What Makes a Good D&D Character?

I heard that making a character is pretty important when playing D&D, so why don't we talk about it some more?
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[@pointyhatstudios]

So anyway my character is a half demon half angel vampire hunter that dual-wields crossbows

[@pinkliongaming8769]

Don't play Batman.. Play Bruce Wayne

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

To be honest, Steve the Cow Farmer sounds like a pretty cool D&D character. In a party full of edge lords and OP wizards, this dude just wants to help his cows. Sounds like could be a very wholesome character and a heart of the party in a way.

[@guestb8389]

I know a lot of people don't like the "You But Cooler" archetype, but I think it's an easy and simple way to get started with character creation. Starting with yourself (a person you highly understand) and adding small differences to make them more interesting is an easily digestible way of learning the ins and outs of DnD. [Just don't be afraid to try something new for later campaigns!]

[@garygallimore4620]

Pirate Samurai Centaur, my first ever character idea and it was just a way to make completely random tropes come together in the most dumb way possible. A horse would never be in water or a boat, so make a centaur a pirate, and samurai just purely for the ridiculousness of the statement. It's my fantasy version of cyborg space ninja. and i love it. do not copy, i will sue.

[@Rateltong]

The flaw of my first character was an irrational phobia of rats

[@grahamross889]

I'm a DM and I had a player in my group who was a really good at min maxing but was really bad at creating interesting characters. (funnily enough most of his characters died). So after his current character died I sent him this video. And it's helped him a lot, I've only had a single one shot with him since he's watched this video but that one shot was one of the best D&D experiences I've ever had.

[@ameliabrittain158]

You know, for my first DnD character, I actually did the opposite of the “self insert” while at the same time, completely self inserting. What happened was I made a character that was very different from me, but mostly in the ways that I felt I was lacking in, and consequently, having flaws that were opposed to my own. Like I was a 5’ foot noodle armed girl with 0 social skills but very good grades and good family life, and my character was a 6’6” half orc fighter dude with surprisingly high charisma, low int and was an orphan. He both represented my insecurities AND my strengths by directly opposing them. I unfortunately didn’t get to play him for very long bc it was for a DnD club at school and only joined a semester before I graduated, but he has a very special place in my heart, as I imagine all of our first characters do.

[@MatiasBenavides]

This is outstanding, a revolutionary and emotive idea.

[@alizard7617]

People who think human is lame and turn around to make a Dragonborn that they play exactly like a human with a funny hat.

[@Relixification]

I love how you pointed out Scanlan from CR1, his character was horny yes, but that developed into a father figure that no one in the party ever really had. He was so heart broken when the party barely knew anything about him (like his last name) that he left for 10 sessions at the end game arc (ep80+), just so he can establish a foundation in his relationship with a daughter that despised him. When the group lost him, they all lost what they really yearned for, and that was a fun father figure of the group.

[@ShadowPa1adin]

One of my favorite parts of the Witcher books is this one scene where Geralt is adventuring with a bunch of people while being a broody-loner, but Dandelion and Regis and the others in the group respond to Geralt's behavior by just straight-up take the piss out of him for "playing Batman" as they make camp.

[@hyzmarie]

About writing a novel length Google doc… I’d say if you have a short summary for your DM, you can have a long Google doc for yourself and anyone else who wants to read it. A friend of mine has a very interesting three dimensional character that she’s been writing the backstory for for a year, and she’s still fantastic at the table!

[@Feanor6450]

I always find it amazing how many emotions a hat with an eye can show.

[@curvingfyre6810]

I really like the idea of a character's mechanics changing as a metaphor for their own character development. Like, a paladin being stuck between a moral choice where either option would break their oath, and in their rage against their broken religion, they make a pact as a warlock with some morally neutral patron and continue to fight for the right thing anyway, with the dm converting their character sheet in all their levels, waiving it away as a feat of sheer willpower. That sort of thing really gets my rp bones tingling.

[@justinpicard9292]

Playing your self insert is always what I tell people to do if they’re about to play their very first character everything. It lessens the divide with the question of “what would my character do?” A new player can focus on the problem solving at hand and not adding in the element of character study

[@an8strengthkobold360]

My tips for edgy characters (my name is Matthew so my dnd advise is valid):

[@chaosjimthevoidlord3762]

Yet another roughly 20 minutes of amazing content.

[@pedroesquivelmenteylapiz818]

4:03

[@hxjjdjd606]

The first dnd charcater I ever made was literally just a stronger version of me. That campaign has been going on since 2019 and holy shit how much she has grown is crazy. It’s gotten to the point where I not only diversified her look from mine, but she actually has her own personality and flaws