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What dnd character concepts do you wish you could get to play?

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Any. At all. I've been itching to play for a few years now!
- SAME
  
  Well you just need one more person and a DM and it looks like you two just started a group!

Warforged Bard, Unit #69420, Designation: JAMBOT
JAMBOT comes equipped with seven different musical instruments, an ale dispenser, a confetti cannon, a heater core, and a subwoofer big enough to rattle Pelor's china cabinet
JAMBOT was originally built mostly as a way to get his owner free drinks at parties but since the death of his creator, time and alcohol damage have scrambled his circuits and he has confused his definition of "party". When apprehended by an adventuring party he readily joined their ranks.
"KEYWORD: 'PARTY' ACCEPTED. THIS UNIT WAS BORN TO PARTY. LET'S BOOGIE."
- That sounds brilliant! In case you don't get your chance to boogie through a game, your idea reminded me of Party Pal in Wasteland 3 - a bringer of joy to my many battles!
  
  JAMBOT was initially inspired by Fallout 4's "Drinkin' Buddy" so Party Pal is in excellent company!
- I'm stealing this.
  
  You are more than welcome, I wouldn't have posted him otherwise! He deserves life!

I want to try a non evil necromancer, maybe druid-like but I think the best mechanical class is wizard. Have a family skeleton follow me around and buy it nice clothes and jewels as offerings.
Also want to play a fallen aasimar, like a former angel. The church used pieces of their god's aasimar as relics, and they don't care that the against are immortal after a fashion and can feel themselves in pieces. The god doesn't care about the well-being of the angels as long as he is worshipped so it's up to the PC to fight the church and rescue the angel bits.
- A necromancer with an undead honored ancestor is such a cool idea. You could then save spells like Raise Dead for corpses you consider particularly deserving of the honor. Noble or formidable does usually, but sometimes beloved NPCs
  
  I'm so glad you appreciate it!
  My thought for the backstory was a remote or hidden village where this is a common practice. Not everyone can do it of course, but like the real groups that bring out grandpa's mummy and give it cigarettes and whisky, I imagine on some holy day the dearly departed are brought back to receive the thanks of their descendants or remaining friends.
  Maybe the village was destroyed or the practice outlawed by the regional power, and the character is sort of on the run trying to keep their ancestor safe and the practice "alive". Not many places look kindly on necromancy of any kind, so maybe Grandma needs to go in a bag of holding sometimes and gets extra gifts as an apology.
- "One of my fists is hanging from my arm, while the other is enshrined deep in our Fortress-Monastery the Phalanx. Each new Chapter Master crowned has the right to engrave their heraldry upon the hand as tradition. I do not want that hand back anymore."

I want to play a wizard/barbarian that treats rage like another, different spell
- Rage mage
- I played a Hobgoblin Barb Bladesinger who did this as a higher level of blade dance. Lots of synergy actually.
- "I cast throwing a goddamn tantrum"
- If you ever play Pathfinder then Bloodrager is a great class

Lizard Blizzard Wizard
- What in the nine hells is a lizzard blizzard glizzard wizzard?
  
  He’s your King, boy!
- King Lizard and the Blizzard Wizard?

Way more than I have the time for
- The well never runs dry. I play one shot games every other weekend and I still don't ever seem to run out of character ideas.
- @NoMoneyJustChange @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling
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  A lunar sorcerer changeling that changes appearances and personality with the moon phase:
  A small girl with playful cruelty on new moon.
  A genderless adult who loves to mediate between parties at crescent moon.
  An old man who values justice and helping others above his live at full moon
  An evil princess (secretly a necromancer) who tries to be known for as many good deeds and heroic acts as possible because that increases her chances for the throne
  A palladin who served a fey in the forrest but now has to interact with humans and big cities for the first time, he wants to help nature reclaim as much land as possible but needs to stay on the city lords good side to get their support against whatever evil is afoot

My next character is going to be a Tiefling College of Whispers Bard, using the new 2024 Tiefling, since they can be Small. They're an impish investigative reporter for a Westmarch setting I'm starting with some friends. Their goal is to make sure the governing body in the setting isn't able to have any secrets from the people, through espionage and the newspaper they print, so they're going to be stirring up a lot of trouble.
Someday I will get to play them. Setting up a Westmarch is a big undertaking lol

"Unbreakable", the Warforged. A warforged made for manual labour, but who wants to be a hero that protects people. Not very good at it, but he's trying, and thankfully he is hardy enough to fall down a few times and still keep going. Basically the robot from Real Steel.

Bear form druid/barbarian is pretty vanilla, but oh boy do I enjoy being able to tank a troll attack at level 5 while my party does the damage. Bonus points for method acting a shamanic, substance assisted trance...

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Bugbear rogue with Polearm Mastery

If'n I had a group to play with, I'd be keen to try a character with some sort of handicap relevant to their class: a one arm fighter or a mute caster or some such. Would be fun to learn how to workaround things like vocal spell components cannot be used or only one hand weapons.
- Dyslexic wizzard
  
  accidentally casting Tasha's Hideou Slaughter and everyone in the world with the given name Hideou instantly dies

I think I would dig playing one of a part of a multi-country collective of paladins that congregate when there's a threat to the realm, very much in the vein of Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

More characters that don't rely on magic. Rogue was awesome. Doing a monk now.
- I was actually thinking about a high elf rogue that has high wisdom and uses True Strike every round. 2024 True Strike is great.

A former wizarding college student who got in a magic accident that scrambled his brain and awakened sorcery magic within him. But he thinks he's a wizard, so he carries around spellbooks and components and magic foci (they're all just non magical junk). Actually got to play him in a one shot but he's campaign-worthy
Literally just me transported to Faerun and I'm a 4 hp commoner, just to see how long I can survive with bullshit shenanigans. IRL I have 0 fighting and weapons skills wish me luck lol
A gelatinous cube who ingested a Headband of Intellect. Wants to become a professional philosopher.
An evil lich who is so incompetent at being evil that he keeps blundering into doing profoundly good deeds. (Overthrows a monarchy, monarchy turned out to be an oppressive vampire family. Causes a famine, agricultural reform prevents monoculture that was destroying the ecosystem. Necromances a dead goblinoid tribe, saves them from the hellish afterlife of subservience to Maglubiyat. Etc.) This one is probably better as an NPC however.

An highly religious elf out on their Rumspringa.
Any long lived race will work, I just think elf is the funniest. And long lived so that the rumsprimga can last for the entire adventure/campaign.
- I had to Google what that was

I had this idea for a wizard who was kind of crazy and believed he was the king of a nation that doesn't exist. He would see the rest of the party as his nobility and task them with enforcing laws he made up on the spot. In combat, he would use "control" type magic like paralysis and counterspells to lock down his enemies, pronounce guilty verdicts, and issue death sentences which his noble companions would carry out. I don't know if the spell list in D&D would support this kind of gameplay, though.

A dark cleric.
They only heal so they others can suffer more pain. I think it would be fun to roleplay that kind of twisted mind that is helpful to the party but pulls it a clipboard and asks in a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is the pain?
- @Godnroc @ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling
  Feel like this is the edgy relative of the classic Cleric Inquisitor archetype who uses Healing Word and Revivify for enhanced interrogation of "sinners".
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- Haha I'm playing a trickery cleric atm and our party has acquired a homebrew "Pistol of Healing" which simultaneously does 1d10 healing and 1d6 damage and apparently hurts like hell to get shot with.
  Our DM also had a bit where we would use teleportation circles and from our characters' points of view, the trip was instantaneous, but each teleport actually felt like seemingly endless hours of hellish agony in the moment. We would just forget all of that as soon as we arrived. My character tends to get anxious when the topic of teleportation comes up and he prefers to walk or fly, but he cant seem to articulate any good reason why.

Just finished reading the beta for Everspark TTRPG and all of these are possible. Excited to play it with my teens.

I'm currently playing a tabaxi rogue based off Slinky Malinki, but I also want to play a tabaxi barbarian based off Scarface Claw.
My kids really love those books, and it turns out kids books make great scaffolds for RP characters.

Commoner Adventurer: All stats are 10. You start the campaign at level 0, no class. Throughout the campaign, the characters attain a class based on their actions.
Wrong class for the race: Halfling Barbarians, Half-Orc Wizard, etc. This can be a lot of fun, as instead of having an optimized character that can deal a lot of damage, you have to think through things and come up with strategies. I personally have always liked playing characters that are small that have to use their wits to survive in combat. Oh, I like playing a tank once in a while. Currently, I'm in two different sessions. In one, I'm playing a Dragonborn Cleric that has served as the melee support for the party's paladin. The other session I'm playing a halfling rogue Soul Knife that rides the barbarian into battle. I have a lot more fun with the Rogue.

Centaur taxi service.
Reborn in denial of their undeath, just assumes everything is just a “flesh wound” a la Black Knight.
Wrong Way to use Healing Magic style cleric that incapacitates their opponents but leaves them at full health.
I’m currently playing a Gith Drakewarden in an Out of the Abyss campaign that was transported to the underdark accidentally by the Astral dragon egg they stole.

I'm a simple man, a Jinx Artillerist Artificer. (Jinx from the show Arcane)

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