My favorite that I've come up with myself is a very smart alligator that thinks it's a dragonborn. He carries a dagger in his mouth and if anyone tries to say that he's not a dragonborn he stabs them in the ankles.
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
Character Name: Frumplestiltskin (combination of Rumpelstiltskin and Frumpkin from Cit Role)
Race Tabaxi, Class: Wild magic Sorcerer
Frumplestiltskin died and a was reincarnated by a druid, it was the druids first ever attempt at a Reincarnation spell and the first time he had seen a Tabaxi and the spell went a little...wrong...Frumplestiltskin came back as a Cat, a normal house hold cat. He still has all the same ability scores, spells etc he just has the size and appearance of a cat. This will cause some issues with acquiring magical items but the gem he used as an arcane focus will certainly spiff up his collar. Gameplay wise he has paws that are as dextrous as a humans so somatic components are not an issue. Whether the issue witht eh reincarnation spell was caused by a wild magic surge or other issue is unknown.
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Kalashtar Great Old One Warlock. Name doesn't really matter, and it'll keep this applicable to more people. We'll use Y as their name for reference purposes
Y was a Great Old One themselves, and had the mighty plan of taking over the material plane. Upon opening a portal and passing through, Y found themselves in the puny body of a human (Kalashtar for powers that make Y more mystical), as the world was occupied by humans with minds too tiny to comprehend the full scale and might of Y. To fit the mold of what the world saw Y as, the Great Old One was compressed into a fraction of their power, and into the shape of a human, because the world could not comprehend their power.
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.
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
I played in a one shot with a guy who looked like a 7’ tall paladin in full white plate mail but was actually a 3’ tall kobold sitting in the armor’s chest cavity operating the controls. The kobold’s name was Algarth, the suit of armor’s fake name was Kurt von Marlow.
Oh and one of my early character concepts: a thirteen year old girl laying in a meadow under the full moon is struck by an especially intense moonbeam and transformed into a Chosen of Selune the moon goddess. (Not really weird, just not very coherently thought out.)
Not a character, but an NPC idea I came up with for an Ettin Doctor, who was born a runt (still tall but scrawny, though this still has him pretty strong) but very intelligent. One head is a Doctor Physical, who does a good job of healing people and such, and the other head is a Doctor of Philosophy, and is absolutely no help; he just tries to engage everyone in philosophical debates, and makes a good deal of comments. The Doctors' name is OggiNogg.
I'm still going to go with an Elven kingdom with elegant names who are extremely brutish and barbaric and Orc invaders with barbaric names who are extravagant, learned, and well-cultured.
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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 played a 3e orc paladin of Pelor(Oerthian sun god) who had a strength of five. He had an eight at 11th level with gauntlets of ogre power(They gave two points to your strength score then). He rode a donkey and used a flame tongue.
Hello fellow D&D geeks! New to the site and excited to get back into D&D after being retired for like 30 yrs. This is my first post in the forum., and I knew I would find a place to post this guy! Note, if you like him he is currently unavailable due to already being picked up for campaign. This character takes inspirational elements from the character uncle Ruckus from boondocks, so I'm not ripping off the idea for anyone who recognizes it. If you don't, you will likely find it very funny, but knowing about that show and character adds some additional funny context... Anyway.
Meet Ruckus Elfwyn
Orphaned Mountain Dwarf with Elvish Tourette Syndrom and believes he has and Elf with Elvitiligo(A very serious life threatening condition that causes him to gradually turn into a dwarf )
I have actually fully written out the backstory for Rucks and had originally post it here in my excitement, but then realized that was more appropriate in the back story thread under spoiler tags, so I moved in there. It's quite amusing(I mean just read the description) and I would love for people to read it and comment/provide feedback/insult my attempts at humor.
Tonight I'm going to write up a Junky Bard I think. He's an addict. A hardcore addict of not just one but many vices, so there will definitely be some kind of addiction mechanic worked in for the DM to use that influences the characters decisions to varying degrees. Definitely going to be a bit of a brawler with the potential to be a great musician if commits to an instrument. The hold up there is that it's hard to commit to an instrument when you're constantly breaking it, and this the general blight of this characters existence. He's always breaking shit. Usually his, but not always, which of course is a problem. It's very hard to learn the lute. Even if you have grandads magical lute that was past down(stolen) to you. Even more so if that lute was just smashed into the face of someone who insulted your performance. The real problem with splintering your treasured family heirloom to pieces across the face of a half orc is that.... well first. You now have no more lute. Much less one that was handed down to you by your pappy. Repairable?... Definitely not. Part of it is embedded into the face of the half orc(good luck retrieving those bits), he swallowed a good portion of the rest of it just to spite you and show you how little it actually hurt him, and at this point you hold in your hand a piece of wood with a few strings and splinters hanging from it. More likely to hinder your ability to attack or defend rather than help it. You should probably drop it and run now...
A lizardfolk who owns and and wants to expand his Tavern to become a multidimensional restaurant that sells all sorts of normally inedible meat or things from dangerous creatures such an Abyssal chicken and make it into fried abyssal chicken legs, beholder burger, ooze soup etc... and the name of the place called (still deciding on the name but it starts with a K)'s Fried Abyssal Chicken Taven.
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Born under the watch of something from the furthest corners of the far realms.... It knows all.... it sees all... and it asks: "What is it that you want to see?"... and my answer is... ALL"
A lizardfolk who owns and and wants to expand his Tavern to become a multidimensional restaurant that sells all sorts of normally inedible meat or things from dangerous creatures such an Abyssal chicken and make it into fried abyssal chicken legs, beholder burger, ooze soup etc... and the name of the place called (still deciding on the name but it starts with a K)'s Fried Abyssal Chicken Taven.
Love it! A quest for this character could be taking part in the D&D universe equivalent of Iron Chef! I'm thinking the secret ingredient would be something gnarly you have to successfully kill with your team in order to then prepare in the meal. Dimensional portals for your sous chefs to jump through to grab other ingredients from various places. Maybe they come... Maybe they don't. If they don't... Well crap.. Better find a good substitute for Gnomish onions, or your gonna lose... and you do not want to lose the D&D version of Iron Chef. Le't just say the secret ingredient for the next episode hasn't been announced yet....
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
Reverse smokey the bear? Is that like a bear person who sets forests on fire, or a person bear who keeps fire from catching on forests?
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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.
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
Reverse smokey the bear? Is that like a bear person who sets forests on fire, or a person bear who keeps fire from catching on forests?
A Wildfire Druid that burns forests down so the ashes can help new trees grow in.
Optional: Wild Shaping into a bear to REALLY pull off the look. Either that or reskin Orc or Goliath as a bear person.
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
Reverse smokey the bear? Is that like a bear person who sets forests on fire, or a person bear who keeps fire from catching on forests?
A Wildfire Druid that burns forests down so the ashes can help new trees grow in.
Optional: Wild Shaping into a bear to REALLY pull off the look. Either that or reskin Orc or Goliath as a bear person.
That seems like a great idea.
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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.
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
Reverse smokey the bear? Is that like a bear person who sets forests on fire, or a person bear who keeps fire from catching on forests?
A Wildfire Druid that burns forests down so the ashes can help new trees grow in.
Optional: Wild Shaping into a bear to REALLY pull off the look. Either that or reskin Orc or Goliath as a bear person.
That seems like a great idea.
Thanks! I might play it sometime in the future.
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Drop your favorite ideas for weird characters that you've either heard or came up with yourself. So far the best one I've ever seen is this:
Nikolai Buckman | vampire | bard
Solace Redgrove | tiefling | bard
My favorite that I've come up with myself is a very smart alligator that thinks it's a dragonborn. He carries a dagger in his mouth and if anyone tries to say that he's not a dragonborn he stabs them in the ankles.
Nikolai Buckman | vampire | bard
Solace Redgrove | tiefling | bard
A Warlock of the Microwave. A surfer Elf Druid who knows a lot about fish, but not about anything else. Iron man, except he's a Kobold. Lizardfolk Rune Knight that turns into a Kaiju. Centaur that duel wields lances while riding a horse. Reverse Smokey the Bear. The list goes on...
A weird one I came up with a while back:
Character Name: Frumplestiltskin (combination of Rumpelstiltskin and Frumpkin from Cit Role)
Race Tabaxi, Class: Wild magic Sorcerer
Frumplestiltskin died and a was reincarnated by a druid, it was the druids first ever attempt at a Reincarnation spell and the first time he had seen a Tabaxi and the spell went a little...wrong...Frumplestiltskin came back as a Cat, a normal house hold cat. He still has all the same ability scores, spells etc he just has the size and appearance of a cat. This will cause some issues with acquiring magical items but the gem he used as an arcane focus will certainly spiff up his collar. Gameplay wise he has paws that are as dextrous as a humans so somatic components are not an issue. Whether the issue witht eh reincarnation spell was caused by a wild magic surge or other issue is unknown.
Kalashtar Great Old One Warlock. Name doesn't really matter, and it'll keep this applicable to more people. We'll use Y as their name for reference purposes
Y was a Great Old One themselves, and had the mighty plan of taking over the material plane. Upon opening a portal and passing through, Y found themselves in the puny body of a human (Kalashtar for powers that make Y more mystical), as the world was occupied by humans with minds too tiny to comprehend the full scale and might of Y. To fit the mold of what the world saw Y as, the Great Old One was compressed into a fraction of their power, and into the shape of a human, because the world could not comprehend their power.
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.
a goblin merchant
Outside the Lines Fantasy – A collection of self published fiction stories.
I played in a one shot with a guy who looked like a 7’ tall paladin in full white plate mail but was actually a 3’ tall kobold sitting in the armor’s chest cavity operating the controls. The kobold’s name was Algarth, the suit of armor’s fake name was Kurt von Marlow.
Oh and one of my early character concepts: a thirteen year old girl laying in a meadow under the full moon is struck by an especially intense moonbeam and transformed into a Chosen of Selune the moon goddess. (Not really weird, just not very coherently thought out.)
Not a character, but an NPC idea I came up with for an Ettin Doctor, who was born a runt (still tall but scrawny, though this still has him pretty strong) but very intelligent. One head is a Doctor Physical, who does a good job of healing people and such, and the other head is a Doctor of Philosophy, and is absolutely no help; he just tries to engage everyone in philosophical debates, and makes a good deal of comments. The Doctors' name is OggiNogg.
Ogg: "damn, we've lost him, he's dead."
Nogg: "Ah, but did he ever truly live?"
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I'm still going to go with an Elven kingdom with elegant names who are extremely brutish and barbaric and Orc invaders with barbaric names who are extravagant, learned, and well-cultured.
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 played a 3e orc paladin of Pelor(Oerthian sun god) who had a strength of five. He had an eight at 11th level with gauntlets of ogre power(They gave two points to your strength score then). He rode a donkey and used a flame tongue.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Hello fellow D&D geeks! New to the site and excited to get back into D&D after being retired for like 30 yrs. This is my first post in the forum., and I knew I would find a place to post this guy! Note, if you like him he is currently unavailable due to already being picked up for campaign. This character takes inspirational elements from the character uncle Ruckus from boondocks, so I'm not ripping off the idea for anyone who recognizes it. If you don't, you will likely find it very funny, but knowing about that show and character adds some additional funny context... Anyway.
Meet Ruckus Elfwyn
Tonight I'm going to write up a Junky Bard I think. He's an addict. A hardcore addict of not just one but many vices, so there will definitely be some kind of addiction mechanic worked in for the DM to use that influences the characters decisions to varying degrees. Definitely going to be a bit of a brawler with the potential to be a great musician if commits to an instrument. The hold up there is that it's hard to commit to an instrument when you're constantly breaking it, and this the general blight of this characters existence. He's always breaking shit. Usually his, but not always, which of course is a problem. It's very hard to learn the lute. Even if you have grandads magical lute that was past down(stolen) to you. Even more so if that lute was just smashed into the face of someone who insulted your performance. The real problem with splintering your treasured family heirloom to pieces across the face of a half orc is that.... well first. You now have no more lute. Much less one that was handed down to you by your pappy. Repairable?... Definitely not. Part of it is embedded into the face of the half orc(good luck retrieving those bits), he swallowed a good portion of the rest of it just to spite you and show you how little it actually hurt him, and at this point you hold in your hand a piece of wood with a few strings and splinters hanging from it. More likely to hinder your ability to attack or defend rather than help it. You should probably drop it and run now...
It writes itself lol
A lizardfolk who owns and and wants to expand his Tavern to become a multidimensional restaurant that sells all sorts of normally inedible meat or things from dangerous creatures such an Abyssal chicken and make it into fried abyssal chicken legs, beholder burger, ooze soup etc... and the name of the place called (still deciding on the name but it starts with a K)'s Fried Abyssal Chicken Taven.
Born under the watch of something from the furthest corners of the far realms.... It knows all.... it sees all... and it asks: "What is it that you want to see?"... and my answer is... ALL"
Love it! A quest for this character could be taking part in the D&D universe equivalent of Iron Chef! I'm thinking the secret ingredient would be something gnarly you have to successfully kill with your team in order to then prepare in the meal. Dimensional portals for your sous chefs to jump through to grab other ingredients from various places. Maybe they come... Maybe they don't. If they don't... Well crap.. Better find a good substitute for Gnomish onions, or your gonna lose... and you do not want to lose the D&D version of Iron Chef. Le't just say the secret ingredient for the next episode hasn't been announced yet....
I played a lizardfolk architect once.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Reverse smokey the bear? Is that like a bear person who sets forests on fire, or a person bear who keeps fire from catching on forests?
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.
My homebrew setting: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/story-lore/94809-wakai-a-setting-inspired-by-japanese-folklore-and
This account is kinda old and I haven’t used it in a while
A Wildfire Druid that burns forests down so the ashes can help new trees grow in.
Optional: Wild Shaping into a bear to REALLY pull off the look. Either that or reskin Orc or Goliath as a bear person.
That seems like a great idea.
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.
My homebrew setting: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/story-lore/94809-wakai-a-setting-inspired-by-japanese-folklore-and
This account is kinda old and I haven’t used it in a while
Thanks! I might play it sometime in the future.