D100 Character concepts

From Elements of Magic


1. A performer whose real spells emulate those of stage magicians.
2. A witch who calls evil spirits to curse and transform her foes.
3. An oracle who can learn and know anything, or conceal knowledge from others.
4. A humble healing priest who subdues his foes by paralyzing them with the overwhelming holy power of forgiveness.
5. A warrior priest whose magic instills her with righteous might.
6. A primitive shaman who believes he is protecting his tribe from evil spirits by commanding the destructive elements of nature—storms, fire, and wind.
7. A young girl blessed by the fey to make herself invisible, intangible, and irresistable.
8. A wild man raised by wolves, whose magic powers stem from the belief that he is an invincible wild beast.
9. A telepath from a metropolitan seaport, who uses her subtle power to prevent the common injustices of hate and violence.
10. A demented telepath, shunned and abused as a child, who takes his revenge by killing those he hates and doing his best to assume their role in society, losing sense of who he himself is.
11. A princess, kidnapped by evil cultists who tried to control her and use her against the kingdom, but she overcame them, learned from them, and now fights them.
12. A human that is the ‘familiar’ of a fire-breathing dragon, and has powers granted by his master.
13. An author who writes books of different worlds, then can recreate aspects of the stories he writes.
14. A song mage from an island culture, learning the power of wind, tide, and surf.
15. An elderly scholar, trying to dabble in every type of magic before he dies.
16. A sorceress who once accidentally summoned a bit of a god, and now sometimes acts as her emmissary without knowing it.
17. A sickly, jealous man who seeks to control the powers of life and death.
18. An elvish botanist who sees trees’ long lifespan an even better route to immortality than his elvish blood, so he emulates trees.
19. A gypsy fortune teller, who focuses her magic through her deck of cards.
20. A traveling boy trying to bond with the magical beasts of different lands, so he can summon them as defense, fulfilling a myth of his people.
21. One of five women born under the influence of the different planets, their power related to the progress of celestial bodies through the sky.
22. A dark elf from the land below, whose first, revelatory arrival on the surface world was during a roaring thunderstorm.
23. A member of a four-tiered elementalists order, traveling the world to reinforce the world’s connection to the elemental planes.
24. A shadow mage who uses his flexible magical skills to create spells that are dark, cruel reflections of his foes.
25. A dwarven daughter of stonemasons, all of whose spells are defensive and stone-related.
26. A halfling pony-riding nomad who befriends the animals of the plains and can sense whatever happens anywhere in his homeland.
27. A duelist who charges his blade with magical energy, but goes to great lengths to hide his magical powers.
28. A self-conscious sorceress who compensates by learning the most destructive spells possible.
29. A traveling minstrel who calls upon the power of ancient heroes, and the charm of legendary diplomats.
30. An alcoholic priest who uses magic to make others happy and forgetful.
31. A berserker who takes on leonine aspects in his rages.
32. A pious warrior who dabbles in healing magic to protect her allies.
33. A member of the druidic order, using knowledge and control of nature to protect their people.
34. A disgruntled farmer who can speak with spirits, and ends up bonding with an Elvish ghost that teaches him druidic magic.
35. The recipient of a hideous experiment that combined her body with that of a displacer beast, making her a premier assassin.
36. A sinister warrior trained in antimagic tactics so he can murder members of a powerful mage order.
37. A superstitious tattooed mage who does not cast magic, but rather prays for lucky favors.
38. A charming enchanter who runs a small duchy.
39. A charlatan who swindles people from village to village, summoning monsters to scare them, then fighting them off.
40. A magical diplomat, who studies spellcraft just so he can defend himself from charms, and so he can communicate more effectively.
41. A shapeshifting monk who can hear the echoes of the souls of man and beast.
42. A keening, depressed mage who sings bad love songs and tries to kill those who thinks she is a famous spurned lover from literature.
43. A strong but unskilled man who uses fear magic to assure his reputation as a powerful warrior.
44. A gnomish mage who collects trinkets from every other mage he meets, tapping a bit of their energy instead of using his own power.
45. An mind-reading midwive who becomes an adventurer after her employer tries to use her powers to harm others.
46. A buckle-bound sorcerer who thinks he is descended from dragons, and seeks to return to his ancestors’ form.
47. A stingy merchant who employs adventurers to bring him antiquities, while he accompanies them and uses his magic to ensure his comfort.
48. A beautiful spy who seduces with magic those she needs information from.
49. A rich Elvish landowner who loves his employees so much he keeps them working for him unto death.
50. A married couple who have a magical link, allowing one to teleport to the other in times of danger.
 

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Should I start at 13 or 62?

62) A mercenary priest who brings the good word of his god to the highest bidder.

63) An awakened cat rogue, with a flair for conning people out of their money rather then stealing it. Puss in Boots, anyone?

64) A barbarian who's really a nice guy, but once you get him mad...

65) A rogue who specializes in robbing graves, so much so that he's made friends with at least one pack of ghouls in order to help him.

66) A bard who inspires his allies through interprative dances based on their exploits.

67) A fighter with a fondness of using furniture as weapons.

68) A halfling who really believes that she's a lammasu polymorphed into halfling form by an evil sorcerer.

69) A sorcerer whose spells are centered around voodoo.

Demiurge out.
 


71. A lawfull good half-orc fighter who is deeply devoted to pelor, and his one desire is to be a paladin of the sun god, but he can not stop the battle rage from overcoming him in the midst of a fight.

72. A halfling fighter from a barbarian culture on the savanah. She has taken the entire mounted combat feat tree and has a warbeast leaopard for her mount.
 


A character I was trying to make last week:

75) A Bard who sings utterly out-of-tune.

Clearly inspired by Goscinny & Uderzo comics character Troubadourix.

His Bardic Music ability would not be able to grant anything good to allies, but only to scare, deafen, level-drain and even kill enemies. Unfortunately he should have a very low charisma and terrible Perform to hit the idea...
 


77) A foul mouthed antihero who dons a girdle of femininity and becomes a princess- like girl in appearance. His/her ambition is to find another girdle to get get his/her old body back (I have used it and it's great!)
 

78) A gnomish barbarian who wears only a loincloth and a smile. The little wild-eyed loony believes that when he rages he's being posessed by the animal spirit of a rabid badger.

I'm actually hoping to get to play that one some day.

79) A rogue with a strange speech impediment -- he's physically incapable of whispering.
 
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80) A Goblin on the path of redemption, having given up his thieving ways he is now a Paladin.

81) A human fighter raised by dwarves who fights with two dwarven war hammers.

82) A commoner who found the body of a great hero, and promptly looted it. He now has a magic sword and lots of ability boosting items. Every one keeps mistaking him for the hero.
 

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