D&D Players, What character trope are you banned from playing? #1

D&D Players, What character trope are you banned from playing? #1
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[@josephvieira1538]

Was first banned for playing a warforged artificer, shortly after, was banned for playing a human battlesmith trying to build himself a warforged body. I'm not apologizing

[@bigloser5104]

That DM was probably lame, even if the entire idea of warforged and artificers seem too high tech that doesn't mean it should be fully banned, if it's some form of low tech campaign they could be one of a kind and teach people of these alien ideas or something, so many cool ideas

[@josephvieira1538]

@@bigloser5104 The dm that banned it was a party member in the campaign where I was the warforged, and when he was dm the next campaign he flat out no warforged. Man I loved my warforged though, we were playing the first dungeon in a box, and he practically single handedly united Gray Haven and the drow to fight against the dragons, using his own experience with racism as an example. He also, (with the help of strength potions, the enlarge spell, and a nice dm lol) at level 7, was launched out of a ballista at an adult dragon and put that dragon in a full Nelson in a rainstorm. It quickly went down hill from there, but very much worth it, still lived though. What's even better is the ballista was controlled by a dm character so the dm rolled the dragons ac, resulting in what happened lmao.

[@bigloser5104]

@@josephvieira1538 Imagine being that dragon, theres this silly lil golem fellow (again stating my previous thing warforged aren't robots but golems) that is now big and approaching at mach 3 (Not really mach 3 but for the funny) just knocks you right out the sky for big oof

[@bigloser5104]

@@josephvieira1538 Player/Dm still seems uncool though lol

[@nvfury13]

“Fine, I’m not a Warforged. My new character is an Artificer (or Wizard if they ban Artificer) that builds/has a Shield Guardian and never leaves his lair in person, just goes along with the party as the Shield Guardian.”

[@PlayfulOtter]

I'm not banned from any character. But a friend of mine is banned from playing Necromancers. Not because he was creepy but because in one campaign we would go into a tavern, he would cast detect undead. The GM would look at him funny and say there were no undead in the tavern. We go to a church, "Detect Undead". We go meet with the local lord, "Detect Undead". Everywhere we went he would detect undead. Then we ended up in a dark and ancient crypt. The GM looked right at him, waiting for those two little words and he says, "What?" The Gm responded with, "Are you going to detect undead?" Him, "I know there are undead here. This is where they belong." It caused the GM to throw his GM screen and dice across the room. He was henceforth banned from playing necromancer classes.

[@geoffreypershouse70]

LOL

[@OMGSAMCOPSEY]

In fairness if i was GM id have thrown necro a bone and thrown the occasional skeleton or zombie under a tavern or a random npc being a vampire

[@lambtoken2708]

Dude was smarter than the actual game 😆

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

I read the "I know there's undead here, it's where they belong" in Christopher Lee's voice...

[@theuncalledfor]

That guy would be banned from DM'ing for me. What an awful DM.

[@morgantaylor84]

I am banned from playing Human Fighters. No, not because of why you think. But because I was playing a campaign with a DM who had his wife as one of the PCs. My character I made a Human Fighter in his late 20's and had his backstory be basically a miner who works for her character's father and starts the campaign with just the clothes on his back and the pick axe he mined with. Her character was a bard who was a snotty, prudish and just generally obnoxious to what she saw as 'the classless' young noble woman, as her father had raised her to be. In session zero my character was assigned to bring her on a tour of the mine to basically keep her away from the business discussion her father and the foreman were going to have. The mine then collapsed and we were forced to find our way out of the mine several miles away from the town where we were almost immediately captured and sold into slavery, then shipped off continent into a gladiatorial pit halfway across the world. The reason my character was banned is because the obvious happened. My fighter protected the squishy bard from all dangers without asking a thing in return, even when she managed to talk their way into freedom and basically told him he was free to rebuild his life as he wanted along with a few other gladiators she managed to free with us (the rest of the party). I told her that as long as she intended to make it back home I would join her as my character really had nowhere to go. And of course, the two fell in love over their trip back home and wound up marrying and having children once the campaign was complete. Let me be clear this was NOT planned at any point, it just sorta happened. The reason I was banned wasn't because you think, but instead because the DM told us after the final session of that campaign that that was the most beautiful in game romance he had ever seen role played. I then vowed to retire Human Fighter who starts with nothing and is just along for the ride trope because I agreed, I would never be able to live up to that campaign.

[@EnrocaLaRoca]

OK, I expected the typical jealousy story, but this is actually great.

[@ericward8459]

*sniffles* That was beautiful!

[@geoffreypershouse70]

that was superb, two thumbs up

[@thatsmuggamer]

oh my GOD that was awesome to read

[@claraclenky9843]

Amazing story, b let’s be honest if it was a typical jealous story I wouldn’t blame hin

[@an8strengthkobold360]

You know, edge lords are fine. Just be reasonable: -Don't expect your character to be taken seriously by the other players/characters. -make a character who actually wants to adventure (for one reason or other). -make a character who will stay with the party, even if they hate theur guts. -have a goal that is broad enough that it doesn't drag you away from the story. -your character can be an asshole but you shouldn't be, if the player's say your character is a d*ck I recommend agreeing with them and letting your character get their comeupins.

[@BrianVaughnVA]

Oh I agree. I like a variety of people like Edge Lords, if you do them right.

[@jemtaylor3738]

Whenever I have an edgy character, I make them be haunted instead of an asshole. They seem like they are traumatized instead of chaotic and are pretty chill and kind.

[@masonray9881]

Double negative on the not being taken seriously thingy

[@an8strengthkobold360]

@@masonray9881 f*ck, that was a mistake that happened due to editing

[@masonray9881]

@@an8strengthkobold360 that’s okay buddy, happens to everyone.

[@RevokFarthis]

"I want to be the rogue that causes the problems for once" Have you ever considered being the magic user that causes the problems? Played properly; a wizard can cause much bigger, harder to resolve problems than a rogue ever could. Quick build: Ravenloft custom lineage "undead" Wizard, necromancer Pump stats: Con, Str, Cha (gotta be a bit MAD for this one) Neutral stat: Int Dump stats: Dex, Wis Your casting stat will be low priority, so avoid attack and save-or-suck spells, go for ones that give you utility, escape harm, or disposable minions. Btw, you are Skeletor. Do Skeletor things. Bonus points if you wear purple.

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

I put an undead skeleton centaur wizard in one of my campaigns as an NPC. The party only got the joke about it being "Skele-taur" when it started laughing at them in an screechy voice.

[@richyofthevillagers]

Godammit now I want to make Skeletor

[@kiarastardust]

i am making this

[@wisp_r]

I'm banned from playing Kenkus ever again. Our DM ruled that my Kenku's Mimicry trait could only be applied if my character has audibly heard someone else say the words I want to say before. I asked if I could at least say "yes" or "no" or any other common phrases but he said no. So I retaliated by communicating with all of his NPCs solely by screeching at them. So anyway, Pingu died an early death.

[@RelativelyBest]

That... makes no sense. o__O

[@oz_jones]

Noot noot :( I have an idea for a Kenku charscter but i would need to get more comfortable as a roleplayer to pull it off and not be obnoxious

[@fairystail1]

also just like.... most words anyone knows is words they have heard spoken at least once. Especially in a world where reading is way less common

[@theuncalledfor]

You should ban the DM from being your DM. He's _awful._

[@DH-xw6jp]

During a down time pay someone (like a teacher, priest, etc) to read you a dictionary. Boom, full vocabulary.

[@7llama770]

I’m banned from playing Druids because I accidentally skipped a month long survival section on a cold mountain by casting wind walk and just having us all fly up a sheer cliff side with it, and then feebleminding a boss that was supposed to be ran from and fought later. This Druid has caused a lot of crazy stuff, so my dm wants this character dead (won’t do crazy shit, but tries to put us in situations where he SHOULD die, but through ridiculous horseshit he just lives)

[@Allantitan]

Dm: a mysterious character shrouded in shadows is growing extremely angry that the Druid just won’t freaking die

[@7llama770]

@@Allantitan tbf that was an actual sideplot at one point lmao

[@kylethomas9130]

Sounds like a new DM, or just really unfamiliar with 5e druids.

[@scorpioperk1137]

My dm has a homebrew world (months of work and deep detail I will not get into) and if a character(s) caused too much damage to the point where the ruling bodies or powerful individuals took notice, then we could expect assassins... and not the stab you in the back from a dark alley kind, oh no, its the get sniped from half-a-mile away or the inn you are in conspicuously empty and- oh it exploded from several bombs while you were at the bar looking for people. We got lucky and caught the sniper (thank gods for hasted aaracokra monks) Moral of the story, actions have consequences

[@drakegrandx5914]

@@scorpioperk1137 Yeah but avoiding environmental hazards through a 3rd level spell is not the kind of action I would like to see consquences for.

[@BuffaloBaymax2187]

My DM said he is actively trying to kill my character (he's my brother and has to give me a hard time because reasons), so I threatened that if he does kill my character I will replace it with a Human Bard/Fighter named "Fiddy Copper" and will say ALL of my lines in rap (I am as white as mayonnaise in a blizzard so this won't end well for anyone). He has since banned this replacement character on principal

[@KendrykWynn13]

I love this whole scenario

[@SetzerII]

@@KendrykWynn13 you'll love hearing about 50 copper and Ludadrizzt.

[@GoAway-y3x]

As a black character with a high wisdom, I always use Chris Rock's line: 'Now you heard people say, 'now, I wouldn't do that shit if I was you...'." (from his bit "How not to get your ass kicked by the police") when trying to warn people of dumb ideas in-game.

[@ThePopeOfDrumIsland]

Can I steal your fiddy copper idea? cause that's 10/10

[@PsycopathToasterly]

Banned from playing wizards. several times ive played as wizards i eventually break the game by: - turning the monk into a land to air ballistic missile - destroyed economies by wildly fluctuating the value of coins - having so many portents that i just end up telling the dm no - creating 2k ft black holes of which the party is immune to - using science to destroy literally anything in the parties path theres more, but ya.... im a menace and rightfully not allowed anymore

[@gilemal1469]

I wasn't banned by DMs, but I stop playing wizard because I starts making encounters unfun for DMs. I once played a War Wizard with Hypnotic Pattern as a go-to strategy. There are numerous times I just end encounters on my first turn, which is usually pretty high up on the initiative count. So my party didn't even get to do anything.

[@Allantitan]

@@gilemal1469: *rolls up a new wizard character* Dam: *rolls some dice* as you walk into the tavern a random lightning bolt hits you doing 4,000 damage turning you into dust…make a new character

[@PsycopathToasterly]

@@gilemal1469 def can agree, one wizard i played was a paranoid and extremely skittish. got surprised and fireballed the room.... essentially subverting the dm's boss battle for that floor.

[@PsycopathToasterly]

@@Allantitan but then id make another wizard, unless given a reason why :P

[@AverageDunce]

Tbh just have a dagger crit hit at level 1 lol

[@an8strengthkobold360]

If you want to play a reluctant hero/knight in sour armor I recommend seeing if you can attach them to a more adventurous party member. Ie. Your gruff fighter doesn't want to help the town under attack by gnolls but your best freind the cleric really wants to and you can't let them get themself killed.

[@Allantitan]

That actually sounds like a good idea you can even change it so the cleric is your younger sibling and your parents would beat your character senseless (or worse) if anything happened to them

[@PlayfulOtter]

@@Allantitan I'm running a game right now for some friends and one of the players is a gruff half drow fighter who doesn't get himself involved with other people's problems and refuses to be called a hero. He has an NPC little sister (A Minotaur), long story, who he's been protecting and raising. She's a wide eyed innocent type who thinks heroes are just super awesome and just the coolest people in the world, so he keeps getting himself into heroic situations saving people, helping out orphans, giving to the poor, etc etc because he doesn't want to disappoint his little sister. I absolutely love his character concept, the would be edge lord who keeps doing good things because he wants to be a good role model for his little sister.

[@SupremeViola]

I had a halfling rogue who was this! Her little sister was a warlock with absurdly low WIS (can't remember the number off the top of my head, but it was low enough that she agreed to the pact without reading the fine print), and while my rogue absolutely hated wandering around outside of her home city, her sister *clearly* needed a babysitter before she signed something else without reading it first.

[@PlayfulOtter]

@@SupremeViola I love this idea so much I want to have a quiet life and a modest family with this idea.

[@doffy629]

Ha my kobold has 6 strength bow before my power

[@bodaciouschad]

The character who doesn't want to adventure can still *work.* It just takes extra effort to give them a different motive. Maybe they want to see the world, or have very specific interests like learning from the masters of the world, comepleting a pilgrimage, exploring specific ruins, returning home or completing a very specific quest so that they can return to their quiet life. Not everyone adventures til they die, so eventually every well written PC has to have goals outside of adventuring anyways. There is nothing wrong with starting out with a character who already has an idea of what "happily ever after" looks like to them. It can be their greatest weakness, or strength.

[@SupremeViola]

The pitfall with the reluctant adventurer is when the player puts the burden on the DM or the rest of the party to come up with reasons to keep your character around, intentionally or not. Every player is responsible for giving their character adequate motivation to stay in the game. Other characters can "sweeten the deal", but it's no one else's job in the party to convince you to play.

[@bodaciouschad]

@@SupremeViola well. Thats not really what I meant. The characters who are motivated to adventure for adventure's sake are boring AF as well- it's just a specific flavor of wanderlust. All I meant was that your character needs a *narratively compelling* motivation to adventure. Whether they are chasing their dreams, running with the pack, or from their past, the player needs to havr a plan A, but if they can think of something better or have second thoughts, they should be able to RP that they're not buying it.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

Ever since the incidence where I turned a gelatinous cube (that we could've outwalked at a brisk pace) into a steaming hot wave of acid using sodium hydroxide, I've been banned from playing the mad engineer trope. Especially if said mad engineer is a black dragonborn who's resistant to acid damage

[@korvincarry3268]

I have a character that would just love yours. I based him off one idea alone: addiction to acids.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

@@korvincarry3268 Not sure. My characters favorite gimmick was sodium hydroxide which turns into a base on contact with water

[@joanneb8711]

Sodium hydroxide is a base, not an acid.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

@@joanneb8711 Yea I know. And what do you think happens when you throw a clay pot full of it into a huge acidic gello? It neutralizes, heats up the gello and then our DM decided it explodes and covers everyone in acid

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Brian: "Why can't you let us play or special Necromancer lord with undead army?" Also Brian: "I'm so glad you banned that edgy character"

[@BrianVaughnVA]

(Do note there's commentary written that reflects the 'team' not so much me lol - but I do love Necromancers and I think some Edge Lords are dope, just not all of them)

[@nvfury13]

One of my players ran, many years ago, was a non-edgy (though tragic backstory and semi edgy “hunger for flesh” mechanic when damaged too much) Zombie Lord with an army of zombies. He was a shy, tragic Elizabethan romantic lead type who just happened to be undead.

[@BrianVaughnVA]

@@nvfury13 Just gotta say Nick that I never see "Elizabethan romantic" type characters ever.

[@leejohnson3270]

I never played dnd but I always wanted to play a childish character that just tries to hug everything (including the big bad and drake [dargons are a tad bit to scary... unless it's just a big lizard]) and if the creature is to mean they will use a bit of magic to make it more... friendly, like using charm spells or necromancy. Mainly because I'm the opposite of that exact type of person I'm supper mean and always play healers that runs away from the bad things (I also don't like hugs irl)

[@BoredTAK5000]

I had a character like this. She hugged an archdevil. I asked her to roll a persuasion check and set the DC to 25 (not 30 because it gets lonely in hell at least I think so) she rolled a 19 + 6 = 25 and now the party is friends with the devils daughter.

[@SexyTimeWithTaylor]

I would find the fastest way to murder off this character, while the idea is cute and fun to talk about It doesn't play well in a group. you as a player constantly trying to Hug enemies, town guards, or the big bad evil guy (BBEG) you would be jeopardizing not just your character but the characters of the other members of the party. as they have to expend spells and resources to keep your character alive in a conflict as you keep trying to charm something to hug it.

[@CrimsonFuqr]

Cringe, and blue pilled.

[@Konslufius]

Holy shit man, this is about to happen for me! First Kampagne and the DM allowed me to play me an Folivoran bard. A humanoid sloth race. Childish and open for hugs are literally my character traits!

[@samsturdi]

The world of Toril is far more violent than you realize lol.

[@loneartist4179]

So, funny story, since you mentioned a Drow Ranger with two swords and a panther. My first time playing D&D was last year, and I came in knowing nothing about the world or it's properties or any stories that were written. I never had access to the materials and I never had anyone to play with, until my brother, who was DM of my first game, asked me if I wanted to play, and I said yes. He said we would meet up at his house and he would help me character build since I was essentially clueless. When I showed up, he asked me what race I wanted to play and proceeded to hand me the player's handbook. I flipped through the pages and I chose a Moon Elf. Next, I chose my class, and I chose to be a Ranger who was a Beast Master. He had me choose my gear, and since I am personally drawn to bladed weapons and not so much bows, I chose two short swords. At this time, my brother was looking at my character sheet and then wrote down all the potential animals I could have as a animal companion and made me role a d6. It landed on three, which was what he had as a black panther, so, that was my animal companion. He started laughing a I got confused as to what was funny, then he broke the news to me that my character was very similar to a famous Drow Ranger with two swords and a black panther. However, since I had no knowledge of this and he literally made me role for the panther, he allowed me to play with my character throughout the whole campaign. The next campaign we did, he wasn't DM, but we got the idea to randomly roll for our characters. I got a Tiefling Druid, he's a Halfling Fighter, and so far the campaign has been a blast... When nobody calls out.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

Did you ever learn what that was in reference to?

[@mrshadowcristal]

@@galvanizeddreamer2051 Drizzt Do'urden's books are a classic.

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

@@mrshadowcristal Ah, thank you!

[@Rejistania]

A DM said that my trope of playing a foreign character all the time to compensate for my miserable social skills IRL is easy mode...

[@tal-tail1960]

Not a ban, but every time I pull out one of my go to characters, Crabara the crab obsessed illusionist mage, anyone who has played with her before has one of 2 reactions: "oh god" or "oh no" bc she's developed the reputation of being a cursed entity of chaos. Probably bc she's a total gremlin in game and her preferred form of fighting is intimidating with phantasmal force or ice knife+pact tactics

[@minimalbstolerance8113]

Please don't take this as an insult, but "Crabara" honestly sounds like a She-Ra villain. You can't tell me that name would look out of place on a toy shop shelf next to Scorpia and Catra.

[@tal-tail1960]

@@minimalbstolerance8113 I absolutely love that visual now hehe

[@austinmatsche9466]

My players banned me, the DM, for making truly horrific villains that were meant to be hated. This happened after creating a necrophilic lich who ended up TPKing the party. This is the same party that seduced an elder brain dragon and befriended Hitler Medusa

[@ZyroShadowPony]

I would ban you but at the same time clap for the creativity

[@korvincarry3268]

You have such good ideas though! Now make a villain thats creating an infectious concoction that will cause all who drink it to have their brains become sentient itself and grow rasping claws that start scratching at the inside of their skull as theyre still alive, begging for the end. Have them try to poison towns water supplies and the brains become an army at the beck and call of the big bad. I have banned myself from playing horror campaigns, in case this basic idea gives you any indication. I want my players to have fun, not vomit.

[@austinmatsche9466]

@@korvincarry3268 I like that idea quite a bit. The next arc in my campaign I plan on the party entering a kingdom of animated and sentient objects that euthanize those not like them. I might have the party get caught and forced to drink the water you mentioned as punishment for entering and they need to find the cure before it is too late. I can spin the water idea so many ways... I love it

[@korvincarry3268]

@@austinmatsche9466 ooooohhh, a really dark twist on the "beauty and the beast" furniture people, now i need to add an old abandoned castle in which everything is either a mimic or sentient object lmao. Lets play a game of "how many doorknob curses does it take to turn back the party?"

[@Ishlacorrin]

@@austinmatsche9466 Is that a FNAF reference?

[@luxuryballer8291]

The best way to play evil imo is for even people that know the character really well to sometimes forget they are evil. I usually play them charismatic or at least kind until the act is no longer required and they pull a dagger or something.

[@glitch2278]

When the rogue player had to be a human artificer, it just made me stop and think, "But the artificer armorer can make a stealth suit."

[@erikschaal4124]

I think my group would appreciate me not playing a highly diplomatic paladin who can just talk the enemies into surrendering. Especially when another member of the group has bloodlust.

[@MCinmystileESP]

One time I was playing as a chemist, and I asked my DM if I could have the ability to create metals. He said that I couldnt create noble metals (Gold, silver, platinum etc.) and I was okay with that. I could also shoot acid. We started playing and we encountered some badies to wich I said, I create Cesium in his mouth. When the dm asked the reason I showed them a video of what alkali metals and water do... wich is basically explode. He asked me to never play a chemist again. :3

[@sarahlevine776]

My brother banned me from playing a homebrew race because he felt he wasn't experienced enough as a DM, even though he helped me balance it so that it would be fair. I was okay with it. I'm new to the game.

[@westenplatt179]

Small races, I used to always play small races, dwarf, fairy, gnome, pixie, ect. They just got tired of my riding other pc & npcs, my favorite was my blink spider familiar as a fairy wizard. Currently playing a gunslinger-fighter/gunsmith-artificer wolfkin, and am having fun being the problem solver for once.

[@theworldstoryteller1197]

I love playing a Kender! I played it so well that, after nearly TPKing the party, whenever I started to say something the IMMEDIATE response was 'grab the kender'!

[@ThistlesGarden]

I also love playing Kender! My 10-year ban on playing them (for playing them too well) was recently lifted, but unfortunately our DM's unpredictable work schedule has put that campaign on hiatus.

[@firstnamelastname7244]

Whenever someone brags that they made their party hostile to them by "playing kender too well," run as far away from them as you can. Never play an RPG with someone who is proud of being disruptive.

[@theworldstoryteller1197]

@@firstnamelastname7244 In my defense, it was only a one-shot, otherwise I would've toned it down.

[@MikeAsbestos]

One of my first characters when getting back into TTRPGs was a reluctant adventurer. But it never bothered anyone, because instead of stubbornly saying "no, I don't want to do the thing," it was "dang, I really wish that (advancing the story) didn't require me to do the thing" He was basically just super green and hadn't really adjusted to the idea of constant violence. He would try to knock people out if possible, got squeamish when anything intelligent was killed, and talked way too much. He was annoying, but in an endearing way. And it left a TON of room for character growth, which is great. Now he's a grizzled vet who has experienced death several times and has the scars to prove it.

[@sapphie132]

Also in the "evil character that gets a redemption arc" category. It's what I _always_ end up playing whenever I make an evil character. And most of my characters start out evil.

[@GamingMasterAnthony]

I banned myself from attempting to have my rouge steal the final boss’s weapon mid swing because i rolled a nat 20. Before hand the DM just laughed and said, go for it, but if you fail your character will lose a limb. When I got the nat 20 he was speechless. Don’t want to ruin that memory

[@angrydragonslayer]

I have been banned from being a capitalist In two in-game years, i went from 5 GP to clearing out the inventory of all airship builders (and floating island manufacturers plus any other way to fly for extended periods of time) with less than half of my fortune And then i did similar economic shenanigans twice more before being banned

[@o.5command]

Anything evil and specifically Wizard/Bladsinger. Specifically because I did an AC 30-32 with resistances to everything and counter spell and dispell magic.

[@scorpioperk1137]

Did this. it took Power Word Kill from the BBEG at the final battle (counter spell failed me) to finally put me down

[@iBloodxHunter]

I'm so salty Bladesinger is locked to Wizard and Elf. I've always loved the way Dragon Age Origins did the Arcane Warrior class and having a Divine Soul Sorc with Bladesinger is the perfect representation of that.

[@scorpioperk1137]

@@iBloodxHunter talk to your dm, cause mine agreed with the 'locked to elf' was a bit too much and allowed us to choose whatever race we wanted

[@iBloodxHunter]

@@scorpioperk1137 I AM the DM. 😥

[@scorpioperk1137]

@@iBloodxHunter welp. Its your game. Modify the rules. Or you can be evil and introduce health potion mimics.

[@rebaxbayushi577]

Sorry for the essay, I hope it'll be interesting for some of you. Reluctant heroes can be interesting characters if played right. I played in an homebrew 3.5 campaing based on the Final Fantasy universe (more exactly, the FFXIV universe adapted by a new DM) My character was a Miqo'te sorcerer who owned a brewery and never wanted to go adventuring. She was chosen by the crystals and was bound to her party against her will. If she didn't follow them, the cristal in her hand would kill her and chose someone else. So she took a day to prepare her departure and follow them begrudgingly. It took her some time to accept the fact she had to be there, but after 4 levels, she was the most motivated to get the jobdone quickly and efficiently. She wanted to go back to her brewery as fast as possible and started to take her mission seriously. Reluctant heroes need to evolve with the plot. They can't stay reluctant untill the end as they must understand one very important thing : The faster they take things seriously, the faster it'll be over and they'll be back to their old life. Do not always complain, but show your reluctance with actions. The party is arguing about something for 10 minutes without taking your opinion into account? Then start advancing on your own wthout going too far to be in danger. They'll have to follow you and take a decision. Will they pick on you? Yes, but you're already there aganist your will so you don't care and they clearly don't care about you since they do not listen to you. Just don't go too far to put everyone in trouble, everyone will hate that. Something else you can do is, as soon as something close to your old life happen in the campaing, be really excited about it. My character, for instance, was really happy everytime we came to a bazar or an inn, or any time we ended up selling stuff as she was bargaining, something she liked to do as a merchant selling her own alcool. Those moment who made her remember her previous life help the other players and characters understand what she left behind to follow them and what she wanted to go back to. It might not seem like something really important, but it really leave an impression on people when they see someone really passionate about something and understand they had to drop that passion to follow them, and it put a new light on the effort that character makes to follow them. Is that character reluctant? Yes, but she has a reason to be when she's forced to do something highly dangerous when all she want is produce something and sell it. Every concept can be well made if you do it correctly. The reluctant hero might be a hard one to pull of correctly, but when it's done right, it'll leave a huge impression on the party, especialy if that character end up dying like mine did against the BBEG. She litteraly took the shot tha would have killed the cleric and was desintagrated, really accepting her fate in the end and saving a friend she learnt to respect and love with all of her heart and forever abandonning her old life. That's the only time one of my character died and made my party cried around the table. Was my character hated at the start of the campaing? Yep. But in the end, her death is the second most remembered moment of that campaing, right next the or barbarian litteraly beheading the BBEG to avenge her friend, looking at the party and saying "Let's make sure her brewery prosper, she really loved that place."

[@gpgordon12]

My dm has banned me from playing any race that doesn’t mesh well with the class I pick. Like a half orc tempest cleric of an elven ocean god, or a Kenku wizard that can only cast verbal spells they have heard casters use before.

[@matthewgallaway3675]

That second one sounds cool

[@agentchaos9332]

Deep Sashelas? yeah, lore-wise it's hard to believe that any of the Seladrine would grant an orc Cleric spells, no matter how devout they are. Not to mention Gruumsh would probably smite them

[@SneklySnek]

there is a few types of characters that I now try to avoid playing, but the main one was 'logical' characters, purely because, I am too good at coming up with simple solutions and plans which often would often be that simple that the DM failed to take it into account, such as using a rope to bypass descend down what was supposed to be a set piece hole in the ground and avoid an entire dungeon which turned out the DM had spent 2 whole months making into a megadungeon which was supposed to take the party at least 2 sessions minimum to explore and get through instead took half a session. and one thing that the DM Actually banned me from was playing gimmick & joke characters, purely because the rest of the Table would love them way, way too much and I would end up accidentally hijacking the entire tone and sometimes plot of the campaign turning what was supposed to be a horror or mystery setting into a constant walking joke with nonstop bee/Snow/whatever Puns

[@johnmcconnell7052]

Banned from playing a ranger because my trope is to min max the ranger so they hit everything or become the guy who dodges point blank attacks due to high ac.

[@Karagianis]

11:38 TBH I can be a bit of a cheeky git at times. If my DM banned me from Purple Tieflings, my next character would either be a red Tiefling, or..... An Amethist dragonborn! You made me to change ONE thing, but not both! LOL

[@flyingturret208thecannon5]

Custom, homemade system we’ve dubbed Is Insanity a ___ Trait. Based on a book called Is Insanity a Racial Trait, we kinda did our own thing. I’m banned in my second campaign, named IICT, from anything magic based.

[@magenstaffarts]

I am DM-mandated not allowed to play tabaxi monks ever again. I drove my DM up a wall with how absurdly quick mine could move, and how much damage she was doing. I expect that he's also going to ban me from ever touching Wild Magic Sorcerer once he tastes the Heightened Spell + Bend Luck combo.

[@instantpurple1282]

My personal rule is: “No broody edgelords” So I played a Chaotic Good Rogue that worked with the party for coin, and to mess with people (that deserved it) for fun. We shelved this character because he was too strong, but I loved playing him.

[@theuncalledfor]

A _Rogue._ Was _too strong._ What? How bad were the other players at building a functioning character?

[@instantpurple1282]

@@theuncalledfor A tale of poor DM decisions of weapons and a few unwise house rules of the lucky feat. There was only one other player, who got jailed for defending himself against a Wizard. I pillaged this dude's tower and got away with some questionable items that shouldn't be in the city. Also, I must've had some plot armor or something because I could not fail anything even without the lucky feat.

[@Theroha]

I think a good edgy character has to either have an edgy backstory or an edgy personality but not both. The most entertaining characters under the trope are the edgy backstory kid who turned into a comedian and the guy with a supporting family who is edgy because he wants to be seen as cool and it just flops when you actually find out that his war horse started as the foal his parents bought him when he was 7 because he wanted to be a big strong knight some day

[@allhailralsei]

@Theroha, i know im late to this, but is it okay if my character has a kinda-to-pretty edgy backstory, but has a toxic positivity-sunshine and rainbows-i love to bake bread with my husband personality (the dm is fine with it. im sorry if my question is stupid)

[@Theroha]

@@allhailralsei Hey, whatever character you have fun with. If your DM gives the ok, then have fun. My first serious character was basically sold into slavery by his own mother for a political alliance, and his philosophy on life could be summed up as a cheerful "life sucks and there's nothing you can do about it so let's have a drink".

[@allhailralsei]

@@Theroha first off thanks, second off thats a great character concept!

[@that-1-guywith-a-name411]

I’ve never actually played it but I told the two people I play with (they take turns dm/dmpc-ing) about this: thri-kreen 2 main arms holding shields, 2 sub arms holding rapiers, dual wielding feat. In my defense I wasn’t planning to play it I just wanted to see how broken I could make a character. They both still threatened to kill me if I actually tried playing it though. I have begun planning my counter attack!!!

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

This is a direct challenge.

[@that-1-guywith-a-name411]

@@Egalitariat-likesecretariat A challenge to WHAT my dear friend?

[@1sonictheghog]

If only the sub arms could use rapiers, can only hold light weapons

[@that-1-guywith-a-name411]

@@1sonictheghog Oh are rapiers not light? I guess short swords work instead

[@brighamrichins3]

My next character will be introduced sitting silently in the shadows of a tavern. I wear a cloak that partially obscures my features, but the party can see my eyes staring almost sightlessly at them, as my mug of ales sits at the table untouched.they try to converse with me, but I respond in moans and grunts, with the occasional head nod. I follow the party, although at a slow methodical like gait, despite the fact I just kinda shove chairs over that are in the way. I walk with an obvious limp, in strait lines, my hunched back becoming apparent. We get into a fight, and my character does not dodge blows, just absorbing the damage, eventually dying. That’s when out of the hunched back comes my necromancer kobold, reanimating one of the dead enemies, and climbing onto its back, wrapping the both of us in the long dark robes. My squeaky voice comes out “Please don’t tell anybody.”

[@adamtomsik5570]

I ended up banning myself from playing evil characters. I had a character who had a god complex and a goal to take over the world using mechanically reanimated undead and a new-found trick to kill gods. Problem is, the entire party is generally directionless, and instead of the good paladin or other religious and good characters keeping him on a leash, they let him run wild, until it reached the point I was actually achieving some goals and they acted more as lackies. TL;DR I banned myself from evil characters, instead of redeeming and being made good by a good party, I ended up turning all of them evil

[@stormy_person7530]

It's not so much banned, but I'm trying to branch out a bit from my usual playstyle. I haven't really played all that many games yet, but I have a tendency to focus solely on creating a frontline gish (or gish-adjacent) character - so far I've played as a paladin, a hexblade, a blood hunter, and a swords bard. I can't help it, I just love the reliability of martial classes combined with the utility and variety of spellcasters! Technically, I _did_ plan on making a gunslinger fighter without any spell slots, but my DM and I planned to make them into a "mage marksman" with magical _bullets_ and maybe some time-based magical items since we have both just gotten into Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina, and we thought making a character based on Der Freischutz would be cool. Also, that campaign died after a single session, so it didn't work out. Currently, I'm planning on my next character being either a Barbarian with zero spellcasting ability or a sorcerer or wizard who specializes solely in fire spells (dragon soul sorcerer or evocation wizard).

[@GreekPele]

At my main tablei’m not allowed to play any Royal character no matter which one of us is DM. That’s because i had 2 characters that broke the game. The first was a Paladin Queen who’s patron was herself. The second one (which was stronger) was a king from a foreign land who was an Artificer. And because he was from a different dimension i made guns and other modern stuff in a medieval campaign, i also used his royal status as cheat code to know about almost anything.

[@Synfang]

I personally have never specifically been banned from any character type/trope. However, in the last campaign I was involved in, the entire table was collectively banned from pulling the animal trainer act, as the barbarian, bard and rogue all amassed at least 3 pets each during the campaign, all of which had as much HP as some of the player characters themselves did when they started the campaign at lvl 5 (party hit lvl 10 when this ban was put in place). This absolutely sucked for me, as I had just finished making a new character who had a pseudodragon familiar and could summon aberrations, putting me in violation of the rule the DM put in place (no more than one pet per player; he counted the aberration as a second despite it not being full-time). This came at the same time as a bunch of other rule changes that, while necessarily nerfing other player characters, simultaneously blocked me from getting the edge I needed to be on equal footing with them (all other player characters except one were ridiculously OP thanks to homebrew and I didn't want to be the runt in the group), so basically everyone was in opposition to it, but I was the most vocal about it. DM made the jerk decision to, instead of normally walking back the decision, gaslight me in front of everyone as though what I complained about was never happening to begin with, so I promptly left the campaign and refused to even speak about DnD at all with this DM for the next 2-3 months.

[@theuncalledfor]

Leaving that campaign was a good call.

[@SilverInugami]

My forever DM banned Kender after the time that another player insisted my Paladin should no longer count as Lawful Good because my Paladin was upset at the Kender. My Paladin's sword, which happened to have been a gift from hia mentor, was taken and sold by the Kender. This upset my Paladin because he absolutely adored his deceased mentor and it was the only momento he had of him. The player didn't even ask out of character if it was ok with me the player to have my character "borrowed" from. Not only did the session end because the guy wouldn't let anyone else get a word in or move on, he harassed the DM for over a week about how a character can't be ANY good alignment if they got mad at a kender. DM ended up blocking the guy and retconning the stolen sword incident into being just nightmare my character had after eating dodgy food instead of something that actually happened.

[@bumblehoney7206]

One of my dms has banned me from playing bards, I have a personal mission to play one from every subclass

[@featuredsmile4755]

Any Form of Spell Caster with More than One Trapping Spell Reason: This Was my First Time Playing Dnd and Was Playing a Wizard. Since it was my First Time i just Picked Random Spells that looked Cool. So after A Few Sessions we Get To the BBEG who is a Old Hag and Some Ice Orc Like Things. After a Few Fireballs The Old Hag turns Invisible So i Cast Web to see if she Tries to get out And Spot her. I then Realised that i had Trapped EVERY Ice Orc and The Old Hag in a Web. I the Proceeded to use Black Tentacles and Wall of Fire So even if the Orcs got through the Web they would be Badly Damaged. Then I Decided to use Wall of Force to slowly Start to Crush Every Orc there around 10 Left. So Yeah i was Never allowed to play A Trapper of Any Kind After That.

[@phelps6205]

I think you might have been concentrating on more than one spell, which would make all that synergy between spells impossible, at least from a single character.

[@Cellybeans]

Wow That sure is a lot of Concentration spells all at the same time

[@featuredsmile4755]

@@phelps6205 I don't Know as I Said I was Playing for the 1st Time and The Dm Probably forgot About them Being Concentration

[@anthonyrenli8740]

Things DM's have told me NEVER AGAIN for: Tortle Monk named after an impressionist painter who talks about his cousins and their were-rat forster father. Halfling Divination Wizard with the Lucky Feat (I earned that one the hard way) Bard based on Weird Al Yankovic 3.5 Half Elf Bard that abused splat-books to get a +58 to diplomacy at level 9 and had a calm emotions bardic inspiration effect (from one of those abusable splat books) that was a will save vs his diplomacy skill check.

[@kayq3231]

I've banned myself from edgy/overly tragic back stories. they can have bad things that happened in their lives but edge and tragedy will not be their entire personality.

[@buzznat20]

My group played a battle royale one shot a few months ago, and I played a Mountain Dwarf barbarian who wiped everyone but the Druid out within five rounds. Even then, the Druid only survived because he always managed to stay just out of my melee range, and his only ranged cantrip did poison damage (which mountain dwarves have resistance to) and required a Con save (my second highest stat). It ended up being a draw because neither of us could damage the other, as I didn’t have any ranged attacks.

[@brofelixthecat8233]

I think I saw this thread! Mine is- Pyromaniac spellcaster. I tried melting someone’s face off, and it didn’t end well. 😂

[@barongeoffrey75]

for who ?

[@exquisitetoast3859]

So although I'm not a forever DM I am considered the best DM in my group, add this to the fact that I am a professional writer and to the fact that I watch far to much anime and cartoons for my own good and you get someone who always plays the villain, sometimes I betray the party, sometimes I'm actually playing the bbeg (DMing). I'm told I always pull it off well but I've decided to play a wildfire druid pixie (CG) that for once won't be the villain. Unrelated but once I did try to play a character that just wanted to help people but wasn't great at working with others, now I didn't think this would be a problem as I was just going the play them as kinda quiet and detached funnily enough just like their backstory the party misunderstood them and tried to get them to reveal "their inner workings" by purposefully plotting against my character secretly, so my character did become the villain vowing to rid this world of those as evil as the party

[@SeanClaudeVanQuam]

I, a player, after playing a kender in a friend's game, banned everyone else from ever playing kender if that person was the DM. He made hidden rolls and forced pvp stealing which was toxic for the group.

[@chaos_mage6226]

Had a friend who only ever played elven wizards. Once he played a cleric, of the same noble line as literally every other character of his. Whenever we start a new campaign, we groan as he takes the spellcaster, blocking us out of playing one for the sake of party balance.

[@jamesfairweather372]

I am banned from playing the evil character. I use a lot of logic when it comes to the evil character archetype. They come across as a normal person that tries to do the right thing but always goes about it the wrong way. The other type of evil character usually ends up pointing out the flaws in the logic of "let's be good all the time". Due to that, they end up dipping deeper and deeper into evil. The main issue isn't that they don't work well with the party. The main issue is that the character comes across as "the player is a serial killer and is just using D&D as a way to not kill the person he has hidden in the basement." So now I am stuck as the forever DM because people love my evil characters and how they can see both the "why" and "how" the evil character exist, and it creates a more creative and unforgettable story. One of my favorite evil characters ran with a party of was Kyrius. Kyrius was a tiefling warlock (Patron: King in Yellow) who could see the future. The future that Kyrius wanted to happen was to have the world end through elderitch horrors, the issue is that party was full of lawful good clerics and paladins. How did he fit in, you ask? All of these good things that the party wanted to do led to the end of the world. Save that child? He has a child in the future, that has a child, that has a child, that has a child that becomes a cultist. The other evil thing that I use to do was cast "suggestion" and tell the person to say to the 10th person they see if they have seen the yellow sign. This allowed for me to create a cult fairly easily.

[@lagartopunkarra]

I'm playing a mute character that can communicate verbally with 20 pre-recorded phrases (basically a Kenku without mimicry) in a Curse of Strahd campaign. My DM was about to ban me from doing this, but after the first two sessions, he let me continue with this trope because I played it really well, sticking to the limitation of not being able to speak normally and adding a lot of personality with non-verbal actions.

[@samuelaraujomedeiros6682]

I love playing characters who are always doing shifty things for whatever reason. They don't need to be rogues and not even thieves, but they are always trying to find slick (and usually questionable) manners to deal with their or the party's problems. For example, I was playing this shadow sorcerer who was also a physician and anatomist. One of his purposes in life was to improve medicine. So, how did he decide to approach this? He became a grave robber, of course! He would dig up corpses, dissect them and then bury the remains, all of that in the middle of the night.

[@fat_bird6969]

0:44 as a DM I agree it's hard to work it in with out taking away player choice.

[@ashtonfox2264]

I was banned from running a serial killer after I ran a murder mystery where children were being killed. They found half frozen bodies cut up in the snow and body parts were being stolen from the bodies in order to craft a spell stitched Golem. The gnome wizard, who was the murdered, was trying to find a house for the soul of his dead wife. He needed children for them to be the right size and used his wife's dead head for the head. And in true Frankenstein fashion, his own monster turned against him in horror once she realized what he had done to bring her back. The party then, had to decide what to do with the dead now alive again wife.

[@IdgaradLyracant]

This is why I have the players roll their characters months before I start a campaign because I write the campaign to fit what they want to play. I've had campaigns of all mages, druids, Juicers (Rifts fans), and weird combos like an entire acting troupe of level 0 classless joes. The only hard rule is no alignment conflicts, not worth the in-fighting. Good+Neutral, fine, Evil+Neutral, fine, not dealing with Evil+Good. The terminology I used for 20 years is Fixers: (Fixed points I want them to end up on for the main story line), usually 5-10 per campaign Bridges: Story beats to take them from where they are, to lead them to a fixer Tie Offs: Dead ends that I can write off and time lapse them back to the main story line. When I plan a campaign I draft a 4-5 page main story line based on what they rolled for characters and have a kit of various Bridges and Tie Offs that I can throw at them as needed. Since I run more or less an open world approach to a campaign it works pretty well. And since we are 'Theatre of the Mind' players I don't have to over complicate things with mountains of maps and 'clutter'.

[@ethalydon8888]

Nearly every party I DMed had some kind of "lived in the woods, isn't used to talk to people but is a mechanical combat monster"-character. The player is not good at or doesn't want to get too much into social interactions AND didn't have the points to buy skills because everything went into distance-acupuncture. This happened especially in the german system "Das schwarze Auge" (4. ed) where bows were op af. I don't ban those chars now but if I see them coming, I motivate the player to give them more goals/traits/personality.

[@angelaoneal5169]

Many moons ago, I played a Dryad Assassin Thief named Velvet (basically stolen from a David Eddings series) in Forgotten Realms. At the end of that campaign, she was changed into a vampire by Strahd (we ended up in Ravenloft somehow). From there she moved to Shadowrun where she was a vampire, but I honestly can't remember what class, but probably similar. Then she jumped into Vampire the Masquerade. Same character through technically four different realms. That was when I first roleplayed. Now I purposely make very different characters. I have a Goliath Barbarian/Cleric named Kuori Olavi in one campaign; a Dhampir Bloodhunter named Alucard was in another campaign, but was replaced by a Shadar-Kai College of Spirits Bard named Ravin Ulshana; a Bloodhunter/Cleric Water Genasi named River Storm in another; A blood domain Cleric/Paladin Kalashtar in another and, finally a Fallen Aasimar Grave Domain Cleric named Tural Crultan in another campaign (I'm very busy). I try to make them all different because I like to expand on my knowledge of the various races and class types. There are SO many to choose from.

[@MechbossBoogie]

I was banned from being an item crafter in Pathfinder. Wizard with Leadership and a wizard cohort, valet familiars on both, all the crafting feats (including the one that lets more than one person work on the same item). I was making up to 4000g worth of magic items per day, was sharing spells between the two wizards for their spellbooks, and was honestly kind of broken. Utility spells on the cohort, buffing and battlefield control on the main. Party gave me all the loot because I would turn around and double its value in the form of gear and upgrades for everyone. I was a walking magic shop. It ended up evening out, because the DM at the time had no idea how to set a proper encounter level. 200 goblins at level 4 is not good dungeon design (CR 13 according to the math). I get the concept of if they have the resources for it they should use it, but the DM is the one who decided they would have that as a resource and everything had an army of goblins at their beck and call. The BBEG, if you could call it that, had control of an entire world and its resources and was pouring all of that into taking other worlds. He was always trying to force an epic battle with every battle. I wouldn't have played that character (those characters?) if he wasn't always about pitting us against things that were always so far above us that I had to pull a miracle out of my prison wallet just to get the party out alive. And it felt like it was always on me to get us out, because none of the other players ever had to deal with anything like that in their lives. Every trap was a custom made thing that dealt instant death levels of damage, just killed you outright, would grab you by the ankles and cut you off at the shin, the hallway would tip ass over teakettle and dump the party into a vat of acid, or something else like that. And it was always the kind of thing where none of it made any sense why it was there. So, when I say I did everything in my power to make sure the party got out alive I meant it. Your boots, by the time I was done with them, would leave no tracks or scent, gave you a 10 foot boost to your speed, made you comfortable via the endure elements spell, and eventually allowed you to walk on water or any surface of liquid and came with acid resist 30. The price tag we won't talk about. Everyone had invisibility and fly potions in case they got separated and I couldn't cast it on them. My strings of pearls of power grew longer every day. Eventually I had so many that I could cast spells until my voice got raw and still have enough spell slots left to recharge a staff charge and make a magic item.

[@hunterfowler8322]

I'm not allowed to play as alchemists, conjurors, or necromancers. It's ...all the reasons you can think of. The alchemist's last straw came from spending weeks irl to spread alchemical firebombs throughout a capital city then holding it hostage when the king tried to strongarm the party after a...particularly nasty bar fight involving a bunch of off-duty guards and a mix between pepper-bombs,the terrible laughter spell, and a drunk gnome with a very inappropriately shaped "blugeoning" staff. I miss that campaign.

[@crushcreate1461]

I'm banned from playing Intelligence characters. I have played two wizards and broken the campaign both times. Both of them Divination Wizards by the way. The first was in an evil campaign where I ended up sacrificing the souls of the rest of the party for a Ring of Three Wishes. (The players were cool with it as we knew we were all evil characters and about the Ring being the end goal. We figured most of us would end up dead anyway.) The second was in The Tyranny of Dragons game where I wound up breaking the economy through a loophole, turning an Ancient White Dragon into a mouse and dropping it into the bag of devouring, and single handedly slaying the leader, second in command, and 10/24 wizards working on a ritual to summon Tiamat.

[@ZyroShadowPony]

The character doing evil things to fix the world. Mainly because its just a rule my dm has so im stuck wuth a pure neutral character just on the verge of tiptoing over the line of evil. He emotionally abused a naive pixie, handicapped a prison inmate, threw a heavy book at the pixie after a harmless prank and tortured a goliath for directions to an arena. Context is important but it doesnt change the fact this is the closest i can get to "not evil technically"

[@wyattfrye8262]

3:30 I too am also playing evil turning, or trying to turn into a good character. It’s more challenging when you’re a rogue/bard vampire that’s acting two face with a group of chaotic neutrals. My dm has banned me from picking up the aberrant dragonmark feat for future characters, because my fiendish warlock rolled lower then 10 with his d100’s 3 times, and became really difficult to kill with combat prowess, firesoul, and the beefy free 40 extra hp

[@kylethomas9130]

0:59 Currently having am issue with one of my current campaigns, party members keep making inane decisions, and my character who literally has the lowest intelligence modifier in the group, comes out as the sharpest tool in the shed.

[@landongibbs8678]

Not me but one of my friends, he ALWAYS plays the EXACT SAME CHARACTER. An orc pirate barbarian, same name, same idea, he never changes it up. He has left, or almost left multiple campaigns for the following reasons: Not being allowed to use a gun, not being allowed to have 16 AC whilst not wearing armor on his chest, and not being able to have infinite ammo on his gun that did 3d8 damage. He's banned from playing that character in my campaigns.

[@RevokFarthis]

Not allowed to play Wizards in any game that is a high level one-shot, or where we can expect to get access to spells above 5th level. This ban came after a one-shot where we were supposed to fight a pantheon of gods, and usurp them. I avoided the DM's round-1 attempts at TPK's, then proceeded to one-shot both Ares and Zeus.

[@mindassassin]

"If he saw it he found it." That logic checks out.

[@crashedwin]

Every time i lose a character or we start a new campaign i switch it up a bit, but im partial to the edgelord who learns to be a friend and has a heart of gold

[@Roosauec]

Not necessarily banned from playing this, but no matter how wholesome or lighthearted the backstory is for my character, they always end up being played like horror movie monsters. I have a Barbarian who plays like Jason Voorhees. I have a Fighter who plays like 2003 Clone Wars Grievous. I have a Tortle Sorcerer who plays like Godzilla. I have two Rogues. The first plays like Predator, the second plays like Scarecrow from Batman. And my Wizard could potentially be the BBEG in any given campaign since he's a Lawful Neutral Necromancer. Edit: what's really bad is that I have three tragic backstories, and only one of them is a Rogue's. Edit 2: I also have a Cleric and a Warlock that I haven't played yet, but knowing my luck, the Former would play like Terminator, and the latter would probably play like Albert Wesker.

[@ThePopeOfDrumIsland]

If you're going to play "the reluctant hero" you can do it without relying on the dm just give yourself the backstory that you're now reluctantly adventuring for whatever reason you can come up with

[@TheMystogrigen]

My friend and I were banned from being Jigzaw. We would sneak into a room and set up these rubegoldberg finaldestination and SAW inspired events where someone would either die or an event would be ruined. And ultimately someone else would be framed for it. According to the DM and the rest of the table, it was freaking hilarious and cool the first three times. And then it became boring and irritating. Since while everyone was doing a long rest, the rogue and I (bard/??? can't remember) were burning spell slots for silence (until we remembered about sleep poison). While they were long resting, we were spending almost an hour IRL doing all sorts of perception/dex rolls/saves AND explaining/arguing with the DM about our plans. That campaign ended up being a unanimous vote for derailing and improving it.

[@sarahjustsarah7276]

i’m currently playing a high elf cleric who very recently found out that she is royalty, downside is the Tyrant who killed the rest of her family is currently ruling her kingdom… which we are currently in… and he knows who she is… and she’s a squishy pure healer (except inflict wounds i love that spell). good thing is our DM gave us a universal disguise kit that gives us 14 disguises a day.

[@pLanetstarBerry]

I have banned myself from playing any h*rny characters. Mostly because I suck at flirting on purpose and I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable at the table. So all of my previous characters have either been ace in some way, already married, or grieving a lover who passed on. Thankfully only one player at my current table was dissapointed I wasn't gonna play a h*rny bard, and said dissapointment faded with each session. It's been fun playing a high charisma character where the joke is less "lol, your character got laid" and more "lol, that shield Guardian who thinks its a wizard liked your music so much it wants to kidnap you to be its familiar."

[@lordbiscuitthetossable5352]

My hot take is that games of 2 to 3 characters are basically ideal. You get to experience the world and have a really strong team dynamic without the bloat of the 4/5 man party. We just put up with larger numbers because we want to socialise, not because it makes the game any better. My trope we banned: Didn't work in practice, but we basically banned Force characters in star wars because they were meant to be rare; and that without that ban any lost characters would probably be replaced with them. Didn't work though as the next player immediate brought a force sensitivity tree (the rule is we couldn't start as one) and the GM strangely didn't inhibit it. It definitely negatively impacted that character however since after the bullshit he put me through with the last character; I *wasn't* going repeat that bollocks again of putting up with a character that just *wanted revenge*, basically didn't count for anything since he was always off on his own side quests so a party with him was basically, always a man down.

[@drakegrandx5914]

"Purple" tieflings specifically because, due to Roll20, they are basically the new Drizzt.

[@erickchad]

Long story but it’s good. I’m not longer allowed to play a blaster type of warlock. Our first campaign we played was Curse of Strahd. I played a pact of the fiend warlock and it started off ok and we made a decent team for a first time really playing through and fleshed out story. While my character Rodney Toegold (Rod for short) was completing small tasks for his patron Belial, Asmodeous was taking notice and boy did he have big plans for Rod. Rod was totally ok because the extra power and abilities he was receiving was exactly what he wanted and he could never get enough. Halfway through the campaign the DM and me agreed it would be interesting to betray the party as an end twist. Rod tried to be slightly annoying and write speeches that almost sounded like he was a Strahd sympathizer, but would make it look like he would sacrifice himself to keep the party going in tricky spots. After we defeated Strahd all we had left to do was the ritual to remove his power. Rod was selected to perform the last part of the ritual and instead he used his wand given to him from Asmodeous to absorb the power of Vampyr which would give Rod 6 levels and would be the final task to give Rod the power he wanted but he would no longer the true evil inside of him took control and as the party realized their happily ever after was ruined. Asmodeous turned Barovia into the 9th plane of hell and we ended the campaign right there. Everyone was mad and that’s how I’m not allowed to play a caster warlock anymore. We recently started the Ravenloft campaign which picks up shortly after the events of the 1st campaign and they only felt comfortable with me playing a cleric. Also when Rod absorbed Vampyr and turned completely evil I had the DM play Amadeus and yelled Asmodeous over the song which they absolutely hated. Ps we’re all friends and we’re all good. We laugh about it every time it’s brought up.

[@kyleward3914]

I can't believe I'm not banned from playing gnomes yet. I always give them unusually long names I'm lucky if I can pronounce consistently, much less anyone else at the table.

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

Had a DM ban me from playing Druid after a "minor" moment where I Wildshaped into a 12-Headed Cryohydra in an epic game and then proceeded to cast Earthquake. 12 times.

[@agentchaos9332]

I feel like banning something for being OP makes no sense if it's epic level play. Your character SHOULD be overpowered if you're past level 20

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

More because I trivialized multiple encounters. That was the clincher

[@TheMemo659]

I have a trope I've re-used several times for one shots or spur of the moment campaigns. Int dump stat human fighter with almost no pre campaign memories. Back story is waking up under a tree with the side of his head essentially caved in and no memory of what had happened. Preferably, this is where the party finds him; In a confused state under a tree barely alive. His name is Munglorp Smumf, or so he assumes, since his ONLY vague memory is the phrase "It's MILORD SMITH" then a flash of pain. I even have the perfect character voice for him. Deep pull, but I use Neil from MTV's the young ones. This hands the DM full reign to decide who milord Smith was and what I did to piss them off. I have a campaign im in now (playing this evening in fact) where that throw away character trope stuck and is now up to level 11. I love him, he has now grown far too much to re-use ever again. I will also never play a play rogue/mage multi class rags to riches trope ever again. This dates to my old 2e character. He is retired and still runs a kingdom (and every thieves guild on every continent he has found) in that world as an NPC. No need to go there ever again either. I guess I just call a successfully played out trope finished and move on.

[@TheMemo659]

Funny to stumble onto this a year later. I am now on the verge of being banned from playing bards, regardless of subclass, in 5e. I have 4 active bards going in various campaigns, and was RESOUNDINGLY mocked for adding #4 to the most recent one despite the unique flavor I give them. I might die on this hill though, the 5e bard kit worked into a melee build fits my play style SO well.

[@atoms_dancing]

DM: What fantasy character are you going to role play? Player: A straight white cis male human.

[@christianjadot4459]

I am usually reading slightly in front of the narration on these. I read "mustache-twirling MERMAIDS", and I was thinking, dang, that's a pretty specific villain to use over and over.

[@WhiteGlintIX]

So, the fully thing about purple tieflings is it that, if I'm not mistaken, it's just stealing from critical role, but while there it had baclstory reasons, other people just see it as a new color instead of the standard for normal human skintones or red for tieflings

[@lovingfool2060]

Being diverse in class picking is always good especially when you're told taking a level in one of the classes you like while playing another class you like is really synergistic. Like being a bard with a level in rogue is a POWERFUL realization.

[@daltigoth3970]

The "reluctant hero" trope works just fine, if YOU as the player do it right. In most media, the reluctant hero is drawn into the events of the story simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Build that into your backstory. You are already the reluctant hero before you even start playing. No work on the DM's part required. It should NEVER be on the DM to put in extra work to motivate your character to do something, its up to you as the player to roleplay your character and why they get involved. Part of the unwritten contract of the game is that the players are agreeing to participate in the adventure. If you are going to roleplay a character that is reluctant to do anything, then there is no reason for the DM or the other players to even bother with you. They have every reason to just leave you at the inn, and if I were your DM, I would tell you in advance that is what will happen if you try to make me force your character to join the adventure because your character is "reluctant" to do anything. Take Han Solo from Star Wars as an example - after delivering Princess Leia to her allies at the end of Episode IV, he bails before the Empire shows up. Its not his fight, he got his money, so he's leaving, and he basically says as much. However, he ultimately comes back to help fight. That is the reluctant hero. He didn't want to be there, he had no real reason to stay, but he showed up anyways and helped save the day because that is what heroes do. From that point on, he moves away from that reluctance. He knows that things need to be done and that he can help to ensure they get done, so that's what he does. This is called "character growth", which is a dimension that a lot of D&D players don't add to their characters. Chewbacca and C-3P0 can also arguably be listed as reluctant heroes as well, only joining the adventure because their friends (Han Solo and R2-D2, respectively) do. Luke Skywalker also starts out as a reluctant hero, but his reluctance falls more into the backstory category. When Ben Kenobi tries to convince Luke to accompany him on a rescue mission, Luke says that he can't leave, but changes his tune after finding his aunt and uncle are dead, killed by storm troopers seeking the droids that he now has. His adventure hasn't really started yet at this point, but the next thing that happens is Ben and Luke hire Han and Chewbacca to provide them transport, which brings the most of the core members of the party together. From a D&D standpoint, you could consider everything up to and including the events in the cantina as the players working out their backstories in Session Zero. When Han presents his reluctance to go on the rescue mission, its another PC (Luke) that tries to convince him to help. Han doesn't seem fully convinced, but goes along with it anyways. THAT is how you roleplay the reluctant hero.

[@lordwind9745]

People who play kenders don’t realise that they only take something if they need it, and will happily offer up anything they have if others need it.

[@jimstoesz3878]

I have a soft ban on any of the "Class Stereotype Archetypes" in all the games I run. No sex-freak bards, no insufferable genius wizards, no forest-hippie druids, no edgy loner rogues. If I'm putting in the effort to make a creative and interesting world for my players to explore then the absolute *least* I'm owed is that they put effort into making creative and interesting characters to explore that world with. It's more fun for everyone when players actually make their own characters instead of just pulling an archetype off the shelf.

[@totallynotaneel_8216]

I’m banned from thinking about my character. I always try to build my characters around the environment. Recently I was a citizen of blingdenstone who was a delivery boy for on of the Lords of the underworld. I got knocked out because I saved a NPC from getting absorbed by acid slime and was at 1 death fail and our Cleric killed me by launching a spell at the slime. Attacking and hitting me as well. Killing me instantly.

[@nate51691]

After a Pathfinder campaign, one group has "banned" me from playing bards. It's not because of "lol horny bard." In fact, my bard never hooked up, a single time in the campaign. No, it's because of two things -- one, I created a source of constant income, eventually ramped up to hundreds of thousands of gold per in game month by level 10 or so (in a kingdom running campaign that would go through months at a breakneck pace),, and two, I got my bluff score up to +90 (+70 and then glibness). And was too good, out of game, at getting around the best attempts at making me tell the truth. For instance, zone of truth? They needed a check to cast it on me, I got a save, and then even if I failed, I would just tell the truth in a way to make it unsure if I was actually affected by it / sound like I was lying, calling for more bluff checks that even most gods couldnt contend with. Even with the impossible lie modifier. Was a great time, but a nightmare for the DM understandably. (Especially when I got pageant of the peacock and improvisatory performance, allowing me to use bluff for performance checks AND all Int and Int-based checks. All of them. At that point, I went from the best liar to the keeper of all truths, master of crafting, and most prominent performer in all the lands.) In my defense though, he told me explicitly "everyone in this group is a min-maxer and will make broken characters, so go as nuts with it as you can. I'm balancing around them already." Unlike the rest, I stuck with a wholly first party build, and went with RP skills over combat. Just turns out bluff can be more terrifying than any combat min-maxing. On a different character, I said "I'd like to make a bluff check," and I swear he had a war flashback or something.

[@liamsmerlnop7348]

"I love dwarves so get your leaf-loving ass out of here." ROCK AND STONE YEEEEAAAHHH

[@annagrant3328]

low charisma characters whose low charisma comes in the form of them acting shy and quiet. shy characters, i’ve come to find, are never fun no matter how many times i try them out. social anxiety is already enough of a problem with me, and i often end up taking it to the next level whenever i try to play a character like that. so uhh,,, yeah. no. i have had to personally ban myself from doing that :’’)

[@lexington476]

5:26 I still think that all video should be done in the Kermit the Frog accent 😀.

[@BrianVaughnVA]

If you guys want it, come to my stream on Twitch and I'll do a whole segment of reading stuff in that voice.

[@lexington476]

@@BrianVaughnVA never watch Twitch, can you dual stream it on KZbin as well?

[@leonardocamilio1206]

I suffered a "soft ban" for playing with clerics at all in my party. What basically happenend is no one in my d&d group would ever play either as a control, utility or support focused character/caster so i kinda just had to pick one, and since i really enjoyed that it would be ok. The problem is, because i wasn't really crazy as my friends who would just jump straight into danger and most of the times fall unconscious or just get bodied, i always strategized, always prepared the fuck of myself for ANY possible situation that i could think of and usually i ended the fights because, well, my fellow adventurers would be in a really bad spot usually, and that made the dm start to specifically target me, and when he accidentally killed me, well, everyone else also died after me. I tried to play as a cleric again after that situation but the same situations happenend even if it wasn't the dm's or mine intent. So i just stopped and started to play either as melee martials or not-that-bright casters

[@vernonhampton5863]

My table ban is "I don't care about making a backstory for my character, that's the DMs job". No, play the game or don't.

[@mrct592]

As a forever DM I am banned from making the BBEG a secret low level NPC that gives the party their quests or runs a shop.

[@jasmineawilow369]

Banned from bards but not for the obvious reason, I kept playing them as anxious theater nerds or band kids. Which is fair on their part because that was just me playing myself, now I enjoy druids