So what IS that one idea you have, that nobody else in their right mind would ever play
For me, it'd be a sentient helicopter (Gyrocopter) with loads of splash weapons and launching crossbows. He'd have a single dip in synthesist to be able to hide his true helicopter nature. because nobody would ever accept him
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I have tried on several occasions to play Kerpca basically a squirrel. One DM I had in 3.5 made a go at the race. He thought it worked best as tiny and allowed it to be pretty fast. I never got to use it cause the campaign fell apart.
One of the other players was a very strong Goliath. My plan was to run around for one round around enemies with rope and then end the round handing the rope to the Goliath and yelling "pull."
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Awakened Owlbear Wizard...
nuff said
What a fun thread idea!
I mentioned this recently. The most outlandish? Probably not, no. But it certainly ranks up there as "unlikely to ever see play" for many reasons.
It's something I've wanted to for quit
To re-post:
A first level lich (actually a multifaceted undead, but mostly a lich).
The story was something I've had bouncing around since 3E, and an April Fools story about Dave the Lich.
The story!:The idea is that a group of NPC-classed fellows went on an adventure way over their CR in the nearby mountains, and all but one (well, all but two*) of them ended up surviving.
The following is from memory (instead of a detailed look at my notes):During their foray (over time) into the depths of the mountain cave (where the wicked necromancer was in the process of becoming a lich), the caster was infected with ghoul fever
and had his strength drained by a shadow, his constitution by a vampire's bite; he was kept alive only by the one magical device the group had between them, a magical amulet that augmented constitution. When they confronted the would-be lich at the pentultimate moment in the ritual, the adept was finally killed by the touch of a wraith... freeing his soul to be bound in the phylactery instead of the necromancer.With the competing agency of a bunch of undead trying to turn him into their kind, the adept comes back as a ghost instead, the necromancer is killed (though the warrior loses an arm for drama), and through a... um... cluster... uh... integrated bodily function... of possession, ends up shoved back into his own soul.
The three survivors - an expert suffering from swamp fever, a one-armed warrior, and a wounded aristocrat - were horrified and ran away from something horrifying in the darkness. It wasn't until they got to the edge of the cave that dawn and saw that it was their friend (also running terrified of whatever it was with his friends - that they realized that he was still alive... or rather, undead.
Although he was paralyzed and nearly destroyed by the sunlight (a combination of the weaknesses of vampires, specters, ghosts, etc.) he was saved by one of his friends recognizing the problem and shoving him back into the cave.
They discussed things, realized he wasn't evil - just cursed and undead - and they said their fair-wells, all achieving second level, while the adept retained his first level (and becoming a 1st level wizard instead of a 2nd level adept - I'd flavored his spells being in a book he carried around to prepare from).
He made peace with his phylactery - I think it was animated, or a golem or something? - and sent it away in peace.
He then becomes an adventurer (at night, naturally) for goodness.
Anyway, metric ton of weaknesses, a few nifty abilities, and hypothetical immortality.
Not really a surprise I've never been allowed to play it.
Still something I've always wanted to do, though.
* But really, going into details would be just too long.
an anti-paladin, that, get this, isn't chaotic evil.
though, one of my player's currently is playing as "theoretically" a familiar of a horse. This was because he was riding the horse when it killed everything in the first encounter and so it leveled up and became a wizard(not really, the player is actually a wizard pretending to be a fighter, and is using the horse as cover).
I already did play the most outlandish things with RIFTS...guess most outlandish things in Pathfinder:
was always curious in playing an actual Saiyan , yeah the race from Dragon Ball in a dnd like setting and see how that would go.
Alchemist.....Druid.........barbarian...bloodrager?
Like.... Each one is another power level?
Eventually rage as a dire ape on mutagen?
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I already did play the most outlandish things with RIFTS...guess most outlandish things in Pathfinder:
was always curious in playing an actual Saiyan , yeah the race from Dragon Ball in a dnd like setting and see how that would go.
Alchemist.....Druid.........barbarian...bloodrager?
Like.... Each one is another power level?
Eventually rage as a dire ape on mutagen?
gain 5 negative levels if your tail gets cut off...
A sentient nanomachine colony that generally maintains a humanoid form, but can reshape body parts into weapons and equipment.
The character would begin tabula rasa, no skills, knowledge, or identity, and would develop through interactions with the party and the world. Essentially they'd begin as completely childlike, but mature through the game experiences.
Imagine learning proper behaviour, social skills, and morality from a typical adventuring party.
I have played strange things in the past and I really cant see or imagine something that is too outlandish. If the game is right.
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honestly, I want to play an AI, like the kind that doesn't in general have it's own 'body".
Nothing more outlandish than Dick.
Nothing more outlandish than Dick.
that word, i don't think it means, what you think it means.
Quit quoting Richard.
a Nanite infused Cyborg Loligoth Nymph Magical Girl with a constant craving for sweets.
Don't know if it counts but as a DM I had a BBEG who was an albino drow necromancer lich defiler. If not the most outlandish, certainly the longest title.
A bard whose performance is with spoons and the ssoundgardensong: spoon man
This is acceptable only if he continually uses spoonerisms.
I have had several characters play the spoons. Usually cause they enjoy a performance rather than primary performance.
Awakened Monkey Gunslinger, Awakened Gorilla Barbarian, Awakened Sloth Monk. I'm pretty tame.
I once played a sentient skeleton. In life he had been a necromancer who tried to become a lich; the process failed catastrophically and he ended up as a skeleton with only vague memories of his past.
In a 3.5 game I played a Yuan-ti Abomination Wizard-Priest of Merrshaulk.
I played a 3.5 Forgotten Realms Barbarian/Bear Warrior/Frost Rager; this meant that when I raged I turned into an Ice-covered Dire Bear with ~700 hp.
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It was a champions game and I played a man sized amoeba from the Andromeda galaxy who had high strength, mental powers and speech impediment (he was new on earth and spoke by vibrating his outer membrane, and hadn't quite got the hang of it).
I don't think I could go much further than that.
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An awakened monkey gunslinger.
Everything is better with monkeys.
Your plan usually is not really thought out well if it involves giving the monkey a gun.
.....and beat by Barathos.
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Tapping 3.5 some more...
A sentient Living Spell from Eberron, possibly with the ability to add more spells to my essence as I leveled up or something (I wasn't entirely sure). Especially illusion and enchantment effects.
"I punch him!"
"He likes it and is now your new best friend!"
A therianthropic were dire polarbear who's 'were' side gains the spirit animal template (from Frostburn, as opposed to the Telthor template from Unapproachable East), the shade template (from Forgotten Realms) and the shadow creature template (from Manual of the Planes) - the ability to shift into an enormous incorporeal shadowy spirit that does a metric ton of non-lethal damage and has tremendous senses, movement options, and other nifty abilities has always been a dream.
- My "base form" would be a commoner of some sort (likely a human). :D
a sentient lolimental
essentially an awakened small elemental with a youthful anthropomorphic figure and usually fire or air
So what IS that one idea you have, that nobody else in their right mind would ever play
For me, it'd be a sentient helicopter (Gyrocopter) with loads of splash weapons and launching crossbows. He'd have a single dip in synthesist to be able to hide his true helicopter nature. because nobody would ever accept him
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An awakened monkey gunslinger.
Everything is better with monkeys.
Your plan usually is not really thought out well if it involves giving the monkey a gun.
.....and beat by Barathos.
Team up and I'll be the gorilla. We can fight awakened crocodiles.
Edit: It's Donkey Kong if it's not obvious
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all i ever wanted to be was a worm who walks
An awakened monkey gunslinger.
Everything is better with monkeys.
Your plan usually is not really thought out well if it involves giving the monkey a gun.
.....and beat by Barathos.
I'm currently playing a Vanara gunslinger (musket master). Does that count?
His personality is based on an 18-19th century British big game hunter in the African colonies. Except we're playing in Golarion; so instead he's a hunter and hunting guide for the Mwangi Expanse.
A Nanite infused Cyborg Loligoth Nymph Magical Girl with a constant craving for sweets.
Don't ever change, you hear me? I never get tired of seeing the ideas you throw around here.
A Nanite infused Cyborg Loligoth Nymph Magical Girl with a constant craving for sweets.Don't ever change, you hear me? I never get tired of seeing the ideas you throw around here.
thankies oneechan/oniichan
Outlandish things I have played in the past:
- Nanite infused Cowboy robot who used to sit at the campfire drinking molten lead, while his buddies drank coffee.
- A blind warrior woman (One of those on the Rifts cover). A genetically modified fighter who uses psionic senses instead of normal sight.
- A kind of alien child. The parents of that race are more or less god-like. But the children, who "only" have some temporal manipulation powers can be played.
- A spirit who had possessed a cat's body and by that could interact with the physical world.
- The most outlandish thing I've played in PF was a strong half-orc earth wizard with a pig familiar. He pretended to be a peasant, wearing peasant clothes, a straw-hat and always had a straw in his mouth. In combat he used his flail unless there was some serious threat. Then he used his acid cloud school power or cast spells.
I had one player come to a session and request to play a 'lesbian vampire warrior princess pirate captain with a peg leg and three pet monkeys."
After unpacking all of that, I asked 'and what race was this vampire before turning?"
"Dwarf."
Normally I would have called BS, but this came from one of my best role players... so I told him to play it (with restrictions for balance, etc). Still, one of the funniest things I've seen in gaming, I tell you.
Oooh, just had a fun thought, Play a summoner with a doll eidolon, something along the lines of Chachazero from Negima. Just totally insane evil doll, or at least it acts like it.
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human fighter
Oooh, just had a fun thought, Play a summoner with a doll eidolon, something along the lines of Chachazero from Negima. Just totally insane evil doll, or at least it acts like it.
I'm pretty sure the Jadwiga have you covered there.
human fighter
If he's competent in and out of combat at all levels he is really outlandish.
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3.5: A legless Halfling Reaping Mauler that rides in the backpack of a Goliath who uses said Halfling as a living missile of grapply death. Out of combat he would just annoyingly offer suggestion on how to do stuff that he knew nothign about. And prcatice Tumbling and Balance.
3.5: A legless Halfling Reaping Mauler that rides in the backpack of a Goliath who uses said Halfling as a living missile of grapply death. Out of combat he would just annoyingly offer suggestion on how to do stuff that he knew nothign about. And prcatice Tumbling and Balance.
I love this idea, I really do, and would watch the f~$& out of a game session with him in it.
Played an elven were-piasma in shadow run, with bio ware. That was fun.
3.5: A legless Halfling Reaping Mauler that rides in the backpack of a Goliath who uses said Halfling as a living missile of grapply death. Out of combat he would just annoyingly offer suggestion on how to do stuff that he knew nothign about. And prcatice Tumbling and Balance.I love this idea, I really do, and would watch the f@+& out of a game session with him in it.
Thanks! I think it would be epically fun but possibly etically wrong. But just the picture of a goliath throwing basically a flesh boulder with arms and a head which then puts someone in an armbar is hilarious. :)
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Android alchemist with a tumor familiar and Improved Familiar to gain a lightning elemental that is literally the electric charge keeping her going. Leaps out and zaps people. Jolts back in to keep the nanites flowing.
...I don't play in Golarion. I probably got all that wrong.
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I'm Batman!
Or perhaps Santa Claus or the Marshmallow Man!
An awakened monkey gunslinger.
Everything is better with monkeys.
You would like the book Ack Ack Macaque.