One I've had on the backgurner for a bit: a Kenku pirate who is based off a Parrot instead of a Raven. Mimicry naturally still works; albeit with the speech impediment of often repeating phrases twice.
Reminds me of the Spellsinger series of fantasy novels. The third book featured a pirate parrot antagonist, while the sixth had his brother, who was a pirate parrot accountant.
I have three ideas that I'm working on developing currently. All are based on ideas I read, but I'm working on making them reality (so to speak):
Magrabuffian: A musclehead cleric with barely enough Wisdom and high Strength and Con. Using 2024 rules, has Tavern Brawler and prefers to punch enemies instead. Almost all his spells are heal (which he uses on himself) or buffing spells. Loves to use Guidance - but always uses it to give you a 1d4 bonus on Athletics rolls, no matter what you're trying to do. "If you've got muscles, you don't need anything else!"
Jeff Kozinski: A teen who thought he was human until he turned 16,. Lives with his mom, since his dad abandoned the woman before Jeff was born. Dad shows up at 16th birthday - and is Mephistopheles. Transforms Jeff into his true form (Tiefling), and the poor kid is stuck as a Warlock with his dad as a patron. Doesn't even have a choice about Invocations or Spells. His dad chooses them all. The big M keeps butting in during the adventures, too, his dark and terrible voice chiming in to encourage or chide the lad, or give advice in the middle of battle, embarrassing Jeff considerably.
Greebezock: A powerful wizard who eventually became a demigod. However, at parties put on by Amauntor, he kept using the same bad joke at his host's expense, and got cursed. He's now stuck inside an amulet that's buried in a wooden mannequin. He can animate the mannequin (warforged, essentially), but is stuck as a combat class. I'm actually thinking he's stuck as a Paladin of Amauntor now, and to cast any of his cleric spells, he has to preface it with "By the grace and goodness of Amauntor..." which really sticks in Greebezock's craw.
Reminds me of the Spellsinger series of fantasy novels. The third book featured pirate parrot antagonist, while the sixth had his brother, who was a pirate parrot accountant.
just writing this down for no reason in particular
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About Me: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/ general of the goose horde/ holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor/ king of madness / The FBI/ The Tele-Visionary/ The Pawless Wizard/ The Infinite Fractal/ Admin of The Academy/ The Archmage of I CAST...!
- immortal or long-lifespan character whose goal in life is to do a long task (make a 100 ft by 100 ft tapestry, growing a full tree to make into a house, making a long stop motion film, etc.)
- really old character that was alive during important events but doesn't remember much/only remembers unimportant details ("oh, the ancient civilization? yeah they made great food... you want to know where they disappeared to? I dunno."
- dragonborn named Gu'Gell that sells maps. also has a kid named Krome that has a library with lots of information. and a wife named Driyve that is a scribe. they have assorted cousins like Ee'Mayl and Trann'Zlate and Kal-Ender.
- a group of druids that are lazy and just turn into cats while one of them stays human and pretends that it's a cat cafe
- character whose only motivation and goal in life is to make bread recipes. they come from a bread-themed town (Yeastville or Ryeton or something) and they had a whole 'good luck on your quest' party before they left
- a megafan bard that's obsessed with the party. follows them around, makes songs and art about them. charming and cute but also a stalker
Grandma cleric who is a part of a cult of grandmas who all worship Gertrude the Goddess of Grandmothering. The worshipers always must have at least 3 handmade scarfs in their bag, or 3 slices of pie.
A Fighter Tortle who uses dual katanas and is the leader of his 3 brothers
A Large Barbarian Tortle who uses twin sai and is the tank of his 3 brothers
A Monk Tortle who uses 2 nunjucks and is very extroverted, and is the assassin of his 3 brothers
An Artificer Tortle who uses a boa staff and is the support of his 3 brothers
A Monk Ratfolk who is the father of 4 Tortles
A Fighter Human who wears very sharp metal armor and is the head of a clan which has become a Yakuza and he wants to kill 4 Tortles and a Ratfolk
A Barbarian human who uses sports equipment to fight
A Barbarian Rhinox, once human who accidentally turned into a Rhinox and has a porcien friend, he now works for a Yakuza clan leader to kill 4 Tortles and a rat
A fighter porcien warthog (what I could find as a pifolk) a once human turned porcien who has a Rhinox friend and works for a Yakuza leader and is trying to kill 4 Tortles and a ratfolk
A Barbarian Warforged controlled by a brain like alien who is very smart and wants to take over the world
-- An extremely hemophobic Blood Hunter that feints at the sight of blood.
-- Confused Warlock that thinks they're a Paladin that just happens to not be very strong.
-- A wizard that can't read, their spellbook is a children's picture book, and they're making up every word of the spell with random stuff; but it always works out somehow.
-- A Yuan-ti that only eats rats, and they have to be dirty or they won't eat at all.
-- Atheistic cleric that is trying to convince everyone that they're a sorcerer, they get extremely nervous when asked about their deity, and get even more nervous as they level.
a person who gets all their advice from an A.I. (bonus points if the A.I. is not even good at its job.)
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A Plagueborn Harvest Cleric who's a member of The Cheesemonger's Guild, but is out to improve the food quality to high standards & lower prices by unionizing staff & lowering the higher members of the guild's take and, barring that, revolution to seize the means of production.
Yes, a LITERAL Commie Rat.
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DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Well, I feel like that character ideas can’t be “stupid”… just a little more silly than others. Anyways, here are some character ideas I’m going to through out there:
A goblin who believes he/she is a human, and will refuse any evidence otherwise.
A warlock (any race) who has no idea they have a master or patron, rather they believe that it is their “birthright”.
A trickery domain cleric that is religion-less (is that even a word?) and has constantly makes fun of their patron god.
A wizard that was polymorphed into a very angry cat.
A child barbarian with a extremely high strength stat, and everyone thinks he/she is “cute”, which always sends the kid into a rage.
A character that has hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, or a fear of long words.
A artificer modrone (any type) that is defunct and malfunctioning, and cannot say words with more than one syllable.
A cleric who is religion-less would be either be an atheist (does not believe in any god) or an agnostic (doubts the existence of any god). I suppose such a concept is possible BUT how did such a character make it through the clerical training and such;?
A monk based off a European-Christian archetype, where their sacred oath is to slay the giant snail that terrorizes the countryside
A gnome, a halfling, and a dwarf pulling off a "three kids in a trench coat" act.
an elderly woman whose patron is her surrogate grandson
A shrike aarakokra who's basically Sweeny Todd
A bard who joined the party to pay off their student loan from bardic college
A blind monk that's basically Daredevil.
A baker wizard, who gets spells from cookbooks.
A necromancer who got their medical license revoked.
An archeologist necromancer
A rockstar bard
A jester bard.
A character who doesn't speak common (or speak at all), so they speak through pictograms instead.
A poet bard who speaks through haiku, riddles, etc.
A magpie (kenku) rouge who steals useless items for their hoard.
A hillbilly fighter
A bard who pretends to be a fortune teller, but really just has insanely high perception.
A child warlock whose patron is their nanny or their imaginary friend
A Robin Hood ranger
A beekeeper ranger/druid
A cleric/warlock multiclass whose patrons are their divorced parents, trying to win custody with their boons.
A character who is practically the tooth fairy, except way more twisted and insane
An artificer/ wild magic sorcerer who specializes in Rube Goldberg inventions
Paul, House of Blart, Paladin of Ma’all.
A Human fighter (they fight humans)
Any other ideas or comments?
A baker wizard who gets his/her spells from a cook book. This is an interesting idea, though you may need to modify the names and effects of some of the spells. Fireball, for instance, could be a concoction of every extra spicy, extra pungent chile pepper out there, such as the ghost pepper combined with the Scotch bonnet pepper. These chile peppers exist, they are extremely hot and pungent, and they are often in buffalo wing sauce. My late grandfather, who lived from 1880 to 1968, was a professional baker with his own independent bakery (1902 to 1942).
Well, I feel like that character ideas can’t be “stupid”… just a little more silly than others. Anyways, here are some character ideas I’m going to through out there:
A goblin who believes he/she is a human, and will refuse any evidence otherwise.
A warlock (any race) who has no idea they have a master or patron, rather they believe that it is their “birthright”.
A trickery domain cleric that is religion-less (is that even a word?) and has constantly makes fun of their patron god.
A wizard that was polymorphed into a very angry cat.
A child barbarian with a extremely high strength stat, and everyone thinks he/she is “cute”, which always sends the kid into a rage.
A character that has hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, or a fear of long words.
A artificer modrone (any type) that is defunct and malfunctioning, and cannot say words with more than one syllable.
A cleric who is religion-less would be either be an atheist (does not believe in any god) or an agnostic (doubts the existence of any god). I suppose such a concept is possible BUT how did such a character make it through the clerical training and such;?
In a fantasy setting especially it's possible to have a character who believes in the gods but doesn't worship them. Canonically, such characters existed in D&D settings aside from Forgotten Realms in 2nd and 3rd Editions (where it was required for a character to worship a god in order to use divine magic).
One I've had on the backgurner for a bit: a Kenku pirate who is based off a Parrot instead of a Raven. Mimicry naturally still works; albeit with the speech impediment of often repeating phrases twice.
Reminds me of the Spellsinger series of fantasy novels. The third book featured a pirate parrot antagonist, while the sixth had his brother, who was a pirate parrot accountant.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
I have three ideas that I'm working on developing currently. All are based on ideas I read, but I'm working on making them reality (so to speak):
Magrabuffian: A musclehead cleric with barely enough Wisdom and high Strength and Con. Using 2024 rules, has Tavern Brawler and prefers to punch enemies instead. Almost all his spells are heal (which he uses on himself) or buffing spells. Loves to use Guidance - but always uses it to give you a 1d4 bonus on Athletics rolls, no matter what you're trying to do. "If you've got muscles, you don't need anything else!"
Jeff Kozinski: A teen who thought he was human until he turned 16,. Lives with his mom, since his dad abandoned the woman before Jeff was born. Dad shows up at 16th birthday - and is Mephistopheles. Transforms Jeff into his true form (Tiefling), and the poor kid is stuck as a Warlock with his dad as a patron. Doesn't even have a choice about Invocations or Spells. His dad chooses them all. The big M keeps butting in during the adventures, too, his dark and terrible voice chiming in to encourage or chide the lad, or give advice in the middle of battle, embarrassing Jeff considerably.
Greebezock: A powerful wizard who eventually became a demigod. However, at parties put on by Amauntor, he kept using the same bad joke at his host's expense, and got cursed. He's now stuck inside an amulet that's buried in a wooden mannequin. He can animate the mannequin (warforged, essentially), but is stuck as a combat class. I'm actually thinking he's stuck as a Paladin of Amauntor now, and to cast any of his cleric spells, he has to preface it with "By the grace and goodness of Amauntor..." which really sticks in Greebezock's craw.
just writing this down for no reason in particular
Pronouns: Any/All
About Me: Godless monster in human form bent on extending their natural life to unnatural extremes/ general of the goose horde/ holder of the evil storyteller badge of no honor/ king of madness / The FBI/ The Tele-Visionary/ The Pawless Wizard/ The Infinite Fractal/ Admin of The Academy/ The Archmage of I CAST...!
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Currently rampaging through life
I have some ideas for transfer (late joining) or unconventional students at Strixhaven. Stupid or stable character ideas?
Eldritch Knight Fighter (Older military veteran who is mainly melee with few spell slots)
Arcane Trickster Rogue (Student with mischievous past who does shady activities with few spell slots)
from my big list:
- immortal or long-lifespan character whose goal in life is to do a long task (make a 100 ft by 100 ft tapestry, growing a full tree to make into a house, making a long stop motion film, etc.)
- really old character that was alive during important events but doesn't remember much/only remembers unimportant details ("oh, the ancient civilization? yeah they made great food... you want to know where they disappeared to? I dunno."
- dragonborn named Gu'Gell that sells maps. also has a kid named Krome that has a library with lots of information. and a wife named Driyve that is a scribe. they have assorted cousins like Ee'Mayl and Trann'Zlate and Kal-Ender.
- a group of druids that are lazy and just turn into cats while one of them stays human and pretends that it's a cat cafe
- character whose only motivation and goal in life is to make bread recipes. they come from a bread-themed town (Yeastville or Ryeton or something) and they had a whole 'good luck on your quest' party before they left
- a megafan bard that's obsessed with the party. follows them around, makes songs and art about them. charming and cute but also a stalker
Grandma cleric who is a part of a cult of grandmas who all worship Gertrude the Goddess of Grandmothering. The worshipers always must have at least 3 handmade scarfs in their bag, or 3 slices of pie.
A paladin who is the rouges parole officer
Hi bowser. lol
-- An extremely hemophobic Blood Hunter that feints at the sight of blood.
-- Confused Warlock that thinks they're a Paladin that just happens to not be very strong.
-- A wizard that can't read, their spellbook is a children's picture book, and they're making up every word of the spell with random stuff; but it always works out somehow.
-- A Yuan-ti that only eats rats, and they have to be dirty or they won't eat at all.
-- Atheistic cleric that is trying to convince everyone that they're a sorcerer, they get extremely nervous when asked about their deity, and get even more nervous as they level.
A goliath rogue that is trying to convince everyone he is a barbarian by yelling Barbarian Rage everytime combat starts.
A kenku monk who can only speak in Kendrick Lamar lyrics.
Kenku Kenny!
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
a person who gets all their advice from an A.I. (bonus points if the A.I. is not even good at its job.)
a great dm with a large sum. of lore and homebrew. Leader of the faction of E and cultist of Jeff. keeper of stories that have been told in a place unknown. prefers no pronouns bwt due to the events of twist a wish thread pronouns are now E/E.
Feel free to check out the faction of E.
feel extra free to join the faction.
For The Crooked Moon:
A Plagueborn Harvest Cleric who's a member of The Cheesemonger's Guild, but is out to improve the food quality to high standards & lower prices by unionizing staff & lowering the higher members of the guild's take and, barring that, revolution to seize the means of production.
Yes, a LITERAL Commie Rat.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
-a warlock who "chose" (she chose for him) his mother as his patron and learnt the sacred powers of launching a slipper at nearly light speed.
The paladin is a rogue's parole officer thing: that sounds like my paladin's role in a campaign I'm playing.
A cleric who is religion-less would be either be an atheist (does not believe in any god) or an agnostic (doubts the existence of any god). I suppose such a concept is possible BUT how did such a character make it through the clerical training and such;?
A baker wizard who gets his/her spells from a cook book. This is an interesting idea, though you may need to modify the names and effects of some of the spells. Fireball, for instance, could be a concoction of every extra spicy, extra pungent chile pepper out there, such as the ghost pepper combined with the Scotch bonnet pepper. These chile peppers exist, they are extremely hot and pungent, and they are often in buffalo wing sauce. My late grandfather, who lived from 1880 to 1968, was a professional baker with his own independent bakery (1902 to 1942).
In a fantasy setting especially it's possible to have a character who believes in the gods but doesn't worship them. Canonically, such characters existed in D&D settings aside from Forgotten Realms in 2nd and 3rd Editions (where it was required for a character to worship a god in order to use divine magic).
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.