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A Dwarven STRanger. Classic Hunter, uses exclusively axes.
An Elven Fey Wanderer Ranger/Echo Knight Fighter who is basically “pretty boy in plate punches things”.
A blind Human Divine Soul Sorc/Celestial Warlock who can go in one of two directions:
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An individual who believes themselves to be the Herald of a LG god, but is unknowingly in service to an evil deity.
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A man who lost everything, and believes he was spurned by the gods. So, he sets upon a warpath to kill the gods in revenge.
EDIT: Can’t believe I forgot about CAT. The Tabaxi Genie Warlock who was a normal cat that wandered into an antique shop and was rubbing against a bunch of random things, and eventually rubbed up against a magic lamp. A Djinni came out, and asked him what he desired. After some confused meows, the Djinni couldn’t understand him, so he turned him into a Tabaxi so they could talk to each other. The Djinni then realized his mistake, and helps the poor Tabaxi navigate life as a new humanoid.
Awesome. I especially like the awakened cat idea. It would be nice if there was more support for thrown weapon builds, because a Dwarven ranger hucking throwing axes sounds like awesome RP. The Quick Toss maneuver or the Returning Weapon Artificer infusion could make it work I suppose. I’ve always hoped a Dwarven Thrower would fall into my hands one day.
The cat idea came from this post, and I typed up an expanded version there.
As far as the Dwarven STRanger goes, yeah it’s a bit rough that Core5e doesn’t have any major support for mundane returning weapons. Although in the main campaign I’m playing in, my DM is very generous and allows me to use the Spheres of Power/Might 3pp, which does have options for that. And really just expanded options for Martials across the board. But the initial version of this guy had him primarily wielding a Greataxe and a Battleaxe, switching to throwing axes if he needed the range.
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I’ve got a Mountain Dwarf Aberrant Mind Sorcerer that I’m really proud of: there’s a decent chance I’ll get to run it at some point, but it’ll be behind a wizard if I have the option.
The basic mechanical concept is that you can replace the Psionic Sorcery spells with any sorcerer/warlock/wizard spell on the enchantment or divination list, which means that you can put Silvery Barbs on your list. That means you can Silvery Barbs for 1 sorcery point as many times as you want without any components, allowing control of probabilities that a Divination Wizard can only dream of. And because Silvery Barbs is such a selective tool that you can use only when it’d make a difference, it’s great to have the deep sorcery point pool fueling the uses.
You also get a scattering of general-purpose spells like Arcane Eye and Synaptic Static in the Psionic Sorcery kit that let you efficiently convert spare spell slots into reliable tools, at no efficiency loss since Psionic Sorcery spells are 1 point per spell level, exactly what you spend to generate sorcery points.
The rest of the spell repertoire are general purpose, flexible spells like Invisibility, Eyebite, Bigby’s Hand, Enhance Ability, and Fireball: I went a little heavy on the concentration spells because if I’ve got too many spell slots I can just convert them into more Silvery Barbs. I also went heavy on save-or-suck spells since Silvery Barbs can efficiently impose disadvantage.
It’s fairly tanky with medium armor and plenty of ASI space for CON since once you get 14 DEX you just need to max out CHA and then you’re done.
Flavorwise, my concept is that a stereotypical dwarf miner got taken over by a mind-controlling tentacley creature, who’s polite and eloquent, and that creature is the actual player. Odd-couple effect between the crude and angry dwarf and the calm well-mannered creature, built into a single character.
This wasn’t on a backlog but I just played a character that was actually a cursed spear possessing a dwarf. The dwarf willingly got possessed by the weapon in order to save his friend from a necromancer.
my DM asked us to recreate video game characters in D&D for a level 15 one-shot, it still hasn’t happened yet and oh boy did I choose a great character to recreate
In theory I should love Druid — I always enjoy taking polymorph on my casters and I’m pretty into animals generally — but somehow I’ve never felt enough of an urge to make one when I actually sit down to create a character. I guess I haven’t quite conceptualized a Druid character I really like yet. But I do want to play one at some point!
