What's stopping you from playing the one character or character

Want to play a zen Skeleton who makes fun of other undead and tells people to wear practical weapons/armor

My dungeon mistress won't let me play an ork.

>Ork who is obsessed with magic
>Too stupid to learn magic
>No natural affinity for magic
>Instead collects magic items and uses them so he can be a "propa wuzzart"

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>>54641991
Forever DM here, so I don't think I will get to play this one, plus is not a character any party will like to have.

>Paladin of Vengance or something similar
>Thinks everyone needs to see the true good, his good
>Walk with a symbol of his god as weapon and a "bible" with his teachings to smash people with it
>Maybe he is the first believer of Jesus Christ or something similar
>Shouts like a motherfucker but don't kill people, just turn them over to his side

>"YOUR SINS WILL BE FORGIVEN IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE ONE TRUE GOD"
>"Ok, don't kill me please"
>SMASH THE BIBLE IN HIS HEAD
>"THIS IS ONLY THE START OF YOUR LIFE SON, NOW YOUR NAME IS URIENS"

>>54642125
That's sounds interesting. What's stopping you from playing it?

>>54642296
That'd actually make for a fun character, especially if there is a real wizard in the party. Just give the Orc a wand of magic missiles!

>>54642425
That would make for a fun campaign. Maybe have the whole party be following this with you possibly as the "leader" like Simon-Peter was in the Bible after Jesus died. Would make for an interesting campaign.

>>54642569
No one wants to let me play an undead.

Even an extremely practical one.

Drow are my favorite race, and I have half a dozen drow character concepts that I've been dying to play over the years. Unfortunately, most DMs have a blanket ban on them because they think every drow PC is a Drizzt clone, or they don't want to deal with the social backlash a drow PC would get from townspeople and NPC and whatnot.

I'd also love to play a firbolg from Volo's, but their size makes them difficult to throw into campaigns. Hard to do a dungeon crawl campaign or stealth missions when one party member is 9' tall.

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I'm the only GM that can run a game for more than five sessions before getting bored, running out of plot, or otherwise ending the campaign. The vast majority of "games" we've played have been 1 or 2 sessions long. I am forever GM not because other players don't run, but because they don't run for long enough. Just when I begin to get attached to my character, they are taken away from me.

Recently I've been doing more recurring NPC's when I'm running and I've gotten more attached to them. I'm worried they might turn into DMPC's if this keeps up.

>>54642595
That really sucks. It really is practical would be an interesting character to have in a party.

>>54642665
It's unfortunate with all the negative views on Drow from that one character. I know some DMs that will overlook stuff like that and allow it but others that once you say Drow they say no. Drow can be tricky but can also bring an interesting dynamic to the party.
Firbolgs can be hard to fit into a campaign but they'd be perfect for a campaign that involves giants or Goliaths in it!


>>54642915
That's really unfortunate. I ran a short campaign while my friend was planning his campaign and had DMPC. My players didn't mind I introduced the DMPC to be kinda of a guide and to fill the healer role. As long as your NPC can mesh with the party and have a valid reason for being with them (filling a role etc) then I don't see the problem in have 1 reoccurring NPC become a DMPC. Then at the very least you'll sort of have a character which will last longer than a few sessions.

>>54641991
Lack of players and even greater lack of GMs that are not me.

I want to play a Kobold who learns that true valor isn't in shiny armor and a big sword, but in strength of character and the courage to do what's right. But my GM has a blanket ban on any race that is considered a monster encounter. (Orcs, kobolds, goblins, ect..)

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Literally all of them as I never have chances to be a player character and am usually stuck as the GM in the blue moon I can get my friends together for one day every other week

A British WWI pilot who is captured and tortured for months escapes, only to succumb to the elements.

He makes a deal with a strange entity who returns him, deathless, to the world of men. The entity is a wendigo, or some sort of personification of feral hunger, and possess him with a ravenous hunger for souls. He is torn between his morality as a man, and a supernatural hunger. He's basically a soul vampire, but I like the idea of victims being violently consumed rather than just grazed on.

>>54641991
I can never seem to find a DM willing or able to run Black Crusade.

I heard that such games often have infighting, so after a little while thinking about what character would be best to play I came up with the idea for a Slaaneshi who is obsessed with helping other people to achieve their dreams and experience new things, living vicariously through them while urging them on to further extremes and making them more and more indebted for the assistance.

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>>54643075
>a blanket ban on orks

Tell your dm that some stranger on the internet said he was a bad dm.
Fucking seriously.

>>54643467
B-but Gygax said...

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>>54643100
It's like you're me before last week. I just gave up on them getting together a bit ago and started running a game were they're not a proper party and only occasionally meet up when the operation demands (when the stars align and multiple of them are free and want to play). They have yet to meet each other.

>>54643075
Damn that would actually be a sweet character. Really sucks that your GM has a ban like that. Anyway to convince them otherwise?

A scrappy fun comic relief character meant to make everyone laugh.

The problem is everyone else is so bad that every single time my character needs to push the story along alone dragging everyone else with it.

>>54643075
There is literally no reason that character needs to be a kobold

A Martial Werewolf character who's a warlord of sorts with a "Reign the night" objective, settings that can have such character werewolves are shit

>>54641991
I played literally this, but mute and a cute boy.

He got sold into rape by his party members.

Twice.

>>54645093
Pretty hot if he was a trap.

Forever DM.

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>>54645093
A cute boy?

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>>54645093
I would play her a being pretty loud to make sure everyone knows how great she is.

That's pretty rough, kinda shitty for the party to do that.

>>54643075
Your GM is a piece of shit.

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I want to play a "katana coolguy" type character so hard.

Just bisecting tanks with a single vertical slash, cutting through dimensions and teleporting behind enemies.

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>>54642125
>Tells people to wear practical weapons/armor
yes

>>54641991
I don't have any friends that play.>>54642125

>>54647649
>tfw
>play through out highschool
>friends move away for college
>still play some games when ever we can get together online
>now they all have jobs and lives
i miss friends

A skeleton that *dies*partway through. The party uses their bones as weapons and armour, per the skelly's *dying* wish.

>>54647886
Is that your fetish anon?

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I wanna play a non-evil necromatic bard that controls his undead through his instrument like a fancy snake charmer

I got to play him for 1 session at like level 4 before having any necromatic stuff.

The only system I know of that its possible in is 5e. This is because bards gain spells from any class at level 10, 14 and 18, additionally level 6 if the college of lore is taken. I really only need about 3 spells from other classes and then I would be able to raise an army of zombie/skeletons/mummies,ghouls and the like.

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>>54648366
I've thought about that concept too. Would be fun to try it out but doesn't full work until after a bit of leveling

>>54648366
>>54648384
You could do it in just about any non-class based system.

You could just fluff your necromancer as a bard even in class-based systems. It's really easier to get sonic spells on a "wizard" than necromancy on a "bard".

Even beyond that, I actually remember (shitty) options existing for it in 3.x.

I want to play a god, or a demigod. As soon as you use either word, GMs instantly recoil expecting overpowered bullshit.

I just want to be raiden from mortal kombat yo.

>>54641991
I always wanted to play a spellcaster. Can't because DMs can't run spellcasting. e.g. "I cast magic missile" "What does that spell do?" "1d4+1 damage per missile." "The gods forbade it." "What?" "Alright, time's up. Your turn's over."

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I have a burning desire to make a halfling evocation wizard that absolutely loves causing massive amount of destruction and otherwise ignores support spells.

Unfortunately there are always reasons why I can't. One, evocation sucks outside of MAYBE 5e. Two, I'm forever GM. Three, my players will know exactly who I'm basing it off of.

>>54641991
I've always wanted to play the ''martial artist who wants to be the best'' type but I just haven't been in a campaign where it would fit and a character like that doesn't really fit into a team game like DND, also my usual DM doesn't really care for the subject of martial arts so it wouldn't really work.

>>54648528
What. That's a shitty DM

>>54648570
But Megumin explosion is best explosion.

>>54648593
You could always reflavour a monk?

>>54648669
>You could always reflavour a monk?
It's not a mechanical problem, it's just that I don't play in a game where it would fit the party.

>>54641991

A Tzimisce. Has never come up because the one game of VtM I've been in had a Camarilla only restriction.

>>54648711
Ah that's unfortunate then

Orc Private Investigator.
(No Shadowrun groups around here)
Smuggler - Star Wars
(No Star Wars Groups)

>want to play exalted
>want to make a wrestle jesus Zenith
>but no games

>>54649638
Oh I know exactly what you mean I've wanted to try Call of Cthulu, Star Wars, and Shadowrun for a while but no one around where I live play

>>54641991
trash concept only fitting for the worst of animes, no wonder you've never found an opportunity to play it.

>>54647405
F

>>54649686
I've even seen the anime before. I didn't even know this character was from RWBY until I looked for more pictures of her. I just like the design of how the character looks that's it.

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>>54642425
Something like pic related?

>Female
>Genasi
>Hexblade
>dual rapiers
>homebrew patron

it's too magical realm

Any game where I play a character I've always wanted to play invariably dies, and every game where I try to play something I wouldn't usually play lasts the longest.

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I want to play a person, maybe an ex-Paladin, who hated the Undead so much, to such an unending degree, that when confronted with the fact that they didn't have enough time to kill all the Undead before they died, that they decided to become Undead themselves, to have enough time to kill them all, to eventually end the menace.

>>54641991
I want to play someone highly physically competent.
I usually go for the joke character, or the squishy young character, or the incredibly-specific-skill character, etc etc.

Whenever it's my turn to save the day, it's because I compulsively stole half the shit in the last shop without even realizing that I did it, or because I seduced an NPC, or something.

I want to be the one who leaps into a giant serpent's mouth and cuts it open from the inside using nothing but badassery and muscles.

But that's never me. I don't know if I'm capable of playing that. I think the problem I usually run into is that I find it hard to think about playing that straight, because it's such an old and un-nuanced trope. But I still want to try...

>>54649743
>54649743
never* whoops

>>54649821
That would make for some interesting role playing

>>54649841
That's kinda similar to me I'm not to flaunt myself or my abilities which is why it's so not like but would be some to try once. ttrpgs allow yourself be someone you never would be normally which can add another layer of fun to it!

>>54643075
>I want to play a Kobold who learns that true valor isn't in shiny armor and a big sword, but in strength of character and the courage to do what's right.
Just rewrite it into 'I want to play a peasant who learns that true valor isn't...' and you're good. Being a kobold brings fucking nothing to that concept, as far as I can see.

>>54641991
>
I'm stuck as a ForeverGM and introduced my friends to the game, so I haven't had the liberty to be a PC. One of my players bought Storm King's Thunder and plans to run it with me being one of the players.

I'm ecstatic and torn between two character concepts ranging from a young Tiefling bard by the name of Valor who is just adventuring to have her name by spread across the world, so that she may never die. Overall, I was thinking of having her be a crossbow user or studying the college of blades.

The one that I have practically settled on is a Triton Paladin who is married with kids. Originally he was planned to be a retire soldier, I decided to have him commit a crime against his people and be exiled above water with the "Drowners up there."

The idea of having a grizzled, angry Triton dealing with his exile and this alien world is incredibly exciting. I planned for him to slowly go from angry to coping and seeking redemption for his crime, causing him to take up an Oath of Redemption around level 3. Until then, he's going to be fascinated with crossbows and how they work.

I have a few months and need to figure out what I want his crime to be.

>>54647405

>Local man feels motivated

Sybiote Summoner Vigilante magical girl. Reason I haven't: its dumb as fuck

A lack of a GM that knows the setting a 1/10 of how much I do, a problem with game systems (we'd probably need something like a heavily customized FATE), and most oddly the fact that I kinda have most of the story moments I'd like to play in my head - and they would be played THAT way.

>basically if anything I should do some heavily GM-fiat NPC, stealing PCs spotlights, and that's not okay, even if I probably coul make them go along with me

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>>54647405
Just act like you're doing it ironically.

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I want to play a rogue trader campaign but none of my DnD group knows what 40k is and the only guy I know who's into 40k hasn't even played the tabletop game in years

>>54653139
If I ever did get to play it though I'd probably go with a sarcastic up beat gaurdsman who likes to complain, basically Ray from Generation Kill

>>54641991

That character is a support caster masquerading as a fencer, so literally just play a Cleric whose god has favored weapon: rapier with like zero Con, max Dex, and like, trash Cha.

>>54653164
>implying weiss isn't best girl

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I want to play a character that blends magic and might in a modern setting.
I've decided that the only way I'm going to be able to play that is if I make the setting myself, which I'm doing. I think I'll wait until Genesys is out and then add a magic system to the modern setting rules.

>>54645026
>needs
There's that word, again.

>>54653253

Her nigh-murderous lack of empathy, social autism, and brattiness is precisely why she is best girl anon

>>54653324
>I want to play a character that blends magic and might in a modern setting

Mutants and Masterminds!

Or Unknown Armies

>>54653402
M&M would probably work, if I can manage to keep the power right.
Unknown Armies Triggers the fuck out of my schizophrenia and I can't play it

>>54653164
As I said earlier I know literally nothing about the character. I just like the art and how she looks.

>>54647405
I laugh every time I see this because it's legitimately impressive.

>>54653656
>As I said earlier I know literally nothing about the character

Neither do the show's writers

>>54642665
I got to play the eastern European drow character. My friends think it's one of the best characters I've played.

Oh man I have a whole list.

>Happy go lucky Necromancer.
>Denied because Necromancers "are broken".
>Changling
>GM doesn't want to deal with shapeshifters.
>Werewolf
>See above.
>Lawful Evil monk.
>Playing a Monk would just bring the party down.
>GM wants someone in party to play Cleric.
>Can I be a Cleric of this god?
>No we need a healer.
>Want to play a Ranger
>Animal companions are to complicated.

That Gm only really allowed powerful mage classes to be played, banned any cohorts / animal companions / summons because he thought turns took to long with them, and forced two people every game to play a "tank and healer" cause we absolutely needed them.

Eventually I just stopped playing with him, but we're still friends so it's awkward now.

>>54653072
I can't even do that because I'm forever DM/don1t play any games where it really works.

>>54654009
I played a happy-go-lucky Necromancer once

her mental state and moral code began to fray over time, due to being a cleric of the god of Tragedy, and happening to roll many UNFORTUNATE crits with her spells, or having commands to her undead not play out as intended

resulted in a fun as hell party dynamic, but the DM limited me to ONE skeleton elephant (I set up curtains and pillows inside it's ribcage and made it my mount

>Changeling with no sense of self
>Can fully change its appearance to mimic any person it has ingested fluids from, but it runs the risk of becoming a perfect replica of that individual and losing track of who it really is
>Very naive and gentle, also very frail so it's absolutely fucked if it ever gets exposed for what it is
Can't play it because it's too unique and game breaking. But it would make socially oriented missions really fun.

A true heroic character like All Might.

Too bad it would never fit in any group or in any game.

>>54656403
Play a Supers game.
Hell, there are people out there playing literally Hero Academia games.

>>54648593
>a character like that doesn't really fit into a team game like DND
why not just make your intentions to learn from the party (on the path to becoming the best) or maybe try and become the leader of the party (because you believe you are the best)?
you could also just play a non-monk and just use your fists, feet and grappling and imply martial arts with how you play as the character

>>54643075
So polar opposite of me - I forbidden all humanish and cliché fantasy races in my game. (Well monster race game I run. In my other game all races are allowed)

Also this guy sounds like a dick

>>54641991
I just want to stop being forever DM

I have a full freaking graveyard of characters that never got to shine

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I want to play a strong, silent type. Some dude who's tall, broad, and barely ever speaks, but when he does, his words have real gravity. Can't ever do it because I play with two girls with crippling anxiety issues, an introverted That Guy, and a narcissist who Loves terrible gimmick characters. Basically, one other guy and I carry the group as far as roleplay and interaction are concerned.

>>54656560
Same here. Mine is do full that I started ruling out that all NPC's follow same rules as PCs and started using some of them as enemies, good or even neutral npcs....
Worst part is - my players actually enjoy all these weird people....

>>54648570
lol, I played a fire mage in pathfinder and completely wiped everyone. The only thing that could stop us was a great term when we are level 8....

>>54641991
>Weiss
Patrician taste. Been thinking of playing a weiss-inspired character in my next 5e game (Via Fighter/Eldritch Knight and the Noble background) but like most games I don't GM personally it looks unlikely to get off the ground.

Which is what stops most of my concepts -- being stuck as the only GM who can keep a campaign going. Probably the biggest "stuck" is
>Been sitting on this idea since fairly early 3e and the FRCS
>LN Cleric of Bane; yes in a generally heroic party
>Used to be a Cleric of Mystra but ultimately lost faith following her recent death and replacement.
>Then Bane, who died about the same time as Mystra, came back
>That's godly power.
>Power worth serving, unlike the little girl walking around with Mystra's mantle
>And a strong Lawful that dead Mystra had but NuMystra lost
>Serve no one but Bane!
Of course
>Tried RPing the character for so much as a prelim session. Was pretty fun, working with Bane's philosophy as a nonevil cleric
>But of course nothing I'm not GMing goes for seconds
>And we don't play in Forgotten Realms much, even when we play D&D
>And the Realms timeline has moved on so I'm pretty sure the character would have to be an elf if I played him at any sort of 'modern' table.
>Or I could drop the lost&Found faith background but I feel like that loses a good bit from the character.

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>>54641991
The fact that he is a murderhobo deluxe and can't into group dynamics.

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I want to play as a fucking fox girl wizard, I could use charisma and charm whenever to get shit I want for my party.
Focused on lighting spells and electricity in general but have some more shit.
Is absolutely fucking jealous of everyone who has it better than her like some fucking princess who got used to being over everyone but doesn't let it take her away from party's goal.
It's simple, but I have much more character traits and flaws to show off.
But I don't do that because im terrible at acting, it's not a problem unless charming comes in play.

Fuck you Kamil, next time you bring your gf without telling us earlier I'm gonna beat your ass with a shoehorn.
I think I'm gonna do it next campaign anyway because fuck, i have to try one day.

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>>54641991
>a haughty smug noble fencer

>>54641991
I'm usually a rather quiet, risk-averse guy, but one of my characters was a ruthless, decisive inquisitor. I just liked the class in Pathfinder. He'd bust down doors and follow his nose and guts, no matter who he pissed off in the process or how flimsy the evidence (because there's no time for due process when a world-devouring entity slowly creeps into the world and sows corruption everywhere). And he pissed off a lot of people and soured lots of relationships, although he was most often justified, as it turned out. Playing this guy and being constantly forced to be decisive, make a stand and take responsibility actually helped me become a more confident person in real life. Now I always play assertive characters and leader types, even though I'd describe myself as anything but (but getting better).

>mfw pen and paper is literal therapy

>>54657517
Why use a shoehorn to beat someone? Most of them seem fairly light and flimsy. Why not just use a shoe?

I want to play something that fights with tons and tons and TONS of minions, but that turns games into a goddamn crawl

>>54657011
just make him interested in one of the party members, sees his potential and decides to follow/protect him until lvl 20

>>54641991
I'm always the DM.

I just want to play a mythical hero like Hercules or something, but all my friends think it's dumb for some reason.

>>54658078
Another snag would be that Hisoka dwarfs everyone in terms of power, with only a select few that could be equal power to him.

>>54641991

I want to play a warforged paladin that was created to replace her inventor's daughter who passed away before campaign. Inventor doesn't feel like his daughter is back, so she sees that he js troubled and tries to figure out a solution. The warforged comes up with the idea that believes that if she believes in a god and spreads their ideals, they'll turn her human. My DM was going to allow this and even had ideas to help me expand her as a character, but my party thought it was dumb/went mostly frontline, so I was forced to go sorc/wiz.

>>54642425
You deserve to be forever DM

>>54641991
A demolition oriented techpriest.
OW group wanted a stealth/survival campaign instead so I went with a ratling
DH group needed a medic so I agreed to swap my explosion shit for medical shit

>>54642296
at the end of the campaign you find out the magic was inside you all along

I just want to be a space janitor in space arabian nights...

But i'm the dm

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The DM picked the single most unreliable member of our group for a co-DM and we were waiting on him to do his half of the initial setup for months on end before the DM gave up and just did it himself.

I also can't play the specific character I want to play because I feel like it's weird playing female characters as a guy and nobody else wants to bring a single method of healing, so no halberdier ranger for me.

>>54656828
I don't really know anything about forgotten realms but I'm sure there are equivalents right?

>>54657517
Just do it anon. Don't let your dreams be dreams.

>>54657713
If it works for you then it works right? Definitely a good way to more confident in yourself.

And to all the perma DMs. FeelsDMMan. Try explaining your situation to your players after one session. I did and it worked out. I just said that though I enjoy DMing I want to be able to play as well, not just as an NPC but part of a campaign etc. My players were understanding and one offered to DM a new campaign afterwards which is going nicely.

>>54641991
I am the designated GM.
:(

>>54641991
I'm always the GM

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>>54649686
Objectively wrong on several levels, including the idea that 'haughty fencer' is at all a rare archetype that only occurs in the bottom tier of anime.

>>54658971
I'm a guy but a lot of the time I like to play as girl characters whether its ttrpg, mmorpgs, or other stuff like that. Video games because usually the female models look better and ttrpgs 75% of the time as a girl character other 25% as male because I enjoy playing as something I'm not. If I was a girl I'd probably be playing male characters simply because it's something I'm not which is fun to play as.

I was playing an FFVIII campaign in PF, and I had the coolest gunslinger. He could almost outshoot the team sniper at range with just his revolver, he could skill monkey like mad, and he had a hilarious one-sided rivalry with the DMPC Squall, but the campaign ended years ago and we haven't touched it since. He probably wasn't an objectively good character, but he was so much fun to play as.
I never even played FFVII before

I recently got the chance to start playing the character I always wanted to.

And it's just Arthur from Fs/NWell not JUST that, but I began the base of my concept there..

We're playing in a pre-Fallen Ladder MtAw game.

>>54641991
I actually play a character that meets your exact description in a 5e game. I have him as a high charisma high dex politician that doesn't like to get dirty, and is very vindictive if he is disobeyed. For the fencer angle I play him as a swashbuckler and for general utility and some story reasons he is multiclassed warlock (prestidigitation for clean clothes) He is by far my most favorite character to play, and you have to try it.

>>54647405
just play metal gear rising

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As a GM of over a dozen systems I have, of course, theorycrafted at least one character in each game I would love to play.

But no one else in the group will GM anything but D&D.

So here I am left with dozens of ideas and only NPCs to explore them...

>>54663785
That's sounds perfect for what I want to do with her! The multiclass for prestidigitation is so perfect!!

>>54663993
I want to try so many system but people around me only play 5e

>>54641991
Anything that lets me rule land, preferably a kingdom. I've tried to play it, but the game always dies out within a session or two. Or never gets off the ground in the first place.

>>54641991
the one really nice character idea I really want to play that I have is very setting specific. To be more precise, in Ravenloft, the existance of deities is up in the air. Except for Vecna the Lich King. He very clearly exists. Anyway, the character is basically a LG skeptic who said he would worship any god whose existence could be proven to him, and now he's a very unhappy cleric of a NE god.

I just want to be a Shadowrun face. Is that so much to ask?

But no, GM hates social parts of the game and completely skips legwork and just wants combat, combat, combat.

>>54666548
My DM is the same way. Made a Warlock for a campaign that was suppose to be party face and be more to the RP side but the DM campaign ended up being encounter after encounter.

>>54645495
My currentire charachter is an adventeress princess. She's strong willed and tends to demand respect from everyone she meets. That and she can get real aggressive with people she finds disrespectful.

Shes a social powerhouse and a high mobility high damage dodge tank. She blends magic and fencing in combat, but she also a glass cannon. So despite being real fucking hard to hit or catch she can't take a prolonged beating.

I made her before I saw Rwby but have since accepted and embraced the similarities to Weiss that she has and have taken some influence from her in past level ups.

>>54667758

As a foreverADM I swear to you my games have far too much royalty density for this to be accidental

>>54666548
speaking as a gm who usually skips legwork, it's cuz I suck at it. if you got any advice on how to do that kinda stuff I'm all ears.

>>54642296
>dungeon mistress
Literally cancer.

Anyway, I had a very similar concept to yours, a dumb as rocks orc casts spells by using the material components to "cast" the spells. So he uses gunpowder to "cast" fireball, an iron rod and wool cloth to "cast" thunder and so on.

>>54668139
>Literally cancer.
not him, but you're just jelly you don't have a cute and horny dm

>>54668022
Just give incomplete information for a mission and let the players hunt it down before actually going for it whether through talk, intimidation, connections, pay off, side quests, promises, or investigation.

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>>54641991
I really, really want to play a Kobold Bard.

No group to play with, though. Haven't played any tabletop aside from Warhammer stuff in years.

Too close to my current (Well, most recent. Campaign ended last week).

In my campaign that's wrapping up I was playing a fairly cowardly sorcerer, who everything kept going wrong for.
A character I'd love to play is a bard who knows the stories and tales, so knows how wrong they get for everyone before they improve. Because of this they keep trying to avoid getting dragged into things, but always seem to stumble into it (ala Caiphas Cain). I think it'd be a lot of fun (albeit you'd need to have the DMs blessing and help, otherwise constantly trying to avoid things would frustrate them), but it's just too similar to what I've been doing recently.

What's with all the kobolds? Is this the new half fae catboy?

>>54670152
Once upon a time there was a really OK game called "Neverwinter Nights"
Then it got two expansion packs that were really good.
Those expansion packs had a Kobold who was fucking awesome.

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>>54641991
Forever DM, I just want to play a Judge Dredd character.

>>54670494
That would be badass

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>>54670494
And what is stopping you from introducing one into the game you're GMing?

If you are the forever GM it should even be easier... although I can see the difficulty since you are playing "wish-fulfillment" D&D RPGs...

>>54663852
You think I don't? I also SSS'd DMC4SE.

Why do you think I want to play a guy like that?

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>>54649784
>Genasi
what's so magical realm about about Genasi?
My DM banned them as a player race (along with monster races), but the emphasis he put on banning that "avatar shit", as he called it, made me curious to what's the deal with them.

>>54673138
>what's so magical realm about about Genasi?
Someone, somewhere in your lineage went "I'm going to fuck the sea!".

>>54641991
>Chaotic Neutral Wizard that fights dirty his spells unconventionally to win fights
>Can beat far stronger enemies just by abusing cantrips
>e.g Using Ray of Frost or Cone of Cold to freeze the swords of paladins and fighters in their scabbards so they can't draw them; trapping opponents in enclosed spaces with Wall of Force and then choking them to death with smoke; and blinding people by picking up sand or dirt and casting Gust of Wind in their eyes
I've ruined a campaign with this type of character before. My DM won't let me play it a second time because creativity made me by far the most dangerous guy in the party

>>54654186
>the fucking skelephant RV
My sides

>>54673407
>oh no we can't draw swords
>not beating the nerd up with SPIKED FISTS OF STEEL
>wasting two spells for something doable with one
>oh noes dirt how will martials ever recover
Your gm a shit. Your 'creativity' a shit. Your story a fake.

>>54673151
And they DID. What if that Persian thing with shackling the sea was just foreplay?

>>54674473
>What if that Persian thing with shackling the sea was just foreplay?

It was whipping, actually.

Kinky. Always knew sea was a feisty slut.

>>54674587
300 lashes AND a set of iron shackles. Even my ex wasn't this kinky.

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>>54648366
Pathfinder has the Dirge Bard archetype, who literally animates dancing skeletons through music and doesn't count as evil.

>>54648570
>Megumin
Patrician taste but the original is still better

>>54643075
Have you explained the details of the concept to him? Or did he stop you at "kobold?"

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I've wanted to play a lightning fast magical girl that fights with her fists for a long time now.

But I don't know how to find a group willing to play a magical girl game.

I want to play a pacifistic, sheltered half-orc life cleric. The only thing he knows about orcs are that they rape and pillage, and thinks if he ever strikes someone he'll go into an uncontrollable bloodlust. I'd like to get to the point where the rest of the party is unconscious and he has to either fight or die.

It's hard to fit a pacifist into a game though, even if they focus entirely on healing/support.

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>>54647574
kek

>>54642296
love this idea

>>54642665
post em

What I really want to do is an idea I've been sitting on for a while, take the samurai class in pathfinder, and turn it into a biker. (take order of the dragon, talk the dm into using a motorcycle as my mount, maybe spend a feat for a firearm proficiency)

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>>54670494
Same. I really want to play as a 2000AD Dredd type of character. Unfortunately, in addition to also being Forever DM, I think it's pretty hard to nail Dredd's "tough but fair" attitude on the fly while keeping things balanced. I feel he could very easily fall either into "Lawful Stupid" territory or someone that has to make too many compromises with other party members to not bog down the flow. That, and no DM would grant such a character the amount of authority someone like Dredd carries in-universe.

>>54642125
>tells people to wear practical weapons/armor
"I used to wear boobplate and look at me now!"

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>>54641991

>Silver dragon that spends most of her time in human form.
>Huge anger issues, but bottles it up. Berserks in the name of JUSTICE.
>Comes across as smug as a defense mechanism to cover up how bothered she is by all the petty shit people argue about and fight over.

Forever GM.
I did run a campaign that let , well, forced, but they seemed excited about it so who cares, my players be dragons.

I may get to play sometime this winter, but it's by no means guaranteed that my players will return the favor of third party content when they run.

>>54672370
It isn't the same.
IT'S NOT THE SAME!

>>54657011
What's with this stupid fucking clown?

>>54641991
I always wanted to play a character like that too, but I never do because I'd get unbelievably upset if she died.

Just an absolute insane wizard.
Completely unhinged but still THINKS that he's sane


"TELL US WHERE YOU LEADER IS OR ILL KILL YOU!"
>*Zap* *killed*
"YOU GET TO THE COUNT OF 1"
>*yelling at smoking corpse*
"7! wait... FUCK! ILL KILL YOU!"
>*Zap again*
"Looks like this one isn't talking..."

i want to play a angel-demon crossbreed which is prophetized to dominate all planes of existence and kill god himself.

Actually being able to play a game rather than run one is my main reason.

>>54647405
F

The way he died was magnificent and fitting

>>54642595
I really want to play an undead / construct that starts with like 5k HP but can't be healed as the magic that is keeping him alive is slowly running out.
No gm has gone for it the few times I brought it up

I also had an idea of playing a robot that has a bunch of lines prerecorded and I can only say these things. I wanted to do it with a sound board. But I think it would be annoying for other players so I never got passed the planning stage
>>54643444
That's because people think evil means dick over each other.
Though the rules sort of push it too in bc
>>54647405
Could be fun to playbas an edgy memelord . though I'm not sure it work longer then a few sessions
>>54648528
What? Bin this fuxkgm
>>54648570
Fire mage make boomboom is as old as time

>>54648711
What sort of games are you playing

I played this in cyberpunk his name was fang Lee from the Church of Bruce Lee. He was Italian

>>54657837
Simple your minnons just act as one guy. I do this as a gm. The party will fight a crowd of goblins . They have one HP value . They can surrounded the party. They have one attack roll vs everyone's ac (OK the 16. They hit you you and you)

My brother wants to play a prinny trainer and will do once we see eachother again

>>54681647
>Edgy memelord stops being funny so you slowly develop him into a complex and more real character as people get to know him.

Sounds fucking GOAT, I want to play this now.

>>54641991
Any character ever.

Because I never play.

>>54679808
Yeah I feel like if I ever did run this character that I would get super attached and never want her to die.

>>54676155
I played alongside a character that was essentially this in my last magical burst campaign.

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I want to play a merperson but my campaigns are never near water what do

>>54678645
what campaign did you run? Was it Council of Wyrms?

>>54676155

I've wanted to RUN a magical girl campaign for ages. My players aren't into that, although they respond well to the standard themes.

My new game starting this monday is some kind of abominable combination of Black Company and God Eater. Maybe I can sneak in FRIENDSHIPANDLOVE somehow.

I really want to play a dude with a shotgun and holy conviction but no one really does games like that.

>>54688715
Something I played with, but never ran
Each player has a bond xp for each other pc. They gain xp at the end the session by picking another player in secret that their PC has got along with.
If you get picked by someone you and them get 2xp in your bond stats
If they get picked by you you get 1xp in their bond stat on your sheet.
If you both pick each other then you both get 5xp
Actions work better when helping each other out.
Buffs are stronger, HP heals more, bonus when attacking the same Target. Ect

>>54678885
He gets erect when he is about to fight a strong opponent.

>>54668022
So, there's no reason your Johnson should actually know how your runners should do their job. They hired the runners for a reason: they can do what the Johnson can't. Sometimes it's because they'll do what the Johnson won't, but oftentimes they need the runners' expertise.

So just have the Johnson give them no information whatsoever. He just knows there's a thing he wants, and who has it. Let the runners figure out the details, but have the details planned yourself, and have a paper trail that they can follow, but not one that you necessarily show them until they find it themselves using their contacts, their ingenuity or their guns.

>>54678197
Now that is some top-tier superdickery. What's the context?

>>54688495
A loose rules pathfinder patchwork of that and a few others.
Started off with We be Dragons, letting my players build level four dragons with the Dreamscarred Press' True Dragons, or Rite Publishing's In the Company of Dragons.
After defeating the very old former paladin Help! I've fallen, and I can't atone! that went full Ahab on their parents, they left the nest of their foster father and set out into the world at large. They discovered that there is an entire organization of humanoids that hunt dragons, as well as a particularly territorial old red in the mountains, and those made some pretty good recurring antagonists. After taking a town under their wings to protect it from Scrotafax the Inflamed, they came across some information from the Order of the Wyrm that detailed the location of mythical isle of dragons.

They just got off the coast, and are on their way there, but we're in our off season right now. Most of my players are college students who went back home for the summer, and I'm just running a pirate treasure hunt with the local crew until fall.

>>54688314
Could go full Disney and be *not* Ariel that got cursed or something to have legs and the only way for you to break this curse is *something way inland something*