Post/Author/DateTime	Post
lunchbox 02-03-08, 10:49 PM	After playing D&D for years i feel like i've tried all the characters that i can, everything from a half-dragon duskblade to a halfling rouge. Now a friend is home from college and he wants to start a new game, any original or different character ideas that might be fun?
stealth_monkey 02-03-08, 11:04 PM	You could always play this (http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=8570529). I doubt in your years of playing you've played that one
pigknight 02-03-08, 11:22 PM	An awakened boar fighter/knight/paladin/crusader/cleric (with sword and shield)/anything that wears fullplate (I think you'll never get where I came up with this *sarcasm*).
james_gaines 02-03-08, 11:49 PM	Halfdragon ranger who chooses dragons as a favored enemy, and is on a quest to kill his father. Ogre cleric of Nerull who dual wields scythes.
Krusk 02-04-08, 12:07 AM	I just started a 5th level game as a grig ranger. Favored enemy giants. He is pretty fun so far., hurts a little in the HP area though. I guess im lucky, in that i can also find human fighter 20 to be fun to play, and generally wont get tired of it. Maybe mix it up some and do barbarian 1/fighter 19. I usually play that unless an amazingly fun concept comes into head. See above.
calronmoonflower 02-04-08, 12:25 AM	Huh... Well... You have any more info like the campaign parameters or the party makeup? It would really help. Lets try a few basic ideas. beguiler + monk + Kung-Fu Genius --> enlightened fist A stealthy ninja like character. Add abjurant champion later for a power boost. Arcane Strike adds quite a bit to it. You can use sorcerer with Ascetic Mage instead for a flashier ninja. Librarian/adventurerer. Odd, but the concept can work. Teifling/paladin.
Alexeduardo 02-04-08, 10:41 AM	calronmoonflower is right, knowing the campaign or the party would help. Here are some basic ideas: Races of Faerun is a ver helpful book when it comes to looking for new character options, though I'm not sure if it would be considered legal to post the complete race descriptions here. Centaur Marshall (player's handbook II) Hobgoblin Fighter Dekanter Goblin Barbarian Kir-Lanan Fighter/ Ranger LizardFolk Sorcerer Then there's Everyone Favorite, Eberron! Warforged Ranger Warforged Ninja Warforged Paladin Shapechanger Cleric Everything Else Troll Fighter (so obvious, yet, so rare) Northener Paladin with a mastodon (MMIII) as their mount Dracotaur Ranger (MMIII) Astral Stalker Ranger/Rouge (yes, MMIII)
Shadowshimmer 02-04-08, 12:09 PM	We had a player who had probably played everything imaginable and was getting bored so we made him an immortal from Highlander. An immortal would challenge him every week and every module and each immortal was extremely different in capability and alignment. Sometimes he would fight the evil ones and sometimes he would befriend the good ones but figuring who which was which was harder then the thought. He found it so much fun in roleplaying from the perspective of an immortal and trying to figure out how he would play the Gathering. If he won a duel and got a quickening then he moved up a level. Of course, if he ever lost his duel, he lost his head and life. This was a really fun time for everyone in the game because the weekly duels became legendary.
LazyNinja 02-04-08, 12:25 PM	Lots of good suggestions here. I'd say since you've already played so many characters, go with a challenge, maybe a particularly unoptimized build, or a character with flavorful but mechanically limiting flaws. How about a melee mage? Pure wizard, but only fights hand-to-hand, using buffs to become combat viable. One of my favorite characters was a dwarven Mineral Warrior Monk/Barb/Fist of the Forest. Combat and foraging for food were the same thing for him... A Venerable-aged smite-on-sight paladin who's finally learning that he has to rely on his wits rather than his sword. A mage hunter, torn between her hatred for the arcane and her reliance on magic-infused items to aid her quest. Warforged Stoneblessed or Ruathar. Personally, I've been itching to play a Warforged warlock. Will be my first 4e character, no matter the mechanics.
Orchomenos 02-04-08, 01:56 PM	An awakened boar fighter/knight/paladin/crusader/cleric (with sword and shield)/anything that wears fullplate (I think you'll never get where I came up with this *sarcasm*). http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Tgc_religion.JPG/250px-Tgc_religion.JPG
jage 02-04-08, 07:03 PM	Play a gnome while you still can.
pigknight 02-04-08, 08:44 PM	@Orchomenos - You don't read my name do you?
Orchomenos 02-05-08, 09:26 AM	Nope :( Thought you mispelled bear for boar.
pigknight 02-05-08, 07:41 PM	But seriously, boars (and bears) are made to be awakened and be a tank, +Con +Str and boars have diehard on 'roids.
grok_grok 02-06-08, 11:48 AM	How bout a Monk/Reaping Mauler Kobold It would be great if you could sneak up behind people and do some neck snaps with this little guy
Rania 02-07-08, 12:11 PM	Write down all the races you can think of and number them; do the same with classes. Then roll dice to see what you get.
kelvinaw273 02-07-08, 12:20 PM	What makes an interesting character to you? Is it their race/class combo, or their personality and history? If you can take two characters with the same race and class(es) and play them totally differently from their character to their appearance to their tactics, you have interesting characters. If not, try it!
Lincoln Hills 02-08-08, 04:00 PM	...Human Fighter? Seriously. It's like a lost art form. :P
taradusis 02-09-08, 12:35 PM	Savage Species has a lot of monsters that you can play as PC classes,sort of how Elf was a character class in 1 ed D+D? Play an awakened animate object? How about a baby giant? Random thoughts.
molten_dragon 02-10-08, 07:14 AM	Here's an idea for a character I always had rolling around in the old 'noggin, but never got a chance to play. He was a human cook for a logging party, when a group of "insert monster here" killed them all except him. He was able to escape into the forest, surviving there for several "insert timespan here" by his wits, and using his cooking utensils as weapons. He vowed revenge on the monsters and began hunting them. Eventually this leads to him meeting up with the rest of the party. In game terms, he was going to be a human ranger, with two weapon fighting, that fought with a meat cleaver (handaxe) and butcher knife (dagger). His favored enemy would be the critters that killed the logging camp.
jage 02-10-08, 11:40 PM	Here's an idea [for a cook out to avenge a total party slaughter], with two weapon fighting, that fought with a meat cleaver (handaxe) and butcher knife (dagger). Does he wear an Apron of Fear? (Butcher's apron covered with blood, Will 20 or flee in terror) :D Great idea, BTW. Love the back story. If we're talking character background my next 1st level character is going to be a 19th level [class] reaching upper middle age for his race, who in his search for immortality was granted a wish- "I wish to be young again!" and found himself as a 1st level, albiet young again- with only the knowledge of having been able to do all the feats, skills and spells- being wholly uncapable of doing any of them, lacking the stats, equipment, wealth and reputation he'd come to take for granted. Saddled with the knowledge of having been great he's forced to adventure in the world anew, wish fulfilled but frustrated at everything he used to be capable of and now isn't. Will he repeat his same steps and follow the same path or try something wholly different? Will he get past that he used to be able to [x] or will he be so bitter it hinders his development? [might include a penalty on re-learning any skills previously obtained, or requiring a certain amount of points be put into knowledge [x,y,z] Finding his true name leads to ridicule or out right fights ("Oh, ye don't say, you're him, the great hero! Har Har!") he's forced to give it up and simply be "El Amargo".
Giarc 02-11-08, 05:05 PM	What makes an interesting character to you? Is it their race/class combo, or their personality and history? If you can take two characters with the same race and class(es) and play them totally differently from their character to their appearance to their tactics, you have interesting characters. If not, try it! QFE- my thoughts exactly
jbsaff 02-11-08, 05:12 PM	Psionics... Seriously, try a psychic warrior or gish wilder. The SRD is your friend.
NatanaX 02-11-08, 05:33 PM	A Batman like Monk who has a whole bunch of gear that serves as "Super Hero Equipment".
Cartigan 02-11-08, 09:26 PM	Duskblade/Dragon Disciple/Dragon Devotee.
danielinthewolvesden 02-12-08, 03:23 AM	In game terms, he was going to be a human ranger, with two weapon fighting, that fought with a meat cleaver (handaxe) and butcher knife (dagger). His favored enemy would be the critters that killed the logging camp. Hey, I played this guy in RuneQuest!:cool: Another idea: Aristocrat. Pretty low stats, just an above average guy, who is rich and important- but instead wants to be an adventurer. Fallen Angel, the crime was Hubris. Exalted, of course!
Daeva 02-15-08, 02:29 PM	ok how about your a human but you use the dwarfs racial stuff instead because you were magicall experimented on ALOT while growing up by an evil grandfather. so your a little short and stubby but grew tough and resistant to magic and stuff... i dunno.