Everyone chooses very unique and interesting tags and handles when using online forums. If your D&D beyond handle was a character in 5e, what would that character look like?
I'll start. My handle is Kaboom979. "Kaboom" immediately begs the idea of a blaster mage, perhaps an evocation wizard. That being said, I feel myself drawn to the Artillerist artificer. Now the "979" doesn't really have to be anything, most of the time we HAVE to choose handles with a number to avoid duplicates; however, I do think some inspiration towards the race/lineage of choice can be drawn from it. I would pick a warforged with the backstory that he and his brothers/sisters were originally made for war. In this way, his 'model number' is 979.
Hmm ... Ophidimancer is a practitioner of magic with a serpentine bent. I would go with ... a Yuan Ti Fathomless Warlock of Dendar the Night Serpent, probably Pact of the Chain with a familiar fluffed as a snake of some sort. The summoned tentacle would be a spectral serpent.
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Canto alla vita alla sua bellezza ad ogni sua ferita ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
Funny, my name's the other way around! It's the character I was playing when I created the account, an elf cleric of the grave with a personality loosely drawn from Luna Lovegood.
Well Midnightplat, we'll start with the marsupial suffix. I'd probably homebrew a Platypus riffing off the Humblefolk species group from Humblewood (solid fun, kid friendly 3rd party setting btw that can actually teach lessons about community and power dynamics). Would get some sort of dark vision or blindsight (I can actually see in muddy/muckish water and my bill sort of electro locates things) and I have natural weapon in the form of venomous spurs. I might swim faster than I waddle walk on land. Midnight might imply I'm some sort of romantic rogue of the night, a reskinned Darkwing Duck; but apparently the platypus is actually a pretty ornery creature, antisocial even among its own kind. Given that and the platypus's penchant for living/hunting in the mud and muck, I'm going to go with Gloomstalker or maybe Blood Hunter for maximum "I'm kinda weird" edgelord effect.
Oh it was recently determined that I glow under ultraviolet light, not sure how to class or lineage feature that.
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Emmber. A Fire Genasi Warlock with Efreeti Genie patron. A fire based Sorcerer or Wizard would also work - as would Wildfire Druid. Bonus points for a baby phoenix familiar.
Edit: I was thinking - that if I went with a Fire Genasi Efreeti Genie Warlock - that the Genie would be her parent (because obviously). I know it's been done a lot - but it's so thematic. Anyway - I had this idea that her "inner fire" - as her father would call it - is so strong that it started to kill her from the inside - boiling her blood to the point where it burst out of her skin (like an effusive volcanic eruption) and burned her. Not long after she was born - her father put a bit of magic on her (the pact) that gave her some measure of protection from herself - so now the boiling blood happens rarely. But now she has these glowing hot spots underneath her skin that have to be blood-let occasionally to cool them down. And it's those hotspots under her skin that gave her her name because they look like hot glowing embers from a dying fire.
Grayfax is an old wizard. Lots of unusual things laying around on all of the tables in his office. At least ten things to drink out of... half of them for plants or holding unforgotten substances that have changed their chemical components. His facial hair is much longer than the thinning hair on his head, in spite of how he wished that would have gone. Students learning their craft are constant interruptions, but he grumps and gets up and helps them through the difficult points of their study anyway... even though he doesn't teach them in their studies, they have dedicated faculty for that. With constant care and many muttered spells he keeps the entire place humming along quite satisfactorily with the occasional hiccup that pinches the thick eyebrows together in concentration until the crisis is resolved. There are days he wishes they did not abolish pipe smoking indoors...
Oh it was recently determined that I glow under ultraviolet light, not sure how to class or lineage feature that.
Can't benefit from invisibility while in sunlight, maybe? You find out, in unfortunate circumstances, that the invisibility spell only blocks/hides stuff on the visible spectrum of light
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Oh it was recently determined that I glow under ultraviolet light, not sure how to class or lineage feature that.
Can't benefit from invisibility while in sunlight, maybe? You find out, in unfortunate circumstances, that the invisibility spell only blocks/hides stuff on the visible spectrum of light
I actually like how this evokes the frequently resurrected Gloomstalker Umbral sight defeat of dark vision vs. Devils' Devil Sight ability to see through magical darkness debate.
Well, 'Yurei' is simply the Japanese name for 'ghost', which makes me more likely to be an enemy monster than a PC. Buuut...yurei aren't necessarily always, or even commonly, incorporeal, and I'd like to keep being a PC if I could. So let's go with Reborn Lineage, undead of course. As for class/subclass...well. I'm a spoopy haunterthing returned from the land of dead spirits either through lack of proper burial rites (seems legit) or from Impure Thoughts at the time of my death (seems super legit), and I do love me some rogue action, so let's be predictable and go with Phantom rogue. Alternately, though? I'd be down for Horizon Walker ranger, be the waywatcher between the Prime Material and the land of dead spirits. Both of those let me go Proper Ghosty Mode for a short time, so we'll say one of those two. And since my "1453" is apparently significant to the history of the Byzantine Empire (or at least so I'm told), we'll say this theoretical PC-spookygurl-Rei is a Reborn with ties to an ancient fallen empire, occasionally burdened by memories of past splendor and a martial history she's no longer remotely suited for.
You might expect me to be some flavor of absent-minded wizard, but "scatterbrained" is actually a reference to the state of my foes once my greataxe cleaves through their skulls!
Well, Mandos is the common name of the God of the Dead (basically) in LotR, and Mindos is, y’know, Mind, so...Reborn Grave Domain/Soulknife multiclass. Grave because A)God of Death, and B) I’ve always preferred Grave Domain to Death Domain, and it makes more sense for a keeper of souls. Soulknife because Psionic, and I love Rogues.
Also maybe a level in Paladin and a level in Archfey Warlock for my Knight of Random thing.
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Jack727 a swashbuckling Rogue or battle master. Most definitely connected to the sea and ship especially airships. Like all sailors a love of alcohol and fast ship. Most likely a human or half elf.
Icons (outside of computing) can be venerated images, often with a religious bent. IconArising is a Protector Aasimar Light Cleric, bringing the light of the rising sun to the dark places of the world (and setting them on fire just for funsies)
My username came from a character I made many years ago.
The character was Kyle Davies, who began as a werewolf in Werewolf: The Apocalypse game. He was a cop who had finally met others like himself. Werewolves also had special abilities in the game and in his case it was a bit of technopathy (the ability to control computers, technology and data using the mind) and on initiation into his first pack he took up the name Gateway.
The game didn't last long and soon after I was in a co-op story written on a forum, much like this one. It wasn't about any specific game or RPG, it was just a story a few of us wrote together but we focused on our own characters. Anyway in this story it was a sorta x-men-like story: people developed superpowers so were hunted and thrown into special prisons where we were fed chemicals that dampened powers. I re-used Kyle Davies as a technopath - when there was an interruption in the supply of power-dampening chemicals, it was enough for Kyle to use them and mind-hack the security systems, freeing some others. He joined up with them and having been treated poorly by the normal people, he abandoned his 'human name' and called himself CyberMind. The eventual aim, since this was a superhero-esque story, was that as he grew up he'd eventually develop into an Iron-Man like hero, using a technologically advanced armour controlled by his mind to fight crime. He'd keep his identity secret and would work on founding Gateway Technologies (throw-back to the original W:tA codename), making Gateway Operating System and GAIA (Gateway Artificially Intelligent Assistant). It never got that far, but oh well.
Fast forward a few years and I was creating some account (I think it was X-Box live? Maybe?) and I was getting annoyed with every choice of name not working. I remembered this character and this was for an all-digital thing, it seemed fitting. But it was taken. So I changed the vowel to the common number alternatives and voila: Cyb3rM1nd. Back then all the 'l33t h4xx0rs' would do this and it's based of a hacker. Seemed appropriate. So that's the name. For an avatar whenever I use this as a screen-name I use good ol' Grey Fox, the Cyborg Ninja from the Metal Gear Solid games
The setting of D&D isn't really appropriate for a technopath. I guess the closest would be a human Artificer, Armorer subclass, with a lot of reflavouring?
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First, the origin of my nickname is that back when I was a teenager I absolutely loved Digimon. Especially Guilmon from Digimon Tamers. I didn't know how Guilmon was spelled back then and spelled it how I pronounced it, Gillmon, my online friends kept shortening my nick to Gilli and I liked it so much that when I switched forums I kept it.
Okay, going by that, I'd be a (chaotic) good natured Kobold Druid (Moon)/Sorcerer (Draconic Bloodline) with 1 level in Barbarian for Rage. Druid to be able to turn (aka digivolving) into large dinosaurs, Sorcerer for the fire spells.
That said, since I first played Skyrim in 2017 (I know, I'm late) I love Dunmer. And because of that, the first chara I made in both Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online is a female Dunmer with the name Gilli. For a long time I was thinking about turning my Dunmer into a D&D chara, first I was thinking of going for Rogue as class, because I play a Nightblade in ESO. (a rogue that uses magic to kill), but none of the rogue subclasses appealed to me back then. Then I was thinking of going for Ranger and my ESO GM suggested I'd take a look at Horizon Walker. Now I'm 3 sessions in a campaign, where I'm playing a Drow Ranger (Horizon Walker) named Gilli. =D
Pavilionaire is clearly a genasi noble, heir (if he plays his cards right) to his genie father's million pavilions in the plane of air. Probably a bard, because he's more of a lover than a fighter.
Well, Mandos is the common name of the God of the Dead (basically) in LotR, and Mindos is, y’know, Mind, so...Reborn Grave Domain/Soulknife multiclass. Grave because A)God of Death, and B) I’ve always preferred Grave Domain to Death Domain, and it makes more sense for a keeper of souls. Soulknife because Psionic, and I love Rogues.
Also maybe a level in Paladin and a level in Archfey Warlock for my Knight of Random thing.
Well, Mandos is the common name of the God of the Dead (basically) in LotR, and Mindos is, y’know, Mind, so...Reborn Grave Domain/Soulknife multiclass. Grave because A)God of Death, and B) I’ve always preferred Grave Domain to Death Domain, and it makes more sense for a keeper of souls. Soulknife because Psionic, and I love Rogues.
Also maybe a level in Paladin and a level in Archfey Warlock for my Knight of Random thing.
Huh. I never figured out the origin of your username.
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Everyone chooses very unique and interesting tags and handles when using online forums. If your D&D beyond handle was a character in 5e, what would that character look like?
I'll start. My handle is Kaboom979. "Kaboom" immediately begs the idea of a blaster mage, perhaps an evocation wizard. That being said, I feel myself drawn to the Artillerist artificer. Now the "979" doesn't really have to be anything, most of the time we HAVE to choose handles with a number to avoid duplicates; however, I do think some inspiration towards the race/lineage of choice can be drawn from it. I would pick a warforged with the backstory that he and his brothers/sisters were originally made for war. In this way, his 'model number' is 979.
So Kaboom979 = Warforged Artillerist Artificer
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Hmm ... Ophidimancer is a practitioner of magic with a serpentine bent. I would go with ... a Yuan Ti Fathomless Warlock of Dendar the Night Serpent, probably Pact of the Chain with a familiar fluffed as a snake of some sort. The summoned tentacle would be a spectral serpent.
Canto alla vita
alla sua bellezza
ad ogni sua ferita
ogni sua carezza!
I sing to life and to its tragic beauty
To pain and to strife, but all that dances through me
The rise and the fall, I've lived through it all!
I'm a NPC?
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Funny, my name's the other way around! It's the character I was playing when I created the account, an elf cleric of the grave with a personality loosely drawn from Luna Lovegood.
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Well Midnightplat, we'll start with the marsupial suffix. I'd probably homebrew a Platypus riffing off the Humblefolk species group from Humblewood (solid fun, kid friendly 3rd party setting btw that can actually teach lessons about community and power dynamics). Would get some sort of dark vision or blindsight (I can actually see in muddy/muckish water and my bill sort of electro locates things) and I have natural weapon in the form of venomous spurs. I might swim faster than I waddle walk on land. Midnight might imply I'm some sort of romantic rogue of the night, a reskinned Darkwing Duck; but apparently the platypus is actually a pretty ornery creature, antisocial even among its own kind. Given that and the platypus's penchant for living/hunting in the mud and muck, I'm going to go with Gloomstalker or maybe Blood Hunter for maximum "I'm kinda weird" edgelord effect.
Oh it was recently determined that I glow under ultraviolet light, not sure how to class or lineage feature that.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Emmber. A Fire Genasi Warlock with Efreeti Genie patron. A fire based Sorcerer or Wizard would also work - as would Wildfire Druid. Bonus points for a baby phoenix familiar.
Edit:
I was thinking - that if I went with a Fire Genasi Efreeti Genie Warlock - that the Genie would be her parent (because obviously). I know it's been done a lot - but it's so thematic.
Anyway - I had this idea that her "inner fire" - as her father would call it - is so strong that it started to kill her from the inside - boiling her blood to the point where it burst out of her skin (like an effusive volcanic eruption) and burned her. Not long after she was born - her father put a bit of magic on her (the pact) that gave her some measure of protection from herself - so now the boiling blood happens rarely. But now she has these glowing hot spots underneath her skin that have to be blood-let occasionally to cool them down.
And it's those hotspots under her skin that gave her her name because they look like hot glowing embers from a dying fire.
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Grayfax is an old wizard. Lots of unusual things laying around on all of the tables in his office. At least ten things to drink out of... half of them for plants or holding unforgotten substances that have changed their chemical components. His facial hair is much longer than the thinning hair on his head, in spite of how he wished that would have gone. Students learning their craft are constant interruptions, but he grumps and gets up and helps them through the difficult points of their study anyway... even though he doesn't teach them in their studies, they have dedicated faculty for that. With constant care and many muttered spells he keeps the entire place humming along quite satisfactorily with the occasional hiccup that pinches the thick eyebrows together in concentration until the crisis is resolved. There are days he wishes they did not abolish pipe smoking indoors...
Can't benefit from invisibility while in sunlight, maybe? You find out, in unfortunate circumstances, that the invisibility spell only blocks/hides stuff on the visible spectrum of light
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I actually like how this evokes the frequently resurrected Gloomstalker Umbral sight defeat of dark vision vs. Devils' Devil Sight ability to see through magical darkness debate.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Hmm.
Well, 'Yurei' is simply the Japanese name for 'ghost', which makes me more likely to be an enemy monster than a PC. Buuut...yurei aren't necessarily always, or even commonly, incorporeal, and I'd like to keep being a PC if I could. So let's go with Reborn Lineage, undead of course. As for class/subclass...well. I'm a spoopy haunterthing returned from the land of dead spirits either through lack of proper burial rites (seems legit) or from Impure Thoughts at the time of my death (seems super legit), and I do love me some rogue action, so let's be predictable and go with Phantom rogue. Alternately, though? I'd be down for Horizon Walker ranger, be the waywatcher between the Prime Material and the land of dead spirits. Both of those let me go Proper Ghosty Mode for a short time, so we'll say one of those two. And since my "1453" is apparently significant to the history of the Byzantine Empire (or at least so I'm told), we'll say this theoretical PC-spookygurl-Rei is a Reborn with ties to an ancient fallen empire, occasionally burdened by memories of past splendor and a martial history she's no longer remotely suited for.
Is that about right?
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You might expect me to be some flavor of absent-minded wizard, but "scatterbrained" is actually a reference to the state of my foes once my greataxe cleaves through their skulls!
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Well, Mandos is the common name of the God of the Dead (basically) in LotR, and Mindos is, y’know, Mind, so...Reborn Grave Domain/Soulknife multiclass. Grave because A)God of Death, and B) I’ve always preferred Grave Domain to Death Domain, and it makes more sense for a keeper of souls. Soulknife because Psionic, and I love Rogues.
Also maybe a level in Paladin and a level in Archfey Warlock for my Knight of Random thing.
Seven there shall be/In the halls of the eighth/Eights shall witness/Eight and eight and eight and eight/Blood of the father/Blood of the sun/Endless darkness/Day is done
Savior/Sovereign/Saint Foresworn/Traitor/Trusted/Tortured Truthborn/Chosen/Cursed
Created by deities/Created by mortals/Created by powers unseen/Unheard of
Fate speaks of one/Fate speaks to none/Eternal shadows/Day is Done.
Jack727 a swashbuckling Rogue or battle master. Most definitely connected to the sea and ship especially airships. Like all sailors a love of alcohol and fast ship. Most likely a human or half elf.
Mostly nocturnal
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Icons (outside of computing) can be venerated images, often with a religious bent. IconArising is a Protector Aasimar Light Cleric, bringing the light of the rising sun to the dark places of the world (and setting them on fire just for funsies)
My username came from a character I made many years ago.
The character was Kyle Davies, who began as a werewolf in Werewolf: The Apocalypse game. He was a cop who had finally met others like himself. Werewolves also had special abilities in the game and in his case it was a bit of technopathy (the ability to control computers, technology and data using the mind) and on initiation into his first pack he took up the name Gateway.
The game didn't last long and soon after I was in a co-op story written on a forum, much like this one. It wasn't about any specific game or RPG, it was just a story a few of us wrote together but we focused on our own characters. Anyway in this story it was a sorta x-men-like story: people developed superpowers so were hunted and thrown into special prisons where we were fed chemicals that dampened powers. I re-used Kyle Davies as a technopath - when there was an interruption in the supply of power-dampening chemicals, it was enough for Kyle to use them and mind-hack the security systems, freeing some others. He joined up with them and having been treated poorly by the normal people, he abandoned his 'human name' and called himself CyberMind. The eventual aim, since this was a superhero-esque story, was that as he grew up he'd eventually develop into an Iron-Man like hero, using a technologically advanced armour controlled by his mind to fight crime. He'd keep his identity secret and would work on founding Gateway Technologies (throw-back to the original W:tA codename), making Gateway Operating System and GAIA (Gateway Artificially Intelligent Assistant). It never got that far, but oh well.
Fast forward a few years and I was creating some account (I think it was X-Box live? Maybe?) and I was getting annoyed with every choice of name not working. I remembered this character and this was for an all-digital thing, it seemed fitting. But it was taken. So I changed the vowel to the common number alternatives and voila: Cyb3rM1nd. Back then all the 'l33t h4xx0rs' would do this and it's based of a hacker. Seemed appropriate. So that's the name. For an avatar whenever I use this as a screen-name I use good ol' Grey Fox, the Cyborg Ninja from the Metal Gear Solid games
The setting of D&D isn't really appropriate for a technopath. I guess the closest would be a human Artificer, Armorer subclass, with a lot of reflavouring?
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First, the origin of my nickname is that back when I was a teenager I absolutely loved Digimon. Especially Guilmon from Digimon Tamers. I didn't know how Guilmon was spelled back then and spelled it how I pronounced it, Gillmon, my online friends kept shortening my nick to Gilli and I liked it so much that when I switched forums I kept it.
Okay, going by that, I'd be a (chaotic) good natured Kobold Druid (Moon)/Sorcerer (Draconic Bloodline) with 1 level in Barbarian for Rage.


Druid to be able to turn (aka digivolving) into large dinosaurs, Sorcerer for the fire spells.
That said, since I first played Skyrim in 2017 (I know, I'm late) I love Dunmer. And because of that, the first chara I made in both Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online is a female Dunmer with the name Gilli. For a long time I was thinking about turning my Dunmer into a D&D chara, first I was thinking of going for Rogue as class, because I play a Nightblade in ESO. (a rogue that uses magic to kill), but none of the rogue subclasses appealed to me back then. Then I was thinking of going for Ranger and my ESO GM suggested I'd take a look at Horizon Walker.

Now I'm 3 sessions in a campaign, where I'm playing a Drow Ranger (Horizon Walker) named Gilli. =D
Pavilionaire is clearly a genasi noble, heir (if he plays his cards right) to his genie father's million pavilions in the plane of air. Probably a bard, because he's more of a lover than a fighter.
I'd suggest wild mage instead of Archlock.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Huh. I never figured out the origin of your username.
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