I recall seeing somewhere about how lycanthropy changes your alignment when you change, and that were-bears are lawful good, which means that were-bears transform and then go around preventing forest fires and promoting camping safety.
I recall seeing somewhere about how lycanthropy changes your alignment when you change, and that were-bears are lawful good, which means that were-bears transform and then go around preventing forest fires and promoting camping safety.
Well, Neutral Good in 5e, but it's the same idea. Player Characters being Lycanthropes in 5e is a little overpowered (unless every monster has silvered weapons) so maybe make them a reskinned Beasthide Shifter.
A sorcerer who believes he is a warlock who's patron is his waifu, meru the succubus. In reality, he has magic because he is a sorcerer and his patron is actually just a body pillow he carries around
Something I saw in a skit: A necromancer who practically sicks at the sight of dead creatures. (Good thing necromancy isn't only playing around with dead things in 5e.)
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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.
Variant human Way of the Astral Self monk who was born without arms but with innate telekinetic powers (from the Telekinetic feat). When his Astral Arms aren't summoned, he performs Unarmed Strikes by shoulder ramming his target 3 or 4 times in under 6 seconds.
His name is Armando.
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Paladin main who spends most of his D&D time worldbuilding or DMing, not Paladin-ing.
A silly character I made that I would probably use for a oneshot or as a joke character.
A 3 ft. tall generic undead minion named Goober. His Necromancer has been adamant in summoning at least one USEFUL minion, but this Goober guy keeps showing up every. single. dang. time. It's almost like it's a curse. He's attempts to helpful (key word 'attempts') and despite his woefully low statblock, seems to either be.
A. Practically unkillable
or
B. There's a seemingly infinite supply of Goobers that keep showing up
A chicken in a clockwork suit or Gnomish origin. Not a variant Kenku / Aarakocra, or any other as-yet-undiscovered magical lineage. A literal chicken, inside a Gnomish clockwork suit. Uses Autognome stats as his racial base as a PC but ignores the "Don't need to eat, drink or breathe" portion of Mechanical Nature.
A halfling whose parents are monopods. You know those one footed creatures from mythology? Well if one parent has one foot, and the other parent has one foot, and if one plus one equals two, it stands to reason that their child would have two feet, and be a halfling.
Following a similar form of reasoning, the child of a centaur and a mermaid has 1/4 a chance of being a normal human, 1/4 a chance of being a seahorse, 1/4 a chance of being a centaur, and 1/4 a chance of being a mermaid.
A "free" mindflayer seeking a substitute for sustenance of brain-matter from intelligent creatures. (This really exists as a character in an official adventure. It's still weird.) A bugbear with high intelligence as a scientist trying to develop the substitute sustenance for the character noted prior. (Yup. Also exists in the same official adventure. Also weird.)
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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 celestial warlock of Bahamut who refers to their main cantrip as "Baha(Baja) Blast""
(I am legit building this character as a triton whose patron is lying to them about being Bahamut and it's actually something else, but they're such a fanboy about their patron that even after they eventually discover this fact they don't care. also of course their eldritch/baha blasts are neon green/blue)
Wait, I forgot perhaps my most memorable crazy character concept: the Dragonborn Dentist. A Warlock of the Tooth Fairy, he extracts teeth for her in... gruesome ways. His tragic backstory has driven him mad, with but one motive in mind: to collect the teeth.
This sounds horrifying but incredible! Kinda gives me vibes from either Surgeon Simulator or that horror film set Hostel.
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My buddy was super into the Dungeons & Daddies podcast when they first started doing that and made a character for my Waterdeep game that was based off one of the characters. He was a stereotypical suburban dad that was the baseball coach of his sons team. While watching baseball one day his tv started to freak out it sucked him into the Forgotten Realms. I wasn’t super original because he basically made of of the podcast characters but I think the concept was funny enough
An NPC who invariably makes things worse by trying to help. (Let's see how long that person lasts before the party "orchestrates" the NPCs demise.)
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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.
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A Grung Aberrant Mind Sorcerer who thinks he is a Slaad.
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
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RoughCoronet's Greater Wills
I'll also say that reverse smokey the bear sounds awesome as a concept!
I recall seeing somewhere about how lycanthropy changes your alignment when you change, and that were-bears are lawful good, which means that were-bears transform and then go around preventing forest fires and promoting camping safety.
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Well, Neutral Good in 5e, but it's the same idea. Player Characters being Lycanthropes in 5e is a little overpowered (unless every monster has silvered weapons) so maybe make them a reskinned Beasthide Shifter.
A sorcerer who believes he is a warlock who's patron is his waifu, meru the succubus. In reality, he has magic because he is a sorcerer and his patron is actually just a body pillow he carries around
Something I saw in a skit: A necromancer who practically sicks at the sight of dead creatures. (Good thing necromancy isn't only playing around with dead things in 5e.)
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.
Variant human Way of the Astral Self monk who was born without arms but with innate telekinetic powers (from the Telekinetic feat). When his Astral Arms aren't summoned, he performs Unarmed Strikes by shoulder ramming his target 3 or 4 times in under 6 seconds.
His name is Armando.
Paladin main who spends most of his D&D time worldbuilding or DMing, not Paladin-ing.
Dark Elf with germophobia, wears a plague doctor mask partially to obscure his identity but mostly because he is afraid of catching "surface germs".
A silly character I made that I would probably use for a oneshot or as a joke character.
A 3 ft. tall generic undead minion named Goober. His Necromancer has been adamant in summoning at least one USEFUL minion, but this Goober guy keeps showing up every. single. dang. time. It's almost like it's a curse. He's attempts to helpful (key word 'attempts') and despite his woefully low statblock, seems to either be.
A. Practically unkillable
or
B. There's a seemingly infinite supply of Goobers that keep showing up
A chicken in a clockwork suit or Gnomish origin. Not a variant Kenku / Aarakocra, or any other as-yet-undiscovered magical lineage. A literal chicken, inside a Gnomish clockwork suit. Uses Autognome stats as his racial base as a PC but ignores the "Don't need to eat, drink or breathe" portion of Mechanical Nature.
His name is Cluck-Clock.
A halfling whose parents are monopods. You know those one footed creatures from mythology? Well if one parent has one foot, and the other parent has one foot, and if one plus one equals two, it stands to reason that their child would have two feet, and be a halfling.
Following a similar form of reasoning, the child of a centaur and a mermaid has 1/4 a chance of being a normal human, 1/4 a chance of being a seahorse, 1/4 a chance of being a centaur, and 1/4 a chance of being a mermaid.
I learned so much from doing Punnet Squares.
A Mind Flayer who is a Brain Surgeon and eats the brain of his patients whenever he fails a surgery. Also a Mind Flayer who is a Mental Therapist.
"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen" - 1 Timothy 1:17
A "free" mindflayer seeking a substitute for sustenance of brain-matter from intelligent creatures. (This really exists as a character in an official adventure. It's still weird.)
A bugbear with high intelligence as a scientist trying to develop the substitute sustenance for the character noted prior. (Yup. Also exists in the same official adventure. Also weird.)
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 celestial warlock of Bahamut who refers to their main cantrip as "Baha(Baja) Blast""
(I am legit building this character as a triton whose patron is lying to them about being Bahamut and it's actually something else, but they're such a fanboy about their patron that even after they eventually discover this fact they don't care. also of course their eldritch/baha blasts are neon green/blue)
:)
A loxodon warlock of the Great Old One named Horton.
Horton hears Cthulhu!
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.
omfg that's genius
This sounds horrifying but incredible! Kinda gives me vibes from either Surgeon Simulator or that horror film set Hostel.
Fully Homebrew Campaign, feel free to explore it! (Otherworlds inaccessible)
YonStore/Wolf&Rat - Siberius "Sie" Phynxx, Zalanthaar Heavensfield, Keilynn Othraph; Fallout D&D - Zach Koch; Last of Us D&D - Leveth; Town of Agreal - Zalanthaar Heavensfield; Scrap Pile - Æshe; Site-72 - Dr. Elias Shaw; The Electric State - Zachariah; Eris' Fortune - Magi (Maykaa, Mage, Sage); The Nightmare Hold - Keilynn Othraph; Lord's Rest Inn - Lokan'Ahri
My buddy was super into the Dungeons & Daddies podcast when they first started doing that and made a character for my Waterdeep game that was based off one of the characters. He was a stereotypical suburban dad that was the baseball coach of his sons team. While watching baseball one day his tv started to freak out it sucked him into the Forgotten Realms. I wasn’t super original because he basically made of of the podcast characters but I think the concept was funny enough
Nishan, The Benevolent Dungeon Master
a weak dragon that's a coward
I am fire I am death I am awesome
An NPC who invariably makes things worse by trying to help. (Let's see how long that person lasts before the party "orchestrates" the NPCs demise.)
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.