What has been your most fun character to play?

[AttilatheYeon]

I'm kinda bored with quarantine. So i'd like to hear stories of your gaming experiences. I'd like to know what your favorite characters are and why.

Mine so far is my Glamour Bard iOTTA. I based him off the flamey guitar guy from Mad Max Fury Road. I played iOTTA in Boulders Gate Decent into Avernus. I used my background feature to help my group get into the bathhouse by performing. I was able to use performance to charm NPCs just before a major combat. And generally helped the group using my abilities to effect combat. Plus he's a lot of fun to RP.

What about all of you?

[Odessa333]

I usually play 'the face' sorcerers and bards who can charm anything. And I love them all. Like right now I'm playing Ariel, a bard who is a double agent who works for the Lord's Alliance, while also working for the Zhentarim. She's taken highly valuable items from high ranking people, and has talked her away out of 'repercussions' every time. For example, she sweet talked her way into a ring of invisibility. In her career she's befriended 4 different dragons, which is a new record for me. She also has a mind flayer living in her head, so that's new. I'm confident in my ability to think fast, talk my way out of things, but she's really raising the bar.


So while the usual is fun, I admit I am also playing a cranky drunken cleric of the grave. She used to be an NPC cleric of Sune (love and beauty, etc) until her Paladin lover died in battle. Her temple friends refused to help raise her, so she turned to Jergal. In exchange for adding a lot of names to his list of the dead, she hopes to take one name off of it, and restore her love. She's been adventuring since level 1, and at level 16 now, she's one level away from her goal of True Rez. Yet she's seen (and caused) a lot of death for a former cleric of beauty, and she drinks to forget it all. With enchanted full plate and a cloak of displacement (from a displacer beast she skinned herself...) she's a beast to take down, and is one of the only two 'original' characters who have survived from level 1. She's become a favorite of mine because she's so different. She's a murder hobo not by choice, but by design. She hates it, but does it anyway and drinks the memories away.

[firelistener]

I really liked playing my bear totem barbarian. It's really fun to be able to just throw yourself into the fray.

[ImproperJustice]

A Four Elements themed Folk Hero Sorceror who fancies himself a bit of a super hero.
Just flies in, blasts everything while spouting cringy monologues about how Right makes might, etc...

Has Chef Tool’s proficiency and comes from a town known for its sweet apples.
That way he can persuade evil doers from their wicked ways with the delicious taste of Wholesome Fruit Pies.

[Expired]

I really liked playing my bear totem barbarian. It's really fun to be able to just throw yourself into the fray.
I agree. As a level 4 Bear Totem Barbarian with 16 Str and Con and PAM and GWM wielding a halberd while donning medium armor (with 14 Dex), I was able to practically solo some encounters (and in one encounter, my party even turned on me (https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?610028-Which-tank-class-is-ideal-for-this-campaign-TL-DR)).

[SociopathFriend]

I'm kinda bored with quarantine. So i'd like to hear stories of your gaming experiences. I'd like to know what your favorite characters are and why.

Mine so far is my Glamour Bard iOTTA. I based him off the flamey guitar guy from Mad Max Fury Road. I played iOTTA in Boulders Gate Decent into Avernus. I used my background feature to help my group get into the bathhouse by performing. I was able to use performance to charm NPCs just before a major combat. And generally helped the group using my abilities to effect combat. Plus he's a lot of fun to RP.

What about all of you?

The most "fun" I've ever had was a Lore Bard named Ro'Shi- except he was a Barbarian.
I will explain- you're in quarantine so apparently have room for reading so I won't give you an extremely shorthand version.

He was a Barbarian Lizardfolk when I started him in the campaign. We had like 10+ people playing the 5e Chult campaign and the DM didn't intend to skip anything.
Needless to say- progress was slow. At one point we had a full session of some of the group trying to climb over a hole and up a wall. (I stood guard outside because I saw it coming- I spent that session on my kindle IIRC)
Then predictably most of the group quit. Pro- we were down to 4-5 players. Con- every single caster had quit.
So the DM offered a class change to anyone who wanted it. You could move your stats but couldn't reroll them.
Ro'Shi became a Lore Bard but I kept Con my best score.

What followed was the biggest campaign of giving no F*cks I have ever played in. I just kept gaining HP and mocking/grappling every enemy I found with the odd bite thrown in.
We got to the final dungeon and I proceeded to nope something like half the traps in it through sheer unmitigated gall.
"There are various demon faces carved into the sides of the room."
'I shove rations in the mouths.'
"Well... shoot you trigger the trap but you blocked up the mouths."
For the record Ro'Shi would skin and preserve any fleshthing killed and turn it into 'rations'.

"The room begins to fill with lava and the door shuts."
'I cast Knock.'
"Welll... shoot alright the door opens."

"There is an invisible Beholder."
'I animate rations to attack it.'
"The ones here and there fall down."
'The remaining rations surround it to show us were it is.'
"Oh... crap."

'Roll a Saving Throw.'
DM rolls- die looks high so I throw a D8-D10 at him.
'Roll that and subtract it.'
Reversed for allies that rolled low.

I just steamrolled ahead with a ton of HP and a bucket-load of utility spells to fulfill almost every occasion. At one point he threw a Red Wizard at me and I proceeded to gleefully Counterspell them as I walked up to take their sticks and beat them to death with it.

The only times I was ever in real danger of death in that campaign were:
1) The DM asking me how I proceeded and I (knowing the DM) informed him I looked up, down, left, right, and forwards to inspect the hallway as I entered the room to (theoretically) ensure I had provided sufficient "lip service" to let him know I was paying attention to my surroundings and proceeding carefully. The cuck proceeded to tell me I had not said I looked at the room and threw me in an acid pit without a save or check that did something like 12D10 or 10D12 acid damage to me. I held a grudge over that one.
2) When the DM (incorrectly) informed me I detected magic on a set of armor and when I touched it the armor cursed me and stuck me in breastplate. I eventually rolled with it and took a level of Fighter and proceeded to then have a high AC as well as a lot of HP. For the record he was indeed wrong about that- it was normal armor- he thought it cursed you to be a Flesh Golem. It's just the armor they wear.
3) The final series of battles- because the demon-death-god-baby is just mean and so is the Lich that shows up afterwords and I had a purely martial party.

However the 'fun' of this character was how he rolled with the punches. I seldom had a plan and he was never intended to be a Bard and then was never intended to multiclass into Fighter. I think I took the Bonus Feat as the end of campaign reward to get Tough too. I forget exactly how much HP I had but it was ludicrously better than you would ever expect to see on a Bard. I think it was in the 180s. 10 Bard and 2 Fighter, Max Con, and Tough.

[rel]

Divination wizard with lucky and a feat to make con a proficient save. Between good stats, proficiency on all common saves, careful play, reactive spells like absorb elements and featherfall and all my reroll tricks I was often the most resilient character and could be surprisingly competent at skill checks when needed.
I fluffed the build as using magic to manipulate fate itself and ended up being the solid core of the party. Arrogant, scathing and mysterious but pretty much guaranteed to be still standing and ready with a response when fortune turned against us. That character regularly bailed the other party members out and prevented TPK's when things went wrong.

By avoiding taking any damaging cantrips at level 1 I was able to fill my list out with mage hand, prestidigitation and minor illusion and really feel like a wizard throughout the early (and even late) game.
Later I started making 'magic items' by casting permanent spells on things and that feeling only got stronger.

[AttilatheYeon]

The most "fun" I've ever had was a Lore Bard named Ro'Shi- except he was a Barbarian.
I will explain- you're in quarantine so apparently have room for reading so I won't give you an extremely shorthand version.

He was a Barbarian Lizardfolk when I started him in the campaign. We had like 10+ people playing the 5e Chult campaign and the DM didn't intend to skip anything.
Needless to say- progress was slow. At one point we had a full session of some of the group trying to climb over a hole and up a wall. (I stood guard outside because I saw it coming- I spent that session on my kindle IIRC)
Then predictably most of the group quit. Pro- we were down to 4-5 players. Con- every single caster had quit.
So the DM offered a class change to anyone who wanted it. You could move your stats but couldn't reroll them.
Ro'Shi became a Lore Bard but I kept Con my best score.

What followed was the biggest campaign of giving no F*cks I have ever played in. I just kept gaining HP and mocking/grappling every enemy I found with the odd bite thrown in.
We got to the final dungeon and I proceeded to nope something like half the traps in it through sheer unmitigated gall.
"There are various demon faces carved into the sides of the room."
'I shove rations in the mouths.'
"Well... shoot you trigger the trap but you blocked up the mouths."
For the record Ro'Shi would skin and preserve any fleshthing killed and turn it into 'rations'.

"The room begins to fill with lava and the door shuts."
'I cast Knock.'
"Welll... shoot alright the door opens."

"There is an invisible Beholder."
'I animate rations to attack it.'
"The ones here and there fall down."
'The remaining rations surround it to show us were it is.'
"Oh... crap."

'Roll a Saving Throw.'
DM rolls- die looks high so I throw a D8-D10 at him.
'Roll that and subtract it.'
Reversed for allies that rolled low.

I just steamrolled ahead with a ton of HP and a bucket-load of utility spells to fulfill almost every occasion. At one point he threw a Red Wizard at me and I proceeded to gleefully Counterspell them as I walked up to take their sticks and beat them to death with it.

The only times I was ever in real danger of death in that campaign were:
1) The DM asking me how I proceeded and I (knowing the DM) informed him I looked up, down, left, right, and forwards to inspect the hallway as I entered the room to (theoretically) ensure I had provided sufficient "lip service" to let him know I was paying attention to my surroundings and proceeding carefully. The cuck proceeded to tell me I had not said I looked at the room and threw me in an acid pit without a save or check that did something like 12D10 or 10D12 acid damage to me. I held a grudge over that one.
2) When the DM (incorrectly) informed me I detected magic on a set of armor and when I touched it the armor cursed me and stuck me in breastplate. I eventually rolled with it and took a level of Fighter and proceeded to then have a high AC as well as a lot of HP. For the record he was indeed wrong about that- it was normal armor- he thought it cursed you to be a Flesh Golem. It's just the armor they wear.
3) The final series of battles- because the demon-death-god-baby is just mean and so is the Lich that shows up afterwords and I had a purely martial party.

However the 'fun' of this character was how he rolled with the punches. I seldom had a plan and he was never intended to be a Bard and then was never intended to multiclass into Fighter. I think I took the Bonus Feat as the end of campaign reward to get Tough too. I forget exactly how much HP I had but it was ludicrously better than you would ever expect to see on a Bard. I think it was in the 180s. 10 Bard and 2 Fighter, Max Con, and Tough.

I've got a dwarven monk i play in AL games. Now that he's level 20, he has over 300 HPs and can heal 28 or 30 HPs by taking the dodge action, which he can do as a bonus action. Plus can be resistant to all but force damage using empty body, which he already is resistant too.

Gives DMs fits when i play him.

[AttilatheYeon]

I usually play 'the face' sorcerers and bards who can charm anything. And I love them all. Like right now I'm playing Ariel, a bard who is a double agent who works for the Lord's Alliance, while also working for the Zhentarim. She's taken highly valuable items from high ranking people, and has talked her away out of 'repercussions' every time. For example, she sweet talked her way into a ring of invisibility. In her career she's befriended 4 different dragons, which is a new record for me. She also has a mind flayer living in her head, so that's new. I'm confident in my ability to think fast, talk my way out of things, but she's really raising the bar.


So while the usual is fun, I admit I am also playing a cranky drunken cleric of the grave. She used to be an NPC cleric of Sune (love and beauty, etc) until her Paladin lover died in battle. Her temple friends refused to help raise her, so she turned to Jergal. In exchange for adding a lot of names to his list of the dead, she hopes to take one name off of it, and restore her love. She's been adventuring since level 1, and at level 16 now, she's one level away from her goal of True Rez. Yet she's seen (and caused) a lot of death for a former cleric of beauty, and she drinks to forget it all. With enchanted full plate and a cloak of displacement (from a displacer beast she skinned herself...) she's a beast to take down, and is one of the only two 'original' characters who have survived from level 1. She's become a favorite of mine because she's so different. She's a murder hobo not by choice, but by design. She hates it, but does it anyway and drinks the memories away.

My Glamour Bard is an amazing face. I played him thru the Avernus campaign and made a deal with Fierna so now he speaks all languages and has expertise in perseption and deception. I also tend to use change self to look like a player character or a difficult NPC. While looking like this person, i use Friends on there favorite NPCs. It's hilarious watching them try to interact with disadvantage.

[AttilatheYeon]

I really liked playing my bear totem barbarian. It's really fun to be able to just throw yourself into the fray.

I have a ghostwise halfling bearbarian multiclassed with moondruid. He's damn near indestructible. After fights i like to heal up the rest of the party with Goodberry. I named the character Dingle. 😝

[SociopathFriend]

Gives DMs fits when i play him.

I didn't deliberately try trivializing encounters until the DM pulled that acid trap and, "You didn't say" on me. He'd made such a point earlier in the campaign that you had to provide 'lip service' or he would assume your character wasn't paying attention- I gave him exactly that and he loopholed it. That pissed me off (the DM for the record was my older brother).

That was the point I decided I was going to start out-gaming him out of spite.

[AttilatheYeon]

I didn't deliberately try trivializing encounters until the DM pulled that acid trap and, "You didn't say" on me. He'd made such a point earlier in the campaign that you had to provide 'lip service' or he would assume your character wasn't paying attention- I gave him exactly that and he loopholed it. That pissed me off (the DM for the record was my older brother).

That was the point I decided I was going to start out-gaming him out of spite.

I just like playing characters no one thought of or people think are crappy. So, dwarven dodge monk was my guy. It took me till late t2 to make the toon like he was able to really contribute. Now he's an amazing tank.

[Comaward]

FARBAUTI
A transvestite free love bisexual socialist tiefling Draconic Sorcerer who thought he was a bard. He looked like he walked right out of Dead or Alive’s music video for the song “Spin me round (like a record)”.

[Neoh]

Well mine's not particularly strong, but fun as hell to play.

Forest Gnome, Strength focused Swashbuckler Rogue - Battlemaster Fighter, wears medium armor.

Loves to grapple and climb onto bigger enemies (well, practically anything given the size of a Gnome).

I can either play with a shortsword + shield and force a guy to duel with the Swashbuckler's feature or the Battlemaster's Goading Attack, using Riposte for a second sneak attack if the guy misses me.
Or just a shortsword and grapple/climb the enemy, it's just a blast being able to make my way up onto the head of an Ogre and try to stab him in the eyes.
With 20 Strength and Expertise in Ahtletics, plus bonus action advantage on Athletics checks with the Swashbuckler's feature, I'm pretty damn sure to be able to grapple something.

Changes so much from just "I attack with my sword 2 times" and "I cast this spell over here", it's very interactive, makes you really feel engaged in the fight.

The Background was fun too, some kind of relic hunter, lots of ruins and dungeons to explore, new villains.

[da newt]

YuanTi Mask of Many Faces Hexblade Chain-lock / Rogue - Expertise in deception and persuasion w/ an IMP who would provide HELP (the IMP never showed his true form - always Raven or invisible). No one in the party knew his true race or gender as he was always changing. His one true character trait was he NEVER told the truth. Many shenanigans. Through some lucky magic item finds his AC was 21 and he had a wand that allowed 5 castings of shield per day, he was quite durable. Unfortunately the campaign petered out before tier 3.

[Corsair14]

It wasn't 5th, but its hard to decide which I enjoyed more. I had a 9th or 10th level Grey Elf Invoker and minor prince of the elven kingdom back in 3rd. Was an amazingly fun character with a major attitude issue which really brought out the issues of alignment as he was Lawful Good towards elves and Neutral towards the lesser races and in the campaign was more than happy to screw the lesser race nations in order to promote the Elven kingdom. He was incredibly fun to roleplay

In pathfinder I had a really fun forest gnome summoner who had a green dragon edolon that just kept following him around. He was an amusing joke character that turned out to be quite fun to play with a lot of RP potential.

[CapnWildefyr]

I had a 2e bard actor who was a blast. Weak fighter but in 2e his acting was so convincing he could play dead in combat and be believed. Lots of fun and jokes at the table until the party got sucked into ravenloft. In 2e you couldn't fake the undead. No appreciation for the arts.

Played a wild mage in a Spelljammer campaign. He acted like a fighter, fought with a cutlass he couldn't use, and
cast spells from behind everyone. The party never figured out his true class. And I mean I named him Cap'n Will Wildefyr for Pete's sake!

But most fun was a transmuter, also in Spelljammer. I made the most out if every spell. Turned stone ship sides to mud, greased stairs and boarding planks, etc. It was a lot of creative thinking on how to use miscellaneous spells in new offensive and defensive ways. Also had a few unique spells. One would turn you to stone, shrink you down, and write a little inscription. The combats were long and not easy, and by the end i'd have used almost everything I had.

[AttilatheYeon]

Well mine's not particularly strong, but fun as hell to play.

Forest Gnome, Strength focused Swashbuckler Rogue - Battlemaster Fighter, wears medium armor.

Loves to grapple and climb onto bigger enemies (well, practically anything given the size of a Gnome).

I can either play with a shortsword + shield and force a guy to duel with the Swashbuckler's feature or the Battlemaster's Goading Attack, using Riposte for a second sneak attack if the guy misses me.
Or just a shortsword and grapple/climb the enemy, it's just a blast being able to make my way up onto the head of an Ogre and try to stab him in the eyes.
With 20 Strength and Expertise in Ahtletics, plus bonus action advantage on Athletics checks with the Swashbuckler's feature, I'm pretty damn sure to be able to grapple something.

Changes so much from just "I attack with my sword 2 times" and "I cast this spell over here", it's very interactive, makes you really feel engaged in the fight.

The Background was fun too, some kind of relic hunter, lots of ruins and dungeons to explore, new villains.

Haha, i imagine he speaks in an over the top luchador accent, with the over the top outfit to boot!

[Samayu]

Female half orc barbarian. She's friendly and likes to act classy. Charisma 12, likes to wear her pretty dress. She assumes the best dressed person (especially the one with the best hat) is the one who's in charge. But above all, she loves to fight. She will fight you for your hat!

You know what always makes a character more fun? An accent. Especially a funny one. An accent helps you stay in character, and staying in character makes all the difference.

[DrKerosene]

My first favorite PC is called Cookie Cutter, an orc and a snak shak vendor.

Used a Butcher’s Knife (scimitar), Rolling Pin (club), Cooking Wok (shield), and a Leather “Apron”.

Spent all remaining spell slots on Goodberry every night before a Long Rest to make “shuggared barry treetz” for the next day. Took the Healer feat and said I was slathering “heeling honee” onto people when I used the Healer Kits. Cooking Utensils allowed me to make frying-pan cookies during Short Rests for an extra +1HP per PC.

I roleplayed the ritual casting of Detect Poison & Disease as sniffing, licking, burning, etc the food. Purify Food & Drink was just treated as cooking stuff well done, or boiling it. Casting Shillelagh on the Rolling Pin and calling it “Mistletoe” like it has a magical weapon name (translates to “Dung Branch”, and used in the context of “Don’t make me hit you with my s**t-stick!”).

I roleplayed Guidance and other spells as Cookie just being a super supportive cheerleader type bro who pats you on the back. I roleplayed the Moon Druid wildshape as an inherited family curse of pseudo-lycanthropy.

I had a bit about the Druidic language being “old orcish”, and a brief tryst with a Dryad (one spring will picking mushrooms) being responsible for exposure to magic for the more obvious spellcasting I eventually started to use.




I’m also very pleased with one other PC I played, named Scam Likely.

He was a VHuman Knowledge Cleric with the Charlatan/Secret Identity background, Ritual Caster (wizard) feat, and a single level dip into Rogue. Eventually took Magic Initiate (wizard) for Disguise Self, Greenflame Blade, and Friends.

Looks like Nigel Thornberry (so it was incredibly easy to find/post art for my PC), spoke like Zoidberg (“Hello Friends!”), and was like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Rasputin.

The original concept was a liar, cheat, and a thief, who acted as an occultist type charlatan, and was such a good bulls**tter that it occasionally resulted in non-obvious magical effects (Command, Suggestion, Zone Of Truth).

Feigning the ability to read cards, palms, identify magic items, etc. Pretending to be a medium to channel spirits (channel divinity: detect thoughts). Making counterfeit magic items using Magic Mouth and Continual Flame.

I planned several ways for faking his own death. I also intended to use a regular Disguise Kit with the spell Disguise Self to pretend to be a couple people in quick order. I eventually planned to take the Actor feat, for that Mimicry ability.

I also had the ability to ritual cast Unseen Servant, which I had a list of ideas for shenanigans, such as faking a haunting, cheating at dice/cards, causing distractions in public by flipping up dresses, etc.

[Zetakya]

My Hill Dwarf Drunken Master who was the comic relief of an all-Dwarf party. Crowning moment of glory was probably single-handedly delaying a patrol that would otherwise have caught the rest of the party in a rather delicate situation which "Grand Larceny against the Grand Duke" would have been on the charge sheet.

I did this by playing the "You're my BESHTESHT MATE" schtick at the squad sergeant, who I knew was impatient and angry. He back-handed me and I faked staggering off to one side and clattered into two of his patrol members, knocking both of them down (I had proficiency in acrobatics as well as Performance, so I made it look really convincing).

I then deliberately threw up on the shoes of the next patrolman to come near me, one inch punched the guy who helped me up (Sleight of Hand proficiency) with Stunning Strike, and then redirected the squad leaders attempt to subdue me (with a big wooden truncheon) into his one of his own troopers, whereupon I yelled "what did you do that for?" at him.

After that the whole patrol kinda dissolved into chaos. Nobody actually died (which was kinda important) but the party got away with the heist and we disgraced the annoying guard sergeant into the bargain.

[Neoh]

Haha, i imagine he speaks in an over the top luchador accent, with the over the top outfit to boot!

Haha, actually that was a Goliath Barbarian totem of the Bear, usually fought with a big maul though but sometimes went for the grapple, but he was more of an out-of-combat grappler, like starting an event in a tavern or at a festival. He wrestled anything. Even steel doors. That was fun.


But my Gnome was actually a cute little lady, used to live in a community of Gnomes that researched ancient artefacts, but she wasn't a scholar (12 Int), she was the mischievous type, playing pranks on the more studious Gnomes, going places she shouldn't have and exploring, "borrowing" some important objects the others were studying, that's what got her the Rogue class at level 1.
When the other Gnomes understood she wasn't made for sitting at a table and reading books all day, they instead sent her for training, so she could go explore some ruins herself and retrieve forgotten artefacts, that's what got her some Fighter levels. And she ended up liking fighting quite a lot.

But in a fight, far from the luchadorian aspect (not sure about this word), she became a little savage, almost like a Barbarian's Rage (whereas my actual Barbarian was more composed, go figure).

Some more details about her:

As the mischievous kid she was, she played a lot of pranks on everyone. Well, she ended up playing a prank on the wrong person, an old witch that ended up cursing her. So the little Gnome got some really big pink ears. Pig ears. I think she looked cute with them, but she was very self-conscious about her ears. Of course, you can imagine that people making fun of her ears would end up regretting it badly.

She had a Magpie following her around (using Raven stats, so she had the Mimicry feature). Forest Gnomes can somewhat communicate with small animals, and Mimicry allows the beast to "speak". Of course, it wasn't as easy as that, I had to roll Animal Handling checks (with no proficiency) and the Magpie Intelligence checks (minus 4), to see if she understood me and could follow the instructions. Let's say we weren't the best pair of scoots.

As a Small-sized Gnome, I couldn't grapple everything, only Small and Medium creatures, and Climb on creatures bigger than me. Well, unless the Wizard gives me a hand. Enlarge/Reduce and later Polymorph. I like being a Giant Ape from time to time. You can King Kong the **** out of anything. Of course, the DM gave the Ape form some nice, big, pink buttocks in reference to her big, pink ears, so she would be self-conscious of her butt too. No one dared make fun of a Giant Ape's ass though.

[Shocksrivers]

Ooooh, that is a hard question:

I tend to play the face, so I'm tempted to pick my (homebrewed high society, kinda Izzety) Goblin Beguiler Taka, who was the son of a majordomus of one of the mayor noble houses of the human kongdoms, went to one of the goblin run magic universities, figured Goblins were the strongest race due to their magic, but lived in fear and subservience to lesser folk, especially Humans. He then decided to run away under an assumed name, after stealing several signet rings and letters of recommendation from the university. His long term goal was to start a Goblin revolution!
I unfortunatly didnt have the opportunity to play him for that long before the group collapsed...

I actually really enjoyed playing a human cleric to a Hippopotamus god called Muhotep (the god, not the cleric), who you contacted by releasing your consciousness through, for example sleep or hasjish. The aim of this character was to not overshadow my group, who were all completely new, so Ensebands, meaning Goodsmoke, was always trying to get high and talk to his god. This way I was incentivized to not just solve all the problems and to let other people figure out how to be adventurers.

But to many to choose from, I also reallt really really enjoyed playing a Trixie sorcerer in an evil campaign! She kept flying around invisibly and pestering the entire group to the point that people tried to hit her, but due to her size, invisibility and manuevrability, she kept getting away! And sapping a paladins strength so he gets stuck in his armour, so you can use his still living body to circumvent security protocols is just a joy in its own right!

[DevilMcam]

I think My current favorite DnD Character is Lucy, the inferiority complexed Conquest paladin. She fits the reluctant Hero trope and mostly contribute by just beeing there.

She is a protector aasimar built to be the party's guardian angel.
She is usually unable to do damage because of low STR, (she does have 22 CHA though) but when your hurt her firends enough to get her angry she sprout out wings, draws a fiery blade (spirit weapon) and kicks all the butts around.

Our great DM also love to include cool personnal elements into the quests and it was currently raining lucy's background everywhere for the pas couple of sessions.

[Maelynn]

I had the most fun with a character I rolled up for a one-shot. I asked the DM if I could roll a Kender just for some sh!ts and giggles, he said he had never heard of them (*gasp*) but he was fine with it since it was a one-shot anyway. I often play characters that end up the face or the responsible one in the party (even my gruff and temperamental Dwarf Barbarian often ended up making decisions and judgement calls, partly because he had the highest INT since everybody else turned it into a dump stat), so this time I wanted to make sure my character would be unlikely to end up in such a role. I wanted to make her silly, but in a loveable way. Bit like a puppy that is so excited it knocks over a vase and you just can't get mad at it because omg he's so adorable.

So enter Joyce Butterknot, CG Cleric of Lliira, trickery domain.

* regarding the name: well, Joyce is the plural of joy of course! The more joy, the better, right? And Butterknot was a nick given to her that one time when she had tied up a friend as part of a prank, but then couldn't loosen the knots anymore and she decided to grab a handful of butter to rub the rope with. The name was often corrupted into 'better not', especially by older people or wiser peers when Joyce was up to her usual antics again.
* regarding the deity/domain: Joyce is all about having fun and loves pranks and tricks, all in harmless good fun of course. She is incredibly cheerful and a bit naive. She wouldn't hurt a fly, and focuses her clerical powers on healing and protecting. And pranks, of course.
* she has a ruby-inlaid flower-shaped jewel as a holy symbol, given to her by Lliira when she made Joyce her Cleric, and a prayer tambourine. She loves the jingles and jangles that come from it... others less so.

She ended up in a party with a gruff Dwarven Grave Cleric and a stoic Goliath Monk. The contrast made it even more hilarious.

The goal was to find a way onto a pirate island, get inside the captain's cabin, and figure out a way to bypass his puzzle lock to obtain a specific treasure.

On the beach, scouting the area:

"you see any pirates?"
J: "euh... oh, yes there's one over there! *gets up and waves happily* Yoohoo!"
*Dwarf and Goliath quickly grapple Joyce, pin her down, and shush her"

Trying to infiltrate the island:

"let's disguise ourselves and try to blend in"
J: "ooooo, I love to dress up as a pirate!"
*Joyce dons the following outfit: bright red pants, kneehigh black leather boots, white ruffled corsair shirt, large brimmed hat with 3 colourful feathers sticking out of it, and a plush parrot on her shoulder*
"........"

The party enters the island, Joyce strutting her stuff like she owns the place, the other two behind her looking gruff and annoyed. The pirates on the island react slightly amused and give the Dwarf and Goliath knowing looks and shrugs - apparently they seem to think that Joyce is but a child playing pretend, and the other two her guardians having to put up with her.

The one-shot was too short to get any of the infamous 'Kender stealing' done, so I'm hoping to get another shot at playing her some day. Just to be able to cause a bit of mischief, with people unable to find some of their belongings and then realising she apparently has it somewhere in her pack. I love how the Kender don't consider it stealing but just redistribution of items for general use, and I'd like to explore that area a bit in roleplaying.