I feel like there should be a “6(b). Definitely my fursona”
or “literally my fursona”
I’ve done too many of these. I tend to fall on 1 often though.
Awful little creature reporting for duty
I’ve taken more damage from party members trying to get me under control than from the enemy. Now they keep me on a leash.
Sure but what’s your TTRPG character?
A former foot soldier in the crusades who had a panicked war horse fall on his legs in a skirmish somewhere on the way to Antioch and was left behind in Bulgaria by a retreating supply train on his way back.
His shattered leg never healed well and he is in constant pain he has mostly learned to live with, does not speak the language and is edging out a small existence as a gravedigger in a bigger city, dragging his twisted limb through rain-soaked earth, muttering prayers in a foreign dialect to saints no one there worships.
Somewhere between Neutral Good and Neutral Bitter, depending on the day.
I know it is a bit hammy.
Dead. cackles
Awful little creatures make the most fun characters by far regardless of game or setting.
Every party needs one, just to keep the party moving. When the entire party is busy hemming and hawing about how to best approach an encounter, they often need a Leroy Jenkins to just axe-chop the door apart and start taking heads.
The real issue is that oftentimes, the heads belonged to the hostages that the party was there to rescue. If the awful little creature had actually paid attention at all, they would have known that. But they were grabbing their fifth beer when that part was explained, (and they wouldn’t have listened to it anyways), so they had no idea who was inside the room.
My sister always picked those lol just troublemaking groblins
Haha, yeah, the fact that I played almost exclusively women and my few masculine characters still often had more feminine features and mannerisms was totally just to challenge myself. Never a subconscious exploration of my deepest desires.
Says the now VERY out and proud about it transwoman.
Missing:
- god-like powerful magical being, masquerading as Just Some Dude
- Most boring, generic build available in the system, played ironically
one time my buddy was running a game of Monster of the Week and I came up with the most mundane character possible: a Wisconsin corn farmer named Pete Faber, competing with angels, demons, and the miscellaneous supernatural
Sounds like he could be the next Ash Williams who works on over in housewares at S-Mart!
Oh! My first dm assigned me the god-like magical being role! It started as a group campaign and ended up being just me and her husband, and I was super new to it, so she wrote out a whole thing that my character was unaware of, and the entire story became finding out about this.
My own backstory probably sucked, but my character was a fire genasi mix who was trained as a mage blade. She was purple with white eyes due to badly botching her familiar summoning spell, so she ended up with a thievy purple monkey (incapable of following directions, unless I critted the roll) instead of the phoenix she was aiming for.
The dm snuck a giant gem into my inventory thanks to that sneaky thieving monkey (which caused a lot of problems, as you can imagine of a familiar that doesn’t obey fucking anything.) it ended up being an artifact from her ancestors, and unlocking the secrets of it brought out my latent goddessness.
So that was a blast.
Thanks for bringing up those memories! It was so long ago now…
DM assigned specialness is different and often really fun.
I’ve played a few “mystery backstory” games those are really fun, especially the one where we had to figure out even our class
“Okay, tell us about your character.”
“Hm? Oh… human fighter.”
“That’s it?”
“Mm-hm.”
“What do they look like?”
“Middle sliders on the character creator.”“Any motivations?”
“Do quests to earn money.”“How about a backstory?”
“Did quests and earned money.”
6 sessions in and no one has identified/mentioned the person my character is based on, probably because I’m not good enough at doing a Rodney Dangerfield voice
No respect. I tell ya!
Also missing: pure random-roll character who makes no sense and contributes nothing other than needing to be rescued a lot.
I actually like point-buy systems where you get better at what you actually use (like in Morrowind).
I start at average values in everything and see where the story takes my character.That’s actually an intentional mechanic in Monster of the Week. The Mundane gets bonus XP by wandering off on their own and pushing the plot forward by needing to be rescued a la Xander.
And the corollary, overbuilt min-max character based completely on researching the meta for hours but only rolls good at things they’re not built to do
haha that’s cool and I’m not a furry
I have done all of these except 13
I can’t play with my friend because we play the same guy.
Both rogue. Both street tough types rather than the shadowy assassin type. Both used to end up taking a couple of levels of either Bard or fighter and ended up with a swashbuckler. No strength, all dex and cha.
We did play together a few times and would swap out which one of us got to play that guy. The other always played a very angry wizard. Just grumpy as shit. Good at a lot of things, but preferred to either fireball or magic missile his way out of situations. Talking to NPCs? I think I’ve got potions brewing. Must be off!
Before we played together we played the same MUD separately. Yep, same character. We ran into each other from time to time.
In high school we played at the same place but a couple of years apart. I started going when he left for the Navy. The guy who DM’ed there said my character reminded me of that guy a lot.
I want to play BG3 with him remotely and both play swashbucklers.
Play identical twins.
Separated at birth. Completely oblivious to their similarity.
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/Dzner6zTEVs
If we didn’t both know who our fathers were and if he weren’t a few years older that would absolutely describe us anyway. Went to school not far from each other and I played baseball against his younger brother, then was on the team with his brother for fall ball. Different churches that were part of the same cult. Similar teenage interests. Same social circles just a few years apart. Same branch of the military and same rate (this is where we went from being aware of each other to being friends). Both married and divorced young. Super similar career paths. Both settled in the same large city several hours from our small hometowns (I got here first, for once) and played music with the same people. Super similar adult interests completely separate from our teen interests. It’s fucking freaky. We didn’t even realize it for years until it was pointed out.
He eventually moved out east while I stayed. I’m one of like 3 people he still keeps in contact with in the state.
Me and my best friend played halfling twin brawlers one time who would use each other as improvised weapons and crawl in big guys Shadow if the Colossus style. It was the most fun thing ever, but the DM turned out to be the “if someone doesn’t lose a limb during every encounter I have failed” kind of DM so it didn’t last long.
Have you ever thought about taking him on a trip to El Dorado?
One of my favorite characters I’ve ever had fits perfectly into #15. She was a tiny goblin that was on a quest to collect as many skulls as possible and had a sheep that she won in a contest as her steed. (She was about 2.5 feet tall and the rest of the party was human-sized or larger, so I had to roll endurance checks to keep up with them sometimes if we were traveling a long distance.)
Number 1: my barbarian idea was just “funny Russian man with pet bear”, who dual weilds a hammer and sickle. I chose totem barbarian with a bear totem, and little did I realize that would make me practically invincible
I did the accidental #5 to #1 pipeline. Which is pretty easy to do in DCC. I just rolled some amazing stats for a fighter, went “ok I’ll be our muscles” and picked up an extremely powerful cursed sword.
The GM decided to buff the curse and actually make the demon inside it the main BBEG of the campaign after I took my first swing with it and one shot what was supposed to be a tough mini-boss for our party.
- Whatever lets me create the biggest explosions
Definitely not my fursona
Does D&D even have any official furry races outside turning a monster into a PC or the two bird-type people? 🤔
I know Pathfinder has Kitsune. But it’s only “definitely not my fursona” because, afaik, there is no dog people race 🤣
Does D&D even have any official furry races
- Centaur
- Hadozee
- Harengon
- Leonin
- Minotaur
- Satyr
- Tabaxi
And that’s just the ones with fur, there’s plenty for the scalies too
Do centaurs count as furry? Centaurs are half-regular-person and half-regular-bestiality, and furries always seemed like a bit more of a blend.
Half-human and half-horse sounds like the bestiality had already happened!
Can I interest you in hearing the gospel of the Shoony?
you can always be an awakened animal or take the beastkin versatile heritage too
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: in PF2, you can be any type of character you can imagine
i was going to say you can’t be a floating eye with tentacles for limbs but a leshy could easily be shaped like that
and if not a leshy, a fleshwarp could be that too
Not counting Tabaxi, Leonins, Shifters, Minotaurs, Satyrs, Harengons, Loxodons, Giffs, and potentially Bugbears? No, I don’t think so. Because Yuan-ti, Lizardfolks, Dragonborns, Tortles, Kobolds, Locathahs and Grungs count as scalies. And I think Aarakocras, Kenkus and Owlins count as feathery.
Wait, how are we handling druids? Cause they can be any race…
