Oh, we're sharing un-stereotypical characters? I've got a paladin who not only was a thief before she took her Oath, but still is one. She's essentially a reverse Indiana Jones, taking stolen relics from the private collections of entitled, rich nobles through craft, guile and charm in a pinch rather than just smash and grab and returning them to the hands of the relevant gods' worshipers.

Unsurprisingly she's very much chaotic good instead of lawful lol

Oh hell yes. Reverse Indiana Jones is such a good concept for an adventurer, I love this!

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For the most part my protection cleric DOES play to stereotypes, except he FUCKS and is a bisexual disatser and my party keeps forgetting that until he hits on the rando fighter he's healing, lol

Torm didn't say SHIT about chastity!!

Good for him! My theory: the party's constant forgetting is a sign that he needs to flirt with rando fighters more.

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Not quite breaking stereotypes, but my paladin with a -2 intelligence serves a knowledge god. He really sucks at being high preist.

Oh no... with that situation, I wonder how he became high priest in the first place.

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For breaking sterotypes, I made a Barbarian that actually has a proper education (in other words, Intelligence isn't his dump stat). No he just makes bad decisions because he rarely thinks things through before he does them. This includes, in his backstory, trying to fight a Tyrannosaur, bare handed, to save someone. It did not go well for him.

Hell yeah, genius dumbass representation from the non-int-casters. I love him. Please don't punch any more t-rexes.

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I have a dragonborn bard who became a librarian that's raising a little goblin child with their gnoll wife! Doesn't really break stereotype that much but I just think it's sweet. The dragonborn's name is Dryshrish and no one in the campaign knew how to pronounce it.

They're a god now. Don't ask how.

Very sweet! I'm not gonna ask how, but I'm gonna ask... are they a god while being a librarian and raising a little goblin child? Seems like a lot, is all.

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One of my favorite anti-stereotypical characters is a wizard who absolutely hates all magic. When he was a boy a traveling wizard changed the color of his favorite teddy bear to green, which is his most hated color. He vowed to end magic by any means. And no, he doesn't see the hypocrisy at all.

How... how did he get through wizard school with that attitude? That's not a criticism, I'm impressed.

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I'm think this is a bit against stereotypes. I'm playing a changeling bard that is super shy and not very good at speaking up or saying her mind. Shes pretending to be her dead best friend who died protecting her and hopes to help their friends passion for music to live on.

I can confirm it's against stereotypes, and also made me have Feelings which I think gets bonus points. I will protect her. I want to see her grow up healthy. I want to tell my friends and neighbours about her.

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if it's astereotypical characters time, I play a tiefling rogue with a perky personality, chronic foot-in-mouth disease, and no concept at all of hierarchy systems not based around being an elder relative. she was raised by gnomes in a tiny gnome-only village and became a rogue by accident when she went off to the nearest town to find an apprenticeship as a locksmith, and did not realise for months that she joined a thieves guild instead.

Months! Amazing. Now I'm curious what gave it away.

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For my non-stereotypical character, a drow necromancer who became a necromancer soley to revive her pet duck, she doesnt care about anything else associated with necromancy. she will keep this duck alive if its the last thing she does. she joined the campaign because another pc found and adopted her duck, not knowing it was hers

Sometimes, a necromancer is just a very late veterinarian. Love her!

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Unstereotypical characters? I haven't gotten a chance to play him, but I have a plan for a paladin with the charlatan background. He scammed a church, then learned that their philosophy is actually really compelling. He now spreads the good word while desperately avoiding all contact with the church's officials. I anticipate hijinks!

Ooh, yeah, that sounds like an excellent setup for hijinks! Especially if the party gets famous enough the church hears about him!

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I made a rogue who everyone ended up nicknaming boy scout.

None of my rogues are criminals or thieves, or hyper edgey.

Non-chaotic non-evil rogue's becoming a pretty classic stereotype break, but boy scout? That's impressive.

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Hi! I don't really know much about how the game works but I really want to-and I had an idea for a character that I just thought would be fun to share-

I got this idea of 'What if a regular ol' human from OUR world got sucked into D&D' and thought-ok-What if she has to pass herself off as a bard by telling stories about where she came from-telling people about phones and airplanes, and stuff like that-and constantly making pop culture references nobody else in the party would understand. It really isn't meant to be a 'serious' character, more just for fun-but I still wanted to share the concept!

To anyone who keeps accidentally saying Real World Things in-character, this one's for you. Oh you don't know what 'hits like a truck' means? You see, a truck is a machine from the universe all my tales take place in-

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Heard you are doing non-stereotypival characters, huh?

Well, i have a warlock half-orc who is an absolute shit at being a warlock. Her backstory is that she was basically promissed to an archfey in exchange for saving her life when she was a sick baby. After that, she has been raised and trained by her ex-adventurer parets as a fighter. All her background proficiencies and basic stats are boosting her dex and constitution, making her a nimble unkillable thing on the battlefield, but she can't lie or sweet talk to save her life (the charisma is her dump stat lol). All her eldritch invocations are boost and utility only (because with that poor save DC she can't charm shit) and yes, she doesn't have the eldritch blast either. That was kind of a point. When I was making her, i was dared to make a warlock without that invocation and to create a character for whom that would make a sense.

And so there she is, the snarky smartass with attitude issues who talks to her patron like a pubertal teen talks to an authority they don't respect, hating every moment of it and only being there, because they have to. Meanwhile, her patron is enjoying their every interaction the same way how people aww and coo over a hissy kitten

Oh no I love her. Impressed that you made the low-cha warlock work, and the dynamic of delighted patron/hissy kitten warlock is delightful.

Currently playing in a campaign where my warlock is possessed by her patron. She's still a bit in control, so whenever they tell her to you do something, she goes “ugh fine.” like an edgy teenager.

Oh no... if there's ever a time to be edgy and uncooperative, it's during literal actual possession. Hope things've gotten better for her...

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For my anti-stereotype character, I present: my Barbarian with Insomnia and Narcolepsy who sleep-fights during his rages. Outside of combat he's quiet because he's got the permanent tired sleepy and just wants to hit the hay with his silly little nightcap on.

Oh, shit, and I thought my tired sleepy was bad... least once I fall asleep I don't start going around fighting people. My sympathies to this poor soul.

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For the anti stereotype thing:

Flynn, a skinny guy with robes, books, endless curiously about things mortals probably shouldn't poke their noses into, and an in-depth knowledge of magical theory is in fact a Ranger by class and can’t cast even the simplest of spells. He has to find someone else to help him test his theories and do his experiments XD

Nice! Off-stereotype but makes sense because tbh a good chunk of dnd wildlife counts as things mortals probably shouldn't poke their noses into. I don't usually fuss about party comp but I do hope there's a proper spellcaster around for Flynn's benefit if nothing else.

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