Dumberest D&D tropes and combinations (any edition)

[Mercurius]

In another thread I just realized that one can actually play a character that is a shardmind battlemind. How silly is that? The game has a long 40-year history that has included thousands of different tropes, ideas, and combinations - what are the "dumberest", in your view?

I can't think of anything that tops a shardmind battlemind, except maybe a half-drow, half-githyanki ninja wielding two vorpal scimitars. Or maybe a halfling paladin/warlock wielding a fullblade?

 

[Mallus]

Any PC in melee with a Gelatinous Cube.

 

[Mercurius]

But there is a certain charm to that sort of ridiculosity, Mallus, like modrons or flumpfs or ioun stones. In a similar way that certain fashions have a classic feel and charm that epitomizes a cultural context, while others are best never to be seen again (my eyes, my eyes!). Like, one can hope, shardmind battleminds.

 

[WarlockLord]

The alignment system.

 

[Wiseblood]

Reptilian people with boobs. Is that even a trope?

 

[Yora]

In another thread I just realized that one can actually play a character that is a shardmind battlemind. How silly is that? The game has a long 40-year history that has included thousands of different tropes, ideas, and combinations - what are the "dumberest", in your view?

What's wrong about that?

 

[Truename]

I'll just leave this here...

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(And see the first paragraph of Penny Arcade - In Search Of A Robust Cosmology . 4e is particularly guilty of lazy names, and I say that as a 4e DM.)

 

[MichaelSomething]

My DM recoiled when I told him I wanted to play a Monk/Gunslinger.

 

[DogBackward]

I was sorely disappointed when Ultimate Combat didn't include a Gun-Fu archetype for the Monk...

 

[Tallifer]

Double-wielding swords or even worse, double-wielding giant hammers.

Clerics since OD&D right on through Fourth: a cleric should not be a combatant. The examples people always use are either religious knights (id est, paladins) or else examples from fantasy written after the baleful effects of OD&D. But I just refluff clerics as knights templar/jihadists/paladins and carry one with it.