D&D players of Reddit, what is the most creative character you've seen someone play as? #2

[@beastmaster5209]

This is a friends character, mechanically they were a big beefy half-orc barbarian wielding a great axe, but when they "raged" they played it like a magical girl transformation along with rants about friendship and justice, except still beefy

[@graciehilker3593]

Lol

[@ZeppHead]

Lmao absolute gold

[@puppetmaster1420]

So a magical girl that lifts huh ? 🧚🏋️💪

[@baxterbruce9827]

@@puppetmaster1420 I remember seeing this idea somewhere for a magical girl anime where they just turn into their D&D characters

[@puppetmaster1420]

@@baxterbruce9827 sounds fun

[@Attaxalotl]

I played a "Warforged Eldritch Knight" called Ay-Kay. That actually spelt out an acronym for "Armored Kobold" Yeah, I was actually playing a kobold artificer in a mech suit. They never found out.

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

Thumbs up for that, it made me laugh

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

👍

[@kentonkyuubininefox9264]

Hello.

[@Attaxalotl]

@@kentonkyuubininefox9264 Hi

[@thepotter890]

I played as a Warforged Fighter called Roger Roger. Yeah, intelligence, strength and wisdom were my dump stats. Good Times..

[@ericrundgren4711]

My friend is currently playing a cheese wizard. He’s using normal spells and flavor texting them to be cheese based. Cheese bolt instead of fire bolt, etc. It is hilarious to see him melt people with melting cheese. He is a true cheeze wiz

[@BrianVaughnVA]

I read that till the end and then saw the punchline.. GOT MY CHEESE WIZ BOY?

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

Nice pun! :) So does he summon his cheese from The Elemental Plane of Cheese? ;)

[@jellingtenbrebbleflipple8805]

His arcane focus item is a small wheel of enchanted cheese

[@DinomaxProductions]

My sister made a cheese bard that had a trombone-cheese-gun and a pet raccoon, it was her first time playing dnd

[@puppetmaster1420]

More cheese is better in this case I would think ( also I tried to imagine this and burst out laughing my cat thinks I'm crazy) plus hi all 😁

[@thenerdybunny1296]

Haven't played this character yet, But he's a chaotic within the confines of the law good Warlock. His whole story was he is kinda a showman and he loves a flare for the dramatics any and always. He decided that magic had all the flare and pizazz that he wanted, but, he didn't have a magical bloodline, wizarding abilities, or anything really other than a pinstripe suit and the look of an artificer. He decided that warlock was really the only way to go about it, but he didn't like any of the eldritch deities, with all their "murder, sacrifices, blood and evil- it's quite tasteless" So, he sets off on a quest to find a patron. While finding his patron, he stumbles across a set of dice that he declares he will use for casting his spells and such, and he'll frequently use mage hand to finagle them around like he's shuffling a deck of cards. He meets his patron, a half drunk halfling wizard/ sorcerer, who refuses to show his face named Otive Dynnad who shoddily gave him powers. As a result, whenever he gets too chaotic, the DM makes him roll a con save. If he fails, his lowest stats switch with his highest stats and he turns from a squishy charismatic Warlock to a beefy, equally chaotic Barbarian, who only reverts back to normal after the chaos ends.

[@xicarus8141]

Ilike the concept of going out to find a patron cuz you just want magic Lol and I love that Danny Devito is his patron

[@Pineapple-hx9ty]

OMG THAT'S AMAZING

[@mjb20077]

Sounds Like A REALLY Fun Semi-Lawful Chaotic Good. I Think Im Gonna Add This To My 5E Campaign

[@travisbishop782]

Hello!

[@thewitchofgeek]

That sounds really fun to play!

[@BurningAttackArty]

I mentioned it last video, but here goes again. I was playing in a one-shot, as a "Half-Elven Ranger". Very odd, sunken in facial features, did not look like a regular half elf at all, and while a big bigger, was pretty stick-like. Simple bows and arrows were somewhat slow, but this thign had a robotic-like memory and capability, so it was always able to figure out just how to go about combat. Until something hit it REALLY hard in the chest. This frail "half-elf"'s ribcage split open from the impact, revealing a crazy Gnome Necromancer who was piloting this Elven body like some kind of Eldritch mech-suit. It was incredibly intelligent and while it couldn't attack as often, it could do so with DEADLY accuracy. The DM loved the idea and homebrewed how I coud apply my Intelligence bonus to attack rolls to my mech-suit, and cut my fake body's HP to next-to-minimum for our level, and we didn't tell any other players. That DM allowed so much crap, knowing he was going to get me to pop out of that thing like Acererak's Kinder Egg. By far the best reactions I've gotten from other payers ever.

[@maxregni9229]

You should put this on Spotify to listen to

[@maxregni9229]

Luke Kastner hello?

[@Hyde472]

Holy fuck yes. I would listen to these all freaking day on spotify.

[@buttermonkeyFTW]

Just a podcast. I must have.

[@corrao.7593]

I agree

[@igristhesquirrel7547]

Yes please podcasting this would be awesome

[@user-hv4lx9zw5y]

I took the bard archetype (seductive, handsome) and I put a huge spin on it. The character was literally insane, and has only recently regained partial sanity. He wore a plague doctor mask, which covered his face, which had no eyes, but a beak instead. So how was he a bard? He was a storyteller who traveled the lands with nothing but a tent. I miss that character.

[@raging.gamming8958]

Hey dude, that’s a cool character! And hey how are you?

[@user-hv4lx9zw5y]

Raging.Gamming Sane

[@Scorpious187]

I have a character who is a halfling Scout Rogue/College of Whispers Bard. She's relatively attractive, but a total loner and socially awkward. She lives in a cave with her Winter Wolf mount, Aurora. So how is she a bard? She wrote a series of romance novels under a pen name nobody knows.

[@user-hv4lx9zw5y]

Scorpious187 that’s cool

[@scootscoot3874]

I played a female Orc called Breda - over 7ft tall, built like a monster, she was the most intimidating person you’d ever see... that is, if you didn’t know her. Because Breda was actually a sweet, motherly figure, always baking the party treats and giving them moral support. Her son, Yatur, was also a member of the party, and she would constantly remind him to do his chores and tell the rest of the party embarrassing stories from when Yatur was little. If anyone did so much as lay a finger on Yatur, however, she would unleash her mercilessness on the battlefield.

[@freakalmighty2533]

I could watch these videos purely for the positive messages at the end. I've only watched 3 or 4 so far but I'm enjoying the vibe

[@EvilPaladin11]

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[@BrianVaughnVA]

All I can say is that I hope I can entertain and I hope my long long rants don't ever bug anyone. They're there just to help people feel better through out the day ya know? I'm damn glad you enjoy it mate.

[@lapislazerz861]

Hell there

[@bryantaylor683]

@@BrianVaughnVA they're nice. And you making me wish I could play some. Always wanted to, but never have ☹

[@markuhler2664]

@@BrianVaughnVA it's a good thing you guys do.

[@EvilPaladin11]

*enthusiastic and energetic waving* Howdy! (Did you know that "Howdy" is short for "How Do Ye"?)

[@elisenishi]

Haha that's a fun lil nugget

[@pphyjynx8217]

Goodbye is short for "God be with you"

[@MontyR053]

And a fine how do ya do to you too (tips the ciwboy hat)

[@liquidchameleon5993]

No way! I never knew that, thanks bruv.

[@warsaweagle2075]

Salutations

[@astuteanansi4935]

The most interesting character I've seen someone play, as far as I can remember, was a Warforged Artificer whose creator had been mortally wounded before he could activate him. The Warforged had all the necessary knowledge to perform his function built in, but as far as understanding people and the world went, he was a bit like a child. He was also never given his mission, so he made it his purpose in life to find out what he had been intended to use his skills for. His creator's last and only words to him before death were "You..." so he assumed that "You" was his name. Led to some fun moments. He carried a creepy mask around for reasons I don't remember, I think it was one of his inventions We were investigating some eldritch shenanigans and came upon a pool of blood that turned out to possess anyone who came into contact with it. He plunged into it completely, epically failed his Wisdom save, and we were treated to the chilling sight of this Warforged, covered completely in blood and still wearing that creepy-ass mask, emerging from the pool and casually saying, "I think I've found my mission" before opening fire on the party. Some great stuff, shame the game lasted only 1 session

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Creative characters best characters. Especially when they could pass for villains from a glance. It’s fun to play as a conventionally evil thing on the side of good. My ooze beast cleric Oozward was given sentience by a wizard who he now worships, and he’s a nice ooze but both biologically and figuratively lacks a brain. He poisoned an entire town’s water supply by accident because he wanted a drink. He’s far more responsible with his toxic biology nowadays. He also has a group of cultist friends who worship Juiblex, that world-consuming ooze, so they’ve taken a liking to the slobbering green dope. Oozward just gives them chunks of his body sometimes for rituals, and lets them do what they want because he likes making them happy. He also talks to corpses on his off-time because he likes talking to people, doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead. He can speak to dead things using magic anyways. The same wizard that brought him to life also gave another one of my characters a pet ooze that he keeps in a little jar and feeds + provides moisture for. The character who received it was named Ge’out, so he named his pet ooze Ge’in. Ge’in is still alive and very healthy, they play with a tiny wyvern sometimes that Ge’out’s traveling buddy has.

[@Pineapple-hx9ty]

Idea: BBEG has good methods but and evil motive, while player has evil methods but a good motive.

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Yes. This. I like this.

[@RandomDude69]

this charecter is awsome and just dropping by to say hello 👋

[@tafa_matai3184]

I love this! My current character is definitely a good ally, but an evil person. He was raised in a noble house of old military blood under what is objectively a cruel and tyrannical eternal king, and all his life he was never allowed to live like a normal person. Always training, studying, and most horrifically, weekly cage matches with his brother to test their growth. Horrible bloody affairs that he rarely won, and he quickly grew to hate the family that raised him for one thing: the glory of war. At the first sign of rebellion in the southern impoverished cities and slums, he took off and joined the rebels, dyeing his eyes and hair with magic and covering his scars and ancestral ritualistic tatoo, even changing his name into an anagram of what his father gave him. Hes come to trust his new allies, who are very misguided but generally seem to mean well. He, however, does not. A multiclass Barbarian Wizard Shadowdancer, he is vicious and unrepentant with his enemies, offering only one chance at surrender or a brutal death, even feeding their essence to the undead shade he summons into battle. He doesnt fight to free the kingdom because he hates the king. He only wants to see everything his father has ever built burn.

[@thedyingmeme6]

Wholesome ooze

[@zikasilver1]

anyone else looking at that kleptomaniac hobbit and thinking "that's a kender"?

[@GuukanKitsune]

Tas, empty your pouch.

[@isimiel3405]

"Opps"

[@tesswinker2482]

My brother says I'm a kender bard.

[@biomodified]

Yes.

[@eldardrakeson]

my first thought was 'oh no... ' of course I played and ran dragonlance campaigns for years....

[@fede6811]

Friend: "Dude I have this awesome concept for a character, an orc rogue with low stealth but high intimidation, if detected..." Me: He yells 'YOU DO NOT SEE GROG' and 'sneaks past'. Friend: "How did you know?" Ps, I had Grog in my campaign, couldnt say no to the idea even if he didnt came up with it and his atrocious stealth checks made the perfect compliment to his several nat 20s to intimidate

[@novaticterra838]

Just Wanted To say Hi!

[@willhall1874]

I don’t typically stick around for the end-of-video positivity messages, I find them a bit OTT for my personal tastes, but this one put a smile on my face.

[@darko_barko2133]

I generally don't stick around either. Hello fellow story chaser!

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

"Mad Marx" Dangeronica sounds utterly hilarious, and terrifying.

[@shinshiroyoshihira8642]

Agreed. Also if it was Mad Max film I would watch the he'll out of it ^^

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

I'm commited to finding out what game rules the character was from where the mentioned plot lines would actually be a thing.

[@dkhosh7380]

The positive messages in the end are honestly awesome, you are a good person.

[@danielkenny8790]

I don’t know why but I cryer at the up, I just suddenly tested up, I guess his words really spoke to me

[@karanoelle4819]

The part of the video I enjoyed the absolute most was something that wasn't even on topic to the video itself. This reader speaking (as far as I know) from the heart, really touched me. It's not just the general "be good to yourself and everyone" but a very heartfelt and thoughtful message. I appreciate it very much, kind stranger on the internet.

[@gamerzultra2029]

How's it going

[@jamesloiselle9098]

Hi

[@kingzeeb319]

"What is the most creative character you've seen someone play as?" *Tells stories about own made characters.* Really feels like the equivalent of laughing at your own jokes.

[@jonathanfrost9285]

I played a character that had a multiple personality disorder that in random order would flip personalitys that had there own class. One was a barbarian. One was a thief and the other was a bard each with there own thoughts and dreams. It was fun when the character was having arguments with himself when the other wanted to be in control

[@cypressmicnovicz9541]

I was DMing a one shot and told my players to bring characters they don’t think anyone would have thought to bring, expecting something like full-orc wizard. Instead, my three players brought the following: halfling swashbuckler rogue, sailor background but afraid of the water and gets seasick often; tiefling barbarian who believed whole heartedly he was a Dragonborn; human “wizard” who studied for years to learn magic, but was actually a wild-mate sorcerer. One of my favorite games for all the crazy roleplay that happened

[@laziadwobbit5331]

Damn Brian, I actually cried with your ending speech! That was a critical hit right in my feels!

[@veemayhemVT]

I have a character named Max Delgado in my boyfriend's DnD session. Who was he? A Tabaxi Rogue/Druid multiclass. I got bored making him so i asked my bf to help me come up with a backstory. We came up with him being the black sheep of his family as he came from a long line of Druids and his powers as a Druid were weaker than normal That was when the idea hit me; what if he was born human, but he fucked up in testing out a Druid spell and got stuck as a cat for way too long. So now hes just ultimate brooding man who hates the fact that if someone takes off his hood, theyll see a scowling kitty (might i also mention one of my favorite lines from the session) Max: "Hey guys this bird wants to talk" Mithra (true Tabaxi Bard): "Oh? Well what does this bird wants to say?" Bird: "the party is in danger" Max: "Bird says f**k you"

[@meepXmeept]

thanks for the kind words in the end, you matter aswell Brian thank you so much

[@thatguymatt5816]

The cat thing sounds fun for maybe 2 seconds and then it just becomes a party member half the party can’t talk to and that doesn’t help in combat situations

[@mgaffsky]

I hope you day is good

[@mohitonon-alco4287]

@@mgaffsky don't spam

[@meepXmeept]

A cat will most likely not be good at fighting monsters, but i think it can shine in other situations (maybe add some custom rules to help it interacting with NPCs and be the partys Face char or let it cast spells and play the supporter role) I think I would have fun being a cat

[@np9145]

@@meepXmeept It would depend on if the DM let the cat take levels in a class, which I am assuming they did, since it sounds like they nearly one shot someone with a sneak attack.

[@thomassmith2348]

I want to see a dnd campaign where the whole party is actually just in one characters head. Then they realize later that they are actually just locked up in a dungeon hallucinating and his real friends come to save him from the bbeg

[@WhisperingShade]

It's called being the GM.

[@doubl2480]

I played once this game my friends called John or something. It's similar to a roleplay where all players play turn by turn a personality of a poor guy named John who has the powers to do literally anything but you succeed in your actions only by doing a 6, and every other resultats is treated as a critical failure. It has more rules, but to sum up it becomes complete chaos in seconds and it's hilarious. I'll always remember that friend of mine trying to teleport without clothes in New-York downtown and instead teleporting his clothes alone (not him) in New-York downtown, or that other time when they teleported Belgium into Groenland and then Groeland + Belgium into the sun.

[@2MeterLP]

Had a character similar to 5:55 An aasimar warlock that was convinced he was a human bard. He had the entertainer background and the guidance cantrip to give him the music and inspiration. He was a total cinnamon roll until he entered combat and the edritch patron took over. He goes unconcious, grows 50 eyes all over his body and starts blasting.

[@2MeterLP]

Turns out having the actor feat and mask of many faces makes for some killer stage performances, as you can sing duettes by yourself.

[@CH-gm6rl]

*so anyways i started blasting*

[@WitchBless]

**Alucard enters into combat**

[@VimyGlide]

out of combat: wing boi in combat: *BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL INTENSIFIES*

[@redking1851]

First video I've watched from you. I was feeling really depressed and just down with my life but that ending speech meant alot. It truly made me feel better. The right words at the right time. Thank You.

[@fireheart9241]

Hello! Hope your future days are bright

[@Ofxzh]

0:30 Didn’t I comment that on a video but it was a idea for the BBEG and instead it would be crypt of the necrodancer?

[@Tris8923]

Oh dear lol

[@freezepoppunk]

Just wanted to say I found this channel today in my recommended and have been binging tons of videos and I've never even played D&D! thanks!

[@aveanth]

your affirmations at the end of the videos always make me feel good so thank you very much!

[@lordowl3533]

A 7 foot tall super skinny wizard with amnesia based loosely off of magic man from adventure time. He fell out of the sky in front of our dwarf barbarian's house one day with no memory of anything before this event and kind of just stuck around. He wears a trenchcoat made of the same stuff as a bag of holding, which contains basically endless potions, but since he has amnesia, he has no idea what any of them do, as they're not labelled, so he tells me what kind of potion he wants it to be, rolls the D20 and hopes for the best. He also is mute and speaks telepathically (he used this once to literally drive an NPC to literal raving madness by getting into his head and constantly saying some weird cryptic shit), and for whatever reason, he almost always rolls higher when he's wanting a sleep spell than anything else. Like"I WANT TO CAST FIREBALL" *rolls a 6* "I WANT TO CAST A SLEEP SPELL ON THE GOBLINS" *NAT 20*, so now everybody thinks he has some kind of natural power to cast sleep, and I'm probably gonna make that the case in the next session

[@jamesbernards8409]

Heyo :)

[@mythicmysticmoon]

I really appreciate the talks at the end of the video. Thank you for that! Hope you all are doing well, too.

[@BrianVaughnVA]

All the love Nicholas, may your day be going well.

[@Sinnixk]

First time commenter: been listening to you guys on my morning drive for awhile now, love the laughs! Im normally the all-time DM, but sometimes I get to play a character. I always spend a lot of time with their backstop to get it right. I have a couple of neat/crazy characters I've made in the past. 'The Red Lotus' was a half drow rogue fighter, pretty standard sneaky type. This was fifth edition and I dipped heavily into the feats for hand crossbow ownage. He had 3 attacks a round (with a hand crossbow) by level 5 and could action surge for a couple extra more shots a few times a day. The guy would walk into a fight and in a round pick off the biggest baddest dude there was. We were playing Curse of Straud and I told my DM I wanted to go assassin route. BUT, I had a code I only hunted bad guys. And every time I assassinated someone I'd leave a red lotus on the body as a call sign. Well at one point I had met with the BBEG--Straud himeself a ultra badass vampire. And had done a couple missions for him. (I didn't know it was him sending me on the kill quests but I had started to guess). He sent me on a mission to kill the party. I wasn't evil, and this was also the point in which he showed his true self to me, I shot the shit out of him. Didn't kill him though I was only level 7 or 8 and he was the BBEG so meant for a waaaay higher level. Lotus died there, somewhere in the middle of a forest, at night, defending his honor and his team, w/o his party ever knowing how he died.. Another character was a dwarf rogue fighter. Guess I really like rogue fighters. He had a sailor background, and in true Jack Sparrow fashion had no ship to his name. When the party met Stumpy Ironknee, (thats his name) he was sitting alongside the dirt road in a row boat paddling and singing Dwarven sailor songs drunk out of his mind. He had a peg leg made of wood, and never understood the irony of why people laughed when he stated his name. He had lost his ship and his leg, because his first mate a lawful evil triton named Squido Baggins, who only existed in Stumpys background story, had committed mutiny, chopped off Stumpys leg and thrown him overbaord to the sharks. Cool thing was Stumpy had taken a feat that let him move 5' faster and he was a swashbuckler. So he would dip into combat attack and then dip out. All the while on a search for a ship to go and kill Squido Baggins. Sadly, campaign ended before I ever found that squidy-bastard.

[@nikolaskaarsberg7754]

Such a fucking nice channel. From the narration, to stories to everything, specially those last chats that are actually really wholesome. Love y’all!

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Fuck yeah captain! Love narrating for you and I'm damn glad the outro's are something that makes you smile.

[@topazstars7734]

Hi everyone! I want to remind you all that you are loved! You are worthy and special. And I promise that you will do something great

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Thanks :) You too!

[@dboot8886]

Hi Topaz.

[@maplesweets3217]

Same goes to you too! Hope you continue to shine like the bright star you are :D

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Hell yeah Topaz, that's the way to do it. I'm doing well and I hope you are too. Thank you for being kind my mate.

[@TheLeocartelli]

I know this video is 3 years old, but I still find myself coming back for the finishing remarks. The world is a dark place so it’s really nice to hear genuine good words. Keep up the good work man

[@1560ace]

That ending monologue made me think of Mr New Vegas. "This is Mr New Vegas reminding you that someone somewhere out there loves you. And that is me. I love you."

[@gasgiant4451]

The second character I ever made in 5e was a two foot tall rogue/warlock that was like chicken themed Batman that used a rubber chicken as his pact weapon. His name was Party Foul. His two bread and butter abilities were his ranged legerdemain from being an arcane trickster, and his mask of many faces. He would make himself look a foot shorter than he was while wearing a chicken feather cloak, and just make performance checks to act like a chicken. Most people ignored the chicken, but the chicken was tying their boots together and unbuckling their belts with an invisible mage hand. Roll initiative, your pants fall and you trip.

[@linco2041]

Half-chair, half-man. The backstory we had to come up with was just insane.

[@JCook-dx5pf]

Brian dude, you know, I look forward to coming home from work and listening to your latest Ripper Reading every day, mostly for the laughs but especially for your uplifting extro. Well done again, sir!

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Cookie my mate I'm glad you like the reads so much. I get a lot of fun out of them, even during the darker topics. I know I ramble a bit at the end and apparently in one video I ramble for FOUR WHOLE MINUTES... so it's good to know people like that hahaha.. My goal is just to entertain and to help others when they need it, so I'm glad I can do both.

[@JCook-dx5pf]

@@BrianVaughnVA know you're appreciated. Keep 'em coming,ramblings and all!

[@deathslayer4600]

"Paladin of Corn" BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!! CORN FOR THE CORN FLAKES!!!

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

Perma-drunk Half-Elf Cleric of Dionysus, raised by orcs, cured fighters muteness (he never told us why he had a set of half-elf vocal cords on hand) heart and soul of our party, and once, got us acting in character so much (in a combat scenario where he described himself slowly roasting 3 wolves with lightning), our rogue accidentally started crying IRL, but was fine with it OOC.

[@nbeutler1134]

I’m afraid of the people in the “Gurt” campaign

[@ZELtheIrken]

hi

[@Lickicker]

im just surprised you can honestly make a communist lesbian, i mean if that was a thing theyd porbably be in the gulag if not publicly executed

[@khigh16]

*B R E E D I N G S E A S O N*

[@Lickicker]

@@khigh16 gotta reproduce for the motherland, again its probably either that or to the gulag

[@sagacious03]

Love these stories of creative characters! Thanks for uploading!

[@danielkenny8790]

I don’t know why but the words he said at the end made me cry, not sobbing but just tear up a little, I guess his words really did speak to me

[@CEN-Tyra]

Your message at the end was really kind. I may be a first time listener, but those few words of kindness now mean I’ll be a subscriber for life! I’ve never played DnD but I enjoy listening to the stories and my cousin is going to teach me how to play when we both have the time so I’m excited for that!!!

[@arcticbanana66]

From the Nerdy Show/Omniverse Podcast Network series "Dungeons & Doritos": Chair was a simple dwarven chair until he was somehow magically transformed into a Dwarf. He refused to ever wear clothing because it reminded him of being covered with a dustcover or sheet, and was completely innocent and naive about pretty much everything because he was quite literally almost born yesterday. One of his languages was "Furniture" and once got information from a table and a door. He also later got a "Chaire Moed" which increased his strength and toughness while decreasing his speed as he taps into his old furniture powers (basically a "werechair"). He was fantastic, and very much the heart of the team. Sadly he had to be written out of the game after his player unfortunately passed away after a bicycling accident. RIP Triforce Mike.

[@tennagon3822]

My friend is playing a Halfling Barbarian wielding a mailbox as a Warhammer.

[@NightShadowGaming]

I am new to your channel never play DnD in my life but I have to say hearing you tell the story's and being so positive helps me alot. I been so depress with life but your videos cheer me up even at the end when you say you matter it made me cry cuz that all I ever wanted to hear from some i loved ....... thank you

[@BoggarthVT]

Mechanically, one character I played was a Kalashtar (a person bound with a spirit) Warlock with an undying patron. In game, hes named Dead Iron Davey and is a human pirate captain that is haunted by his old ghost crew whom he vowed in life to never part from. Little did he know that his crew will follow him after death. Telling himself that his patron crew is still alive, he can call upon them when he cast spells. In fact, each of his spells and class abilities was some form of aid he gets from his ghostly mates. He can use his pact of the blade boon to receive a spectral blade from a crewmate. Hes eldritch blast 8s a spectral bullet loaded into his broken pistol. He can cast Protection against Good and Evil to summon his spectral crew to fight with him against devils, demons, undead, Angels ect.

[@frintling7717]

Thanks for the ending, man. That was awesome.

[@tracybodle9759]

A long one but it’s worth it. it’s not really much related to the title but one time we where playing a quest in our back garden goes like this. Dm: as you enter the room you smell the thick stench of rotten flesh. A broken table lies in the middle of the room with cabinets surrounding it and a moulding right under its legs Pc: I take the carpet (just for context he was building a house in a bag of holding we acquired) Dm: as you take the rub you see a faded ritual circle underneath on the stone flags As I was a necromancer I thought I might try to activate it and see what happens Me: I activate the ritual with the vilest blood ( one of my past victims) Dm: the circle activated making a huge gushing noise.the bedraggled figure steps out the arch mage arises to his full hight and runs screening towards you. We roll initiative and the paladin rolls a nat 20. After dropping his bag of holding to our rouge he chooses to grapple the undead mage and succeeds a strength check. He then orders the rouge who was next to slide the bag over his head and across his whole body. it works. Dm: the bag engulfed the mage in one sweep We then proceeded to hold shut and sit on the bag we even cast web on its flap to keep it shut . Our paladin held it for 5 hours until he was convinced he was dead and then retrieved his corpse from inside. Turns out he was dead three hours ago. We later learned with a quick history check that this mage had run terror through the land for over 5000 years and we killed him with a bag over his head till he suffocated. The moral is don’t put your head in bags

[@Ganvy]

I like beans

[@coc_enjoyer]

same

[@killroyjenkins9339]

Same

[@thatoneotheridiot3361]

I am beans

[@Ganvy]

@@thatoneotheridiot3361 you are Gordon go find your lamb sauce or something

[@ChrisBryer]

Cool beans, bro. Cool beans.

[@raging.gamming8958]

Man I love how positive this dude is!

[@yall571]

I once played a wizard who became the bbeg when he began to become a tyrant in the name of “Law and order for all”. That involved killing the king, entering a civil war(with him on one side and the rest of the party on the other) and it ended with a battle for the ages. He also had a owl familiar who only ate the left half of apples on Tuesdays because pf a curse.

[@BrianVaughnVA]

To everyone out there saying hi to someone new today in the comments, to all of you who liked the wholesome bit at the end, to all of you in general who simply exist today - I say hello! Thank you for enjoying the video and the narration therein. I try my best to be as entertaining as possible, while remaining natural with every laugh and giggle and voice I have. I never force it, I never push it, I just want you guys and gals to feel like you're walking into a tavern one lonely night, to a cozy fire, warm beer and tea, good food and a bard who's happy to tell you a tale as if you're a friend. Be happy, be kind to one another and most importantly - be kind to yourself.

[@zero69kage]

I've only recently got intrested in D&D and would definitely like to try it. I just don't have anyone to play with. But I have been coming up with a number of characters I think could be fun. One of them is a tiefling spell caster that is a pyromaniac and obsessed with fire. His backstory is that he lost his entire family to a fire and for a long time was afraid of it. After a while he decided he would use the thing that took everything from him to make a new life for himself. So he only uses fire magic and tries to solve all of his problems with it. His ultimate goal is to become the ultimate fire mage and knock up a fire elemental and have a "fire baby" and then teach them everything he knows.

[@frankyquilavafireblast895]

You’re really cool Brian, thanks for your messages at the end of your videos As well as everyone else who does their message at the end Dave and the others

[@not_mauss]

My favourite character I saw was a scarecrow that was always confused,it was amazing

[@orion-9368]

I was a cosmic horror chair that wanted to conquer the world.

[@Alwayswriting]

I have a gnome whose skin, hair, and eye color because I can never remember what the colors were and this has caused some funny moments during the game. She was once a cherry red color. Her voice also changes ever session.

[@carolsalustri8285]

mr ripper: they had there tongue removed me: Avox

[@drcalcium9232]

I'm doing the jester plotting against the party in my current campaign, except I'm a doctor, the party's only healer. So far I've stolen the leaders kidneys and kidnapped the animal handlers pet

[@Crazyhaha]

I made a homebrew pixie barbarian with the aztec background and they use pixie dust to lift large size weapons and give themselves the strenght of a large sized person. It's very fun to "accidentally" break someones arm in arm wrestling with a tiny character.

[@logan9923]

I am currently playing a campaign as a bear named Bear Stein. Just a regular grizzly bear who had been given sentience from a wizard's experiment. After thinking the experiment had failed because bear didn't start talking fast enough, he ditched them. Bear was then raised by cats in the forest until he was an adult rogue. Fast forward in the campaign and now he is an arcane trickster with the mentality of a cat and loyalty to Sheogorath from Skyrim.

[@TheCassiusTain]

Not technically D&D, but a different Medieval fantasy RPG There once was a campaign that started out as a little joke oneshot between three (reasonably) drunk friends. It started out, mind you in the middle of the woods at least four weks journey from any large body of water much less the open see, with a young "Pirate Captain" (fighter) who introduced himself as Captain Tuck Langplank, telling tall tales about how he barely escaped mutiny by lumping into the sea inside a barrel of Oranges to finally find imself in the middle of a little village inside said forest once all the Oranges where eaten. The other character was a perpetually stoned halfling druid who refused any trade that involved money. One of the running gags was that if he would sober up, his high Charisma and low Inteligence stats would switch. He's also aquire a Cat as a companion early on that he would name "dog" and always share his pipe with. Both of the characters followed a small river because they figured that they had to get Tuck his ship back, but because both rolled a Nat 1 on the Navigation check, they followed it upstream into teh mountains where they met our third Party member, an orkish Wizard who had found a dictionary "The Big Book Of Spelling" and mistaken it for a Spellbook. The Ork was an actual wizard and could cast spells by shouting random Words. He also was the most inteligent member of teh Party and teh only one who could read. Our last party member was a young elven woman who was an activist. For what she was an activist changed every session or even a few times within the same session (Think Britta from Community but turned up to the max). She could also summon demons to aid us in battle that always took the form of iconic Video Game or movie characters.

[@Archimonde259]

"a necromancer bard on a quest to create the world's greatest dancing zombie music video routine" Was he played as Michael Jackson, or that guy from Zombieland Saga?

[@Jaqoum_The_Wizard_King]

I’ve had this “genious” idea to play a reformed Lich, who genuinely saw the wrongs of his ways and is trying to redeem himself. I think he’d be a wizard character and would have a doofenshmirtz-twixed-old man-twix-Dr Evil with some dramatic flair and charisma. As a main feature, he likes reading and music, but can’t read on account of being half-blind and half deaf. Anybody else think this is good?

[@ala5530]

Going back a few years for this one- I played with a group that, as an old-school challenge mode, defaulted to "3d6 in order" for stats, but you were expected to stick with whatever character concept you originally pitched, even if you wound up with atrocious stats (either in general or for that class/concept). We also started with a random magical item, the effects of which were generated by a giant homebrew table (this is relevant, don't worry). Cue one guy in the group, who'd pitched a fighter who would join the party as part of the overarching quest (specifically an open hunt for the setting's Holy Grail equivalent) to pay back a debt he felt he owed, with a CON of 4, and a starting amulet that gave him the max possible result for any HP gain. Dude just leaned into the low CON, and played it up as being immunocompromised following a magitech lung transplant, right down to taking anti-rejection potions every few weeks. His fighter had joined the quest because it had meant so much to the donor (who had unfortunately taken a lance to the other lung). The amulet was a med-alert bracelet designed to keep transplant recipients stable in case of organ rejection until they could get to a major healing temple... and as a side effect meant that the low CON wouldn't kill his role as a fighter as he levelled up (each new level guaranteed 7 more HP. We did try and persuade him to up that stat ASAP, but he resisted, on the grounds that barring divine intervention on the scale of Unlimited Wish, his character would be taking immunosuppressants for the rest of his life). Massive respect.

[@fernando47180]

Arresting a king sounds like such a power move

[@oreokitkat7992]

We had two bards. One was an asexual half elf and the other was a pansexual tiefling. The tiefling would try and set the half elf up with literally anyone and they would fight over what makes a bard. The half elf was the music part and the tiefling was the seductive part.

[@TheBlackDeck]

I remember someone making a Geleton humanoid, enchanted lifeform, created by a wizard, who used some kind of mold and magic to give the geleton humanoid shape and bring it to life, then transfer his consiousness to the Geleton Humanoid. I wish I could remember the details, I just remember thinking how creative a character it was.

[@cosplaydreams4136]

In a campaign based on a zombie apocalypse, 2 of the 3 player’s characters were literally JoJo references, so at one notable time, the edgiest edge lord that you can imagine, the daughter of the son of Dio, and Yoshikage Kira would be slaughtering zombies in an abandoned shopping mall.

[@coffeebean2]

TL;DR: A warlock who worshipped the DM; Bigfoot. My friend played a character called "The Priest of Dii Em", which was basically a great old one style of warlock that worshipped the DM. He had this whole thing was that Dii Em was a being who would come to people in their dreams as a human of varying race and gender who would dictate their lives as they go on an adventure. "The Curch of Dii Em" (which was more like a cult) had their own language because of all the different races that would join, and they found it easier to just make up different words than to use common or elven or whatever. Anyway people who were approached by Dii Em were known as "The Enlightened", or Pe Ciis (PCs) and those who were not were known as "The Non-Enlightened", or En Pe Ciis (NPCs). He would also describe who he thinks would be the best fit for doing something by saying things like "on a scale of 1-20 for intelligence, I think our wizard is about an 18 so he would be good at identifying what this object." Once we defeated the BBEG, the DM decided to give him "The Bible of Dii Em", which was basically a PHB but written in the language the cult made up. He also once considered playing a rogue-dryid multiclass. He wanted to play as bigfoot.

[@ceejno7861]

Okay, 'Dii Em' cracked me up, that's some fourth-wall genius right there.

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

I just realized one of the things that appears between posts is the clown stealing sylgar (the fish) from the beholder guy

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

I remember that from one of Puffin Forest's videos

[@thewitchofgeek]

I needed that ending today. Thank you. We love you too. Also! Hi!

[@lockwoan01]

What's really crazy is how, providing that you have the various books necessary to make them, you can take any race you want, any background you want, any class you want, put them together, and you've got your character. Let's see, Orc Necromancer who has the Acolyte background, and is *somehow* a follower of Pellor? (Okay, that one bit might be tricky to figure out in story.) A Centaur Rogue with a Guild Merchant background? Doable. Tortle Ranger with a Street Urchin background? Yes. A Human Hollow One (playable undead) Criminal who is a Cleric of Life or a Paladin of Redemption? Yep!

[@WhisperingShade]

Guy played a doppelganger. Left the party only to rejoin it in different points as someone "else" with all the same spells and powers but cleverly masked as other classes and races. The party had no clue until the players all TPK'd that the player which kept picking up new characters was actually playing the same one all along.

[@CaciqueVanGuard]

Not one character, but two. For years my friend was the "forever DM" and we started to feel bad that he never got to play. One of our old friends from high school who had moved several states away decided he wanted to DM and got us all on our first campaign over the internet. He told us we were going to be running it with the Elemental Evil set which lets you play as Goliaths (now my favorite race). Without any discussion before hand my friend and I decided to roll Goliaths, his a rebellious sorcerer who received a mysterious vision, Katra "Storm-voice" Olgonagatha, and mine a Totemic Barbarian/Paladin that didn't know he was a Paladin, Kouri "Strange-beast" Olgonagatha; his personal values just lined up so perfectly with the Oath of the Ancients that Nature herself granted him divine power. When we told each other our character concepts we decided to play it as them being brother and sister and that my character had personally raised her because she was ostracized for having "killed" our mother in childbirth. Katra was called Storm-Voice because as she developed her sorcerer abilities the tribe started to believe that she was to be the next tribe shaman, however, she resented the tribe and the campaign essentially took place during her rebellious stage where she decided to start tattooing her body and forsaking much of Goliath tradition. She was the big mover on the quest and Kouri, who was significantly older than Katra, was really just a supporting character who did not want the sister he raised as a daughter to come into any misfortune. Throughout the campaign Katra would become increasingly more distraught over the evils of the world and her attempt to fix it. Meanwhile Kouri would never show any malice for anything. He refused to deal lethal damage and would outright drop his weapon against an unarmed opponent. If he felt that someone was fighting for any reason other than to have fun, he would instead try to dissuade them from fighting. The campaign revolved around a series of cults which resulted in Kouri leaving a trail of unconscious bodies (that our dragonborn assassin would coup-de-gras when Kouri wasn't looking). He never cast any spells because he didn't know any, and he would inadvertently use lay on hands when trying to encourage someone to stay in the fight. The only time he would ever use his barbarian's rage or divine smite was when someone committed an atrocity so heinous that he felt the person was a threat to all life and beyond words, in his righteous fury he would not hold back and these were the rare occasions in which he would out right kill his opponent. I loved the way my friend played Katra alongside Kouri. Katra was the dynamic mover of the plot while Kouri was the static foundation of the party. Essentially Katra had the quest and the interest, but no social skills to keep a party together or get information from NPCs whereas Kouri had no interest in the quest other than to help his sister, but all the social skills of a gregarious halfling bard. At times the sibling rivalry coupled with Goliath's natural competitive nature would lead into the two racing up or down cliff faces or seeing who could jump farthest across rivers or ravines. Other times the parent-child relationship would come out with Kouri trying to counsel Katra on her interactions with NPCs or about the values she should have with her responding flippantly or defensively. Kouri was and still is the best character I've ever played, in large part thanks to Katra's player and he loved Katra so much that he commissioned a picture of her from Justin Mayhew (lesser known freelance artist that did some of the work for 5e) at a convention. Unfortunately, we never finished that campaign as our DM eventually got busy with finishing school, moving across the country, and starting a new job, but it was amazing while it lasted!

[@fencer0Z]

Right now I'm playing a reskin of a Dragonborn that I call Half-Dragonborn that when she was an orphan grew a second personality, the main one is a Dandere and the second one is a Tsundere that helped her surviving (and also difficult situations) and has a really strong character

[@fencer0Z]

Also had an idea for a buff monk that like every monk doesn't use armor so this one doesn't use clothes either

[@nshilts5829]

'the boat master' a player had 4 foldable boats that unfolded into a longship, a galleon and two other large ships. he was a monk who would fight someone then shove a boat in their mouth and say 'bippity bopity boat' the first time he said 'I shove the boat in his mouth' the dm was like 'ok' and then boom the guys head explodes and he's crushed under a boat. after that point he had to succeed to hit, then they had to fail a strength check. Two bosses and a dragon got boated.

[@wamlythecrabgod2199]

You've been hit by You've been struck by Boat

[@friendthebarrel154]

I made a Lizardfolk Warlock that worships a giant Blobfish known as The Great Blobyss (lurker in the deep subclass)

[@breadrolllavelle9684]

Creative charactor? A bard who DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE SEX OR SEDUCE EVERYTHING! no but actually the most creative charactor ever had play was a dragonborn. They were pink,and could do everything a dragon could. recognize that? yeah. They based their character off of natsu dragneel. They were a cosplayer who tripped into a wormhole, and became a dragonborn. They loved their character a whole lot. Now.. I-a very clever dm- decided to make an NPC that acted as a stand-in for happy. Another player decided to make a dragonborn based off of Gajeel. This was my favorite party i have played with ever.

[@killroyjenkins9339]

Ah yes, time for some joy during this stressful day, thank you

[@tytydino]

Hi!

[@EvilPaladin11]

@@tytydino Howdy!

[@voltsiano116]

11:10 "Precious metals"? ELLIIIIIIIS, is that you? Precious metaaaaaals! Okay, WPE reference aside, nice compilation. Really liked the one about the randomized character - might try something like that in a future game!

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

ELIIIIIIIIS WHAT IS MY PISTOOOL MADE OUT OFFFF

[@voltsiano116]

@@mrcreeperfungaming2828 "Metal..."

[@mrcreeperfungaming2828]

@@voltsiano116 BUT WHAT KIIIND OF METAAL

[@TheMopnomore]

My favourite was a wild sorcerer, who believed he was a cleric of himself. Sent back in time to write his path to divinity correctly. Each wild surge was a divine act apparently

[@samloyd9287]

Playing a campaign in the Dungeons of Drakkenheim setting. A meteor hit the titular town of Drakkenheim and left magic purple crystals called delirium behind. These crystals grant magic powers, but also mutate those who have prolonged exposure to them. One of our party members was an average frog who was anthropomorphized by the crystals’ mutations. With his 5 intelligence, he believes he’s a sorcerer, but he’s actually a barbarian. Croag is my favorite character in that campaign by a lot.

[@festusxiii5724]

Had a player who simply took a simple and interesting concept and built the character from there. The best character I think he made as a Druid who thought he was a life wizard. Most of the other characters couldn’t really tell the difference and began singing praises of this genius life wizard who could already caste polymorph

[@XoIoRouge]

As a DM (but also a game designer), I encourage my players to come up with their own out-of-the-box ideas, and I would find a way to work it into the game. One of my friends really took the cake. He had brought in the 1989 Milton Bradley Tetris Board game and we worked together to develop a system that utilized these blocks for his spells. It went as follows: . 1) During his turn, three random blocks will "fall" onto his board in a certain order. Like Tetris, he controls where they fall. He is given only a few seconds for each block. He may choose to not place it entirely, and if he runs out of time, the piece is removed. 2) After all the pieces are placed, calculate any full lines. The number of full lines gives him access to which spells he could cast that round according to a preset "tier list" that we developed. We did test other options, but this one was simple and kept the fights going quickly. 3) He could choose to "save" a block at any moment that it's falling (like in the modern versions of Tetris) and would be allowed to cast cantrips. This DID allow him to cast a cantrip and a normal spell in the same turn if he got the right pieces, but we didn't care too much about that. I just adapted his abilities to take that into consideration. 4) During future rounds, he could add the saved piece onto his board without replacing it, or he could replace it with another piece, or he could destroy it and save another piece. That last action allowed him to cast a cantrip. 5) He may also destroy his saved piece as a reaction. Essentially, it was relevant to have a save piece after every round, but sometimes that fourth piece got him better lines for bigger spells. A "Tetris" (4 lines at the same time) allowed really large spells, but usually costed him some turns, some luck, or his saved piece, to pull it off. 6) At the end of the fight, his board would fully clear out. It doesn't keep its blocks over multiple fights. . Thus, that last point, these only applied in combat. Out of combat, he was free to cast whichever spells he wanted like a normal spellcaster. We didn't want to complicate and slow down the passive gameplay for minute things like that. . The character was a ton of fun to manage and balance with him. The creative designs we had were really cool and the other players were always interested in his turns. And again, we weren't playing according to any rule book, so it's not like this is the same as a "Wizard" or "Warlock" from DnD or anything, but he was definitely playing a DPS spellcaster. . And he wasn't "stealing the spotlight" from the other characters, except for his real-world-toy. Though it did encourage the other players to think of ideas that interacted with real-world objects, but we never ended up getting there.

[@WhizzerdSupreme]

Guy in my old group played a Non-denominational Cleric. It was spectacular.

[@CanaanWorld_2]

My favorite is a character my friend played. His name was Ragadogi and he pretended to be an “amateur berry connoisseur.” Berries in this universe make special potions. His persuasion and deception was through the roof so he convinced everyone he met that he knew everything about berries. He was also a criminal and had an alter-ego named Junky. So Junky would be doing petty crimes and if he got caught Ragadogi convinced everyone that it wasn’t him. He also carried around a bucket and would bang on it when he wanted to challenge someone to cards. He’d yell “bang bang bang! Come beat the fat man!” before swindling people out of their money. It was amazing.

[@dreamwolf7302]

Had a guy play as a back ground character from an anime, who was summoned by accident, and was terrified that if he was sent back to his old world, he become unaware and be trapped forever.

[@loudinternalscreaming4543]

One of my characters is a Moon Elf Bard. ‘Gilgamax The Heavy Metal Shredding Moon Elf From The Future Dimension’, full name, constantly talks in a Glamour Metal voice, and his instrument is a massive fender that doubles as an axe.

[@WireMosasaur]

My good friend in our long-time 13th Age campaign plays a black slime in a suit of armour (a fighter). He can slip out of his armour if he really really has to and has completely different physical stats in that much blobbier form. He also has a totally different form of "vision" that the GM reflects when we're playing in dark environments on Roll20 or if we get affected by magical darkness or whatever, and there are tons of other unique details that the player and the GM work into the character together like his ability to absorb magical stones thanks to having been created using the same (usually to his detriment, lol), it's super fun!

[@zanvoy6848]

A friend of mine once played a changeling illusionist wizard with dissociative identity disorder and a tendency to believe a little too strongly in their own illusions. They were also on a quest to find their brother who disappeared a little before the campaign started. It later turned out that their brother was an alter that had levels as a great old one warlock and was working with the BBEG.

[@BestBoy8969]

So let's go back to the second campaign i've played in. So i rolled up a lizardfolk fighter named Calus (I even made him a little minifigure to mark him!). and His backstory is basically that his egg was stolen By a couple of humans Not realizing it was a lizardfolk egg. So, they took it back to their village. Once He hatched, they realized they couldn't just leave him out in the swamp alone. So, they raised him to think he was a "Rare Human." His scales? a rare human trait. his tail? a rare human trait. Etc. and he HONEST TO GOD believed them. And he was raised to see the beauty in all things so he's not chaotic or anything, So he's a true neutral. And anyone who tries to tell him he's a lizardfolk is just them being mean in his mind. So, After he meets with the party and we go on a few quests, We encounter Lizardfolk. (God damn you DM) And Calus is so happy because he found more rare humans, and refuses to harm them. So the rest of the party kill like all of the "Rare Humans" but give him a child that happened to tag along with them. So now Calus is the parent of another Lizardfolk. And that just branches off to all sorts of stuff- But here's the catch. Now, I only play lizard folk. They're all a family and i play each and every one of them. I play the child, The child's Child, The child's child's Childs child, Etc . And i honestly love it. (Sorry if this was long but i just had to share it)

[@LmaoMeowz]

THE CRAZY CAT LADY LITERALLY AND ON MULTIPLE LEVELS I LOVE IT

[@cznightrider]

Friend created an Orc Barbarian who had memory problems and thought he was a wizard who threw gnomes as his ranged magic attack, LOL! Cracked me up everytime!

[@nicholassulfaro1727]

Mine was an NPC for a Fantasy Age game I ran, set in Titansgrave with significant home brew. The man was an 8’ tall beef cake bison-Minotaur, that by D&D standards would’ve been a monk/bard (custom fighter archetype). He would rhythmically beat people up to beats from hip-hop and hardcore rap, basically being the equivalent of the Baby Driver of martial combat. The cherry on top? I named his archetype the beat boxer.