Quick, pitch me your last character concept in 30 seconds or less. What's the first, most interesting fact about them you can come with?
Quick, pitch me your last character concept in 30 seconds or less.
Quick, pitch me your last character concept in 30 seconds or less. What's the first, most interesting fact about them you can come with?
Youngest son of a mercantile noble family, had visions (or seizures, depending on how you look at it) since a young age when near the sea or watching their ships sail off. Went to become a priest of the sea god. Despite not being engaged in their family business, he still cares a lot about the prestige of his house. His patient is as deep as the ocean, but equally fickle.
>The sun reflecting off rippling waves created a flashing image
>He literally just has epilepsy
He's a high fantasy equivalent of an FBI glowie.
arabic merchant genie warlock contracted by a djinn to conduct trade on its behalf
he sells carpets and raids tombs
>What's the first, most interesting fact about them you can come with?
Human
Fighter
My Elf, Sir Liev Salot the 4th, is cousin to my previous character, the human male
Fighter Sir Dis Alot the Fifteenth
is a doll possessed by a long since dead ancestor. they are an ancestor of one of the party members, and they have some vendetta that they must help them see to in order to move onto the afterlife.
mgs style super soldier who lost his job and has to flip burgers and live in the pod to get by
Medieval Fantasy sovereign citizen libertarian who's convinced he has the legal right to claim his houseboat as a sovereign nation. will treat every encounter with nobility as a diplomatic mission, and every encounter with the cops as a life-or-death scenario
Pretentious bard who's terrible at playing the lute, just strums it without playing any chords while reciting mediocre poems and limericks. Dresses like pic related and has a personality like Squidward.
But do you do the voice of Squidward at the table?
human fighter with a fat wiener
Good quads. Is it big enough to be used as an unarmed strike though?
black goblins
Dwarf Merchant that accidently sold his soul to a Devil who is also his ancestor.
Clone of a recently murdered scientist who is committed to fricking over the people that killed her 'Dad'.
She's the latest in a long lineage of such copies and a lot of what she should know died with him most likely.
So she's teamed up with a freaky Tyranid-mode alien to try and unlock her 'genetic memory' of shit she should know (aka: Anything that he knew before she was cloned) and if you can hear Hall of the Mountain King starting to play softly in the distance then you're reading how bad an idea that was correctly.
young royal jester/magician recently tricked into exilement. banishment was orchestrated by a spirit that sees their loyalty to the crown as antithetical to their holy duty to embody the ideals of tricky and satire. hoping their newfound transiency is just a brief stint they journey into the world hunting for some lost relic to gift to their old master to get back in good graces; all the while said spirit quietly watches over them trying to manipulate them into becoming more anarchistic and realize their old boss is a total tyrant.
Half angel eldritch monstrosity using the corner stone of his burnt down church as a hammer on a mission to expunge evil from the land and find who killed his adoptive father and burned down his home
A firefighter with FEMA that was that was drafted into the fight against the Ghouls during Hurricane Katrina. After surviving that inital opera, he's become a seasoned and paranoid Program agent--armed to the teeth with a shotgun, 10mm pistol, throwing knives, fire axe, and steel-toe boots for stomping down anything that crawls out of the sewers.
Half elf wild magic barbarian. Elf dad sent him to the finest schools, but dad and classmates looked down on him for being a halfie so he said frick this pretentious bullshit and became a barbarian.
Unfortunately, Schooling leaves its mark, and he's constantly annoyed when things aren't up to his standards. Not in a lace glove kind of way, but a. "Why are people so *dumb*" kind of way.
He's awful and it's great.
[Eberron] Changeling Monk with the Criminal background - Functionally a Rogue that judo-chops people and doesn't need armor or weapons. All of his personas are Leo DiCaprio performances, mainly Blood Diamond, Gangs of New York, The Departed, and Catch Me If You Can.
>Eberron
Stopped reading right there
Worst setting ever
human male with a two handed sword
He's a dwarf with a gun and he wants to make that other people's problem.
A knight whose family was blood-sworn to the deposed king of a destroyed kingdom, he's called to fulfil his family's oath. The goal is to restore the royal family as rulers of the realm. Then the king dies, and his son, a rash, somewhat spoiled princeling, takes charge. He's already spent over 60 years away from home, and at the rate of acquisition he fears he will never finish his duty.
Cringe and centers the entire campaign around yourself.
Make it a disgraced noble family and not the ruling family of a destroyed kingdom and maybe it can work
This is one of the least cringe things here, are you brown I mean moronic?
Misread but still very cringe.
Tone it down a tad.
I should have mentioned the nation is Luiren from Faerun, a nation of halflings, which hasn't been a kingdom since pre-Spellplague and does not really care to fix that. The actual plot revolves around some vague oncoming disaster (something falling from space prophesized to be a bad thing).
I kind of doubt his backstory will have much bearing on anything at all.
That sounds like a dogshit campaign IMO but I hope you have fun.
I prefer sandboxes and less impending doom, world shattering railroads
She's a time traveler, and kind of like Benjamin Button. I personally don't find it that interesting an aspect of her character but in an objective sense it's probably hard to top.
Pissed Rabbitfolk brawler that got kidnapped by human slavers, looking to sell him in the new continent for a pretty penny. He's now stranded in a place he doesn't recognize, where most people are from a race of people he pretty much despises. Doesn't help that his people is vegetarian and sees meat-eaters as degenerates.
>slave
>racism
>bias towards others
>fish out of water
You got a solid character concept right there even if he is unfortunately a furgay that must be cleansed with fire.
7/10 would hasgames with
The silver lining is that he has a very punchable attitude, and I know one or two players won't hesitate to beat the shit outta him because of it. So don't worry, this furgay WILL suffer.
He's a good person who is willing to take risks to do the right thing.
A Star Shaman Mystic from Starfinder:
Survived an explosion he was meant to deliver on behalf of his father to a criminal rival and unknowingly spent 5 years talking to stars and planets until he was found by a salvage crew. Avoids his family and adventures to try and find the star he was talking to again.
Activation Time: 213TR Wheelday, Tarsakh 30, at 1335
Record Log:...[ERROR]
Status:...[CRITICAL]
Extended Deactivation Time:...[ERROR]
.......................................................................................................................................................................................
Activation Time: 4719AR Tuesday Jury 14th, 1230
STARTUP REPORT: Cripkilla-7615 activated. Status: Ready to blast a homie.
An Automaton sharpshooter for a (now defunct) Pathfinder 2e game. An extremely old model, he was constructed by a Saurial wizard frick knows how many centuries ago, and has been a hired assassin for various crime lords, eccentric wizards, and dubious parties ever on and off ever since.
300 year old dwarf from the previous campaign, and the only character who remembers what the world was like before the apocalypse. Refuses to use these new-fangled "guns" and instead still fights like a traditional knight against the dangers of the wasteland.
Recently contracted magic pneumonia, allowing him to cast spells with his coughs.
>Recently contracted magic pneumonia, allowing him to cast spells with his coughs.
Genius, I'm actually stealing that shit.
Thanks, it wasn't something I originally planned but that's where the character's direction has gone and it's been a blast so far.
Pacifistic Gnome cleric with a really really silly surname. He's not pacifistic cause of his religion, but because his grandpa slaughtered a whole gnomish city by himself. Other races think his name is just another quirky gnome name but for gnomes its the equivelent of meeting a guy called Billy Mussolini or Dave Hitler.
He's an ex-corpo mage who does a truly prodigious amount of drugs. During runs, he managed to extract information from a target by physical masking as a drop-dead gorgeous elf. This has worked out for him multiple times.
Well the current campaign was one we very quickly through together due to the last one ending unexpectedly early, so...
>I wanted to play a fire genasi fire druid
>I rolled for stats, put the best stat in Wisdom, but then assigned the rest randomly
>She has a 6 Intelligence
Keep in mind that I conceived of and built this character inside of about 3 minutes, so she's perhaps not the best example of my ability to make characters.
He's an ancient amnesiac who genuinely can't stop crying at the mention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon being burned and he doesn't know why. Not like bawling eyes out rainworks, but that forlorn emptiness that forces a few tears out type of crying.
Human male warrior. His parents were killed by orcs, and now he looks for revenge. He wears a longsword and a shield.
Bard who is the "Repairer of Reputations" his goal is to make everyone like him and help others become more likeable, because he's actually a warlock with some nefarious plans.
Magician Technician with a pocket plane, runs around in a power armor suit trying to help the people of RIFTS Earth.
Member of a noble house that got famous for hunting monsters, now forced work as assassins and bodyguards for other nobles after someone killed most of them and burned down their estate. Immensely prideful as a smokescreen for the fact that she isn't at all happy about being a hunter of men when she was raised on the stories of their glorious past as hunters of beasts and dragons.
Warlock driven mad by her patron, goes around killing and screeching incoherently.
I really don't like this character very much because it's an evil campaign, and I inherently don't care about that kind of thing. Yet, the other players are such dips that she's somehow the main character of the campaign. My group is stupid.
rough and tough sailor thrown to sea amid a chaotic battle comes to with newfound powers from an unknown source but is more than happy to combine it with his fighting prowess.
>rough and tough sailor thrown to sea amid a chaotic battle
Based
>comes to with newfound powers from an unknown source but is more than happy to combine it with his fighting prowess
Cringe. Sounds like a super hero's backstory and not an adventurer.
I was keeping it in character but I'll expand on it. meta wise, I know he would've certainly died but he made a deal with some kind of powerful entity that allowed him to survive but doesn't know the deal struck or the details of it.
>he made a deal with some kind of powerful entity
So a warlock?
Cringe class that makes cringe backstories mandatory.
Pick a caster that isn't gay.
if it makes you feel any better, anon, it hasn't come up once in rp and I don't intent to bring it up either.
>if it makes you feel any better
It doesn't.
Warlocks and sorcerers are fricking gay. Arcane magic shouldn't be given out like candy.
Clerics and Paladins are a different story and they have requirements (at least, they used to) Your homosexual ass just gets to wake up after a ship wreck with Eldritch Blast on tap? Gay
>DnD caster classism
All of you are ass and drag the game out, I just want to swing my sword dammit
calm down bro it isn't that deep
>so you're telling me this guy stick a sapling up his ass and now he can turn into a bear? yeah druids are fricking gay.
>yeah druids are fricking gay.
Correct
Mr. Satan hits the reset button and has to make it in the world of DBZ without his money or fame, but with prior knowledge that there are definitely people out there who can kill him with a glance, but you cannot tell who they are because some of them look like children and shit. He gets by with the power of being a canny bullshitter in a world where most people get hit in the head on a regular basis.
pic unrelated, mostly
A little kobold wizard on a big adventure!
Pretty based.
Sometimes it's just the small things. No pun intended.
His life is the arena. He strives for honor on it's sands!
Big superstitious lug of muscle that used to work as a sailor before the seas turned sour and forced him to become a thug for hire, he also has a club to beat people with and hates foreigners a lot as they used to bring bad luck when he was at sea
Playing thugs is always fun, especially the ones with some degree of expertise the DM acknowledges
Fantasy bard version of R Kelly at his peak
An aloof sheltered animal lover that couldn't bare to harm a fly. He's a butcher.
How does that work tho?
NTA but he probably sucks at his job. He only has the equipment of a butcher but hasn't the heart to use it.
Paladin in FR that was turned to stone for a few decades (roughly the time jump between 3.5 and 5th in FR) who's just been brought back to life and is going "WTF is this shit?"
Lv3 Light Cleric Lizardfolk.
A lizard who loves and worships the sun as the great sunfather, and likes to meditate with a slowly growing in intensity hymm at the crack of dawn.
As a Lizard light cleric he's got almost everything, he can hold a focus, bite, and shield, he's can melee, heal, spellcast and blast. He's a jack of all traits character cause I had no idea what I was rolling him into.
>Cyberpunk 2020
>Cop
>Cramed with every single non-combat cybernetic enhancement that can be fitted on a single individual. Pretty close to every single one in the book and all of the expansions.
>Wears a grey raincoat and hat
>Nickname: Inspector Gadget.
Interesting fact:
I rolled for his background and turns out he was quite a lady's man in his youth.
Manfred von Richthofen.
... In space.
So just a fighter pilot whose the Ace of Aces?
Also a noble, so he's in charge of a Company of fighting robots.
The roleplaying I'm doing is entirely not required for the game.
Nice!
Also thank you, fricking love that song/video, never heard it before.
np anon
My character is called John Smith
He's a white, male, human, fighter
He's interesting because the rest of the party is rainbow tiefling homosexuals
>My character is called John Smith
>He's a white, male, human, fighter
>He's interesting because the rest of the party is rainbow tiefling homosexuals
Based but what are their other pronouns?
I don't want to assume anything and commit a micro aggression against your make believe elf game character.
>Most interesting fact
He blew half his hearing out by being a little too zealous with dynamite
>rest of concept
He's an old-timey prospector with dreams/delusions of later generation technology he intends to tinker around with, primarily to find new exciting ways to mine gold. His wife's dead and his son left to be a city-slicker so he doesn't have much left to lose at this point.
>His wife's dead and his son left to be a city-slicker so he doesn't have much left to lose at this point.
I love the late bloomer adventurer trope.
Family is dead and gone but not due to some edgelord shit. Life just happened. Now he's alone in the world with nothing tying him down to one place. Might as well drift along and see what's out there.
A vaquero and sometimes bandit who wants to go on one great adventure before he dies. He's handy with a knife, but his real talent lies with his lasso.
A Hutt, who wants nothing to do with the Hutt Cartel, and is an archeologist by trade. He wants to find, unearth and preserve treasures from times past, and charge people a boatload as an entry fee to his members only museum.
An elf doctor from a rich family.
He's an extreme late bloomer in trms of healing magic.
Hobo paladin. He follows the hobo code (of ethics).
Two-headed ogre
The two heads are separate characters and would be played by two players
One head is a Spellcaster class and the other head is a Martial class
They share their STR, DEX and CON scores but have separate INT, WIS and CHR scores
They also share movement speed, meaning if they have a movement speed of 30ft and one uses 20ft on their turn, the other only can move 10ft on their turn.
They also share HP.
Isn't the caster getting too much of a preference though? The have the physical traits of a martial without trading any of their mentals. At the very least, you should give the martial head full control of the movement.
Former sailor, former alcoholic, celestial warlock. He thinks he's the only true cleric cause other clerics only pray to their gods, while he saw his god in person (it was a Ki-rin but bro had the worst hangover at that moment so he thought it was some kind of a god).
A Brotherhood of Steel Outcast that walked from DC to New Mexico to reestablish contact with the Council of Elders and is currently under cover to avoid getting shot up.
>factoid
He's actually a moderate among the larger organization and is a surprisingly nice guy considering I accidentally made his backstory complete hell.
knife-throwing circus brat who wants to put on the greatest show in the world by saving it
"Basically Charlie from Always Sunny but in Fallout."
Human male neutral good fighter
Religion focus
>Interesting fact
likes ale
Fledgling warrior of a tribal mountain people, learned to fight from nearby aarakocra
>Pitch
Caravan guard wearing shoddy rusted armor with downright decrepit weaponry.
Somehow still manages to handle himself extremely well in a fight
Very shy, barely talks, barely eats, takes orders very well.
Helpful.
No one can remember hiring him.
Animals get uneasy around him
>Interesting fact
Escapee from a witch cult having been raised to be one of their guardians and/or emergency sacrificial pawn.
>Quick, pitch me your last character concept in 30 seconds or less.
I had never played a monk before, so I decided to be a monk. The world I was playing in allowed me to be an anthropomorphic cat, so I said "frick it" and now I have a kitty cat monk. I figured that Zen went well with finding a nice warm spot to take a nap, and also I thought it was funny, and I'm not taking this campaign seriously at all. The most interesting thing about him is I named him after the same naming conventions that the cats used in the Tad Williams book Tailchaser's Song, a book I loved when I was a kid.
The Gourmand
Emperor's Children warlord that raids an undefended section of the Imperium. He's so fat he's literally bursting out of his terminator plate, and is always carried on a grav palanquin. He used to use slaves, but no matter how many he uses, he ended up crushing them the moment he got on after a point. He holds opulent banquets multiple times a day, but the only guests apart from himself are captured Imperial nobility and military personnel/Astartes. The guests are lashed to the table, and dazzling gold and silver plates are put in front of all of them. But when the psychoactive crystal lids are raised, there's barely anything there. Like those tiny, barely bite sized morsels you see costing $1,000 a plate at pretentious restaurants. The guests are all starving to death, but the Gourmand, even though he's eating the exact same dish as his victims, seems to get somehow fatter with each meal. The reason is because the dishes are artisan crafted by sadistic torturers who make the last set of guests into the next meals, making sure that every ounce of pain, agony, and hopelessness carries into each and every sliver of flesh cut from the victim's still-living bodies. For someone not attuned? It's an uncooked (or charred to a crisp) scrap of dead meat. But to him, that psychic trauma makes it like eating ten courses made by the bastard lovechild of Emeril Lagasse and Gordon Ramsay.
Whatever you do, don't insult the chefs, and don't insult the Gourmand's hospitality. Those that do end up eating their last supper.
Former space pirate rat folk. Enjoys destruction, violence, and intimidating people. His only real desire is to find a group to call his tribe. Ended up in a morally questionable exiled Princes entourage, traipsing around the galaxy doing odd tasks for the prince. The prince shows (and possibly has) next to no emotion, regularly enslaving, conquering & killing to get what he wants. Despite this behavior, space rat assumes he is his best friend who only has his best interest at heart. Over time he has become a generically engineered and part cyborg guinea pig/assassin & body guard to the prince.