I was DM at one point, and I had this outline of an idea for a character, and decided to take it for a test roll. Hope was born. It was a wild success, and you can find her information here:
In a champain i am dming the players "pacified" a duergar named grumblebark. Now there is lore of his trauma, kids named ragnarock and jimmy, even full on reasons why i cant keep an accent for him! I guese this allways happens.
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Your not worthless, your heart can sell for millions on the dark web.
In a long-running campaign a few years ago, my good friend, who was playing a goblin rogue, had this halfling bard sidekick named Reed Greenbottle. It was obvious to us all that he had been inspired by Scanlan Shorthalt. The duo got into their fair share of shenanigans, and at one point nearly wrecked the campaign with the Deck of Many Things (which our DM really shouldn't have introduced into the game).
My favorite NPC that I'v ever used was a half-orge named Gragonis. Here is his lore (spoilers for Shadow of the Dragon Queen):
Gragonis was originally a member of a group of mercenarys called the Ironclad Regimant. During the War of the Lance, he was bribed by the Red Dragon Army. He and some other mercenarys betrayed their leader and attempted to murder the resedints of the village of Vogler.
During the battle whre the players meet him, I made him crazy insane. He was swinging his weapon around, screaming about how we was going to murder and eat them, and just being a stereotypical Ogre.
But then the Bard magically seduced him. Technically, the romance should have stooped after the spell ended, but I made it so that it continued. The other players wounded him so bad that he couldn't walk, so it was decide that he wasn't much of a danger. They loaded him up on wagon and brought him home. The Bard taught Gragonis that being kind is good, and slowly but surely Gragonis's alignment has shifted away from evil.
Gragonis and the Bard are still in a very romantic relationship, as of last session.
My current pet is an orc named Krgh-âahn. He's a monk/barbarian - and while that doesn't work out entirely optimally on a character sheet, on a statblock I can just do what I want with it. He's rumored to be the orc 'messiah', who will revive the orc kingdoms of the far southeast.
Whether he's any sort of savior - or his mother just gave him that name because she'd heard the prophecy - isn't part of the story. He's just big, and strong, and while raging he is super tanky, has advantage on everything, and is consumed by furious anger.
When not fighting, he's surprisingly level headed =)
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
My favorite NPC that I'v ever used was a half-orge named Gragonis. Here is his lore (spoilers for Shadow of the Dragon Queen):
Gragonis was originally a member of a group of mercenarys called the Ironclad Regimant. During the War of the Lance, he was bribed by the Red Dragon Army. He and some other mercenarys betrayed their leader and attempted to murder the resedints of the village of Vogler.
During the battle whre the players meet him, I made him crazy insane. He was swinging his weapon around, screaming about how we was going to murder and eat them, and just being a stereotypical Ogre.
But then the Bard magically seduced him. Technically, the romance should have stooped after the spell ended, but I made it so that it continued. The other players wounded him so bad that he couldn't walk, so it was decide that he wasn't much of a danger. They loaded him up on wagon and brought him home. The Bard taught Gragonis that being kind is good, and slowly but surely Gragonis's alignment has shifted away from evil.
Gragonis and the Bard are still in a very romantic relationship, as of last session.
Wait a minuite, do i know you? If i do im pretty shure that i know who you are. Its just that i did that exact thing in a champaing i am palaying in.
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Your not worthless, your heart can sell for millions on the dark web.
My favorite NPC was very quickly blown up by my players. No more details needed
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Hello There. I am a worldbuilder and proud DM that is creating a huge world called Eldredom. I'm pouring many hours into it and I may make some things later...
Mr. Higgins was a posh gnome that got transformed into an ooze. He had a marvelous voice and magical powers and we accidentally mixed him up with a bunch of evil magic crystals. We never got to finish the game though so we didn't get to see what happened.
We met this French wizard in the same campaign who died and he put his soul in a three inch tall homunculus.
Fruity Pebbles was a giant talking beetle who could summon demons at will and was the type of evil that would act all polite and innocent while viciously slaughtering annoyances with hellspawn. He did get sent to a hellish prison dimension though and we haven't rescued him yet.
Squirrel Stew was a thespian troll who enjoyed my bard's performance of Separate Ways so much that he joined the party. His head got ripped off in a battle but he managed to survive being a troll and Fruity Pebbles carried his melon on his back. He also got sent to the hell dimension.
And then there was Big Tony. Poor, poor Big Tony. He was a giant, barbarian centaur who made a great show of his brutishness and we met him in this murder mystery adventure. We heard him moving around a lot at night so we interrogated him Hercule Poirot style and discovered that he was actually plagued with Anxiety. His sister had recently had a baby but he was banished from his tribe so he couldn't see her and he was really insecure and scared of stairs and trapped in a tavern with a murderer. It was especially heartbreaking when we found him completely ripped in half by the monster we were hunting.
After realizing my players had encountered a spate of particularly mean/deliberately unlikable NPCs, I needed a character to remind the party that the world isn't totally awful. Enter Zoop, an ADHD quickling who loves making friends and doing chores, and has an inexhaustible appetite for cheese. They fell in love with his innocence and frenetic cheer, rescued him from mistreatment, and have made it their sacred duty to protect him with their lives. Mission accomplished.
Cameron the goat. He was a goat. The party loved him and fed him all the treasure they found. Eventually he became an archfey.
We had a giant goat in a campaign I played in once. His name was Toadfoot. My charcter, his owner, was a green dragonborn named Chatreuese Crouton who ate dwarves.
Details; the Wise Man's trading post is a market stall that can appear anywhere. even if it has no buissness being there. he sells a little bit of everything. he has INFINITE wisdom score, but a 10 in everything else. he can see through all illusions, cannot be mind-controlled, mind-read, or polymorphed. he can detect any lie, and see the player's hit point total
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Race: Not Human. that's for sure
Class: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/general of the goose horde/leader of Urat on kingdoms and crowns/holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor
Alignment: Lawful Evil
fun fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The Archmage of I CAST...!Run From The Big Bad Wolf Here
Alexie is an NPC in the Curse of Strahd campaign that the characters rescued from his oppressive Vistani owners. There was a true bond between him and the characters and one even adopted him as his son. (The half-orc naturally.) Then when the group fought a difficult boss, Alexie fell. Then later on another NPC offered to revive him because they just finished his quest. Then they returned to his burial and saw that he was possessed by a vengeful revenant! Then they had to kill Alexie. After all that they remained adamant on reviving him. They revived him but he came back with indefinite madness, basically giving him an ego trip. He's hanging on by a thread considering he has 12 hit points.
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"Uh, I have Illusory Script. I think I can read that."
Details; the Wise Man's trading post is a market stall that can appear anywhere. even if it has no buissness being there. he sells a little bit of everything. he has INFINITE wisdom score, but a 10 in everything else. he can see through all illusions, cannot be mind-controlled, mind-read, or polymorphed. he can detect any lie, and see the player's hit point total
So if the wise man were to become a monk, would he have infinite AC?
Details; the Wise Man's trading post is a market stall that can appear anywhere. even if it has no buissness being there. he sells a little bit of everything. he has INFINITE wisdom score, but a 10 in everything else. he can see through all illusions, cannot be mind-controlled, mind-read, or polymorphed. he can detect any lie, and see the player's hit point total
So if the wise man were to become a monk, would he have infinite AC?
yes.
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Race: Not Human. that's for sure
Class: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/general of the goose horde/leader of Urat on kingdoms and crowns/holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor
Alignment: Lawful Evil
fun fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The Archmage of I CAST...!Run From The Big Bad Wolf Here
i have a trogldyte child i kidnaped along with a little robot i made. in the same game there was a random half orc i think i really liked the npc then they died soon after meeting him. i was a autognome bwt
We have all had those NPCs we loved..so tell me about them!
I was DM at one point, and I had this outline of an idea for a character, and decided to take it for a test roll. Hope was born. It was a wild success, and you can find her information here:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/123348628
In a champain i am dming the players "pacified" a duergar named grumblebark. Now there is lore of his trauma, kids named ragnarock and jimmy, even full on reasons why i cant keep an accent for him! I guese this allways happens.
Your not worthless, your heart can sell for millions on the dark web.
PM me the word 🍅tomato or 🍌banana
In a long-running campaign a few years ago, my good friend, who was playing a goblin rogue, had this halfling bard sidekick named Reed Greenbottle. It was obvious to us all that he had been inspired by Scanlan Shorthalt. The duo got into their fair share of shenanigans, and at one point nearly wrecked the campaign with the Deck of Many Things (which our DM really shouldn't have introduced into the game).
Good times.
In my experience...
My favorite NPC that I'v ever used was a half-orge named Gragonis. Here is his lore (spoilers for Shadow of the Dragon Queen):
Gragonis was originally a member of a group of mercenarys called the Ironclad Regimant. During the War of the Lance, he was bribed by the Red Dragon Army. He and some other mercenarys betrayed their leader and attempted to murder the resedints of the village of Vogler.
During the battle whre the players meet him, I made him crazy insane. He was swinging his weapon around, screaming about how we was going to murder and eat them, and just being a stereotypical Ogre.
But then the Bard magically seduced him. Technically, the romance should have stooped after the spell ended, but I made it so that it continued. The other players wounded him so bad that he couldn't walk, so it was decide that he wasn't much of a danger. They loaded him up on wagon and brought him home. The Bard taught Gragonis that being kind is good, and slowly but surely Gragonis's alignment has shifted away from evil.
Gragonis and the Bard are still in a very romantic relationship, as of last session.
(He/Him), Pansexual dude. 🏳️🌈
I love cats, coffee and Dnd. Check out my tavern: THE PLATINUM KINGFISHER
Don't be a monday. Nobody likes mondays.
Of all the Dnd settings, Dragonlance is my absolute favourite.
My current pet is an orc named Krgh-âahn. He's a monk/barbarian - and while that doesn't work out entirely optimally on a character sheet, on a statblock I can just do what I want with it. He's rumored to be the orc 'messiah', who will revive the orc kingdoms of the far southeast.
Whether he's any sort of savior - or his mother just gave him that name because she'd heard the prophecy - isn't part of the story. He's just big, and strong, and while raging he is super tanky, has advantage on everything, and is consumed by furious anger.
When not fighting, he's surprisingly level headed =)
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Wait a minuite, do i know you? If i do im pretty shure that i know who you are. Its just that i did that exact thing in a champaing i am palaying in.
Your not worthless, your heart can sell for millions on the dark web.
PM me the word 🍅tomato or 🍌banana
My favorite NPC was very quickly blown up by my players. No more details needed
Hello There. I am a worldbuilder and proud DM that is creating a huge world called Eldredom. I'm pouring many hours into it and I may make some things later...
We have had tons of great NPCs over our games.
Mr. Higgins was a posh gnome that got transformed into an ooze. He had a marvelous voice and magical powers and we accidentally mixed him up with a bunch of evil magic crystals. We never got to finish the game though so we didn't get to see what happened.
We met this French wizard in the same campaign who died and he put his soul in a three inch tall homunculus.
Fruity Pebbles was a giant talking beetle who could summon demons at will and was the type of evil that would act all polite and innocent while viciously slaughtering annoyances with hellspawn. He did get sent to a hellish prison dimension though and we haven't rescued him yet.
Squirrel Stew was a thespian troll who enjoyed my bard's performance of Separate Ways so much that he joined the party. His head got ripped off in a battle but he managed to survive being a troll and Fruity Pebbles carried his melon on his back. He also got sent to the hell dimension.
And then there was Big Tony. Poor, poor Big Tony. He was a giant, barbarian centaur who made a great show of his brutishness and we met him in this murder mystery adventure. We heard him moving around a lot at night so we interrogated him Hercule Poirot style and discovered that he was actually plagued with Anxiety. His sister had recently had a baby but he was banished from his tribe so he couldn't see her and he was really insecure and scared of stairs and trapped in a tavern with a murderer. It was especially heartbreaking when we found him completely ripped in half by the monster we were hunting.
Awwwwww, this is actually really cute!
We had an NPC who kept saying sir, we called him the sir servant... but ended up killing him :p
𝔐𝔶 𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔫𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶/𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔪 🏳️🌈🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ ℑ'𝔪 𝔎𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔫-𝔄𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫 (ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫'𝔱 𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔞𝔨 𝔎𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔫)
My Characters! (that i actually played in a campaign)
Vek Nying, Si, Drizzle, Foofoo, Ą̸͇͍̗̱̮̹͔͐̒͑̂̑̓̚͜c̴̡̨͖̞̦̼̱͚͐͐̌̎ṵ̷̼̰̩̬̭͛̊͗̅͌̅̔̿m̸̙̰̓̽̀̆̈́͠͝a̴̛͚̍ư̶̗̬͎̈̊͒͂̿͝͝s̴̛̖̮̗̏̊̓̅̊̚ͅ, Bappa, Chaos
After realizing my players had encountered a spate of particularly mean/deliberately unlikable NPCs, I needed a character to remind the party that the world isn't totally awful. Enter Zoop, an ADHD quickling who loves making friends and doing chores, and has an inexhaustible appetite for cheese. They fell in love with his innocence and frenetic cheer, rescued him from mistreatment, and have made it their sacred duty to protect him with their lives. Mission accomplished.
Cameron the goat. He was a goat. The party loved him and fed him all the treasure they found. Eventually he became an archfey.
No news is good news…
I'll lay a white rose on the cold earth, knowing it that it has not claimed your soul.
We had a giant goat in a campaign I played in once. His name was Toadfoot. My charcter, his owner, was a green dragonborn named Chatreuese Crouton who ate dwarves.
(He/Him), Pansexual dude. 🏳️🌈
I love cats, coffee and Dnd. Check out my tavern: THE PLATINUM KINGFISHER
Don't be a monday. Nobody likes mondays.
Of all the Dnd settings, Dragonlance is my absolute favourite.
Oof...
But relatable.
"Uh, I have Illusory Script. I think I can read that."
Name; The Wise Man
Occupaton; Shopkeep
Details; the Wise Man's trading post is a market stall that can appear anywhere. even if it has no buissness being there. he sells a little bit of everything. he has INFINITE wisdom score, but a 10 in everything else. he can see through all illusions, cannot be mind-controlled, mind-read, or polymorphed. he can detect any lie, and see the player's hit point total
Race: Not Human. that's for sure
Class: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/general of the goose horde/leader of Urat on kingdoms and crowns/holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor
Alignment: Lawful Evil
fun fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The Archmage of I CAST...! Run From The Big Bad Wolf Here
Alexie is an NPC in the Curse of Strahd campaign that the characters rescued from his oppressive Vistani owners. There was a true bond between him and the characters and one even adopted him as his son. (The half-orc naturally.) Then when the group fought a difficult boss, Alexie fell. Then later on another NPC offered to revive him because they just finished his quest. Then they returned to his burial and saw that he was possessed by a vengeful revenant! Then they had to kill Alexie. After all that they remained adamant on reviving him. They revived him but he came back with indefinite madness, basically giving him an ego trip. He's hanging on by a thread considering he has 12 hit points.
"Uh, I have Illusory Script. I think I can read that."
So if the wise man were to become a monk, would he have infinite AC?
yes.
Race: Not Human. that's for sure
Class: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/general of the goose horde/leader of Urat on kingdoms and crowns/holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor
Alignment: Lawful Evil
fun fact: i gain more power the more you post on my forum threads. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The Archmage of I CAST...! Run From The Big Bad Wolf Here
i have a trogldyte child i kidnaped along with a little robot i made. in the same game there was a random half orc i think i really liked the npc then they died soon after meeting him. i was a autognome bwt
a simple dm with a lot of lore and homebrew to be made and a cultist of lambalI. prefer any pronouns bwt.