Ever wanted to just really play a goblin paladin that worships Tiamat or a vegan barbarian centaur?
Now's your chance!
Build me your most out-of-this-world character (that could actually some-what work if given the chance) and let's really let everyone share their truly creative side. I'll even start:
My current craziest contraption is Thud, a halfling barbarian who thinks he is an orc and can even speak orc. He just assumes his growth is stunted and that he has a skin disorder. He has to hand-axes and uses a long sword for his two handed weapon since he can't really carry much else. His halfling home was built under an orc fortress when he was a baby and so when the orcs eventually found the halfling village it was destroyed and the baby was only allowed to live because one of the female orcs decided to keep the baby halfling as a pet. He grew up around the orcs and they eventually realized he was great for blending in with other races since he wasn't an orc.. they just failed to tell him he wasn't an orc.
Eventually his orc fortress was destroyed and he was assumed to be a brainwashed slave of the orcs and freed. Thud has since tried to join other orcs but for some reason is always chased out and nearly killed.
Ok, so, think of a crab. They have low stats, can't communicate, and are a wild animal. Now think about the GOOlock, they get awakened mind. They are able to talk now, because they were given knowledge. Now imagine that crab also taking a book of lore so he could write his adventures even though he can't read or write. He has also been given a tiny wizard hat with a crystal to cast his magic. Then he becomes a tome warlock to take the Ceremony spell eventually, becoming a priest. Lastly, he has phantasmal force so you then draw a really buff man version of him to say he uses phantasmal force to do this, and says "It appears your time is up mortal", as he also has toll of the dead as a cantrip.
I have played this character, but the DM hasn't gotten to a 2nd session yet.
Goliath Rogue is always a fun choice... mechanically there's no serious downsides, but it's funny to think of a giant 8 foot tall dude who can sneak around, picking locks, and making precision strikes with a dagger when everyone assumes he would just be smashing people in the face. Could be fun to play with peoples' expectations... maybe even pose as a barbarian, carrying a battleaxe on your back that you don't actually use.
Goliath Rogue is always a fun choice... mechanically there's no serious downsides, but it's funny to think of a giant 8 foot tall dude who can sneak around, picking locks, and making precision strikes with a dagger when everyone assumes he would just be smashing people in the face. Could be fun to play with peoples' expectations... maybe even pose as a barbarian, carrying a battleaxe on your back that you don't actually use.
Remember that scene in Emperor's New Groove where Kronk is sneaking around the city to dispose of the llama? That's all I can imagine right now lol.
If you don't know the scene look it up. definitely fits what you just said.
One of the neat things about 5e is how it gives allowance to get serious or silly. You can be a holy Paladin with a sad story of redemption or you can be pirate wannabe who's kind of a ninny.
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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've always found the idea of a Gith bard to be hilarious. Lean heavily into the space-hippy vibes and take the least popular race to the most charismatic place!
I actually made this character... Ieather face gold Dragon born bard that thinks it'sreally good at being a spymaster and disguising himself as a human. Has no concept of his size but nobody tells him anything cause his size and strange manner. He joined a guild as a spymaster pretending to be a traveling performing bard that goes from tavern to tavern getting drunk performing and learning aboout new jobs. He has a deeper real normal tragic origin story real corny like Naruto cornet.
I once created a half-orc cleric of Helm for the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. This half-orc had a sage background and had a 17 intelligence, 16 wisdom, and 16 charisma.
Another character I created for that campaign isn't such a bad idea. It's a noble who had a problem with gambling. He lost his family fortune, his honor, and respect. He tries to keep up the appearance of wealth to maintain his membership to the lord's alliance, but he's really in debt and ruined. However, I think his bond sums up his character and what's so interesting about him: When I gambled away my family's money, everyone thought I was a failure and would never amount to anything. I would do anything to prove them wrong. This character became a monk to do just that, and is gradually losing his 'petty noble' attitude in a path of redemption.
Going the opposite of my previous suggestion of a Goliath Rogue, I think that a Gnome Monk sounds pretty hilarious as well, even though Gnomes are actually pretty well-suited to being monks. I think a lot of people would go for barbarian to get the feel I'm going for... but I just like the idea of this tiny little dude running around just aggressively karate chopping people in the crotch completely unarmed. Just imagine the little guy going up against a full-armor paladin and just pinning them down with stunning strikes while wrecking shop with his bare hands and kicks from his little gnome legs. Bonus points if he's just straight up dressed like a garden gnome the whole time.
A githyanki [insert whatever class seems most ridiculous here] with the far traveler background who only speaks Gith around other races and pretends not to understand the conversations around him. Think of a cross between the Tourist from Discworld and Lopez from Red vs Blue, dryly snarking his way through the multiverse.
I started a one-shot with some family this weekend and thought I'd share their creations since they don't have accounts. We were testing avrae on discord so I told them they didn't have to take it seriously at all and could just make whatever character as long as it was level 3.
My wife made a goblin bard that used bagpipes and somehow became a mob boss
My sister, who had never played before, made "guy fieri but he's a dwarf cleric." the character also eventually ended up hiding in a rotted tree trunk and began sneaking around in said tree trunk - then later assumed they had a collapsible bike and so this is now their character:
I'm not too good at funny character ideas, but in a campaign I'm DMing, one of our players seriously considered playing a kenku wizard who would have one of the other party members recite the verbal components of his spells so he could memorize them. I only barely stopped him but now he's playing a kobold cleric who uses smite - combined with the help action from another player to give him advantage - on any foe who presents too much of a challenge.
A githyanki [insert whatever class seems most ridiculous here] with the far traveler background who only speaks Gith around other races and pretends not to understand the conversations around him. Think of a cross between the Tourist from Discworld and Lopez from Red vs Blue, dryly snarking his way through the multiverse.
The funniest thing about Lopez is how he uses horribly incorrect Spanish (and the character of the guy who's Dutch/Irish and doesn't understand Spanish is voiced by a guy fluent in Spanish).
It's almost like they used Google Translate back when RvB and G-Translate were just starting out and it was horrible at every language. I don't know if that's what they did in RvB because, even though GTranslate is oodles better than it was, Lopez's Spanish is still very, very wrong.
Some languages in GTranslate are still really bad. I've considered using it for translating something I've wanted to say into one of those still-improving languages and back to English and using that instead. ("I want to go to the pub for some ale." translated to Kyrgyz and back to English becomes "I sometimes go to the pub of the lake." Not joking here.) Doing that slows things down, though.
EDIT: Heh. Do that for both speaking and hearing the party speak. What GTranslate interprets from them is what your character hears, and your speech is GTranslate-mashed when spoken to them.
They say, "Ignore the Lich!" You hear (Kyrgyz<->English), "Ch do not turn back!" (which could convince your character that the party wants your character to attack the Lich).
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 thought about playing a Warlock (probably celestial) who acts like a holy cleric (with the backing of some strategic healing spells), and genuinely believes himself to be one. The issue is that they actually worship a world destroying entity who they are convinced they should bring into the world to save everyone. They have a somewhat warped concept of 'saving' people. Aside from that minor caveat, super chill and nice dude.
That, or a jolly Barbarian Human who dresses in red, has a big bushy white beard, and is not actually Santa with a battle bag for smacking baddies.
I thought about playing a Warlock (probably celestial) who acts like a holy cleric (with the backing of some strategic healing spells), and genuinely believes himself to be one. The issue is that they actually worship a world destroying entity who they are convinced they should bring into the world to save everyone. They have a somewhat warped concept of 'saving' people. Aside from that minor caveat, super chill and nice dude.
That, or a jolly Barbarian Human who dresses in red, has a big bushy white beard, and is not actually Santa with a battle bag for smacking baddies.
This reminds me of something I remember seeing in a video recounting Reddit posts about players' favorite characters they played. Someone was playing as a necromancer who was fully convinced they were a cleric, and just kept thinking the spells they were casting were screwed up somehow.
Ever wanted to just really play a goblin paladin that worships Tiamat or a vegan barbarian centaur?
Now's your chance!
Build me your most out-of-this-world character (that could actually some-what work if given the chance) and let's really let everyone share their truly creative side. I'll even start:
My current craziest contraption is Thud, a halfling barbarian who thinks he is an orc and can even speak orc. He just assumes his growth is stunted and that he has a skin disorder. He has to hand-axes and uses a long sword for his two handed weapon since he can't really carry much else. His halfling home was built under an orc fortress when he was a baby and so when the orcs eventually found the halfling village it was destroyed and the baby was only allowed to live because one of the female orcs decided to keep the baby halfling as a pet. He grew up around the orcs and they eventually realized he was great for blending in with other races since he wasn't an orc.. they just failed to tell him he wasn't an orc.
Eventually his orc fortress was destroyed and he was assumed to be a brainwashed slave of the orcs and freed. Thud has since tried to join other orcs but for some reason is always chased out and nearly killed.
Full of rice, beans, and bad ideas.
Ok, so, think of a crab. They have low stats, can't communicate, and are a wild animal. Now think about the GOOlock, they get awakened mind. They are able to talk now, because they were given knowledge. Now imagine that crab also taking a book of lore so he could write his adventures even though he can't read or write. He has also been given a tiny wizard hat with a crystal to cast his magic. Then he becomes a tome warlock to take the Ceremony spell eventually, becoming a priest. Lastly, he has phantasmal force so you then draw a really buff man version of him to say he uses phantasmal force to do this, and says "It appears your time is up mortal", as he also has toll of the dead as a cantrip.
I have played this character, but the DM hasn't gotten to a 2nd session yet.
Also known as CrafterB and DankMemer.
Here, have some homebrew classes! Subclasses to? Why not races. Feats, feats as well. I have a lot of magic items. Lastly I got monsters, fun, fun times.
Kuo-Toa Necromancy Wizard.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
Goliath Rogue is always a fun choice... mechanically there's no serious downsides, but it's funny to think of a giant 8 foot tall dude who can sneak around, picking locks, and making precision strikes with a dagger when everyone assumes he would just be smashing people in the face. Could be fun to play with peoples' expectations... maybe even pose as a barbarian, carrying a battleaxe on your back that you don't actually use.
Watch Crits for Breakfast, an adults-only RP-Heavy Roll20 Livestream at twitch.tv/afterdisbooty
And now you too can play with the amazing art and assets we use in Roll20 for our campaign at Hazel's Emporium
Remember that scene in Emperor's New Groove where Kronk is sneaking around the city to dispose of the llama? That's all I can imagine right now lol.
If you don't know the scene look it up. definitely fits what you just said.
Full of rice, beans, and bad ideas.
One of the neat things about 5e is how it gives allowance to get serious or silly. You can be a holy Paladin with a sad story of redemption or you can be pirate wannabe who's kind of a ninny.
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 always found the idea of a Gith bard to be hilarious. Lean heavily into the space-hippy vibes and take the least popular race to the most charismatic place!
I actually made this character... Ieather face gold Dragon born bard that thinks it'sreally good at being a spymaster and disguising himself as a human. Has no concept of his size but nobody tells him anything cause his size and strange manner. He joined a guild as a spymaster pretending to be a traveling performing bard that goes from tavern to tavern getting drunk performing and learning aboout new jobs. He has a deeper real normal tragic origin story real corny like Naruto cornet.
Here are a few ideas:
I once created a half-orc cleric of Helm for the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign. This half-orc had a sage background and had a 17 intelligence, 16 wisdom, and 16 charisma.
Another character I created for that campaign isn't such a bad idea. It's a noble who had a problem with gambling. He lost his family fortune, his honor, and respect. He tries to keep up the appearance of wealth to maintain his membership to the lord's alliance, but he's really in debt and ruined. However, I think his bond sums up his character and what's so interesting about him: When I gambled away my family's money, everyone thought I was a failure and would never amount to anything. I would do anything to prove them wrong. This character became a monk to do just that, and is gradually losing his 'petty noble' attitude in a path of redemption.
Going the opposite of my previous suggestion of a Goliath Rogue, I think that a Gnome Monk sounds pretty hilarious as well, even though Gnomes are actually pretty well-suited to being monks. I think a lot of people would go for barbarian to get the feel I'm going for... but I just like the idea of this tiny little dude running around just aggressively karate chopping people in the crotch completely unarmed. Just imagine the little guy going up against a full-armor paladin and just pinning them down with stunning strikes while wrecking shop with his bare hands and kicks from his little gnome legs. Bonus points if he's just straight up dressed like a garden gnome the whole time.
Watch Crits for Breakfast, an adults-only RP-Heavy Roll20 Livestream at twitch.tv/afterdisbooty
And now you too can play with the amazing art and assets we use in Roll20 for our campaign at Hazel's Emporium
A githyanki [insert whatever class seems most ridiculous here] with the far traveler background who only speaks Gith around other races and pretends not to understand the conversations around him. Think of a cross between the Tourist from Discworld and Lopez from Red vs Blue, dryly snarking his way through the multiverse.
I started a one-shot with some family this weekend and thought I'd share their creations since they don't have accounts. We were testing avrae on discord so I told them they didn't have to take it seriously at all and could just make whatever character as long as it was level 3.
My wife made a goblin bard that used bagpipes and somehow became a mob boss
My sister, who had never played before, made "guy fieri but he's a dwarf cleric." the character also eventually ended up hiding in a rotted tree trunk and began sneaking around in said tree trunk - then later assumed they had a collapsible bike and so this is now their character:
Full of rice, beans, and bad ideas.
I'm not too good at funny character ideas, but in a campaign I'm DMing, one of our players seriously considered playing a kenku wizard who would have one of the other party members recite the verbal components of his spells so he could memorize them. I only barely stopped him but now he's playing a kobold cleric who uses smite - combined with the help action from another player to give him advantage - on any foe who presents too much of a challenge.
I look out of my brain and I can understand it perfectly, I look into my brain and it's like an alien planet.
The funniest thing about Lopez is how he uses horribly incorrect Spanish (and the character of the guy who's Dutch/Irish and doesn't understand Spanish is voiced by a guy fluent in Spanish).
It's almost like they used Google Translate back when RvB and G-Translate were just starting out and it was horrible at every language. I don't know if that's what they did in RvB because, even though GTranslate is oodles better than it was, Lopez's Spanish is still very, very wrong.
Some languages in GTranslate are still really bad. I've considered using it for translating something I've wanted to say into one of those still-improving languages and back to English and using that instead. ("I want to go to the pub for some ale." translated to Kyrgyz and back to English becomes "I sometimes go to the pub of the lake." Not joking here.) Doing that slows things down, though.
EDIT: Heh. Do that for both speaking and hearing the party speak. What GTranslate interprets from them is what your character hears, and your speech is GTranslate-mashed when spoken to them.
They say, "Ignore the Lich!" You hear (Kyrgyz<->English), "Ch do not turn back!" (which could convince your character that the party wants your character to attack the Lich).
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.
Nice
I thought about playing a Warlock (probably celestial) who acts like a holy cleric (with the backing of some strategic healing spells), and genuinely believes himself to be one. The issue is that they actually worship a world destroying entity who they are convinced they should bring into the world to save everyone. They have a somewhat warped concept of 'saving' people. Aside from that minor caveat, super chill and nice dude.
That, or a jolly Barbarian Human who dresses in red, has a big bushy white beard, and is not actually Santa with a battle bag for smacking baddies.
The Warlock almost sounds like a satirical cultist and I love it
Full of rice, beans, and bad ideas.
basically just a feral eladrin elf with a stupid backstory
This reminds me of something I remember seeing in a video recounting Reddit posts about players' favorite characters they played. Someone was playing as a necromancer who was fully convinced they were a cleric, and just kept thinking the spells they were casting were screwed up somehow.
Watch Crits for Breakfast, an adults-only RP-Heavy Roll20 Livestream at twitch.tv/afterdisbooty
And now you too can play with the amazing art and assets we use in Roll20 for our campaign at Hazel's Emporium
I played a druid who was half squirle and could talk to squriles