I once built a barbarian/wizard who's sole purpose is to carry things. As of right now, he can pick up two ancient dragons with his bare hands when enlarged via enlarge/reduce.
I created a party based on Marvel SuperHeroes. It wasn't a time travel thing...I just worked to make their skills and traits translate into a D&D environment.
So I have a fighter who is proficient with a sword (The Swordsman) and one who is a master with a bow (Hawkeye) A dwarven ranger (Wolverine) and a female wizard who only wears red (Scarlet Witch) Finally, I have a cleric who's proficient in the marital arts. Her name is Heather but wants to be referred to as the MoonDragon.
and so forth...
Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
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Resisting is simply standing in front of the tide and pushing at it. Even if you endure at first, you will eventually break down. Adapting, by contrast, is turning into a fish.
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Rangers are not underpowered. They’re just exploration-oriented.
I created a party based on Marvel SuperHeroes. It wasn't a time travel thing...I just worked to make their skills and traits translate into a D&D environment.
So I have a fighter who is proficient with a sword (The Swordsman) and one who is a master with a bow (Hawkeye) A dwarven ranger (Wolverine) and a female wizard who only wears red (Scarlet Witch) Finally, I have a cleric who's proficient in the marital arts. Her name is Heather but wants to be referred to as the MoonDragon.
and so forth...
Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
I created a party based on Marvel SuperHeroes. It wasn't a time travel thing...I just worked to make their skills and traits translate into a D&D environment.
So I have a fighter who is proficient with a sword (The Swordsman) and one who is a master with a bow (Hawkeye) A dwarven ranger (Wolverine) and a female wizard who only wears red (Scarlet Witch) Finally, I have a cleric who's proficient in the marital arts. Her name is Heather but wants to be referred to as the MoonDragon.
and so forth...
Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
...Someone should make this a thing.
"I'm going to grapple them! I put them in a Wedlock!"
I created a party based on Marvel SuperHeroes. It wasn't a time travel thing...I just worked to make their skills and traits translate into a D&D environment.
So I have a fighter who is proficient with a sword (The Swordsman) and one who is a master with a bow (Hawkeye) A dwarven ranger (Wolverine) and a female wizard who only wears red (Scarlet Witch) Finally, I have a cleric who's proficient in the marital arts. Her name is Heather but wants to be referred to as the MoonDragon.
and so forth...
Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
...Someone should make this a thing.
"I'm going to grapple them! I put them in a Wedlock!"
I have heard of "Holy Matrimony" before, but this is ridiculous! (In a good sense)
I created a party based on Marvel SuperHeroes. It wasn't a time travel thing...I just worked to make their skills and traits translate into a D&D environment.
So I have a fighter who is proficient with a sword (The Swordsman) and one who is a master with a bow (Hawkeye) A dwarven ranger (Wolverine) and a female wizard who only wears red (Scarlet Witch) Finally, I have a cleric who's proficient in the marital arts. Her name is Heather but wants to be referred to as the MoonDragon.
and so forth...
Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
...Someone should make this a thing.
"I'm going to grapple them! I put them in a Wedlock!"
I have heard of "Holy Matrimony" before, but this is ridiculous! (In a good sense)
They could be dressed in a mexican wrestlers mask, and be called "The Smoochador", trained in the marital arts! Beware his ring of binding!
A sentient ooze (homebrew race) Way of Mercy Monk with an intelligence score of 4 (I actually rolled a total of 6 on 4d6 drop lowest, less 2 from the race). His mask was a broken dinner plate and his preferred food was the metal armor and weaponry of any other PC/NPC he encountered.
I am using the UA Reborn Races and the UA Undead pact to create this character. She is actually a servant of Acererak, who helps design dungeons with him. If I play her during a Tomb of Annihilation campaigns, I'll play a "reverse" role, where I try to lure my companions to the Tomb, then try to get them killed by purposely setting off traps and using my spells (Such as the Conjure Elemental spell I got from an eldritch Invocation.), all while hiding from the party so I don't blow my cover.
And BTW, she has a Amulet of the Black Skull (Which Ill try to hide from the rest of the group), and since she is half undead, I don't need to worry about the Con Saving Throw!
I have a nuetral vampire pugilist, who was a urchin who was experimented on and now is a private detective who fights to keep the streets of neverwinter safe, very noir
I'm currently playing a weird Bard. It's hard to explain it all in one post but he is basically in the pursuit of absolute perfection, my DM (bless him) allowed me to be my own spellcasting focus, with a few detriments to counteract the advantage of it all. While in the pursuit of perfection this Bard carves his own bones into works of art, enhancing his spellcasting the more he does so. See this is where the detriments to being my own spellcasting modifier come in, it hasn't reared it's head yet but at higher levels we are going to talk about how it will work if he gets an arm chopped off or something. Does he lose some spell slots? The ability to cast spells of higher levels? Even that seems exciting to me, I almost want to have that happen so I can go through getting back my lost power. He also wears a full face mask that locks in the back. It's lead-lined to prevent a few divination spells and X-ray spells. No one can see his face until he has decided he has achieved peak perfection. There is a whole lot of other backstory going on about the sort of cult he is part of as well. I'm still super excited about playing him, much more well thought out than my previous character.
I decided to make a character that was a scarecrow on a halfling farmstead. After a few drow raids, the farmer posts a request for a wizard to come and help him by animating this scarecrow to protect the farm. In the mean time, he asks for some help from the town militia. A wizard does come, but what the farmer does not know is that the wizard is a necromancer. Instead of otherwise animating the scarecrow, which the farmer had fortified with a hardwood frame and some iron plates, the necromancer murders one of the guards, binds his soul to the scarecrow, and gave it knowledge of the necromantic arts. The process wipes most of the soul's memories. All it retains is knowledge of the halfling language, its desire to protect (specifically halflings), some knowledge of military tactics and life, and a distaste for drow.
The character was originally a warforged, but I changed it to a reborn (construct and undead rather than humanoid), which fit better. It is a necromancer wizard with a soldier background. It is lawful neutral.
I had a lot of fun creating the character and writing the backstory. I imagine it will be interesting to play as well, once I have the opportunity.
A half orc bard with well-kempt hair, squinted eyes and bushy eyebrows who wears a white tux with a black bow and suit pants, carries a grand piano on his back, and sounds like rowlf the dog, I even have a song for him " how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen waterdeep!" ( kudos to my friend for the inspiration )
Bardbarian elf-ling. Multiclass bard/ barbarian. Mother was an elf, father was a halfling. Half elf, half...ling. His catchphrase is "You can't spell violence without violin!"
This character is not necessarily bizarre, but he is off-type. Being a rogue, most would think chaotic alignment, but he is actually very lawful, not just to his own code but to the law of the land. His background is an urban bounty hunter, bringing in thieves and lawbreakers. To catch them, he has adopted a lot of their skills and abilities, but he is not a thief. He was/is a military scout, and he does not like to break the law. If his party expects him to, he will resist unless there is a very good reason. He is also morally upright (Lawful Good), so he will not murder anyone, but he will certainly backstab someone who tries to, possibly even a member of his own party.
I wanted to make him a bit of a skill monkey but also very competent in combat. He is a scout/battle master, using skills like disarming strike, goading attack, and trip attack from range (longbow). Of course, he also has a lot of skills. Being a scout and choosing skilled as his human variant feat, he is proficient in 11 skills with expertise in 4.
He is very fun to play, especially when it comes to group interactions with a players/characters who expect you to be the stereotype rogue.
And speaking of the stereotypical rouge, I have not one, but TWO characters to share with you!
They are a set of twin changeling sisters, one named Roxanne, the other named Rosanna. Both are rouges, have similar personalities, and are both criminals. Roxanne is the Assassin Subclass, while Rosanna is a Mastermind. They both have snakes for pets, and are deadly in combat. I have not played them yet, but I wonder if the DM will let me play them both at once!
They both also wear similar dresses, and both have high CHA.
Right now I'm playing an Oblix variant who can disguise himself as other people so long as he is wearing their bones. (if anyone is familiar with the Mistborn books, he is like a Kandra.) He also gains some of their memories when consuming them.
He is a modified assassin rogue owned by an up-and-coming crime family. I am already having a ton of fun playing with his acidic nature and ability to go all goopy and slip through most spaces with ease- though if his bones cant fit they get left behind. He is lawful evil and has done some really cruel stuff at the command of his masters, but left to his own devices he hardly has a malicious bone in his body (pun intended) and would prefer to live a quiet existence.
He is convinced that if anyone outside of his owner's family knew what he really was, he would be killed on sight. So he goes well out of his way to hide his true nature and not draw suspicion or unwanted attention from the law. Unfortunately, he is currently stuck wearing the bones of his very reckless and outgoing best friend- the youngest daughter of his master. She was the only one who treated him kindly but she recently died in an assassination he failed to prevent. her dying wish was for him to use her bones to finish her mission and find her missing sister so that her family wouldn't think she was a failure anymore.
So now he is stuck pretending to be his dead friend, knowing that if/when his master finds out he is as good as dead. and not only that, but her chipper and trusting nature completely clash with his own . so now this very calm, calculating and secretive being is being forced to live as she would live, see the world through her eyes and reach out to people he normaly would not interact with in order to keep up the charade.
Not my character, but a player in my party wanted to be a goat. So I told her, give me an amazing backstory and I'll let you be a goat. She told me that her character had bargained for eternal life with her diety after hyjacking a prayer and ritual service that the local cultists had used to try to speak with it. Her diety, being evil, gave her eternal life and magic. In return, she was turned into the form that her diety took. A goat. When she dies, she is resurrected as a different animal, never larger than small, at the nearest tavern. She's a war domain cleric talking goat and..its been interesting. We send her on stealth missions consistantly and use her as a distraction. Her goat's name is domo arigato mr roboto.
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I once built a barbarian/wizard who's sole purpose is to carry things. As of right now, he can pick up two ancient dragons with his bare hands when enlarged via enlarge/reduce.
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Sorry, but you wrote “marital arts” instead of “martial arts” and now I can’t stop thinking of a wedding-themed character
All hail the great and mighty platypus.
Resisting is simply standing in front of the tide and pushing at it. Even if you endure at first, you will eventually break down. Adapting, by contrast, is turning into a fish.
-me
Rangers are not underpowered. They’re just exploration-oriented.
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...Someone should make this a thing.
Looking for a campaign? Or, perhaps, trying to start one? Come join Rolegate! Just send me a friend request (same name as here) and I'll help you get started!
Ducks are just geese lite. Focus on the future. It'll become the past soon enough.
Istari and White Counsel in Club. Not the wish-granter of a thread.
Become a Plague Doctor today!
Join the Knights of the Random Table and Calius and Kothar Industries!
Homebrew: Artifact, Dungeon
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"I'm going to grapple them! I put them in a Wedlock!"
Make your Artificer work with any other class with 174 Multiclassing Feats for your Artificer Multiclass Character!
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I have heard of "Holy Matrimony" before, but this is ridiculous! (In a good sense)
They could be dressed in a mexican wrestlers mask, and be called "The Smoochador", trained in the marital arts! Beware his ring of binding!
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!
A sentient ooze (homebrew race) Way of Mercy Monk with an intelligence score of 4 (I actually rolled a total of 6 on 4d6 drop lowest, less 2 from the race). His mask was a broken dinner plate and his preferred food was the metal armor and weaponry of any other PC/NPC he encountered.
I am using the UA Reborn Races and the UA Undead pact to create this character. She is actually a servant of Acererak, who helps design dungeons with him. If I play her during a Tomb of Annihilation campaigns, I'll play a "reverse" role, where I try to lure my companions to the Tomb, then try to get them killed by purposely setting off traps and using my spells (Such as the Conjure Elemental spell I got from an eldritch Invocation.), all while hiding from the party so I don't blow my cover.
And BTW, she has a Amulet of the Black Skull (Which Ill try to hide from the rest of the group), and since she is half undead, I don't need to worry about the Con Saving Throw!
I have a nuetral vampire pugilist, who was a urchin who was experimented on and now is a private detective who fights to keep the streets of neverwinter safe, very noir
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
I'm currently playing a weird Bard. It's hard to explain it all in one post but he is basically in the pursuit of absolute perfection, my DM (bless him) allowed me to be my own spellcasting focus, with a few detriments to counteract the advantage of it all. While in the pursuit of perfection this Bard carves his own bones into works of art, enhancing his spellcasting the more he does so. See this is where the detriments to being my own spellcasting modifier come in, it hasn't reared it's head yet but at higher levels we are going to talk about how it will work if he gets an arm chopped off or something. Does he lose some spell slots? The ability to cast spells of higher levels? Even that seems exciting to me, I almost want to have that happen so I can go through getting back my lost power. He also wears a full face mask that locks in the back. It's lead-lined to prevent a few divination spells and X-ray spells. No one can see his face until he has decided he has achieved peak perfection. There is a whole lot of other backstory going on about the sort of cult he is part of as well. I'm still super excited about playing him, much more well thought out than my previous character.
The Scarecrow
I decided to make a character that was a scarecrow on a halfling farmstead. After a few drow raids, the farmer posts a request for a wizard to come and help him by animating this scarecrow to protect the farm. In the mean time, he asks for some help from the town militia. A wizard does come, but what the farmer does not know is that the wizard is a necromancer. Instead of otherwise animating the scarecrow, which the farmer had fortified with a hardwood frame and some iron plates, the necromancer murders one of the guards, binds his soul to the scarecrow, and gave it knowledge of the necromantic arts. The process wipes most of the soul's memories. All it retains is knowledge of the halfling language, its desire to protect (specifically halflings), some knowledge of military tactics and life, and a distaste for drow.
The character was originally a warforged, but I changed it to a reborn (construct and undead rather than humanoid), which fit better.
It is a necromancer wizard with a soldier background.
It is lawful neutral.
I had a lot of fun creating the character and writing the backstory. I imagine it will be interesting to play as well, once I have the opportunity.
~Levi
A half orc bard with well-kempt hair, squinted eyes and bushy eyebrows who wears a white tux with a black bow and suit pants, carries a grand piano on his back, and sounds like rowlf the dog, I even have a song for him " how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen waterdeep!" ( kudos to my friend for the inspiration )
Mystic v3 should be official, nuff said.
Bardbarian elf-ling. Multiclass bard/ barbarian. Mother was an elf, father was a halfling. Half elf, half...ling. His catchphrase is "You can't spell violence without violin!"
The Good Rogue
This character is not necessarily bizarre, but he is off-type. Being a rogue, most would think chaotic alignment, but he is actually very lawful, not just to his own code but to the law of the land. His background is an urban bounty hunter, bringing in thieves and lawbreakers. To catch them, he has adopted a lot of their skills and abilities, but he is not a thief. He was/is a military scout, and he does not like to break the law. If his party expects him to, he will resist unless there is a very good reason. He is also morally upright (Lawful Good), so he will not murder anyone, but he will certainly backstab someone who tries to, possibly even a member of his own party.
I wanted to make him a bit of a skill monkey but also very competent in combat. He is a scout/battle master, using skills like disarming strike, goading attack, and trip attack from range (longbow). Of course, he also has a lot of skills. Being a scout and choosing skilled as his human variant feat, he is proficient in 11 skills with expertise in 4.
He is very fun to play, especially when it comes to group interactions with a players/characters who expect you to be the stereotype rogue.
~Levi
And speaking of the stereotypical rouge, I have not one, but TWO characters to share with you!
They are a set of twin changeling sisters, one named Roxanne, the other named Rosanna. Both are rouges, have similar personalities, and are both criminals. Roxanne is the Assassin Subclass, while Rosanna is a Mastermind. They both have snakes for pets, and are deadly in combat. I have not played them yet, but I wonder if the DM will let me play them both at once!
They both also wear similar dresses, and both have high CHA.
Right now I'm playing an Oblix variant who can disguise himself as other people so long as he is wearing their bones. (if anyone is familiar with the Mistborn books, he is like a Kandra.) He also gains some of their memories when consuming them.
He is a modified assassin rogue owned by an up-and-coming crime family. I am already having a ton of fun playing with his acidic nature and ability to go all goopy and slip through most spaces with ease- though if his bones cant fit they get left behind. He is lawful evil and has done some really cruel stuff at the command of his masters, but left to his own devices he hardly has a malicious bone in his body (pun intended) and would prefer to live a quiet existence.
He is convinced that if anyone outside of his owner's family knew what he really was, he would be killed on sight. So he goes well out of his way to hide his true nature and not draw suspicion or unwanted attention from the law. Unfortunately, he is currently stuck wearing the bones of his very reckless and outgoing best friend- the youngest daughter of his master. She was the only one who treated him kindly but she recently died in an assassination he failed to prevent. her dying wish was for him to use her bones to finish her mission and find her missing sister so that her family wouldn't think she was a failure anymore.
So now he is stuck pretending to be his dead friend, knowing that if/when his master finds out he is as good as dead. and not only that, but her chipper and trusting nature completely clash with his own . so now this very calm, calculating and secretive being is being forced to live as she would live, see the world through her eyes and reach out to people he normaly would not interact with in order to keep up the charade.
Not my character, but a player in my party wanted to be a goat. So I told her, give me an amazing backstory and I'll let you be a goat. She told me that her character had bargained for eternal life with her diety after hyjacking a prayer and ritual service that the local cultists had used to try to speak with it. Her diety, being evil, gave her eternal life and magic. In return, she was turned into the form that her diety took. A goat. When she dies, she is resurrected as a different animal, never larger than small, at the nearest tavern. She's a war domain cleric talking goat and..its been interesting. We send her on stealth missions consistantly and use her as a distraction. Her goat's name is domo arigato mr roboto.
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
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