Hello lovely players and DM’s one of my friends is hosting a haloween one shot and I was wondering what spooky character ideas you could come up with. For reference this is a one shot so it’s plausible to start with stuff you wouldn’t normally start with such as lycanthropy or a wondrous item. Let’s hear some spooky ideas.
For some unconventional spooky...a strange old witch, perhaps a mad plague doctor, who lives in the sewers and talks to rats. The creatures follow wherever they go, and they entrance both children and adults with their musical pipes. So a creepy bardic take on the Pied Piper...might be good or evil, male or female.
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.
This is a bit goofy, but maybe a Poe inspired Kenku bard? (Named "Nevermore" obviously).
Actually, my favorite joke Poe-based name I've seen comes from Discworld, with Quoth, the Raven.
That idea, though, seems really fun to me to take some of the default character types and finding ways to re-skin them or recontextualize them into horror movie tropes.
Maybe you have a character that uses all the stats of a Triton, but instead of being a blue-skinned fish-person, they're instead a Gillman (aka The Creature from the Black Lagoon). Or how about a Goliath-statted Frankenstein's Monster? Maybe you could have a normal human barbarian, but reskin it as them being Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a relatively quick and easy way to add a bunch of traditional monsters without having to do a lot of homebrewing.
Hello lovely players and DM’s one of my friends is hosting a haloween one shot and I was wondering what spooky character ideas you could come up with. For reference this is a one shot so it’s plausible to start with stuff you wouldn’t normally start with such as lycanthropy or a wondrous item. Let’s hear some spooky ideas.
For some unconventional spooky...a strange old witch, perhaps a mad plague doctor, who lives in the sewers and talks to rats. The creatures follow wherever they go, and they entrance both children and adults with their musical pipes. So a creepy bardic take on the Pied Piper...might be good or evil, male or female.
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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.
Anzio Faro. Lvl 5 Prot. Aasimar Light Cleric.
This is for character ideas I can’t very well play a bodak can i ?
This is a bit goofy, but maybe a Poe inspired Kenku bard? (Named "Nevermore" obviously).
Actually, my favorite joke Poe-based name I've seen comes from Discworld, with Quoth, the Raven.
That idea, though, seems really fun to me to take some of the default character types and finding ways to re-skin them or recontextualize them into horror movie tropes.
Maybe you have a character that uses all the stats of a Triton, but instead of being a blue-skinned fish-person, they're instead a Gillman (aka The Creature from the Black Lagoon). Or how about a Goliath-statted Frankenstein's Monster? Maybe you could have a normal human barbarian, but reskin it as them being Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a relatively quick and easy way to add a bunch of traditional monsters without having to do a lot of homebrewing.
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I like the Goliath Frankenstein's Monster.
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