D&D 5E (2014) Give me your strongest characters

[jmartkdr2]

As for OP's question: gnome rune knight for a one shot was allowed a belt of fire giant strength and a hammer of thunderbolts. This was the UA RK, so with Ise was active he rocked a solid 30 strength.

 

[Mistwell]

I have a dragonborn paladin in a game that's been going for a while now. He's got an 8 dex and wears (semi-spiky) platemail, with no stealth proficiency. If passive stealth were a thing, he'd have a 4. He also has the Far Traveler background from SCAG, which grants the background feature "all eyes on me." (People notice you and are curious about you.) So beyond being shiny and noisy, he's different-looking enough that people pay extra attention.

Later on, he got an artifact shield. One of the random negative properties rolled was "you emit a foul stench." We tweaked that to "you emit a strong, distinct, but not necessarily unpleasant odor" (since it was a king's shield).

So - like a box of lemons all got peeled at once, and the densest, most stuffy-nosed person you've ever met would still smell him as soon as he walked in the room.

(Do not lick the dragonborn paladin king. The flavor explosion might kill you.)

I have a Dwarven Fighter PC with magical armor which emits a strong cheap perfume smell. We changed the name of our Adventuring Group to be the Perfumed Vigilantes.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I had a human fighter in 1E with an 18/99 Strength.

So... close...!

 

[Volund]

Level 18. Half elf Shadow Sorcerer 10/Vengeance Paladin 6/ Hexblade Warlock 2. Elven Accuracy, Resilient Con, and War Caster Feats. Rolled stats let me start with a 19 CHA. Attuned magic items were Amulet of Health, Ring of Evasion, Staff of Power. Also a Brass horn of Valhalla. AC 26 from magic armor and shield, Defense FS, and Staff of Power. Paladin saves are already great, but his best 3 were Con +17/ Wis +15/ Cha +18.

It took a couple of rounds, but once his Vow of Enmity and Hexblade Curse were up, combined with Elven Accuracy he became a crit-smiting machine. Spells like Haste and Blink with the option for a Shield spell when needed made him unhittable. Other than above average rolled stats, it was all by the book. We started at level 11 and I showed the DM how what I had in mind could be a BBEG wrecker but he allowed it anyway, and then handed out magic items that made him even more powerful. In the end, it was a pain to manage abilities and spells from 4 different sources and the campaign turned into a slog of never-ending combat to grind down all those resources. I felt bad for the other paladin player in the group since he couldn't do half the things mine could. Having scratched that itch, I don't have any desire to play a character like that again.

 

[jasper]

Bobby the Barbarian has bathed since he was fourteen.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

Frayfarnir, an ancient red dragon. (I'm the GM.)

 

[embee]

20th Level Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer who wishes wizards out of existence.

 

[Hohige]

The Bastion of Law, level 20 Clockwork Sorcerer, Mark of Shadow Elf.

 

[auburn2]

My strongest character is Julie, the level 10 moon elf rogue. What about you?

It depends what you mean by strongest.

In terms of all around gameplay the strongest character I have seen played is Tulip who was a player in a game I DMed - She was a half elf Rogue6/Ranger4/Bard4. At the end of the game she had a 16 Dex, 16Wis, 16Ch, 12 int, she was proficient in every single skill, had expertise in more than half of them and could speak numerous (7?) languages. On top of that she added her +3 wisdom bonus to all her charisma skills. All of her skills were high, most of them cartoonishly high, but the ones I remember most are the 28 Passive Perception and +16 Deception .... however her strength was only 9 I believe.

IMO the strongest in combat in any of my games was a Bladesinger named Afelia that I played until 14th level. She almost never got hit and did not get hit at all for several levels in a row during the middle of her career, she had crazy high ability rolls and finished with 20s in both dex and intelligence while sporting a staff of defense and bracers of defense. Her strength was 13. Other players at the table might argue the point, we also had a dragonborn battlemaster/barbarian/diviner and a halfling Assasin/Paladin. They might say they were stronger (and if you are looking at strength score they were), but I would disagree that they were stronger in battle.

 

[Arvok]

I had a 2e necromancer who ascended to deityhood. He's not my favorite character but he's the only character I ever had do that.