I figured it is time for a fun thread. I'm playing in a Planescape campaign setting. My character is a "berk without a past." One year ago he wandered through a portal into Sigil with no memory of how he got there, haunted by nightmares of the seelie court, unseelie court, the realms of the hags, and a sickening sense of debt for who knows what. Since then, he has set himself up as a performer, forger, charlatan, and adventurer around Sigil. Puck O'Ballads (his assumed name) is a chaotic neutral (half-mad) half-elf bard 1/feypact warlock 2 (about to become fey-chain-lock 3). Endgoal is to become a level 5/6 lore-bard/level 14/15 fey-chain-lock. Thanks to Humanfolly over in the "What Do YOU Think My Character Looks Like?" thread, I have a pretty awsome pair of character images for Puck.
Robin Venomsbane, Half-elf Paladin 5
Robin comes from a well to do family that has a long tradition of adventuring and education. He was fascinated by magic at an early age, and has studied relentlesly to little result. He has no sorcerous blood to awaken, lacks the raw intellect for wizardry, and despite a solid singing voice and a refined talent for song he proved unable to perform bardic magic. Even clerical and druidic studies yielded little. However as a paladin Robin has been granted a taste of the wonders he covets and has found a cause worth venturing out into the world for. HE has dedicated himself to protecting and spreading education and it's institutions, under the auspices of the goddess of pogress. However there is still one path to greater magical power open to him and more than one possible patron has extended an offer.
I get a nice hat with DM written on it.
I'm the DM of my homebrew 3.5 pirate campaign, Pirates of the Emerald Coast, which you can read all about right here. I play with four other players: A Druid, an Abjurant Champion, A Cleric and a Great Captain/Bard, who are all close friends of mine. The players are currently in the coastal city of Vertesaux, where they just helped in choosing a new ruler for the city (after the last one was murdered), and also helped their rum-loving npc crew mate win a duel against a nobleman. The weather has suddenly turned for the worse, and now a storm is approaching, .And yet they are about to set out on a journey to the island of Witchclaw, where a tribe of female sorcerer pirates live, who call themselves the Speakers of the Dead.
Lost Mine of Phandelver DM
Running a homebrew setting where orcs (civilized orcs!) form the ruling caste of much of the world, half-orcs are the common race, and humans are rare. In the standard Middle-Earth style throwdown in ancient history, the orcs won. Thousands of years later, they're not the savages they once were (thanks largely to some benevolent-minded dragon's meddling). Loosely using the Giantslayer Adventure Path (emphasis on loosely) for the campaign itself. Players are new up-and-comers in an ancient, failing, and often reviled order of demon hunters. Thus far we've got an entirely half-orc roster on the player side, one of whom even played the new half-orc subrace I rolled out. We've a Berserker Barbarian, a Circle of the Moon Druid, a College of Valor Bard, and an Eldritch Knight Fighter. Should see a Human Swashbuckler Rogue join the lineup for next session.
Only 5E character I'm running right now is Gharan. He is a CN Tempest Cleric of Talos and from the Kingdom of Many-Arrows, currently adventuring in Mulmaster and the Moonsea region (Adventure League). Level 3. He's loud, boisterous, and rather un-serious. Likes good ale (or bad!), food, and females. He's Emerald Enclave and, if he can manage it, he likes to take whatever enemies might be left alive at the end of an adventure to throw on an altar and smite with some lightning.
I'm running a 5e HotDQ campaign for my home group. Being my 4th generation/edition of D&D that I've run for my friends I will say that this is the most fun we have had over the last 7 years (We played everything from 3e all the way to current edition with a few other games sprinkled in between).
One of my players has committed to running Princes of the Apocalypse once we have completed this campaign. Having played only in one campaign over the last 15 years I'm really excited!
I'm DMing a Greek-themed one-shot (two sessions) called Twelve Labors.
I've been playing my rogue, Chuck Dagger, in a sandbox campaign but that's on hold for a bit.
DMing three games at the moment:
D&D 5e - Birthright (weekly) at home
13th Age - Age of Worms (bi-weekly) at FLGS
Gamma World - the one with the D&D 4e rules (bi-weekly) at FLGS
Also playing a Nymph (water genasi) Druid in above mentioned Greek-themed one-shot (online).
I would really like to be a player in a long-ish campaign (20 sessions at least) to get to really "fall in love" with my character. Maybe after one of the above campaigns are over I can convince one of the players to DM for awhile... 
Hahahah, same here. Currently running a homebrew set in a fantasy equivalent of Renaissance Venice, inspired by Assassins Creed and The Lies of Locke Lamora.
About the only time I get to play is at cons as part of Adventurers League play. I play Malrek Redhammer, a somewhat stodgy and pompous dwarven bard.
Zardnaar wrote:
Zardnaar wrote:
I'm DMing the classic Ravenloft. We're about 75% through it.
I'm DMing an Eberron game in Sharn focused on the criminal underbelly. My favorite NPCs to play included a warforged cleric with a body made entirely of mahogany who wears either a burgundy smoking jacket or a burgundy tuxedo, a halfling druid wearing the pelt of a giant weasel like footy pajamas, and a kobold monk wearing a typical martial arts uniform who has a prosthetic right hand and who wears Macho Man Randy Savage glasses when he's being serious.
Starting a new homebrew campaign this weekend as a PC
Drixel Habblepox
Forest Gnome Wild Sorcerer 3. Expelled from his clan at 12 years old after exploding into a fireball and killing two other kids, Drixel found employment in a traveling freak riverboat carnival with a cruel master. Drixel and 3 other freaks, a Tiefling Bard named Philleas, a Dragonborn Shadow Monk/Rouge named Number 127, and a Goliath Totem Barbarian called Zoetar "The Lambsplitter" Cliffwalker, have become close friends and dream of getting out of the carnival and obtaining fortune and glory on their own. Drixel is foul mouthed, perpetually angry at "normal" people, and fiercly loyal to the freaks he calls his friends.
I also run a homebrew setting where the PCs are currently level 10 and part of a Mission Impossilbe type task force. They are currently working to prevent an ancient entity called The Darkness Itself from entering the world through a pact with Demons, and have just accepted their latest impossible mission to enter the Abyss, find the Demon "Grothonick" and destroy him before he can complete the ritual that would allow TDI to enter the material plane.
I'm DMing Lost mine of Phandelver to get our new players(including myself) used to the rules whilst creating a homebrew. "The last dragon of Edrinfear." The alchemy shop owner(Veeratessa), accompanied by a cult of dragon worshipers, needs unicorn dust for a potion of transmutation strong enough to turn her into a dragon so that she can take vengeance on the land of Edrinfear.
What do you guys think? Any suggestions?
I'm my group's DM, so the things I am currently playing can be summed up as:
- A research facility run by Illithid military scientists analyzing the "heroes" of various worlds to determine which world(s) could be successfully conquered by invasion.
- An ancient cult seeking to gather needed ingredients and relics to restore their most powerful leader (a lich).
- A cabal of time-travelers from the far future that seek to weaken the force of magic so that their opposition to world domination in their native time is too weak to stop their schemes.
There are a lot of characters involved as protagonist against these antagonist forces, especially since that 3rd bullet point covers 2 campaigns that have already run their course and 2 that are still in progress (though on hold due to scheduling difficulties).
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Kanati Uwohali... Oops. He dead.
I've been DM's a homebrew campaign since the play test started, sometimes I switch off with other players and get to play for a session or two. It started off a mostly generic fantasy setting but recently the characters have been discovering a distant past and ancient relics that have pushed the story into scifi fantasy planes hopping romp.
I've also been playing some AL recently at FLGS, and that's been a good change of pace since I most alwasys DM. This is also very different from a typical home campaign, because each session acts as its own self contained episode. Which is probably necessary to have the drop in / drop out ability, but seems to constrain the types of stories that can be told. No, long dungeon crawls, for example.
Also, been on vacation this last week and been running the kids through Mines of Madness. Had warned them that it was designed to be silly and a killer dungeon, but other than the initial purple worm at the start, nothing has been so challenging as to threaten killer status. Except the 'someone has to die' sacraficial alter that requires character death to continue, but I changed that into just a puzzle involving the atler and the dagger, because it was just unnecessary and unfun.
DMing (over Skype) a 5e campaign using the old Thunder Rift setting developed for late-era Basic D&D. I recently decided to relocate the Thunder Rift from Mystara to Primeval Thule, which will present a surprise to the players when they finally manage to exit the Rift.
One of my players had never played any RPG before we started, and the other hadn't played D&D since 1991. They are pretty much the most fun players I have ever had - no preconceptions, no complaints based on other editions, and always trying new stuff and we figure out how to make it work. It's awesome.
Mathfinder can go pike itself. I love this game.
In 5E, I'm playing a warlock in a Forgotten Realms campaign.
He's blind and mute, and sees and speaks through his familiar (Chain Pact. PS - I know that by RAW this would require me to spend my action every round, it was houseruled to make the character work. He can also cast Find Familiar without a verbal component for the same reason).
Also, he's a criminal figure known only as The Oracle (thanks to the Charlatan background), and is almost a pathological liar. He also enjoys stealing and forging random things just in case they might be useful at some point.
Classic D&D B10 Night's Dark Terror.
DM with 3 players (lvl 4):
Elf Ranger
Half-Elf Druid
Gnome Bard
They will be exploring the Tombs on the Ridge, Lake of Lost Dreams and Wolfskull goblin lair next.
The 5th Ed gives my group another chance to adventure in good old Karameikos once again after more than 2 decades of hiatus. They may encounter their old BECMI characters (now retired as NPC) along the way.
Gave them a set of dice each as token of appreciation for playing D&D with me again.
Close to finishing Rise of Tiamat.
Also playing Princes of the Apocalypes
My brother is DMing Ravenloft Grand Conjunction series redone to go from 1st to 15th level.
We are going to begin Rage of Demons soon.
Also play Mutants and Masterminds and a bastardized 2E/PF/5E hybrid homebrew.
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I DM a 5e homebrew Via Maptool for friends and family, Planning on running a BECMI game locally starting in september, Game i actively get to play in are Gurps, Shadowrun, D6 starwars, and pathfinder
Doing round robin DMing with three others, switching every two or three months. Currently playing a half-elf GOO tome warlock, whose patron instructs him to destroy unique books. The patron is based loosely on Hermaeus Mora from Elder Scrolls, with a far realms lair where anytime book is destroyed without any surviving copies, it ends up in his 'library.'
On the next DM switch, I'll be playing a 'domestic druid.' Nothing mechanically different from the usual druid, just more at home in small villages than the wild. He's an itinerant veterinarian/ magical farmhand who uses his powers to ensure the crops are growing and the herds are healthy.
When my turn to DM comes, I finally get to run an evil campaign, yay! Using my homebrew setting, which is full of meddlesome gods and a tense political atmosphere.
I also run Expeditions once a week. My regulars just hit tier 2.
First time playing 5e. I have mostly played AD&D. I'm running a Hill Dwarf Cleric in the "Hoard of the Dragon Queeen" at the FLGS. A basic character to help me learn the rules but a cleric is going back to my roots as a AD&D player from way back when. It's fun!
I am playing a mountain dwarf named Vostyg Kazimyrov, who's a "trapper by trade and wrastler of bears".
I am DMing a 5e/ad&d mashup greyhawk campaign. The players are in the middle of ToEE. I also play a half-elf vengeance paladin in a 5e game.
DMing a 5e game using Tabletop Connect, VTT with 3D mapping, playing face to face and using an overhead projector to cast the 3d maps onto the table.
Playing in a AD&D game with a human fighter.
I'm currently involved with three groups playing D&D 5e.
I am running Tyranny of Dragons for a group of newbs (one of whom is my wife) and am currently working on a new episodic campaign set in a homebrew world for my group of more experienced players.
I am also playing in an Age of Worms conversion campaign. We recently hit 19th level. I'm playing a half-elven Oath of the Ancients paladin: The Honorable Xanthe Galanodel, Knight Errant of Luna. She is the illegitimate offspring of Baroness Sariel Meliamne of the Duchy of Ulek and the famed wizard Bucknard. Her most prized possession is her heirloom vorpal moonblade. She has used it to great effect on numerous occasions now (a few sessions ago, it took the heads off a fire giant, a marilith, and a frost giant wizard in quick succession). She has a 20 Dex and a 20 Cha and wears +1 elven mithril full plate. Thanks to a 1 level dip in fighter (for the Defense fighting style) and her +1 guardian shield, she has an AC of 24. She also has the Inspiring Leader, Resilient (Wisdom) and Sentinel feats.
She's been pretty fun to play, although the plot of the second half of Age of Worms leaves a lot to be desired. I haven't had much opportunity to let her personality come into play, for instance. I dreamt her up as a bit of a hedonist. As a bastard, she was free to party with the other young nobles and since she couldn't inherit, she ended up joining the Knights of Luna. She takes her oath to the primeval ancients seriously and revels in song and dance and beauty and all that. She loves to go carousing, and thanks to her incredibly high Con modifier, she is able to drink the party dwarf under the table. Her immunity to disease also comes in handy with her regular one-night stands ...
Personality wise, she's loosely based on Phryne Fisher, the lady detective (of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries fame).
A political rogue that makes Petyr Baelish look like a muppet.
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shintashi wrote:
I dm HotDQ for a dozen pcs.
I also get to play one a week a noble born sorcerer Prince Hugh Jolos The campaign is set in the Diablo universe and Prince Hugh Jolos is the son of king of a distant Kingdom.
I'm currently DMing the Lost Mine of Phandelver, but we should wrapping that up next weekend and we'll start my homebrew campaign featuring a noble paladin eager to prove he is more than his lineage, a dragonborn barbarian who has so far been considered a local cryptid, a favored soul who is heir to an ancient legacy of wicces serving the goddess Melora, a druid masquerading as a plague doctor, and a halfling street urchin.
I also occasionally play Caradoc the Sonnateer, a post-apocalyptic rogue who is a member of the Ancient Order of Bards, modeled after the Assassin Brotherhood from Assassin's Creed. The campaign doesn't allow spellcasting characters but I still found a way to play my favorite class.
Well the last D&D we played recently was a 2E game with some house-rules for adapting it to the Ultima setting.
For those who know Ultima... I had a thing going on with the Virtues instead of gods, and also quite a few thematic rules like classic Ultima reagents for spells and such.
But... recently we put it on pause to resume our old Star Wars campaign for a while.
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I'm dm'ing a homebrew campaign right now.
The world is capped at level 10, meaning the most powerfull characters known are of that level. Spells of level 6+ are non-existant. Also I brought down the diversity of humanoid races considerably, and monsters are far less plentifull. This gives it more of a Game of Thrones feel than an Elmister Forgotten Realms feel.
The premise of the campaign is that after the old king has left two grandsons, each with a claim to the throne. The first is the son of the kings eldest son, so he would be first in line. His father renounced the crown to go on the crusade to stop Nagash, the first vampire. That task is done now, and he is returning to the country with an army of crusade veterans. Because the old king never officially accepted his fathers renouncement (always hoping his son would return before his days were over), this grandson states this renouncement doesn't affect him, and he has many brothers-in-arms that agree with him. He has crowned himself as the heir of the king, and is known as the King-Far-Away
The second is the son of the kings youngest son, that stayed in the country but died during an orc-invasion. He's learned the ways of the court and has made many connections and alliances in the country. He has given select nobles returing from the crusade land and castles, to buy the suppport of their houses. In reaction to his cousin claiming the crown, he has crowned himself too, and is known as the King-in-the-Country.
The kingdom is greatly divided between the two.
The players are advisors to a leader of one of the great houses, that each control a large portion of the kingdom. Not only do they have to deal with the coming civil war when the King-Far-Away will return with his army, but they also have learned that the orcs in the Kingless Lands are being stirred up by an efreet that has returned to claim the orcs as slaves as part of ancient pact. Orcs have already started fleeing into a neighbouring country and signs are that they will come over the mountains in great numbers soon too. Also it's unsure what the efreet has planned for his slave army. Is it world domination?
Things are heating up now, as the civil war is about to start.
I'm currently DMing twice a month on a heavily modified Tyranny of Dragons campaign that will end with a homebrew third act to take the PCs to 20.
Next weekend, though, the other DM in the group will be starting a new campaign in his world. I'm playing a half-elf bard (though I've yet to decide on her college) with the soldier background. She was leader of a scout unit in the war against the dragons on the other continent, and she was the sole survivor of her unit. Now she engages in what many would call destructive behavior at times to forget, at least for a moment, what happened over there. However, she's about to be conscripted to head back, as one of the only people left who knows the terrain. She will have to confront her personal demons and fears head-on if she doesn't want to fail her comrades yet again.
Rastapopoulos wrote:
Cool characters all.
Unfortunately, I got outvoted in all three D&D groups I am in. I left one group to play Cortex instead, but will be playing 3.x and Pathfinder for the foreseeable future.
The last time I had a chance to play 5e was in a homebrew world. My PC was a self-centered Eladrin Lanolin Sansilver. He was a wealthy courtesan (entertainer background) before he was kidnap during a slave raid.
Lanolin Sansilver
Neutral Evil Eladrin 3 Wizard, Entertainer (1300 xp)
Hitpoints 17 (3d6+3);
Armor Class 12 (15 mage armor)
Saves: intelligence, wisdom
Ability Score
STR 10 +0
DEX 14 +2 +4 acrobatic
CON 12 +1
INT 18 +4 +6 arcane, investigation, saving throw
WIS 9 - 1 +1 perception, saving throw
CHA 14 +2 +4 performance
proficiency +2; casting bonus +5; casting DC 13
skills acrobatic, arcane, investigation, perception, performance
Tools Disguise kit, flute
Race Features
Size 5’1”
Speed 30.
Darkvision.
Keen Senses. proficient in perception
Trance. Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they
meditate deeply,
Elf weapon training. Shortsword, longsword, shortbow, longsword
Ability score. Intelligence +1 Train
Fey step. Misty step 1/short or long rest.
Languages. common, elvish, infernal, abyssal
Background — Courtesan
Trait. By Popular Demand