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

[Lobo Lurker]

> 1. Her first character- The loner Drow rebelling against the Drow "man" . -- not only is
> the concept tired and played but there's nothing core about the drow

So make her a standard elf with ebony skin and red pupils. Even in core DnD it's kosher to muck with your character's appearance so long as you don't try to get mechanical adavantages out of it. It's called Roleplaying.

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

The Grill

I had a character that went for the gangbanger look IE Cornrolls, tatoo's and a grill and lots of bling.

The character I'm playing in Joe Kushners campaign is an Elf gangbanger wizard but a little more toned down from the last character I played. He still sports his Cornrolls but I dropped the bling and grill.


Scott

 

[Hecabus]

Risen Martyr????

Had an epic level game where one character basically played Jesus..Monk and vow of poverty among other things(was even names jesus)..and I was kinda obligated to play Jesus with the Risen Martyr prestige class..

Also has a game where someone was playing a Solar Pally...Profession Baker..walked around wearing a chef's hat.

wuuuu wuuuu....there's a Risen Martyr prestige clase???? Where? Tell me Where!!!!

As far as most asinine characters:

1. A player wanted to build a Champions character that was a normal person, but everytime he died he became immune to that. Unfortunately, he would be reincarnated into another person with no memory of who he was. Obviously, that doesn't work very well for a group.

2. Same player decided to build a character based on the four-armed guy from Mortal Kombat, just bigger and stronger. He bought his dex down to 1 and bought Density increase and Growth up to the point that he could barely walk. Got in the standard intro to any campaign bank robbery and was amazed that everyone started shooting him with missles because he did a 27d6 haymaker to a normal agent (80 Str pushed haymaker to a guy with 7 PD).

3. One player wanted to play a 2e beast master with a blink dog, a co-dragon (so he could shrink and ride the dragon) OR play the co-dragon with a cohort spider monkey to ride him.

4. I came into a campaign and was willing to play anything. I thought I was going to play a familiar but instead was given the most horribly broken character ever. Basically, I was given a vampiric ogre-magi and proceeded to torture the party for weeks until they figured out that I was really the familiar. We still laugh about the stuff I pulled. Ok, I still laugh about the stuff I pulled. LOL

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I heard of (another?) PC who did this. The other PCs called him "mittens." Is this the same guy?

Do I know you? Yes, the other PC's called him "Mittens the Mighty Archer." Hmmmmm...

DM

 

[KenM]

Two words: Succubus paladin.

Balor paladin.

 

[Enamel_32]

Two-weapon fighting gaunt (-2 con, +2 dex) half ogre... bard, with the vow of poverty.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

2. Second character- elf ranger. sounds good, until i got her character background. First she wanted the character to be 1,200 years old. then she wanted to have the elf be some sort of spy for his elven kingdom (for which he is a prince). Now, first, the phb elf can live a maximum of 700 years old and at first level that made no sense.

One of my group's more...interesting...players had a concept vaguely similar for our old Birthright campaign. He was a several thousand year-old elf who had gotten to epic levels, fought everything he could've fought, got bored, decided adventuring was too easy, and flung himself into a pit of level-draining undead until he got knocked down to a reasonable level.

Brad

 

[Shellman]

How wrong do you think this would be:

A Half Dwarven/ Half Elf = Dwelf of any class.

The thought of that is just so wrong! But I can't wait as a DM to put it into my campaign. It would give my players a good reason to go out and kill this creature and whoever warped the universal forces to create such a thing.

 

[Orius]

I had a player who played a Human Ranger who hates ALL Wizards. He is okay with Sorcerers, but HATES Wizards. His opinion is that the study of dark tomes has opened them to evil influences and corrupted their souls. His first action the night he was introduced? Kill the two Wizards (one PC and one NPC) in the party (one was his former PC). It gets worse...

These are the types of character concepts that irritate the hell out of me, whether I'm playing or DMing. Having a PC who is going to be directly at odds with another PC is always trouble.

He has loaded up with archery feats, yet he enters melee combat wielding a falchion at every opportunity. The player (yes, I said player, not character) does the "Falchion Dance" every time he kills with the weapon. He actually stands up and swings his hips/thrusts his pelvis around while crooning "Falchion Dance, Falchion Dance." He is NOT a small guy and he is not a kid. He is about 20 and had been a member of the group for a while when this started. It gets worse...

Let him waste feats then.

Whenever he entered a fight, he drew his falchion and yelled out menu items, such as "Ham and eggs with rye toast and bacon!" "Grilled turkey on swiss with lettuce and tomatoes!" These were some of his battle cries.

Sounds funny.

 

[Orius]

On the topic of cloning Jesus, there's L'Évangile de Jimmy from Didier Van Cauwelaert, wherein Jimmy, a 32-year old pool cleaner, is informed that he is the clone of Jesus.

Interesting. I wonder if cleaning pools is easier if you can walk on water. *duck*