D&D 5E Dorian Grey's Pg

[mattiadalzotto]

Hi! How would you build a character like dorian gray? How would you imagine race, class (or mutilasse), score distribution, talents and how would you develop it starting from level 1? I ask you if you could imprint him on intelligence, charisma and constitution (main characteristics of Dorian).

Thanks!

Ps: any manual, even homebrew

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Warlock is the best fit thematically. His race is human in the novel.

 

[Davies]

Hi! How would you build a character like dorian gray?

I have a most fortunate coincidence to report.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Hi! How would you build a character like dorian gray? How would you imagine race, class (or mutilasse), score distribution, talents and how would you develop it starting from level 1? I ask you if you could imprint him on intelligence, charisma and constitution (main characteristics of Dorian).

Thanks!

Ps: any manual, even homebrew

Human is the most obvious answer, but a SCAG Tiefling that looks human, mostly could give Dorian an extra edge of darkness, like the loss of his humanity in favor of an unnatural taint was a price of immortality.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

I'd go with an elf myself, for the whole ''uncanny grace and does not age'' thing.
Fiend Warlock with an Artist background.

Or Human Glamour Bard with Artifice Initiate at level 1 and pick painter supplies as your spell focus? Then Eldritch Adept at level 4 for Devil's Sight. Create a Fiend Vassal background.

 

[Richards]

I'd go with an elf myself, for the whole ''uncanny grace and does not age'' thing.

What kind of elf? Why, a Grey elf, naturally.

Johnathan

 

[Marandahir]

I'd go with a Glamour Bard/Fiend Warlock multiclass, give him a nightclub called Paradise, and call him Swan.

 

[Eltab]

Both Pathfinder and D&D 3e Heroes of Horror sourcebooks have the magical Portrait of Dorian Gray (under a pseudonym). Which may help inspire creativity, maybe even provide design ideas.