Propose your concepts of weird character classes

[Rystil Arden]

From the worst of ideas could arise a gem, like a diamond out of the rough...

Hey! You mean you don't like the Lepidopterist Lord?

Forum Troll: These lonely folk haunt old Romanesque ruins, popping out at visitors with crazy exclamations. People who listen to their Incite ability must make a Will Save or begin to argue with them, which feeds their Annoying Point reserve until they can use their special powers.

Wrinkled Raisinmage: This wizardly class specialises in drying spells, which do extra damage to water elementals, oozes, and plants. They also make excellent trail mix.

Squirrel Nutgatherer: These ambitious fellows gain a class bonus to Survival and Search skills made to gather nuts.

Obese Gourmand: Every level of this class gives a bonus to Profession [Cook] and causes the character to become more obese. Eventually, they become size Large, then Huge, and then gain the type Ooze but become unable to move more than 5 feet per round without magical aid.

Gnome Pogostick-Rider: These brave and daring knights hop to the rescue, gaining a Synergy Bonus to Jump checks using Pogosticks.

Familiar Pop-Culture Monk: This class excels mainly at creating an effect similar to a Bag of Holding combined with a Portable Hole that comes from his fist and kills all opposing him. Unfortunately, the BBEG can get around this by using poisonous creatures.

Deathmaim Tarrasqueragers: These barbaric savages go into a frenzy, allowing them to gain abilities similar to the Tarrasque. However, their actions are far too likely to attract the attention of female Tarrasuqes...

Master of Deja-Vu: Forces a replay of the last round of fighting at will until eventually the opponent surrenders.

Master of Deja-Vu: Forces a replay of the last round of fighting at will until eventually the opponent surrenders.

Master of Deja-Vu: Forces a replay of the last round of fighting at will until eventually the opponent surrenders.

Master of Deja-Vu: Forces a replay of the last round of fighting at will until eventually the opponent surrenders.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

The Racist - you know, he could have like a certain group of people he hates, and so he gets bonuses to certain skills/abilities when dealing with those types of creatures.... oh yeah, that's the Ranger, my bad....

 

[Mercule]

Spoonmage: All spell components are replaced with spoons. Gets EWP, Bohemian ear spoon. Several spell-like abilities related to digging... and soup.

 

[Deset Gled]

Two ideas for classes I started writing up but never got around to finishing:

Ecumenical Cleric: Instead of choosing spells to prepare every day, this class prepares domians each day. They can then spontaneously cast any spell from the list of domains they have prepared.

AoO Master: A melee based PrC that only improves the ability of the character's AoOs. By the end, they can destroy things that attack them easily, but can't attack anybody else worth a darn.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Tralfalmadorian: Lives at all points of time at once, able to look at all the moments of his life at the same time, but change none of them

Death's Advocate: Uses Diplomacy skill to convince people that they should just die.

Lollypop-Guild Enforcer: Attacks with lollypops because he figured out that lollypops are actually a 19-20/x3 critical weapon and his lollypop has a +15 enhancement bonus and allows him to control gods as pets.

Mommy: Special abilities include Create Spawn-The Epic Spell Seed "Life" with a casting time of about 270 days, Create Food and Water [milk only], and a Kiss that casts Calm Emotions, Remove Fear, and Cure Minor Wounds on any creature created with the Create Spawn ability, plus the ability to cast Awaken on the animal-intelligence spawn (this take even longer to cast than Create Spawn though)

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

The Tourist-- straight out of Nethack. They dabble in magic, especially travelling magic, they get into trouble far above their (seeming) ability to handle it, and walk out again; infuriatingly, they're never really afraid of anything, or even particularly angry. These guys will call kip in an Abyssal moathouse for three days, lose their luggage in a pool of corrosive sludge, and spend at least half the time in the belly of some godawful abomination-- so they write an indignant letter to the manager about his hospitality.

At high levels, this actually works, and he gets extra treasure on his adventures due to refunds and coupons and frequent-delver miles and other perks. At first, his mannerisms and his brightly-colored shirts mark him as an easy rube... but the Epic Tourist doesn't need to read the fine print at a Yugloth's travel agency; his experience with contracts and charters and "special deals" has given him an uncanny facility with such things, and a reputation for getting the best of any promotional deal that not even a Baatorian lawyer would challenge himself against.

Hell, if I ever get to play a Fraal Tourist, I'll have satisfied a yearning I've felt for nearly ten years.

 

[Aristotle]

AoO Master: A melee based PrC that only improves the ability of the character's AoOs. By the end, they can destroy things that attack them easily, but can't attack anybody else worth a darn.

With some tweaking that concept might fit someone who practices a defensive martial art. I've been thinking of doing a Hong Konk Action Theatre type homebrew and was considering having two primary 'martial arts' classes ( a defensive and an offensive one). I might just have to integrate that idea into the defensive one.

 

[FireLance]

Spoonmage: All spell components are replaced with spoons. Gets EWP, Bohemian ear spoon. Several spell-like abilities related to digging... and soup.

The Oracle: Able to completely neutralize the spoonmage with one devastating pronouncement:

Spoiler

There is no spoon.

 

[Slife]

Trippleganger: Starts out a normal ranger (sans bonuses), but can shapechange by saying the name of the creature they wish to become. Unfortunately, they also instinctively change during battle, and can change by accidently saying an animal's name. Because most of their forms have no lips, there are a lot of humanth roaming the world.

Yaj-Dee - His muzak skillz are so X-treme that he forces irresistable dance upon everyone in a two-mile radius. Including himself.