Comb through the 3-sentence backstory thread and find more of my worst ideas (that I still really like regardless). Lots of great ideas from others in that thread, though.
(Define a backstory in about 3 sentences: origin, significant event, and reason for adventuring. A very useful method for making even the worst ones make sense. Then, build off of those ideas. Doesn't have to be exactly 3, but try to avoid compound sentences which are more than one sentence each.)
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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 once made a character so dumb that mind effect spells and psychic DMG couldn’t effect him, the DM custom homebrewed a entire race for me to fit in. The name? Luke Revnear The Barbarian.
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Homebrew: (currently privated)
Campaigns: A.W.W, The Astral Symphony, Detroit, Vampiric (k)Nights, Tales of Moved Sands.
Characters: Ben Alick, Travis Marmo, Trevor, Lucian Belmont, Aiden Nevogross
I recently came up with a character that's sort of meant to be a comic relief with some serious moments. The concept is kind of silly, but I think it could work.
Snetsky is a sort of humanoid polar bear creature, and a Barbarian/Fighter mix. Mechanically speaking, he'll probably be a Goliath or some Custom Lineage.
The real humorous part comes from his backstory. Snetsky is the next in line to take over his family business: A successful company well renowned for their frozen deserts and treats. He's often snacking on ice pops or something cold to cool himself off, and complains about the heat whenever he's... well, basically whenever he's somewhere where the rest of the party isn't freezing. The thing is, though, he doesn't want to inherit the family business, because he has another passion: Wrestling.
In Snetsky's hometown, there was a big wrestling championship, which Snetsky won with his polar bear strength. His reward? The championship belt (a belt of frost giant strength, if allowed by the DM), and the title of champion. Now that he has this fame, though, loads of merchants and companies are harassing him to endorse their products: His family business included. So, Snetsky packed his things and set off to find some peace and quiet: And maybe stop by the occasional wrestling ring to throw down in defense of his champion title.
He's a goofy guy: Loves food and fighting, and won't turn down a chance for a friendly spar. He only uses his Barbarian rage if he's hungry, or if he's denied his frozen sweets. Fights out of the ring with a big ol' hammer, and is a bit of a showoff if crowds are involved. Just seems like a fun character, and I might bring Snetsky to the table some day.
A Paladin that was able to remain a Paladin because the character believed to be doing the right thing, even slaughtering innocents due to a mere suspected taint of Evil being justification. A horrible monstrous person more cruel (and, by the standards of many, more "evil") than any Oathbreaker. For that one, the belief is what tied the character to holy powers, not the actions.
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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 "rebellious", non-conformist half-orc teenager who wore ridiculous amounts of pale guyliner and blush, grew his hair long only above his eyes and shaved everywhere else, eyebrows included, wore small pewter chains connected to earrings, tongue-rings, nose rings, nipple rings, eyebrown rings and navel ring though most of it hidden behind modesty-preserving tanned, black-dyed orc-skin clothes except for the exposed buttocks. He was very judgmental about absolutely everything, but nobody could convince him how ignorant he was in all his judgments. Angst out the wazoo and would never shut up about his contrarian opinions.
Luckily, he was an NPC. It was perfectly okay to finally have enough of him and get rid of him. He never returned for... reasons.
(Actually, he returned when a little older but nobody recognized him. He was happily working as a grocer and had put the "costume" and fake angst away and was just enjoying life despite life's faults. Everyone failed the perception checks to recognize him. Oh, well. They were convinced there was something they should be seeing in the shop but not the half-orc behind a counter.)
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 have written fanfiction about a happy Necromancer. He's an Archeologist who travels around visiting ruined cities. He communes with the spirits there but instead of trying to command them to do things for him, he asks them nicely if they'll tell him about the history of the city and its people. He writes it all down so that they won't be forgotten. If the spirits of the place are okay with him taking a few trinkets to prove he was there, then so be it, but he's not a looter. He has the Medicine Skill and poses as a physician much of the time. He's also fluent in several ancient languages. To protect himself on the road, he carries the bones of two large dogs around with him. If anyone asks why, he explains that he's also an Alchemist and he means to grind them down for spell components. The dogs are both skeletal guard dogs that 'play dead' unless someone comes close.
In another system, I also played an Ogre who was a genius (as Ogres go...he was as intelligent as a typical Human). He'd been driven from his tribe because he was 'weird' and in order to blend in, he'd learned to act dumb.
I have written fanfiction about a happy Necromancer. He's an Archeologist who travels around visiting ruined cities. He communes with the spirits there but instead of trying to command them to do things for him, he asks them nicely if they'll tell him about the history of the city and its people. He writes it all down so that they won't be forgotten. If the spirits of the place are okay with him taking a few trinkets to prove he was there, then so be it, but he's not a looter. He has the Medicine Skill and poses as a physician much of the time. He's also fluent in several ancient languages. To protect himself on the road, he carries the bones of two large dogs around with him. If anyone asks why, he explains that he's also an Alchemist and he means to grind them down for spell components. The dogs are both skeletal guard dogs that 'play dead' unless someone comes close.
In another system, I also played an Ogre who was a genius (as Ogres go...he was as intelligent as a typical Human). He'd been driven from his tribe because he was 'weird' and in order to blend in, he'd learned to act dumb.
The Atypical Ogre is cliche (but no less good for that), but I love the archaeologist necromancer. Brilliant idea! Love it when people use mechanics in quirky ways!
I have written fanfiction about a happy Necromancer. He's an Archeologist who travels around visiting ruined cities. He communes with the spirits there but instead of trying to command them to do things for him, he asks them nicely if they'll tell him about the history of the city and its people. He writes it all down so that they won't be forgotten. If the spirits of the place are okay with him taking a few trinkets to prove he was there, then so be it, but he's not a looter. He has the Medicine Skill and poses as a physician much of the time. He's also fluent in several ancient languages. To protect himself on the road, he carries the bones of two large dogs around with him. If anyone asks why, he explains that he's also an Alchemist and he means to grind them down for spell components. The dogs are both skeletal guard dogs that 'play dead' unless someone comes close.
In another system, I also played an Ogre who was a genius (as Ogres go...he was as intelligent as a typical Human). He'd been driven from his tribe because he was 'weird' and in order to blend in, he'd learned to act dumb.
The Atypical Ogre is cliche (but no less good for that), but I love the archaeologist necromancer. Brilliant idea! Love it when people use mechanics in quirky ways!
I originally came up with the idea as part of a challenge. A friend asked if I could make up any sort of character and I claimed that I could. He smirked and said 'Happy Necromancer!' I scribbled down my idea and I liked it so much that I expanded on it later!
Amorphous Bob- A gelatinous cube so good at capturing adventurers that he collapsed in on himself from all the weight he carried. Juiblex sought to reward him, so he was granted warlock levels and sentience, which he was tasked with using to disguise himself as a humanoid and sell off his wares (loot off of dissolved adventurers), to bring the gold to his master. His hypothetical arc consists of having an existential crisis about whether the 'gift' of self-awareness was truly a gift, or a curse because he's become aware that he can never touch someone without hurting them, and also he talks like a car salesman.
(he came from a dream wayy before the plasmoid was introduced, so in the character sheet i made him, he has all the usual gelatinous cube negative stats, except for a high charisma and enough intelligence to be coherent lmao)
One of the worst (if not the worst) is any character that doesn't take 'no' as an answer when attempting to seduce another character. (They're the worst in my mind. I won't let them roll anything for a character that's simply not into them and will have the locals and guards get involved if the player character persists in situations that fail. Too bad if they don't like it. No means no even in D&D.)
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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 came up with a funny idea for a character very recently, and I need to share it.
Craig 'The Demolitionist' is a guy who really, really loves his job. He works in a demolition crew that call themselves 'The Boomers' because they- well, they make things go boom! In combat, Craig uses almost entirely explosives: Some magical, some not. His entire kit consists of a horrid amalgam of Ranger, Rogue, and Sorcerer: Rogue for evading explosions and fast work with hucking bombs at foes, Sorcerer for the general fire power, and Ranger because of Goodberry: A spell Craig only has because of something hilarious I read one time..
The funny thing that inspired me to pick Goodberry for Craig is basically explaining how since a Goodberry has enough calories to sustain any creature, it has enough to sustain the biggest creature: A tarrasque. They did the math, and apparently for that kind of nutrition, you need 3.8 million calories to be crammed into a single Goodberry... and the spell gives you ten. More math ensues, and 3.8 million calories equates to about 16 million joules of energy: Comparable to some explosives... You can see where this is going, right?
Regardless of if the Goodberry nonsense actually works, he has several other methods of getting some explosive power into his burn-scar covered hand (which only have eight fingers total due to... well, you can probably guess why). I haven't played this character yet: I only just finished his character sheet, and I'm ecstatic to see the chaos that Craig can create.
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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)
Any class other than rogue... and their name is Rogue. That's literally it.
Also, my half-elf ranger, Qiri, whose wood elf druid mom keeps sending them a Philter of Love whenever they use up the previous one so that chaos can ensue. Without fail. I have no idea how this mom keeps finding Qiri's location.
I had another idea. Warlock whose patron is their otherworldly romantic partner. The partner is paranoid because the warlock is an idiot cinnamon roll with 8 hp who gets into way too much trouble, so they became a patron to give the warlock buffs and spells and things. But their idea is basically "If there's no one in the room to hurt you, you're safe." So all the spells are attack ones.
All righty then me and my party’s favorite character is urr’lok the goblin rogue now this may not sound so crazy but urr’lok is 2 foot 4 inches tall 24 pounds and can not affectively wield a rapier so I gave him 20 different daggers and knives and started playing I want I mention he's a serious alcoholic and always drunk
A kenku bard, it would either be the best bard, or it would be the worst, have you ever heard those memes where they get words from a youtubers video and compile it with other words to make them sing a song it would either sound like that, or exactly like the original singer, how cool would that be, and if you used some spell to make you look like the original singer...
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Comb through the 3-sentence backstory thread and find more of my worst ideas (that I still really like regardless). Lots of great ideas from others in that thread, though.
(Define a backstory in about 3 sentences: origin, significant event, and reason for adventuring. A very useful method for making even the worst ones make sense. Then, build off of those ideas. Doesn't have to be exactly 3, but try to avoid compound sentences which are more than one sentence each.)
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 once made a character so dumb that mind effect spells and psychic DMG couldn’t effect him, the DM custom homebrewed a entire race for me to fit in. The name? Luke Revnear The Barbarian.
What Am I?
Professional Voice Actor, Dungeon Master, Player
What Is My Stuff?
Homebrew: (currently privated)
Campaigns: A.W.W, The Astral Symphony, Detroit, Vampiric (k)Nights, Tales of Moved Sands.
Characters: Ben Alick, Travis Marmo, Trevor, Lucian Belmont, Aiden Nevogross
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Pixie Barbarian with a Boston accent.
I recently came up with a character that's sort of meant to be a comic relief with some serious moments. The concept is kind of silly, but I think it could work.
Snetsky is a sort of humanoid polar bear creature, and a Barbarian/Fighter mix. Mechanically speaking, he'll probably be a Goliath or some Custom Lineage.
The real humorous part comes from his backstory. Snetsky is the next in line to take over his family business: A successful company well renowned for their frozen deserts and treats. He's often snacking on ice pops or something cold to cool himself off, and complains about the heat whenever he's... well, basically whenever he's somewhere where the rest of the party isn't freezing. The thing is, though, he doesn't want to inherit the family business, because he has another passion: Wrestling.
In Snetsky's hometown, there was a big wrestling championship, which Snetsky won with his polar bear strength. His reward? The championship belt (a belt of frost giant strength, if allowed by the DM), and the title of champion. Now that he has this fame, though, loads of merchants and companies are harassing him to endorse their products: His family business included. So, Snetsky packed his things and set off to find some peace and quiet: And maybe stop by the occasional wrestling ring to throw down in defense of his champion title.
He's a goofy guy: Loves food and fighting, and won't turn down a chance for a friendly spar. He only uses his Barbarian rage if he's hungry, or if he's denied his frozen sweets. Fights out of the ring with a big ol' hammer, and is a bit of a showoff if crowds are involved. Just seems like a fun character, and I might bring Snetsky to the table some day.
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)
A Paladin that was able to remain a Paladin because the character believed to be doing the right thing, even slaughtering innocents due to a mere suspected taint of Evil being justification. A horrible monstrous person more cruel (and, by the standards of many, more "evil") than any Oathbreaker. For that one, the belief is what tied the character to holy powers, not the actions.
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 "rebellious", non-conformist half-orc teenager who wore ridiculous amounts of pale guyliner and blush, grew his hair long only above his eyes and shaved everywhere else, eyebrows included, wore small pewter chains connected to earrings, tongue-rings, nose rings, nipple rings, eyebrown rings and navel ring though most of it hidden behind modesty-preserving tanned, black-dyed orc-skin clothes except for the exposed buttocks. He was very judgmental about absolutely everything, but nobody could convince him how ignorant he was in all his judgments. Angst out the wazoo and would never shut up about his contrarian opinions.
Luckily, he was an NPC. It was perfectly okay to finally have enough of him and get rid of him. He never returned for... reasons.
(Actually, he returned when a little older but nobody recognized him. He was happily working as a grocer and had put the "costume" and fake angst away and was just enjoying life despite life's faults. Everyone failed the perception checks to recognize him. Oh, well. They were convinced there was something they should be seeing in the shop but not the half-orc behind a counter.)
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 openly hypocritical cleric who tries to scam his deity
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Sexy groot Druid with only mind control powers to seduce people
I have written fanfiction about a happy Necromancer. He's an Archeologist who travels around visiting ruined cities. He communes with the spirits there but instead of trying to command them to do things for him, he asks them nicely if they'll tell him about the history of the city and its people. He writes it all down so that they won't be forgotten. If the spirits of the place are okay with him taking a few trinkets to prove he was there, then so be it, but he's not a looter. He has the Medicine Skill and poses as a physician much of the time. He's also fluent in several ancient languages. To protect himself on the road, he carries the bones of two large dogs around with him. If anyone asks why, he explains that he's also an Alchemist and he means to grind them down for spell components. The dogs are both skeletal guard dogs that 'play dead' unless someone comes close.
In another system, I also played an Ogre who was a genius (as Ogres go...he was as intelligent as a typical Human). He'd been driven from his tribe because he was 'weird' and in order to blend in, he'd learned to act dumb.
The Atypical Ogre is cliche (but no less good for that), but I love the archaeologist necromancer. Brilliant idea! Love it when people use mechanics in quirky ways!
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I originally came up with the idea as part of a challenge. A friend asked if I could make up any sort of character and I claimed that I could. He smirked and said 'Happy Necromancer!' I scribbled down my idea and I liked it so much that I expanded on it later!
Thanks for the praise.
Amorphous Bob- A gelatinous cube so good at capturing adventurers that he collapsed in on himself from all the weight he carried. Juiblex sought to reward him, so he was granted warlock levels and sentience, which he was tasked with using to disguise himself as a humanoid and sell off his wares (loot off of dissolved adventurers), to bring the gold to his master. His hypothetical arc consists of having an existential crisis about whether the 'gift' of self-awareness was truly a gift, or a curse because he's become aware that he can never touch someone without hurting them, and also he talks like a car salesman.
(he came from a dream wayy before the plasmoid was introduced, so in the character sheet i made him, he has all the usual gelatinous cube negative stats, except for a high charisma and enough intelligence to be coherent lmao)
:)
Wait, do Druids have Enchantment spells? All I see is Charm Person. This is horrible.
One of the worst (if not the worst) is any character that doesn't take 'no' as an answer when attempting to seduce another character. (They're the worst in my mind. I won't let them roll anything for a character that's simply not into them and will have the locals and guards get involved if the player character persists in situations that fail. Too bad if they don't like it. No means no even in D&D.)
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 came up with a funny idea for a character very recently, and I need to share it.
Craig 'The Demolitionist' is a guy who really, really loves his job. He works in a demolition crew that call themselves 'The Boomers' because they- well, they make things go boom! In combat, Craig uses almost entirely explosives: Some magical, some not. His entire kit consists of a horrid amalgam of Ranger, Rogue, and Sorcerer: Rogue for evading explosions and fast work with hucking bombs at foes, Sorcerer for the general fire power, and Ranger because of Goodberry: A spell Craig only has because of something hilarious I read one time..
The funny thing that inspired me to pick Goodberry for Craig is basically explaining how since a Goodberry has enough calories to sustain any creature, it has enough to sustain the biggest creature: A tarrasque. They did the math, and apparently for that kind of nutrition, you need 3.8 million calories to be crammed into a single Goodberry... and the spell gives you ten. More math ensues, and 3.8 million calories equates to about 16 million joules of energy: Comparable to some explosives... You can see where this is going, right?
Regardless of if the Goodberry nonsense actually works, he has several other methods of getting some explosive power into his burn-scar covered hand (which only have eight fingers total due to... well, you can probably guess why). I haven't played this character yet: I only just finished his character sheet, and I'm ecstatic to see the chaos that Craig can create.
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)
Any class other than rogue... and their name is Rogue. That's literally it.
Also, my half-elf ranger, Qiri, whose wood elf druid mom keeps sending them a Philter of Love whenever they use up the previous one so that chaos can ensue. Without fail. I have no idea how this mom keeps finding Qiri's location.
I had another idea. Warlock whose patron is their otherworldly romantic partner. The partner is paranoid because the warlock is an idiot cinnamon roll with 8 hp who gets into way too much trouble, so they became a patron to give the warlock buffs and spells and things. But their idea is basically "If there's no one in the room to hurt you, you're safe." So all the spells are attack ones.
All righty then me and my party’s favorite character is urr’lok the goblin rogue now this may not sound so crazy but urr’lok is 2 foot 4 inches tall 24 pounds and can not affectively wield a rapier so I gave him 20 different daggers and knives and started playing I want I mention he's a serious alcoholic and always drunk
A moon Druid who acts like an animal normally and acts like a human when in wildshape.
A kenku bard, it would either be the best bard, or it would be the worst, have you ever heard those memes where they get words from a youtubers video and compile it with other words to make them sing a song it would either sound like that, or exactly like the original singer, how cool would that be, and if you used some spell to make you look like the original singer...