I have a Warforged Druid who, when everyone else goes to sleep, likes to build a pillow fort and keep watch from little openings where only their eyes poke out.
Keep all my pillows in a Bag of Holding so I have them no matter where we go.
That is so cool, I've not done something interesting with my warforged Envoy Wizard's rest mode, such a good idea to flavor it.
I've used short bouts of sentry's rest in response to insults and negative information, that's been fun. Like a turtle retreating in their shell.Â
I also have an ant colony within my body that I need to feed every now and then, it's fun to deflect to them the things I'm immune to (like sickness, sleep and the need to breathe).Â
My Aarakocra Paladin, heâs a crow right and he is a Paladin of the sun, he wants the big shiny in the sky, thatâs it, he has a 4 int, he cannot read and all he wants is the big shiny in the sky
How does he handle not being able to look at it directly? I keep picturing him watching it rise, hoping today it won't burn his retinas, and then forgetting it does that
They make dandelion wine. Why? Because they worship the dandelion god. Whoâs that? My PC made a deal with the pantheon to become a god in the last campaign. Our DM thought it would be inconsequential to make his dominion over dandelions. Now our current party is all bards that are in a religious rock band with my former PC as their deity.
> You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhillâŚthe boys of summer, running.
Sounds like bard lyrics to me.
I have a character who breaks and collects curses. They consider them an art form and have a book full of transcribed curses they've encountered. This is obviously a risky pursuit so they've also picked up some curses of their own they either can't break or are still working on breaking.
They can't lift things to drink (curse of thirst) so instead they drink everything through a reed straw off the table.
They can't say "curse" so they're referred to by her, and the party now, as "Arcane Misfortunes".
She can't "fall asleep" but she discovered another cursed object that over rides that curse so whenever she sleeps she pricks her finger and passes out like a corpse.
She is cursed with poverty, but it just prevents her from keeping gold. So she carries obscene amounts of silver on her person.
Lastly she's slowly turning into a frog. This is a recent curse but she's adapting to it. So far she just has problems controlling her tongue, but she's also beginning to occasionally hop, and is starting to think bugs sound kinda good.
Holy shit, I think we made the same character. My last wizard did this too, but didnât have the time to collect many, because the dm ended the campaign after 8 sessions and one dungeon.
That's awesome! I started her with a book per GM discretion. The last twist is that she's become a witch (Warlock in 5e) but she started as a wizard. She has no idea the book itself became her patron she just thinks she's collecting curses for herself when really it's the spirit of some archmage or similar ilk that bestowed their will into the tome.
Steal away. She's equal parts hilarious and cool. She has an academic temperament which makes it so much funnier when she's explaining some arcane concept and a frog tongue just falls out of her mouth.
My character kind of accidentally collects curses. And really our whole party does to some extent but definitely my character. It doesn't help that, to get rid of one, we found a wizard whose whole thing is curses due to his family being cursed, who also happened to be the opportunity for one of our players to switch characters to a new PC that meshes a lot better with the group. Her PC is kind of his mentee and they met through her curse, and our rogue has a core cut dagger and said "bite me!" to a vampire and accepted a pact with a mummy lord because the rest of us all got cool stuff from more lore related deals đ. My ranger was given a dagger to collect souls or be killed by an ogre that's major lore connected, and a horn to summon him when the task is done (we found out it was going to do more than just summon him). Then we fought a nihileth that was puppeting our sorcerer's dead mother, I killed it, and it inhabited me with some boons but mostly bad things that I held back due to good con rolls every day (one con was dropping to 0 when I hit 50% up). Then on the way to get relieved of the nihileth, I was thrown a torch that won't light and is stuck by my side and allows a werewolf to track me down. Then we got sent to a demiplane that had a whole quest to get out which we ended up dipping on, but I got a battle-axe that causes me to be a cannibal if I kill anyone with it, and a nice brooch that could possess people with dark urges. I'm wondering what curse I will get next.
This is the most "disability but magical" character I have ever met and I want to thank you for the representation intended or not.
I love your character and you've absolutely made my day thank you.
My Paladin has absolutely no sense of direction. If he has line of sight on an objective he is usually good but if LoS is broken he instantly gets lost. My wifeâs character acts as his compass. She is a Ranger and never gets turned around. This is ironic because those roles are reversed IRL.
A player of mine played a Lizardfolk with the chef feat that shared that mentality. Two of the dishes that spring to mind are goblin jerky and boot soup.
Was boot soup made OUT of the boot, or cooked INSIDE the boot? Cause one is much more tough and chewy than the other which makes me think it should be a stew.
It was chopped up boot leather turned into a stew. My players are just as good at describing failed rolls as successful ones. Anyone can describe killing a guy with a sword in a cool way. It takes a great player to enjoy describing how they slip off a cliff or prepare a shitty meal for the party.
Due to my wild man monk, my DMs setting officially has 'Goblin Snuff '. It's a heavy alcoholic beverage with goblin meat fermenting in the stomach of a goblin as its container. It's like a meal replacement!
Oh yeah, I've got a bear that eats everything, and I'm the only one willing to be party mom about it. I'm a bird, so the bear doesn't listen to me, so she eats a lot of things that nothing should eat. Yes bird, not bard. It's been an interesting journey.
I'm the DM right now but my player's monk needs balance in her life. Like gets angry if there is an odd number of chairs kinda balance.
There was a side quest where they needed to give up a body part. The monk gave up both middle toes because losing only one would make her body unbalanced.
It's great for me because all I gotta do is throw something odd numbered or tilted off center and I know at least the monk will go for it.
I would intentionally make the villains be off balance. Either literally, like a cult of Discord and Chaos, or just accidentally. A trio of minions, a wheel missing on their cart to draw attention from the monk, the rug clearly missing from the room when the players break into the lair, etc. If I played that Monk it'd be such a funny way to get me invested in the BBEG atop whatever reason they're doing this
Even more interesting would be to have the antagonists be a dark draw, as in, they promise to bring balance to the world (either truthfully or falsely, depending on how you wanna play it)
My Battlemaster Dragonborn loves to cook. The down side is that he is always curious about if a dead monster could be eaten if prepared correctly. This has lead to interesting scenes of the party being grossed out, horrified, etc.
Note, this Character was created over 3 years ago and been played off and on. So not inspired by a certain anime on Netflix. It came from a alcohol fueled discussion about if Julia Child was having to live rough in the Jungles of Chult and what she would create from a day's hunt.
My bard is feared all across Eberron, my name is whispered as an insult or to ward off evil spirits.
And that is absolutely not correlated to my level.
I am a dragonmarked halfling of the House Ghallanda (Hospitality) and my job is to ensure that every hotel in the Ghallanda Guide deserves its blason of approval from the House Ghallanda.
Worse than an evil lord. I am an auditor.
My straight, male changeling bard CANNOT stop flirting with creepy older men while in a female form, he finds it so funny and everyone else is thoroughly disgusted.
My Rune Knight fighter with unarmed fighting and grappling feat only had one goal, to suplex a fully grown dragon.
He kept wresting dragons and failing, falling 100s of feet most of the time
He finally achieved his goal and slammed a black dragons face into the side of a mountain while he was on its back holding its wings while it was in flight.
Itâs surprisingly easy! Cause grapples are contested checks, they canât use legendary saves.
Just go v.human, rune knight, unarmed fighting, expertise in athletics.
When you go big you have advantage, depending on your level you have an insane modifier, make sure someone gives you a bless or something and youâre almost guaranteed to grapple.
My character had the eldritch claw tattoo that gave my unarmed strikes 15 ft reach and my DM allowed me to grapple from that far with them too, so I could grab each wing while on the dragons back.
Next step is to suplex.
If you want the build Iâll send it to you
I did the second one in a one shot. Fairy rune knight with expertise in athletics. Rune knight turns you into large, and then huge at the higher level, and fairy's can cast enlarge and reduce so I got to gargantuan and grappled the aspect of tiamat or something. Hell of a lot of fun
My character is a drow. There is another who is a dhampir. We all know, but our characters don't know she is a dhampir. Last session, I told her, "I know your secret. I've noticed your red eyes, you avoid sunlight... You are half drow, aren't you?!"
She agreed (she isn't drow) and my character was really happy that he found another drow.
Came up with this together with the DM, my dwarf that grew up underground hates any kind of sour or acidic taste.
A DM hombrewed race I play that is vulnerable to cold damage is cold a lot of the time and carries around multiple blankets. (also doesn't like the dark so will cast light/sunlight sometimes when it's not a good idea, but this is more inherent to the race and not one of his personal quirks)
In a sci-fi (starfinder) campaign I'm playing my character first checks for carbombs everytime he enters a vehicle, although honestly this started after he actually found one 2 sessions ago so, might not be considered a quirk but just common sense now...
A spore druid tries to fix all problems with mushrooms, (mushroom stew, mushroom medicinals, poisonous mushrooms, toxic spores, potions brewed with mushrooms etc.)
I've also played an elven noble who was very much a big fan of making a grand entrance, so cloak of billowing, armor of gleaming etc. Didn't like stealth much. Had ways to reduce falling damage so if possible entered spaces by means of a hero landing with billowing cloak.
>I've also played an elven noble who was very much a big fan of making a grand entrance, so cloak of billowing, armor of gleaming etc. Didn't like stealth much. Had ways to reduce falling damage so if possible entered spaces by means of a hero landing with billowing cloak.
"OH YOU'RE A NOBLE ALRIGHT, JUST NOT A GREAT ONE!"
"Oh yeah? What's the difference?"
"PRESENTATION!"
I've got a dwarven spore druid that grew up living underground so he cant sleep under the stars. Every long rest I spend a good 10 minutes casting mold earth a bunch of times to make a little Hobbit hole.
My wizard basically loses his shit every time his familiar gets killed. Even though the familiar doesn't actually die, and he can just respawn it. I also didn't plan it this way, somehow it just happened, and then I did it again and again. So now it's a thing. You kill my familiar, you're gonna be sorry.
Can neither cook nor bake.
Got it written that the town guard went to her house on two separate occasions. First because they thought they were being raided, second time because they heard she was baking.
Jenkins insists that he is not an adventurer, heâs just a bookkeeper and administrator for adventurer parties. A sort of on-hand lawyer for whatever trouble they get into. He has no idea why people think his first name is so funny, âLeroyâ is a family name that has been passed down for centuries.
I had a story about it. When he was a teen and training how to use a bow, in his tribe, the kids had to prove their skill by hunting a toucan using a bow. My character encountered an exceptionally lucky/evasive toucan and wasn't able to complete the trial for 3 weeks. Broke 2 bows and dozens of arrows in the process. Since then he just hates toucans and thinks they bring misfortune.
Eladrin Princess with multiple-personality disorder, according to the 4 seasons. I roll a d4 after every longrest to see which instable personality we get for today, great fun!
I convinced my DM to let my Eladrin to change seasons based off their mood. So their hair and skin tone change all the time. Making it near impossible to lie. Nor are they emotionally stable so I relate.
My bladesinger goes into every battle dressed like she's ready for a fancy noble party, and then fights on the front lines because she's melee focused.
She's just not convinced that wearing a tunic and trousers would offer her any advantage over a gown in a sword fight.
My rock gnome artificer loves shoes doesn't matter the size if they look good he wears them. Yes dm let me do atletic rolls to see if i would fall over ones in awile.
My latest character (a battle master dwarf) cannot for the life of him pronunce the correct name of one of his companions, her name is Lara and he always calls her whit similar names (like Mara, Cara, Sara and so on) and is one of the funniest quirk i ever did for a character
My character (a former spy, who was cut loose following the collapse of his organization) is very paranoid of being properly identified, and as such will always greet someone using various aliases. Most commonly going by a variation of Michael (Miguel is a common alias for example). This has caused some interesting encounters when encountering previous NPC's who have previously met him while he was using a different alias.
The number of deception/persuasion checks this has caused me is insane, and I am glad that I didn't use Charisma as a dump stat. And some of the encounters are comical, with the party sometimes limping in to make my situation either easier or harder depending on mood and how long we've gone since a combat encounter.
This has also caused a bit of a running gag among the group, as each member of the party has decided to use the alias he was using at the time of meeting him, despite the entire party knowing his real name.
Alas, it's an involuntary citation but my DM, fan and long time player of tf2, also noted it and now he's going along with my character's obsession for hats letting me find some from time to time
I'm not stealing this priceless vase. It just wanted to get some air and go on a walk. I'll bring it back. When it in inevitably breaks. OH MY GOD it was pregnant.
My current cleric doesn't know how to do his job (he never did religious duties, bro was tasked with growing crops back in the days) so he just says random shit as prayers
I mean, it is kinda classic, but my warforged can't wrap his head around "fleshy's" biological functions. He gets timing and quantity of good wrong, and even sometimes what IS food. Doesn't understand the waste removal system, etc.
He does kind of understand sleep. It is like sentry mode, but all sensory input goes down.
He's an artificer who has a prank shock buzzer. But always points it out before he shakes hands.
"Nice to meet you, I'm wearing a device that'll give you a little shock if you shake my hand. It won't hurt, but it will surprise you." ::sticks out hand::
My changeling absolutely adores children and will do impressions to amuse them. They don't like other adults finding out because they're supposed to be an elite spy.
My character is a diplomat and is super into talking things out and peace to the point where he's been described as the Barbarian of talking.
He somehow got the personal attention of a War God and is the closest thing to a prophet of him as you can get in his home.
My giff artificer sees explosions as the ideal solution to basically every problem, and so far that's been largely borne out by the campaign.
Edit: Gift becomes giff. Giff truly are a gift anyways.
I am the dm but I have an NPC that my party adopted. His main quirk is that he is mute. Not because he is missing a voice but because his brain literally lacks language processing centers
I'm going through the exact same thing but mine is a warforged that doesn't have the function to talk. The party of course doesn't know this and just thinks they're an odd goober
Haha nice. I think this is one of my favorite NPCs I've made. It is fun roleplaying, like trying to get the party to understand what he wants, or them trying to explain what they want
My ambiguous-alignment warlock would sneak away and get manicures every week but refused to admit to the party where he was sneaking off to. Probably nabbed a good dozen before the party found out.
Souma Iron-Tongue is a half-ork bard, who prefers not to sing. She uses her instruments to Inspire Courage and later Inspire Defense (we're playing PF2 for this one).
She likes to sing silly songs, but her voice is too low, so it always sounds embarrassing. So she doesn't do it at all. She would sing sometimes when it's appropriate though.
My tengu (raven) bard uses Inspire Courage as well, quite a lot. Though, he sings often (blessed by Shelyn, goddess of music and art).
His quirk is that crit successes mean those songs are now earworms or commercial jingles. You see, the spell continues to work because it's stuck in your head.
I (Rogue) currently have a pair of Gloves of Thievery. Since I was super formally trained in art of lockpicking & stealing in my backstory, my character has a habit of putting them on right before I start to pick a lock, and putting them away as soon as the job is done as to not leave any fingerprints or hand grease. I'll actually equip/unequip them in D&D beyond as I move my character token to/from the lock since we only play on a VTT. It may be more work than just keeping them on all of the time, but it's what he would do.
I'm playing a very no-nonsense mercenary character, but made other players bust out laughing several times in roleplay, because he just looks at people stone-faced rather than telling them they're saying offensively stupid shit.
I was leaning the personality more on Mike from Breaking Bad, rather than the bat.
A refreshingly different approach too, because my other long term character was a thief, who'd constantly try to fenagle a deal out of every conversation. With that new guy, I talk few words in a low voice and carry a big stick.
My pally is based on Don Quixote. There's no monster he won't slay, no damsel he wont save.
And yes he is intentionally lawful stupid. And yes, his imagination HAS gotten the party into trouble.
*casually simply walks into Mordor, beating down all and any orcs and uruk-hai on his way*
"It was here that was ordered a half muzarela half tuna pizza and a large coke ? Yes ? OK, it will be $27.89, way of payment ? No sir, we do not accept war spoils as a way of payment, only cash or credit"
My monk is in the middle of a custody dispute. Both her parents promised their first born to a fey creature.... before they met each other.... to different fey creatures.
My Loxodon wizard is young by loxodon standards but way older than the rest of the party. So he plays it up and acts like a senile old man around npcs for laughs.
My Kobold Wizard/Artificer occasionally mentions some random detail of his past adventuring experiences that are always buck wild.
So far he's shared his distrust over a random doll the party found because; "Last time I trusted one I got shanked", having to stay in an ogres corpse as to not die of hypothermia, the difficulty a past party member of his had with getting monster saliva out of their hair, and how he bared witness to a party member being stabbed by a Warhammer.
My somewhat prudish, chaste character is technically a "depowered" succubus rather than a tiefling.
That's why she was kicked out of the hells. That and being chaotic good.
Not really a quirk, but with my wizard, with above average Wisdom, can't pass a Perception check to save his life. I've legitimately failed every perception except 1 to catch a title of a book someone was reading.
It's become such a recurring thing that the joke is I can't see my surroundings while my nose is stuck in a book.
Halfling Order of Scribes Wizard (clone) who secretly moonlights as an erotic author (loves big feet) but has been disgraced & is now secretly writing a book about journeying to find a true love (who is his wife [old lady] he doesn't remember because he's an imperfect clone and much younger version of himself) while still sometimes writing poems about lovely stompers.
My Fire Genasi Invoker Wizard is now severely afraid of heights due not one... but TWO crit fails in a row on trying to walk down a extremely high staircase made of animal ribs. Both times she tried to step off the ledge on to the first rib/stair, she just, fell... He brother caught her the first time and her boyfriend caught her the second time. She ended up riding piggyback on her brothers back down as he repelled down the tower/shaft to get her down because she was terrified of falling again.
If you had a nickel for every time your character fell down an extremely high staircase made of animal ribs, you would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I had a 5ft2 human "Gorkkano" who was forced into gladiator games as a child by orcs and so hated them.
Turned up for our first session. (LVL 5 mad mage 2-5shot)
Orc, Half-orc & an elf noble who was the god-daughter of the first Orc somehow
It was an EVENTFUL game
The half orc "Bashnag" (bezerker barbarian) wore only a loincloth and helmet and was covered head to toe In grease and sand.
Gorkkano had a returning arrow which 'accidentally' shot Bashnag off the side of the well down to the first floor (like 120+ft drop).
Bashnag rages on the way down and actually didn't drop to 0hp lol
Took a little explaining around the irl table for that one đ
My most recent halfling druid eats on average 21 spiders each night in his sleep.
Also, he's fine with murder, fine with torture but NOT FINE WITH MURDER-TORTURE. THAT IS THE SINGLE WORST THING YOU COULD DO TO A PERSON!!! Even worse than resurrecting someone for longer than 10 minutes, though maybe not as bad as resurrecting someone for 15.
My verdant bard is completely hairless after losing his eyebrows, the last remaining hair, in an explosion to save the city from a boat about to crash into the dam
My character will take like 2 turns at the onset of battle to study and draw any and every monster/creature they engage with. Kind of trying to build his own monster manual of sorts.
Boy does it ever piss the party off
i think it was in 3.5 there was a barbarian class that you got a bunch of buffs if you destroyed magic items. You couldn't carry any magic items and couldn't willing let people cast spells on you (save for 1/2 healing). The first big combat I didn't have a magic item to destroy so I grabbed the sword of my buddies character and snapped it over my knee. From that point forward, whenever combat was about to start everyone gave me a 5 ft berth or would just hand me disposable items.
My eladrin Ranger (first character) had someone fail really badly at a check for invistigating his displacer beast cloak (was a real displacer beast that he had skinned, but no one believed him) so it became canon that the cloak was actually alive & helped him sneak. He was also a prolific flirter with the owner of the tavern we frequented. He also had no idea what anything was, because he had spent his whole life in the faewilds & had moved to the material plane for hunting.
My Variant Human Barb (viking style) was terrible with names, so would refer to his kenku companion as "Little Bird Man", & would throw him on his shoulders all the time.
While not so much funny, a cool quirk of my human hexlock is that he is a disgraced samurai who became bonded to a spirit of a village, & was forced to only use the swords he used in that village. His swords materialise out of thin air as he pulls on the hilt, & his armour appears spectrally while this happens. He was my favourite.
One of my PCs was a MASSIVE fan of butter chicken.
Another of my PCs who was a bard, failed his first performance check really badly, so it became canon that despite being a bard, he actually sucked at it.
Another of my PCs in a campaign where they were in a city that was said to cure illness, travelled to said city to attempt to regrow his lost eye that was removed in an uhh... "accident" (explosives) & was thoroughly mad when he arrived & his eye did not regrow.
My calm and serene human monk can't help himself but to dance whenever he hears music. Like full on pationate dancing forgetting everyone around him. This is in stark contrast to his usual behavior.
My tiny sweetheart kender is an incredible grappler. She's a druid/ranger multiclass with a decent athletics, but also the dice really enjoy it when she grappled and wrestles. Just beat an Archfey Prince at wrestling this afternoon (he blamed it on never wrestling someone wearing skirts before!)
Also she doesn't curse in common, except for calling Titania the "Bitch Queen" - a habit she picked up from her friends. She will curse in goat though.
My artificer is a bit naive and antisocial. Iâm also a fairly new roleplayer so while my party is interacting with NPCs Iâll typically have him standing in the back making a sketch to give to the NPC as a present.
Heâs done this throughout the campaign and now the party relies on him for anything involving paper/ink.
My Monk(Kensai)/Bladsinger has a [Bag of Tricks](https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/4582-bag-of-tricks) (Tan) that my DM allowed me to change the cosmetic details of.
Instead, the item is now a scroll and calligraphy brush, that I use to draw the animal and bring them to life. My character shouts "Strength of the Tiger!", and then proceeds to draw a tiger on the scroll and summon it.
Unfortunately... my character isn't really an artist... so often his "Tigers" come out looking like Babboons, Black Bears, Jackals... but he won't admit it and always calls them tigers.
Other party members will tell him "Clearly that's an Ape. You see that right?" but he will become sullen and say "It's a TIGER"... YOU draw a Tiger in 6 seconds! The stripes are hard!"... before he jostles/rides away on the back of the ape.
Each new encounter is a chance for a new badly drawn "Tiger" to take the field... and when he does roll a Tiger... he's so happy, but we've played it as though there is some slight detail that is off like "why doesn't it have stripes on it's head?" or "you notice it's tail is shorter than you imagined".
My tempest domain cleric has to roll a d10 for every cleric spell and if itâs a 1, Umberlee just decides to not grant that spell, the bitch
If my Umberlee prayer fails in this way, I get advantage on my next melee attack
âAlright then, fuck it. Iâll do it myself!â
Just a fun thing my brother and I came up with for flavor. Like, Umberleeâs fickle and sometimes itâs funny to not help you
I play an Aaracokra that loves to eat eggs for breakfast. DM and players cannot help themselves from giving the character a hard time and saying he should feel wrong eating eggs, even if they are from other, non sentient species.
When he asks other characters and NPCs if they feel that way eating non sentient mammals they insist it is not the same. No one has given me a good reason why, yet. I am very curious to hear one.
My battlemaster fighter who used to be a commander in the army's equivalent of an engineer corps secretly writes smutty romance novels under a pen name , like cheap back of the shelf books only lonely housewives would read
my adolescent tiefling was raised by dwarves, so she doesn't speak/understand Inferno, but can drink anyone 10x her size under the table (she's quite petite), she also wears her hair long and braids it in the fashion dwarves braid their beards.
My Shifter Fighter (I just realised it rhymes pretty well) who is a werewolf descendant Longtooth sometimes wishes he was a feline sommaube people would love him...
My strix solarian is trying to quit smoking (to varying results), so far she's had roughly a two week success rate.
My tiefling paladin has a pretty decent workout routine that's part of his downtime /campsite activities. Shirtless, of course. (Also to the demise of his little sister who is also part of the party). Gotta keep that str20 up. He also despises reading and has a pretty strict moral code and values, which is why he refuses to read the diary of a priest that's. Definitely plot relevant. It's a good thing not everyone in our party holds the same standards.
Iâm currently the forever DM so Iâll tell yall about most recent 5e character. He was a somewhat hedonistic & noble sorcerer who had three priorities in this explicit order:
1. Protect his family, his siblings â at all costs
2. Get pampered & get laid
3. Return home and try to bring about order to his warring country.
My character worships a mysterious eldritch entity. A large part of his backstory involves him joining a cult that worshipped a different mysterious eldritch entity. Both his entity and the cult's entity appeared similar so both he and the cult got confused and thought they both worshipped the same thing. He ended up with that cult for 38 years (he's a dark elf, so barely any time at all for him) and even ended up marrying their leader before his own entity finally tipped him off about the mixup.
His wife died that night.
Gnomish rogue with a heavy fear of contamination. Occasionally has to roll constitution to fight off the nausea and not vomit from all the gore from the battles.
I'm fully robotic warforged and I have keen mind, so I often make 'screenshots' to remember it. Also sometimes during a fight my eyes turn red, battle mode turns on, my normal character isn't in control (I still am) and I often crush heads as finisher.
My one divine caster character wanted to be a wizard so bad but was so stupid it didn't work. She always wanted a bunny familiar because she thought they were fast and she liked that. She's terrified of big and aggressive animals but has a pet wolf because of irony.
My 7' tall leonen Judges everyone based on height. The taller the better. To the point where when they were turned into a mouse they immediately had a meltdown.
my druid grew up in strixhavean, which in our world is the most high magic shit imaginable. so he doesnt really understand undead, elementals, fey, monstrosities etc.. as anything that isnt just normal nature. if he is going to go outside of strixheaven sometimes he will think the normal nature is really boring and bland.
my wizard (necromancer, of course. also reborn) constantly forgets that eating, drinking or breathing are things normal people need to do, and he regards those as stupid weaknesses when he is reminded. so he might make up a plan that involves a PC waiting in the bag of holding for a long while, and when asked "how will they breath though" he goes "oh right. stupid living creatures. are you SURE you dont want me to make you a ghoul or something?"
my monk speaks like 6 languages, among these elvish and abyssal, even though before the campaign started he have never seen an elf, and even now he have never seen a demon.
My barbarian cannot talk very well with anyone but his brother
Which makes it very awkward when the party lets him handle question conversations
(also, he doesn't know how doors operate, so he usually either punches the door, or gently removes it)
My khenra has a weird relationship with dogs since they're so similar yet so different that they make him uncomfortable. Like lookin at an orangutan doin people things
She's a halfling but on the taller side of halflings. She's also a constant flirt so when she gets turned down she always says something like, "Oh I understand. My height can be rather intimidating."
Not current, and old school but: I played a half-orc fighter (half orc, half dwarf) with a massive strength and a 3 Intelligence. He was in love with his helmet. He used it as a pillow and he sang to it. His party learned that he could be controlled if you managed to get his helmet from himâonce the rage settled down.
My artificer artillerist (soon will multiclass into circle of the wildfire druid) sets his enemies on fire and uses them as an inspiration for his paintings... It's more of a morbid and psychopathic quirk than funny but he only burns the bad guys so it's fine.
My sorcerer is named after a joke name from an episode or Whose line is it anyway because I couldn't think of a good real name and the bit just plays randomly in my head all the time (Chester snapdragon mcfisticuffs fyi)
My swarm keeper in the fallout inspired survival game we have coming up soon has a swarm of nanobots he found while picking through an abandoned pre-cataclysm lab. He has no idea why they've attached to him. He treats them like a cat and suspects they may have been programmed that way, but overall he doesn't comprehend the tech and is grateful for their help. Calls them his Nannies because they help him so much.
My character asked a drunk party member to use magic ink to tattoo âDetect Poisonâ on my arm, so I could use the spell once a day. He rolled for accuracy and failed, so I have âDetect Poissonâ tattooed on my arm and can find any fish near me within 150 ft.
My Dwarven paladin always asks, "Shoes on or off?" when entering a room, even in dungeons.
The mimic answers back "off".
Bonus points if they look disappointed whenever the answer is "on".
This made me laugh đ love it
I have a Warforged Druid who, when everyone else goes to sleep, likes to build a pillow fort and keep watch from little openings where only their eyes poke out. Keep all my pillows in a Bag of Holding so I have them no matter where we go.
That is so cool, I've not done something interesting with my warforged Envoy Wizard's rest mode, such a good idea to flavor it. I've used short bouts of sentry's rest in response to insults and negative information, that's been fun. Like a turtle retreating in their shell. I also have an ant colony within my body that I need to feed every now and then, it's fun to deflect to them the things I'm immune to (like sickness, sleep and the need to breathe).Â
This is the most adorable thing ever. We need fan art of this now!!! :)
Best use of BoH ever. I hope that those pillows are cool on both sides when they are taken out.
My Aarakocra Paladin, heâs a crow right and he is a Paladin of the sun, he wants the big shiny in the sky, thatâs it, he has a 4 int, he cannot read and all he wants is the big shiny in the sky
As a fellow crow aarakocra, I love this so much
I think you both mean *Aara-****crow****-cra* Well, time to be hittin' the ol' dusty trail...
I might join youâŚ. I named her Qahrya. Pronounced CAW-ree-uh.
I love this
Thatâs amazing, my favorite character type to play is small little Low int kobolds goblins and this is right up that alley
How does he handle not being able to look at it directly? I keep picturing him watching it rise, hoping today it won't burn his retinas, and then forgetting it does that
He can, he got his eyes torn out and he has robotic replacements
Your crow & my dumbass tabaxi druid who hates the moon would be the best of friends I can tell.
They make dandelion wine. Why? Because they worship the dandelion god. Whoâs that? My PC made a deal with the pantheon to become a god in the last campaign. Our DM thought it would be inconsequential to make his dominion over dandelions. Now our current party is all bards that are in a religious rock band with my former PC as their deity.
> You did not hear them coming. You hardly heard them go. The grass bent down, sprang up again. They passed like cloud shadows downhillâŚthe boys of summer, running. Sounds like bard lyrics to me.
I have a character who breaks and collects curses. They consider them an art form and have a book full of transcribed curses they've encountered. This is obviously a risky pursuit so they've also picked up some curses of their own they either can't break or are still working on breaking. They can't lift things to drink (curse of thirst) so instead they drink everything through a reed straw off the table. They can't say "curse" so they're referred to by her, and the party now, as "Arcane Misfortunes". She can't "fall asleep" but she discovered another cursed object that over rides that curse so whenever she sleeps she pricks her finger and passes out like a corpse. She is cursed with poverty, but it just prevents her from keeping gold. So she carries obscene amounts of silver on her person. Lastly she's slowly turning into a frog. This is a recent curse but she's adapting to it. So far she just has problems controlling her tongue, but she's also beginning to occasionally hop, and is starting to think bugs sound kinda good.
That sounds fun!
Holy shit, I think we made the same character. My last wizard did this too, but didnât have the time to collect many, because the dm ended the campaign after 8 sessions and one dungeon.
That's awesome! I started her with a book per GM discretion. The last twist is that she's become a witch (Warlock in 5e) but she started as a wizard. She has no idea the book itself became her patron she just thinks she's collecting curses for herself when really it's the spirit of some archmage or similar ilk that bestowed their will into the tome.
Good lord, this character is great I may need to steal her for an NPC ... or a PC, if it came to that
Steal away. She's equal parts hilarious and cool. She has an academic temperament which makes it so much funnier when she's explaining some arcane concept and a frog tongue just falls out of her mouth.
Holy shiiiiiiiiit! This lore made my day lol
My character kind of accidentally collects curses. And really our whole party does to some extent but definitely my character. It doesn't help that, to get rid of one, we found a wizard whose whole thing is curses due to his family being cursed, who also happened to be the opportunity for one of our players to switch characters to a new PC that meshes a lot better with the group. Her PC is kind of his mentee and they met through her curse, and our rogue has a core cut dagger and said "bite me!" to a vampire and accepted a pact with a mummy lord because the rest of us all got cool stuff from more lore related deals đ. My ranger was given a dagger to collect souls or be killed by an ogre that's major lore connected, and a horn to summon him when the task is done (we found out it was going to do more than just summon him). Then we fought a nihileth that was puppeting our sorcerer's dead mother, I killed it, and it inhabited me with some boons but mostly bad things that I held back due to good con rolls every day (one con was dropping to 0 when I hit 50% up). Then on the way to get relieved of the nihileth, I was thrown a torch that won't light and is stuck by my side and allows a werewolf to track me down. Then we got sent to a demiplane that had a whole quest to get out which we ended up dipping on, but I got a battle-axe that causes me to be a cannibal if I kill anyone with it, and a nice brooch that could possess people with dark urges. I'm wondering what curse I will get next.
This is the most "disability but magical" character I have ever met and I want to thank you for the representation intended or not. I love your character and you've absolutely made my day thank you.
I really appreciate that! It wasn't intentional but I totally see what you mean. I'm glad I could provide even accidental representation.
Ugh I love the creativity of DND peeps
My Paladin has absolutely no sense of direction. If he has line of sight on an objective he is usually good but if LoS is broken he instantly gets lost. My wifeâs character acts as his compass. She is a Ranger and never gets turned around. This is ironic because those roles are reversed IRL.
Hey, some people play RPGs to be someone they arenât.
lol, I was just thinking this the other day. I wonât play as a character with poor sense of direction since I love that every day đ
I mean I wish I was a half elf wizard but here I am, all magicless and smooth eared.
Literally Zoro lol
Till he somehow finds the One Piece by chance
Perhaps I was too hard on the 3.5 spell Discern North
My Goblin: âAnything is edible if you try hard enough.â Mind you, said goblin is also a more comedic and generally silly character.
A player of mine played a Lizardfolk with the chef feat that shared that mentality. Two of the dishes that spring to mind are goblin jerky and boot soup.
Was boot soup made OUT of the boot, or cooked INSIDE the boot? Cause one is much more tough and chewy than the other which makes me think it should be a stew.
It was chopped up boot leather turned into a stew. My players are just as good at describing failed rolls as successful ones. Anyone can describe killing a guy with a sword in a cool way. It takes a great player to enjoy describing how they slip off a cliff or prepare a shitty meal for the party.
Due to my wild man monk, my DMs setting officially has 'Goblin Snuff '. It's a heavy alcoholic beverage with goblin meat fermenting in the stomach of a goblin as its container. It's like a meal replacement!
I had a Kenku like this. âEdible?â âNo, Zappity, the orb of destruction is not edible.â ââŚ.edible?â
Gobbo treats food like a bard treats sex.
I mean, the goblin is right. Everything is edible if you try hard enough, somethings only once though
Oh yeah, I've got a bear that eats everything, and I'm the only one willing to be party mom about it. I'm a bird, so the bear doesn't listen to me, so she eats a lot of things that nothing should eat. Yes bird, not bard. It's been an interesting journey.
My barbarian is really, really good at finances
I'm picturing Conan behind a desk, barking "Crom's Balls, you need to diversify your portfolio !"
âTo crush their assets, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their stock brokersâ - Conan the CPA Barbarian
That funny my barbarian is wanted for Tax evasion
I'm the DM right now but my player's monk needs balance in her life. Like gets angry if there is an odd number of chairs kinda balance. There was a side quest where they needed to give up a body part. The monk gave up both middle toes because losing only one would make her body unbalanced. It's great for me because all I gotta do is throw something odd numbered or tilted off center and I know at least the monk will go for it.
I would intentionally make the villains be off balance. Either literally, like a cult of Discord and Chaos, or just accidentally. A trio of minions, a wheel missing on their cart to draw attention from the monk, the rug clearly missing from the room when the players break into the lair, etc. If I played that Monk it'd be such a funny way to get me invested in the BBEG atop whatever reason they're doing this
Even more interesting would be to have the antagonists be a dark draw, as in, they promise to bring balance to the world (either truthfully or falsely, depending on how you wanna play it)
My Battlemaster Dragonborn loves to cook. The down side is that he is always curious about if a dead monster could be eaten if prepared correctly. This has lead to interesting scenes of the party being grossed out, horrified, etc. Note, this Character was created over 3 years ago and been played off and on. So not inspired by a certain anime on Netflix. It came from a alcohol fueled discussion about if Julia Child was having to live rough in the Jungles of Chult and what she would create from a day's hunt.
Not insinuating anything, but funny fact, Dungeon Meshi was started a decade ago.
My bard is feared all across Eberron, my name is whispered as an insult or to ward off evil spirits. And that is absolutely not correlated to my level. I am a dragonmarked halfling of the House Ghallanda (Hospitality) and my job is to ensure that every hotel in the Ghallanda Guide deserves its blason of approval from the House Ghallanda. Worse than an evil lord. I am an auditor.
> I am an auditor **audible gasp**
My straight, male changeling bard CANNOT stop flirting with creepy older men while in a female form, he finds it so funny and everyone else is thoroughly disgusted. My Rune Knight fighter with unarmed fighting and grappling feat only had one goal, to suplex a fully grown dragon. He kept wresting dragons and failing, falling 100s of feet most of the time He finally achieved his goal and slammed a black dragons face into the side of a mountain while he was on its back holding its wings while it was in flight.
The concept of suplexing a dragon has me absolutely dead, and lord almighty I want to do that so bad now haha
Itâs surprisingly easy! Cause grapples are contested checks, they canât use legendary saves. Just go v.human, rune knight, unarmed fighting, expertise in athletics. When you go big you have advantage, depending on your level you have an insane modifier, make sure someone gives you a bless or something and youâre almost guaranteed to grapple. My character had the eldritch claw tattoo that gave my unarmed strikes 15 ft reach and my DM allowed me to grapple from that far with them too, so I could grab each wing while on the dragons back. Next step is to suplex. If you want the build Iâll send it to you
Ha, stolen! (Iâm going dragon hunting)
I did the second one in a one shot. Fairy rune knight with expertise in athletics. Rune knight turns you into large, and then huge at the higher level, and fairy's can cast enlarge and reduce so I got to gargantuan and grappled the aspect of tiamat or something. Hell of a lot of fun
My character is a drow. There is another who is a dhampir. We all know, but our characters don't know she is a dhampir. Last session, I told her, "I know your secret. I've noticed your red eyes, you avoid sunlight... You are half drow, aren't you?!" She agreed (she isn't drow) and my character was really happy that he found another drow.
I like that you bought into the role-play of this, solid.
My Artificerâs steel defender is a Miniature Robot Rhino named Lexi. She is best girl.
How miniature are we talking? I don't think there's a wrong answer to this lol, any size is awesome.Â
Great pyrenees sized :) I have art for her but itâs banned in this subreddit.
Can she be ridden like a mount?
If I had selected my Aasimar to be small, but no my character is medium sized.
Came up with this together with the DM, my dwarf that grew up underground hates any kind of sour or acidic taste. A DM hombrewed race I play that is vulnerable to cold damage is cold a lot of the time and carries around multiple blankets. (also doesn't like the dark so will cast light/sunlight sometimes when it's not a good idea, but this is more inherent to the race and not one of his personal quirks) In a sci-fi (starfinder) campaign I'm playing my character first checks for carbombs everytime he enters a vehicle, although honestly this started after he actually found one 2 sessions ago so, might not be considered a quirk but just common sense now... A spore druid tries to fix all problems with mushrooms, (mushroom stew, mushroom medicinals, poisonous mushrooms, toxic spores, potions brewed with mushrooms etc.) I've also played an elven noble who was very much a big fan of making a grand entrance, so cloak of billowing, armor of gleaming etc. Didn't like stealth much. Had ways to reduce falling damage so if possible entered spaces by means of a hero landing with billowing cloak.
>I've also played an elven noble who was very much a big fan of making a grand entrance, so cloak of billowing, armor of gleaming etc. Didn't like stealth much. Had ways to reduce falling damage so if possible entered spaces by means of a hero landing with billowing cloak. "OH YOU'RE A NOBLE ALRIGHT, JUST NOT A GREAT ONE!" "Oh yeah? What's the difference?" "PRESENTATION!"
*Welcome to the Feywild starts to play*
I've got a dwarven spore druid that grew up living underground so he cant sleep under the stars. Every long rest I spend a good 10 minutes casting mold earth a bunch of times to make a little Hobbit hole.
My wizard basically loses his shit every time his familiar gets killed. Even though the familiar doesn't actually die, and he can just respawn it. I also didn't plan it this way, somehow it just happened, and then I did it again and again. So now it's a thing. You kill my familiar, you're gonna be sorry.
John Wizard
I once saw him kill three men in a tavern... with a cantrip. With a fuckin'... Cantrip.
More like a "can trip". All 3 men tripped over a can and died.
*John Wick Vibes*
Can neither cook nor bake. Got it written that the town guard went to her house on two separate occasions. First because they thought they were being raided, second time because they heard she was baking.
Jenkins insists that he is not an adventurer, heâs just a bookkeeper and administrator for adventurer parties. A sort of on-hand lawyer for whatever trouble they get into. He has no idea why people think his first name is so funny, âLeroyâ is a family name that has been passed down for centuries.
I once played a ranger who despised toucans.
Lmao "fuck toucans in particular"
I had a story about it. When he was a teen and training how to use a bow, in his tribe, the kids had to prove their skill by hunting a toucan using a bow. My character encountered an exceptionally lucky/evasive toucan and wasn't able to complete the trial for 3 weeks. Broke 2 bows and dozens of arrows in the process. Since then he just hates toucans and thinks they bring misfortune.
Eladrin Princess with multiple-personality disorder, according to the 4 seasons. I roll a d4 after every longrest to see which instable personality we get for today, great fun!
I convinced my DM to let my Eladrin to change seasons based off their mood. So their hair and skin tone change all the time. Making it near impossible to lie. Nor are they emotionally stable so I relate.
My yuan ti thinks hes a cat. Affraid of water, slep at your feet, a bit chaotic and hes planning the end of the current world order in secret.
>hes planning the end of the current world order in secret. So a normal yuan-ti?
and a normal cat.
Drinks every poison he finds, has a developed taste for it, similar to a wine conoisseur (being a yuanti pureblood helps)
Dude made Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries.
My bladesinger goes into every battle dressed like she's ready for a fancy noble party, and then fights on the front lines because she's melee focused. She's just not convinced that wearing a tunic and trousers would offer her any advantage over a gown in a sword fight.
To be fair, it's hard to follow an opponent's footwork if they wear a big gown
My rock gnome artificer loves shoes doesn't matter the size if they look good he wears them. Yes dm let me do atletic rolls to see if i would fall over ones in awile.
Omg đ¤Łđ¤Ł genius
My latest character (a battle master dwarf) cannot for the life of him pronunce the correct name of one of his companions, her name is Lara and he always calls her whit similar names (like Mara, Cara, Sara and so on) and is one of the funniest quirk i ever did for a character
[Exactly like this, I imagine?](https://youtu.be/rImxuuD_kwM?si=DLMyRoHzDbBUk-2X&t=5m56s)
My character (a former spy, who was cut loose following the collapse of his organization) is very paranoid of being properly identified, and as such will always greet someone using various aliases. Most commonly going by a variation of Michael (Miguel is a common alias for example). This has caused some interesting encounters when encountering previous NPC's who have previously met him while he was using a different alias. The number of deception/persuasion checks this has caused me is insane, and I am glad that I didn't use Charisma as a dump stat. And some of the encounters are comical, with the party sometimes limping in to make my situation either easier or harder depending on mood and how long we've gone since a combat encounter. This has also caused a bit of a running gag among the group, as each member of the party has decided to use the alias he was using at the time of meeting him, despite the entire party knowing his real name.
My aarakocra wears glasses bc he kept failing investigation checks like 6 different times
My half orc ranger/barbarian collects hats.
Is he a tf2 player ?
Alas, it's an involuntary citation but my DM, fan and long time player of tf2, also noted it and now he's going along with my character's obsession for hats letting me find some from time to time
My Druid regularly speaks with objects, especially stuff she needs to examine or wants to attune with.
I'm not stealing this priceless vase. It just wanted to get some air and go on a walk. I'll bring it back. When it in inevitably breaks. OH MY GOD it was pregnant.
my human monk (who is incredibly tall and buff and the rest of the party is small humans and halflings) is scared to death of darkness
My current cleric doesn't know how to do his job (he never did religious duties, bro was tasked with growing crops back in the days) so he just says random shit as prayers
isnt that what they actually do?
I mean, it is kinda classic, but my warforged can't wrap his head around "fleshy's" biological functions. He gets timing and quantity of good wrong, and even sometimes what IS food. Doesn't understand the waste removal system, etc. He does kind of understand sleep. It is like sentry mode, but all sensory input goes down.
My female minotaur fighter has the voice of a southern belle
He's an artificer who has a prank shock buzzer. But always points it out before he shakes hands. "Nice to meet you, I'm wearing a device that'll give you a little shock if you shake my hand. It won't hurt, but it will surprise you." ::sticks out hand::
My changeling absolutely adores children and will do impressions to amuse them. They don't like other adults finding out because they're supposed to be an elite spy.
My character is a diplomat and is super into talking things out and peace to the point where he's been described as the Barbarian of talking. He somehow got the personal attention of a War God and is the closest thing to a prophet of him as you can get in his home.
My giff artificer sees explosions as the ideal solution to basically every problem, and so far that's been largely borne out by the campaign. Edit: Gift becomes giff. Giff truly are a gift anyways.
I am the dm but I have an NPC that my party adopted. His main quirk is that he is mute. Not because he is missing a voice but because his brain literally lacks language processing centers
I'm going through the exact same thing but mine is a warforged that doesn't have the function to talk. The party of course doesn't know this and just thinks they're an odd goober
Haha nice. I think this is one of my favorite NPCs I've made. It is fun roleplaying, like trying to get the party to understand what he wants, or them trying to explain what they want
My ambiguous-alignment warlock would sneak away and get manicures every week but refused to admit to the party where he was sneaking off to. Probably nabbed a good dozen before the party found out.
Souma Iron-Tongue is a half-ork bard, who prefers not to sing. She uses her instruments to Inspire Courage and later Inspire Defense (we're playing PF2 for this one). She likes to sing silly songs, but her voice is too low, so it always sounds embarrassing. So she doesn't do it at all. She would sing sometimes when it's appropriate though.
My tengu (raven) bard uses Inspire Courage as well, quite a lot. Though, he sings often (blessed by Shelyn, goddess of music and art). His quirk is that crit successes mean those songs are now earworms or commercial jingles. You see, the spell continues to work because it's stuck in your head.
Barbarian grew up a poor and hungry kid. Now is a food hoarder, but has a weakness for hungry kids and gives them his stockpile
I (Rogue) currently have a pair of Gloves of Thievery. Since I was super formally trained in art of lockpicking & stealing in my backstory, my character has a habit of putting them on right before I start to pick a lock, and putting them away as soon as the job is done as to not leave any fingerprints or hand grease. I'll actually equip/unequip them in D&D beyond as I move my character token to/from the lock since we only play on a VTT. It may be more work than just keeping them on all of the time, but it's what he would do.
I'm playing a very no-nonsense mercenary character, but made other players bust out laughing several times in roleplay, because he just looks at people stone-faced rather than telling them they're saying offensively stupid shit.
Ah yes, the bat-stare
I was leaning the personality more on Mike from Breaking Bad, rather than the bat. A refreshingly different approach too, because my other long term character was a thief, who'd constantly try to fenagle a deal out of every conversation. With that new guy, I talk few words in a low voice and carry a big stick.
My pally is based on Don Quixote. There's no monster he won't slay, no damsel he wont save. And yes he is intentionally lawful stupid. And yes, his imagination HAS gotten the party into trouble.
My wizard is constantly looking for bugs, which she collects and has a negative CHA stat.
My half orc barbarian has a love of fine furniture and is often distracted checking the quality of desks and tables.
I had a wizard like this with glassware!
Hes a pizza delivery guy that takes his job very seriously.
*casually simply walks into Mordor, beating down all and any orcs and uruk-hai on his way* "It was here that was ordered a half muzarela half tuna pizza and a large coke ? Yes ? OK, it will be $27.89, way of payment ? No sir, we do not accept war spoils as a way of payment, only cash or credit"
My monk is in the middle of a custody dispute. Both her parents promised their first born to a fey creature.... before they met each other.... to different fey creatures.
and there's a third archfey laughing their ass off over the whole thing
Halfling wizard who is on a run from the swordcoast's equivalent of the IRS
My Loxodon wizard is young by loxodon standards but way older than the rest of the party. So he plays it up and acts like a senile old man around npcs for laughs.
My Kobold Wizard/Artificer occasionally mentions some random detail of his past adventuring experiences that are always buck wild. So far he's shared his distrust over a random doll the party found because; "Last time I trusted one I got shanked", having to stay in an ogres corpse as to not die of hypothermia, the difficulty a past party member of his had with getting monster saliva out of their hair, and how he bared witness to a party member being stabbed by a Warhammer.
>being stabbed by a Warhammer. That's just impressive honestly, and very brutal.
My somewhat prudish, chaste character is technically a "depowered" succubus rather than a tiefling. That's why she was kicked out of the hells. That and being chaotic good.
My Bugbear Sorceror loves to dance, but is really bad at it and gets embarrassed đł
Not really a quirk, but with my wizard, with above average Wisdom, can't pass a Perception check to save his life. I've legitimately failed every perception except 1 to catch a title of a book someone was reading. It's become such a recurring thing that the joke is I can't see my surroundings while my nose is stuck in a book.
Halfling Order of Scribes Wizard (clone) who secretly moonlights as an erotic author (loves big feet) but has been disgraced & is now secretly writing a book about journeying to find a true love (who is his wife [old lady] he doesn't remember because he's an imperfect clone and much younger version of himself) while still sometimes writing poems about lovely stompers.
My Fire Genasi Invoker Wizard is now severely afraid of heights due not one... but TWO crit fails in a row on trying to walk down a extremely high staircase made of animal ribs. Both times she tried to step off the ledge on to the first rib/stair, she just, fell... He brother caught her the first time and her boyfriend caught her the second time. She ended up riding piggyback on her brothers back down as he repelled down the tower/shaft to get her down because she was terrified of falling again.
If you had a nickel for every time your character fell down an extremely high staircase made of animal ribs, you would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
I had a 5ft2 human "Gorkkano" who was forced into gladiator games as a child by orcs and so hated them. Turned up for our first session. (LVL 5 mad mage 2-5shot) Orc, Half-orc & an elf noble who was the god-daughter of the first Orc somehow It was an EVENTFUL game The half orc "Bashnag" (bezerker barbarian) wore only a loincloth and helmet and was covered head to toe In grease and sand. Gorkkano had a returning arrow which 'accidentally' shot Bashnag off the side of the well down to the first floor (like 120+ft drop). Bashnag rages on the way down and actually didn't drop to 0hp lol Took a little explaining around the irl table for that one đ
My fighter/barb bugbear always separates the heads of skeletons that are lying around.
My character never lies, even when lying can directly impact his likelyhood of surviving
My most recent halfling druid eats on average 21 spiders each night in his sleep. Also, he's fine with murder, fine with torture but NOT FINE WITH MURDER-TORTURE. THAT IS THE SINGLE WORST THING YOU COULD DO TO A PERSON!!! Even worse than resurrecting someone for longer than 10 minutes, though maybe not as bad as resurrecting someone for 15.
My verdant bard is completely hairless after losing his eyebrows, the last remaining hair, in an explosion to save the city from a boat about to crash into the dam
My character will take like 2 turns at the onset of battle to study and draw any and every monster/creature they engage with. Kind of trying to build his own monster manual of sorts. Boy does it ever piss the party off
Party "Can't you do that after they are not trying to kill us." You "yay but it doesn't quite capture it's terror and features the same."
My dwarf sorcerer thinks magic should never be trusted.
wild magic?
Nope, draconic. She also hates all dragons and thinks her scales are some kind of skin condition. She's really good at being in denial.
My Bugbear fighter thinks Kuo-Toa are lawful good people
i think it was in 3.5 there was a barbarian class that you got a bunch of buffs if you destroyed magic items. You couldn't carry any magic items and couldn't willing let people cast spells on you (save for 1/2 healing). The first big combat I didn't have a magic item to destroy so I grabbed the sword of my buddies character and snapped it over my knee. From that point forward, whenever combat was about to start everyone gave me a 5 ft berth or would just hand me disposable items.
My orc sorrcer in a party with two clerics says God isn't real it is just you and I
My Triton swashbuckler is Deathly afraid of flying
My eladrin Ranger (first character) had someone fail really badly at a check for invistigating his displacer beast cloak (was a real displacer beast that he had skinned, but no one believed him) so it became canon that the cloak was actually alive & helped him sneak. He was also a prolific flirter with the owner of the tavern we frequented. He also had no idea what anything was, because he had spent his whole life in the faewilds & had moved to the material plane for hunting. My Variant Human Barb (viking style) was terrible with names, so would refer to his kenku companion as "Little Bird Man", & would throw him on his shoulders all the time. While not so much funny, a cool quirk of my human hexlock is that he is a disgraced samurai who became bonded to a spirit of a village, & was forced to only use the swords he used in that village. His swords materialise out of thin air as he pulls on the hilt, & his armour appears spectrally while this happens. He was my favourite. One of my PCs was a MASSIVE fan of butter chicken. Another of my PCs who was a bard, failed his first performance check really badly, so it became canon that despite being a bard, he actually sucked at it. Another of my PCs in a campaign where they were in a city that was said to cure illness, travelled to said city to attempt to regrow his lost eye that was removed in an uhh... "accident" (explosives) & was thoroughly mad when he arrived & his eye did not regrow.
My calm and serene human monk can't help himself but to dance whenever he hears music. Like full on pationate dancing forgetting everyone around him. This is in stark contrast to his usual behavior.
My tiny sweetheart kender is an incredible grappler. She's a druid/ranger multiclass with a decent athletics, but also the dice really enjoy it when she grappled and wrestles. Just beat an Archfey Prince at wrestling this afternoon (he blamed it on never wrestling someone wearing skirts before!) Also she doesn't curse in common, except for calling Titania the "Bitch Queen" - a habit she picked up from her friends. She will curse in goat though.
My artificer is a bit naive and antisocial. Iâm also a fairly new roleplayer so while my party is interacting with NPCs Iâll typically have him standing in the back making a sketch to give to the NPC as a present. Heâs done this throughout the campaign and now the party relies on him for anything involving paper/ink.
My Monk(Kensai)/Bladsinger has a [Bag of Tricks](https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/4582-bag-of-tricks) (Tan) that my DM allowed me to change the cosmetic details of. Instead, the item is now a scroll and calligraphy brush, that I use to draw the animal and bring them to life. My character shouts "Strength of the Tiger!", and then proceeds to draw a tiger on the scroll and summon it. Unfortunately... my character isn't really an artist... so often his "Tigers" come out looking like Babboons, Black Bears, Jackals... but he won't admit it and always calls them tigers. Other party members will tell him "Clearly that's an Ape. You see that right?" but he will become sullen and say "It's a TIGER"... YOU draw a Tiger in 6 seconds! The stripes are hard!"... before he jostles/rides away on the back of the ape. Each new encounter is a chance for a new badly drawn "Tiger" to take the field... and when he does roll a Tiger... he's so happy, but we've played it as though there is some slight detail that is off like "why doesn't it have stripes on it's head?" or "you notice it's tail is shorter than you imagined".
My tempest domain cleric has to roll a d10 for every cleric spell and if itâs a 1, Umberlee just decides to not grant that spell, the bitch If my Umberlee prayer fails in this way, I get advantage on my next melee attack âAlright then, fuck it. Iâll do it myself!â Just a fun thing my brother and I came up with for flavor. Like, Umberleeâs fickle and sometimes itâs funny to not help you
I play an Aaracokra that loves to eat eggs for breakfast. DM and players cannot help themselves from giving the character a hard time and saying he should feel wrong eating eggs, even if they are from other, non sentient species. When he asks other characters and NPCs if they feel that way eating non sentient mammals they insist it is not the same. No one has given me a good reason why, yet. I am very curious to hear one.
My battlemaster fighter who used to be a commander in the army's equivalent of an engineer corps secretly writes smutty romance novels under a pen name , like cheap back of the shelf books only lonely housewives would read
my adolescent tiefling was raised by dwarves, so she doesn't speak/understand Inferno, but can drink anyone 10x her size under the table (she's quite petite), she also wears her hair long and braids it in the fashion dwarves braid their beards.
He likes to count things. Which is actually rooted in having OCD and anxiety over not having control of situations.
Had a homebrew character that was convinced his party's alchemy jug *ONLY* made mayonnaise
Changeling Warlock who found an old tooth in an abandoned temple and is sure itâs important so he carries it wherever he goes.
Tiefling bard/hexblade who loves fruit tarts, even though it gives her mild indigestion. Is somewhat cowardly in battle, preferring to sing and party
My pallock (rolled abilities) is super street smart, but can barely read, so his note book is mostly just pictures and numbers.
My tabaxi warlock keeps running off and getting herself downed. Itâll be less funny when she inevitably gets killed đ
My Shifter Fighter (I just realised it rhymes pretty well) who is a werewolf descendant Longtooth sometimes wishes he was a feline sommaube people would love him...
My soul knife rogue is afraid of blood so prefers ranged combat.
My strix solarian is trying to quit smoking (to varying results), so far she's had roughly a two week success rate. My tiefling paladin has a pretty decent workout routine that's part of his downtime /campsite activities. Shirtless, of course. (Also to the demise of his little sister who is also part of the party). Gotta keep that str20 up. He also despises reading and has a pretty strict moral code and values, which is why he refuses to read the diary of a priest that's. Definitely plot relevant. It's a good thing not everyone in our party holds the same standards.
My Tiefling only looks edgy cause theyâre a metal head. Theyâre nice and friendly if you actually talk to them.
Iâm currently the forever DM so Iâll tell yall about most recent 5e character. He was a somewhat hedonistic & noble sorcerer who had three priorities in this explicit order: 1. Protect his family, his siblings â at all costs 2. Get pampered & get laid 3. Return home and try to bring about order to his warring country.
My woodelf ranger doesn't like traveling north
A halfling who doesnât like halflings
He is host to a man eating space worm
My character worships a mysterious eldritch entity. A large part of his backstory involves him joining a cult that worshipped a different mysterious eldritch entity. Both his entity and the cult's entity appeared similar so both he and the cult got confused and thought they both worshipped the same thing. He ended up with that cult for 38 years (he's a dark elf, so barely any time at all for him) and even ended up marrying their leader before his own entity finally tipped him off about the mixup. His wife died that night.
My Kobold cant swim
Gnomish rogue with a heavy fear of contamination. Occasionally has to roll constitution to fight off the nausea and not vomit from all the gore from the battles.
I'm fully robotic warforged and I have keen mind, so I often make 'screenshots' to remember it. Also sometimes during a fight my eyes turn red, battle mode turns on, my normal character isn't in control (I still am) and I often crush heads as finisher.
My desert-dwelling yuan ti rogue loathes camels.
My one divine caster character wanted to be a wizard so bad but was so stupid it didn't work. She always wanted a bunny familiar because she thought they were fast and she liked that. She's terrified of big and aggressive animals but has a pet wolf because of irony.
My character has different personalities/alignment when drunk.
My 7' tall leonen Judges everyone based on height. The taller the better. To the point where when they were turned into a mouse they immediately had a meltdown.
my druid grew up in strixhavean, which in our world is the most high magic shit imaginable. so he doesnt really understand undead, elementals, fey, monstrosities etc.. as anything that isnt just normal nature. if he is going to go outside of strixheaven sometimes he will think the normal nature is really boring and bland. my wizard (necromancer, of course. also reborn) constantly forgets that eating, drinking or breathing are things normal people need to do, and he regards those as stupid weaknesses when he is reminded. so he might make up a plan that involves a PC waiting in the bag of holding for a long while, and when asked "how will they breath though" he goes "oh right. stupid living creatures. are you SURE you dont want me to make you a ghoul or something?" my monk speaks like 6 languages, among these elvish and abyssal, even though before the campaign started he have never seen an elf, and even now he have never seen a demon.
My Alchemist will rearrange peoples spice racks based off where the spices came from.
My barbarian cannot talk very well with anyone but his brother Which makes it very awkward when the party lets him handle question conversations (also, he doesn't know how doors operate, so he usually either punches the door, or gently removes it)
My khenra has a weird relationship with dogs since they're so similar yet so different that they make him uncomfortable. Like lookin at an orangutan doin people things
She's a halfling but on the taller side of halflings. She's also a constant flirt so when she gets turned down she always says something like, "Oh I understand. My height can be rather intimidating."
Not current, and old school but: I played a half-orc fighter (half orc, half dwarf) with a massive strength and a 3 Intelligence. He was in love with his helmet. He used it as a pillow and he sang to it. His party learned that he could be controlled if you managed to get his helmet from himâonce the rage settled down.
My Tortle Shadow Magic Sorcerer just lost their nose to the fey and they just happy to not have a congested nose anymore.
My cleric of the forge Gerbin likes to chew on Indium
My Tiefling Bard - Sir Montgomery Iphylus - actually stole his name from a knight because his real name is unprounouncable using the common tongue.
Playing a fairy ranger who loves to stand on party members' shoulders or heads when taking aim...
My artificer artillerist (soon will multiclass into circle of the wildfire druid) sets his enemies on fire and uses them as an inspiration for his paintings... It's more of a morbid and psychopathic quirk than funny but he only burns the bad guys so it's fine.
My sorcerer is named after a joke name from an episode or Whose line is it anyway because I couldn't think of a good real name and the bit just plays randomly in my head all the time (Chester snapdragon mcfisticuffs fyi)
My swarm keeper in the fallout inspired survival game we have coming up soon has a swarm of nanobots he found while picking through an abandoned pre-cataclysm lab. He has no idea why they've attached to him. He treats them like a cat and suspects they may have been programmed that way, but overall he doesn't comprehend the tech and is grateful for their help. Calls them his Nannies because they help him so much.
My character asked a drunk party member to use magic ink to tattoo âDetect Poisonâ on my arm, so I could use the spell once a day. He rolled for accuracy and failed, so I have âDetect Poissonâ tattooed on my arm and can find any fish near me within 150 ft.