Hey! Tell me about your current or favorite character you've ever made! My most active one has a lot of homebrew mechanics. They're the homebrew race offspring of an Aasimar and a Tiefling (Aasling, on D&D beyond), and multi class sorcerer/warlock. I adore them and when I get to play them but sometimes it's a headache keeping track of everything.

love D&D. i don't get to play it half as much as i'd like to, but what i do get to play is great (even when it's not that great, lol)

i don't know if i could pick a favorite, and i have so many characters in various adventures idk which one is most current anymore either lmao ;v; i have a long-running campaign i play on sunday nights, so since it's sunday, i guess i'll talk about her a little?

her name is Lhovi, she's homebrew as well - she's half-fey (her father was a sylph); similar in some ways to half-elf, and in other ways to other planetouched (like tielfings, aasimar, genasi, etc). she has featherfall as a racial ability & she's resistant to sleep/charm, but suffers more damage from cold iron & can't bear to touch it. she's a druid (circle of dreams) and she's so close to leveling up to 5 i can taste it, haha. she's currently trying to prove a party member's innocence in court in Baldur's Gate, and has made allies of a family of crows, which has proven very useful and entertaining.

as far as keeping track of things - have you tried dicecloud? i know you mentioned d&d beyond so idk if it'll be of help to you, but i've really found dicecloud to be helpful in terms of keeping a hold of things while i play. there's definitely a sharp learning curve, but once you learn it it's extremely helpful.

I joined my first Discord D&D group this year! I've been wanting to play it for years and finally my co-worker was like "time to find a group and play" and I was so in.

I could talk about my half-elf sorcerer, Taika, all damn day. They're haunted by their dragon lineage and are extremely reluctant to use their acid magic. They play very well like a rogue and I'm hoping DM will let me multiclass because Taika would thrive.

They are grumpy, rude, and selfish but know that they need to work with others to get what they need. They also don't feel shame or embarrassment - one session saw them coated in otyugh digestive fluid, absorbed by a gelatinous cube then spat out into sewer water and later they willingly stuck their arm into an undead minotaur because the wizard doctor in our group wanted to know what was inside it. All done with a nonchalance and ending with complaints about going back to the guild so they could "get paid already and take a bath".

I am NOT keeping this short but I love them so much. Artwork of them can be found on my Twitter! X X X

I'm very excited to see where DM takes their story, but I've been told it will be nearly end game and we'll be going through some other PCs first. Alas!

I've played for a few years. Our current campaign has been able 9 months long, since we are only meeting every month/every other month, instead of every other week. I'm a lawful evil elf ranger with an ADHD pocketpicking problem. The druid is chaotic evil, our cleric and sorcerer are true neutral and our monk is neutral good so it makes a crazy dynamic but it fits within what our DM has created.

One of my favorite characters was in the Advanced D & D era. She was a Kender Thief who would always get drunk. Also, she was very stinky. They called her "The Stinky Little Kender" My first ever character, and I was proud of her.

I just started playing a few months ago! But i made my character years ago :- ) He's a high elf rogue who grew up noble but instead of living up to his family name chose to be a vain and kind of stupid party animal. He has one cantrip which he learned as a party trick and only began adventuring because his parents finally stopped paying the rent on his apartment :- P I'm still getting used to the role playing but it's fun so far! The group I'm in is very newbie-safe at least :- )

You play!

Lhovi has some really interesting abilities and balances there. Do you get to play with her inability to touch cold iron much? How did she gain her crow following? (if you don't mind talking about it ;) )

omg I absolutely love the sound of your elf rogue!

My current game's a bit tenuous but I used to play D&D at work where we only had 45-60 minute sessions, so we rolled through several short campaigns to keep things fresh over time. One of my favourite characters was a dwarf sailor who my DM let me adopt and change for myself. She was a cleric with a heavy focus on storm/lightning magic and the campaign was set around the coast, so I was regularly able to use her existing knowledge of the ocean to help us progress. It was one of those games where she really felt connected to the world she was in and I adored her by the time we stopped.

One of my others is actually a pet here! His subeta profile isn't fleshed out, but a friend from the same group ran a Jurassic Park themed campaign and my pet Avery was the pilot who brought the group to the island. He ended up working primarily in a pair with the group's security chief to keep our other two players (both scientists in different fields) alive and safe as we tried to escape!

edit: woops forgot to ping the person who was talking to me lmao

thank you!! i love lhovi so much <3 this campaign has been quite a journey!!! i definitely don't mind talking about her, i'll talk about any of my PC's all day long given the chance lol [img align=center]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/540279737000525845/814896826188431410/wittle_wovi.png[/img]

i suspect the DM (my partner lol) sometimes forgets about her thing with iron, but it has come up a couple times. she goes around barefoot bc she prefers to feel the earth directly beneath her feet, and until recently didn't even own a pair of shoes - once we had to descend an iron staircase and she had to ride down on the half-orc paladin's big mastiff bc she couldn't bear to make contact with it. the other time we had to go over that staircase she got carried by a guy who she ended up in a relationship with lol

at first she was just friends with one crow - "scuff" is essentially her business partner while they reside in the city, and they do simple tricks together for coin (she teaches the crow funny words, to do simple math, stuff like that). the rest of the crows came as part of the package deal - as the business venture went on, scuff started asking for more and more compensation, and some of that was 'my family moves in with you.' they've provided a lot of interesting company and entertainment for the party since they've moved in, and have been useful assets to us as eyes around the city, and more recently as messengers. several of them are delivering a letter for us right now!

My dnd character ideas mostly end up as NPCs sadly(because foreverDM)

But I do have one character that I do get to play occasionally in one campaign.

Eva is a human sorcerer who by unfortunate events contracted her powers through the shadowfell(Shadow sorcerer) having her exiled from her family in fear of what could come out of this, she ended up hired among with a drow warlock, yuan-ti paladin and a minotaur barbarian(Our party)

She isn't very talkative to strangers and she would rather throw magic missiles than talk to someone(She spends more time in her mind than she would admit) But if there is a fight, then that calculating part of her takes over. She has "proven" to her allies that she cares more about her safety(And the warlocks minion) several times, including one where one was hitting the barbarian just to be able to hit 5 enemies at once.

xD I do play

But oof this is a tough one. I really just love all D&D characters lol. So I guess Ill talk about the one I'm working on. He's an 86 year old human farmer who always wanted to be an adventurer his whole life. But he never really got around to it. Life stuff kept getting in the way of him following his dreams. So he lived pretty normally. He inherited his family's farm, he got married, yada yada.

Now his wife has passed and he's basically retired and regretting never following his dreams. In a bar one day he accidentally makes a deal with the archdemon Gargauth/Astaroth who was wandering around on the prime material plane disguised as a tiefling. (He says something a long the lines of "I would give anything to go on just one adventure"

So now he's a warlock but he doesn't understand what happened to him and he's really old so he thinks that he is a wizard (Because he thinks anything that can cast magic is a wizard) But now that he is a "Wizard" he is off on his adventure! :D

Last year me and a few friends decided to finally start a DND session. None of us had played before so it fell on me to DM (well, I volunteered lol). We're just playing through Lost Mine of Phandelver and we're almost done. I have to say, it's been a TON of fun! I really look forward to our play sessions and everyone has such great characters haha. I love the creative ways my group come up dealing with certain encounters etc.

I think someone else in our group might DM the next campaign so I'll get to make a character then! I really have my heart set on playing an artificer ^^

My favorite campaign of all time was given the title "Demon Jam and the Dragon Wagon" by the party. Way too may bards so we started a band at the very beginning lol. I played a gnome warlock with the Great Old One as my patron. We eventually rescued a young water dragon from the big bad who we named Ord. Defeating the big bad made us enough to get Ord his own horse-drawn carriage complete with a pile of gold to rest on... which made us a huge target for bandits of course. All around it was just a great time.

Right now my best friend is writing his own homebrew campaign with elements from things like SCP and Hunter X Hunter, but I haven't started thinking about a character yet, I'm just waiting until the world gets more fleshed out. I'm very excited though, the basic concept seems really cool.

i sadly had to retire my fire genasi cleric Mavreus from our ghosts of the briny deep campaign. that was a bit of a bummer because we'd only just started getting into the meat of it but the end was understandable and it was fun while it lasted.

currently i'm in a dresden files system campaign with a very old oc whom i wanted to find new purpose for. his name is jason krueger and he's an asshole who ended up in canada looking for his missing brother (mostly because i'm an american playing with a bunch of canadians and it made more sense to go with the majority there lol!).

My favorite DND character I ever played was Karolina, the sun-worshipping Warlock who'd retired from acting to raise three half-orc babies and who had a little pseudodragon as a familiar.

I've got three characters right now and I love each of them, I just need to do a better job roleplaying them. My first is a wood elf druid, named Caraduin (technically she's a high elf, dm forgot to mention that the mainland has no wood elves). She turned into a cat and snuck onto the ship that was taking the rest of the party to a new island, then pretended to be the ship's mouser. She's slow to trust others but loves freaking them out with her shapeshifting abilities. She had a wolf companion until a paladin of Helm killed it, now she has a pet tressym. The party's drow rogue (my hubby) is infatuated with her thanks to a failed perception check during night-watch.

My second is Morrighan, a chaotic evil, fiend worshipping, tiefling warlock. I haven't played her yet, but she's going to be in an all-evil party campaign starting in October. Her main goal is to recruit followers for Asmodeus, living or dead. Her mother struck a deal with Asmodeus to produce a living heir, has a tiefling baby, who's then hidden away in a secluded tower of the castle until she turns 18 when she's sent off to a sanatorium. Partners up with Asmodeus, destroys the place after releasing the most insane, then goes home to murder the king, queen, and prince (born when Morrighan was 3) and set up a cult of Asmodeus at the castle.

My third is Valassan, a tiefling Gloomstalker Ranger/Phantom Rogue in a campaign that I'm also DMing for my husband and I. She's royalty but third in line for the throne, so she has a bit more freedom to do what she wants, but she's essentially the traveling eyes and ears for her family, gaining intel everywhere.

I could never have a favourite. XD

My current character was raised by Yetis until, Jungle Book wise, being left at an Uthgardt settlement to learn the Ways of Men or whatever :(. Currently slumming around Icewind Dale with a Legitimate Businesshobbit (Import/Export/Acquisitions), a Posho who sings all the time (because they're part elf or something? 0% Yeti so I'm unclear on the rest), and a Priestess of an evil Ice Church, who seems to be a little unpopular for some reason (she hasn't even sacrificed anyone yet).

I am wearing a Spirit Halloween "Abominable Snowmonster" costume my Yeti mum knitted me out of sheddings so these humans won't get me frozen to death, but intend to return home one day once I'm as strong as a Real Yeti. Currently, I'm hoping to turn up at the Giants' Conclave and be elected the Chief of All Yetis (de-facto) by default since the only guy who normally bothers to show up is infamously Missing.

edit: I got a forum point whilst making this post!

Honestly, I've never gotten to actually fully make or play a character, but I still have a really funny d&d experience.

So some friends and I were basically just planning a super simple campaign, but I had gotten sick and lost my voice (for nearly 2 weeks) so I couldn't talk and wasn't able to play for the first session, but I still sat in. The dm felt bad for me and decided to let me roll for the monsters so I didn't feel completely left out... and I came really close to killing off the whole party.

Unfortunately we all got busy and never managed to continue the campaign, but I'll never forget that one experience. Lol And am hoping that soon I can find a group to join so I can actually experience d&d properly.

My longest running character is a human wizard that is currently in a homebrew sort of campaign that is an amazingly fun world. Unfortunately, life has happened and I have not been able to play as much as I would like to with it.

I also have a tiefling druid who enjoys passing out rocks (pretty ones to the people he likes and ugly ones to the ones he does not like) and just sort of does what he feels like doing at the spur of the moment. He is really more chaotic good. Rather fun to play and certainly more outgoing than my wizard who would be more than content to be left alone in a library to try and solve issues.

Hi here me! :D D&D is not our groups main game (we mostly play a homebrew Version of WoD/Scion) but I played my first one-shot not so long ago and it's really hard for me to adapt to this new system @.@ Also, not playing a character that can use spells seems really boring to me.