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

[Tinner]

For D&D Half Celestial, Half Unicorn Cleric of Elhonna
Closely followed by the 3 Int Swashbuckler who thought he was a doctor and insisted on bleeding everyone with leeches to "suck the poison out". He killed more party members than any monster.
Ad how could I forget the merchant who was constantly selling off any good loot we found?

For Shadowrun I'm probably the worst offender in our group.
Were-Rhino pysical adept
Chemical Samurai all powers and abilities drug based, and the drugs are slwly killing him.
Sasquatch with a sack full of bodies he uses as a club. "What's the damage on a sack full o' frat boys?"

For Warhamer, the whole party went insane on me and ran a group of high-elf slavers.
"Put him in chains!" was SOP for dealing with anything. Totally annoying.

D20 Modern gave us the skate-boarding knife fighter, the kabbalist demolitions expert, and the stripper/hooker kung-fu ninja daredevil.

My players are all insane.

 

[IcyCool]

Chemical Samurai all powers and abilities drug based, and the drugs are slwly killing him.

I've seen the addiction rules, and there ain't nothin' slow about that kind of death.

Sasquatch with a sack full of bodies he uses as a club. "What's the damage on a sack full o' frat boys?"

You know, they've got a damage rating for using a metahuman body now.

 

[Sundragon2012]

Ok, before I go on, realize I was 15yrs old and kinda, well sucked as a DM. So having said that....

I was running a homebrew setting that was a mishmash of a variety of influences and two of my players were playing ninjas. The weird thing was that one both players were male but one played a super hot promiscuous ninja who had sex with the high charisma PC and NPC males and whichever attractive female NPCs looked her way....

How very weird.

Well that isn't it.

The male ninja and the female ninja had a grudge of some kind and they both carried a supply of explosive arrows(?). Well one day when the entire party was on griffonback the male ninja shoots the female ninja in the back with an explosive arrow not only damaging her, but causing all of her 20+ explosive arrows to blow up. Needless to say their was hot girl ninja chunks and griffon feathers everywhere.

The player was incensed and insisted he create something he called the Iron Ninja, a ninja dedicated to avanging her death. I said no because it was a pure metagame concept (as if that was the only problem going on in the game at the time). He was furious and I, being a bit of a weak DM at the time allowed the Iron Ninja into the game and this character successfully slaughtered the other player's offending ninja.

The character then left the group and the player rolled up a fighter and that was that.

I think it was expereinces in my early days as a DM that transformed me into the strict but fair DM I am today.


Chris

 

[Sorrow The Man Bear]

Fjunkjie Fiejlgudd (Pronounced Funky Feelgood). Psychotic Gnomish bard from the northlands in me homebrew, obsessed with moose. Whenever a non-humanoid monster of any sort would appear the character would cry out, "Look out a moose! I'll get it." And charge off into battle. It only a lasted a few sessions, but I did introduce a Dire Moose on a whim in the forest, and he cried "DRAGON! RUN!" and did just that.

 

[amazingshafeman]

I had a 2e pixie fighter specialized in the pixie bow, complete with insanely high dex. I shot everything in the eye with sleep arrows. Figured it works for crack heads, when not pixies....

 

[The_Universe]

I have to bring up the classic:

Broody outsider with levels in Ranger, turns out to be the scion of long-lost royalty. Considers shadowy, pensive looks a requirement of heroism.

Not mine, but was in my game.

 

[DonTadow]

The attention hog in my campaign picked a dwarven fighter for her backup character even after I explained three times that dwarves are extinct in the campaign and it was a forbidden race. Her reasoning was obvious, it would make her character super unique, which was what was annoying about her first character.

 

[S. Baldrick]

A friend of mine played a Dwarven bard named Elvis Orkslayer in a 2nd edition game that I ran. The character had side burns and the player would launch into his Elvis impersonation whenever there was a battle. I hate to admit it but I rejoiced when he was captured and sacrificed by group of Iuz worshipers.

Another person that I played with had a necromancer/cleric of a death god that was also a bi-sexual necrophiliac. It was as bad as it sounds. I wasn’t DMing this one but I would not have allowed it had I been. Anyway, it was kind of weird when my NE half-drow assassin teamed up with the party’s Paladin to take him out.

 

[Shemeska]

I've gotten wierd concepts... but they're usually brilliantly executed. I love my players.

Half lupinal arcanaloth. Fey touched half drow. Yet they worked, and worked awesomely. But not always.

The risen succubus however... no... poorly done... head hurt... I enjoyed disintigrating her and having an Incantifer devour her soul. That was character 1 of ... 6 over two campaigns. Everyone else has had just 1 per campaign. Dunno what it is.

 

[Brother MacLaren]

Haven't done it yet, but got an idea for the Cheese Grinder at Dragon Con next year; the idea is anything in the core books plus "complete" set, ECL 13, 48-pt buy, anything in the MM with an LA listed, succubus and pixie are banned. Cheesy is good.

Unicorn ghost. Absurdly high CHA for the DCs. Give it a name like a 6-year-old girl would give a unicorn.

But what makes him really awful is this... as soon as something attacks it, I'll respond with "Hey, stop beating a dead horse."