Ridiculous character ideas that might actually work....

[Oramac]

Just a fun thread for ridiculous character concepts that might actually work within the rules.

For example:

Unarmored Defense means a Barbarian doesn't have to wear armor. But it never specifies that he/she has to wear anything at all either.

So you have a Barb that walks around totally naked, and carries all his/her items in a Bag of Holding (maybe with a very simple belt).

So what other crazy ideas might actually work?

[Temperjoke]

Gourmet Ranger, eats everything that he kills that can't talk back to him in battle...with some exceptions if he's hungry. Uses a greataxe shaped like a meat cleaver, as well as various cooking knives, in battle.

[gfishfunk]

- Friendship is Magic!: Paladin / Ranger / Druid build, including Ritual Caster feat to grab Find Familiar (Houserule it a Tiny Pony, please! Otherwise a cat that looks like a Pony). Get Find Steed (A Pony). Go beastmaster (A Pony). As a druid, turn into a Pony. You have your own Pony team.

- Powerful illusionist wizard: work with the GM to strongly imply that even the other PCs are actually just manifestations of the Illusionist's neurosis. This is a great way to 'punish' murder hobos with no backgrounds....suddenly that lack of background makes sense.

- Wrestlock: melee build warlock taking the familiar path rather than blade-lock. Also, grab Tavern Brawler and Grappler. The familiar assists with grapples to give advantage. Why? Because Grapplock is Wrestlock.

[N810]

Paladin/Cleric/Monk ???
Ultimate holy warrior...
(probably need good rolled stats.)

[Giant2005]

The Unholy Trio: A triumvirate of inhuman Warlocks that were fooled into making pacts of servitude by someone whom they thought to be a wizard. One made his pact for the sake of gaining intelligence, another for the sake of courage, and the last for the sake of a heart.

[Oramac]

Loving these!



The Unholy Trio: A triumvirate of inhuman Warlocks that were fooled into making pacts of servitude by someone whom they thought to be a wizard. One made his pact for the sake of gaining intelligence, another for the sake of courage, and the last for the sake of a heart.

I see what you did there.....

[GlenSmash!]

Just a fun thread for ridiculous character concepts that might actually work within the rules.

For example:

Unarmored Defense means a Barbarian doesn't have to wear armor. But it never specifies that he/she has to wear anything at all either.

So you have a Barb that walks around totally naked, and carries all his/her items in a Bag of Holding (maybe with a very simple belt).

So what other crazy ideas might actually work?

One time I had my barbarian strip before going into a fight. When the DM (and other players) asked why I said "To play on their fears" I got no mechanical benefit for it, but since I didn't have any armor, it didn't hurt me either.

[JoeJ]

A while back I posted a wizard with Intelligence 10. She'd grown up on the street (Urchin background) and learned magic from some stolen books. Her intelligence score reflected the fact that she'd had no formal education.

[Roughishguy86]

Just a fun thread for ridiculous character concepts that might actually work within the rules.

For example:

Unarmored Defense means a Barbarian doesn't have to wear armor. But it never specifies that he/she has to wear anything at all either.

So you have a Barb that walks around totally naked, and carries all his/her items in a Bag of Holding (maybe with a very simple belt).

So what other crazy ideas might actually work?

This would be much better if said barbarian also was a grapple master.

How the hell would a civilized person handle being grappled to death by a big naked man and his "meat hammer"?

[kaoskonfety]

Currently playing a POWERFUL SORCERER!

Level 5 Eagle Totem barbarian with a focus in mental stats, lore abilities and hermit background. Ritual caster - behold my MIGHTY SORCERY including Floating disc, Comprehend Languages and Tiny Hut! Behold my command of the secret fires! Behold the Angel bound to my service force into the form of a raven! It's eyes are mine and its form malleable!
Magic initiate for Protection from Evil, Prestidigitation and Fire Bolt.

Rage, Barb hit dice and a high con mean I can pull decent damage, have a good AC in my wizard robes and can take some serious hits. I generally only break out magic (fire bolt) in combat when the foe is immune or resistant to steel. The added druid rituals Barbarian gets me are just so much icing on the "angry magic man" cake.

I'm basically hamming up being a Wizard as straight barbarian and its working wonderfully.

[PIELIKEI]

I kinda feel that this is appropriate. https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3jpksw/gandalf_was_really_just_fighter_with_int18/

[MBControl]

I'm currently playing a character with a fun / funny / punny backstory.

Half Elf named Varis Walker.
Varis is a ranger-hunter, and is of the clan of Taxas.
That's right, He's Walker, Taxas Ranger.

I encourage anybody that wants to use this, go for it. I play my guy with a huge ego, and pretty d-baggy. For example after ever kill he screams "Death and Taxas!"

He also has a lot of Tribal tats, and self-appointed himself the group leader, to the annoyance of the rest of the party.

[Temperjoke]

I kinda feel that this is appropriate. https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3jpksw/gandalf_was_really_just_fighter_with_int18/

It pisses me off when people use movie-evidence like that.

[FightStyles]

Someone recently mentioned an assassin that weapon bonds with a canon. So EK 3/Rogue 3+.

You use a bonus action to magically form a canon "in your hand" and use it to super nova during the surprise round. Then, run around hiding and then summoning the canon on your next turn again.

[Oramac]

This would be much better if said barbarian also was a grapple master.

How the hell would a civilized person handle being grappled to death by a big naked man and his "meat hammer"?

Oh god. That sounds hilarious! I'm upset that I didn't think of it!

All of these are great. I'm creating a virtual rolodex of characters to play over here.

[SharkForce]

Someone recently mentioned an assassin that weapon bonds with a canon. So EK 3/Rogue 3+.

You use a bonus action to magically form a canon "in your hand" and use it to super nova during the surprise round. Then, run around hiding and then summoning the canon on your next turn again.

pretty sure you'll only be using that once.

having a cannon spawn "in your hand" is not likely to end well :P

[Theodoxus]

Just a fun thread for ridiculous character concepts that might actually work within the rules.

For example:

Unarmored Defense means a Barbarian doesn't have to wear armor. But it never specifies that he/she has to wear anything at all either.

So you have a Barb that walks around totally naked, and carries all his/her items in a Bag of Holding (maybe with a very simple belt).

So what other crazy ideas might actually work?

Name him Chaucer, and his sword is his whit...

[2D8HP]

A no feat standard human Champion Fighter.
"Roland de'Crits"

[Belac93]

The ultimate chaotic character! No, not a sorcerer, or a bard, or a barbarian.

A Monk!

A monk? You say. Yes! I yell, beating you over the head with an egg.

A character who is so against any laws, that he is even against the laws of physics. Allows him to finesse maces, run over water, and other things that bend, pummel, and break the laws of physics. If you give him the tavern brawler feat, he can use anything as a weapon. And he can fight naked as well.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

Someone recently mentioned an assassin that weapon bonds with a canon. So EK 3/Rogue 3+.

You use a bonus action to magically form a canon "in your hand" and use it to super nova during the surprise round. Then, run around hiding and then summoning the canon on your next turn again.

I really don't think using the cleric as a weapon is great idea, at least not if you ever want to get healed again. I think you mean Cannon. With 2 `n`s in it.

[Drackolus]

I have a nearly-naked brass dragon sorcerer who uses a whip and was an ex-gladiator who (unwillingly) fought for the amusement of a blue dragon. He has one hell of a sense of humor (and over-the-top accent).
"Oh, these dragon cultists can't be that evil. They didn't even spend the extra money to hire mercinaries who knew how to really burn down villages!"
His continued survival is astounds me.
EDIT: also, his name is Ali, and he may or may not be royalty.

[TheFlyingCleric]

Cleric/Wizard
He has a shield with a holy emblem.

So he casts Shield of Faith with the Shield, then he also casts Shield.

[P1] "Why does the wizard have three shields?"
[P2] "Magic"

Oh and he's naked as well (mage armor), because why not. Meaning Nature domain is probably appropriate.

[ShikomeKidoMi]

This would be much better if said barbarian also was a grapple master.

So he's Greek?

[Cespenar]

Fighter 3 / Rogue 3 (Thief) minimum. Get Mobility and throw in possible levels of Barbarian and/or Monk.

Grapple someone, use Second Story Work to climb with your full speed (still halved because of grapple) on a nearby building/wall/tree. Bonus action to Dash upwards again. Action surge to Dash up yet another time. Then simply drop the guy. And then, this may depend on a DM call, but, drop yourself on the guy.

John Cena build? Since you can initiate this out of stealth, after all.

[Laereth]

Currently playing a POWERFUL SORCERER!

Level 5 Eagle Totem barbarian with a focus in mental stats, lore abilities and hermit background. Ritual caster - behold my MIGHTY SORCERY including Floating disc, Comprehend Languages and Tiny Hut! Behold my command of the secret fires! Behold the Angel bound to my service force into the form of a raven! It's eyes are mine and its form malleable!
Magic initiate for Protection from Evil, Prestidigitation and Fire Bolt.

Rage, Barb hit dice and a high con mean I can pull decent damage, have a good AC in my wizard robes and can take some serious hits. I generally only break out magic (fire bolt) in combat when the foe is immune or resistant to steel. The added druid rituals Barbarian gets me are just so much icing on the "angry magic man" cake.

I'm basically hamming up being a Wizard as straight barbarian and its working wonderfully.

I think you might have won at DnD.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

I think you might have won at DnD.

This is a reformation (albeit an extremely clever one) of a previous build, the 'Powerful Wizard' Barbarian, who can cast the following spells:

Shatter (Sunder)
Fear (Intimidate + Imperious Command)
Finger of Death (attack with his greataxe, a.k.a. his 'wizard's staff' with a fancy knob on the end, with PA/Shock Trooper/Leap Attack combo)
Stinking Cloud (after consuming significant quantities of beans)
True Strike (high BAB from being a barbarian)

I could go on, but I believe you see what he did here. Most of the divination spells he could cast by virtue of guessing. After all, there's no guarantee of accuracy.

[Inevitability]

Changelings can assume any medium humanoid form.
A werewolf is still a medium humanoid when shapeshifted into a wolf. So is a wereboar.

In other words, it is completely possible to play Sir Porkington, the boar paladin. The stats even match up!

[kaoskonfety]

I think you might have won at DnD.

Its part of the games core pitch - All Barbarian youths from a distant semi-isolated tribe and I'm running the "wise barbarian" troope and the village trainee magic specialist, lore master, and healer. We also have a strong, swift, and charismatic filling in warrior smith, sneaky leader and skald rabble rouser. Our thief and bard have actually multi classed out of barbarian immediately but I HAD to hold out for the reckless attack, druid rituals and the second attack. I'm seriously looking at a level or 2 dip for Diviner, Mountain Druid or Knowledge cleric but totem barbarian just has so many little magic goodies sprinkled in (and hit points) it seriously hard to decide when to step out for a minute for a thematic feature or 2.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

A sorta-similar idea I had was playing a high-level Thief as a fake wizard (or potentially, fake anything else), using UMD and Ritual caster. Bonus points for freaking out enemies by dual-wielding a Staff of the Magi and Holy Avenger.

[ZX6Rob]

I had a fun one the other day that I kind of like. So, what if you had this character who was abducted by aliens? And they took her away, and they experimented on her, rebuilding her body with advanced technology as part of some inscrutable scheme? And then, for whatever reason, they blank out her memory and deposit her back on the dirt farm she came from, with years of missing time and a weird, artificial body that had all these hidden powers waiting to be rediscovered? Use the rules for a warforged from Unearthed Arcana with the warlock class, but instead of treating your warforged like a robot, treat her like a cyborg instead. She's got composite plating for artificial skin, but is still vulnerable to poisons and disease because she has an organic brain. Her warlock powers are all the result of alien super-science, which is far enough advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic anyway. Eldritch Blast? Laser cannon. Invisibility? Cloaking shield. Armor of Agathys? Inertial reflex unit. Temporary hit points? Ballistic impact force fields. Telepathy? Um... nanotech brainwave analyzer? You could actually end up building a cybernetic stealth operative using the existing warlock rules, and it works out surprisingly well. You just re-flavor one of the existing patrons as unknowable aliens -- Oh! Hello, Great Old Ones, I didn't see you there.

Cybernetic shadow-assassin! Or, "Ew, you got your R.I.F.T.S. in my Dungeons and Dragons!"

[Submortimer]

I had a fun one the other day that I kind of like. So, what if you had this character who was abducted by aliens? And they took her away, and they experimented on her, rebuilding her body with advanced technology as part of some inscrutable scheme? And then, for whatever reason, they blank out her memory and deposit her back on the dirt farm she came from, with years of missing time and a weird, artificial body that had all these hidden powers waiting to be rediscovered? Use the rules for a warforged from Unearthed Arcana with the warlock class, but instead of treating your warforged like a robot, treat her like a cyborg instead. She's got composite plating for artificial skin, but is still vulnerable to poisons and disease because she has an organic brain. Her warlock powers are all the result of alien super-science, which is far enough advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic anyway. Eldritch Blast? Laser cannon. Invisibility? Cloaking shield. Armor of Agathys? Inertial reflex unit. Temporary hit points? Ballistic impact force fields. Telepathy? Um... nanotech brainwave analyzer? You could actually end up building a cybernetic stealth operative using the existing warlock rules, and it works out surprisingly well. You just re-flavor one of the existing patrons as unknowable aliens -- Oh! Hello, Great Old Ones, I didn't see you there.

Cybernetic shadow-assassin! Or, "Ew, you got your R.I.F.T.S. in my Dungeons and Dragons!"

I hate to self promote but...

Oh, what am I saying, I LOVE to self promote!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_73NA7vK-0OQVM2OVpCWGhReGs/view

As to the topic, I built a rather successful recreation of a Brotherhood of Steel Scribe by reflavoring all of my spells as guns, grenades, laser pistols, and Power armor.

Edit: He was a warlock. Not one of these, a standard Fiend build.

[TheTeaMustFlow]

I had a fun one the other day that I kind of like. So, what if you had this character who was abducted by aliens? And they took her away, and they experimented on her, rebuilding her body with advanced technology as part of some inscrutable scheme? And then, for whatever reason, they blank out her memory and deposit her back on the dirt farm she came from, with years of missing time and a weird, artificial body that had all these hidden powers waiting to be rediscovered? Use the rules for a warforged from Unearthed Arcana with the warlock class, but instead of treating your warforged like a robot, treat her like a cyborg instead. She's got composite plating for artificial skin, but is still vulnerable to poisons and disease because she has an organic brain. Her warlock powers are all the result of alien super-science, which is far enough advanced that it is indistinguishable from magic anyway. Eldritch Blast? Laser cannon. Invisibility? Cloaking shield. Armor of Agathys? Inertial reflex unit. Temporary hit points? Ballistic impact force fields. Telepathy? Um... nanotech brainwave analyzer? You could actually end up building a cybernetic stealth operative using the existing warlock rules, and it works out surprisingly well. You just re-flavor one of the existing patrons as unknowable aliens -- Oh! Hello, Great Old Ones, I didn't see you there.

Cybernetic shadow-assassin! Or, "Ew, you got your R.I.F.T.S. in my Dungeons and Dragons!"

Oh, I like it.

[ZX6Rob]

I hate to self promote but...

Oh, what am I saying, I LOVE to self promote!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_73NA7vK-0OQVM2OVpCWGhReGs/view

As to the topic, I built a rather successful recreation of a Brotherhood of Steel Scribe by reflavoring all of my spells as guns, grenades, laser pistols, and Power armor.

Edit: He was a warlock. Not one of these, a standard Fiend build.

If all of your stuff is as cool as this, you should be self promoting more often. I love this!

[JohnStone]

I was trying to come up with a way to make a tinker gnome for a dragonlance campaign.
I decided Wild Sorcerer: refluff all the spells as funky gadgets.
when using Wild Magic his contraptions sometimes go "boom"
other times he decides that a tweak here or a solar powered whoziwhatzit there could alter the length,range, or power of the "gadget"

its not to much a stretch to use INT as a casting stat either.

[Oramac]

I was trying to come up with a way to make a tinker gnome for a dragonlance campaign.
I decided Wild Sorcerer: refluff all the spells as funky gadgets.
when using Wild Magic his contraptions sometimes go "boom"
other times he decides that a tweak here or a solar powered whoziwhatzit there could alter the length,range, or power of the "gadget"

its not to much a stretch to use INT as a casting stat either.

You'd have to get DM approval to swap Int and Cha for a sorcerer, but it does sound fun. I like things that go boom. :)

[PIELIKEI]

It pisses me off when people use movie-evidence like that.

Why? Just because I don't know that Gandalf was a demigod and holding back, and you do? A movie/tv show is an adaption and could be judged without taking from the books. I don't think the movies were made already assuming we read all the books... Besides, even taking into account the books, Gandalf isn't a wizard anymore than Tiamat is a wizard, yeah they still use magic, but it really falls under super powerful self-generated divine energies. The entire not-dying, or being reborn scene wasn't wizardy... it was just the fact that he cannot die. That plus the ring he carried. Whatever he was, he wasn't no wizard. As for the Istari bit... calling yourself a wizard, doesn't mean you aren't lying