I played an Orc bard... not a half orc either... a full Orc. His Charisma was atrocious but he had high enough intimidation that no one dared tell him otherwise. Gods rest the soul of the man who didn't clap, but why wouldn't you with such classic songs as "Squishy human lady who not too ugly" and "I crush skull if you no clap"

@ayamewilliams2065

6 жыл бұрын

Ephringael that last bit 😂🤣

@mouthyschannel2474

6 жыл бұрын

I CAN'T FUCKING BREATH

@trequor

5 жыл бұрын

My campaign setting features an ogre bartender named Sue. He's uncommonly intelligent for an ogre (8) but still only serves beer is ogre-sized glasses

@chinchin2121

5 жыл бұрын

That's beautiful dude.

@scouttyra

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a vogon... if everyone reacted similarly to Arthur Dent (+ Ford Prefect when he'd regained his wits)

"I love GMing for characters that are useless in one or more things" translation: "I love Grog"

@frederik7338

7 жыл бұрын

Also Keyleth, with her low charisma, and initially Tiberous with his low wisdom.

@fallfromhaven

7 жыл бұрын

This is a very GM perspective.

@rodrigomorganti8374

7 жыл бұрын

Frederik sh I think Scanlan had (or has, since he didn't die) low wisdom too, and both Sam and Orion played them that way

@squirrelgolem

7 жыл бұрын

I think low Charisma is a really bad choice. It essentially means you are not likable. Either you are rude, boring or awkward. Who would want to play with someone like that? And here I mean in game and out of game. Out off game you constantly vex your friends with (hopefully) accurate roleplaying and in the game the characters only tolerate the PC because he is mighty, rich or ... well one of those two. Or maybe someone has a counter example? I would love to change my mind ;)

@dndbasement2370

7 жыл бұрын

so basically what you are saying is that everyone should be lovable, truthfull to their party and expect to basically just play Video games stereotypes around the table. nah sorry i'll pass... i'll preffer drama and unfunctionnal party any day of the week. its not because the guy has problems in his life that he wont be of any help to the party. there is a difference between playing stupidly and against your party then playing your character the way you want to. as for your exemple of tyrion, you are wrong on so many points... the only reasons the others do not feel right about him, is not because of his attitude which has changed once he started to know them. its about the fact they just lost a long time friend. the new guy wouldn'T cut it reguardless of whom or how happy he would be. think of keyleth, she always thinks highly of her, the same tyrion is. its normal they are both from high end hierarchy they are used to having people serve them. but they both make an effort... the only reason sam called them by name, is because he didn't know their name. now he does and make an effort to learn them. Sam on the contrary is on point on his role playing. you wouldn't spontaneously know their names. so he called them names until they actually realised that they didn't even tryed to name themselves. if anything the group has been the ones being toxic on him. but all of this as a good reason... they lost a long time friend and this noob just came along. give it time, like many things in life. give it time, it will get back to friendship.

I had a warlock who accidentally got their powers through a one night stand with an archfey after a long night of drinking.

@PhoenyxRysing

5 жыл бұрын

Funny, other than the one night stand, that's exactly what happened to my warlock...

@JesusOfPaign

3 жыл бұрын

I love that 😂 we never ended up playing, but i had a warlock character who’s patron was influencing a cult in the city my PC was from, and so he joined the cult specifically to impress a girl he was interested in. And as a byproduct of trying to get his crush to notice him, he was now bound to a powerful demon. I would’ve liked to explore that story more, but oh well. I’ve got that character in my head, and can reroll them if i ever join a campaign as a player in the future.

@Thriving_in_Exile

2 жыл бұрын

Is this a common idea? I thought I was *so* damn clever when I wrote a Warlock who made a pact with... something...while black out drunk and woke up hungover with a glyph on his arm. (DM's choice. I haven't found out my patron deity or the story significance yet.)

@nanotfound1042

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds part for the course I see no problem with that

@natebernasconi

2 жыл бұрын

This' definitely how every Bard who multi-classed into Warlock got their powers 🤣

A buddy of mine told me about a rogue who put everything he could into intimidation and would just intimidate people into not seeing him.

@beardlessdragon

4 жыл бұрын

YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING. GOT IT??

@kevincass9917

4 жыл бұрын

Oh god, the Orc rogue named Grog. Approaches the town guard, stares him square in the face and yells "YOU DONT SEE GROG". Rolls for intimidation, the guard is scared shitless, and goes "I don't see Grog!"

@solisholder

4 жыл бұрын

you just made Batman

@jamescanjuggle

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevincass9917 that's beautiful

@kemp9842

4 жыл бұрын

@@solisholder That's what I was thinking. There was this one scene in Mystery of the Batwoman where a thug happens upon Batman while Bats is in the middle of an investigation. Now, the thug's got a pretty good shiner from dealing with Batman before, so he just looks at Batman, closes the door, and walks away.

I once played a custom class "village idiot" who wielded a two-handed giant spoon. He once tried to escape the pits of hell by flapping his arms. The DM asked me to guess a roll, and my village idiot managed to fly away. For the rest of the campaign, he could still fly by flapping his arms. Basically, he warped reality to his whims simply because he couldn't perceive how stupid his ideas were.

@realrealwarpet

5 жыл бұрын

How do i like a comment a million times over?

@dukedevlan5457

5 жыл бұрын

That's a awesome dm

@dukedevlan5457

5 жыл бұрын

And character

@jan3211200

5 жыл бұрын

I am dieing laughing here

@philipgutierrez2999

5 жыл бұрын

Please gimmie the character sheet. I NEED to use it. This EARNED my like.

I recently had a character idea in making a wizard, but put the second highest score into strength. Just have this swoll ass wizard who goes around like "the key to a healthy mind *dabs* is a healthy body!"

@Apoc2K

4 жыл бұрын

"I cast fist."

@josiahklein70

4 жыл бұрын

My first character was in a Pathfinder game. He was a human magus named Umi Col who had a specialty for creating magic arms and armor. Father was a blacksmith, mother a jeweler, and he grew up in a mining town. He wasn't fond of classroom learning and decided to learn through experience. Dropped out of wizard school, despite showing talent for the arcane from an early age. Got work as a mercenary and took it from there. Also, he only used equipment that he made himself, preferring an estoc, buckler, and breastplate. His ultimate goal was to make the greatest magic items in the world and become rich and successful through the magic item trade. Real self-starter that one. Only problem was his charisma score was 7.

@dtczyk8976

4 жыл бұрын

Ah another muscle wizard

@ashenone4989

4 жыл бұрын

"Passed down the Armstrong line for generations"

@Fenelope_Vendivic

4 жыл бұрын

Noah Dansberry this is now my favorite thing.

Your first character “I’m a human fighter avenging the death of my father” Your second character “I’m a mountain biking witch from the future!”

@Charistoph

4 жыл бұрын

Was your first character's father a swordsmith, perhaps?

@beardlessdragon

4 жыл бұрын

I wanted my first character to be a bioluminescent lawn gnome but my DM didn't let me lol

@fran3ro

4 жыл бұрын

His name is Iñigo Montoya, someone killed his father and now it's going to die! Bbest fockin legend of a character!!

@VewdewCorpse

4 жыл бұрын

My first Character Was A Paladin Trying To Do Good In The World.. My Second Was An Evil Goblin Ranger That Robbed People And Talked Funny

@konstance13

4 жыл бұрын

Is this a goddamn Unhhh reference that no one is acknowledging?

I did have an idea for an intelligent Barbarian/Druid, very well spoken and eloquent in speech, with a English accent Until he rages, in which case he: 1. Carefully removes his glasses 2. Shakes violently and foams at the mouth 3. Wild-shapes into a bear 4. Proceeds to _litteraly_ eat the face off the enemy After he turns back, covered in blood and with bits of face still hanging from his mouth, he would go back to the well spoken gentleman he was before, as if nothing happened I tend to like characters that genuinely don't even notice that they are violent, dangerous psychopaths whom everyone is afraid of

@connierule3902

5 жыл бұрын

I'm already Winston.

@countkingpen

3 жыл бұрын

Beast from X Men came to mind

@lt.branwulfram4794

3 жыл бұрын

Librarians are fun.

@michaelthomas1916

3 жыл бұрын

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

@JagEterCoola

3 жыл бұрын

"Speak Softly, and Carry a Big Stick" - Barbarian/Druid Multiclass with Shillelagh.

I once made a muscular, hairless, oiled up circus strongman half-orc bard. He would show his abs and shout at players to lift weights in order to inspire them. Best bard I ever played.

@bryanwoods3373

7 жыл бұрын

sligzzz I still chuckle at the one reddit comment making the rounds. Half orc rogue with low dex but high charisma. His idea of stealth is to stare at people when he fails the check and use intimidation to tell them they didn't see anything.

@cxfxcdude

7 жыл бұрын

sligzzz did he cast Fist! a lot? What ho, muscle Wizard!

@dannyoosthoek1388

7 жыл бұрын

This idea my friend is delightful, feel free to check on my idea for a Goblin paladin. I'm obliged to assume you will like it as much as i like yours.

@zavierlee695

6 жыл бұрын

I once rolled straight across for a level 5 human for a oneshot with 18, 14, 20, 14, 16, 16. I went Bard 4, Barbarian 1 (cause man, those rolls can really handle some unoptimization), and he became a strongman with a moderately severe superiority complex (which, with his stats, is somewhat justified.) "YOU CAN NOT HOLD BACK THE MAGNIFICENT MIKAEL! BOW TO MY STRENGTH, SPEED, HONOR, INTELLECT AND BEAUTY!" He was also super chaotic neutral, but tried to put out a very lawful good image.

@mrpineapple2938

6 жыл бұрын

BE INSPIRED BY MYYYY MUSCLE! *FLEX*

I once had a dragonborn bard who played the bagpipes. Whenever he got really into playing he would have fire start shooting out of the bagpipes and I loved it.

@DracoDovakiin

5 жыл бұрын

I have found the inspiration for my next character! XD

@xxnickynick01xx

5 жыл бұрын

That’s cool as shit, lol I can picture it in my head.

@DreamerOnDrugs

5 жыл бұрын

Bagpipes are the best. We currently have a gnome bard in our party who went on an epic quest on our in-between year. He found the 'bagpipe of invisibility'. It makes him invisible, but only when he's playing them.

@michelveilleux1275

5 жыл бұрын

That is awesome, as well and awe inspiring.

@polomat14

4 жыл бұрын

Kenku Bard with bagpipes here XD

I'm a Minotaur Rogue. He's a detective. His name is Sherlock Horns.

@joseantoniocamposdehoyos5779

4 жыл бұрын

I find this funny and wish to ask, how did you come up with it?

@williamrathwell766

4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@spartan3924

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely want to steal this idea for a game like 4 years from now

@RosiePosie-el3lj

4 жыл бұрын

I've made a Loxodon Rogue, literally 100% exclusively for the joke of "So... Are we just gonna ignore the elephant in the room?"

@erikwilliams1562

4 жыл бұрын

Boooo 😆😆

One uncommon Concept I really love isa twist on the ranger. Instead of beingcompletely at home in nature, like most rangers, he is utterly terrified of anything involving nature and the Things within said nature, so he learned everything there is to know about his "favoured" Terrain out of sheer Paranoia. And he favours ranged weapons because he is too scared to face even a wasp head on, much less that ork with a battleaxe.

My current character is actually going to be a Warlock Bard (I've decided that multiclassing allows many roleplay opportunities). Do you know who else has close ties with the devil but is also a charming speaker? A LAWYER. THATS RIGHT, MY CHARACTER IS THE DEVILS ADVOCATE. I'm literally too proud of this lmao

@kaleidoslug7777

5 жыл бұрын

navels ♥ oh my god that is AMAZING

@magiv4205

5 жыл бұрын

Let me guess: he plays a fiddle

@DireBeastRexYT

5 жыл бұрын

I wheezed when I read that omg, I hope that campaign was awesome!!

@carianawaters6425

5 жыл бұрын

Omg that is amazing!

@kabhes9040

4 жыл бұрын

or a violin

Reminds of someone i read about that played a Orc rogue with horrible dextrerity but really high charisma for Intimidation. Basically, if he got spotted he would roll for Intimidation (and generally succeed) yelling to the poor guard or whatever that spotted him: "You do not see Grog!" and then proceed to infiltrate the place

@dappercuttlefish9557

7 жыл бұрын

Erik Fröjdhammar That seems both unworkable and incredibly effective at the same time.

@jackfredricks6223

6 жыл бұрын

The stories of Krod are damn good. Granted they played a little loose with the rules (and laws of physics) but it was in the name of good fun.

Just rolled up a tiefling bard who is the son of “one of those bards” and must hunt down and stop his father before his family tree gets any weirder

My favorite character I ever played was Illyasviel Sparklesprocket. She was a Gnome mage when it came to class, but she insisted that she was a warlock. She insisted that her Bunny Familiar, Zhoobie was really a transplanar quasitemporal demonic entity of phenomenal power and menace. when most people were pretty sure she was just a bunny. She was really observant about most of the world, and functioned pretty well in society despite everyone being certain she was utterly insane because of her bunny-relationship. She would often make extremely accurate character assessments of people while conversing with her bunny. I played it so to the hilt that people start wondering whether Zhoobie was just a bunny or actually that demon... IT WAS FUN.

The next character I want to play is a city druid. One that thinks that this whole man vs. nature is rubbish and that cities are just another environment, but he is not the biggest fan of the outlands.

@insanenessity

5 жыл бұрын

He always carries around a sack of bread crumbs to feed pigeons and rats

@mstrswrdsmn21

5 жыл бұрын

My most recent druid was a blacksmith. Built his own forge, made his own charcoal, opened shop and decorated it differently each day using his druid powers.

@Axelovskji

5 жыл бұрын

@@mstrswrdsmn21 that sounds like a wholesome satisfying experience lol

@texteel

4 жыл бұрын

if you still accept suggestions for this, magehandpress/middlefinger of vecna made a subcalss for druid that might be good for this one

@AsylumxProductions

4 жыл бұрын

I know I'm commenting two years late, but I had a player that did exactly this

we have a fighter in the party who is also the party chef, he has an int of 7. he was charmed by a vampire, and the effect stated only that he had to treat the vampire as a friend. the vampire looks at him and says "bring me sustenance", implying that he wanted his blood, so he did what he would do for anyone else. he threw a ration at him and walked off to open the shiny chest on the other side of the room. moral of the story: your weaknesses can be your strengths.

@Tennouseijin

7 жыл бұрын

I wonder how much garlic happened to be in that ration.

@NerdyBlackKid

7 жыл бұрын

Charles C Dude, I'm thr exact opposite, I play a fighter with int of 17 and a strength of 8.... P.S. he's also a pacifist

@charlesc3564

7 жыл бұрын

Tennouseijin not enough lol

@charlesc3564

7 жыл бұрын

Nerdy BlackKid that sounds like it would be hilarious XD I had a pathfinder character similar to that. he was a tiny fairy barbarian with a flying squirrel mount that thought he was a knight, but since fairies don't really do melee combat he just went out and smashed things, thinking that was all being a knight was XD

@Tennouseijin

7 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting thing in D&D that you can have a tiny fairy that has 200 HP and deals 1d2+30 damage with each hit... and fight against colossal creatures that have less HP and damage.

Nott the Brave has a -3 to charisma and Sam Riegel owns it.

@gabrielotero5694

4 жыл бұрын

I have a love/hate relationship with the idea of Nott trying to do carisma roles that always go awful. It's hilarious af, but gets the party into SO MUCH avoidable trouble

@yooooo8600

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielotero5694 Probably because Fjord constantly forgets that he has the highest charisma stats of the whole group

@gabrielotero5694

3 жыл бұрын

@@yooooo8600 omg it's been so long since I've stopped listening to this, maybe I should try to catch up again

@PixelSageYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielotero5694 Campaign 2 is really the best of them

This reminds me of a character I GM'ed awhile ago, he was a berserker with decent stats in his desired areas, but his intelligence was a 6 and his wisdom a 9. He ended up rolling 2 16's and put them in strength... and charisma. When he was "raging" he played it as being simply very EXCITED he was helping. He was a goodball

@JoschiChr

4 жыл бұрын

Lionel Gayheart/Chod?

@haichie1341

4 жыл бұрын

I have a gnoll barbarian like this, he just goes around killing enemies like an overexcited pup with the zoomies

i once played a warlock who was only a warlock because he was drunk and accidentally got involved with a cult and it was soooooo much fun one of my favorite characters to date

@koelkast9

7 жыл бұрын

Jordasauris that sounds like the best background story for a warlock

@jordasauris5508

7 жыл бұрын

yeah he was a traveling storyteller and got drunk after a performance so he ended up being the story lol

@Nerdarchy

7 жыл бұрын

You can also do the "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" warlock backstory and win your powers in a competition or a bet. -Nerdarchist Ryan

@ancapftw9113

7 жыл бұрын

Nerdarchy with a level in bard for a really authentic "devil went down to georgia" feel. also, your arcane focus is a golden instrument.

@KefkeWren

7 жыл бұрын

For my latest Warlock, I let a random prompt generator decide who I would be. It spat out a halfling who is "in so far over their head, they can't help but laugh". I decided that he got his powers by being a scholar, and accidentally discovering a temple to one of the Great Old Ones. Now he feels the pull of a being from beyond the stars drawing him to find more of its lost relics, and is just a bit too curious to do the sensible thing and have himself purged of the madness/committed.

A friend of mine is currently playing a Kenku Bard. For those of you unfamiliar with Kenku, they cannot talk. The can only mimic what they have heard. This Kenku was trained as a Bard, so he knows all the Bardy stuff and has a pretty high charisma. Its pretty funny sometimes. She found a sound board to use and likes to play the galloping horses when trying to tell us to leave. lol

@trequor

5 жыл бұрын

There's a four elements monk Kenku in the campaign im playing right now. It's actually really cool because they can FLY and be automatically understood because of Tongue of the Sun and Moon

@mikemcglasson1286

5 жыл бұрын

trequor That's actually a really cool concept! You give the Kenku it's wish of being able to fly, and you get around it's inability to talk normally

@trequor

5 жыл бұрын

@@mikemcglasson1286 Yeah it worked out very interestingly. The player's first name is "Mike" funny enough

@pawekostyra1667

5 жыл бұрын

I know this comment was posted a long while ago, but i just wanted to say that i just had an idea for a kenku bard that isn't actually good at rhyming or singing he's just mimicking every poet or bard he met from his travels

@witchBoi_Connor

5 жыл бұрын

Autumn Whitman a sound board is an amazing idea for a kenku character

A friend of mine made two halflings that stack in top of each other to be a barbarian. Also they where raised by elves and thing they are just abnormally small elves.

@Torvik40

3 жыл бұрын

So, like Will Ferrell in reverse?

One of our players is a Barbarian ... and what started as a joke: "why do I always get stuck with the paperwork?!" ended up becoming a major part of the character. We now jokingly call him Conan the Librarian .. and he is the one who handles all the paperwork , guild interactions, etc

@VanNessy97

5 ай бұрын

Travis Willingham energy

So you're saying i should make a dark elf ranger with dual scimitars and a panther? Got it.

@ArcaneMage54k

7 жыл бұрын

But that's Drizzt though

@bryanwoods3373

7 жыл бұрын

Disturbed Monster But he's calling him Brizzt. Totally different.

@Hawkwinter01

7 жыл бұрын

He also needs to be very moody, with no sense of humor that he's aware of. :P

@nvfury13

7 жыл бұрын

Merilirem If you make him cowardly and completely useless, then yes.

@chriscollins2095

7 жыл бұрын

In one campaign I was in, one of the players was a dark elf assassin who claimed to be Drizzt (he just didn't have a panther). At one point, we ran into the real Drizzt, who asked the party to get our companion to stop impersonating him. Drizzt's enemies kept trying to draw out the imposter by burning villages, thinking our companion was the real Drizzt.

I got tired of the dark/brooding warlock, so my current character is a Kenku who accidentally saved an Archfey in disguise. The Archfey offered to grant a wish, but the Kenku didn't really want anything, so the Archfey gave him warlock powers as a "consolation."

I've always wanted to play a super calm, peaceful monk. Always looking to resolve situations peacefully and who doesn't want people to get hurt. But they are a warrior in a garden, and when the time to defend the weak comes... "Zhu Lao walks over to the bandit... and I now have Rage for the next 4 turns" A Barbarian who's 'rage' is a cold calmness as he uses elegant Kong-Fu to smash holes through people's chests!

Once tried making a smartbarian but he just ended up as a know-it-all noble with NO CHILL

@zacharygadzinski3147

4 жыл бұрын

The smart Barbarian could work well as an orc. This genius Barbarian orc could make grand military tactics, climb his way up to chieftain of a tribe of orcs, turn that tribe into an orc kingdom, and establish an education system where orcs spend a majority of their day training and the the latter part learning how to do a trade that would benefit the kingdom. Not to mention said Barbarian Orc could also spend time making his own weapons when there are no kingly duties he has to perform and eventually pursue godhood.

@tatltails3923

4 жыл бұрын

Are you Griffin McElroy?

How about a team mom Barbarian? like always nice and caring outside of battle, but the moment they see a member of their party get hurt they go full on psycho blood knight ax murderer.

@kingcorporeal

6 жыл бұрын

I have a character like that, except it's moreso a family pet. He's a childish kenku.

@Axeloy

6 жыл бұрын

that sounds brilliant

@LaLloronaVT

6 жыл бұрын

Funny enough I have a catfolk barbarian who is like that, he's super trusting of his party who he called his friends after five seconds of knowing them but anytime someone tries to mess with them he's ready to step in to obliterate the enemy

@dinodino7514

6 жыл бұрын

Bryan Wegner nice run on a berserker Barbarian really

@HissHex

5 жыл бұрын

I actually played a character like this !

Admittedly, I play a warlock who excels at Dex and Cha but is abysmal at Str and Con. She is so much fun to play, because a vast majority of our party's problems stem from her A) hitting on a beautiful lady and B) being knocked on her ass within 30 seconds of that either failing... or succeeding too well. She's been one shot from everything from a single zombie to a Minotaur skeleton to a glass of ale.

Honestly, one of my favorite characters was a wood elf rogue named Flynn (for the actor, Errol Flynn, not the character from "Tangled"), who had the worst luck of any character I ever played. Quite literally, he lived by Murphy's Law. Anything that could go wrong, *did* go wrong, and the results were uproarious.

@VanNessy97

Жыл бұрын

Did he use a cursed d20?

@ldcraig2006

Жыл бұрын

@@VanNessy97, I'm starting to think so!

'Magesplainning' this seems like a skill I need to learn.

I made Sir Sebastian Demonte Bordello of Birnamwood, a human monk who suffers from the delusion that he is actually a knight after protecting his home town, and believes that everyone knows and loves him, and acts thus Enter the charisma score of 6

@jacobhatcher3759

6 жыл бұрын

Wyatt so, Don Quixote de la Mancha?

@LaLloronaVT

6 жыл бұрын

You basically made Don Quixote and I love you for it

I mean... I always liked being special... Which is why I made a human wizard, with a grey cloak and hood. He wields a wooden staff and likes to send halflings to fight his battles. I'm still working on a name for this charachter, but I'm sure it's going to be completely unique.

@rustyshovel7179

7 жыл бұрын

Gandalf?

@robinvrijmoet7720

7 жыл бұрын

Wow that sounds actually pretty sick, thanks! Gandalf the human wizard it is! How did you ever get the inspiration for that name?

@yellowmartian

7 жыл бұрын

Robin Vrijmoet cool. I made a variant of gandalf. his name is Randolph Flamebeard aka Randolph Gayheim aka the Pink Wizard. he's an orange haired/bearded, human wizard, super gay stereotype with a preference for male hobbits and gnomes. his robe is hot pink. he is fun, goofy, and flighty, but sometimes gets way serious, almost like he is possessed. my DM is gay, so he was cool with it, and I keep it respectful. randolph speaks like Zagraz the comet wizard from the old school He-Man cartoon.

@rustyshovel7179

7 жыл бұрын

Well gandalf's actor in the movies is gay...

@robinvrijmoet7720

7 жыл бұрын

William Stock hehe, I do too enjoy playing those goofy stereotypical characters. Recently started playing a stereotypical straight macho-charachter, trying to seduce all the females with the worst of pick-up lines, which is exteremly fun to do considering I'm the only gay on the table and the other players just had NOT expected that from me xD Yeah...it was a fun session, even got to sacrfice one of the party members to my dark god. Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord of Eternal Darkness, Tharizdun? (._. )

Hex-blade warlock. The blade is a peace loving celestial imprisoned in an implement of death. You team with them in an effort to free them.

One of my favourite ideas for a character that ive ever heard would be an angsty teen tiefling who's patron is his doting yet strict mom

I have never realized I wanted to play a mr bean Rogue until now...

@masterclif

7 жыл бұрын

God no. It's a character that always has to be in spotlight.

@TheSchreckliche

7 жыл бұрын

I'm currently playing a (Ghostwise) Halfling Ranger/Rogue who is an escaped slave and was born/raised in the Underdark and has never been to the surface. Recently found a marble sundial and have spent the last month's game sessions trying to figure out how to get it to work in the Underdark. Doesn't help that my Int stat is -1. He will frequently ask someone to hold a light over it and confidently/confusedly declare it's noon... again... why does it always read noon? Is it broken? My party is too irritated/entertained with me to tell me how it works and it has become something I now ask knowledgable shopkeeps and important figures about rather than things related to our quests. I'm pretty sure it will eventually get me killed.

@nachoconqueso3000

7 жыл бұрын

well... right now its my first time playing d&d (i m playing 2 ed) and well.... i m playing a multiclass fighter/mage but as i asked my dm and other players... its the very first completely reckless mage they see in their lifes! my character (aiiden) is the kind of guy to if he sees a super strong opponent will be like, bring it on bitch! or he tends to rush a lot into combat without thinking first and most of the time telling himself, its ok i got magic!

@thenerdyginger6226

7 жыл бұрын

Nice. I usually like running a Tiefling Paladin. Makes it kind of fun having to deal with their past and who they are in relation to what their goddess thinks they can be. Also really fun if the city youre in has a bit of racism towards them or even someone in the party does. The character can honestly swing either way towards becoming the beacon of goodness or just a ruthless Blackguard intent on becoming who they were meant to be.

@TheSchreckliche

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, the modifier for my intelligence stat is a negative 1 (-1) due to the score itself being an 8. I recognize that this minor error in terminology that was, at least to myself obviously meant to imply the modify rather than the score itself, has irked you. Luckily my score isn't a -1 as I'm sure that level of intelligence is something along the lines of the modifier that maybe a common garden vegetable might have. When next describing a story about a fake person in a make-believe world I will be careful to watch out for this kind grievous of error. I hope you accept my apologies, both on behalf of myself and and other people who should care to learn the difference.

Singing barbarian who desperately wants his songs to be magical and rages when they aren't

@hodor4904

5 жыл бұрын

well, we can say you've just made a... Bardbarian!

@sandjgaez257

5 жыл бұрын

"Yes! Who doesn't know the tales of the Bardbarians? That fearsome group of roading marauding minstrels who tell tales of their epic conquests!" -Puffin Forest

@0GodJudges0

5 жыл бұрын

Jigglypuff?

@rileysheehan943

4 жыл бұрын

I had a demon-worshipping Tiefling bard-barian metalhead who just rocked out and screamed while he raged.

i've found sometimes that we are so focused in playing against type we never even try the actual archetype. but this is good advice!

I'm proud of my character :> He's the all-singing, all-dancing, all-ukulele-ing, charismatic, acrobatic, flamboyant, colourful... rogue. With -1 to wisdom.

I'm running storm king's thunder and one of my players is a dwarf barbarian with the noble background - his backstory is that he was a spoiled rich kid who partied too hard and became addicted to "Dwarven Powder," which sends him into his Barbarian rage. He's adventuring because he dad kicked him out out of the house and won't let him back in until he does something with his life. Best character I've DMed for yet.

i can listen to Matt talk about anything

@piabernardino

7 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine Matt reading the entire dictionary with different voices? I'd watch that series.

@deathbyprocrastination9515

6 жыл бұрын

Matt Mercer is actually ProJared from a parallel universe.

DM during session 1: In this quiet village in Eberron, you see a dark elf wearing a peculiar outfit. SuperParkourio, describe it for us? Me: It's the uniform for the pizza restaurant I work at. Serious player: ...The what?! Me: My name's Patrick, and I'm a dark elf pizza delivery bard.

@VanNessy97

Жыл бұрын

I've been on the Hub long enough to know where this is going

I love the fact that Matt mentioned the film Falling Down! What a great example of someone losing control of their life and eventually themselves, lashing out at the world :D

Paladin with Vow of Poverty. The catch? A smelly hobo whose weapon is a lead pipe. He's never believed to actually be an adventurer and is not allowed in most upper class areas. If lost, the party often found him in jail. Fun toon.

@hitsugatatsuro9978

4 жыл бұрын

This is 2 years late but that is amazing. XD

@gabriel300010

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds kike an interesting man with an interesting story

@rarazalproductions519

4 жыл бұрын

You should check out the Oath of the Common Man by Walrock Homebrew. It's perfect for stuff like that. walrock-homebrew.blogspot.com/2015/08/sacred-oath-oath-of-common-man-second.html

Until this day, I never knew that "magesplaining" was a thing, but then realized I've been missing it my whole life! -Nerdarchist Ryan

@nexusnova5710

6 жыл бұрын

@Ryan I have the creeping suspension that I would magesplain if I was a Wizard.

@Svoorhout85

6 жыл бұрын

One type of spellcaster who is very good at magesplaining is the answermancer. Theyre not very usefull in combat but their extensive knowledge of random trivia is handy to have around in the pub. In rare cases they can bore their enemies to death.

@VoidplayLP

6 жыл бұрын

answermancer....even better than the hecknomancer.

@Nyrufa

6 жыл бұрын

A multiclass Bard with at least 3 levels in Warlock and has access to the Pact of the Chain. *Backstory:* They wanted a quick and easy ticket to fame, so they signed a pact with a powerful entity for musical talent. They task their familiar with writing new hit songs that the Bard then goes on to perform in their career.

@lanefunai4714

6 жыл бұрын

Just don't take the expert feat in ruleslawyering.

0:44 I heard of a game were there were not one, not two, but three Drizzt Do'Urden clones in a single party. According to the guy who told he story it was the funniest shit ever watch these three guys trying to out brood each other at every turn.

One of the most important characters I've ever played was a bard with sever anxiety and depression. Helped me work through some of those issues in my own life.

Dark elf with duel scimitars and a panther, Stop it, That shit got out of hand in the early nineties. DEAD

@TheAero1221

5 жыл бұрын

DoNt JuDgE mE

@justinsimanjuntak2460

4 жыл бұрын

Is he talking about Drizzt?

@gavinclark6891

4 жыл бұрын

Jackson Barnes best part of teh video

@gdobrocsi

4 жыл бұрын

@@justinsimanjuntak2460 More likely the countless drizzt-imitators.

@crusader0074

4 жыл бұрын

@@gdobrocsi I hope its the Drizzt imitators that he was talking about and not Drizzt himself. I love Drizzt and think he's a great literary character. He was my first introduction to D&D. I still read R A Salvatores novels to this day.

Reminds me of Kashaw. A cynical cleric who's hiding from his own deity.

Matt: Play against type! Also Matt: I DM for the horniest Bard of all time.

@MrQwertysystem

3 жыл бұрын

Sure Sam's character was the stereotypical bard at heart, but it WAS his very first character he ever made so going with a stereotype was a good choice AND he had the acting and improv skills to still be more than just a horny bard.

@MatthewStMarie

2 жыл бұрын

On top of that, sure he played the carefree dude who hit everything he could, but he also explored the depth of what that could do to a person. Example, his reason for leaving the group when and why he did, he was right in every word he said.

@GravityAP

2 жыл бұрын

I mean yes but Sam did tell Liam to create the dumbest character of all time for him

I'm playing as a Catfolk cleric with waaaaaay too much faith in his God. Literally drinking poison to open a door because my God would surely never let anything ever harm me! ...ive had to make a lot of saving throws..

Slightly off topic, but still about D&D. I find the most important role in the party is not a caster... healer... fighter... rogue... face... or any such useful actual roles. The most important thing is someone who does something, and that doing something should usually get the party into trouble.

@frederik7338

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. every party needs the that one guy/girl who does something "idiotic" that sets of a crazy chain of events. f.x. we had a situation where our party had been kidnapped by a rebel group, that wanted to recruit us. However, our dragonborn ranger, did not take kindly to the treatment we were given and punched our interrogator the moment he released us. Result being the group thrown into a dungeon-like network of sewers that "no man had ever escaped from" and progressing the plot of our campaign nicely. :)

@ltericdavis2237

7 жыл бұрын

The most important member of any adventuring party: the lovable idiot that gets you into trouble. Idiot being the generic term the rest of the team yells when anyone does the stupid thing like release the demon horde accidently

@justinc882

7 жыл бұрын

I had a player once that was a samurai that was obsessed with fire. He'd frequently light little things on fire and at one point started a giant warehouse blaze. That was a fun mess for the party to clean up.

@estoy1001

7 жыл бұрын

Also, someone who tries something crazy on the off-chance of it working, either out of desperation or lack of foresight. Much like Feebleminding an ancient green dragon...

@TheAchmed13

7 жыл бұрын

the version of that in my campaign is an air mephling(meffling? spelling I don't know) who managed to walk his way into the castle of the Godking of our realm and steal a whole bunch of legendary shiit, and now we are forever on the run.

Lawful Evil Tiefling Paladin, A bird thief with no sense of direction, a warlock forced into his pact on threat of death, a warlock who sold her memories to save her daughter, a gnomish barbarian with an inferiority complex, a pretty pretty princess goliath barbarian, a bored bard that everyone is attracted to, a warlock who's pact patron is actually the head of their religion so they think they are doing good, a warlock that wear's their patron around their neck, a druid that got her powers from hallucinogens, a hipster cleric of a nature religion no one has ever heard of, and a bard that sings screemo and inspires allies as they know he'll stop singing when the fight ends

@ethanh.6643

7 жыл бұрын

The last one was great

@kcrb0202

6 жыл бұрын

amazing XD

@Tsugua

5 жыл бұрын

I know i'm late but i currently play in a campaign with a druid who got his powers from hallucinogens.

@michelveilleux1275

5 жыл бұрын

All of which are amazing and well thought choices.

@Schoolship.

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tsugua that's that one wizard from the hobbit.

Thanks for this... wanted to make a slightly introverted bard that wants to travel the world to get out of her shell and was told it was a terrible idea b/c bards are charismatic... Now i am ready to jump in with this idea!

@MxCAT7

Жыл бұрын

You can totally be charismatic and introverted, charismatic doesn't mean loud and extroverted, it just means that people listen to you and admire you. You can still be quiet, a woman of few words and not too eloquent, but when she does speak, it matters.

I played a cleric who got his power through his worship of the gods of Heavy Metal. Ironically, he was my most solid character that I had made.

@EvelynSucksAtLife

8 ай бұрын

Imagine a cleric of Dio or Ozzy

@EvelynSucksAtLife

8 ай бұрын

Imagine a cleric of Dio or Ozzy

@EvelynSucksAtLife

8 ай бұрын

Imagine a cleric of Dio or Ozzy

@thefriendlyknight

8 ай бұрын

@@EvelynSucksAtLife He's more of a cleric of Metallica and Iron Maiden

An overly emotional Barbarian prone not just to rage, but crying about sentimental things, or getting his feelings hurt easily. :P

@Egalitariat-likesecretariat

7 жыл бұрын

Or the exact outward opposite: A barbarian who laughs and cries and gets emotional just like anyone else... except when they rage. All emotion drains from their face, replaced by a blank, glazed-over look.

@DragonKnightJin

7 жыл бұрын

Jovial and loud when not fighting, but deathly quiet while they're facing down an enemy? I'd be pissin' myself at such tranquil fury.

@SantinoBA2005

6 жыл бұрын

The Inn of Planar Crossroads I'm pretty sure I've seen a bit of flavor text that says Barbarians are effected by his/her emotions way more than other people.

@francislelievre5172

6 жыл бұрын

Gilgamesh, CúChullain, Heracles, Conan, many legendary barbs were noted to have huge mood swings.

@alexhackett1312

6 жыл бұрын

I think I’d be more terrified of a barbarian if he charged at me while crying a waterfall.

re-skins of class abilities/spells can be super fun. For instance i played with a warlock who's patron was the Flying Spaghetti Monster and his eldritch blast was a meatball consumed in scalding hot spaghetti sauce

@gigitmnt7410

3 жыл бұрын

That has to be one of the most epic food fights one could ever witness

I'm playing a Paladin with an 8 in constitution, and I love it. I keep trying to find excuses to get a lower constitution score, to the horror of my DM. Eventually we came across an item in a shop that would up con score by 2 (up to a max of 16), and I was hesitant to get it because it would empty a significant chunk of the party gold. The GM and the rest of the party pretty much yelled at me "BUY THE DAMN AMULET" XD

One of my favorite characters I've run is a very bubbly half-orc bloodrager. When entering a rage, I flavored it as her entering a very fluid, focused state of mind, gliding across the battlefield instead of flying off the handle furiously. Great video Matt!

Embracing the low stat is sometimes that hardest part. I like to problem solve, and if I have a low intelligence or wisdom I feel like I shouldn't know the answer, even tho I know exactly what the answer is. It pains me to break character to give the answer, and it hurts even more to watch my party not figure it out.

@frederik7338

7 жыл бұрын

you got dump charisma instead, and playing someone who is really bad at explaining themselves to strangers, our persuading people. Our just the character who is so grumpy that they immediately put off potential allies.

@BlueEyedBrunette

7 жыл бұрын

Grog is an awesome example of a smart-stupid character. Because clearly Travis is a clever fellow. Sometimes his ideas are very good ones and you know he's just sitting on them. From what I've noticed, he either tries to explain the idea in a very simple barbarian way, or he and the party play it off in the "a broken clock is still correct twice a day" sort of way. (I think Scanlan mentions that analogy exactly)

@kharnthebetrayer8251

7 жыл бұрын

Then you put your dump in one of the physical stats. Say you got a 5, but don't want that in Int, Wis, or Chr. Put it into Str, Dex, or Con (I would advise against putting it in Dex, you'll get hit on 2's), and then explain it in some way. I once had a character that got, either 4 or 5 in Con, and I explained it as (he's a wizard) he always experimented with stuff, and one day, while mixing some things, it blew up in his face, and both fucked up his face, and infected him with a disease causing his skin to slowly rot. He managed to create a potion that halts it's progress, but he can't cure it, so he needs to make another potion roughly every month, but this cure and the infection, gives him a weak immune system, and gives him a higher blood pressure (bleed more), resulting in his low health and disease resistance. This opened up the possibility of maybe finding a cure for it in the future. And, because of the thing, he always wore a mask, so you get the future fun thing of people seeing his face, and throwing up at the rotting flesh.

@rileylarkin1254

7 жыл бұрын

DRida64 I mostly play spellcasters, so I have NO qualms with making Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution my dump stat. It is a ton of fun to be this powerful wizard or whatever, but if you trip, you will always biff it.

@justinc882

7 жыл бұрын

I played a sorcerer once with a low wisdom. I played it as he was rather smart, but having been raised a sheltered life, he tended to be carefree and often oblivious to his surroundings regarding people. To the point that when we were walking through a wooded path and saw two men on a hill the party began to prepare for battle, hiding off to the side of the road. While my sorcerer strode forward and yelled "Hello fellow travelers have you seen this boy?" (the mission we were on was to search for a missing noble boy). Everyone had good fun with that character.

Mageplaining. I'm using this forever now.

@CCKonnor

7 жыл бұрын

What does it mean?? I'm so confused....

@MrKenpachi28

7 жыл бұрын

A mage who feels the need to explain, in severe detail, the intricasies of their art.

@Greebs229

7 жыл бұрын

It's a pun on 'Mansplaining'.

@Daredhnu

7 жыл бұрын

oh really, you don't say. this was sarcasm, for those that are mentally impaired.

@puellanivis

7 жыл бұрын

“See, it actually turns out that chimera refers to a large number of creatures, composed of any number of animal parts, well, except for obviously the trivial case of 1, where that is just simply alone a single creature that is not a chimera. But it turns out this distinction is important, because if the chimera does not take the form that it's commonly assumed to take, then any attempt to wish one into a battle, may find itself at a loss, because the person was intending the prototypical chimera, rather than the proper semantic group that aligns in actuality with all chimera, and as such, the wish would simply bring into existence a cat with the legs of a dog… which, believe me, is definitely not the situation you want to be in when you feel that wishing for a chimera-of course, this time referring to the prototypical form-is your best option. And another thing…” #OMG #IHaveTooMuchFreeTime #SaveMe!

These are awesome tips! I once ran a neutral good trollkin sorcerer that had a passion for cooking and quite honestly just wanted to open his own restaurant. His focus was his personal cookbook of spells "frying up the arcane with Tristal"

My character in my group's current campaign is a changeling with DID. I really Love playing him since I get to be so many characters in one, I just can't sellect when he shifts to one of the alters.

@bryanchandler3486

2 жыл бұрын

God a Changeling* with DID is such a fucking great idea. *My awareness of changelings comes from My Little Pony friendship is magic, which has taught me a lot of Greek and European mythology and folklore but also isn't super accurate, but I could totally see this concept being adapted to a My Little Pony fanfic

I had a warforged who had a charisma of 3. His wood parts were all rotted and his jaw was barly attached. Sparks flew off him and my gm had me roll a d12 every time combat started to see if i went haywire and sparked around me dealing 1d10 electric dmg or if i simply went berserk and attacked anything infront of me. All because of a low stat roll. It was so much fun!

I have a Monk character with 7 Strength. He's very dexterous, but he is so weak that he needs to rely on pinpoint precision to do damage and when he tries to jump or lift things he ends up failing miserably and it is so much fun to have that flaw. Listen to Matt and embrace those low stats!

One of my favorite ideas has always been a Ranger who's actually a trained assassin and has demihuman favored enemies with a favored terrain of urban environments

I've had a number of concepts I've be interested in trying, one of my favorites that I haven't gotten a chance to use is pact of the archfey, except instead of a powerful archfey giving a small amount of it's power, a weaker fey is forced into the body of a normal person, the fey would let the person be in control most of the time, but take over when a battle starts.

On the "low score" topic... Playing Pathfinder, I ended up in a game where we rolled for stats. I ended up with myself playing an Oread Fighter. (Oreads being humanoids with Earth Elemental blood in their history.) I went with a mix of Tower Shield Specialist with a few levels in the Stalwart Defender prestige class. Plate Armor, Tower Shield, hulking mass of metal and stoneflesh. I believe he used axes for a weapon. anyway. rolled a GREAT strength and constitution. Dexterity ended up being alright, and the specialist archetype mitigated quite a bit of the negatives that his gear gave him to dex stuff. Wisdom was above average. pretty standard "mass of flesh" guy so far. well, to add to that, his Charisma was 6. SIX. Again. Big, bulky, silent type. pretty standard. and, we storied him as the partner of the groups sorcerer as the last two surviving members of their merc band. he was the muscle and shield, she did the talking and magic. here's where it got fun. "Tank," as we decided to nickname him (in character), had a 17 for an Intelligence roll. Highest INT in the party. next highest was either a 14 or 15. Tank could barely hold a conversation with any skill, and was definitely the big, strong, silent type. but he was a GENIUS. Ended up sticking some skill points (for he had many, due to that 17) into some knowledge and INT skills, and he was basically a rock-person Rain Man in the bulkiest, heaviest gear possible.

@insanenessity

5 жыл бұрын

i love this character already

@pablito-e

5 жыл бұрын

Worlds biggest introvert.

@233Deadman

5 жыл бұрын

I had a Ranger (Freebooter archetype, since we were doing a piratical themed campaign) who had stats (after additions, since he was replacign my very dead barbarian at level 5, so had 1 extra attribute point to get given) of: Str: 16 dex: 16 con: 12 int: 12 Wis: 11 Cha: 4 Despite the low charisma, he somehow managed to seemingly get more attention from one female NPC on our ship than the sorcerer who was actively trying to get with her but was such an idiot that he kept screwing i up. My Ranger was also more trusted at negotiations than the sorceror, who we were very close to magically gagging every time there was some kind of delicate negotiation because he didnt know when to shut up.

@jessicalee333

5 жыл бұрын

It's okay, lots of people with a 17 Intelligence have a 6 Charisma.

@powerhouseofthecell9758

5 жыл бұрын

This reminds me of Schnitzel from Chowder.

A sorcerer with low Dex and Con. I could be persuasive, I was actually on par with the barbarian in terms of melee skills due to a strength of 15. My whole theme was, oh, I have all these magic powers granted to me by the goddess of death who spared my still-born nature? (undead bloodline) I'm going to spend as much effort as possible to NOT cast spells until forced. Like, say, when a crypt in a noble house decides to attack us. I reveal to the party I'm not actually a spear focused fighter trying to also be the negotiator! And thus a long standing uneasiness between my character and the Paladin who eternally is untrustworthy of me for hiding a useful skill that I use so rarely. Pretty fun for the low levels, and I hope to develop as I get more powers and am forced to use more and more of my magic, meanwhile the goddess plans things in the shadows.

@adamakoy319

7 жыл бұрын

That sounds way less like a sorcerer, and more like a warlock, TBH.

@TheDevilAscendant

7 жыл бұрын

Difference between sorcerer and warlock is mostly in the game mechanics, the origins can be a little wishy washy as long as it's made clear no actual deal was made with said entity.

@nvfury13

7 жыл бұрын

Ranger Cado I had someone in a game I ran play a sorcerer that didn't trust magic. They tried their damnedest to never use their magic, relying on alchemic items and devices made by a friendly gnome. What made it funnier is when he finally did throw a spell during an encounter, it was a fireball to the face of an ogre that was reaching for him, the explosion blowing everyone but him off the cliff they were on into the underground lake below. He flew, on fire, into the chamber full of flammable gas they had ran through trying to escape pursuit, *big boom*. What was more fun was when the party later learned he survived that, as I and the player arranged for another character to show up for him to play, despite the sorc surviving and being captured; when he showed back up leading an assassin squad working for the vampire who we were fleeing the forces of during that fight.

@billrich9722

6 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a weak ass barbarian.

One of my favorite character ideas: A Paladin with the Oath Of Conquest who embraced the life of a pirate to become the mightiest pirate to ever live

@ethanwhite2210

4 жыл бұрын

...This is scary. This is literally the concept one of my players had for an upcoming pirate campaign I'm running. Granted, he's more about abolishing the pervasive slave trade running rampant in the region by BECOMING the mightiest pirate, but still, this is uncanny.

@ReallyJustPlainProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Are they gonna find the One Piece?

I made a Goliath Cleric (Forge Fomain). The intent was to be the tank of the party with my high AC. When rolling stats I got an 8 so I put it in Charisma. To make it work I informed my DM that my PC has the personality of sandpaper. I hold sermons every day just to spite him.

Forever my man-crush. A constant inspiration for my writing.

@Abelhawk

7 жыл бұрын

Same! I would love to read a novel written by Matt.

I have a paladin who is a sort of Clone Wars Anakin Skywalker. He's heroic, compassionate and fights for a righteous cause. But he's also headstrong, violent, and easily pushed to darker deeds in a blind rage. He believes he is able to walk the line of morality because his will is strong enough to resist temptation, but time and time again he has been proven wrong. I feel it helps in humanizing him, rather than being an unrealistic token character.

@leecody5885

6 жыл бұрын

Demitrium Nice! I once played a mage based on the Old Coot trope from old B Westerns, running around threatening everyone with fireballs instead of a shotgun!

@stevie_ily

6 жыл бұрын

Lee Cody honestly I’d love to see that.

@leecody5885

6 жыл бұрын

Demitrium It definitely helped break up the stereotypes for our group and led to some other great characters. We had a Southern Belle bard, an alcoholic monk, and a twin-scimitar Dark Elf Ranger with... a vicious white rabbit. To name a few...

@jazz8000

6 жыл бұрын

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE, I LOVED YOU

@LordFhalkyn

6 жыл бұрын

I once played a philandering paladin who engaged in, shall we say, very un-paladin-like activities during his downtime. He was on the run from his church after discovering (the "hard" way) that the high priestess wasn't the paragon of virtue she presented herself as- this discovery was literally the only reason his deity allowed him to keep his paladin powers. He never viewed enemy females as his enemy- just misguided women who could be set straight after a quick roll in the hay with him. And yes, this resulted in him sleeping with some really weird and ugly women.

His Paladin description makes me more understanding towards why Matt created 'Lady' Kima of Vord the way she is.

I actually played a Teifling rogue who was basically a mix between Hawk eye, Robin Hood, and green arrow. His name was Alucard Heartsong, King of thieves, ladies man, a vigilante extraordinaire! Another time I played the same class but with a custom race, the southern Tabaxi aka minibaxi which was based off of the palico from monster hunter, he was named Robin Riverfrost. A very angers Irish cat who will gut you if you call him short.

My first character was a Bronze Dragonborn Bard. It was great having a maximum Charisma stat, but only using it for social activity. (Honestly wasn't too big of a help in a fight. Kept forgetting to use magic for the first three levels) Everyone was always so worried about how to properly interact with strange NPCs such as Dueregar and Bandits that I'd often have to be the one to just "hurr-durr say something stupid to get things moving." Sometimes it worked out like with appearing charming to a traveling band of mercenaries. Other times, it got us thrown into slavery for a few sessions under some Dueregar. Point is, don't be afraid to do stupid shit. Otherwise, nobody might get anywhere at a decent pace. The best way to see an NPC's intentions is to be honest with them. You'd be surprised how useful it is to start off an encounter by screaming "We are easily intimidated!" - Awsm Chimera

💠Hi, everybody!💠 I'm Barbie!💠 💠Barbie the barbarian!💠

@KickyFut

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of those anime girls who are friendly and meek, until they get mad and hit you with a piano or something... ...are anime girls barbarians?😕

Hey, Thank you Mr Mercer for getting me into D&D. I've been having heeps of fun with it.

2 years too late, but I'd like to join in Currently running a Tengu Rogue whom, instead of the traditional crow coloring, has the feathers of a bright macaw. As a result of always feeling different and outcast by her people (despite that not being the case) she developed MASSIVE seperation anxiety to the point of having disadvantage on EVERYTHING when she is alone/separated from friends. Yes, a rogue who hates being alone and with social anxiety. So much fun.

I have two characters I'm really having a lot of fun playing right now, and both of them are a bit out of the ordinary as far as archetypes go. Bindi Stomper is a Halfling Barbarian with a tragic past. Once she was a happy tavernkeeper, in a small village along a rarely traveled trade route. Then, one black winter, wolves attacked the village. Family after family slaughtered, only those who took refuge in her well-fortified tavern survived, and mostly thanks to her and her anti-theft device: a large two-handed battleaxe she kept beneath the counter for just such occasions. After that tragic night the people of her small town began to look up to (or down upon, but in an upward-ish fashion) Bindi as a leader and protector, something she didn't want at all, so she upped her roots. Eventually she wants to find another small town and take up residence, somewhere she can go back to her old life, but her fame has spread, and the name of Bindi lies on the lips of farmers and beggars in every town she enters, meaning her journey is going to be a long one, full of adventure and not a few catty remarks about the inability of other tavern owners to properly care for their establishments or brew their own beer. Carmella de Orlok is a sorceress with a dark past I won't spoil here. Rather, a more dry description of her character is that I built her as a bard first and foremost but without the actual class. She's a storyteller, and specializes mostly in illusions, using them to illustrate and embellish the tales she tells as she goes from town to town, fleeing persecution for a crime she didn't commit... and one that she did. I rolled a 4 for her Con, but my DM insisted I not have lower than a 6, which I reluctantly agreed to. She is currently adventuring through the lands of Strahd, where her Hold Person spell has been the bane of the DM's ability to screw with us on more than one occasion.

@dappercuttlefish9557

7 жыл бұрын

Guerilla Grue Plays Carmella sounds super cool. I think she'll be super fun to play in Curse of Strahd. I like the idea of her being a bard without the bard class, it seems interesting, and you saying she keeps messing things up with Hold Person made me realize that one of my players has it and is very creative. How has she been messing up the DM with it? I'd like to have some idea of what I might need to plan for.

@guerillagrueplays6301

7 жыл бұрын

It's mostly just him forgetting to take the spell into account for encounters combined with lucky rolls on my part :) On the outskirts of Borogravia (or whatever that starting town is) there was a merchant who was less than reputable. We got caught by his scams once, and then were given a mission from the NPC running the general store in town to catch him. So we went up to the guy, acted like we were going to buy from him... then I Hold Person'd him before he could access any of the myriad tricks he had available. It's just a very easy spell to get abused if you don't account for it as a GM, since it's a great encounter control tactic. As a GM more often than not myself, I like seeing players take advantage of their arsenal, but I will build encounters to account for it, and that's been our Ravenloft campaign's weakness so far; our DM is good at setting atmosphere and playing off what happens, but he's not altering the default campaign to take into account our party makeup and how we've been playing it, which has messed him up more than once. And yes, Carmella is fun :D She's just a bit on the bipolar side due to her past, but in the end all she really wants is a safe place to call home where she can entertain people in peace. I also gave her the Wild Magic nature, so that adds a bit of fun to proceedings too! She's a 5th Ed character, and that system is tremendously fun for building very character-driven, well, characters, as opposed to numbers-driven, especially since the offensive cantrips are powerful enough to give a non-offensive magic user just enough kick to be able to protect themselves in a fig. Almost too much so, in fact.

@dappercuttlefish9557

7 жыл бұрын

Guerilla Grue Plays Okay, thank you! Curse of Strahd is a fairly loose campaign, so it makes sense that some DMs have trouble adjusting the game when there's so many things your players will never see. I've basically rewritten every encounter to fit a bigger, more diverse party, so hopefully I'll be safe from that trap, fingers crossed. 5e characters are really free, which I like a lot, because it lets cool characters show and not have to minmax to survive. Good luck and try not to get killed (unless it's on purpose, that happens more than you might think.)

@billrich9722

6 жыл бұрын

Guerilla Grue Plays A dark past and a tragic past. Really breaking the mold with them.

Warlocks Using Eldritch blasts to save cats from tree's.

@ancapftw9113

7 жыл бұрын

matt510 it can't be stuck in a tree when the tree is laying on the ground. or it's dead, but then you'd have to screw up, and RNGesus would never let that happen. right?

@ancapftw9113

7 жыл бұрын

FalloutCultist "mommy, why does Mr. fluffy look like he wants to eat me?"

@adreabrooks11

7 жыл бұрын

Pet Semetary, anyone? =3

@isaacgleeth3609

7 жыл бұрын

That's the low Wisdom for you. "Maybe the best way to get the cat out of the tree is to scare it out with my Eldritch Blast."

I roleplayed as a former alchemist who accidentally made his fists iron, and became a fist fighter. Now, he wants two opposing things: make those hands stronger with magic gems while trying to get rid of them)

Watching this reminded me of a couple of my favorite PCs I ever created. One was a Dwarf Barbarian who had a chip on his shoulder at the rest of his kind being "goody two shoes" and the other one was an elf wizard who, for reasons known only to himself lugged around a great axe he could barely carry

I am currently playing a dwarf barbarian that was raised by bards in a local inn. The young dwarf learned to paint at an early age, while being captivated by stories of adventurers staying in for the night. Then one day set off to join in on his own adventures. The other players refer to me as bob Ross the barbarian.

Fun Fact: not all teiflings have red skin, horns, and a hook tail. You can be like Cuthullu or a chaos marine from any warhammer faction. It's a super cool race and it has no obligation to be evil. I'm excited for my Demodand spawn Inquisitor Neutral good inquisitor!

@DevinParker

7 жыл бұрын

It is odd to me that even though the books have described Tieflings as having any number of mutations - err, physical characteristics - everyone draws them as the same Hellboy-looking people.

@matthewcoyle4131

7 жыл бұрын

Devin Parker It's a real shame. They usually aren't even as cool as Hellboy.

@fftere

5 жыл бұрын

Where you're getting this from? You must be quoting old editions. Fifth edition clearly explain them as the offspring of Asmodeus bloodline. Horns, normal or red skin, tail and all that are described as their features in the PHB.

@veemie8148

5 жыл бұрын

@@fftere correction: at one point in the forgotten realms asmodeus made a deal leading all existing tieflings to become his spawn. This was done to make himself a God. After this event there are still other types of tieflings that exist (from ancestors making pacts with different fiends), it's just that the most common type of tiefling is spawn of asmodeus so that's whats used as the base in the rules. There are official variants for tieflings in other rule books that are also valid. Tldr: that type of tiefling is just the most common, there are still variants.

@fftere

5 жыл бұрын

@@veemie8148 Yeah, I'm aware of that, that's why I said he meant older editions. They got somewhat retconned. Cthullu looking tieflings are a bit of a stretch tho

I love the times when the dice rolls somehow sense what my character is good and bad at and act accordingly. I played a paladin and took either wisdom or intelligence as my dump stat. I swear to god every time I tried to look for something or read a book digging for information I rolled a 4 or lower without modifiers. When it came to athletics and charisma rolls though I managed to roll high enough to literally cool aid man myself through a wall with the help of a dresser to create an escape so we could carry out our unconscious party member.

My favourite weird character is Tiefling ghostslaying Bloodhunter who travelled with a circus for years ... wait

@izstrella

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm...this reference has eluded me, haha.

@svenabel2987

4 жыл бұрын

@@izstrella Long may he reign

@jimbojazz6879

4 жыл бұрын

@@izstrella It's referring to Mollymauk from Critical Role

@jessicamaddren5058

4 жыл бұрын

MOLLYMAUK

@izstrella

4 жыл бұрын

JimboJazz • Ahhh, thank you!

LOVE THE DRIZZT JOKE!

@johnyshadow

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, my friend´s drow ranger just "accidentally" stumbled upon highly inteligent black panther.......I wonder. :D

@dark3rthanshadows

7 жыл бұрын

but he's so badass i'm reading the third book

@Melantrist

7 жыл бұрын

Did the panther eat him? That would have been a satisfying twist of events :D

@shadowsoflife

7 жыл бұрын

a rogue stole it and yelled what ho as he ran off.

@johnyshadow

7 жыл бұрын

Now THAT is a thought :D Not yet, but it is a running game, sooo. I´ll see how the party treats her. ;)

I, too, got tired of smiley bards, so I made a Native American-esque dance leader whose charisma comes from being solemn instead of bombastic. His Vicious Mockery is more like Stern Shaming.

This has been the most insightful GM tips from Mercer yet!

My girlfriend is currently running a rogue who is actually blind. It has some great story telling potential as well as some great character conflict

i have an senile 80 year old bard

@GcorpCoPrez

7 жыл бұрын

EroKisfune pfft i laughed harder at this than i should have. He sings of prophecies that no one believes but ends up to be true end game. But only one line of the song is true and the rest is utter bs

@That0melette

6 жыл бұрын

I have a senile 300 year old Dwarf fighter

@jan3211200

5 жыл бұрын

"Where did i put my lute... i can never find it when i need it"

Gotta say, one of my favorite characters that I ever played was a Paladin who took an oath of nonviolence against mortalkind.

@billrich9722

6 жыл бұрын

Lykangroux that sounds boring.

@CreativeUsernameEh

6 жыл бұрын

Bill: You're not creative then, believing in redemption always makes for an interesting story and struggle

@billrich9722

6 жыл бұрын

You've got to be pretty closed-minded to accuse another person of not being creative just because he found something boring.

@CreativeUsernameEh

6 жыл бұрын

You bore me.

@billrich9722

6 жыл бұрын

Neat.

Falling Down - a lovely recommendation, loved it as a child, still love it today.

Human monk with Entertainer background = fire juggler and fire eater. He was able to use his fire techniques in battle, they were not so efficient but hey, what a show it was.

One of my favorite characters I've ever played was a Halfling Fighter who used a crossbow as his primary weapon. He was from a poor family, but was fiercely proud of his family line and would get into brawls with people over any perceived sleight. He earned a reputation as a dangerous marksman after a few perfectly-timed critical hits. He ended up also getting a reputation as quite a ladies' man (across all races, not just Halflings) - this was long before Tyrion Lannister became a popular icon. Further against the type of Halfling I've always seen played, he despised thieves as selfish creatures who violated the sanctity of people's homes and stole things that people had sentimental attachment to, as well as making them poorer. All of his reputation arose through roleplaying, which was part of why it was so satisfying.

Im currently running a halfling bard from a shamanist tribe that's out of his mind, cutting throats of the enemies he has slain to eat their vocal chords believeing he can start mimicing their voices to add depth to his song. A bard that won't hesitate to insult anybody he deems worth of insulting, and won't help those who can't take care of themselves. Safe to say i've lost alot of XP by simply sitting out a fight, yelling at my teammates because they went head first into a hole or a cave that was the most obvious trap.

My first character : i'm a jolly gnome bard, telling jokes and playing banjo. My current character : i'm a magical girl flavour barbarian.

I always love going somewhere between playing to and against type.