An urchin and an orphan on the streets of a dwarven foundry-city, taken in by the ringmaster of a wandering carnival and his goodwife. Raised by the circus and trained in the ways of the entertainer, she became a tumbler, acrobat, dervish and daredevil performer. On her 18th birthday, after a swords' dance that thrilled and awed the audience, the urchin air genasi received her name as a true daughter of the circus, Sword's Song, or Soso to her friends and family.
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Working on a supplement for the adventure-minded. A project including (and crediting) homebrew subclasses from the community, a world of my own design, premade characters, magic items, and even a prologue adventure to start things off!
Past and Current Characters: Morgann 'Duskspear' Solbeard, Hill Dwarf Paladin/Fighter/Warlock; Ephemeral 'Skye' Solbeard, Hill Dwarf Artificer; Zaldrick Lawscrip of Orzhov, Hobgoblin Wizard; Eremys Spydrun, Shadar'kai Monk; Cuchulainn, Wood Elf Blood Hunter.
I was once a goblin in a tribe. But then a group of adventurers came and killed my family and tribe, I was the only one to escape. I've managed to assemble a ragtag team, and now those adventurers who ruined my life are goin' DOWN!
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BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explainHERE.
I come from an underground community of Gnomes called Fraggle Rock and chose to go travelling rather than work in the myriad workshops and mines of home. My Gnomish name is far to long for most non-Gnomes to speak so I shortened it to Matt and I am often referred to as Travelling Matt due to my fondess for exploring. I record my exploits and occasionally send postcards and books filled with Journal entries back to my nephew called Gobo.
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I come from an underground community of Gnomes called Fraggle Rock and chose to go travelling rather than work in the myriad workshops and mines of home. My Gnomish name is far to long for most non-Gnomes to speak so I shortened it to Matt and I am often referred to as Travelling Matt due to my fondess for exploring. I record my exploits and occasionally send postcards and books filled with Journal entries back to my nephew called Gobo.
I am a noble prince who battled a storm giant at the edge of the world, then stole his wife. I am the warrior genius who slayed an evil emperor as he was about to lay waste to an entire region, making me also the champion of an entire people. That’s what I keep saying anyway and if enough people hear it, they’ll eventually start to believe it.
EDIT: Inspired by those players who come to the table with PCs that are hard to believe are level 1.
as a bit of a call back to the 90's and a slighylu abridge version of the heroic theme song......
"I'm (insert name) the Mighty, I never need a place to hide. Righting Wrongs and Singing Songs, being Mighty all day long, I'm (insert name)! (insert name again) the mIghty!. If your in jepody, don't call the cavalry, there's a better remedy although I don;t work for free, I;m (insert name)! (insert name again) the Mighty!!!!!!"
Since 8 years old I've been living from tavern to tavern, earning my way by playing my lute. My parents were lost to me during a severe thunderstorm returning from an archeological dig.
I continue their pursuit of knowledge from the past and will play the ballads of the past for all to hear.
Exceptionally I hail from mana landd a light elf of whimle or containment. When light passes it does endow and I myself created these unrealmed atrocities to achieve Rendicmstmlji or a irresistible spell I am also by ofv heart a nnecanejaaqe or hiel' tvorala tunares first chant.
My love for tinkering grew when I was but a young dwarf in the clan of Falmoreas. When I grew up, I built machines and cool mechanical toys. For some reason though, I was drawn out of the halls of my clan, and into a life of magic and adventuring. Now, I am an artificer exploring the world.
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BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explainHERE.
I remember the sun was just setting in the lavender sky, floating motes of golden wheat husk catching the last rays of the dying light as they floated through the air between here and somewhere else. That was when the evening sky turned from a soft lavender to a brilliant crimson as the houses nearby suddenly burst into flames and the peaceful evening air was filled with the shouts of victims and the clash of steel on steel. When the sun rose scarlet in the morning, bodies littered the ground, the charred, smoldering skeletons of houses that were stood silhouetted against that bright red sky, and I was alone, with nothing but my blades and a future full of more of the same to call my own.
Like, OMG, I keep telling mom I don't WANT to follow the family business and become a priestess, I wanna become an influencer and travel the realms! I mean, like, Lolth's okay I guess, but like I haven't attended services in like literally a hundred years, so what's even the point, you know? My mother needs to understand that this isn't a phase, this is who I AM!
(next campaign I'm in, I'm sorely tempted to play as a drow bard valley girl...)
I was born as a Catling (reskinned gnome) in the feywild, and At a very young age I took interest in tinkering, and magic. after I turned 15, I set out to advance my skills as an artificer. In a magical disaster, I was transported to the material plane, where I am now improving the technology and magic in a mundane world.
Hollow unbreakable arrows are the most OP common magic item, and my current method of coming up with insane combat shenanigans.
if you make a steel pipe with one end closed and a nozzle on the other, you can enlarge it, fill with any liquid, and then drop concentration, creating a high pressure squirt gun. (or a pipe bomb, depending if it holds)
When the elves came to trade with my village, we all rejoiced for they brought news from the outside world and much needed commerce to the comunity. Little did anyone know that their trade goods were infected with a pox my village had never seen before. I was somehow immune to the disease, and now I have set out to find a cure to bring back to my people, with only my skills as an Alchemist, a strange elf, and a few good friends to rely on.
You are first and foremost a scientist who believes that everything can be explained in the mundane.
You study magic with the intent of finding the non-mystical reasons behind it.
You believe that the best way to study magic is to see it in action.
(This backstory requests an intellectual adventurer, but that does not necessarily preclude unconventional or atypical personality pairings of heritage and class with an intellectual. The uncommon pairings might make for a more interesting character.)
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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 was a poor potato farmer who made a pact with a fiend so I could grow the biggest potato the world had ever seen and win the blue ribbon at the county fair. It turned out to be an evil potato that ran amuck and started killing people. I had to use my powers to slay the evil potato, and then I was banished from the village for growing it in the first place, so now I’m a wondering nomad who sells his skills for potato money just to eat.
I made this backstory for an evil (but kind of cool) goliath blood hunter I created just for fun (it's slightly longer than three sentences though):
After growing up in the mountains, Darak Ingvalod, decided to go and see the outside world. He went down to the lowlands and met with an unknown figure who wears a red cape and a black mask and calls himself Crimson. Crimson convinced Darak of his "vision": a world where all impurities and evil were burned away and nothing but good remained. Darak joined Crimsons cult and was initiated as a blood hunter and given a new name in place of his old one: Alias. Now, Alias roams the world seeking to make drastic measures for the better and convinced that all good in the world is quickly vanishing and he and his cult are the only ones left to save the whole realm from becoming a place fo evil and annihilation.
My name is Molalaun Auvry'Ssynriia, born to a noble Drow House and cast out, now alone and known only as the Storm Under The Mountain. My steps echo through the Underdark and ring like the thunder and my words are as quick as the Lightning that rains down in the sky of the world above. Hunted by my family i ran fast as a zaphyr to the surface to seek sanctuary and, just maybe, a new life.
(So based on a Drow name generator I found this is a female name that means: Thunder Lightning Blood of the Storm Sorcerer, so I guess we best say this is a Female Drow with Noble Background and Storm Sorcerer for class, hopefully getting to level 4 to nab the Drow High magic feat so you can spam Detect Magic to activate the Tempestuous Magic feature as needed. Load up with all the Thunder and Lighning based spells and see what happens.)
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* Need a character idea? Search for "Rob76's Unused" in the Story and Lore section.
I was once a cabbage merchant, but some hooligans destroyed my entire livelihood as they fought each other in the streets. I have traded my cabbages for armor, but I still use my cabbage knife. Now it is used, with great enthusiasm, to bring cart-tippers to justice.
As a child I knew there was something special about me. There were no mirrors back then. But I could feel it. Later I discovered I was a child of god. The god of illithids.
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-Barbarian don't break doors! The monsters hear us! Here you turn slowly and you push!
-You speak in riddles wizard.
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An urchin and an orphan on the streets of a dwarven foundry-city, taken in by the ringmaster of a wandering carnival and his goodwife. Raised by the circus and trained in the ways of the entertainer, she became a tumbler, acrobat, dervish and daredevil performer. On her 18th birthday, after a swords' dance that thrilled and awed the audience, the urchin air genasi received her name as a true daughter of the circus, Sword's Song, or Soso to her friends and family.
Working on a supplement for the adventure-minded. A project including (and crediting) homebrew subclasses from the community, a world of my own design, premade characters, magic items, and even a prologue adventure to start things off!
Past and Current Characters: Morgann 'Duskspear' Solbeard, Hill Dwarf Paladin/Fighter/Warlock; Ephemeral 'Skye' Solbeard, Hill Dwarf Artificer; Zaldrick Lawscrip of Orzhov, Hobgoblin Wizard; Eremys Spydrun, Shadar'kai Monk; Cuchulainn, Wood Elf Blood Hunter.
I was once a goblin in a tribe. But then a group of adventurers came and killed my family and tribe, I was the only one to escape. I've managed to assemble a ragtag team, and now those adventurers who ruined my life are goin' DOWN!
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.I come from an underground community of Gnomes called Fraggle Rock and chose to go travelling rather than work in the myriad workshops and mines of home. My Gnomish name is far to long for most non-Gnomes to speak so I shortened it to Matt and I am often referred to as Travelling Matt due to my fondess for exploring. I record my exploits and occasionally send postcards and books filled with Journal entries back to my nephew called Gobo.
You had me at Fraggle.
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I am a noble prince who battled a storm giant at the edge of the world, then stole his wife. I am the warrior genius who slayed an evil emperor as he was about to lay waste to an entire region, making me also the champion of an entire people. That’s what I keep saying anyway and if enough people hear it, they’ll eventually start to believe it.
EDIT: Inspired by those players who come to the table with PCs that are hard to believe are level 1.
DM mostly, Player occasionally | Session 0 form | He/Him/They/Them
EXTENDED SIGNATURE!
Doctor/Published Scholar/Science and Healthcare Advocate/Critter/Trekkie/Gandalf with a Glock
Try DDB free: Free Rules (2024), premade PCs, adventures, one shots, encounters, SC, homebrew, more
Answers: physical books, purchases, and subbing.
Check out my life-changing
as a bit of a call back to the 90's and a slighylu abridge version of the heroic theme song......
"I'm (insert name) the Mighty, I never need a place to hide. Righting Wrongs and Singing Songs, being Mighty all day long, I'm (insert name)! (insert name again) the mIghty!. If your in jepody, don't call the cavalry, there's a better remedy although I don;t work for free, I;m (insert name)! (insert name again) the Mighty!!!!!!"
(and a link to a vid to the various version to boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WggZ3Emev4&ab_channel=suiko2fan2)
Since 8 years old I've been living from tavern to tavern, earning my way by playing my lute. My parents were lost to me during a severe thunderstorm returning from an archeological dig.
I continue their pursuit of knowledge from the past and will play the ballads of the past for all to hear.
Exceptionally I hail from mana landd a light elf of whimle or containment. When light passes it does endow and I myself created these unrealmed atrocities to achieve Rendicmstmlji or a irresistible spell I am also by ofv heart a nnecanejaaqe or hiel' tvorala tunares first chant.
My love for tinkering grew when I was but a young dwarf in the clan of Falmoreas. When I grew up, I built machines and cool mechanical toys. For some reason though, I was drawn out of the halls of my clan, and into a life of magic and adventuring. Now, I am an artificer exploring the world.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.I remember the sun was just setting in the lavender sky, floating motes of golden wheat husk catching the last rays of the dying light as they floated through the air between here and somewhere else. That was when the evening sky turned from a soft lavender to a brilliant crimson as the houses nearby suddenly burst into flames and the peaceful evening air was filled with the shouts of victims and the clash of steel on steel. When the sun rose scarlet in the morning, bodies littered the ground, the charred, smoldering skeletons of houses that were stood silhouetted against that bright red sky, and I was alone, with nothing but my blades and a future full of more of the same to call my own.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
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Content Troubleshooting
Like, OMG, I keep telling mom I don't WANT to follow the family business and become a priestess, I wanna become an influencer and travel the realms! I mean, like, Lolth's okay I guess, but like I haven't attended services in like literally a hundred years, so what's even the point, you know? My mother needs to understand that this isn't a phase, this is who I AM!
(next campaign I'm in, I'm sorely tempted to play as a drow bard valley girl...)
I was born in a loving and caring home. My brother was really nice. Now we adventure together because adventuring is neat.
I was born as a Catling (reskinned gnome) in the feywild, and At a very young age I took interest in tinkering, and magic. after I turned 15, I set out to advance my skills as an artificer. In a magical disaster, I was transported to the material plane, where I am now improving the technology and magic in a mundane world.
Hollow unbreakable arrows are the most OP common magic item, and my current method of coming up with insane combat shenanigans.
if you make a steel pipe with one end closed and a nozzle on the other, you can enlarge it, fill with any liquid, and then drop concentration, creating a high pressure squirt gun. (or a pipe bomb, depending if it holds)
When the elves came to trade with my village, we all rejoiced for they brought news from the outside world and much needed commerce to the comunity. Little did anyone know that their trade goods were infected with a pox my village had never seen before. I was somehow immune to the disease, and now I have set out to find a cure to bring back to my people, with only my skills as an Alchemist, a strange elf, and a few good friends to rely on.
(This backstory requests an intellectual adventurer, but that does not necessarily preclude unconventional or atypical personality pairings of heritage and class with an intellectual. The uncommon pairings might make for a more interesting character.)
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 was a poor potato farmer who made a pact with a fiend so I could grow the biggest potato the world had ever seen and win the blue ribbon at the county fair. It turned out to be an evil potato that ran amuck and started killing people. I had to use my powers to slay the evil potato, and then I was banished from the village for growing it in the first place, so now I’m a wondering nomad who sells his skills for potato money just to eat.
I made this backstory for an evil (but kind of cool) goliath blood hunter I created just for fun (it's slightly longer than three sentences though):
After growing up in the mountains, Darak Ingvalod, decided to go and see the outside world. He went down to the lowlands and met with an unknown figure who wears a red cape and a black mask and calls himself Crimson. Crimson convinced Darak of his "vision": a world where all impurities and evil were burned away and nothing but good remained. Darak joined Crimsons cult and was initiated as a blood hunter and given a new name in place of his old one: Alias. Now, Alias roams the world seeking to make drastic measures for the better and convinced that all good in the world is quickly vanishing and he and his cult are the only ones left to save the whole realm from becoming a place fo evil and annihilation.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.My name is Molalaun Auvry'Ssynriia, born to a noble Drow House and cast out, now alone and known only as the Storm Under The Mountain. My steps echo through the Underdark and ring like the thunder and my words are as quick as the Lightning that rains down in the sky of the world above. Hunted by my family i ran fast as a zaphyr to the surface to seek sanctuary and, just maybe, a new life.
(So based on a Drow name generator I found this is a female name that means: Thunder Lightning Blood of the Storm Sorcerer, so I guess we best say this is a Female Drow with Noble Background and Storm Sorcerer for class, hopefully getting to level 4 to nab the Drow High magic feat so you can spam Detect Magic to activate the Tempestuous Magic feature as needed. Load up with all the Thunder and Lighning based spells and see what happens.)
I was once a cabbage merchant, but some hooligans destroyed my entire livelihood as they fought each other in the streets. I have traded my cabbages for armor, but I still use my cabbage knife. Now it is used, with great enthusiasm, to bring cart-tippers to justice.
DM mostly, Player occasionally | Session 0 form | He/Him/They/Them
EXTENDED SIGNATURE!
Doctor/Published Scholar/Science and Healthcare Advocate/Critter/Trekkie/Gandalf with a Glock
Try DDB free: Free Rules (2024), premade PCs, adventures, one shots, encounters, SC, homebrew, more
Answers: physical books, purchases, and subbing.
Check out my life-changing
As a child I knew there was something special about me. There were no mirrors back then. But I could feel it. Later I discovered I was a child of god. The god of illithids.
-Barbarian don't break doors! The monsters hear us! Here you turn slowly and you push!
-You speak in riddles wizard.