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@morphyousfireborn6195 Жыл бұрын

I have a 7'3 human brawler, hardened in years of slave cage fighting to the death since he was 7 years old. Master of hand to hand combat. Has become a legendary god of strength, he has statues of himself all through 2 sepeperate relms, his signature weapon is bar couch. Has faced demons, gods, dragons and come out on to every time... He is terrified of spiders. So much so that he is frozen in fear and nearly sobs uncontrollably if it's within 10 feet of him. He has picked up and thrown his own party members across the room to kill a small jumping spider.

@KnightlyKnow Жыл бұрын

God I'm glad this video reached the right people!

@morphyousfireborn6195 Жыл бұрын

@Knightly Knowledge best part is, no one knows that he is terrified of spiders. Even the party members he threw because each time it he saw one it was in a dungeon or combat and he would step on a trap to say that he was saving his friends or that he was throwing them to get in a better position to attack the enemy. He never failed a bluff or strength check. Making everyone believe it was always part of a plan he had. He once killed an entire cult alone because he was alone in the basement and a small spider landed on his shoulder, causing him to freak out and crash into every support pillar trying to get it off, causing the entire building to come crashing down.

@The_BHK_Mask Жыл бұрын

Two of my favorite characters. A h*rny teifling bard who could talk his way into anyone's bed but was actually extremely broken as a person, using s*x and humor to cover up the fact that he never trusted anyone after multiple abusive relationships and parties. A Lizardfolk Goliath who was a monk /barbarian that only used WWE style moves and who's main weapon was a cast iron chair. Not the smartest but he had his moments.

@KnightlyKnow Жыл бұрын

Love this! Thanks for sharing!

@thatguy5391 5 ай бұрын

1st one: most big standard character I've ever heard 2nd one: meh. Glad you enjoyed them but they seem boring af.

@The_BHK_Mask 5 ай бұрын

@@thatguy5391 it's all about the story. I just gave the most basic summary of them here. First one has survived multiple campaigns, time shifts, and even universe resets. He's been the lone survivor of multiple parties, lost entire circles of people around him, and has sacrificed his own happy ending two to save a world that, in the end, wouldn't even care if he died on the streets. Second one is just extra fun. The biggest word he knows is defenestration and that's because a wizard shouted it as he threw them out a window. He sounds like Scott Steiner cutting a promo and makes about as much sense. He likes to beat people with other people and is always looking to get a heavier chair to bash people with.

@u1frickb1ack55 5 ай бұрын

@@thatguy5391that's... that's bait, isn't it?

@firetouched5629 5 ай бұрын

Bah First a That Guy concept and then a Munchkin Mix. You and your edgelord characters would have flown out of the table in a high arc.

@drey-- 7 ай бұрын

I made an emo water genasi bard. Because he was a genasi, his dark hair always seemed wet and he always had dripping eyeliner down his cheeks. He had this whispering voice and never sung, just played instruments. All the voiced spells were whispered. He seemed really edgy but was actually shy and loved to write romantic poems .

@aazhie 4 ай бұрын

That's adorable, he sounds great :3

@mindsendStoryweaver 6 ай бұрын

I have a phantom rogue character with a soldier background -- learned her slight of hand as a child slipping money INTO her single mom's pockets and is VERY BAD at lying (negative charisma stat, very blunt and awkward), and is EXTREMELY protective of her 'team'. She's the sort to hand money back to people. I have a tiefling hermit dream druid who's fascinated by civilization, having never really encountered it before becoming an adventurer, thinking of them as the "anthills of humanoids' since people are also animals and learning about cultures and such and the different structures they developed makes him curious and ask questions and he's a general sweetheart.

@matthewporter7871 7 ай бұрын

All good points, although I feel like too many people avoid cliches like the plague because they feel it's been done too often. Cliches are good, just make sure your charceter isn't ONLY your cliche.

@KnightlyKnow 7 ай бұрын

I completely agree, I’ve played all kinds of characters but one of my favorites was a Dragonborn barbarian with major brain damage (6 intelligence) talked like a caveman 90% of the time and would rush into any fight without hesitation

@MarioLord14 4 ай бұрын

The version of me I have is a Saiyan that isn’t afraid of some forms and isn’t afraid to show his emotions. It’s mostly my voice with a more deep sound. It’s mostly just a persona to use for chat bots.

@Thaonim Ай бұрын

One of my favorite characters came from a one shot. An 18 year old elf rogue who was raised in a human orphanage and thinks of themselves as human. The idea came from a bit of flavor in the PHB that mentions that elves mature physically at the same rate as humans, but culturally are considered children until around 100 years of age. Was really fun to play an obnoxious, overly self-confident elf who saw themselves as an adult despite being constantly sniped at the by the elf with the noble background.

@KitsuneFyora 7 ай бұрын

Be a rogue who isn't in the biz to steal for themselves, but to wreak chaos by swapping out everyone's belongings. Even NPCs

@LaPtaVerdad 2 ай бұрын

Step 1 and 2 fall deep into cliches Step 3 avoid them xD

@aazhie 4 ай бұрын

Our healer was never specifically named as a Paladin, or any particular class, and he healed with the power of DOUBT. He would look you over, shrug and say "Oh it's not as bad as it looked" and tell you how many HP you regained xD My tiefling rogue was a soft marshmellow of a momma's boy adopted by goat centaurs. He became a rogue because he fell in love with a thief.

@mirakluaragnos2863 8 ай бұрын

I aggree with most except the third. Stereotypes are a thing because often, they work The Rest, I can completly get behind.

@KnightlyKnow 8 ай бұрын

I agree they’re classic for a reason, but it’s fun to mix it up too

@YodasTinyLightsaber 8 ай бұрын

I love to lean into stereotypes. Why defy expectations when you can just prove them all right. :)

@aazhie 4 ай бұрын

In my longest campaign, our druid was a modron. Named Dru, short for Druid Unit 1, because he was the first modron to ever become a Druid. His familiar was a sewer rat he summoned to help us escape our first meeting, which was Sigil city guards busting down the bar door and trying to burn down the building with everyone inside. The sewer rat was a girl, so we named her Sue, short for Sewer Rat Unit 1. Still some of the most amazing combat scenes we ever had involved a robotic bear on fire smashing the crap out of enemies while a VERITABLE tank of a rat soaked up more damage than any of the rest of the party xD

@Amy_the_Lizard 8 ай бұрын

I have a germophobic Ranger, an arachnaphobic Drow (to be fair, she was raised by Dragonborn, and her limited knowledge of Drow culture is all secondhand,) a Barbarian who's very passionate about Koi fish, a Paladin who's hobby is cooking, and a Half-Orc with severe anxiety and intrusive thoughts, and that's just my player characters. Notably weird NPCs include an Orc Barbarian attempting to create a breed of dairy aurochs that can be ridden into battle, a Githyanki Fighter-Bard who keeps wanting to make her dead enemies into jewelry but is otherwise a ray of sunshine type (she does NOT get along with others if her species,) a very tired Githzerai trying her best to reign in the afore mentioned Githyanki that almost never speaks but is somehow still really popular with my players, two dragons pretending to be elves that hate each other partially because they had the same idea, and a priest who's actually a Rouge rather than any sort of divine caster...

@majailindstrom 7 ай бұрын

Honestly didn’t even think of making my rouge greedy in my first campaign. He gave 40% of his gold as soon as he earned it as an offering to his god.(Vhaeraun) He also kinda misunderstood funeral rights and started to collect body parts of dead people / people who died who’d helped him incorporating into weapons/ loot he associated with them. (if he becomes a great hero one day ha can attempt to resurrect them to repay their help! :D).

@cheeseperson3878 Жыл бұрын

(This isn't abt my cherector rekah) ik a character that is human and hates being called short but givin the situation he is in there is almost no way for him to o be taller until the end (he's 5'5 in the beginning) though he is still short in the end I love him and his brother the characters name is Edward Eric and his brother is Alphonse Eric

@KnightlyKnow Жыл бұрын

Fullmetal > Literally any other piece of media

@cheeseperson3878 Жыл бұрын

@@KnightlyKnow fullmetel is amazing and I love it an I would DIE if al did his lil smile at me

@maikowacanno8068 Ай бұрын

I'm a Drow Warlock who was forced to make a pact with a demon who forces me to commit evil and corrupting tasks from time to time. All the while my character is a follower of Eillistraee, the goddess of beauty, who strifes to help everyone.

@eric_moore-6126 6 ай бұрын

Deeper, fast, and joyful for a halfling fighter. Got it

@mentalrebllion1270 5 ай бұрын

I have a hexblood dreams druid. Their most prominent quirks, that we joke over, is that they dislike the church (because, after turning down healing from them, the church was sneaky and healed them anyway, so that too generous act left them off put) and that they hate paperwork. The hilarity is in how much paperwork they need to do for the group anyway. See. My druid grew up raised prominently within fey society and knows the ins and outs of the rules and expectations of it and is a bit of a deal maker trickster, despite the dump stat charisma. The entire party are fey but less experienced (or have amnesia) and don’t quite have that same knowledge associated with being fey. To make sure the deals are honored, even in material plane society, my druid draws up paperwork. It’s also thematically relevant because we aren’t so much adventurers as we are craftsman/artisans/merchants who do adventuring stuff as a side gig. Honestly I love the hilarity of being innovative with pranks that highlight the party’s fey nature while still being charming. These two quirks just really sold how much deals mean to my character and how the unbalanced nature of some generous acts are confusing to them and how they are willing to do something they hate just to insure that their deals are honored. And yes, most of the of those deals are pretty harmless. Mainly it’s contractually obligating someone to be their, and the party’s, friends. Just figured I would share because it’s been so much fun to add this quirk in. (I do have more but these two are the most fun and tend to inform a lot of decisions the group makes).

@joseph-roburtYoshida 26 күн бұрын

Or a reckless paladin that fights evil with out a thought fighting without a plan this could cause them to not stick to a plan causing their party injury on accident