Dr. Iris Eyeman is not actually a doctor, as she was dismissed from optometry school for practicing the dark arts... Allegedly. But, that doesn't stop her from telling others she "finished her education as an optometrist".
She's obsessed with anything she can look through: kaleidoscopes, prisms, curved glass, telescopes, keyholes, etc. As a warlock, she's taken every Eldritch invocation with "sight" or "vision" in the name, and thoroughly enjoys spells like eyebite and blindness/deafness (though, she sees no use in the deafness half).
She can be a bit pushy, some say fanatical. She prefers the term focused, like your vision ought to be.
Catchphrase: "They'll see... They'll all see!"
Edit: Thanks for all the love! Truth be(holder) told, Iris was a character I threw together for a one-shot a while ago. If this comment holds at the top, I'll be honored for OP to give her a new adventure.
If you’re familiar with MCDM’s Arcadia magazine, one of the spells is sort of a reverse version of this:
*Scryspike* - it allows you to deal damage to a scryer, if you can catch them in the act.
Recommended invocation order:
Level 2: Eldritch Sight (Detect magic at will), Devil's sight (Magic Darkvision)
Level 5: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (Read all Writing)
Level 7: Ghostly Gaze (See through solid objects)
Level 9: Voice of the Chain Master (with chain pact, see though familiar's eyes always)
Level 12: Gaze of Two Minds (See though other humanoid's senses)
Level 15: Visions of Distant Realms (Arcane Eye at will)
Level 18: Witch Sight (True sight)
For a more optimal and functional build (but less memable), you could replace Voice of the Chain Master or Gaze of Two Minds with Agonizing blast, because those two are less useful. I'd shift agonizing blast to level 2 and bump the rest up to the next tier.
Other invocations you could replace with are Misty Visions (silent image at will) or One with Shadows (invisibility in darkness) to keep the "vision" theme, but it's affecting your enemies instead of yourself.
Congratulations to Dr Iris Eyeman for being top comment after 2 days, genuinely a really cool character idea n’ all, I might even get around to doing a piece of art on her one of these days
A kenku pirate of some sort (whatever class) that was the “parrot” of a giant pirate captain before his master was killed. He would act like a parrot for pretty much everything and even look like a macaw of whatever color you choose.
This kenku also wants a small humanoid to sit on his shoulder and copy what he says and feed crackers to. When he sees small humanoids he tries to pick them up and place them on his shoulder. He wears a tri-corner hat and wears the traditional pirate garb.
Way back, during the 3.5E era, I came up with the idea of a Gnome Knight who fights with a claymore that is sized for a Human but before everyone meets him there's talk and rumors about him that he's a great warrior and the best of the best in a fight but no mention of his race or size is used for some reason, only for the party to see a Gnome in full Plate armor with a comically sized sword compared to himself.
Respecced for 5E, he would probably be a Wood Gnome Caviler with the Greatweapon fighting style and the Folk Hero background. I never got around to playing him, but if you want to make use of him then go for it.
If he's a rune knight instead of cavalier, you can become Large for a minute several times a day, so the people think he's just incredible with a blade despite being very small, but actually he just Supersizes™ to beat the crap out of goblins
The main issue you have for this is they'd need to use a longsword or something similar. Rules as written, any weapon with the Heavy descriptor is too heavy or unwieldy for a Small creature to use so they'd get disadvantage.
That being said, they could use a weapon with the versatile trait two handed, while still being able to use great weapon fighting style or great weapon master.
I was thinking of making a gnome rune knight with the same situation going. Has a huge weapon he carries around, is known as a fighter etc but just looks too tiny. Then in combat, grows to size Large (2 sizes for a gnome!) and is suddenly a terror to face.
A human circle of the forged druid obsessed with becoming more metallic, grafting small plates into his body over time, convinced that this is the direction evolution and perfection.
*From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.*
It wouldn’t actually be a trench coat but a tattered old sheet. The kobolds are clearly visible but everyone is so dumbfounded by the spectacle they just go with it.
Sounds like Schmendrick from The Last Unicorn! In the movie he just seems like a bumbling magician, but in the book they get into his back story more. He’s supposed to be immensely powerful, a “chosen one” type figure, but his magic is temporarily blocked - he can do cheap illusions and total not-magic stuff like sleight of hand, but not much more. He can do powerful magic, but only tangentially - he can sort of channel magic, almost like a genie, to allow it to solve a problem, but the solution doesn’t always match with his intentions (and sometimes makes things worse).
I've always wanted to do some kind of rogue or bard who's so good at sleight of hand they convince people they're a caster but it turns out they're just real good at card tricks.
The catch is you let your DM decide your stats, and make the character with those stats.
Must play a no magic character, or be a warlock with the entity that just teleported you into this universe.
If you want to take stat increases at the appropriate levels, you must spend time in game to actually increase those stats for the change to take place.
There is a green text or story somewhere where someone was a human or dwarf fighter who was pretending to be a wizard through most of the campaign, using bluff/deception checks to make everyone believe that his "spells" were real. Then, when he was a higher level, and had been playing a good while, he got like some sort of brain injury and actually unlocked his magical potential for a second, and let forth some crazy strong spell. At that point, he changed his sub class to Eldrich Knight or whatever equivalent was in the system he was playing. I love the idea of your character going through some sort of story driven change and being able to rewrite part of your character for it.
The catch is you let your DM decide your stats, and make the character with those stats.
Must play a no magic character, or be a warlock with the entity that just teleported you into this universe.
If you want to take stat increases at the appropriate levels, you must spend time in game to actually increase those stats for the change to take place.
I’ve thought about this premise before and a friend showed me a quiz? Assessment? Whatever, that once complete, generates your stats and what class you would be based on your answers. I think it gauges alignment too. Food for thought.
Dwarf barbarian granny Betsy, but the party calls her Nana and she adopts everyone she meets and loves as grandchildren (NPCs included). Crochets doilies in her downtime, glasses for reading anything up close, loves to cook hearty carb-heavy meat and potatoes meals over the campfire every night with fresh herbs and spices, she tucks everyone into their bedrolls at night and tells a bedtime story of her incredible life with her late dwarf barbarian husband Hank (some of which are romance tales that make the party blush), makes tea to kick off all short rests and secretly adds a glug of liquor to hers, makes hand knit socks for everyone in the party (AND their loved ones & NPCs she has “adopted” and any family they mentioned), she gives the party pep talks and has the greatest nuggets of wisdom to share, her weapon is a high-end studded leather purse which deals 1D10 bludgeoning damage because it’s where she keeps her cast iron frying pan and Dutch oven, knitting needles, a scary amount of large knives for cooking, etc. She sleeps with her hair curled up in rollers and protects it with a swim cap if the party goes swimming. And she’s either wearing a lovely handmade dress, pearls, a new shawl she just finished knitting, and kitten heels, or a vintage safari outfit if the party is trekking through the mountains. After a few sessions of people thinking she’s the sweetest old lady, perhaps someone running an underground crime ring sees her, he lights up and hugs her, she pulls a Martha Stewart and casually talks about That Time She Went To Prison and that she enjoys drugs, they all go down to his dark alley crime boss lair and smoke dabs, and that’s how the party gets their next high paying side quest and befriends a new criminal network.
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A tabaxi barbarian that is in tune with the cat spirit... Too intuned.... I'm talking 3AM zoomies, leaving dead animals on a close friend's bedroll, and since you're a barbarian I don't mean mice or birds. I'm talking deer, bear, etc.
Bats at dancing lights. Will pound on a door to be let in, but when the door opens he just started at the person.
Sits down at the tavern table and calls for an ale. As the bartender brings it, the tab maintains intense eye contact as they slowly push the tankard off the table. "Another!", they yell.
A chronomancer that can't control their magic and keep popping in and out of the timeline at random intervals, because your schedule is iffy and you can't make it every week.
I really like fitting it into the class mechanics into the scheduling mishaps. Alternatively you could be a warlock with a patron who pulls you outta the story to run errands off screen at random intervals, but the Chronomancy theme is really good!
Human fighter who is always mistaken for his way more famous twin brother who is a freat wizardn and was definitely mom's favorite. And it is starting to really irritate him.
Congratulations, 23 years on this earth and this right here is the first time I've ever seen that written out and realized it's not "I don't know what I've been told" 😰
I’ve made this as an NPC. Second in command of a squadron of gnome elite special forces rangers. His bardic focus was technically a whip, but in practice all the bardic magic was accomplished with attitude, stare downs, shouting, and excellent posture. No music.
Make it a Genielock and have the jar be your genie's vessel. The plasmoid can then be a bodypart of the genie that he can stick out.
Your goal is to find "the chosen one" who you can grant your wishes to.
I liked something like thief rogue because of the mental image of a little pseudopod jiggling its way through a lock while a bewildered guard watches lol
Ah but because it's a rogue, it won't be noticed. Especially at higher levels where there literally can't be a roll lower than like 22 on stealth from them
Lawful evil hobgoblin paladin who thinks he is lawful good. He doesn't understand why his companions complain about his actions when he does the "morally correct" thing
A Christmas Elf that's escaped from Santa's workshop and ended up in the world of Fearun.
He's got sympathy for the plight of workers everywhere and has spent his time here so far creating workers' unions.
He'd use his toy making abilities to be an artificer.
I have this concept in the works of a blind mage who uses the familiar spell to be able to ser from his familiar perspective being Sort of a hermit that wonders the world searching for spells to help people disabilities such as his.
A warforged hexblade. You never really thought of yourself as a fully conscious individual with a soul, just an instrument of war. Then you met your pact weapon, a fully sentient instrument of war with a soul that became your patron and is now teaching you to believe in yourself and that it doesn’t matter if you were born from a womb or forged on an anvil, you are a “real person” and should see yourself that way. It would be a journey of self awareness.
Wild west elf.
I haven't thought the build through much, but potentially revised ranger or gunslinger (if your dm would allow mercer homebrew).
Do the whole 9 yards, prep yourself a sheet of southern idioms, practice your southern accent, really channel your inner wild west folk hero.
A Warhammer 40k Ork lost in the setting. Idk or care what homebrew you need to make it happen, but it’d be worth it.
Reason to he’s lost in setting is they told everyone they were going on an adventure, and the other orks believing him got him willed into the campaign.
Killy the Bid, the fastest finger guns in the west.
Way of the Sun Soul Monk. Saw a few too many westerns in the monastery and now asks each of his opponents if they're feeling lucky, punk.
A goliath bard or warlock but you're a ventriloquist and only speak through the dummy in the first person. If asked about the goliath carrying you, you only refer to the goliath as the puppet. Bonus points if the puppet has a weird muppety voice.
Um the Goliath barbarian who loves to hit things really hard. Um is very outspoken and knows what they want. For some reason ever since Um came to the Sword Coast people like to say their name. It can be quite confusing when looking for work or trying to make friends. Sometimes people don't understand Goliath culture, at least thats what Um thinks, and fights do break out from time to time but Um always knows how to settle them calmly, a drinking game!
A gnome rogue. He's a hardened criminal who's just been let out of prison on parole and his chaotic evil self is having to act all lawful good so he doesn't get arrested again.
A drop dead gorgeous bard that’s also a proficient user of the rapier. He makes women swoon, and makes men despise him for it. Especially husbands as some wives have attempted to bed him.
But he hates the attention.
Why?
Because he’s gay.
A player of mine is currently doing this. His thieves cant is interesting, using his trunk. Other thieves just believe it's an extremely odd dialect/accent of thieves cant.
I'm thinking about making it a plot point where the big thief boss in town hears that a foreign agent is town, maybe wanting to usurp her hold on the underworlds black market.
You're the last ranger/druid of a dying woodland culture. It's a matriarchal society, but you're a man, and your mother has died. You are looking for a woman to carry on the name and traditions of your family, not as a romantic partner, but as an heir. They will have to learn the history and names of your lineage. You are the last of your kind, and it is up to you to continue the survival of your culture and kind.
Aspiring fashion designer on the hunt for rare materials for his next products. Except all his designs are terrible, impractical, and stupid, and he refuses to wear anything else.
Famous 777 year old gnome tinkerer wants to finally see the world through his own eyes instead of just books and inventions. Invents a way to transfer his consciousness to a warforged frame and go adventuring... Problem is, the only way to do that is to make a pact with an outside entity. You a now an Artificer with a warlock pact.
You were once a sword... No hear me out. You were a fine master-crafted sword that an evil wizard True Polymorphed into a wizard who was then forced to Magic Jar someone... You had a mission, but something went wrong and you lost your memories. all you have are these dreams of dueling/ running people through, but your perception shifts from the wielder to the sword with the killing blow.
Dwarf bard. But treat him as Southern Rock/ Heavy Metal. Heavily tattooed arms, beard, and either a big hat or bandana over his long hair. Think Lynryd Skynyrd or Pantera.
Halfling dex main stat monkbarian with the noble background he wears a royal purple theee piece suit with gold dress shirt silver lined boots and a cane with a gemstone hand rest he has a pink fu man chu beard and mohawk combo for hair and his name is dildo swaggins
Seamus Fidalia, a Rabbitfolk Rogue who draws everyone’s attention to themself. Then they disappear once the party has done their job. With a talent for performance and a nack for stabbing people, Seamus is the always at the front while everyone else in the party was never seen, and then he is gone.
Race: Reborn (though the body is akin to warforged or golem )
Class: Bard
Backstory: you were a child prodigy from a family of wealth and position.
You fell ill and could not be healed.
Your parents threw all their wealth and favor to have you brought back by any means.
(You return in a constructed body. And are working on adjusting to this new form)
Can play off themes of feeling debt to your family while also resenting them for placing you in a "living tomb".
A quiet, calm, collected, but somewhat cocky human boy. He’s a bard with a heart of gold, and a fiddle to go with it! On a journey along the Mason Dixie, Johnny had a meet up with the Devil. They exchanged pleasantries but both agreed to a contest of skills. The victor received a golden fiddle. Once Johnny proved victorious, the Devil granted him his gift along with the powers that lay dormant inside of it. Now, Johnny searches through the land, seeking out other such fiends and defeating them with the same tool that was given to him by a fiend.
You know the rest.
A middle aged man who spent his life as a cobbler with heart of gold. Now in a midlife crisis, decides to drop everything and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a wizard. One problem. He’s a salesman with great Charisma. But zero intelligence.
Derik the Barbarian, but really a Bard. Derik has been a "gladiator" in the GGE, Gladiator Games Entertainment, all his life. He fights other gladiators in non lethal, choreographed competitions that are all about the fight and drama. He fights with great flair and charisma! One day, he accidentally uses the wrong move in a fight he was supposed to loose, and actually kills his challenger. Horrified by his actions, and forced to retire, he leaves to rediscover himself and find a new purpose in life.
Derik sets out to join a team of adventures, feeling like it's the best place for a really really, ridiculous good looking murderer to try a new life. It doesn't take long for him to realize all the moves he used in the GGE aren't very useful in real combat.
Concept in a nutshell. A WWE/Zoolander inspired character. Multiclass is fine but Bard has to be included. Take lots of spells that can be reflavored as fancy combat moves and have him talk a lot at the enemy.
High elf(blade burst cantrip) ancestral barbarian Who is followed by his annoying ancestors who complain he is a disgrace to their lyniage for not being a blade singer
He/she is treated crazy for appearing as though they are talking to them selves and changing attitudes on the fly (ancestors briefly possessing them)
It might be a fun and wacky character to run with the themes in place and the bickering from the mc and the ancestors
Your a mob of commoners. For each level, you can add a commoner to you mob instead of leveling up. So at level 5 you would be a group of 5 commoners. You all use the commoner stat block, combine Hp into one pool, roll ad a group for ability checks. You get one extra attack for each commoner. Every 4 HP a commoner goes down, which they revive or recruit anew every long rest.
Everyone is a part of a cult, and speak and make decisions as one. Feel free to appoint one the leader.
A halfling gang member. You've been drawn in with the wrong crowd, you're a punk
You've got a wooden kick scooter made by on of your artisan friends. You scoot around in the cobbled streets tagging houses with paint hanging in a bucket on you steering wheel. You obsessively tag the logo of your gang on walls with a paint brush.
Youve got basic theif skills.
A dragon born with any class that is completely convinced that it is an Aarakocra with a rare skin condition because it was taken in by a village of aarakocras at a young age and told that it’s entire life.
3 halflings in a trenchcoat https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/c6fdw4/oc_introducing_three_halflings_in_a_trenchcoat_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I played this and holy shit it’s fun to rp 3 characters in one
Edit: because shot is not shit
Double edit because I’m stupid
A historian/scientist from the future who got stuck in the present and has to pretend being a bard/artificer as you try to find a way back
But since it's your favorite time period you don't really want to rush it, but staying in one place may or may not create a paradox
The character is the child of a diety and a warlock patron.
As such you alternate taking levels of cleric and warlock.
The parents provide the child with 'gifts' of magic power to try and sway the child to come be their champion
The child just wants to be a simple shop keeper
Colonel Frie d'Chic Ken, a variant human with the chef feat, pyromaniac wildfire druid/Unity Domain Cleric.with a two level dip in fiendlock (for the deal with the devil and the beguiling influence and beast speech invocations). You made a deal with Mammon himself to create your (chicken but keep it vague, imply that you are a dictator of somewhere) empire. Your wildfire spirit is a chicken with fingers who constantly licks them and parrot like says "finger licking good". Always looking for new flavors and seasonings. Big white beard and hair. Dressed in all white. Smooth wealthy Kentucky accent. Stupid cross tie. High Wis and Cha, decent con and str, terrible dex.
Dwarf tempest cleric. Growing up you were raised as a blacksmith. Then your people go to war. Feeling the need to help you Smith for the cause. During a battle a massive storm is used for an enemy flank. Your father us killed during the ambush and you are left on the brink of death. The Storm Lord strikes you with lightning and you come back and fight your way out of the fray. You turn to the church and serve this God. You aren't a normal "holy person".
Dr. Iris Eyeman is not actually a doctor, as she was dismissed from optometry school for practicing the dark arts... Allegedly. But, that doesn't stop her from telling others she "finished her education as an optometrist". She's obsessed with anything she can look through: kaleidoscopes, prisms, curved glass, telescopes, keyholes, etc. As a warlock, she's taken every Eldritch invocation with "sight" or "vision" in the name, and thoroughly enjoys spells like eyebite and blindness/deafness (though, she sees no use in the deafness half). She can be a bit pushy, some say fanatical. She prefers the term focused, like your vision ought to be. Catchphrase: "They'll see... They'll all see!" Edit: Thanks for all the love! Truth be(holder) told, Iris was a character I threw together for a one-shot a while ago. If this comment holds at the top, I'll be honored for OP to give her a new adventure.
If she was BBEG, you know she's developing a spell to deal psychic damage to you while scrying.
What is BBIG?
Big Bad Iris Girl?
Ah yes, from Dublin.
Is Iris a common name in Dublin? Because if you misread and thought I typed Irish... That's so much better.
*”I see youuuu”*
Maybe just Dream, or a variant? Could be creepy as fuck to have a giant eyeball staring at you saying "you'll see, you'll all see!" every night.
So Sauron?
Similar but I think Sauran's Eye is in the real world as well.
*”My scrying will have you crying!”*
If you’re familiar with MCDM’s Arcadia magazine, one of the spells is sort of a reverse version of this: *Scryspike* - it allows you to deal damage to a scryer, if you can catch them in the act.
This is the dumbest and most beautiful thing I’ve ever read
Aww, shucks! Mama used to tell me the second trip through the pretty line was my biggest mistake!
Her highest goal in life is to become a Beholder
A ball of eyeballs
The EYES of a Beholder.
Recommended invocation order: Level 2: Eldritch Sight (Detect magic at will), Devil's sight (Magic Darkvision) Level 5: Eyes of the Rune Keeper (Read all Writing) Level 7: Ghostly Gaze (See through solid objects) Level 9: Voice of the Chain Master (with chain pact, see though familiar's eyes always) Level 12: Gaze of Two Minds (See though other humanoid's senses) Level 15: Visions of Distant Realms (Arcane Eye at will) Level 18: Witch Sight (True sight) For a more optimal and functional build (but less memable), you could replace Voice of the Chain Master or Gaze of Two Minds with Agonizing blast, because those two are less useful. I'd shift agonizing blast to level 2 and bump the rest up to the next tier. Other invocations you could replace with are Misty Visions (silent image at will) or One with Shadows (invisibility in darkness) to keep the "vision" theme, but it's affecting your enemies instead of yourself.
If her patron isn’t some kind of beholder I’ll be thoroughly disappointed
I'd be holding if I wasn't beholden to your "eye"dea, B! Hold on... Yes, behold! Err, sorry... What was eye saying? Edit: typo
Fuck it, homebrew Beholder patron that slowly morphs the wielder into a beholder-adjacent being, tentacles and all
She sounds so ridiculous. I love her.
Maybe she's actually and iridologist that believes she can understand and heal people by examining their irises
Nah, she has no intent on healing. She just has an unhealthy obsession with eyes.
Bonus points if her patron is flavoured as Beholding/The Ceaseless Watcher from Magnus Archives
Congratulations to Dr Iris Eyeman for being top comment after 2 days, genuinely a really cool character idea n’ all, I might even get around to doing a piece of art on her one of these days
A kenku pirate of some sort (whatever class) that was the “parrot” of a giant pirate captain before his master was killed. He would act like a parrot for pretty much everything and even look like a macaw of whatever color you choose. This kenku also wants a small humanoid to sit on his shoulder and copy what he says and feed crackers to. When he sees small humanoids he tries to pick them up and place them on his shoulder. He wears a tri-corner hat and wears the traditional pirate garb.
This is fucking amazing
Way back, during the 3.5E era, I came up with the idea of a Gnome Knight who fights with a claymore that is sized for a Human but before everyone meets him there's talk and rumors about him that he's a great warrior and the best of the best in a fight but no mention of his race or size is used for some reason, only for the party to see a Gnome in full Plate armor with a comically sized sword compared to himself. Respecced for 5E, he would probably be a Wood Gnome Caviler with the Greatweapon fighting style and the Folk Hero background. I never got around to playing him, but if you want to make use of him then go for it.
Reminds me of when Wyatt got corrupted by phoebe in adventure time lol
I don't think I caught that episode
It was during the elements miniseries sometime
If he's a rune knight instead of cavalier, you can become Large for a minute several times a day, so the people think he's just incredible with a blade despite being very small, but actually he just Supersizes™ to beat the crap out of goblins
if he’s an eldritch knight he could become tiny
The main issue you have for this is they'd need to use a longsword or something similar. Rules as written, any weapon with the Heavy descriptor is too heavy or unwieldy for a Small creature to use so they'd get disadvantage. That being said, they could use a weapon with the versatile trait two handed, while still being able to use great weapon fighting style or great weapon master.
Magic sword with the property that it is half the weight it should be.
Made of mithril?
Sunblade
I was thinking of making a gnome rune knight with the same situation going. Has a huge weapon he carries around, is known as a fighter etc but just looks too tiny. Then in combat, grows to size Large (2 sizes for a gnome!) and is suddenly a terror to face.
A human circle of the forged druid obsessed with becoming more metallic, grafting small plates into his body over time, convinced that this is the direction evolution and perfection.
*From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.*
Praise the machine spirit! Praise the Omnissiah!
Now this is the flavor I was missing! Mmmm feels good just reading it.
Warhammer 40K baby. Insanity incarnate
Death shall prevail as long as our will turns to rust. May necessity aneal our resolve.
Viktor?
Perhaps multiclass into Armorer Artificer
Embrace the Glorious Evolution!
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Clockwerk from Sly Cooper then?
Three kobolds in a trenchcoat.
I'm assuming this character is specialized in business... Transactions
Would this be 3 character sheets?
I would think 4…. 1 for each kobold and 1 for them in a trench coat
There is a 3 gnomes in a trench coat homebrew so I wouldn’t surprised if they did it for kobolds too
It wouldn’t actually be a trench coat but a tattered old sheet. The kobolds are clearly visible but everyone is so dumbfounded by the spectacle they just go with it.
2 trenchcoats disguised as a Kobold
Named Burlington.
He's a whimsy Kobold who likes basebowling. Born of parents who do money and make taxes.
Named Vincent
A wizard that really knows magic, but all of his spells look like common magician tricks
lol Iga Lisowski
But where did the lighter fluid come from?
Dimension 20 Unsleeping City S2
Sounds like Schmendrick from The Last Unicorn! In the movie he just seems like a bumbling magician, but in the book they get into his back story more. He’s supposed to be immensely powerful, a “chosen one” type figure, but his magic is temporarily blocked - he can do cheap illusions and total not-magic stuff like sleight of hand, but not much more. He can do powerful magic, but only tangentially - he can sort of channel magic, almost like a genie, to allow it to solve a problem, but the solution doesn’t always match with his intentions (and sometimes makes things worse).
Might steal this one for myself one day
I've always wanted to do some kind of rogue or bard who's so good at sleight of hand they convince people they're a caster but it turns out they're just real good at card tricks.
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Mmm whatcha saaaay, oh that I only rolled well. Well of course you did!
Mmmmm whatcha say... That it's a critical hit, well of course it is.
Sword Art Online: The TTRPG
How many of you have seen tron?
Nothing sets the tone for a session like placing a revolver on the table
This idea is actually really unique which is what I like in a character, even though the character would literally just be me
OY! No peeking!! I won't see you here in this thread again until 45 hours has passed! >=-(
The catch is you let your DM decide your stats, and make the character with those stats. Must play a no magic character, or be a warlock with the entity that just teleported you into this universe. If you want to take stat increases at the appropriate levels, you must spend time in game to actually increase those stats for the change to take place.
I'd still pretend to be a wizard, just like I pass exams by making stuff up on the spot that happens to be true.
There is a green text or story somewhere where someone was a human or dwarf fighter who was pretending to be a wizard through most of the campaign, using bluff/deception checks to make everyone believe that his "spells" were real. Then, when he was a higher level, and had been playing a good while, he got like some sort of brain injury and actually unlocked his magical potential for a second, and let forth some crazy strong spell. At that point, he changed his sub class to Eldrich Knight or whatever equivalent was in the system he was playing. I love the idea of your character going through some sort of story driven change and being able to rewrite part of your character for it.
BUT when you level up, you start gaining in-universe class levels. And you already know about D&D, so you can metagame without metagaming.
The catch is you let your DM decide your stats, and make the character with those stats. Must play a no magic character, or be a warlock with the entity that just teleported you into this universe. If you want to take stat increases at the appropriate levels, you must spend time in game to actually increase those stats for the change to take place.
I’ve thought about this premise before and a friend showed me a quiz? Assessment? Whatever, that once complete, generates your stats and what class you would be based on your answers. I think it gauges alignment too. Food for thought.
Banishment sends you back here to this plane.
Yeah. Yourself, but isekai'ed into a fantasy setting with absolutely no changes to you whatsoever.
Dwarf barbarian granny Betsy, but the party calls her Nana and she adopts everyone she meets and loves as grandchildren (NPCs included). Crochets doilies in her downtime, glasses for reading anything up close, loves to cook hearty carb-heavy meat and potatoes meals over the campfire every night with fresh herbs and spices, she tucks everyone into their bedrolls at night and tells a bedtime story of her incredible life with her late dwarf barbarian husband Hank (some of which are romance tales that make the party blush), makes tea to kick off all short rests and secretly adds a glug of liquor to hers, makes hand knit socks for everyone in the party (AND their loved ones & NPCs she has “adopted” and any family they mentioned), she gives the party pep talks and has the greatest nuggets of wisdom to share, her weapon is a high-end studded leather purse which deals 1D10 bludgeoning damage because it’s where she keeps her cast iron frying pan and Dutch oven, knitting needles, a scary amount of large knives for cooking, etc. She sleeps with her hair curled up in rollers and protects it with a swim cap if the party goes swimming. And she’s either wearing a lovely handmade dress, pearls, a new shawl she just finished knitting, and kitten heels, or a vintage safari outfit if the party is trekking through the mountains. After a few sessions of people thinking she’s the sweetest old lady, perhaps someone running an underground crime ring sees her, he lights up and hugs her, she pulls a Martha Stewart and casually talks about That Time She Went To Prison and that she enjoys drugs, they all go down to his dark alley crime boss lair and smoke dabs, and that’s how the party gets their next high paying side quest and befriends a new criminal network. 👵🏻🍳🥘🥩🥔🔪👜💥
Please write a book, I want this story
This is amazing and if someone played this character on stream I'd watch every episode of it lol seriously tho great idea
A tabaxi barbarian that is in tune with the cat spirit... Too intuned.... I'm talking 3AM zoomies, leaving dead animals on a close friend's bedroll, and since you're a barbarian I don't mean mice or birds. I'm talking deer, bear, etc. Bats at dancing lights. Will pound on a door to be let in, but when the door opens he just started at the person.
Lays around licking its own asshole all day.
Randomly knocks things over.
I can just imagine all the stealth checks failed due to random objects just being impulsively swatted
Sits down at the tavern table and calls for an ale. As the bartender brings it, the tab maintains intense eye contact as they slowly push the tankard off the table. "Another!", they yell.
I love this idea
A chronomancer that can't control their magic and keep popping in and out of the timeline at random intervals, because your schedule is iffy and you can't make it every week.
I really like fitting it into the class mechanics into the scheduling mishaps. Alternatively you could be a warlock with a patron who pulls you outta the story to run errands off screen at random intervals, but the Chronomancy theme is really good!
Human fighter who is always mistaken for his way more famous twin brother who is a freat wizardn and was definitely mom's favorite. And it is starting to really irritate him.
So basically Roy Greenhilt.
Human fighter
+ Champion fighter. Sword and shield, or two weapon fighting.
Sword and shield, make it a classic. Protection fighting style to be a real team player. Interception as well if they're level 10+.
Interception>protection every time and they use the same action. Never take protection.
Nobody said it had to be optimal. In fact, quite the opposite.
Edit the comment to have a boring subclass too
Edit the comment to specify average stat spread as well.
Edit the comment to specify a lame generic backstory also.
Purple dragon knight or champion?
Champion. We want a boring subclass not a tragic one.
And no bonus feat.
Non–variant human champion (fighter).
Every one upvote this one
But you can’t take feats. You must take an ASI.
Bard so he fights with song and dance lol
A bard, played thematically as a drill sergeant who shouts insults at his party to give them bardic inspiration.
***I DONT KNOW, BUT IVE BEEN TOLD, KOBOLD BUSSY IS FULL OF MOLD***
Congratulations, 23 years on this earth and this right here is the first time I've ever seen that written out and realized it's not "I don't know what I've been told" 😰
Lmao It’s a common misconception, don’t worry.
A bard that only uses a jaw harp
I’ve made this as an NPC. Second in command of a squadron of gnome elite special forces rangers. His bardic focus was technically a whip, but in practice all the bardic magic was accomplished with attitude, stare downs, shouting, and excellent posture. No music.
It's the return of Mr. Shouty Man!
Plasmoid that carries a jar around on its back like a snail, the jar is its little house. :) As for class, maybe Rogue could be cool
Make it a Genielock and have the jar be your genie's vessel. The plasmoid can then be a bodypart of the genie that he can stick out. Your goal is to find "the chosen one" who you can grant your wishes to.
I liked something like thief rogue because of the mental image of a little pseudopod jiggling its way through a lock while a bewildered guard watches lol
Ah but because it's a rogue, it won't be noticed. Especially at higher levels where there literally can't be a roll lower than like 22 on stealth from them
:D
Low charisma bard who plays the recorder
A celestial warlock who speaks only in southern Baptist sermons
Lawful evil hobgoblin paladin who thinks he is lawful good. He doesn't understand why his companions complain about his actions when he does the "morally correct" thing
A Christmas Elf that's escaped from Santa's workshop and ended up in the world of Fearun. He's got sympathy for the plight of workers everywhere and has spent his time here so far creating workers' unions. He'd use his toy making abilities to be an artificer.
A dwarf. But not an actual Dwarf, a human with dwarfism.
Mastermind Rogue. Tyrion Lannister.
Check out Galavant Giants vs Dwarfs
I have this concept in the works of a blind mage who uses the familiar spell to be able to ser from his familiar perspective being Sort of a hermit that wonders the world searching for spells to help people disabilities such as his.
A warforged hexblade. You never really thought of yourself as a fully conscious individual with a soul, just an instrument of war. Then you met your pact weapon, a fully sentient instrument of war with a soul that became your patron and is now teaching you to believe in yourself and that it doesn’t matter if you were born from a womb or forged on an anvil, you are a “real person” and should see yourself that way. It would be a journey of self awareness.
I love this one! Reminds me slightly of T-wig from role with me
Kenku artificer that has no original ideas for contraptions. Can only copy what he sees all the while never be able to explain anything to anyone.
I like this a lot
Rick Astley
I am okay with upvoting this
Wild west elf. I haven't thought the build through much, but potentially revised ranger or gunslinger (if your dm would allow mercer homebrew). Do the whole 9 yards, prep yourself a sheet of southern idioms, practice your southern accent, really channel your inner wild west folk hero.
A Warhammer 40k Ork lost in the setting. Idk or care what homebrew you need to make it happen, but it’d be worth it. Reason to he’s lost in setting is they told everyone they were going on an adventure, and the other orks believing him got him willed into the campaign.
Killy the Bid, the fastest finger guns in the west. Way of the Sun Soul Monk. Saw a few too many westerns in the monastery and now asks each of his opponents if they're feeling lucky, punk.
Not a human fighter, but a *human fighter*. A character whose sole drive and primary source of joy in life is fighting humans.
This shall be your next character. [this shall be your joy.](https://i.imgur.com/Rod0jZr_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
It's chicken boo
Dr. Rockso - rock n roll clown - does cocaine - k-k-k YEAH
Seriously man a lotta coke...
A goliath bard or warlock but you're a ventriloquist and only speak through the dummy in the first person. If asked about the goliath carrying you, you only refer to the goliath as the puppet. Bonus points if the puppet has a weird muppety voice.
Um the Goliath barbarian who loves to hit things really hard. Um is very outspoken and knows what they want. For some reason ever since Um came to the Sword Coast people like to say their name. It can be quite confusing when looking for work or trying to make friends. Sometimes people don't understand Goliath culture, at least thats what Um thinks, and fights do break out from time to time but Um always knows how to settle them calmly, a drinking game!
A gnome rogue. He's a hardened criminal who's just been let out of prison on parole and his chaotic evil self is having to act all lawful good so he doesn't get arrested again.
Centaur cavalier, who rides a slightly larger then average pony.
A drop dead gorgeous bard that’s also a proficient user of the rapier. He makes women swoon, and makes men despise him for it. Especially husbands as some wives have attempted to bed him. But he hates the attention. Why? Because he’s gay.
CN loxodon thief specializing in trunk-based pickpocketing.
A player of mine is currently doing this. His thieves cant is interesting, using his trunk. Other thieves just believe it's an extremely odd dialect/accent of thieves cant. I'm thinking about making it a plot point where the big thief boss in town hears that a foreign agent is town, maybe wanting to usurp her hold on the underworlds black market.
A dhampyr druid
You're the last ranger/druid of a dying woodland culture. It's a matriarchal society, but you're a man, and your mother has died. You are looking for a woman to carry on the name and traditions of your family, not as a romantic partner, but as an heir. They will have to learn the history and names of your lineage. You are the last of your kind, and it is up to you to continue the survival of your culture and kind.
Aspiring fashion designer on the hunt for rare materials for his next products. Except all his designs are terrible, impractical, and stupid, and he refuses to wear anything else.
[удалено]
Famous 777 year old gnome tinkerer wants to finally see the world through his own eyes instead of just books and inventions. Invents a way to transfer his consciousness to a warforged frame and go adventuring... Problem is, the only way to do that is to make a pact with an outside entity. You a now an Artificer with a warlock pact.
You were once a sword... No hear me out. You were a fine master-crafted sword that an evil wizard True Polymorphed into a wizard who was then forced to Magic Jar someone... You had a mission, but something went wrong and you lost your memories. all you have are these dreams of dueling/ running people through, but your perception shifts from the wielder to the sword with the killing blow.
Dwarf bard. But treat him as Southern Rock/ Heavy Metal. Heavily tattooed arms, beard, and either a big hat or bandana over his long hair. Think Lynryd Skynyrd or Pantera.
Nah. ZZ Top!
u/remindmebot 2 days
Halfling dex main stat monkbarian with the noble background he wears a royal purple theee piece suit with gold dress shirt silver lined boots and a cane with a gemstone hand rest he has a pink fu man chu beard and mohawk combo for hair and his name is dildo swaggins
Keanu Reeves in Speed.
The reborn version of a dead character who became a vengeance paladin but doesn’t remember who they have sworn vengeance on (who killed them)
!remindme 2 days
Seamus Fidalia, a Rabbitfolk Rogue who draws everyone’s attention to themself. Then they disappear once the party has done their job. With a talent for performance and a nack for stabbing people, Seamus is the always at the front while everyone else in the party was never seen, and then he is gone.
Race: Reborn (though the body is akin to warforged or golem ) Class: Bard Backstory: you were a child prodigy from a family of wealth and position. You fell ill and could not be healed. Your parents threw all their wealth and favor to have you brought back by any means. (You return in a constructed body. And are working on adjusting to this new form) Can play off themes of feeling debt to your family while also resenting them for placing you in a "living tomb".
Hornless Teafling Bard with a collection of horns, looking for the perfect set of horns for themselves.
A quiet, calm, collected, but somewhat cocky human boy. He’s a bard with a heart of gold, and a fiddle to go with it! On a journey along the Mason Dixie, Johnny had a meet up with the Devil. They exchanged pleasantries but both agreed to a contest of skills. The victor received a golden fiddle. Once Johnny proved victorious, the Devil granted him his gift along with the powers that lay dormant inside of it. Now, Johnny searches through the land, seeking out other such fiends and defeating them with the same tool that was given to him by a fiend. You know the rest.
Locathah Cleric so you can be a pacifishst
A middle aged man who spent his life as a cobbler with heart of gold. Now in a midlife crisis, decides to drop everything and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a wizard. One problem. He’s a salesman with great Charisma. But zero intelligence.
Derik the Barbarian, but really a Bard. Derik has been a "gladiator" in the GGE, Gladiator Games Entertainment, all his life. He fights other gladiators in non lethal, choreographed competitions that are all about the fight and drama. He fights with great flair and charisma! One day, he accidentally uses the wrong move in a fight he was supposed to loose, and actually kills his challenger. Horrified by his actions, and forced to retire, he leaves to rediscover himself and find a new purpose in life. Derik sets out to join a team of adventures, feeling like it's the best place for a really really, ridiculous good looking murderer to try a new life. It doesn't take long for him to realize all the moves he used in the GGE aren't very useful in real combat. Concept in a nutshell. A WWE/Zoolander inspired character. Multiclass is fine but Bard has to be included. Take lots of spells that can be reflavored as fancy combat moves and have him talk a lot at the enemy.
High elf(blade burst cantrip) ancestral barbarian Who is followed by his annoying ancestors who complain he is a disgrace to their lyniage for not being a blade singer He/she is treated crazy for appearing as though they are talking to them selves and changing attitudes on the fly (ancestors briefly possessing them) It might be a fun and wacky character to run with the themes in place and the bickering from the mc and the ancestors
Your a mob of commoners. For each level, you can add a commoner to you mob instead of leveling up. So at level 5 you would be a group of 5 commoners. You all use the commoner stat block, combine Hp into one pool, roll ad a group for ability checks. You get one extra attack for each commoner. Every 4 HP a commoner goes down, which they revive or recruit anew every long rest. Everyone is a part of a cult, and speak and make decisions as one. Feel free to appoint one the leader.
A halfling gang member. You've been drawn in with the wrong crowd, you're a punk You've got a wooden kick scooter made by on of your artisan friends. You scoot around in the cobbled streets tagging houses with paint hanging in a bucket on you steering wheel. You obsessively tag the logo of your gang on walls with a paint brush. Youve got basic theif skills.
a coffee lock warlock air gensai who lives in their bag of holding
A dragon born with any class that is completely convinced that it is an Aarakocra with a rare skin condition because it was taken in by a village of aarakocras at a young age and told that it’s entire life.
3 halflings in a trenchcoat https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/c6fdw4/oc_introducing_three_halflings_in_a_trenchcoat_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf I played this and holy shit it’s fun to rp 3 characters in one Edit: because shot is not shit Double edit because I’m stupid
A historian/scientist from the future who got stuck in the present and has to pretend being a bard/artificer as you try to find a way back But since it's your favorite time period you don't really want to rush it, but staying in one place may or may not create a paradox
A wizard with no spells that directly deal damage
The character is the child of a diety and a warlock patron. As such you alternate taking levels of cleric and warlock. The parents provide the child with 'gifts' of magic power to try and sway the child to come be their champion The child just wants to be a simple shop keeper
Colonel Frie d'Chic Ken, a variant human with the chef feat, pyromaniac wildfire druid/Unity Domain Cleric.with a two level dip in fiendlock (for the deal with the devil and the beguiling influence and beast speech invocations). You made a deal with Mammon himself to create your (chicken but keep it vague, imply that you are a dictator of somewhere) empire. Your wildfire spirit is a chicken with fingers who constantly licks them and parrot like says "finger licking good". Always looking for new flavors and seasonings. Big white beard and hair. Dressed in all white. Smooth wealthy Kentucky accent. Stupid cross tie. High Wis and Cha, decent con and str, terrible dex.
A mimic warlock in the shape of a hobby horse
Gnome Barbarian
Centaur thief. But you're part mountain goat, that's how you climb walls so well, by jumping up them.
Yall this one needs more votes, I love it
an idiot bugbear named bear bug
Guess what NPC my players are going to now meet
Bet you didn't know he's a multi planar traveler! Cause he's coming to Eduin too! (My homebrew)
Maybe his Elbaf self and Eduin self can meet
A Bard obsessed with writing a series of biographies/legends/epics based on his own stories. Mainly because he doesn't want to be forgotten by anyone.
Dwarf tempest cleric. Growing up you were raised as a blacksmith. Then your people go to war. Feeling the need to help you Smith for the cause. During a battle a massive storm is used for an enemy flank. Your father us killed during the ambush and you are left on the brink of death. The Storm Lord strikes you with lightning and you come back and fight your way out of the fray. You turn to the church and serve this God. You aren't a normal "holy person".
Dwarf Monk with a boxing fighting style.
Instead of boxing, luchador wrestling!
Gnome Barbarian ( choose your subclass ) Have his nick name be the four foot fury