Ah, yes. "After much puzzling over this ancient tome, I have figured out the first sentence! It's... Wait, give me a second... Ah darn, I forgot." *Proceeds to spend another few hours trying to remember the first sentence* "Oh, there we go. It says- Oh darn, forgot again."
Ah, yes. "After much puzzling over this ancient tome, I have figured out the first sentence! It's... Wait, give me a second... Ah darn, I forgot." *Proceeds to spend another few hours trying to remember the first sentence* "Oh, there we go. It says- Oh darn, forgot again."
"ah, here we go, this should be enlightening for you..." *clears throat, consults book, proceeds falteringly* ""this title published by goblin press, and is also available in Elvish, Dwarvish, Gnomish and Draconic." There, see, I told you I could read!"
I haven’t played these yet but I thought they were cool idea’s
- A Goliath wild Sorcerer named Gamira. They were originally a draconic bloodline Sorcerer that uses an orb as an arcane focus. The whole thing about Sorcerer’s is that they are born with power but apperently Gamira’s power isn’t strong enough to work on its own so whe uses the orb as a vessel to focus and enhance her power, but then one day (I haven’t really worked out how) her orb cracks. It doesn’t completely break but it the glass sorounding looks kind of like a shattered phone case. This shatter in the orb causes her magic to have a 10% chance of going wild and she Hasn’t found any way to fix this. Since then she has been more cautious about when to use magic.
-An Aarakocra child Paladin named Wisp. He grew up in a temple that worshiped Tymora and is a chaotic little bundle of positivity. He uses his childish appearance to get into places completely knowing what lies inside. He is also the most religious little turd you’ll ever meet. He always ends his conversations with, “May luck be on your side,” and stuff like that and does a cute prayer before going to bed each night. Not like a serious prayer but more like the prayer Agnes did in Despicable Me. He’s curious like any toddler and is the tru life of the party.
Okr, a kobold bard from the College of Whispers who found a sentient axe made from the sharpened scale of a dead silver dragon and magically imbued with her essence. She binds herself to the wicked, little kobold and refuses to let him be rid of her and constantly works to turn him good.
In one of my first sessions, I played as a human wizard named Steve Murderbird who always wore a tophat. But there was a catch: he was POSSESSED by the hat, which was named Jerome.
Jerome made Steve run around scamming people. Also, Jerome was somewhat immortal, as if Steve died he could just possess someone else.
I started off with a character that was pretty "normal" (standard) - for an Out of the Abyss game - Dwarf Fighter named Thorvall.
However, for anyone who has played Out of the Abyss knows that Madness can happen (or maybe this was a custom thing with the DM? I have Out of the Abyss but never read through it yet because I ended up in that game) - and the DM said it's up to the players if they want to roll with it (RP with it and what not). My character got a few temp ones; but finally got a permanent madness). One which, there was a voice always suggesting bad ideas.
So I spoke with the DM, and said, based off the theme of Out of the Abyss, can we flavor it as sort of demonic possession? And I explained, the reason why - I want to "split personality" my character - and the next time we level take 1 level of Warlock which will represent "the demon" - and from time to time whenever I use Eldritch Blast - it's the demon taking over, and my character has no memory of it.
None of the players were aware of this. So the first time the voice thing surfaced, we were parlaying with a troll about cross a bridge (this was custom) and the troll demanded food - our druid said they'd make goodberries - and in character I said, "Troll, why settle for the goodberries? Take the druid and have them always." And all the players were like, "Wait. What?"
Then when one of the fights came up, I used Eldritch Blast, and ended up killing the creature. And said, "Damn it! Which one of you wizardry ones killed this one? It was mine."
I rolled up a Gerald Tarrant from Cold Fire Trilogy.
Back in 3.5 e I had a Rogue / Wizard Human Vampire, who fed on fear instead of blood and had "cold fire" instead of regular fire for wizard spells. He was also Chaotic Good Alignment (He took a vow to be good, if not lawful, after accidentally killing his wife when he lost control)
Three goliath characters I think would be fun fun to play:
A goliath oath of the ancients paladin who is the Green Knight from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Flavor him as completely green, and name him Sir Bertilak De Hautdesert. That was the Green Knight's actual name. He would be a goliath because in the story, the Green Knight was said to be so large that he must have had giant blood. I just need a way to have him be able to have his head chopped clean off without killing him.
I think it would be fun being a goliath rogue with maximized sleight of hand and stealth. Imagine a thin giant carefully stalking the streets of a city and snatching stuff out of peoples pockets without ever being seen.
I also want to be a goliath ranger who was a lumberjack. He would be a beast master ranger who would have a blue ox as his animal companion. His favored foe would be plants and his favored terrain would be forests, that way he would be really good at hunting down trees and slaying them in a forest. His name (if you couldn't already tell) is Paul Bunyan.
Was recently invited to a campaign which is based in the feywild, and is built around folklore and fairytales. Was asked to re-imaging a character from a fairy tale or classic literature as a dnd character.
So, I have produced a warforged bounty hunter hexblade warlock, with a reflavoured heavy crossbow as his pact weapon (improved pact weapon) which is reskinned as a double-barreled rifle. He has a revolver sidearm (a reflavouring of Eldritch Blast). He is made of wood, and wears an ovesized trenchcoat which hangs off his skeletal frame.
He is Pinocchio. His rifle is called Jiminy Cricket. The two barrels are called "Right" and "Wrong".
at level 5, he can shoot someone twice (thirsting blade), dropping a Branding Smite and an Eldritch Smite onto the results for (assuming I roll/buy +4 for charisma, haven't rolled stats yet) 2d10+3d6+4d8+10 damage, plus knocking the target prone. Takes 2 spell slots, but if someone is running away that you absolutely want to stop running, it'll do it!
As soon as I can, I will take Sharpshooter as well. I aim to negotiate with the DM about swapping some warforged features for it, but I am not relying on that!
I used to have a character called "Mr. Magic Pants" he was a wizard who I had random stats for, and his backstory was that he was spawned from a pair of dirty boxers.
I used to have a character called "Mr. Magic Pants" he was a wizard who I had random stats for, and his backstory was that he was spawned from a pair of dirty boxers.....
"Burpidiburp" is A gnome wizard that wields the powers of all existence itself. He speaks in gibberish, repeating different versions of the line "Burpidiburpidiburp" He floats and wanders to all the worlds to simply **** around and make as many friends as possible, regardless of their alignment. He's a DMPC that the party encounters from time-to-time, be it as a bartender, a merchant, or a town mayor, just a joke NPC to make the party laugh and to allow them to unwind.
Abagorack, a human baker who lost much of his ability to think due to a tragic head injury and turned his superior dough punching muscles and resistance to pain towards adventuring. His first quest - to recover a formula for magic cookies from the feywild and make his bakery even better.
I once played an intelligent psychic fetus that floated around inside an amniotic bubble. The nation he came from had discovered the Fountain of Youth and experimented on his mother with the water from it. This stopped his development and made him independent enough to become his own person.
This isn't my character, but one a friend made in a campaign I played in.
Scoops the Ice Cream Pirate, who was an Orc Sorcerer/Fighter multiclass that used his magic to make frozen deserts from materials he bought from the markets of towns we stopped at. He didn't fight in combat, but instead was passing around healing and buffs (flavored as him running around giving us popsicles and other frozen treats) mid-battle. Otherwise, Scoops was making money selling ice cream in his 'pirate ship', which was a canoe that he MacGyvered into a makeshift food cart: Built-in arcane freezer and all. He loved rp, and had an on-and-off romance with an NPC chocolatier, who he finally worked the courage to propose to after fighting a literal manifestation of paranoia. All around amazing character, and amazing player that gave Scoops life.
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"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
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Scoops sounds amazing, your friend should be very proud.
I usually DM so I don't have any personally, but my dad had a human barbarian that was actually a Viking from Earth who took a wrong turn on his ship and sailed into my homebrew world. The campaign was abandoned after we hadn't played for months and we forgot what was happening, but I need to look for the character sheet because Björn was a fun character to DM for.
For his school's D&D club, my younger brother made a chaotic evil tabaxi wizard named Volcano who specialized in arson, he reminisces about Volcano often but I don't think he'll play something that crazy again.
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Forever DM but I want to play at some point
I'm not very experienced with D&D Beyond, so sorry if I mess something up.
Ah, yes. "After much puzzling over this ancient tome, I have figured out the first sentence! It's... Wait, give me a second... Ah darn, I forgot." *Proceeds to spend another few hours trying to remember the first sentence* "Oh, there we go. It says- Oh darn, forgot again."
"ah, here we go, this should be enlightening for you..." *clears throat, consults book, proceeds falteringly* ""this title published by goblin press, and is also available in Elvish, Dwarvish, Gnomish and Draconic." There, see, I told you I could read!"
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
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DrivethruRPG Releases on This Thread - latest release: My Character is a Werewolf: balanced rules for Lycanthropy!
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I haven’t played these yet but I thought they were cool idea’s
- A Goliath wild Sorcerer named Gamira. They were originally a draconic bloodline Sorcerer that uses an orb as an arcane focus. The whole thing about Sorcerer’s is that they are born with power but apperently Gamira’s power isn’t strong enough to work on its own so whe uses the orb as a vessel to focus and enhance her power, but then one day (I haven’t really worked out how) her orb cracks. It doesn’t completely break but it the glass sorounding looks kind of like a shattered phone case. This shatter in the orb causes her magic to have a 10% chance of going wild and she Hasn’t found any way to fix this. Since then she has been more cautious about when to use magic.
-An Aarakocra child Paladin named Wisp. He grew up in a temple that worshiped Tymora and is a chaotic little bundle of positivity. He uses his childish appearance to get into places completely knowing what lies inside. He is also the most religious little turd you’ll ever meet. He always ends his conversations with, “May luck be on your side,” and stuff like that and does a cute prayer before going to bed each night. Not like a serious prayer but more like the prayer Agnes did in Despicable Me. He’s curious like any toddler and is the tru life of the party.
I wanna make a redemption paladin who spends half of combat trying to turn the enemies to good
Come check out some of my Homebrew (please give input!)
Make some trinket tables on this thread!
Okr, a kobold bard from the College of Whispers who found a sentient axe made from the sharpened scale of a dead silver dragon and magically imbued with her essence. She binds herself to the wicked, little kobold and refuses to let him be rid of her and constantly works to turn him good.
~Levi
In one of my first sessions, I played as a human wizard named Steve Murderbird who always wore a tophat. But there was a catch: he was POSSESSED by the hat, which was named Jerome.
Jerome made Steve run around scamming people. Also, Jerome was somewhat immortal, as if Steve died he could just possess someone else.
I started off with a character that was pretty "normal" (standard) - for an Out of the Abyss game - Dwarf Fighter named Thorvall.
However, for anyone who has played Out of the Abyss knows that Madness can happen (or maybe this was a custom thing with the DM? I have Out of the Abyss but never read through it yet because I ended up in that game) - and the DM said it's up to the players if they want to roll with it (RP with it and what not). My character got a few temp ones; but finally got a permanent madness). One which, there was a voice always suggesting bad ideas.
So I spoke with the DM, and said, based off the theme of Out of the Abyss, can we flavor it as sort of demonic possession? And I explained, the reason why - I want to "split personality" my character - and the next time we level take 1 level of Warlock which will represent "the demon" - and from time to time whenever I use Eldritch Blast - it's the demon taking over, and my character has no memory of it.
None of the players were aware of this. So the first time the voice thing surfaced, we were parlaying with a troll about cross a bridge (this was custom) and the troll demanded food - our druid said they'd make goodberries - and in character I said, "Troll, why settle for the goodberries? Take the druid and have them always." And all the players were like, "Wait. What?"
Then when one of the fights came up, I used Eldritch Blast, and ended up killing the creature. And said, "Damn it! Which one of you wizardry ones killed this one? It was mine."
The players kept insighting me.
Was very fun.
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I rolled up a Gerald Tarrant from Cold Fire Trilogy.
Back in 3.5 e I had a Rogue / Wizard Human Vampire, who fed on fear instead of blood and had "cold fire" instead of regular fire for wizard spells. He was also Chaotic Good Alignment (He took a vow to be good, if not lawful, after accidentally killing his wife when he lost control)
Three goliath characters I think would be fun fun to play:
A goliath oath of the ancients paladin who is the Green Knight from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Flavor him as completely green, and name him Sir Bertilak De Hautdesert. That was the Green Knight's actual name. He would be a goliath because in the story, the Green Knight was said to be so large that he must have had giant blood. I just need a way to have him be able to have his head chopped clean off without killing him.
I think it would be fun being a goliath rogue with maximized sleight of hand and stealth. Imagine a thin giant carefully stalking the streets of a city and snatching stuff out of peoples pockets without ever being seen.
I also want to be a goliath ranger who was a lumberjack. He would be a beast master ranger who would have a blue ox as his animal companion. His favored foe would be plants and his favored terrain would be forests, that way he would be really good at hunting down trees and slaying them in a forest. His name (if you couldn't already tell) is Paul Bunyan.
Was recently invited to a campaign which is based in the feywild, and is built around folklore and fairytales. Was asked to re-imaging a character from a fairy tale or classic literature as a dnd character.
So, I have produced a warforged bounty hunter hexblade warlock, with a reflavoured heavy crossbow as his pact weapon (improved pact weapon) which is reskinned as a double-barreled rifle. He has a revolver sidearm (a reflavouring of Eldritch Blast). He is made of wood, and wears an ovesized trenchcoat which hangs off his skeletal frame.
He is Pinocchio. His rifle is called Jiminy Cricket. The two barrels are called "Right" and "Wrong".
at level 5, he can shoot someone twice (thirsting blade), dropping a Branding Smite and an Eldritch Smite onto the results for (assuming I roll/buy +4 for charisma, haven't rolled stats yet) 2d10+3d6+4d8+10 damage, plus knocking the target prone. Takes 2 spell slots, but if someone is running away that you absolutely want to stop running, it'll do it!
As soon as I can, I will take Sharpshooter as well. I aim to negotiate with the DM about swapping some warforged features for it, but I am not relying on that!
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
DM's Guild Releases on This Thread Or check them all out on DMs Guild!
DrivethruRPG Releases on This Thread - latest release: My Character is a Werewolf: balanced rules for Lycanthropy!
I have started discussing/reviewing 3rd party D&D content on Substack - stay tuned for semi-regular posts!
I used to have a character called "Mr. Magic Pants" he was a wizard who I had random stats for, and his backstory was that he was spawned from a pair of dirty boxers.
.... I have no words...
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
"Burpidiburp" is A gnome wizard that wields the powers of all existence itself. He speaks in gibberish, repeating different versions of the line "Burpidiburpidiburp" He floats and wanders to all the worlds to simply **** around and make as many friends as possible, regardless of their alignment. He's a DMPC that the party encounters from time-to-time, be it as a bartender, a merchant, or a town mayor, just a joke NPC to make the party laugh and to allow them to unwind.
AlAbagorack, a human baker who lost much of his ability to think due to a tragic head injury and turned his superior dough punching muscles and resistance to pain towards adventuring. His first quest - to recover a formula for magic cookies from the feywild and make his bakery even better.
Evan, a druid who lived in a swap prior to adventure who had a pet frog named clabbert whom he would give his life for.
Quokkas are objectively the best animal, anyone who disagrees needs a psychiatric evaluation
I once played an intelligent psychic fetus that floated around inside an amniotic bubble. The nation he came from had discovered the Fountain of Youth and experimented on his mother with the water from it. This stopped his development and made him independent enough to become his own person.
This isn't my character, but one a friend made in a campaign I played in.
Scoops the Ice Cream Pirate, who was an Orc Sorcerer/Fighter multiclass that used his magic to make frozen deserts from materials he bought from the markets of towns we stopped at. He didn't fight in combat, but instead was passing around healing and buffs (flavored as him running around giving us popsicles and other frozen treats) mid-battle. Otherwise, Scoops was making money selling ice cream in his 'pirate ship', which was a canoe that he MacGyvered into a makeshift food cart: Built-in arcane freezer and all. He loved rp, and had an on-and-off romance with an NPC chocolatier, who he finally worked the courage to propose to after fighting a literal manifestation of paranoia. All around amazing character, and amazing player that gave Scoops life.
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
I could give so many answers to this one, but I don't think I could fit every weird little backstory detail on them into a single forum.
Scoops sounds amazing, your friend should be very proud.
I usually DM so I don't have any personally, but my dad had a human barbarian that was actually a Viking from Earth who took a wrong turn on his ship and sailed into my homebrew world. The campaign was abandoned after we hadn't played for months and we forgot what was happening, but I need to look for the character sheet because Björn was a fun character to DM for.
For his school's D&D club, my younger brother made a chaotic evil tabaxi wizard named Volcano who specialized in arson, he reminisces about Volcano often but I don't think he'll play something that crazy again.
Forever DM but I want to play at some point
I'm not very experienced with D&D Beyond, so sorry if I mess something up.
A murderous sentient cup of hot chocolate that only speaks in the third person