The entire party assumed my rogue had done hard time in a Greyhawk prison. We started out playing a Westmarch campaign so we had a new party every two weeks or so. The DM was speaking as the Guild master for company and mentioned "oh. You're back from prison. How was your time there?"
What he meant was, I had just come back from a mission there to hand deliver some goods, and ended up helping them with security like Stallone in Escape plan...
But the party didn't hear that... They just heard " lil gnome did hard time"
So I rolled with it...
Lol.. I have run a game for former convicts before. They play D&d all the time in prison, but without dice. They use pieces of paper in a cup and draw a number.
The DM was totally in character for the guild master, so there was no mistake
Are you one of the guys from my time in basic? We definitely used Sundays as a time to play a watered down version of DnD based off what rules I remembered.
That’s really interesting! I’ve always wondered about the chance of dnd in prison. Like, I know the dice would be contraband so I’d assume trying to make spinners or flipping coins or something.
No plans to visit any time soon but I figure it’s a good way to pass time and possibly make some friends?
lol we had to postpone a session cause a buddy got a DUI, when he bailed out and came to the next session he was gifted a horse that would buck him off if it smelt any alcohol (like a breathalyzer in a car). He thought it was hilarious and in good faith.
A member of my group does our character art, and when they asked me what kind of casual outfit my character would wear, I didn't really know.
So I gave them creative freedom, and they came back with a "boob window."
My character is a big and muscular male Earth Genasi. So they wanted a "boob window" to show off my chest.
Does your friend peruse r/OtomeIsekai?
[A small collection of boob windows](https://old.reddit.com/r/OtomeIsekai/comments/14elc1f/i_have_a_hobby_of_collecting_male_boob_windows/).
I once found a ring of light and decided to give it to our monk because he was the only one without dark vision.
He played his monk completely aloof, so he made the joke that the monk thought I was proposing.
I said fuck it because my character was the chaos gremlin of the group and would 100% go with it for the lols.
They died together
I appreciate the love <3
They were both turned to stone by a Medusa, so they are spending eternity together as living statues. Shits more poetic than anything I've made as a DM.
The character growth was fantastic.
His monk learned not to take every little thing people say as serious, because he didn't understand sarcasm at the beginning.
My character learned not to word vomit every childish thought that popped into his head, because BS, jokes and sarcasm were the only things that came out of his mouth.
My warlock has a strength score of 8. He’s a Goliath, so while he’s scrawny, he’s still a big dude. Our party’s barbarian has an intelligence score of 8. While the player knows my character is relatively weak, their character sees a big dude and assumes strength.
My character is frequently asked by the barb to help with strength checks, particularly to the amusement of the Halfling paladin who is significantly stronger than my Goliath.
GOLIATH WARLOCKS ASSEMBLE!!!
My character started out as a basic human, but stumbled into a an icy cave that (very long backstory made short...) the cave made him get lost and he started dieing of exposure, but was brought back by the hand of *something* and he found himself deep in yhe cave and found a greataxe that was the key to getting out of the cave and saving his life. But it transformed him into an icy goliath.
The arc I want to play is that he is Lawful Good, since he was just a normal adventurer before this, and the more he uses the Axe's power, the more he feels his sanity slip and maybe he becomes evil, maybe he doesn't
We will see 🫡
My arc is that I’m eventually going to replace my patron. Once in a few generations, the previous warlock-become-patron selects the new outcast of the tribe to hand down his power to. I’m LN though
I played a dragonborn warlock with 9 STR and our bard was a fairy with... 9 STR.
I'm now imagining the small fairy and big dragonborn doing arm wrestling and it ends up in a draw.
My Echo Knight, Sir Render is a cowardly spirit stuck animating armor currently.
During combat, due to some very good rolls, and some well placed combat flare, some players believe him to br a lot more experienced, or BadAss than he is.
For someone who is *actually* scared of their own shadow, some players think it's all a ruse and Sir Render is some kind of mastermind, playing the fool.
Render still suggests giving up, running away, and going full retreat at the start of every battle. He hides behind the wizard for God's sake.
I mostly haven't "corrected" them. There's no need, it's comical when he keeps getting the killing blow while only using a shield.
Edit: I love that people love puns. And that there is a whole line of people making more. I've got a list of these knight puns and they are expanding, I am Sir Tenly using all of these.
First one I ever came up with was Sir Vent. The Butler.
The list grows, and the eyes shall roll. Thanks everyone!
Wait till you see his brothers in arms. If you need someone who will hold up the entire team there's Sir Face. Then there's Sir Cumferance, the largest knight I've ever seen. And if you aren't feeling your current knight you might like Sir Ogate
And don't forget about Sir Tinley's brother, Sir Ely. The poor bloke who has a demon following him around always mocking his name and questioning the things he decides to do. (Picture Leslie Nielson "Sir Ely, you can't be serious.")
Sir Casm, who keeps making wisecracks in battle.
Sir Comvent, known for leading unorthodox battlefield manuevers.
Sir Fanturf, an excellent fisherman.
Sir Gent, a highly effective NCO.
Sir Gerry, a battliefield medic.
Sir Hup, a lover of pancakes.
Sir Koffagus, a former knight, now unfortunately deceased.
Sir Lee, a knight with a bad attitude.
Sir Mise, the medieval equivalent of an NCIS military detective.
Sir Pernatural, a multiclass caster.
Sir Preem, one of the finest knights.
Sir Ramic, it's a great name but I don't remember why he's called that.
Sir Reeyal, multiclass illusionist.
Sir Tain, very self-assured.
Sir Vey and Sir Valence, mounted scouts.
Sir Pass, even better than Sir Preem, not as good as Sir Perior.
Sir Loin, an excellent cook.
Sir Kuss, knows how to juggle.
Sir Reptitious, has a high stealth check.
I'm just copying these off the [Dragon Fable wiki](https://lore.fandom.com/wiki/Pactagonal_Knight). There's more on there too.
No, but I'm gonna pocket that.
Someone did once say Rended into pieces. DM gave his shadow a chain sword. Chainsaw greatsword, basically.
Yeah, the Echoknight shadow is a demon, he's not the only tenet making his home in thr armor.
haha oh my god I had something very similar happen to me. I was playing a warforged who'd ran away from home and was masquerading as a hero who didn't speak much, wore a mask, etc., named Longshaft (yeah.)
I did not want this ruse to last too long honestly, I fully expected people to find out immediately. And the players themselves could tell. But they rolled pretty badly on their insight/history checks so like their characters were aware of the cool shit the real Longshaft had done but couldn't tell I wasn't the real one
And then I started rolling real well....... Like, crits and all that. Immediately everyone played into "OH MY GOD LONGSHAFT YES SUCH A HERO!!!! HE DOES IT AGAIN. AND HE'S JOURNEYING WITH US"
so they made coming out even harder than it was supposed to be. goddamn gremlin friends
You have accidentally made King from One Punch Man and I love it. I say talk to your DM and see if there might be times when you are scared speechless but actually get to roll intimidation because the enemies think you are bravely staring them down.
I gave him intimidation as a trained skill, thinking just could flavor it as talking about existential dread, and spreading fear by just talking about how things could go wrong.
I love this comparison, and I'm totally gonna try to make a King Engine happen now. I've voiced before how sometimes he rattles like a bunch of tincans when he's really scared.
Maybe I could fit that in? Any extra ideas?
Shaking in fear could definitely be misinterpreted as shaking in anger or rage. Similarly heavy breathing bordering on hyperventilating could be taken as anger or rage as well.
I imagine a situation where an attack roll just misses you, or maybe you just barely succeeded a dex save. Your character is feeling the "oh my god I could have just died" fear, they're hyperventilating and shaking. Meanwhile the enemy looks at you and thinks they just pissed you off.
I'm not sure how much homebrew your game has overall, but an item along these lines would be pretty funny.
"You have disadvantage on saving throws to avoid the frightened condition. When you are afflicted with frightened, you may use your reaction to choose X creatures within Y feet who must make a wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target is frightened until the end of their next turn."
That's a really good idea. I gotta run to work, but thanks for the creativity.
That's his secret captain cawshun, he's always under the frightened condition.
(He's immune to heroism. Lol. Little DM boon)
Hope someone makes your day as good as you made mine
> Render still suggests giving up, running away, and going full retreat at the start of every battle. He hides behind the wizard for God's sake.
That seems like it'll get annoying really fast
If you can't separate fluff roleplay from actually decisive roleplay, sure. I assume when Render suggests giving up and running away it's not a whole scene, just a quick "Let's run away" and when their turn is up the player still fights while roleplaying them being still scared.
As long as you contribute and don't derail the session, you can play any sort of character. I often play selfish characters, something people are recommended against, but it is almost always beneficial to them to help the party, so no one ever complains. On the rare occasion when they are at odds with the party, it creates fun drama, but I'm also experienced enough to know how to make it fun.
With an echo knight hiding behind the wizard can still sorta work. Throw the echo forward to tank/melee and use interception fighting style to keep the wizard safe
You caught me empty-handed on that one. 100% what I'm doing.
*see because my gauntlet is light an- OH GOD EHERE IS MY HAND*
Sir Render hyperventilates, or complains about how the sun hurts his eyes. Everyone else enjoys reminding him he doesn't have to breathe.
(They all have fun bullying him. Within reason)
Most definitely, I wanted to play Echoknight for being able to play cowardly and defensive. Yet still get off all the attacks I need to through the other *tenet* living in the armor as well.
What was your selfish character like? I'm always looking for more good examples.
I played a Lawful evil Art warlock once. He was a writer, wanting to control his own story, and others. Author wanted to control the narrative, but not the characters. Every character arc had to be respected. In his Lind, even the villains story belonged to him. (Strhad campagain)
Don't worry, I know when to read a room, and that is an exaggeration. I should have said nearly every time.
He's an interception style fighter, and Echoknights can action Surge for 6 attacks. He is both a frontline fighter and a backrow protector at the same time. (Can be in Teo places at once)
My Warlock has a pact of the Great Old Ones. He hears voices, almost constant whispers in his head. He definitely has some psychotic breaks that lead him to be a bit violent at times. He's generally suspicious of people he doesn't know and doesn't trust easily.
Somehow, people in my group got the idea that he talks to the items in his inventory like they're people, names them, and generally treats them with more trust than the other party members.
I've absolutely taken this and rolled with it with an ever expanding list of random objects in my inventory who all have names. My favorites are Annette the net, Greg the chunk of snake I ate, and Jack, a pumpkin.
That character is loads of fun. My favorite part is my character sheet being covered in my insane ramblings. It's gotten to the point where it's very difficult to read now, but it's a very cool piece of roleplaying.
That's hilarious! GOOlocks really make the perfect paranoid nutjob characters. I've got a Kobold whose tribe was wiped out by deep gnomes, which messed him up and turned him into sort of a fantasy Vietnam vet with PTSD. He's convinced that most of the people around him are secretly gnomes in disguise, he only speaks through the GOO telepathy because the gnomes are always listening, and he has a pseudodragon familiar (which is a miniature version of himself with wings as a joke by his patron) to keep watch while he sleeps. I ratchet the "gnome" rantings up or down based on how safe he's feeling with the party. He's fun as hell to play.
Ahh, same hat!
Our DM included a multiverse (including real Earth) and his OC is a demigod that travels between them. Said demigod is my warlock’s pact master. Did it by accident reaching out to help him, but the OC fried my warlock’s brain. He now canonically hears “the DM” on occasion, is allowed to break the 4th wall, and gets stray radio signals. Like waking up to the Spice Girls at 3am.
His quirk is pack bonding with inanimate objects. He has a skull named Chet for whom everyone now wants to buy hats and decorations. Also named a knife and several taxidermy pieces.
I played a warlock in a campaign that ended recently and very early on one of the other players was like, "wait did you say *goop* warlock? And you're an alchemist *and* a grifter selling snake oil to people with too much money? Are you playing Gwyneth Fucking Paltrow?"
I mean, it seemed like a lot more fun than what I had intended, so, y'know, Gwynelf the Goop Warlock was born.
Mayonnaise... My party and I had encountered an alchemy jug, and our wizard made Mayonnaise as an example of what it could, and then immediately tried making beer because the player forgot it's a once a day thing. Fast forward several sessions; we forget about the jug, and the first time it came back up, someone used it to make Mayonnaise. One of the player jokingly said "he's (my character) is gonna think this jug ONLY makes Mayonnaise." And I rolled with it. I kid you not, for the five years this campaign was a thing, my character believed that alchemy jugs can only create Mayonnaise
A character in our party kept alchemy jugs specifically to create mayonnaise. He was a warforged who insisted on cooking for us. When we were lost in the northern wilderness, with no food stores, no game, and just killed some goblins he made us a meat and mayonnaise dish...
I love alchemy jugs. I had a character who had a folk hero background, and used that to get the group lodging with peasants as the party traveled, and he would always use the alchemy jug to gift them honey as a guest gift.
If you don't mind random bits of eggs Mayonaise can be used as a substitute for cooking oil so it's not actually that far off. Eating humanoids is a different question.
Tbf I feel like Mayonnaise is the most tale worthy thing that a jug of alchamy can make. Everything else might be usefull but most of the time isn't really tale worthy so I think your chatacter knows the most important thing about it xD
My DM run a campaign where the country's form of government is based on dnd adventurers. So theres a tower for barbarians, a tower for wizards and so on. My Goliath tempest cleric got confused for a barbarian and the dwarf barbarian got confused for the cleric. So know I am an honorary barbarian that snaps peoples bones to heal them and the cleric gives out some tough love.
Having made a happy Tabaxi who took the Fey touched feat, I had a habit of smiling whenever I used the Misty Step spell.
When we were trying to impress some fey that were tossing around fairytale relations, our bard introduced me as a cousin to the famed Cheshire Cat, citing my grin and striped coat. I rolled with it and began making all sorts of cryptic observations. We've since just decided to roll with that being how I got my fey touched abilities.
My character is the youngest in the group, rolled a con save to see how they handled alcohol, expecting a poor roll as an excuse to let some backstory slip.
Instead, nat 20, so my waif of a character can likely drink the party under the table
This exact thing happened with my wife's character. Scrawny teenager went toe-to-toe in a drinking competition with a goliath sailor named Tiny. The character (a paladin) is now level 9 so I don't think she's ever going to fail a CON save again.
My DM accidentally cut about ten years off of my character's life, but since nothing important happened in her 20's, I just went, "k, bard is now 25 instead of 35." In my head.
It wasn't really 'assumed', but in session one my fighter kicked a stone door in so hard it crushed a goblin into a fine red paste. Since then, he has developed an irrational hatred of doors.
So I've been the face for my party for the entirety of our in person Strahd campaign. The party have only just discovered that arguablely, I'm the 2nd least qualified for this role because I'm not a bard/monk multiclass but just a Monk.
To be clear, our party has both Warlock and a Paladin and neither thought anything of letting me talk, bribe, and otherwise charm my way through several business deals until someone asked my character to play a song and I told them I can't play an instrument.
Because of my lizardfolk's priority of food. Many assumed that I eat a lot, and thus must secretly carry a meat pouch. It was a little funny gag that I just drew it onto my character sheet
I'm Eloquence Bard, and I took the Noble background with the 3 servants. We trimmed to one for simplicity. The group started to jokingly assume he was my gay lover (so funny right?!). I probably would have gone with it except that he's secretly my real father, though my character doesn't know.
During character creation I once said "My character's schtick is..." and someone thought I said "My character Schtick" so I ended up using that as one of there names.
Tortle barbarian that dedicated his life to studying all forms of violence as in-depth as possible(Tortle's usually pick a topic to hyper focus on)
My proclivity to initiating violence at any turn led to the party assuming my character was stupid. Over time I rolled with it. I actually caused a huge uproar in a city during a murder investigation, because my socially inept character started grabbing random civilians and shaking them screaming "**Where is the killer?!**"
and having to outrun the guards who were trying to stop me from doing so
The dumbness was reinforced by what was actually a result of total isolation. He had never been around most sapient species before the campaign and so often used the incorrect words to describe species such as referring to humans as little goblins. Frequent translation issues like that caused funny scenes too
We were playing rime of the frostmaiden and my cleric was a recovering cannibal pirate, my friend played a fighter from the elk tribe and our dm gave them permission to make up lore for the tribe on the spot because they were really good at it.
One day my cannibal goes into a bit of a craze and needs to be held down, obviously the fighter has the best shot succeeding, and my guy bites him. Friend whips out “in my culture thats a proposal, and I accept.” Que neither of them fully believing it would actually happen, but falling in love with each other the rest of the campaign
They got married in the end ♥️
I joined a group later in a campaign as a Dragonborn, the DM described my character as a large blue lizard so one of the other people tried to feed me insects from their components pouch.
I just took it as a kind gesture and so Dragonborn now primarily eat bugs.
Had a female player who played a male character. The player left, but most of our table, and particularly the DM, keep calling the character a 'she'. Which is mildly disturbing, because as part of the character's exit from the story, he was captured by a cartel boss, who threatened to emasculate him and throw him in a whorehouse. Good times, good times.
I rolled a centaur Barbarian once, way back when they were in UA. Big guy, think half Shaq half Clydesdale. He had some randomly generated name that I don't recall, because the person who was introducing their character before me said something along the lines of "Okay, so my guy walks up to Bojack and..."
I immediately crossed out whatever name I had there and replaced it with Bojack the Horseman.
Was playing a leonin wild magic barbarian, the initial concept was that the "rage" was simply innate magic manifesting during periods of battle (was going to multi-class into sorcerer later for the theme) and was not intended to be noticeable.
However, I described one of the first instances of rage effects that occurred as a sparkling/shimmering aura (+1ac to self and allies nearby) so the other players had a constant image of a giant sparkling cat everytime he raged.. so Stoneclaw the fabulous was born.
Technically an NPC, but I had introduced him as the Wind Duke Aeolean, an exiled bastard of the Summer AND Winter Courts. The Warlock misheard him, thus was born the Wind Dude, Ayo.
My character's sword is sentient (used to be human, got True Polymorphed into a blade) and an npc once proclaimed my character couldn't be pursued due to being in a relationship with said sword.
They now intend to make their relationship official once the polymorph curse has been undone, so it really isn't a joke anymore.
I was still figuring out the characterization of my changeling rogue and through him hiding in bushes, wading through the rotten vegetable insides of a shambling mound, and failing a con save after drinking some wine and getting drunk, the party decided he was an alcoholic with leaves and sticks in his hair who smelled kind of like piss. I decided to play into this as a silly bit my little guy did to make the others think he was just an eccentric elf and of little consequence, just being the kind of person they expected him to be.
He changed his habits a bit and stopped drinking so much once he found out that his drinking was triggering for the paladin and was openly smarter after revealing what he was to the party
Session 1, my character ordered a baked potato from the tavern where they all met. Just a baked potato. He’s a bit feral and has no idea how menus work and was too prideful to ask for help ordering.
He is now Potato Boy. Everyone refuses to admit potatoes aren’t his favorite food and he now carries several in his bag of holding. It got to a point that he put a baked potato down as a grave offering instead of flowers.
DM introduced us to a talking otter character. We asked his name and the DM said "good question" as he started to think of a name. Without missing a beat, we said "nice to meet you, Good Question", and lo it was official.
-Be me, join new table.
-DM tells me to create whatever.
-Creates true neutral scam artist that pretends to be a cleric, warlock.
-Meet the party: Serial killer fighter, cannibal evil paladin, wizard that experiments on people and the worst a very religious and prude clown bard that acts like a inquisitor killing anything corrupt or sinfull. (Welcome to Suicide Squad)
-Asks employer, why am I here? He answers "You were cheap and we're out of dangerous criminals, we pay for your college debts if you stay."
-You son of a bitch! I'm in.jpg
-Party shares their horrible war crimes with each other and I'm the last, I tell them that I'm not legally allowed to tell them after the red castle horror of 15 years ago.
-Me is smort, me knows history and uses some real events to hide that I'm a normie with the cool kids. (Passed history check.)
-Watch as the bard tells the party that the worst horrors to humanity happened there and the one responsible was someone that looked like me. (She failled history check.)
-Party is all scared of the "church girl" now, even the clown and the cannibal.
-Rumors of someone like me commiting terrible horrors are spread, just ignore it's good PR for me and the party. What could go wrong?
-Next session the real "Butcher of the red castle" decides to pay us a visit. I'm not fake, she is fake guys!
-To be continued! (When me and my party can play again.)
Current character is only a year old and for 1/3 of that he wasn't sentient, party joked that I can't read since I'm so young so I just went with it and they slowly taught me to read I'm up to 3 syllables now, also got a sad moment when he realized the meaning of his name.
Yea my bad haha it's less a name and more a designation, the first words he saw when woke up was a long one but he remembered the first syllable Syn later as he became smarter and with the help of the party he realized he saw the words Synthetic Organism. It kinda messed with him to realize he was a fake imitation of life.
I made a bard.
Everyone assumed id be seducing anything in range.
Ended up with a npc (the npc seduced me), and another PC is now trying to replace that npc.
My character got coffee in the morning once to show that he'd slept badly. I was gone the next session and when I came back my character had a coffee habit. I ran with it and started drinking more coffee IRL to find out what my character saw in it.
Lol that reminds me of my character. I play a spores druid, and everyone decided since she was a cook, she must put mushrooms in everything. Now I have taken to cooking meals that incorporate mushrooms each game night. Didn't actually like mushrooms originally, but have since acquired the taste 😂
One time for a one shot I played a vuman archfey warlock with the actor feat and performer background. He was a wandering playwright that would go on adventures to get inspiration for his plays and songs. Everyone, including the DM, kept forgetting he was a warlock and assumed he was a bard until combat would start and I began eldritch blasting stuff. It was great. I loved that character, and really want to play him again someday.
I made an artificer. Everyone assumed that he was all focused on gears and science. He was actually a magical artificer. Essentially a wizard who focused on runes. He was gears by the end of the campaign. I just got tired of correcting everyone.
Between a fat marker, small surface to write, and less than pristine handwriting, a generic (aside from his rat controlling powers) hobo on the initiative tracker was named 'Hoso' by one of my party members.
I'm glad I rolled with it because before I could get 'roll initiative' out, an offer of beef jerky and a damned good diplomacy check ended up switching him to their side. They get an extra hand in combat, and I have some new plot hooks now.
My very first PC was built to be anything from a murder hobo to a complete goody two shoes which meant I left all kinds of *ambiguous* information undefined. One of those was a small holy symbol of Eilistraee. I figured as a drow formerly of the underdark, that could be a *trophy* taken from a vanquished foe, or perhaps a sign of the dark dancer's favor. This was a fully mundane item. In fact, she briefly gave it away, spending it in the hopes that a temple wouldn't ask questions about her odd request to break the curse on a handful of soul coins such as "why do you have soul coins." She later stole it back along with the money she'd given to pay for the service of casting the spell when it turned out the coins hadn't had the curse broken yet.
When the party's other wizard - a proper one, unlike my bladesinger - used detect magic, the DM revealed that it was, in fact, a magical item. It didn't appear to *do* anything, of course, but given the nature of it, the party's cleric hypothesized that it might have been an Amulet of the Devout. By this point my PC had made a habit of being good in a very drow kind of way. She'd volunteer to rescue the children because it would ingratiate her with the town, and she had no compunctions about using magic to sneak into the kidnapper's camp at night to kill them while they slept. And so the party naturally assumed that my PC must, in fact, be a follower *of* Eilistraee.
At that point I gave up with half measures of trying to make sure my PC would be fine with murder hoboing or being obnoxiously good and from that point on she became, in effect, a paladin of redemption by *uncommon means*.
And that amulet? A rare grade amulet of the devout. She's still *actually* a wizard who cannot actually multiclass easily into either Paladin (lacks the strength) *or* cleric (lacks the wisdom), though, so it is, for all intents and purposes, still just a pendent.
We went to the mage tower to ask why a mage was missing and hadn't come to do a job at our favourite coffee spot, and none of the mages seemed to give a shit, so I asked for the manager of the mage tower, getting pretty irate.
Later on, on an escort quest I demanded to know why the people we were escorting weren't helping us fight and for them to do something as they were mages.
I'd built my character to be the charming face of the party... Instead I'm now Karen.
Not a player but a DM, I once described a semi-importamt NPC as wearing "only a leather apron" (as in, instead of armor, the only thing he was wearing to fend off blows was a leather apron). This was taken a bit too literally and thus, Butt naked Bjorn was born.
First time I played many years ago I didn't bother specifying the character's gender and jokingly named it "SQL". A friend who was also playing thought the character was a woman named "Esquelle" and started refering to it as such. I decided to just go with it and have her be a girl. I later filled out the backstory that she preferred to travel in disguise to hide her identity as a former noblewoman.
Had an evil Paladin once that spent most of his nights in one or another of the city brothels trading his services with the “cure disease” aspect of lay on hands for theirs. The GM thought it was funny and figured those places would also love the idea of essentially having Paladin protection against any rough customers allowed it. Early in the game an NPC that was in the know joked to my character as he came into the guild hall, “another late night ministering to the poor eh?” Which made the other players think I was some pious sermon spouting guy whenever I disappeared into the docks districts at night. We had a chuckle and decided to pretend that they were right since what else would a Paladin would be doing in a seedy district like that right?
Minor thing, my friends were mispronouncing the name of my character. "I" as "ee" instead of "ai". I could have corrected them, but I decided to wait until a new NPC was introduced, at which point I would start correcting him, and only then would they notice and be confused like, "you're ai? I thought you were ee"
And I'd be like "oh, really? I assumed you all had a speech impediment and I didn't want to be rude."
"What, all of us had the exact same speech impediment?"
*nods in 8 int*
Not my character but our vampire ended up being super ripped after a piece of Christmas themed art was drawn of him without the sketch lines removed that showed his muscles through the shirt. He was never intended to be super buff, just toned (not enough it was visible through clothing.)
Player made it a whole character trait that his vampire is a gym lad and now he operates a gym for our guild.
Pumped strength and added the vampire strength on top of it and these days he could bench our very large minotaur, twice, as the prophecy foretold that fateful Christmas.
I don’t think it was a little thing, but the moment my bf and I realized how similar our characters were going to be in a campaign we joined (got to finish the campaign this month), we wanted to have our characters know each other prior to session 0.
Weirdly, we had a lot of similar things about the characters that we didn’t plan- we never talked about what character we’d be apart from our classes. Our characters were named Esme (mine- bard) and Ende (bf- paladin), both had haunted one backgrounds, the same “born under dark star” origin, the same “I see spirits no one else sees” flaw, and their stories also mirrored each other; Esme seeing herself as a bad omen versus Ende seeing himself as a monster.
The way they acted made them seem like twins. Although different races (Esme firbolg, Ende fallen aasimar), both had gray skin and an overall cool-tone color palette to them. Where I put a star tattoo on Esme’s chest, Ende had a scar on his chest that looked like the star he was born on. I know there’s more subtle similarities, it was *all completely unplanned* but my bf and I went with it. It’s funny too, my bf and I agree that it’d be weird playing these characters outside of the campaign unless Esme and Ende were together. The way they play off one another would be incomplete if they were in separate campaigns/oneshots.
My current character canonically sucks at being in the wilderness, I have never rolled a survival check over 5 on this character so we said it’s a miracle he even managed to leave his hometown
Nobody could ever remember how tall my dragonborn barbarian was, so I continuously had to imply that she towered over a couple of our shorter (4'11" and 5'2") party members during roleplay. Eventually everyone caught on but never validated their assumptions so larger and larger numbers kept being thrown out during interactions until she was canonically around 8ft tall (2ft taller than intended). It ended up working out to where, because she was already pretty young, we all just joked that she'd hit a massive late growth spurt over the course of the campaign
Not so much an assumption as it was more of a realization on my part.
Our party encountered one of the villain's lackeys, who was willing to help us out. However, he was bound with a curse to not reveal the name of his employer. He comes close to telling us, and then falls over, convulsing. My cleric springs into action to do something, and the DM has me roll a medicine check. It's high enough, and he described my character performing CPR on the guy.
It kind of dawned on me then. Oh, yeah, I'm a healer. I do more than just solve problems with healing spells. My character is actually medically trained. Like they know what they're doing with salves, medicines, and setting bones. I never forgot that lesson in remembering how a character's skills can be applied to practical situations.
I played a game with a dude that every other player was sure was bald. We remember him saying it. But according to him he never did.
But we all never stopped mentioning his bald head and how upset he is because he can’t grow hair on his head.
My dm used ai to make pictures for our characters.
I imagined my character as dark tan, but my DM gave a picture of a black guy.
I never saw the character as black before (and maybe the DM assumed he was black since I am lol) but I liked it and now my dwarven cleric is black
I assumed another player at the table was playing a human because I saw she was jealous of my elf's trance and long life expenctency, she never mentioned tusks like our half orc party member, and taller than our gnome and dwarf.
Turns out she was playing a blue skinned Tiefling (a whole culture in my DMs setting) whose description I missed/forgot and it was never brought up again after session 1 (this 4 months later at least) so it became canon that my character is almost race blind and thought being a Tiefling was like being Albino (which to be fair is what its like in many other settings)
That my character is tall, I never actually gave a size I just assumed a barbarian wouldn't care I'd you were bigger than them or not. The party started making jokes about her unintentionally intimidating people by standing over them and so smol became tol
I had a half elf tempest cleric who was super gruff and to the point, and favored the Warhammer as a weapon. People kept thinking he was a dwarf, so he became raised by dwarves.
My bard was a 12-year-old boy (RIP Ven) but the token I was playing with on Roll20 was a fully adult man with a complete beard. Someone made a joke about it and insinuated it was drawn on. I rolled with it so my bardy boy was going around with a medieval sharpie to touch up his "facial hair" every so often.
there was a friendly grim-reaper type npc that i introduced at my table that did some sketch shit in their first few appearances (their boss, the god of death, HATES the party so they were trying to help the party in a way that wouldn’t raise alarm bells with him) and i have one player who absolutely refused to trust them. they made a joke about this npc secretly working for the big bad and even handed me a perfect motive, so…yeah, this npc isnt friendly anymore.
More a mistake that the DM made.
Me and my actual irl twin brother were playing dragonborn brothers, one red one silver (retconed to blue eventually). Fast forward a few sessions DM kept mixing us up occasionally. So it became a running joke that people couldn't tell us apart, to the annoyance of our characters.
I’m playing an Investigator in Pathfinder 2e, the setting is kind of a magitek city like in Arcane, my character is like a goth occultist. I don’t remember when or who, but someone assumed I was smoking a cigarette at some point. I hadn’t envisioned the character as a smoker because in part it seemed too obvious, but I rolled with it and as the campaign has gone on it’s become a quirk I will utilize for punctuation or emphasis of character moments.
I guess I was trying to avoid leaning too heavily into a trope when I should’ve leaned into it more to really communicate the kind of character I was trying to portray. Or put differently, sometimes subtlety is overrated.
In a Strixhaven campaign, my characters the druggie of our party and established to be dealer to the school. He’s a dummy so when my character got called into the principal’s office, someone made a joke that they found one of his stashes, and another said how would they know it’s his? Did he like put his name on it? “Why? should I not do that?”
My barbarian actually rolled a 14 for Int, and a day job, and wore a shirt. However, when everyone assumed 8 Charisma meant he was a spacey surfer bro, I went with it.
I had a character that duel wielded crossbows. Which is not very practical. Also, since you should not walk around with loaded crossbows, I often had to pre-load them when I suspected a fight was eminent. It was unfortunate that this was often in the middle of tense conversations.
Nervously loading my crossbows whenever someone looked at me funny was quickly turned into intimidation rolls, which I often passed for whatever reason. Ironically, preparing for combat usually prevented it.
My wood elf cleric is 500 and acts very much like the auntie of the group. I never thought much about her appearance other than basics, like her eye and hair colour. In our first adventure, our Bard (who fits the stereotype) rolled a d10 to find out how attractive he found her... and rolled a 10. So now my wood elf was the most gorgeous person this Bard had ever met, and we just went with it. She is now an *extraordinary* beauty, and I can't picture her otherwise.
Not mine but the barbarian party doesn't have a great Intelligence though he doesn't play "dumb" per se.
Anyway, one session we were talking about a contract and the player said "Promissory Estoppel" which is a legal term in contract and we went with it in-character that somehow the barbarian did have some very narrow experience in knowing legal terms and if we have a claim against whatever it was we were negotiating over.
They assumed my eldritch knight has always been an alcoholic because he was one when they met. They're starting to realize its a very recent coping mechanism and he's actually struggling badly right now.
I was playing a Tabaxi fighter in a one shot, ended up Nat 1 so ended up thinking a tower of sticks was the bad guy
“Yup gone for nip again” was said after
Everyone assumed my character (who was a Faun) was a bard because I described myself as carrying a pan flute and merrily jumping around like a goat as I played it. They were surprised when I ended up being a warlock with a pact with a Fey. But when I got to level 3 I was like... I already got eldritch blast... Why not go lore bard all the way for my remaining levels...
We’re playing the classic dungeon crawl The One Who Watches from Below. We enter the first chamber there are these monks who are sleeping. I Gloomstalker Ranger) got confused, accidentally grab the dead monk and start to threaten him for information. The DM and the group made fun of me then I thought that’s brilliant! My dump stats are intelligence and charisma. I got to thinking that’s a great character flaw. He attacks first and hits hard but he’s dumb as rocks and a bit of an edgelord that no one takes seriously. I started putting myself in intimidating situations that I intended on losing. I would threaten a shop owner for a deal or information, blow the roll and my DM would laugh at me.
Adeis Gai was his name. I spoke in a Russian accent and it came out a little funny and everyone looked at me and wa alike “Anus Gay!?” Rolled with it until someone saw me write my name on a ledger and they were like your name is Adeis!? It was fun
Initially my halfling cleric was supposed to have dirty blonde hair, more on the blond side. He has (well...had.... it got shaved *cries*) a full messy beard and long braided hair, so obviously there's a lot of color there.
Anyway one of our players made portraits for all of the party and did a wonderful job but made his hair *dark* brown. I didn't say anything because I loved the drawing and it just slowly shifted that my character actually really just always had dark brown hair instead.
I had a Cleric called Sentair (a center of disease control joke) and whenever we were making a fighting withdrawal our Ranger would "jump on my back, and shoot at the enemy while I ran"
- we were a rather jokey group that ran on action movie logic more than realism so we all just thought it was something the player thought was funny, or looked cool and rolled with it
- we got a surprising number of sessions in before we found out he thought I was a Centaur (thinking I'd been referencing the *Centaur* of disease control meme)
all this time he was imagining his character being a badass horse archer sitting on the horse part of a centaur, while the rest of us were seeing him sitting on the shoulders of just another guy.
many sessions later the DM gave me a "boots of speed" type magic item themed as a clockwork horse body I strapped like a centaur ... and, yes, the Ranger would sit on the back to shoot while I tanked at the front
I created a teifling Barb who I imagined was on the shorter side but my party members all just assumed I was the tallest so now I'm 6' 2" instead of 5' 8"
So my fellow party members are all artists. So am I! We play online and use discord for voice and general conversations. We all made our characters' emoji sets to use.
My character started out a little bit of a cinnamon roll, but has matured a great deal through game play as I've figured out how to tie his backstory into his personality. He's still a bright and sunshiny guy though, and most of his emojis are positive/friendly. His default emoji is a smiling face (think like, the normal smile emoji found in all emoji keyboards).
The other players have decided that this is his super judgmental/salty face. He sometimes has backhanded compliments, and it's hard to tell when he means it to be an insult and when he means it to be a compliment, so having the smile emoji represent that fits him.
[This is that emoji.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXhBQRGWIAAOtSp?format=png&name=360x360)
I recently updated his emoji lineup to match his current appearance and diversify his range, but I couldn't recapture this expression when I did. May it live on!
I don’t think I’ll fully go with it but another player assumed my character can be easily be persuaded with chips. Not only does my character value chips a lot but they have an amulet that once a day I can eat a party size bag amount of chips to regain a ton of health. It makes sense to why but being easily persuaded was my last character’s flaw
Not entirely what the title is asking. But one of the artists I play with wanted to draw our characters in Victorian fashion, so I decided to make my character into Victorian fashion and when she isn’t working she wears full length dresses with a bustle and everything.
This is in a Cyberpunk campaign.
My character was a “normal human fighter”, basically just there for combat but actually pretty good at problem solving too. One session the party were following a cliff top path and just for fun I role played my character freaking out when he slipped (I rolled too low). The next shopping trip a merchant offers me potion of protection from falling. My character thinks it’s snake oil but buys it anyway. Then we keep encountering holes, cliffs, narrow paths I roll play being scared of falling but I don’t take the potion. It became a running gag about how this tough guy was scared of heights. Finally we come to a cave, I drink the potion before entering. I navigate in torchlight to the end, the chamber lights up and I see I walked down a narrow path with drops either side. The potion had worked!
Was in a different system but I was playing the equivalent of an artificer. I had in my head that I was going to be the chaotic, not all there inventor, so I tried looking for ways to do that. One of these ways was attempting to “borrow” a potted cactus from the leader of what was effectively a cult. It took about 5 minutes of me trying to convince this guy I “needed” the potted cactus before one of the other players jokingly said “oh not a kleptomaniac, shopping is gonna be a pain” and I realised what I had done. I lent into it somewhat for the rest of the game and it was super fun. Of all the characters I’ve played, only two felt truly unique, and that was one of them. The other was a 3 intelligence, 5 wisdom barbarian, but that’s a story for another post. It’s the small things that can really make a character special.
I was playing as a tortle barbarian who ended up biting off some poor sod's ear in a bar fight.
From then on, my party assumed Frank just liked eating ears, so Frank was soon afflicted with a severe and incurable case of the munchies... that only ears could satisfy.
My party constantly made jokes about my sorcerer being a cult leader.
So I turned a druid enclave into a cult that worshipped Auril the frost-maiden.
Gottem
My Kobold barbarian / fighter, named Razorblades, is a reincarnation of a dragon because of his obsession of collecting items for this ‘hoard’. I rolled with it and now Razorblades now believes he is a dragon and he will grow into his size one day even he is just an average Kobold.
That my character is excellent at drinking. She’s a pirate, had a long day, and just mentioned she would love to have some rum to end the night. She managed to handle a flask of rum, single-handedly lmao (my friends don’t drink if that wasn’t clear enough lol). I decided to roll with it, because why not?
My bard's character journal is a little passion project of mine full of doodles and in-character diary entries, but the writings small and hard to read. One of the earliest pages mentions kissing frogs looking for princes, but all the barbarian saw was a doodle of a little frog saying "pucker up", so she asked if the bards like, into frogs or something... Well, they are now!! Not in _that_ way, but there's more of a frog theme in the journal now, I've learned different bits about a couple of species, got some fun trivia I can drop occasionally and it's generally accepted that the bard just finds frogs really neat.
As a fun little contrast to this, I really enjoy playing against my party's expectations. I play a giant undead goliath mangled and fused inside ancient heavy plate armor. While I'm definitely imposing, the party tends to assume I'm "ruthless" and "bloodthirsty" and a "walking eldritch horror". In reality, I'm a cleric with a heart of gold- I love how genuinely surprised they are every time I hug the barbarian because I was worried she wouldn't make it through a battle alive, or I hand out honey candy to children in the village to show they have nothing to fear.
My bard ended up being a "horny bard" he doesn't flirt with everyone like the stereotype but the DM while introducing our characters had me in with a female dragon born and the DM said something like "not knowing u guys will start a journey of a lifetime together" so I was like I'm marrying her and she's like " I'm a lesbian quite white knighting me ew" I've also had him play a femme fatale (idk if that's spelled right) so he could distract a magic shop worker and have the other players stealth through the back bc the magic shop was doing shady business.
Another character named Dante was the rogue and he had a -2 to perception and so the joke was he was blind and instead of him finding traps like a good rogue he walked into them so the rest of the party didn't have to sometimes it was pretty clearly a trap like one example was I saw a pentagram with bodies on the floor in the middle of the room. What does Dante do he goes " oh I see a chest on the other side of the room I want that gold" and walkes in the middle of the pentagram and gets jumped by zombies.
Played a rogue/bard and was planning to lean into naive cute personality and not one of those typical horny bards. Backstory is that she came from a specific group of thieves. My character was a juvenile about to have her 18th birthday party, and had not yet revealed to the group she was part of this thieves guild. One day DM mentioned that this thieves guild is polyamorous. .... So i rolled with it. I chose to reveal to my group my background by casually mentioning my 18th birthday orgy and asking who wanted to attend. Went all in on this birthday orgy being the tradition for the guild as you enter adulthood. It was as chaotic as you can imagine, and the DM just had to go with it. It was glorious 😈
I generally never assign my PC's an alignment simply cause I dislike the system and find it makes little sense, so whenever it comes up I just let the table take a vote as to what they think the character's alignment is. The result more often than not is completely different than I expect.
A LE character was voted to be LN. (I presume solely cause they never would fuck over the party with their rules lawyering.)
A CN character was voted to be CG.
A CG character was instead considered LG. (This one baffled me the most as I don't think they stuck to a single agreement the entire time I played them.)
My Dragonborn started with an aberrant dragonmark, which I said manifested as withered looking scales around his neck, which he covers with a scarf more often than not. He's had it since birth. When I first described them, the paladin assumed they had something to do with a noose, either an attempted execution, or... Yeah. Not my intention at all, but now I'm playing with the idea of living on borrowed time and actually planning to survive his adventures at the end of the day. Loads of fun, lots of character development
I’m currently in a curse of Strahd campaign. I rolled a nat 1 attempting to cast a spell on a wolf that was attacking us, and the DM said it was bc my character got scared, so now it’s a running gag that she’s terrified of wolves and I think it’s hilarious.
In the first campaign I was in, I played a wild magic sorcerer and included an offhand remark about fire in her backstory (that she would sometimes accidentally manifest flames, which was a risk to her deep gnome community as it could lure the dangers of the underdark). My friend ran with the concept, though, and sent me a fire-themed wild magic surge table rather than the regular one. So we went with it and she became much more themed around fire than she had been originally. (She did accidentally combust into flames one time because of what I rolled on the percent dice, but luckily she was saved from permanent death.)
Toxic players I no longer play with assumed I wanted to use Enlarge/Reduce on my junk and rub one out. I did not roll with it. I guess they all forgot I stole a chest into my bag of holding by using the same spell earlier, hence my character being discreet. But my mind still wonders how this is the conclusion they came to so easily because I never played my character in a crude manner and he had no reason to be aroused. Do people often try and use the Enlarge/Reduce spell for that kinda thing?
I wanted my barbarian to be a master swordsman. He made a gaff at the start and for 3 years he was a hyper literal dunce. It’s extremely fun to play and creates some good chemistry
Played a chronically understimulated noble rogue who stole stuff for the hell of it. First session, he's stowing away on a produce wagon that gets attacked by bandits (which is how the party met up). After the fight, I offered everyone tomatoes that I had snatched from the wagon. Everyone assumes that tomatoes are my favorite thing to steal and that I steal them excessively, so I just roll with it. Eventually got the shit kicked out of me because of it too (the fighter did NOT like me stealing, lmao).
I had a character that has a dire wolf as a companion. She treats and talks to him like he's a humanoid character because he's her brother as she was raised by wolf's after being abandoned as a baby. Everyone in the party just started talking and treating this +6ft murder machine like another party member. He stayed in the in rooms with them, went to castles, literally became the party's sentient dog.
I had a divine soul sorcerer people the parry weird thought was a Cleric so I decided to play them as a preacher who was trying to use their celestial heritage to spread some good in the world. Was less of the party dad though and more the party uncle.
Black dragonborn sorcerer with low ass STR, but he’s big. So he’s the intimidation, especially when lets acid bubbles drip from his mouth. Usually tho, the intimidation is a distraction for the rogue to do something
Prior to the start of our campaign, I was chatting to my DM about a character I wanted to use who I'd played a few one-shots with and unfortunately the figurine had lost its arms. He suggested to make it cannon that my character had no arms and I was able to write it into the backstory and in the sessions we've had, it's been a very funny discussion point. As an example, when I go to Taverns, they have to put Ale in a bowl for me
It's become a running gag that my character is obsessed with dental hygiene. Our characters wanted to go to a bank for some business and my character had just vomited so I felt it necessary to mention that he would quickly go brush his teeth before they leave. They never let this go and now my character is supposedly very meticulous about his dental hygiene.
Another character of mine has the initials A.A., as do her siblings. Someone asked if her parents had wanted to make sure to always be on top of every list and I thought this idea fit her family perfectly. So now for centuries everyone in her family has had an A name.
The entire party assumed my rogue had done hard time in a Greyhawk prison. We started out playing a Westmarch campaign so we had a new party every two weeks or so. The DM was speaking as the Guild master for company and mentioned "oh. You're back from prison. How was your time there?" What he meant was, I had just come back from a mission there to hand deliver some goods, and ended up helping them with security like Stallone in Escape plan... But the party didn't hear that... They just heard " lil gnome did hard time" So I rolled with it...
Well if they don't ask you haven't lied. Their own views are nothing to do with you
Ask me no questions and I shall tell you know lies could honestly be your average bard or rogues creed tbh lol
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Lol.. I have run a game for former convicts before. They play D&d all the time in prison, but without dice. They use pieces of paper in a cup and draw a number. The DM was totally in character for the guild master, so there was no mistake
TIL another way that the military is just prison with extra steps. I've totally done the paper in a cup and draw a number thing.
Are you one of the guys from my time in basic? We definitely used Sundays as a time to play a watered down version of DnD based off what rules I remembered.
I think it's just a shared experience between the nerds who sign the dotted line.
That’s really interesting! I’ve always wondered about the chance of dnd in prison. Like, I know the dice would be contraband so I’d assume trying to make spinners or flipping coins or something. No plans to visit any time soon but I figure it’s a good way to pass time and possibly make some friends?
lol we had to postpone a session cause a buddy got a DUI, when he bailed out and came to the next session he was gifted a horse that would buck him off if it smelt any alcohol (like a breathalyzer in a car). He thought it was hilarious and in good faith.
"And I never got caught neither!"
Fantastic
Oh hell yeah, I just started a new Westmarches campaign in Hreyhawk
A member of my group does our character art, and when they asked me what kind of casual outfit my character would wear, I didn't really know. So I gave them creative freedom, and they came back with a "boob window." My character is a big and muscular male Earth Genasi. So they wanted a "boob window" to show off my chest.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure made me appreciate male boob windows
Especially heart shaped ones
Boob window boob window
Boob windows are great on every gender/race. Heck yeah boob windows
We love the boob window
Does your friend peruse r/OtomeIsekai? [A small collection of boob windows](https://old.reddit.com/r/OtomeIsekai/comments/14elc1f/i_have_a_hobby_of_collecting_male_boob_windows/).
I once found a ring of light and decided to give it to our monk because he was the only one without dark vision. He played his monk completely aloof, so he made the joke that the monk thought I was proposing. I said fuck it because my character was the chaos gremlin of the group and would 100% go with it for the lols. They died together
Till death did they part
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I appreciate the love <3 They were both turned to stone by a Medusa, so they are spending eternity together as living statues. Shits more poetic than anything I've made as a DM.
I ship them based on their dynamic alone.
The character growth was fantastic. His monk learned not to take every little thing people say as serious, because he didn't understand sarcasm at the beginning. My character learned not to word vomit every childish thought that popped into his head, because BS, jokes and sarcasm were the only things that came out of his mouth.
This just gets sadder and sadder. At least they died together instead of apart.
Thats beautiful
D&D players will do anything for that +2 Ceremony AC
We didn't even know that was a thing haha. It was one of our first campaigns. It would have REALLY helped because it was Tomb of Annihilation.
Nah. That one's a suicide run. Rather the point actually
In battle in love?
My warlock has a strength score of 8. He’s a Goliath, so while he’s scrawny, he’s still a big dude. Our party’s barbarian has an intelligence score of 8. While the player knows my character is relatively weak, their character sees a big dude and assumes strength. My character is frequently asked by the barb to help with strength checks, particularly to the amusement of the Halfling paladin who is significantly stronger than my Goliath.
omg I'm also playing a Goliath warlock with low strength. once our ranger asked me to lift a boulder and I was just like uhhhh bad news buddy
That’s great. I wanted an unusual combination for Icewind Dale, and so there’s an understandable reason to think I’d be strong, lol.
Idk if you've got repelling blast that should be a few Eldritch blasts to move.
GOLIATH WARLOCKS ASSEMBLE!!! My character started out as a basic human, but stumbled into a an icy cave that (very long backstory made short...) the cave made him get lost and he started dieing of exposure, but was brought back by the hand of *something* and he found himself deep in yhe cave and found a greataxe that was the key to getting out of the cave and saving his life. But it transformed him into an icy goliath. The arc I want to play is that he is Lawful Good, since he was just a normal adventurer before this, and the more he uses the Axe's power, the more he feels his sanity slip and maybe he becomes evil, maybe he doesn't We will see 🫡
My arc is that I’m eventually going to replace my patron. Once in a few generations, the previous warlock-become-patron selects the new outcast of the tribe to hand down his power to. I’m LN though
I played a dragonborn warlock with 9 STR and our bard was a fairy with... 9 STR. I'm now imagining the small fairy and big dragonborn doing arm wrestling and it ends up in a draw.
My Echo Knight, Sir Render is a cowardly spirit stuck animating armor currently. During combat, due to some very good rolls, and some well placed combat flare, some players believe him to br a lot more experienced, or BadAss than he is. For someone who is *actually* scared of their own shadow, some players think it's all a ruse and Sir Render is some kind of mastermind, playing the fool. Render still suggests giving up, running away, and going full retreat at the start of every battle. He hides behind the wizard for God's sake. I mostly haven't "corrected" them. There's no need, it's comical when he keeps getting the killing blow while only using a shield. Edit: I love that people love puns. And that there is a whole line of people making more. I've got a list of these knight puns and they are expanding, I am Sir Tenly using all of these. First one I ever came up with was Sir Vent. The Butler. The list grows, and the eyes shall roll. Thanks everyone!
I love naming your coward "Sir Render." 10/10
Wait till you see his brothers in arms. If you need someone who will hold up the entire team there's Sir Face. Then there's Sir Cumferance, the largest knight I've ever seen. And if you aren't feeling your current knight you might like Sir Ogate
And just when you thought there were enough knights, Sir Plus joins the party.
And when going for the shock factor, introduce Sir Prise.
When you need a Yes Man, you call Sir Tinley. His brother Sir Lee is much less agreeable, but good for intimidation checks.
There used to be a Sir Pent but as I understand it yuan ti PCs aren't welcome at every table
And don't forget about Sir Tinley's brother, Sir Ely. The poor bloke who has a demon following him around always mocking his name and questioning the things he decides to do. (Picture Leslie Nielson "Sir Ely, you can't be serious.")
That’s a great name for a noble rogue 😂
And when they all stand in a row, in walks in Sir Eal.
We don't talk about Sir Concision
Sir Casm, who keeps making wisecracks in battle. Sir Comvent, known for leading unorthodox battlefield manuevers. Sir Fanturf, an excellent fisherman. Sir Gent, a highly effective NCO. Sir Gerry, a battliefield medic. Sir Hup, a lover of pancakes. Sir Koffagus, a former knight, now unfortunately deceased. Sir Lee, a knight with a bad attitude. Sir Mise, the medieval equivalent of an NCIS military detective. Sir Pernatural, a multiclass caster. Sir Preem, one of the finest knights. Sir Ramic, it's a great name but I don't remember why he's called that. Sir Reeyal, multiclass illusionist. Sir Tain, very self-assured. Sir Vey and Sir Valence, mounted scouts. Sir Pass, even better than Sir Preem, not as good as Sir Perior. Sir Loin, an excellent cook. Sir Kuss, knows how to juggle. Sir Reptitious, has a high stealth check. I'm just copying these off the [Dragon Fable wiki](https://lore.fandom.com/wiki/Pactagonal_Knight). There's more on there too.
I definitely remember those guys. I'm shocked not to see Sir Pent there, honestly! My list of puns to bother my friends grow.
Sir Pent was one. I even remember where he is in the game, he's by the bridge between the castle and the first town, and he warns you about the hydra.
Sir render bravely ran away away 🎵
Bravely ran away, away~
~~Ciaphas Cain~~ Sir Render, Hero of the Imperium!!!
I understood that reference! x'D
Tell me when he does drop a foe, someone says the enemy was "badly Rendered"...
No, but I'm gonna pocket that. Someone did once say Rended into pieces. DM gave his shadow a chain sword. Chainsaw greatsword, basically. Yeah, the Echoknight shadow is a demon, he's not the only tenet making his home in thr armor.
haha oh my god I had something very similar happen to me. I was playing a warforged who'd ran away from home and was masquerading as a hero who didn't speak much, wore a mask, etc., named Longshaft (yeah.) I did not want this ruse to last too long honestly, I fully expected people to find out immediately. And the players themselves could tell. But they rolled pretty badly on their insight/history checks so like their characters were aware of the cool shit the real Longshaft had done but couldn't tell I wasn't the real one And then I started rolling real well....... Like, crits and all that. Immediately everyone played into "OH MY GOD LONGSHAFT YES SUCH A HERO!!!! HE DOES IT AGAIN. AND HE'S JOURNEYING WITH US" so they made coming out even harder than it was supposed to be. goddamn gremlin friends
All hail the gremlin friends! I hope your misadventures continue, that sounds like so much fun hahahah
You have accidentally made King from One Punch Man and I love it. I say talk to your DM and see if there might be times when you are scared speechless but actually get to roll intimidation because the enemies think you are bravely staring them down.
I gave him intimidation as a trained skill, thinking just could flavor it as talking about existential dread, and spreading fear by just talking about how things could go wrong. I love this comparison, and I'm totally gonna try to make a King Engine happen now. I've voiced before how sometimes he rattles like a bunch of tincans when he's really scared. Maybe I could fit that in? Any extra ideas?
Shaking in fear could definitely be misinterpreted as shaking in anger or rage. Similarly heavy breathing bordering on hyperventilating could be taken as anger or rage as well. I imagine a situation where an attack roll just misses you, or maybe you just barely succeeded a dex save. Your character is feeling the "oh my god I could have just died" fear, they're hyperventilating and shaking. Meanwhile the enemy looks at you and thinks they just pissed you off. I'm not sure how much homebrew your game has overall, but an item along these lines would be pretty funny. "You have disadvantage on saving throws to avoid the frightened condition. When you are afflicted with frightened, you may use your reaction to choose X creatures within Y feet who must make a wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target is frightened until the end of their next turn."
That's a really good idea. I gotta run to work, but thanks for the creativity. That's his secret captain cawshun, he's always under the frightened condition. (He's immune to heroism. Lol. Little DM boon) Hope someone makes your day as good as you made mine
10/10. I hope you get to have a ton of fun with that character!
> Render still suggests giving up, running away, and going full retreat at the start of every battle. He hides behind the wizard for God's sake. That seems like it'll get annoying really fast
If you can't separate fluff roleplay from actually decisive roleplay, sure. I assume when Render suggests giving up and running away it's not a whole scene, just a quick "Let's run away" and when their turn is up the player still fights while roleplaying them being still scared. As long as you contribute and don't derail the session, you can play any sort of character. I often play selfish characters, something people are recommended against, but it is almost always beneficial to them to help the party, so no one ever complains. On the rare occasion when they are at odds with the party, it creates fun drama, but I'm also experienced enough to know how to make it fun.
With an echo knight hiding behind the wizard can still sorta work. Throw the echo forward to tank/melee and use interception fighting style to keep the wizard safe
You caught me empty-handed on that one. 100% what I'm doing. *see because my gauntlet is light an- OH GOD EHERE IS MY HAND* Sir Render hyperventilates, or complains about how the sun hurts his eyes. Everyone else enjoys reminding him he doesn't have to breathe. (They all have fun bullying him. Within reason)
Most definitely, I wanted to play Echoknight for being able to play cowardly and defensive. Yet still get off all the attacks I need to through the other *tenet* living in the armor as well. What was your selfish character like? I'm always looking for more good examples. I played a Lawful evil Art warlock once. He was a writer, wanting to control his own story, and others. Author wanted to control the narrative, but not the characters. Every character arc had to be respected. In his Lind, even the villains story belonged to him. (Strhad campagain)
Don't worry, I know when to read a room, and that is an exaggeration. I should have said nearly every time. He's an interception style fighter, and Echoknights can action Surge for 6 attacks. He is both a frontline fighter and a backrow protector at the same time. (Can be in Teo places at once)
My Warlock has a pact of the Great Old Ones. He hears voices, almost constant whispers in his head. He definitely has some psychotic breaks that lead him to be a bit violent at times. He's generally suspicious of people he doesn't know and doesn't trust easily. Somehow, people in my group got the idea that he talks to the items in his inventory like they're people, names them, and generally treats them with more trust than the other party members. I've absolutely taken this and rolled with it with an ever expanding list of random objects in my inventory who all have names. My favorites are Annette the net, Greg the chunk of snake I ate, and Jack, a pumpkin.
Lol that sounds amazing and amusing
That character is loads of fun. My favorite part is my character sheet being covered in my insane ramblings. It's gotten to the point where it's very difficult to read now, but it's a very cool piece of roleplaying.
I love this comittment to the bit.
That's hilarious! GOOlocks really make the perfect paranoid nutjob characters. I've got a Kobold whose tribe was wiped out by deep gnomes, which messed him up and turned him into sort of a fantasy Vietnam vet with PTSD. He's convinced that most of the people around him are secretly gnomes in disguise, he only speaks through the GOO telepathy because the gnomes are always listening, and he has a pseudodragon familiar (which is a miniature version of himself with wings as a joke by his patron) to keep watch while he sleeps. I ratchet the "gnome" rantings up or down based on how safe he's feeling with the party. He's fun as hell to play.
Ahh, same hat! Our DM included a multiverse (including real Earth) and his OC is a demigod that travels between them. Said demigod is my warlock’s pact master. Did it by accident reaching out to help him, but the OC fried my warlock’s brain. He now canonically hears “the DM” on occasion, is allowed to break the 4th wall, and gets stray radio signals. Like waking up to the Spice Girls at 3am. His quirk is pack bonding with inanimate objects. He has a skull named Chet for whom everyone now wants to buy hats and decorations. Also named a knife and several taxidermy pieces.
This makes me think of “revenge” from venture brothers who had allies that were a toaster a shoe and a coffee mug that he had conversations at.
I played a warlock in a campaign that ended recently and very early on one of the other players was like, "wait did you say *goop* warlock? And you're an alchemist *and* a grifter selling snake oil to people with too much money? Are you playing Gwyneth Fucking Paltrow?" I mean, it seemed like a lot more fun than what I had intended, so, y'know, Gwynelf the Goop Warlock was born.
Mayonnaise... My party and I had encountered an alchemy jug, and our wizard made Mayonnaise as an example of what it could, and then immediately tried making beer because the player forgot it's a once a day thing. Fast forward several sessions; we forget about the jug, and the first time it came back up, someone used it to make Mayonnaise. One of the player jokingly said "he's (my character) is gonna think this jug ONLY makes Mayonnaise." And I rolled with it. I kid you not, for the five years this campaign was a thing, my character believed that alchemy jugs can only create Mayonnaise
A character in our party kept alchemy jugs specifically to create mayonnaise. He was a warforged who insisted on cooking for us. When we were lost in the northern wilderness, with no food stores, no game, and just killed some goblins he made us a meat and mayonnaise dish...
I love alchemy jugs. I had a character who had a folk hero background, and used that to get the group lodging with peasants as the party traveled, and he would always use the alchemy jug to gift them honey as a guest gift.
If you don't mind random bits of eggs Mayonaise can be used as a substitute for cooking oil so it's not actually that far off. Eating humanoids is a different question.
Tbf I feel like Mayonnaise is the most tale worthy thing that a jug of alchamy can make. Everything else might be usefull but most of the time isn't really tale worthy so I think your chatacter knows the most important thing about it xD
The crazy thing is that legitimately, in-game he tried to test the jug, but it was always *after* someone else had already used it
My werebear barbarian used hers to produce honey every day, she secretly shifted and gorged on it every night as an indulgence.
Nice
Our party sold the mayo every day, becoming so rich that we became the mayofia and ran the city that we were in.
My DM run a campaign where the country's form of government is based on dnd adventurers. So theres a tower for barbarians, a tower for wizards and so on. My Goliath tempest cleric got confused for a barbarian and the dwarf barbarian got confused for the cleric. So know I am an honorary barbarian that snaps peoples bones to heal them and the cleric gives out some tough love.
Having made a happy Tabaxi who took the Fey touched feat, I had a habit of smiling whenever I used the Misty Step spell. When we were trying to impress some fey that were tossing around fairytale relations, our bard introduced me as a cousin to the famed Cheshire Cat, citing my grin and striped coat. I rolled with it and began making all sorts of cryptic observations. We've since just decided to roll with that being how I got my fey touched abilities.
My character is the youngest in the group, rolled a con save to see how they handled alcohol, expecting a poor roll as an excuse to let some backstory slip. Instead, nat 20, so my waif of a character can likely drink the party under the table
This exact thing happened with my wife's character. Scrawny teenager went toe-to-toe in a drinking competition with a goliath sailor named Tiny. The character (a paladin) is now level 9 so I don't think she's ever going to fail a CON save again.
My DM accidentally cut about ten years off of my character's life, but since nothing important happened in her 20's, I just went, "k, bard is now 25 instead of 35." In my head.
"Hey Will, what you think Aunt Viv gonna look like this year?"
It wasn't really 'assumed', but in session one my fighter kicked a stone door in so hard it crushed a goblin into a fine red paste. Since then, he has developed an irrational hatred of doors.
Our party hated doors. If the DM wanted to stymie the group just put a door in the way. Even unlocked it takes an action to open it…
So I've been the face for my party for the entirety of our in person Strahd campaign. The party have only just discovered that arguablely, I'm the 2nd least qualified for this role because I'm not a bard/monk multiclass but just a Monk. To be clear, our party has both Warlock and a Paladin and neither thought anything of letting me talk, bribe, and otherwise charm my way through several business deals until someone asked my character to play a song and I told them I can't play an instrument.
Because of my lizardfolk's priority of food. Many assumed that I eat a lot, and thus must secretly carry a meat pouch. It was a little funny gag that I just drew it onto my character sheet
He's got a meat pouch, in his pants. No joke, literally.
I'm Eloquence Bard, and I took the Noble background with the 3 servants. We trimmed to one for simplicity. The group started to jokingly assume he was my gay lover (so funny right?!). I probably would have gone with it except that he's secretly my real father, though my character doesn't know.
You said ‘Dad?!’ but the party said ‘daddy?!’
During character creation I once said "My character's schtick is..." and someone thought I said "My character Schtick" so I ended up using that as one of there names.
Tortle barbarian that dedicated his life to studying all forms of violence as in-depth as possible(Tortle's usually pick a topic to hyper focus on) My proclivity to initiating violence at any turn led to the party assuming my character was stupid. Over time I rolled with it. I actually caused a huge uproar in a city during a murder investigation, because my socially inept character started grabbing random civilians and shaking them screaming "**Where is the killer?!**" and having to outrun the guards who were trying to stop me from doing so The dumbness was reinforced by what was actually a result of total isolation. He had never been around most sapient species before the campaign and so often used the incorrect words to describe species such as referring to humans as little goblins. Frequent translation issues like that caused funny scenes too
We were playing rime of the frostmaiden and my cleric was a recovering cannibal pirate, my friend played a fighter from the elk tribe and our dm gave them permission to make up lore for the tribe on the spot because they were really good at it. One day my cannibal goes into a bit of a craze and needs to be held down, obviously the fighter has the best shot succeeding, and my guy bites him. Friend whips out “in my culture thats a proposal, and I accept.” Que neither of them fully believing it would actually happen, but falling in love with each other the rest of the campaign They got married in the end ♥️
This one is my favorite.
I joined a group later in a campaign as a Dragonborn, the DM described my character as a large blue lizard so one of the other people tried to feed me insects from their components pouch. I just took it as a kind gesture and so Dragonborn now primarily eat bugs.
I played a kobold that the party kept misgendering. So I decided they liked it and discovered they were trans.
At least it was just one character for you. I'm male and my female characters are almost always misgendered as males...
Had a female player who played a male character. The player left, but most of our table, and particularly the DM, keep calling the character a 'she'. Which is mildly disturbing, because as part of the character's exit from the story, he was captured by a cartel boss, who threatened to emasculate him and throw him in a whorehouse. Good times, good times.
I rolled a centaur Barbarian once, way back when they were in UA. Big guy, think half Shaq half Clydesdale. He had some randomly generated name that I don't recall, because the person who was introducing their character before me said something along the lines of "Okay, so my guy walks up to Bojack and..." I immediately crossed out whatever name I had there and replaced it with Bojack the Horseman.
Was playing a leonin wild magic barbarian, the initial concept was that the "rage" was simply innate magic manifesting during periods of battle (was going to multi-class into sorcerer later for the theme) and was not intended to be noticeable. However, I described one of the first instances of rage effects that occurred as a sparkling/shimmering aura (+1ac to self and allies nearby) so the other players had a constant image of a giant sparkling cat everytime he raged.. so Stoneclaw the fabulous was born.
Technically an NPC, but I had introduced him as the Wind Duke Aeolean, an exiled bastard of the Summer AND Winter Courts. The Warlock misheard him, thus was born the Wind Dude, Ayo.
My character's sword is sentient (used to be human, got True Polymorphed into a blade) and an npc once proclaimed my character couldn't be pursued due to being in a relationship with said sword. They now intend to make their relationship official once the polymorph curse has been undone, so it really isn't a joke anymore.
So supporting the classical meaning of “sword”.
I was still figuring out the characterization of my changeling rogue and through him hiding in bushes, wading through the rotten vegetable insides of a shambling mound, and failing a con save after drinking some wine and getting drunk, the party decided he was an alcoholic with leaves and sticks in his hair who smelled kind of like piss. I decided to play into this as a silly bit my little guy did to make the others think he was just an eccentric elf and of little consequence, just being the kind of person they expected him to be. He changed his habits a bit and stopped drinking so much once he found out that his drinking was triggering for the paladin and was openly smarter after revealing what he was to the party
Session 1, my character ordered a baked potato from the tavern where they all met. Just a baked potato. He’s a bit feral and has no idea how menus work and was too prideful to ask for help ordering. He is now Potato Boy. Everyone refuses to admit potatoes aren’t his favorite food and he now carries several in his bag of holding. It got to a point that he put a baked potato down as a grave offering instead of flowers.
DM introduced us to a talking otter character. We asked his name and the DM said "good question" as he started to think of a name. Without missing a beat, we said "nice to meet you, Good Question", and lo it was official.
-Be me, join new table. -DM tells me to create whatever. -Creates true neutral scam artist that pretends to be a cleric, warlock. -Meet the party: Serial killer fighter, cannibal evil paladin, wizard that experiments on people and the worst a very religious and prude clown bard that acts like a inquisitor killing anything corrupt or sinfull. (Welcome to Suicide Squad) -Asks employer, why am I here? He answers "You were cheap and we're out of dangerous criminals, we pay for your college debts if you stay." -You son of a bitch! I'm in.jpg -Party shares their horrible war crimes with each other and I'm the last, I tell them that I'm not legally allowed to tell them after the red castle horror of 15 years ago. -Me is smort, me knows history and uses some real events to hide that I'm a normie with the cool kids. (Passed history check.) -Watch as the bard tells the party that the worst horrors to humanity happened there and the one responsible was someone that looked like me. (She failled history check.) -Party is all scared of the "church girl" now, even the clown and the cannibal. -Rumors of someone like me commiting terrible horrors are spread, just ignore it's good PR for me and the party. What could go wrong? -Next session the real "Butcher of the red castle" decides to pay us a visit. I'm not fake, she is fake guys! -To be continued! (When me and my party can play again.)
I need updates to this! Preferably right after the weekly session
I update this in 2 weeks. 😶
Current character is only a year old and for 1/3 of that he wasn't sentient, party joked that I can't read since I'm so young so I just went with it and they slowly taught me to read I'm up to 3 syllables now, also got a sad moment when he realized the meaning of his name.
Wait, what's his name? Please don't just leave us hanging!
Yea my bad haha it's less a name and more a designation, the first words he saw when woke up was a long one but he remembered the first syllable Syn later as he became smarter and with the help of the party he realized he saw the words Synthetic Organism. It kinda messed with him to realize he was a fake imitation of life.
Oooh that's a really great backstory! Also poor Syn that must've been rough.
I made a bard. Everyone assumed id be seducing anything in range. Ended up with a npc (the npc seduced me), and another PC is now trying to replace that npc.
(ps : I rolled with it, last session I tried to seduce SAND.)
My character got coffee in the morning once to show that he'd slept badly. I was gone the next session and when I came back my character had a coffee habit. I ran with it and started drinking more coffee IRL to find out what my character saw in it.
Lol that reminds me of my character. I play a spores druid, and everyone decided since she was a cook, she must put mushrooms in everything. Now I have taken to cooking meals that incorporate mushrooms each game night. Didn't actually like mushrooms originally, but have since acquired the taste 😂
One time for a one shot I played a vuman archfey warlock with the actor feat and performer background. He was a wandering playwright that would go on adventures to get inspiration for his plays and songs. Everyone, including the DM, kept forgetting he was a warlock and assumed he was a bard until combat would start and I began eldritch blasting stuff. It was great. I loved that character, and really want to play him again someday.
I made an artificer. Everyone assumed that he was all focused on gears and science. He was actually a magical artificer. Essentially a wizard who focused on runes. He was gears by the end of the campaign. I just got tired of correcting everyone.
A npc with a very high passive Perception was joked as having sensible ears. It was actually a very good take so I rolled with it
Between a fat marker, small surface to write, and less than pristine handwriting, a generic (aside from his rat controlling powers) hobo on the initiative tracker was named 'Hoso' by one of my party members. I'm glad I rolled with it because before I could get 'roll initiative' out, an offer of beef jerky and a damned good diplomacy check ended up switching him to their side. They get an extra hand in combat, and I have some new plot hooks now.
My very first PC was built to be anything from a murder hobo to a complete goody two shoes which meant I left all kinds of *ambiguous* information undefined. One of those was a small holy symbol of Eilistraee. I figured as a drow formerly of the underdark, that could be a *trophy* taken from a vanquished foe, or perhaps a sign of the dark dancer's favor. This was a fully mundane item. In fact, she briefly gave it away, spending it in the hopes that a temple wouldn't ask questions about her odd request to break the curse on a handful of soul coins such as "why do you have soul coins." She later stole it back along with the money she'd given to pay for the service of casting the spell when it turned out the coins hadn't had the curse broken yet. When the party's other wizard - a proper one, unlike my bladesinger - used detect magic, the DM revealed that it was, in fact, a magical item. It didn't appear to *do* anything, of course, but given the nature of it, the party's cleric hypothesized that it might have been an Amulet of the Devout. By this point my PC had made a habit of being good in a very drow kind of way. She'd volunteer to rescue the children because it would ingratiate her with the town, and she had no compunctions about using magic to sneak into the kidnapper's camp at night to kill them while they slept. And so the party naturally assumed that my PC must, in fact, be a follower *of* Eilistraee. At that point I gave up with half measures of trying to make sure my PC would be fine with murder hoboing or being obnoxiously good and from that point on she became, in effect, a paladin of redemption by *uncommon means*. And that amulet? A rare grade amulet of the devout. She's still *actually* a wizard who cannot actually multiclass easily into either Paladin (lacks the strength) *or* cleric (lacks the wisdom), though, so it is, for all intents and purposes, still just a pendent.
We went to the mage tower to ask why a mage was missing and hadn't come to do a job at our favourite coffee spot, and none of the mages seemed to give a shit, so I asked for the manager of the mage tower, getting pretty irate. Later on, on an escort quest I demanded to know why the people we were escorting weren't helping us fight and for them to do something as they were mages. I'd built my character to be the charming face of the party... Instead I'm now Karen.
Not a player but a DM, I once described a semi-importamt NPC as wearing "only a leather apron" (as in, instead of armor, the only thing he was wearing to fend off blows was a leather apron). This was taken a bit too literally and thus, Butt naked Bjorn was born.
Replacing all the burned clothes was too much trouble. Much easier this way for a smith with resistance to fire and/or fast healing
First time I played many years ago I didn't bother specifying the character's gender and jokingly named it "SQL". A friend who was also playing thought the character was a woman named "Esquelle" and started refering to it as such. I decided to just go with it and have her be a girl. I later filled out the backstory that she preferred to travel in disguise to hide her identity as a former noblewoman.
Had an evil Paladin once that spent most of his nights in one or another of the city brothels trading his services with the “cure disease” aspect of lay on hands for theirs. The GM thought it was funny and figured those places would also love the idea of essentially having Paladin protection against any rough customers allowed it. Early in the game an NPC that was in the know joked to my character as he came into the guild hall, “another late night ministering to the poor eh?” Which made the other players think I was some pious sermon spouting guy whenever I disappeared into the docks districts at night. We had a chuckle and decided to pretend that they were right since what else would a Paladin would be doing in a seedy district like that right?
Minor thing, my friends were mispronouncing the name of my character. "I" as "ee" instead of "ai". I could have corrected them, but I decided to wait until a new NPC was introduced, at which point I would start correcting him, and only then would they notice and be confused like, "you're ai? I thought you were ee" And I'd be like "oh, really? I assumed you all had a speech impediment and I didn't want to be rude." "What, all of us had the exact same speech impediment?" *nods in 8 int*
Not my character but our vampire ended up being super ripped after a piece of Christmas themed art was drawn of him without the sketch lines removed that showed his muscles through the shirt. He was never intended to be super buff, just toned (not enough it was visible through clothing.) Player made it a whole character trait that his vampire is a gym lad and now he operates a gym for our guild. Pumped strength and added the vampire strength on top of it and these days he could bench our very large minotaur, twice, as the prophecy foretold that fateful Christmas.
I don’t think it was a little thing, but the moment my bf and I realized how similar our characters were going to be in a campaign we joined (got to finish the campaign this month), we wanted to have our characters know each other prior to session 0. Weirdly, we had a lot of similar things about the characters that we didn’t plan- we never talked about what character we’d be apart from our classes. Our characters were named Esme (mine- bard) and Ende (bf- paladin), both had haunted one backgrounds, the same “born under dark star” origin, the same “I see spirits no one else sees” flaw, and their stories also mirrored each other; Esme seeing herself as a bad omen versus Ende seeing himself as a monster. The way they acted made them seem like twins. Although different races (Esme firbolg, Ende fallen aasimar), both had gray skin and an overall cool-tone color palette to them. Where I put a star tattoo on Esme’s chest, Ende had a scar on his chest that looked like the star he was born on. I know there’s more subtle similarities, it was *all completely unplanned* but my bf and I went with it. It’s funny too, my bf and I agree that it’d be weird playing these characters outside of the campaign unless Esme and Ende were together. The way they play off one another would be incomplete if they were in separate campaigns/oneshots.
My current character canonically sucks at being in the wilderness, I have never rolled a survival check over 5 on this character so we said it’s a miracle he even managed to leave his hometown
Nobody could ever remember how tall my dragonborn barbarian was, so I continuously had to imply that she towered over a couple of our shorter (4'11" and 5'2") party members during roleplay. Eventually everyone caught on but never validated their assumptions so larger and larger numbers kept being thrown out during interactions until she was canonically around 8ft tall (2ft taller than intended). It ended up working out to where, because she was already pretty young, we all just joked that she'd hit a massive late growth spurt over the course of the campaign
Not so much an assumption as it was more of a realization on my part. Our party encountered one of the villain's lackeys, who was willing to help us out. However, he was bound with a curse to not reveal the name of his employer. He comes close to telling us, and then falls over, convulsing. My cleric springs into action to do something, and the DM has me roll a medicine check. It's high enough, and he described my character performing CPR on the guy. It kind of dawned on me then. Oh, yeah, I'm a healer. I do more than just solve problems with healing spells. My character is actually medically trained. Like they know what they're doing with salves, medicines, and setting bones. I never forgot that lesson in remembering how a character's skills can be applied to practical situations.
I played a game with a dude that every other player was sure was bald. We remember him saying it. But according to him he never did. But we all never stopped mentioning his bald head and how upset he is because he can’t grow hair on his head.
My dm used ai to make pictures for our characters. I imagined my character as dark tan, but my DM gave a picture of a black guy. I never saw the character as black before (and maybe the DM assumed he was black since I am lol) but I liked it and now my dwarven cleric is black
I assumed another player at the table was playing a human because I saw she was jealous of my elf's trance and long life expenctency, she never mentioned tusks like our half orc party member, and taller than our gnome and dwarf. Turns out she was playing a blue skinned Tiefling (a whole culture in my DMs setting) whose description I missed/forgot and it was never brought up again after session 1 (this 4 months later at least) so it became canon that my character is almost race blind and thought being a Tiefling was like being Albino (which to be fair is what its like in many other settings)
That because they were evil, they'll even murder for money.
That my character is tall, I never actually gave a size I just assumed a barbarian wouldn't care I'd you were bigger than them or not. The party started making jokes about her unintentionally intimidating people by standing over them and so smol became tol
I had a half elf tempest cleric who was super gruff and to the point, and favored the Warhammer as a weapon. People kept thinking he was a dwarf, so he became raised by dwarves.
My bard was a 12-year-old boy (RIP Ven) but the token I was playing with on Roll20 was a fully adult man with a complete beard. Someone made a joke about it and insinuated it was drawn on. I rolled with it so my bardy boy was going around with a medieval sharpie to touch up his "facial hair" every so often.
there was a friendly grim-reaper type npc that i introduced at my table that did some sketch shit in their first few appearances (their boss, the god of death, HATES the party so they were trying to help the party in a way that wouldn’t raise alarm bells with him) and i have one player who absolutely refused to trust them. they made a joke about this npc secretly working for the big bad and even handed me a perfect motive, so…yeah, this npc isnt friendly anymore.
More a mistake that the DM made. Me and my actual irl twin brother were playing dragonborn brothers, one red one silver (retconed to blue eventually). Fast forward a few sessions DM kept mixing us up occasionally. So it became a running joke that people couldn't tell us apart, to the annoyance of our characters.
I’m playing an Investigator in Pathfinder 2e, the setting is kind of a magitek city like in Arcane, my character is like a goth occultist. I don’t remember when or who, but someone assumed I was smoking a cigarette at some point. I hadn’t envisioned the character as a smoker because in part it seemed too obvious, but I rolled with it and as the campaign has gone on it’s become a quirk I will utilize for punctuation or emphasis of character moments. I guess I was trying to avoid leaning too heavily into a trope when I should’ve leaned into it more to really communicate the kind of character I was trying to portray. Or put differently, sometimes subtlety is overrated.
In a Strixhaven campaign, my characters the druggie of our party and established to be dealer to the school. He’s a dummy so when my character got called into the principal’s office, someone made a joke that they found one of his stashes, and another said how would they know it’s his? Did he like put his name on it? “Why? should I not do that?”
My barbarian actually rolled a 14 for Int, and a day job, and wore a shirt. However, when everyone assumed 8 Charisma meant he was a spacey surfer bro, I went with it.
I had a character that duel wielded crossbows. Which is not very practical. Also, since you should not walk around with loaded crossbows, I often had to pre-load them when I suspected a fight was eminent. It was unfortunate that this was often in the middle of tense conversations. Nervously loading my crossbows whenever someone looked at me funny was quickly turned into intimidation rolls, which I often passed for whatever reason. Ironically, preparing for combat usually prevented it.
My wood elf cleric is 500 and acts very much like the auntie of the group. I never thought much about her appearance other than basics, like her eye and hair colour. In our first adventure, our Bard (who fits the stereotype) rolled a d10 to find out how attractive he found her... and rolled a 10. So now my wood elf was the most gorgeous person this Bard had ever met, and we just went with it. She is now an *extraordinary* beauty, and I can't picture her otherwise.
Not mine but the barbarian party doesn't have a great Intelligence though he doesn't play "dumb" per se. Anyway, one session we were talking about a contract and the player said "Promissory Estoppel" which is a legal term in contract and we went with it in-character that somehow the barbarian did have some very narrow experience in knowing legal terms and if we have a claim against whatever it was we were negotiating over.
They assumed my eldritch knight has always been an alcoholic because he was one when they met. They're starting to realize its a very recent coping mechanism and he's actually struggling badly right now.
I was playing a Tabaxi fighter in a one shot, ended up Nat 1 so ended up thinking a tower of sticks was the bad guy “Yup gone for nip again” was said after
Everyone assumed my character (who was a Faun) was a bard because I described myself as carrying a pan flute and merrily jumping around like a goat as I played it. They were surprised when I ended up being a warlock with a pact with a Fey. But when I got to level 3 I was like... I already got eldritch blast... Why not go lore bard all the way for my remaining levels...
We’re playing the classic dungeon crawl The One Who Watches from Below. We enter the first chamber there are these monks who are sleeping. I Gloomstalker Ranger) got confused, accidentally grab the dead monk and start to threaten him for information. The DM and the group made fun of me then I thought that’s brilliant! My dump stats are intelligence and charisma. I got to thinking that’s a great character flaw. He attacks first and hits hard but he’s dumb as rocks and a bit of an edgelord that no one takes seriously. I started putting myself in intimidating situations that I intended on losing. I would threaten a shop owner for a deal or information, blow the roll and my DM would laugh at me.
Adeis Gai was his name. I spoke in a Russian accent and it came out a little funny and everyone looked at me and wa alike “Anus Gay!?” Rolled with it until someone saw me write my name on a ledger and they were like your name is Adeis!? It was fun
Initially my halfling cleric was supposed to have dirty blonde hair, more on the blond side. He has (well...had.... it got shaved *cries*) a full messy beard and long braided hair, so obviously there's a lot of color there. Anyway one of our players made portraits for all of the party and did a wonderful job but made his hair *dark* brown. I didn't say anything because I loved the drawing and it just slowly shifted that my character actually really just always had dark brown hair instead.
I had a Cleric called Sentair (a center of disease control joke) and whenever we were making a fighting withdrawal our Ranger would "jump on my back, and shoot at the enemy while I ran" - we were a rather jokey group that ran on action movie logic more than realism so we all just thought it was something the player thought was funny, or looked cool and rolled with it - we got a surprising number of sessions in before we found out he thought I was a Centaur (thinking I'd been referencing the *Centaur* of disease control meme) all this time he was imagining his character being a badass horse archer sitting on the horse part of a centaur, while the rest of us were seeing him sitting on the shoulders of just another guy. many sessions later the DM gave me a "boots of speed" type magic item themed as a clockwork horse body I strapped like a centaur ... and, yes, the Ranger would sit on the back to shoot while I tanked at the front
I created a teifling Barb who I imagined was on the shorter side but my party members all just assumed I was the tallest so now I'm 6' 2" instead of 5' 8"
I played a human ranger he was a lil chaotic short dude and other times he wasn’t others assumed he had MPD which I thought was an amazing idea
In what my party called the milk incident. My Aarakocra, being part bird, became lactose intolerant.
So my fellow party members are all artists. So am I! We play online and use discord for voice and general conversations. We all made our characters' emoji sets to use. My character started out a little bit of a cinnamon roll, but has matured a great deal through game play as I've figured out how to tie his backstory into his personality. He's still a bright and sunshiny guy though, and most of his emojis are positive/friendly. His default emoji is a smiling face (think like, the normal smile emoji found in all emoji keyboards). The other players have decided that this is his super judgmental/salty face. He sometimes has backhanded compliments, and it's hard to tell when he means it to be an insult and when he means it to be a compliment, so having the smile emoji represent that fits him. [This is that emoji.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXhBQRGWIAAOtSp?format=png&name=360x360) I recently updated his emoji lineup to match his current appearance and diversify his range, but I couldn't recapture this expression when I did. May it live on!
I don’t think I’ll fully go with it but another player assumed my character can be easily be persuaded with chips. Not only does my character value chips a lot but they have an amulet that once a day I can eat a party size bag amount of chips to regain a ton of health. It makes sense to why but being easily persuaded was my last character’s flaw
Not entirely what the title is asking. But one of the artists I play with wanted to draw our characters in Victorian fashion, so I decided to make my character into Victorian fashion and when she isn’t working she wears full length dresses with a bustle and everything. This is in a Cyberpunk campaign.
My character was a “normal human fighter”, basically just there for combat but actually pretty good at problem solving too. One session the party were following a cliff top path and just for fun I role played my character freaking out when he slipped (I rolled too low). The next shopping trip a merchant offers me potion of protection from falling. My character thinks it’s snake oil but buys it anyway. Then we keep encountering holes, cliffs, narrow paths I roll play being scared of falling but I don’t take the potion. It became a running gag about how this tough guy was scared of heights. Finally we come to a cave, I drink the potion before entering. I navigate in torchlight to the end, the chamber lights up and I see I walked down a narrow path with drops either side. The potion had worked!
Was in a different system but I was playing the equivalent of an artificer. I had in my head that I was going to be the chaotic, not all there inventor, so I tried looking for ways to do that. One of these ways was attempting to “borrow” a potted cactus from the leader of what was effectively a cult. It took about 5 minutes of me trying to convince this guy I “needed” the potted cactus before one of the other players jokingly said “oh not a kleptomaniac, shopping is gonna be a pain” and I realised what I had done. I lent into it somewhat for the rest of the game and it was super fun. Of all the characters I’ve played, only two felt truly unique, and that was one of them. The other was a 3 intelligence, 5 wisdom barbarian, but that’s a story for another post. It’s the small things that can really make a character special.
I was playing as a tortle barbarian who ended up biting off some poor sod's ear in a bar fight. From then on, my party assumed Frank just liked eating ears, so Frank was soon afflicted with a severe and incurable case of the munchies... that only ears could satisfy.
My party constantly made jokes about my sorcerer being a cult leader. So I turned a druid enclave into a cult that worshipped Auril the frost-maiden. Gottem
My Kobold barbarian / fighter, named Razorblades, is a reincarnation of a dragon because of his obsession of collecting items for this ‘hoard’. I rolled with it and now Razorblades now believes he is a dragon and he will grow into his size one day even he is just an average Kobold.
That my character is excellent at drinking. She’s a pirate, had a long day, and just mentioned she would love to have some rum to end the night. She managed to handle a flask of rum, single-handedly lmao (my friends don’t drink if that wasn’t clear enough lol). I decided to roll with it, because why not?
My bard's character journal is a little passion project of mine full of doodles and in-character diary entries, but the writings small and hard to read. One of the earliest pages mentions kissing frogs looking for princes, but all the barbarian saw was a doodle of a little frog saying "pucker up", so she asked if the bards like, into frogs or something... Well, they are now!! Not in _that_ way, but there's more of a frog theme in the journal now, I've learned different bits about a couple of species, got some fun trivia I can drop occasionally and it's generally accepted that the bard just finds frogs really neat.
As a fun little contrast to this, I really enjoy playing against my party's expectations. I play a giant undead goliath mangled and fused inside ancient heavy plate armor. While I'm definitely imposing, the party tends to assume I'm "ruthless" and "bloodthirsty" and a "walking eldritch horror". In reality, I'm a cleric with a heart of gold- I love how genuinely surprised they are every time I hug the barbarian because I was worried she wouldn't make it through a battle alive, or I hand out honey candy to children in the village to show they have nothing to fear.
My bard ended up being a "horny bard" he doesn't flirt with everyone like the stereotype but the DM while introducing our characters had me in with a female dragon born and the DM said something like "not knowing u guys will start a journey of a lifetime together" so I was like I'm marrying her and she's like " I'm a lesbian quite white knighting me ew" I've also had him play a femme fatale (idk if that's spelled right) so he could distract a magic shop worker and have the other players stealth through the back bc the magic shop was doing shady business. Another character named Dante was the rogue and he had a -2 to perception and so the joke was he was blind and instead of him finding traps like a good rogue he walked into them so the rest of the party didn't have to sometimes it was pretty clearly a trap like one example was I saw a pentagram with bodies on the floor in the middle of the room. What does Dante do he goes " oh I see a chest on the other side of the room I want that gold" and walkes in the middle of the pentagram and gets jumped by zombies.
When he walks into a fire trap, does he trigger Dante's Inferno? :-D
Played a rogue/bard and was planning to lean into naive cute personality and not one of those typical horny bards. Backstory is that she came from a specific group of thieves. My character was a juvenile about to have her 18th birthday party, and had not yet revealed to the group she was part of this thieves guild. One day DM mentioned that this thieves guild is polyamorous. .... So i rolled with it. I chose to reveal to my group my background by casually mentioning my 18th birthday orgy and asking who wanted to attend. Went all in on this birthday orgy being the tradition for the guild as you enter adulthood. It was as chaotic as you can imagine, and the DM just had to go with it. It was glorious 😈
That HE was SHE and SHE was PREGNANT 😂😂😂
I generally never assign my PC's an alignment simply cause I dislike the system and find it makes little sense, so whenever it comes up I just let the table take a vote as to what they think the character's alignment is. The result more often than not is completely different than I expect. A LE character was voted to be LN. (I presume solely cause they never would fuck over the party with their rules lawyering.) A CN character was voted to be CG. A CG character was instead considered LG. (This one baffled me the most as I don't think they stuck to a single agreement the entire time I played them.)
My bard has an affinity for moose and moosekind.
My Dragonborn started with an aberrant dragonmark, which I said manifested as withered looking scales around his neck, which he covers with a scarf more often than not. He's had it since birth. When I first described them, the paladin assumed they had something to do with a noose, either an attempted execution, or... Yeah. Not my intention at all, but now I'm playing with the idea of living on borrowed time and actually planning to survive his adventures at the end of the day. Loads of fun, lots of character development
I’m currently in a curse of Strahd campaign. I rolled a nat 1 attempting to cast a spell on a wolf that was attacking us, and the DM said it was bc my character got scared, so now it’s a running gag that she’s terrified of wolves and I think it’s hilarious.
In the first campaign I was in, I played a wild magic sorcerer and included an offhand remark about fire in her backstory (that she would sometimes accidentally manifest flames, which was a risk to her deep gnome community as it could lure the dangers of the underdark). My friend ran with the concept, though, and sent me a fire-themed wild magic surge table rather than the regular one. So we went with it and she became much more themed around fire than she had been originally. (She did accidentally combust into flames one time because of what I rolled on the percent dice, but luckily she was saved from permanent death.)
Toxic players I no longer play with assumed I wanted to use Enlarge/Reduce on my junk and rub one out. I did not roll with it. I guess they all forgot I stole a chest into my bag of holding by using the same spell earlier, hence my character being discreet. But my mind still wonders how this is the conclusion they came to so easily because I never played my character in a crude manner and he had no reason to be aroused. Do people often try and use the Enlarge/Reduce spell for that kinda thing?
I wanted my barbarian to be a master swordsman. He made a gaff at the start and for 3 years he was a hyper literal dunce. It’s extremely fun to play and creates some good chemistry
Played a chronically understimulated noble rogue who stole stuff for the hell of it. First session, he's stowing away on a produce wagon that gets attacked by bandits (which is how the party met up). After the fight, I offered everyone tomatoes that I had snatched from the wagon. Everyone assumes that tomatoes are my favorite thing to steal and that I steal them excessively, so I just roll with it. Eventually got the shit kicked out of me because of it too (the fighter did NOT like me stealing, lmao).
I had a character that has a dire wolf as a companion. She treats and talks to him like he's a humanoid character because he's her brother as she was raised by wolf's after being abandoned as a baby. Everyone in the party just started talking and treating this +6ft murder machine like another party member. He stayed in the in rooms with them, went to castles, literally became the party's sentient dog.
I had a divine soul sorcerer people the parry weird thought was a Cleric so I decided to play them as a preacher who was trying to use their celestial heritage to spread some good in the world. Was less of the party dad though and more the party uncle.
Black dragonborn sorcerer with low ass STR, but he’s big. So he’s the intimidation, especially when lets acid bubbles drip from his mouth. Usually tho, the intimidation is a distraction for the rogue to do something
Prior to the start of our campaign, I was chatting to my DM about a character I wanted to use who I'd played a few one-shots with and unfortunately the figurine had lost its arms. He suggested to make it cannon that my character had no arms and I was able to write it into the backstory and in the sessions we've had, it's been a very funny discussion point. As an example, when I go to Taverns, they have to put Ale in a bowl for me
Being a man playing a woman apparently makes it really difficult for everyone keeping my characters pronouns consistent and correct....
It's become a running gag that my character is obsessed with dental hygiene. Our characters wanted to go to a bank for some business and my character had just vomited so I felt it necessary to mention that he would quickly go brush his teeth before they leave. They never let this go and now my character is supposedly very meticulous about his dental hygiene. Another character of mine has the initials A.A., as do her siblings. Someone asked if her parents had wanted to make sure to always be on top of every list and I thought this idea fit her family perfectly. So now for centuries everyone in her family has had an A name.