What are some of the funniest 3.5 builds?

[TallerSpine]

So, my group and I may be doing a one shot where all the characters are build that take advantage of odd mechanics of 3.5. Some examples we kicked around:

The Arseplomancer: this build is the standard of what we are going for. It is unlikely this build actually works, but it is hilarious imagining how the character does what he does.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?306230-3-5-Arseplomancer-version-2-0

Fistbeard Beardfist: we like that he is healed by poison, but not so much that he only wants to be drunk all day. This is a weak example. It is lacking pizzazz.
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?116838-Fistbeard-Beardfist

Does anyone have suggestions for builds that are more of a joke than a serious attempt at a character?

[ben-zayb]

Plenty of funny 3.5 builds I've seen in the playground came from Iron Chef: Gazebo Jones from the Thrall of Orcus round, Spoons McGee from the Assassin round, and most of the entries in the Order of the Bow Initiate round. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting or unaware of.

[Malphegor]

Knight/Knight of the Weave/Osteomancer

So there was a knight, who got into magic to improve his knightlyhood. Then he realised that he could use transmutation to control bones. Now he's a creepy bone wizard who has knightly skills. Because... That's a natural thing to become.

It's a build I like to think tells a story of a honourable being slowly going mad due to exposure to magic.

[OgresAreCute]

I like the Jumplomancer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=16918020&postcount=5). Just the mental image of someone running around in a circle, jumping ~100 feet into the air, breaking their legs when they land and turning all onlookers into fanatical followers is hilarious.

[Azoth]

I still love my Tibbit Swordsage who uses Twinning Step and Confound the Big Folk to use Setting Sun Manuevers to judo throw any and everything for stupid distances. The build nullifies size modifiers and forces the enemy to use Dex to resist the trip attempt of the Setting Sun Manuevers.

[emeraldstreak]

I like the Jumplomancer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=16918020&postcount=5). Just the mental image of someone running around in a circle, jumping ~100 feet into the air, breaking their legs when they land and turning all onlookers into fanatical followers is hilarious.

The basic Fat Orc With Ring Of Jumping who kills people via falling damage is quite funny too.

[TallerSpine]

Plenty of funny 3.5 builds I've seen in the playground came from Iron Chef: Gazebo Jones from the Thrall of Orcus round, Spoons McGee from the Assassin round, and most of the entries in the Order of the Bow Initiate round. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting or unaware of.

Awesome suggestions! I shared them with my group and am anxious to see what they have to say :)


Knight/Knight of the Weave/Osteomancer

So there was a knight, who got into magic to improve his knightlyhood. Then he realised that he could use transmutation to control bones. Now he's a creepy bone wizard who has knightly skills. Because... That's a natural thing to become.

It's a build I like to think tells a story of a honourable being slowly going mad due to exposure to magic.

Interesting concept, but not quite what we are trying to achieve. We will throw the idea around more, though, because it does sound pretty funny. "Prelate, you told me I should punish by blast femur. I've dedicated my life to learning the spell!"

Prelate: "I said punish the blasphemers, you idiot."


I like the Jumplomancer (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=16918020&postcount=5). Just the mental image of someone running around in a circle, jumping ~100 feet into the air, breaking their legs when they land and turning all onlookers into fanatical followers is hilarious.

I do like the jumplomancer. Although, compared to the arseplomancer...? I mean, who would you rather watch? The guy who jumps really well or the guy who spends a solid minute escaping into people's butts and tearing them asunder from the inside? The result is the same, but the conversations are far more hilarious with the arseplomancer.

"Oh my God! Is he crawling into that man's butt? Should we... how do we stop it?"

"No, let him finish. I wanna see if he can do it. If he can, I will follow him until the day I die!"


I still love my Tibbit Swordsage who uses Twinning Step and Confound the Big Folk to use Setting Sun Manuevers to judo throw any and everything for stupid distances. The build nullifies size modifiers and forces the enemy to use Dex to resist the trip attempt of the Setting Sun Manuevers.

Is there a post to this build? That could be fun, but I'd wanna read more.

[Cerefel]

Don't forget about Tiny Von BigMcLargeHuge! The kobold whose size category can be anything from fine to colossal!
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?132294-Tiny-Von-BigMcLargeHuge

[noob]

using lucid dreaming to make people fanatic is even weirder since they have to watch(and so be awake)
So it goes the following way "that person is sleeping" "I have no idea why but now I am ready to sacrifice my life for this sleeping person"

[Vizzerdrix]

I'm a fan of Goliath Tibbit.

[noob]

I'm a fan of Goliath Tibbit.

do you mean taking level in stonetouched to count as a goliath while you are a tidbit or do you take multiple races somehow?

[zlefin]

Sir bearington? though that's a bit thin to be a build.
I think there're some other bear based builds, especially for druid.

[Albions_Angel]

Awesome suggestions! I shared them with my group and am anxious to see what they have to say :)



Interesting concept, but not quite what we are trying to achieve. We will throw the idea around more, though, because it does sound pretty funny. "Prelate, you told me I should punish by blast femur. I've dedicated my life to learning the spell!"

Prelate: "I said punish the blasphemers, you idiot."



I do like the jumplomancer. Although, compared to the arseplomancer...? I mean, who would you rather watch? The guy who jumps really well or the guy who spends a solid minute escaping into people's butts and tearing them asunder from the inside? The result is the same, but the conversations are far more hilarious with the arseplomancer.

"Oh my God! Is he crawling into that man's butt? Should we... how do we stop it?"

"No, let him finish. I wanna see if he can do it. If he can, I will follow him until the day I die!"

Careful, Taller. Humour is highly subjective. You asked for funny builds, but you are always going to get people replying with what THEY think is funny.

Lets tackle the jumplomancer/arseplomancer thing. You ask who I would rather watch? Jumplomancer. Hands down. Butt jokes arnt funny to me. At all. For me, at best they are simply crude and lazy, at worst, they are gross and unnecessary. The jumplomancer is a fantastic use of mechanics to accomplish a completely unexpected but powerful result. I chuckle every time I see it.

Maybe its because I play at more serious tables, so I get the humour buzz from more complex builds and unintended synergies than I do from butt related humour? I dont like rule of cool. Its immersion breaking for me.

Which moves me on to the knight. You say its not what you are looking for, and in an attempt to make it funny TO YOU, you add a humourous dialogue. Only, to me, the dialogue isnt funny. Its base humour again. A pun relying on a misunderstanding and a stupid PC. The knight was already hilarious to me. The idea of a virtuous knight taking small, logical steps to become better at thwarting the less than virtuous, until they become the very thing they are trying to destroy, and in the most brutal, appalling way? Its delicious, delicious irony. And I can see it becoming even more tragically funny if there is a Machiavellian leader behind the knight, pushing him that way. Its Anakin and Palpatine. I wont be laughing my socks off at it, but I do thoroughly enjoy the fall, and fine it very humorous.

Please understand, I am not saying my humour is better than yours objectively. Its not. Humour is there to make us happy, and to make those around us happy. So naturally it is different for different people. Its snowing outside, and we both go for a walk. You might stop and get an icecream, because no matter how cold it is, you prefer icecream over anything else. I might stop and get pancakes because I want something warm and sweet. People are different.

So, with all that said, I should probably actually contribute to the thread. One of my all time favourite funny builds? Well, it has to be:

Madness Tarrasquekiller (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=17897582&postcount=1), the only build I have ever see that optimized the characters NAME for mechanical benefit.

[Aegis013]

Crusader+Binder (works best in gestalt with the ruling that DR applies again to delayed damage from Crusader's Steeley Resolve and some additional self healing) using Dahlver-Nar's shield self ability on an opponent and then attacks himself until the opponent dies.

[St Fan]

I still love my Tibbit Swordsage who uses Twinning Step and Confound the Big Folk to use Setting Sun Manuevers to judo throw any and everything for stupid distances. The build nullifies size modifiers and forces the enemy to use Dex to resist the trip attempt of the Setting Sun Manuevers.


"Confound the Big Folk" I can find, but "Twinning Step" doesn't exist. I'm pretty sure this was misspelled.

[Particle_Man]

How about the gnome specialist illusionist with racial substitution levels and still spell who gets a dream of green immortality and thinks that means he has to become a green star adept and only after 10 levels of that is found by a jade phoenix mage. Oh so that was the real green immortality in the dream. Oops! I call him the garden gnome.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?581768-Kermit-the-Garden-Gnome-A-truly-awful-build-as-campaign-idea&highlight=Garden+gnome

[Xaotiq1]

"Confound the Big Folk" I can find, but "Twinning Step" doesn't exist. I'm pretty sure this was misspelled.

Methinks they meant Twining Trip from here (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c)

[satorian]

The psionic sandwich (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?370669-You-Could-Seriously-Play-a-Sandwich) is pretty tasty.

[Vizzerdrix]

do you mean taking level in stonetouched to count as a goliath while you are a tidbit or do you take multiple races somehow?

The first one. Then taking the racial barbarian level to become a large size housecat when you rage.

[MisterKaws]

Plenty of funny 3.5 builds I've seen in the playground came from Iron Chef: Gazebo Jones from the Thrall of Orcus round, Spoons McGee from the Assassin round, and most of the entries in the Order of the Bow Initiate round. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting or unaware of.

Mister Muschi from the Assassin round is also hilarious. Using sheer cuteness to coerce your targets into rubbing your poison-soaked fur is just gold.

[Darrin]

The basic Fat Orc With Ring Of Jumping who kills people via falling damage is quite funny too.

That sounds more like Sinfire_Titan's 4500 lbs of Stupid (https://web.archive.org/web/20100602203446/http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19863510/4500_lbs._of_Stupid?pg=1) build.

This in turn inspired Jormengand's Ridiculous Character Concepts 2: Slam Dunk! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?402795-Ridiculous-Character-Concepts-2-Slam-Dunk!&p=18994487#post18994487). I submitted three builds: T'chub-t'chub (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=18981080&postcount=23) (fat bug uses Mantis Leap to flatten his enemies), Thumpelina (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=18984751&postcount=25) (drunken anthropomorphic whale uses Roof-Jumper to do 399d6 damage), and the Jellobomber (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=18994487&postcount=27) (carpet-bomb your enemies with an infinite number of gelatinous cubes).

Most of the more memorable humorous builds can be found in the Famous Optimized Character Buils (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?258580-Famous-optimized-character-builds) thread: Psionic Sandwich, Trouserfang Dwarf, The Basketweaver, etc.

As far as Iron Chef goes, L'il Brudder (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=19553609&postcount=256) still makes me giggle. Cancer of the elf!

[Azoth]

Methinks they meant Twining Trip from here (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fools/20030401c)

Indeed I did. It has been years since I made the build. Since the full sheet was lost in the great Mythweavers disaster, all I could find was an old stub of the build from about 3 years ago I posted in another thread.

Tibbit Barbarian2(Spirit Lion +Wolf totem)/Swordsage X focused on setting sun.

Feats:
Flaw:Wolf Lodge Berserker
Flaw:don't mind me
1: free
Barb2: Imp Trip
3:Twinning Step
6:free
9:underfoot Combat
12: Confound the Big Folk

[Thurbane]

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[Cerefel]

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