1001 Crazy Character Ideas

[LarwisTheElf]

The Show Stopper - a bard who cannot say anything unless it is in song. Whenever he sings he must dance as well. Feel free to use RL songs or just make up your own.
*Bonus Points* - be the party face

The Interpretative Dancer - be a bard who only communicates with people through interpretive dance, no other way shape or form of communication is allowed.
*Bonus Points* - actually act out your dances irl.

[Barbarian Horde]

Beguiler 1/ Dragon Shaman(Brass) 1/Bloodline 1/ Marshall 1/ FoP 1/ Bloodline 1/ FoP 5/ Bloodline 1/ Uncanny Trickster 2/ Mindbender 1
Race: Unseelie Dvati

Magical Girl
become a magical weapon or armor that transforms fellow pc into a magical girl once equipped

This is a build a friend created.

[Arcanist]

#27: Ayy! I'm playing a Dragon

Silver Wyrmling Dragon (ECL 11) / Disciple of Mammon 9

Use Enhance Value to make my hoard worth more than a Great Wyrm before I'm even a young adult and take everything that isn't nailed down.

[DarkestKnight]

28: two goblins using swarmfighting. One is a cavalier, the other is a speed/evasion build. together they act as a piggyback knight unit.

[Manly Man]

29. A Thrallherd that has to take control of people and rule them with an iron fist due to the insecurities stemming from being named Gaylord.

[Denver]

30.) The Rogue Ogre. The Rogue-r. He mostly relies on sneaking (his blade into enemy faces) to avoid enemies and moving carefully and skillfully avoids traps (read: blunders through traps heedlessly, not worried of the consequences). His sword is named Lockpick, and whenever he encounters a locked door he uses his Lockpick to open the door. Also, he roleplays like a traditional Rogue of medium size - thinks he can't intimidate well, assumes many opponents to be his equal, despite outclassing them quite well, truly attempts to Hide and use Disguises.

Character says: "Grog sneak into tower window and take important letter from desk."

Actual results: as Grog attempts to climb the tower, he instead starts pulling the tower down from the bottom - driving it into the earth with his monstrous strength. Upon reaching the "top," he sneaks in through the window (leaving a Kool-Aid Man style hole in the wall) and grabs the entire desk, strapping it to his back. As he leaps out the "window" he prepares to Jump and to use his Tumble skills to handle the fall from the "top of the tower" that he expects. Upon landing on his feet and taking no damage, Grog knows that he is definitely very sneaky and acrobatic.

[Sir Chuckles]

31) Awakened Oozes. Any and all of them.

32) An entire family of elves, using Leadership to chain their way down from Venerable to just out of the Bard college.

[Doorhandle]

33. A ranger who specises in that most intimidating of weapons: the lawn dart.

[Extra Anchovies]

Especially when playing elves. Or demons.

Or ogres. .

[spikeof2010]

34. A character who attacks via paintings (whether from or using them is up to you).

35. A stick figure some how brought to life.

36. Gandalf the White, but with Warlock levels.

[Phelix-Mu]

37: Someone of any race, really, but with a flaw or something that they've only been alive (or only remember stuff) from the past few days. Would probably have to to take one of the more intuitive classes, or refluff one of the others, but it would be very interesting from a role play perspective.

38: Someone of any race and build, who is dying of something or other that can't be avoided (or maybe it can?) and who can't expect to live beyond the next couple weeks/months (based on the speed the campaign is running at). More role playing fun!

[Deadasadoor]

39) An awakened ooze who forms his(its?) body into a humanoid shape and pretends that he's human. Social situations are fun when your character is 4000 pounds of flesh dissolving acid.

40) Ogre luchadore.

[Manly Man]

31) Awakened Oozes. Any and all of them.

A half-silver dragon black pudding named Mercury, follows a Swift Hunter build.

[HolyCouncilMagi]

37: Someone of any race, really, but with a flaw or something that they've only been alive (or only remember stuff) from the past few days. Would probably have to to take one of the more intuitive classes, or refluff one of the others, but it would be very interesting from a role play perspective.

I've heard a story about somebody who once played a Warforged who was literally born the day prior to the beginning of the campaign and had trouble grasping concepts such as identifying people's genders by their appearance.

I fail to see how assuming people's genders on sight would actually be very beneficial in this world anyway.

[Azoth]

40) A character who is possessed by the spirit of a family member who was a powerful caster. Usually, the spirit lies dormant until something triggers it to briefly awaken and unleash its power before retreating back into dormancy. Best if it leaves the character with a lapse in memory of the events.

Party: "Uh dude, not that we aren't grateful and all, but when did you learn how to make the enemy army rip out their own kidneys through their noses?"

Character: "Huh...what are you talking about? Where are we? Why is their a pile of Orc kidneys over there?"

[black-jack]

41: A goliath who uses drunken master to apply his fist damage to thrown bottles, tankards, rocks, etc. Bonus points if you use vow of poverty or convince the DM that kensai applies to the thrown recyclables.

[Extra Anchovies]

40) Ogre luchadore.

If there's a reference there, I'm not getting it.

41: A goliath who uses drunken master to apply his fist damage to thrown bottles, tankards, rocks, etc. Bonus points if you use vow of poverty or convince the DM that kensai applies to the thrown recyclables.

Can Kensai work with VoP? I'm pretty sure the Kensai's special weapon actually becomes a magic item.

[Blackhawk748]

33. A ranger who specises in that most intimidating of weapons: the lawn dart.

We joke, but im sure this is somehow viable.

42. Goblin Frenzied Berserker. He wields the biggest weapon he can get his hands on and charges into battle screaming "YOU FORGOT TO PROTECT YOUR KNEE CAPS!!!" But he only Frenzies when someone hits him......hard, and when they do he slowly turns his head back to them and gets this really blank creepy look on his face, and totally flips his lid on the *insert moron who hit him here*. This can be fluffed as him having been abused for years by Hobgoblins (or goblins for that matter) and he simply had a psychotic break, and every time he gets hit hard enough it triggers the break again and he destroys everything in the room (obviously targeting living things first) but does it with absolutely no emotion.

[Azoth]

43. Optimized character for disarming with unarmed combat and general damage boosting feats. He specializes in killing people with their own weapon before dropping it and moving onto the next enemy.

44. A persistomancer who specializes in emanation spells. He causes massive damage due to overlappIng widened auras. Best if played as someone who just wants to be loved and can't understand why no one wants to be near him.

[Oudyn]

45. This is an old one of mine. Half-Minotaur Ogre Druid uding size increasing templates and Wild Shape Magical Beast to turn into a Tarrasque!

[Kelb_Panthera]

Can Kensai work with VoP? I'm pretty sure the Kensai's special weapon actually becomes a magic item.

Kensai can designate his unarmed strike or natural weapon(s) as his signature weapon so, yes, kensai and VoP can work just fine together. He couldn't use a manufactured weapon though since the signature weapon feature demands a masterwork weapon and owning one would violate his VoP.

[Extra Anchovies]

Kensai can designate his unarmed strike or natural weapon(s) as his signature weapon so, yes, kensai and VoP can work just fine together. He couldn't use a manufactured weapon though since the signature weapon feature demands a masterwork weapon and owning one would violate his VoP.

Ah yes, that's right. Enchant your Unarmed Strike, give it the Throwing and Distance abilities... or the Dancing ability

[atemu1234]

4. Human with 3 intellect and Charisma over the roof.

Class with 8 skill points, Diplomacy, Sense motive, Bluff, Gather Information and Speak language. (Im sure rogue fits the criteria)

Have him max those and get items of +10 to each and so on, also have him know a lot of languages.

I can already giggle at the possible interactions.

"Hey you stole that priceless artifact"

*holding artifact in hand* "Uhhhhhhhh... No I didn't"

"Oh... uhm... sorry Mr. adventurer, My apologies"

BRB, using this.

[ZamielVanWeber]

6. Senile Wizard. Oldest age category, can never remember what spell he prepared this morning.

That's Fizban and he cast fireball while in a wooden cage.

46. Kobold sorcerer who uses Prestidigitation to Lisa Frank as much of the world as kodoldly possible.

[...]

47. A Wizard centered on spamming Magic Missile. There's even a PrC for it in the Dragon Compendium.

[tadkins]

48. How about a crusty old dwarven miner who does just about *everything* with his trusty mining pick? He mines with it, he eats with it, and is an absolute master at fighting with it.

Maybe even go as far as make it a legacy/ancestral weapon. Is there any book support for pick fighting?

[Illogictree]

49. Male human summoner with the Young simple template. Played as a junior high school kid from Japan who has been transported to a magical land. Refluff summoning and spellcasting as swiping cards through a card reader and calling the attack names. Play EVERY shonen anime trope (and 'mon' show tropes in particular) completely straight.

[Petrocorus]

Beguiler 1/ Dragon Shaman(Brass) 1/Bloodline 1/ Marshall 1/ FoP 1/ Bloodline 1/ FoP 5/ Bloodline 1/ Uncanny Trickster 2/ Mindbender 1
Race: Unseelie Dvati

Magical Girl
become a magical weapon or armor that transforms fellow pc into a magical girl once equipped

This is a build a friend created.

I don't understand how that work. What bloodline do you use, Brass Dragon? What is FoP?

[Bluydee]

I bet it is Fiend Of Possession, which ythey can't take because they are neither a fiend nor have the Evil subtype.

[Denver]

50. Play a Kender, and play it well. Even if you play it poorly, it should still be a pretty crazy character.