I haven't played any bards yet, but hoo boy do I have some ideas!
1. Half-Orc Bard named Melkog. Nothing too fancy, it's just that the idea of a half-orc singing and playing a guitar is hilarious to me.
2. Bard whose gimmick is promotion. Every time they enter a tavern, the bard goes to the owner and says "alright. We're heroes. Soon we'll be showered with fame and accolades. If you pay us some up front, we'll promote your business." In other words, he arranges corporate sponserships, tie-in deals, promotional appearances, and other things to cultivate the hero group's image.
3. My only evil character idea: Wellby Cherrytree, halfling Eloquence bard. He may seem sweet, but he's truly a vicious, manipulative mastermind. He seldom gives any outward indication of hostility, and indeed often covers up his hostility with his polite mannerisms. He's not big on combat, but his best tool is manipulation.
Bards are gloriously bizarre, because everyone else is up there throwing fireballs or hitting the goblins with an axe and you're just there like "doot doot-doot" on your guitar.
I haven't played any bards yet, but hoo boy do I have some ideas!
Watch something called "Oxventure". They're very, very excruciatingly relaxed on rules, though. Fair warning.
Their bard is a Half-orc. (Player learned how to play a tiny lute for the part... or maybe it just looks tiny since the player's quite tall.) He's far more proactive than just support. His favorites are Thunderwave, Heat Metal (which he insists is a genre of music), and Crown of Madness. He does have some doot doot-doot songs but they're more to help the party avoid combat than use in combat.
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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.
An IC character that IC constantly proposes crazy theories based on accurate, OOC medieval history of Earth. In the setting, they'll seem ridiculous, and they'll actually be wrong in the setting, but the character IC will keep insisting rather loudly that it's the way things really are. Commerce, governing, religions, dialects, physics, understanding of science, legends, medicine, daily life... You can't make the character stop commenting on it.
"Why is that Dwarf speaking with a brogue (Scottish) accent? Dwarves share origins with the Teutons (German)."
"The world's not flat, I tell you! It's round!"
"Gold dragons should be long and gecko-like with whiskers!"
"Nobody believes in those gods anymore."
"We're decades away from developing that kind of mechanisms!"
"Oh come on! Any educated physician knows that it's not some evil spirit. Everyone knows that you just need to balance the humours. That patient needs a hole in the head like he needs a hole in the head - meaning he doesn't need a hole in the head. That doctor's just a quack."
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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 wanna know more. What deity or deities the did Cleric worship? How did the Cleric resolve the issue of being a bloodletter and a devout?
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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.
A human pugilist named "Poundcake",a little girl who swears like a sailor, drinks like a fish, and enjoys nothing better than beating the tar out of people.
he worshiped tiamat, and sacrificed the party's bard to become one. another funny thing was the domain was war, not trickery. there was also a homebrew god our dm made which was the god of bagpipes and he made a deal for it to destroy the town. that ended the campaign nicely.
A max/mined char. Not a typo. dump stats are good, good stats are dump stats
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Helper of Create a World thread/Sedge is Chaotic Neutral/ Mega Yahtzee High: 34, Low: 14/I speak English, je me parle le Francais, agus Labhraim beagan Gaeilge
I remember having a warlock idea whose patron is his demonic ex wife...
I also had an idea for a character when I was learning the rules named Kyal (a take on the internet Kyle trope) who is likely a beast barbarian with maybe some alchemist artificer but I still haven't decided what he would be. Also, I think human would make the best race. He wears the most black of black, his face pale, but a void below the eyes. His dark axe bloodcleaver is astride with him, as he takes a sip of his monster energy. The axe bloodcleaver is just a regular axe painted black, as well as he wears the most edgy stuff possible, and whenever he hits in combat, he starts bragging in the deepest voice about how awesome he is to try to impress people (most of all girls). The monster energy is an abomination of a drink which is the remains of monsters mixed in with a ton of sugar and other caffeine like chemicals, which activates his rage. As he levels up, he tries to achieve more and more deranged and edgy stuff. He starts out doing stuff to look cool and being a kind dude, but as he levels up, he slowly becomes what edgy monster he wants to become that he thinks he could impress girls with, until he becomes pure chaotic evil. He would still work for the party saying the party leads him to stuff to kill, making him an evil character on later levels, but not one of the "f u, I can kill u kuz I'm evvillllll! I can du whateva I wan" type of character.
I still think he could work out as a character, although I am gonna make him a bit less memey if I play him which won't be for a bit as I'm a forever DM currently. He also instead of going down the "dark path" he could get a good classic turn to the light and renounce his edge lord ways. I think with a redemption, I would make the character still very socially awkward, and still try to impress people with cringeworthy lines still though.
A paladin from an order of chaste and mute knights. He could only cast spells with no verbal component. Turns out, there aren't many. He frequently made use of Minor Illusion to communicate.
Ilri, a 9-year-old Kenku Great Old One warlock. Ilri may be a bit annoying (think Kiri from Critical Role, but never listened to by the other party members and quite willing to blow up a dungeon on them), but the reason she's my worst character is because the other party members gave her almost constant death threats (tangible ones too) for no other reason than they found it fun. Another one of my characters had been threatened with **** at a different group before that (an Aasimar butler messenger who cheats people out of things), but he is disavowed from my character lists.
Here’s one I just thought up, gunslinger bob ross, “Let’s put a happy little bullet right between your eyes” “Aw darn, a misfire, oh well, no mistakes, just happy little accidents.” “I’m gonna paint a portrait of your dead body, with a Alan and Thurber as my brush”.
A paladin from an order of chaste and mute knights. He could only cast spells with no verbal component. Turns out, there aren't many. He frequently made use of Minor Illusion to communicate.
I have an idea for a character named Silence - as a child she said the wrong things to some bad people in disguise, who destroyed her town. She vowed to never speak... well, speak only when absolutely necessary. She found a banshee in the ruins, and that was the town medicine woman. She became an Undead Warlock, with the banshee as her Patron. Probably going to MC into Shadow Sorcerer, too.
I can't figure out how to play her, though, unless we are actually all around a table (still playing virtually, without webcams...) I imagine her not talking, usually using hand gestures, maybe a primitive sign language. Screaming when needed, and using the Message cantrip pretty often. I'm thinking her verbal component of the spells is in an unusual language, so that it's rare that "Common" people would understand. Minor Illusion would help, too...
A character that can't stop making "dad jokes" and puns regardless to the situation at hand and no matter how much of an awful stretch is needed to make said puns.
(You hold 'em down. I'll use my Sovereign Glue to shut that mouth.)
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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.
IN our country, and more specificly on the NE part, we had a tale noone is 100% sure where it comes from, which it says:
If you are a children, and you have in your mind dark thoughts, the Cancu ( it's spelled as the Kenku name ) will take ya on his sack. to later be eated.
Taking this tale in mind I wanted to create a squishy human-like race with the appearence of a Hag, and wearing a big Bag of Holding just to "steal" childrens. The idea was fine, until I realised I needed a low Charisma and Constitution character. But I couldn't find the correct race who could fit better with thosae characteristics ( like always being sneaky, dirty ( I mean un-polished ), and other elses.
I haven't played any bards yet, but hoo boy do I have some ideas!
1. Half-Orc Bard named Melkog. Nothing too fancy, it's just that the idea of a half-orc singing and playing a guitar is hilarious to me.
2. Bard whose gimmick is promotion. Every time they enter a tavern, the bard goes to the owner and says "alright. We're heroes. Soon we'll be showered with fame and accolades. If you pay us some up front, we'll promote your business." In other words, he arranges corporate sponserships, tie-in deals, promotional appearances, and other things to cultivate the hero group's image.
3. My only evil character idea: Wellby Cherrytree, halfling Eloquence bard. He may seem sweet, but he's truly a vicious, manipulative mastermind. He seldom gives any outward indication of hostility, and indeed often covers up his hostility with his polite mannerisms. He's not big on combat, but his best tool is manipulation.
Bards are gloriously bizarre, because everyone else is up there throwing fireballs or hitting the goblins with an axe and you're just there like "doot doot-doot" on your guitar.
Watch something called "Oxventure". They're very, very excruciatingly relaxed on rules, though. Fair warning.
Their bard is a Half-orc. (Player learned how to play a tiny lute for the part... or maybe it just looks tiny since the player's quite tall.) He's far more proactive than just support. His favorites are Thunderwave, Heat Metal (which he insists is a genre of music), and Crown of Madness. He does have some doot doot-doot songs but they're more to help the party avoid combat than use in combat.
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.
Makes me think of BFG just mobbing through town streets
An IC character that IC constantly proposes crazy theories based on accurate, OOC medieval history of Earth. In the setting, they'll seem ridiculous, and they'll actually be wrong in the setting, but the character IC will keep insisting rather loudly that it's the way things really are. Commerce, governing, religions, dialects, physics, understanding of science, legends, medicine, daily life... You can't make the character stop commenting on it.
"Why is that Dwarf speaking with a brogue (Scottish) accent? Dwarves share origins with the Teutons (German)."
"The world's not flat, I tell you! It's round!"
"Gold dragons should be long and gecko-like with whiskers!"
"Nobody believes in those gods anymore."
"We're decades away from developing that kind of mechanisms!"
"Oh come on! Any educated physician knows that it's not some evil spirit. Everyone knows that you just need to balance the humours. That patient needs a hole in the head like he needs a hole in the head - meaning he doesn't need a hole in the head. That doctor's just a quack."
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.
cleric who is a vampire-
I once played one and it got very funny.
I wanna know more. What deity or deities the did Cleric worship? How did the Cleric resolve the issue of being a bloodletter and a devout?
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.
A human pugilist named "Poundcake",a little girl who swears like a sailor, drinks like a fish, and enjoys nothing better than beating the tar out of people.
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
he worshiped tiamat, and sacrificed the party's bard to become one. another funny thing was the domain was war, not trickery. there was also a homebrew god our dm made which was the god of bagpipes and he made a deal for it to destroy the town. that ended the campaign nicely.
A max/mined char. Not a typo. dump stats are good, good stats are dump stats
Helper of Create a World thread/Sedge is Chaotic Neutral/ Mega Yahtzee High: 34, Low: 14/I speak English, je me parle le Francais, agus Labhraim beagan Gaeilge
Dream of Days Lore Bard 9/Wizard 4 Baulder's Gate: Descent to Avernus (In Person/Over Zoom)
Saleadon Morgul Battle Smith Artificer 11 Tyranny of Dragons (In Person/Over Zoom)
Hurtharn Serpti Ghostslayer Blood Hunter 7 Spelljammer (Over Zoom)
Ex Sig
A Ravnica paladin who serves the demon lord Rakdos because he believes in freedom and the common good and sees those ideals in the Cult of Rakdos.
I remember having a warlock idea whose patron is his demonic ex wife...
I also had an idea for a character when I was learning the rules named Kyal (a take on the internet Kyle trope) who is likely a beast barbarian with maybe some alchemist artificer but I still haven't decided what he would be. Also, I think human would make the best race. He wears the most black of black, his face pale, but a void below the eyes. His dark axe bloodcleaver is astride with him, as he takes a sip of his monster energy. The axe bloodcleaver is just a regular axe painted black, as well as he wears the most edgy stuff possible, and whenever he hits in combat, he starts bragging in the deepest voice about how awesome he is to try to impress people (most of all girls). The monster energy is an abomination of a drink which is the remains of monsters mixed in with a ton of sugar and other caffeine like chemicals, which activates his rage. As he levels up, he tries to achieve more and more deranged and edgy stuff. He starts out doing stuff to look cool and being a kind dude, but as he levels up, he slowly becomes what edgy monster he wants to become that he thinks he could impress girls with, until he becomes pure chaotic evil. He would still work for the party saying the party leads him to stuff to kill, making him an evil character on later levels, but not one of the "f u, I can kill u kuz I'm evvillllll! I can du whateva I wan" type of character.
I still think he could work out as a character, although I am gonna make him a bit less memey if I play him which won't be for a bit as I'm a forever DM currently. He also instead of going down the "dark path" he could get a good classic turn to the light and renounce his edge lord ways. I think with a redemption, I would make the character still very socially awkward, and still try to impress people with cringeworthy lines still though.
A paladin from an order of chaste and mute knights. He could only cast spells with no verbal component. Turns out, there aren't many. He frequently made use of Minor Illusion to communicate.
Ilri, a 9-year-old Kenku Great Old One warlock. Ilri may be a bit annoying (think Kiri from Critical Role, but never listened to by the other party members and quite willing to blow up a dungeon on them), but the reason she's my worst character is because the other party members gave her almost constant death threats (tangible ones too) for no other reason than they found it fun. Another one of my characters had been threatened with **** at a different group before that (an Aasimar butler messenger who cheats people out of things), but he is disavowed from my character lists.
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Here’s one I just thought up, gunslinger bob ross, “Let’s put a happy little bullet right between your eyes” “Aw darn, a misfire, oh well, no mistakes, just happy little accidents.” “I’m gonna paint a portrait of your dead body, with a Alan and Thurber as my brush”.
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
a Drow Assassin who specialised in poisons - all his spells were themed as poison ones.
Good grief, I hated playing that character... lasted one session (luckily a one-shot) before being permanently retired!
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I have an idea for a character named Silence - as a child she said the wrong things to some bad people in disguise, who destroyed her town. She vowed to never speak... well, speak only when absolutely necessary.
She found a banshee in the ruins, and that was the town medicine woman. She became an Undead Warlock, with the banshee as her Patron. Probably going to MC into Shadow Sorcerer, too.
I can't figure out how to play her, though, unless we are actually all around a table (still playing virtually, without webcams...) I imagine her not talking, usually using hand gestures, maybe a primitive sign language. Screaming when needed, and using the Message cantrip pretty often. I'm thinking her verbal component of the spells is in an unusual language, so that it's rare that "Common" people would understand.
Minor Illusion would help, too...
A character that can't stop making "dad jokes" and puns regardless to the situation at hand and no matter how much of an awful stretch is needed to make said puns.
(You hold 'em down. I'll use my Sovereign Glue to shut that mouth.)
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.
A SorLock.
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My homebrew stuff:
Spells, Monsters, Magic Items, Feats, Subclasses.
I am an Archfey, but nobody seems to notice.
Extended Signature
I guess soon a Pixie Barbarian who demands Reduced being cast on her all the time?
Nugz - Kobold Level 4 Bloodhunter/Order of the Mutant - Out there looking for snacks and evil monsters.
Ultrix Schwarzdorn - Human Level 6 Artificer/Armorer - Retired and works in his new shop.
Quercus Espenkiel - Gnome Level 9 Wizard/Order of Scribes - Turned into a book and sits on a shelf.
Artin - Fairy Level 4 Sorcerer/Wild Magic - Busy with annoying the townsfolk. Again.
Jabor - Fire Genasi - Level 4 Wizard/School of Evocation - The First Flame, The Last Chaos. Probably in jail, again.
IN our country, and more specificly on the NE part, we had a tale noone is 100% sure where it comes from, which it says:
If you are a children, and you have in your mind dark thoughts, the Cancu ( it's spelled as the Kenku name ) will take ya on his sack. to later be eated.
Taking this tale in mind I wanted to create a squishy human-like race with the appearence of a Hag, and wearing a big Bag of Holding just to "steal" childrens. The idea was fine, until I realised I needed a low Charisma and Constitution character. But I couldn't find the correct race who could fit better with thosae characteristics ( like always being sneaky, dirty ( I mean un-polished ), and other elses.
My Ready-to-rock&roll chars:
Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk