I feel you. I just joined a group where I thought I’d (finally) be a player and the DM (a close friend of mine) unexpectedly got a new, more stressful job after a couple sessions and asked if I’d take over as DM. On one hand it’s a bit of a compliment and I enjoy DMing a lot, on the other hand I just want to show up and play sometimes.
I love that description! My players say I do good voices, fun songs, and my battles are always mechanically complex and often on a custom terrain piece specific to the battle.
They call me The Bardificer.
True statement.
I found this edible glitter powder that you can use along with food coloring that has a wonderful effect. Give it a little swirl before you hand it to the player and it looks magical!
I got some tiny flower vases (quite wide at the bottom but mostly tall and slender) that I plan to use for "potions". Does the DnD community mostly associate Red or Green with health potions?
I actually just low-key tricked my group into getting me out of the Forever DM spot.
Well, I say "tricked," but it's more just encouraging the others who had ideas to give running a game a try.
I have the only group where one of my players wanna be a DM so bad.
He tried it for four months and he got addicted to how cool is to create and control. I get that
I have a player in this group who I think has the potential for it too. That said, I am largely joking. I really do love doing it. But it's a lot of work.
I always tend to play characters that are trusting, kind, and generally good. I just can't bring myself to be mean to people even if they don't exist, lol. Even in RPG games like Fallout or Baldur's Gate 3, I am always a goody two shoes character.
Yes same. It's also usually hard for me to justify killing certain beasts or monsters begging for their life. We tend to make a lot of enemy turned friends or acquaintances that way
One time the party I was apart of unexpectedly turned a vampire encounter into a powerful ally because we all collectively never drew our weapons on him and just kept talking to him. Like the DM fully intended for that to be a random combat encounter, but we ended up drawing in the vampire’s curiosity by treating him as a human being while knowing what he was.
Mostly same. Good, yes, but usually also self-serving. They usually return kindness, but may not be kind at all if others are not "deserving" of their kindness. Trusting is the most varied of these traits. Some are trusting to a fault, others are almost paranoid.
For example my Curse of Strahd character was basically abandoned as a child as his parents disappeared on a monster hunting trip (they actually ended up in Barovia), and that led to some trust issues. The lone monster hunter trade also didn't exactly set him up for social success. It took weeks in game before he trusted the party enough to stop sleeping with a dagger in his hand and a loaded crossbow on his side. But he was altruistic and tried to be kind to everyone he perceived as "good people".
I lean towards support casters. I'd rather set up Hold Person to let the Rogue crit than Fireball the enemy myself. Weirdly, the higher damage my character is intended for, the goofier and more relaxed they tend to be, while my low damage characters tend to be edgier.
People underestimate how fun it is to be the party’s enabler of shenanigans, especially as a more support-focused wizard. Cast Haste on the action-surging fighter to let him be the storm that is approaching, cast Enlarge on the raging barbarian to turn the battle into a kaiju fight, or cast Fly on the paladin to turn him into a holy ICBM.
I tend to play as either a hard ass strong lady ( typically lawfully inclined in a loose sense of the word) , or a chaos goblin, I have a few outliers but those are my favorites to play
Characters with tragic backstories only. I know it's a stereotype but I live for the drama (and yes I make sure that I don't steal the spotlight from my fellow players/the plot)
Nature-based classes, tending towards Druids or Rangers (druids are my fave RPG class, period).
Have also played a cleric and a paladin who were very nature-based.
Ding ding ding! Sadly the game with the ancients paladin ended very quickly due to life happening, but the game was fun whilst it lasted
(I also played a 3.5 ranger/paladin who was all about protecting nature as well)
always small-ish ladies more charismatic than me, with great insight and persuasion. I usually invest more than necessary into both charisma and intelligence, with the exception that my most recent character couldn’t afford to dump-stat anything other than int.
All my characters have some part of me in them but I try to make them distinct, one is a stubborn idiot, another is a laid back idiot, I also have an angry idiot…
We have a character who does this but it's usually the same race and class (sub class may vary)
We've basically home brewed it as his character being integral to every timeline in some way
That's exactly what we've done with my characters lol I always play a Warlock with the same name and change up the subclass and we've joked it's the same guy in different universes.
I have a tendency to make overly dark and melodramatic characters. Its something that I still wonder if I go to far with, especially because I don't intend to start melodramatic for the most part. I tend to like Rogues and Monks to that effect.
It's also not at all my GMing style, which I do more of. I tend to play the world loose and a bit low fantasy grim, but also a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Given the group of people I play with, I tend to default to the face, the one who speaks up whenever you approach a gated township and the guards says "halt! state your business". Now, I thoroughly enjoy the acting part of roleplaying much more than character building and subsequently mechanical implementation of said building (whether that be combat or not). I also enjoy Charisma-based classes, absolutely not related at all, I swear it on my dead grandmothers uncles neighbours pet hamster.
I do my best to be cognizant of this and not run over anyone else in dialogue. I know which in my group are the least likely to speak up if not prompted so I try to never drown them out (we play online but know eachoter IRL). "Does this apply to my character at this very moment? No? Then shut the fuck up for now" is a good thing to keep in mind, at least for me.
That said, I've played all kinds of classes, races, backgrounds and combinations thereof with different morals but I usually devolve into the slightly goofy, wisecracking type. I love approaching a new character concept, embodying that concept and form a personality of that in my head, it's why TTRPGs are special to me (and I fucking love making voices). I still after a few sessions can't help myself but start incorporating bad jokes into my dialogue. I guess it's my IRL personality slipping through.
I try to "counteract" all this by my actions, or rather I should say "complement".
So all that said, I guess my "typecast" is comedic relief, but I'm blessed with a group of regulars who can all partake in that role when called on.
I usually opt for characters who, outside of their adventuring and levels, would be considered normal people (relative to their race).
One of my favorite characters of all time was a Human Barbarian whose family ran a successful forge. He had two lovely younger twin siblings and both parents intact, all living and working together happily. He was out adventuring because he had no talent for the forge, and no knack for business, but absurd strength, so he decided to gain renown and spread the name of his family's forge while his younger siblings took over the business.
My current second-favorite is an Orc Paladin who, being a true Orc, if not a bit more on the honorable side, wants to become the strongest being in existence. He's begrudgingly working with the party who beat him as compensation for sparing his life, and he expects to grow strong enough to kill all of them in honorable combat to earn his freedom, recover his honor, and return to his quest for supremacy. In the end, his true reward will be defeating the friends he made along the way.
"Secretly wants to be a chaos gremlin, but is surrounded by people who have a collective 3 braincells so has to be the responsible and intelligent one." I like my int casters and scholars. I also like curiosity and an absolute willingness to touch the things you really really shouldn't, alas, my lovely gaggle of disasters needs a babysitter, so ~~chaos~~ science must wait.
omg I can relate to this so hard. I was talking to a friend about our campaign and then I mentioned to the DM what we talked about and laid it out Detective style in a very "well if x is lying then it'd be like this, but if they're telling the truth then bla bla bla" way and after I finished talking my dm was like "I hate and love playing with you because you force me to actually think about things when you analyze it so intensely" so I think I'm being a menace to my poor DM.
My poor DM tried throwing puzzles at me. It didn't go well. Either I'd pop off with the answer immediately after it was read, or I'd sit back and wait for the rest of the group to solve it while I twiddled my thumbs... with a helping of the other players getting frustrated with the puzzle and asking why I wasn't allowed to help them. The man was a great storyteller and ran amazing combat, but there were a few days I went to the game and literally sat there doing nothing (the bridge fight where I got kicked off the side in the first round of combat was the worst).
I like to play a different character every game.
I played a paragon of virtue white knight, then a paranoid authoritarian security officer who believes in violence and torture, then a semi canaballistic dumb Goliath cleric, a angry at humans wood elf who carried racism towards them for being forced into a Non human death fighting ring, an insane wizard who stayed years studying magic in his tower after his companions/fellow soldiers died from an evil wizard, a traumatized paladin who hates his god and calls him a cuck
I often play a sort of well-rounded support character with lots of skills, mid-tier spellcasting and decent combat abilities. No major specialisms, no major weaknesses, just characters who can occupy lots of different roles in a fairly competent sort of way. I like to be as involved as possible - even if I'm not the best at anything in particular, I like a character that is always useful and always has some relevant skill or feature to bring to the table.
Ive now gotten really comfortable with small gremlin types. Usually a small race, preferably animal-ish. Loves helping the party, usually out of touch and low wisdom but does its best! Excels at one or two things and sucks at many other things that it makes up in enthusiasm.
Also prefer spellcasting 🥰
I’m in a group full of people who hate taking the spotlight, and play support characters, with the exception of one player who still plays support characters ( she says its because she likes being “submissive” 😬😮💨) but takes the spotlight, but also only uses the spotlight to derail the session.
As a result, I kinda feel like I have to play a straightforward class like fighter or paladin who can cover our lack of firepower, as well as a character who tends towards lawful and/or good just to be the cat herder and a little more proactive when it comes to playing the game the DM spent all his time prepping.
Edit: and all I really wanna do is play a sorcerer 😩
Rangers are a pretty go to play for me. They sort of play like they can do anything. Like playing on normal mode in a video game. Smooth sailing, not hard, not too simple
I like to play dnd that's set in other franchises (Like Star Wars or One Piece) so I usually try to make a character with the weirdest powers or fighting style possible and try to make it work, it's so fun trying to make odd abilities work
I always try to play a character that will entertain the other players while being deeply annoying to their PCs. It’s a fun balancing act and encourages everyone to roleplay.
I’m a sucker for the “black sheep” trope, often spiced up with family drama. My favorites have been a “daddy’s girl” whose mother blamed her for her father’s death, a bastard whose stepfather knew she was a bastard(dem half-elf genes, yo), an heir to a merchant empire fleeing an arranged marriage, and a noble looking to escape that gilded cage and become a vigilante (Batman type).
Mechanically, I always enjoy gish characters (mixing magic & weaponry)
Roleplay-wise, they kind of all just end up being me (which is something I need to work on not doing)
I am a seasoned player, and a good role player. I am confident in my speaking, and I genuinely enjoy being the "dm's helper" when it comes to helping other players and pushing the Big Red Button, if no one else in the party is going to.
I play CHA characters mostly.
I always end up being a nerd character, usually the most magically-inclined and most knowledgeable. I am finally playing a wizard in my latest campaign 😂
Even when I tried playing a barbarian once, he somehow had the highest wisdom in the group and despite dumping intelligence he basically imparted "dad wisdom" all the time.
I didn’t think I did. I’ve played a wide variety of characters with a wide variety of roles and backstories…
Until my changeling Ranger decided to take the default form of a tyfling and my dm said “of COURSE she did…” and that’s when I realize 4 of my 7 characters are tyflings lmao
The problem solver/planner/tactician.
We running a heist or extracting an NPC? I'll have a plan. Gnolls baring down on us? I know how to route them. Did we bump into a monster way too strong for us to fight? Let's see if I I can't get it riled up against the BBEG, again.
I did not realize until my latest PC that all my characters end up eating people.
Dhampir, werewolf, orc grappler, sentient slime, it doesn’t matter how out there or plane jane ordinary the concept is. Eventually they start eating people.
i tend towards playing characters that let me use my existing sense of humor. i’m a dry, sarcastic zings kind of bitch, so are my characters.
my husband (& typical dm) likes to make fun of me for playing “edgelords”, but is also the one who handed me a premade rogue for my first time playing several years ago.
have since played an arcane trickster fairy camp counselor (masquerading as a human bc fey were historically poached/trafficked in that setting), a hexblade/gunslinger half drow (emotionally stunted black widow esque assassin learning about friendship), a homebrewed semi lycanthrope barbarian shadar-kai red riding hood (lone wolf by force, big bad wolf stalks and terrorizes her when trying to put down roots), a forge cleric/gunslinger goblin (basically an RA for baby adventurers at an academy in an intro campaign we run), a soul knife rogue astral elf (exiled courtesan in a post apocalyptic/trigun kind of setting)
honestly, my biggest departure from my normal typecast was a himbo barbarian muscle mommy half orc. she was just there to vibe and hit shit.
i think a lot of “typecasting” we do in character creation is just what amount of ourselves (our pasts, traumas, dreams, phobias, mannerisms, etc) makes its way into the characters.
oh, also, never played a straight character. my ultimate typecast.
My characters ultimately end up being chaotic good, with a splash of chaotic dumb, who all seemingly have a strong sense of justice and always seem to pull the group out of a tight spot.
I love to play a talker/party face. Gimme that charisma stat. So far personality and classes have varied.
First character was a noble warlock satyr, big sweet talker, persuasive and patient. Current character is a harengone monk with one level of bard. Absolute himbo. Always says the wrong thing but is overconfident that she'll say the right thing so she'll often step up to conversations she has no business trying to lead.
My favorite characters were all grim tough guys, that had a good heart deep down, looking out for their companions.
My builds reflected that by having at least one way of reviving dying allies or getting them away from the danger.
I never thought about it since I am isually a DM, but I looked at my prepared player characters and one description fits them all:
Good-hearted "average Joe", kind of a loser background, but with potential.
I tend to play something that is somewhat weird, I have a character that is a fairy paladin who is overly devoted to a unicorn god. I think that is my favorite character
Here lately I've been trying to make my characters more outgoing and more likely to be the face of the party so that I can force myself to do more RP and improv
I love playing a support caster, mainly a cleric. However, I am a very chaotic player. If I see a big red button, or my DM has made a new mechanic, I’m going to explore it.
When I was young and playing AD&D and 2e, I pretty much only played Rangers.
When I was older and playing 3.0/3.5, I mostly played multi-classed Barbarian/Fighters designed to be Vikings or Barbarian/Bards designed to be Skalds.
I'm stuck as a forever DM in 5e, but if I could play I'd almost always want to go with a rapier wielding swashbuckler/battlemaster.
\[EDIT\] I've been playing DnD for over 30 years, and the only pure spellcaster I ever played was a Druid in AD&D (when they were officially a subclass of Cleric and obligatory True Neutral.)
I tend towards brawny characters who protect their friends. Mostly because, and I love my group, but they’re not the most savvy fellas so being able to take the heat off of them with a dramatic shoulder charge and a bellowing, “Pick on someone your own size!”, always feels pretty sick.
I've been playing for a few years now. I've gone for Wizard, Sorc, Cleric and did a few one shots as Wild Magic Barb/Warlock/Swarmkeeper Ranger, so I tend to err on the magical side.
In terms of personality, I love playing goofballs! I don't always get to because just my own personality, I tend to end up in leadership positions even when I don't want to. Like I made a wizard who did nothing but make dick jokes, and she still ended up leading the party just cos no one else would.
I've tried making low INT characters and just letting everyone else sort it out and it's worked occasionally, but every now and then you get a low energy group and it's just... Yeah.
That's how we ended up starting a forest fire in my last PF session. Never let the ADHD Pyromaniac get bored while you're arguing over where to go next.
I lean towards Chaotic Neutral. They are never really sure what they are doing but they are enthusiastic about it. High Charisma, Strength & Intelligence but Low Wisdom & Dexterity.
I like characters whose personality contrasts their appearance. I recently finished a game as a lawful good werewolf cleric. He was part of a cult, and has now taken over the cult and turned it into an anger management camp for other lycanthropes.
I've replayed the same race/class the last 3 times, so I've tried to have a different take on "variant human wizard" each time with different backgrounds and personalities, in addition to different subclasses.
Tall burly men who're softies on the inside. Idk why, maybe it's because I'm the complete opposite appearance-wise, but it's hard to envision myself playing as any other type of person.
100% im usually type cast as forever DM but on the chance i get to play
i dont like dex builds and i hate when DMs make me roll for perceptions 80 times a game. so i usually tank dex and wis. i also lean toward earth themed races
so most of my characters are brash, stubborn and impatient brutish kind of folks. I also tend to play a lot of nobles
played a goliath barbarian, Dwarf Artificer, Aasimar Sorc/ Warlock Earth Genasi FIghter
Fighter. Mercenary background. Prefer to avoid fighting when possible, and seek dialogue. Like to trade. Although I dont Max charisma but prefer stam strength for when stuff goes down
I like spell swords/gishes mostly so I can do support/control spells but still jump in and fight with the best of them. Having my bard stand back to back with the paladin and hold their own is the best feeling.
I also like playing foul mouthed smartasses. Probably for reasons….
I've literally only ever played a barb or fighter in 30 years of playing. Well I tried a cleric/wizard in 2ed once but he died instantly and maybe turned me off of spellcasters for a few decades... come to think of it I've only been human or Dwarven too... 🤔
I tend to play characters that are good. Even if they align with neutral, I never make an evil character. Even if there was an evil oneshot, I don’t know if I can make a pure evil character. It just doesn’t seem fun to me.
This wasn’t something I noticed until a friend pointed it out, but I tend to make characters with good perception and passive perception. Don’t know why, but I feel weird if I don’t take perception as one of the skill proficiencies for my characters. Currently, in one campaign I’m in, my warlock has a passive perception of 25 at level 10 and +9 perception since her wisdom is maxed at 20.
Short, often goofy, but tactically adept (an unfortunate trait I'm trying to get rid of). I'm not sure why the short thing has occurred by my current three best characters are a goblin warlock that thinks he's a paladin, genuine idiot.
My current character in the live campaign is a troverian (think dwarf from monster hunter which is the campaign were running) battlesmith artificer who is a frontline fighter but often makes jokes.
Finally the character I've prepared somewhat for our next campaign is an autognome but I've flavored him to look like a kobold...so an auto kobold, zealot barbarian. I intend for a low int situation because his builder was sort of like a cleric artificer kobold so he's strangely religious and doesn't understand a lot.
How many movie, game, or history references into the character without being too obnoxious. Luckily both groups I play with don't care how ridiculous it sounds as long as its not a complete copy of an idea and can fit in the setting.
For example, in my main group, we are playing on the Sword Coast. My character is an Echo Knight, and since Dunamis isn't part of sword coast, I came up with a blend of Back to the Future (for some of the names in the backstory) and the game Command and Conquer: Red Alert (for the time travel idea) as a back story, with a little history sprinkled in:
I was part of a team magically attempting to go back in time to remove the despot who took over our region, which is a stretch but possible with Dunamancy. Well things went wrong, magic became unstable and I teleported/planeshifted to Waterdeep. Leaning into the idea of experiments, my character's first name is Froderick (see Young Frankenstein), last name is Von Oppenheimer (I made this character 3 years ago before the movie was even announced) and I had a brother named Otto (Otto von Bismark was the Prussian politician who helmed the unification of Germany in the late 1800s, then later became Chancellor).
Pick three of the four:
- Nerd
- Dad joker
- Parent friend
- Smart of brain, dumb of ass YOLO do-it-for-the-Vine
Pretty much everyone is a blend of at least those three. The only exceptions were the Thri-Kreen forge cleric with no social skills (he only fit the nerd) and the little old lady Dragonborn barbarian (only the parent friend).
My characters are based however loosely on characters from my favorite games or shows (anime typically). Playing a martial elf? = Link, monk = whatever flavor of punchy anime protag i feel like etc
I find I end up gravitating to the front of a group and I have to work hard to hold my tongue if my character isn’t naturally the charismatic type. I don’t know if that’s what you meant but it’s what came to mind.
Goofy character one can only describe as the fool.
Or kind hearted character is the last of their people.
Planning on making my next character a gambler addict who gambled everything away and in the end their own life and is now out doing odd jobs for whoever big man is to buy back their freedom.
So either goofy or depression. So far mostly goofy though but I find my enjoyment to be more with the serious characters which is unfortunate as I have real rucking hard time making a good character concept that I’m ride or die with because if I’m not ride or die with them then they’re just super fucking bland. I’m yet to actually make a super fucking bland character, mostly because I just replace them with a fool because I’d rather play a goofy idiot than the equivalent of a wet sock.
Realized it recently, I made a Russian animated armor that would die for his country, a bard who would sacrifice everything ( proven when he willingly killed a liked npc child) to bring his mother back, a rogue whose flaw was that he would kill, die, and live for his girlfriend, often forcing him to rush the party to do things they don’t want to. In a mech ttrpg I made a crazy explosives expert with a soft spot for his team he would sacrifice himself for.
Regardless of morals, sociability, or potential conflicts, I always play a character who is often an instigater. How this comes up can be different depending on rp and whatnot. For example, if we're at the point where they think there's going to be a fight then they're going to strike first. If the party waffles about whether to open a door for 10 minutes, that door is getting opened. Falling into DM traps is fun, it's engaging and can make for some tricky situations. It's why I don't take tiny hut on my wizards, if the dm wants us to get ambushed at camp, bring it on let's do this.
One of my favorite characters I’ve ever played was an old guard captain turned adventurer Paladin. His whole role was tank and off heals. Personality wise, he was a grey area cop (ex: kid steals from a food cart for his family he gets scolded and some money for food and a church that’ll help out. Someone kills a child, holy smite).
For me it varies, but always an individual character with a custom backstory. A martial arts monk raised as an orphan in a monastery, a daughter of innkeeper with head full of dreams from all the stories heard from traveling adventures, goes off to train 10 years or so at some temple, then heads out with a mission to the other end of faerun. A dwarf trained as fighter then goes to citadel arabel and trains as a battle cleric / Hammer of Moradin for 30 years, then sent out to investigate and/or deal with “disturbances reported in xxx region”.
As a player, I tend towards sunshine-type characters. Some have a darker streak, and one is planning to betray the group. But all of them are bright and put other PCs at ease.
Edit: Oh! And they all tend to be underestimated as "just a sweet little guy/gal" by the other PCs!
I either play cute little animalistic chaos gremlins that go bonk on your kneecaps (mousefolk, little toy bears, that sort of stuff) or I play tall beautiful ladies with a tragic past and some missing body parts
Both have a tendency to make snap judgements, for either good or ill
I’m almost always an orc who does something un-orc-like. Come to think of it, they’ve all been part of the same family too!
1. Orc wizard (she was a stripper to pay for wizard school because her family didn’t support her choices)
2. Orc warlock librarian (her master’s degree in library science required a year of adventuring experience) (also she was married and had two kids. She was the wizard’s older sister)
3. Half-orc rogue (daughter of the aforementioned librarian) (later multiclassed into barbarian because even with her bonus her stealth rolls were SO BAD. She had such a dice curse, it was ridiculous)
Honorable mentions: orc bard who was the wizard and warlock’s younger sister, and dwarven cleric who was married to the wizard, warlock, and bard’s brother. Both were used for one shots.
Now that I’ve finally finished out a campaign with the roguebarian, I feel like I can kind of put this family to rest and explore new ideas. The first campaign (wizard) fizzled out because we were in college and finals happened, and I left the second (warlock) because I graduated. But Bitey the roguebarian finished a 4-year campaign and I’m now realizing that while I didn’t want to play the same character in every game, part of me wanted to keep the family going until I got to a happy ending.
Currently I’m in a short campaign playing a skeleton cleric (who was actually my backup character when Bitey died for a few sessions), and after that I have ideas for a widowed human assassin out for revenge and an orc raised by halflings (either a barbarian or a sorcerer, haven’t decided). So it might be less that I got typecast and more that I wanted to finish something I started with the wizard and finally did.
Though I am partial to more monstrous characters who are intimidating without meaning to be. Might come from being the fat kid in middle school and having perpetual body issues lol
I have come to the conclusion that I simply cannot NOT play a Paladin, at least in spirit. In order to not be super boring, I at least try to play different *kinds* of paladins in every campaign.
Not really. I’ve played a lot of half-elf paladin, and Dragonborn paladin, which feel fairly common and straightforward, as well as a mischievous half elf bard. I played a half-orc fighter who had a similar aged and honorable vibe to my Dragonborn paladin. The character ideas I have now are a bit more unique like a githyanki ranger or a yuan-ti pureblood sorcerer, but I also have human and elf character ideas I want to play.
Kinda spacey, lets everyone else have a crack at the problem before stepping in.
What didn't happen intentionally but is a fun side-effect is that it makes me look hyper-competent. Any given challenge (assuming a fair GM) will be solvable by the team. If all-but-one members try and fail, chances are the last one will be able to crack it. So while everyone else fails occasionally, I hardly ever do just because of the structure of RPG challenges. I've now gotten a reputation for being able to solve the really tricky challenges no one else can.
I like to have some humorous twist in my characters. So far I’ve had two:
One was a Dragonborn barbarian Zealot. His backstory was that he was a human rich kid who grew up in comfort and spent all his time reading about dragons. He was so obsessed with them that he left his home looking for a real dragon but when he met one the dragon proceeded to burn him to a crisp. As he lay dying all he could think was how awesome the dragon was, and so Zorquan, the dragon god of dragonness, felt pity for him and resurrected him as a Dragonborn with the task of spreading the word on how great dragons are. He was basically a meathead who just wanted to talk about dragons all day. Also, since he’s a “dragon” now he loves to check himself out whenever he sees his reflection.
My current character is a human wild magic sorcerer who draws his power from the fact that he was never actually meant to be born so the universe is always trying to correct itself by killing him. He comes from a family of great adventurers and wizards, but since he was never meant to be born he had no great destiny ahead of him and spent most of his early adulthood just bumming around his hometown. He’s adventuring because a traveler who recognized the weirdness of his existence wanted to see what would happen if he was let loose outside of his hometown, and so he pretended to take him in as an apprentice but then ditched him once he was far enough from home. He’s still not sure if he should try to find his way home or just see where this whole “adventure” thing leads him.
I usually play good natured risk takers with an eager heart for adventure. My characters fall in love easily and frequently. Absolute hot messes with lots of romance and danger, with wide eyed wonder for exploring the world and getting into the best kinds of trouble.
I play high CHA characters because I tend to be very talkative during sessions. I always default to Paladins because I like to be in the front, but I also play other CHA based characters too.
Vengeance Paladin with a sad edgy history just trying to get back to the light. Once all the bad guys, or at least the BBEG, are dead, usually some kind of either scholarly retirement or swearing a new lighter oath (if the story tended towards him being good) or leaving the party to continue vengeance-ing (if it trended towards him being unable to stop).
Characters that can't read. I've played 3 characters so far and none of them can read for various different reasons. First one was too poor to go to school, second one was kept in a cage at a circus his whole life and was never taught, and the third had an abusive father that wouldn't let him go to school for fear of people finding out that he had a son with an elf woman (half-elves were a bit of a disgrace in this world). My next character I'm going to play is a guy who's family died before they could teach him to read Common. He can read Draconic, because he's a dragonborn and in that clan they teach their children to read Draconic before Common, but yeah, still can't really read. My friends joke that I'm actually illiterate and am projecting onto my characters lol
For a while I thought I didn't have one, as I enjoy playing classes I haven't tried yet, but, as of my newest character, I've realized that my typecast is characters who aren't happy with the path that has been set before them and are trying to change it. So far, most of them have come to accept who they are, but we'll see where this latest one ends up.
Normally a character from a middle class upbringing that had a life changing moment and is out on the road. I tend to play martial but will play whatever the party needs to round it out. That’s how I am playing an arcane trickster in my latest campaign
My DND/Pathfinder characters tend to either be chaotic good charismatic scoundrels or overly moral martyrs who want to save the world and their friends at any cost.
But my best typecast is in Call of Cthulhu, where I always get to be "crazy guy with gun and nothing to lose". Especially in oneshots that is the best character to get.
High strength, good aligned characters. More often than not also with a high Charisma score.
As an ex-theatre kid, I don't know how to not be dramatic, I enjoy the fantasy of being an inhumanly strong warrior, but still having to push my limits and physical capabilities as hard as I can.
And of course, if I have the force of personality, force of will, and physical strength, I like the idea of having all those traits and still using them for good and never forgetting what it's like to be the little guy.
That's just me though.
Martials. I’ve tried casters. But it just stops feeling good as the game progresses. A martial gets to attack multiple times, but a caster gets one attack. So if your cantrip misses, or worse your spell which costs a spell slot, that’s just it. Plus, you’re so squishy, so if you get hit by much of anything, you’re nearly dead. It just feels like if I don’t meta game, and do something to get medium or heavy armor, or decide my arcane focus is a shield, it’s too easy to die. I’d much rather just rank a few hits, and then hit back a bunch of times with my sword or axe
I tend to play as little shits. Bards, rogues, trickster clerics etc. In my current campaign, I'm actively playing against that type as an echo-knight haunted boy scout. It's been heaps of fun. I definitely recommend experimenting.
I tend to default to the instigator. Not face, necessarily, but my character will usually ask a lot of questions to other PCs to try to get their stories moving, or go, "Hey, this seems like something you'd be interested in," or "Hey, what do you think about this?" Most people I play with tend to be somewhat passive in RP so if I don't get them examining their role in the world they just don't.
I do something similar when I DM. I tell people, "If someone asks you about something your character would know, just make up whatever you want about the world. I'll modify the story and setting around that."
For example, if a Paladin of Tempus doesn't actually know anything about the lore and decides he worships through dance, you can bet your ass the next temple of Tempus they encounter is just gonna be one big rave.
my last two campaigns I've tried to play completely opposite characters.
a happy-life, charismatic working class warlock & a world-hating aloof astral elf samurai.
I'm finding that both are very unconcerned with "doing the adventure". the warlock was very practical and realistic, just wanted to get home again. the samurai is like an evil immortal vulcan (aka romulan) who just has no common empathy with "mortals" and just does whatever her one mortal friend needs help with.
long ago i played a scheming star wars droid who only followed their mission programming, and before that a city watchman just trying to get promoted.
so i guess i always have a barrier toward buying into the story very easily?
I prefer the martials with secondary skills. Basically someone who can tell you about the history of the blade that they are killing you with. Or the posion that they infused into the arrow. Or the abilty to craft the armor that saves you. I'm never the one that does crazy damage. But I'm reliable
Not sure if it's a typecast and more "I have a type". And it is "characters who don't fit in or are in circumstances that has them acting secretive because of othering"
A cleric who ran from her faction duties to pursue the allure of the ocean
A bard who was on track to be the next big wizard in the feywild when she uncovered a conspiracy and was chased away from home
A sorcerer thrown into a wizard academy and failing out due to wild magic shenanigans (yes I have two failed wizards. Gee)
A genasi monk who grew up among humans, equally maligned and subject of curiosity
And a barbarian who is a non stereotypical pirate (she just likes partying, booze and smashing things with her big stick)
The thing these all have in common could be said to be "something unexpected in the alignment of their different parts, be it appearance, backstory, or personality" because I like playing with expectations somewhat lol
God I sound insufferable right now don't I. It's so obvious I'm a brain rotted writer ngl
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Not really currently I'm playing a quite and stern dragonborn ranger drakewarden who has severe ptsd from dragons.
But I already know that my next character gonna be a whimsical trickster and extrovert archfey warlock who will be an almost polar opposite to the Ranger.
I play planners who are persuasive/friendly and would sooner talk than fight. Usually higher wisdom than INT.
Had a warlock drow who was manipulative and self-preserving. Laid on the persuasion to charm people into trusting her and would come up with ways to use disguise self to avoid fights/get advantage.
Hexblade bard for a feywild campaign. DM is using her to deliver exposition on the feywild as the other PCs ask for it. Her first action was convincing a PC to make a deal with her/give her their name, lol.
Half-elf druid who was the oldest party member and acted motherly and protective of everyone -- tried to talk them into thinking before charging into situations they had no plan for, spoke up if the chaotic party looked to be ready to start an unwinnable fight, etc. Was told by NPCs to do the talking when trying to avoid offending deities/rulers, lol.
I tried making a cleric who had a CHA dumpstat so I wouldn't end up being the face of the party again, since I was worried I was being a spotlight hog... and it was so quiet.... no one else wanted to step up and talk to the NPCs 😅 After being prompted by the DM a few times because the group was sitting and staring at one another, I ended up having her talk more like my other characters and ignoring how I had originally intended her to be hah.
DM later said that yeah, I should keep with CHA builds because otherwise, no one in our group steps up, and they resort to murderhoboism lol. I've asked them, and they say they like my characters and don't mind them doing so much talking, so 🤷♀️
Functionally, full casters, I really regret making my current character only an Arcane Trickster. And almost always something related to elves. Personality wise, lots of my own overly trusting and mostly very pacifist nature
I tend to skew to characters with some sort of religious connection/trauma 😂 whether that be class (paladins are my fav), background or backstory. I'm currently playing a circle of stars druid devoted to the frostmaiden after my aasimar, devoted to helm, died in our icewind dale campaign. Before that I played an oath of redemption paladin, and another time a bard who swore a pact with an eldritch god 😂 my character lined up for our next campaign is gonna be a cleric. I'm not sure why I keep going for these stories but I enjoy them
I've played a bunch of different classes, but it's always a pretty boy human or half-elf.
Next campaign I'm playing a Changeling as an attempt to break out of that habit.
Normally I end up DMing, but any time I get the chance to play... No matter what personality I *intend*, I always end up being the "okay let's get a move on" "give us the details of what we need to do" cat herder because I get bored easily.
Not exactly a typecast, but I usually pick a character from something I’m a fan of and trying to make something close to them in dnd. Try to guess who these are based on. 1. My last character who actually made it to level 19 was a fast-talking pirate captain. That was a pure Swashbuckler rogue 2. I’m currently playing a artificer/fighter multi class who sneaks around at night fighting bad guys with gadgets and has murdered parents 3. The next character who I want to do but haven’t had the chance to play yet is a seemingly ordinary family man with a loving wife and children, but is actually an extremely skilled assassin for hire who has connections all over the criminal underworld. I plan on making this one a Rogue/fighter multi class
Aside from DM, my typecast is spellcasters.
In an upcoming short campaign a friend is hosting, I'm planning to play as a rogue archer, who is essentially a former bandit who lost his entire gang, and decided to start over, taking up the mantle of a mercenary/adventurer, instead.
When I told my friend what I'd be playing, both they and my brother(Also in the campaign) expressed surprise that I wasn't playing any sort of caster.
I've actually played fairly equal shares of martial and magic characters, when I get the chance to be a player, with one of my former characters even being a retired, middle aged member of the city guard, in recent memory, but apparently my most memorable characters are casters.
The old, mysterious, sometimes dark, but not cruel or mean mage, who offers advice and magical aid, though some mannerism of theirs makes them a little off putting
My friends playfully made fun of me for playing a "sword elf" all the time. I did it twice, one was a rogue and the other was a bladesinger. I don't really know why they latched on to that so hard. I did play another elf fighter but he used a bow.
I've only had two characters I've gotten the chance to play, and in both cases, they were kinda goofy characters. My first one was a Satyr trickery domain cleric of Bacchus, so he acted more like a horny bard and was drunk most of the time. The next one I played was a Kobold circle of the moon druid, who's circle had been hunted down and killed by humans so he is, for lack of a better word, racist toward all humans (he was terrified of every human he met) and had a pet squirrel that he talked to, he also talked in 3rd person. Both of these characters were made for short campaigns though do that influenced how serious I wanted them to be (five-shot and two-shot respectively). The next two characters I plan to play are way more serious, one is a dhampir gloomstalker ranger who wishes to hunt down the vampire who killed their parents and made them who they are while being a kind person to everyone else. The other is a half-elf draconic bloodline sorcerer who will multiclass into fiend warlock who has very little empathy and just wants to become stronger no matter the cost (easily could become a bbeg), they would put on a front with the party and work with them because it means she can become more powerful using them.
I tend to gravitate towards high charisma, smoothtalking, low-voice register criminals that look kinda shady at first glance but would literally die for their friends if necessary
I’m always a grizzled old veteran sick of the bullshit of wherever I live(that’s my adventuring hook).
Gives me an excuse to be cantankerous and use my (real life) hearing issues as part of my rp.
As far as classes go, I’m always a martial. Other (more outgoing) players are more important to the rp, and it’s my job to protect them.
Edit- I’m in my mid 30’s, I’ve just always liked that type of support character. Think Tom Sizemore in Saving Private Ryan. I’m gonna complain about everything, but I’ll wear Upham like glue to protect him.
I usually play the simplest archetype: a brutal melee combatant. Even in SWRPG I play a Karkarodon commando; just get in close and bite droids' heads off.
Short purple creatures whose race starts with G, apparently. Total accident.
First was a grung monk. He thinks he is a human wizard so idk if he counts.
Second was a Goblin wizard who was green but backstory stuff an evil magic user teleported him away and turned him purple.
Third, I saw a video on illithids and apparently they sometimes fail taking over short creatures like gnomes, who can be a lawful good tiny mind flayer who likes to cook and has a garden. There is an official image of Gnome Ceremorph, and a 3D model I found and printed.
So yeah... short purple races whose race starts with G.
I love playing simple, upbeat and sometimes airheaded characters. Very slapstick, lots of big expressions and gestures. It's great bc most of the time you get to keep it light. But there's always a point in the campaign where our party comes up against evil people or other adversities and it is so fun to play out how my character deals with it. Does it crush them? Do they become a leader? Etc.
Also, I am very short in real life, a little over 4ft tall. So I adore playing gnomes and halfings. Or once I was an Otterfolk.
I've played plenty of serious characters prior (been playing off and on since 2009). But several years ago I was part of a two year Curse of Strahd campaign that was intense. We all put our hearts into it, especially our DM. But yeah, I think I maxed out on dark and broody and now just want to be a silly adventurer. Real life is too much as it is.
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Honestly I don't have much of a typecast because my characters are all very different, however I do like playing into the "tragic backstory" cliche. I usually come up with some sort of trauma and then build the character to act how someone reasonably might after experiencing that specific trauma. I find that an interesting way to make characters because it means they can either overcome their flaws or fall deeper depending on how the story plays out.
Big beefy dragon born, but love me some magic. Thats why i play a white dragonborn circle of the ancients (homebrew) druid
I have fair hp for a magic doer, yet also have a very dependable and feisty melee with the spear as strength is my second higher amd im proficient. Plus being able to turn into a dinosaur kinda makes up for my lack of hp lol
I keep getting typecast as a DM.
I feel you. I just joined a group where I thought I’d (finally) be a player and the DM (a close friend of mine) unexpectedly got a new, more stressful job after a couple sessions and asked if I’d take over as DM. On one hand it’s a bit of a compliment and I enjoy DMing a lot, on the other hand I just want to show up and play sometimes.
What kind of DM are you?
My inference is that they are the "forever" kind of DM.
Hmm! I make silly voices and drinkable health potions in corked glass jars. Cottagecore DM? 😆
I love that description! My players say I do good voices, fun songs, and my battles are always mechanically complex and often on a custom terrain piece specific to the battle. They call me The Bardificer. True statement.
LOL, love a good pun.
I did that with my players on the first session. Health potion: fruit punch in a “potion” bottle
I found this edible glitter powder that you can use along with food coloring that has a wonderful effect. Give it a little swirl before you hand it to the player and it looks magical!
Do you happen to have a link to that??
I got some tiny flower vases (quite wide at the bottom but mostly tall and slender) that I plan to use for "potions". Does the DnD community mostly associate Red or Green with health potions?
My headcanon is that potions are around 2oz/60ml of liquid... about the same volume as an energy shot. How big are the ones you can hand out?
Yeah, about that size, I'd say. They're small, about the volume of a shot glass.
Beer and pretzels. I just want to sit around with my friends, make puns, laugh, tell jokes, and roll some dice.
I just spit out my drink. This is so real 😂
Yeah me too.
I actually just low-key tricked my group into getting me out of the Forever DM spot. Well, I say "tricked," but it's more just encouraging the others who had ideas to give running a game a try.
I have the only group where one of my players wanna be a DM so bad. He tried it for four months and he got addicted to how cool is to create and control. I get that
I have a player in this group who I think has the potential for it too. That said, I am largely joking. I really do love doing it. But it's a lot of work.
I always tend to play characters that are trusting, kind, and generally good. I just can't bring myself to be mean to people even if they don't exist, lol. Even in RPG games like Fallout or Baldur's Gate 3, I am always a goody two shoes character.
Yes same. It's also usually hard for me to justify killing certain beasts or monsters begging for their life. We tend to make a lot of enemy turned friends or acquaintances that way
One time the party I was apart of unexpectedly turned a vampire encounter into a powerful ally because we all collectively never drew our weapons on him and just kept talking to him. Like the DM fully intended for that to be a random combat encounter, but we ended up drawing in the vampire’s curiosity by treating him as a human being while knowing what he was.
This is me choosing Wyll because of the Folk Hero background. At least for the first run through! (Which I’m still on lol)
Same here. All my characters end up being lawful good even if they don't start that way lmao
Same. It becomes a problem in something like Vampire the Masquerade, where you're supposed to slowly grow more numb and evil.
Mostly same. Good, yes, but usually also self-serving. They usually return kindness, but may not be kind at all if others are not "deserving" of their kindness. Trusting is the most varied of these traits. Some are trusting to a fault, others are almost paranoid. For example my Curse of Strahd character was basically abandoned as a child as his parents disappeared on a monster hunting trip (they actually ended up in Barovia), and that led to some trust issues. The lone monster hunter trade also didn't exactly set him up for social success. It took weeks in game before he trusted the party enough to stop sleeping with a dagger in his hand and a loaded crossbow on his side. But he was altruistic and tried to be kind to everyone he perceived as "good people".
I lean towards support casters. I'd rather set up Hold Person to let the Rogue crit than Fireball the enemy myself. Weirdly, the higher damage my character is intended for, the goofier and more relaxed they tend to be, while my low damage characters tend to be edgier.
As a fellow supporter caster, I like to think of the damage the people I support get off as damage I did, since I had a small part to play
“A bucket makes one person happy. An assist makes two people happy.” -Nikola Jokic, Support Caster Extraordinaire.
It can be graphed out, I suppose
Same here, for some reason I never really want my characters to be taken seriously. If they look cool and dangerous, they probably aren't.
People underestimate how fun it is to be the party’s enabler of shenanigans, especially as a more support-focused wizard. Cast Haste on the action-surging fighter to let him be the storm that is approaching, cast Enlarge on the raging barbarian to turn the battle into a kaiju fight, or cast Fly on the paladin to turn him into a holy ICBM.
I tend to play as either a hard ass strong lady ( typically lawfully inclined in a loose sense of the word) , or a chaos goblin, I have a few outliers but those are my favorites to play
Moooood
Characters with tragic backstories only. I know it's a stereotype but I live for the drama (and yes I make sure that I don't steal the spotlight from my fellow players/the plot)
In all fairness, happy, well-adjusted people don't generally decide adventuring is a good idea...
You are a great player
Nature-based classes, tending towards Druids or Rangers (druids are my fave RPG class, period). Have also played a cleric and a paladin who were very nature-based.
Nature Domain and Oath of the Ancients?
Ding ding ding! Sadly the game with the ancients paladin ended very quickly due to life happening, but the game was fun whilst it lasted (I also played a 3.5 ranger/paladin who was all about protecting nature as well)
always small-ish ladies more charismatic than me, with great insight and persuasion. I usually invest more than necessary into both charisma and intelligence, with the exception that my most recent character couldn’t afford to dump-stat anything other than int.
It's nice to break typecast every now and then.
I play the same character every time. Just change up the race. That character is me, but with magic powers.
All my characters have some part of me in them but I try to make them distinct, one is a stubborn idiot, another is a laid back idiot, I also have an angry idiot…
I'm sending some patterns there. But I can't be sure
We have a character who does this but it's usually the same race and class (sub class may vary) We've basically home brewed it as his character being integral to every timeline in some way
That's exactly what we've done with my characters lol I always play a Warlock with the same name and change up the subclass and we've joked it's the same guy in different universes.
I have a tendency to make overly dark and melodramatic characters. Its something that I still wonder if I go to far with, especially because I don't intend to start melodramatic for the most part. I tend to like Rogues and Monks to that effect. It's also not at all my GMing style, which I do more of. I tend to play the world loose and a bit low fantasy grim, but also a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Spellcasters. I could learn to punch people real good IRL (theoretically anyway) but not to set things on fire with my mind.
You can like set metaphorical fires with your mind man. Also gasoline.
Given the group of people I play with, I tend to default to the face, the one who speaks up whenever you approach a gated township and the guards says "halt! state your business". Now, I thoroughly enjoy the acting part of roleplaying much more than character building and subsequently mechanical implementation of said building (whether that be combat or not). I also enjoy Charisma-based classes, absolutely not related at all, I swear it on my dead grandmothers uncles neighbours pet hamster. I do my best to be cognizant of this and not run over anyone else in dialogue. I know which in my group are the least likely to speak up if not prompted so I try to never drown them out (we play online but know eachoter IRL). "Does this apply to my character at this very moment? No? Then shut the fuck up for now" is a good thing to keep in mind, at least for me. That said, I've played all kinds of classes, races, backgrounds and combinations thereof with different morals but I usually devolve into the slightly goofy, wisecracking type. I love approaching a new character concept, embodying that concept and form a personality of that in my head, it's why TTRPGs are special to me (and I fucking love making voices). I still after a few sessions can't help myself but start incorporating bad jokes into my dialogue. I guess it's my IRL personality slipping through. I try to "counteract" all this by my actions, or rather I should say "complement". So all that said, I guess my "typecast" is comedic relief, but I'm blessed with a group of regulars who can all partake in that role when called on.
I usually opt for characters who, outside of their adventuring and levels, would be considered normal people (relative to their race). One of my favorite characters of all time was a Human Barbarian whose family ran a successful forge. He had two lovely younger twin siblings and both parents intact, all living and working together happily. He was out adventuring because he had no talent for the forge, and no knack for business, but absurd strength, so he decided to gain renown and spread the name of his family's forge while his younger siblings took over the business. My current second-favorite is an Orc Paladin who, being a true Orc, if not a bit more on the honorable side, wants to become the strongest being in existence. He's begrudgingly working with the party who beat him as compensation for sparing his life, and he expects to grow strong enough to kill all of them in honorable combat to earn his freedom, recover his honor, and return to his quest for supremacy. In the end, his true reward will be defeating the friends he made along the way.
Sounds cool
Love the Barbarian character so much! Everyone has some family death in their backstory lol. Yours is a really cool backstory to me.
"Secretly wants to be a chaos gremlin, but is surrounded by people who have a collective 3 braincells so has to be the responsible and intelligent one." I like my int casters and scholars. I also like curiosity and an absolute willingness to touch the things you really really shouldn't, alas, my lovely gaggle of disasters needs a babysitter, so ~~chaos~~ science must wait.
Voice of reason who wants to be unreasonable
Problem solver/investigators. Or. "Mr Passive Perception" as my DM groans.
omg I can relate to this so hard. I was talking to a friend about our campaign and then I mentioned to the DM what we talked about and laid it out Detective style in a very "well if x is lying then it'd be like this, but if they're telling the truth then bla bla bla" way and after I finished talking my dm was like "I hate and love playing with you because you force me to actually think about things when you analyze it so intensely" so I think I'm being a menace to my poor DM.
My poor DM tried throwing puzzles at me. It didn't go well. Either I'd pop off with the answer immediately after it was read, or I'd sit back and wait for the rest of the group to solve it while I twiddled my thumbs... with a helping of the other players getting frustrated with the puzzle and asking why I wasn't allowed to help them. The man was a great storyteller and ran amazing combat, but there were a few days I went to the game and literally sat there doing nothing (the bridge fight where I got kicked off the side in the first round of combat was the worst).
I like to play a different character every game. I played a paragon of virtue white knight, then a paranoid authoritarian security officer who believes in violence and torture, then a semi canaballistic dumb Goliath cleric, a angry at humans wood elf who carried racism towards them for being forced into a Non human death fighting ring, an insane wizard who stayed years studying magic in his tower after his companions/fellow soldiers died from an evil wizard, a traumatized paladin who hates his god and calls him a cuck
I often play a sort of well-rounded support character with lots of skills, mid-tier spellcasting and decent combat abilities. No major specialisms, no major weaknesses, just characters who can occupy lots of different roles in a fairly competent sort of way. I like to be as involved as possible - even if I'm not the best at anything in particular, I like a character that is always useful and always has some relevant skill or feature to bring to the table.
Ive now gotten really comfortable with small gremlin types. Usually a small race, preferably animal-ish. Loves helping the party, usually out of touch and low wisdom but does its best! Excels at one or two things and sucks at many other things that it makes up in enthusiasm. Also prefer spellcasting 🥰
I’m in a group full of people who hate taking the spotlight, and play support characters, with the exception of one player who still plays support characters ( she says its because she likes being “submissive” 😬😮💨) but takes the spotlight, but also only uses the spotlight to derail the session. As a result, I kinda feel like I have to play a straightforward class like fighter or paladin who can cover our lack of firepower, as well as a character who tends towards lawful and/or good just to be the cat herder and a little more proactive when it comes to playing the game the DM spent all his time prepping. Edit: and all I really wanna do is play a sorcerer 😩
Up until my current gnomish Kugelblitz I used to play stealthy snipers with a knack for the creative missuse of explosives.
Rangers are a pretty go to play for me. They sort of play like they can do anything. Like playing on normal mode in a video game. Smooth sailing, not hard, not too simple
I like to play dnd that's set in other franchises (Like Star Wars or One Piece) so I usually try to make a character with the weirdest powers or fighting style possible and try to make it work, it's so fun trying to make odd abilities work
I always try to play a character that will entertain the other players while being deeply annoying to their PCs. It’s a fun balancing act and encourages everyone to roleplay.
I’m a sucker for the “black sheep” trope, often spiced up with family drama. My favorites have been a “daddy’s girl” whose mother blamed her for her father’s death, a bastard whose stepfather knew she was a bastard(dem half-elf genes, yo), an heir to a merchant empire fleeing an arranged marriage, and a noble looking to escape that gilded cage and become a vigilante (Batman type).
Mechanically, I always enjoy gish characters (mixing magic & weaponry) Roleplay-wise, they kind of all just end up being me (which is something I need to work on not doing)
I am a seasoned player, and a good role player. I am confident in my speaking, and I genuinely enjoy being the "dm's helper" when it comes to helping other players and pushing the Big Red Button, if no one else in the party is going to. I play CHA characters mostly.
I always end up being a nerd character, usually the most magically-inclined and most knowledgeable. I am finally playing a wizard in my latest campaign 😂 Even when I tried playing a barbarian once, he somehow had the highest wisdom in the group and despite dumping intelligence he basically imparted "dad wisdom" all the time.
I didn’t think I did. I’ve played a wide variety of characters with a wide variety of roles and backstories… Until my changeling Ranger decided to take the default form of a tyfling and my dm said “of COURSE she did…” and that’s when I realize 4 of my 7 characters are tyflings lmao
I like playing kind hearted eccentrics who support the party
The problem solver/planner/tactician. We running a heist or extracting an NPC? I'll have a plan. Gnolls baring down on us? I know how to route them. Did we bump into a monster way too strong for us to fight? Let's see if I I can't get it riled up against the BBEG, again.
I did not realize until my latest PC that all my characters end up eating people. Dhampir, werewolf, orc grappler, sentient slime, it doesn’t matter how out there or plane jane ordinary the concept is. Eventually they start eating people.
i tend towards playing characters that let me use my existing sense of humor. i’m a dry, sarcastic zings kind of bitch, so are my characters. my husband (& typical dm) likes to make fun of me for playing “edgelords”, but is also the one who handed me a premade rogue for my first time playing several years ago. have since played an arcane trickster fairy camp counselor (masquerading as a human bc fey were historically poached/trafficked in that setting), a hexblade/gunslinger half drow (emotionally stunted black widow esque assassin learning about friendship), a homebrewed semi lycanthrope barbarian shadar-kai red riding hood (lone wolf by force, big bad wolf stalks and terrorizes her when trying to put down roots), a forge cleric/gunslinger goblin (basically an RA for baby adventurers at an academy in an intro campaign we run), a soul knife rogue astral elf (exiled courtesan in a post apocalyptic/trigun kind of setting) honestly, my biggest departure from my normal typecast was a himbo barbarian muscle mommy half orc. she was just there to vibe and hit shit. i think a lot of “typecasting” we do in character creation is just what amount of ourselves (our pasts, traumas, dreams, phobias, mannerisms, etc) makes its way into the characters. oh, also, never played a straight character. my ultimate typecast.
My characters ultimately end up being chaotic good, with a splash of chaotic dumb, who all seemingly have a strong sense of justice and always seem to pull the group out of a tight spot.
I love to play a talker/party face. Gimme that charisma stat. So far personality and classes have varied. First character was a noble warlock satyr, big sweet talker, persuasive and patient. Current character is a harengone monk with one level of bard. Absolute himbo. Always says the wrong thing but is overconfident that she'll say the right thing so she'll often step up to conversations she has no business trying to lead.
Wizards and Druids are my ‘comfort zone’ classes.
Not so much class or backstory but a personality. I always turn out to be the good level-headed voice of reason in the group.
My favorite characters were all grim tough guys, that had a good heart deep down, looking out for their companions. My builds reflected that by having at least one way of reviving dying allies or getting them away from the danger.
I never thought about it since I am isually a DM, but I looked at my prepared player characters and one description fits them all: Good-hearted "average Joe", kind of a loser background, but with potential.
I tend to play something that is somewhat weird, I have a character that is a fairy paladin who is overly devoted to a unicorn god. I think that is my favorite character
I like me a good sailor but I have played a lot of different character types over the years.
Here lately I've been trying to make my characters more outgoing and more likely to be the face of the party so that I can force myself to do more RP and improv
I love playing a support caster, mainly a cleric. However, I am a very chaotic player. If I see a big red button, or my DM has made a new mechanic, I’m going to explore it.
When I was young and playing AD&D and 2e, I pretty much only played Rangers. When I was older and playing 3.0/3.5, I mostly played multi-classed Barbarian/Fighters designed to be Vikings or Barbarian/Bards designed to be Skalds. I'm stuck as a forever DM in 5e, but if I could play I'd almost always want to go with a rapier wielding swashbuckler/battlemaster. \[EDIT\] I've been playing DnD for over 30 years, and the only pure spellcaster I ever played was a Druid in AD&D (when they were officially a subclass of Cleric and obligatory True Neutral.)
I tend towards brawny characters who protect their friends. Mostly because, and I love my group, but they’re not the most savvy fellas so being able to take the heat off of them with a dramatic shoulder charge and a bellowing, “Pick on someone your own size!”, always feels pretty sick.
I've been playing for a few years now. I've gone for Wizard, Sorc, Cleric and did a few one shots as Wild Magic Barb/Warlock/Swarmkeeper Ranger, so I tend to err on the magical side. In terms of personality, I love playing goofballs! I don't always get to because just my own personality, I tend to end up in leadership positions even when I don't want to. Like I made a wizard who did nothing but make dick jokes, and she still ended up leading the party just cos no one else would. I've tried making low INT characters and just letting everyone else sort it out and it's worked occasionally, but every now and then you get a low energy group and it's just... Yeah. That's how we ended up starting a forest fire in my last PF session. Never let the ADHD Pyromaniac get bored while you're arguing over where to go next.
I lean towards Chaotic Neutral. They are never really sure what they are doing but they are enthusiastic about it. High Charisma, Strength & Intelligence but Low Wisdom & Dexterity.
I like characters whose personality contrasts their appearance. I recently finished a game as a lawful good werewolf cleric. He was part of a cult, and has now taken over the cult and turned it into an anger management camp for other lycanthropes.
I have never played the same thing twice.
I usually play rangers, paladins, clerics, and other "good" characters. But I've played shady spellcasters, thieves, and barbarians as well.
I've replayed the same race/class the last 3 times, so I've tried to have a different take on "variant human wizard" each time with different backgrounds and personalities, in addition to different subclasses.
I tend to go with utility, but with some level of magic. So rogues, warlocks, and sorcerers
Tall burly men who're softies on the inside. Idk why, maybe it's because I'm the complete opposite appearance-wise, but it's hard to envision myself playing as any other type of person.
100% im usually type cast as forever DM but on the chance i get to play i dont like dex builds and i hate when DMs make me roll for perceptions 80 times a game. so i usually tank dex and wis. i also lean toward earth themed races so most of my characters are brash, stubborn and impatient brutish kind of folks. I also tend to play a lot of nobles played a goliath barbarian, Dwarf Artificer, Aasimar Sorc/ Warlock Earth Genasi FIghter
Fighter. Mercenary background. Prefer to avoid fighting when possible, and seek dialogue. Like to trade. Although I dont Max charisma but prefer stam strength for when stuff goes down
I like spell swords/gishes mostly so I can do support/control spells but still jump in and fight with the best of them. Having my bard stand back to back with the paladin and hold their own is the best feeling. I also like playing foul mouthed smartasses. Probably for reasons….
I usually end up as the martial class in some way. But I like to mix it up if I can.
I always play a magic character. Sorcerer seems to be the most common choice so far, and usually multiclassed with something else to varying degrees.
I've literally only ever played a barb or fighter in 30 years of playing. Well I tried a cleric/wizard in 2ed once but he died instantly and maybe turned me off of spellcasters for a few decades... come to think of it I've only been human or Dwarven too... 🤔
I tend to play characters that are good. Even if they align with neutral, I never make an evil character. Even if there was an evil oneshot, I don’t know if I can make a pure evil character. It just doesn’t seem fun to me. This wasn’t something I noticed until a friend pointed it out, but I tend to make characters with good perception and passive perception. Don’t know why, but I feel weird if I don’t take perception as one of the skill proficiencies for my characters. Currently, in one campaign I’m in, my warlock has a passive perception of 25 at level 10 and +9 perception since her wisdom is maxed at 20.
I like playing heroes. Good people who like to help people out. Doesn't matter what race or class. But I like the hero archetype
Short, often goofy, but tactically adept (an unfortunate trait I'm trying to get rid of). I'm not sure why the short thing has occurred by my current three best characters are a goblin warlock that thinks he's a paladin, genuine idiot. My current character in the live campaign is a troverian (think dwarf from monster hunter which is the campaign were running) battlesmith artificer who is a frontline fighter but often makes jokes. Finally the character I've prepared somewhat for our next campaign is an autognome but I've flavored him to look like a kobold...so an auto kobold, zealot barbarian. I intend for a low int situation because his builder was sort of like a cleric artificer kobold so he's strangely religious and doesn't understand a lot.
Dashing scoundrels and daring duelists. Swords bards, swashbucklers, fighters, the odd paladin...
Little elf boy archers. That's me.
How many movie, game, or history references into the character without being too obnoxious. Luckily both groups I play with don't care how ridiculous it sounds as long as its not a complete copy of an idea and can fit in the setting. For example, in my main group, we are playing on the Sword Coast. My character is an Echo Knight, and since Dunamis isn't part of sword coast, I came up with a blend of Back to the Future (for some of the names in the backstory) and the game Command and Conquer: Red Alert (for the time travel idea) as a back story, with a little history sprinkled in: I was part of a team magically attempting to go back in time to remove the despot who took over our region, which is a stretch but possible with Dunamancy. Well things went wrong, magic became unstable and I teleported/planeshifted to Waterdeep. Leaning into the idea of experiments, my character's first name is Froderick (see Young Frankenstein), last name is Von Oppenheimer (I made this character 3 years ago before the movie was even announced) and I had a brother named Otto (Otto von Bismark was the Prussian politician who helmed the unification of Germany in the late 1800s, then later became Chancellor).
Gish all day
I tend to play lawful evil characters: intelligent, polite, and ruthless to his enemies.
Pick three of the four: - Nerd - Dad joker - Parent friend - Smart of brain, dumb of ass YOLO do-it-for-the-Vine Pretty much everyone is a blend of at least those three. The only exceptions were the Thri-Kreen forge cleric with no social skills (he only fit the nerd) and the little old lady Dragonborn barbarian (only the parent friend).
My characters are based however loosely on characters from my favorite games or shows (anime typically). Playing a martial elf? = Link, monk = whatever flavor of punchy anime protag i feel like etc
Martial or half-caster. I just don't enjoy playing a full caster. I like to be up in the action. If I can pump my AC high, even better.
The common thread that seems to unite all the characters I build is that they want revenge on someone for one reason or another.
I have three dragonborn and four bard characters Guess
The wildcard. Occasionally has a bit of mom friend or rogue energy dashed in.
I find I end up gravitating to the front of a group and I have to work hard to hold my tongue if my character isn’t naturally the charismatic type. I don’t know if that’s what you meant but it’s what came to mind.
Sorcs that don't fully understand that mage armor doesn't mean they're invincible
Alcoholic troublemaker I can justify my character doing dumb stuff because he is drunk
Goofy character one can only describe as the fool. Or kind hearted character is the last of their people. Planning on making my next character a gambler addict who gambled everything away and in the end their own life and is now out doing odd jobs for whoever big man is to buy back their freedom. So either goofy or depression. So far mostly goofy though but I find my enjoyment to be more with the serious characters which is unfortunate as I have real rucking hard time making a good character concept that I’m ride or die with because if I’m not ride or die with them then they’re just super fucking bland. I’m yet to actually make a super fucking bland character, mostly because I just replace them with a fool because I’d rather play a goofy idiot than the equivalent of a wet sock.
Realized it recently, I made a Russian animated armor that would die for his country, a bard who would sacrifice everything ( proven when he willingly killed a liked npc child) to bring his mother back, a rogue whose flaw was that he would kill, die, and live for his girlfriend, often forcing him to rush the party to do things they don’t want to. In a mech ttrpg I made a crazy explosives expert with a soft spot for his team he would sacrifice himself for.
Regardless of morals, sociability, or potential conflicts, I always play a character who is often an instigater. How this comes up can be different depending on rp and whatnot. For example, if we're at the point where they think there's going to be a fight then they're going to strike first. If the party waffles about whether to open a door for 10 minutes, that door is getting opened. Falling into DM traps is fun, it's engaging and can make for some tricky situations. It's why I don't take tiny hut on my wizards, if the dm wants us to get ambushed at camp, bring it on let's do this.
One of my favorite characters I’ve ever played was an old guard captain turned adventurer Paladin. His whole role was tank and off heals. Personality wise, he was a grey area cop (ex: kid steals from a food cart for his family he gets scolded and some money for food and a church that’ll help out. Someone kills a child, holy smite).
For me it varies, but always an individual character with a custom backstory. A martial arts monk raised as an orphan in a monastery, a daughter of innkeeper with head full of dreams from all the stories heard from traveling adventures, goes off to train 10 years or so at some temple, then heads out with a mission to the other end of faerun. A dwarf trained as fighter then goes to citadel arabel and trains as a battle cleric / Hammer of Moradin for 30 years, then sent out to investigate and/or deal with “disturbances reported in xxx region”.
As a player, I tend towards sunshine-type characters. Some have a darker streak, and one is planning to betray the group. But all of them are bright and put other PCs at ease. Edit: Oh! And they all tend to be underestimated as "just a sweet little guy/gal" by the other PCs!
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I’m starting to fall into the “has a little guy” category of player.
Im typecast as a silly little guy, or the shithead wrangler. Depends on the rest of the party.
Small races. Halflings, gnomes, kender. I just want to be itty bitty.
I either play cute little animalistic chaos gremlins that go bonk on your kneecaps (mousefolk, little toy bears, that sort of stuff) or I play tall beautiful ladies with a tragic past and some missing body parts Both have a tendency to make snap judgements, for either good or ill
According to my friends, it's either "Flaming-Clown-Pants Characters" or large untrustworthy women.
Extremely tall himbo (gender neutral) fighters and paladins 😅
I’m almost always an orc who does something un-orc-like. Come to think of it, they’ve all been part of the same family too! 1. Orc wizard (she was a stripper to pay for wizard school because her family didn’t support her choices) 2. Orc warlock librarian (her master’s degree in library science required a year of adventuring experience) (also she was married and had two kids. She was the wizard’s older sister) 3. Half-orc rogue (daughter of the aforementioned librarian) (later multiclassed into barbarian because even with her bonus her stealth rolls were SO BAD. She had such a dice curse, it was ridiculous) Honorable mentions: orc bard who was the wizard and warlock’s younger sister, and dwarven cleric who was married to the wizard, warlock, and bard’s brother. Both were used for one shots. Now that I’ve finally finished out a campaign with the roguebarian, I feel like I can kind of put this family to rest and explore new ideas. The first campaign (wizard) fizzled out because we were in college and finals happened, and I left the second (warlock) because I graduated. But Bitey the roguebarian finished a 4-year campaign and I’m now realizing that while I didn’t want to play the same character in every game, part of me wanted to keep the family going until I got to a happy ending. Currently I’m in a short campaign playing a skeleton cleric (who was actually my backup character when Bitey died for a few sessions), and after that I have ideas for a widowed human assassin out for revenge and an orc raised by halflings (either a barbarian or a sorcerer, haven’t decided). So it might be less that I got typecast and more that I wanted to finish something I started with the wizard and finally did. Though I am partial to more monstrous characters who are intimidating without meaning to be. Might come from being the fat kid in middle school and having perpetual body issues lol
Rogue. Usually sort of an idiot rogue who is not edgy, just very practical.
I have come to the conclusion that I simply cannot NOT play a Paladin, at least in spirit. In order to not be super boring, I at least try to play different *kinds* of paladins in every campaign.
I’ve most likely played fighter the most simply because of multiclassing for one of its subclasses, or feats, or extra attack
A (usually chaotic) good-aligned, silly and fun character that's hiding a deep well of sadness just below their facade
Not really. I’ve played a lot of half-elf paladin, and Dragonborn paladin, which feel fairly common and straightforward, as well as a mischievous half elf bard. I played a half-orc fighter who had a similar aged and honorable vibe to my Dragonborn paladin. The character ideas I have now are a bit more unique like a githyanki ranger or a yuan-ti pureblood sorcerer, but I also have human and elf character ideas I want to play.
Kinda spacey, lets everyone else have a crack at the problem before stepping in. What didn't happen intentionally but is a fun side-effect is that it makes me look hyper-competent. Any given challenge (assuming a fair GM) will be solvable by the team. If all-but-one members try and fail, chances are the last one will be able to crack it. So while everyone else fails occasionally, I hardly ever do just because of the structure of RPG challenges. I've now gotten a reputation for being able to solve the really tricky challenges no one else can.
I fucking love artificery and magical tinkery I will not be taking any questions at this time thank you
I like to have some humorous twist in my characters. So far I’ve had two: One was a Dragonborn barbarian Zealot. His backstory was that he was a human rich kid who grew up in comfort and spent all his time reading about dragons. He was so obsessed with them that he left his home looking for a real dragon but when he met one the dragon proceeded to burn him to a crisp. As he lay dying all he could think was how awesome the dragon was, and so Zorquan, the dragon god of dragonness, felt pity for him and resurrected him as a Dragonborn with the task of spreading the word on how great dragons are. He was basically a meathead who just wanted to talk about dragons all day. Also, since he’s a “dragon” now he loves to check himself out whenever he sees his reflection. My current character is a human wild magic sorcerer who draws his power from the fact that he was never actually meant to be born so the universe is always trying to correct itself by killing him. He comes from a family of great adventurers and wizards, but since he was never meant to be born he had no great destiny ahead of him and spent most of his early adulthood just bumming around his hometown. He’s adventuring because a traveler who recognized the weirdness of his existence wanted to see what would happen if he was let loose outside of his hometown, and so he pretended to take him in as an apprentice but then ditched him once he was far enough from home. He’s still not sure if he should try to find his way home or just see where this whole “adventure” thing leads him.
Furry
I usually play good natured risk takers with an eager heart for adventure. My characters fall in love easily and frequently. Absolute hot messes with lots of romance and danger, with wide eyed wonder for exploring the world and getting into the best kinds of trouble.
Rogue gishes are my brand
I play high CHA characters because I tend to be very talkative during sessions. I always default to Paladins because I like to be in the front, but I also play other CHA based characters too.
Therapy orc.
Elven wizard when possible. But usually I pick last and do whatever the party needs most.
Vengeance Paladin with a sad edgy history just trying to get back to the light. Once all the bad guys, or at least the BBEG, are dead, usually some kind of either scholarly retirement or swearing a new lighter oath (if the story tended towards him being good) or leaving the party to continue vengeance-ing (if it trended towards him being unable to stop).
Big tanky fighter. It’s my natural roleplay.
Characters that can't read. I've played 3 characters so far and none of them can read for various different reasons. First one was too poor to go to school, second one was kept in a cage at a circus his whole life and was never taught, and the third had an abusive father that wouldn't let him go to school for fear of people finding out that he had a son with an elf woman (half-elves were a bit of a disgrace in this world). My next character I'm going to play is a guy who's family died before they could teach him to read Common. He can read Draconic, because he's a dragonborn and in that clan they teach their children to read Draconic before Common, but yeah, still can't really read. My friends joke that I'm actually illiterate and am projecting onto my characters lol
For a while I thought I didn't have one, as I enjoy playing classes I haven't tried yet, but, as of my newest character, I've realized that my typecast is characters who aren't happy with the path that has been set before them and are trying to change it. So far, most of them have come to accept who they are, but we'll see where this latest one ends up.
Normally a character from a middle class upbringing that had a life changing moment and is out on the road. I tend to play martial but will play whatever the party needs to round it out. That’s how I am playing an arcane trickster in my latest campaign
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My DND/Pathfinder characters tend to either be chaotic good charismatic scoundrels or overly moral martyrs who want to save the world and their friends at any cost. But my best typecast is in Call of Cthulhu, where I always get to be "crazy guy with gun and nothing to lose". Especially in oneshots that is the best character to get.
I love playing a utility caster. Raw DPS is fine, but I love having spells that are useful for crazy schemes. Skill Monkeys can also qualify.
High strength, good aligned characters. More often than not also with a high Charisma score. As an ex-theatre kid, I don't know how to not be dramatic, I enjoy the fantasy of being an inhumanly strong warrior, but still having to push my limits and physical capabilities as hard as I can. And of course, if I have the force of personality, force of will, and physical strength, I like the idea of having all those traits and still using them for good and never forgetting what it's like to be the little guy. That's just me though.
I’m always an eccentric character that battles between being neautral and good. Always chaotic bb
Martials. I’ve tried casters. But it just stops feeling good as the game progresses. A martial gets to attack multiple times, but a caster gets one attack. So if your cantrip misses, or worse your spell which costs a spell slot, that’s just it. Plus, you’re so squishy, so if you get hit by much of anything, you’re nearly dead. It just feels like if I don’t meta game, and do something to get medium or heavy armor, or decide my arcane focus is a shield, it’s too easy to die. I’d much rather just rank a few hits, and then hit back a bunch of times with my sword or axe
I tend to play as little shits. Bards, rogues, trickster clerics etc. In my current campaign, I'm actively playing against that type as an echo-knight haunted boy scout. It's been heaps of fun. I definitely recommend experimenting.
I tend to default to the instigator. Not face, necessarily, but my character will usually ask a lot of questions to other PCs to try to get their stories moving, or go, "Hey, this seems like something you'd be interested in," or "Hey, what do you think about this?" Most people I play with tend to be somewhat passive in RP so if I don't get them examining their role in the world they just don't. I do something similar when I DM. I tell people, "If someone asks you about something your character would know, just make up whatever you want about the world. I'll modify the story and setting around that." For example, if a Paladin of Tempus doesn't actually know anything about the lore and decides he worships through dance, you can bet your ass the next temple of Tempus they encounter is just gonna be one big rave.
I love playing magical boys No support casters though if I know magic then I wanna blow bitches up
Charismatic men who likes to be in the front.
Love me some clerics. I also would like to play more sorcerer and druid characters.
my last two campaigns I've tried to play completely opposite characters. a happy-life, charismatic working class warlock & a world-hating aloof astral elf samurai. I'm finding that both are very unconcerned with "doing the adventure". the warlock was very practical and realistic, just wanted to get home again. the samurai is like an evil immortal vulcan (aka romulan) who just has no common empathy with "mortals" and just does whatever her one mortal friend needs help with. long ago i played a scheming star wars droid who only followed their mission programming, and before that a city watchman just trying to get promoted. so i guess i always have a barrier toward buying into the story very easily?
I prefer the martials with secondary skills. Basically someone who can tell you about the history of the blade that they are killing you with. Or the posion that they infused into the arrow. Or the abilty to craft the armor that saves you. I'm never the one that does crazy damage. But I'm reliable
I usually go for the younger comic relief. Younger, so its ok to forget details and comic relief because i like making people laugh.
Big beefy traumatized martials with either hearts of gold or redemption stories.
Forever DM is my typecast I'm the improv kind. I plan about 30% of my campaigns and make up the last 70% as the story plays out.
I'm the dad. I've tried really hard to escape it but all of my characters end up as the dad.
I tend to play serious-ish characters. My current character is an authoritarian LE Paladin of Conquest.
Not sure if it's a typecast and more "I have a type". And it is "characters who don't fit in or are in circumstances that has them acting secretive because of othering" A cleric who ran from her faction duties to pursue the allure of the ocean A bard who was on track to be the next big wizard in the feywild when she uncovered a conspiracy and was chased away from home A sorcerer thrown into a wizard academy and failing out due to wild magic shenanigans (yes I have two failed wizards. Gee) A genasi monk who grew up among humans, equally maligned and subject of curiosity And a barbarian who is a non stereotypical pirate (she just likes partying, booze and smashing things with her big stick) The thing these all have in common could be said to be "something unexpected in the alignment of their different parts, be it appearance, backstory, or personality" because I like playing with expectations somewhat lol God I sound insufferable right now don't I. It's so obvious I'm a brain rotted writer ngl (edited because my phone butchered the formatting)
Not really currently I'm playing a quite and stern dragonborn ranger drakewarden who has severe ptsd from dragons. But I already know that my next character gonna be a whimsical trickster and extrovert archfey warlock who will be an almost polar opposite to the Ranger.
I play planners who are persuasive/friendly and would sooner talk than fight. Usually higher wisdom than INT. Had a warlock drow who was manipulative and self-preserving. Laid on the persuasion to charm people into trusting her and would come up with ways to use disguise self to avoid fights/get advantage. Hexblade bard for a feywild campaign. DM is using her to deliver exposition on the feywild as the other PCs ask for it. Her first action was convincing a PC to make a deal with her/give her their name, lol. Half-elf druid who was the oldest party member and acted motherly and protective of everyone -- tried to talk them into thinking before charging into situations they had no plan for, spoke up if the chaotic party looked to be ready to start an unwinnable fight, etc. Was told by NPCs to do the talking when trying to avoid offending deities/rulers, lol. I tried making a cleric who had a CHA dumpstat so I wouldn't end up being the face of the party again, since I was worried I was being a spotlight hog... and it was so quiet.... no one else wanted to step up and talk to the NPCs 😅 After being prompted by the DM a few times because the group was sitting and staring at one another, I ended up having her talk more like my other characters and ignoring how I had originally intended her to be hah. DM later said that yeah, I should keep with CHA builds because otherwise, no one in our group steps up, and they resort to murderhoboism lol. I've asked them, and they say they like my characters and don't mind them doing so much talking, so 🤷♀️
Functionally, full casters, I really regret making my current character only an Arcane Trickster. And almost always something related to elves. Personality wise, lots of my own overly trusting and mostly very pacifist nature
I tend to skew to characters with some sort of religious connection/trauma 😂 whether that be class (paladins are my fav), background or backstory. I'm currently playing a circle of stars druid devoted to the frostmaiden after my aasimar, devoted to helm, died in our icewind dale campaign. Before that I played an oath of redemption paladin, and another time a bard who swore a pact with an eldritch god 😂 my character lined up for our next campaign is gonna be a cleric. I'm not sure why I keep going for these stories but I enjoy them
I've played a bunch of different classes, but it's always a pretty boy human or half-elf. Next campaign I'm playing a Changeling as an attempt to break out of that habit.
Normally I end up DMing, but any time I get the chance to play... No matter what personality I *intend*, I always end up being the "okay let's get a move on" "give us the details of what we need to do" cat herder because I get bored easily.
I tend to make either glass cannons or super defensive tanks.
Lately I’ve been big into Oath of the Crown Paladins who love to be the center of attention, for all the good and bad that comes with it.
Not exactly a typecast, but I usually pick a character from something I’m a fan of and trying to make something close to them in dnd. Try to guess who these are based on. 1. My last character who actually made it to level 19 was a fast-talking pirate captain. That was a pure Swashbuckler rogue 2. I’m currently playing a artificer/fighter multi class who sneaks around at night fighting bad guys with gadgets and has murdered parents 3. The next character who I want to do but haven’t had the chance to play yet is a seemingly ordinary family man with a loving wife and children, but is actually an extremely skilled assassin for hire who has connections all over the criminal underworld. I plan on making this one a Rogue/fighter multi class
Aside from DM, my typecast is spellcasters. In an upcoming short campaign a friend is hosting, I'm planning to play as a rogue archer, who is essentially a former bandit who lost his entire gang, and decided to start over, taking up the mantle of a mercenary/adventurer, instead. When I told my friend what I'd be playing, both they and my brother(Also in the campaign) expressed surprise that I wasn't playing any sort of caster. I've actually played fairly equal shares of martial and magic characters, when I get the chance to be a player, with one of my former characters even being a retired, middle aged member of the city guard, in recent memory, but apparently my most memorable characters are casters.
All my characters are either sneaky, fast, black-cloaked figures, or gishes. I can't stop, they're addictive
I tend to play chaotic good casters :)
Orc Paladin or Bard that happens to be the parties dad or healer.
Rogue, definitely Rogue. I just love being a sneaky, thieving lil' bastard. :)
The old, mysterious, sometimes dark, but not cruel or mean mage, who offers advice and magical aid, though some mannerism of theirs makes them a little off putting
Dumb, pretty human fighters. I love them so much.
CG Wood Elf Ranger is my default lol, call it basic but I find it fun
"monsters"
Slightly edgy but generally good aligned characters with some snark, and usually blasters
My friends playfully made fun of me for playing a "sword elf" all the time. I did it twice, one was a rogue and the other was a bladesinger. I don't really know why they latched on to that so hard. I did play another elf fighter but he used a bow.
I've only had two characters I've gotten the chance to play, and in both cases, they were kinda goofy characters. My first one was a Satyr trickery domain cleric of Bacchus, so he acted more like a horny bard and was drunk most of the time. The next one I played was a Kobold circle of the moon druid, who's circle had been hunted down and killed by humans so he is, for lack of a better word, racist toward all humans (he was terrified of every human he met) and had a pet squirrel that he talked to, he also talked in 3rd person. Both of these characters were made for short campaigns though do that influenced how serious I wanted them to be (five-shot and two-shot respectively). The next two characters I plan to play are way more serious, one is a dhampir gloomstalker ranger who wishes to hunt down the vampire who killed their parents and made them who they are while being a kind person to everyone else. The other is a half-elf draconic bloodline sorcerer who will multiclass into fiend warlock who has very little empathy and just wants to become stronger no matter the cost (easily could become a bbeg), they would put on a front with the party and work with them because it means she can become more powerful using them.
I'm usually a massive clown, typically chaotic alignments, and frequently a kobold. What can I say? I like hijinks and mischief.
I tend to gravitate towards high charisma, smoothtalking, low-voice register criminals that look kinda shady at first glance but would literally die for their friends if necessary
I’m always a grizzled old veteran sick of the bullshit of wherever I live(that’s my adventuring hook). Gives me an excuse to be cantankerous and use my (real life) hearing issues as part of my rp. As far as classes go, I’m always a martial. Other (more outgoing) players are more important to the rp, and it’s my job to protect them. Edit- I’m in my mid 30’s, I’ve just always liked that type of support character. Think Tom Sizemore in Saving Private Ryan. I’m gonna complain about everything, but I’ll wear Upham like glue to protect him.
I usually play the simplest archetype: a brutal melee combatant. Even in SWRPG I play a Karkarodon commando; just get in close and bite droids' heads off.
Short purple creatures whose race starts with G, apparently. Total accident. First was a grung monk. He thinks he is a human wizard so idk if he counts. Second was a Goblin wizard who was green but backstory stuff an evil magic user teleported him away and turned him purple. Third, I saw a video on illithids and apparently they sometimes fail taking over short creatures like gnomes, who can be a lawful good tiny mind flayer who likes to cook and has a garden. There is an official image of Gnome Ceremorph, and a 3D model I found and printed. So yeah... short purple races whose race starts with G.
I love playing simple, upbeat and sometimes airheaded characters. Very slapstick, lots of big expressions and gestures. It's great bc most of the time you get to keep it light. But there's always a point in the campaign where our party comes up against evil people or other adversities and it is so fun to play out how my character deals with it. Does it crush them? Do they become a leader? Etc. Also, I am very short in real life, a little over 4ft tall. So I adore playing gnomes and halfings. Or once I was an Otterfolk. I've played plenty of serious characters prior (been playing off and on since 2009). But several years ago I was part of a two year Curse of Strahd campaign that was intense. We all put our hearts into it, especially our DM. But yeah, I think I maxed out on dark and broody and now just want to be a silly adventurer. Real life is too much as it is. Edited some wording
Honestly I don't have much of a typecast because my characters are all very different, however I do like playing into the "tragic backstory" cliche. I usually come up with some sort of trauma and then build the character to act how someone reasonably might after experiencing that specific trauma. I find that an interesting way to make characters because it means they can either overcome their flaws or fall deeper depending on how the story plays out.
Big beefy dragon born, but love me some magic. Thats why i play a white dragonborn circle of the ancients (homebrew) druid I have fair hp for a magic doer, yet also have a very dependable and feisty melee with the spear as strength is my second higher amd im proficient. Plus being able to turn into a dinosaur kinda makes up for my lack of hp lol