Strangest/weirdest character idea you've had?

A bugbear pirate who was cheated by her crew out of her share of treasure. She was instead given a false map that allegedly let to a bigger treasure: tonnes and tonnes of invisible gold.

Given her speech (Bugbear with INT Dump stat), that meant she bullied her way in search for the famous not-see gold.

The lawful good paladin recruited her by promising her "All the gold you cannot see."

Edited by Aszur on Mar 26th 2021 at 9:00:39 AM

A grapple-fighter pixie in 4e D&D. 6-inch-tall twee twinkling little goober who could throw opponents through walls and was so fight-happy that the other players basically treated him like a grenade. Yeah, basically a Nac Mac Feegle with wings and sparkles.

Or, in Shadowrun, a Trollish Physical Adept that ended up being '7-foot Yiddish Jackie Chan' and by far the sneakiest member of the party. That was a fun, but sadly short-lived game.

I love weird and humorous character concepts. I played so far:

• A lizardfolk bard using constant Disguise Self pretending to be a tiefling. While the tiefling looks male, the lizard form is a male that looks like a female of his species (inspired by female mimic lizards in several species). His pseudonym? Notali Zard.
• A magical adept tabaxi (i.e. catfolk) ranger with a panther hunting companion, a house cat familiar and a lion mount. All four of them are black-furred, the ranger calls the lion "Big Brother", the panther "Little Sister" and the house cat "Little Brother". They may or may not be actual siblings.
• A harengon (rabbitfolk) bard specializing in Enchantment and Illusion spells, i.e. screwing with his opponent's mind, playing pranks and planting bombs in their opponents' hands. Basically Bugs Bunny as a D&D character.

Edited by Snicka on Mar 3rd 2022 at 4:14:04 PM

Hope you don't mind, Imma borrow that Feegle concept.

I've come up with a few different weird characters, but I haven't had a chance to play any of them. (Live in the boonies and a 30 min drive from the nearest game store.)

I might as well start at the beginning-

First one was actually the first character I tried to make- Half-Elf Undying Warlock. His patron would be the ghosts of a party of high(ish) level adventurers that got a TPK in some remote corner of the Under Dark. The character found their remains when he was wondering lost and starving after escaping a Drow slaver. Character scavenged some of their rations and then started trying to bury them. The ghosts basically made a deal with the half-elf where if he let the spirits anchor themselves to him and give them a proper burial as well as help fulfill their last requests they'd give him magic and help him get home.

I was planning on reflavoring mage hand as just putting enough magic into one of the ghosts that they'd be able to interact with things. Similarly, Chill Touch would just be putting enough magic into the Barbarian's ghost that he'd be able to wring someone's neck Homer Simpson style. A successful arcana check might be the wizard's ghost whispering info on something to me, where as some kind of stealth or lockpicking check might be the rogue telling me how to do something.

Sadly, I realized that having multiple patrons would probably be a pain in the ass for a DM, so I shelved it. Now I'm trying to rework it into a campaign premise where the P Cs are said ghost patrons trying to help the warlock (either an NPC, or played by another person) evade dangerous enemies, or otherwise manuever them into traps. My working name for the campaign is "The Pact of the TPK".

I had an idea the other day for a redneck, Texan Paladdin. Yelling "go on, git you undead sumbitch!" when using Turn Undead.

I recently got several ideas for P Cs

Human (or half-elf if you want to be a little more min-maxxy) Hexblade who thinks he's some sort of Edritch Knight or paladin. Story is that he lived in a small out of the way village and always dreamed of being a magic knight type, but his INT and WIS were trash, and he wasn't particularly buff or religous. His neighbor was an old retired adventurer who could use magic and had a rather impressive collection of weapons. When this PC was really young he asked the neighbor if he was an eldritch knight, and neighbor shrugged and answered, "Eh, close enough."

When the neighbor passed away he willed PC a really nice dagger that made him into a Hexblade. The problem being, PC isn't proficient in Arcana, and doesn't realize he's a warlock, he thinks he's just an eldritch knight.

I have a few characters as backup. Currently playing an aetherborn sorcerer with a remaining lifespan of a few weeks, whose two main goals in life are bringing joy to people and building a legend around himself to be remembered for.

1) Bard in her 50s. Children are out of the house and she and her husband have drifted apart years ago (they still like each other but are divorced), took up adventuring as a new hobby to. She makes/hands out/throws baked goods and cookies instead of playing an instrument to cast her spells and has a rolling pin for close quarter combat. Also obviously she has the chef feat and makes socks for the rest of the party during downtime.

2) Echo knight fighter with the unarmed fighting style, with significant anger issues. During an argument with his son he could not control his anger and he killed his son. Because of the guilt he literally wont touch any kind of weapon, furthermore he has deluded himself into believing his echo is his sons ghost. He continues to have conversations with his "son" and at least once has talked himself into such a rage that he "killed" his "son" a second time. He did not take that well.

3) Horizon walker ranger who is a hunter. In his youth he hunted a deer but could not catch it. He became obsessed with hunting said deer, but could never find it again. He learned how/where to travel the planes to search every forest in the multiverse until he finds that deer again.

Dwarvish bard named Irony Guntherskind, who plays a mandolin. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of brass. On the item is a brass plaque with the inscription “this machine smites order”. The inscription pertains to the exile of Irony Guntherskind from the fortress Marshdrained in the autumn of 930.

A Dragon who's lost her memory and thinks she's a noir detective. She also looks like she's 10 years old.

I had this weirdest character from Anime One Piece that combining two animal devil fruits characters and making them as a whole to fight the marines.

In my only time ever GMing, I had three children playing with their own characters, their first time playing. Two of them had fairly conventional visions (thief with ninja-like weapons, wolf-woman sorceress) but the eldest latched on to his idea of "talking wizard cat". I managed to steer that towards something a bit easier to do in our system (Savage Worlds): a fighter who always goes with a cat on his shoulder, and the cat does all the talking. Nobody knows if the fighter is using ventriloquism for some weird personal reason, or if the cat's in command and the fighter is a pet of some sort.