Help me come up with a character concept!

[Tinner]

Asimar Assassin aka the Assassimar! - Just because no one would expect it.
If you can find it, check out the Soul Gorger from Green Ronin's Wrath & Rage. A Half Orc Barbarian/Soul Gorger would be loads of gross-out fun IMO. You'd need to take the first 5 levels of Barbarian to qualify, but then the SG class is 5 levels of devouring your enemies and stealing their strength!
Goblin Rogue - Take Skill Focus Bluff, and be a liar, cheater and swindler. Con the party into doing your evil bidding.
The Miniatures Handbook has a couple interesting classes in it. The Healer and the Marshall are both solid classes that are suffciently different from the old "tried and true" that they have caught my interest. Good luck.

 

[Terwox]

Try a half-orc fighter 5 who relies on his smarts as much as his big axe.

Try an ex-paladin2/rogue3 who felt that the path of his church wasn't effective enough, and is on his way to becoming an assassin. (You might need to ask if you can waive the "must be evil" requirement -- or, you might play him as evil instead of neutral, or possibly even good.)

Try a human ex-bard paladin or monk, who was famed for his carousing, but is now trying to rise above his capricious lifestyle -- and is having slipbacks.

Try a wizard who is a conjuration specialist.

Play the "benign" necromancer who works for the greater good. Except, it's all a farce -- or he's struggling to contain an inner evil.

Try the gnome fighter-bard, out seeking his own glory, and a tale to tell to his people of his own bravado.

Try the half-red-dragon black pudding.

Dragon disciple.

g'luck w/ whatever you pick.

 

[ThirdWizard]

A bitter middle aged halfling rogue approaching old age, with full age ability score alterations. He ran a successful thieves' guild for most of his life, but a few years ago the guild was mostly run down by the local town police force. He's been in hiding for a while, but is getting bored with it and has decided to start making his way in life again, even if most of these adventurers around are just babies. He was behind a desk too long anyway, and its going to feel good to get out in the world again.

 

[Eli-kun]

Kobold Dragon Disciple , mostly survives on cuteness

Half Orc Bard - a nice, friendly, well-groomed half orc that makes up for his orcish looks with his lovely singing voice and cheerful personality

Vampire Dwarf-- the vampire template can be added to a variety of races.

Goblin Paladin

 

[Sigurd]

A bitter middle aged halfling rogue approaching old age, with full age ability score alterations. He ran a successful thieves' guild for most of his life, but a few years ago the guild was mostly run down by the local town police force. He's been in hiding for a while, but is getting bored with it and has decided to start making his way in life again, even if most of these adventurers around are just babies. He was behind a desk too long anyway, and its going to feel good to get out in the world again.

I like this a lot.

His guild might have been fiercely fighting a more evil threat to the city eg.. undead, yuan-ti, were rats etc.... When the police force chose to eradicate his guild instead of the greater threat he abandonned the city. He might know some interesting contacts\information.

 

[RangerWickett]

Do you want a combat schtick, or a personality schtick?

Combat - pick an exotic weapon that's not the broken spiked chain. Not to toot my own horn, but E.N. Publishing has books devoted to the Whip, Two-Bladed Sword, and Hooked Hammer (and the chainmail bikini, if you're into that).

Then combine that exotic weapon with a class you wouldn't normally expect to use it. A sorcerer with a hooked hammer. A druid with a whip (there's even a druidic whips & snakes-based prestige class). A bard with a two-bladed sword.

Alternately, be the combat trick guy. Have lots of mobility, high AC and Con, and all the Improved Trip and Disarm-style feats. You run around the battlefield creating openings for your allies.


Personality - The fatalist. You've traveled in a dozen other adventuring parties, and all of them have died. Maybe you're cursed.


Accent - A Scottish burr is always fun. Or use Engrish to sound foreign. Or bust out pseudo-fantasy Ebonics. "Get thine fat ass facizzle up out of my hizzle." Or maybe not.


Or take one of my characters.

• A halfling pacifist baker sorcerer who took a feat that makes people who eat his muffins get a penalty to their saves against his spells. His raven familiar is the one who delivers the killing blows.
• Bruce Willis from Die Hard, only a ranger/horizon walker. He fights with a bow, but he doesn't mind a nice hand to hand brawl.
• A bookish girl with glasses and no boyfriend. Cleric of the goddess of knowledge. Took Power Attack, and always charges into combat power attacking for full, swinging a quarterstaff. She panics when in danger, and just tries to kill things as quickly as possible with blunt trauma to the head. None of her spells are offensive.

 

[Pozatronic]

WOW! Thanks everybody! This has already garnered more feedback then I would have thought. So far I like the dwarven wizard raised by elves (nice surprise ending there), the Ranger/Warlock that hates his evil nature (although, I really dislike Warlocks...), and the
Monk-4/Paladin-X ... more of a "contemplative" zen guy.

But my favorites are the Bitter middleaged Halfling Rogue... for some reason I've been wanting to play someone older then I normally do, and this sounds pretty neat... and the "benign" necromancer who works for the greater good. I almost played one of these not so long ago...his father was the towns mortician, and he grew up with a "healthy" fascination with death. I think he was going to be LN or N. He was pretty much an atheist, so he couldn't understand why everybody was always freaking out about him animating skeletons and what not. If I remeber correctly, UA has an optional necromancer that starts with an animated skeleton! I'll have check out that book next time I'm at the FLGS.


However, the campaing isn't set to start for another few weeks (two or three) due to previous obligations, so if anybody else has more concepts, post away!!!!


Oh, and the "half-red-dragon black pudding" gets an honorable mention.

 

[Patman21967]

Psionic Rogue...I love this idea...I also like Draconic Fighter/Sorcerer...

 

[blargney the second]

A human scout mercenary whose band was obliterated while he was out on patrol. He's determined to find the culprits.

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

Saw this one in a thread a year or so ago and thought it was cool:

A non human tribal ranger: One day, in a fit of rage/charm/insanity, they beat their spouse to death. As a result they were banished from their tribe and forced to find a way to live out in the world.

Of course, they've trained all their life to hunt humans (and possibly eat them!), by reflex thinking of them as 'prey'... can't help inspecting their weak points (and the tastiest cuts?) and looking at them kinda funny. Which is obviously not helpful when desparate to fit into human society and try to live a somewhat happy life.

My choice would be to make this character a hobgoblin woman. Just fits for some reason.


Barbarian. Cultured, civilised type of person. Used to be leader of a local militia or small military unit - just recently been sacked... because they are posessed by a demon that magic just can't shift, which drives them into violent killing rages. While this can be lifesaving, it scares the heck out of everyone around them and leaves them feeling weakened and 'dirty'. Whether it's a real demon or a psycological condition is a good question.



One I played: a half orc/half elf. (used the half orc stats). Born from the union of an inbred elven prince who fell in love with an orcish Xena type. Raised in an enchanted forest by the tree hugging elves. Thinks of himself as an elf and gets politely confused if anyone disagrees. Figure almost any class could work - I went fighter, although wizard could be fun.

Most of the elves didn't mind the guy, but his in laws had some real objections to him... their solution was to send him on an elven 'coming of age' quest - has to leave the forest and either a) Slay some ridiculous creature - great wyrm dragon? or b) Adventure for 100 years. Whichever way, they're not expecting to see him again.