That was great. I loved the background, surprisingly close to how I imagined her. Thanks for sharing the story, we had so much fun playing it out, felt right to put it out there.
sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb forgot my account password. I love any tips you can give me!
I was in a campaign which had something similar happen, but not entirely. See, our party was on a quest to get an army ready for the coming of the god Bane so that we could stop him from entering the Mortal plane, or killing him if he entered the plane before he destroyed everything. A week before this, our party was summoned via a dream to a deity counsel of the gods we worshipped. We were asked questions and judged, with one of us being chosen to ascend to godhood, as only a good could kill another god. Turns out, that character ended up being my Forest Gnome Rogue, but the private note sent to me by the DM instructed that I was not to tell anyone this until after the fight. Post final battle, my Rogue was able to deal the killing blow in a very cinematic fashion, and DM epilogue that my character, Seebo "Pock" Timbers, became a Minor Deity of Urchins and Beggars
I had an excellent dm from 3rd edition. He ran a dark and gritty game. And As the first real first time I was playing DND. I came up with the most unique backstory it actually involves 2 characters: On one hand, you had an Elven princess (Melora) who was trained by her Kingdom's most capable general (who I also don't the name of, So let's call him Eric). This world was like 90% taken over by The Emperor (as in a very close interpretation of The Emperor from Final Fantasy 2). Her Kingdom is the last surviving resistance group on the planet. They launch hit and run tactics on The Emperor's forces. The Kingdom is actually hidden in a mountainside and not in a forest-like one may think. TDLR Melora got betrayed by her childhood best friend and resulted in Eric launching an ambush on Melora's unit, while she was away. She later discovered the fate of most of her forces and ran to the castle to save the king and queen. She failed as they were dead before she got there. Following the blood trail up into a hidden passageway she found and fault Eric, at first, she was losing as her weapons during the exchange were broken. Melora then revealed two swords she had taken from the castle's treasury. One generates lightning from it and the other is made out of the coldest ice. These two weapons could be combined into a double-ended sword-wielding both elements and for some reason generated white angel wings. She managed to beat him, pinning Eric to a wall and freezing him in solid Ice as she jammed the lightning side deep into the frozen monument electrocuting him to death. Hearing Chanting Melora found an exit that leads to the top of the mountain where she could see a floating airship, being kept in the air by a unison of singing mages, who are chanting and bleeding out of their eyes until they die and are replaced with a new one. There in the Airship is the Emperor on a throne. The Emperor stands up and just lifts his left hand and the airships starts pouring a purple toxic rain across all of the rebel's forests and people. Melora suddenly feels like she can't keep standing and her vision starts to blur, her wings began to decay and fall off. Those two swords were cursed but in a language, she couldn't read. And now they seem to be doing something to her. Melora starts to fall toward the ground and drop her swords as she seemed to fall into white nothingness. My other character in this story is a wizard in training and she is getting scolded by the towers arc wizard. (Starsha Iscandar is her name). She had pitched the idea of making a new spell, based on a spell that alters memories. Starsha tried to invent a spell that was too strong for her to control. TDLR these two characters ended up sharing the same body often switch control of the body at night time. Now this new world Melora found herself in was not her own, and she met some people who also got wrapped into a conflict where a group called "The Stone's Hand" was trying to kill the last survivor of a newly turned-to-stone village. In this world, the gods resided on the planet and at one point in our campaign, we ended up at a town that was having a massive festival for all the good and neutral deities. Some of us had learned that apparently some of the evil gods and their own places are hidden there as well. Though no one else seemed like they could find them. (I am going to jump to how the plot was supposed to go since our campaign crashed after this point.) So my dm told us what was going to happen, and in this world, there was going to be the biggest battle this world had ever seen. In this war was every god vs The Stone Hand's leader. The being was beyond them, the gods could do nothing, as some were incinerated, in front of their lovers, others beaten and broken by how ineffective they were. On the battlefield, our party was to show up with a story plot NPC armed with a rusted sword we gave him, that we did not want. However, his blood turned out to be the last of a far more ancient god's and that rusted sword only looks that way and he alone could damage him. He turns the tide of battle and they kill the bbeg.... Or did we? You see at the end of the battle it is realized that every god on this planet, (minus our NPC) Was actually only a fraction of themselves, and likewise their powers as well. This triggers a quest across the stars as the players were going to go to planet after planet to reunite and awaken the fragments of the gods. Because we only would have beaten a fragment of his power. Long ago the entire universe was at war, all the gods had fought against this singular evil entity, the gods lost and in their last efforts split themselves and the entity across the universe. The campaign would become like a spell jammer game as the party travels across the stars to complete this task. I have no doubts by that point in the story my background bbeg would also have gotten too bored with destroying one world and would find a way or all ways knew a way to go to other worlds. Either way, they would have to clash once again. Another campaign was also planned where you would play as a different set of party members who were left on the original stories planet as the 1st campaign's heroes would leave. There the dark and gritty world only gets worse, where magic users are hunted and persecuted because the popular mindset was that this disaster across the universe started with magic users and that they all need to be killed. But our first trip was to see some of the gods who are broken after the war with the Stone Hands god. They would talk about how useless they were in the fight or how they watched another god they loved, beg for their life as they were killed. etc... Drink themselves into a stupor and probably retell it again to the next random people who wanted to hear their story of how that war went down. (That is all I got to learn about this campaign as we only ever had 1 session before our group permanently drifted apart.) Hopefully, someone enjoyed my tale, I rewrote parts of this a lot to try to reduce how long this story would be. If anyone is curious I can expand on things if asked.
Unrelated to the vid itself but I just felt like thanking you so much for keeping the captions going. My defective ears and low attention span appreciate it.
I don't have any problems with my hearing actually I'm above average but I don't pay much attention to videos and read captions so I really appreciate it
“Sigurdi, who was female, adopted the child,” ah, yes, because fictional men never adopt or bond with children they cross paths with *hides The Last of Us behind back*
Yes, a couple of times, actually, under two different DMs, with different groups. The first one didn't last long past that revelation, though, as my schedule changed and I wasn't able to play with that group for most of a year. The second was a Pathfinder game, and involved her being an avatar of Desna intended to garner mortal perspectives being forced to awaken to her fragment of divinity to help prevent the release of a nasty, gods-tier bbeg. Then she had to be reabsorbed, because she was quite too early to be aware that she was not an ordinary mortal, cue dramatic exit, et cetera. We tried to prolong that campaign, but that really should have been the stopping point. Lots of fun, though. I had her written with two character sheets, her divine avatar one, and her mortal one, written specifically in soft pencil. Any time she was asked a question or performed a task or anything like that, there was a percentage chance I'd use her divine sheet, and each time I did, a relevant stat would increment, or lore-related abilities would jump a lot. I think I had a chance in that for her to also get some sort of fatigue effect after, but I don't remember for sure (it's the sort of thing I tend to do). I got the tuning on that pretty close, because the two sheets converged about 90% of the way through the part I played with her.
How *my* party found out that we may be fallen gods? We wiped out a 60 man orc raiding party at level 1...in open combat...in broad daylight...with no tricks or preparation at all...with crappy starter equipment...and no healer...because we are awesome.
I am currently starting the adventure with my newest character of a Custom Heritage, they are basically an Primoridal elemental incarnated into a human body. They knew they weren't human and everyone else in their home town knew as well causing them to be ostracized and Attacked regularly until the towns people drove them away, no one pardoned them and no one tried to understand them since all the humans saw was an embodiment of beauty in apparence little affected by time as they didn't age visibly after their late 20's. After being driven away they were captured by a Kingdom that had a strict No human view and was to be excecuted until the lands king decided to take them as their court dancer and concubine, seeing that the being infront on them wasn't human at all except for their apparence. For the first time they felt welcomed and loved, taking great pride in their new position and insisting on accompanying their king into all fights, proving to be far more devoted than any spouse. Their happiness didn't last however as the kingdom was attacked by a united force of multiple human kingdoms, out of fear that the "Monster" empire may try to conquer them at one point. Ready to fight and die for their king the Elemental in the Human body wished to fight, knowing thwt it may lay it's life but was instead sealed away in a crystal by their king, being ordered by the King to live on since even if they were to be found, due to their apparence they would be able to escape and live. Before losing their conciousness the elemental witnessed their kings death, reigniting their hatred for humans swearing vengance for their land and & king. Around 500 years later, when the campaign begins is when the Elemental is freed from their crystal, everything after this is yet to be expirienced and witnessed.
Did a campaign who really liked the idea all mythology’s were connected so when i pissed of a random Egyptian god i got sent to a plain where i had to persuade an elder god azathoth to go back fun times.
I haven't changed any character's backstories with sudden twists but I did make some of the party npcs have backstories beyond "our village burned down by the BBEG" which is that one of the twin half elves, the druid, was actually a dryad that was saved by the hunter, seeing that she was holding a powerful devil in her body, the dryad decided to help try to free her of that curse, shapeshifting into a male version of her so that he could remain close to her. Unfortunately, the campaign ended before that knowledge could come to light.
Huh, my friends recent campaign also involves a plot line of her and her boyfriends character being mortal incarnations of gods. She made the loveliest fanart of it YIRBEL LIVES!
In a Waterdeep Campaign I played in a couple years ago I played a half elf Conquest Paladin named Calligan Rembrandt. The only backstory I had given the DM was that Remy was the youngest of three brothers in a noble family and that since he was the third born with a very small chance of becoming the head of the family, he decided to help elevate his family's status as a servant of Tempus and an adventurer instead. Throughout the campaign he was check in at his family's keep and speak with his brothers. As things progressed, his oldest brother (who was the head of the family) became more and more dismissive and rude toward my character and I would occasionally see him talking to shady characters around the keep. Eventually, the middle brother disappeared and the eldest just brushed off Remy's questions about their brother's whereabouts. At the climax of the campaign, Remy found out that his eldest brother was a low level member of a cult worshipping Asmodeus and had kidnapped the middle brother to use as a sacrifice. Remy had to strike him down as he was rescuing his other brother. I didn't give any details about the brother's. All of that was the DM's idea and I loved it
Warning: Screwing with your players backstory requires a delicate hand to maneuver the pieces around so that they make sense, and a lot of the time can end in disaster. Do not do this unless you are an experienced DM who knows your players very well as well as their characters.
That sounds great. I currently have each of my players being Titans or Gods but in a mortal body Unaware of what they truly are and slowly unlocking memories and powers
In the longest campaign I've ever been in, I was playing an Ice Elf that could use blood magic. Because I didn't fully understand the politics of Elves hating Demons and Heretics (blood magic users) and vice versa, I didn't know that I was at a disadvantage but that I was also a bit special. I always wondered why I had no memory of my past and started my adventure at a cave but after meeting actual demons that were considered "Heroes," they showed me my past and I saw that one of my ancestors was actually a demon and I was actually under a contract of an extremely powerful demon because I made a wish after completing it's trials, it took my memory and forced me to sleep for 200 years before starting my journey.
A backstory I want to play as for my first character. Especially if I’m allowed to start at level 2. Samir the Tiefling. Foreign to the campaign country’s starting point. I was born a Tiefling (Winged? Ask DM), with human-like skin, horns, eyes, and tail. My small Oceanside town was only human, but I wasn’t subjected to racism. At the age of 8, my town was raided, and I was taken into slavery, and sold to a colosseum in a racist city. (If winged, I kept them as a sign of the devil, but they where routinely whipped so I couldn’t fly). The champion tore off my tail and used it to whip me; he took my horns to their bases when he held me too close and I gouged out an eye. One item I managed to grab was a journal, where I had written down as much as I could about my hometown. Then, around the age of 14, I realized that I was forgetting the people I wrote about. Neighbors became unfamiliar, the kids I played with were strangers. This time in the colosseum taught me to be a dual wielding Fighter OR Rogue, and I managed to escape. Of all the names in my journal, only two are still familiar. While on the run, I self taught (or give me a mentor Tiefling) to use a bow and became a Ranger. Before joining the party, I bought a transparent bandage to hide my eyes, redid my hair to hide the base of my broken horns, and if winged a large cloak to hide my wings. Thanks to humanlike skin, I can pass as human. Alignment: Friendship Good. I’m willing to follow laws, but don’t take well to overbearing authority, and will defend those I believe in and trust. Why I joined the party: I want to become stronger, I needed money, and wanted to travel to find my hometown. All of which are easier with traveling adventurers. How to role play: Samir means “friend to talk to at evening.” He isn’t accustomed to the country’s culture, but does try and befriend the party. However, since the country is racist, he will keep his Tiefling side a secret for as long as possible. Likes/hobbies: Flavorful foods, something he didn’t have before in his life. After learning about tasty food, he wants to help in the kitchen, but don’t leave him alone with the spices. Also likes rodents. Writes down in his journal each night about the people he met. Dislikes/flaws: being alone, and somewhat claustrophobic; shuts down if not accompanied, distracted, or kept busy. Bad with money, always spends it, can’t bargain. Combat: He is evasive in fighting style, and will learn magic to both focus on one target and help with crowd control. He will also learn a healing spell, since he’s afraid that if he is knocked out, somebody might uncover his secret, such as by removing his bandages or casting Regenerate (which will recover my horns and tail). What my goal is: Recover my childhood memories, and the people connected to them. I believe some demon stole them, and want to save them. I also want to find my friends, and look out for traces of The Forgotten in other towns. How the DM can incorporate this into the story: 1. Such a demon exists, and one of my friends made a pact with it. 2. There is no demon, it’s a False Hydra. And I can’t restore what has been eaten. 3. The champion of the colosseum is out looking for me, having turned my tail into a sharp whip. 4. My demon father. 5. I was cursed into a Tiefling as revenge against my absentee father, who is part of another character’s backstory.
There was a Campaign I had where I used the same name of my Character from my previous Campaign from the same DM. My DM made it that my current Character is a failed clone of my Chaotic Neutral Human Edritch Knight Character from my previous Campaign. That old PC of mine is now hunting me down until I, A Neutral Good Human Battle Master, choose to kill him, myself.
Once played a Human Bard who "worshipped" the god of undying comedy/It which laughs last/ Poet of Irony. Became a Skeleton after drunkenly drinking a liquid curse which would grant your wish but twisted were the results. He wished to become an Undying Comedy. What he got was becoming a skeleton but retaining everything about himself. A shambling fleshless version of himself. And through his adventures and praising his actions to be due to the god of undying comedy became the actual god itself. He became the god he created. With the portfolio of Irony, Comedy, laughter, drunkenness.
Well, for me, I played as a black Dragonborn wizard who’s whole village was more brawn than brain. I was a weakling who saw magic, 13th child of a clutch go 20(?) children. I was mocked and looked down upon since I could not weird heavy weapons and relied on my magic. I was only able to get any knowledge of magic from brave enough travelers before a traveling adventuring party came by which heavily inspire a new life. During one of the sibling fights, I(my character) snapped and harmed our eldest child, the firstborn son. My father was impressed and willing to forgive me, but only if I stopped my magic training. I flipped them off and left home. My DM took this and added a major spin to it. While I was a Dragonborn, with more humanity, my village were all half dragons and my father was an adult black dragon, all followers of Tiamat! And that my oldest brother was actually the new master of the black dragon mask.
2 of my party members secretly died and were brought back and then had modify memory cast on them to make them serve a hag that they thought raised them, but are instead serving the haglich who arranged the death of their beloved hag and stole her identity. I recently infected them with a disease that will require greater restoration to cure, so that bomb is going to go off any week now.
This is the type of story I like from this channel! I personally don't like YET ANOTHER horror story channel, as we have more than enough of those. I like hearing stories about the games themselves, not how Whiny Player #69 or Power Tripping DM #777 ruined the campaign.
I have a Character idea that comes close. Basically a godlike machine creates Avatars (that will be an infinite source of connected PCs and NPCs) and releases them into the world, knowing or unknowing of their origins. And secretly studies everything from as many walks of life as it can. What it will do with this data... idk.
So, I’m a long time viewer of this channel and have had a love for TTRPGs but actually never have played but have an understanding of some of the rules. If someone could help me find a group or such it would be appreciated even though I doubt anyone will read this
That was great. I loved the background, surprisingly close to how I imagined her. Thanks for sharing the story, we had so much fun playing it out, felt right to put it out there.
Are you perhaps the writer? :D
@@shinazu_k Yes, though not a very talented one. Lol.
@@vileyj6258 Aww don't be. You're already better than the average to make it this far. ^^
Viley J You're more talented that I or most will ever be
sorry to be so off topic but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account?
I was dumb forgot my account password. I love any tips you can give me!
"Within seconds, both drivers were dead; knives jutting from the tops of their helms." "Rage intensifies".
Oh boy
I'm loving the more complex backgrounds!
"Help me. I've fallen and I can't get up "
~ Me trying to make that joke first on PS4.
I was in a campaign which had something similar happen, but not entirely. See, our party was on a quest to get an army ready for the coming of the god Bane so that we could stop him from entering the Mortal plane, or killing him if he entered the plane before he destroyed everything. A week before this, our party was summoned via a dream to a deity counsel of the gods we worshipped. We were asked questions and judged, with one of us being chosen to ascend to godhood, as only a good could kill another god. Turns out, that character ended up being my Forest Gnome Rogue, but the private note sent to me by the DM instructed that I was not to tell anyone this until after the fight.
Post final battle, my Rogue was able to deal the killing blow in a very cinematic fashion, and DM epilogue that my character, Seebo "Pock" Timbers, became a Minor Deity of Urchins and Beggars
I had an excellent dm from 3rd edition. He ran a dark and gritty game. And As the first real first time I was playing DND. I came up with the most unique backstory it actually involves 2 characters: On one hand, you had an Elven princess (Melora) who was trained by her Kingdom's most capable general (who I also don't the name of, So let's call him Eric). This world was like 90% taken over by The Emperor (as in a very close interpretation of The Emperor from Final Fantasy 2). Her Kingdom is the last surviving resistance group on the planet. They launch hit and run tactics on The Emperor's forces.
The Kingdom is actually hidden in a mountainside and not in a forest-like one may think. TDLR Melora got betrayed by her childhood best friend and resulted in Eric launching an ambush on Melora's unit, while she was away. She later discovered the fate of most of her forces and ran to the castle to save the king and queen. She failed as they were dead before she got there. Following the blood trail up into a hidden passageway she found and fault Eric, at first, she was losing as her weapons during the exchange were broken. Melora then revealed two swords she had taken from the castle's treasury. One generates lightning from it and the other is made out of the coldest ice. These two weapons could be combined into a double-ended sword-wielding both elements and for some reason generated white angel wings. She managed to beat him, pinning Eric to a wall and freezing him in solid Ice as she jammed the lightning side deep into the frozen monument electrocuting him to death.
Hearing Chanting Melora found an exit that leads to the top of the mountain where she could see a floating airship, being kept in the air by a unison of singing mages, who are chanting and bleeding out of their eyes until they die and are replaced with a new one. There in the Airship is the Emperor on a throne. The Emperor stands up and just lifts his left hand and the airships starts pouring a purple toxic rain across all of the rebel's forests and people. Melora suddenly feels like she can't keep standing and her vision starts to blur, her wings began to decay and fall off. Those two swords were cursed but in a language, she couldn't read. And now they seem to be doing something to her. Melora starts to fall toward the ground and drop her swords as she seemed to fall into white nothingness.
My other character in this story is a wizard in training and she is getting scolded by the towers arc wizard. (Starsha Iscandar is her name). She had pitched the idea of making a new spell, based on a spell that alters memories. Starsha tried to invent a spell that was too strong for her to control. TDLR these two characters ended up sharing the same body often switch control of the body at night time.
Now this new world Melora found herself in was not her own, and she met some people who also got wrapped into a conflict where a group called "The Stone's Hand" was trying to kill the last survivor of a newly turned-to-stone village. In this world, the gods resided on the planet and at one point in our campaign, we ended up at a town that was having a massive festival for all the good and neutral deities. Some of us had learned that apparently some of the evil gods and their own places are hidden there as well. Though no one else seemed like they could find them. (I am going to jump to how the plot was supposed to go since our campaign crashed after this point.)
So my dm told us what was going to happen, and in this world, there was going to be the biggest battle this world had ever seen. In this war was every god vs The Stone Hand's leader. The being was beyond them, the gods could do nothing, as some were incinerated, in front of their lovers, others beaten and broken by how ineffective they were. On the battlefield, our party was to show up with a story plot NPC armed with a rusted sword we gave him, that we did not want. However, his blood turned out to be the last of a far more ancient god's and that rusted sword only looks that way and he alone could damage him. He turns the tide of battle and they kill the bbeg.... Or did we?
You see at the end of the battle it is realized that every god on this planet, (minus our NPC) Was actually only a fraction of themselves, and likewise their powers as well. This triggers a quest across the stars as the players were going to go to planet after planet to reunite and awaken the fragments of the gods. Because we only would have beaten a fragment of his power. Long ago the entire universe was at war, all the gods had fought against this singular evil entity, the gods lost and in their last efforts split themselves and the entity across the universe. The campaign would become like a spell jammer game as the party travels across the stars to complete this task. I have no doubts by that point in the story my background bbeg would also have gotten too bored with destroying one world and would find a way or all ways knew a way to go to other worlds. Either way, they would have to clash once again.
Another campaign was also planned where you would play as a different set of party members who were left on the original stories planet as the 1st campaign's heroes would leave. There the dark and gritty world only gets worse, where magic users are hunted and persecuted because the popular mindset was that this disaster across the universe started with magic users and that they all need to be killed. But our first trip was to see some of the gods who are broken after the war with the Stone Hands god. They would talk about how useless they were in the fight or how they watched another god they loved, beg for their life as they were killed. etc... Drink themselves into a stupor and probably retell it again to the next random people who wanted to hear their story of how that war went down. (That is all I got to learn about this campaign as we only ever had 1 session before our group permanently drifted apart.) Hopefully, someone enjoyed my tale, I rewrote parts of this a lot to try to reduce how long this story would be. If anyone is curious I can expand on things if asked.
Cool idea.
But somewhat anticlimactic. They didn't find out their backstory, and they didn't find out what happened to the guy in the room.
Unrelated to the vid itself but I just felt like thanking you so much for keeping the captions going.
My defective ears and low attention span appreciate it.
I don't have any problems with my hearing actually I'm above average but I don't pay much attention to videos and read captions so I really appreciate it
Finally, a video about non-toxic players.
Always a pleasure to see you in my recommendations.
“Sigurdi, who was female, adopted the child,” ah, yes, because fictional men never adopt or bond with children they cross paths with *hides The Last of Us behind back*
man i love tlou, part 2 was also good but the first one was just better.
Bruce Wayne is the king of orphans
TLOU 2 is erible-tay
@@NOTZeroBlank who asked dude? No one was talking about that game
@@SesshoMaruFTW01 Rain was, no one asked, welcome to youtube
These are the stories I like, not so much the horror stories
Yes, a couple of times, actually, under two different DMs, with different groups. The first one didn't last long past that revelation, though, as my schedule changed and I wasn't able to play with that group for most of a year. The second was a Pathfinder game, and involved her being an avatar of Desna intended to garner mortal perspectives being forced to awaken to her fragment of divinity to help prevent the release of a nasty, gods-tier bbeg. Then she had to be reabsorbed, because she was quite too early to be aware that she was not an ordinary mortal, cue dramatic exit, et cetera. We tried to prolong that campaign, but that really should have been the stopping point. Lots of fun, though. I had her written with two character sheets, her divine avatar one, and her mortal one, written specifically in soft pencil. Any time she was asked a question or performed a task or anything like that, there was a percentage chance I'd use her divine sheet, and each time I did, a relevant stat would increment, or lore-related abilities would jump a lot. I think I had a chance in that for her to also get some sort of fatigue effect after, but I don't remember for sure (it's the sort of thing I tend to do). I got the tuning on that pretty close, because the two sheets converged about 90% of the way through the part I played with her.
How *my* party found out that we may be fallen gods? We wiped out a 60 man orc raiding party at level 1...in open combat...in broad daylight...with no tricks or preparation at all...with crappy starter equipment...and no healer...because we are awesome.
r/Thathappened
I am currently starting the adventure with my newest character of a Custom Heritage, they are basically an Primoridal elemental incarnated into a human body.
They knew they weren't human and everyone else in their home town knew as well causing them to be ostracized and Attacked regularly until the towns people drove them away, no one pardoned them and no one tried to understand them since all the humans saw was an embodiment of beauty in apparence little affected by time as they didn't age visibly after their late 20's.
After being driven away they were captured by a Kingdom that had a strict No human view and was to be excecuted until the lands king decided to take them as their court dancer and concubine, seeing that the being infront on them wasn't human at all except for their apparence.
For the first time they felt welcomed and loved, taking great pride in their new position and insisting on accompanying their king into all fights, proving to be far more devoted than any spouse.
Their happiness didn't last however as the kingdom was attacked by a united force of multiple human kingdoms, out of fear that the "Monster" empire may try to conquer them at one point.
Ready to fight and die for their king the Elemental in the Human body wished to fight, knowing thwt it may lay it's life but was instead sealed away in a crystal by their king, being ordered by the King to live on since even if they were to be found, due to their apparence they would be able to escape and live.
Before losing their conciousness the elemental witnessed their kings death, reigniting their hatred for humans swearing vengance for their land and & king.
Around 500 years later, when the campaign begins is when the Elemental is freed from their crystal, everything after this is yet to be expirienced and witnessed.
Did a campaign who really liked the idea all mythology’s were connected so when i pissed of a random Egyptian god i got sent to a plain where i had to persuade an elder god azathoth to go back fun times.
I haven't changed any character's backstories with sudden twists but I did make some of the party npcs have backstories beyond "our village burned down by the BBEG" which is that one of the twin half elves, the druid, was actually a dryad that was saved by the hunter, seeing that she was holding a powerful devil in her body, the dryad decided to help try to free her of that curse, shapeshifting into a male version of her so that he could remain close to her. Unfortunately, the campaign ended before that knowledge could come to light.
Huh, my friends recent campaign also involves a plot line of her and her boyfriends character being mortal incarnations of gods. She made the loveliest fanart of it YIRBEL LIVES!
In a Waterdeep Campaign I played in a couple years ago I played a half elf Conquest Paladin named Calligan Rembrandt. The only backstory I had given the DM was that Remy was the youngest of three brothers in a noble family and that since he was the third born with a very small chance of becoming the head of the family, he decided to help elevate his family's status as a servant of Tempus and an adventurer instead. Throughout the campaign he was check in at his family's keep and speak with his brothers. As things progressed, his oldest brother (who was the head of the family) became more and more dismissive and rude toward my character and I would occasionally see him talking to shady characters around the keep. Eventually, the middle brother disappeared and the eldest just brushed off Remy's questions about their brother's whereabouts. At the climax of the campaign, Remy found out that his eldest brother was a low level member of a cult worshipping Asmodeus and had kidnapped the middle brother to use as a sacrifice. Remy had to strike him down as he was rescuing his other brother. I didn't give any details about the brother's. All of that was the DM's idea and I loved it
Warning: Screwing with your players backstory requires a delicate hand to maneuver the pieces around so that they make sense, and a lot of the time can end in disaster. Do not do this unless you are an experienced DM who knows your players very well as well as their characters.
That sounds great. I currently have each of my players being Titans or Gods but in a mortal body Unaware of what they truly are and slowly unlocking memories and powers
In the longest campaign I've ever been in, I was playing an Ice Elf that could use blood magic. Because I didn't fully understand the politics of Elves hating Demons and Heretics (blood magic users) and vice versa, I didn't know that I was at a disadvantage but that I was also a bit special. I always wondered why I had no memory of my past and started my adventure at a cave but after meeting actual demons that were considered "Heroes," they showed me my past and I saw that one of my ancestors was actually a demon and I was actually under a contract of an extremely powerful demon because I made a wish after completing it's trials, it took my memory and forced me to sleep for 200 years before starting my journey.
A backstory I want to play as for my first character. Especially if I’m allowed to start at level 2.
Samir the Tiefling. Foreign to the campaign country’s starting point.
I was born a Tiefling (Winged? Ask DM), with human-like skin, horns, eyes, and tail. My small Oceanside town was only human, but I wasn’t subjected to racism.
At the age of 8, my town was raided, and I was taken into slavery, and sold to a colosseum in a racist city. (If winged, I kept them as a sign of the devil, but they where routinely whipped so I couldn’t fly). The champion tore off my tail and used it to whip me; he took my horns to their bases when he held me too close and I gouged out an eye.
One item I managed to grab was a journal, where I had written down as much as I could about my hometown. Then, around the age of 14, I realized that I was forgetting the people I wrote about. Neighbors became unfamiliar, the kids I played with were strangers.
This time in the colosseum taught me to be a dual wielding Fighter OR Rogue, and I managed to escape. Of all the names in my journal, only two are still familiar. While on the run, I self taught (or give me a mentor Tiefling) to use a bow and became a Ranger.
Before joining the party, I bought a transparent bandage to hide my eyes, redid my hair to hide the base of my broken horns, and if winged a large cloak to hide my wings. Thanks to humanlike skin, I can pass as human.
Alignment: Friendship Good. I’m willing to follow laws, but don’t take well to overbearing authority, and will defend those I believe in and trust.
Why I joined the party: I want to become stronger, I needed money, and wanted to travel to find my hometown. All of which are easier with traveling adventurers.
How to role play: Samir means “friend to talk to at evening.” He isn’t accustomed to the country’s culture, but does try and befriend the party. However, since the country is racist, he will keep his Tiefling side a secret for as long as possible.
Likes/hobbies: Flavorful foods, something he didn’t have before in his life. After learning about tasty food, he wants to help in the kitchen, but don’t leave him alone with the spices. Also likes rodents. Writes down in his journal each night about the people he met.
Dislikes/flaws: being alone, and somewhat claustrophobic; shuts down if not accompanied, distracted, or kept busy. Bad with money, always spends it, can’t bargain.
Combat: He is evasive in fighting style, and will learn magic to both focus on one target and help with crowd control. He will also learn a healing spell, since he’s afraid that if he is knocked out, somebody might uncover his secret, such as by removing his bandages or casting Regenerate (which will recover my horns and tail).
What my goal is: Recover my childhood memories, and the people connected to them. I believe some demon stole them, and want to save them. I also want to find my friends, and look out for traces of The Forgotten in other towns.
How the DM can incorporate this into the story:
1. Such a demon exists, and one of my friends made a pact with it.
2. There is no demon, it’s a False Hydra. And I can’t restore what has been eaten.
3. The champion of the colosseum is out looking for me, having turned my tail into a sharp whip.
4. My demon father.
5. I was cursed into a Tiefling as revenge against my absentee father, who is part of another character’s backstory.
There was a Campaign I had where I used the same name of my Character from my previous Campaign from the same DM. My DM made it that my current Character is a failed clone of my Chaotic Neutral Human Edritch Knight Character from my previous Campaign.
That old PC of mine is now hunting me down until I, A Neutral Good Human Battle Master, choose to kill him, myself.
The gasp that escaped me at the end 😯
Once played a Human Bard who "worshipped" the god of undying comedy/It which laughs last/ Poet of Irony. Became a Skeleton after drunkenly drinking a liquid curse which would grant your wish but twisted were the results. He wished to become an Undying Comedy. What he got was becoming a skeleton but retaining everything about himself. A shambling fleshless version of himself. And through his adventures and praising his actions to be due to the god of undying comedy became the actual god itself. He became the god he created.
With the portfolio of Irony, Comedy, laughter, drunkenness.
Well, for me, I played as a black Dragonborn wizard who’s whole village was more brawn than brain. I was a weakling who saw magic, 13th child of a clutch go 20(?) children. I was mocked and looked down upon since I could not weird heavy weapons and relied on my magic. I was only able to get any knowledge of magic from brave enough travelers before a traveling adventuring party came by which heavily inspire a new life. During one of the sibling fights, I(my character) snapped and harmed our eldest child, the firstborn son. My father was impressed and willing to forgive me, but only if I stopped my magic training. I flipped them off and left home.
My DM took this and added a major spin to it. While I was a Dragonborn, with more humanity, my village were all half dragons and my father was an adult black dragon, all followers of Tiamat! And that my oldest brother was actually the new master of the black dragon mask.
2 of my party members secretly died and were brought back and then had modify memory cast on them to make them serve a hag that they thought raised them, but are instead serving the haglich who arranged the death of their beloved hag and stole her identity. I recently infected them with a disease that will require greater restoration to cure, so that bomb is going to go off any week now.
Love these stories.
I love complex backstories
This is the type of story I like from this channel! I personally don't like YET ANOTHER horror story channel, as we have more than enough of those. I like hearing stories about the games themselves, not how Whiny Player #69 or Power Tripping DM #777 ruined the campaign.
34 seconds but I love it videos and I also love DnD
I have a Character idea that comes close.
Basically a godlike machine creates Avatars (that will be an infinite source of connected PCs and NPCs) and releases them into the world, knowing or unknowing of their origins. And secretly studies everything from as many walks of life as it can. What it will do with this data... idk.
Congrats, you've created Jesus.
Anyone else feel sorry for the poor hunters who just happened to pick a buck that turned out to be a fallen God?
And this is evidence that a great hook does not mean good story telling. It felt more like a list of actions than a cohesive plot.
Because the person that wrote it up did it that way.
How do I get one pc backstory read?
That feel when your actually a God amirite?
Rowan, the Black Shirt Manager??
Trinston was here ..
Seems like an interesting campaign.
would love to tell my story
So, I’m a long time viewer of this channel and have had a love for TTRPGs but actually never have played but have an understanding of some of the rules. If someone could help me find a group or such it would be appreciated even though I doubt anyone will read this
You should try checking r/lfg or ATD FB group
@@allthingsdnd thank you, I’ve already found a group to play in :D
yay
Yay first like 😁
My mission is to comment the same thing on every video I watch, Leeroy Jenkins!
the title is misleading but okay ig. do wtv
Second
First
Damn it! Lol!!!
Guess what. Blue shell