Brocc Shepphen. Gnome Artificer. Was supposed to have a wolf mount or companion. Couldn’t afford at lvl 1, so started with a donkey mount. Rode that donkey through our first dungeon. It tripped down the stairs and set of FIVE FIREBALL TRAP SPELLS. DM rolled MINIMUM damage and the donkey survived with 1 hp. Took the newly dubbed “Lucky” with for the rest of the campaign, even being allowed to “improve” him as my Steel Defender, and I was able to give him an INT of 6! Then equipped a headband of intellect, making him the second smartest party member.
A five year old Bard with a recorder, I had the whole party dying when I made a performance check and proceeded to pull out a real recorder and play the most horrible ear piercing tune
Leonardo DiCowprio, Minotaur Bard, and what I unleashed on my DM for denying another character I wanted to play. He comes from AlwaysSummer and wanted to be a Paladin for the God of Thunder so he could be a 'Holy Cow', but ended up being a 'Thor Loser'. His Bardic focus was 2 Drums and a Cymbal harnessed over his shoulder, which he used after every pun. He got the finishing blow using Vicious Mockery against an evil wolf deity by saying, "You literally are a son of a bitch." Needless to say, against Leonardo, the DM had some 'beef'.
Had a drow bard named Klaus. It was for a tomb of horrors one shot. He had a German accent and his performance of choice was comedy, telling jokes and punctuating them with a single ting from his instrument of choice, a triangle. The jokes were all really bad dad jokes, and "anti jokes", stuff like "vat is red and bads for your teeth? A brick." The other players were laughing a lot longer than I thought they would lol and have had a couple requests to bring him back for another one shot some time. Really happy others actually enjoyed the silliness of it all 🙂
Oh _please_ tell me he’d tell jokes to the things he fought against. Like… *fighting monster “A man walks into a bar” *monster hesitates for a second “Ouch.” *kills monster *little ting noise plays
Was in a party with a derpy minotaur barbarian named Barry who wanted to tame every animal he saw, despite the DM telling him he would have no luck with it. When he died, he made a kobold Beast Master Ranger named Garry so he could tame every animal he saw and sometimes succeed. Dude planned a whole list of alts that were some variation of -arry. 'Arry, Barry, Carrie, Larry, Mary, etc. Unfortunately the game fell apart before that could happen. Guy was fun to play with.
Okay, I NEED to use that "Cult Sacrifice who sacrificed his sanity, not his life" that sounds like SUCH a sick backstory, and an excuse to have the DM give a character Fae sight or the ability to see the dead or some such, which itself sounds like a sick plot point for them to make use of.
A tortle ranger who runs a delivery service. his survival bonus is high enough to track the players wherever they could be and deliver magic item parcels from town. no matter where the players are, he could find them.
Eins, Zwei, and Drei, a trio of Green Half-Dragon (reflavored Dragonborns) Paladins who are the result of the 'bard seduces a dragon meme'. Drei is a Redemption Paladin whose relationship with her mother consists of her trying to redeem her mother while her mother tries to corrupt her to evil, all playing out like a teenager telling her mother 'it's not a phase, mom!'
Lil shawty She’s a deep gnome assassin rogue. And you know lil shawty goes deep hahaha The game started off as arena battles for the first 2 games and is now the starting campaign for our first time player
My favorite was this Kenku Echo Knight/Phantom Rogue. It start 100% as a joke character, a race that mimics things it sees or hears with a class that has something mimics them, but evolved into something really special to me. What happened was I started building on the backstory and I thought of something really neat: what if the Echo Knight powers were from different universes. The idea wasn't that he was manifesting random shadows but basically shadows of himself. Everyone's heard of the theory where every choice splits another universe where you do that choice and another one where you didn't. That was basically the whole idea. The reason why I chose Phantom was because I wanted to give the different versions of him a voice so the Phantom powers are all actually just him from the different universes. It tied up very well, even though there needs a little bit polish. I would love to play that character at some point.
Around Christmas time, the party was traveling when we came upon a wish-granting man named canta slaws. He wore a green suit and had red hair and his eyes were made of burning coals that burned brighter whenever he got angry. He rode a chariot pulled by elk and manned by dwarves. He would give one gift to each member of the party and would get very angry if asked for more. He would also do his best to traumatize you with every wish (ie. Ripping out the spine of one of the dwarves that accompanied him to give someone a staff of the magi). Turns out he was a red djinn and we were able to kill him later in the campaign while exploring hades.
I have two, though I haven’t gotten to use either yet. The Silent One is a plague Doctor that seems to be immortal. Standing 7’2” tall, they are a powerful cleric who can heal three times as many people as any other single cleric of the same level. They have a walking cane as their only weapon. Their mask has a Darkness Aura around it so it turns the back of their head and shoulders into shadow, further concealing their identity. They walk with a slow and methodical nature. In reality, they are three kobold clerics in a trench-coat who all heal each other and others. They have never been found out. Ecko is a quadruple amputee Warforged Bard, flavored to be completely cylindrical. She “stands” 1.4 feet tall. Lacking limbs, she has nothing in Dexterity or Strength; favoring wisdom, intelligence, charisma, and constitution. Socially awkward, she never speaks unless addressed by name. She is quick to befriend Myhmers and knows almost every language.
A Murloc rogue called Burggl, he was the groups cook and was specialized in improvised weapons. In combat he panicked and used anything and everything as a weapon and through pure luck and meta humor, it worked (sneak attack was story-wise purely down to sheer dumb luck, as opposed to expertise). A middle-aged human wizard teaching the first year students at a wizarding school, he was fired for incompetence after the school council was replaced and they learned he could only cast level 1 spells. So he took to adventuring to level up and reclaim his job. He was enchantment specialized and had evocation as his prohibited school, so no kabooms. He clashed a lot with the witch of the party because she was using improper terms when discussing magic, she had absolutely no education in the magical arts!
I haven't used him, but I had an idea for a barbarian neanderthal named Dudu who fell into a brinepool in prehistoric times and woke up in the campaigns time. He only speaks in Grunts and Giberish and smashes things with a big club.
Haven’t used him yet, but I came up with Banana-Man, basically just a magical Batman but themed around bananas. I’m talking banana costume, banana themed weapons, banana themed spells, the whole nine yards. My voice for him is similar to Dr Screwball Jones from Wander Over Yander, but with Batman’s typical personality
Changeling warlock with the actor feat that compulsively acquires and impersonates new identities. His arcfey patron finds him so amusing, and occasionally asks him to "prank" people.
I had a character simply known as The Mole. Through multiclassing into rogue/druid along with a few feats, he could be anyone or anything animal. Your neighbor, your boss, your boss' daughter, your boss' daughter's dog, a spider on the wall. He was also untraceable, even with magic with due to some crafty spell work and choice magic items.
I've got this innkeeper in my world named Leomo Guvel, after a bluesky code I had. In game, he's an Ancient Brass Dragon in the form of a Halfling. He loves socializing with humans, and even accepts stories as payment for a night at his inn. My favorite thing about him though, is that in each room, there is a sign that says "Live, Laugh, Leomo"
I had a character famous throughout the land for singlehandedly killing a Tarasque, and he had absolutely no idea why people thought that. He wasn't even an adventurer when people thought he killed the thing, and only became an adventurer because everyone came to him to solve their problems and he was too socially awkward to say no. He had advantage on intimidation checks, but if he failed, because of his low charisma, people assumed he was impersonating their hero and took it very personally.
Back in the 3e era, I made a thief named Spider who dumped all his skill points into rope use. Could pass heroic DCs with rope, often making webs and often integrating rope and grapple as combat weapons
My rogue never speaks in public. He wears an oversized raincoat with extra carrying space in the sleeves and has curly red hair. I play him half-seriously looking for his family, a group of entertainers who he was separated from after a bandit raid on the village they were performing in.
One i found quite funny was a friend of mine who played a Goliath monk whose village got wiped out by a mysterious disease, he was the only survivor due to unknown reasons, he then used his resistance to the disease and his dedication to find out what happens to his village to become : KUNG FLU PLAGUE-FIST
I only played one joke character so far; a fairy artificer named Rosalind. Her goal was to eventually become a merchant, even though money didn't actually mean anything to her, and adventuring provided a way to test her goods on the field. One fun bit was that since fairies are fey creatures, whenever I couldn't make it to a session, we had it that my character got warped to another adventurer using the "Summon Fey" spell.
I made a wizard called Swoldaf the Whey for a level 20 one shot. Just a jacked wizard who constantly talked about proper weight lifting and healthy diets. He occasionally gets mentioned in my group whenever we have a wizard who is oddly strong “he must of been reading books by Swoldalf”
The Slammin Salmon: A Locath Barbarian that specializes in grappling/wrestling. So think luchador/wrestler. Was also part of my random encounter in Waterdeep, The WWF, or The Waterdeep Wrestling Federation. Plenty of hilarity and gambling ensued from my players.
For me it's either a Kobold with short term memory loss named James or the mortal man turned God named James Randall and had infinite cheeseburgers and fries
I had a half orc bard named tuply (two ply). I did a bad macho man voice for him. He didn’t sing or play an instrument instead he always just wanted to put on a show. Our first encounter I blinded everyone in a room with a fireworks style spell. 3 were permanently blind, we were supposed to be recruiting them for our boss
In my current campaign, one of our PCs is an old gnomish "wizard". Technically he's a retired rogue who found a "Magic For Dummies" book (which is that one common magic item from Xanathar's guide that just gives one random use low level spell per day, plus Magic Initiate feat). He somehow thinks he's a natural at magic and has the whole parry convinced he's a super wise wizard. The rest of us are mainly martial PCs, other than our bard and insane warlock. But neither have the learned experience of our super smart "wizard".
I created Prince Charming from Shrek 2. He's a glory paladin/banneret fighter with a folk hero background (I also wanted to add bard levels, but that would make him unplayable). He "inspires" his allies and keeps them alive by talking about how brave, strong, and handsome he is, and how amazing it is that they all get the honor of fighting alongside him. He's as insufferable as he is effective.
I made a character for a persona themed campaign. My character is a barbarian/ranger who's persona is anubus taking physical form as a brown dog. Using good Berries to "persuade" anubus to do stuff. Their issue is because their parents are so into the scooby doo series, they literally named him Norvil Rogers Rodgers, made him wear the character's cloths/hairstyles and even make them act/use mannerisms just so they could be "shaggy rodgers pairents" And now he has a talking dog.
Over on a website called Role Gate, a site for playing RPGs via text, I tried running an intentionally silly campaign, so basically every character that showed up before the game dropped off was some kind of joke; one of the last was Thunk, a fat Orc Sorcerer with the belief he was a chef, keep in mind this was while the Chef feat was still in playtest as the Gourmand feat, which Thunk had, before it ended he faced off against an ogre in a cooking contest.
Cactus Jack, the Potted Cactus (mechanically Warforged) Battlerager (homebrew rework) Barbarian who hugged things to death. Took feats for grappling, armor for damaging, and a barehanded fighting style just in case. Sadly, the oneshot I played him in never had an opportunity for me to disguise myself as a Perfectly Normal Potted Cactus.
on my L5R game, I made a Scorpion clan courtier who sings and acts all wholesome to her... admirers... Shosuro Ringo, Shosurin to her fans and yeah she's an idol girl, managed to pacify a group of ningyo and an angry commoner mob with sheer charisma
My favorite Joke character is a Centaur Bard. His goal is to overcome the natural disadvantage of all centaurs and become the world’s greatest dancer. Originally pitched to a DM for a one shot, but withdrew in part because the DM was wise to my humor and instantly got where I was going with lore that “centaurs being bad dancers” (they have two left feet!) but also because while playing with the character and backstory, the centaur evolved from a one shot joke character to a character who I felt could fit better in a campaign, especially now that the new College of Dance subclass dropped. He essentially left his herd, which had a general vibe of the town from Footloose and went on a quest to develop and perfect a form of dance that can help centaurs dance, which he begins to get the basics when he gets his subclasss and is visually described as close to tap dancing for the minds eye. But he also has a wholesome attitude that I can’t help but love, with an excitement to meet new people and a wholesome belief in helping people achieve their dreams no matter how hard because, “if a centaur can dance, you can do anything.” That said most of my characters have something that lends to being joke characters since I tend to favor martial characters and have little to do outside combat because of low mental stats (I love barbarians). So while the Face discusses stuff with the contacts, I wait for an opportunity to make a stupid joke that gets the table laughing.
Igofers is a harengon war mage with the sole purpose of... going first. I took the alert feat and currently have a +14 to initiative at level 4, with a potential cap of +21
My group and I like to do monkeys paw when character builds. For example is someone chose mana for consumption they have to roll from where that mana comes from nat 20 will get you mana from plants. A 1 would be any 1 random human being from the world, old oto new born, which would result in their death and you would gain all their consciousness for a short period of time. Sorta like kame and nail from dbz abridged
a Warlock with the archfey patron, magic initiate feat (I forget which caster class I used or what I got from it) and pact of the chain to have as many cantrips as possible at 3rd level and I gave myself the title of the cantrip king. It only got used in like 2-4 seasons but at least it was fun and more diverse then eldritch blast spam.
I built A Mordian Iron Guard as my Guardsman in a Dark Heresy game set in Warhammer 40k. I rolled UTTER TRASH on my ballistics skill and my melee, but I got really high on my intelligence modifiers. As a joke, I decided that he was an Artilleryman who got mistakenly sent to the front lines through a bureaucratic error. Watching him constantly get his butt kicked was kinda sad, but also hilarious. Kinda became the Yamcha of the group.
A wererat Warlock of the great old ones. Her patron is TaCObel who loves in a giant brown cloud in deep space, and grants her the cantrip "baja blast" which is a teal beam that upon a successful attack requires a successful constitution saving throw against the creature crapping its pants. Everywhere she goes she steals cheese.
Orchius Ghenericcus. An Orc Paladin that wields a big ol' double sided axe that was given to him by his parents who wanted him to become a barbarian which, he refused because it was too obvious. He then, once becoming a paladin took the oath of the smile (something he made up) and, every time he goes to heal someone he has to make an axe pun to the one receiving the healing in order for his axe to be charged with the healing... potency... juices. And the proceed to smack the person with the blunt end of the axe right on the noggin'.
4:18 That's Bugs's nephew, Shorty. He appeared in a Merrie Melodies short where he teamed up with Bugs to fool Pete Puma a few times. 5:03 Does he want George to tell him about the rabbits? 5:42 and 9:43 A rare editing mistake. Normally, it's the ham reading the lines that screws up. 7:04 And he's passing the savings on to yooouuuu! 7:42 Having a character with a joke name, but a cringy, yet serious backstory doesn't make them a joke character. 8:59 That just sounds like an average kender. 11:31 The Devil went down to Faerun.
When I was playing a tempest cleric I would use animate dead to create Frankie and Bernie. I was thinking Frankenstein's creature and Bernie from weekend at Bernie's. I only had one animated corpse at a time but I alternated the names
Twitch August. Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer. Also a Harengon. The goal of his journey is to find his Deadbeat Bronze Dragon father and ask him how the hell that happened His name has a Draconic Pronunciation but he really doesn‘t wanna talk about it
I still think: handing the DM two character sheets would be the best fun character: sheet 1: she is level 20 in everything, race: elve, long blond hair, eternal beauty, etc and charming voice. sheet 2: a human variant barbarian, middle aged, with a pixie haircut. her true self. and she wants to speak to the manager of every shop or dungeon.
My favorite joke character is Cactus Jack, a Half-Orc Barbarian with a single level of Bard. He's a wrestler and a singer and dancer. He literally picks up and dances with his enemies as he's grappling them, singing to confuse them. He's based on the old WWE wrestler Mic Foley, and even has a +1 cestus that is his dirty sock and a title belt of strength. He's evolved into an NPC in my campaign, and he's in a band called "Cactus Jack and the Prickly Bois" that travels around performing as a biker punk band that covers my entire music taste.
I haven’t played her yet, but I’m going to use her during my next game. Melody Goolis, slime girl pop idol. Mechanically, she is a Plasmoid College of Dance Bard flavored as a Japanese style pop star. She will give inspiration and temporary hp after every short or long rest, she gets a free attack when she gives bardic inspiration, if an enemy ends its turn next to her she can move move away without provoking an opportunity attack at the cost of a bardic inspiration (kick), she has full access to Druid cleric and wizard spell lists, she can give the whole party advantage on initiative at the cost of an inspiration die (kick), and she can regain bardic inspiration by burning spell slots
4:11 ... HA! xD Few days ago we played a light-toned oneshot. Our hometown infested with undead creatures, nothing serious. Where each and every one of us agreed to make some kind of animal-like race, to keep things a bit silly for fun ... We had two Tabaxi, Assassination Rogue and Tempest Cleric a Shifter (of wich we werent exactly sure if he followed the agreement, but w/e) Sorc/Bard our ForeverDM, who played this time and picked Harengon Berserker Barbarian with huge 2h Maul and i decided to roll Beast Barbarian Leonin with no weapons at all, since i used my tail. Fun part was, as we created our characters ... since we were the only Barbarians and both with int 6 ... we decided that our characters thought they are actually brothers! We didnt get to explore that idea too deep, since undead monsters werent too chatty ... still it was quite funny, encouraging each other by yelling things as "our parents would be proud seeing you now brother", or "i know all too well, you can do better, brother" during the fight ... As we went to one of tougher enemies i got to quite tough spot, since our enemy was immune to shoving, so i could not get them prone (wich was my whole thing basicaly ... knock prone, hold down, attack with tail, give everyone advantages) the Harengon (his name was Carrot) went to Frenzy and yelling "stop touching my brother" basicaly smashed its head to red mush in single round. :D
My most developed character is a joke character. His lore goes deep tho. He used to be a human who had to steal for survival. One day he went on a heist to rob from the manor of a noble. Said noble caught him and had him executed. His corpse, tossed aside into the sewers to rot, was floating down the disgusting streams as his body passed by an old ragdoll. His soul wandered into what would be his new body. And he became what my friends call Death Puppet. A psychotic barbarian ragdoll. I shit you not, at the end of one campaign, DP defeated the BBEG by throwing a watermelon at it.
Two goblins. Smack and Nose Bleed. One constantly smacks another... so the other constantly has a nose bleed. Not the brightest two. They guarded the cell in jail, where my heroes end up.
In a Star Trek game, I created a Half-Vulcan/Half-Human ship's counselor. (He had a more human personality but retained the Vulcan psychic abilities and strength.) Yes, I did spend the points to get Spock as a contact. But we were in the TNG era. When Spock got hurt, he told my character: 'Your bedside manner reminds me of a medical officer I served with long ago.' My character said: 'Why thank you ambassador.' Spock said: 'It was not intended as a compliment.' This character also often inverted famous Spockism. For example: 'If I were Vulcan, I believe my response would be.... fascinating.' Another time he told a character who was his closest friend (later love interest): 'I always have been, and always will be.... annoyed by the way you eat spaghetti.' The one time he got a Spockism right... was right before Spock made his trip to Romulus. He said: 'Spock... this isn't a good idea. Pardek and his people are probably going to betray you.' Spock said: 'They have no logical reason to do that.' So S'Garen said: "Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning wisdom, Spock, not the end.'
Sir cockaolot a chicken fighter Psy knight who is partially deaf and yells about honor and glory. He always speaks in the third person. He is looking for his brother sure stabsalot a rogue chicken who is tired of his people being eaten
Fallout homebrew campaign with a supermutant Throk Ironbutt who was barely able to speak English and threw his shopping cart at so many people (including killing a death claw) that it became a legendary weapon appearing in future campaigns even without any fallout correlation
Minos Prime ultrakill. The shit I did with that character could solidify him as a chaos god, and somehow killing Satan TWICE is one of the least insane things i did.
Goop was a Black pudding monk. Dm allowed monsters for characters and let me be a black pudding with a skeleton of a young elven prince with a ring of grand intelligence imbedded in me. (homebrew ring that gives +5 wis and int) since goop is a monk he was fast as heck and my Dm kept his acid touch. leading to the character being a 4ft 50 speed bullet of 1d8 acid damage in addition to the punch. since we ruled him as small he couldn't split but post campaign he became the ultimate being in the setting. He absorbed an ancient gold dragon corpse and became the Golden Black Pudding dragon after being unattended for a day by the party. he is now a secret boss and mini character in most campaigns i run.
A Bugbear Barbarian creatively named: Bongus. Bongus made a deal with a Deal with a Devil and sacrificed his Intelligence for raw strength. I thought He would die in like 2 Sessions Max since He is *that* stupid. Now one year later He is somehow on Par with our sorcerer. Also ask your DM if He is cool with multiple hastes Cast on one character. It is so fun
Our group played a published one-shot that made the players Drow, and shortly afterwards my own character died in our regular game, and the DM said if I could somehow find a way to justify having an evil drow Cleric adventuring with a Paladin without causing trouble, I could use her. I came up with a personal goal to corrupt the party Paladin and cast a spell every day that obscured her own alignment so she wouldn't pop up when he detected for evil. She would continuously argue for "pragmatic" (evil) solutions to problems, and occasionally even managed to convince him it was the best idea we had, and also she raised undead warriors all the time to varying degrees of acceptance
*for the record the Paladin player was also in on it and played along. Hi had low insight and I had VERY good deception so we had a lot of fun with him always failing to catch me in my outright fabrications
Ordis, a warforged with multiple personalities and is constantly glitching out and the less prominent, but far ruder 2nd personality is constantly getting small quips in The primary personality is very polite and subservient Plot twist: The primary personality is the one on display the majority of the time, but is actually the alternate personality The secondary one is the remnants of a cold, hardened killer that was sentenced to a fate considered to be worse than death: His mind was ripped from his body as his body was ripped apart and shoved into a warforged body The mind shatters in the process, and the original mind is rebuilt into one ideal for whatever purpose was originally intended. In Ordis’ case, a butler of sorts. But centuries of being idle and exposed to the elements caused massive damage to his software, causing the maddened remnants of who he was to surface
People tell me all of my characters are joke characters, though they're often no laughing matter in combat. Here's some of the ones people have found the funniest: - The L'Basterd Clan, a clan of kobolds (plus a few adopted members of other species. Actually, it's likely they're all adopted because none of them know what sex is. They just call each other Cousin to avoid dealing with it) with the following common characteristics: They are smol even for kobolds at 2' max, they're incredibly stupid apart from the few int-based characters who seem to have all the smarts the others lack, they're vicious little bastards unafraid to run into melee even when alone, and that previous trait is supported by a set of choppers that would have a shark awkwardly shuffling out of the room. Also, they all have descriptive -y names as a play on the Clan name, such as Skippy, Nippy, Grippy, Stabby, or Punchy - Hornelius, a Harengon-turned-posessed-doll Horny Jail Cleric/fighter/paladin on a mission to beat up strahd for having so many people lust after him. In roleplay he's a psychotic nigh murderhobo secondarily modeled after the cloaker from Payday 2, and has already caused the DM to fail twice when trying to describe his actions as worse than they were - Satan (pronounced Sit-ahn) Shadowsoul, a vampire werewolf rogue with two sets of dead parents and a demonic raven familiar who somehow isn't edgy, instead being a dapper papa wolf with an addiction to cooking as a way to curb his bloodthirst, helped immensely by an expertise in chef's tools, making a 14 fairly shitty by his standards
Not so much one character, but a... "fragmented one". They would be different Races, personalities, alignments, etc.; however, they were all Divination Wizards. At random points I would shout out random things like "KAL DON'T JUMP!", "Go with the blue one.", *breaking down in tears* "I love you guys!", "Hello boys.", but not a one of them would be relevant to the current events happening during the champaign said character is on. And whenever events related to them happened in the proper campaign my character would comment "Did I see this coming... Yes... No... I don't know.". I even predicted one of theirs death, a black cat Tabaxi in a Vagabond's Hearts: A Dimwood Tale-esque Champaign, by waking up as a Human during Curse of Strahd from a nightmare where I was "Falling... or flying... It doesn't matter. It's gone now.". That's when the others started to key in that I was living multiple different lives, quasi-simultaneously, throughout the multiverse.
2Seamonster" "Anya Forger" from Spy x Family, 11 y.o teal-haired rogue. Did not steal. She was in love with monsters - as big as possible. She bellowed her name every time there was a pool of water and went diving. Every time a bigger enemy was slain "SEAMONSTER IS APEX PREDATOOOOOOOOOR!" was uttered with 120 decibel. I tried to eat a werewolf, but since I was human 100% could not bite through the skin.
Stronk Stronkest. Basically a goliath who had low everything except for strength. He was interested in dueling to become "stronker" so that he would be "stronkest." Every duel he'd attempt to rip the limbs off his opponent. If he won without much effort, he'd spare them and say "come back when stronker." If they gave him a real challenge he'd kill them. One time he ripped off both his opponents arms but didnt kill him, telling him to "come back when stronker." A party member pointed out that not many people tend to come back from having arms ripped off, but Stronk simply replied "not stronks problem" and moved on.
Hompa Laegg was a Gnoll path of the giant Barbarian who had a thing for Kobold girls. He saw a group of them bathing in a lake as a teenager and now he instantly falls in love with any female Kobold he sees. Even better, there were a couple of female Kobolds in the party named Lily, a Lawful Good Twilight Cleric, and Orchid, a Neutral Evil Assassin. He was madly in love with both of them and would do anything they asked. Lily: "Hompa, would you be so kind as to help me deliver these books to the nearby orphanage?" Hompa, carrying three large and heavy crates of books: "Sure, Lily. Anything for you!" Orchid: "Hompa, this merchant is refusing to pay us for the job we did for him! Be a dear and castrate him for me?" Hompa, holding a dull, serrated knife: "Right away, Orchid!" (Note: the merchant was very eager to pay up after that and got to keep his family jewels.) Also, if either of them were attacked or took damage in combat, Hompa would fly into a rage, activate Giant's Might, and selectively go after their attacker(s), effectively becoming a mix of pre-Norse era Kratos and the Doomslayer!
My current one. >human >fighter >named "Jon" Dude has _died_ 4 times, been resurrected/revivified each time, has a warhorse that cannot die, said warhorse is cursed with a set of spider legs, is a current staple of the community, and currently raising Iron Dragon Hatchlings. My man Jon is the Best Person EVER. _AND HE STARTED AS A JOKE_
A friend made Dolph Lundgren. We joked that all his characters were the type of tough guy who barely speaks and even then its usually just to threaten someone. The kind that would be played by Lundgren in a movie. So he names his next character after the actor. We all laugh because we think hes rolling with our joke about him. Later on in the campaign, he announces that he is going to try to sythesize some kind of drug or chemical with lab equipment he supposedly had. We all look at him like "what?" as the whole time hed been doing his usual meathead shtick. He calmly announces that he has an int of something like 16-18 and put a bunch of points into knowledge: chemistry and the like (it was a modern/sci fi campaign). When everyone asks how the hell Dolph Lundgren would know that stuff, he reveals that he researched the actor and found out he actually has degrees in this sort of thing and so give him an int score and skills to match. Hed just been waiting to surprise us with that for like half the campaign.😂 This is before they did a similar joke in expendables 2, so we were just howling with laughter when we saw that movie in the theatre.
I have a problem with making "Joke" characters... see, I'll make them as a joke, then i'll start thinking about how/why they're named what they're named and are what they are... and i'll end up creating a serious backstory which kind of takes the joke out of the character... i'll give my two favorite examples (one is from dnd, the other is from a mmo called "champions online" which I want to transition into a dnd character if i can) 1) I have a dnd character named "Hugh Mann Mai'el"... obviously a classic joke character name. when i started creating him I had the idea of taking the strixhaven student background so i can get the strixhaven initiate feat for free. I also planned on making him variant human or custom lineage in order to also pick up magic initiate so i'd have a crap ton of low level magic to start with. well, as i was looking through the feats list on dndbeyond i came across the list of dark gifts. i'd never seen these before and so i started reading through them... i found the one for "symbiotic being". well, one thing lead to another and Hugh Mann Mai'el is a sentient crystalline mushroom was created by and imbedded itself into the left eye socket of a druid witherbloom student named Xander. hugh infused its roots to xander's brain and nervous system and during the infusion process, it devoured the left eye and gained the properties to allow xander to see as if it was a normal eye. now, hugh, being a newly created being never before seen in the multiverse, doesnt really have any natural predators. as such he has no survival instincts or danger sense. also being new, hes curious about everything... hes also the one in control of the body as the initial pain of having an eye eaten and a being burrow into his skull and basically melt into his brain caused xander to be suppressed. ... so yeah, what started off as a "im gonna make a hugh mann" character turned into a really interesting character to design and play. 2) the character from champions online is a fire super hero named "Match Stick"... whole idea started off as me making the skinniest, most featureless dude the game would allow.. then i thought of "You're met your match...stick.." and so colored him appropriately. I made a few versions of the costume after that.. one being "unlit", one being "on fire" and one being "burned out".. I then made Smokey the Bear his nemesis... then i started thinking and thats when things became awesome. I was like "why is smokey the bear evil?" now the story is as follows; government wanted to make a hero under their control. but any long term heroes they created ended up breaking free of their control eventually and needed to be put down. so the government learned they needed to create short term heroes that could be created cheaply, deployed rapidly, and discarded easily. thus "Project Matchbox" was born. now, during development of the match sticks, they had dialed up one of their power levels much higher than they should have which caused it to go critical and explode. just so happens the testing area was within smokey's forest. the forest burned down, and smokey watched all his animal friends burned alive. this caused something to snap inside the mascot's head.. deciding then that the only way to prevent forest fires was to put out all fires forever. so smokey amassed an army of cold infused critters while the government perfected their match stick hero. now smokey is attempting to bring about a new ice age and the government is using match sticks to fight against him. sooo yeah... two joke characters who i started thinking about and made them much more than just a joke.
Panster. Not a single character but more like a family line. In our games we have a calmliness score on a d100 along with the other stats, quite literally an appearance score. I've rolled multiple characters with a 5 or lower. Basically whenever I roll an absurdly low appearance score, we say he's from the panster line. A hideous, fat blob that makes everyone that sees him either disgusted or wince on sight, and oddly has the disposition of eric cartman... My gm describes his appearance as "a foot". They're perfectly viable characters, but obviously it makes character interactions... interesting. The biggest mystery is how the bloodline line manages to continue through the ages and different game universes when most women scream and run away in panic at the mere sight of a panster.
> Threaten to quit the campaign over an NPC death "Leave immediately" You don't get to threaten the continuation of the campaign/experience just because something didn't go your way and AN NPC kicked the bucket. Take a minute, feel your feelings, that's fine. That's fair. Have enough self control not have a tantrum. It's not fair to the other players, and it's not fair to the DM. You're either not mature enough to handle TTRPGs, or you're trying to bully and manipulate the table. Bad time for everyone either way.
Lance Waverider, a bright blue eyed, sun tan skinned, surfer bro paladin with a blonde turtle haircut. He followed Nehelania, the goddess of the ocean, who brings the most righteous waves upon thee and blesses you with good surfing. He had a summon mount ability that did not summon a horse, but a surfboard called "Sea Banana" as it was painted to look like a banana, and he could levitate it and "surf" across the land. He carried a driftwood shield, and an axe that he called "his mighty axe" that he would sometimes be caught air guitaring on. His spells were nearly all water themed, and his principles were all built around the ocean. He was a muscular bro dude whose outfit was akin to that of a white tank top and shark tooth necklace, with a pair of blue trunks for swimming. "Radical bro, Nehelania bless you with waves of joy and lead you to the most righteous and tubular ride of your life, man." "Bodacious babes be upon thee, my bro." His theme song was Miserlou, by Dick Dale. He was played for a one off, and never again. LOL
Snap, Crackle and Pop (yep), it was an NPC, a goblin that was so annoying and my players love so much that he became a DMPC. Each of the name were one of his personnalities and yeah all he did was to switch hat like the Rice Kripies mascots. He guide the players threw the dark abyss that have been abandonned by the dwarf long ago and he would often say : "The Grigri doesn't like that" in a high pitch voice. Grigri was one of the name of is god, he wasn't able to explain what is god was except that it was the Grigri. Unknow to the players I have plan for him to be the avatar of my world god of madness. Grigrinakolaikanich was the son, daughter, father, step-mother, uncle, brother, etc. of the god of madness... ok well it was an aspect of the god of madness. When they reaches the temple of the god, were he was suppose to reappear I broke my players heart. As Snap ask the big barbarian that love him so much to hug him. Crackle ask the human cleric to do the same while Snap (the cleric refuse) was in barbarian's arm and Pop came next to the gnome. When my players asks "what do you mean they are 3, since when ?" That's when they stole the parties nose and run inside the temple. Human cleric ask "how did he stole my nose he is a lot shorter then me ?" I simply replied... he mistook something else for your nose, check your pants. So the party had to kill their favorite NPC and fight the god of madness to get their nose back. Thoses noses were hidden in the temple in 3 different section at random, and each section could only accomodate 1 person. The barbarian got is nose, the gnome found something else instead attach at the place of the nose. At the end of the temple, everyone ask for Snap to come back as they love him. So one of them driven mad by a gift of the god and the barbarian because he is dumb enough can now see Snap ghost commenting... I had to keep that joke NPC even after death.
Soup, raccoon, boot, THE PEBBLE it all started with boot the kobold who was "adopted" by adventurers when they found eggs after killing the whole tribe. In dnd kobolds used to mature by like 4 years old and boot was named because the adventurers were mean and gave him an awful name but he didn't care he was gonna ADVENTURE!!!!! Bartender wouldn't give him a beer "ILL ADVENTURE YOU" someone trying to chase him out of the store "ILL ADVENTURE YOU!!" It took the other players 3 games to ask what adventure means. "Beat everyone up and take their stuff." The rogue at the next major city thought it would be a good idea to take the Pyromaniac sorcerer kobold with on a secret mission to destroy a single book in a library. Sneak away from party trying to keep the kobold from yelling adventure by telling him secret adventure. Sneak through the sewers and into the library without blowing anything up. Find the book and whisper to the kobold "OK that's the book we need to destroy but only that book." He got as far as ok that's the book "ADVENTURE!!!!!!" burning hands Rogue stunned silence. Boot seeing how good a job hes doing takes advantage of stunned silence "ADVENTURE" burning hands opposite book shelf. 1 escape and numerous crit fail rolls later and half the city is burned down and the adventures regroup out of town the kobold and rogue covered in soot. Paladin "where have you been? What happened? Rogue "don't ask" Boot "ADVENTURE!!!" After boot came soup the druid who is in fact a bear. Racoon another sorcerer of a questionable repute and THE PEBBLE the mightiest monk who ever was! He will do you a protect because you weak and have to wear metal to protect weak skin.
A character that just kind of showed up created by the DM he's an extremely ugly halting almost looking like an ogre but halting size he's cursed by a dark force so that he can never die and is always at 1 hp... His name is Kenny
Brocc Shepphen. Gnome Artificer. Was supposed to have a wolf mount or companion. Couldn’t afford at lvl 1, so started with a donkey mount. Rode that donkey through our first dungeon. It tripped down the stairs and set of FIVE FIREBALL TRAP SPELLS. DM rolled MINIMUM damage and the donkey survived with 1 hp. Took the newly dubbed “Lucky” with for the rest of the campaign, even being allowed to “improve” him as my Steel Defender, and I was able to give him an INT of 6! Then equipped a headband of intellect, making him the second smartest party member.
What were the int scores of the rest of the party?
@ lower than 19 and 20. One guy got hit with Feeblemind and his INT dropped to 6. Luckily he was a fighter so it was his least important muscle.
So, after receiving the boost to intellect, he became a "smart ass".😁
A five year old Bard with a recorder, I had the whole party dying when I made a performance check and proceeded to pull out a real recorder and play the most horrible ear piercing tune
Leonardo DiCowprio, Minotaur Bard, and what I unleashed on my DM for denying another character I wanted to play.
He comes from AlwaysSummer and wanted to be a Paladin for the God of Thunder so he could be a 'Holy Cow', but ended up being a 'Thor Loser'. His Bardic focus was 2 Drums and a Cymbal harnessed over his shoulder, which he used after every pun.
He got the finishing blow using Vicious Mockery against an evil wolf deity by saying, "You literally are a son of a bitch." Needless to say, against Leonardo, the DM had some 'beef'.
sounds a dor a bull
Had a drow bard named Klaus. It was for a tomb of horrors one shot. He had a German accent and his performance of choice was comedy, telling jokes and punctuating them with a single ting from his instrument of choice, a triangle. The jokes were all really bad dad jokes, and "anti jokes", stuff like "vat is red and bads for your teeth? A brick."
The other players were laughing a lot longer than I thought they would lol and have had a couple requests to bring him back for another one shot some time. Really happy others actually enjoyed the silliness of it all 🙂
Oh _please_ tell me he’d tell jokes to the things he fought against. Like…
*fighting monster
“A man walks into a bar”
*monster hesitates for a second
“Ouch.”
*kills monster
*little ting noise plays
Was in a party with a derpy minotaur barbarian named Barry who wanted to tame every animal he saw, despite the DM telling him he would have no luck with it. When he died, he made a kobold Beast Master Ranger named Garry so he could tame every animal he saw and sometimes succeed. Dude planned a whole list of alts that were some variation of -arry. 'Arry, Barry, Carrie, Larry, Mary, etc. Unfortunately the game fell apart before that could happen. Guy was fun to play with.
Okay, I NEED to use that "Cult Sacrifice who sacrificed his sanity, not his life" that sounds like SUCH a sick backstory, and an excuse to have the DM give a character Fae sight or the ability to see the dead or some such, which itself sounds like a sick plot point for them to make use of.
MacCready, a dwarven College of Valor bard with a dwarven thrower. You might know him better by his stage name, MC Hammer
Hating plants because they said some mean stuff to you. I honestly wouldn’t blame them.
Also there's more to nature than trees. Stone, heat, water, ice, light, animals, wind... those are all nature too.
A tortle ranger who runs a delivery service. his survival bonus is high enough to track the players wherever they could be and deliver magic item parcels from town. no matter where the players are, he could find them.
Eins, Zwei, and Drei, a trio of Green Half-Dragon (reflavored Dragonborns) Paladins who are the result of the 'bard seduces a dragon meme'.
Drei is a Redemption Paladin whose relationship with her mother consists of her trying to redeem her mother while her mother tries to corrupt her to evil, all playing out like a teenager telling her mother 'it's not a phase, mom!'
Lil shawty
She’s a deep gnome assassin rogue.
And you know lil shawty goes deep hahaha
The game started off as arena battles for the first 2 games and is now the starting campaign for our first time player
My favorite was this Kenku Echo Knight/Phantom Rogue. It start 100% as a joke character, a race that mimics things it sees or hears with a class that has something mimics them, but evolved into something really special to me. What happened was I started building on the backstory and I thought of something really neat: what if the Echo Knight powers were from different universes. The idea wasn't that he was manifesting random shadows but basically shadows of himself. Everyone's heard of the theory where every choice splits another universe where you do that choice and another one where you didn't. That was basically the whole idea. The reason why I chose Phantom was because I wanted to give the different versions of him a voice so the Phantom powers are all actually just him from the different universes. It tied up very well, even though there needs a little bit polish. I would love to play that character at some point.
Around Christmas time, the party was traveling when we came upon a wish-granting man named canta slaws. He wore a green suit and had red hair and his eyes were made of burning coals that burned brighter whenever he got angry. He rode a chariot pulled by elk and manned by dwarves.
He would give one gift to each member of the party and would get very angry if asked for more.
He would also do his best to traumatize you with every wish (ie. Ripping out the spine of one of the dwarves that accompanied him to give someone a staff of the magi).
Turns out he was a red djinn and we were able to kill him later in the campaign while exploring hades.
I have two, though I haven’t gotten to use either yet.
The Silent One is a plague Doctor that seems to be immortal. Standing 7’2” tall, they are a powerful cleric who can heal three times as many people as any other single cleric of the same level. They have a walking cane as their only weapon. Their mask has a Darkness Aura around it so it turns the back of their head and shoulders into shadow, further concealing their identity. They walk with a slow and methodical nature. In reality, they are three kobold clerics in a trench-coat who all heal each other and others. They have never been found out.
Ecko is a quadruple amputee Warforged Bard, flavored to be completely cylindrical. She “stands” 1.4 feet tall. Lacking limbs, she has nothing in Dexterity or Strength; favoring wisdom, intelligence, charisma, and constitution. Socially awkward, she never speaks unless addressed by name. She is quick to befriend Myhmers and knows almost every language.
I ran Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
A Murloc rogue called Burggl, he was the groups cook and was specialized in improvised weapons. In combat he panicked and used anything and everything as a weapon and through pure luck and meta humor, it worked (sneak attack was story-wise purely down to sheer dumb luck, as opposed to expertise).
A middle-aged human wizard teaching the first year students at a wizarding school, he was fired for incompetence after the school council was replaced and they learned he could only cast level 1 spells. So he took to adventuring to level up and reclaim his job. He was enchantment specialized and had evocation as his prohibited school, so no kabooms. He clashed a lot with the witch of the party because she was using improper terms when discussing magic, she had absolutely no education in the magical arts!
I haven't used him, but I had an idea for a barbarian neanderthal named Dudu who fell into a brinepool in prehistoric times and woke up in the campaigns time. He only speaks in Grunts and Giberish and smashes things with a big club.
Haven’t used him yet, but I came up with Banana-Man, basically just a magical Batman but themed around bananas. I’m talking banana costume, banana themed weapons, banana themed spells, the whole nine yards. My voice for him is similar to Dr Screwball Jones from Wander Over Yander, but with Batman’s typical personality
"I'm BANANA MAN"
@ Exactly like that
@LisaVGG please play him like the Michael Keaton Batman
@ That’s the type of Batman voice I plan on using
Changeling warlock with the actor feat that compulsively acquires and impersonates new identities.
His arcfey patron finds him so amusing, and occasionally asks him to "prank" people.
Cthulhu's psychiatrist: Great Old One Warlock as his patron's therapist.
I had a character simply known as The Mole. Through multiclassing into rogue/druid along with a few feats, he could be anyone or anything animal. Your neighbor, your boss, your boss' daughter, your boss' daughter's dog, a spider on the wall. He was also untraceable, even with magic with due to some crafty spell work and choice magic items.
I've got this innkeeper in my world named Leomo Guvel, after a bluesky code I had. In game, he's an Ancient Brass Dragon in the form of a Halfling. He loves socializing with humans, and even accepts stories as payment for a night at his inn. My favorite thing about him though, is that in each room, there is a sign that says "Live, Laugh, Leomo"
I had a character famous throughout the land for singlehandedly killing a Tarasque, and he had absolutely no idea why people thought that.
He wasn't even an adventurer when people thought he killed the thing, and only became an adventurer because everyone came to him to solve their problems and he was too socially awkward to say no.
He had advantage on intimidation checks, but if he failed, because of his low charisma, people assumed he was impersonating their hero and took it very personally.
Back in the 3e era, I made a thief named Spider who dumped all his skill points into rope use. Could pass heroic DCs with rope, often making webs and often integrating rope and grapple as combat weapons
My rogue never speaks in public. He wears an oversized raincoat with extra carrying space in the sleeves and has curly red hair. I play him half-seriously looking for his family, a group of entertainers who he was separated from after a bandit raid on the village they were performing in.
That adventurers orphanage story is rife for potential with NPCs or PCs in future campaigns being the grown kids.
One i found quite funny was a friend of mine who played a Goliath monk whose village got wiped out by a mysterious disease, he was the only survivor due to unknown reasons, he then used his resistance to the disease and his dedication to find out what happens to his village to become : KUNG FLU PLAGUE-FIST
I only played one joke character so far; a fairy artificer named Rosalind. Her goal was to eventually become a merchant, even though money didn't actually mean anything to her, and adventuring provided a way to test her goods on the field. One fun bit was that since fairies are fey creatures, whenever I couldn't make it to a session, we had it that my character got warped to another adventurer using the "Summon Fey" spell.
I made a wizard called Swoldaf the Whey for a level 20 one shot. Just a jacked wizard who constantly talked about proper weight lifting and healthy diets. He occasionally gets mentioned in my group whenever we have a wizard who is oddly strong “he must of been reading books by Swoldalf”
The Slammin Salmon: A Locath Barbarian that specializes in grappling/wrestling. So think luchador/wrestler. Was also part of my random encounter in Waterdeep, The WWF, or The Waterdeep Wrestling Federation. Plenty of hilarity and gambling ensued from my players.
For me it's either a Kobold with short term memory loss named James or the mortal man turned God named James Randall and had infinite cheeseburgers and fries
I had a half orc bard named tuply (two ply). I did a bad macho man voice for him. He didn’t sing or play an instrument instead he always just wanted to put on a show. Our first encounter I blinded everyone in a room with a fireworks style spell. 3 were permanently blind, we were supposed to be recruiting them for our boss
In my current campaign, one of our PCs is an old gnomish "wizard". Technically he's a retired rogue who found a "Magic For Dummies" book (which is that one common magic item from Xanathar's guide that just gives one random use low level spell per day, plus Magic Initiate feat). He somehow thinks he's a natural at magic and has the whole parry convinced he's a super wise wizard. The rest of us are mainly martial PCs, other than our bard and insane warlock. But neither have the learned experience of our super smart "wizard".
That last one made me die laughing at work.
I created Prince Charming from Shrek 2. He's a glory paladin/banneret fighter with a folk hero background (I also wanted to add bard levels, but that would make him unplayable). He "inspires" his allies and keeps them alive by talking about how brave, strong, and handsome he is, and how amazing it is that they all get the honor of fighting alongside him. He's as insufferable as he is effective.
I made a character for a persona themed campaign. My character is a barbarian/ranger who's persona is anubus taking physical form as a brown dog.
Using good Berries to "persuade" anubus to do stuff.
Their issue is because their parents are so into the scooby doo series, they literally named him Norvil Rogers Rodgers, made him wear the character's cloths/hairstyles and even make them act/use mannerisms just so they could be "shaggy rodgers pairents"
And now he has a talking dog.
My current character, Koldron Ramsay, a dwarf whose class is simply... "Cook". Homebrew class based on my cooling skills and various buffs from it
Over on a website called Role Gate, a site for playing RPGs via text, I tried running an intentionally silly campaign, so basically every character that showed up before the game dropped off was some kind of joke; one of the last was Thunk, a fat Orc Sorcerer with the belief he was a chef, keep in mind this was while the Chef feat was still in playtest as the Gourmand feat, which Thunk had, before it ended he faced off against an ogre in a cooking contest.
👻"...and I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids!" 👻
Cactus Jack, the Potted Cactus (mechanically Warforged) Battlerager (homebrew rework) Barbarian who hugged things to death. Took feats for grappling, armor for damaging, and a barehanded fighting style just in case. Sadly, the oneshot I played him in never had an opportunity for me to disguise myself as a Perfectly Normal Potted Cactus.
on my L5R game, I made a Scorpion clan courtier who sings and acts all wholesome to her... admirers...
Shosuro Ringo, Shosurin to her fans
and yeah she's an idol girl, managed to pacify a group of ningyo and an angry commoner mob with sheer charisma
My favorite Joke character is a Centaur Bard. His goal is to overcome the natural disadvantage of all centaurs and become the world’s greatest dancer. Originally pitched to a DM for a one shot, but withdrew in part because the DM was wise to my humor and instantly got where I was going with lore that “centaurs being bad dancers” (they have two left feet!) but also because while playing with the character and backstory, the centaur evolved from a one shot joke character to a character who I felt could fit better in a campaign, especially now that the new College of Dance subclass dropped. He essentially left his herd, which had a general vibe of the town from Footloose and went on a quest to develop and perfect a form of dance that can help centaurs dance, which he begins to get the basics when he gets his subclasss and is visually described as close to tap dancing for the minds eye. But he also has a wholesome attitude that I can’t help but love, with an excitement to meet new people and a wholesome belief in helping people achieve their dreams no matter how hard because, “if a centaur can dance, you can do anything.”
That said most of my characters have something that lends to being joke characters since I tend to favor martial characters and have little to do outside combat because of low mental stats (I love barbarians). So while the Face discusses stuff with the contacts, I wait for an opportunity to make a stupid joke that gets the table laughing.
(rolls a nat 20, feeds Brian to the almighty Algorithmo of DOOOOOM!!!!!)
Igofers is a harengon war mage with the sole purpose of... going first. I took the alert feat and currently have a +14 to initiative at level 4, with a potential cap of +21
My group and I like to do monkeys paw when character builds. For example is someone chose mana for consumption they have to roll from where that mana comes from nat 20 will get you mana from plants. A 1 would be any 1 random human being from the world, old oto new born, which would result in their death and you would gain all their consciousness for a short period of time. Sorta like kame and nail from dbz abridged
a Warlock with the archfey patron, magic initiate feat (I forget which caster class I used or what I got from it) and pact of the chain to have as many cantrips as possible at 3rd level and I gave myself the title of the cantrip king. It only got used in like 2-4 seasons but at least it was fun and more diverse then eldritch blast spam.
I built A Mordian Iron Guard as my Guardsman in a Dark Heresy game set in Warhammer 40k. I rolled UTTER TRASH on my ballistics skill and my melee, but I got really high on my intelligence modifiers. As a joke, I decided that he was an Artilleryman who got mistakenly sent to the front lines through a bureaucratic error. Watching him constantly get his butt kicked was kinda sad, but also hilarious. Kinda became the Yamcha of the group.
A wererat Warlock of the great old ones. Her patron is TaCObel who loves in a giant brown cloud in deep space, and grants her the cantrip "baja blast" which is a teal beam that upon a successful attack requires a successful constitution saving throw against the creature crapping its pants. Everywhere she goes she steals cheese.
Orchius Ghenericcus. An Orc Paladin that wields a big ol' double sided axe that was given to him by his parents who wanted him to become a barbarian which, he refused because it was too obvious. He then, once becoming a paladin took the oath of the smile (something he made up) and, every time he goes to heal someone he has to make an axe pun to the one receiving the healing in order for his axe to be charged with the healing... potency... juices. And the proceed to smack the person with the blunt end of the axe right on the noggin'.
5:40 combine the first 2 characters. a big huge character, who talks about little sister. and suddenly, you are a big daddy in a different game ;-)
4:18 That's Bugs's nephew, Shorty. He appeared in a Merrie Melodies short where he teamed up with Bugs to fool Pete Puma a few times.
5:03 Does he want George to tell him about the rabbits?
5:42 and 9:43 A rare editing mistake. Normally, it's the ham reading the lines that screws up.
7:04 And he's passing the savings on to yooouuuu!
7:42 Having a character with a joke name, but a cringy, yet serious backstory doesn't make them a joke character.
8:59 That just sounds like an average kender.
11:31 The Devil went down to Faerun.
0:50 The silence. XD
I once played a party grandma named Gram-Gram who used explosive pies.
When I was playing a tempest cleric I would use animate dead to create Frankie and Bernie. I was thinking Frankenstein's creature and Bernie from weekend at Bernie's. I only had one animated corpse at a time but I alternated the names
12:39
Guess those three turned the O in “minor” to an E.
Twitch August. Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer. Also a Harengon. The goal of his journey is to find his Deadbeat Bronze Dragon father and ask him how the hell that happened
His name has a Draconic Pronunciation but he really doesn‘t wanna talk about it
I still think: handing the DM two character sheets would be the best fun character:
sheet 1: she is level 20 in everything, race: elve, long blond hair, eternal beauty, etc and charming voice.
sheet 2: a human variant barbarian, middle aged, with a pixie haircut. her true self.
and she wants to speak to the manager of every shop or dungeon.
My favorite joke character is Cactus Jack, a Half-Orc Barbarian with a single level of Bard. He's a wrestler and a singer and dancer. He literally picks up and dances with his enemies as he's grappling them, singing to confuse them. He's based on the old WWE wrestler Mic Foley, and even has a +1 cestus that is his dirty sock and a title belt of strength.
He's evolved into an NPC in my campaign, and he's in a band called "Cactus Jack and the Prickly Bois" that travels around performing as a biker punk band that covers my entire music taste.
I haven’t played her yet, but I’m going to use her during my next game.
Melody Goolis, slime girl pop idol.
Mechanically, she is a Plasmoid College of Dance Bard flavored as a Japanese style pop star. She will give inspiration and temporary hp after every short or long rest, she gets a free attack when she gives bardic inspiration, if an enemy ends its turn next to her she can move move away without provoking an opportunity attack at the cost of a bardic inspiration (kick), she has full access to Druid cleric and wizard spell lists, she can give the whole party advantage on initiative at the cost of an inspiration die (kick), and she can regain bardic inspiration by burning spell slots
Did I mention that she can also give evasion to anyone next to her?
4:11 ... HA! xD
Few days ago we played a light-toned oneshot. Our hometown infested with undead creatures, nothing serious.
Where each and every one of us agreed to make some kind of animal-like race, to keep things a bit silly for fun ...
We had two Tabaxi, Assassination Rogue and Tempest Cleric
a Shifter (of wich we werent exactly sure if he followed the agreement, but w/e) Sorc/Bard
our ForeverDM, who played this time and picked Harengon Berserker Barbarian with huge 2h Maul
and i decided to roll Beast Barbarian Leonin with no weapons at all, since i used my tail.
Fun part was, as we created our characters ... since we were the only Barbarians and both with int 6 ... we decided that our characters thought they are actually brothers!
We didnt get to explore that idea too deep, since undead monsters werent too chatty ... still it was quite funny, encouraging each other by yelling things as "our parents would be proud seeing you now brother", or "i know all too well, you can do better, brother" during the fight ...
As we went to one of tougher enemies i got to quite tough spot, since our enemy was immune to shoving, so i could not get them prone (wich was my whole thing basicaly ... knock prone, hold down, attack with tail, give everyone advantages) the Harengon (his name was Carrot) went to Frenzy and yelling "stop touching my brother" basicaly smashed its head to red mush in single round. :D
4:10 missed opportunity. it should be a carrot.
Dwarfmaxxing orphans is amazing lmao
My most developed character is a joke character. His lore goes deep tho.
He used to be a human who had to steal for survival. One day he went on a heist to rob from the manor of a noble. Said noble caught him and had him executed.
His corpse, tossed aside into the sewers to rot, was floating down the disgusting streams as his body passed by an old ragdoll. His soul wandered into what would be his new body. And he became what my friends call Death Puppet. A psychotic barbarian ragdoll.
I shit you not, at the end of one campaign, DP defeated the BBEG by throwing a watermelon at it.
Two goblins. Smack and Nose Bleed. One constantly smacks another... so the other constantly has a nose bleed. Not the brightest two. They guarded the cell in jail, where my heroes end up.
In a Star Trek game, I created a Half-Vulcan/Half-Human ship's counselor. (He had a more human personality but retained the Vulcan psychic abilities and strength.) Yes, I did spend the points to get Spock as a contact. But we were in the TNG era. When Spock got hurt, he told my character: 'Your bedside manner reminds me of a medical officer I served with long ago.' My character said: 'Why thank you ambassador.' Spock said: 'It was not intended as a compliment.' This character also often inverted famous Spockism. For example: 'If I were Vulcan, I believe my response would be.... fascinating.' Another time he told a character who was his closest friend (later love interest): 'I always have been, and always will be.... annoyed by the way you eat spaghetti.' The one time he got a Spockism right... was right before Spock made his trip to Romulus. He said: 'Spock... this isn't a good idea. Pardek and his people are probably going to betray you.' Spock said: 'They have no logical reason to do that.' So S'Garen said: "Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning wisdom, Spock, not the end.'
Sir cockaolot a chicken fighter Psy knight who is partially deaf and yells about honor and glory. He always speaks in the third person. He is looking for his brother sure stabsalot a rogue chicken who is tired of his people being eaten
Fallout homebrew campaign with a supermutant Throk Ironbutt who was barely able to speak English and threw his shopping cart at so many people (including killing a death claw) that it became a legendary weapon appearing in future campaigns even without any fallout correlation
All the dead ones.
The last one sounded like Kenny from South Park but in DnD
The children long for the mines...
Mute Skeleton Rogue named “Bone Daddy”
That is all.
11:51 wait, but he's supposed to win, or at least thats how the song goes, and i presume the song to be canon
Halfling Path of Giant Barbarian. Stephen Withavee. He gets real angry when you spell his name with a V in it.
Hopefully, the kids in the first story were named Ed, Edd and Eddy.
my dnd group is stealing ball to be one player’s thing. we haven’t decided who yet but i hope the bard gets it
Minos Prime ultrakill. The shit I did with that character could solidify him as a chaos god, and somehow killing Satan TWICE is one of the least insane things i did.
The Druid who hates plants was the best 🌲🌳🌴🙂.
Goop was a Black pudding monk. Dm allowed monsters for characters and let me be a black pudding with a skeleton of a young elven prince with a ring of grand intelligence imbedded in me. (homebrew ring that gives +5 wis and int)
since goop is a monk he was fast as heck and my Dm kept his acid touch. leading to the character being a 4ft 50 speed bullet of 1d8 acid damage in addition to the punch.
since we ruled him as small he couldn't split but post campaign he became the ultimate being in the setting.
He absorbed an ancient gold dragon corpse and became the Golden Black Pudding dragon after being unattended for a day by the party. he is now a secret boss and mini character in most campaigns i run.
A Bugbear Barbarian creatively named: Bongus. Bongus made a deal with a Deal with a Devil and sacrificed his Intelligence for raw strength. I thought He would die in like 2 Sessions Max since He is *that* stupid. Now one year later He is somehow on Par with our sorcerer.
Also ask your DM if He is cool with multiple hastes Cast on one character. It is so fun
Our group played a published one-shot that made the players Drow, and shortly afterwards my own character died in our regular game, and the DM said if I could somehow find a way to justify having an evil drow Cleric adventuring with a Paladin without causing trouble, I could use her. I came up with a personal goal to corrupt the party Paladin and cast a spell every day that obscured her own alignment so she wouldn't pop up when he detected for evil. She would continuously argue for "pragmatic" (evil) solutions to problems, and occasionally even managed to convince him it was the best idea we had, and also she raised undead warriors all the time to varying degrees of acceptance
*for the record the Paladin player was also in on it and played along. Hi had low insight and I had VERY good deception so we had a lot of fun with him always failing to catch me in my outright fabrications
Talus von Bacula, gnome necromancer
Not an actual player, just an idea: dragonborn foundling raised by a pack of kobolds (ala Buddy the "elf").
Ordis, a warforged with multiple personalities and is constantly glitching out and the less prominent, but far ruder 2nd personality is constantly getting small quips in
The primary personality is very polite and subservient
Plot twist:
The primary personality is the one on display the majority of the time, but is actually the alternate personality
The secondary one is the remnants of a cold, hardened killer that was sentenced to a fate considered to be worse than death:
His mind was ripped from his body as his body was ripped apart and shoved into a warforged body
The mind shatters in the process, and the original mind is rebuilt into one ideal for whatever purpose was originally intended.
In Ordis’ case, a butler of sorts. But centuries of being idle and exposed to the elements caused massive damage to his software, causing the maddened remnants of who he was to surface
People tell me all of my characters are joke characters, though they're often no laughing matter in combat. Here's some of the ones people have found the funniest:
- The L'Basterd Clan, a clan of kobolds (plus a few adopted members of other species. Actually, it's likely they're all adopted because none of them know what sex is. They just call each other Cousin to avoid dealing with it) with the following common characteristics:
They are smol even for kobolds at 2' max, they're incredibly stupid apart from the few int-based characters who seem to have all the smarts the others lack, they're vicious little bastards unafraid to run into melee even when alone, and that previous trait is supported by a set of choppers that would have a shark awkwardly shuffling out of the room. Also, they all have descriptive -y names as a play on the Clan name, such as Skippy, Nippy, Grippy, Stabby, or Punchy
- Hornelius, a Harengon-turned-posessed-doll Horny Jail Cleric/fighter/paladin on a mission to beat up strahd for having so many people lust after him. In roleplay he's a psychotic nigh murderhobo secondarily modeled after the cloaker from Payday 2, and has already caused the DM to fail twice when trying to describe his actions as worse than they were
- Satan (pronounced Sit-ahn) Shadowsoul, a vampire werewolf rogue with two sets of dead parents and a demonic raven familiar who somehow isn't edgy, instead being a dapper papa wolf with an addiction to cooking as a way to curb his bloodthirst, helped immensely by an expertise in chef's tools, making a 14 fairly shitty by his standards
A variant human fighter who feats that made a sandwich heal more then a healing potion don't f with his sandwiches
Forgive me for being a filthy brony, but... those three orphanage kids had massive CMC energy.
Not so much one character, but a... "fragmented one". They would be different Races, personalities, alignments, etc.; however, they were all Divination Wizards. At random points I would shout out random things like "KAL DON'T JUMP!", "Go with the blue one.", *breaking down in tears* "I love you guys!", "Hello boys.", but not a one of them would be relevant to the current events happening during the champaign said character is on. And whenever events related to them happened in the proper campaign my character would comment "Did I see this coming... Yes... No... I don't know.". I even predicted one of theirs death, a black cat Tabaxi in a Vagabond's Hearts: A Dimwood Tale-esque Champaign, by waking up as a Human during Curse of Strahd from a nightmare where I was "Falling... or flying... It doesn't matter. It's gone now.". That's when the others started to key in that I was living multiple different lives, quasi-simultaneously, throughout the multiverse.
2Seamonster" "Anya Forger" from Spy x Family, 11 y.o teal-haired rogue. Did not steal. She was in love with monsters - as big as possible. She bellowed her name every time there was a pool of water and went diving. Every time a bigger enemy was slain "SEAMONSTER IS APEX PREDATOOOOOOOOOR!" was uttered with 120 decibel. I tried to eat a werewolf, but since I was human 100% could not bite through the skin.
Stronk Stronkest. Basically a goliath who had low everything except for strength. He was interested in dueling to become "stronker" so that he would be "stronkest." Every duel he'd attempt to rip the limbs off his opponent. If he won without much effort, he'd spare them and say "come back when stronker." If they gave him a real challenge he'd kill them. One time he ripped off both his opponents arms but didnt kill him, telling him to "come back when stronker." A party member pointed out that not many people tend to come back from having arms ripped off, but Stronk simply replied "not stronks problem" and moved on.
Hompa Laegg was a Gnoll path of the giant Barbarian who had a thing for Kobold girls. He saw a group of them bathing in a lake as a teenager and now he instantly falls in love with any female Kobold he sees. Even better, there were a couple of female Kobolds in the party named Lily, a Lawful Good Twilight Cleric, and Orchid, a Neutral Evil Assassin. He was madly in love with both of them and would do anything they asked.
Lily: "Hompa, would you be so kind as to help me deliver these books to the nearby orphanage?"
Hompa, carrying three large and heavy crates of books: "Sure, Lily. Anything for you!"
Orchid: "Hompa, this merchant is refusing to pay us for the job we did for him! Be a dear and castrate him for me?"
Hompa, holding a dull, serrated knife: "Right away, Orchid!" (Note: the merchant was very eager to pay up after that and got to keep his family jewels.) Also, if either of them were attacked or took damage in combat, Hompa would fly into a rage, activate Giant's Might, and selectively go after their attacker(s), effectively becoming a mix of pre-Norse era Kratos and the Doomslayer!
My current one.
>human
>fighter
>named "Jon"
Dude has _died_ 4 times, been resurrected/revivified each time, has a warhorse that cannot die, said warhorse is cursed with a set of spider legs, is a current staple of the community, and currently raising Iron Dragon Hatchlings. My man Jon is the Best Person EVER.
_AND HE STARTED AS A JOKE_
sounds pretty interesting.
A friend made Dolph Lundgren. We joked that all his characters were the type of tough guy who barely speaks and even then its usually just to threaten someone. The kind that would be played by Lundgren in a movie. So he names his next character after the actor. We all laugh because we think hes rolling with our joke about him.
Later on in the campaign, he announces that he is going to try to sythesize some kind of drug or chemical with lab equipment he supposedly had. We all look at him like "what?" as the whole time hed been doing his usual meathead shtick. He calmly announces that he has an int of something like 16-18 and put a bunch of points into knowledge: chemistry and the like (it was a modern/sci fi campaign).
When everyone asks how the hell Dolph Lundgren would know that stuff, he reveals that he researched the actor and found out he actually has degrees in this sort of thing and so give him an int score and skills to match. Hed just been waiting to surprise us with that for like half the campaign.😂
This is before they did a similar joke in expendables 2, so we were just howling with laughter when we saw that movie in the theatre.
I have a problem with making "Joke" characters... see, I'll make them as a joke, then i'll start thinking about how/why they're named what they're named and are what they are... and i'll end up creating a serious backstory which kind of takes the joke out of the character... i'll give my two favorite examples (one is from dnd, the other is from a mmo called "champions online" which I want to transition into a dnd character if i can)
1) I have a dnd character named "Hugh Mann Mai'el"... obviously a classic joke character name. when i started creating him I had the idea of taking the strixhaven student background so i can get the strixhaven initiate feat for free. I also planned on making him variant human or custom lineage in order to also pick up magic initiate so i'd have a crap ton of low level magic to start with. well, as i was looking through the feats list on dndbeyond i came across the list of dark gifts. i'd never seen these before and so i started reading through them... i found the one for "symbiotic being". well, one thing lead to another and Hugh Mann Mai'el is a sentient crystalline mushroom was created by and imbedded itself into the left eye socket of a druid witherbloom student named Xander. hugh infused its roots to xander's brain and nervous system and during the infusion process, it devoured the left eye and gained the properties to allow xander to see as if it was a normal eye. now, hugh, being a newly created being never before seen in the multiverse, doesnt really have any natural predators. as such he has no survival instincts or danger sense. also being new, hes curious about everything... hes also the one in control of the body as the initial pain of having an eye eaten and a being burrow into his skull and basically melt into his brain caused xander to be suppressed. ... so yeah, what started off as a "im gonna make a hugh mann" character turned into a really interesting character to design and play.
2) the character from champions online is a fire super hero named "Match Stick"... whole idea started off as me making the skinniest, most featureless dude the game would allow.. then i thought of "You're met your match...stick.." and so colored him appropriately. I made a few versions of the costume after that.. one being "unlit", one being "on fire" and one being "burned out".. I then made Smokey the Bear his nemesis... then i started thinking and thats when things became awesome. I was like "why is smokey the bear evil?" now the story is as follows; government wanted to make a hero under their control. but any long term heroes they created ended up breaking free of their control eventually and needed to be put down. so the government learned they needed to create short term heroes that could be created cheaply, deployed rapidly, and discarded easily. thus "Project Matchbox" was born. now, during development of the match sticks, they had dialed up one of their power levels much higher than they should have which caused it to go critical and explode. just so happens the testing area was within smokey's forest. the forest burned down, and smokey watched all his animal friends burned alive. this caused something to snap inside the mascot's head.. deciding then that the only way to prevent forest fires was to put out all fires forever. so smokey amassed an army of cold infused critters while the government perfected their match stick hero. now smokey is attempting to bring about a new ice age and the government is using match sticks to fight against him.
sooo yeah... two joke characters who i started thinking about and made them much more than just a joke.
Panster. Not a single character but more like a family line. In our games we have a calmliness score on a d100 along with the other stats, quite literally an appearance score. I've rolled multiple characters with a 5 or lower. Basically whenever I roll an absurdly low appearance score, we say he's from the panster line. A hideous, fat blob that makes everyone that sees him either disgusted or wince on sight, and oddly has the disposition of eric cartman... My gm describes his appearance as "a foot". They're perfectly viable characters, but obviously it makes character interactions... interesting. The biggest mystery is how the bloodline line manages to continue through the ages and different game universes when most women scream and run away in panic at the mere sight of a panster.
I am stealing the 3 orphan kids from the 2nd story for my game.
> Threaten to quit the campaign over an NPC death
"Leave immediately"
You don't get to threaten the continuation of the campaign/experience just because something didn't go your way and AN NPC kicked the bucket.
Take a minute, feel your feelings, that's fine. That's fair. Have enough self control not have a tantrum. It's not fair to the other players, and it's not fair to the DM.
You're either not mature enough to handle TTRPGs, or you're trying to bully and manipulate the table. Bad time for everyone either way.
Lance Waverider, a bright blue eyed, sun tan skinned, surfer bro paladin with a blonde turtle haircut. He followed Nehelania, the goddess of the ocean, who brings the most righteous waves upon thee and blesses you with good surfing. He had a summon mount ability that did not summon a horse, but a surfboard called "Sea Banana" as it was painted to look like a banana, and he could levitate it and "surf" across the land. He carried a driftwood shield, and an axe that he called "his mighty axe" that he would sometimes be caught air guitaring on. His spells were nearly all water themed, and his principles were all built around the ocean. He was a muscular bro dude whose outfit was akin to that of a white tank top and shark tooth necklace, with a pair of blue trunks for swimming.
"Radical bro, Nehelania bless you with waves of joy and lead you to the most righteous and tubular ride of your life, man."
"Bodacious babes be upon thee, my bro."
His theme song was Miserlou, by Dick Dale. He was played for a one off, and never again. LOL
Snap, Crackle and Pop (yep), it was an NPC, a goblin that was so annoying and my players love so much that he became a DMPC. Each of the name were one of his personnalities and yeah all he did was to switch hat like the Rice Kripies mascots. He guide the players threw the dark abyss that have been abandonned by the dwarf long ago and he would often say : "The Grigri doesn't like that" in a high pitch voice. Grigri was one of the name of is god, he wasn't able to explain what is god was except that it was the Grigri. Unknow to the players I have plan for him to be the avatar of my world god of madness. Grigrinakolaikanich was the son, daughter, father, step-mother, uncle, brother, etc. of the god of madness... ok well it was an aspect of the god of madness. When they reaches the temple of the god, were he was suppose to reappear I broke my players heart. As Snap ask the big barbarian that love him so much to hug him. Crackle ask the human cleric to do the same while Snap (the cleric refuse) was in barbarian's arm and Pop came next to the gnome. When my players asks "what do you mean they are 3, since when ?" That's when they stole the parties nose and run inside the temple. Human cleric ask "how did he stole my nose he is a lot shorter then me ?" I simply replied... he mistook something else for your nose, check your pants. So the party had to kill their favorite NPC and fight the god of madness to get their nose back. Thoses noses were hidden in the temple in 3 different section at random, and each section could only accomodate 1 person. The barbarian got is nose, the gnome found something else instead attach at the place of the nose. At the end of the temple, everyone ask for Snap to come back as they love him. So one of them driven mad by a gift of the god and the barbarian because he is dumb enough can now see Snap ghost commenting... I had to keep that joke NPC even after death.
Soup, raccoon, boot, THE PEBBLE
it all started with boot the kobold who was "adopted" by adventurers when they found eggs after killing the whole tribe. In dnd kobolds used to mature by like 4 years old and boot was named because the adventurers were mean and gave him an awful name but he didn't care he was gonna ADVENTURE!!!!! Bartender wouldn't give him a beer "ILL ADVENTURE YOU" someone trying to chase him out of the store "ILL ADVENTURE YOU!!"
It took the other players 3 games to ask what adventure means. "Beat everyone up and take their stuff."
The rogue at the next major city thought it would be a good idea to take the Pyromaniac sorcerer kobold with on a secret mission to destroy a single book in a library.
Sneak away from party trying to
keep the kobold from yelling adventure by telling him secret adventure.
Sneak through the sewers and into the library without blowing anything up.
Find the book and whisper to the kobold
"OK that's the book we need to destroy but only that book."
He got as far as ok that's the book
"ADVENTURE!!!!!!" burning hands
Rogue stunned silence.
Boot seeing how good a job hes doing takes advantage of stunned silence "ADVENTURE" burning hands opposite book shelf.
1 escape and numerous crit fail rolls later and half the city is burned down and the adventures regroup out of town the kobold and rogue covered in soot.
Paladin "where have you been? What happened?
Rogue "don't ask"
Boot "ADVENTURE!!!"
After boot came soup the druid who is in fact a bear. Racoon another sorcerer of a questionable repute and THE PEBBLE the mightiest monk who ever was! He will do you a protect because you weak and have to wear metal to protect weak skin.
A character that just kind of showed up created by the DM he's an extremely ugly halting almost looking like an ogre but halting size he's cursed by a dark force so that he can never die and is always at 1 hp... His name is Kenny
Dumb autocorrect I mean halfing not halting smh