You wanna play what?! Most unique characters

[sabayn]

So I am currently DMing a D&D 5e game and I have a player who is RPing an awakened Saber Tooth Tiger paladin of a nature goddess. IT has been an interesting experience trying to have the world react to him as the group he is with is a Tiefling fighter/warlock, a human ranger, with a vampire ancenster, and a Satyr bard. The main reason I let him play it is because he has to give up a lot of things in order to be the beast, like some skills, and tools. Though I would let him use some of the skills if he finds a creative way to use them.

[PolymeraseJones]

My current pathfinder party includes a 4-armed elephant-headed rakshasa gunslinger. Our GM allowed it because the guy playing him is trustworthy, and they sat down and worked out how to balance him properly.

[PrincessCupcake]

Since my policy is "unless it breaks the setting, Yes" I have had:

-Fey Were-Bear Druid with the following backstory: slain in a bizarro version of my campaign universe and appeared in the material plane. Has no clue what is going on whatsoever.

-11 year old elf boy (has one level of witch) with the following curses:
-becomes a housecat during the day. Nicknamed "captain Fang".
-brings out the worst in people, literally. (he brings out whatever negative emotion is strongest in a person.)
-has a constant poltergeist phenomena around him (small objects moving, weird noises, etc.)

we shall see what other insanity my players come up with when we go to savage worlds.

[Red Fel]

I think my favorite was in 3.5, my only epic-level game. He was a Half-Celestial Elf with a Major Devil Bloodline. It was explained by his mother being an Elf whose ancestor had engaged in certain acts with certain beings from certain planes in the ventral position, while his father was a Solar in service to Lathander who was impressed with the woman's devotion and otherworldly beauty. His father ditched them as soon as he noticed that the kid grew horns; he kept an intelligent Ioun Stone from his father (his LG conscience) and became a Hexblade with an Imp familiar (his LE anti-conscience).

He was the weakest character in that game.

[Geostationary]

Let's see, my last campaign had:
-An alien merfolk king
-A mechanical doll who was instrumental in the destruction of her world; namely, she destroyed it through the power of DANCE!
-A geometric shape that had gained a multidimensional perspective on life, having previously been a one-dimensional point, with poor social skills
-A person who was entirely real. No way this could be doubted. Nope. None whatsoever.

Highlights from before that one:
-A lichen. As in, the fungal/algal organism you find growing on rocks. That was still the size of your typical lichen.
-A formless shapeshifting mass of flesh with poor impulse control and multiple personalities (and bodies).

Granted, I was running Nobilis so this is more or less expected, but that doesn't make them any less bizarre in comparison to most parties out there. Their foes included a cube with some sick burns, a woman who could only be interacted with via flashback, and the Detroit Crimedra (which is a hydra made from crime, should you be wondering).

[Illogictree]

I don't tend to make terribly weird characters mechanics-wise; mostly the weirdness comes out in the fluff.

Oddest build-wise, in my first campaign (3.5), my second character was a multiclassed half-elf fighter / cleric of Tempus who specialized in unarmed combat. She was mechanically terrible but was fun to play. Her personality was pretty complex - putting up an aggressive and confrontational front and deliberately acting foolish in order to cover her numerous neuroses and insecurities. I ended up rebuilding her as a multiclassed warblade / cleric, but sadly the campaign ended before I got a chance to use her new build in combat.

I made a couple of strange NPCs for an IRL Dungeon World campaign:
-Nehlrab, a short, fat, elderly elf with a thing for maps.
-Mordus, originally a Mordenkainen knockoff reference; a wizard who is an important member of the Adventurer's Guild. Rumor has it he's a necromancer or diabolist, but it turns out he's actually a tyromancer - he gets his secret knowledge through divinations via cheese.
-Eric Mongor. Basically every character John Cleese ever played on Monty Python as a homicidal half-orc barbarian chef.

I'm playing in an Adventures on Dungeon Planet campaign right now. My character is an Earthling who is basically a pastiche of every pulp space hero I could think of, and plays every trope from such stories straight. His name? Retro Rocket, Space Hero!

[NikitaDarkstar]

I haven't tried to pull anything quite as weird as some of the stuff in here... but I also tend to stick to D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder.

My more... unique characters have probably been the following:
- A fairy dragon Factotum|| Beguiler gestalt (well mechanically a lot more complicated than that, lvl 26 gestalt game). He originally started as a wizards familiar. He ended up as sort of a master of illusions. As in his illusions were actually more dangerous if you recognized them as illusions. Fun loving little critter though, just somewhat... capricious. (Rules as Written, this is why they're a bad idea)

- An insane ghost druid (as in she died and came back) with a bone rat swarm "animal" companion... and would go corporeal when wild-shaped. Except still very obviously not alive even then... (She took some house ruling)

- The Fenris wolf. Well the Fenris wolf as a lychantropic human barbarian. Fallen Fables makes for interesting games, no? :p

- A fallen god of heavy metal. Totally not inspired by this poster:

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[ghendrickson]

A player of mine has repeatedly told me that he wants to play a centaur paladin or cavalier, with himself as the mount in the actual class features.

Currently, I'm rolling an Illithid wizard or arcanist that escaped the society with the help of a rod of wonder.

[ReaderAt2046]

I'd say the weirdest character I ever did was when we played Call Of Cthulhu and I rolled up a PC cultist. His name was Brian Patrick Hood, and his backstory was that he belonged to an old sorcerous dynasty, but his parents had disappeared after attempting a particularly potent ritual and he was trying to reconstruct his family grimoires. He ended up ascending to godhood.

[Arbane]

If Call of Cthulhu is being mentioned, I once rolled up a character with fairly dismal stats. None above 12, except an 18 POW (magic/luck stat). I also got high social status, and the 'dilettante' career. So I made him basically "Bertie Wooster, occult investigator"! Sadly, that game fell through.

In City of Villains (the villain side of a superhero MMO), I once made a Brute (melee specialist) armed with a stone hammer who was three feet tall (and about that wide), furry, and had a rodentine head. Tremble before the might of... THE SLEDGEHAMSTER! (He was fun to play. Man, I miss that game.)

[Silus]

Well not really a character, but I've got an as-yet-to-be-statted up NPC for my little Pathfinder homebrew setting.

Regina Red-Rook, an Aellean Harpy (wing arms), Skirmisher Rogue 10/Night Witch 10, Mythic 10 (Night Witch being a homebrew Prestige class based around mobility and aerial maneuvers. Think a flying 3.5 Dervish) that has weaponized movement speed (+1 Damage per 20ft moved each round thanks to a racial gauntlet type weapon).

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The short of it is that she's the fastest harpy in the world and, legend has it, flew so fast she inadvertently Plane Shifted. Also, can dish out enough damage on her own under optimized movement to two-shot a good sized dragon. The math kinda breaks down like this:

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• Haste 3/Day at CL 10 (So a solid minute of Haste per use)
• 1/Day, may charge as if you had Pounce (Alternatively, may be considered to have Pounce while wearing)
• The wearer counts as having Wind Stance and Lightning Stance feats while wearing it (20% miss chance from missile weapons when moving and 50% concealment when doing a double move/withdraw)
• Increase Speed by 30ft
• Double your Con Score for determining Run duration
• +5 Damage per 20ft moved (rounded down)
• Allowed an additional movement action each turn.
• Your movement allows for flanking both from allies and yourself. If, for example, you move to the square directly to the right of an enemy, then use the second movement to move to the square directly to the left, you count as flanking with yourself.

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Base: 30ft
Wing Arms (Harpy racial substitution trait): +30ft
Mythic Haste: +50ft
Mythic Fly: +90ft
Scarf: 30ft
Night Witch (Homebrew class built around flying. Basically a fly version of the Dervish PrC from 3.5): +50ft
Mythic ability (Impossible Speed, speed at at Mythic Tier 10): +130ft
=
410
Movement x3 (2 from double move, 1 from Mythic Haste): 1230
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Mythic Run x7: 8610ft/round
/6 =
1435ft/s =
978.4 MPH

The speed of sound is 767 mph (1,125 ft/s)

Converted to damage and only charging at 1-move action distance, that's +6 damage per 20ft, so before Strength and Enchantments, that's +123 damage atop her 1d6 Talon and 5d6 Skirmish damage. A fully round she'd be able to do it twice (Mythic Haste gives an additional movement action, so with the artifact that's 3 move actions + a standard. Fly in, fly out, back in) for a total of +246 damage and essentially 12d6 damage.

Other than that...

Plague druid for Pathfinder Society usually gets weird looks, and I have a Rakshasa Blooded Kitsune Sorcerer who, at lvl 3, has a solid +20 to Disguise. Shame I never get to use her ;_;

[Jeff the Green]

The current party in the high-power gestalt PbP I'm in currently consists of

• Karsite Ozodrin//Xenoalchemist (i.e. he becomes an eldritch abomination and cuts parts off monsters to give himself and friends grafts) with Vow of Poverty
• Entropic Reaper with some homebrew magic class
• Star-Spawned Unicorn Sorcerer
• Spellweaver Artificer (me) with a horribly mutated beguiler familiar
• An elf*.

Over the years we've also had:

• Dark necropolitan unseelie illumian Beguiler//Archivist (also me)
• Tarrasque Dragonfire Adept (the DM just wrote "ゴジラ" on the character table)
• Rakshasa homebrew weapon summoner class
• Gloura archer
• Divine minion pixie warmage
• Cryophoenix
• Lumi swordsage
• Dryad cleric archer who got divine spells from being worshipped (my first character)

If my spellweaver bites it, instead of resurrecting him I might run a Vecna Blooded Shadow Walker Shadow Creature Riddled Child of Nature Mercury Dragon Wymling Warlock/Binder/Dragonfire Adept/Beguiler/Cloistered Cleric/Loremaster//Sorcerer/Archivist/Mystic Theurge, in keeping with my longstanding tradition of breaking the DM's character tables (first in the "class" field on the cleric archer and now the "name" field).

*Okay, so that elf is a Rogue 3/Fighter 1/Cleric 1/Dragon Shaman 1/Spellthief 1/Swordsage 1/Warblade 1 // Wizard 5/Incantatrix 3/Urban Savant 1, which might make her the biggest abomination on the list.

[JeenLeen]

I'm currently playing Exalted as an Eclipse caste Priest of the Pigeon God (named Pidgiot), who wants to convert Creation to devotion to pigeons. Not too strange mechanically -- decent Melee for combat, and focusing on Socialize and Presence for converting cities -- but a good, kinda insane character thus far. It's been neat discussing with villagers why the pigeon god is a better village deity than whoever they currently serve.

[Delusion]

An intelligent sword. Sadly the game pretty much broke due to other reasons so the experience was less than satifsactory, but recently my group has discovered Fate which I think ould support such character better than DnD.

The idea is that the character was a veteran Paladi who was killed and her soul bound to a blade and now she has ended up in possession of an adventurer group whom she tries to guide along the path of good even thought the wippersnappers never sem to learn anything.

[Telwar]

Back in the day, we had a 30th level 3.0 epic game.

I played Tolthrak, a (deep breath) half-dragon anthropomorphic tyrannosaur monk, who talked in the third person as a combination of Grimlock and the Hulk. It wasn't entirely clear in 3.0 that dinosaurs were dire animals, so DM had no problem with it. Probably would've been more effective as a barbarian or paladin, but hey, soooooo many attacks.

[ghanjrho]

One of my players just handed me a doozy. A (PF) goblin stalker/ninja multiclass with Eldritch heritage (sylvan) for a dire bat companion and leadership for his "master". He's a pet of some normal race who will act as his face to the world.

[BrokenChord]

I'm a big fan of the Bleach d20 Classless game. My GM once made the foolish mistake of homebrewing a feat that allowed alternate ammunition from specific weapons for Quincies. The idea behind it was to allow the firing of elemental objects. But I ended up taking advantage of the feat's wording to fire shotguns out of my desert eagle. The character was, admittedly somewhat predictably in hindsight, the type of guy who thinks any problem can be solved with enough firepower. I thought it was punny at the time.

[Zalphon]

Sir Keeper "Kibbles" Kelare

A Gold Dragonwrought Kobold PAL 2/Cloistered Cleric 4/Bone Knight 10/Contemplative 3 of Bahamut.

He was a character who appeared in a previous campaign of mine as a Kobold pup. The players savagely killed him by using him as cheap trap-detection (throwing him at walls and floors) only for him to be destroyed.

Later on, he was resurrected and learned to follow Bahamut...

Long story short...he ended up a badass melee cleric :P

[Artemicion]

In one of my games, a player created an old, very polite man named Hector who spoke with a Transylvanian accent and always walked around with a cat carrier covered with a blanket. But of course Hector was only actually the controlled servant of the player's real character, Miss Meow, an awakened vampire cat sorceress who traveled around in her cat carrier / coffin.

She dominated everybody to ensure she was being petted at all times.

[Nargrakhan]

Once had a co-player playing a Thrane castaway in Legend of the Five Rings who didn't speak Rokugani and communicated in a charades kind of way.

If your familiar with L5R, then you know how insane just playing one would be... let alone having a group that's harboring one.

[Admiral Squish]

I once played a Pseudodragon Warlock//Rogue. Her name escapes me but it was like twenty words long and she insisted upon the entire thing in formal settings. It translated to like 'beautiful mistress of the arcane who flies on silent wings' Basically, she acted like a sentient cat and allowed people to underestimate her. She was looking for a way to become immortal without forsaking the physical experiences of the world (so, no undead, no construct). Experiences such as delicious treats, pettings, and long hours of sleep.

[Inevitability]

Dark Awakened Skitterhaunt Hairy Spider Warlock. Or for those who can't be bothered to look up five different character options from just as many books, a two inch-tall spider exoskeleton filled with sentient slime and infused with the powers of darkness, which gave him the ability to fly, become hidden in plain sight, summon swarms of spiders, and make things explode by talking (amongst other stuff).

The game itself turned down to sitting in a 10x10x10 cell, being kept in check by rulebreaking homebrewed monsters, and having to endure being told my previous escape plan 'didn't work' and 'I had to use my abilities.'

[Hunter Noventa]

Not my character, but a previous campaign of mine had Doctor Octavian Sakamoto, creator of the Zeitgeists, and leader of the Zeitgeist team.

He was the Professor to a Sentai team in combining power armor. In Pathfinder. It was glorious. He even had a nemesis, in the form of the nefarious Doctor Zero Caligula, who stole the original Zeitgiest and pitted it against our whole party in a deadly battle alongside his own evil team of power armor pilots!

[oxybe]

Currently playing a Kitsune Ninja/Tattooed Sorc (Black Dragon Bloodline). In combat he appears and disappears (using his ninja vanish) hurling flaming shurikens (as per the spell) or melting people with his corrosive palm (as per the spell). He has a magical pet racoon that appears/disappears. He also changes form to cause shenanigans. Or he's decided that this form has too high of a bar tab and doesn't want to pay.

His best friend in the party is the inquisitively curious Vanara Druid/Monk. Any night either one of them ends up bored, turns it into a night of drunken illusions and acrobatics. Don't consume and cast, kids!

He's a stupid anime character an I love it.

[TheCountAlucard]

He's a stupid anime character an I love it.

My group's seafaring Exalted game consists of:

A ship-captain with demonic patrons, who fights by extending tentacles out of liquid, or summoning mutant sea creatures (such as flying whales).

A speedster kleptomaniac merchant's daughter with a magic bow and a troubled past. Ship's translator, promoted to purser.

A golden-armored barbarian demigod, on a quest to kill the Frog Queen. Doesn't understand how money works. Naturally he's the master of weapons on the ship, even though he's never fired a ballista in his life.

A necrosurgeon with a ghostly snake for a familiar. She's used to preparing bodies for being animated as zombies, but has found herself in the role of ship's surgeon.

The previous purser was murdered by paranoid deckhands after the shark goddess named their ship an Enemy of Sharks, so his player's made up a replacement character: a shipwright who was chosen by the sun-god after his canoes saved a bunch of nomads from pirates! Also his wife is a sea-nymph he rescued from a storm goddess.

I love Exalted so.

[Rater202]

I'm currently playing:

Diamond Gear(Pictured in Avy) an 11 year old, horrifically truamatized, slightly eccentric Crystal Pony Genius Prodigy with a foces on construction and machinery. At 11 years old he holds multibel patents and is making money off of them (I bought the Edge that makes you Rich), and just becuase Hive Olith is paying him to build tem guns in his basement does not mean he doesn't really need to tell his therapist that he's building gins in his basement.

The Harmonious Friend: A Green Sun Prince Devil Tiger. The Failure that led to his Exaltation was failing to save the life of one of his best friends. As a Joke, I based his Devil Tiger Charms and His Derived Demons on MLP:FiM. So far, none of the Other PCs have noticed. The ST has, but he's not telling becuase he thinks it's hilarious. Buy Sheer Coincidence, I Started Crafting his Seven 3rd Circle, who embodied his Virtues and was Based on Princess Celestia, around the time the ST decided to run us through the End Game scenario from Return of the Scarlet Empress, meaning that My PC had a convenient Spirit willing to take up th mantel and Panoply of the Unconquered Sun...

Billy Clydeson: From a Mostly Freeform Megacrossover Game based on Ben 10 with Elements drawn from literally everything else. All Pc's have an Omnitrix or one of it's varients. Billy is a 12 year old fantasy and Scifi Nerd with a voice activated Ultimatrix, only half of the species in his core 10 are native to the Ben 10 universe, and four of them aren't even Aliens.

[Jay R]

I fundamentally believe that the most successful characters will be the ones that sing to the DM's ideas. I once rolled an original D&D character with STR 3, DEX 16, WIS 4, INT 12. I was about to toss him when the DM said, "That's a nine-year-old kid."

So I played a very successful nine-year-old thief named David. Once, trying to get into a walled city, I walked up to the guard sniffling and saying, "I'm lost, and I'm tired, and I'm thirsty, and my feet hurt, and I can't find my mother, and .. and ... (start crying)." When the guard turned to get him something to eat, David stabbed him in the back.

[Orderic]

Here is the result of Gestalt, homebrew and insanity. At level 4.

An Evolutionist//Mech Jockey/Titanic Creature/Warblade with burning fists who is already large size and will become even bigger.

A Constructor (specialist wizard)//Gold Dragon.

And the most ordinary one is a Coglayer/Evolutionist//Completely ordinary human who likes to throw lightning.

[Kid Jake]

This isn't mine but a girl in a Vampire game I've just started running (set in 1982 Chicago) is a shepherd turned groupie that was accidentally embraced by a Ventrue who thought she was someone else. Half of her skills are focused specifically on communicating with, tending to or processing sheep; which it should be pointed out she doesn't own anymore.

[Togo]

I played a colour. It was a sort of greeny blue, with a strong affinity for surprise parties, ice cubes, and having a think under a big tree. That was quite a strange game though... (all the PCs were colours)