D&D 5E How can I make my warlock's old one patron really POP!

[trentonjoe]

5e 5e 5e!

So I'm making a character for a group being run by some friends just getting INTO DND, and I felt this was a good chance to take a break from monk to chill with a warlock and his chained up buddies.

iI couldn't resist the greater old one, but I've never really seen him utilized so I don't have much frame of referance. I'm totally cool with abstract and nonsense humor, so can this guy b3 whatever I want?

Like out of nowhere some unfathomable amalgamation, mashed up mixture, of tentacle and ooze.. and just slithers some ridiculous sound my party and I have never even heard or thought existed.. I mean this guy I have in mind is literally the flying spaghetti monster if he had super herpes, AND elephantitis.

I really want this guy to POP.

all I have now is some lame book I aquired through tribkets that I can't write in or read until strange symbols begin appearing and the book becomes my connection with a strangely chaotic dimensional being. He literally exists as a freakin dimension of space and time connected by threads of entropy, so I've got that

But like.. who is this guy, what's his deaL?

I think I missed the original question....

Anywho, if you mean how do you make him pop, as in stand out as something super cool, then I suggest giving him a personality and goals. I would start with a motivation, and an enemy.

Also, and I find this happens organically sometimes, just start saying his name alot. Stuff like:

If Trewdsef wills it
If only by the grace of Trewdsef
It's best not to judge the decision of Trewdsef

I've done that for Clerics I have played and my group would keep track of how many times I said my gods name in a session. On a good night I would get 2-3 in well, and force twice that many.

Lastly, it's a wise, old being....if some of your actions, sayings, dogmas, etc. don't make sense or are contradictory don't worry about it. It's best not to question the goals of Trewsdf.

 

[PnPgamer]

I think I missed the original question....

Anywho, if you mean how do you make him pop, as in stand out as something super cool, then I suggest giving him a personality and goals. I would start with a motivation, and an enemy.

Also, and I find this happens organically sometimes, just start saying his name alot. Stuff like:

If Trewdsef wills it
If only by the grace of Trewdsef
It's best not to judge the decision of Trewdsef

I've done that for Clerics I have played and my group would keep track of how many times I said my gods name in a session. On a good night I would get 2-3 in well, and force twice that many.

Lastly, it's a wise, old being....if some of your actions, sayings, dogmas, etc. don't make sense or are contradictory don't worry about it. It's best not to question the goals of Trewsdf.

 

[Li Shenron]

If you're on a Kindle so you have access to free compilations of the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Also for everyone without a Kindle: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/#fiction

Apparently Lovecraft's works are old enough to be freely available.

 

[The Grassy Gnoll]

Your patron is the sound of claws scratching in the walls. The relentless scratching that never stops. In a dungeon, you hear it behind every wall, a skittering, chittering, scratching constant. In the woods, from inside every tree, every bush, the scratching. In the desert, the scratching is all around you under the sand, or in the tundra from within the ice. Chitter, chitter, scratch, scratch, scratch. Never silent.
You cannot comprehend its name, or even pronounce it. You are compelled to scratch all the time. Your eldritch blast assaults the ears of your target with the undiluted, full volume, ear bleeding sound of the scratching, always the scratching.
Tentacles schmentacles. The Itch is everything. Only when you do right by it does the scratching abate to manageable levels.
Sometimes the scratching stops. You feel relief but also vertiginous fear. Will it come back? Please come back. I'll scratch until it comes back. Ah, there it is again. It's telling me - I don't know how, but I know what it wants - it's telling me to go to the Scary Castle of Mad Jack McMurdery and find a...something...a book, yes, a book.
It's gone away again now. I miss it, the chittering. I need to find this book! I can't sleep without the scratching, it comforts me somehow.
And so on. Warlocks with the GOO pact should be all kinds of messed up.