Regardless of whether there are two or three characters in this party, I have to agree No but really, Oxford commas are useful in situations like this lol
Hey, Zelda is an actual German name, it has popped up more than once when I was trying to find German names for my paladin whose last name I definitely did not steal from Rean Schwarzer from Trails of Cold Steel
scp-049 got in contatct with SCP-217, this is not a drill, onsite nuclear device was activated, T minus two minutes and thirty seconds, have a nice day.
The DM: "Here's a game that you can make your own charicter, you know like that one you have been thinking of?" The player: "I'll just play Kirito from Sward Art Online." The DM: "Okey, are you going to try to see if there is some aspect of them that you want to explore?" The player: "No. I'll just play Kirito from Sward Art Online. It's just Kirito." The DM: "But we already have 8 other players doing the same thing..."
@@romanrepublic753bc6 Fighter man, fighter man! Does what ever a fighter man does! He can swing with a sward. Use a bow and often crit. Over all, pretty bland. Watch out! Its fighter man. (this was sent at 4 am, god the night shift is boring today.)
Don't forget about the ones where you accidentally make a character that resembles an established character in pop-culture. For example, I once made an Oracle in the Pathfinder rule-set, and chose "Wind" as my Mystery power, because I liked the perks, which included the ability to throw lighting bolts and fly. As the campaign progressed, my favorite spell to use in combat was Spiritual Weapon, which produced a magical flying hammer. By about 6th level, one of the other players suddenly piped up, "OMG! You character is Thor!". And I had to stop for a moment and think about it, then realized ... crap, I *DID* make Thor...
I once made a character that was rick Astley. He was a Druid, so he could shape shift, and often just shapeshifted into an ant, and reappeared singing in front of random people to rick roll them. He is also #4 most eligible bachelor.
In the campaign I was in, Rick Astley was an eldritch horror from the Far Realm. Speaking of which, since I failed a trial he almost yeeted me there until the warlock used the Fates card. It technically never happened, but the DM said I have weird memories and nightmares of this haunting song and a tentacle-armed Rick Astley singing the song menacingly.
Dont worry, I totally plan on playing as a channeler (fan made class for 5th edition) that basically gives you a stand that is moody blues and the world/star platinum mixed together whenever I actually get a chance to play the game ;-;
One time everyone in the party I was playing with was a Jojo's reference but me because I was the only one who hadn't watched it at that point. After having watched the show now, litterally everything anyone said or did was just a Jojo's referance
meanwhile my party at first though that my character is jojo refference, they were suprised i dont get jojokes, funny thing after googling i learned that the only thing what my rogue shares with that character is only first name and actualy my character is indeed refference of something, basicaly garret from thief (first one) and nobody got refference so far even after i doused torches with water arrows probably because the only special thing about him is how he doesnt stab everyone
I accidentally made Fiona from the fourth Shrek movie but like also not. I started with she's a damsels who is not in destress anymore. So I was like obviously she's a barbarian. As I was writting her backstory I decided on her being a sea elf. And then, like two days before I played her I was like, "hold the phone. She's just Fiona." But at that point I was committed to her character and design so I went with it.
A friend of mine brought with him... 1:Master Splinter from Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. 2: Puss in boots from Shrek. 3: Nick Wilde from Zootopia. As PETS! And all of them had pictures of those characters as their tokens. He also made himself Judy Hopps, and I almost got kicked from the group because I told him to stop bringing characters from kids movies into the game.
One of my favorite DND campaigns was one where the DM specifically wanted us to clone our characters. We had a table consisting of the terminator, samus, sailor moon. And Reno jackson. And it was an absolute blast. And a totally diffrent way of playing dnd. Instead of adopting a persona. Or playing as "your mc" sometimes it's fun to drop in a pre-established character and think amongst your table on "how would the terminator communicate with sailer moon" and more often then not the end result is an absolute riot. Is this the best way to play? No probably not. And alot of the DND snobs with scoff at the idea of "restraining the limitless creativity of the game" by blatantly making a party of plagiarized characrers. But at the end of the day my friend group plays dnd to have fun. So that's what we'll do. And i reccomend trying this out at your friend table sometime as well.
Doing this with the express idea of 'This is gonna be an absolute shitshow and we are all gonna laugh until we cry' sounds amazing. Totally want to do this.
My first character that I made was a very wholesome dyslexic wizard with a spellbook purely made of pictures and diagrams that he drew himself. When he saw a giant dust cloud looking out the window of an Inn, his first thought was "Gee, I hope everyone with asthma is okay"
What if an entire game was based around cloners and you made it an isekai. You could have a hilarious game with Krieg from Borderlands as a tank berserker while steven universe had to fight alongside him as a paladin. Add some serious characters along with them, and you might have a funny yet practical party.
I had two different versions of Krieg, one became what I call the horseman of pestilence thanks to Brovia campaign, the other ended being a human who was more dragon that any dragon born could ever be.
@@ione2251 Only if I was angry and swearing, made it so my character could cuss without me dropping F bombs. I can't sound ineligible with a Donald voice.
I’d put forth the idea that there’s a 4th type. Players who try to emulate abilities and play style of a character, but without the looks or personality of said character. It’s like playing a web slinging Character, but she’s a chaotic neutral thief that robs trains and dresses up as a witch Sure their playstyle is copying Spider-Man, but that’s about it.
I'd fall into this category. I have been struggling to build a character with Doomguy's abilities and powers but much more calm and calculating since that's how I play Doom.
I made a Paladin Monk Iron Fist playstyle. Had 2 levels of warlock though. used eldritch blast for long range and used the warlock slots for free smites.
I’ve got a character with general chronomancy-related abilities, namely stopping time, and carries a shitload of knives. No for fuck’s sake it’s not DIO. The party still hasn’t figured out i’m a touhou fan.
I am the DM of my group. I have a player who really loves Persona and wanted to play Joker, the protagonist from p5. I allowed it and created a story reason for him to be there, not as someone else like him, or an alternate version of him, but instead the original having been dragged through a portal and trying to get home. It's more complex than that, obviously, but that aspect of the story and world building made the game more fun for everyone. I got to add other characters in similar situations and watch as he roleplayed having no idea how the heck to get out of this realm or what was popular there. It helped that the character had different ways to play it in the original game that he came from. Cloners aren't always so bad, and it was clear that everyone was having fun with it. In the end, that's what matters.
I know right? I was kinda weirded out by it at first, but having that radiant damage output has been a life saver. You're right, he is a sun soul monk, and he's definitely no min maxer. Dude's lowest stats are his intelligence and wisdom, just what you would expect from Goku
@@PhantomPhoenix105 yea I'd expect it to be quite useful in dealing with the monsters in that module, who would've thunk. I might actually add an npc to my own game inspired by this story, thank you.
I literally made Garfield once using the power of Homebrew Content. It’s literally a damn cat that doesn’t like to move, influenced by personality and class.
@@justas423 no matter how original you are someone else will appear with the something worst and say you just took their idea and upgraded it even if you had the idea before them that is how copyright was born
@@justas423 well I have about 8 characters ready to go. My group already has 3 campaigns running, I already have a character for the next campaign we plan, so by the time my tortle spore druid gets his turn at being played, its probably gonna be 4 years since I came up with him.
I'm really curious about how those characters mix. They're both aggressive and stubborn, but secretly really caring, but what weapon/fighting style and color scheme does your character have?
I once ran a RWBY campaign set five years before Volume 1 where the players got bullied by Cardin's older sister. She was basically a gender-swap of Cardin, but her personality was like a mean-spirited Yang
If you have character that was inspired by *two or more* characters, I think it can be considered 'original' if you *mix it well* because BECAUSE *NOTHING IS NEW UNDER THE SUN*
hooooooooooooooo boy, I had a cloner in a deadlands game, he tried to mimic Alexander Anderson from Hellsing, oh but not just regular Hellsing, from Hellsing Abriged and let me tell you any immersion I built up he destroyed without a thought, (that and there were crucial character details he failed to mention to me that resulted in a very messy encounter that killed pretty much the whole thing going forward). Its real hard to create a Spaghetti Western atmosphere when you have a preacher going around calling everyone a protestant fuck-bucket.
I Have Terrible Rolls I feel as if, with a little work, a psychotic preacher with a bayonet fetish spouting lines from Boondock Saints while gutting monsters would fit well into a spaghetti western so long as it wasn't the gritty type.
@@BahamutEx there is a character called Dritz Urden. Not sure on the last name but I think that is correct. He was a lawful good drow, who escaped the drow society and defied destiny by becoming one of the few good drow. I only learned about him by the mentions of him in the player handbook for D&D 5e, but I can asume someone wrote a book series about him, just like with the dragon lance chronicles, an old series that is now one of the settings described in the handbook.
@@pandorasboxofcatvideos5892 Drizzt Do'Urden. Also, completely separate, even before the books my favorite race was Drow because of the cool culture, my favorite weapon is Scimitar(not in game stats), and my favorite class before 4e/5e was ranger. It pissed me off to no end when I found out that Drizzt already existed, with all my favorite things, in a shitty non-developed character.
Aren't all characters people think off related to something or based on something you have picked up on before? I think it's very unlikely people make a 100% original character these days. Any main characteristic must be based on something you have heard before.
So once I had this idea for a character called Lotus. She was a shapeshifter who was very mischievous and was the youngest in her family but was actually adopted. She was from a different race than everyone else but nobody knew because epic shapeshifter magic. I then realise I basically made genderswapped Loki down to the name without realising.
The real question is what class is Mario? Could be monk because he has no weapons, jumps on things to kill them and has to find his mushrooms to change size and breathe fire. Order of the porcelain bowl anyone?
Jango1989 if you look at the spell list some of the druids spell mimic Mario’s abilities. The cantrip Produce flame makes a handheld fireball you can throw at enemies, they can also cast Jump. You can take spells like Goodberry and have them affect mushrooms instead of berries. Man! And you can use wildshape to mimic Mario’s power-ups, “I turn into a (cat, giant bee, giant frog, dire raccoon, etc.)” I would definitely have him wield a wooden hammer.
I'm the type of person that would go very thematic into a character based off other things. Like my Illusion School Wizard "Rhodney Charles Crezki" started off as a "What if a illusionist/trickster/magician from our world had real powers? And he was basically a showman that I focused charisma on. His intelligence was from him studying new "tricks" to preform. He had sleight of hand + Deception & game card proficiency with Arcana and history as well. He could technically been a rogue (arcane trickster) but he's not like a rogue. His book was like a "Book of tricks", him having to "Prepare his tricks" like a showman have to prepare the stage, instead of just able to cast them willynilly like a sorcerer/warlock. His familiar was even a dove, that he used with magic tricks (By teleporting it around so it would appear in different places) and he mostly preformed for peasant people. This was a place with lowish magic fantasy. Basically, it was a setting where magic was practically only for nobles rather than the common folk. So few people have ever seen magic for real.
That's an epic concept. I actually thought of that idea a few times like: "What if I just made a wizard who became well known by being a birthday party magician" Sounds like you're one step ahead though!
I’ve started a game where my character is literally just Kaminari from MHA and no ones realized it yet despite the fact I’ve spammed Thunderwave at almost every opportunity
It might have had something to do with Thunderwave doing Thunder damage, ya know... sound..? Not lightning :Y. Shocking Grasp, Chain Lightning and Witch Bolt woulda made more sense
@@immortalstar0138 That is fair. And as this build was around a year old, I have tweaked it to fit most other Lightning spells, Thunderwave was mainly a first level option. Main reason Thunderwave was the go to in the first place was do to the fact that it worked the most similar to how Kaminari primary ability worked. (A sphere with an origin on the player.) That being said though, I've tweaked the build a lot and it actually works quite well now.
There’s an entire category of memes where people transfer their favourite characters to DND There’s also Fusion, which combines traits from 2 or more characters
Just remember, creativity is your mind stitching together what it already knows. Every thought starts somewhere, you just need to make sure that you're not taking too much from any one source.
I am actually guilty of cloning, but only because I the DM wanted me to play a fighter, and I didn't have any origional ideas for a fighter at the time. Therefore I cloned Minecraft Steve. A basic character for a basic class. Otherwise, I would have continued playing as my bookworm divination wizard, who seeks to preserve and promte the spread of information.
Blaine Simple practice makes perfect! My female voice is a very shy and quiet sounding voice. Trying to make it sound like an Orc makes it sound awkward. Why do I know this? I NPC'ed for a LARP and played 2 female NPC's. Lemme just say, this made me appreciate long hair so much more when I realized how often the hair got into your face and mouth, and that you have to tuck it behind the ear, put it in a ponytail, or get a mouthful of hair. LARP is fun.
@@BlaineSimple *whispers* no. In all seriousness, I picked him because he's both a character I relate to, so I know I could rp him, and he has no official backstory, which is a great way to flesh out a character.
As a skinner i almost never know what the character i stole my look from is. I just liked the art and used it for mine. No i didn’t know the personality of this random Zelda npc i used for my half elf. STOP TRYING TO BUY POTS FROM ME!
first video on the channel: how to rip off konosuba's characters for dnd this video: don't you just hate it when someone rips off an already existing character and puts it into dnd?
one of my favorite npcs was a joke based off of the Drizzit clone tropes. he was a drow that abandoned his society, but not because they were evil, but because "they dont appreciate my music, man". he was a bass guitar playing bard and acted like a typical hippie/stoner.
One time I was randomly rolling up a character and I ended up making a chaotic evil darth vader. It was interesting. Especially when he accidentally became a lawful good person after his software failed.
Yeah, I usually start with a character for inspiration and improvise new facets during sessions. I have a gnome cleric that started with heavy inspiration from Ralsei...but is now a sociopathic hermit with an affinity for pickles. It's a long story, trust me.
well that's kind of a problem you see we're in a campaign where you travel through dimensions and one of the pc's plays as a high ranking member of the fallout enclave and got power armor due to his rank the thing is the way they get these random quests in random dimensions is up to a random chart and they got an encounter where they became friends with liberty prime
this video made me think: what if some one made a dnd campaign where the players have to play as game/show/comic characters, maybe it could be like a crossover fic kinda thing, or it could be like "the Mario brothers, sonic, and tails end up In a dnd world. and then later they find out they aint really the real ones but just clones"
This makes me feel good about the fact that all of my characters thus far are inspired by *concepts* but none directly copy the appearance or personality of one character. Yuan-ti Pureblood Warlock: his patron used his body as a vessel, this warped his brain to be evil even though he was originally compassionate unlike the standard yuan-ti. Warforged Artificer: they believe they are human, and look it too. He’s intelligent and charming; sometimes talks out loud without meaning to but is a really nice guy. Elf Warlock: they have two personalities; one is the sweetest and kindest guy possible, the other is pure evil and the one who formed the bond with their patron. Tabaxi Sorcerer: As a shadow sorcerer, their personality is affected by their power’s origins and they are very socially awkward; they hate this and desire to be rid of their power.
One of my favorite beginning PCs was actually a semi-clone of Zane from Ninjago 😂 I liked it because it was a unique challenge that taught me how to build a character around certain constraints, really figuring out how I understood him as a character. The best part of the whole thing is that the DM was the only person who knew that's what I had gone for, so it was like I was getting to tell some of Zane's story in another universe, in my own way.
Ah, I see you're a man of culture. I did the exact thing for an Eberron game, but as an artificer so he can make handheld magic cannons and start blastin'.
A Player of my campaign wanted to seriously create Saitama. You know the guy that kills everyone/everything in one punch...? THE ONE punchman.....yeah..sigh. in the end he played a perfect stat monk and i hated my dice for those rolls *sighing intensifies*
In my high school dnd group, there was the one guy who only ever played Mercy from Overwatch. Didn't matter the campaign or adventure, he was always the same Aasimar Cleric who talked, acted, and looked exactly like Mercy.
In the campaign I'm currently playing, it would feel weird not to steal a character. This is the setting: We are sent to protect farmer Thanos. When we arrive, a dementor gets out from a PC and attacks Thanos. He asks us to get his gauntlet, but as we do 7 dragonballs come out, I touch one as Thanos snap his gauntlet and with his last words he tell us to protect Sarah Connor. PS: My character is Aang and another PC made detective pikachu.
Seeing this reminds me of a video game RPG idea I had once. The plot would be a DM has been planning a special session of D&D (or some D&D parody for legal reasons) for a few weeks after a session with his friends. Because he was running some custom homebrew monsters and races, he allows his friends to make their own homebrew races and characters as long as they promised not to be too broken and ruin the fun. The players promised not to be OP and talked about it afterwards and were talking about character ideas until one of them had a hilarious concept he shared amongst them and they agreed to it. The day of the session he was greeted by a team of characters with clear inspiration to certain sci-fi heroes and are a team of space travelers who are checking out what was supposed to be a post apocalyptic Earth now brimming with life and crash landed onto it because they were shot down by people who mistook the vessel for a dragon or large armored bird. The DM goes along with it because he secretly planned to make the big bad of the campaign a clear homage to Darth Vader and Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine with an army of stormtrooper look-a-likes, and he actually had the friend who suggested it in on his plan, and told him to suggest the idea to the other players into making sci fi characters. In gameplay, the characters wouldn't be overpowered and would all have the same class roles as most RPGs like the fighter, the mage, the healer, the tank, the ranger, the rouge, and so one. Maybe one or two, maybe three depending on the player count you wanna go with, of the players actually made traditional D&D type fantasy characters and ard trying to take this seriously because the gods know the space idiots probably aren't. I could imagine the space players playing as sci-fi characters with clear inspiration, like a space marine, a hyper advanced android created to be close to human as possible with an arm cannon and large selection of weapons, a spartan super soldier, a galactic bounty hunter, and so on. Maybe they're a band of misfits like the Guardians of the Galaxy brought together from their adventures and misadventures or something.
this reminds me of the time my friends and I decided to come up with a very specific party for our RM to mess with. the short-story was set in a land with clear ancient-chinese influence, so we put together a fun party and decided to see how long it took for the DM to catch on. first member was a tabaxi second member was a yuan-ti third was an aarakocra fourth was a homebrew race known as "munkai", a monkey-like race the fifth was a thri-kreen, a mantis-like race and the last was a pandafolk. all of us were monks. yes, our party was literally just kung-fu panda. our DM didn't catch on until the pandafolk one-shot a goblin and said "skadoosh". After that, we came across "a palace made out of beautifully carved jade, resting at the top of a long stairway." After climbing the stairs, we met a tortle named Oogway who sensed the pandafolk was destined to be the greatest warrior in the land.
When you said Megaman I had a seizure because that what's what was going through my mind at the moment and that surprised me considering that the odds of that genuinely happening are very slim. And it happens on something I found in my recommended rather than subscriptions... Speaking of which I ought to press that button after this comment is posted...
“People can’t just sit down and instantly create a Picasso or Mona Lisa” 0:34 Umm... I make characters based on a single bit like “I want a rogue” or “I want a home brew race” then I make the character extremely fleshed out to the point that I want to play as them but I can’t, so I put them in my “PC Vault” until I can brush them off later... Ok this really sounds like I’m bragging which I kind of am but I don’t mean to say that I’m better than anyone, just the first thing that came to mind when they said the thing
I made an android sephiroth as a major henchmen of my main villan. But when the players finally defeated him (after four attempts) the players declared the campaign over. I went with it.
@@BlaineSimple I think you're missing few steps before going to court. Like going to dinner, sharing our interests, getting married, miscarriage, you coming home drunk and angry, me staying with my parents, our first real fight, etc. You know, stuff like that before our divorce in court.
@@xRaalx Wizards of the coasts mentioned a rework for the class, but I'll safely bet it's going to be in a new book coming up soon rather than anything else. They'll probably call it "Ranger, Revisited" and the PHB version will go out of date.
Oh boy! I do love high elven fighters who have talking fairies and being bossed around by an insignificant necromancer princess who also happens to revolve around the entirety of the story while barely being physically present!
One of my friends who is in my party and every character he made had to be referencing something like ‘Tarny Splincen’ who is a bard who is obsessed with flirting and occasionally talks about opening a bar named ‘Puzzles’
This was actually enjoyable and reminds me why i love my players, they fall in love with a concept not the looks so since not all concepts can be multiclassed into dnd, they instead have me homebrew a archetype or whole new class based on their desired concept. For example i made a fighter archetype based solely around the Shield Hero from Rising of the Shield Hero.
@@BlaineSimple haha nice, yea one play really liks adaptation so ive done a Megaman ZX class, Shield Hero, FF Dragoon, Legend of Dragoon Dragoon, and by his request now looking at League of Legends characters and figuring how would I convert them into something playable but not too copy pastey feeling. Had a Devil May Cry thing in the works but hit a writers block.
I had a eureka moment when I was making a character. So I decided to make a doctor who specialized in martial arts, but he was fairly pacifistic and liked healing the party more. Then as I was designing it I realized I copied Jude Mathis form Tales of Xillia.
Taking inspiration from stuff you like is cool but cloning characters is just weird. I love my main man Helbindi but I wouldn’t want to play as him for 40+ hours with my close friends.
@@robertbartley2409 the DM attempts to kill him. "No". "I don't think you understand how this works. This is Requiem". Let's be honest, who tf says Speedwagon can't have GER.
Sometimes I encounter a character in media where the concept is just so cool and the idea of how to recreate their interesting traits within the existing system is so intriguing that I just can't resist making one of the 'copy cat' category characters. The one that first comes to mind is the character I made after watching Moana and becoming fascinated by the style of Maui. So I just HAD to make myself a druid/barbarian shapeshifter. Everyone loved the character because it wasn't copy/paste "This is Maui from Moana" but the inspiration was clear on a character that actually fit the game's world- a ritual-tattoo adorned, buff, wild and bravado filled woman (Because I don't enjoy roleplaying guys) who had a few levels in both druid and barbarian that used a bone carved sickle in combat. And let me tell you... If this sounds tempting, do it. It's a blast. "Hmm should I just change into a bear and crush that bad guy? Or use Thornwhip (dm approved for sake of flavor that the sickle was thrown on the whip before pulling them in just because it was BA in the roleplay) to pull them over and obliterate them under my own massive physique?" More often the second one, because... Tribal Roadhog is a way cooler move than just using your 'bear arms'. (hehehe)
I've never played D&D before but if I did and I created my own character (Homebrew) I'd probably be a type of Skinner. So to explain I love video games and some ocs I create are sometimes based on game concepts. And sometimes I create a character that looks exactly like the og character from a game. When I discovered Smash Bros I honestly ended up falling in love with the adorable Ice Climbers!! I loved them so much that I ended up learning everything cannon about them. But sadly I learned that they don't have much going for them character wise and world building wise. So I ended up creating all that for them. I created their personalities, their world, their world physics, their life styles, friends, families, where they live, how they live, I created more characters as to build them into a species, I used cannon enemies from their og game and created some of my own to build an eco system for their world, AND I even changed some of their anatomy to make them somewhat different (basically all I did for this was add a thin black tail with a fluff at the end and if it's grabbed it paralyzes the person ((don't judge me I like dragon Ball and Blue Exorcist))) (I even changed other anatomy things but to sum it up they have a specialized organ that's design to help them survive the harsh environment they live in and hunters will come to hunt the children of the species to get this organ easily and for it's better taste because it's a delicacy for other "rich" species) And after all that those edits to the "Ice Climbers" that I created, it was just no longer Nintendo's Nana and Popo. They kinda because its own thing... So if I ever did play D&D I'd probably use them (• ε •)
DnD party meeting
“I’m grognar prince of the Ogre throne”
“I’m selintra the dragon knight”
“ITS A ME MARIO”
“amogus sus”
My kobold warlock got blessed by the DM to have the voice of Solid Snake.
CAPTAINARWHAL45 I would love to see your adorable sold kobold snake the warlock
His name is Seklo and his patron is Cthulu. He is currently 5th level and has a cute little pseudodragon familiar.
I almost died laughing xD
That sounds hilarious. Bet you're having fun.
CAPTAINARWHAL45 I must protect the precious kobold boi
His curse/blessing was sadly removed because my throat started hurting while roleplaying.
I made Will Smith a bard that could only talk in raps and has a lute with his face on it in an ice age campaign
You must not talk as your character often then? lol
Unless there's some serious rap talent in that character.
@@BlaineSimple I once sang all star and revenge (that one Minecraft parody) at the beginning of the campaign
@@avnothing8003 Aw Man, You're A Rockstar!
"in an ice age campaign" well clearly your insanity fits the group dynamic.
*...what*
A thief out to seek vengeance, a warlock from the will of gods and Bart Simpson
*a perfect team if I’m being honest*
The villian is Doctor Robotnik. *Wonderful*
ay caramba
*eat pant*
Regardless of whether there are two or three characters in this party, I have to agree
No but really, Oxford commas are useful in situations like this lol
Bart simpson is too op in my opinion
Me: *Gets assigned an elf character*
Me, picking a creative name:
“Heh.”
“Zelda...”
The Legend of
Zolda
*breath of the strongly ambitious*
... so I may or may not be that person who habitually names Link Zelda
Behold, my elf archer, Salogel! (Get it? Legolas backwards?)
Hey, Zelda is an actual German name, it has popped up more than once when I was trying to find German names for my paladin whose last name I definitely did not steal from Rean Schwarzer from Trails of Cold Steel
Baractonariin xeroaximasers poyacsemxs. Threats my name.
One of my players made a warforged necromancer, who didnt understand how the organic life cycle worked, and he thought he was healing them.
He is just repairing them. He doesnt get why their software got corrupted.
That sounds like something i could add to a character
at the moment I'm playing an Halforc Cleric that thinks he is a wizard. He also has a spellbook where he studies spells with colored pencils.
scp-049 got in contatct with SCP-217, this is not a drill, onsite nuclear device was activated, T minus two minutes and thirty seconds, have a nice day.
Is it pyro from tf2
The DM: "Here's a game that you can make your own charicter, you know like that one you have been thinking of?"
The player: "I'll just play Kirito from Sward Art Online."
The DM: "Okey, are you going to try to see if there is some aspect of them that you want to explore?"
The player: "No. I'll just play Kirito from Sward Art Online. It's just Kirito."
The DM: "But we already have 8 other players doing the same thing..."
Kirito has all of that backstory. Who wouldn't want to explore the complex being that is Kirito?
@@BlaineSimple No, I'm just Kirito
It's either that or a grizzled middle aged white human male Figter with the solider background
@@romanrepublic753bc6 Fighter man, fighter man! Does what ever a fighter man does! He can swing with a sward. Use a bow and often crit. Over all, pretty bland. Watch out! Its fighter man. (this was sent at 4 am, god the night shift is boring today.)
toko099o FIGHTERMAN IS THE GREATEST
Don't forget about the ones where you accidentally make a character that resembles an established character in pop-culture.
For example, I once made an Oracle in the Pathfinder rule-set, and chose "Wind" as my Mystery power, because I liked the perks, which included the ability to throw lighting bolts and fly.
As the campaign progressed, my favorite spell to use in combat was Spiritual Weapon, which produced a magical flying hammer.
By about 6th level, one of the other players suddenly piped up, "OMG! You character is Thor!". And I had to stop for a moment and think about it, then realized ... crap, I *DID* make Thor...
It's better when you don't even realize what you've done. xD
Dear god its beautiful
Hey at least they didn't say you should have gone for the head
D-Did they?
Lol! 🤣👏
nispelsm I made a character that acts and has the same intentions as Altaïr from Assassins Creed
I once made a character that was rick Astley. He was a Druid, so he could shape shift, and often just shapeshifted into an ant, and reappeared singing in front of random people to rick roll them. He is also #4 most eligible bachelor.
You magnificent bastard! My bard is #5 most eligible bachelor! (Or he will be, once his ex stops trying to kill him)
In the campaign I was in, Rick Astley was an eldritch horror from the Far Realm. Speaking of which, since I failed a trial he almost yeeted me there until the warlock used the Fates card. It technically never happened, but the DM said I have weird memories and nightmares of this haunting song and a tentacle-armed Rick Astley singing the song menacingly.
I know this is late but once I made a character who was Ricken from fire emblem but a warlock
I actually want to do a legitimate “cloner” campaign where everyone puts a fictional character into D&D just to see what would happen
if you do i will play it
Doing it.
@@ASuspiciousCrab If you do it, let me know where I can join
@@bernkastel7438 hJdbjdbd bet. Where acn you message me so I can invite you when I actually do it?
I mean, it does sound like a very cool group fanfiction/fantheater project.
im feelin attack with my not Jojo character
It's alright. I currently have a player in my game with a Jojo character too.
My brother is playing Dio in Waterdeep Dragon Heist
Dont worry, I totally plan on playing as a channeler (fan made class for 5th edition) that basically gives you a stand that is moody blues and the world/star platinum mixed together whenever I actually get a chance to play the game ;-;
The newest ua gives us "stands"
@@RamielEdits and that's why you haven't the chance to play
I played a female Indiana Jones in a oneshot once. It only worked because the players didn’t get the reference right away
That's the secret behind those copycat characters. lol
So you played Lara Croft.
Kindlesmith80 I mean, she had a whip, Cool hat, and bag of sand that was used to not set off a pressure plate when taking something off of it
@@Kindlesmith70 only if she duel wielded crossbows
@@biznessman5632 pistols, those exist.
Btw its part of the official brocode that bro is a gender neutral term "theres no rule that forbidds a women to be called a bro"
Bruh
Like totally dude
HIMYM
Hey hey HEY!!! Rule one of the bro code dont talk about it
@@Shaa-Gi Bro, rule #1 of the bro code is "You must always have your bro's back. No exceptions."
Enemy: *Approaches*
Me: _"Ho? You're approaching me? Instead of running away you're coming right at me?"_
Kono Dio da!
I can't beat the shit out of you without coming closer
@@pandorasboxofcatvideos5892 Then come as close as you’d like!
Once I made waluigi as an arcane trickster rogue.. and he ended up being the smartest character in the group.
THAT was a good campaign
Was the campaign characters idiots
Sorry, didn't expect to encounter *GOD* in the comments but I found you regardless
my god
how?
Brian David gilbert
WAH!
I could have gone my entire life without the image of Patrick wearing Squidward's skin.
DovahSpy Sadly, there's an episode where he and Spongebob do just that.
😱That sounds like a creepy pasta.
Ah yes,vore fetish
So could I....
Was the title of that episode? I want to make sure no one I know sees it.
Certainly sounds like Spongebob. Skin Theory is a thing.
One time everyone in the party I was playing with was a Jojo's reference but me because I was the only one who hadn't watched it at that point. After having watched the show now, litterally everything anyone said or did was just a Jojo's referance
sometimes that's just how it goes, then when you finally get the joke you can laugh along with everyone.
Oh? You're creating me in d&d?
@@TheTenacousD I can't beat the shit out of you if I don't create you
@@degeneratetv7455 then create as much as you need to
meanwhile my party at first though that my character is jojo refference, they were suprised i dont get jojokes, funny thing after googling i learned that the only thing what my rogue shares with that character is only first name
and actualy my character is indeed refference of something, basicaly garret from thief (first one) and nobody got refference so far even after i doused torches with water arrows probably because the only special thing about him is how he doesnt stab everyone
I accidentally made Fiona from the fourth Shrek movie but like also not.
I started with she's a damsels who is not in destress anymore. So I was like obviously she's a barbarian. As I was writting her backstory I decided on her being a sea elf.
And then, like two days before I played her I was like, "hold the phone. She's just Fiona."
But at that point I was committed to her character and design so I went with it.
I think there was a movie where Fiona became a warrior princess...
The Shrek chronicles continue to baffle me.
A Sea Elf, you say?
Just taking some notes here.
A friend of mine brought with him...
1:Master Splinter from Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.
2: Puss in boots from Shrek.
3: Nick Wilde from Zootopia.
As PETS!
And all of them had pictures of those characters as their tokens.
He also made himself Judy Hopps, and I almost got kicked from the group because I told him to stop bringing characters from kids movies into the game.
@@PaladinGear15 You only needed 12 words: Hi I'm Chris Hansen. Why don't you have a seat over there.
*"There are no accidents"* -Master Oogway
One of my favorite DND campaigns was one where the DM specifically wanted us to clone our characters. We had a table consisting of the terminator, samus, sailor moon. And Reno jackson. And it was an absolute blast. And a totally diffrent way of playing dnd. Instead of adopting a persona. Or playing as "your mc" sometimes it's fun to drop in a pre-established character and think amongst your table on "how would the terminator communicate with sailer moon" and more often then not the end result is an absolute riot. Is this the best way to play? No probably not. And alot of the DND snobs with scoff at the idea of "restraining the limitless creativity of the game" by blatantly making a party of plagiarized characrers. But at the end of the day my friend group plays dnd to have fun. So that's what we'll do. And i reccomend trying this out at your friend table sometime as well.
Doing this with the express idea of 'This is gonna be an absolute shitshow and we are all gonna laugh until we cry' sounds amazing. Totally want to do this.
@@dragoncatgaming5481 terminator and sailor moon? That must have been rather entertaining
My first character that I made was a very wholesome dyslexic wizard with a spellbook purely made of pictures and diagrams that he drew himself. When he saw a giant dust cloud looking out the window of an Inn, his first thought was "Gee, I hope everyone with asthma is okay"
What if an entire game was based around cloners and you made it an isekai. You could have a hilarious game with Krieg from Borderlands as a tank berserker while steven universe had to fight alongside him as a paladin. Add some serious characters along with them, and you might have a funny yet practical party.
Yep, I think that definitely agrees with "Ensure the idea fits with the design of the game" aspect!
Meanwhile in that campaign: "old godzilla was hoping around, London city like a big playground!"
My players' first encounter was with Goblins and they did it by the book. The GOBLIN SLAYER book
@@0_Body Let's keep it PG shall we xD
I had two different versions of Krieg, one became what I call the horseman of pestilence thanks to Brovia campaign, the other ended being a human who was more dragon that any dragon born could ever be.
I played a halfling barbarian that was basically Donald Duck, he was a nice guy with bad luck and a worse temper.
That sounds amazingly hilarious. xD
Did you do the voice?
@@ione2251
Only if I was angry and swearing, made it so my character could cuss without me dropping F bombs. I can't sound ineligible with a Donald voice.
Was he chaotic? That would be awesome!
Barbarian? Donald "Zettaflare" Duck is a Sorcerer/Wizard if I ever saw one.
I’d put forth the idea that there’s a 4th type.
Players who try to emulate abilities and play style of a character, but without the looks or personality of said character.
It’s like playing a web slinging Character, but she’s a chaotic neutral thief that robs trains and dresses up as a witch
Sure their playstyle is copying Spider-Man, but that’s about it.
I have a grappling Barbarian/Monk Goliath called Du'Aine. Du'Aine "The Rock". I just need to find a group to play.
I'd fall into this category. I have been struggling to build a character with Doomguy's abilities and powers but much more calm and calculating since that's how I play Doom.
I made a Paladin Monk Iron Fist playstyle. Had 2 levels of warlock though. used eldritch blast for long range and used the warlock slots for free smites.
That’s totally me sometimes
I’ve got a character with general chronomancy-related abilities, namely stopping time, and carries a shitload of knives.
No for fuck’s sake it’s not DIO.
The party still hasn’t figured out i’m a touhou fan.
I am the DM of my group. I have a player who really loves Persona and wanted to play Joker, the protagonist from p5. I allowed it and created a story reason for him to be there, not as someone else like him, or an alternate version of him, but instead the original having been dragged through a portal and trying to get home. It's more complex than that, obviously, but that aspect of the story and world building made the game more fun for everyone. I got to add other characters in similar situations and watch as he roleplayed having no idea how the heck to get out of this realm or what was popular there. It helped that the character had different ways to play it in the original game that he came from. Cloners aren't always so bad, and it was clear that everyone was having fun with it. In the end, that's what matters.
Literally one of my first questions in D&D: Y'all know Jotaro Kujo, right ?
YARE YARE
Dawa
Funny, Im making Joseph for my next game
@@theghostanihalater9391 DAZE!
Lol I literally made Joseph as mine as well and made a massive backstory which was all of part two
One of my party members is playing Goku in Curse of Strahd, and it's hilarious.
Wait, but wha......fucking.....wha.....WHY??
WHAT THE FUCK DOES GOKU HAVE TO DO WITH VAMPIRES??
@@beefugsdc4349 He's a Sun Soul monk, right? *JoCat flashes of a crap guide to D&D classes*
@@Shouziroku very true, but I'd think Jonathan Joestar before Goku in a situation with vampires.
I know right? I was kinda weirded out by it at first, but having that radiant damage output has been a life saver. You're right, he is a sun soul monk, and he's definitely no min maxer. Dude's lowest stats are his intelligence and wisdom, just what you would expect from Goku
@@PhantomPhoenix105 yea I'd expect it to be quite useful in dealing with the monsters in that module, who would've thunk. I might actually add an npc to my own game inspired by this story, thank you.
I literally made Garfield once using the power of Homebrew Content. It’s literally a damn cat that doesn’t like to move, influenced by personality and class.
Garfield as a sorcerer would be epic
@@wrangler6922 I thought he was a warlock
I accidentally read this as "Ganondorf"
i have a guy in my group who is "KNOWN" for just making anime characters and if he doesnt he just makes thicc waifu's
huzzah! a man of quality
I must know more.
@@BlaineSimple he once homebrewed a fate class, he just made the dark magician once, his current character is a female druid in a majd outfit
@njixgamer was the maid an alter of someone carrying guns and riding a motorcycle
@@spoilsomething9778 no, thats his druid
"He's Link, but blond, and uses an axe"
*BotW intensifies*
My friend chose a bard with everything into charisma that looks like danny devito
My friend DM’ed a one shot and made the fatal mistake of telling me I could play whatever I wanted.
I played as Thanos isekai’d into his setting
Did you balance the universe?
Oh wait wait wait, I can do this better
*Clears throat*
Gamora:
Did you do it?
...
What did it cost?
I think I might as well copy the idea, if you don't mind
@@ale-xsantos1078
_Gamora:_
_Did you do it?_
*Yes*
_What did it cost?_
*All my friends ...*
My friend literally played Jimmy neutron
I press F to pay respects...
...
F
Guess they couldn't handle the neutron style
@@BlaineSimple F
Me: *has been developing character for 4 years*
Anime: oh yeah you just copied our character from 2 years ago
Me:... Wut?
You're fault for developing a character for 4 damn years instead of using him
@@justas423 i dont know wether you got the joke or not even if it was actually real
@@riolu477 ... definitely didn't get it
@@justas423 no matter how original you are someone else will appear with the something worst and say you just took their idea and upgraded it even if you had the idea before them that is how copyright was born
@@justas423 well I have about 8 characters ready to go. My group already has 3 campaigns running, I already have a character for the next campaign we plan, so by the time my tortle spore druid gets his turn at being played, its probably gonna be 4 years since I came up with him.
**Hears MegaMan is mentioned in the video**
Me: He's on to me *hiss*
I once downright played Edward and Alphonse Elric in D&D. It was so much fun
At one point I hosted an entire campaign around FMAB XD
I'm currently playing a character who was inspired by Undyne the Undying from Undertale and Yang Xiao Long from RWBY.
A fellow rwby fan,cool.
I'm really curious about how those characters mix. They're both aggressive and stubborn, but secretly really caring, but what weapon/fighting style and color scheme does your character have?
I once ran a RWBY campaign set five years before Volume 1 where the players got bullied by Cardin's older sister. She was basically a gender-swap of Cardin, but her personality was like a mean-spirited Yang
oooh tell more please
If you have character that was inspired by *two or more* characters, I think it can be considered 'original' if you *mix it well*
because
BECAUSE
*NOTHING IS NEW UNDER THE SUN*
That's it, you convinced me, I'm going to play as mario in my next game
DM: what’s your name?
Player: IT’S - A - ME, ...
Everyone: FUUUUUUU
Sunsoul?
Sugini omae wa IT'S A ME A MARIO TOJU
hooooooooooooooo boy,
I had a cloner in a deadlands game, he tried to mimic Alexander Anderson from Hellsing, oh but not just regular Hellsing, from Hellsing Abriged and let me tell you any immersion I built up he destroyed without a thought, (that and there were crucial character details he failed to mention to me that resulted in a very messy encounter that killed pretty much the whole thing going forward). Its real hard to create a Spaghetti Western atmosphere when you have a preacher going around calling everyone a protestant fuck-bucket.
I Have Terrible Rolls I feel as if, with a little work, a psychotic preacher with a bayonet fetish spouting lines from Boondock Saints while gutting monsters would fit well into a spaghetti western so long as it wasn't the gritty type.
When you say "spaghetti western", do you mean A Fistful of Dollars or My Name is Nobody?
There is still a lot of wiggle room in the genre.
Was his favorite newspaper a serious by the name of “Boondock Saints”?😂
My demon-elf hybrid thing is basically raven-
Just with less control and more chaotic neutral ness-
Honestly, Raven is just such a good character.
Yeah; how many "Lawful Good Drow Rangers" did a certain book series inspire players everywhere to create? ^_^
Dritz?
@@pandorasboxofcatvideos5892 Yep ^_^
No idea what series you are talking about.
@@BahamutEx there is a character called Dritz Urden. Not sure on the last name but I think that is correct. He was a lawful good drow, who escaped the drow society and defied destiny by becoming one of the few good drow. I only learned about him by the mentions of him in the player handbook for D&D 5e, but I can asume someone wrote a book series about him, just like with the dragon lance chronicles, an old series that is now one of the settings described in the handbook.
@@pandorasboxofcatvideos5892 Drizzt Do'Urden.
Also, completely separate, even before the books my favorite race was Drow because of the cool culture, my favorite weapon is Scimitar(not in game stats), and my favorite class before 4e/5e was ranger.
It pissed me off to no end when I found out that Drizzt already existed, with all my favorite things, in a shitty non-developed character.
There's a guy making videos about turning popular characters into D&D characters we can't help that we want to be as similar to Jotaro as possible
Nice a jojo reference
if someone plays DVA, whenever they say 'nerf this' you actually nerf them
No you roll a death save
@@theghostanihalater9391 *rolls a nat 20*
I made an Ironman character in a medieval mcu campaign
You've gained my respect.
Where you an eldritch knight or did you do something different
I need to know the mechanics behind this. wizard with heavy armour feats?
@@lordilluminati5836 just be a warforged.
@@LupineShadowOmega warforged would be more like vision or ultron though
I'm a story teller, I physically can't make an unoriginal character
It physically hurts
Same here mate, I usually use anime art for their picture, but their personalities are always unique
tbh for some reason i never even thought about making an unoriginal character before, it just never crossed my mind
Aren't all characters people think off related to something or based on something you have picked up on before? I think it's very unlikely people make a 100% original character these days. Any main characteristic must be based on something you have heard before.
So once I had this idea for a character called Lotus. She was a shapeshifter who was very mischievous and was the youngest in her family but was actually adopted. She was from a different race than everyone else but nobody knew because epic shapeshifter magic. I then realise I basically made genderswapped Loki down to the name without realising.
Good or bad time to point out that Loki was basically gender fluid, and therefore also female?
The real question is what class is Mario?
Could be monk because he has no weapons, jumps on things to kill them and has to find his mushrooms to change size and breathe fire. Order of the porcelain bowl anyone?
Jango1989 if you look at the spell list some of the druids spell mimic Mario’s abilities. The cantrip Produce flame makes a handheld fireball you can throw at enemies, they can also cast Jump. You can take spells like Goodberry and have them affect mushrooms instead of berries. Man! And you can use wildshape to mimic Mario’s power-ups, “I turn into a (cat, giant bee, giant frog, dire raccoon, etc.)” I would definitely have him wield a wooden hammer.
Monk
@@paulrawsonjr.2423 So a druid of the circle of... SPORES?
Go to a youtube channel named tulok the barbarian he creates builds of characters from games and such including mario
In the mario RPGs a hammer is the main weapon other then jumping on enemies and that type of attack is the way to defeat spiked enemies.
I'm the type of person that would go very thematic into a character based off other things. Like my Illusion School Wizard "Rhodney Charles Crezki" started off as a "What if a illusionist/trickster/magician from our world had real powers? And he was basically a showman that I focused charisma on. His intelligence was from him studying new "tricks" to preform. He had sleight of hand + Deception & game card proficiency with Arcana and history as well. He could technically been a rogue (arcane trickster) but he's not like a rogue.
His book was like a "Book of tricks", him having to "Prepare his tricks" like a showman have to prepare the stage, instead of just able to cast them willynilly like a sorcerer/warlock. His familiar was even a dove, that he used with magic tricks (By teleporting it around so it would appear in different places) and he mostly preformed for peasant people. This was a place with lowish magic fantasy. Basically, it was a setting where magic was practically only for nobles rather than the common folk. So few people have ever seen magic for real.
That's an epic concept. I actually thought of that idea a few times like: "What if I just made a wizard who became well known by being a birthday party magician"
Sounds like you're one step ahead though!
I’ve started a game where my character is literally just Kaminari from MHA and no ones realized it yet despite the fact I’ve spammed Thunderwave at almost every opportunity
Maybe because kami doesn't get that much spotlight
It might have had something to do with Thunderwave doing Thunder damage, ya know... sound..? Not lightning :Y. Shocking Grasp, Chain Lightning and Witch Bolt woulda made more sense
@@immortalstar0138 That is fair. And as this build was around a year old, I have tweaked it to fit most other Lightning spells, Thunderwave was mainly a first level option. Main reason Thunderwave was the go to in the first place was do to the fact that it worked the most similar to how Kaminari primary ability worked. (A sphere with an origin on the player.) That being said though, I've tweaked the build a lot and it actually works quite well now.
There’s an entire category of memes where people transfer their favourite characters to DND
There’s also Fusion, which combines traits from 2 or more characters
Just remember, creativity is your mind stitching together what it already knows. Every thought starts somewhere, you just need to make sure that you're not taking too much from any one source.
I made a lowes employee
I am actually guilty of cloning, but only because I the DM wanted me to play a fighter, and I didn't have any origional ideas for a fighter at the time. Therefore I cloned Minecraft Steve. A basic character for a basic class.
Otherwise, I would have continued playing as my bookworm divination wizard, who seeks to preserve and promte the spread of information.
How would one create Steve. Wood punching proficiency? lol
@@BlaineSimple hes as simple as a block of wood
Dope
@@BlaineSimple And extreme strength.
If you played with your voice box a little, you could totally pass as a female voice. It's already got the high pitch.
When I do female voices for my games, then I really become a girl xD
Blaine Simple practice makes perfect! My female voice is a very shy and quiet sounding voice. Trying to make it sound like an Orc makes it sound awkward. Why do I know this? I NPC'ed for a LARP and played 2 female NPC's. Lemme just say, this made me appreciate long hair so much more when I realized how often the hair got into your face and mouth, and that you have to tuck it behind the ear, put it in a ponytail, or get a mouthful of hair. LARP is fun.
I...genuinely thought it was a female talking
It took me many videos to realize he wasn't one.
Blessed ability for a GM
I mean… Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is a a legal character so I’m okay with this.
by chance is this a reference to Puffin Forest at all hmmmmmm.
I still can't figure out how it is a legal character
@@alexengland2432 warforged
@@alexengland2432 warforged, sorceror paladin hybrid so it can fly and swing a magical "lightsaber" sword around and wear ridiculously heavy armor.
I'm personally thinking of a build based off Armored Core's 9-ball.
Heh, I am making a character after doctors doofenshmirtz, I’m gonna make my friend play perry.
How'd this go?
Update?
Please update
“It’s MY OC, Mega Woman!”
You mean Zero?
Hehe, you can't take my dear homestuck troll tieflings away from me. Or Sans.
I'm taking Sans. Hand him over!
@@BlaineSimple *whispers* no.
In all seriousness, I picked him because he's both a character I relate to, so I know I could rp him, and he has no official backstory, which is a great way to flesh out a character.
@@hopeiswherethehomeis9606 I relate to him as well. I just can't be like him because society wants me to work. o;
Homestuck died and so will he
I'm taking all of the Homestuck trolls.
I literally have Bob Ross but a Dragonborn and the last name is Ssor
This reminds me of that one time when my friend's character was -Dio- Don who wielded a -Stand- Spirit Guardian
*insert way of the astral self* boy do I have good news for you
MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA
As a skinner i almost never know what the character i stole my look from is. I just liked the art and used it for mine. No i didn’t know the personality of this random Zelda npc i used for my half elf. STOP TRYING TO BUY POTS FROM ME!
I do the same exact thing. Anime character google searches 4 lyfe
Blaine Simple i feel validated
first video on the channel: how to rip off konosuba's characters for dnd
this video: don't you just hate it when someone rips off an already existing character and puts it into dnd?
Great. My sister starts playing D&D with her friends and suddenly it invades my life. Thanks
There's a subset of cloners you forgot to mention: dark elf Drizzit clones
one of my favorite npcs was a joke based off of the Drizzit clone tropes. he was a drow that abandoned his society, but not because they were evil, but because "they dont appreciate my music, man". he was a bass guitar playing bard and acted like a typical hippie/stoner.
Drizz't. not Drizzit
@@jonahclements9549However you spell it, when those books came out it seemed like ALL of my players wanted to be the Dark Elf Ranger Guy.
@@MonkeyJedi99 tbh me too at first.
One time I was randomly rolling up a character and I ended up making a chaotic evil darth vader. It was interesting. Especially when he accidentally became a lawful good person after his software failed.
My unoriginal characters are just 10 different references that I can reasonably fit into a trenchcoat trying to sneak into a serious campaign.
Yeah, I usually start with a character for inspiration and improvise new facets during sessions. I have a gnome cleric that started with heavy inspiration from Ralsei...but is now a sociopathic hermit with an affinity for pickles.
It's a long story, trust me.
my pcs wanted to play as themselves now what?
You TPK them!
well that's kind of a problem
you see we're in a campaign where you travel through dimensions and one of the pc's plays as a high ranking member of the fallout enclave and got power armor due to his rank
the thing is the way they get these random quests in random dimensions is up to a random chart and they got an encounter where they became friends with liberty prime
Make an Isekai where they are themselves but get powers.
@@phelps6205 ........ Yes
@@phelps6205 better make an isekai where they roleplay as other player but get powers,
this video made me think: what if some one made a dnd campaign where the players have to play as game/show/comic characters, maybe it could be like a crossover fic kinda thing, or it could be like "the Mario brothers, sonic, and tails end up In a dnd world. and then later they find out they aint really the real ones but just clones"
I'm hitching on campaigns like that being really good.
*Smash Bros wants to know your location*
This makes me feel good about the fact that all of my characters thus far are inspired by *concepts* but none directly copy the appearance or personality of one character.
Yuan-ti Pureblood Warlock: his patron used his body as a vessel, this warped his brain to be evil even though he was originally compassionate unlike the standard yuan-ti.
Warforged Artificer: they believe they are human, and look it too. He’s intelligent and charming; sometimes talks out loud without meaning to but is a really nice guy.
Elf Warlock: they have two personalities; one is the sweetest and kindest guy possible, the other is pure evil and the one who formed the bond with their patron.
Tabaxi Sorcerer: As a shadow sorcerer, their personality is affected by their power’s origins and they are very socially awkward; they hate this and desire to be rid of their power.
I feel like the warforged is revenant from apex
One of my favorite beginning PCs was actually a semi-clone of Zane from Ninjago 😂 I liked it because it was a unique challenge that taught me how to build a character around certain constraints, really figuring out how I understood him as a character. The best part of the whole thing is that the DM was the only person who knew that's what I had gone for, so it was like I was getting to tell some of Zane's story in another universe, in my own way.
I was teaching a few of my friends how to play, and one of them chose to be Shrek
I play a barbarian named "Devito the Destroyer" who is literally just Frank from always sunny in Philadelphia
love it, what's he do for RP flavor
Ah, I see you're a man of culture.
I did the exact thing for an Eberron game, but as an artificer so he can make handheld magic cannons and start blastin'.
This is the second video of yours I've watched. I subscribed after the first. I enjoy your content.
Aww thanks so much xD
I appreciate it!
A Player of my campaign wanted to seriously create Saitama. You know the guy that kills everyone/everything in one punch...? THE ONE punchman.....yeah..sigh. in the end he played a perfect stat monk and i hated my dice for those rolls *sighing intensifies*
I'm still waiting for the right campaign to make my own version of Saitama.
Sadly I'm not man enough to ever roll my stats
One way to get it out of their system is to run a 3.5 game and let them use the D2 crusader build.
I feel like there’s a fourth one,the mixer, they mix link’s personality with mario’s looks
In my high school dnd group, there was the one guy who only ever played Mercy from Overwatch. Didn't matter the campaign or adventure, he was always the same Aasimar Cleric who talked, acted, and looked exactly like Mercy.
In the campaign I'm currently playing, it would feel weird not to steal a character.
This is the setting: We are sent to protect farmer Thanos. When we arrive, a dementor gets out from a PC and attacks Thanos. He asks us to get his gauntlet, but as we do 7 dragonballs come out, I touch one as Thanos snap his gauntlet and with his last words he tell us to protect Sarah Connor.
PS: My character is Aang and another PC made detective pikachu.
Is there room for one more?
@@renmizunashi super full... 8 players. BTW: pikachu just died... rip.
Seeing this reminds me of a video game RPG idea I had once.
The plot would be a DM has been planning a special session of D&D (or some D&D parody for legal reasons) for a few weeks after a session with his friends. Because he was running some custom homebrew monsters and races, he allows his friends to make their own homebrew races and characters as long as they promised not to be too broken and ruin the fun.
The players promised not to be OP and talked about it afterwards and were talking about character ideas until one of them had a hilarious concept he shared amongst them and they agreed to it.
The day of the session he was greeted by a team of characters with clear inspiration to certain sci-fi heroes and are a team of space travelers who are checking out what was supposed to be a post apocalyptic Earth now brimming with life and crash landed onto it because they were shot down by people who mistook the vessel for a dragon or large armored bird.
The DM goes along with it because he secretly planned to make the big bad of the campaign a clear homage to Darth Vader and Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine with an army of stormtrooper look-a-likes, and he actually had the friend who suggested it in on his plan, and told him to suggest the idea to the other players into making sci fi characters.
In gameplay, the characters wouldn't be overpowered and would all have the same class roles as most RPGs like the fighter, the mage, the healer, the tank, the ranger, the rouge, and so one. Maybe one or two, maybe three depending on the player count you wanna go with, of the players actually made traditional D&D type fantasy characters and ard trying to take this seriously because the gods know the space idiots probably aren't.
I could imagine the space players playing as sci-fi characters with clear inspiration, like a space marine, a hyper advanced android created to be close to human as possible with an arm cannon and large selection of weapons, a spartan super soldier, a galactic bounty hunter, and so on. Maybe they're a band of misfits like the Guardians of the Galaxy brought together from their adventures and misadventures or something.
this reminds me of the time my friends and I decided to come up with a very specific party for our RM to mess with. the short-story was set in a land with clear ancient-chinese influence, so we put together a fun party and decided to see how long it took for the DM to catch on.
first member was a tabaxi
second member was a yuan-ti
third was an aarakocra
fourth was a homebrew race known as "munkai", a monkey-like race
the fifth was a thri-kreen, a mantis-like race
and the last was a pandafolk.
all of us were monks. yes, our party was literally just kung-fu panda.
our DM didn't catch on until the pandafolk one-shot a goblin and said "skadoosh". After that, we came across "a palace made out of beautifully carved jade, resting at the top of a long stairway." After climbing the stairs, we met a tortle named Oogway who sensed the pandafolk was destined to be the greatest warrior in the land.
_'Carving out their body and wearing them as a skin suit'_
*Sounds like fnaf 5, but whatever 😉*
*Sister Location
@@NotEHcop yeah I know 👍💖💛💙
@@nonoo2157 ok
When you said Megaman I had a seizure because that what's what was going through my mind at the moment and that surprised me considering that the odds of that genuinely happening are very slim.
And it happens on something I found in my recommended rather than subscriptions... Speaking of which I ought to press that button after this comment is posted...
“People can’t just sit down and instantly create a Picasso or Mona Lisa” 0:34
Umm... I make characters based on a single bit like “I want a rogue” or “I want a home brew race” then I make the character extremely fleshed out to the point that I want to play as them but I can’t, so I put them in my “PC Vault” until I can brush them off later...
Ok this really sounds like I’m bragging which I kind of am but I don’t mean to say that I’m better than anyone, just the first thing that came to mind when they said the thing
SAME HERE, I made AMAZING charachter concepts, but cannot use them scince i never played D&D
I once made Sephiroth in D&d and multi classed into bard just so I could play “One Winged Angel” whenever lmao
I made an android sephiroth as a major henchmen of my main villan. But when the players finally defeated him (after four attempts) the players declared the campaign over. I went with it.
Coincidentally it was a major plot twist when they discovered he wasn't biological.
Ranger is not that bad...
I'll see you in court.
@@BlaineSimple I think you're missing few steps before going to court.
Like going to dinner, sharing our interests, getting married, miscarriage, you coming home drunk and angry, me staying with my parents, our first real fight, etc.
You know, stuff like that before our divorce in court.
ddi they finish reworking it from the ground up? i know they were doing so but i don't know if they ever got around to finishing it (for 5e)
@@xRaalx Wizards of the coasts mentioned a rework for the class, but I'll safely bet it's going to be in a new book coming up soon rather than anything else. They'll probably call it "Ranger, Revisited" and the PHB version will go out of date.
@@BlaineSimple The revised ranger has been out for a very long time...
Oh boy! I do love high elven fighters who have talking fairies and being bossed around by an insignificant necromancer princess who also happens to revolve around the entirety of the story while barely being physically present!
I feel like I know that character...
One of the dms I've had made an npc name "Kanye of the west". He killed me with music and the rest of the party loved him.
One of my friends who is in my party and every character he made had to be referencing something like ‘Tarny Splincen’ who is a bard who is obsessed with flirting and occasionally talks about opening a bar named ‘Puzzles’
Puzzles the bar. Wonder if you'd have to solve jigsaws to order beer...
@@BlaineSimple are you asking why they call the place "Puzzles?
The best time to implement number 3, is during a one shot campaign.
Orc Barbarian (I often shouted FOR THE HORDE!)
For the horde!!! Hahaha
Steal everything from the original
Me: so Disney’s abominations of sequels
All of Disney. Stealing old fairytales
Frozen 2 and the Lion King 2 were decent though. Everything else was pretty much trash. Just an opinion, I can leave if you want me to.
This was actually enjoyable and reminds me why i love my players, they fall in love with a concept not the looks so since not all concepts can be multiclassed into dnd, they instead have me homebrew a archetype or whole new class based on their desired concept. For example i made a fighter archetype based solely around the Shield Hero from Rising of the Shield Hero.
eyy funny enough I'm doing the same exact thing with Shield Hero xD
@@BlaineSimple haha nice, yea one play really liks adaptation so ive done a Megaman ZX class, Shield Hero, FF Dragoon, Legend of Dragoon Dragoon, and by his request now looking at League of Legends characters and figuring how would I convert them into something playable but not too copy pastey feeling. Had a Devil May Cry thing in the works but hit a writers block.
I had a eureka moment when I was making a character. So I decided to make a doctor who specialized in martial arts, but he was fairly pacifistic and liked healing the party more. Then as I was designing it I realized I copied Jude Mathis form Tales of Xillia.
see, your comment said "doctor who..." and i got confused for a moment thinking we were talking about The Doctor.
0:57 But it’s only inspired by a character, and by the sound of it, you try to put your own unique spin on it and make it a new character.
yep!
Taking inspiration from stuff you like is cool but cloning characters is just weird. I love my main man Helbindi but I wouldn’t want to play as him for 40+ hours with my close friends.
I once made a wizard build based on a Reddit post of a wizard who was trying to prove that Warlocks and Clerics are the same thing.
*Me having used short-haired ranger Alice Baskerville as my 2nd character*
*her being given a sharingan and the nine tails by the DM*
So I write books and comics (personal use), is it still okay if I steal one from my own stuff?
You won't see me hunting you down!
They would still count as oc's because you created them
DnD is basically group personal use fiction anyway.
*makes a Character based of Gyro from JJBA Part 7*
That is.........I SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS
Austin Heath can I make one based on speed wagon
@@robertbartley2409 No, absolutely not. However, you CAN straight up make Speedwagon.
Austin Heath thank god and no not you gm you can’t kill SpeedWagon-sama
@@robertbartley2409 the DM attempts to kill him. "No".
"I don't think you understand how this works. This is Requiem".
Let's be honest, who tf says Speedwagon can't have GER.
I never realized how much I wanted to hear you say "hot boys" until now, but I am now way more excited about that fact than I'm comfortable with...
Sometimes I encounter a character in media where the concept is just so cool and the idea of how to recreate their interesting traits within the existing system is so intriguing that I just can't resist making one of the 'copy cat' category characters. The one that first comes to mind is the character I made after watching Moana and becoming fascinated by the style of Maui. So I just HAD to make myself a druid/barbarian shapeshifter. Everyone loved the character because it wasn't copy/paste "This is Maui from Moana" but the inspiration was clear on a character that actually fit the game's world- a ritual-tattoo adorned, buff, wild and bravado filled woman (Because I don't enjoy roleplaying guys) who had a few levels in both druid and barbarian that used a bone carved sickle in combat. And let me tell you... If this sounds tempting, do it. It's a blast. "Hmm should I just change into a bear and crush that bad guy? Or use Thornwhip (dm approved for sake of flavor that the sickle was thrown on the whip before pulling them in just because it was BA in the roleplay) to pull them over and obliterate them under my own massive physique?" More often the second one, because... Tribal Roadhog is a way cooler move than just using your 'bear arms'. (hehehe)
I've never played D&D before but if I did and I created my own character (Homebrew) I'd probably be a type of Skinner. So to explain I love video games and some ocs I create are sometimes based on game concepts. And sometimes I create a character that looks exactly like the og character from a game. When I discovered Smash Bros I honestly ended up falling in love with the adorable Ice Climbers!! I loved them so much that I ended up learning everything cannon about them. But sadly I learned that they don't have much going for them character wise and world building wise. So I ended up creating all that for them. I created their personalities, their world, their world physics, their life styles, friends, families, where they live, how they live, I created more characters as to build them into a species, I used cannon enemies from their og game and created some of my own to build an eco system for their world, AND I even changed some of their anatomy to make them somewhat different (basically all I did for this was add a thin black tail with a fluff at the end and if it's grabbed it paralyzes the person ((don't judge me I like dragon Ball and Blue Exorcist))) (I even changed other anatomy things but to sum it up they have a specialized organ that's design to help them survive the harsh environment they live in and hunters will come to hunt the children of the species to get this organ easily and for it's better taste because it's a delicacy for other "rich" species)
And after all that those edits to the "Ice Climbers" that I created, it was just no longer Nintendo's Nana and Popo. They kinda because its own thing... So if I ever did play D&D I'd probably use them (• ε •)