I think I would dig playing one of a part of a multi-country collective of paladins that congregate when there’s a threat to the realm, very much in the vein of Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.

I want to play a wizard/barbarian that treats rage like another, different spell

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Bugbear rogue with Polearm Mastery

Any. At all. I’ve been itching to play for a few years now!

I’m currently playing a tabaxi rogue based off Slinky Malinki, but I also want to play a tabaxi barbarian based off Scarface Claw.

My kids really love those books, and it turns out kids books make great scaffolds for RP characters.

A former wizarding college student who got in a magic accident that scrambled his brain and awakened sorcery magic within him. But he thinks he’s a wizard, so he carries around spellbooks and components and magic foci (they’re all just non magical junk). Actually got to play him in a one shot but he’s campaign-worthy

Literally just me transported to Faerun and I’m a 4 hp commoner, just to see how long I can survive with bullshit shenanigans. IRL I have 0 fighting and weapons skills wish me luck lol

A gelatinous cube who ingested a Headband of Intellect. Wants to become a professional philosopher.

An evil lich who is so incompetent at being evil that he keeps blundering into doing profoundly good deeds. (Overthrows a monarchy, monarchy turned out to be an oppressive vampire family. Causes a famine, agricultural reform prevents monoculture that was destroying the ecosystem. Necromances a dead goblinoid tribe, saves them from the hellish afterlife of subservience to Maglubiyat. Etc.) This one is probably better as an NPC however.

Just finished reading the beta for Everspark TTRPG and all of these are possible. Excited to play it with my teens.

If’n I had a group to play with, I’d be keen to try a character with some sort of handicap relevant to their class: a one arm fighter or a mute caster or some such. Would be fun to learn how to workaround things like vocal spell components cannot be used or only one hand weapons.

“Unbreakable”, the Warforged. A warforged made for manual labour, but who wants to be a hero that protects people. Not very good at it, but he’s trying, and thankfully he is hardy enough to fall down a few times and still keep going. Basically the robot from Real Steel.

I had this idea for a wizard who was kind of crazy and believed he was the king of a nation that doesn’t exist. He would see the rest of the party as his nobility and task them with enforcing laws he made up on the spot. In combat, he would use “control” type magic like paralysis and counterspells to lock down his enemies, pronounce guilty verdicts, and issue death sentences which his noble companions would carry out. I don’t know if the spell list in D&D would support this kind of gameplay, though.

Centaur taxi service.

Reborn in denial of their undeath, just assumes everything is just a “flesh wound” a la Black Knight.

Wrong Way to use Healing Magic style cleric that incapacitates their opponents but leaves them at full health.

I’m currently playing a Gith Drakewarden in an Out of the Abyss campaign that was transported to the underdark accidentally by the Astral dragon egg they stole.

Commoner Adventurer: All stats are 10. You start the campaign at level 0, no class. Throughout the campaign, the characters attain a class based on their actions.

Wrong class for the race: Halfling Barbarians, Half-Orc Wizard, etc. This can be a lot of fun, as instead of having an optimized character that can deal a lot of damage, you have to think through things and come up with strategies. I personally have always liked playing characters that are small that have to use their wits to survive in combat. Oh, I like playing a tank once in a while. Currently, I’m in two different sessions. In one, I’m playing a Dragonborn Cleric that has served as the melee support for the party’s paladin. The other session I’m playing a halfling rogue Soul Knife that rides the barbarian into battle. I have a lot more fun with the Rogue.

My next character is going to be a Tiefling College of Whispers Bard, using the new 2024 Tiefling, since they can be Small. They’re an impish investigative reporter for a Westmarch setting I’m starting with some friends. Their goal is to make sure the governing body in the setting isn’t able to have any secrets from the people, through espionage and the newspaper they print, so they’re going to be stirring up a lot of trouble.

Someday I will get to play them. Setting up a Westmarch is a big undertaking lol

More characters that don’t rely on magic. Rogue was awesome. Doing a monk now.

Warforged Bard, Unit #69420, Designation: JAMBOT

JAMBOT comes equipped with seven different musical instruments, an ale dispenser, a confetti cannon, a heater core, and a subwoofer big enough to rattle Pelor’s china cabinet

JAMBOT was originally built mostly as a way to get his owner free drinks at parties but since the death of his creator, time and alcohol damage have scrambled his circuits and he has confused his definition of “party”. When apprehended by an adventuring party he readily joined their ranks.

“KEYWORD: ‘PARTY’ ACCEPTED. THIS UNIT WAS BORN TO PARTY. LET’S BOOGIE.”