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So, I was watching this video at work and got so excited about Cassian's story and wrote that comment. Then listened to the rest and realized you had made a few kinda like that. So thanks for the amazing cooking!

Sounds cool!

Every character should have their own story within the broader framework of the campaign. It's up to you, your group, and your DM to decide how to incorporate each character's journey into the overarching narrative. For example, the first few sessions might focus on the wizard's story. Then, the ranger steps into the spotlight, advancing their own tale. Later, the paladin’s journey could take center stage, and so on, creating a dynamic and engaging progression. Do you have any suggestions for creating character concepts that aren’t tied to a specific campaign? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

@dndTavernTales Not many campaigns that I have played with had the ability to spend that much time in sessions on the PCs backstories. As mentioned I like yours, they have a lot of flavour. The challenge is that some don't fit in many boxed campaigns or are very dependent on the DM to integrate otherwise the character feels like they don't fit. And a lot of DMs don't have that level of time or are that good. E.g. I loved the rogue Halfling. Very nice description but that motivation of saving the king will not fit in a lot of campaigns. E.g. Tomb of A., or many of the dragon ones or mad mage. Same with the ranger that needs to save animals that did flee. Also Backgrounds that have an urgency are tricky as in why the character will go along with some other character or campaign goal that doesn't directly align with theirs. I did the whole - get medication for dying family member or rescue loved one and many times a true character simply wouldn't join the party on some side quest. Or being the best xyz in your region but you are only level 1. It isn't as inmediatly exciting but I found motivations like running away from something or looking for fame or just wanting to learn x because of curiosity or of that type are easier. Requires a lot of creativity to make them exciting but when it comes together it fits in nearly every campaign and you can role play it fairly independently from your DM if need be.

@@bora7494 I see! Awesome! I will try to incorporate your feedback into the next ones. Thank you!

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Are you kidding? Each one of these barbarians gives you so much to work with. They all lean toward a particular subclass, have strong established backgrounds with bonds, ideals, and multiple personality traits. Not to mention allies and rivals. They don't even all have the typical "I angry I smash" energy, especially with the last one choosing to look for peaceful solutions. You didn't pick up on any of that? Now I'm the disappointed one

Hello! I know some people have concerns about AI, and I respect those views. But for me, AI-generated images are a way to bridge the gap between imagination and expression. While I’m passionate about creating unique D&D character ideas, I’m not an artist. These tools allow me to share my concepts visually, bringing them to life in a way that I couldn’t on my own. They give creative people like me a voice in a field where we might not otherwise have one. Every character idea in this video is crafted with care and originality-I pour my passion into these stories. The images are here to enhance the experience and spark your imagination. I also use ChatGPT to refine the text, making it clear and engaging, but the ideas themselves are entirely my own. These tools help me focus on what I love: creating and sharing unique concepts with you.

@ I actually really appreciate you clarifying. I’ll use AI to help with character art myself, though I finish it in photoshop. I’m glad to hear it’s your own ideas, hopefully GPT is mainly acting as the editor. Just be aware it’s becoming a recognizable writing style of its own and when paired with audio that sounds like it’s ai voiceover, the whole thing chips away at any humanity in the channel. Keep up the cool concepts though.

Working on it!

@@dndTavernTales Wizards are the best. Could use some new excuses to play again one 😁

Hello adventurer! Here's a video about Rangers: ruclips.net/video/sgRq1Uruj34/видео.htmlsi=992taUlzv2JoGEqw

@ thank you can’t wait to watch it when I get out work

The reason is fantasy tropes. Good fiction (and role-playing games) is based on conflict. The entire point of warlocks is they beg, steal, or are cursed with power, and it's always a double-edged sword. "There's no such thing as a free lunch" means there's always a cost, and if it seems like there isn't one, then it's guaranteed that there's a hidden one -- even with celestials. The inhuman patron is the one with the power, so any relationship is going to be unequal. The warlock will always be the weaker party. Demons and Old Ones may coerce obedience, and devils may entice obedience, whereas archfey and celestials may resort to manipulation to have their will done. Whoever is running the show will always exact a price for the power bestowed. The ensuing conflict will result in richer storytelling.

Traditionally, being a warlock meant that you bargained your soul for power. Good people trade their soul all the time in stories for the greater good. Usually for others, we really don't hear about trading their soul for personal gain from a "good" character.

In the proper 2014 5e system there is: Celestial Warlock who is always good. Great Old One Warlock who can be either a curse or just neutral since the patron is in the vast majority of the time unaware of the person. There is also for Undying Warlock a patron that could be considered neutral or lawful evil at least, Larloch.

That's so fetch

Alternatives FIEND PATRON: Perhaps every soul a fiend warlock kills is converted into energy that grants that Fiend more power, not in the material plane with an intent to take it over, but among demons and devils, raising their rank and prestige among other fiends, elevating their influence and authority among their own kind, and making them more powerful there, the twist being that the best souls to take aren't good ones, as a pure soul has no corruption to feed on and such soul energy actually goes to the higher planes, so is next to valueless, so what the Fiend needs is for the Warlock to kill the most vile and corrupt beings, collecting on that corruption before those souls can repent and purify themselves, potentially escaping damnation... like plucking a fruit at its ripest and most juicy moment, the Warlock is tasked with occasionally veering off their main quests to directly themself (or with the aid of their allies) snuff the life of these most heinous of beings while they are at the prime moments of their evil. The irony of it all being the Warlock gains no benefit spiritually toward a good afterlife, while actually gaining no dark marks either toward eternal damnation, as long as they use the Warlock Magic to kill (assist in a kill), only through completely magicless melee combat can the Warlock move their own soul's fate toward the positive or negative. ARCHFEY: Magic festers when unused, and Archfey are limited when not in the Feywilds, but their magic can be lent out to Mortals, and in doing so grow in power. The Patron chooses the Mortal because the Mortal is awkward, or funny, or unlucky in love, and grants them magic to use, not because the Archfey has an ulterior motive, but because it amuses them to see what the Mortal does with it, often giving the Mortal Advice in the form of cryptic poems and confusing riddles, granting them more and more power to do whatever, because the more they loan the mortal, the more they get back when the mortal dies, but the longer the mortal lives, the more that magical energy grows, and since Archfey are nigh immortal, there is no rush, and in fact it benefits the Archfey for the mortal to live longer, perhaps even unnaturally long, as the long term loan pays off exponentially greater power... the Twist is that the Archfey doesn't actually care, when the mortal stops amusing them, they just stop actively observing the mortal and stop actively adding their advice and guidance and allow the mortal to do whatever, only communicating with the Mortal when they Mortal actively reaches out for more power, or advice, or even to question if they are in trouble, meanwhile the Archfey has found other Mortals to amuse them with the exact same kind of no real strings attached bargains... The mortals expect far more nefarious motives, but the real twist is there really isn't one, the Patron gets everything they wanted simply by the Warlock using the power more and more, and the Archfey just collects that power back up when the natural order of Fate steps in and completes the contract. FATHOMLESS: The Warlock is saved from a demise at sea or even in a deep river, the Patron is a powerful being of the Deeps, a Naiad Queen or a Siren Goddess or an Ancient Sea Deity, one whose influence is bound primarily to only the Waters in which they rule, the Patron often sees beings fall into their domain and shows mercy, and all they seek is knowledge and souvenirs of the world beyond their domain, and so they grant power to those they rescue in their domain in exchange for occasionally returning with tales of the Skies and the Land beyond their watery depths. Occasionally though, because people expect Warlock deals or beings that grant power to Warlocks to have dark motives and nefarious twists, others rescued (not even Warlocks, just people who were saved from drowning, healed up, and sent on their way who promised to return but never did) have deceived the Patron, and so the deal with this Warlock isn't for the tales and trinkets, but for the bounty of those that have abandoned their word or own pact with the Patron. The twist is that the Warlock need only bring the bounties to a body of water and submerge them for a moment, forcing the other person to enter a place where the Patron can speak directly and get answers, and satisfactory answers, apologies, or completing the agreements (ie. Telling a tale or two, or handing over the mementos/trinkets/knick-knacks/whatevers) would be sufficient to fulfill the pledge, and no one needs be hurt nor die, the Warlock need only convince the person to come speak with the Patron to fulfill their obligation and are in no constraint required to do any harm nor do more than relay the message from the Patron... and, the Warlock themself bringing tales and gifts of their own (hey, this low level magic weapon we could sell for a bit of gold but no the fighter longer needs because we have better stuff was crafted in the mountains by dwarves... sure, might be worth 75 gp, but it is an object from the land high above sea level... what a great gift for the Patron. Oh, look, a Tinderbox, it can make fire on dry lands, sort of useless underwater, but what an interesting object used in the air above the waters, and so expensive to come by... "Let me tell you about climbing a tree and watching a baby bird be born.") for a bit of more power when no bounty is near the Warlock's travels (because the Patron can only sense them when the Warlock is a few miles from them or they are within half a mile from a large body of water... which they have obviously been avoiding the latter... and therefore the Patron has no way to know where the Warlock should go, so all they want is the Warlock to travel around as much as possible to potentially get close to someone the Patron has touched before). GENIE: Unable to grant enough wishes directly to meet the amount needed to regain their freedom from their own vessel, the Genie find someone who wished for power while near their vessel, and granted it... the obligation is that the Warlock must attempt to grant any wish within their own means and power (including the powers and augmented abilities granted by the Genie themself to the Warlock) that they hear made in their presence, no matter who makes it (be it an ally, a random passerby, or even a foe in combat... "I wish you would spare my life!") as long as they understand the words "I wish" were a part of the statement, exclamation, or query... ironically and conversely, "You Wish" can also be exploited, as someone foolish enough to use that phrasing in the Warlock's presence is also making an inverted wish in a sense... The twist, is that Warlock will eventually die, but instead of going to the afterlife, they will be bound to their own Genie Vessel and rise as a new Genie of the type that their Patron was, continuing the creation of new Genies, and having to fulfill their own requirement of granting a number of wishes or serving a number of years as a bound Genie before they themselves are free of their debt of power. Yes, my versions are less deep, but I'm just covering the motivation of the Patron and the Twist, plus a little of the inciting factor of the pact/bargain/contract, not the Warlock's own identity and goals, as any of these could be combined with a menagerie of races and origins...

Even in the video, the Orc Tribe could have been committed to a Great Old One, an ancient deity forgotten to time, whose name was lost, and so uses the name of the last patron as an alias, its goal not to corrupt, but to have the Warlock find its true name, reveal it, and restore its glory of being worshipped once more... The Archfey needn't have seen the Warlock as a pawn, but in fact seen the Warlock's connection to their rival's pawn as a means to both aid the Warlock and undermine their rival, the relationship could have been a positive one, and the truth could simply be that Fey Court Rules forbid the Patron from revealing the full truth... The Rogue could have died on the alter, being pursued into the temple in the first place, but Death spared them, granting them power to steal the lives of others, a sneaky reaper Death could send to claim the souls of countless Rogues and Monks who'd escaped death by somehow evading all harm in blasts of magic and dragon breaths and other stuff that should have engulfed them in deadly levels of injury, yet somehow they were completely unscathed (Seriously, watch Final Destination, Death hates people avoiding all harm... that is a story, not another "Demon wants out of Hell, and it just needs one more seal"). I guess the fiend clone is a little unique and original, but still always with the Fiend... but if that is the Fiend, then we need a replacement for the Fiend for the Dwarf... How about the Dwarf found a long buried weapon, a Great Axe or a even Pick, a ancient Dwarven Soul that had grown in power bound to a weapon, one that had conquered nations and rules all dwarves and a multitude of other species (Orcs, Goblinoids, Trolls, Gnomes, Halflings, Ogres, Minotaurs, Centaurs... only Humans, High Elves, Eladrin, Wood Elves, Flying Species, and Aquatic Species being disjointed opposition), but long ago a covert alliance of spellcasters formed from members of the Species that did oppose the Dwarf bound the soul of that Conqueror to this Weapon and hid it deep below in a warded cave reliquary that was recently reopened by accidental nearby excavation and seismic activity, allowing the curious Dwarf to find it, and the weapon granting power and knowledge to the curious dwarf in trade for vengeance on the descendants of the Alliance of Spellcasters specifically and the blood of the species that opposed the Patron Spirit long ago, the weapon's spirit not having any ulterior motive besides the bloodshed of the masses it has brooded on slaying for tens of centuries and ending the lineages of those that had imprisoned it, and so it will give the Curious Dwarf Warlock all the power needed and more to fulfill those goals and any of her own in the quest to complete their journeys. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A FIEND.

The images are, the ideas & voice are his. He answered that in the comments of another video.

Images: yes Characters: no

​@@dndTavernTalesExcellent.

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Aldorius "Al" Kilraven. A 5e human ancestral guardian barbarian with the noble background. Born the 4th son of an insignificant noble house, he was often ignored by his father and older brothers. His tutors, however, instilled in him a fierce pride for his family's history, forebears, and a longing to return the house to its former glory. Any slight to his personal honor is met with a cold, calculating rage. Any insult to his family's legacy is met with explosive violence. Now that the spirits of his ancestors fight beside him, he knows that House Kilraven will once again soar.