What's the Most Asinine Character Idea/Concept You've Dealt With?

[StupidSmurf]

I was going to say "the most retarded", but hey...trying to be sensitive here.

But who else has this happened to? You're putting together a new campaign, and everyone comes up with a character, just fine. Then one guy, in an effort to be different and stand out, comes up with THE most asinine concept for a character.

There's this former player of mine who desperately loved attention, so he'd be as different as possibly could. Heck, even in church he'd deliberately sing off-key in order to stand out from the crowd.

So, one day, he rolls up a Ranger. OK, so far so good. A Ranger with amnesia. He can't remember his name or where he's from, or why he's here. OK, that could work. He also can't remember how to fight. Or use skills. He can't track...he's forgotten how. No spells. No languages save Common. Can't use a bow. Or a sword. Nothing.

The rest of the players (let alone their characters) were absolutely exasperated. This guy basically played a dead weight...a 1st level nimrod. And he gave me NO idea where he wanted to go with this, nor any real encouragement for me to run with it and come up with something for him. Nope. Ranger with amnesia. About as useful as a catflap in an elephant house.

 

[Numion]

On the WotC boards I saw a nice trio from some DM who just wanted a 'normal' adventuring party:

1) Pixie mage

2) Dwarf who throws two-handed swords stored in kinda golf caddy

3) A juggler that triple wields longswords. He's got the normal two hands, but he constantly juggles three swords, so it's triple-wielding :\

 

[CM]

For me it would have to be the four-armed drow assassin (thanks kindly, quintessential drow).

 

[Enamel_32]

How about a half dwarf, half iron golem barbarian?


My friend has a concept that he never used for a 1st level sorceror casting true strike, and throwing greatswords.

 

[Crothian]

A half giant psychic warrior

Seriously, that's the oddest conecpt I've gotten from a player since third edition started. I love my players!!

 

[painandgreed]

It was hack and slash game meant for learning 3.5 when it came out so it was meant to be a "special" character. Meat Grinder, a "masked pit fighter" with spiked chain that the player modeled after professional wrestling. He would actually spend actions to pose and make his soliloquy about how they "are goin' doowwnnnn!"

 

[demiurge1138]

I think the wierdest concept I've seen was one proposed for an epic level game that never got off the ground. An unbodied vampire lord master of the unseen hand. Basically, he's a brain in a floating jar who telekinetically grapples his opponents and squeezes the blood out of them into his jar.

Although that's not to say I haven't seen a lot of other bad ones. Feral kobold samurai/fighter/monk/ninja, Were knell beetle. And let us not forget (although we wish we could) the monk who used his, er, sensitive bits for his unarmed attacks.

Demiurge out.

 

[IcyCool]

A Greedy Paladin of Bahamut. Sounds ok right? Possibly a chance for some interesting roleplaying as the Paladin struggles with his inner greed and his moral code? No. Not even by a long shot.

*sigh* At least he hasn't tried to seriously pitch his "Living Wagon" character to me yet.

Btw, for those that are curious and wish to hurt their brains asking, "Why God, why??"

Living Wagon:
[sblock]The idea here is that you have a golem made in the shape of a wagon. Then you apply the Construct Incarnate template from Savage Species to it. Now you have a Living Wagon. But he can't really get around on his own, so he has his Druid Cohort wildshape into a draft horse or mule and pull him around.
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[IcyCool]

How about a half dwarf, half iron golem barbarian?

I played something similar to that, a dwarf fighter/barbarian with the half-machine template from one of the Dungeon magazines. It wasn't nearly as fun as I thought it would be. I should've stuck with my human rogue.

 

[Enamel_32]

It was only bad because the PC likes to find loopholes in the rules.