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Riding off the other D&D post here, what is your favorite character you or someone else you played with made?
Personally I'm really digging my current character. He's a alligator themed lizardfolk hick with a thunder cannon named Cletus Cornelius Crocodilius the 3rd who loves to hunt and read pulp fiction and trashy romance. His current favorite book is "Throws of Passion" the story of two luchadores who have to grapple with their feelings for each other.
My favourite character I've played so far was in a short campaign last year. His name was Bork Slumble - a moronic gnome politician whose promises included:
Teaching Kobolds to read
Minting gold for the poor
Providing Griffons to families
His backstory was that he was actually a mob enforcer skinhead who hit his head so hard he lost his memory and had a change in alignment. He was good natured, but very much brain damaged. He carried no weapons, had a "moustache comb of returning" and after having his hair burned off (another story) it was revealed that he unknowingly had an incredibly anti-Kobold tattoo on the back of his head.
He was crushed by a 10 ton stone block and later "resurrected" as a Modron clockwork duplicate.
Such a great character to play.
-LTADnD
P.S. "Throws of Passion" is the best thing I've heard all day. Can I steal it for a game I'm DMing?
Steal away. It's book one of a series and the sequels are "Wrestling with Love" and "Piledriver". The last one Cletus doesn't like too much because the author started just "giving the readers what they want" and Cletus preferred the "subtlety" of the previous works.
This is amazing
Wow, I love your take on the lizardfolk! A PC in my new campaign created one, and I'm super excited about interacting with him!
The player rolled up a more by the book version than yours (no emotion, etc.) but the thing I'm really interested in is that:
So I have carrots and sticks to introduce all sorts of alien weirdness into the PC's actions (and thus the party's adventures)
Yeah, I figured role-playing an emotionless character wouldn't be as fun for me as doing an over-the-top wandering Southern Accent, so I decided to make him an ignorant bumpkin who grew up in a swamp. He still totally eats literally anything made of meat and will attempt to eat the bodies of any of the PCs that die, but he's not gonna just up and eat someone for funsies. He eats what he kills because he doesn't want to be wasteful.
Also, he's super curious about the outside world due to the trashy novels he reads. He's convinced that the world functions like his novels.
I'm very new to DnD but in a campaign we had a guy named "Salamar" and he was an idiot. he was a very kind but stupid character, he hugged a player with one hp hard enough to down him, and in another fight dragged a half dead goblin over for him to finish the job as an apology for stealing one of his killed. oh and he only talked in the 3rd person. not as interesting as some others but definitely got me and the rest of the group laughing.
Im also looking for a new online group since ill be graduating soon so i wont be able to play with my normal group nearly as often (it's a club at my school) so if anyone is doing an online campaign and still looking for / accepting new member i can do voice and maybe video.
Well, if possible you might be able to still play with your group. I play with my friends from high school and I live across the country from them. We use Roll20.com
Try asking them about it.
thank you will do! we're having a food day tomorrow and staying for longer than usual.
Sadly, I only got to play this guy for two sessions before the group split up, but my favorite is Bombous, the Sorceror from a Wizard family who'd flunked out of wizard school. Everything I did was playing as a super flashy Wizard, it was in 3.5 so I used up all my cantrips at the end of each day to Arcane Mark every single thing I owned so that when magic hit I'd just start glowing with the word "Wizard"
Julios N'vada, a T'skrang (basically lizardfolk) illusionist I play in the Earthdawn system. Earthdawn is a super unique setting set in the same universe as Shadowrun. It really, really needs to be played. I've been playing Julios for 4 or 5 years IRL now. Our group has met usually twice a month pretty regularly (and we did take a few months off from Earthdawn for a bit while we played other games). So I've had so much time for character development.
She lived the first part of her life on the streets. Up until she met with the current party, she lied, cheated, and stole. She used her illusions to put on street magic shows and steal money. She was eventually swept off in a grand adventure with the rest of the party. She started as a horrible person. Selfish, uncaring, and dangerous. Over a year or year and a half in game time (4-5 years IRL) she's evolved to become a much nicer person. Much less selfish, more understanding of others, etc. It's been a huge joy to play a character for that long and evolve with her.
I posted a story about her here.