I find this fascinating to contemplate because, genuinely, we have a severe lack of means to communicate sensations of smell in english. A couple exotic languages are better at it, but yeah, I have a lot of trouble even imagining that because I've lived my whole life shut inside a building...
The aasimar could be an npc in the elf warlock story. "Oh, I know your patron, little elf. The next time you talk to him, say it's going to be HIS eye at the end of MY sword!"
Also, I would like to say that the rogue/wizard combo is actually quite famous in the fantasy genre. So, you know how there's this fantasy trope where a big burly fighter and a small, sneaky thief team up as a gritty mercenary duo? That trope was started by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a famous duo written by Fritz Leiber. They appeared first in 1939 in response to the author thinking that Tarzan and Conan weren't as true to human nature. In particular, the Gray Mouser is described as a thief and former wizard's apprentice. He's literally a rogue/ wizard, and you just continued a long tradition of making references to a famous duo.
I came here to say this. Glad I scrolled through the comments first. I think there’s a comment from Mordenkainen in Monsters of the Multiverse about how the fey really like puns.
Ginny - "I have this stick." My Inner Child - "Oooooh, that is really good stick!" Really loved the Rogue/Wizard look. Would like to see that character pop up again.
I actually think the Rogue/Wizard combo is SUPER interesting?? Maybe not well-optimised as you say, but I find the idea of a young wizard forced out of the education system by insane tuition fees to be SUCH a strong starting point. Maybe they ended up being evicted because they couldn't afford their rent anymore, and after a few weeks of living on the streets, eating garbage and unable to wash and study properly, the college just... kicks them out. So now you have this literal rogue wizard, partially trained, facing a choice. Do they spend time trying to raise money to get back in and pursue their lifelong dream of wizardry? Do they fall into a life of crime, using their magical talents to survive? Do they decide to tear down the college in an act of righteous fury at the elitist nature of the education system??????? Ooooooooooooooh what a great video
I agree. I actually really like the concept of an Arcane Trickster Rogue/Wizard multiclass, either being a Wizard who dropped out of wizarding school and basically continued to learn on their own, stealing scrolls and books, or the reverse, someone who picked up magic on the streets by acquiring spell books and the like, but then somehow earned a spot at some Wizard academy and could now learn magic professionally.
I love the Rogue/Wizard! Optimization be damned, it’s just a great concept! Like, what if due to being unable to afford tuition, they start developing Rogue skills to sneak into the academy at night, to “borrow” books from the school library, to steal scrolls that have great new spells on them? What if they master disguise skills, and sneak attack various students to knock them out and take their place in class?
17:00 Optimizer here, rogue wizard can totally work as a multiclass! A big problem rogues tend to have is that they don’t deliver enough damage even with their sneak attacks due to never getting extra attack. so a level or two in wizard to pick up booming blade can help with that, and as cantrips scale with character level and not class level, that’ll scale well throughout the game. not to mention that a couple wizard levels also give super useful reactions (shield, absorb elements, silvery barbs) as well as access to find familiar. Now, obviously most of this could be achieved just by playing an arcane trickster and ditching the wizard levels, but wizard gives more spell slots sooner, and more versatility. plus, it allows you to have a different rogue subclass as well as a wizard subclass, which ends up giving you more. Not the b e s t class combination by any means, but perfectly viable in optimized play!
Bladesinger/psi-knife or swashbuckler work well enough. (Swashbuckler makes me also want to dip swords bard tho😅) "But sir I don't have any weapons on me" after having used shadow blade and dual wielding psi-knives. (You might run into a lack of arms tho, haste or a dip into echo knight or gloomstalker might be necessary.) Some decent races choices could be thri-kreen, bugbear, harengon or 1 of Fizbans dragonborn. (Chromatic could have a weird nieche here with their once per long rest 1 minute immunnity hiding inside a wall of fire or a cloud kill. If so be sure to pick up the blind fighting style)
I did once play an arcane trickster rogue and warlock multiclass. It was fun in normal combat but getting haste meant she was an INSANE damage dealer 😅 And I suppose that was even less optimal given I had to use both CHA and INT for my spellcasting.
I also play a scribe wizard multiclass! 3 lvls in wizardrd and 3 lvls in a 3rd part class beastheart. We just got to lvl 6 on tuesday and im excited to get my infernal bond from beastheart!😊
I love the idea of the hood being used to smother the light of the aasimar's halo. Whether it worked or it just appeared around the hood would depend on how funny the campaign I'm in is!
I had a similar thing with an aasimar gunslinger. She was a cowgirl, so naturally, hat. It was a running joke that an angelic choir would play every time she had her halo out, so she’d be like “oh hush now you” and slap her hat on over it to hide the halo and get it to shut up
A running gag in my group is when my aasimar's halo is out, someone will comment that it's nice, but doesn't make up for his bad haircut. Since he likes his bad haircut (he cut it himself), he always sighs briefly before continuing. I feel like a hood would be his attempt to get his so-called-friends to stop commenting on it already.
Name suggestion for the Harengon. In keeping with the spirit of wordplay and perhaps her tendancy to bail on the party when things get dicey, might i suggest, Ima Adahir? In contrast, of course, with her equally flighty yet somewhat more party driven sibling, Anwir Adahir.
LOL How in the world are you not yet a local legend? That when people see you in the park in costume, they don't just go, "Oh, that's Ginny Di! Doing another shoot!" ^_^
@@GinnyDi To be fair you do make yourself look very different for each look. People could have though the harengon look was someone else. The power of make-up ✨
@@GinnyDi Whenever I see someone filming or taking a picture, I try to stay out of visual and audio range. Whenever I'm filming or taking a picture the very last thing I want is a random person in it. Just like when I see someone painting in a park I don't stand in front of them or ask what they are doing.
@WhatIfBrigade When I am in more approachable costumes, people often approach/speak to me in public parks! Usually older people who are expressing genuine interest/joy at seeing me out doing my thing, and often children. So when I say people avoided me, I have context for that 😂
20:49 A mascara wand: 5 charges, regaining 1d4+1 charges every sunset. Choose from Lashes, Eyeliner, Eyeshadow, Cheeks&Contouring [one charge each] or Color [two charges]. Apply the magic and for 8 hours you shall have eyes that make people claim Cow-Eyed Hera Herself has blessed you. (with optional charisma advantage)
Yeah! That's right. There nothing more awkward than being jealous of a glamorous giraffe that totally stole the show. In all seriousness, test cosmetics on animals is some downright chaotic evil bs.
I honestly don't understand this. Aren't the alternatives just using untested products, or giving human volunteers new and strange diseases? Or is all makeup testing basically safe from the start so animal testing is wasteful?
@@WolfHreda"Okay, so that's six LG Human Fighters. Pretty sure that's statistically improbable, but let's see what I can do." (Because it amused me, I'm actually going to give it a try.) First one - Soldier background, Making him a Battlemaster from the Roman Legions. Variant Human to start with the Martial Adept feat for more Battlemaster Maneuvers. Shortsword, Javelins, Shield. Second one... Noble background, so I'm making that one a Samurai. Going full dual-wielder. One of a dozen samurai currently adventuring to alleviate the burden on his feudal Lord who cannot afford to pay all of his retainers, but would be disgraced by actually having to admit that. They're all out there joining adventuring parties, not out of pursuit of wealth or power for themselves, but for the Lord they have sworn to protect and take care of. Third one... I liked the last one, I'm going to use the Giant Foundling background and the Strike of Giants feat on a Rune Knight, to go for a blend of Tomoe Gozen and Minamoto no Yoshitsune to get a "trained by Fire Giant style Oni instead of Tengu" flavor. She's got the swords, but they're not her specialty fighting style. That's her Kanabo maul that only comes out when things are really serious. She's one of a pair of twins, her sister went down the Path of the Giant barbarian, and Tomoe is adventuring to pay her way as she tries to catch up with her sister and talk her down from potentially going Kaiju movie revenge rampage on whoever was responsible for the two of them being left to the giants as small children in the first place. Fourth up, Pirate background? Okay, going with Champion Fighter, Variant Human so he can still get a couple Maneuvers, because I'm going to make the Dread Pirate Roberts so formidable the few times he has to fight, that very few people are going to dare chance it. I'm literally ripping off The Princess Bride, and I don't care. Fifth, Cloistered Scholar background. Eldritch Knight. She's the spare heir who got bundled off to a nunnery to keep her out of trouble at an early age. While studying there, she encountered an old philosophical treatise that encouraged honing both mind and body, and started putting herself through a rigorous training regimen. During an unauthorized trip outside the walls, the cloisters were attacked and destroyed by an enemy that believed the libraries there contained a treatise on powerful magics or artifacts. Predictably, she has it with her. She's adventuring in hopes she and her new party will be able try to rescue the survivors. Sixth - Psi Warrior. Urchin. Variant Human, Eldritch Adept (Armor of Shadows creates a psychic barrier to protect them if ever unarmored) They lived in a ramshackle shelter in the slums with their family. Eventually their innate powers awakened, and they decided that since they're already used to the kind of conditions that most people would consider the hardships of adventuring life, they ought to become an adventurer so they can not only improve their own lot in life, but pull the rest of Midden Court out of the dust and grime along with them. How'd I do?
@@danielmclellan1522 I mean why wouldn't you rip off The Princess Bride? It's like the best movie ever. THE DWEAD PIWATE WOBETS IS HERE FOR YOUR SOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLL
I feel like it would be awesome to have a lawful good warlock with a neutral/chaotic evil patron. the patron is essentially the devil on their shoulder and they are constantly questioning their demands and unsure if they are going to be able to do whatever is asked of them. Bonus if they can't sleep at night because their conscience is disturbed by all the bad stuff they've done bc of their patron.
i had a player in my last campaign who said "i want to play a warlock who thinks they're a paladin and is only starting to wonder whether they maybe swore to serve something that's not their god" sadly the player got too busy for the game almost immediately, but we had a ton of fun homebrewing a paladin-vibes subclass for him! (and i also had a blast coming up with a patron that was similarly trying to do its best with the wrong set of tools, so it genuinely *wanted* to be good and to inspire paladins but had its own struggles and baggage to bring to that conversation)
Extremely cute! All of them! My favorite is the last one whom I think should go by a fake name because of not wanting her rogue work to interfere with her education. And the fake name could be Ash I’mar because I imagine she likes to appear elegant but has a secret fondness for bad puns.
Rogue wizard multiclass can actually be solid, especially if you go for Arcane trickster so you already have higher INT and at level 9 you can get Magical ambush (DIS on saving throws for anybody you are hidden from) which is cool for wizard as well. From the wizard side, e.q. Shadowblade conjures a finesse melee weapon that you are proficient with so you very much can sneak attack with Shadowblade
@@GinnyDi ... is that how IRL nat20 persuasion looks like? Arcane trickster might actually go well with bladesinging - you get bunch of helpful stuff at level 2 from Bladesong (AC, movement, ADV acrobatics and Bonus to con save so you don't loose concentration) and at level 6 you get extra attack. Also, Shadowblade gives ADV on attacks in dim light or darkness which gives extra opportunities for sneak attack. And it is light weapon so you can use bonus action for off hand attack with another light weapon EDIT: I have realised just now how freaking AWESOME fallen Aasimar would be with the shadow blade build and that Aasimars are probably the only other race except elves where bladesingings just fits the image and it made me want to play one now as well. Also, because disadvantage against fireball
I like the idea of a small sized dhampir phantom rogue/necromancer riding 1 of his own zombies/skeletons like it's a slow horse. (If your a centaur they ride you of course!😮😂) You will also allways have an ally within 5ft of the foe and you can steady aim while your ride goes where you need him to. 🤣😁🤣
@@Raging_DuckWell I think that both swashbuckler (keeping charisma boost to initiative small or just ignore it) and psi-knife can work pretty well since the first is good at running away after booming blade without action economy costs and the other has build in dual wielding. In both cases just a dip for the subclass is as far as you need. (If you want to still get wish in a lv 20 campaign or if you like more rogue that's fine too. Anyway the advantages start at rogue 3 and if you want more feel free to do so. Uncanny dodge and evasion are of course nice too)
@@woutvanostaden1299 Sounds fun! You can actually make it much more efficient if you learn spell Phantom Steed (it is illusion so you can learn it as either Arcane trickster or Necromancer) and it summons "A Large quasi-real, horselike creature appears on the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice within range. You decide the creature’s appearance, but it is equipped with a saddle, bit, and bridle" with speed 100 ft. So you can summon and ride large zombie running on all four WHILE using steady aim (and if you are going for the crossbow built you don't want any enemy 5ft from you anyway and 100ft speed makes sure of that not happening - I should know, I have played this 😅 )
The rogue wizard was my favorite, unique and visually striking with the high contrast palette. I immediately thought they would be a bladesinger wizard (in order to take advantage of sneak attack) I love the idea and want to try it out myself
i really like the idea of a Lawful Good character whose core internal conflict has to do with how their Lawful obligations are not always Good. i don't really know why that ever occurred to me before, but it works so much better than the "boring" stereotype that alignment gets as just, like, sticklers for the rules. i think it also feels so much more fitting and "realistic" to most settings. great job coming up with that, i'm gonna hold onto it now!
Indeed! To me, it's a bit of a Captain America-type in that his core is on the Good part and the Lawful part is focused on what they consider to be just laws and just outcomes rather than strictly interpreting laws without additional consideration.
The first thought i had for this Elf, Warlock, was the Celestial, maybe the Acolyte background...They are bound to a solar and often get mistaken for a cleric-witch annoys their cleric friend to no end XD
I always look forward to these sorts of videos the most, I'm not a cosplayer or a makeup artist but watching someone at work creating something while chatting about their craft is just really satisfying, and your editing style and structure makes for really enjoyable videos.
Harengon love, finally! My current main dnd character is a Harengon monk named Sully and I love him. He’s been haunted by fey laughter most of his life so he sought out a monastery to learn their ways and calm his mind through meditation.
@@GinnyDi You can always do a similar video, maybe not with 3 characters, where you try out/show us the other palettes! I certainly would watch a mini-series with this "random character" concept and using this gorgeus set of makeup. My favourite look was the first, I think you really managed to show that internal struggle. It reminded me of Calliana from the Mighty Nein, although she was a sorcerer, the look and the base conflict is similar.
This was SO MUCH fun to watch! I'd happily watch a 12-season show where every episode you randomly roll a character idea and recreate it! 🤩 Though I don't want you to burn out, and love your "regular" DnD content just as much! ☺
Hello I'm a minmaxer, and adding a level of wizard to your arcane trickster to expand your spell list is actually quite good! edit: for any interested nerds, you take sentinel on your arcane trickster, figure out a way to give yourself consistent advantage such as reckless attack or faerie fire, and cast mirror image on yourself. If something attacks you and hits a mirror image instead, you proc a second sneak attack per round using your opportunity attack. Two sneak attacks per round helps rogue keep up with the damage spikes that come around level 5-8
When rolling two identical dice that need to be separated, my suggestion is to decide not based on which die is which, but based on where they land. So like, before you roll, decide "the one that lands further to the left will be good/evil, and the one on the right will be law/chaos", or something like that.
I love them? Your third look gives "Marilyn Monroe Gets What She Deserves (Revenge)" to me, but I also love the simple glee of the backstory you made for her too!
A rogue/bladesong wizard actually doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. You can get super high AC with Bladesong and Shield, a familiar for more reliable sneak attack, Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade to spice up your attacks, lots of utility spells for outside-of-combat, it actually sounds pretty fun to play! Plus the fly speed and a bit of emergency healing from the Aasimar, I think the dice were cooking!
OKAY OKAY YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SEE ONE OF THE BUNNY PEOPLE EVER SINCE I SAW THE BOARD ON YOUR PINTEREST OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG and also I just love how this just feels like a big fun creative passion project, I definitely want to be able to do passion projects of this scale one day. The aaismar is definitely my favorite visually and in personality!!!!!!!! I would name her something that’s all long and pretty to match her angel side, but could be shortened to something to that better matches her roguish side.
15:31 In accordance of the _Yoink!_ Act of 2014, I'm using this for one of my upcoming NPCs in my current campaign; adorkable genasi wizard, pulls scroll out of sword frog
A curse upon ye, Ginny. I did not need new makeup, nor new perfumes, nor new candles. Yet… I have ordered some. Awesome looks!! Sorry you’ve been trapped in the cosplay factory for the past many days.
this was fabulous - I could fully believe each character showing up at my tables I thought the aasimar was gonna be my fave, but I am completely captivated with the warlock I think her name is Serelemin Lesh
17:00 Not actually the worst multiclass! A rouge would love Chronorgy or divination wizard, or if you dump con a little (Bad move, but bear with me) You could be a Swashbuckler War magic, get a bonus to initative equal to charisma and intelligence, plus Gift of Altricity as a wizard to get 1d8 to your intiative for 8 hours. Arcane deflection helps you against status DC saves, but likely save your reaction for uncanny dodge. Green Flame blade gives you a good reliable damage boost once. Shield is a good emergency buffer, and Silvery barbs gives you advantage in a pinch. Find Familiar can also help you, if you want the cheesy route of you Spider familiar hiding in your bag of holding using the help action. Could be viable! I may even try this build, though I'm not sure if it would trump just a flat rouge or flat wizard. Better as a Harengon for even more intiative, but hey, form of dread is nice for a rouge.
Love the concept of the video! We had a rogue / wizard multiclass in our party, mostly rouge with a dip into blade singer for the speed and AC boost - it worked super well, with shield they would go up to a 26 AC!!
Character One: Pact of the Chain. Also, the jacket is why nobles had assistance to help them dress. Overall, I love this look. Character Two: That is a really good stick. Perfect balance of cute and scary to me. I love it. Spore Druid vibes. Character Three: Using the Codex top seems fitting. The black and white contrasts are really good. Great makeup work. Beautiful look all around. Thanks for these, your work is amazing. Love this so much.
Loving this video. On the outro, I NEVER get tired of her just randomly lifting the sword like she's Viggo Mortensen taking Anduril all over New Zealand.
16:49 Aasimar Swashbuckler Bladesinger would actually be the perfect skirmisher with Booming Blade, especially with the flying speed from the Radiant Soul Celestial Revelation. Arcane Trickster would also be a natural fit for the backstory and mechanically.
You should do a campaign at somepoint of all the different cosplay characters interacting. Call the campaign "Across the Ginny-verse" or something like that.
I shouldn't amaze me, but still.... it does, how easily you're able to come up with these concepts and ideas. I mean, you quite literally let fate decide what to create and you took each challenge and on and just completely own them. This was an extremely fun and instructive video to watch. If I had to choose, I did like the last one best. Everything about it just grabbed my attention. it'd be super awesome if you could figure out how to incorporate the hood with the halo, but also get that just simply might not be feasible. But I did love love the idea of s spell scroll hanging off the belt, ready for action! :) As for a name... well give me a week of agonizing over a dozen possibilities and I might come up with something. Character names are my true nemesis....
These are awesome. Also mentioning that the eyes are the focal point is actually pretty interesting because as a mostly blind person what I do look at digital photos on the first things I try to find is the eyes and that helps me find the rest of the orientation of the person in the photo and then my brain can try to focus on it and usually this helps me figure out what a photo is depending on the clarity and colors and set photo.
The Aasimar Rogue/Wizard is AWESOME!! For the names I cannot decide between: Seraphina "Shadow" Dusk, and Nova Whisperwind Maybe the first one, it goes better with the aligment, the second one reminds me of a WoW character
That last look is my favourite! Something about that character was just amazing and everything came together perfectly for them! As for a name, hmm... Maybe like Tiefling names, it could be a name of a virtue, but in this character's case it might be something ironic but actually also accurate. Like "Charity", even though she steals, but then actually you find out that because she knows what it's like to not be able to afford stuff, she shares stuff with other people who are also struggling.
Ginny, I've been watching your videos for years, and my head still exploded seeing the intense level of commitment and labor your pour into your craft. You are amazing.
I can see that multiclass working. Imagine an Arcane trickster++. Turn invisible, set up illusions to distract people, and sneak in anywhere, steal things with your invisible mage hand. You probably won't be doing too much stabbing, but if your do, amp up your sneak attack with booming blade.
Those all turned out awesome, I think the Rogue/Wizard was my favorite though and honestly I think the scar across the eye was a wonderful touch that added a ton of character and sold the dangerous nature of stealing what they need for their wizarding.
The buried lipstick looks really good on you! I'm so happy to see you reuse pieces and show us how varied and creative you can be without buying new items all the time. Also am so impressed with your make up skills.
I! LOVE! THIS! VIDEO! SO! MUCH!!!! It just really encapsulates one of my favorite things about being a cosplayer - just throwing shit together to fit a certain aesthetic and trying out new makeup looks to see what comes of it!! Big fan of all of these looks!!! This was lovely to watch ✨💜✨
great video! you took the random combinations and made them feel like they had a reason for being the way that they are which is always super impressive to me. i think my fave has to be the second one, i loveddd the bunny ears with the mushrooms and moss but i also loved the story of the last character :))
these are so cool!! your creativity with makeup and character ideas is always really inspiring! watching videos where you throw out new character concepts/designs always leaves me with new ideas and gets me excited to try things i never thought of before. plus it makes me want to jump out of my comfort zone with makeup and try more interesting and bold looks.
Ginny, you put so much heart into everything you do, and the end results are always so impressive. It also makes me worry you will burn out, like many of my other favorite creators. Even just one of these amazing cosplays could have made for a great video. Please don't overextend yourself
What a great way to show off the product and make a fun video at the same time! I hope some of these characters make it into your future videos. Watching the whole process of getting into costume was fascinating.
Just thoroughly impressed by your vision and productivity. I really thought a day a piece for each character was mental, but they really turned out well.
I know a lot of people have already commented on the Rogue/Wizard Aasimar look, so I’m going to talk about the Lawful Good Warlock look. I honestly love that inner conflict-someone who has trauma and is actively dealing with the consequences of it, but is still determined to be the best person they can be. I get the feeling that, at some point in the mid-to-late-game, she’d sacrifice herself in an attempt to break her pact, and the party would immediately venture into the Hells to save her. Also, for some unknown reason, I feel like her name would be Lorelei. I know that’s not an elf name per se, but it feels right.
Rogue/wizard can work! My favorite character is a fire genasi arcane trickster rogue/bladesinger wizard, & they're so much fun to play. They started learning arcane trickster things from their dad, decided they loved learning magic, so became a wizard. Bladesinger specifically because they already knew a bit about using bladed weapons. I love them so much!
I loved all of them, but with the last one it was super easy to know her story, and how she would use sneak, like instead of hiding in the shadows she uses her look and status as a wizard to blend in and steal because know one would suspect her! Love it
that is very similar to my wizard's backstory! she wasn't officially a multiclass, but she did have a custom background and high dex that let her function as our party's rogue, and it was very very fun to play haha. i absolutely LOVED all these designs, this was such a fun video! 🥰
The harengon reminded me of a character I made recently who, shockingly for me, WASN'T a druid, but a necromancer--I won't get too deep into backstory but a child wanted to resurrect her pet rabbit and an archfey "helped" in exchange for her memories and original body
Mechanically, a rogue with a wizard dip can be pretty potent. An arcane trickster gets a big boost from a couple levels of full caster, and with wzards being an Int caster who gets their subclass at level 2 it's a natural fit. I would probably go illusionist, but Abjuration, Divination, and even War Magic all give great stuff for a rogue for only 2 levels of wizard.
There is one subclass that I was just SCREAMING in my mind when you rolled Rogue/Wizard: Bladesinging!! It just fits so well! I inmediately pictured an elegant rogue with a wine red cape and a fitting leather armor underneath wielding a magical rapier. And to make them an Aasimar just makes it so much cooler.
I think the Harengon Druid could be really interesting, especially as a villian to the rest of your cast. It would be really fun to start to see a campaign unfold through adrolls or rp videos! Like, Na'krasha and Ellowin are must haves in this party, but Nix the Changling Merchant, Francis Summerpike the Gnome Mapmaker (Maybe an artificer?), Cleo the Tiefling bard, and Mariska the Sea Elf Warlock could all be really interesting choices! You could also tie in new NPCs that you make into the campaign as NPC villians, shop keepers, etc. This Druid, who I think should be called Ivy Rose, could be great first villian for them, maybe with the goal of returning the PCs hometown to the wild? Anyways, Ivy Rose, because it sounds cute and safe, but Ivy can be poisonous, and Roses have thorns! She literally tears her suitors apart from the inside out. Great video!
I CANNOT PICK I LOVE THEM ALL! There’s so much potential for each character and I am obsessed. Also I love your content and you’ve been an amazing help in me making an entire fantasy world so thank you for making the content you do
Ooh, I can't really cosplay but I kinda wanna use this method to make a character just for fun! I love stuff like this. I haven't gotten that far, obviously, but would you consider posting the rolling tables?
Ginny is truly the only person I can watch a 20 minute video of someone designing a full cosplay look - it's just so entertaining, and there's no limit to her creativity!
I loved all of these characters, but the aasimar (AH'-seh-mar) is my favorite from a physical design standpoint. I love costumes that you don't see as fitting or working until it's complete and then it's like "WOW".
Very excellent all around! :) One of my favorite things to do on HeroForge is to use their randomizer option on both species/race (which plays with hairstyles, sizes, and other bodily factors quite freely!) and outfits, and see what comes up, and then build a character from that for NPCs. It has generated a number of memorable and interesting combinations, and then refining them slightly (e.g. making them symmetrical instead of mismatched gloves and shoes, etc....unless it's a better look for them not to be!) usually finishes them off, and the stories around each character generate themselves!
Love the dice rolling! Fwiw, for the past many years, I let the Dice Godesses introduce me to my new characters. 100% of the time is more interesting than what I could have designed on my own.
I'm dying over all these looks, I've never had the opportunity to play a Harengone but i would 100% always wear bunny ears! My fave look has to be the last one, just so angelic yet deadly *swoon*
If anyone from Fantasy Cosmetica sees this, PLEASE use the "it smells mysterious" quote in the product description
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I find this fascinating to contemplate because, genuinely, we have a severe lack of means to communicate sensations of smell in english. A couple exotic languages are better at it, but yeah, I have a lot of trouble even imagining that because I've lived my whole life shut inside a building...
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The aasimar could be an npc in the elf warlock story. "Oh, I know your patron, little elf. The next time you talk to him, say it's going to be HIS eye at the end of MY sword!"
Yeah I thought of that to :)
Great idea! Now I'm sat here thinking about how all three characters could be connected in this world 🤔
Also, I would like to say that the rogue/wizard combo is actually quite famous in the fantasy genre.
So, you know how there's this fantasy trope where a big burly fighter and a small, sneaky thief team up as a gritty mercenary duo? That trope was started by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a famous duo written by Fritz Leiber. They appeared first in 1939 in response to the author thinking that Tarzan and Conan weren't as true to human nature.
In particular, the Gray Mouser is described as a thief and former wizard's apprentice. He's literally a rogue/ wizard, and you just continued a long tradition of making references to a famous duo.
chaotic neutral but cares about killing fiends is an interesting combination, could imply that she's overzealous &/or in it for personal reasons
Also, "hair-en-gone". It's a hare (rabbit), and it was "here" and now it's "gone". Here and gone...harengone. Speedy rabbit.🐰
Fun video. Loved it.
I came here to say this. Glad I scrolled through the comments first. I think there’s a comment from Mordenkainen in Monsters of the Multiverse about how the fey really like puns.
"Hare today, gone tomorrow" -- first person to make rabbit stew
I honestly can't believe I missed a pun 🤦♀️
Fey puns are a menace
Ginny - "I have this stick."
My Inner Child - "Oooooh, that is really good stick!"
Really loved the Rogue/Wizard look. Would like to see that character pop up again.
You can't beat a good stick!! 🥰
@GinnyDi but you can beat with a good stick
"I am a stick!"
@@VictorLHouetteBut you could be fire.
I had two sticks, but I turned one into my daughter's first bow.... she liked the "bad bunny" best (she turns 5 in july)
"Femme Liam O'Brien Character" is definitely a vibe.
*writes this down for future character idea*
I actually think the Rogue/Wizard combo is SUPER interesting?? Maybe not well-optimised as you say, but I find the idea of a young wizard forced out of the education system by insane tuition fees to be SUCH a strong starting point. Maybe they ended up being evicted because they couldn't afford their rent anymore, and after a few weeks of living on the streets, eating garbage and unable to wash and study properly, the college just... kicks them out.
So now you have this literal rogue wizard, partially trained, facing a choice. Do they spend time trying to raise money to get back in and pursue their lifelong dream of wizardry? Do they fall into a life of crime, using their magical talents to survive? Do they decide to tear down the college in an act of righteous fury at the elitist nature of the education system???????
Ooooooooooooooh what a great video
Dude, people play D&D to get away from their normal lives.
I agree. I actually really like the concept of an Arcane Trickster Rogue/Wizard multiclass, either being a Wizard who dropped out of wizarding school and basically continued to learn on their own, stealing scrolls and books, or the reverse, someone who picked up magic on the streets by acquiring spell books and the like, but then somehow earned a spot at some Wizard academy and could now learn magic professionally.
@@armedwombat6816 this response is both extremely funny and extremely sobering
I love the Rogue/Wizard! Optimization be damned, it’s just a great concept! Like, what if due to being unable to afford tuition, they start developing Rogue skills to sneak into the academy at night, to “borrow” books from the school library, to steal scrolls that have great new spells on them? What if they master disguise skills, and sneak attack various students to knock them out and take their place in class?
I love this idea!!!
17:00 Optimizer here, rogue wizard can totally work as a multiclass! A big problem rogues tend to have is that they don’t deliver enough damage even with their sneak attacks due to never getting extra attack. so a level or two in wizard to pick up booming blade can help with that, and as cantrips scale with character level and not class level, that’ll scale well throughout the game.
not to mention that a couple wizard levels also give super useful reactions (shield, absorb elements, silvery barbs) as well as access to find familiar.
Now, obviously most of this could be achieved just by playing an arcane trickster and ditching the wizard levels, but wizard gives more spell slots sooner, and more versatility. plus, it allows you to have a different rogue subclass as well as a wizard subclass, which ends up giving you more.
Not the b e s t class combination by any means, but perfectly viable in optimized play!
Not to mention the fact that Dex is a score that squishy Wizards definitely want to invest in, so putting points in Dex Int then Con works just fine!!
Bladesinger/psi-knife or swashbuckler work well enough. (Swashbuckler makes me also want to dip swords bard tho😅) "But sir I don't have any weapons on me" after having used shadow blade and dual wielding psi-knives. (You might run into a lack of arms tho, haste or a dip into echo knight or gloomstalker might be necessary.) Some decent races choices could be thri-kreen, bugbear, harengon or 1 of Fizbans dragonborn. (Chromatic could have a weird nieche here with their once per long rest 1 minute immunnity hiding inside a wall of fire or a cloud kill. If so be sure to pick up the blind fighting style)
I actually play a human rogue/wizard order of scrobes (one level in rogue rest in wizard) it's great fun and surprisingly effective
I did once play an arcane trickster rogue and warlock multiclass. It was fun in normal combat but getting haste meant she was an INSANE damage dealer 😅
And I suppose that was even less optimal given I had to use both CHA and INT for my spellcasting.
I also play a scribe wizard multiclass! 3 lvls in wizardrd and 3 lvls in a 3rd part class beastheart. We just got to lvl 6 on tuesday and im excited to get my infernal bond from beastheart!😊
I love the idea of the hood being used to smother the light of the aasimar's halo. Whether it worked or it just appeared around the hood would depend on how funny the campaign I'm in is!
Yeah, it's the kind of idea that would be hard to show in a costume, but would be a really cool element of a character in a game
I had a similar thing with an aasimar gunslinger. She was a cowgirl, so naturally, hat. It was a running joke that an angelic choir would play every time she had her halo out, so she’d be like “oh hush now you” and slap her hat on over it to hide the halo and get it to shut up
A running gag in my group is when my aasimar's halo is out, someone will comment that it's nice, but doesn't make up for his bad haircut. Since he likes his bad haircut (he cut it himself), he always sighs briefly before continuing. I feel like a hood would be his attempt to get his so-called-friends to stop commenting on it already.
Name suggestion for the Harengon.
In keeping with the spirit of wordplay and perhaps her tendancy to bail on the party when things get dicey, might i suggest, Ima Adahir?
In contrast, of course, with her equally flighty yet somewhat more party driven sibling, Anwir Adahir.
This comment needs more love. I practically died laughing. 😂
@twistycarpetworms2500 Those were outta the park! ^_^
Anwir Adahir is SO good!! I think we all know how much I love a good pun, and that is a GOOD pun 😂
That slow zoom in on Ginny's face while she put the harengon nose had no business being as funny as it was lololol.
😂😂 I was just cracking UP at the footage. I had to roast myself
@@GinnyDi The steady increase of terror in your eyes had me cackling XD gotta love a good self roast
LOL How in the world are you not yet a local legend? That when people see you in the park in costume, they don't just go, "Oh, that's Ginny Di! Doing another shoot!" ^_^
😂😂 maybe they do but they leave me to it
@@GinnyDi To be fair you do make yourself look very different for each look. People could have though the harengon look was someone else.
The power of make-up ✨
@@GinnyDi Whenever I see someone filming or taking a picture, I try to stay out of visual and audio range. Whenever I'm filming or taking a picture the very last thing I want is a random person in it. Just like when I see someone painting in a park I don't stand in front of them or ask what they are doing.
@WhatIfBrigade When I am in more approachable costumes, people often approach/speak to me in public parks! Usually older people who are expressing genuine interest/joy at seeing me out doing my thing, and often children. So when I say people avoided me, I have context for that 😂
This is how cryptid myths start
"i cast conjure eyelashes" omg i died of laughter! using this for one of my mage characters who is obsessed with their looks.
20:49 A mascara wand: 5 charges, regaining 1d4+1 charges every sunset. Choose from Lashes, Eyeliner, Eyeshadow, Cheeks&Contouring [one charge each] or Color [two charges]. Apply the magic and for 8 hours you shall have eyes that make people claim Cow-Eyed Hera Herself has blessed you. (with optional charisma advantage)
Here for an algorithm boost! I can't get over how spot on " Bunny person is a neutral evil druid" is.
Ginny, you're a wizard. 🧙
(With the Costumancer subclass, obviously.)
Costumancer would be a great subclass!!
We love makeup that isn't tested on animals.
Now tested on a Harengon, but Harengons can consent (and this one certainly did!), so it's all above-board :D
Yeah! That's right. There nothing more awkward than being jealous of a glamorous giraffe that totally stole the show. In all seriousness, test cosmetics on animals is some downright chaotic evil bs.
I honestly don't understand this. Aren't the alternatives just using untested products, or giving human volunteers new and strange diseases? Or is all makeup testing basically safe from the start so animal testing is wasteful?
@@Thunderdumpe I don't know how to explain to you that nobody likes animal cruelty
We do like Ginny-tested stuff
Im almost a little offended that Ginny’s dice rolls create better characters than I can 😂
😂😂 they create better characters than ME
I am so jealous of your dices power
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"ANOTHER LAWFUL GOOD HUMAN FIGHTER?!?! What are the odds of that even happening?!"
@@WolfHreda"Okay, so that's six LG Human Fighters. Pretty sure that's statistically improbable, but let's see what I can do."
(Because it amused me, I'm actually going to give it a try.)
First one - Soldier background, Making him a Battlemaster from the Roman Legions. Variant Human to start with the Martial Adept feat for more Battlemaster Maneuvers. Shortsword, Javelins, Shield.
Second one... Noble background, so I'm making that one a Samurai. Going full dual-wielder. One of a dozen samurai currently adventuring to alleviate the burden on his feudal Lord who cannot afford to pay all of his retainers, but would be disgraced by actually having to admit that. They're all out there joining adventuring parties, not out of pursuit of wealth or power for themselves, but for the Lord they have sworn to protect and take care of.
Third one... I liked the last one, I'm going to use the Giant Foundling background and the Strike of Giants feat on a Rune Knight, to go for a blend of Tomoe Gozen and Minamoto no Yoshitsune to get a "trained by Fire Giant style Oni instead of Tengu" flavor. She's got the swords, but they're not her specialty fighting style. That's her Kanabo maul that only comes out when things are really serious. She's one of a pair of twins, her sister went down the Path of the Giant barbarian, and Tomoe is adventuring to pay her way as she tries to catch up with her sister and talk her down from potentially going Kaiju movie revenge rampage on whoever was responsible for the two of them being left to the giants as small children in the first place.
Fourth up, Pirate background? Okay, going with Champion Fighter, Variant Human so he can still get a couple Maneuvers, because I'm going to make the Dread Pirate Roberts so formidable the few times he has to fight, that very few people are going to dare chance it. I'm literally ripping off The Princess Bride, and I don't care.
Fifth, Cloistered Scholar background. Eldritch Knight. She's the spare heir who got bundled off to a nunnery to keep her out of trouble at an early age. While studying there, she encountered an old philosophical treatise that encouraged honing both mind and body, and started putting herself through a rigorous training regimen. During an unauthorized trip outside the walls, the cloisters were attacked and destroyed by an enemy that believed the libraries there contained a treatise on powerful magics or artifacts. Predictably, she has it with her. She's adventuring in hopes she and her new party will be able try to rescue the survivors.
Sixth - Psi Warrior. Urchin. Variant Human, Eldritch Adept (Armor of Shadows creates a psychic barrier to protect them if ever unarmored)
They lived in a ramshackle shelter in the slums with their family. Eventually their innate powers awakened, and they decided that since they're already used to the kind of conditions that most people would consider the hardships of adventuring life, they ought to become an adventurer so they can not only improve their own lot in life, but pull the rest of Midden Court out of the dust and grime along with them.
How'd I do?
@@danielmclellan1522 I mean why wouldn't you rip off The Princess Bride? It's like the best movie ever.
THE DWEAD PIWATE WOBETS IS HERE FOR YOUR SOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLL
I feel like it would be awesome to have a lawful good warlock with a neutral/chaotic evil patron. the patron is essentially the devil on their shoulder and they are constantly questioning their demands and unsure if they are going to be able to do whatever is asked of them. Bonus if they can't sleep at night because their conscience is disturbed by all the bad stuff they've done bc of their patron.
Ooh LOVE that concept 🥰
i had a player in my last campaign who said "i want to play a warlock who thinks they're a paladin and is only starting to wonder whether they maybe swore to serve something that's not their god"
sadly the player got too busy for the game almost immediately, but we had a ton of fun homebrewing a paladin-vibes subclass for him! (and i also had a blast coming up with a patron that was similarly trying to do its best with the wrong set of tools, so it genuinely *wanted* to be good and to inspire paladins but had its own struggles and baggage to bring to that conversation)
This is basically Venom. Eddie is do gooder journalist who is a symbiote with an evil monster. "Pile of bodies. Pile of heads."
Extremely cute! All of them!
My favorite is the last one whom I think should go by a fake name because of not wanting her rogue work to interfere with her education. And the fake name could be Ash I’mar because I imagine she likes to appear elegant but has a secret fondness for bad puns.
Rogue wizard multiclass can actually be solid, especially if you go for Arcane trickster so you already have higher INT and at level 9 you can get Magical ambush (DIS on saving throws for anybody you are hidden from) which is cool for wizard as well. From the wizard side, e.q. Shadowblade conjures a finesse melee weapon that you are proficient with so you very much can sneak attack with Shadowblade
good, good.... my plan to trick commenters into building a functional rogue/wizard multiclass for me is working 😈
@@GinnyDi ... is that how IRL nat20 persuasion looks like?
Arcane trickster might actually go well with bladesinging - you get bunch of helpful stuff at level 2 from Bladesong (AC, movement, ADV acrobatics and Bonus to con save so you don't loose concentration) and at level 6 you get extra attack.
Also, Shadowblade gives ADV on attacks in dim light or darkness which gives extra opportunities for sneak attack. And it is light weapon so you can use bonus action for off hand attack with another light weapon
EDIT: I have realised just now how freaking AWESOME fallen Aasimar would be with the shadow blade build and that Aasimars are probably the only other race except elves where bladesingings just fits the image and it made me want to play one now as well. Also, because disadvantage against fireball
I like the idea of a small sized dhampir phantom rogue/necromancer riding 1 of his own zombies/skeletons like it's a slow horse. (If your a centaur they ride you of course!😮😂) You will also allways have an ally within 5ft of the foe and you can steady aim while your ride goes where you need him to. 🤣😁🤣
@@Raging_DuckWell I think that both swashbuckler (keeping charisma boost to initiative small or just ignore it) and psi-knife can work pretty well since the first is good at running away after booming blade without action economy costs and the other has build in dual wielding. In both cases just a dip for the subclass is as far as you need. (If you want to still get wish in a lv 20 campaign or if you like more rogue that's fine too. Anyway the advantages start at rogue 3 and if you want more feel free to do so. Uncanny dodge and evasion are of course nice too)
@@woutvanostaden1299 Sounds fun! You can actually make it much more efficient if you learn spell Phantom Steed (it is illusion so you can learn it as either Arcane trickster or Necromancer) and it summons "A Large quasi-real, horselike creature appears on the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice within range. You decide the creature’s appearance, but it is equipped with a saddle, bit, and bridle" with speed 100 ft. So you can summon and ride large zombie running on all four WHILE using steady aim (and if you are going for the crossbow built you don't want any enemy 5ft from you anyway and 100ft speed makes sure of that not happening - I should know, I have played this 😅 )
The rogue wizard was my favorite, unique and visually striking with the high contrast palette.
I immediately thought they would be a bladesinger wizard (in order to take advantage of sneak attack)
I love the idea and want to try it out myself
i really like the idea of a Lawful Good character whose core internal conflict has to do with how their Lawful obligations are not always Good. i don't really know why that ever occurred to me before, but it works so much better than the "boring" stereotype that alignment gets as just, like, sticklers for the rules. i think it also feels so much more fitting and "realistic" to most settings. great job coming up with that, i'm gonna hold onto it now!
Indeed! To me, it's a bit of a Captain America-type in that his core is on the Good part and the Lawful part is focused on what they consider to be just laws and just outcomes rather than strictly interpreting laws without additional consideration.
This is great all of the rabbit pictures looked like they were in the middle of an umm actually moment and that is just great
I love that Ginny got a sword and needs to show it off in every video! 😂
Just so everyone knows not to leave rude comments 😂
@@GinnyDi and to claim it as a business expense on your taxes! :D
The first thought i had for this Elf, Warlock, was the Celestial, maybe the Acolyte background...They are bound to a solar and often get mistaken for a cleric-witch annoys their cleric friend to no end XD
I always look forward to these sorts of videos the most, I'm not a cosplayer or a makeup artist but watching someone at work creating something while chatting about their craft is just really satisfying, and your editing style and structure makes for really enjoyable videos.
That rogue/wizard one was incredible!
Harengon love, finally! My current main dnd character is a Harengon monk named Sully and I love him. He’s been haunted by fey laughter most of his life so he sought out a monastery to learn their ways and calm his mind through meditation.
Amazing!! Thank you Ginny, this was such a fun and playful idea! I loved how the looks came out!
Thank YOU for creating such fun makeup! 🥰 I wish I could've used every palette, but we would've been here all day, haha!
@@GinnyDi You can always do a similar video, maybe not with 3 characters, where you try out/show us the other palettes! I certainly would watch a mini-series with this "random character" concept and using this gorgeus set of makeup.
My favourite look was the first, I think you really managed to show that internal struggle. It reminded me of Calliana from the Mighty Nein, although she was a sorcerer, the look and the base conflict is similar.
Ginny: I have this stick that I'm gonna cut shorter cuz where I shoot pics has a low ceiling.
Also Ginny: Does photo shoot outdoors.
how dare you call me out like this 😂😂
This was SO MUCH fun to watch! I'd happily watch a 12-season show where every episode you randomly roll a character idea and recreate it! 🤩 Though I don't want you to burn out, and love your "regular" DnD content just as much! ☺
Hello I'm a minmaxer, and adding a level of wizard to your arcane trickster to expand your spell list is actually quite good!
edit: for any interested nerds, you take sentinel on your arcane trickster, figure out a way to give yourself consistent advantage such as reckless attack or faerie fire, and cast mirror image on yourself. If something attacks you and hits a mirror image instead, you proc a second sneak attack per round using your opportunity attack. Two sneak attacks per round helps rogue keep up with the damage spikes that come around level 5-8
Post photo-shoot bunny was my favourite. Your natural eyes look amazing in this.
When rolling two identical dice that need to be separated, my suggestion is to decide not based on which die is which, but based on where they land. So like, before you roll, decide "the one that lands further to the left will be good/evil, and the one on the right will be law/chaos", or something like that.
I love them? Your third look gives "Marilyn Monroe Gets What She Deserves (Revenge)" to me, but I also love the simple glee of the backstory you made for her too!
Regarding the pronunciation of harengon: I believe it's a pun on "hare" and "here and gone."
Ohhh!! Can't believe I missed a PUN 😂
*Gasp!* That would seem to be a very rare event ^_^
A rogue/bladesong wizard actually doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. You can get super high AC with Bladesong and Shield, a familiar for more reliable sneak attack, Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade to spice up your attacks, lots of utility spells for outside-of-combat, it actually sounds pretty fun to play! Plus the fly speed and a bit of emergency healing from the Aasimar, I think the dice were cooking!
Did mine as a Bugbear (Played him as a Weeaboo for Elves. Is weeaboo an ok term to use these days?). Surprise attack and Reach - oh boy!
OKAY OKAY YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SEE ONE OF THE BUNNY PEOPLE EVER SINCE I SAW THE BOARD ON YOUR PINTEREST OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
and also I just love how this just feels like a big fun creative passion project, I definitely want to be able to do passion projects of this scale one day.
The aaismar is definitely my favorite visually and in personality!!!!!!!! I would name her something that’s all long and pretty to match her angel side, but could be shortened to something to that better matches her roguish side.
15:31 In accordance of the _Yoink!_ Act of 2014, I'm using this for one of my upcoming NPCs in my current campaign; adorkable genasi wizard, pulls scroll out of sword frog
A curse upon ye, Ginny. I did not need new makeup, nor new perfumes, nor new candles. Yet… I have ordered some.
Awesome looks!! Sorry you’ve been trapped in the cosplay factory for the past many days.
this was fabulous - I could fully believe each character showing up at my tables
I thought the aasimar was gonna be my fave, but I am completely captivated with the warlock
I think her name is Serelemin Lesh
Oooh good name!! 🥰
The white wig elevates the look so much. Looks like Starlight from the 16th century
17:00 Not actually the worst multiclass! A rouge would love Chronorgy or divination wizard, or if you dump con a little (Bad move, but bear with me) You could be a Swashbuckler War magic, get a bonus to initative equal to charisma and intelligence, plus Gift of Altricity as a wizard to get 1d8 to your intiative for 8 hours. Arcane deflection helps you against status DC saves, but likely save your reaction for uncanny dodge. Green Flame blade gives you a good reliable damage boost once. Shield is a good emergency buffer, and Silvery barbs gives you advantage in a pinch. Find Familiar can also help you, if you want the cheesy route of you Spider familiar hiding in your bag of holding using the help action. Could be viable! I may even try this build, though I'm not sure if it would trump just a flat rouge or flat wizard. Better as a Harengon for even more intiative, but hey, form of dread is nice for a rouge.
Love the concept of the video! We had a rogue / wizard multiclass in our party, mostly rouge with a dip into blade singer for the speed and AC boost - it worked super well, with shield they would go up to a 26 AC!!
Character One: Pact of the Chain. Also, the jacket is why nobles had assistance to help them dress. Overall, I love this look.
Character Two: That is a really good stick. Perfect balance of cute and scary to me. I love it. Spore Druid vibes.
Character Three: Using the Codex top seems fitting. The black and white contrasts are really good. Great makeup work. Beautiful look all around.
Thanks for these, your work is amazing. Love this so much.
Love that idea of lawful being tricked into the pact, but sticking to it because it's the law! Nice.
The satisfaction of having every alignment be completely unique. It's so nice having every option used
Loving this video.
On the outro, I NEVER get tired of her just randomly lifting the sword like she's Viggo Mortensen taking Anduril all over New Zealand.
I love the Casa Bonita shirt. My friend took me when I visited Denver once. It was magical, with a reminder that sometimes magic is disturbing.
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16:49 Aasimar Swashbuckler Bladesinger would actually be the perfect skirmisher with Booming Blade, especially with the flying speed from the Radiant Soul Celestial Revelation. Arcane Trickster would also be a natural fit for the backstory and mechanically.
i would just like to thank ginny di for giving me reference art of my next villain with this evil bunny druid shoot
You should do a campaign at somepoint of all the different cosplay characters interacting.
Call the campaign "Across the Ginny-verse" or something like that.
I shouldn't amaze me, but still.... it does, how easily you're able to come up with these concepts and ideas. I mean, you quite literally let fate decide what to create and you took each challenge and on and just completely own them.
This was an extremely fun and instructive video to watch. If I had to choose, I did like the last one best. Everything about it just grabbed my attention. it'd be super awesome if you could figure out how to incorporate the hood with the halo, but also get that just simply might not be feasible. But I did love love the idea of s spell scroll hanging off the belt, ready for action! :)
As for a name... well give me a week of agonizing over a dozen possibilities and I might come up with something. Character names are my true nemesis....
These are awesome. Also mentioning that the eyes are the focal point is actually pretty interesting because as a mostly blind person what I do look at digital photos on the first things I try to find is the eyes and that helps me find the rest of the orientation of the person in the photo and then my brain can try to focus on it and usually this helps me figure out what a photo is depending on the clarity and colors and set photo.
Really loved the final wizard/rogue look! Seems like a supee fun character!! Also, love the use of moss and mushrooms on the ears.
The Aasimar Rogue/Wizard is AWESOME!!
For the names I cannot decide between: Seraphina "Shadow" Dusk, and Nova Whisperwind
Maybe the first one, it goes better with the aligment, the second one reminds me of a WoW character
Casa Bonita shirt, hell yeah.
Heck yeah!!
That last look is my favourite! Something about that character was just amazing and everything came together perfectly for them! As for a name, hmm... Maybe like Tiefling names, it could be a name of a virtue, but in this character's case it might be something ironic but actually also accurate. Like "Charity", even though she steals, but then actually you find out that because she knows what it's like to not be able to afford stuff, she shares stuff with other people who are also struggling.
Ginny, I've been watching your videos for years, and my head still exploded seeing the intense level of commitment and labor your pour into your craft. You are amazing.
I can see that multiclass working. Imagine an Arcane trickster++. Turn invisible, set up illusions to distract people, and sneak in anywhere, steal things with your invisible mage hand. You probably won't be doing too much stabbing, but if your do, amp up your sneak attack with booming blade.
Would love to see more videos like this! Super fun and gives me tons of inspiration and motivation for my own characters! That was awesome
I'm so glad! Thank you 🥰
Those all turned out awesome, I think the Rogue/Wizard was my favorite though and honestly I think the scar across the eye was a wonderful touch that added a ton of character and sold the dangerous nature of stealing what they need for their wizarding.
OMGOMG Casa Bonita was my favorite as a kid growing up in Denver! Love the shirt! :D
So glad someone noticed this 😂 I got to go to the reopened restaurant recently!!
The buried lipstick looks really good on you! I'm so happy to see you reuse pieces and show us how varied and creative you can be without buying new items all the time. Also am so impressed with your make up skills.
I! LOVE! THIS! VIDEO! SO! MUCH!!!! It just really encapsulates one of my favorite things about being a cosplayer - just throwing shit together to fit a certain aesthetic and trying out new makeup looks to see what comes of it!! Big fan of all of these looks!!! This was lovely to watch ✨💜✨
ALSO "okay I just did two, just real quick, just with hot glue" rhymes and you're v cute when you say it lol
I liked the lawful good warlock and the story behind her, the outfit subtle hints of being contained/chained were nice touch.
great video! you took the random combinations and made them feel like they had a reason for being the way that they are which is always super impressive to me. i think my fave has to be the second one, i loveddd the bunny ears with the mushrooms and moss but i also loved the story of the last character :))
The rogue/wizard look is absolutely stunning but all of them are super creative and fun
these are so cool!! your creativity with makeup and character ideas is always really inspiring! watching videos where you throw out new character concepts/designs always leaves me with new ideas and gets me excited to try things i never thought of before. plus it makes me want to jump out of my comfort zone with makeup and try more interesting and bold looks.
Thank you so much!!
Name Ideas I came up with at 2 in the morning
1-Alea
2-Deilinaar the Wicked.
3-Athena
My personal favorite is the 3rd one, her scar is awesome
Rogue-wizard was so so cool!
Ginny, you put so much heart into everything you do, and the end results are always so impressive. It also makes me worry you will burn out, like many of my other favorite creators. Even just one of these amazing cosplays could have made for a great video. Please don't overextend yourself
What a great way to show off the product and make a fun video at the same time! I hope some of these characters make it into your future videos. Watching the whole process of getting into costume was fascinating.
Just thoroughly impressed by your vision and productivity. I really thought a day a piece for each character was mental, but they really turned out well.
I know a lot of people have already commented on the Rogue/Wizard Aasimar look, so I’m going to talk about the Lawful Good Warlock look. I honestly love that inner conflict-someone who has trauma and is actively dealing with the consequences of it, but is still determined to be the best person they can be.
I get the feeling that, at some point in the mid-to-late-game, she’d sacrifice herself in an attempt to break her pact, and the party would immediately venture into the Hells to save her.
Also, for some unknown reason, I feel like her name would be Lorelei. I know that’s not an elf name per se, but it feels right.
Ooooh, Lorelei is pretty
I love how even a just randomly rolled character from Ginny inspired me so much in such a short time.
Wow, that palette art is beautiful!
Right?! Obsessed
Rogue/wizard can work! My favorite character is a fire genasi arcane trickster rogue/bladesinger wizard, & they're so much fun to play. They started learning arcane trickster things from their dad, decided they loved learning magic, so became a wizard. Bladesinger specifically because they already knew a bit about using bladed weapons. I love them so much!
Best makeup: aasimar
Best outfit: warlock
I loved all of them, but with the last one it was super easy to know her story, and how she would use sneak, like instead of hiding in the shadows she uses her look and status as a wizard to blend in and steal because know one would suspect her! Love it
It is cool that a rogue combination (heh) of classes inspired a backstory I never would have come up with otherwise.
Oh wow, you actually managed to make the Neutral Evil Bunny look *work.* Well done! :o It did not look easy!
that is very similar to my wizard's backstory! she wasn't officially a multiclass, but she did have a custom background and high dex that let her function as our party's rogue, and it was very very fun to play haha. i absolutely LOVED all these designs, this was such a fun video! 🥰
The harengon reminded me of a character I made recently who, shockingly for me, WASN'T a druid, but a necromancer--I won't get too deep into backstory but a child wanted to resurrect her pet rabbit and an archfey "helped" in exchange for her memories and original body
Mechanically, a rogue with a wizard dip can be pretty potent. An arcane trickster gets a big boost from a couple levels of full caster, and with wzards being an Int caster who gets their subclass at level 2 it's a natural fit. I would probably go illusionist, but Abjuration, Divination, and even War Magic all give great stuff for a rogue for only 2 levels of wizard.
I know you hated the prosthetics, but the Druid Hare person looked real cool and I’d like to see more of her in videos.
There is one subclass that I was just SCREAMING in my mind when you rolled Rogue/Wizard: Bladesinging!! It just fits so well! I inmediately pictured an elegant rogue with a wine red cape and a fitting leather armor underneath wielding a magical rapier. And to make them an Aasimar just makes it so much cooler.
Same - I've DMed for a rogue/wizard bladesinger in the past and it's a great combination, both mechanically and thematically
I think the Harengon Druid could be really interesting, especially as a villian to the rest of your cast. It would be really fun to start to see a campaign unfold through adrolls or rp videos! Like, Na'krasha and Ellowin are must haves in this party, but Nix the Changling Merchant, Francis Summerpike the Gnome Mapmaker (Maybe an artificer?), Cleo the Tiefling bard, and Mariska the Sea Elf Warlock could all be really interesting choices! You could also tie in new NPCs that you make into the campaign as NPC villians, shop keepers, etc. This Druid, who I think should be called Ivy Rose, could be great first villian for them, maybe with the goal of returning the PCs hometown to the wild? Anyways, Ivy Rose, because it sounds cute and safe, but Ivy can be poisonous, and Roses have thorns! She literally tears her suitors apart from the inside out. Great video!
I CANNOT PICK I LOVE THEM ALL! There’s so much potential for each character and I am obsessed.
Also I love your content and you’ve been an amazing help in me making an entire fantasy world so thank you for making the content you do
Time for a druid to hop into the life of being the main problem!
uh oh, somebunny's starting her villain arc! 🐰
A Harengon Druid cosplay is something I wanted to see.... Bunny ears !!!
@@GinnyDi you know what they say. Hare today, Ruler of the World and Conqueror over all tomorrow!
The first one is my favorite. Really like the half corrupted face with the horns and eye.
Ooh, I can't really cosplay but I kinda wanna use this method to make a character just for fun! I love stuff like this. I haven't gotten that far, obviously, but would you consider posting the rolling tables?
Ooh yes! I'll post it in my IG stories shortly 🥰
@@GinnyDi Awesome! Thank you, and your work on these cosplays were incredible! 💛
Those gold pants came out and all I could think was "GO HAMMER, GO HAMMER, GO!"
Really loved the makeup for the aasimar!
HOW do you get those giant black contacts in your eyes?!
Just a bit of practice!!
Honestly, I cant choose a favorite! All three characters are so unique, I'd love to see all of them come back some time.
Ginny is truly the only person I can watch a 20 minute video of someone designing a full cosplay look - it's just so entertaining, and there's no limit to her creativity!
I am OBESSED with the warlock elf look, all three looked amazing but the first one i'm like AAAA
I loved all of these characters, but the aasimar (AH'-seh-mar) is my favorite from a physical design standpoint. I love costumes that you don't see as fitting or working until it's complete and then it's like "WOW".
Very excellent all around! :)
One of my favorite things to do on HeroForge is to use their randomizer option on both species/race (which plays with hairstyles, sizes, and other bodily factors quite freely!) and outfits, and see what comes up, and then build a character from that for NPCs. It has generated a number of memorable and interesting combinations, and then refining them slightly (e.g. making them symmetrical instead of mismatched gloves and shoes, etc....unless it's a better look for them not to be!) usually finishes them off, and the stories around each character generate themselves!
Love the dice rolling! Fwiw, for the past many years, I let the Dice Godesses introduce me to my new characters. 100% of the time is more interesting than what I could have designed on my own.
I love when you get to bring your costuming talents to your D&D videos! It's always so fun
I'm dying over all these looks, I've never had the opportunity to play a Harengone but i would 100% always wear bunny ears! My fave look has to be the last one, just so angelic yet deadly *swoon*