Worst character possible

[Oofta]

Personality Trait: My answer to anything another adventurer suggests is "No."
Ideal: Safety. Boldly confronting deadly perils isn't worth any amount of gold or glory. (Any)
Bond: I want nothing more than to shop for mundane supplies and hang out in taverns all day every day.
Flaw: I run screaming from adventure hooks.

So you've had Chuck as a player too? Small world.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Think of the person on this forum or others that you've disagreed with the most. Play a character that they would like.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

A rogue with uncontrollable flatulence.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Play 5e's take on the warlord class (PDK, etc). I've heard many times, every couple months, how that's the worst character ever apparantly.

 

[The Old Crow]

Bring in a chaotic evil character secretly several levels higher than the other characters. Have a friend bring in a lawful good character who is also several levels higher than the others. Start fighting each other. (idea courtesy of my first ever D&D game 34 years ago. I had a 1st level character, there was a couple of other new players, and then those two guys who had 5th level characters... with gamma world mutations. We never made it to the adventure).

 

[lowkey13]

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[MarkB]

Take three widely different backgrounds, to represent your character's deep and varied backstory. Then, to represent his complex and fully fleshed-out persona, take every single personality trait, ideal, bond and flaw from each background. Then role-play them scrupulously, especially when they directly contradict each other.

 

[Wiseblood]

you could be dead and just lying stiff, there has to be some type of rules

This made me smile.

DM: "What's Guy D'Mort's initiative?"
Player: "Negative three"
DM: "The Carrion Crawler wins initiative."
DM: " The Carrion Crawler begins eating you."

 

[Oofta]

Play a 7 foot tall albino elf with no class abilities whatsoever. Don't give him any weapons, armor, spells or abilities. Do give him a scarf that flutters in the wind that doesn't exist. If you get hit in combat don't bother writing down damage "because".

When the DM asks you what you do just look at them and say knowingly "When people look at me they're scared." When the DM asks you why, say in a creepy voice while widening your eyes and gesturing vaguely "Because they are." Whenever an NPC tries to talk to you simply raise your eyebrows while waving your hands ominously while saying "ooooooohhhhh" in a weird falsetto.

Bonus points if you right incomprehensible fiction about said character, who apparently solves all sorts of problems by walking into a room and having people tremble in fear.

P.S. Basically play [NAME REDACTED]'s character.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

We had one like that as well, but I ended up kicking him out for other reasons. His deliberate attempts to monkey-wrench the campaign didn’t help matters, though.

For my part, were I to design a worst character possible, I’d go with either a lapsed cleric that doesn’t cast spells or channel divinity, or a sorcerer that is deathly afraid of their own innate power, refusing to use it.

There's one of these in every campaign I've ever been in. *sigh*