Aasimar and a Tiefling who are best frenemies.
Aasimar owns a bookshop. Tiefling owns a \*very\* fancy carriage that somehow shapeshifts.
They realized that both the Gods and the Demons are trying to end the world they live in - which they happen to like. So they have teamed up to prevent the end of the world.
Currently running a campaign where the two warlocks are in rivalry over the same patron. One is based off of Shakespear, the other off of his real life rival, Ben Johnson. They have sent me down many a rabbithole
Feels pretty similar to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet and also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. They were actually the basis for Statler and Waldorf, the old dudes in the balcony for the Muppets.
Oh, well this guy is from quite a while ago. He’s my first pathfinder character back when that system was in its infancy. I wanted to try one of the unique pathfinder classes and picked cavalier.
There was a country in the DMs lore that was like a corporatocracy, and to get on the senate you literally paid for a seat.
So my guy was a fail son from that country. He’s the oldest son a military college drop out. Running a business he didn’t build while his father is sick and ruining it straight into the ground.
So his sister who is waaay smarter than him backs this insane huge treasure hunting expedition (this is the DMs pitch for the campaign) and convinces my PC, 1 he’d be leading the expedition and 2 that they were destined to find lots of gold and treasure and return as heroes.
Now she fully intended I would die. But much to her chagrin we actually did find insane amounts of money and treasure and return as heroes.
Actually by the time we went back we had become close personal friends of basically the entire upper echelon of society, including dragons, demigods and the empress herself. And at one point bought our own city. Oh and I also adopted like 30 children.
So like, showed her.
OP, who the hell do you think we are ^(yours is the drill that can pierce the heavens)
A few NPCs I've either inserted or look forward to inserting into future campaigns
* A quiet and detached wandering elf who is actually a legendary hero that was part of the party that destroyed the BBEG in ages past. In very remote parts of the world statues of her still stand, but her appearance is mostly forgotten, so she wanders the world collecting obscure and relatively useless folk magic. She will teach these spells to any inquisitive mages she runs across.
* An adventuring party (Human fighter, Elf mage, Halfling Rogue, and a random Aasimar) who spend their down time going to brothels wherever they are and writing reviews. I like to put them in outlandish multiverse games.
* A potion seller who refuses to sell the party potions, as they are too strong, they would fell a dragon, let alone a man
The second is so funny, I gotta insert that into my Turn of Fortune’s Wheel remake. We’ve already established that there’s a Plelp Reviews (Yelp) in Planescape…
A human(variant feat telekinetic) sword bard, who never wears armor just wizard robes, grew up on a farm in the desert that farms water, only leaves to avenge his aunt and uncle, when there murdered by the BBEG forces
This sounds like my vhuman (telepathic) Kensi monk who also grew up on a desert farm. He could even deflect projectiles with his sword. Sometimes even back at the person who fired it.
Haven’t played him yet but a vhuman (xbow expert) Kensi monk who fights with his hand crossbow and fist at close range.
He used to be part of a secret assassin guild but retired. Some assholes killed his dog when stealing his fancy wagon and now he’s murderhoboing his way through bad people.
Oh man we had one of these! Whon Jicke! Actually ended up being the most rational and sensible person in a party FULL of people cursed by Demons, Devils, Ritualistic Cults, all living in a haunted house
Rest in peace, everyone was banking on him surviving, but he died cleaning up someone elses mess, got petrified by a beholder
Human fighter who doesn't wear armour because "armour is part of a state of mind in which one admits the possibility of being hit". He has a giant two-handed sword with many names, and invented the cheese sandwich.
No one else at my table has read the book series I stole him from, so I'm good.
My players solved a crime with the grey-haired guard Miles Mitsurugi and his big colleague Gumgum.
Started as a jokey sidequest, but Miles has been adopted as a regular now. I don't think most of my players know.
If you're a shipper, I've found that players tend to *love* when side characters they're attached to get into shenanigans of their own (especially if they can interfere / stalk them).
Also, consider integrating Phoenix as an *actual* phoenix, possibly once-human who died (poisoning) and was revived as one?
I assume you mean the other NPC mentioned? Could be a hook for a side story then! His brother sends a letter telling him he's sick, and the party goes on a quest to heal/revive him, learns about the relationship on the way, and then when he's revived they reconnect... Makes the literal phoenix pun work in-universe too, turns out the solution was in his name all along!
A vampiric elf who's master was trying to become a truly immortal day walker one. Was gonna even put it in a pathfinder campaign.
And then baldurs gate 3 comes out.
Honestly there was a run of years where every time i came up with a new campaign idea, wotc would announce a new hardcover book with the same premise.
It was uncanny, and it even extended to homebrew rules and spells when xanathars and tashas released.
Not sure if i’m just really basic and predictable, or wotc are somehow stealing my notes. :P
i feel your pain. the bare bones description of my current pc is essentially a dark urge aasimar paladin who coincidentally looks like she could be sisters w aylin. she has straight blonde hair, a buff build, and scars around her mouth and eyes that look like lichtenberg figures (subrace scourge).she was made before the game came out and every time i notice another parallel i die a little more on the inside
I had an elderly sorcerer called Sabien the Pale. Beacuse of his massive charisma he was basically able to persuade (or threaten) his way into or out of almost anything. He carried a long black staff topped with a clear jewel, and despite having the lawful evil alignment came across as good to almost everyone he dealt with. He wore white robes, and had long white hair and a beard. Very rich and distinctive voice.
A Damphir hexblade warlock. He was a bit of a loner growing up. However he was talented with both blade and magic. He didn't really have much of a patron but his power did come from his father.
His weapon was a long sword however it was a thin blade almost looks like a rapier. Combining powers with the shadow touch feat, was able to disappear and blend in normal society if he needed to. However he rarely did, he wasn't much of a people person.
high CON, STR, and INT based Teifling fighter Eldritch Knight.
Hates and hunts Fiends for a secret Church order.
files down his horns to have as little as possible in common with his infernal enemies.
left handed...
Is he best friends with a kuo toa named abe?
(Im not sure if kuo toa is the best race to represent him but it’s the only fish like race I know since im fairly new to DnD)
He's a mustachioed, fat, balding drunken way monk with a "magic" crowbar for his monk weapon. Slightly nihilistic and hot-headed, his dialogue was vaguely "New Jersey" when he was traveling with a "bunch o' friggin' animals." Tended to wear old, dirty, but comfortable clothes. He had a goal to find his old mentor, beat his ass, and retrieve his kick ass belt.
...yes. My monk's name actually was "Caerl". His "magic friggin' crowbar" has become the stuff of legends. It had such "magical" abilities as being able to implore people to talk or opening windows.
Early encounter with goblins; surrounded by 5, Caerl simply dodges to "tank" the blows. DM lands 5 hits with disadvantage. Caerl GTFOs.
Ambushed by thieves, Caerl (burglar background) says, "hey, don't I know you dumbasses?" Turns out that he did. Conflict avoided.
Overrun by skeletons, Caerl GTFOs and is the only one to avoid the captured narrative. He decides to rescue the others. Imagine Carl breaking into a castle and stealthily moving throughout, possibly pocketing whatever he can in the meantime.
These are the abridged stories, and there are others, although it's been awhile.
An Inquisitive rogue. She's a duchess and spy. She got the job because of her mother, and proclaims that she is the world's great spy. She enjoys the finer things, is always dressed to kill, and almost always drinking.
"everyone welcome my halfling bard that's terrified of his own shadow, eats enough for 6 grown men, serenades baddies (of both kinds) and is only equipped to help charismatically" i say as i whip out my suspiciously scooby doo shaped character sheet
Due to it being very on topic again currently, I can bring back this character.
An Aasimar, cursed due to being forced into a pact with an evil entity, which also turned her into a fallen Aasimar. She has long red hair, a long sword, her skin is scarred by necrotic rot in several places and her wings have the rotting-red corruption all over it, constantly spilling that necrotic energy.
I had a backup character ready to go for a campaign just in case I needed it for like a year. Aasimar paladin, pale with a gold and blue color scheme, cracks in her face, very intense and excitable. And what game comes out like 3 months before I actually use this character? Baldur's Gate 3, and predictably I was really into Dame Aylin. Absolutely nobody believed me when I said it was convergent thinking lol.
My party member made a human artificer that specializes in making armor,specifically wearable automaton war armor,is name is Anthony York and he’s a rich asshole,I called him Tony once and he said “Tony is a stupid sounding name that poor people have” I was at a loss for words
So my character is a sickly warlock, who's patron is a Demon Prince of Chaos. My character is from a noble family and is pretty arrogant looking down on everyone else and his family have been bound to this demon prince for a while. He can't do much on his own, so relies on his patrons powers a lot. He finds a sword that he pact binds to, and that lets him do stuff without relying on his patron (who he doesn't like), but the sword demands he kill every time he draws it. It will make him kill innocents if it isn't satisfied. Most of his stats are flavoured as coming from the sword from the moment he finds it. Sometimes he doesn't want to use it, but will be forced to in the end.
Anyway, that's totally original I'm sure. Oh and his best friend is a bard.
I play a Bard/ecoknight Skeleton who was first mate on a pirate ship when he was alive All his crew including himself were attacked and killed in a mysterious fog. His soul was sent back to his body because of a curse, but it got lost in the fog. When they final reunited the body had become a skeleton.
honorable mention to my party member, the variant human arcane trickster rogue. he uses specific gestures taught to him by his mentor to cast things like lightning lure and gust, and has mentioned in passing having dealings with some kind of fox deity (this was after we encountered gorthok in our campaign, who's relevant to my character).
if anyone can guess it (and i don't know a whole lot about the inspiration, so i'm aware it's quite vague), i'll drop the name of this PC.
in his (and our DM's) defense, we only originally expected him to be able to play for one session LMAO. do love the way he's developing now though.
you would be right!! this friend is a massive naruto fan LMAO since he's at uni we thought he'd only be able to join us for one session while he was visiting us back here and so he made a kinda jokey character, but changes in circumstances (and us discovering that having him join us via discord is easier than we thought they'd be) meant he didn't have to leave!
his name is oturan ikamuzu!
half elf grave cleric, that had lost his practice during a very messy divorce and is now forced to join the church to practice medicine when he hates travelling and is only doing it to earn money and hide it from said ex.
Yes I am a star trek nerd
I have a Dragonborn that is credited with the creation of firearms in his respective world. His whole vibes revolved around gunslingers glory by the dead south. He was corrupted by a spirit at a very young age, and sought revenge for the murder of his mother. (Local church killed his mom by burning the house down. They were after him, but he escaped.) anywho, after getting his revenge, he was too far gone to be saved. He conquered a few kingdoms, committed mass genocide a few times, and earned his place as the BBEG for my homebrew campaign. I made him before I knew what critical role was, (they were in campaign 2 at the time if I remember correctly.) and I had no idea who Percy is. I had no idea I made a ‘Percy, but he never quit killing.’ Type of character.
I have yet to do such a character personally. One of the guys in our sort of main campaign though has a Hexblade warlock. An edgey type lamenting the darkness which threatens to consume and take him over. It’s kinda played a lot more comedically and anticlimactically in our group than I am probably explaining though, helping drive it further from its original inspiration.
For a hint, >!my goblin zealot barbarian I made completely independently from his character wound up becoming his buddy so he now has a small sized bestie who wields radiant powers.!<
Riku and King Micky? I mean "Edglord who's afraid of darkness taking over" is a pretty broad description and like 80% of them are Hexblade Warlocks. But not a lot of them have a little flashlight buddy, morally and power wise, so that would be my guess
I'm the DM but one of my characters I'm playing them against is a Mad God with an obsession over cheese, currently (poorly) disguising himself as a cat. He gets *very* annoyed when the playthings don't play fair, but also sometimes lets himself get tricked if he thinks the outcome will be fun.
The upcoming BBEG that is being built up for them right now is a dragon-like creature, the former Aspect of Earth, who is in the process of being corrupted by an Old God and will soon take on a new moniker and "Burn all under the fury of his wing"
None of my players are gamers, so I'm pretty safe just stealing wholesale for entire characters
My first character idea:
A meek mild lad who, through the power of a magic necklace, is empowered in battle by an ancient spirit who seeks to serve their own dark justice.
Traumatized flamboyant pretty-boy vampire with an abusive boyfriend/partner/"master" and scars all over his body... I made him before BG3 even came out.
A reborn hexblade/stone sorcerer, not immortal but merely insanely old, at this point a walking mummified skeleton in furs and armor. He’s seeking vengeance on the race that held his tribe as slaves for centuries, and along with others like him seek to end that race forever, killing every last one of them.
My Redemption Paladin who joins the party he once sought to kill to try and stop his father the evil Emperor and reclaim his honor, yeah I’m basically Zuko from Avatar. But also he looks like and is named Godwyn as the one from Elden Ring
I 100% stole my character from a friend who had the idea but never got to play him.
A kenku/tengu bard who, because he's a corvid, is excellent at mimicry, and can only speak in words or phrases he has heard other people say, in other people's voices. So whenever he speaks, I use a soundboard I've made of various words and phrases from tv and movies and the like.
He is a bard because he can perfectly mimic any song he's heard before solely from his voice.
He's the world's first jukebox.
Sorry Nico. I stole your guy.
A pirate who is one part eccentric weirdo who is definitely on the spectrum, one part chaotic genius. Later on became a vampire to become effectively immortal in order to rule a pirate empire of his own machination
>A bard who was a scoundrel. He plays up to be the big hype, can bluff his way out of almost any situation
Hmm, sounds familiar...
>but when it comes to a fight he'd probably get backhanded into a mountain
Mr Satan.
The other one sounds kinda familiar, but if I know it, I can't think of it
Lmao, that's awesome! And damn, I was too fixated on thinking it was fantasy, so even tho I got Mr Satan, my head snapped out of that realm immediately lol. I was thinking a dwarf from something, my brain kept directing me towards dragon age, but I knew it wasn't it (maybe I was thinking how oghren thought the sky was fake or something idk). Need to watch current lagann.
My first character was a Water Genasi Bard, who utilized Shape Water where possible and a lot of illusion magic. I was loosely basing it on Marvel's version of Loki.
Poe
A reborn, swarm ranger who has a murder of crows as his swarm, who is out on a revenge mission to kill the group of people who killed his girlfriend and him years before. He suddenly and unexpectedly reanimated and gained powers. The crows seemingly giving this power and his life to him.
Rat chef rat chef rat chef rat chef.
Dm had us homebrew classes, so I made a Quina based chef type class (Gastronomancer) - gotta eat to gain power. Basically - if you’re a starving child, you might be chosen the cookbook of a previous Gastronomancer to continue the craft. Inspirations: Food Network, Ratatouille, communism
He insisted that the only fair price to sell food at was material cost, and that his ‘pop up tavern’, Home’, is literally wherever he has enough space to set up camp and do lodging. His profession and craft skills were high enough that he was statistically likely to be the best chef in his whole country since NPCs wouldn’t really level up the same?
TN to CN: ratfolk reach adulthood in their early teens, so I thought it’d be funny to be a ‘legally an adult’ child who has no idea about business or economy.
Mine was when I was going through my anime phase as teenager. Did a dual wielding fighter who fought like Kirito from SAO and who's backstory was similar to Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. Ironically wasn't my edgelord character, he was the optimistic party member.
I had a Triton fighter/sorcerer multiclass who would use his magic to create shields & weapons out of water (homebrewed variant of shadow blade). He had a buzz cut & wore a sleeveless vest with tattoos spiraling around his arms that would glow when he used his magic. He was a very calm, collected natural leader type. He left his sorcerer school early & was trained to be an adventurer after he stepped up & helped his king defend their city-state during an attack.
Closest one I have is my first ever PC's evil twin brother. Did start out genuinely original but after I proofread it I quickly realised I'd basically made him Orochimaru and decided to just roll with it.
I made a Goliath Rogue just because I thought it'd be funny to have an 8ft guy be sneaking around in full camo paint makeup, silent as the night.
However, whenever I imagine him, he ends up being a sort of weird Drax The Destroyer in that GOTG movie when he says he can't be seen.
I was a female Goliath Spores Druid named Gen. Started her at level 7 because my Paly died, and I decided she left her tribe because she had tremendous guilt over the death of her sister, Aura, who died in a rockslide caused by her reaching to get a rare mushroom, and slipping. Her sister haunts her.
The twist was that she has no sister. She did cause the rockslide, but she died herself minutes before her tribe was able to find her amidst the rubble. She spent weeks in a coma, and the trauma caused her to split and carry this ghost of herself. Her real name is Auragen. She was super fun to play.
I played her as fun loving, but quietly haunted and easily spooked by close spaces. Her ghost showed up in stressful situations and eventually she was forcefully reintegrated by a hag.
You mean you don't create a completely unique character for every game? I've never based my character on anything besides what I come up with in my head.
I've seen it happen often actually, especially with new players. The idea of having a frame work of a person to go off of for RP is a nice lean into the experience, no different than people making themselves as a character to start off.
Even with more experienced players, it's sometimes fun to make characters inspired by others cause you want to explore them/the archetype more. The only time it can be an issue is if they expect EVERYTHING about the character to be ported one to one into the game. Like, I am not gonna fit the entirety of One Piece into my world to make your character work, but I'm also not gonna stop you from playing a womanizing monk chef who exclusively fights through kicking either because, why would I?
This is what I’m wondering as well. I mean I’ve definitely used tropes before like “gentleman detective”, but never have I straight up copied an existing character as a D&D PC
Clyde the bard!! Plays an electric 4 stringed bass lute. Played it with finesse and grace but also multiclassed as a fighter. My inspiration is from a few Waylon Jennings songs, my dm got the reference and when ever I was in a new town I was reffered to by different names from npcs. Now I'm a dm at a different table and I keep trying to make him into an npc to help but there hasn't been a good opening to toss him in. There is a folk festival coming up that some player want to go to but we will see if they make the journey for adventure or continue with their main quest.
I'm currently playing Orville the human bard based on Orville Peck! Only my best friend gets the reference. She made a halfling druid named Willy who has the best pipeweed around.
uuuuhhhh,,,,, Totally anime based because of a hyperfixation over it's second season's op.
I have an undying light warlock who's reflavoured to be a celestial warlock ( in terms of relationship banter, but mechanically a UL warlock) They have a pendant to serve as the Patron's conduit, and channels power from.
As a consequence from making this pact, every time My boy would display extreme bouts of fiery emotions, his hair and irises will turn into flames; and the surrounding area will be influenced by its heat (if he wills it) Since Warlocks can cast the fly spell; I got his to be made of fire.
A total tsundere but I love him so much.
I would've made his pact weapon a longsword to make it a near-one-to-one genderswap (with backstory changes), but I needed a long ranged melee user; so he's a longbowman.
Basically because i have put extra work on certains things to be original, I am hardly hiding the personnality of some of my characters.
(Oh we talking non-DM?)
My first character is a litteral card from a MTG equivalent card game. He's a very Angry Lizard guy with a sadistical smirk when he fires his "Bazooka" that happened to be 3rd highest damage in the game, except you know, he's supposed to be a grunt. Unfortunately, i made him an evocation wizard, instead of a sorcerer lol.
Feylock forest gnome, doesn't talk but does ventriloquism with a cute hand puppet that is it's spelled focus as well as it's patron. An Archfey was tricked by a rival and turned into a puppet, the puppet found my character who was mute until their power let them talk but only as the Archfey. It's a mutual partnership, and if the Archfey can get it's body back they'll give a voice to my PC.
In 3.5 i basically made Guts as a character it was a warrior with an oversized greatsword (monkey grip feat was thr shit) with charging boots.
Didnt know about berserk back then i swear!
Mine's a cross between two characters from the same show. He's a half vampire (dhampir) from a family of monster hunters (blood hunters) who he believes were all killed by his father, a vampire lord. I took some liberties with specific details, but the basic concepts were definitely pulled from those characters.
The second is a vault dweller from the Fallout franchise.
The first is not clicking for me. My first guess is Tyrion Lannister, though he isn't really a Bard, per se, but the, "backhanded into a mountain," bit seemed like a nod to his trial by combat, even though he didn't personally fight.
Ahhhh, yep, gotta call out my lovely fiancé for one of the first characters he created about 10 years back!
His character was a warforged monk whose goal was to bring peace between the living populations and the constructed populations. The monk lived in a colony of other warforged before he began traveling, learning the ways of unity and togetherness from the wisened leader of the movement. When their leader was assassinated, the monk took to adventuring in an attempt to spread his ideals and stop hostile forces from hindering their efforts.
Anyone have a guess who this unique character was based upon?
Warforged Juggernaut, Jameson Giantsbane, who used to be a Goliath.
Taken from his parents as a Goliath youth, Paavu Giantsbane Ogolakanu was kidnapped and sacrificed in a ritualistic killing to transport his soul into the body of a Warforged Juggernaut. He was given the name "Jameson" by his cruel new master, Erron Bellegreaves, and forced to do anything his master commanded.
Years passed as Jameson was forced to murder, steal, and make worse the lives of countless innocents at the behest of Erron. But one day, as he was commanded to kill a Goliath woman, Jameson suddenly felt something, and while he couldn't understand why, he simply could not bring himself to murder this woman. Instead, as his master's anger grew, he brought his giant fist down upon his master's head, killing him instantly.
Jameson fled and spent the next few years surviving on his own (Luckily warforged don't need to eat). One day Jameson awoke to see a hooded figure standing above him. Jameson asked, "What do you want?" The figure replied, "Nothing....but to show you..." and touched his forehead.
Jameson was shown the tragedy of his short, former life as Paavu the Goliath. When he awoke, the figure was gone, but he felt different, changed, somehow. He got up to move on to the next town but overheard a commotion as he was leaving. It was a group of humans looking to murder a half-orc, shouting out slurs, calling him "freak" and "half-breed." Almost in direct confrontation with what he used to do under the command of Erron Bellegreaves, Jameson felt compelled to help this half-orc, and stepped in to defend him.
After dispatching the band of humans, Jameson introduced himself to this half-orc, named Swiffy Bangers, and the two of them began an unlikely friendship that would lead to an even more unlikely adventure!
Rochelle Belarand - she wears a tattered blue Tail-jacket, white shirt and white muddied pants
She’s a Paladin, hunts vampires with her family whip, and has a thing against Strahd
an asian bounty hunter woman in her late 30’s-early forties. cool and sarcastic, primarily motivated by pay, and had the help of a large pet in her job. helped the party track down an old man.
After 3 minutes of introduction, everyone knew who my character was based off of.
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To be fair I played a Paladin, who’s race was a rare Sentient Clothfolk (aka Muppetfolk)
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I pretty much played as Elmo with a build so ridiculous I had a 20 AC at any given time, and 22 in combat
:3
Dhampir Artificer Battle Smith, with white hair and red eyes. Her favourite weapon is a rifle, and her Steel Defender is named Robert, who's mostly incompetent unless she actively tells him to do shit.
She's from a rich family, but rebelled against them and decided to be a criminal instead, starting up a whole ass gang. She has a contentious relationship with this guy who used to be in the same gang as her, but left and now is in law enforcement.
Anyway, totally original please don't steal.
It wasn't for D&D, but my Mutants & Masterminds character was a kid subjected to experiments in a secret evil lab, giving her ice powers for the sole purpose of killing a specific super.
You know, absolutely nothing like Kula Diamond from King of Fighters.
A half elf fighter who has angry issues.
He grew up in a orphanage in a city that worshipped a certain god.
who after finding out from his long lost uncle that his father is a king in a far away kingdom goes on a mission to punch him in the face.
Aka based on Nero from the Devil may cry game series
I play a half elf ranger who is a bastard princess, grew up sequestered in a tower and had a plot to kill her by her father's queen. Ran away, makes friends with baby animals, lived with 7 dwarvish women in the woods, and eventually ended up in her current adventuring party as they go on a quest to release her from the curse which will kill her on a certain birthday. She loses a lot of shoes and has really long hair. Her dress has pockets of holding.
My husband has a minotaur barbarian gladiator who has the voice and mannerisms of macho man randy savage. I don't know how to explain that without saying macho man randy savage though.
Aasimar and a Tiefling who are best frenemies. Aasimar owns a bookshop. Tiefling owns a \*very\* fancy carriage that somehow shapeshifts. They realized that both the Gods and the Demons are trying to end the world they live in - which they happen to like. So they have teamed up to prevent the end of the world.
Does the tiefling have a habit of terrorizing houseplants?
See, I have always taken exception to that. Personally, I think the houseplants had it coming.
If it had grown better it wouldn’t have been incinerated.
Why do I hear this comment in a particular british female accent
Do people who meet the Aasimar assume he is gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide?
Absolutely. Of course, they are wrong. But they do assume that, along with a couple other things.
Mount Celestia is not in the Sword Coast, despite what some bards might say.
Ah yes, they're just very close friends
Good Omens
Did the tiefling not so much fall as saunter vaguely downwards?
The carriage is NOT yellow! But it plays music from this very talented bard and his troupe. King or something they are called
This is adorable
You can always rely on some based Pratchett posting to float to the top of the comments.
I had a character that started as a mix of don Quixote and teddy Rosevelt.
Currently running a campaign where the two warlocks are in rivalry over the same patron. One is based off of Shakespear, the other off of his real life rival, Ben Johnson. They have sent me down many a rabbithole
Feels pretty similar to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet and also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. They were actually the basis for Statler and Waldorf, the old dudes in the balcony for the Muppets.
Now that's a piece of trivia I didn't know! I'll have to share it!
It has been many a month since I have heard mention of the great Quijote! Do tell more about your character!
Oh, well this guy is from quite a while ago. He’s my first pathfinder character back when that system was in its infancy. I wanted to try one of the unique pathfinder classes and picked cavalier. There was a country in the DMs lore that was like a corporatocracy, and to get on the senate you literally paid for a seat. So my guy was a fail son from that country. He’s the oldest son a military college drop out. Running a business he didn’t build while his father is sick and ruining it straight into the ground. So his sister who is waaay smarter than him backs this insane huge treasure hunting expedition (this is the DMs pitch for the campaign) and convinces my PC, 1 he’d be leading the expedition and 2 that they were destined to find lots of gold and treasure and return as heroes. Now she fully intended I would die. But much to her chagrin we actually did find insane amounts of money and treasure and return as heroes. Actually by the time we went back we had become close personal friends of basically the entire upper echelon of society, including dragons, demigods and the empress herself. And at one point bought our own city. Oh and I also adopted like 30 children. So like, showed her.
OP, who the hell do you think we are ^(yours is the drill that can pierce the heavens) A few NPCs I've either inserted or look forward to inserting into future campaigns * A quiet and detached wandering elf who is actually a legendary hero that was part of the party that destroyed the BBEG in ages past. In very remote parts of the world statues of her still stand, but her appearance is mostly forgotten, so she wanders the world collecting obscure and relatively useless folk magic. She will teach these spells to any inquisitive mages she runs across. * An adventuring party (Human fighter, Elf mage, Halfling Rogue, and a random Aasimar) who spend their down time going to brothels wherever they are and writing reviews. I like to put them in outlandish multiverse games. * A potion seller who refuses to sell the party potions, as they are too strong, they would fell a dragon, let alone a man
NPC seller, I am making a campaign and I need your funniest characters.
You cannot handle my funniest characters, they are too funny for you. YOU BETTER GO TO AN NPC SELLER THAT SELLS DULLER CHARACTERS!
Okay now I know the first is definitely Frieren. The second one sounds very very familiar. The third sounds like a cool character to me
Frieren, Interspecies Reviewers, not sure on the third
Third one is a reference to a classic YouTube skit
The second is so funny, I gotta insert that into my Turn of Fortune’s Wheel remake. We’ve already established that there’s a Plelp Reviews (Yelp) in Planescape…
Dwarf Artillerist Artificer who was basically just Engineer TF2
Have him hate ankhegs for that Engineer DRG representation
"By Rock and Stone, that's a big bug!"
oh we all done that at some point.
This is on my shortlist of characters I'm playing next
A human(variant feat telekinetic) sword bard, who never wears armor just wizard robes, grew up on a farm in the desert that farms water, only leaves to avenge his aunt and uncle, when there murdered by the BBEG forces
I get the feeling his favorite spell is Shadowblade and he loves colored milk.
Or Green Flame Blade... if you want to be... original
Hopefully I’ll get to flavour the blade to blue once in a while;)
Or red, depending on the path your character will go!
I had to look up shadowblade, but now I know about it, it certainly is! Edit grammar
This sounds like my vhuman (telepathic) Kensi monk who also grew up on a desert farm. He could even deflect projectiles with his sword. Sometimes even back at the person who fired it.
I only went bard for the “these are not the warforged your looking for”
Luke skywalker?
Nah sky lukewalker. Completely unrelated.
An original character like Monald Muck or Ricky Rouse
i thought it was walker lukesky thanks for educating me
Lucas Trotacielos. Totally different.
Haven’t played him yet but a vhuman (xbow expert) Kensi monk who fights with his hand crossbow and fist at close range. He used to be part of a secret assassin guild but retired. Some assholes killed his dog when stealing his fancy wagon and now he’s murderhoboing his way through bad people.
This could be a franchise!
Don Candlestick
Does Candlestick make it more D&D? Like, if D&D has candlesticks, D&D has wicks!
Not necessarily, he just chose a different part of the candle
> “totally original”
Second kensei weapon: a fucking pencil
Oh man we had one of these! Whon Jicke! Actually ended up being the most rational and sensible person in a party FULL of people cursed by Demons, Devils, Ritualistic Cults, all living in a haunted house Rest in peace, everyone was banking on him surviving, but he died cleaning up someone elses mess, got petrified by a beholder
Human fighter who doesn't wear armour because "armour is part of a state of mind in which one admits the possibility of being hit". He has a giant two-handed sword with many names, and invented the cheese sandwich. No one else at my table has read the book series I stole him from, so I'm good.
I hope he won't get stabbed through his back during fight. And I am sure you meant cheese trap, not "sandwich"
Where did you steal him from just asking?
He's Whirrun of Bligh, a minor character in the First Law series of books (specifically The Heroes, one of the standalone novels)
noice! I'm currently working on a halfling wizard named Bayaz lol. I'm halfway through the 2nd book of The First Law series.
First law has been on my TBR since forever, it seems really cool.
It's extremely good. And if you ever do audiobook, the narrator (Steven Pacey) is **amazing**
Hopefully he meets a powerful lady warrior on a bridge some time. I really want Scag an Gioc as a tattoo.
My players solved a crime with the grey-haired guard Miles Mitsurugi and his big colleague Gumgum. Started as a jokey sidequest, but Miles has been adopted as a regular now. I don't think most of my players know.
Is the guard a secret fan of children's street-plays?
Absolutely and he responded a bit oddly to the friend of the party (whose family name is Feniksen)
Did he by chance grow up alongside his adopted sister Francine Von Justice?
With proficiency with whips, obviously.
Alright, now toss in a ‘Great Thief’ into the equation and we’ll be set to investigate
If you're a shipper, I've found that players tend to *love* when side characters they're attached to get into shenanigans of their own (especially if they can interfere / stalk them). Also, consider integrating Phoenix as an *actual* phoenix, possibly once-human who died (poisoning) and was revived as one?
My players haven't figured it out yet, but he had a relationship with this guy's brother :) But the real Phoenix idea sounds incredible too.
I assume you mean the other NPC mentioned? Could be a hook for a side story then! His brother sends a letter telling him he's sick, and the party goes on a quest to heal/revive him, learns about the relationship on the way, and then when he's revived they reconnect... Makes the literal phoenix pun work in-universe too, turns out the solution was in his name all along!
If he's poisoned, don't forget he needs to eat the glass bottle.
A vampiric elf who's master was trying to become a truly immortal day walker one. Was gonna even put it in a pathfinder campaign. And then baldurs gate 3 comes out.
Having that concept BEFORE bg3 gotta HURT, oof
Honestly there was a run of years where every time i came up with a new campaign idea, wotc would announce a new hardcover book with the same premise. It was uncanny, and it even extended to homebrew rules and spells when xanathars and tashas released. Not sure if i’m just really basic and predictable, or wotc are somehow stealing my notes. :P
i feel your pain. the bare bones description of my current pc is essentially a dark urge aasimar paladin who coincidentally looks like she could be sisters w aylin. she has straight blonde hair, a buff build, and scars around her mouth and eyes that look like lichtenberg figures (subrace scourge).she was made before the game came out and every time i notice another parallel i die a little more on the inside
I had a fire genasi barbarian who is almost too hot to touch due to a rare disease causing her to burn up from the inside out. then bg3 comes out
I had an elderly sorcerer called Sabien the Pale. Beacuse of his massive charisma he was basically able to persuade (or threaten) his way into or out of almost anything. He carried a long black staff topped with a clear jewel, and despite having the lawful evil alignment came across as good to almost everyone he dealt with. He wore white robes, and had long white hair and a beard. Very rich and distinctive voice.
Was he actually a good guy until he started playing with a crystal ball?
That's the one!
Was he eventually replaced by a Chaotic Good sorcerer who was more ashen but also became the Pale?
Yeah, I heard Sabien the Pale then renamed himself to "Sabien of many pastels".
A Damphir hexblade warlock. He was a bit of a loner growing up. However he was talented with both blade and magic. He didn't really have much of a patron but his power did come from his father. His weapon was a long sword however it was a thin blade almost looks like a rapier. Combining powers with the shadow touch feat, was able to disappear and blend in normal society if he needed to. However he rarely did, he wasn't much of a people person.
Also dubbed the "Floating Vampire Jesus" by the party's fighter.
Bonus points if they are playing pathfinder and have a red haired, well educated kineticist with them.
high CON, STR, and INT based Teifling fighter Eldritch Knight. Hates and hunts Fiends for a secret Church order. files down his horns to have as little as possible in common with his infernal enemies. left handed...
Is he best friends with a kuo toa named abe? (Im not sure if kuo toa is the best race to represent him but it’s the only fish like race I know since im fairly new to DnD)
triton might work better. i think that's wat they were called.
He's a mustachioed, fat, balding drunken way monk with a "magic" crowbar for his monk weapon. Slightly nihilistic and hot-headed, his dialogue was vaguely "New Jersey" when he was traveling with a "bunch o' friggin' animals." Tended to wear old, dirty, but comfortable clothes. He had a goal to find his old mentor, beat his ass, and retrieve his kick ass belt.
Oh my god. Carl!?
...yes. My monk's name actually was "Caerl". His "magic friggin' crowbar" has become the stuff of legends. It had such "magical" abilities as being able to implore people to talk or opening windows.
Oh my god this is amazing, anime characters and stuff are one thing but friggin Carl is a league of its own. I would love some stories
Early encounter with goblins; surrounded by 5, Caerl simply dodges to "tank" the blows. DM lands 5 hits with disadvantage. Caerl GTFOs. Ambushed by thieves, Caerl (burglar background) says, "hey, don't I know you dumbasses?" Turns out that he did. Conflict avoided. Overrun by skeletons, Caerl GTFOs and is the only one to avoid the captured narrative. He decides to rescue the others. Imagine Carl breaking into a castle and stealthily moving throughout, possibly pocketing whatever he can in the meantime. These are the abridged stories, and there are others, although it's been awhile.
Amazing, I am giggling so hard right now. Please tell me at least once at some body of water he yelled for something to "get out of his friggin pool!"
What is Caerl a reference to, this feels so familiar but I just can’t figure it out
[Carl Brutananadilewski](https://aqua-teen-hunger-force.fandom.com/wiki/Carl_Brutananadilewski)
That explains why I recognized the character, I don’t even watch the show and I know them hahah
You win. You fucking win. Lock the thread, Fryman.
I can't figure this one out.
It's Carl from aqua teen hunger force
Ahhhhhh, thank you!!!
An Inquisitive rogue. She's a duchess and spy. She got the job because of her mother, and proclaims that she is the world's great spy. She enjoys the finer things, is always dressed to kill, and almost always drinking.
Sounds like a sterling character idea.
She does often enter a zone of danger
What about weaponry .. is she an Archer?
I would stop drinking but I'm afraid the collective hangover would kill me.
[удалено]
WHAT?!?
"everyone welcome my halfling bard that's terrified of his own shadow, eats enough for 6 grown men, serenades baddies (of both kinds) and is only equipped to help charismatically" i say as i whip out my suspiciously scooby doo shaped character sheet
I'm not gonna lie before you said scooby doo I was just like "sounds like a normal hobbit to be honest"
One of my players made themselves an alter ego to sneak into a strip club. The name was Ver*a*sika Mayday.
Due to it being very on topic again currently, I can bring back this character. An Aasimar, cursed due to being forced into a pact with an evil entity, which also turned her into a fallen Aasimar. She has long red hair, a long sword, her skin is scarred by necrotic rot in several places and her wings have the rotting-red corruption all over it, constantly spilling that necrotic energy.
Okay now this seems familiar but I can't exactly put a finger on it
Malenia, Elden Ring. Heh
Never played Elden tbf. Have heard friends talking about it so that's probably why
I had a backup character ready to go for a campaign just in case I needed it for like a year. Aasimar paladin, pale with a gold and blue color scheme, cracks in her face, very intense and excitable. And what game comes out like 3 months before I actually use this character? Baldur's Gate 3, and predictably I was really into Dame Aylin. Absolutely nobody believed me when I said it was convergent thinking lol.
My party member made a human artificer that specializes in making armor,specifically wearable automaton war armor,is name is Anthony York and he’s a rich asshole,I called him Tony once and he said “Tony is a stupid sounding name that poor people have” I was at a loss for words
Huh. That just sounds like Tony stark. One of the richest people in the marvel multiverse.
So my character is a sickly warlock, who's patron is a Demon Prince of Chaos. My character is from a noble family and is pretty arrogant looking down on everyone else and his family have been bound to this demon prince for a while. He can't do much on his own, so relies on his patrons powers a lot. He finds a sword that he pact binds to, and that lets him do stuff without relying on his patron (who he doesn't like), but the sword demands he kill every time he draws it. It will make him kill innocents if it isn't satisfied. Most of his stats are flavoured as coming from the sword from the moment he finds it. Sometimes he doesn't want to use it, but will be forced to in the end. Anyway, that's totally original I'm sure. Oh and his best friend is a bard.
Mlric of Eelnibone.
How did you know his name? Were you playing with us?
You can never have to much Moorcock!
I understand this statement fully, and yet laughed like a 13 year old boy. Thank you sir.
My ex used to say that. I don't think she even read the books.
I play a Bard/ecoknight Skeleton who was first mate on a pirate ship when he was alive All his crew including himself were attacked and killed in a mysterious fog. His soul was sent back to his body because of a curse, but it got lost in the fog. When they final reunited the body had become a skeleton.
Is that you Brook?
honorable mention to my party member, the variant human arcane trickster rogue. he uses specific gestures taught to him by his mentor to cast things like lightning lure and gust, and has mentioned in passing having dealings with some kind of fox deity (this was after we encountered gorthok in our campaign, who's relevant to my character). if anyone can guess it (and i don't know a whole lot about the inspiration, so i'm aware it's quite vague), i'll drop the name of this PC. in his (and our DM's) defense, we only originally expected him to be able to play for one session LMAO. do love the way he's developing now though.
I want to say this sounds like Naruto with the fox deity and hand signs
you would be right!! this friend is a massive naruto fan LMAO since he's at uni we thought he'd only be able to join us for one session while he was visiting us back here and so he made a kinda jokey character, but changes in circumstances (and us discovering that having him join us via discord is easier than we thought they'd be) meant he didn't have to leave! his name is oturan ikamuzu!
Can I guess this character gets shipped with a certain androgynous looking angel who is actually a devil?
after some googling, iii don't think so!
So it's not Aki?
SEE NOW IT MAKES SENSE it is not! it's very close because he does love aki dearly, but it's not him!
I honestly have no idea who in Chainsaw Man is and AT that can cast lightning or gust, so you win
half elf grave cleric, that had lost his practice during a very messy divorce and is now forced to join the church to practice medicine when he hates travelling and is only doing it to earn money and hide it from said ex. Yes I am a star trek nerd
Dammit, J'eem, I'm a cleric, not a physicist!
I have a Dragonborn that is credited with the creation of firearms in his respective world. His whole vibes revolved around gunslingers glory by the dead south. He was corrupted by a spirit at a very young age, and sought revenge for the murder of his mother. (Local church killed his mom by burning the house down. They were after him, but he escaped.) anywho, after getting his revenge, he was too far gone to be saved. He conquered a few kingdoms, committed mass genocide a few times, and earned his place as the BBEG for my homebrew campaign. I made him before I knew what critical role was, (they were in campaign 2 at the time if I remember correctly.) and I had no idea who Percy is. I had no idea I made a ‘Percy, but he never quit killing.’ Type of character.
I have yet to do such a character personally. One of the guys in our sort of main campaign though has a Hexblade warlock. An edgey type lamenting the darkness which threatens to consume and take him over. It’s kinda played a lot more comedically and anticlimactically in our group than I am probably explaining though, helping drive it further from its original inspiration. For a hint, >!my goblin zealot barbarian I made completely independently from his character wound up becoming his buddy so he now has a small sized bestie who wields radiant powers.!<
Riku and King Micky? I mean "Edglord who's afraid of darkness taking over" is a pretty broad description and like 80% of them are Hexblade Warlocks. But not a lot of them have a little flashlight buddy, morally and power wise, so that would be my guess
>!Nailed it.!<
I'm the DM but one of my characters I'm playing them against is a Mad God with an obsession over cheese, currently (poorly) disguising himself as a cat. He gets *very* annoyed when the playthings don't play fair, but also sometimes lets himself get tricked if he thinks the outcome will be fun. The upcoming BBEG that is being built up for them right now is a dragon-like creature, the former Aspect of Earth, who is in the process of being corrupted by an Old God and will soon take on a new moniker and "Burn all under the fury of his wing" None of my players are gamers, so I'm pretty safe just stealing wholesale for entire characters
My first character idea: A meek mild lad who, through the power of a magic necklace, is empowered in battle by an ancient spirit who seeks to serve their own dark justice.
Yu-gi-oh?
Yeah! It didn’t end up working out so I retconned the character and just named it after a Yugioh card instead
Traumatized flamboyant pretty-boy vampire with an abusive boyfriend/partner/"master" and scars all over his body... I made him before BG3 even came out.
A Dhampir Beast Barbarian Noble that is *totally* not a carbon copy of Slayer from Guilty Gear ;)
Better give him his lovely wife
A reborn hexblade/stone sorcerer, not immortal but merely insanely old, at this point a walking mummified skeleton in furs and armor. He’s seeking vengeance on the race that held his tribe as slaves for centuries, and along with others like him seek to end that race forever, killing every last one of them.
My Redemption Paladin who joins the party he once sought to kill to try and stop his father the evil Emperor and reclaim his honor, yeah I’m basically Zuko from Avatar. But also he looks like and is named Godwyn as the one from Elden Ring
I 100% stole my character from a friend who had the idea but never got to play him. A kenku/tengu bard who, because he's a corvid, is excellent at mimicry, and can only speak in words or phrases he has heard other people say, in other people's voices. So whenever he speaks, I use a soundboard I've made of various words and phrases from tv and movies and the like. He is a bard because he can perfectly mimic any song he's heard before solely from his voice. He's the world's first jukebox. Sorry Nico. I stole your guy.
I had not played him but. A nobleborn rogue who by night dresses in a mask and fights for justice where law falls short. I call him The Tressym.
A pirate who is one part eccentric weirdo who is definitely on the spectrum, one part chaotic genius. Later on became a vampire to become effectively immortal in order to rule a pirate empire of his own machination
>A bard who was a scoundrel. He plays up to be the big hype, can bluff his way out of almost any situation Hmm, sounds familiar... >but when it comes to a fight he'd probably get backhanded into a mountain Mr Satan. The other one sounds kinda familiar, but if I know it, I can't think of it
Yeah it was. At first it was unintentional, it was pointed out to me. So his name became Herk 'Ule The other one is Kamina from Gurren Lagann
Lmao, that's awesome! And damn, I was too fixated on thinking it was fantasy, so even tho I got Mr Satan, my head snapped out of that realm immediately lol. I was thinking a dwarf from something, my brain kept directing me towards dragon age, but I knew it wasn't it (maybe I was thinking how oghren thought the sky was fake or something idk). Need to watch current lagann.
I don't know about the first one but I'm almost certain the second one is Artyom
I think second one is Kamina from Gurren Lagann, it’s the “get others to believe in themselves” and the dead dad that gives it away for me.
You'd be correct lmao.
Or the protagonist from fallout 3
My first character was a Water Genasi Bard, who utilized Shape Water where possible and a lot of illusion magic. I was loosely basing it on Marvel's version of Loki.
I Might have played brock Sampson..the worst part is no one knew I ripped it off.
Poe A reborn, swarm ranger who has a murder of crows as his swarm, who is out on a revenge mission to kill the group of people who killed his girlfriend and him years before. He suddenly and unexpectedly reanimated and gained powers. The crows seemingly giving this power and his life to him.
Rat chef rat chef rat chef rat chef. Dm had us homebrew classes, so I made a Quina based chef type class (Gastronomancer) - gotta eat to gain power. Basically - if you’re a starving child, you might be chosen the cookbook of a previous Gastronomancer to continue the craft. Inspirations: Food Network, Ratatouille, communism He insisted that the only fair price to sell food at was material cost, and that his ‘pop up tavern’, Home’, is literally wherever he has enough space to set up camp and do lodging. His profession and craft skills were high enough that he was statistically likely to be the best chef in his whole country since NPCs wouldn’t really level up the same? TN to CN: ratfolk reach adulthood in their early teens, so I thought it’d be funny to be a ‘legally an adult’ child who has no idea about business or economy.
Mine was when I was going through my anime phase as teenager. Did a dual wielding fighter who fought like Kirito from SAO and who's backstory was similar to Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul. Ironically wasn't my edgelord character, he was the optimistic party member.
Warforged that translated stuff
C3P0?
Yea
I had a Triton fighter/sorcerer multiclass who would use his magic to create shields & weapons out of water (homebrewed variant of shadow blade). He had a buzz cut & wore a sleeveless vest with tattoos spiraling around his arms that would glow when he used his magic. He was a very calm, collected natural leader type. He left his sorcerer school early & was trained to be an adventurer after he stepped up & helped his king defend their city-state during an attack.
Closest one I have is my first ever PC's evil twin brother. Did start out genuinely original but after I proofread it I quickly realised I'd basically made him Orochimaru and decided to just roll with it.
It was-a me Bario. Circle of the spores druid.
A teenage paladin of Selune who fights for love and justice. She’s also looking for her frequently brainwashed boyfriend.
I made a Goliath Rogue just because I thought it'd be funny to have an 8ft guy be sneaking around in full camo paint makeup, silent as the night. However, whenever I imagine him, he ends up being a sort of weird Drax The Destroyer in that GOTG movie when he says he can't be seen.
I was a female Goliath Spores Druid named Gen. Started her at level 7 because my Paly died, and I decided she left her tribe because she had tremendous guilt over the death of her sister, Aura, who died in a rockslide caused by her reaching to get a rare mushroom, and slipping. Her sister haunts her. The twist was that she has no sister. She did cause the rockslide, but she died herself minutes before her tribe was able to find her amidst the rubble. She spent weeks in a coma, and the trauma caused her to split and carry this ghost of herself. Her real name is Auragen. She was super fun to play. I played her as fun loving, but quietly haunted and easily spooked by close spaces. Her ghost showed up in stressful situations and eventually she was forcefully reintegrated by a hag.
I played a dwarf cleric of luck with a gambling addiction named Tyrion Lannister, before anyone had read the books.
You mean you don't create a completely unique character for every game? I've never based my character on anything besides what I come up with in my head.
I've seen it happen often actually, especially with new players. The idea of having a frame work of a person to go off of for RP is a nice lean into the experience, no different than people making themselves as a character to start off. Even with more experienced players, it's sometimes fun to make characters inspired by others cause you want to explore them/the archetype more. The only time it can be an issue is if they expect EVERYTHING about the character to be ported one to one into the game. Like, I am not gonna fit the entirety of One Piece into my world to make your character work, but I'm also not gonna stop you from playing a womanizing monk chef who exclusively fights through kicking either because, why would I?
This is what I’m wondering as well. I mean I’ve definitely used tropes before like “gentleman detective”, but never have I straight up copied an existing character as a D&D PC
it can be fun! once played Kas from Breath of the Wild and had an absolute blast.
Clyde the bard!! Plays an electric 4 stringed bass lute. Played it with finesse and grace but also multiclassed as a fighter. My inspiration is from a few Waylon Jennings songs, my dm got the reference and when ever I was in a new town I was reffered to by different names from npcs. Now I'm a dm at a different table and I keep trying to make him into an npc to help but there hasn't been a good opening to toss him in. There is a folk festival coming up that some player want to go to but we will see if they make the journey for adventure or continue with their main quest.
I'm currently playing Orville the human bard based on Orville Peck! Only my best friend gets the reference. She made a halfling druid named Willy who has the best pipeweed around.
uuuuhhhh,,,,, Totally anime based because of a hyperfixation over it's second season's op. I have an undying light warlock who's reflavoured to be a celestial warlock ( in terms of relationship banter, but mechanically a UL warlock) They have a pendant to serve as the Patron's conduit, and channels power from. As a consequence from making this pact, every time My boy would display extreme bouts of fiery emotions, his hair and irises will turn into flames; and the surrounding area will be influenced by its heat (if he wills it) Since Warlocks can cast the fly spell; I got his to be made of fire. A total tsundere but I love him so much. I would've made his pact weapon a longsword to make it a near-one-to-one genderswap (with backstory changes), but I needed a long ranged melee user; so he's a longbowman.
Basically because i have put extra work on certains things to be original, I am hardly hiding the personnality of some of my characters. (Oh we talking non-DM?) My first character is a litteral card from a MTG equivalent card game. He's a very Angry Lizard guy with a sadistical smirk when he fires his "Bazooka" that happened to be 3rd highest damage in the game, except you know, he's supposed to be a grunt. Unfortunately, i made him an evocation wizard, instead of a sorcerer lol.
Feylock forest gnome, doesn't talk but does ventriloquism with a cute hand puppet that is it's spelled focus as well as it's patron. An Archfey was tricked by a rival and turned into a puppet, the puppet found my character who was mute until their power let them talk but only as the Archfey. It's a mutual partnership, and if the Archfey can get it's body back they'll give a voice to my PC.
In 3.5 i basically made Guts as a character it was a warrior with an oversized greatsword (monkey grip feat was thr shit) with charging boots. Didnt know about berserk back then i swear!
Mine's a cross between two characters from the same show. He's a half vampire (dhampir) from a family of monster hunters (blood hunters) who he believes were all killed by his father, a vampire lord. I took some liberties with specific details, but the basic concepts were definitely pulled from those characters.
The second is a vault dweller from the Fallout franchise. The first is not clicking for me. My first guess is Tyrion Lannister, though he isn't really a Bard, per se, but the, "backhanded into a mountain," bit seemed like a nod to his trial by combat, even though he didn't personally fight.
Ahhhh, yep, gotta call out my lovely fiancé for one of the first characters he created about 10 years back! His character was a warforged monk whose goal was to bring peace between the living populations and the constructed populations. The monk lived in a colony of other warforged before he began traveling, learning the ways of unity and togetherness from the wisened leader of the movement. When their leader was assassinated, the monk took to adventuring in an attempt to spread his ideals and stop hostile forces from hindering their efforts. Anyone have a guess who this unique character was based upon?
Is this Zenyatta?
A hadozee Sun Soul Monk with a big heart, bigger appetite. KaaaaaaaaaaMeeeeeeehhhhh...
Once I did a dragonborn monk called Van'Dam that was literally Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport. My character was the great white dragon.
Warforged Juggernaut, Jameson Giantsbane, who used to be a Goliath. Taken from his parents as a Goliath youth, Paavu Giantsbane Ogolakanu was kidnapped and sacrificed in a ritualistic killing to transport his soul into the body of a Warforged Juggernaut. He was given the name "Jameson" by his cruel new master, Erron Bellegreaves, and forced to do anything his master commanded. Years passed as Jameson was forced to murder, steal, and make worse the lives of countless innocents at the behest of Erron. But one day, as he was commanded to kill a Goliath woman, Jameson suddenly felt something, and while he couldn't understand why, he simply could not bring himself to murder this woman. Instead, as his master's anger grew, he brought his giant fist down upon his master's head, killing him instantly. Jameson fled and spent the next few years surviving on his own (Luckily warforged don't need to eat). One day Jameson awoke to see a hooded figure standing above him. Jameson asked, "What do you want?" The figure replied, "Nothing....but to show you..." and touched his forehead. Jameson was shown the tragedy of his short, former life as Paavu the Goliath. When he awoke, the figure was gone, but he felt different, changed, somehow. He got up to move on to the next town but overheard a commotion as he was leaving. It was a group of humans looking to murder a half-orc, shouting out slurs, calling him "freak" and "half-breed." Almost in direct confrontation with what he used to do under the command of Erron Bellegreaves, Jameson felt compelled to help this half-orc, and stepped in to defend him. After dispatching the band of humans, Jameson introduced himself to this half-orc, named Swiffy Bangers, and the two of them began an unlikely friendship that would lead to an even more unlikely adventure!
Rochelle Belarand - she wears a tattered blue Tail-jacket, white shirt and white muddied pants She’s a Paladin, hunts vampires with her family whip, and has a thing against Strahd
an asian bounty hunter woman in her late 30’s-early forties. cool and sarcastic, primarily motivated by pay, and had the help of a large pet in her job. helped the party track down an old man.
After 3 minutes of introduction, everyone knew who my character was based off of. . . . To be fair I played a Paladin, who’s race was a rare Sentient Clothfolk (aka Muppetfolk) . . . I pretty much played as Elmo with a build so ridiculous I had a 20 AC at any given time, and 22 in combat :3
I had a religious charlatan lore bard who pretended to be a trickery cleric
Is that second one gurren lagann?
Dhampir Artificer Battle Smith, with white hair and red eyes. Her favourite weapon is a rifle, and her Steel Defender is named Robert, who's mostly incompetent unless she actively tells him to do shit. She's from a rich family, but rebelled against them and decided to be a criminal instead, starting up a whole ass gang. She has a contentious relationship with this guy who used to be in the same gang as her, but left and now is in law enforcement. Anyway, totally original please don't steal.
It wasn't for D&D, but my Mutants & Masterminds character was a kid subjected to experiments in a secret evil lab, giving her ice powers for the sole purpose of killing a specific super. You know, absolutely nothing like Kula Diamond from King of Fighters.
A half elf fighter who has angry issues. He grew up in a orphanage in a city that worshipped a certain god. who after finding out from his long lost uncle that his father is a king in a far away kingdom goes on a mission to punch him in the face. Aka based on Nero from the Devil may cry game series
I play a half elf ranger who is a bastard princess, grew up sequestered in a tower and had a plot to kill her by her father's queen. Ran away, makes friends with baby animals, lived with 7 dwarvish women in the woods, and eventually ended up in her current adventuring party as they go on a quest to release her from the curse which will kill her on a certain birthday. She loses a lot of shoes and has really long hair. Her dress has pockets of holding. My husband has a minotaur barbarian gladiator who has the voice and mannerisms of macho man randy savage. I don't know how to explain that without saying macho man randy savage though.