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Hi everyone!
So, this thread is to know just that: Who was the weirdest character you've seen at your table.
Not only yours, but the weirdest character you've seen at your table.
Like any good thread opener, let me start:
In a Jade Regent AP that I've been playing (with the same PCs we went through Council of Thieves and was a blast) we got what we call a "multiethnic and multicultural paladin". He was a gnome paladin of Iomedae (mostly a human goddess), who was later reincarnated as a semi-orc and fights using an elven curved blade.
What about you?
^ that is awesome!
In a game of Rappan Athuk I'm playing, one of my friends made a custom race of size large shark-people that have a second mouth in their abdomens.
Q: If they have a mouth at both ends, how do they poop?
A: They can't. That's why they're so mean.
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Q: If they have a mouth at both ends, how do they poop?
A: They can't. That's why they're so mean.
That'd ruin my day too.
Was a 3.5 game, but it was an awakened Saint Bernard (riding dog) named Robert that was a Bard with a couple levels of fighter. The DM let him have Wild Spell as one of his feats so he could cast spells.
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Didn't play this but a 3.5 module had an awakened whale with Druid levels that shapeshifted to human form.
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Three-armed ratfolk Gulchrunner/Plague Bringer. When he was first introduced to the group he was brought in as a replacement character and we "found" him towards the back of the ship's cargo hold with the rest of the rats.... And half the party was ready to kill him before we realized he was the back-up character for one of our players whose character had been ravaged by sharks and lost at sea.
I am currently building an Awakened Arctic Hare (From the Reign of Winter Player's Guide) Sorcerer NPC, that will serve as my Co-GM's Avatar in the game world, for an upcoming Viking/Stone/Bronze Age Campaign I am planning.
Q: If they have a mouth at both ends, how do they poop?
A: They can't. That's why they're so mean.
Or they poop out of their second mouth, which might make them meaner.
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A couple of weeks ago, we had 2 ranged characters in the group and we were trying to figure out if she could drink 2 potions of Shrink Person and become miniscule. Then we could get on either side of the battlefield and shoot her over the enemies' heads with our bows and arrows so she could drop bombs on them.
Please tell me that worked. Lie to me if you must.
Fire-Breathing Phase Doppleganger Giant Space Hamster as a PC in a 2E D&D game. Ah, Spelljammer, drunken brilliance(?) in paper form.
-TimD
Back 1ed I had a friend that played 4armed storm giant named Bigs . What can say, we were kids :-)
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And to add to this thread, a cursed black dragon whose body was the inn that he ran (his mate was trying to recover the pieces of his soul that was scattered by an angry goddess), a reformed illithid samurai (long story), another illithid trapped in a shadow mastiff's body (along with his goat-possessing intellect devourer), a fey hydra that could polymorph into a human (which my Jade Regent players ran into), and an oni-blooded wu jen merchant with a teleporting cart.
...Among others. >.>
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Liz Courts,
I have a feeling I would love playing in your games...
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This is not pathinder but shadowrun. Where I once played a ultimate nice guy streetshaman orc, who lived in a sever, used urban stuff that only were important because people had emotional attachments to them, ( a first toy, favourite painting, family foto) as foci for spell and rode around on flying tricycle.
His nickname in the group was dumpster jesus or dj for short.
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Homebrew bunnyfolk monk in a Dragonlance campaign. More annoying than kender.
Liz Courts,
I have a feeling I would love playing in your games...
Come to PaizoCon and you might get that chance! :D
Come to PaizoCon and you might get that chance! :DLiz Courts,
I have a feeling I would love playing in your games...
Curse being a poor guy from Missouri... Time to make the 2075 Mile Trip on foot. Now where is my Bastard Sword and Kit?
Heard about a dwarf that fought only with his spiked helmet. By jumping at the enemy.
Had two players who wanted to make a pair of Lashers (3.0) with Whip Daggers. They would refer to themselves as the Blender Brothers.
One of the Blender Brothers ran a game with a player that dragged around her dead dog in a pull cart, insisting it was alive. It had caught a magical disease, and the (clearly dead) body occasionally coughed up spoons or pointed north. She used this as evidence for her assertion.
Heard about a dwarf that fought only with his spiked helmet. By jumping at the enemy.
Had two players who wanted to make a pair of Lashers (3.0) with Whip Daggers. They would refer to themselves as the Blender Brothers.
One of the Blender Brothers ran a game with a player that dragged around her dead dog in a pull cart, insisting it was alive. It had caught a magical disease, and the (clearly dead) body occasionally coughed up spoons or pointed north. She used this as evidence for her assertion.
In that case, I think the weirdo was the DOG...
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And to add to this thread, a cursed black dragon whose body was the inn that he ran (his mate was trying to recover the pieces of his soul that was scattered by an angry goddess), a reformed illithid samurai (long story), another illithid trapped in a shadow mastiff's body (along with his goat-possessing intellect devourer), a fey hydra that could polymorph into a human (which my Jade Regent players ran into), and an oni-blooded wu jen merchant with a teleporting cart.
...Among others. >.>
My first moved thread... sniff... sniff... I'm so proud...
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I've had several oddballs, but my favorite was a 3.5 half dragon doppleganger with multiple personalities who took the chameleon prestige class from races of destiny. He could literally look like anyone and mimic any class or class combination he wished.
He also wielded his father's fangs (an amythyst dragon) as specially paired legacy weapons which awoke with his mother's consciousness. (Long story about his mother being murdered by other doppelgangers & being carried back by his father in his teeth.)
Ultimately, this character became a centerpiece for a whole array of other characters I went on to play, including a pair of twins which were a celestial half-fiend (CG telepath/metamind) and a fiendish half-celestial (LE telepath/thrallherd) pitted against each other, and a warforged (NN druid/master of many forms) who was so addicted to the rush of being alive he almost never took his natural form.
3.5...
Torva, my Grey elven storm wizard with dwarfism. Her best friend was a Cuthbertian Paladin (Torva was CG), and being an orphan the paladin chapterhouse (sort of...) looked after her. She ended up wearing a paladin's tunic as a dress.
The strangest I've GMd was a (very wise)awakened porcupine druid.
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Flail snail monk. Specializing in stunning fist. Sorry, it should be stunning flail. At high levels, man that snail could slither charge.
Giggity Giggity Goo?
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Fire-Breathing Phase Doppleganger Giant Space Hamster as a PC in a 2E D&D game. Ah, Spelljammer, drunken brilliance(?) in paper form.
-TimD
In one Spelljammer game I played a Gnomish Giant Space Werehamster, who used some variation on an Al-Qadim wizard kit to do 'clockwork magic.' For shocking grasp, he had a metal gauntlet that had to be charged up using a collapsible exercise bike like contraption. After 15 minutes of vigorous peddling, he'd have a single charge of shocking grasp 'prepared.' Other spells had similar whacky mechanical special effects.
In a GURPS Star Trek game, the doctor was a shapeshifter who injected her own morphic tissue into other people to 'plug holes' and fight off infections and whatnot, with the tissue shapeshifting into the hosts tissue and replacing lost or damaged mass.
In a later game, set in a transhumanist society, a 'human' schoolteacher / scientist who lived on the moon had modified his body to look like a three foot tall anthropomorphic pterasaur, since, under the moon's gravity, he could fly around his home city. Since the game was set on earth, he had to wear a special gravity harness just to walk around without his organs failing and his bones shattering, and flying was out of the question...
A half faerie-dragon sorceress/wizard/ultimate magus with a hat of disguise that she used for nothing other than daily wardrobe changes.
I had a gibberling NPC that at some point I totally -totally- want to play as a PC. Thing is, it spoke in nothing but garbled, high-pitched gibberish, and it talked a lot. The PCs in that game managed to understand it, and befriend it, only by tone, expression, and the occasional pantomime.
A kobold sorcerer named Buck-Buck, like the chicken sound.
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After my character got killed in one game, I played a wise snail advisor for a bit.
Nobody listened to my accurate advice.
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Shadowrun - a 10 foot tall pre op transsexual troll street sam who truly believed she was Xena Warrior Princess.
I love making weird characters, but not one comes close to those in this thread, except for my Drow Spirit Binder/Demon Binder (courtesy of Radiance House's Secrets of Pact Magic). He was never alone, even if he happened to be the only person in the room.
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A druid who had a monkey animal companion that he 'made love' to.
Yeah, had to ban that from my table.
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My weirdest PC was for a Silver Age superhero game, set in NYC in 1968. The character was Comrade Spartacus, Champion of the Proletariat. He was an African-American communist superhero that was a blatant Captain America knock- off.
The weirdest character anyone played in one of my games was in a 2nd ed AD&D game I ran back in college. The character was a human male bard, but the player decided to play him as if he suffered from schizophrenia. (The real mental illness, not the "split personality" trope.) He'd sometimes talk crazy, react inappropriately to events, hallucinate, or just do completely bizarre things. ("I shake the bugbear's hand and introduce him to the imaginary Princess Henrietta, who I think is really a member of the party.") After three sessions, I thought the PC was being disruptive to the game, and I asked the player whether he wanted to retire the character, accept an in-game cure of his insanity, or get killed off. He chose the latter.
Cool, an anti-western black power superhero. I'd allow it.
I can think of a couple:
My goblin chef. She found some cookbooks after killing some humans and was determined to become the greatest chef in the world... her adventuring companions had some of the finest 5 star cooking on a daily basis made from the freshest ingredients... which just happened to be whatever we killed that day or whatever was growing in the area. She even wore the 'uniform' with pride, her chef outfit that is.
Or my Bard built based on a performing bartender Coyote Ugly style which I managed to get approved into a game that banned bards :). She was of course partnering up with another player playing a drunken style monk. We were one hell of a good team. I would inspire the monk with my performance while serving him drinks which also fueled his monk power. I think the GM was having as much fun with the idea as we were.
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From 4e - a halfling paladin who worshiped the goddess of love/lust. Maxed out Str and Cha so his physical looks were along the lines of pint-sized Greek God. His "taunt" was re-flavored as a seductive dance. He also tried to seduce some of the other party members by asking for help getting out of his armor.
Also from 4e - a half-elven bard who suffered from a psychosis that made him absolutely convinced he was a dwarf. Because of this, he felt at home in tunnels, carried mining gear, and always rushed into melee despite having no melee skills to speak of. He also had a very patchy beard, as his elven half severely inhibited facial hair growth. However he was very proud of his "beard". His Diplomancy/Bluff was high enough that he actually came close to convincing some NPCs that he was just a really tall dwarf. He also suffered from chronic depression stemming from the fact he was not proficient in axes (which every good dwarf should be).
My Skull & Shackles back-up - gnomish bard named Viscount Trelane the Superlative. Believes that stories have great power and invents a new, "better" back story for each of his companions. Said back stories are completely counter to the character's true past, but fit his own imaginary narrative better. He collects the left big toe from his various conquests to use as a prop for future storytelling. He also believes that everyone is the best at something, and his (self-given) title of "the Superlative" reflects that he is the best at the most things.
Want-to-play someday - crazy old man who is a cloistered cleric/sensei multiclass. Spends every battle yelling at the young whippersnappers explaining how things were done in his day.
Not entirely as strange as others in this thread, but we have the Aasimar Bard/Summoner Gestalt Maudril.
Fairly charismatic and down to earth person.
Except he can't tell time. At all.
And not in the "So that clock says it's 5:00, right?" "No it's 4:00" kind of way.
Stuff like going 3 hours without lunch and the character claiming it's been decades since he's eaten. And him genuinely believing it's been decades and wondering why they've been wandering around aimlessly for so long and how he hasn't starved to death yet.
Makes for some interesting conversations when anything time sensitive comes up, especially since he's the Face.
Favorite odd loli that i played
Sabrina Nicoletti
Female Italian Gothloli Loli Nekomimi Vampire Lord Sorceress
an aristorcrat w/ her own mini narcotics empire, her cohort was a male natural lycanthrope ranger named Julian
her father cheated on her mother with a vampire, became one, attempted to convert his daughter, Sabrina took forever to convert.
Sabrina loved her books, and her plushies. in fact, she had a variety of enchanted plushies that served as spell receptacles similar to scolls
Sabrina progressed with an XP debt mechanic and a custom monster class, in place of ECL.
to explain the XP debt mechanic
you took the number of total ECLs, calculated how much XP it would take to reach 1+ECL. that was your debt (ECL +1 cost 1,000 XP, ECL +3 cost 6,000, Sabrina had an XP debt of 78,000 for her +12 ECL. the XPdebt replacing ECL)
half the XP you gained counted towards paying off the debt, ((ECL didn't affect XP)), cutting development in half, until the debt was payed off, where you would progress in full
each payed off level of XP debt gave you a free level in the monster class (instead of treating it like a class) but XP payoff levels didn't count towards ECL.
so if Sabrina payed off her 78,000 XP debt, she would have been a full vampire lord, but wouldn't have the ECL drawbacks, and would eventually have a chance to catch up to everyone else over time. assuming she survived the lack of a constitution score.
she never payed off her debt before the DM cancelled the campaign due to a group breakup.
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We had a guy that played a rogue like Mr. Slave from south park, except he would auto fail the traps because he was a masochist.
Other than the Bard-barian we had in the party ... yes, part bard part barbarian...We had a half-orc who put a character level into his race instead of his class (it was a GM experiment) and became half-orc half-minotaur.
Later in the game we defeated a troll and he had the bright idea of cutting off just enough of the troll to regenerate against stomach acid, but not enough that it would regenerate beyond a small lump of flesh...that all changed a couple of weeks later (game time)
His character had been sustained by the troll flesh for a couple of weeks before he finally took some serious damage. Most of the players actually took a lot of damage. Our resident Sorceress started passing out apples from the tree of life. The apples would bring hit points up to the fullest possible maximum, not just up to what they had.
Well, the apple hit the troll flesh and it touched the side of his stomach...There was several ways it could have went, but the GM took the path of least resistance. Seeing as how there was bits of troll all though his body (from being sustained by it) the troll regenerated to be a part of the whole being!
Now we had a Third-Orc, Third-Minotaur and a Third-Troll!!!
Earlier in the game this character had a wish granted to him. (the GM has as much time to mess with the wish as the player takes to make it). He wished for an axe of sharpness. He got an axe of sharp wit. It was this axe that called him an abomination and made a god call with a roll of 03! The god showed up and called him an abomination and cleaved him into 3 pure parts. One orc, one minotaur and one troll. The orc had the axe, so the party monk knocked him out and the party killed the other beings...It was pretty entertaining.
Hi everyone!
So, this thread is to know just that: Who was the weirdest character you've seen at your table.
Not only yours, but the weirdest character you've seen at your table.
Like any good thread opener, let me start:
In a Jade Regent AP that I've been playing (with the same PCs we went through Council of Thieves and was a blast) we got what we call a "multiethnic and multicultural paladin". He was a gnome paladin of Iomedae (mostly a human goddess), who was later reincarnated as a semi-orc and fights using an elven curved blade.
What about you?
Shoogie-Doo the shuggoth, based on Scooby Doo. I still laugh when I think about the player, Ben, having Shoogie wave his tentacles around while bellowing "Shoogie Shoogie Doooooooooo!"
In service,
Rich
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