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every party needs at least one weird little guy
Sometimes you just need to play a weird Lil guy.
My first one (while cliche) was an over the top positive eccentric gnome artificer who was quite naive and always saw the best in everyone, had so much fun playing that bloke that I think it actually improved my mental health and at least made me try to stop being pessimistic so much in RL
My favorite weird little guy was a halfling rogue, but he had an academic background. So he played like this overly optimistic nerd who just wanted to make the world a better place. I was playing him in a way that his optimism would fail when facing reality, but I kept rolling 20s. “Couldnt we all just get along?” Solved two conflicts. The best one was, “perhapse you have forgotten the power of love!” Convinced two dragons who hated each other to date. I miss that little guy. I still use his voice sometimes.
My over the top positive lil guy was a halfling bard who was a baker. All his instruments were pots and pans he would bang on. His vicious mockery was telling you ways that you let down people in your life and genuinely wanting to help you do better. His bags were full of homebrewed muffins that were infused with calm emotions which he would use to pacify and bribe NPCs. Whimble Buttercrust became the de facto party leader and turned our resident murder hobo into a struggling pacifist who would snap if anyone put Whimble in danger.
The other halfling in our party was a horny rogue, so I played Whimble asexual. The DM was also horny so they found it amusing to watch Whimble struggling to graciously excuse himself while remaining oblivious (until it was no longer possible and then becoming flustered).
Whimble Buttercrust became the de facto party leader and turned our resident murder hobo into a struggling pacifist who would snap if anyone put Whimble in danger.
Just got added to my favorite sentences.
My weird lil guy was a monk multiclassed with wizard, because he was obsessed with going fast. He also loved taking drugs. There may have been a couple sonic comparisons
All DnD characters are weird by definition. They are generally magic-weilding mercenaries in worlds that are populated almost exclusively with people who are not. They are the types of loons who hear, ‘There are monsters in that cave that will paralyse you, bind you, fill you with digestive juices, and then leave you to die slowly over the next few days, but there MIGHT be something of value in there, though there’s no reason to assume there is,’ and decide to run in so fast they forget their pants.
Jokes on you, this time a weird BIG guy!!!..
Mine’s a Triton bard that plays 80s glam rock and dresses like he’s in Motley Crue. Nothing weird about him.
I hope you’re playing 'Dr. Feelgood" when you or someone else heals.
…well, I am now.
In my group there are at least these patterns:
- are you a moon druid?
- are you attacking everything, always, under the guise of protecting the party?
Hey, if D&D wasn’t created by a bunch of weird li’l guys to play weird li’l guys in their favorite story world (LotR), then I’ll find one that was inspired to do so. 🤪
Uhh I would just excitedly say “Yep!”
You mean y’all have adventuring parties that aren’t composed entirely of weird lil guys?
Sometimes they’re at least partly made of weird big guys. Or weird lil gals. Or weird big gals.
My weird lil guy was a gnome divination wizard whose last assignment before graduating from wizard school was to find a use for True Strike. Unfortunately he never graduated.
Hey now, sometimes my character is three little guys in a suit pretending to be one bigger guy. Or sometimes I’m a dwarf barbarian who has had so many CTEs that he thinks he’s a wizard.
