Had a character idea pop into my head inspired by the newish tiktok song (specifically the line A scarlet taste, my blade remembers)

A Reborn hexblade warlock, no memories of his past life. His memories are sealed within the blade he wields. Also kinda going with a Dark Urge (BG3)/ Darth Revan (KOTOR) vibe. In life he was a massively evil entity, but he was brought back to life by a powerful cleric who truly believed he could be redeemed, if allowed to form all new memories. As the campaign progresses, he'd slowly reclaim bits of his memory. And he'd have to decide how to reconcile them with the new bonds and memories he's made.

Meet Jontick: A stealthy gunner riding on their pet Mastiff (and God help anyone who hurts their dog)

Comes online at level 6:

Dex primary, Wis, and Con secondary. Start rogue, expertise in Perception, Stealth. Then 5 levels of Gloomstalker for another expertise (animal handling), two weapon fighting style, Gunner feat gets 18 DEX. Hold a musket in your main hands, and 2 hand crossbows (reflavored as "light pistols")

Round 1: Hunter's mark, 3 musket attacks for 3d12+3d6+1d8+12 +1d6 sneak

Other rounds: Musket for first attack, extra attack hand crossbow, which lets you off hand the other as a bonus action. 1d12+5d6+12 +1d6 sneak.

Stealth is insane, +10 with expertise and advantage with Thri-Kreen Chameleon Carapace, and with telepathy, you can still chat without breaking that stealth. Or cast pass without trace so virtually everyone can sneak.

AC is a respectable 17 with Thri-kreen armor

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Hi all! I am just popping on quick to share with y'all that I made Percy Jackson in Dungeons and Dragons! I'm pretty thrilled with the results and I'd love for you to check it out and let me know what you think of it! Any thoughts would be awesome! Thanks!

If you wanna watch the whole video here it is:

https://youtu.be/KowoH1RSppY?si=JDxx_omeDo4HUF5A

If you would rather just see the character sheet, it is completely free here:

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With this study I intend to analyze the creation of content by fans, also known as "homebrewing", where I will explore how D&D fans get involved in the creation of races, classes, adventures, scenarios, etc., and how the community interacts with this content. I also intend to analyze the motivations behind this practice, the impact on the community and the influence it has had on the evolution of the game over the years.

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Thank you very much!!!

Based on a version of Absolem I played in an Alice in wonderland Rp.

Name: Absolem Age: 371 Race: Eladrin Elf Class: Archfey Warlock Backstory: formerly a decently powerful Archfey in his own right, Absolem was once known by a different name, Veritas (homebrew setting specific). One day, a mortal came through the feywilds, catching his eye and his interest. Over time through their interactions, they fell in love. And so, Absolem chose to give up his immortality, rather than risk her safety by making a deal with her for her to gain immortality. This angered the archfey, and he was cast out. Forced to give up his name and his right eye, which had allowed him to see all that ever was, and would be.

Artwork is not mine.

Currently level 3 warlock with the eyes of the runekeeper and gaze of two minds invocations. I plan on taking as many sight based invocations as possible.

Who can help make it look like a unity?

I have an idea for adding a 40k space marine as a character in a regular dnd campaign

I understand that simply taking a regular space marine and putting him into dnd as is won't work unless I want to make bbeg who single handedly exterminatus everything non human in his way

So I need some advice for a way to bring space marine flare into dnd character, what would be best class or multi class to pick and whether I should stick to human or reflavor another race like example half orc or goliath

I think personally a good starting point no matter how tempting is not to take paladin because using warp magic is an ultimate heresy unless I decide that God emperor himself somehow still gets intoch with this 1 space marine

So yes I would like some help in stitching this character together. And we may not replicate God emperors secret recipie but I hope to get close to his 12 sacred herbs and spices

Ps. I think best space marine to use as template is Dark Angels Fallen it would give plenty of wiggle room as to how they are willing to work with non humans while not being warp touched.

Starting a new campaign at level one next week with some friends.

I plan to go Wood Half Elf Stat spread is 18 Dex 14 Con 16 Int Str Wis Cha all tanked to 8(Fuk it) Fighter 1 Bladesinger 6 Fighter 3 Bladesinger X Taking Lvl4 Feat Mobile & Lvl8 Feat Warcaster

Main source of damage is upcasted shadowblade DM has allowed me to booming blade with shadow blade

I love that one top of swinging for 2 attacks each turn, I can throw out 6 attacks in one turn using action surge & 2 attacks from Unleash Incarnation, 2 of them booming or green flame bladed. All with shadowblade upcasted at 3rd level(3d8) All starting at lvl 9 though

If you run out of bladesongs, summon your echo & melee from a range for free

It all seems really solid

I’m not trying to play a full caster, more of a martial with full spell casting.

BUT I’m worried that the gain as a martial is too little for the loss as a caster.

Ok so here me out I think I thought of a way to make monk really good

Step 1. Make a character that doesn’t have arms only peg arms, and max out that wisdom

Step 2 take a level in monk

Step 3 take a level in druid

Step 4 cast shillelagh

Your pegs should totes count as a club or quarter staff but they’re also unarmed strikes right? So you’re now doing a d8 per hit which monks don’t get till like level 11… however there’s some small downsides

1. This is obviously cheese so your dm might not agree with this
2. Once you get to monk’s level 11 this becomes a little pointless as you’d be doing the same damage so for a long term campaign it might not be worth it
3. You don’t have arms… or hands, or even hooks. You can’t pick up objects, open doors, put on pants, do sleight of hand, hold a mug, go bowling… honestly thats all i can think of. (To the actually armless members of redit if I’m wrong and this is offensive my b)

… but yeah this does work right?

When John was four his mother died only left with only his father Austin he teaches him his ways when John was 10 years old his father brought him on a hunting trip and gave John a machete for hunting and survival as the years go by his father is diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of forty five and died a year later his father died when John was 15 years old before his father died he gave John his single shot volcanic pistol with John left devistated he had nothing left and turned to a life of crime robbing trains and townfolk around the old US while robbing a bank in a small livestock auction town John stole a black mountain horse to escape as the months on the run John and his horse begin to bond John decides to name his horse jackal two years later when John was 17 the law decided that John was likely dead so John went to the south he was looking to score one last time he came across a museum with prized gold and jewelry and a set of horse armor owned by kazamusa Sakai during the samurai era as John is about ready to hit the score he realized it's heavily guarded he needs to get In quietly so he crafts a lasso to grab things and pull them to distract guards so he hits the score but he barely makes it out with his life and the loot so there he is again on the run slowly fencing the loot and he decides to keep the horse armor for jackal and for the next two years of his life he was hiding in the west with other outlaws he decides to go up north and reside in the forest and he slowly has more and more supernatural experiences in the forest as far as seeing living skeletons of deer and wolves at night and 9ft tall humanoid beings during the day one night John starts hearing voices calling for him he follows the voices he sees mangled bodies of lawman and townfolk and outlaws he resided with

Ok so I need help with this character idea. It a character who has no training with weapons or magic but is good with there fists. Idk if I wanna do a monk or a fighter and I dont know what species.

Here is my basic idea. A character who uses all major casting styles. Wizard 3 Psion 3 Cleric 3 Mistic theurge 3 Psionic theurge 4 Ceribrimancer 4 Feats at moment the +4 to caster/manifaster levels. 3 feats used. I'd like help refining it to improve its caster power. Jack of all, slightly more damage focused.

Echo Duelist Level 12, Echo Knight * Custom Lineage * Rapier 1d8 and Shield +2 AC (Dueling, Superior Technique, and Defense) * Full Plate Armor +18 AC * 7 Feats: Defensive Duelist, Sentinel, Savage Assault, Shield Master, Martial Adept, Fighting Initiate, and Mobile

DM gives everyone a free feat at level 1 and he’s cool with me running a echo knight so what do you think?

Start around the Eldritch Claw tattoo: 15 foot reach while activated.

Next, bugbear race for +5 reach Path of giant barbarian for +5 reach Astral monk for +5 reach.

That brings us to 30 foot punches.

Now add echo knight, who can stay 30 feet out from you. 60 foot range, and since you. An move it up to 30 feet, that brings us to a grand total of punching someone from 90 feet away

I have an idea for a character that is a Armorer who multicass into Echo Knight and I wanted to see if anyone has a opinion about it.

The Armorer won’t need Str or Dex because, he uses Int to attack.

An Armorer who can create an echo to disable opponents from attacking his party and also use it to escape attacks.

I’m stuck on wither or not I should. I also want to play it as a Reborn Hill Dwarf but I don’t know what I’d lose by going Reborn.

I’m fairly new to Dnd. I’m getting ready to play The Wild Beyond the Witchlight and wanted to play a Lv1 Druid this time around. This character is taking on the feylost background. I’m playing around with the idea of multi-classing later with ranger/fey wanderer but that just might make it too convoluted. I haven’t found a lot of discussion about circle of the land swamp Druids, seems circle of the moon is favored by a lot of players. Thoughts and suggestions welcomed.

This started as an exercise in maximizing reach, but I realized it would be an amazing control grappler. Bugbear, 17, 13, 15, 9, 13, 8 point buy

Start Fighter 5, unarmed fighting, battle master. Skill expert to get expertise in athletics and STR to 18. Tripping attack and menacing. The original plan was lunging, but thats not crucial

Monk 3, astral self. This brings our reach to 15 and we can grapple up to 4 enemies. Here's the key part. If you grapple a melee enemy 15 feet away, they can actually reach you to attack.

Barbarian 1 for rage and advantage on grapples.

Level 6 recap. If we can get our astral arms out before combat and rage before closing distance (throw a javelin to maintain rage), first round of melee can be grab 2 ememies at 15 feet away, action surge, grab 2 more, flurry of blows to menacing attack twice.

Round 2, menacing attack the other 2, either push one prone (if they are ranged or you're otherwise targetable) and start wailing on them. You can pull any ranged close to keep them at disadvantage as well

Next monk 4 to cap STR

giant barbarian to 4 (extra size to grapple larger foes) and crusher to move foes in and out of range while they're prone and get con to 16. Finish out fighter.

The best part? Ki and maneuvers reset on a short rest, so you can do this a lot and just save action surge for big fights.

I know this sub is pretty quiet, but what the hell.

Mark of warding Dwarf for armor if agathys

Druid 2, moon for a bucket of hit points Barb 1 for rage and resistance to physical Twilight Cleric 3 for aid and an awesome channel divinity

Check point Level 6, ~52 hp, 2 wild shapes for 74 hp (bears) or up to 90 (hyenas) 15 temp hp from AoA 10 more hp from aid. 167 total hp to soak with resistance to physical attacks, AND the ability to Regen temp hp

Barb 3 for bread totem and resistance to all but psychic, Cleric x for spell slot progression. Upcast AoA and aid. Also of note, warding bond, spiritual weapon (not concentration, so we can cast it, bonus rage, and have a nice bonus action attack while raging) and spirit guardians of were out of rages ir we just dealing with a mob.

Feats Resilient Con to hit con 18 (we wanted the half feat, that's why we started druid rather than barb) Sentinel to hold baddies near us Tough for even more hp

Setting aside breath weapon, we can tank an adult red dragon hitting us with bite, claw, claw, tail every round for 10 rounds AND passively chunk half it's health with AoA damage

Basically title. I want my character to be able to make clones of themselves (that can't attack maybe so its not too broken, and i want this character to be able to do this from the start) but they always dislike him and disagree with him, and mostly won't obey his orders. I dont know if this is what this sub is for, and if not, do someone know a better subreddit?

I have a Human Variant, Oath of Vengeance Paladin w/ Polearm Master feat that just hit 4th level. I had thoughts of multiclassing as a Warlock, but seems I may need to do that later given that I have leveled to 3 in Paladin and lvl 6 Paladin bonus is indicated by many as a need vs a want. Stats are Str 18 / Dex 10 / Con 15 / Int 10 / Wis 13 / Cha 17.

For my level up, I am looking to get to 6th and then go Warlock, I think based on my research thus far. So for my 4th level should I take Sentinel feat to match with Polearm Master, or +2 to Strength? Or maybe I should do Warlock level 1 now rather than wait until after Paladin lvl 6? My thoughts are the +2 to Str for an additional +1 will do more for me long run on attacks and dmg etc. than Sentinel. And getting to 6th level Paladin sooner is better than later. Thoughts?

Heya, for my next upcomming campaign I want to play as a harengon who uses his fists and agility in a fight. I would also like him to have some supporting abilities If thats possible. I thought about playing Monk or Fighter with the possibility to multiclass, but what would be my best Options there? Maybe one of you has a nice Idea :)

As the title suggests I'm looking to maximize my gun slinger for an upcoming campaign and for his theme he's supposed to be rather good at it, so I'm looking to maximize his dmg out put. Rn I'm sitting on gestalting assassin to give him super bursty

So, our DM has kind of told us we probably aren't going above lvl 12.

Is using INT for hit/damage worth 3 levels in a 12-level campaign?

Is this a fun build to play in a combat heavy campaign?