D&D 5E Most incongruent character

[Warpiglet-7]

Just for fun....

just curious about the oddest multiclass combo you have seen or played.

bonus points for odd racial choice.

subclass info would be fun too

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Just for fun....

just curious about the oddest multiclass combo you have seen or played.

bonus points for odd racial choice.

subclass info would be fun too

Gnoll Artificer was pretty oddball, until they took a level of Barbarian, and then it became more about the oddity if the MC build.

 

[DND_Reborn]

A half-orc rogue (swashbuckler)/ druid (circle of the land--swamp).

The concept actually sort of made sense. A "pirate"-type raider who grew up in the swamps where they would hide after raids and such.

Didn't max out STR, but actually focused a lot on WIS so was good at perception, etc. and then balanced DEX and CHA.

 

[jgsugden]

Not sure if I'd call her incongruent or oddball from a build perspecitve, but the most complex character I played was a Glasya Tiefling. She had 5 levels of Gloom Stalker Ranger, followed by 5 levels of Divine Soul Sorcerer, then 4 Levels of Assassin Rogue, then 1 Level of Cleric of Order, then 4 levels of Battlemaster Fighter and 1 more level of rogue. She was a descendent of Asmodeus via Glasya and worshipped him as a "Necessary Evil" that deserved to be recognized for what he was - someone spending an eternity fighting a war for the benefit of all, who was due to the compensation he demanded from others for his efforts. However, she considered herself to be goodly being and spent a life of sacrifice before dying in the ultimate battle of the campaign.

She spent 20 levels trying to prove that Asmodeus should be seen not as the ultimate evil, but as someone that sacrificed for others and demanded fair compensation. This put her at odds with pretty much everyone - so in that sense she was extremely oddball. However, from a character build perspective, all the levels she took followed the concept of the character and the adventures they were undertaking.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Not sure if I'd call her incongruent or oddball from a build perspecitve, but the most complex character I played was a Glasya Tiefling. She had 5 levels of Gloom Stalker Ranger, followed by 5 levels of Divine Soul Sorcerer, then 4 Levels of Assassin Rogue, then 1 Level of Cleric of Order, then 4 levels of Battlemaster Fighter and 1 more level of rogue. She was a descendent of Asmodeus via Glasya and worshipped him as a "Necessary Evil" that deserved to be recognized for what he was - someone spending an eternity fighting a war for the benefit of all, who was due to the compensation he demanded from others for his efforts. However, she considered herself to be goodly being and spent a life of sacrifice before dying in the ultimate battle of the campaign.

She spent 20 levels trying to prove that Asmodeus should be seen not as the ultimate evil, but as someone that sacrificed for others and demanded fair compensation. This put her at odds with pretty much everyone - so in that sense she was extremely oddball. However, from a character build perspective, all the levels she took followed the concept of the character and the adventures they were undertaking.

I am still toiling over the sub race of tiefling I want to take for the character I am developing!

thinking about a deluded cult leader (not nec evil) but the charm and friends cantrip would be a nice complement!

 

[Shiroiken]

In 3E, a friend of mine played a human ranger/sorcerer. Not only was his ability scores completely MAD (he needed every ability score to be positive except Int, which he didn't want negative for loss of skill points), but everything was counter-intuitive. The best part about the character was that he got a leopard animal companion, a raven familiar, and then a faerie dragon henchman, so he was a walking menagerie.

 

[humble minion]

I had an NPC in a 3e Masque of the Red Death campaign who was a multiclassed lawyer/barbarian.

 

[Bacon Bits]

In 5e? Paladin/Warlock. Yes, you can make it work. I've never seen it done successfully. It always looks like the CharOp tail wagging the backstory dog.

However, as far as the most ingongruent character, In AD&D we had a Druid/Magic-User in one campaign. This player insisted that their character was divided between Lawful (Magic-User) and Chaotic (Druid). Again, you can make this work, but that's not how the character was played. In actual play, the PC tried to do the exact opposite of what the party was trying to accomplish. Always. Did very little in combat, undermined NPC discussions, sabotaged other party efforts, etc. He only acted to disrupt the party, but he also largely only did it off-camera so it was difficult to blame his character for anything. We never invited that player to another campaign (shocker, I know!) but what really surprised me was that we put up with it for about three years before the campaign ended. We made it to level 15 with this guy attempting to mess things up all the time "to maintain The Balance" and generally failing to do so. The term "incongruent" defined this PC.

 

[Flamestrike]

She had 5 levels of Gloom Stalker Ranger, followed by 5 levels of Divine Soul Sorcerer, then 4 Levels of Assassin Rogue, then 1 Level of Cleric of Order, then 4 levels of Battlemaster Fighter and 1 more level of rogue.

And all that was needed was Dex, Cha and Wisdom 13+

 

[Arvok]

I was part of a 3.5e campaign that started at 4th level. I rolled up a half-orc barbarian with 1 level of sorcerer. None of the other players knew the barbarian could cast spells and he never gave any indication that he had any sort of magic ability (by the way, I had written up a long backstory that made this combination seem plausible).

One day we were in a large combat and getting hammered. We were beating down our opponents but could finish them off (long story about some obscure monster from a 3PP). There's only 1 enemy left; he's almost down but so are all of us. The initiative order comes around the table to me:

"I take a 5-foot step back and cast magic missile."

Other player: "You can't...just do that."

Me: "Yes I can."

Other player: "No, you can't."

Me: "Yes I can."

Other Player: "No you can't"

DM: "Yes. He can. Roll for damage."

I was able to kill the last monster and then had to answer a bunch of questions (in character) from the rest of the party. Great fun.