Strangest/weirdest character idea you've had?

Even if you didn't write up the stats for the character, has there ever been a character you've thought up that, later on, made you think "Why did I come up with that?"

For instance, my gaming group and I tend to play Mutants And Masterminds. Our setting is strongly influenced by Kurt Busiek's Astro City, and as a result, a lot of times, our character are Expies of already-existing heroes/villains. For one setting, the character I thought up was essentially a gender-swapped Harley Quinn, with minor changes (for one thing, the outfit looked more like Vyvyan Basterd instead of a clown stripper).

Druid-Sorcerer Gnome who was basically an eco-terrorist. Then the dm gave him a living airship that was one big tree with a korok-like plant people crew named groots (yes named after the character). The groots could be fired out of cannons to plant trees. They could only say combinations of the words "I," "am," and "groot." well except one who insteas says "I'm Batman." though the groots are npcs made by my dm, not character concept made by me.

After discovering that you could make a DnD Cleric who worships an abstract concept, I came up with the idea of a Cleric who worships the concept of narcissism. Every morning, he prays to himself for spells.

Once upon a time, my group laughed at me for wanting to play a Monk/Cleric (Elemental-powered monk, old-god worshiping cleric)

look at them now.

I adventured in Living Greyhawk (3.5) with a PC halfling wizard who claimed to be a simple farmer and used Unseen Servant to have a rake follow him around everywhere. He took the still spell and silent spell feats and then always claimed the rake was the one doing all the spell casting.

There was no real reason for him to do this other than to mess with people's heads. It's not like he was hiding out from anyone. Sometimes he claimed his character genuinely did believe the rake was doing it all.

Later he was permanently cursed somehow with zebra stripes. He blamed the rake.

edited 4th Aug '16 10:33:38 AM by Bense

Big Game Hunter: 40k, signed on with a Rogue Trader to hunt and kill the biggest badest beasts the galaxy has to offer, and mount their heads on his wall, dreams of hunting Carnifex's and other big nids with a lascannon mounted on a crimea, or other suitable vehicle "UMBUBU! HOLD IT STEADY!"

I'm incapable of making a normal character so all of mine are unlikable freaks that piss off other characters and sometimes other players. Some of my worst:

• The oh-so-clever crazy Lovecraftian alienist who was fought a goblin horde by herself because the party abandoned the MacGuffin to them, she was the only one interested in protecting it and they despised her that much.
• A monk who didn't speak Common and had to have a separate character translate for her.
• An eldarin Alexander the Great turned Big Boss who bossed the party around since he was the veteran.
• The Horseman Death in a fucking MLP: Friendship is Magic session, and she was a "bard" to boot.
• Succubus bard who suffered brain damage or divine judgement via a blessed warhammer to the head, making her a ditsy, sometimes mean-spirited Chaotic Neutral instead of Chaotic Evil.
• Never played, but a Shadowrun rigger who was quadriplegic and talked through a voice box and had a decked out wheelchair for jobs.
• A halfling barbarian whose backstory was a Take That! at the song "One Tin Soldier" and ripped off the whole Bilbo Baggins birthday.

I should really only GM.

edited 4th Aug '16 1:06:32 PM by Rotpar

It was for a campaign that never materialized, but I toyed with the idea of doing a gestalt Drow druid/bard who was an emo rocker. The idea was that she (and her guitar) would belt out Evanescence and My Chemical Romance to buff up the hordes of bats, rats, and spiders she'd summon to obliterate her enemies, then mope around the rest of the time with humorously exaggerated Wangst.

A William Shatner-Bot who is a scientist that also flies through space. Yay for Eclipse Phase.

A monk who was both the Kung-Fu kind and the Teutonic Order kind.

A lawful neutral half-elf warlock associated with an unknown eldritch entity. Obsessed with the color blue. Incredibly charismatic, handsome and persuasive. Follows a bizzare, arbitrary code assigned to him by his contract holder. Seeks more followers for his cult and wealth and fame for himself. Wants to start wars between the evil races. All in all, Shoko Asahara meets Manson meets Jim Jones meets Cthulu.

For an Aberrant game, we joked about "Sir Bleeds-a-lot", a nova with all his starting nova points dumped into extra health levels, and no other powers. The idea was that after a lot of getting beat up, he would develop elemental-blood powers, and do things like cut people with his blood, or tie them up with it. But still.

I also had an idea for a Death Metal singer, who drained the life from people when she played music.

My current: An atheist snake oil salesman who passes himself off as a priest to a dead deity* ... And suddenly actually starts casting spells.

Basically, he's a rogue's mind in priest's robes.

He does things like abuse the spell "create water" to sell it to the thirsty, but will forgo charging for healing the poor.

• He actually wanted to be a priest and studied in a church. But when said dead deity didn't come through on his prayers, he bolted out of the church like it was a cult.

edited 4th Sep '16 4:27:28 PM by Earnest

In a gestalt campaign that was affectionately called "Fight Club" (it was basically arena battles and nothing but) I was told by the other players "Go crazy, but build a tank". I asked the DM if I could use non-humanoid/monstrous humanoids and just go wild, and he said sure.
So I ended up basically playing Skarner. A 7th level Fighter (Unarmed Fighter)|Barbarian (Brutal Pugilist) Crysmal with the Diamond Template and boosted to large size. I mean, it's strange/weird when you realize I'm playing a sixteen-foot long scorpion made of diamond while the rest of the group is normal humanoids.

Said character exceeded expectations in both tanking and damaging ability^note 78 HP at level 7 with 60 Bonus Health that regenerates outside of combat, 27 AC (15 Touch and 21 Flat-footed) with DR 5/Bludgeoning and all of my attacks do between 1d8 and 3d6 and I could basically grapple any enemy up to Gargantuan and hold it still so my allies could nuke it

edited 20th Sep '16 11:34:58 PM by BlackSunNocturne

Funny thing, general castor in dawn of war actually mention the idea of puting a big tyranid head in their wall

Okay, so I haven't played this character yet, but I have an old MAG character sheet floating around somewhere for a character whose only function is pretty much to be The Spook. The character sheet goes something like this:

Name: The Watcher Race: Human Sex: Male Age: 25

Traits:

• Drive: Observe
• Profession: Watcher
• Specialty: Easily Overlooked
• Feature: Unremarkable
• Personality: Secretive

• Allomancy: Copper 4
  • No stunts
• Feruchemy: Duralumin 4
  • No stunts
• City-Dweller Stunts
  • Face in the Crowd

edited 14th Mar '18 3:28:46 PM by SomethingRandom113

Not sure if this is a good thread to post this, but going to anyway. How would you describe Bob Ross the painter to your players if he snapped and went evil, and you didn't them to know for sure that he's Bob Ross until he says "Happy trees! Kill them all so they can be happy too!".

I ask this because I am absolutely shit with describing appearances.

Edited by pikachu17 on Jun 19th 2019 at 2:17:22 AM

Not very weird, but I really want to roleplay a Warhammer 40k priest who is very timid and basically The Vicar in almost any non-combat situation, and transforms into a foaming at the mouth Church Militant member when the call to purge the alien, the mutant, the heretic comes along.

A Warforged bard that's just essentially a jukebox. He has a bunch of speakers hidden all over his body that can pump out tunes, and if he uses Shatter it's just all of his speakers on max volume, Back to the Future 3 style.

Edited by theLibrarian on Jun 24th 2019 at 8:47:13 AM

Is it alright to post in a thread this old?

I have an Oath of Redemption Paladin who's a former conman and tries to avoid fights by bullshitting people. I've actually had people surprised to find out the character isn't a rogue.

I made one character with the goal of averting dwarf clichés: he's a druid, doesn't drink, and speaks with a german accent. He's also a Tsundere.

I have a Great Old One Warlock who can only communicate with other via Awakened Mind. Every time he uses his voice, his patron gets a little closer to fully waking up, and that would be a Very Bad Thing for the material plane. I kind of had to make an exception for spellcasting, though, since there were too few spells without a verbal component to make a viable character.

Well, in Traveller I had the idea of a Sword Worlder literature scholar who studied sword and sorcery pulp fiction. He's more of a Patron/NPC, and in a character creation challenge, I stated him out for GURPS.

Because what roleplaying campaign wouldn't be more interesting with an old man asking the players to find 3000 year old books?

Paladin who fights for a love goddess.

I had a guy whose personality wasn't too out there (grizzled veteran warrior trying to prove himself) but whose central concept was that he was paraplegic and used a gigantic panda bear as his mount and wheelchair. His main weapon of choice (a double-headed mace) would split in two to serve as crutches when he had to dismount the bear (him wearing leg braces that doubled as riding harnesses) and walk for himself.

A half-orc bounty hunter, raised by Dwarves and who culturally identifies as one.

I had almost the exact same idea, only mine is also a criminal lawyer in Waterdeep who decided to get to know his field from the ground up (as dwarves are wont to do)... by becoming a criminal himself, then a city watch investigator, and finally a lawyer.

Lawyer, eh? Makes me think of detective-shows like Matlock and Perry Mason, where lawyers team up with P.I.'s, except set in a fantasy environment. If I ever get to play my character, then I might have him do some detective-work on the side, whenever there is a drought of bounties.

I once had the thought of a rogue who learned contract law just to screw with kolyaruts.