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A kenku bard who's made an archenemy by auditioning for a big part in an opera by stealing an elf's voice for it in rehearsals.

A sleazy cleric that uses religion and divine magic as a way to make money. Think more snake oil salesman healer than televangelist.

A twitchy, undead-phobic rogue that speaks very rapidly in a mostly incomprehensible Scottish accent.

A large, muscular, physically imposing swordsman that has no idea that other people find him so threatening.

A jester.
Seriously i really don't care about the specifics but i fucking love the idea of dashing around in garish colours and dueling people with incredible flourish.

Attila the Lizardman.

-Sir Wilfred Death, a skilled duellist.
-Three-Fingered Pete, an archer who only has three fingers on his right hand
-Guy de Glastonbury, a highwayman who kills his victims after taking their money.
-Sean the Irish Bastard, a thief who preys on beggars.
-Friar Bellows, who uses his position to deflower peasant girls.
Jack Large, a dwarf, described as --"Unspeakably Violent Jack, the bull-buggering priest-killer of no fixed abode."

Lots to eat, though

Probably get fat pretty quick.

>the second one

I mean it's a high octane lifestyle, you'd make use of most of the nutrients you eat.
The most fun I can imagine is trying to convince Chubby Lizard that he shouldn't eat humanoids.

That's my fuckin' boy, though I dislike the fact he rules his clones, I want to be lost in my clones

A sorcerer/warrior that only uses touch spells by punching. Thinks wizards are pussies.

It sounds like you'd soon enough forget whether you're the original, or a clone.

Town guardsman who decided to take up adventuring in his late 40s, or race equivalent, to pay for his grand daughter's magic training at a well-to-do school. Decided on this change of career as his captain's pay isn't enough to cover the entire tuition.

Good, one version of me is not any better than the other. The distinction between original and clone doesn't matter.

I like this actually.

A Half Elf Fighter nobleman who's a bastard and will never inherit so he went on to make his own fortune

Gnome Ship Captain that is recklessly suicidal in regards to obtaining booty. Ramming ships, swinging from the rigging on to enemy ships and flinging far too much fire around to be considered sane.

A boy that decides to stay home and be a good wife instead of going out and getting burned to death?

In D&D 5e, a nature domain cleric who is more like an eastern monk than a western priest. He wields a khakkhara ring staff and wears a straw hat and is all about animism.

A warrior who relies heavily on illusion magic in battle to create copies of himself to distract and decieve his foes.

Any character who, after the campaign's main villain is defeated, assumes the villain's former position of power and takes over that empire, but without actually betraying the party.

A Possessed Chaos Marine who, in their utter Warp-fueled delusion believes himself to be hunting down evildoers in a righteous crusade when in fact, they are doing the exact opposite.

I like this.

An anarchist genetic researcher looking for ways to wipe out the Psyconaut precogs in her homeland. Has a pechant for burning the corrupted since the ends justify the means so long as the ends are her own.

>A warrior who relies heavily on illusion magic in battle to create copies of himself to distract and decieve his foes
Yesssss

I was flipping through some Shadowrun books earlier and had the idea for a flamboyant, mildly androgynous, hypersexual satyr face who's secretly cold and calculating but understands that sex sells and playing up the horny partyboy/girl (can't decide on gender) stereotype causes people to underestimate you. Not sure what else they'd do within the party. Adept of some kind maybe?

Forgot to mention, I'd basically play them as HIM from Powerpuff Girls

a british boy

A Bullywug knight who realized his people were bad, so he ran away to train under a master swordsman, Garth Huxley. After Garth died at the hands of a hobgoblin warparty attacking the capital city, he swore to rid the world of all evil. The Bullywug, who Garth had named Dansworth, now takes on the last name of his master, and sets out on his quest.

A cursed sword that possesses his owner and takes over his body. He wants to learn about his own past, but he's tremendously narcissistic and talks for hours about how awesome is his sword/himself.

Sounds like it'd be good for a bard

A big muscly orc or possible ogre barbarian/druid who likes to punch things, live a simple life in the woods until adventure calls, and cuddle with his equally big animal companion, which I'd call Fang-Fang.

Goblin Alchemist. Doesn't know what's going to happen most of the time, quite forgetful with where he leaves his potions. Doesn't talk much, and gets quite annoyed nobody ever wants to learn Goblin, so he has to wrangle his tongue into speaking Common. Not really evil, but somewhat of a reluctant Hero.

Male Drow Barbarian. Ran away from the Underdark, because he couldn't take any fucking more. Still evil as fuck, but humbled by his experiences below, so he has to get his selfish kicks where he can without risking the fury of the Surface-Matrons.

Thyrsus Libertine with Forces Legacy. Sees the pulse of the universe through each and every living being. Channels and generates forces with his body, and enjoys fucking with sound and kinetic energy most of all.

Obrimos Thearch. Obsessed with reconnecting with the great Aether, and as such obsessed over finding some manifestation of its will in the Fallen World. Shadow Name focuses on the imagery of Mahou Shoujo, however she's now late 20s and can be a tad embarrased by her earlier life choices. Especially when she's nursing two black eyes and is spitting up blood all over her frilly dress after taking down a Murder-Spirit.

Dwarf Hacker. Had all the malicious, selfish, vengeful parts of his brain burnt out by BTL abuse, and now wanders the world in a scerene state of near-contentment. Still suffers horrible neurological side effects. Wears a lot of hawaiian shirts, thongs, and shorts. Steals souvineers from wherever he goes.

Heretek hiding in the Screaming Vortex. Obsessed with the stars, and was driven mad by gazing directly into a Chaos Tainted one. Now he wants to build shit like cosmic lasers, and blow up planets so he can get a better view of a distant constellations. Also you know, destroy the Imperium, because they keep trying to destroy his telescopes.

Scarecrow Changeling. Very good with a needle and thread, having learned to mystically stitch flesh like cloth.

A Halfling monk who is obsessed with eastern culture to the point that it addles his brain. He wanders the countryside trying to live up to the hagakure ala Don Quioxte

True neutral necromancer who is very introverted, dislikes associating with the living, works as town mortician and gravekeeper. Despite that would go any lengths to protect the townspeople, albeit behind the scenes.

Booker Dewitt?

Kind of not getting it, as DM I am able to create and play as a huge number of various npc starting from peasant children and mooks to the BBEG and powerful entities.

pic related, my character, kind of one of bbegs in a setting

A bard who wants to become a career politician travelling around the country committing unspeakable acts of good while giving his business card around in hopes of making contacts.

C-can people who just have nogame come too?

A card shark who won a cursed deck in a bet, now he can cast spells at the cost of coin, the gold going... somewhere, presumably paying whoever made the deck.

He also can't really choose what spell he draws.

I am so behind horatio techniques.
His only problem is he cloned some fuck named horatio instead of me.
Obvious design flaw.

A PC I had in a campaign where our team was reset to the beginning when we started our quest every time we died having survived quantum leaping to another world to gain and amass power to eliminate the gods, devils, etc. and remake the multiverse without them as the BBEG of a campaign.

I just want to play a paladin

Assassin Rogue that is INTENTIONALLY a huge edgelord persona. Plot twist is that it's a teenager that just has a well-developed body, making him seem more of an adult than he actually is.

I always wanted to do a game where the PC's are a squad of chaos space marines who "wake up" to the facts of what they're doing.

...

>boywife
The finest of tastes.

My melanin-bearing comrade.

My compatriot of darker complexion

Neutral Good Male Human Fighter.

Rouge/Bard multiclass maybe

Anubis?

I've got a few, but not all are necessarily ideas for Player Characters.

One is basically that super fit old guy that still gets out and runs every morning, even if it's freezing rain.
He's like 60 years old, and back in his day, he was the most martially capable man in a thousand miles.
Now age has caught up with him, and even though his body is starting to weaken, he's still fit, and experience has made up for not being as young as he used to be. He can still kick the ass of any Fighter who comes to challenge him, and gets more pussy than your party's Bard.

Another was an idea for a BBEG, but unfortunately one I'll probably never get to use.
It was basically an Efreeti Sultan who desired to become a God, and had built a cult around himself in order to steal or attain Divinity. This was back when 3.5 was a thing, so I had given him levels in Ur-Priest.

Last, I've always liked the idea of Archery-focused Paladins. I played one a LONG time ago in 3.5, and had a hell of a lot of fun with him.
He was a lowborn Archer who had shown exemplary service on the battlefield by being the single survivor of the team of bowmen covering the retreat of their liege's personal troop. He was Knighted, and given a place amongst an order of Paladins. He tries his best to show his highborn comrades the perspectives of the common people and how best serve those that they protect.

That's just a few of my favorites. I've got more, as well as a recurring mouthpiece NPC who I've wanted to put into a proper campaign for a while.

I really like your heretek idea. I will probably be stealing that for a future Black Crusade npc.

All these are Anima, just a heads up.

>Mute defense-centric Tao, heavy focus on ignoring penalties from multiple enemies/defenses and grapple/takedown penalties. Fairly reserved personality, with some abandonment phobias that have produced an almost needy sense of loyalty towards whoever they get hired by.

>loose callout to DOOMGUY, Tao again, but focused on offense and Ki Abilities that let him heal off of melee kills, grapple well above his weight/size class. Also take the Projectile Weapon module and Blood of Solomon for Big Fucking Magitech Gun fun. Maybe also have a habit of flipping shit when someone mentions demons, but avoid actively hurting humans/humanoids unless they try to actually kill him. Preferably in a campaign based in Moth.

>Nasty as fuck Telepathy Mentalist, with heavy focus on accruing a massive group of mind-wiped meat puppets that do most of the fighting. Think Legato Bluesummers.

>Pure Daimah Technician "Red Mage" Pirate focused on being stylish AF, "casting spells" and gallivanting about laying with wenches. Also a plethora of cat puns in every sentence that leaves his meouth.

>Disguise happy Shadow, with the Transformation Ki abilities to turn into statues/pillars/tables etc, who does the killing not for money or a cause, but because he believes himself an artiste, and finds greater joy in more challenging kills.

Alas, I'm the only one in the group who can into consistent plot line creation, so I'm stuck in ForeverGM position for the foreseeable future.

That's an amazing idea. Might make a magic item like that for my players!

I found a homebrew Bard college called "College of the Fool" that isn't shit. I'll look for it again and post it here. It definitely works for the theme

okay found it for 5e imgur.com/TUGn7DI

A rootin' tootin' Kobold gunslinger with a revolver, he's LE and would do good deeds so people would trust him, then he'd steal their stuff while their guard was down and ride off into the sunset.

I like to come up with LE characters who could still function in a party with any good characters.

Hey, look, it's one of my recurring NPCs.
He's currently accompanied by a paladin aspiring to noblebrightness, and his (the edgelord's, not the knight's) foster mother, who is an aging female cleric who doesn't take shit from anyone.

I want to play a paladin which is essentially a medieval Jedi.

Dwarven Druid who'se been travelling the world, cataloguing new species and learning as much about them as possible. Basically imagine David Attenborough if he had a gnarly-ass beard and wasn't afraid to wreck face in melee if it comes to it. Prefers to fight as an animal if practical, Komodo Dragon being his preferred form. Fond of shifting into a Pangolin and pretending to be a rock.

I want to play a Khorne Marine in Black Crusade who's taken the focus on bloodshed to its total extreme, detaching himself completely from everything in the universe but whoever he's currently killing.

Like some kind of zen monk of murder, always blissful and serene even when he's chopping people up. Emotional excess and attachment to the sensuality of murder is for Slaanesh. All Khorne wants is blood.

A Wizard who ravenously hunts for the secrets of undeath so he may save those he loves and himself from the cold reaches of the beyond.

We all know how this ends.

Ever since I read Volo's Guide to Monsters where they talk about gnolls seeing signs from Yeenoghu everywhere I wanted to do this.

Gnoll Druid who thinks he's a cleric, and interprets the various signs of nature telling him to go help puppies and plant trees as the vile will of Yeenoghu, leading to this feral gnoll following around the rest of the party convinced that his god has ordained them to play a part in some kind of horrifying destruction in the future. He also constantly stops in the middle of things to note down the various signs that appear around him on his clothes/weapons/belongings/enemies in reach.

A DM who has no idea what Lawful Evil means, that's a turn-up.

You think David Attenborough is afraid to wreck faces?

Untouchable Jim, a barbarian with 42 AC who really, really doesn't like physical contact.

Assassin rouge who tries to be a complete edge lord, but his mother calls him frequently with the sending spell to check up on her little sweetiekins, and sends care packages of cookies and baked goods to him so he doesn't get homesick.

>A sleazy cleric that uses religion and divine magic as a way to make money.
How does his god feel about this? Perhaps more importantly, how does he feel about his god?

Does the star talk back or...?

A mathemetician who thinks he's smart because he memorized a bunch of formulas.

Also is a total dick about it.

Oh, hey, I've sort of played that first one. He wasn't a particular's god cleric, mind you. He was litterally powered by the concept of Cynicism, and Cynicism demanded he sell his holy powers in the most undignified ways possible.

They all sound like assholes

go to bed, M Night Shamalyon

>imgur
Why wouldn't you just post the picture?
Also, this doesn't seem too bad, but the fact that being a fool doesn't seem to have any ramifications outside of combat seems kind of lame to me.

theft isn't lawful

>One is basically that super fit old guy that still gets out and runs every morning, even if it's freezing rain.
>He's like 60 years old, and back in his day, he was the most martially capable man in a thousand miles.
>Now age has caught up with him, and even though his body is starting to weaken, he's still fit, and experience has made up for not being as young as he used to be. He can still kick the ass of any Fighter who comes to challenge him, and gets more pussy than your party's Bard.

oh yeah, just in hurry to post it, sorry about that

Elaborate, you vile fiend.

A necromancer that always tried really hard to be a druid for his love of nature but has sort of an anti green thumb because he can't stop killing things

let me elaborate then:
He has a set amount of gold he has to pay for every spell, a minimum, but if he pays more, he's more likely to get what he wants, or the effect he gets will be stronger, or both. He casts by drawing a card while thinking of the gold amount and revealing it. If he doesn't have the gold, it will take items equaling in value to that gold.

I'm well aware this is just a modified deck of many things, but it's still a fun idea.

There's a (wizard? I forget) subclass called a defiler that draws life from plants to use their magic

That sounds pretty sweet. I was almost thinking a multiclassed wiz/druid (5e) and maybe refluffing the druid spells

>he can still kick the ass of any fighter who comes to challenge him, and gets more pussy than your party's Bard.
Then what's the fucking point of him being old then?
Christ. When you get old, a couple things happen. You get less strong, you get more health problems, you get less attractive. None of those matters for this guy, apparently, except that he's "more experienced." Which is cool, but I mean, what's the point of aging this guy to 60 when he might as well be 35 or 40 based on how much it actually matters?

It's the same as getting rom-com protagonists who are "clumsy," because it generally doesn't matter for rom-com plots except for setting up meet-cutes, plus audiences (and love interests) can find it charmingly vulnerable. Meanwhile, this guy is old, but he still wins every fight and gets every girl and probably never has a bad back. So why does it matter that he's old in the first place?

I frankly love the "old fighter who can still hold his own" trope, especially as applies to monks and things. But for Christ's sake it's supposed to make the character a competent underdog, not an avatar of juvenile masculinity who kicks ass all day and slays poon all night. It's absurd.

My brethren of African descent.

Isn't there a UA for jester bards? Like, do what you want, but I don't get using homebrew when semi-official is available.

a faerie wizard that lives inside the skull of an awakened skeleton npc who is also it's best friend

dm rolls and decides what the skeleton does while my faerie shoots spells out of the skeleton's eyes

stars cant talk retard

>playing as Him
I love it, that guy was perfecr

Shapeshifter trained as a pugilist to bear-punch people

i picture the sleazy cleric selling healing potions that work when hes there because he is casting cures on the marks at close range, then taking the money and being gone before they try them at home. Also if he worships a god of profit or thieves or any other shady deity he's literally doing God's Own Work!!

the Defiler is from the DnD setting Dark Sun. Think Mad Max with 7' masai-style elves and canabalistic feral halflings