquence or lore bard (charlatan, urchin might work) who instead of going to school, took seduction classes and mastered the art of persuasion and deception. Their father, who raised him alone for his entire life fell sick, and (Character) decided to save them by persuading Barons and Dutches to give him real estate, priceless gems, and coin. He used the resources to pay for medicine. But it wasn't enough. So (Character) attempted to scam the elderly king into making him heir to the throne. But the king was wise, and saw through his plot. He banned him, and within a week, (Character)'s father died. (Character) blamed the king for his father's death, and planned to persuade common folk into overthrowing the king and crowning him as the new one.
A High Elf Artificer(1)/ Battlemaster (19) (Urban Bounty Hunter) was an expert shot with simple ranged weapons at a young age, and at around 80 years old, discovered firearms and never looked back. (Character) tried to join the military, but she was rejected, because they didn't accept her use of firearms. So she learned how to utilize maneuvers despite being at a range. (Character) instead became a skilled bounty hunter. She was precise enough to shoot a dagger out of the hand of an assassin from 200 feet away. Her High elf Heritage also allowed her to use minor illusion to create diversions, and hide herself and weapons in plain sight. But there was a criminal who seemed to always get out of her grasp. A stalker who used teleportation magic and necromancy spells to escape. This person would stalk (Character) nearly every day of the week. So character moved to another plane of existence, when she noticed that the same person was stalking her. (Character) swore to capture the stalker eventually, at all costs.
A Tiefling Devotion or Redemption Paladin (8)/Fiend Warlock (12) (Urchin would work role playing wise, but not well in terms of abilities.), (Character) struggled with their identity due being born from a Tiefling and an Aasimar who abandoned Him as a baby in order to keep their high ranks in otherworldly society. (Character) Sometimes has moments when they are very forgiving, and others when they are incredibly angry. The struggle nearly tears (Character) apart, but eventually, they learn to use their anger to fuel their divine smites, and their serenity to channel their hellish power.
A Variant Human Observant Life Cleric (18)/ Bard (2)(Acolyte or Sage) with OCD, who refuses to heal or revive anyone unless everyone in the party but you and the person who need to be revived go into the nearest populated town, and play the bongos while dressed in only leaves Close to the end of playing the character, Reveal yourself as a Jester Hired by a King to make fun of the other people in the party. Be sure to have a taser on hand while playing this character for when someone inevitably lunges at you with a plastic fork.
That's What I got for now. Comment If you try any of these and how it goes.
Infinite Spell Warlock/Sorcerer (The Infamous Coffeelock)
Step one: Be warlock, get moon invocation so you never have to sleep.
Step two: Cross-class to Divine Soul Sorceror, use greater restoration to stop exhaustion
Step Three: During short rests, transform two Warlock spell slots into Sorcery Points, then two Sorcery Points into Sorcerer spell slots.
Step Four: NEVER SLEEP (*Long Rest) EVER AGAIN AND STACK SORCERER SPELL SLOTS INDEFINITELY.
Step Five: Apply spells liberally as needed.
Step Six: Watch DM's face turn red and ban character, forever.
I tried this. It's from CBR. Have you no respect for Copyright XD?
Anyway, This is Op. Surprisingly, My DM did not ban. I had 5 9th level spell slots, 7 8th level, 7 7th level, 9 6th level, 10 5th level, 10 4th level, 8 3rd level, 5 2nd level, and 65 1st level, so I could cast shield plenty.
I'm the DM for my group, but I created a Knowledge Cleric/Tome Warlock of great old one who is tasked to travel the realm to restrict/destroy forbidden knowledge. Think a spell slinging Indiana Jones, who crates up the powerful tomes/spells in a repository guarded by his immortal patron.
Infinite Spell Warlock/Sorcerer (The Infamous Coffeelock)
Step one: Be warlock, get moon invocation so you never have to sleep.
Step two: Cross-class to Divine Soul Sorceror, use greater restoration to stop exhaustion
Step Three: During short rests, transform two Warlock spell slots into Sorcery Points, then two Sorcery Points into Sorcerer spell slots.
Step Four: NEVER SLEEP (*Long Rest) EVER AGAIN AND STACK SORCERER SPELL SLOTS INDEFINITELY.
Step Five: Apply spells liberally as needed.
Step Six: Watch DM's face turn red and ban character, forever.
I tried this. It's from CBR. Have you no respect for Copyright XD?
Anyway, This is Op. Surprisingly, My DM did not ban. I had 5 9th level spell slots, 7 8th level, 7 7th level, 9 6th level, 10 5th level, 10 4th level, 8 3rd level, 5 2nd level, and 65 1st level, so I could cast shield plenty.
How in the world were you getting multiple 7th, 8th, and 9th level spell slots?
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Infinite Spell Warlock/Sorcerer (The Infamous Coffeelock)
Step one: Be warlock, get moon invocation so you never have to sleep.
Step two: Cross-class to Divine Soul Sorceror, use greater restoration to stop exhaustion
Step Three: During short rests, transform two Warlock spell slots into Sorcery Points, then two Sorcery Points into Sorcerer spell slots.
Step Four: NEVER SLEEP (*Long Rest) EVER AGAIN AND STACK SORCERER SPELL SLOTS INDEFINITELY.
Step Five: Apply spells liberally as needed.
Step Six: Watch DM's face turn red and ban character, forever.
I tried this. It's from CBR. Have you no respect for Copyright XD?
Anyway, This is Op. Surprisingly, My DM did not ban. I had 5 9th level spell slots, 7 8th level, 7 7th level, 9 6th level, 10 5th level, 10 4th level, 8 3rd level, 5 2nd level, and 65 1st level, so I could cast shield plenty.
Unless I'm missing something, the Coffeelock as stated above doesn't work. Sorcery points can create spell slots of 4th level and below, so I'm not sure how you got all those 9th level slots. This also means that you can't loop Greater Restoration, so exhaustion will apply if you use the optional rules in XGtE.
P.S. I'm not sure if this was part of the 'copyright' joke, but the Coffeelock originated on a thread from Giant in the Playground, not CBR.
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"Halt your wagging and wag your halters, for I am mastercryomancer!"
Infinite Spell Warlock/Sorcerer (The Infamous Coffeelock)
Step one: Be warlock, get moon invocation so you never have to sleep.
Step two: Cross-class to Divine Soul Sorceror, use greater restoration to stop exhaustion
Step Three: During short rests, transform two Warlock spell slots into Sorcery Points, then two Sorcery Points into Sorcerer spell slots.
Step Four: NEVER SLEEP (*Long Rest) EVER AGAIN AND STACK SORCERER SPELL SLOTS INDEFINITELY.
Step Five: Apply spells liberally as needed.
Step Six: Watch DM's face turn red and ban character, forever.
I tried this. It's from CBR. Have you no respect for Copyright XD?
Anyway, This is Op. Surprisingly, My DM did not ban. I had 5 9th level spell slots, 7 8th level, 7 7th level, 9 6th level, 10 5th level, 10 4th level, 8 3rd level, 5 2nd level, and 65 1st level, so I could cast shield plenty.
Unless I'm missing something, the Coffeelock as stated above doesn't work. Sorcery points can create spell slots of 4th level and below, so I'm not sure how you got all those 9th level slots. This also means that you can't loop Greater Restoration, so exhaustion will apply if you use the optional rules in XGtE.
P.S. I'm not sure if this was part of the 'copyright' joke, but the Coffeelock originated on a thread from Giant in the Playground, not CBR.
Yeah, My Dm Said "Why Not" when I asked him, so we basically just crossed a rule out of the phb
It doesn't count as having found a fun exploit if you're ignoring the actual rules. It can certainly be fun, but it's not some sort of exploit or combo. It's like saying you've discovered a super-powerful melee build, except that the character has a 35 strength and a weapon that does a base damage of 8d10. It's not really a discovered build, it's playing with debug mode enabled.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
So, I never got to play her, but i made a swarm-keeper ranger that was snow white if she had been raised by the hunter. Her swarm was woodland creatures helping protect her from danger.
So, I never got to play her, but i made a swarm-keeper ranger that was snow white if she had been raised by the hunter. Her swarm was woodland creatures helping protect her from danger.
I really like that idea. You could also combo that with Conjure Animals to summon deer. Have your big and small animal friends all together.
DM approved . . . Sorcerer of Wild Magic with the Inheritor Background. A sorcerer was trying to perform a very complicated spell, it went wrong. As his body was being torn apart (fullmetal alchemist like) he transferred his magic power and consciousness into the nearest thing . . . his tuxedo cat "Whiskers." Tabaxi race with a height of 1 ft. Cannot hold anything without thumbs of course. Arcane Focus is an orb on its collar. Has a priority to learn spells that favor his new cat fancies (catnap, mage hand (to pet self), dancing lights (laser pointer play)). Once the sorcerer has mastered his cat fancies he takes great delight in casting gate to summon a dinosaur.
A cat that summons dinosaurs, my dream character.
I have only ever been a DM. Maybe this is why.
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A high INT/high CON, low WIS/low CHA wizard. Really smart, really tough, can't make a good decision or a friend to save his life. Painfully socially inept, but has tons of niche knowledge and a lot of spellcasting power. Sometimes eats things he shouldn't. Its fine he hasn't gotten sick since... basically ever.
"Hey guys I hear y'all talking about how to stealthily infiltrate the very scary evil lava castle, but I just knocked on the door. The fire elemental told me to tell you guys its totally find to come in--why are you all staring at a distant point behind me all horrified? Why is it so warm in here?"
Not my character, but I once played in a group with a bard that came from a noble family & was out adventuring to collect exotic creature parts to make musical instruments from.
An tiny old halfling barbarian woman who's a baker but uses her bakery as a means to smuggle drugs. She rages by eating one of the brownies she's made, which contain "Granny's secret ingredient". Her primary weapon is an oversized rolling pin.
Oh and she's Scottish, of course.
For extra fun, after many arcs it turns out that "granny's secret ingredient" is nutmeg. She uses the bakery to smuggle drugs, but she never used any in the cooking. As for the raging, that's from the sugar.
I saw this on reddit and ended up building this character. My DM hates me though it might be for this or it might be the fact that I get very creative with shape water
An artificer who's supposed to be a wizard, but they're massively incompetent at spellcasting and compensate by cludging together all sorts of workarounds and temporary magic items.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Here are some I'm coming up with from the top of my head:
A Halfling college of eloquence or lore bard (charlatan, urchin might work) who instead of going to school, took seduction classes and mastered the art of persuasion and deception. Their father, who raised him alone for his entire life fell sick, and (Character) decided to save them by persuading Barons and Dutches to give him real estate, priceless gems, and coin. He used the resources to pay for medicine. But it wasn't enough. So (Character) attempted to scam the elderly king into making him heir to the throne. But the king was wise, and saw through his plot. He banned him, and within a week, (Character)'s father died. (Character) blamed the king for his father's death, and planned to persuade common folk into overthrowing the king and crowning him as the new one.
A High Elf Artificer(1)/ Battlemaster (19) (Urban Bounty Hunter) was an expert shot with simple ranged weapons at a young age, and at around 80 years old, discovered firearms and never looked back. (Character) tried to join the military, but she was rejected, because they didn't accept her use of firearms. So she learned how to utilize maneuvers despite being at a range. (Character) instead became a skilled bounty hunter. She was precise enough to shoot a dagger out of the hand of an assassin from 200 feet away. Her High elf Heritage also allowed her to use minor illusion to create diversions, and hide herself and weapons in plain sight. But there was a criminal who seemed to always get out of her grasp. A stalker who used teleportation magic and necromancy spells to escape. This person would stalk (Character) nearly every day of the week. So character moved to another plane of existence, when she noticed that the same person was stalking her. (Character) swore to capture the stalker eventually, at all costs.
A Tiefling Devotion or Redemption Paladin (8)/Fiend Warlock (12) (Urchin would work role playing wise, but not well in terms of abilities.), (Character) struggled with their identity due being born from a Tiefling and an Aasimar who abandoned Him as a baby in order to keep their high ranks in otherworldly society. (Character) Sometimes has moments when they are very forgiving, and others when they are incredibly angry. The struggle nearly tears (Character) apart, but eventually, they learn to use their anger to fuel their divine smites, and their serenity to channel their hellish power.
A Variant Human Observant Life Cleric (18)/ Bard (2)(Acolyte or Sage) with OCD, who refuses to heal or revive anyone unless everyone in the party but you and the person who need to be revived go into the nearest populated town, and play the bongos while dressed in only leaves Close to the end of playing the character, Reveal yourself as a Jester Hired by a King to make fun of the other people in the party. Be sure to have a taser on hand while playing this character for when someone inevitably lunges at you with a plastic fork.
That's What I got for now. Comment If you try any of these and how it goes.
I tried this. It's from CBR. Have you no respect for Copyright XD?
Anyway, This is Op. Surprisingly, My DM did not ban. I had 5 9th level spell slots, 7 8th level, 7 7th level, 9 6th level, 10 5th level, 10 4th level, 8 3rd level, 5 2nd level, and 65 1st level, so I could cast shield plenty.
I'm the DM for my group, but I created a Knowledge Cleric/Tome Warlock of great old one who is tasked to travel the realm to restrict/destroy forbidden knowledge. Think a spell slinging Indiana Jones, who crates up the powerful tomes/spells in a repository guarded by his immortal patron.
How in the world were you getting multiple 7th, 8th, and 9th level spell slots?
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Unless I'm missing something, the Coffeelock as stated above doesn't work. Sorcery points can create spell slots of 4th level and below, so I'm not sure how you got all those 9th level slots. This also means that you can't loop Greater Restoration, so exhaustion will apply if you use the optional rules in XGtE.
P.S. I'm not sure if this was part of the 'copyright' joke, but the Coffeelock originated on a thread from Giant in the Playground, not CBR.
"Halt your wagging and wag your halters, for I am mastercryomancer!"
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Man! I hate it when you try to make a pact with Baphomet then end up with Baphomet!!!
Recent idea:
A Bladesinger Wizard who uses the “Artificer Initiate” feat so they can use “Painter’s Supplies” as a spellcasting focus.
They wish to be an artist; and many of their spells are themed around colors / altering shapes.
To name a few:
Acid Splash (themed as acidic paint they lob at enemies)
Color Spray
Chromatic Orb
Absorb Elements
Tasha’s Caustic Brew
Dragon’s Breath
Hypnotic Pattern
Alter Self
Polymorph
Bigby’s Hand
Flesh to Stone (instant sculpture!)
Prismatic Spray
Animate Objects
Prismatic Wall
True Polymorph (to literally transform a target into a painting)
My dm Allowed me to. That in and of itself Destroyed the campaign, but it was fun
Yeah, My Dm Said "Why Not" when I asked him, so we basically just crossed a rule out of the phb
It doesn't count as having found a fun exploit if you're ignoring the actual rules. It can certainly be fun, but it's not some sort of exploit or combo. It's like saying you've discovered a super-powerful melee build, except that the character has a 35 strength and a weapon that does a base damage of 8d10. It's not really a discovered build, it's playing with debug mode enabled.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I like the idea of a Swarmkeeper Ranger flavored to a specific Race.
Also, as more of a joke.....
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Characters for Tenebris Sine Fine
RoughCoronet's Greater Wills
So, I never got to play her, but i made a swarm-keeper ranger that was snow white if she had been raised by the hunter. Her swarm was woodland creatures helping protect her from danger.
I really like that idea. You could also combo that with Conjure Animals to summon deer. Have your big and small animal friends all together.
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Characters for Tenebris Sine Fine
RoughCoronet's Greater Wills
DM approved . . . Sorcerer of Wild Magic with the Inheritor Background. A sorcerer was trying to perform a very complicated spell, it went wrong. As his body was being torn apart (fullmetal alchemist like) he transferred his magic power and consciousness into the nearest thing . . . his tuxedo cat "Whiskers." Tabaxi race with a height of 1 ft. Cannot hold anything without thumbs of course. Arcane Focus is an orb on its collar. Has a priority to learn spells that favor his new cat fancies (catnap, mage hand (to pet self), dancing lights (laser pointer play)). Once the sorcerer has mastered his cat fancies he takes great delight in casting gate to summon a dinosaur.
A cat that summons dinosaurs, my dream character.
I have only ever been a DM. Maybe this is why.