Most Unique PCs

[Derek R.]

Unless your into just Hack n Slash, making Unique PCs can be pretty fun. We made a table that randomly gives you some quirk about your chars personallity. Anything that is out of the norm or different makes for fun things to play. Here are two of my funny PC stories why don't you tell me some of yours? Don't be shy, gather 'round....oh its ok, I never wear pants.

1.Had a Fighter (with a horrible low self estem) who found this Intellegent Sword. Well the Intellegent Sword -hated- him and taunted him to the point that he actually fell on the sword and killed himself. Uhm...guess you had to be there.

2.Had this Brave Couragerous Paladin who slew Dragons, Orcish Overlords and powerful Blackguards...who was terrified of undead. Oh he'd fight them, but he was squimish around them and even fainted in the pressence of a Lich. Yeah he was a pansy...

3.Had this Mage who was a bit of a poet at heart. When he ran into someone he thought was beautiful he'd turn them to stone and place them in the Gardens of his Estate. Mwahahaha. Better Homes and Gardens D&D style. Gee, that was funnier when I said it in my head.

[Neverwhere]

LOL! I love the 3rd one! Fugging hilarious. Weirdest NPC? Umm.. I was playing a campaign where there was this goblin who was a 'scholar'. He had this intelligence hat that, according to our DM, gave him +10 to his intelligence. Wow, it now numbered a whopping 12 :D J/K, but still.. That goblin was weird. Although it did have a habit of showing up when we were fudged and saving our asses

[Dante]

I heard of this guy who played a Wild Mage drow with a *major* multiple personality problem. Due to wild magic, magical experimentation and his own insanity, every bout of madness would change his alignment and personality and the drow's body would shift along with it. It was kind of like playing nine different characters in one.

I wanted to try creating a cleric like Jigong, the mad Buddhist monk, who was irreverent and depraved, but nevertheless managed to use his considerable powers to help the defenseless and punish the wicked.

[cruelty13]

My character is very un hilarious. Leader of a colony, where she hascreated a small feodal system. Śhe is greedy, gluttonous, gets angered easily, hates dogs and has No sense of Humor. Besides that she is a mutant, who can change into a treelikecreature. And it is all hapening in the 17.century on a world that is a flat square.

[Neverwhere]

... thats just plain fucked up yo ...

[Dante]

My character is very un hilarious. Leader of a colony, where she hascreated a small feodal system. Śhe is greedy, gluttonous, gets angered easily, hates dogs and has No sense of Humor. Besides that she is a mutant, who can change into a treelikecreature. And it is all hapening in the 17.century on a world that is a flat square.

Unique for its utter lack of colour. Next.

[cruelty13]

Why thank you.

[Dante]

Why thank you.

Ah, the sarcasm is *so* subtle... Though I wonder what kind of campaign you must have been playing...

[cruelty13]

a realistic-unrealistic one. It's actualy quite fun.

[Neverwhere]

can change into a treelikecreatureYeah... real realistic...

[cruelty13]

Well, it's a high-magic world. Besides, my character uses a stone for it.

[Neverwhere]

yet again.. Magic. Real realisitc

[cruelty13]

Well basicly. Acording to the rules of GURPS
it does count as realistic. Funny huh.

[Neverwhere]

well, I Was talking realistic in terms of actual reality. :D

[Metacide]

i once had a character who had an insainty, which was he HAD to think logically, and he had another quirk which made him homophobic. Everytime he met someone he didnt like the logic went pretty much "I dont like you, i dont like homos, therefore you are a homo and are about to get smote" he was not a very intelligent or nice guy but it was fun while it lasted.

[Derek R.]

Theres an interesting ability. Smite Homo

[Metacide]

yeh it wasnt so much smiting as just general bashing of heads.

[Derek R.]

You mean theres a difference? *points to Valor the paladin* You lied to me!!! *chases with the Rod of Discipline TM.*

[Neverwhere]

wow... he spelled it right...

[Derek R.]

Its near Christmas....miracles happen from time to time. Wait.... Did I spell miracles wrong?

[Metacide]

miraculously you did not spell it wrong

[Derek R.]

Praise Webster!

[Gerad]

Well, there was once a character who I decided was undecisive...

He (or she?) was a Half-elven Fighter/Mage/Thief. To top it off, I even gave him a bastard sword so he could use it one- or two-handed.

Oh sorry, it was for 2nd edition.

[Neverwhere]

In-order to use any two handed weapon in one hand the feat monkey grip is required. Which, as per house rules where I live, is banned. A barbarian with 2x2h-swords is just going to stomp all over people.

[Derek R.]

You can't ban monkey grip! It has "other" uses you know and a Barb has all that pent up rage....he needs the M grip....trust me....

[Neverwhere]

dude... you need help. Seriously.

[Derek R.]

You say that like its a bad thing.?..ohhh it was.

[Metacide]

This guy we play with once had sever depression, which stemmed from the fact that he had four balls and no bat, if you catch my meaning. We use to have great fun tormenting the player because everytime we brought it up, even in a roundabout way, he would get depressed and would be unable to do anything well.

[Muffin Mage]

STOP THE FUGGIN' SPAMMING! OR I'LL CALL IN THE ADMINS ON ALL YOUR BACKSIDES!

Anywho, to business.

We once had a spider monkey rogue. I don't know why, but he was cool. He had a dex of about 34, and could rob you blind, and you wouldn't know it until you tried to put your contact lenses in.

There was also a rivalry between my mage and a blackguard, that culminated in my blowing myself up and dealing insane damage to him. Good times, those...

[seraph_cherry]

The best character I ever had was an idiotic( low int) paladin who belived everyone nedded his advice and never shut up, he was really strong so as soon as you questioned him he called it blashphemy and stuck a lance through your heart.

two greatswords arn't cheap, they have huge penalty, and by the time it dosen't matter any wizard could whoop him up, or something flying slag him

[GatoFiero]

I have a friend who had a Barbarian with very low intel. So his party stumbles into a large group of very angry looking barbarians who don't look happy to see the heros. What do the heros do? They push their barbarian comrad into the front of the group, their logic being that dispite his low intel. he can still reason with other barbarians. So what does he do? He picks up a rock, thrusts it into the air and yells at the top of his voice "Rock!" And then all the other barbarians start to chant "Rock Rock Rock!"

That my friends, is how Thrak the first priest of Rock came to be. He lead his newly aquired barbarian tribe in an overthrow of the land he and his allys ruled with an iron fist....ok i made that last part up but he did do the first thing and get all the barbarians to follow his commands.

[Dante]

I have a friend who had a Barbarian with very low intel. So his party stumbles into a large group of very angry looking barbarians who don't look happy to see the heros. What do the heros do? They push their barbarian comrad into the front of the group, their logic being that dispite his low intel. he can still reason with other barbarians. So what does he do? He picks up a rock, thrusts it into the air and yells at the top of his voice "Rock!" And then all the other barbarians start to chant "Rock Rock Rock!"

That my friends, is how Thrak the first priest of Rock came to be. He lead his newly aquired barbarian tribe in an overthrow of the land he and his allys ruled with an iron fist....ok i made that last part up but he did do the first thing and get all the barbarians to follow his commands.

Reminds me of Fallout 2 where there was this incredibly stupid guy in the first town. Normal people couldn't understand his gruntings but if you had a low intelligence you could actually speak normally with him! I laughed my ass off when I first saw that...

Targ: Grunt! (Greetings, noble traveller, my name is Targ)
Me: Ugh! ( The same, great one. Where is this place, might I ask?)

[Ranson]

I think my best is the one I'm still currently playing after 7 years. He's a 2nd-converted-to-3rd editon half elf fighter/cleric of Tempus. Nothing special there, really, but as he went on, he managed, by level 10, to gain a strength of 22 (2nd ed) through divine favor; travelled to Ravenloft and picked up cat eyes, fur, legs, and a prehensile tail (ended up doing something nice and giving that one back- it was nice for third-wielding a dagger, though), the legs are nice for a +10 to jump checks, but the fact they bend the wrong way makes wearing looted armor tough. He was once gifted with a magical Bag of Unending Cheese Wheels. He often prefers wrestling opponents to a regular fight, such as attempting to bull rush a chimera, grab it, and carry it off of a cliff. One of his favorite hobbies is using low-level drow for origami. He once spent an entire gaming session shaving bits off of a tratorius NPC for information. He once ruined a long and carefully plotted out storyline simply by plane-shifting the entire party to Aarvendor to escape combat. He has a keep in the Abyss.

All in all, he's been my most interesting character.

[Dante]

Using drow for origami? Damn, how did he do that?

[ElseaAskew]

as a dm i have to make 20ish chars for each session.
i made some great ones though.

a halfling paladin who rode a raptor. And his sidekick,a halforc paladin that rode A donkey named bright eyes

i also had an ass of a player that i decided to dealwith ala god like dm powers.
i knew any item he found he would keep for himself, whitch really pissed everyone else off.
so i made a +4 keen vorpal bastard sword.
the catch was, if you did not behead your foe befor you sheath it, your soul would be traped in the sword kinda like a magic jar (but not exactly, i forget how all i did it) but the trick to return your soul was that you had to have someone else stab your body with it. whitch is a coudegras, and would in turn cut your head off, so he had to be raised after that.
god that was fun!

[Derek R.]

Gee Gah-your vicious.

[cruelty13]

BRAVO!!! BRAVISSIMO! Thanks for the idea! I'l use it next time, only with big modifications, no to kill the character, but to make it stronger for some time and then slowly give the powers to hell and make the character weak as a baby, MWHAHAHAHAH!

[Shokker]

I was playing a 4th level paladin one time and he got in a little fight with a bunch of skeletons. We were using the special Crit Table so there were special rules for crits, and as it turned out I got 4 of my fingers slashed off. All but the middle. So here I am, a paladin, that can only flip people off and can't even hold his greatsword properly. Then, another crit busted his teeth, and another his nose. (I think my DM had some divine help or something, 3 crits like that... ugh...) So I am one ugly dude. I develop a hatred of undead and go into a blind rage of retribution whenever I see one. It's actually gotta be pretty funny to see a low level paladin with no teeth and a crooked nose running into battle flipping off a zombie.

[Ranson]

Drow origami is easy when your grapple check averages 20 more than your DM's basic Drow cannon fodder. You can say things like "I attempt to tie his legs in a bow knot" and such. As I said, this guy tried to grapple a chimera a few levels back just to try and startle it into doing something stupid.

[VeritasHertz]

As a DM I have had numerous strange PCs and NPCs enter my games. My favorite of which is Herman. Herman was a fluke that appeared in a fight with a 5th level party. Basically, the party got into a fight with a band of orcs who had some goblin underlings. The party pretty easily dealt with a majority of the random encounter without much trouble... with one exception. The party kept on missing one of the goblins. At first we all thought it was humourous. Then I rolled to attack with this couragous little beast. He attacks the party barbarian, rolls a natural 20... then another... then another. So the barbarian is dropped by this goblin and the party goes into shock. They try to hit him, shoot him, the wizard casts melfs acid arrow at him... to no avail. That little goblin killed 3 5th level characters leaving the wizard and the cleric alive.
The players were infuriated and agreed to surrender to the little goblin who proclaimed, "I dub the Herman's slaves!"
Now whenever a goblin manages to pull off plural critical hits, or an insty death I name him herman and give him luck bonuses to his attacks, AC, and saves. We've declared him a CR 6 goblin :)

[Neverwhere]

it is for that reason I (as dm) have outlawed 3x crits = death

[VeritasHertz]

I think it adds a little bit of fear into the characters's hearts. It's humbling to know that even the biggest character can be killed by the lowest of monsters if it's lucky enough.

[Neverwhere]

correct, but I just dont want to deal with the bitching of people when their character that they've played for the past 5 years dies when a goblin wench chops its head off (I swear that never happened)

[Dante]

I was wondering... Has any DM tried out the Kobold Kommando concept? You have a bunch of wimpy Kobolds approach the high-level, arrogant party... And then it turns out they are elite 19th level characters with all manner of templates and whatnot...

Also, I read about a sword that became more powerful the more often it was used. For example, commit dwarven genocide and it becomes a dwarf bane sword eventually. There is no limit tot his ability except that you have to kill a number of whatever creatures you want it to oppose. The only catch is that the powers only work for their current user, and if you don't touch it for more than a certain amount of time, you lose all of them, permanently.

[Metacide]

We had this NPC once named Covington, think Paddington the Bear (the bear with the Raincoat), who was given to us as punishment for some reason or other. anyway this bear would ollow us around and sing "It's Raining Men" while little Dildo raindrops fell from nowhere, while we were tryin to sneam up on an enemy. I eventually ended up buying him a toy boat which became his all terrain vehicle, thank you DM magic, which was crewed by a bunch of Kobolds. One of our members hated Covington to such a degree that he would go out of his way to hurt him, which NEVER worked but he was a slow learner, so Covington started acting extremely gay and ended up raping that guy when he fell unconcious. good times

[Neverwhere]

We did a thing like the Kobold Kommando thing, only with Orcs. This guy in one of my friends groups was approached by a level 26 Orc Fighter/Juggernaut. Lets just say he had 6 attacks, each with a 2h great sword. Now, the other guy wasnt exactly weak (lvl 28 [fighter/juggernaut also]), but the orc did 4 crits and 2 normal hits. 646 damage in one ground. The guy died, but was brought back instantly due to some item he had. It was funny too, because the orc was losing, then it came back and slaughtered this guy in one round

[Dante]

Elite monsters are always nasty... Free templates, anyone?

Speaking of Kobold Kommandos, Wizards just released a new article on kobolds as elite opponents. Check out the link - http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/eo/20031109a

[Mog]

I was playing a level 4 sorcerer ((focusing in necro spells))at the beggining of one of those, ((you start in a pretty big city)) campaigns and for some reason the dm described a person carrying something really heavy, i beleive it was a quarry worker with some boulder. Well naturally my sorcerer had to cast ray of enfeeblement on the poor shmuck. What was sicker. was that i rolled a 6 and the guy splatted under the weight of his own gear not to mention the boulder. My dm loved this so much that he often finds excuses to have npc's carrying heavy things around so that they get enfeebled and go squish.....one time a dwarf was carrying his anvil somewhere for some reason....stuff like that, great times.....untill the party paladin noticed my evil tendancies and made off with my head but it was still fun.

[Exploding Ostrich]

I was playing a barbarian with a pathological fear of gems. Needless to say, we came across a pair of double doors encrusted with gems. I had some weird interaction with the obligatory twinkish guy in the group:

ME:Uh-oh.
TWINK: Ooooh, jewels.
ME: Don't touch 'em.
TWINK: What? I'll give you some.
ME: I said DON'T TOUCH 'EM.
TWINK: Screw you, moron. I'm taking 'em.
ME: *knocks him unconscious* Look, I know what I'm talking about. Don't touch 'em.
PARTY CLERIC: I'll just open the door now.
ME: AAAAAH! *crouches down and cowers. Nothing happens.* Phew.

EDIT: Note that the twinkish guy's chara was supposedly a Neutral Good fighter.

[Andy]

i was watching a d&d session my mates were having. this one guy chris played this hooker from some bar. he had all these STD's and stuff. it was biological warfare, like he could fart on them and kill them, breathe on them and stuff, and theyd all get kooky-weird diseases.

he gave the whole party AIDS somehow, though.