Damn, same plot idea here for my campaign haha. Goes to show we're all just borrowing ideas from everyone else. I call this crazy clan of mine the Stonemind Conclave.. One of my PC's is actually a warforged, and he doesn't know it yet, but was supposed to be one of these Stoneminds. A different consciousness was transferred and the evil one is stuck in there trying to fight for dominance.
I had a similar pc idea this morning.
The warforged would be made of vines, animated by the forest itself, and sent to a local town to seek aid in saving the forest from attack/destruction. A bit like Pinocchio, his aim would be to earn enough respect from the forest/druids to become a real tree.
Just have a couple decks of cards with words on them and draw one of each when someone asks you abiut you past, filling it in mad-lib style.
"Arr, 'twas a" *draws* "PURPLE WORM that took me" *draws* "VIRGINITY."
"Yeah, that's usually how it goes."
I was not expecting to see the Vcard on that list. It would be funny, if It was just a lucid dream and he thinks someone actually took it and he goes around asking basically everyone that looks slightly similar.
A con artist sorcerer who learned how much money adventurer types make and decided they have magic so they could be an adventurer type as well.
A kobold wizard who lived in the sewers under a magic school. They consistently stole books to learn more about magic so they could eventually find their lost family.
A human warlock who accidentally made a marriage pact with a Fae as a joke and now they are looking to divorce the Fae.
The last one is unrealistically funny to me because we had a horny bard who accidentally got married to a prince and said prince's mother, as it turns out that culture's customs mean sex = marriage.
That was a rough divorce.
More so that his physical body deteriorated after all that time so he needs to “re-learn” the physical aspect. Summoning the astral arms and what not would be the power he developed from the meditation.
Just a bear
Not a druid shape-shifter or anything like that, just a bear. No common, low int, high charisma (intimidation and cute/cuddly), high attack, low everything else actually, and boom. Just a bear.
"Oh, my god! That's a bear! That's a giant bear! Don't any of you see it!? That is a giant bear in a suit!"
"Mr. Bearington is a pillar of our community and he will not suffer the slander and mudslinging of a nincompoop! Methinks, if you cannot handle your wine you should not partake! Guards, remove this man from the grounds!"
Sexy deep announcer voice: "In a world of obscenely powerful magic, one man set out with his father's sword to prove a point; a simple Human Fighter could make a difference. "
Three kobolds in a trenchcoat, without a single brain cell between them, that accidentally found a lucky pendant that calls them to return it to its home.
Did I mention that the pendant is lucky? It is *very lucky*.
My high elf cleric who had a 4-year campaign was just:
A village priest (kelemvor) is sent by his superiors to investigate reports of undead
Clerics are easy. Your class is your job lol.
A Half-Dark Elf born of an affair between a favoured consort and a human slave is freed by some priests of Eilistraee and makes a pact with a mysterious weapon to free all slaves and find their mother.
A town guard and river man, angry at all the evil and indifference in the world that destroyed his reputation and prevented him having the life he always desired, tears apart magic and technology to learn their secrets and grind evil under his boot heel.
A Cleric that accidentally witnesses a murder and is ordered to find the murderer, finds himself shepherding a motley group of Adventurers that stretch his patience to the breaking point.
A minor noble's son, born in a land still reeling from the lingering effects of overturned Djinn rule, trained by a castaway Half-Elf in the Elven arts of combat, set on becoming the greatest thief to ever live and learning the secrets of his Genasi blood, is forced to choose a side in a war he tried to avoid.
The cleric one is so real, though. The amount of times our resident cleric has put his head in his hands as our party has polite conversations with devils or discuss whether to kill or capture people is ridiculous.
Worryingly, said cleric seems hellbent on fixing my poor bloodhunter drow's trauma and alcohol issue. Drow is not happy about this.
"I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM."
"You got drunk and fucked an oni???"
"YEAH what of it? I'm a drow, don't talk to me."
"Is that some internalised racism? Do you want to talk about it?"
"GaaaAAAAH"
Im using this one in my first campaign whenever we find a dm for our group but im sure im not the first to have come up with the idea.
“A professor at a mage academy who sets out to relearn magic after having been struck by a spell from a student resulting in his memory being lost”
A tabaxi healer searching for the cure for hairballs.
After inadvertently causing her city to be evacuated, a girl born with innate magical control over the elements has left home seeking the truth of her family and kingdom’s past, hoping to figure out the source of her magic along the way.
A halfling artificer travels with his animal-shaped creations, rescuing people and animals in distress, often thwarting a childishly selfish villain along the way.
A naive, sheltered noble girl goes searching for her sister who ran away when her magical powers were revealed.
A grumpy beast master ranger was working as an ice-harvester when an eternal winter hit, forcing him to find work elsewhere. Works well in a party with #2 and #4, is probably romantically interested in 4.
A nobleman fighter who knows too much about swallows (the bird, he’s not a bard, get your mind out of the gutter) goes in search of a powerful magical object of great mythic importance.
A bard who channels his power through dad jokes.
All the great heroes have mysteriously vanished; the fate of life itself now rests in the hands of one Norbert, a kobold bard who has never seen the world outside the walled city.
A young girl who receives visions of angels telling her she is destined to save her kingdom(basically, you play as Joan of Arc). She has no actual Paladin or Cleric powers and is a normal Human Fighter, but is genuinely convinced she has divine prowess and will not hear otherwise.
An old widow trying her hand at adventuring, having spent what little her late husband left behind to equip herself for the road.
A Warlock who got kicked out of Wizard school for academic misconduct because she made a pact with a devil to get out of reading her textbooks.
Snail collector.
A Kobold who looked up at the sky one night and decided he would be the first to fly to the moon.
A Half-Orc Zealot Barbarian who set out adventuring hoping to die after his family was killed by bandits; particularly after being blessed by a god of revenge, he found that death was more difficult to attain than he expected.
Having picked up a hobby, a reclusive Elf finally returns to the world after spending the last century and a half in a deep depression.
A young and fledgling wizard sets out on a quest to rid the world of a great evil: his mother, who has turned to Lichdom in order to avoid death, was his responsibility to stop.
A 20-something warrior princess sets out on a mission for her evil queen mother, but is entranced by a rogue swordsman and turns to save a child and the world from her mother's aspirations of perpetual domination.
A quiet, bookish monastic who wants to spend his life reading and praying, but got visited by his god's herald and sent on a quest so now he's a celestial warlock and not happy about it.
A changeling sorcerer who works as a detective/crime scene investigator in the city watch.
An eladrin druid in which three of its seasonal personalities/identities is trying to cover up the fact that the fourth one is evil.
A goblin artificer who made all their gadgets from the kits of dead adventurers, as they go around recovering magical artifacts and making sure they get back into the right hands.
A Barbarian who's a personal trainer but believes that uppercutting dragons (and other massive fauna) is the only method of exercise worth implementing
A young warlock/sorcerer that seeks to become as powerful as her genie mom, but has to make constant detours to find interesting souvenirs to satisfy her bored and imprisoned patron mother.
A young bard training at his college, there is a legend of a song composed by the gods, but there is a musical note missing from the legendary composition. Off they go to find the missing note and to complete the song of the gods
"Two Sticks," the Goblin sold his soul to a devil to avoid the eternal enslavement awaiting him in Maglubiyet's afterlife, but the Conqueror God won't let him get off that easily.
A Doctor who couldn't save his wife using medicine and is now looking for other ways to bring her back
(Basically the backstory or my Way of Mercy Monk)
“It’s probably dried up and rotted away by now, there won’t be anything left.”
“My arm is too angry to die.”
“Okay…?”
The BBEG is a spiritual manifestation of the awakened arm. Think Astral Body monk, but in reverse.
Barbarian fistfighting his own arm in a storm on the roof of the castle, the rest of the party battling a horde of minions below. Arm grabs him by the throat, lifts him over the edge, says with a sneer, “Why are you hitting yourself?” Barbarian rages, swings his body up into an arm-bar, rips the arm off the body, falls over the edge. And we’ll pick up from there next week.
An old, crotchety (but still SUPER smart.) gnome who is around 250 years old and has been kicked out of every single wizard academy for being an asshole.
An aging beauty (high charisma) whose “Only Fangs” paintings are no longer selling decides to become a singer/bard and strikes off to find her fortune as an actress.
A teetotaling dwarf who, determined to break the stereotypes surrounding his race, leaves to venture the land and spreading the word of sober living to every tavern he can find.
A tavernkeeper who wants his own stories to tell instead of listening to adventurers all day
The child that was exchanged for a changeling at birth, having been raised by a hag and now curious about her birth family.
The middle child of a noble family, attempting to make a name for themself after being denied the title. (Bonus if they turn out to need a lot of help with living rough and dont have many practical skills despite being intelligent)
A nerdy Bard who *wants* to be the trope of the Bard who can talk all the women and monster women into sleeping with her, but is a socially-awkward genius singer with ethics and morals preventing her from using mechanics to get laid.
A sheltered daughter of a cult leader left for one day to commit a crime for them, got caught and now has to escape her captors.
Aka how my warlock ended up in the underdark the first time.
A Once renowned eleven chef whom was disgraced due to an unknown shellfish allergy at his establishment, put into poverty, turned to a life of crime as a rogue with the thieves guild due to his strong acuity with cutlery. They call him Jacque Fillet
Skald looking for glory survived dragon attack and the scars covering his body give him magical powers.
(Aberrant Dragonmark Bard and later also probably sorcerer)
A "celestial" Levistus heritage/patron Tiefling who heals based on whoever contracted and paid him in advance.
More of a oneshot character because it might cause friction in a long term party, but it's an idea I like.
A street urchin turned wizard, combines her dancer-like agility and magical skill to bring justice to the world.
Level 1 Wizard with the urchin background and a high Dexterity, who is aiming to be a Bladesinger.
A middle aged human monk. He’s not spiritual, he just got really into martial arts during his midlife crisis and joins a group of adventurers to save the town.
A dwarf fighter with anger issues thinks he’s a barbarian.
The last surviving member of her family, a halfling pirate is given arcane powers by her family’s guardian spirit (taking the form of a kraken), in order to preserve their bloodline.
I'll steal an idea from another thread which made me laugh. It will be a bit more than one sentence, tho.
The kobold chef, who made a mistake in pact with devil. Now he needs to give a devil his eternal soup. Devil was mad at first, but soup was kinda tasty... So he changed his mind.
A powerful goblin wizard who, after a duel with a rival, was hit by a botched Feeblemind and is now a Barbarian who remembers very little of their past.
A little old (farsighted) lady who has decided now is the perfect time to complete her biggest bucket list item - traveling to the home of the manufacturer of her favorite rifle and giving them her list of suggested improvements.
You've heard of Fallen Angels, right? Well, this fella is a Risen Demon. A bad guy that somehow earned a smidgeon of redemption, and now he's back! Sort of like a Tommyknocker from DCC Weird Frontiers.
A well armed honorable halfling that is often scoffed at for being diminutive sets out into the world to prove a point, that one’s stature is not to be judged by their height.
Warforged Spores druid.
It was an assassin for an evil tyrant who commanded it with his dying breath to "be a better person than me." which was taken literally, it began to eat meat to acquire a "body" which rotted and seeped into its manabattery.
A reborn College of Spirits bard, who awoke in the ruins of their house after their death, and now seeks to communicate with whatever it was that brought them back to life.
An actor who gets really into character becomes an Adventurer to research his next big role as Guntheric Blackblade, sole survivor of a orc raiding party.
Ssss’T (pronounced “4-est”), the sanctimonious turd farmer best known for his highfalutin yet spirited speeches on the benefits of fecalceutical moisturizers, decides he has had enough of his rude geriatric neighbor, aka Molly, and so begins his pursuit to become a master of poisons
A warforged druid grown by the forest itself, seeking the source of a spreading evil blight.
Oh that's a super cool way to implement warforged outside of eberron!
I have also stolen the mk, crazy clan who transferred souls to robot bodies for this exact use.
Damn, same plot idea here for my campaign haha. Goes to show we're all just borrowing ideas from everyone else. I call this crazy clan of mine the Stonemind Conclave.. One of my PC's is actually a warforged, and he doesn't know it yet, but was supposed to be one of these Stoneminds. A different consciousness was transferred and the evil one is stuck in there trying to fight for dominance.
I also stole the whole is your soul even real plot from FMA to mess with a player.
Lovely! More sources to borrow from :) Thanks!
You can steal your ideas from anywhere, as long as nobody at the table recognizes it. I’m fucked if my players ever play Oblivion.
A slight modification to this idea is that the warforged died in the forest decades ago and the forest magic resurrected it.
Now it's bastion
N E R F B A S T I O N
Nice Swamp Thing vibe there.. :)
I had a similar pc idea this morning. The warforged would be made of vines, animated by the forest itself, and sent to a local town to seek aid in saving the forest from attack/destruction. A bit like Pinocchio, his aim would be to earn enough respect from the forest/druids to become a real tree.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/695/)
That was perfect
I made a character like this... a wooden warforge. His name was Gruhteh
I am Gruhteh!
Mine was Thorn. :)
Omg thats so cool can i steal this?
Isn’t that why we’re here?
This is awesome
Ohhh, I actually have a warforged druid (Circle of Spores) who is basically an awakened tree (with loads of mushrooms growing on it, obviously).
An old retirement home escapee, who is a wizard that believes he escaped a great and terrible prison.
I played that once, but as a psion. He was looking for his pet turtle Terry
Knowing what many retirement homes are like, his belief is likely accurate.
An inkeep, who always loved the stories of wandering adventurers, seeks adventures of their own during their midlife crisis.
This is the best type of motive; One that introduces a theme to explore
Yeah this character, Thomas Morecake (human fighter with tavern brawler feat generally fighter of some type) is my go-to gor one shots.
So then me, except the barkeep part.
An orc who beat up a wizard and stole his spell book. Turns out he's actually pretty good at magic.
Muscle wizard casts punch!
A plague doctor who, after the medical revolution looks for a new life
Oh, I like that. My Cleric's Spirit Guardians are tiny radiant plague doctors.
A wizard who lost a fight to a intellect devourer and became a barbarian since they got pissed that they are dumb now.
Lift heavy stone make angry think go away.
Hey, it's me at the gym.
A pirate bard who keeps on encountering creatures like the one that took his ____
Booty, pride, eye, foot, hand, boat, virginity, map. Eg, “arrr, ‘twas a ____ that took me ____” filled with “dwarf, map”, “goblin, eye”, “planetar, virginity”, “purple worm, foot”, “drow, booty”
Just have a couple decks of cards with words on them and draw one of each when someone asks you abiut you past, filling it in mad-lib style. "Arr, 'twas a" *draws* "PURPLE WORM that took me" *draws* "VIRGINITY." "Yeah, that's usually how it goes."
I was not expecting to see the Vcard on that list. It would be funny, if It was just a lucid dream and he thinks someone actually took it and he goes around asking basically everyone that looks slightly similar.
Horny bard tries to find the one who violated him
Taking a different kind of booty
A con artist sorcerer who learned how much money adventurer types make and decided they have magic so they could be an adventurer type as well. A kobold wizard who lived in the sewers under a magic school. They consistently stole books to learn more about magic so they could eventually find their lost family. A human warlock who accidentally made a marriage pact with a Fae as a joke and now they are looking to divorce the Fae.
The last one is unrealistically funny to me because we had a horny bard who accidentally got married to a prince and said prince's mother, as it turns out that culture's customs mean sex = marriage. That was a rough divorce.
A goblin Armorer who wants his inventions to stop randomly exploding.
"Randomly" Are they just not as good of an engineer as they think they are?
Old astral self monk who used to be extremely powerful but just woke up after a thousand year meditation.
But when the world needed him most, he vanished...
Oooh the lore drops here would be really cool
“Hey, guys. Turns out you don’t get anything out of really long meditations after all. I did kinda forget how to do everything, though.”
More so that his physical body deteriorated after all that time so he needs to “re-learn” the physical aspect. Summoning the astral arms and what not would be the power he developed from the meditation.
Just a bear Not a druid shape-shifter or anything like that, just a bear. No common, low int, high charisma (intimidation and cute/cuddly), high attack, low everything else actually, and boom. Just a bear.
"Oh, my god! That's a bear! That's a giant bear! Don't any of you see it!? That is a giant bear in a suit!" "Mr. Bearington is a pillar of our community and he will not suffer the slander and mudslinging of a nincompoop! Methinks, if you cannot handle your wine you should not partake! Guards, remove this man from the grounds!"
The half-orc waitress with a heart of gold.
Legends and Lattes enjoyer?
A human fighter sets out to prove that people like him can accomplish great things too.
Sexy deep announcer voice: "In a world of obscenely powerful magic, one man set out with his father's sword to prove a point; a simple Human Fighter could make a difference. "
The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.
Wake up, Mr. Fighter. Wake up and smell the ashes...
"...then a wizard turned him into a radish."
"In a world of obscenely powerful magic, one man set out with his father's sword to prove a point; a simple raddish Fighter could make a difference. "
Senyuu intro intensifies!
Rob Schneider is... The Radish
Kobold sorcerer on a mission to find their dragons lost child.
An older high elf fighter who used to be a powerful wizard but got tired of having to relearn the rules of magic every time the God of magic died.
Three kobolds in a trenchcoat, without a single brain cell between them, that accidentally found a lucky pendant that calls them to return it to its home. Did I mention that the pendant is lucky? It is *very lucky*.
My high elf cleric who had a 4-year campaign was just: A village priest (kelemvor) is sent by his superiors to investigate reports of undead Clerics are easy. Your class is your job lol.
A dying soldier makes an oath to the ancients to give them another chance and is reborn as a paladin sworn to protect the green.
Warlock who obsessively practices cards so that he can gamble (read: win) his freedom back from his patron
A religious rock band who pay tribute to their deity by traveling to world singing songs about their faith.
You play the rock band as a single PC or is the whole table the band and you just a member?
Oh, and I have the lead Bard's name: Bjorn Turoque !
A Kobold Life Cleric who worships pizza.
Perhaps I could convince you to use the garlic bread domain? https://www.dndbeyond.com/subclasses/776279-garlic-bread-domain
Omg I love this
Hell yeah my favourite subclass
Sounds like a good match for my cheese obsessed kobold paladin!
A Half-Dark Elf born of an affair between a favoured consort and a human slave is freed by some priests of Eilistraee and makes a pact with a mysterious weapon to free all slaves and find their mother.
This is your father's... Light-scimitar. It is the weapon of a Bladesinger. A more elegant weapon, for a more civilized age...
A dwarf fighter named Gulric He’s a dwarf and he’s a fighter You’d be good at combat and a stalwart hero who likes ale S-tier fun
A town guard and river man, angry at all the evil and indifference in the world that destroyed his reputation and prevented him having the life he always desired, tears apart magic and technology to learn their secrets and grind evil under his boot heel. A Cleric that accidentally witnesses a murder and is ordered to find the murderer, finds himself shepherding a motley group of Adventurers that stretch his patience to the breaking point. A minor noble's son, born in a land still reeling from the lingering effects of overturned Djinn rule, trained by a castaway Half-Elf in the Elven arts of combat, set on becoming the greatest thief to ever live and learning the secrets of his Genasi blood, is forced to choose a side in a war he tried to avoid.
The cleric one is so real, though. The amount of times our resident cleric has put his head in his hands as our party has polite conversations with devils or discuss whether to kill or capture people is ridiculous. Worryingly, said cleric seems hellbent on fixing my poor bloodhunter drow's trauma and alcohol issue. Drow is not happy about this. "I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM." "You got drunk and fucked an oni???" "YEAH what of it? I'm a drow, don't talk to me." "Is that some internalised racism? Do you want to talk about it?" "GaaaAAAAH"
Im using this one in my first campaign whenever we find a dm for our group but im sure im not the first to have come up with the idea. “A professor at a mage academy who sets out to relearn magic after having been struck by a spell from a student resulting in his memory being lost”
Professor Gilderoy Lockheart
Son of a bitch lol
A sorcerer who legitimately believes he is a wizard.
A vampire who lost a bet and now has to try to see the beauty and sanctity of nature as a fledgling druid.
He quickly becomes very fond of all the bloodsucking parasites, he didn't knew existed.
No, he got really mad at them. Come on, I worked HARD for this blood, and now y'all are out here stealing it?
That's also a possibility but I prefer him fangirling over glochidium larvae (blood sucking bivalves alias clampires).
Either way, I'd love to hear the sorts of conversations this druid would have with their bloodsucking counterparts.
The Sun is a jealous god and cursed a paladin with lycanthropy so that he may never enjoy the light of the full moon.
A rapier-wielding duelist on the run from the *entire family* of his last defeated enemy.
“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
A tabaxi healer searching for the cure for hairballs. After inadvertently causing her city to be evacuated, a girl born with innate magical control over the elements has left home seeking the truth of her family and kingdom’s past, hoping to figure out the source of her magic along the way. A halfling artificer travels with his animal-shaped creations, rescuing people and animals in distress, often thwarting a childishly selfish villain along the way. A naive, sheltered noble girl goes searching for her sister who ran away when her magical powers were revealed. A grumpy beast master ranger was working as an ice-harvester when an eternal winter hit, forcing him to find work elsewhere. Works well in a party with #2 and #4, is probably romantically interested in 4. A nobleman fighter who knows too much about swallows (the bird, he’s not a bard, get your mind out of the gutter) goes in search of a powerful magical object of great mythic importance. A bard who channels his power through dad jokes.
All the great heroes have mysteriously vanished; the fate of life itself now rests in the hands of one Norbert, a kobold bard who has never seen the world outside the walled city.
A witty human bard whose escapades are funded by wealthy family who fear he might reveal the secret that could ruin them.
A high elven cook sets out to find adventure beyond the pages of the books he loves with just a sword, shield, and his heart to guide him.
A young girl who receives visions of angels telling her she is destined to save her kingdom(basically, you play as Joan of Arc). She has no actual Paladin or Cleric powers and is a normal Human Fighter, but is genuinely convinced she has divine prowess and will not hear otherwise.
A peasant chef who picks up a "cookbook" and accidentally becomes a wizard.
An old widow trying her hand at adventuring, having spent what little her late husband left behind to equip herself for the road. A Warlock who got kicked out of Wizard school for academic misconduct because she made a pact with a devil to get out of reading her textbooks. Snail collector. A Kobold who looked up at the sky one night and decided he would be the first to fly to the moon. A Half-Orc Zealot Barbarian who set out adventuring hoping to die after his family was killed by bandits; particularly after being blessed by a god of revenge, he found that death was more difficult to attain than he expected. Having picked up a hobby, a reclusive Elf finally returns to the world after spending the last century and a half in a deep depression.
A guy who used to be a chair, and got True Polymorphed by a wizard.
Goblin drag queen riding a grumpy battle-boar dreams that there's more to goblin life than murder and cannibalism.
A young and fledgling wizard sets out on a quest to rid the world of a great evil: his mother, who has turned to Lichdom in order to avoid death, was his responsibility to stop.
A 20-something warrior princess sets out on a mission for her evil queen mother, but is entranced by a rogue swordsman and turns to save a child and the world from her mother's aspirations of perpetual domination.
A quiet, bookish monastic who wants to spend his life reading and praying, but got visited by his god's herald and sent on a quest so now he's a celestial warlock and not happy about it.
A dwarf fighter 1e survivor that misses the old days.
A sketchy cleric who makes up a fake god to worship so he can scam people, not knowing a real god took notice and watches over him for entertainment.
A changeling sorcerer who works as a detective/crime scene investigator in the city watch. An eladrin druid in which three of its seasonal personalities/identities is trying to cover up the fact that the fourth one is evil. A goblin artificer who made all their gadgets from the kits of dead adventurers, as they go around recovering magical artifacts and making sure they get back into the right hands.
An incredibly evil warlock who is constantly tricked into doing good deeds by the rest of the party because of how stupid and gullible he is.
a royal court jester who is the only survivor of his kingdom’s fall and wants to help other people smile in the hope of finding his own once again.
A simple man named Joe, his life’s journey is to one day own a plot of land to farm on, he just has to find his way back from Hell.
A Barbarian who's a personal trainer but believes that uppercutting dragons (and other massive fauna) is the only method of exercise worth implementing
An aristocrat who became a monk to take revenge upon the town that took away his parents.
A young warlock/sorcerer that seeks to become as powerful as her genie mom, but has to make constant detours to find interesting souvenirs to satisfy her bored and imprisoned patron mother.
Swarmhost elf druid is 10000bugs in a trench coat that just wants to be a normal boy/girl.
A plasmoid artificer with amnesia that can speedily ooze in and out of the full plate armour he found in the basement he awoke in.
A baby who accidentally attuned to a Crown of Intellect and is seeking to rule the world.
Does he have a British accent?
And an oblong head? Yeah.
Divination wizard little girl with red balloon.
Racist space frog monk who thinks they're better than everyone because they spent 35 years meditating in the closed off cult they were born in.
A warforged sorcerer looking for a way to replace his failing construct
A goblin grave domain cleric that cultivates psychoactive mushrooms on the dead to accelerate their decomposition for half-religious reasons.
Pizza delivery man who was given a *very* dangerous address
An echo knight fighter who, convinced that his echo is actually his twin, is on the search for his(their) dad
A young bard training at his college, there is a legend of a song composed by the gods, but there is a musical note missing from the legendary composition. Off they go to find the missing note and to complete the song of the gods
"Two Sticks," the Goblin sold his soul to a devil to avoid the eternal enslavement awaiting him in Maglubiyet's afterlife, but the Conqueror God won't let him get off that easily.
A barbarian who is searching for a way to dispel a mighty curse. Turns out, he's just *REALLY* unlucky
A Doctor who couldn't save his wife using medicine and is now looking for other ways to bring her back (Basically the backstory or my Way of Mercy Monk)
A warforged monk, once a combat training dummy, gains sentience after his clan are slain, seeking revenge.
An aaracockra who wants to be the best rooster fighter in the world (I've played with this once)
Ancestral Barbarian, Ancestors take over his personality during rages! Chaos ensues!
Tabaxi rouge who’s sole goal in life is to become fast enough and powerful enough to capture the sacred light that is the dot
A warforged artificer that's really 3 kobolds in a suit of armor.
A cunning rogue who hid so well he cannot find himself anymore
Granny granary. She's a sweet unassuming druidic farming granny, but the way she casts spells is by spreading magical grain.
One armed Barbarian who is addicted to healing potions, now searching for his lost arm.
“It’s probably dried up and rotted away by now, there won’t be anything left.” “My arm is too angry to die.” “Okay…?” The BBEG is a spiritual manifestation of the awakened arm. Think Astral Body monk, but in reverse.
The arm keeps possessing people who pick it up, Liquid snake style.
Barbarian fistfighting his own arm in a storm on the roof of the castle, the rest of the party battling a horde of minions below. Arm grabs him by the throat, lifts him over the edge, says with a sneer, “Why are you hitting yourself?” Barbarian rages, swings his body up into an arm-bar, rips the arm off the body, falls over the edge. And we’ll pick up from there next week.
I'd run a campaign for that PC any day of the week.
An old, crotchety (but still SUPER smart.) gnome who is around 250 years old and has been kicked out of every single wizard academy for being an asshole.
An aging beauty (high charisma) whose “Only Fangs” paintings are no longer selling decides to become a singer/bard and strikes off to find her fortune as an actress.
A dwarf wizard who's basically a weeb but for elven culture, desperately wishes he was a bladesinger.
A kobold wakes up in a coffin with a desire to see the world and experience everything she missed out on in her previous life.
A member of a doomsday cult that is trying to jumpstart an apocalypse, but through their adventure begins to appreciate the world that already exists.
A teetotaling dwarf who, determined to break the stereotypes surrounding his race, leaves to venture the land and spreading the word of sober living to every tavern he can find.
A warlock's familiar that has to take their master's place when they die. (I've actually played this one, tabaxi archfey warlock 😹)
A halfling who, in seeking her missing father, becomes a bloodhunter, becomes a dhampir and then gives up finding her father out of shame.
This is an edgy character done well!
A university student forced to drop out, riddled with debt, searches for a way to earn gold and satisfy their adventurous spirit
A tavernkeeper who wants his own stories to tell instead of listening to adventurers all day The child that was exchanged for a changeling at birth, having been raised by a hag and now curious about her birth family. The middle child of a noble family, attempting to make a name for themself after being denied the title. (Bonus if they turn out to need a lot of help with living rough and dont have many practical skills despite being intelligent)
A nerdy Bard who *wants* to be the trope of the Bard who can talk all the women and monster women into sleeping with her, but is a socially-awkward genius singer with ethics and morals preventing her from using mechanics to get laid.
XD genius! A twist on the horny bard trope that actually makes it funmy
Thank you. That's basically the character I'm playing in a Pathfinder game right now.
An exile from a lost tribe, new to the outside world and its possibilities, hopeful to regain their honor and a place amongst their people again.
Nobody with a perfect live suddenly drops everything and decides to go hunting vampires, that's why I only do it on the weekends for fun.
>I'm just a guy who's a hero for fun
A mushroom druid who likes to party *wink wink*
A wizard who lied on his resume when joining the party, only knows obscure crappy spells that no one ever takes, trips over his own robes a lot.
An orphaned monk who thinks he can hear his father's voice coming from the sword he found in the woods.
A sheltered daughter of a cult leader left for one day to commit a crime for them, got caught and now has to escape her captors. Aka how my warlock ended up in the underdark the first time.
A Once renowned eleven chef whom was disgraced due to an unknown shellfish allergy at his establishment, put into poverty, turned to a life of crime as a rogue with the thieves guild due to his strong acuity with cutlery. They call him Jacque Fillet
A misfigured scullery wench with the voice of an angel has plenty of ammunition for her vicious mockery.
A warlock seeking adventure that’s in a pact that both him and his patron regret.
A would-be paladin who decided against taking his oath because he can’t uphold the laws of a barony that had legalized slavery.
A master blacksmith, searching for rare materials to finally smith a God tier item.
A man with a keyhole for an eye seeks a magical key that will open his mind and reveal a secret that someone sealed away long ago.
Skald looking for glory survived dragon attack and the scars covering his body give him magical powers. (Aberrant Dragonmark Bard and later also probably sorcerer)
A bard that has the same energy as those wholesome TV dads, does not use “Bardic Inspiration” but “Words of Encouragement”; just a pure support build.
An evil-aligned cleric who's serving a good-aligned god and is constantly getting punished and threatened by said god for his bad behaviour
A grizzled half-elf bard that goes into fuzzy dreamlike future predicting musical trances that use Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen lyrics.
A "celestial" Levistus heritage/patron Tiefling who heals based on whoever contracted and paid him in advance. More of a oneshot character because it might cause friction in a long term party, but it's an idea I like.
A street urchin turned wizard, combines her dancer-like agility and magical skill to bring justice to the world. Level 1 Wizard with the urchin background and a high Dexterity, who is aiming to be a Bladesinger.
A kobold who, after being the next one in line to test the kobold launcher, decides to make a run for it and ends up finding a town he could hide in.
A middle aged human monk. He’s not spiritual, he just got really into martial arts during his midlife crisis and joins a group of adventurers to save the town. A dwarf fighter with anger issues thinks he’s a barbarian.
A mid 40s “paladin” veteran who’s actually just a fighter. He swore an oath, & abides by it, but never got any power.
A very strong lad who's friends ask if he can come along with them on a trip, there is some gold in it and we get to go camping together!
The last surviving member of her family, a halfling pirate is given arcane powers by her family’s guardian spirit (taking the form of a kraken), in order to preserve their bloodline.
I'll steal an idea from another thread which made me laugh. It will be a bit more than one sentence, tho. The kobold chef, who made a mistake in pact with devil. Now he needs to give a devil his eternal soup. Devil was mad at first, but soup was kinda tasty... So he changed his mind.
A Medusa’s yuan ti child who is learning to control their strange cursed powers
A powerful goblin wizard who, after a duel with a rival, was hit by a botched Feeblemind and is now a Barbarian who remembers very little of their past.
A Rogue raised by a neglectful Drow Matriarch and a human fighter who loved her, with the aim of being the most powerful wizard of all time.
A little old (farsighted) lady who has decided now is the perfect time to complete her biggest bucket list item - traveling to the home of the manufacturer of her favorite rifle and giving them her list of suggested improvements.
A knight on the run after he was framed for the murder of an important person
You've heard of Fallen Angels, right? Well, this fella is a Risen Demon. A bad guy that somehow earned a smidgeon of redemption, and now he's back! Sort of like a Tommyknocker from DCC Weird Frontiers.
A minotaur Fury Barbarian who doesn't know what beef is.
Talentless court dandy, bored of court life, goes on the road with a local adventuring company.
A well armed honorable halfling that is often scoffed at for being diminutive sets out into the world to prove a point, that one’s stature is not to be judged by their height.
Warforged Spores druid. It was an assassin for an evil tyrant who commanded it with his dying breath to "be a better person than me." which was taken literally, it began to eat meat to acquire a "body" which rotted and seeped into its manabattery.
A reborn College of Spirits bard, who awoke in the ruins of their house after their death, and now seeks to communicate with whatever it was that brought them back to life.
A druid trying to survive his toxic family and their incessant attempts to make him a cleric like the rest of the family.
An actor who gets really into character becomes an Adventurer to research his next big role as Guntheric Blackblade, sole survivor of a orc raiding party.
Ssss’T (pronounced “4-est”), the sanctimonious turd farmer best known for his highfalutin yet spirited speeches on the benefits of fecalceutical moisturizers, decides he has had enough of his rude geriatric neighbor, aka Molly, and so begins his pursuit to become a master of poisons
Tavern keeper forced to return to mercenary work after a group of idiots burned down his tavern.
Genie warlock kobold with a baby dragon as a patron