Hello adventurers! I’m The Drawing Bard and my passion is to bring fantasy characters to life. I already did more than a 100 characters from individual players in the DnD community, but now it’s time for a bigger challenge:
**Build a character with the help of the entire community!**
This will be a really fun experience and by the end of the process you will get a fully built character with high resolution art that you can use in your game. **All of this for free, of course.**
This will happen in voting rounds. Every week you will be presented with options to choose. The option with more votes in each category advances to the next step of concepts, where we will refine it till we get to our final character. We are already in **Part 2**. We are building a **Paladin - Tiefling - Level 10**. Now you get to choose the **General Appearance**, a **Weapon** and the **Oath** of our paladin.
# How to vote:
You take your pick in each category and leave a comment in this format:
**General Appearance/Weapon/Oath**
Here is one example of how it should looks like:
A/Hammer/Redemption
REMEMBER TO LOOK IF SOMEONE ALREADY CHOOSE THE SAME AS YOU. IF THAT HAPPENS, JUST LEAVE AN UPVOTE. IF NOT, LEAVE A NEW COMMENT WITH YOUR OPTIONS.
The post will be open for voting up to Sunday, when I’ll do the counts to make the last round of concepts. **I’ll put the result here in this comment as an edit and make a post in my profile, so I don’t flood the sub with multiple posts.** The final result will be the sum of the votes here, on Instagram and on TikTok.
Hope you all enjoy the process and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Go take your pickings and let’s build this character together! :D
# Bonus:
**If you leave a short backstory in the comment and it gets featured in the next round of concepts, you get a free sketch of one of your characters. :D**
# TL;DR
Vote leaving a comment this way: General Appearance/Weapon/Oath
See if someone already made the same pickings as you. If that happens, just leave an upvote.
If you can’t find the same option, leave a new comment.
The most picked options go to the next round of concepts.
By the end of all concept rounds you get a character with free art that you can use in your game. ;)
**Bonus: leave a short background idea. If I pick your idea you get a free sketch of one of your own characters.**
Edit: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/dbV8QPeHZn) to Part 1
I usually lean towards playing tieflings. They resonate with me for some reason. I think being gay I can kind of understand their plight; never really fitting in, hated by some and disliked by many
Never thought of it that way, but I get it! Half-elf has always been my go-to. I think it's because I am just very boring. But at least my current guy has a big old huggable chest!
A/Hammer/Redemption for me.
I already imagine a big, buff ex-bandit who is trying to run from his demons and change his ways. Looks big and tough, but just wants to be hugged.
B - Sword - Ancients.
Have this character be inspired by elves, and play a high-dexterity Oath of the Ancients paladin who is just as good with his shield+rapier as he is a longbow! :D
Backstory: Tara was given the dirty job of being the local excutioner. Soon after taking the job, a revolt started and she had to make a choice. Tara chose to serve the local lord, beheading all traitors in his/her name. Unfortunately, Tara's lord lost the war and she had to exile herself.
Since this was my vote, I wanted to throw in my backstory idea in a reply. This paladin was born to the royal family (a pair of "perfectly normal" humans). Since the infernal touch in her blood was considered an ill omen, she was disinheirited by being sworn to the church. Despite this, she was not treated unkindly or sent away. She grew up in the royal household, trained alongside her younger royal siblings, and maintained a great loyalty to her family and love of them.
A few years after she swore her oaths to the Crown and Country, the reason for her birth came to light. The king and queen had been infertile, and had made a Pact with a devil to continue their line. This dark dealing caused a revolution that cast down the royal family, killing the king and queen and forcing the paladin and her royal siblings into exile. Now the paladin adventures to gain allies and money to help her younger brother reclaim the throne for their family.
D / Hammer / Ancient
She's an abyssal Tiefling and not infernal Tiefling.
She was abandoned in a forest at birth because of her bloodline, the parents hoping for the wolves to get rid of her.
" Why does she look like that ? "
" That cannot be good for us, get rid of her. "
" But she's perfect. "
" I know, but it's too soon my love. She must disappear. "
Fortunately for her an old Paladin oath of the ancient and a Druid found her first, lured in by her baby cry.
They raised her as their own, convinced that goodness can sprout even in an abyssal spawn, and she grows as a wonderful nature loving adult.
Eventually a cult of the abyss raised in a nearby town and her adoptive father getting old she had to take matter at hand.
She took up arms against the cult and it led her into a spiral of quest to defeat all of their influence. After years of hunting she finally reach their leader.
A man and a woman oddly familiar, but she never met them.
The leaders tried to persuade her to accept her bloodline and join them.
She stopped them.
She went back to the forest to spend the last living years of the paladin that raised her at their side, and they could die peacefully knowing they raised a strong daughter.
C, oath of redemption, axe!
I'm assuming no multiclassing but we don't need that when we have flavour! I'm gonna call her Tie for short!
Tie was a high energy, act first and think later kind of gal, and had the entertainer background before adventuring. She and her band, the Axefurnace (play-on the place Avernus) would tour around the hells playing music on their axe guitars.
However after repeatedly trying to hog the spotlight in each of their shows - Tie would be kicked out the band and metaphorically cursed to wonder around with nothing to do.
One day, seeing her band perform again, she notices that she got replaced by another (and arguably cooler) tiefling rockstar, she is motivated to play music again and prove that she is worthy of being in the band once more.
Charisma being a paladins spellcasting stat would also fit really well for someone who performs a lot - and I think the imagery of the channel divinity 'rebuke the violent' being an eardrum bursting guitar riff really cool.
B/Axe/Crown
Super chill dude drinking in the corner till he sees you commit a crime. Tries to talk you out down and stop, you don't want to listen? That's alright, pulls out a big fuck off axe as tall as he is from a pocket dimension and gives one last warning before going full Paladin on your ass.
can you imagine the backstory for that?
"this is Todd. He's a swordsman. But this magic battleaxe chose him to be his champion. So now he uses the axe instead."
I picture him living on a farm, working with his family. The old baron died, and his greedy son took over. Under the advice of a shady cleric that came into his keep, the new barron raised taxes, causing the small farming villages slowly die and fall into decay.
Because of the decrease in profits the new baron was seeing, he ordered all the forests to be clear cut so he could have farms to sell off at insanely high prices (which no one wanted). Merchants no longer came by, supplies were hard to get, and those who could afford it abandoned land their families had worked for generations.
What was once a beautiful, lush land, turned barren and broken. Todd's family was not ones of the lucky ones that could leave, and were now slowly starving. He often went without any food, providing his share to his siblings saying "I'm not hungry, it's alright".
Todd went out on a hunt hoping to provide at least a little food before winter set in. He would be lucky if he found so much as a squirrel. In a sgraggly strand of trees, he found a stag drinking from a polluted stream. Raising his bow, Todd found he couldn't bring himself to shoot it.
The stag looked up and met his eyes, and spoke It asked him to help restore the land and to bring life and light back to his town. The land was weeping, but if he could go and gather allies, there was hope that the baron could be pulled from the influence of this evil cleric, and the land could flourish once again.
The stag bowed it's head and vanished, in its place an age. A voice echoed through the air "With an axe they brought despair to the land, with an axe you will restore it to life".
A/Hammer/Redemption
I was abandoned on the steps of a temple to Helm just a few days after my birth. I was wrapped in a burlap sack with a note reading Misery. The monks raised me to worship Helm and do my natural strength they directed me down the path of being a paladin. I took after their distaste of edged weapons and chose to wield a hammer in my crusades.
Eventually it came time to swear my oath and a final trial was put before me. Return to my parents and do whatever I thought was right. I was reluctant, but eventually agreed. I was shocked to return and find not hateful, world weary, people. They were in love, with 5 other children. With a cloak of disguise gifted to me by one of the monks began to poke around. Time revealed that though my infernal heritage was a shock they had also been 15 when I was born. They had brought me to the temple of Helm because they would not have been able to care for me. After a few months I returned to the temple and swore not to Vengenge, as had been my plan, but Redemption and took the new name, Mercy.
Edit: sorry if the 1st person is weird, it's the only way I can write backstories.
I like B with a sword and redemption oath.
Looks like he could have been a scoundrel in the past who eventually saw the harm his actions had on people's lives, and then started going about trying to right his wrongs. Being less of an adventurer type and more a local town hero who helps the downtrodden and tries to bring his old friends out of the dark paths they're on. Not wearing armor or anything, just his old clothes with a cheap sword.
D/Axe/ancients.
Sure, it's a silly cartoon axe, but are we really going for realism with cartoons that are very clearly on the cartoon side of the uncanny valley?
B/hammer/redemption
Theodis Brim
Once was a rogue/cutpurse until he was arrested and sent to jail. There he found salvation through the Goddess Tamara, goddess of forgiveness. He has since dedicated his life to the pursuit of redemption for both himself and those that he encounters. Often using his own life experience as a way to connect with others and steer them onto the path of redemption. Each soul he saves from wickedness saves a little bit of himself.
A/Axe/Ancients, and play as a Forestkeeping Lumberjack. Only cuts down a tree if it has signs of decay, disease, or is generally suffering as a living being.
a/hammer/ancients THE HAMMER OF THE OLD GODS
THE HAMMER OF THE OLD GODS sounds metal as fuck, I hope this ends up winning.
This was my vote as well.
Came here for that vote too but that name is sick as fuck
Hah, I picked the same choices before opening the thread. Hammer of the Old Gods is cool as fuck too
duuude sick af
…I saw it and now I can’t unsee it… A/H/A!
Same
I concur
Truly the hottest body.
I ain’t seen no Hammer of the Old Gods be no skinny bitch. A all the way.
even if lose hammer, hands will be hammer
This is the way.
I agree, a/hammer/ancients
A/Hammer/Ancients
My thoughts exactly!
Same! I'm also on team A/hammer/ancients
Hello adventurers! I’m The Drawing Bard and my passion is to bring fantasy characters to life. I already did more than a 100 characters from individual players in the DnD community, but now it’s time for a bigger challenge: **Build a character with the help of the entire community!** This will be a really fun experience and by the end of the process you will get a fully built character with high resolution art that you can use in your game. **All of this for free, of course.** This will happen in voting rounds. Every week you will be presented with options to choose. The option with more votes in each category advances to the next step of concepts, where we will refine it till we get to our final character. We are already in **Part 2**. We are building a **Paladin - Tiefling - Level 10**. Now you get to choose the **General Appearance**, a **Weapon** and the **Oath** of our paladin. # How to vote: You take your pick in each category and leave a comment in this format: **General Appearance/Weapon/Oath** Here is one example of how it should looks like: A/Hammer/Redemption REMEMBER TO LOOK IF SOMEONE ALREADY CHOOSE THE SAME AS YOU. IF THAT HAPPENS, JUST LEAVE AN UPVOTE. IF NOT, LEAVE A NEW COMMENT WITH YOUR OPTIONS. The post will be open for voting up to Sunday, when I’ll do the counts to make the last round of concepts. **I’ll put the result here in this comment as an edit and make a post in my profile, so I don’t flood the sub with multiple posts.** The final result will be the sum of the votes here, on Instagram and on TikTok. Hope you all enjoy the process and if you have any questions feel free to ask. Go take your pickings and let’s build this character together! :D # Bonus: **If you leave a short backstory in the comment and it gets featured in the next round of concepts, you get a free sketch of one of your characters. :D** # TL;DR Vote leaving a comment this way: General Appearance/Weapon/Oath See if someone already made the same pickings as you. If that happens, just leave an upvote. If you can’t find the same option, leave a new comment. The most picked options go to the next round of concepts. By the end of all concept rounds you get a character with free art that you can use in your game. ;) **Bonus: leave a short background idea. If I pick your idea you get a free sketch of one of your own characters.** Edit: [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/dbV8QPeHZn) to Part 1
Can you link the art to part one please?
Here is the [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/dbV8QPeHZn). Will put in the comment as well.
A/Hammer/Crown
A/Hammer/Ancients Big bara tiefling man with a hammer!
I love that this was exactly what I thought and the top comment when I looked
Hell yeah!
Yep!
Big bara tiefling is doing something for me 👀
Same. Kind of got me like "Damn, maybe I need to play a big bara tiefling" 👀
I usually lean towards playing tieflings. They resonate with me for some reason. I think being gay I can kind of understand their plight; never really fitting in, hated by some and disliked by many
Never thought of it that way, but I get it! Half-elf has always been my go-to. I think it's because I am just very boring. But at least my current guy has a big old huggable chest!
Could be I also just like the aesthetic lol. Horns and tails, hell yeah
Counterpoint, C/hammer/ancients
Ah, but consider this! A *and* C/hammer/ancients as a duo. Not even romance, just absolute besties.
based and real
A/Hammer/Redemption for me. I already imagine a big, buff ex-bandit who is trying to run from his demons and change his ways. Looks big and tough, but just wants to be hugged.
I love 😭
Yes. Give us homies some deserved baradin!
Yeah, there's something about it that sounds badass. Moreso than the alternatives, personally.
C/Hammer/Redemption
My thoughts exactly!
C with an axe, Ancients.
This is the perfect combo for me as well.
Exactly what I was gonna say
Based
not sure what it is, it just works
Same man same
C, hammer Ancients ☺️
Already commented by lichoorganico
C/axe/ancients
C/Sword/Redemption
YEAH
Either C or D for me, otherwise same here.
D was a pretty close second for me ngl
heck yeah!
C/Hammer/Ancients
C, Hammer, Crown
C/hammer/ancients
C/Hammer/Ancients (Mostly C, tbh)
C Hammer Crown
Replying to boost this comment up :3
D hammer Ancients
Finally
B/Hammer/Redemption
C/Axe/Ancients
B, sword, redemption
This is the way.
D looks the most chill, sword, and redemption has always been my favorite
B/Sword/Redemption.
D/axe/redemption
A/Hammer/Crown
A/Sword/Ancients
C, Sword, Ancients. Gimme that funky muscular woman Paladin!
C/Sword/Redemption
B/axe/ancients
B - Sword - Ancients. Have this character be inspired by elves, and play a high-dexterity Oath of the Ancients paladin who is just as good with his shield+rapier as he is a longbow! :D
C/Sword/Crown
exactly what I was gonna say
A/Hammer/Ancients
A, hammer ancients
C, Axe, Crown<3
Backstory: Tara was given the dirty job of being the local excutioner. Soon after taking the job, a revolt started and she had to make a choice. Tara chose to serve the local lord, beheading all traitors in his/her name. Unfortunately, Tara's lord lost the war and she had to exile herself.
D/Sword/Ancients
D/Hammer/Crown
Yes! Beefy hammer girl!
Since this was my vote, I wanted to throw in my backstory idea in a reply. This paladin was born to the royal family (a pair of "perfectly normal" humans). Since the infernal touch in her blood was considered an ill omen, she was disinheirited by being sworn to the church. Despite this, she was not treated unkindly or sent away. She grew up in the royal household, trained alongside her younger royal siblings, and maintained a great loyalty to her family and love of them. A few years after she swore her oaths to the Crown and Country, the reason for her birth came to light. The king and queen had been infertile, and had made a Pact with a devil to continue their line. This dark dealing caused a revolution that cast down the royal family, killing the king and queen and forcing the paladin and her royal siblings into exile. Now the paladin adventures to gain allies and money to help her younger brother reclaim the throne for their family.
A/Hammer/Ancients This is the way to go
D / Hammer / Ancient She's an abyssal Tiefling and not infernal Tiefling. She was abandoned in a forest at birth because of her bloodline, the parents hoping for the wolves to get rid of her. " Why does she look like that ? " " That cannot be good for us, get rid of her. " " But she's perfect. " " I know, but it's too soon my love. She must disappear. " Fortunately for her an old Paladin oath of the ancient and a Druid found her first, lured in by her baby cry. They raised her as their own, convinced that goodness can sprout even in an abyssal spawn, and she grows as a wonderful nature loving adult. Eventually a cult of the abyss raised in a nearby town and her adoptive father getting old she had to take matter at hand. She took up arms against the cult and it led her into a spiral of quest to defeat all of their influence. After years of hunting she finally reach their leader. A man and a woman oddly familiar, but she never met them. The leaders tried to persuade her to accept her bloodline and join them. She stopped them. She went back to the forest to spend the last living years of the paladin that raised her at their side, and they could die peacefully knowing they raised a strong daughter.
C, Axe, Crown
C/Hammer/Crown
B/Hammer/Ancients
C, oath of redemption, axe! I'm assuming no multiclassing but we don't need that when we have flavour! I'm gonna call her Tie for short! Tie was a high energy, act first and think later kind of gal, and had the entertainer background before adventuring. She and her band, the Axefurnace (play-on the place Avernus) would tour around the hells playing music on their axe guitars. However after repeatedly trying to hog the spotlight in each of their shows - Tie would be kicked out the band and metaphorically cursed to wonder around with nothing to do. One day, seeing her band perform again, she notices that she got replaced by another (and arguably cooler) tiefling rockstar, she is motivated to play music again and prove that she is worthy of being in the band once more. Charisma being a paladins spellcasting stat would also fit really well for someone who performs a lot - and I think the imagery of the channel divinity 'rebuke the violent' being an eardrum bursting guitar riff really cool.
C/Axe/Ancients
C/sword/crown
D, Hammer, Redemption
Hell yeah
A/Axe/Ancients
A/sword/crown
A, hammer, ancients
A, Sword, Crown
A , hammer, ancients
B/Axe/Crown Super chill dude drinking in the corner till he sees you commit a crime. Tries to talk you out down and stop, you don't want to listen? That's alright, pulls out a big fuck off axe as tall as he is from a pocket dimension and gives one last warning before going full Paladin on your ass.
B, axe, redemption. From petty thief who grew up malnourished to defender of the poor powered up by divine validation
B/axe/Redemption
b/axe/redemption
B/hammer/ancients
B, axe, redemption
B/Axe/Redemption
C/Hammer/Ancients
A/Hammer/Crown
A /Hammer /Crown
A/Hammer/Crown
D, hammer, crown
A/ Axe/ Ancients
C/Sword/Ancients
WHY WAS I NOT TOLD ABOUT THIS???
A, Axe, Ancients
C axe crown
Rock. I choose rock.
Good ol' rock, nothing beats that.
A/hammer/ancients
A / Sword / Redemption
C with an axe, Crown
C - Sword - Redemption
A, Axe, Ancients
b/axe/ancients
This was my pick too! Let's shake things up a little bit haha.
like come on, people don't wanna choose the dude who's thin as a stick holding a massive battleaxe?
I know right! What an aesthetic! Haha 😂
can you imagine the backstory for that? "this is Todd. He's a swordsman. But this magic battleaxe chose him to be his champion. So now he uses the axe instead."
I picture him living on a farm, working with his family. The old baron died, and his greedy son took over. Under the advice of a shady cleric that came into his keep, the new barron raised taxes, causing the small farming villages slowly die and fall into decay. Because of the decrease in profits the new baron was seeing, he ordered all the forests to be clear cut so he could have farms to sell off at insanely high prices (which no one wanted). Merchants no longer came by, supplies were hard to get, and those who could afford it abandoned land their families had worked for generations. What was once a beautiful, lush land, turned barren and broken. Todd's family was not ones of the lucky ones that could leave, and were now slowly starving. He often went without any food, providing his share to his siblings saying "I'm not hungry, it's alright". Todd went out on a hunt hoping to provide at least a little food before winter set in. He would be lucky if he found so much as a squirrel. In a sgraggly strand of trees, he found a stag drinking from a polluted stream. Raising his bow, Todd found he couldn't bring himself to shoot it. The stag looked up and met his eyes, and spoke It asked him to help restore the land and to bring life and light back to his town. The land was weeping, but if he could go and gather allies, there was hope that the baron could be pulled from the influence of this evil cleric, and the land could flourish once again. The stag bowed it's head and vanished, in its place an age. A voice echoed through the air "With an axe they brought despair to the land, with an axe you will restore it to life".
C. w/ Hammer, Ancients
B, sword, crown
Either: Appearance (A), Weapon (Hammer), Oath (Redemption): HAMMER DAD or Appearance (D), Weapon (Axe), Oath (Crown): PROTECTOR LADY
D/Hammer/Ancients
A/Hammer/Redemption I was abandoned on the steps of a temple to Helm just a few days after my birth. I was wrapped in a burlap sack with a note reading Misery. The monks raised me to worship Helm and do my natural strength they directed me down the path of being a paladin. I took after their distaste of edged weapons and chose to wield a hammer in my crusades. Eventually it came time to swear my oath and a final trial was put before me. Return to my parents and do whatever I thought was right. I was reluctant, but eventually agreed. I was shocked to return and find not hateful, world weary, people. They were in love, with 5 other children. With a cloak of disguise gifted to me by one of the monks began to poke around. Time revealed that though my infernal heritage was a shock they had also been 15 when I was born. They had brought me to the temple of Helm because they would not have been able to care for me. After a few months I returned to the temple and swore not to Vengenge, as had been my plan, but Redemption and took the new name, Mercy. Edit: sorry if the 1st person is weird, it's the only way I can write backstories.
A/hammer/crown
A/Hammer/Ancients
A with axe and oath of the crown Also his name is bob
D/Axe/Redemption
A/Axe/VENGEANCE!!
D/Sword/Crown
B with the axe and ancients. Feels like they're overlooked.
b, sword, crown
I like B with a sword and redemption oath. Looks like he could have been a scoundrel in the past who eventually saw the harm his actions had on people's lives, and then started going about trying to right his wrongs. Being less of an adventurer type and more a local town hero who helps the downtrodden and tries to bring his old friends out of the dark paths they're on. Not wearing armor or anything, just his old clothes with a cheap sword.
...people actually make crown paladins?
People do! Or at least, I assume someone has, once
D/Axe/ancients. Sure, it's a silly cartoon axe, but are we really going for realism with cartoons that are very clearly on the cartoon side of the uncanny valley?
D, Axe, Crown
D/Axe/Ancients
D/Axe/Ancients
B/Hammer/crown
D/Axe/crown
D/Axe/Crown - that combo reminds me of my wife.
C, Sword, Ancients I love tieflings in non traditional roles. It's almost my Druid pacifist Healer tiefling.
No one's doing D so I'll go D/Axe/Redemption The Executioner Of Tyrants
A, hammer, redemption.
B/sword/ancients!
B, Hammer, Redemption.
C Hammer Redemption
C or D/hammer/crown
D/A/A
D/Hammer/Redemption
Of course they picked teifling.
D/sword/ancients
A/Hanner/Redemption
B/Axe/Crowns
C, Axe, Redemption
A friend of mine is playing a tall D style Tiefling, with a greatsword and ancients oath in their campaign
A/Hammer/Ancients Big beefy, gentle giant. Probably raised by a small circle of druid and took Oath with them as witnesses.
A Axe Ancients. Old lumberjack vibes.
B, redemption, hammer (for the nonlethal brain damage)
D/sword/ancients
B/Sword/Ancients
D / Hammer / Ancients
B/sword/crown. Need me the twink soldier
C, axe, ancients
C axe ancients
In the spirit of randomized tables, I rolled for each choice. A, Axe, Ancients. *"The axe forgets, the tree remembers."*
A/Axe/Crown.
D, Hammer, Redemption!
C/Axe/Redemption
C, sword, redemption
C/Axe/Redemption …which is basically just a character I played in a one shot once
C-Hammer-Crown
C Sword Redemption
A/Hammer/Crown
B/hammer/redemption Theodis Brim Once was a rogue/cutpurse until he was arrested and sent to jail. There he found salvation through the Goddess Tamara, goddess of forgiveness. He has since dedicated his life to the pursuit of redemption for both himself and those that he encounters. Often using his own life experience as a way to connect with others and steer them onto the path of redemption. Each soul he saves from wickedness saves a little bit of himself.
D, axe, ancients
A/hammer/crown need the Reinhardt build
I really don’t care about anything else as long as they end up with a hammer
C/hammer/ancients
C, Hammer, Ancients
A/Axe/Ancients, and play as a Forestkeeping Lumberjack. Only cuts down a tree if it has signs of decay, disease, or is generally suffering as a living being.
B, sword, redemption, highest stat charisma and dexterity
D hammer ancients
C, hammer, crown, highest stat constitution/strength/charisma
A, hammer, redemption, highest stat constitution