1001 Character Quirks

[The Duskblade]

Name says it all list any character quirks you can come up with

1.Sorceress who cast spells via hugging her teddy.
2. Said sorceress Talks in third person.
3. Said Sorceress very emotional. If shes really happy spells start going off. If she's sad she sits down squeezes teddy and starts crying. Then Spells start going off.
4. Suicidal familiar with more brains then the sorceress.
5. Said familiar getting kicks out of trying to convince the tree loving cleric that he was a Avatar of the trees.

Unfortunately this character didn't see play.

6. Ogre (Dont ask me why the DM allowed it) who didn't speak common.
7. Said ogre had to take stupidity checks. He once sat on a poll. Tore poll out of the ground (We needed it to get down a well via some chain.) And once down there managed to pull the poll down and use it as a weapon while still attached to the chain.
8. When not using pole on a train his main attack was using his foes as clubs.

[Paragon Badger]

5. Two words; Halfling Barbarian.
6. Named Bigglestaag.

7. A character who turns on the rest of the party and becomes the 'nemesis' character for a few good sessions... while being Neutral Good (That story is courtesy of a friend of mine. ;-))

8. 18 Intelligence, 6 Wisdom. "Stand back, everyone! I'll handle this basilisk! First, let's see if it has any magical properties... ARCANE SIGHT!"

[AslanCross]

9. Elf wizard who, despite having 19 INT and 13 WIS, can't tell the difference between orcs and hobgoblins. (This was the wizard in our party--the player originally didn't know the difference, but it became a running joke and we just said that his traumatic experience with orcs in his youth was to blame.)

[Citizen Joe]

10. Basic power attacking low charisma fighter with no knowledge skills who rambles on and on making plans based on wild speculation and "If I were the ____ I would do ____"

[Alyorbase]

11. A 20th level cleric who prepared alot of dismissals everyday because a demon killed his kitty when he was a child. While the Cleric watched!

[banjo1985]

12. A gnome barbarian with Int 5, who carries meat from all his kills around in a big sack, then doesn't understand why all the nasty meat-eaters can track him down!

[AKA_Bait]

13. A LE Fighter who thinks he is LG. Punishes those who do evil but way, way out of proportion. Think lots of torture for stealing a loaf of bread. Talks a lot about honor.

14. CN glory hound fighter. Lets the party do most of the work in killing something but always dashes in for that last critical blow. He then proceeds to give a speech about his glorious effort in slaying the x.

[JEntropy]

15. High int, low wis characters are fun. I made a jack of all trades swashbuckler who, compensating for his rather boring upbringing, traveled the world under a variety of comical aliases, impersonating people of various position or stature, and always getting into trouble with comical results.

16. Also, foppish characters

17. Mute. Can communicate via sign language, and understand common, but can't form words.

18. Extremely religious/spiritual non-divine characters.

19. Irrational fears.

[Selv]

20. I've always wanted to play a character with great CHA, purely because of the line in the PHB:

A character with high Charisma and low Intelligence can usually pass herself off as a knowledgeable, until she meets a true expert.

For an, um, esoteric example, consider Peter Griffin during his stint as a Newport millionaire.
"Do you collect objet d'art?"
"If that's French for "Star Wars Collector's Glasses", then si."

21. A barbarian who does not understand magic. "You can cast Enlarge Person on me, but only if you give me something of yours to hold so that if something goes wrong I can break the spell by sprinkling salt on it".

22. A character who, sometime before their first adventure, got hit by a pixie arrow.
Everyone gets a big suprise when the Cleric hits 11th.

[Dairun Cates]

23. A character with a strong profession skill in short order chef with a particular fascination for Quiche. He insists that it's not chick food.

24. Talking bear with subtitles. Nuff' Said.

25. A character who tries to master the art of the net as a tactical weapon.

26. A girlfriend that transforms into a dragon

27. A character that shoots bad guys mid-monologue.

28. A professional liar/diplomat/noble/Jedi Consular

29. A character whose name no one can ever pronounce or remember correctly.

30. A beserker angel

31. The shiftiest man alive.

32. A summoner that pulls summons out of his hat.

33. A pirate that beats people with a fishing pole.

Sadly, these are all characters that have been played in our group.

[Xefas]

34. A Mindbender who uses his at-will telepathy power to do untrained Perform (Karaoke) checks into people's heads at random. They don't know where it's coming from, and can't do anything to stop it.

I'd say that qualifies for Chaotic Evil.

[Nevar]

35: Goblin that smelled like roses
36: Vampire who's weapon was a bag of doorknobs (Vampire the Mascurade(SP?))
37: LG Fighter that catches falling orc women
38: Male Dwarf named Daisy
39: PC with a character addicted to Pez
40: Paladin that kept a book to write down every law ever known... It soon became big enough to to attach to a sick and became a mace which become his weapon, he called it laying down the law.

[JEntropy]

34. A Mindbender who uses his at-will telepathy power to do untrained Perform (Karaoke) checks into people's heads at random. They don't know where it's coming from, and can't do anything to stop it.

I'd say that qualifies for Chaotic Evil.

40: Paladin that kept a book to write down every law ever known... It soon became big enough to to attach to a sick and became a mace which become his weapon, he called it laying down the law.

These two were made of awesome.

As a corollary to one of my previous ones, how about:

41. Extremely superstitious

[de-trick]

42. A halfing mounted fighter who riding dog is a coward(but thinks its the bravest thing ever)
43. same halfing rider says that hes almost as brave as his dog

44. a halfing or gnome who hates sizist even fighting someone who calls him short
45.the small creatures form a club S.P.F.L(short people for life)

[de-trick]

46. a unhappy evil kender
47.a kinder whos stronger than many humans
48. a dwarfen cleric who worships Corellon

[Nevar]

46. a unhappy evil kender
47.a kinder whos stronger than many humans
48. a dwarfen cleric who worships Corellon

I think somone has a kender fetish

[Toric]

49. Gnome who was raised by humans and thinks all other gnomes are insane. (played)
50. Metrosexual dwarven fighter.
51. Paladin who cannot directly lie but tries to convince everyone he's just a fighter so people won't try to make him fall.
52. Dwarven former special forces operative. (Think Rainbow Six with beards) (also played)
53. Bard with high CHA whose face is covered in ugly scars and yet who is still a successful casanova.

[de-trick]

I think somone has a kender fetish

how did you know

serous i never played a kender before but had 2 in a party before
one was a cn-ce kinder fighter/rogue the other was tasslehoff burfoot the original(not really but said he was)

[Hadrian_Emrys]

53. Bard with high CHA whose face is covered in ugly scars and yet who is still a successful casanova.

Mick Jagger anyone?

[DiscipleofBob]

54. Barbarian diplomat.
55. Barbarian Diplomat with low strength so that he's weak and picked-on by other barbarians.
56. Same as above but most levels are in Dragon Shaman in a dragon worshipping tribe so he becomes leader of said tribe.

Played. All refer to said character obviously.

[tainsouvra]

51. Paladin who cannot directly lie but tries to convince everyone he's just a fighter so people won't try to make him fall.

Err...why exactly would there be such a demand to make him fall, and why is he so worried they would succeed?

[Toric]

Err...why exactly would there be such a demand to make him fall, and why is he so worried they would succeed?

Play any game with a Paladin and a Chaotic Neutral rogue or bard and you'll find the answer. Or just look at Belkar. If it's possible to do something to tick someone off, somebody out there will see it as a challenge.

And yes Hadrian, Mick Jagger exactly.

[RiOrius]

41. Extremely superstitious

41.1. Specific example: makes tough choices by "consulting the gods". Consults the gods by sacrificing a live chicken and reading its entrails.

Considered playing it as an easy way of giving my character motivation to do whatever I, as a player, wanted him to ("Why am I travelling with this party of schmucks? Because that's what the chicken entrails told me!").

[Earthstar_Fungus]

57. Some kind of graft, which may or may not have actual in-game affect.

[Damionte]

58. Sorceress who cast spells via removing her teddy.

[Signmaker]

59. Grease-Happy Gnome

[Thoughtbot360]

60: A lazy-eyed child wizard that specializes in divinations and scrying and who primarily fights the bad guys by creeping them out saying "We know all your secrets......"

[Chronos]

One I intend to play sometime:

61: A combat-oriented cleric who worships Zeus, Odin, Jupiter, Ra, Manwe, and Pelor, collectively (you should see his holy symbol!)
62: Who receives direct inspired communication from said deities. Or at least, thinks he does. Fortunately they usually advise him wisely. Usually.
63: He wields a Legitimate Sword. That's an exotic weapon, 1-handed, which does 1d10 damage and requires a 13 strength for proficiency. Because obviously no weapon of the gods would be a bastard.

One I've actually played:
64: A halfling Professional Treasure-Hunter. No, of course he's not a thief (this was 2nd edition), he's Lawful! How dare you call him a thief! Basically, he is what the dwarves thought Bilbo was.
65: Whose primary weapon is a silver dagger, studded with (nonmagical) gems. Not for any mechanical advantage (though it did come in handy vs. lycanthropes), but just for the style of it.

[Logic]

• Narcaleptic
• Afraid of the opposite gender, yet not homosexual (Not the normal afraid of opposite gender, shaking in one's boots with paralyzing fear if one comes within 5 ft afraid)

[Paragon Badger]

68. A lich.

True story, a friend of mine's character was a lich, but the rest of the party didn't know... Well, he was hit with a vorpal weapon, and then his body ran over to pick his head back up. Needless to say, hilarity ensued.