That sounds cute.

This is something I HIGHLY recommend! Making a co-op gimmick with a good friend that you trust and are on the same wavelength with will really just boost both of your roleplaying and enjoyment a ton! I do it in most games I join, because of that! C:

That's known as a character foil, a trope that is very common in fiction, and for good reason. Your comment shows why it is so popular. Because it is a very good trope. Characters who are opposite of each other in some way allow the 2 to bounce off of each other and allow their traits to shine whenever they are interacting. There is the ever popular foil archetypes of the brain and the brawn, the inexperienced optimist and the experienced realist, and many more.

If me and a friend of mine play those characters, we only get accused of just playing personal characters again. :)

Sounds alot like the relationship between Caramon (heavy fighter) and Raistlin (frail wizard) from 2E Dragonlance. I still remember their intro story in Dragon magazine.

Kinda reminds me of the ending of my 5E story in the 4th ring of hell. So me (a pun loving human warlock) and my 3 friends (another warlock who had a hole in his head as a custom race, a fighter who liked stealing and was almost a rouge with his luck and the GM.) were already long done in our pre-built game and we were just dicking around for no reason. Now all 4 of us are talking about doing another different campaign once we all die even if its super early. That led to me convicting 10 goblins to kill the boss, the other warlock literally eating hell fire from a Satan rock band reject because he rolled a natural 20 on performance and the fighter got a magic fire sword from a talking door's ass. Now onto the ending, the GM was running outta enemy types to throw at us because we were getting really lucky on rolls and surviving shit we really should have died from so he said the fighter lost his soul from the demon who haunted him and we had to make a blood sacrifice to reach hell. This involved killing everyone in town and drawing a blood circle with dead civilians. We again were doing great getting though most of hell until we found 4 undead beholders. It was a slaughter with us all losing. The fighter who was still alive just more mopey was the first to die but not before one shoting one of them. Next the other warlock who killed the 2 of them and me because the hell fire was apparently still stuck in him as while it wasnt hurting him per se it was still there. My last words were "I guess i must have been a sinner because i had a such a hell of a time!"

Jaojin Talonis screenshot this, imma pass it around

Last words. Omg yes

if you can't have an epic last stand, might as well deliver the best final words you have

So... like the Grandmaster in Thor: Ragnarok? :D

Ertwin123 Eyy- that's me!

Lol did something similar myself, as my character's deity was Sarenrei goddess of redemption my character converted a module boss to our side as that particular boss had their prior faith shaken, still had to fight them, but didn't kill them, 3 modules later that npc-pc is now our teams healer. Anything can happen!

Any chance of you actually doing a quest to HELP him?

How does all of this play out in a game? If it's all make-believe and in your head how is any of this happening? What rules and limitations are there to follow that still result in such unique and personalized stories? This is so confusing.

T R U T H well the thing about dnd is everyone is kinda playing their own version. Sure there are consistent rules, but ultimately what happens is up to the dm, and often times the rules are modified, replaced, or ignored. Watch an episode of critical role to get the gist.

Fair enough. I have a character that fits this video's definition of epic, and we had great fun with her. What takes the cake though was that players from other tables on Adventurer's League night would come watch us just to see her. Nyx was a forest gnome ranger who escaped a zombie invasion in her village by casting Minor Illusion of a tree and hiding behind it. By a sheer stroke of luck, she became the main damage-dealer of the party and for some reason kept getting stuck having to be the Party Face... with a CHA of 8. Dunno what the bard and paladin were doing, but whatever. LOL.

" that players from other tables on Adventurer's League night would come watch us just to see her" Yeah, that's the key right there. Other people were entertained. I have a bunch of characters i've played that I think are pretty awesome, but its when other people mention it that it really counts.

The longest campaign I ran as a DM was also the most epic (literally, the characters went from level 1 to level 25 before we ended the campaign). There was the tiefling sorcerer with the most depressing backstory (his village freaked out at his birth, burned his mother at the stake and threw him- a newborn baby- into a river, where he was rescued by a travelling circus and displayed in a freakshow). Growing up with nothing, he was hilariously greedy, nearly dying in a burning building trying to drag a chest of gold that was too heavy for him to carry. He actually fell in love with an NPC paladin who sadly didn't return his affection and was constantly trying to "slay the evil demonspawn"-i.e. him. She always failed of course, and he would tie her up, leaving her fuming next to a box of chocolates or flowers. The other person in the party was a "bard", but was actually a turnip farmer with delusions of grandeur and an affected upper-class accent. He carried his "turnip-harvester"- a scythe- which caused the party to break into a fit of laughter, because who harvests turnips with a scythe? He ended up getting along really well with the tiefling, to the point that they became blood brothers, swearing an oath to defend each other. It was a really heart warming event. He managed to scam his way into inheriting a castle by fabricating a story that he was the real son of the now-deceased duke and the other son was in fact, a bastard child. The final player was a "pirate captain". Actually he was a barbarian with a rowboat, but he always insisted he had a pirate ship... he just misplaced it... somewhere. He wore fine silks, a red velvet jacket, the biggest plumed hat; but for all his pretensions, he still couldn't read or write, and he was still a scion of the Bonebreak Tribe in the frozen north. That player was the unluckiest guy I'd ever seen; if a 1 was rolled on the table, 90% of the time he rolled it. But it was awesome because he chewed the scenery in a Scottish accent while failing hilariously. He had a rival, a half-orc pirate captain with a sophisticated palate, a French accent, and a love of opera, and their battles became legendary. Other players came and went, we had the Wizard who tried to kill a Red Dragon with a fireball. The Rogue who never disarmed traps but instead sent in the pirate barbarian. A second Bard who never used bardic music and instead tried to duel-wield two bastard swords he wasn't proficient in (and he had no duel-wielding feats). A Necromancer who tried to become a lich, but forgot that you are supposed to make a phylactery BEFORE you take poison and die. And the air-head blonde Cleric who constantly forgot they had healing magic. The game became so popular at our local gameshop, that we had a party of 12 players and I needed a co-DM to help me run the campaign. Only 6 were regular enough to form the core party though. And only those 3 were considered Epic enough for me to remember, even now 20 years later.

One of my favorite characters was a half elf red draconic sorcerer. I had been getting bored of the character after a couple levels, so decided to act a bit dumb and took a leak on an evil goddesses alter. The dm rolled on a Baleful Polymorph table, and he was cursed into the form of a lizard (though still allowed to cast spells and was allowed to speak, but only in draconic.) I decided on the spot that he believed himself to be blessed by a dragon god with a shape closer resembling a dragon as a reward for insulting this false god* The other players loved their new mascot, and made this high charisma lizard the ruler, and thus our groups Lizard King was born. Following some fun bluffs where even being evil he talked his way past a lawful good true dragon by turning in a random encounter evil pseudo dragon on the good dragons turf, claiming a reward, and bluffing a few wyverns into believing he was a true dragon and earning their submission after nuking one with his 1/day dragon breath while flying and invisible, the legend was fully born.. To the point where I have had two different friends run games where they asked me to bring him in as my main character because they wanted their friends who weren't in first group to get to meet him :)

I had a character I played in WoW (basically used WoW as the game map, and just played D&D using that world). I had an old human priest with a limp, who was a doctor, counsellor, and eventually actually the head of a militia regiment. I left because of life. The guild folded several months later (nothing to do with me leaving). I had kept a journal for him on the guild's website, so one day out of boredom I hopped on to the website (which no one had been on for months at that time) and wrote his death. Simple. Died in his sleep. A couple of hundred views by the end of the week. And dozens of angry or tearful messages about his death. Pretty sure that was the sign. Will never have a character as good as you, Igor.

Got to love the Traveling Bards of Unlimited Charisma.

It would be a str check with a high dc. I'd give advantage because it's an awesome idea but it would still count as an action.

willofbob i sometimes do something similar, though not as badass. my tiefling druid had an intelligence of 8 starting out, so whenever i was about to make a bad decision and my DM would give me the mom look, i'd roll my dice while screeching "I HAVE AN INTELLIGENCE OF EEEIIIIIIGHTTTT!!" i know it's a bad decision, but it's fun to make bad decisions sometimes.

"I punch the glowing man,(a god)." -Gorak level 1 barbarian, 2018

SAME

Unit Jax Holy crap, he is!

that char is totes a dudebro

Omfg. How have I not seen this.... you've enlitened me

It's easy to do if your not careful. But if you have trouble with overshadowing the group then try this character archetype. The average unassuming guy that's secretly a badass. I played a vampire in a very long running LARP. We are talking years. Characters came and went but I played pretty much the same character constantly sitting in the background being every ones toady. One day the Storyteller was looking over my character and says, "You know, point for point your character may be the most powerful character in the game.". It was true, While the rest of the court killed each other over intrigues my character remained a useful tool for everyone while simultaneously perusing his own agendas. He survived princes, primagines, and all manner of titled characters who looked down on him as a tool all while in the background he pulled strings they never knew about and amassed a small empire. It was fun.

So you were basically the Petyr Baelish of vampires?

Krulik080 I just give shit away, gold, trophies that aren't too personal, etc. Just gave my ranger friend wolf skin leather bracers from wolves we fought together against 4 months ago upon meeting him again, seeing he was a ranger and had only one trophy. He loved them but for me, I had the cloak I carved out of the dire wolf that day upon my heavy armor and helm, I wasn't missing out on too much

My gnome barbarian highly agrees that race and class do not matter

@@terryfeynman As does my halfling cavalier (1st edition). All 2' 11 and 7/8" of him. Don't you dare call him 3' tall.

That's absolutely genius.

I need more dinosaurs in my games.

In my current campaign, my DM tossed a couple bandits riding Triceretops at us. Within 2 turns, we had taken the dinos, and trampled the bandits to death. (Slate, my very elderly fighter, did an arial DDT on one of the riders) At another point, Slate gained a spell that allows him to fly for 15 minutes. He was so overjoyed that he didn't realize the spell ended until he was falling.

Lol

Zomg I know what you're talking about since we have one. A Monk with crazy stats. I gave my Blessing of the Forge to her weapon since I figured out she had the highest dps in the party, and it paid back tenfold. She teamed up with our BB and they became a half-naked blender.

Just think. If he'd had dual-wielding, it could've been a dual stick controller.

One of the biggest reasons I like them using their names is because I've run characters for months and would still have to regularly ask, "What's your character's name again?" And anytime I've had to ask that should be a huge warning sign to a player. They're boring characters if the player thinks of the PC as just themselves. It can also lead to issues where a player takes things personally that happen to their character because they lack the line between themselves and the PC. And yeah, I've killed a few epics. No one is 100% immune. But I won't deny fudging a damage roll or two. I figure that earning their way into everyone's heart is worth a few small favors.

What I do to make sure I learn the characters' names (and I should have mentioned it before) is that I call to them in character at the table. If I want to know what a certain person's character does, I ask (say Ambralyn) "What does Francis do?" or "What does Jaimes do?" to use an example of her character from the recent Elizabethan game. That helps me learn both the interesting and the boring characters. I feel like it helps the players get into character when they refer to themselves directly, personally.

It can, and they'll still use "I" and "me" sometimes. But just to be clear, I'm not telling my players to refer to themselves by their character names. I'm saying that they just do it. I'd never really thought about it before until i was writing the video as to what traits epic PCs share. And all of them regularly refered to their character by their names. If I'd forced them to do it, it wouldn't have the same impact as when the player just naturally does it. But because the player is using the name, it hammers home in all the players' minds that the PC and the player are different and then all the players, including me, start naturally calling them by their PCs name.

Another way of getting your character's name out there without playing in the third person (which is really weird if only 1 player at the table is doing it), is to announce yourself during the introduction to the NPCs that you meet in game. Even for the unnamed NPCs, if you are trying to get famous you throw your name out there a lot.

For me, calling a character in the 3rd person is useful specifically because it makes it less personal, helps separate the player and character. This way the players are less likely to get mad at each other for in-game actions, and less likely to feel personally attacked when something bad happens to their character.

My God, this is glorious.

Oh god the names... My very first played character was a dwarven druid. Now I had just got the 5e players hand book and the dwarfs description were short and stout, so her name was Teapot. Although if we're talking memories I got em. I was the youngest of the group the second youngest being twice my age. Now the whole group but my brother went to the third floor of a prison. Now he was talking to a minotaur pirate. Great, So we set the building on fire after we did want we needed and he let out the guy and he went back his promise. After a few minutes hes knocked unconscious but I thought he was dead so I went up and hacked his fancy ass peg leg off, but mid way he swung his head up using his horns and slashed my intire front half, So since the dm thought one blow would be enough he just asked for how hard I landed, then I rolled. It was a nat 20. I took my shillelaghed club and snapped his neck back instantly killing him then went back to his leg. After then it was used as my club.

Exactly. As long as the character fits into the theme or spirit of the campaign, everything else is wide open.

Yeah, gave my player TWO nice drow scimitars, at lower level, but they disintegrate on a roll of 1 in sunlight. Of course that the first time she even draws them, she rolls double crit fail.

That sucks for the player. But overall sounds like a Great moment XD

Botches can become spectacular stories. As a ST my opinion is that a good botch should be rewarded.

She was, in a way. She is now in quite a good standing with local Elven "kingdom". Pretty good for a drow.

Sneaking into a dragon's lair, our Monk sneaks onto the ceiling with her slippers of spiderwalking, the ranger sneaks into a better vantage point, the Cleric and Bard wait for an opportunity to join the battle once we get it's attention, and I the rogue sneaking to get over into a position to ambush this dragon as it runa past... And I roll a nat one on stealth.. and kick a rock...

lets get this one to the top! (even if this is an old video :) )

I'm currently playing a half-elf bard who pissed off his noble family by leaving a bride at the altar and running off to become a bard. He became an adventurer after he kept getting heckled by bar patrons.

its so much better if you read the whole story in a bad Swedish accent.

I just read in the voice of PuffinForest's Abserd.

I need to play a barbarian next. Give him some kind of brain thing where every day he wakes up believing he's something else. Today, Krunk is Wizard. Krunk "casts" magic missile by yelling "Magic missile!" and throwing daggers. Krunk casts Obscuring Mist by tossing a pocket full of sand into his opponent's face, which then blows back into Krunk's face so no one can see. I'm imagining the other characters questioning him while he's filling his pockets full of sand and his response being something along the lines of "Gathering spell components."

khartog01 Oh. My Emperor. You played. An Ork sniper. Well done, sir- Well done

Correction. A terrible ork sniper.

That's all right- the Inquisition will still use you as a cover-up for an assassination :P

WITH CATLIKE TREAD, UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL! IN SILENCE DREAD, OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL! NO SOUND AT ALL! WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD! A FLY'S FOOTFALL COULD BE DISTINCTLY HEARD! (LOL! Just joking with a reference to G&S's Pirates of Penzance. The pirates were sneaking up on the Major General and they sang really loudly.)

This. It's amazing what a little space work or a simple gesture can do to bring a character to life.

Thsnks.

Glad you're enjoying it. Thanks.

Was fluffy a space rabbit?

Storm kings? My Wood Elf Ranger- who is afraid of buildings has the same bow. In releated topics, he speaks giant, so in one encounter - the newly single hill giant in the stone tower, as the two melee-combatants were climbing the tower to ambush her from inside, Elfrik started to talk to her. With a carisma mod of 0, he rolled pretty decent stats to convince her that her husband left Gu, and that they met him in the swamps, and that she should go look for him in the swams. Jupp, he social-encountered away an hill giant. We still bring that up sometimes.

Glad I could help, man. Hope you enjoy the book. And if you need any help on making that review channel, don't hesitate to hit me up.

Kevin Cooper Half GOLEM? Goddamn bards, is there NOTHING they won't sleep with?

Dead Meme heh it’s actually more of a cyborg thing, replacing limbs with golem parts

Well if he died, I hope he did it in the most metal way possible.. Throwing his hands up in rock horns and exploding

He did that as the world literally exploded around him from him having successfully sundered the Pillars of Creation. Technically it didn't kill him, but...