What was one aspect or quirk of your character that was solely for roleplay purposes? #2

[@charge8039]

Part of my Cleric’s backstory was that she survived a fire as a very young child and has a burn scar across her back. This resulted in her having pyrophobia, though she doesn’t remember the fire at all. Most of the time, she’s a bombastic genius, but she turns pathetic in front of fire. Since she’s a servant of Lathander, she was gonna be a Light Cleric, but decided not to when she realized that light domain only gives her fire spells. So nows she’s a Life Cleric that heals her enemies only to kick them down again.

[@penove9068]

Yay! I'm finally in one of these! I'm the last one about Loruda the Orc Soldier. Will say my group is doing our Holiday break campaign and everything is going great! Hope the Ripper squad enjoyed and are doing well!

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

How did Loruda die?

[@delerious0]

"Twerky the Tone deaf" was a dwarf bard whose only instrument proficiency was a drum and true to his name, while performing he would twerk, and depending on my performance roll it could enrage, disgust, or even distract any enemy who could see him if used during combat.

[@PiratePawsLive]

In a DnD 5e campaign way back I had a Gnome Wizard/Warlock. He was deathly afraid of chickens which could turn into blind rage and the destruction of the feathered menace via magic. The only feathered evil he could not destroy was his warlock patron which regularly showed up as an demonic Chicken or made clicking noises into his mind. He survived only for 3 sessions before he was abducted and killed by Rust Monster in a abandoned mine we had to investigate for a quest. This was the point at wich I learned the hard way to not split from the party, especially not in a Rust Monster Nest.

[@aukima771]

My first DnD campaign, in the second session. i have a homebrew sahuagin monk with the blood frenzy ability, which is triggered when creatures near me bleed too much, i have to make a wisdom save so as not to have to attack them. I was holding down a civilian who was controlled by the BBEG, he evaluated himself and I wanted to knock him unconscious. That triggered my blood frenzy ability for the first time. I'm rolling, Nat 1. I attack him and try to eat him right away. my party just manages to pull me away from him before it's too late and throws me into a bag of holding to calm down. he survived, but i hope he was already married, otherwise he has no great chance of finding someone now.

[@Deverosfear]

I had a Tiefling who made weapons for people out of the bones of the animals that nearly killed them to help them cope with the trauma of the incident. Lore wise it’s because he had to use rib bone of an animal that had failed to kill him as a shive when he was young.

[@AlphaAGENT144]

My Kobold soulknife has a prosthetic arm in our campaign, she had her arm amputated due to a localized possession in her backstory which resulted in the death of a close friend of hers during a stage performance (she was a knife thrower). Being a carny, she didn't have much money to her name, so she had the strongman lop her arm off with an axe. My DM RP'd a druid/artificer who helped her make an offering to the spirits in exchange for a replacement arm. The offering was a purple hyacinth watered with her own blood (a flower symbolizing regret). She received a wooden arm that functioned identically to a real arm, however it causes her phantom pains occasionally, as well a glowing with green and purple vines and leaves wrapping along its length in a sleeve pattern whenever she is under high stress. It's very fun to just summon pink, spectral knives and blades to fiddle around with, as well as just...pop her arm off to mess with NPCs. Oh yeah, and she has an incredibly posh English accent. Just because.

[@SilverDungeoneer]

Not a player but a DMNPC. Had a Cleric Warforge who wanted to become human. Players never knew this because they never really got to know him and he was more of a quiet guy. It was supposed to be for rp purposes, but unfortunately never came up. Also reason for wanting to become human was so he could actually have a family. He was a cleric who liked helping people and he was slightly depressed because the town he was from had many families and he was alone. Hence him being more quiet.

[@SH-qs7ee]

I haven't played her yet, but my warlock Emmaline. While outwardly she appears to be a village girl, she is a callous, vicious killer that delights in disembowelling her victims to communicate with her hag patron in a form of haruspicy; getting signs and portents from the entrails.

[@intheftin2861]

I made an assassin/fighter in DnD and designed him to claim heads from bounty targets to have into shrunken heads. This way, people pay more while fearing they could be next on hit-list. Unfortunitely, my party hated me and set me up on a false target and had me executed. Had a neutral elven magic user thief, a human fighter dual wield short swords neut. good, and a chaotic good cleric. Yeah fun group just hated my necklace...

[@varto07]

I had a half orc (half duergar) fighter. He was mute because the duergars had his vocal chords cutted because he talked back to his masters. He had blindfighting as combat style because he had groun up in the Underdark. He mostly talked with sign language and used snow googles (similar to the eskimo´s) to avoid being blinded by the sun when he was outdoors on day time.

[@Jake-ky4yj]

Had a ranger that liked to read and learn plants for just basic survival stuff in the area, I'd go to like herbalist shops ask for books, take note of plants as we journeyed, just to see what we could eat, if there was anything to avoid whatnot. Typical outdoorsmanship. Then eventually the DM gave me proficiency in herbalism kits and told me I could start making potions with stuff i gathered instead of just doing it for RP

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@coledibiase1777]

And the monsters follow close behind.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@coledibiase1777 excellent!

[@archmagetyler]

Hope everyone lives another day

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

@@archmagetyler we can only hope

[@coledibiase1777]

@@archmagetyler Way things are looking, its getting kinda dicey.

[@Indigo_404]

A while ago I played a cleric. She was very curious and drew all the monsters/traps we encountered so she could find out what exactly they were later. It made for a really fun look-back at the end of every session, where we all reminisced about the good times we had. Then she died and her best friend, a fighter named Mei, got the sketchbook. The party leveled up after that and Mei’s player reasoned she’d take a level in barbarian, to harness the rage of losing a friend. Whenever she raged we played bagpipes and did Scottish accents

[@kazuyumi1412]

Holy cow, that’s my story at 7:53! (I never thought that I’d ever get featured in one of these videos, but now that I’ve seen it, I’m totally using my centaur ranger for more shenanigans! Now just to give Equi a solid design…)

[@pickedlockpierrot9706]

I have a Half-orc, Chaotic Evil Paladin of Conquest/College of Glamour Bard named Tyrosine. His character trait is that he is absolutely fabulous and will, without fail, insult anyone’s fashion sense if he sees someone not dressed to his expectations. His form of bardic inspiration is lightly complimenting people.

[@matthewlabodin3981]

My dogfolk wizard has the Artificer Initiate purely so I can cast Cure Wounds. When he casts that spell, he pulls a syringe full of hopefully medicine out of nowhere and jams it into the target before they can react. This wizard is proficient in Medicine, and has a doctorate. Not in actual medicine, but in Child Psychology.

[@mushroomsoup2866]

Years ago, I played a bard. He used to go into this grand forest every now and then for inspiration, and the woodland spirits and fairies were more than happy to give it to him. His music was beautiful even to them. But, during the great war, his home town was ransacked. His people were killed. While he was still in the forest, the invading army burned it to the ground. He died that day, 50 years before the campaign began. But the spirits that he had sung to for all those years took pity on him, and gave him life again. He wasn't /quite/ human anymore, but he could still pluck a banjo and sing a tune. Reclassed into druid (wildfire), so that he could forever protect the forest that he had spent his life in. I managed to convince my DM to let me use the Shillelagh spell on my banjo instead of a club/quarterstaff, just to flavour in the bard elements. Anyway, that ENTIRE backstory was purely for the one moment, about 3 months into the campaign, where I had set everything up just right. Shillelagh on my banjo, several fires spreading between us and the bad guys. I step forward, willingly failing the saving throw to avoid getting burned, but immediately cast absorb elements at the highest level I could. The look on their faces as they see this undead guy, flames burning whatever flesh he had left, slowly plucking away on the banjo before beating them round the head with it for 1d8 bludgeoning +4d6 fire damage, killing them instantly, and inventing metal music all in one turn.

[@BuffaloBaymax2187]

My gnome monk, Benny Fitz (because who doesn't want to be friends with Benny Fitz?) has a specific quirk for RP purposes: He is a recovering gambling addict. Where can you find quests or information? Taverns. What happens in taverns? Drinking!! And gambling. Every so often the DM would have me roll perception to see if I noticed gambling in my vicinity. If I rolled too high and noticed any gambling I had to make a con save to see if I could resist, with party members helping me resist as appropriate. Benny did "fall off the wagon" and bought some dice, but he never did use them (in part because I forgot about them and don't often read that part of my character sheet)

[@KumaoftheForest]

My character was a Human Sorcerer with the Draconic bloodline subclass, everytime he leveled up more of his body was transformed into a Blue Dragonborn and this second personality slowly started appearing. The more the transformation took over the more dominant the second personality became.

[@MalloonTarka]

First D&D character I made was a necromancer wizard who I gave 8 Con to. Her frailness and fear of death is what drove her to learn magic in the first place, on the hunt for immortality. Second was a Dex based fighter who I gave an Int equal to his Con stat, because I wanted him to be able to think of and make traps for the various monsters he hunted. Started dragging around a chest full of equipment to this end. Also, every time he introduced himself to a new person he'd give himself a new name. Not as a deception roll - he didn't mind people noticing he hadn't given his real name, heck, he'd even give himself a new name while the last person he'd invented one for was in earshot - but in order to mask his true name from "malicious magicks". Not even the rest of the party knew his real name. Not even *I* knew his real name. His moniker was Bristlebeard, but some would call him... Tim. Third was a Forge Domain cleric Tiefling who posed as human. (Tan skin, normal eyes, short, easily hidden tail, filed down horns.) Had done so since he was a child born to two human parents. He went on an adventure with his childhood friends, but they thought he was human. I'd like to tell you if or how they found out, but that has yet to happen. I'm hoping it's very dramatic, like having all his hair burned off by a dragon and them seeing his horn stumps. He's also an basically an anarcho-communist, but that was by accident. His ideals and flaws combined in a way I didn't expect, but I'm not complaining.

[@arkron81]

I'm playing with a group where one of the players decided that their Aberrant Mind sorcerer would have this need to eat a lot. Like, A LOT more than the other characters. It was meant just as a fun roleplay quirk of the characters, but through interactions with the other players, it unintentionally blew up into this whole thing related to the Aberrant Mind, and a few months later, we're still discovering more about the entity giving powers and extra hunger to the sorcerer.

[@Phoenixoflife56]

If I recall correctly my character was a elf moon Druid named Lia who was raised by dire wolves (because of that she could wild form into one) and her sacred forest was burned down by magic users killing her dire wolf family. This is where her personality quirk comes in she has a deep distain towards non-druid magic users because her background.

[@YourBoyTrue]

Oh, hey, another one of my stories! Thanks, guys! It feels nice to be a part of the stories we all share. Also, I like the title, wikiHow Wizard.

[@Mobax13]

I played this half-orc barbarian, who of course had low int. I leaned into his backstory and so this character didn't have a concept of currency or capitalist economics. He would routinely turn down "shiny pebbles" when completing a quest. At one point, the party was split and my barbarian and a monk had just killed a hag causing problems for a small village. The monk went to go get supplies or something and my barbarian went to inform the mayor. He meets up with the monk, and the monk asks how much money we got, to which my barbarian just looks at her all confused. The party had a lot of fun trying to teach my barbarian economics 101 and other more complex things. He slowly got better as the campaign progressed.

[@jakattax4154]

Rowan is my half-orc fighter-barbarian that ever since birth has had trouble speaking. Because of this she has a little leather bound book that has pre written responses or blank pages that she uses to write down her thoughts. It's always interesting when there's no time to write and she just has to use hand signs and charades to get people to understand what she's thinking lol

[@shanepatrick6836]

Similar to the Bard against beds, I was playing a Star Wars RP where my war-orphan street rat turned Padawan had, among many quirks, would refuse to sit in any chair because “chairs are evil.” He never explained beyond this because of him this was an absolute truth. And because I myself never knew. All his other quirks were explained by his back story or his personality (when you did get to know him better, he was actually being deliberately weird/annoying to manipulate people.). But for the life of me I could never figure out why he believed chairs were evil. And unlike his fake or deliberate quirks, this conviction chairs were evil was genuine. OOC it was because my group was using Star Wars: The Old Republic to visualize our stories and I love trying to get to difficult to reach places (it has some platforming elements) to show off… but IC never had a reason why he was sitting on top of things and ignoring chairs. “Chairs are evil” was my best response when I was first asked and for me so in character for the character’s unorthodox behavior that my group all latched onto it. And many characters would try to get creative with forcing my character to sit on a chair only for him to look at the chair, baffled, and then sit on a desk or a rock or a statue’s base.

[@marydeyoung7501]

Back in my 2e days I played a wemic (which is to a lion what a centaur is to a horse) named Sojekka. His main quirk was that whenever he sensed danger, the tuft at the end of his tail would poof out. Whenever the DM would let us know that danger was nearby, I would say "POOF" to indicate how my character was reacting, which at times made for some hilarious roleplay.

[@yungo1rst]

Been using a pathfinder lore oracle nord for a while. The nearly broken mystery Focused trance places you in a deep meditation that lasts 1-6 rounds and when you come out of it, you get +20 circumstance bonus on a int based skill check. This skill was usable up to your charisma mod per day. to roleplay how i used it and obfuscated it a bit, i rolled 3d6, using the one in the middle as the rounds until i come out of the trance. the two on the sides were the negatives and positive with them canceling another out. whichever the middle number was would be the Ability score used to describe the trance revelation on the skill check. in character he would roll some engraved bear claw bones with Nordic runes on it saying that these three bones are telling him the minor boon of knowledge. It was mainly to throw off possible enemys that could view the spectacle that if they took the bones, they might think they took my power of knowledge. lost my first set of bones when a elven quarter of a city fell into the ocean, so i just carved up some new set.

[@bee5440]

My Goliath paladin Constantine is dedicated to giving every enemy he kills a proper burial, even if they're evil/undead/aberrations/ etc. He also reflavored a heavy crossbow as a harpoon gun.

[@JVisser1990]

Currently playing a gnome wizard who's doing his best to not look like wizard and/or appear smart to strangers. This leads to situations where the party is trying convince a quest giver that he's smart but instead will be in a corner picking his nose and poking bugs or something. Blurts out really stupid questions or remarks.

[@synashilp]

I had an unchained rogue in Pathfinder 1st Edition, Ulysses. He had high intelligence, so he gained a lot of skill points per level. While I had him slightly dabble into disable device, I put most of his skill points into survivalist skills and lore. It made sense to me since his mother was a ranger, and his father was a wizard. His knowledge was put to use by interviewing scholars, and poring over archives. His survivalist skills allowed him to remain unseen, whether it was to scout dangers or eavesdrop on suspicious persons. His roguish skills came into play if he needed to get information in less than ideal ways, such as trespassing. While he wasn't as useful in combat as other party members, I still loved playing the role that he filled.

[@bee5440]

This reminds me of Ulysses from FNV but judging from your pfp I feel like that was the point.... I also made a Ulysses rogue lmao

[@synashilp]

@@bee5440 Yes, he was based on Ulysses from FNV. I even gave him a slightly burned neck and mouth so he'd have an excuse to mask up. lol I didn't start him as an awesome nomadic scholar, though. I had him start as a scared kid, separated from his parents, having to use his training to find them.

[@bee5440]

@@synashilp PLEASE tell me you tried to do the voice for the character.... Also if you thought that was bad I made a warlock based on tf2 medic lmao

[@jaspermaij3753]

I had a Swashbuckler sailor who could only use his magic Initiate in bard when he was drunk

[@brodyestes2376]

my Mastermind rogue had max Int and Dex and was extremely apathetic and quiet but extremely manipulative and inteligent. Never showed anyone his true power or inteligence until he met his lover who pulled him out of his shell kinda

[@taekwonditto]

When our friend wanted to be a new player in my campaign, I helped her with making up her backstory. And I wanted to include an NPC the other players met as the new player’s best friend. So in comes in Astral, the Tiefling Druid, and the NPC I just mentioned comes into play when the players reach the second town they have to explore. Astral’s player and I then added in how she and the NPC knew each other and it’s from a Thieves Guild in their hometown. As of now, it’s just for role playing stuff to make things more interesting, but that Thieves Guild is going to come in play very much later in this campaign

[@geoDB.]

I DONT CARE

[@nuclearfish2657]

I was playing in a lv10 one-shot and made a Half-orc Paladin who was a monster hunter, sworn to destroy vampires, fiends and other abominations. My backstory was that she had actually been infected with lycanthropy, and was worried that her order would try to kill her. --- I took 3 levels in Barbarian even though it gave me no mechanical benefit and actually meant I missed out on other useful abilities -- just so I could use Rage to "lose control" and turn into an armor-clad werewolf in the middle of a boss fight. I reeeally want to play this character in a full campaign so I can play out all of the internal struggle she goes through in dealing with her condition.

[@sniclops15]

My Kobold Monk was the sole survivor of his original burrow when a high level party came in, with the last thing he remembered being the sound of the spellcaster casting a fireball. To this day, he has severe PTSD of the event, so he feels nervous whenever a spellcaster is near - even if it's an ally - and is terrified whenever a fireball is cast during combat. I plan on making him slowly overcome the PTSD and learn to embrace flames, taking on the Way of the Ascendant Dragon for its Breath Weapon ki and having the type be fire. Character development!

[@BryanWasHere89]

My rune knight fighter is a Vadalken. So I gave him the Inheritor background and a book of Runes. He’s the family’s black sheep bc he wants to use it to do good

[@braydoboss9505]

I've got a Cleric in ID:RoTFM going rn, and if you know anything about that campaign, you know of the final boss. AKA, my deity. I love being all suspicious, I've even managed to get us out of a few tight spots by whispering to the villains "chill bruh I'm on your side, it's a trap"

[@jakegovson1813]

in a campaign my dm is running , i am using a trickery cleric/rouge, thing is i gain pretty much nothing for that rouge level. because alot of the trickery cleric bonuses cannot target yourself, but that extra rouge level gives him that much more flavor.

[@geoDB.]

Damn bro... that's crazy...

[@Bartimaeus9064]

Your outro earned you a like. I never like videos but you earned it good sir.

[@matthiasmortier3627]

Made my character a high-elf just for the free cantrip create bonfire. Having an always ready pyre to burn the unjust on was awesome.

[@jerommeke_T]

Probably the most fun I had with a character was one who couldn't speak in the present tense. Solely for rp reasons but a Lotta fun. Now I'm going to play one who ignores the right side. I can already Imagine tons of situations where that's gonna be hilarious.

[@Homer890]

Played shadowrun, had a elf who was once a human who was born in the 1950’s in Texas served in Vietnam, became special forces then got burned by his government and leadership leaving him and his men to die. He then became a crazy conspiracy theorist who talked in a lot of Alex Jones quotes 😂

[@codeysmith5362]

Thanks Brian. Means alot. Same to u

[@dandyboio2865]

had a drunken master who had a small mix of Dwarf and Dragonborn ancestors among his human heritage, mechanically he was just a variant human but rp rise he had the feet of a dragonborn cause i thought it'd be interesting in conversations and the liver of a dwarf cause his con saves were pretty good

[@Xarestrill]

Not my character, but my brother had a character in 2e who had the Flaws: Compulsive Honesty (have to make a saving throw to tell a lie) and Tongue Tied (constantly screw up telling details without realizing (so say he's scouting ahead and sees 6 goblins he'd come back and say he saw 5 kobolds)). It lead to a few weird situations, but the most impactful was when he was the only witness at a trial...

[@theofficerfactory2625]

Cats are known for their agility and stealthiness. They love to jump up on tables and knock over stuff BUT there are few cat breeds that cannot jump. Briask is one of these; a Ragdoll. He can do cat stuff as usual but he requires help getting to high places. I intended this little flaw so Briask will need help from the party when he needs to go somewhere high. He can jump on people and stuff but he cannot jump and stick the landing as rag dolls really aren't like that. I am using the Animal Adventures mod for those that are curious and although it's not stated in the rules, it is a weird quirk of the breed and the thought of an adorable fluff ball rogue requiring help seems oddly pleasing to me.

[@DrakolichKingPS3]

In my first ever adventure of DnD, after a couple of rewrites and some homebrew, me and the DM came up with this minor gem: A young tiefling wizard with an arcana score of 10. The plan is that every time something about magic is studied, theorized or i have to make an arcana check for something similar, my character will go into a somewhat long unintelligable ramble of how and why the magic is there in the first place. My DM will thus respond in a similar matter and then private message me about what is really going on so i can explain afterwards to the party. It got to a point that my DM made an awesome arcana babble cheat sheet for me to use for inspirational purposes. So far we haven't been able to get a good rp moment for this to be done yet, but im oh so looking forward to it.

[@EvilDeath66X]

I had a ranger character who was a former military archer. I put it in my backstory that she was court martial-ed and sentenced to death for accidentally firing on my own allies in the back. Well... my DM put this in the game *frequently*. Whenever I rolled a Nat 1 on an attack or even if I missed by more than a certain amount, it was always friendly fire. Made for some good role play, but it made it really difficult when I was trying to woo my love interest who... I may or may not have launched a throwing dagger into her back. heheh... oops.

[@StumpedSlicken]

The whole fact that my changeling cleric was a changeling. He was born a human and was turned into a changeling at around age 13. He really doesn't like being a changeling as they are known to have a bad reputation, so, he just uses his human appearance he had and ages it up as he ages. The reason why I made him a changeling (besides the fact that he was based on one of my story characters) was so that he could have a moment where he has to tell his party what he is so that he can have some character development. This actually did happen and the whole group helped him out. The second thing is with my dragonborn wizard, who, wanted to be a human for a day or two. She was given a potion to switch her race for a week, but, she gave it to the party's sorcerer (who also knew how to brew potions). A little while later, after the sorcerer used the potion for her own needs, she gave my dragonborn a version that would last a day. The moment never really came as it was towards the end of the campaign, but, I was going to use her being a human for rp with the group. Third reason - I make all of my D&D characters 21 or older, just in case there's a tavern nearby.

[@whitefox3189]

A level in Sorcerer, aberrant mind. Not mine though. The DM decided to make angels and higher tier Celestial, but not god beings from old testament, the ones that spawned the "Be not afraid" meme. Had the character Celestial Warlock have his patron give him a quest in a vision. The Player decided that it would be resonable enough to take a level in aberrant mind due to the angel being horrifying and alien enough to permanently alter his psyche, like an eldritch being would.

[@Redtail45044]

My neutral good nature cleric, Raek (Rake or Reek works, he answered to both but never gave his last name). People call him Red because his face was always weirdly flushed and made him seem eternally embarrassed. Beerbellied human, was usually rather friendly and had a rather casual attitude towards undead since 'all things return to nature eventually'. Didn't stop him from fighting them if they were honestly doing harm, however. Personally though? The red hue was because he usually had his face near the campfire making meals for the party when the shifter Barbarian is somehow miraculously not crushing the chaste priest against their body demanding he sing her songs and tell stories from his travels. Did I mention that if he ate poultry (eggs were fine) or did anything his Goddess found as lewd he'd be turned into an everyday little bunny for a day as a warning? Fun times, when the Barbarian, Meleda, tried to get him to snuggle without clothes and a divine puff of smoke left her with a buggy-eyed bush-rabbit that was staring right back at her. Yes. I mean, a non-sentient feral that could fit in the palms of a person's hands. The small quest where she tried to turn him back was hilarious at least-we had the ranger keep asking why she was carrying live rations around even as, almost in the same breath, they'd complain that their healer was missing! At least my Goddess was kind enough to let me reappear with pants.

[@kayq3231]

I was part of a game that started out online as individual sessions with the different players until the plot led them to each other that all players would meet in person. I had a character who was mute due to a curse. I did this so I could practice sign language. Unfortunately it fizzled out long before the characters could meet and the dm blabbed my character's secret to the player he liked.

[@ignisshadowflame1027]

I am currently playing a Harengon ranger that when angered she switches to speaking gnoll according to lore gnoll is infernal based relying more on hyena like laughter, growls, howls, various other sounds and body language. No one else in the party can even understand the language so it just sounds and looks like I'm an insane devil.

[@sauceploxx4565]

My bard got fucked up by some giant weasels and I missed just about every attack against them. Thus, my hatred for weasels grew as we encountered more of them. I thoroughly keep my eyes open for them when traveling and check my quarters at night so I wont be surprised at night. I learned taxidermy as to now take the tails of slayed weasels and keep them with me on a keyring to be extra scary. This troupe has gone so far as to have a whole combat event created by my DM in a "dream state" where we fought a giant weasels and minions. We were also gifted a hat of vermin that lets me spawn a wild weasel 3 times a day if I choose too. Lastly, my character is on such a quest for these foul beasts that he hopes to be given the title Weasel Slayer by a Nobel upon ridding of their existence.

[@jamesjenkins7887]

My weak half elf bard is some how always the meat shield for my party and just keeps surviving somehow. He also cannot properly operate doors

[@kegginstructure]

In an alternate to D&D, I was a reptilian creature, about 2.66 meters tall. We used a d100 for attributes and other rolls. I had a Strength roll of 100 with a racial bonus of 20 and a bonus roll of 40. Plus I had about a 95 Dexterity, so I was pretty fast. I was about 160 on the 100-point strength scale and very likely to make a hit and had decent odds for a critical hit.. In-game, I would snatch bats and other small creatures out of mid-air or on the ground and eat them raw, usually accompanied by lip-smacking and bone crunching noises. (Since my reptilian ate "ordinary" food raw and with lots of eating noise too, this was no biggie.) Intelligence was average, charisma ... not so good. But Hssalisss (said with a heavy, breathy, hissing sound) would eat any small non-human that wandered by. (The rumors about missing halflings were totally unfounded.) My weapon was a metal-handled 20-pound sledge hammer. Human armor usually didn't withstand the first blow because with that extra height, I had a lot of leverage. I even shattered a couple of humanoid automata in one session. Eventually I had to abandon Hssalisss when our DM entered grad school and just didn't have the hours it took to run the campaign any more.

[@Eshiay]

I made a goblin sorcerer disguised as a maid. They had a sack of soap and would give them to people that they thought were trash.

[@rickmarinara5179]

How my Cleric Goliath was forcefully chosen by Talos, exiled from his tribe, and has a very low charisma because of it. Is happening in my first campaign when I got told no chaotic evil characters by the dm

[@dragonriderabens9761]

I've probably mentioned Bert on this channel before, but god damn it, I'll do it again Bert was my Dragonborn Barbarian's best friend and eternal companion...eternal, because he was a bear skull no, he wasn't magical in anyway, my character was just crazy, and thought he was (insert Castaway "Willson" reference here) My dragonborn would even spend money on food and drinks for him Yes, it went that deep Bert would, of course, never eat it, but my dragonborn either never noticed, cared or simply didn't think anything of it

[@nofacekyoya6705]

My Eldritch Knight Wizard wizard, HATED the Gods and he would denounce them everytime. Once in court they asked him to swear upon the gods and firmly stated he didn’t believe in them.

[@severedwolf5778]

My 1st D&D I joined my Brothers Group who had 3 seasoned players me make it. I had not a clue how to even make a basic character sheet so with a lot of patience. I made Sharpbeard my My ex- alcoholic Fighter/eldritch Knight Dwarf. His background was leaving his mountain believing every time he drank alcohol he was being poisoned. To the point every time he did drink alcohol would have 1d4 psychic damage upon him but still had his poison resistance (dwarf trait) He was rather fun character to play because whenever everyone would all offer a Drink or would try a drink that had Alcohol (D.M would throw it out now and again random Npcs and players would ask to slip in a whisky shot-slight of hand checks ...and passed ) I/He would scream off this massive angry rants of how he'd be poisoned unreadable paranoid Spouts of madness Bare fist brawls and to be honest Minor bad deeds I/he peed in a guard hemit etc. But all in good Spirits. And pretty much there for any drink that would be offered him would be meet with a perception check...fail so many times. It was quite a larg running gag since myself is a ex alcoholic it was kind of fun to remind myself even a dwarf can have a bad day with a drink. It helped in So many Good way and even share mine and Sharpbeard drinkin problem/long recovery. Still a lot of Adventure to go and I'm drink free apart from blue moons and Handled So much better Than before 😀 thanks hope you enjoy the read & Smile there Free ! (ps true story 👍)

[@allanday3807]

Barbarian dwarf that was allergic to alcohol. Also used his war hammer to knock on doors.

[@randomloser5271]

On my groups very first campaign, (where I was the DM) my friend wanted to play a deep gnomb who used to be a banker who cut all ties and faked their death, running off with all their valuables in retirement to adventure. Since she's a deep gnomb, we all unanimously decided that it would be funny if she didn't know any common. Therefore, we invented the idea that our human of the party's second language was gnomish to be the deep gnome's paid translator. but the translator HATES gnomes, and always translates things wrong, but the deep gnome doesn't know the difference and still pays the human.

[@Cyko67]

My rogue owns a pet mouse that now has sunglasses for having survived a paralytic agent meant for horses, and having killed at least 3 birds including a hawk, a vulture, and an eagle.

[@mayrazarate3115]

Tabaxi with a cat nip addiction Who treated it like a weed addiction. Even had dealers with the criminal background. Loved role-playing that taxi but she was too op And my buddy doesn’t let me role-play to Tabaxis anymore in his campaigns

[@Mr3cman]

my kobold sorcerer fears large flying beasts, if we ever get into a fight involving one he gets the frightened condition as long one is around

[@whitewolf8780]

This was originally supposed to be for roleplay only but thanks to the dm it became so much more, my character vallen died suddenly and unexpectedly so the dm let me resurrect him in any way I saw fit and the first thing that came to mind was a warforged with vallens soul in it, we also made another character dwelling within the body who was only meant to be a voice in vallens head but now is his own character with a character sheet and everything, so now vallen is constantly having to wrestle control over the body to prevent it from doing harm

[@danadnauseam]

One of the characters I'm looking for a campaign for is a human rogue who never speaks in public. Basically, the idea is putting Harpo Marx into D&D.

[@sleepdeprived6860]

Watching dnd videos makes me wish that I had the chance of playing dnd once

[@Lord_Inquisitor_William7391]

Had a character who really liked jems. They didn't steal any but they did buy them from the outher players when they got them". They would rather have jems then coins.

[@douglasnysether7963]

Not too crazy but I've been playing the same sorcerer at several different levels for years in various campaigns. If you pay close attention to him, he is always taking something from the scene of a battle. It can be anything from an enchanted item to a puddle of goo from the inside of a beast. If you pay even closer attention, he has a rune inscribed on each palm. It is a rune of sending that transports anything they touch to an enchanted shack that is in constant motion and never in the same place twice. The inside of the shack must truly be a sight to behold full of magical items and rare spell components. The quirk is that he is completely aware of his quirk of sending random stuff there and after 200 years of sending anything and everything there at random, he is now afraid to ever go there. Who knows what could be in there waiting to jump out and kill him??

[@bebssz]

my party has a gnome that instantly paralyzes when he sees a hot guy. we have a gay panicking gnome.

[@triforcehero6264]

I recently made a life domain cleric who worships the god, Helm, and was an inquisitor against the undead. That was, until he died. Now, he is a skeleton who is coming to terms that he is what he swore to destroy.

[@Azriclu]

Hmm, darn all my roleplay has a functional purpose, just fun I've neglected. But these are amazing

[@Seriph7]

I rolled above an 18 for 4 rolls in a row to stealth parachute onto a prison, using the parachute as a sort of reverse box from metal gear to block the guards vision. Who went about their conversation as normal. Their was a narrative. But ya know. Rule of cool.

[@hiroshock]

A human alchemist name Lemorn Phesh who drunk a very dangerous and hard to make potion. The potion randomly changes him to different races for about half a day but he doesn't get all of the benefits like dark vision. I have yet to play him and hopes to play someday.

[@Forest9528]

So this quirk sin for role play at all and its actually more just a little memey thing I do with every character which all the people I play with know about and love. Every single character I make has an irrational of walking through doors first in the party. This is because my first ever character I made died to 3 bug bears who were hiding behind a door that I just waltzed through and so the replacement character I made had this fear of walking through doors first as a joke and for some reason simce then I've just continued with th a theme with all my characters and they all show it in a different way. For example if I'm a barbarian or a fighter then my character will just get a little sweaty and anxious but if I'm a squishy wizard or sorcerer I will straight up not enter the room until somebody else has first

[@katiefield5913]

Had my character Johnnathan Doethra (half elf) former chef of his family's inn afraid of magic fire indoors due to dueling magic users burning down family's inn. Follower of lira (Cleric trying to figure out which of revelry, family or travel he was best suited for... flavoured holy water to non flammable holy wine and kitchen based tools for magic weapons) . Envious of fire resistance (brother theifling chef and his brothers dragonborn kitchen assistant partner) .planning on creating a family owned beer garden inn /temple for lira if the game continued....

[@robertjaymot3403]

My character has horrific nightmares from when his entire tribe was sacrificed to a evil god right in front of him and as his time as a slave and as a result he finds comfort in liquor so he can sleep at night.

[@funnyblog100]

My sorcerer wears a mask to cover up the fact that he only has half a face left. My shadow sorcerer got it in an accident that claimed his life but managed to strike a deal with the goddess of death and came back as an undead minion of hers.

[@ChetShaut]

Haven't played it yet but a black dragon born paladin that take shots of acid to kill the pain of the lose of his unit

[@chamacreator]

I think most of my characters have had some sort of role play thing to them, though not all of them have been obvious. My barbarian, Ruby Tepes, was from a family of spellcasters, but couldn't use most magic items at all. Like, if an item had a passive effect or was something simple, like her signature Shoes of Returning, she was fine, but she couldn't use the more complicated things, like the dragon amulet that the party won in a tournament and the other players gave her. Too bad for the rest of the party, none of them bothered to ask why she never used it until we got stranded in the desert. It pissed the other barbarian off something awful that she didn't use the amulet, and everyone was completely baffled when Ruby flat out told them that she was never able to use the thing in the first place. In comparison to that, my sugar addicted kobold druid, Sugilite "Sugi" Sparkscale, just has an endless supply of cookies and has yet to buy anything besides sweets for herself.

[@arkslippyjunior7773]

In my first campaign my religious, goliath barbarian who couldn't read. So he had to have other party members read his holy book to him

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

I have a tiefling sorceress who’s a charlatan who was trying to infiltrate the elite of Waterdeep for years by pretending to be deposed royalty from a series of countries that she made up This went on to mixed success but she did end up with a pretty good knowledge of the city when she met the group, too bad she didn’t really have anything good on like how the rich people’s security systems worked so the party could steal from them, but she could tell you where the best pastry shops are and how to properly hail a taxi When she was in pretending to be royal mode she’d have a really proper British accent but when she was off the clock she had a very thick New York accent

[@Nordic-Adventure]

Had a Loongtooth shifter Barbarian who always were out looking for a meal and would never let food go to waste, turned out it helped advance the plot and send us out to locate the killer of another PC's newly killed brother when I ate posioned food the NPC hadn't finished

[@yogurtofthemultiverse2200]

l o o n g t o o t h

[@geoDB.]

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[@horstwilliams3936]

I had a barbarian Goliath with a 5 in int so ever time I come up with a plan we roll a d20 and see how much my character would be able to actually get

[@tonysmith3232]

My wizard hated thieves, but had an odd respect for con artists.

[@mtgelfbombmaster4232]

Ok so I have an idea for a halfling fighter his name is Grissledorph his back story is that when he was a young child his home was attacked by bandits in the attack as a young child he managed to kill one of the bandits saving his mother so when his father finds out he gives him the nickname Grissledorph the giant Slayer well he's not the sharpest tool in the shed so now he thinks humans are giants and that he is human

[@oldrustyfishscalerman]

I want to play as a duck but doesn’t want people to know they are a duck

[@KBgamer2010]

So this is a futuristic Reskinned pathfinder game I'm currently a part of We're doing a Gestalt game and I play a Human Fighter/Paladin (Shielded Fighter/Sacred Shield) and he's focused around Using a shield as his weapon. Despite the fact he's a paladin, He absolutely refuses to kill his foe even if they're evil as all hell (With the exception of undead like zombies, ghouls, shadows ect (not including vampires)) and decides to deal nonlethal damage at all times. Essentially he beats his foes into submission in order to win Think Goku mixed with Captain America All this is strictly RP

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

wouldn't a chair for centaurs just be a bench

[@knifegun1064]

I made a character called gomo the gnome that was addicted to sugar

[@johnlandry1218]

His weapons would merge to make one weapon

[@alexanderthegreat6682]

Favored enemy was dwarves and humans because my elf character was a cannibal and also slightly racist

[@Nikitolaz096]

My first character was ulvek A goblin oath of vengeance paladin of kelemvor (human God of death) He was a normal goblin whose cave was invaded by a necromancer and the kelemvor followers hunting him He started role-playing as a paladin fighting the undead in the cave until one of these paladins found him hilarious and adopted him Now he unleashed a 5ft bundle of righteous green rage with a massive hate boner for the undead. I loved him

[@geoDB.]

I asked

[@FatManThor953]

It's uncle brian

[@AvarageAlaskan123]

Can anyone teach me dnd I’m new and I want to get into it

[@Deadawesome2019]

Hi

[@geoDB.]

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[@coledibiase1777]

Hello.

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Trinston was here..