{"id":59956,"date":"2026-02-07T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=59956"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:21:31","slug":"dd-character-ideas-i-wont-burden-a-dm-with-dealing-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=59956","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;D Character Ideas I Won&#8217;t Burden a DM With Dealing With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all had ideas for D&amp;D characters that sound really fun, but could kill the mood of a more immersive campaign or throw things too off the rails for even a goofy campaign. Well, I have some ideas for characters that I think are incredible. I like the people who DM for me so I won&#8217;t curse them with said characters. Some of these, I have ideas for potential modifiers that they might come bundled with, like backgrounds and the like.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warlock named Sheldor who shouts &#8220;Bazinga&#8221; every time he casts Eldritch Blast. He&#8217;s currently my Warlock in Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 but I&#8217;d love to run him as an overly serious edgelord in a campaign. No modifiers needed.<\/li>\n<li>Autistic Rogue who grew up looking up to a brooding ranger from his town &#8212; think Aragon as Strider in LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring &#8212; and wanted to emulate him, but fails to be intimidating or cool at every opportunity. He doesn&#8217;t understand what made the ranger cool and doesn&#8217;t understand that people don&#8217;t like him. -1 CHR for the cringe +1 INT for the tism<\/li>\n<li>Half-Orc whose mom lied to him from birth insisting that he is fully human and his step dad is his real dad. As a result he has grown up thinking he&#8217;s just incredibly ugly. -2 WIS for being a dope +2 CHR for learning to make up for his &#8220;hideous looks&#8221; with a charming personality<\/li>\n<li>Bard who has actually slept with a dragon and was traumatized. He thought he knew what he wanted but he barely got out alive. -2 persuasion checks against members of sexually preferred gender +1 WIS for the life lesson learned<\/li>\n<li>Bipolar Barbarian that suffers from post-mania regret and shame. Their rages are enhanced due to their mental suffering but after the rages end they are deeply ashamed of losing control. I don&#8217;t know how to balance it but I&#8217;m convinced it would be an interesting concept.<\/li>\n<li>Human Fighter who is so obsessed with making sure everyone knows that he&#8217;s actually a real interesting person that it pisses off all NPCs. -2 to Deception, Performance, and Persuasion for annoying everyone +2 History, Survival, and Athletics because he has a lot of time on his hands since he has no friends<\/li>\n<li>Monk who the party believes has taken a vow of silence but in reality suffers from a severe stutter and doesn&#8217;t feel comfortable talking in front of people. He communicates via sign telepathy when possible and crude sign language when not -2 all speech related checks<\/li>\n<li>Dragonborn who doesn&#8217;t have a breath weapon due to a lich&#8217;s surgical experimentation when he was a child. He instead learned to scream really well. He can essentially cast Cause Fear twice per day. Eventually he&#8217;d gain to ability to add the effect of Shout to his scream if he gets high enough in levels if the party doesn&#8217;t get his personal goal fulfilled. His motivation is to find a way restore that breath weapon and destroy the lich who experimented on him and his childhood friends. This is the one that I think is the most realistic option but requires a DM that feels comfortable pushing a campaign in a specific direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comment your dumb or interesting character ideas below. I am genuinely interested in what you come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all had ideas for D&amp;D characters that sound really fun, but could kill the mood of a more immersive campaign or throw things too off the rails for even a goofy campaign. Well, I have some ideas for characters that I think are incredible. I like the people who DM for me so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethanirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59956"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59964,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59956\/revisions\/59964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}