i think i came up with a interesting build idea, he is a variant human (i know i just like it and i need tavern brawler as soon as possible) with the athlete background from mythic odysseys of theros, he would start as a fighter and multiclass with sorcerer (i picked draconic but you can easily pick celestial sorcerer) i needed sorcerer for spells like expeditious retreat and other spells to increase his sports abilities (and draconic gives free mage armor as an unarmored defense so i can have him wear his letterman jacket cause armor is bulky in his opinion) he would mostly be fighter and just 3 levels of sorcerer and his go to weapon is throwing his discuss (hence the tavern brawler since it is a improvised weapon) his sorcerer levels mostly gives him quality of life spells and dragon's breath, part of me wants to take just one level of rogue for expertise in the go to athlete skills to show how good he is at it but i'm on the fence on it what do you guys think cause i tend to ramble
Don't worry too much about being original, just focus on what inspires you. You can have just as much fun playing an elven ranger that you can tell yourself a story about as you can a time-travelling warlock/ fighter/ bard
Don't worry too much about being original, just focus on what inspires you. You can have just as much fun playing an elven ranger that you can tell yourself a story about as you can a time-travelling warlock/ fighter/ bard
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Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
It's important to distinguish the games here. There's D&D and there's Character Builder.
Character Builder is a fun game, but it's ultimately limited in what you can create. If you play it too much you start to see that everything is made of the same building blocks just shifted around a bit. This is because the characters can't actually come to life until you start playing D&D. At that point even two characters that would be identical in Character Builder can become radically different people.
It's important to distinguish the games here. There's D&D and there's Character Builder.
Character Builder is a fun game, but it's ultimately limited in what you can create. If you play it too much you start to see that everything is made of the same building blocks just shifted around a bit. This is because the characters can't actually come to life until you start playing D&D. At that point even two characters that would be identical in Character Builder can become radically different people.
Exactly this. You can make any character you want in the D&D Beyond character builder. You can use every sourcebook, every option available and hand that character to 10 different people.
10 different people will play that exact same character very, very differently and come up with very viable reasons why they feel the other players are doing that character wrong in their portrayal of it.
It's why you see so many people complaining about a character in a popular film or tv franchise. Because they identify with that character, that character is them, until the screenwriters dictate that character does something fans hate and have their Twitter meltdowns and internet polls for.
Look at The Child aka Baby Yoda on the internet just over the last few weeks for a great example. Or Chris Pratt's Starlord character from the Marvel multiverse or when so many "fans" of Last of Us had a mental breakdown over Abby, so much so that they sent death threats to Laura Bailey, the actress (a very lovely and sweet person) and her less than two year-old son for simply portraying that role that was written and directed by people that were not her. She was an actress playing out a role she was cast to play and did the job her employers wanted her to do.
What you do with the character is all on you, the performer of that character. At first, it may seem like a cookie-cutter of what you last played or someone else has played. Make it your own.
First create the person. Their personality, their appearance, their history, their fighting style, their talents and skills, their likes and dislikes, their quirks, their hopes and dreams, their fears and flaws.
Just to laugh at originality, my next sorcerer is going to be a drow aberrant mind, with two scimitars.
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Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
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i think i came up with a interesting build idea, he is a variant human (i know i just like it and i need tavern brawler as soon as possible) with the athlete background from mythic odysseys of theros, he would start as a fighter and multiclass with sorcerer (i picked draconic but you can easily pick celestial sorcerer) i needed sorcerer for spells like expeditious retreat and other spells to increase his sports abilities (and draconic gives free mage armor as an unarmored defense so i can have him wear his letterman jacket cause armor is bulky in his opinion) he would mostly be fighter and just 3 levels of sorcerer and his go to weapon is throwing his discuss (hence the tavern brawler since it is a improvised weapon) his sorcerer levels mostly gives him quality of life spells and dragon's breath, part of me wants to take just one level of rogue for expertise in the go to athlete skills to show how good he is at it but i'm on the fence on it what do you guys think cause i tend to ramble
I would recommend that you play. Then every character will become unique in his or her own way.
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Don't worry too much about being original, just focus on what inspires you. You can have just as much fun playing an elven ranger that you can tell yourself a story about as you can a time-travelling warlock/ fighter/ bard
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Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha
Just play the character. You'll make it unique by being you
Rogue Shadow, the DM (and occasional) PC with schemes of inventive thinking
It's important to distinguish the games here. There's D&D and there's Character Builder.
Character Builder is a fun game, but it's ultimately limited in what you can create. If you play it too much you start to see that everything is made of the same building blocks just shifted around a bit. This is because the characters can't actually come to life until you start playing D&D. At that point even two characters that would be identical in Character Builder can become radically different people.
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Exactly this. You can make any character you want in the D&D Beyond character builder. You can use every sourcebook, every option available and hand that character to 10 different people.
10 different people will play that exact same character very, very differently and come up with very viable reasons why they feel the other players are doing that character wrong in their portrayal of it.
It's why you see so many people complaining about a character in a popular film or tv franchise. Because they identify with that character, that character is them, until the screenwriters dictate that character does something fans hate and have their Twitter meltdowns and internet polls for.
Look at The Child aka Baby Yoda on the internet just over the last few weeks for a great example. Or Chris Pratt's Starlord character from the Marvel multiverse or when so many "fans" of Last of Us had a mental breakdown over Abby, so much so that they sent death threats to Laura Bailey, the actress (a very lovely and sweet person) and her less than two year-old son for simply portraying that role that was written and directed by people that were not her. She was an actress playing out a role she was cast to play and did the job her employers wanted her to do.
What you do with the character is all on you, the performer of that character. At first, it may seem like a cookie-cutter of what you last played or someone else has played. Make it your own.
First create the person. Their personality, their appearance, their history, their fighting style, their talents and skills, their likes and dislikes, their quirks, their hopes and dreams, their fears and flaws.
Then build the character.
Just to laugh at originality, my next sorcerer is going to be a drow aberrant mind, with two scimitars.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha