My Kenku Urchin Fighter was employed by a wizard to help with some of his writing tasks and book copying, without being smart enough to make good use of what he was reading. His name is the sound of quill on paper, my party calls me Scritcher.
I got a Kenku Necromancer, I named him Nathaniel because his master (a mortician) called him that when he'd berate him for messing up on the embalming process; he found his master's secret necromancy book and ran away with it after accidentally reanimating a corps during a funeral, traveled with some wizards who taught him more about magic and the school of necromancy, but he left them to seek out adventure riches, and the pursuit of flight, aaaaaand he loves to eat GRUB!
Also got one. Hs name's Caw. Now I know what you think, but that name has meaning. Caw was nameless and expelled from his flock for not following the god of death and secret killing. He had a raven which was his best friend. Said raven died from age while Caw wandered the wilderness. An old necromancer found Caw burying his raven friend and showed him necromancy. When the necromancer asked his name, Caw responded with the cawing of his raven friend, the only companion he ever had. The necromancer also showed him how to resurrect his raven as a skeleton. Now Caw had his friend back and appropriately named him Crack because of his constantly cracking bones. Now he wanders the world together with crack and wants to shw people the good things necromancy can accomplish.
Fun fact much like parrots, Corvids such as ravens and crows, what the kenku are based on can learn to mimic human speech via a process called spliting their tongue which is why in the 5e campaign i run, through something like 9th level remove curse, a wish spell, or a divine intervention can lift the curses on a single individual kenku though they will need a wish spell if they want to regain natural wings
My kenku is called rain because he was born in a swamp with non stop rain. We was raised in an army by a french sounding toefling general. So most of his phrases are army commands or soldier conversations from hia soldier days
I made a Kenku College of Spirits Bard that speaks in pop culture references and memes, named Meme ("Meh-Meh"). His spirits are tied to the real world and give him the references that he's able to repeat. He 4th wall breaks too and is self aware he's in a d&d game. It's funny as hell to play!
I only used her for a single one shot so not much development but I rather liked my Kenku Swashbuckler Rogue. Her Kenku name was a sea’s breeze in the sails then a cannonfire. So her name for other non-Kenku was Seabreeze Cannonfire. It was a very trap heavy one shot and her amazing perception almost definitely saved everyone’s asses.
Kenku could make amazing bards because they can use sounds of things to aid a performance or even create one of their own! "He crept along floor" You then make the creaking sound of floorboards for example.
I had great fun playing a kenku called Pop. For his voice I took the mimicry trait and stretched it a little. After a while I would say an entire sentence as another character at the table, and switch it every sentence. I figured, he has spent so much time around the other PCs by the time I started doing it, it made enough sense that he would have enough exposure to their words to do so (at least I thought so).
I actually watched this video for the Kenku I'm building! Creak Fall (either a monk, cleric, or perhaps dual monk/rogue) literally fell into the hut of their babushka (grain goddess cleric) and tended to the temple until her death. Now Creak, offering a sack full of potatoes to the grain goddess (they're not the smartest, but they get the job done), sets off to help out a group with their journey into Hell for their friend (my previous character who now has a family and cannot emotionally afford to die).
I know they don’t have any CHA bonuses, but I ended up rolling a Kenku Hexblade because I haven’t played either a Kenku nor a Warlock so figured it would be some fun, especially with how many different ways I could write his backstory.
ive been playing around with heroforge for a few years now making so many characters, but I just made a kenku barbarian, and despite it being the complete opposite of what im usually attracted to in my dnd characters I REALLY wanna try him out. unusually tall (for a kenku, so he's still not that tall) and muscular, i imagined him to be a broken mind, even worse at communicating than normal. he seeks connection in the hopes that someone might one day help him understand what was done to him to force him into fighting this way and why he's now crazy. not heavily relying on his forgery skills and generally not using those more sneak focused skills. in the beginning id want him to go on a journey of self acceptance as he understands his cultural heritage and begins to balance his innate skills as a kenku, and his learned skills as a battle-axe wielding worrier. if anyone out there loves the borderlands series as much as I do it might help to understand who my inspiration is, but salt the wounds!
I just starting out playing a Kenku Druid (circle of the under dark). She’s called Bones. Full plague doctors mask. Lives in a treehouse in a swamp. She’s also got a pet rat called snack.
I'm trying a difficult challenge with my kenku... a kenku artificer. He's going to play as a plague doctor/alchemist. He's named Dokk, as that's what his clientele would call him
I'm playing a tempest domain kenku cleric who hate Aarakocra for having something she doesn't. flight so what's the best way to take down a flying enemy? Lightning, plus at higher levels you gain the ability to fly while you are outside
If a Kenku reads a word that it's never heard, what voice does it hear in it's head? Or does it only see it as an image of the word in it's mind and just knows what it means?
I feel like kenku just dont have an internal monologue. A lot of people irl don't have an internal monologue either (ie they don't "hear" words when they're thinking or reading or anything)
I like to think that Kenku have a mishmash of words heard in their brain and that it is very frustrating to not be able to elaborate/articulate their thoughts if they don't have the particular words to express it.
a kenku with the acolyte background who has a such deep connection with their god that they can hear and thus mimic and speak with their voice. call them the voice of god
I’m playing a Kenku right now! She’s 4 (I didn’t know about Kiri before creating her. 😆) She is SOOO much fun. She mostly uses ASL and drawings to communicate, and seldom uses repeated phrases to communicate since she is aware that other humanoids often find it annoying. It’s been really fun to use expressions to convey her personality as well. Think of how Gromit is from Wallace and Gromit.
Also, her name is Trash. She was found as a baby by a drunken street urchin and he would often throw things at her and yell, “YOU’RE TRASH!” She still loved him though since he was the only father she knew.
Kenku Alchemist Charlatan. Uses a plague doctor mask to hide the fact that he's a kenku and just sold you a very fancy wine bottle instead of a heath potion. Name? The sound of a potion brewing. In other words, Bubbles the Potion Bird.
I've been thinking of the idea of a Kenku Pirate Ranger (specifically the subclass of Drakewarden), who during a treasure-hunting accident, swapped souls with a human crewmate. Thus giving them the ability to think their own thoughts, without the ability to speak them properly. I think it could work tho I'm not sure.
Kenku Soul Knife Rogue with an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer dip for some subtle illusion spells and telepathy in case my DM wants to enforce mimicry only. Day job as a small, adorable, "Boblin the Goblin" style wandering tinker so he can justify disappearing when assassin/spy work comes in. Can't get caught if I'm perpetually unarmed and have a double digit Deception modifier.
I'm playing a game with my friends as a necromancer kenku named "rattle/rattles/rattler" and speaking in mostly hisses. It pisses them off so much lmao
One of my current characters is a kenku rogue. I named her Khadri and it took the DM a long time to get that I was making a joke on how crows/ravens caw. I love playing her, but sometimes I'm just not good at sound effects. I was talking mentally with a creature that was going to try to take one of the characters in our group, it was basically "Give me the Aasimar and I will let you and the rest of your party live." Someone caught my character staring off while talking to "the gaunt man" and asked what was going on. She pointed up to the ceiling of the cave they were in and I went "she mimics the sound of a large group of rats" I did this while messing around with a mechanical pencil www.deviantart.com/enkeli19/art/Khadri-Kenku-Rogue-765452357
Can you please give me a description of that Kenku merchant you had in your campaign that you briefly mentioned?I want to make a Kenku merchant character so I thought I might get inspired by yours.
I am considering the Kenku. I think it would be amazing to play. I was thinking of starting out as a Thief who's back story is that I "obtained" a spell book (wizard spells) but doesn't yet understand any of them. Eventually, when he reaches high enough level thief, he will learn first level wizard spells. His goal of course is to learn spells of levitation and flying. I am looking for adventures to team up with to explore deep dark dungeons and other places where there is a potential to find caches of treasure to find scrolls, magic items and of course sources of income.
That's great. We love the idea of a character that has a thing while adventuring and later that's why they multiclass. Why did they start out as a theif?
@@SkullSplitter Straight up honest it is because of the dex bonus. Dex/Wisdom just makes me think Thief primary with a few wizard spells. Thief also so I can sneak into places that are not too dangerous that might have magic items or clues to their location. I think the primary motivation of the Kenku is to fly and as a strong motivating force you are compelled to seek out information in that regard. As a Kenku you can't ask people outright for information and it becomes too frustrating. So you just sneak around and snoop lock boxes and chests. Obviously magic users would be the best targets which is how I "obtained" a spell book that I can't yet understand. I need to learn the spells to see if any of them will let me fly. To continue with the thought process, the Kenku start out not being able to converse in common and need to hear phrases to mimic. I believe wizard spells need to be spoken aloud. However from what I recall the Kenku, upon reaching a higher level, can become fluent in conversational languages. To that end I would probably not be able to call out spells until I can read and say them aloud. But maybe I am mixing up my RP games.
@@SkullSplitter I don't know where I read it but I know I did. Probably wasn't canon. What I am curious about is spell casting as they are said to have no internal monologue. So how can they read and memorize spells as that would require them to be said either internally our verbally in repetition? I think it would be fun to play but as I said initially I am only thinking of it. Mainly because I ended up with a Kenku miniature that I painted and was happy with how it turned out. I find table top boring for the most part so I usually like to play chaotic and the abnormal to mix things up and cause mischief. Probably never actually play one unless I find a DM willing to put up with it.
I'm playing a soul knife kenku and my DM's making it so that the telepathic voice is an actual true voice and bypasses the curse which makes it even more tragic because all of his party members will be able to hear his true voice but he never will. Think krieg from borderlands
I made a treachery paladin kenku that I am currently using and got him to 4. Tricking people to come around the corner thinking its some weak wizard with only a few spell slots and than bam a fucking paladin smite to the face from behind a box i was hiding behind cause I am only 5 ft tall.
Kenku were first introduced in the 1st Ed AD&D Fiend Folio as a monster. 3rd Ed as playable, maybe. Although 2.5 might have had them in the Advanced Players Guide? Good ideas for the 5E character. 👍
I'm a kenku barbarian, and it is great narak is my characters name and he is 6 foot tall and is just a brute but super dumb my intelligence is a 3 lol it has been awesome playing as him and it is my first character and first time ever playing dnd and been at it for about 3 months now
i'm trying a way to get around the speaking part without having a soundboard. they're a warlock who was chosen by a tome that is a knowledge seeking entity. sorta athena vibes. and their character motivation, which is why the book is helping it, is to free all kenku of the curse. they used to serve an old wizard, who had the book, and died (maybe killed by the character, but it's ambiguous). so they're generally quiet or say old man phrases. when it's absolutely necessary they use telepathy or write something down (which i think is allowed bc the creativity is related to speech?). also the book saw that they're unusually creative for a kenku, though are still limited compared to other races. also bc of the knowledge entity, they're not a charisma based warlock, they're intelligence based with high wisdom bc i wanna get into divination later in the game. also charisma sorta has to be a dump stat for my characters because it's hard to get in that headspace, so i can't play a normal warlock without it being a complete meme that i say awkward things but for some reason people like me (yes, i know how that sounds). they do have some points in deception though. and though i wanna stray from a soundboard, i'm definitely gonna write down cool/funny/useful things that npc's or other players say; to show they're learning about the world after being isolated for so long opening up, and that they're warming up to their party members and friends. sorry for the rant, i just thought my unique take on it might help people who wanna go a slightly more serious route!
also they can forge their former master's writing, and have idetic memory of many books in his library, so they can write spells and even manage to speak some.
I know this is old but I’m having trouble making a kenku rouge cause it seems really op for a rouge cause of the proficiency I get from being a rouge and being a kenku idk if it adds or if I subtract idk I’m confused (I’m just starting out and making this kenku my first character a rouge so idk I’m my idea of op is right;-;)
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I'm playing a kenku bard because instead of being able to use the language of talking she can use the language of music to make people happy :3
Or sad!
This is a while coming but that’s so cute. And I’m sure if you wanted something unique, an original dance would be perfect
Imagine a party with only kenku
Then it would be a flock!
It would be absolutely silent most of the time 😂
@@rgklaras1976 they a crows so it would be a murder
The party I'm going to be in is going to have 2 in one party 😂
A murder of murderers!
My Kenku Urchin Fighter was employed by a wizard to help with some of his writing tasks and book copying, without being smart enough to make good use of what he was reading. His name is the sound of quill on paper, my party calls me Scritcher.
Love it!
I started hoping u where gonna say the wizard made him read stuff back to him so he wouldn't forget
My kenkus name is feather but there real name means death in scottish..XD
I got a Kenku Necromancer, I named him Nathaniel because his master (a mortician) called him that when he'd berate him for messing up on the embalming process; he found his master's secret necromancy book and ran away with it after accidentally reanimating a corps during a funeral, traveled with some wizards who taught him more about magic and the school of necromancy, but he left them to seek out adventure riches, and the pursuit of flight, aaaaaand he loves to eat GRUB!
Also got one. Hs name's Caw. Now I know what you think, but that name has meaning. Caw was nameless and expelled from his flock for not following the god of death and secret killing. He had a raven which was his best friend. Said raven died from age while Caw wandered the wilderness. An old necromancer found Caw burying his raven friend and showed him necromancy. When the necromancer asked his name, Caw responded with the cawing of his raven friend, the only companion he ever had. The necromancer also showed him how to resurrect his raven as a skeleton. Now Caw had his friend back and appropriately named him Crack because of his constantly cracking bones. Now he wanders the world together with crack and wants to shw people the good things necromancy can accomplish.
Fun fact much like parrots, Corvids such as ravens and crows, what the kenku are based on can learn to mimic human speech via a process called spliting their tongue which is why in the 5e campaign i run, through something like 9th level remove curse, a wish spell, or a divine intervention can lift the curses on a single individual kenku though they will need a wish spell if they want to regain natural wings
Excellent!
My kenku is called rain because he was born in a swamp with non stop rain. We was raised in an army by a french sounding toefling general. So most of his phrases are army commands or soldier conversations from hia soldier days
I made a Kenku College of Spirits Bard that speaks in pop culture references and memes, named Meme ("Meh-Meh"). His spirits are tied to the real world and give him the references that he's able to repeat. He 4th wall breaks too and is self aware he's in a d&d game. It's funny as hell to play!
I only used her for a single one shot so not much development but I rather liked my Kenku Swashbuckler Rogue. Her Kenku name was a sea’s breeze in the sails then a cannonfire. So her name for other non-Kenku was Seabreeze Cannonfire. It was a very trap heavy one shot and her amazing perception almost definitely saved everyone’s asses.
Nice!
Kenku could make amazing bards because they can use sounds of things to aid a performance or even create one of their own! "He crept along floor" You then make the creaking sound of floorboards for example.
I had great fun playing a kenku called Pop.
For his voice I took the mimicry trait and stretched it a little. After a while I would say an entire sentence as another character at the table, and switch it every sentence.
I figured, he has spent so much time around the other PCs by the time I started doing it, it made enough sense that he would have enough exposure to their words to do so (at least I thought so).
I actually watched this video for the Kenku I'm building! Creak Fall (either a monk, cleric, or perhaps dual monk/rogue) literally fell into the hut of their babushka (grain goddess cleric) and tended to the temple until her death. Now Creak, offering a sack full of potatoes to the grain goddess (they're not the smartest, but they get the job done), sets off to help out a group with their journey into Hell for their friend (my previous character who now has a family and cannot emotionally afford to die).
I just made a kenku artificer whose nickname is Scree, but her actual name is a blood curdling scream.
I know they don’t have any CHA bonuses, but I ended up rolling a Kenku Hexblade because I haven’t played either a Kenku nor a Warlock so figured it would be some fun, especially with how many different ways I could write his backstory.
If it's non optimal, and it's fun, it's still fun =D
order of scribes kenku, her name is Quill (natively the sound of a writing quill) who was raised by her teacher a wizard
ive been playing around with heroforge for a few years now making so many characters, but I just made a kenku barbarian, and despite it being the complete opposite of what im usually attracted to in my dnd characters I REALLY wanna try him out.
unusually tall (for a kenku, so he's still not that tall) and muscular, i imagined him to be a broken mind, even worse at communicating than normal. he seeks connection in the hopes that someone might one day help him understand what was done to him to force him into fighting this way and why he's now crazy. not heavily relying on his forgery skills and generally not using those more sneak focused skills. in the beginning id want him to go on a journey of self acceptance as he understands his cultural heritage and begins to balance his innate skills as a kenku, and his learned skills as a battle-axe wielding worrier.
if anyone out there loves the borderlands series as much as I do it might help to understand who my inspiration is, but salt the wounds!
I just starting out playing a Kenku Druid (circle of the under dark). She’s called Bones. Full plague doctors mask. Lives in a treehouse in a swamp. She’s also got a pet rat called snack.
I'm trying a difficult challenge with my kenku... a kenku artificer. He's going to play as a plague doctor/alchemist. He's named Dokk, as that's what his clientele would call him
I'm playing a tempest domain kenku cleric who hate Aarakocra for having something she doesn't. flight so what's the best way to take down a flying enemy? Lightning, plus at higher levels you gain the ability to fly while you are outside
Love it! That's a really great idea!
If a Kenku reads a word that it's never heard, what voice does it hear in it's head? Or does it only see it as an image of the word in it's mind and just knows what it means?
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Like trying to pronounce this i guess £$%%$£"
I feel like kenku just dont have an internal monologue. A lot of people irl don't have an internal monologue either (ie they don't "hear" words when they're thinking or reading or anything)
I like to think that Kenku have a mishmash of words heard in their brain and that it is very frustrating to not be able to elaborate/articulate their thoughts if they don't have the particular words to express it.
@@fluorescentblack4336 That's clever af ngl
a kenku with the acolyte background who has a such deep connection with their god that they can hear and thus mimic and speak with their voice. call them the voice of god
I’m playing a Kenku right now! She’s 4 (I didn’t know about Kiri before creating her. 😆) She is SOOO much fun. She mostly uses ASL and drawings to communicate, and seldom uses repeated phrases to communicate since she is aware that other humanoids often find it annoying. It’s been really fun to use expressions to convey her personality as well. Think of how Gromit is from Wallace and Gromit.
Also, her name is Trash. She was found as a baby by a drunken street urchin and he would often throw things at her and yell, “YOU’RE TRASH!” She still loved him though since he was the only father she knew.
Kenku artificer, gotta put the master forgery to use somehow
Kenku Alchemist Charlatan. Uses a plague doctor mask to hide the fact that he's a kenku and just sold you a very fancy wine bottle instead of a heath potion. Name? The sound of a potion brewing. In other words, Bubbles the Potion Bird.
I‘ll playing DnD for the first time today and I‘m a kenku cleric :D so excited!
I have a Kenku Paladin named Mute
I love them and i want one
Haha of course they have a sad story and all but they’re so CUTE
Im building a Kenku Druid!! Her goal is to try and atone for her and her kinds sins through nature!
Huzzah!
I'm going to try that. Circle of the Moon. Can't wait to imitate random fragments of conversions like Bumblebee from the Transformers
I just started D&D and I love it and I'm playing a kenku barbarian gladiator.
I've been thinking of the idea of a Kenku Pirate Ranger (specifically the subclass of Drakewarden), who during a treasure-hunting accident, swapped souls with a human crewmate. Thus giving them the ability to think their own thoughts, without the ability to speak them properly. I think it could work tho I'm not sure.
The thumbnail made me think this is a plague doctor
Would be a clever disguise for a kenku :)
now we need lizardfolk
SHOON
Kenku Soul Knife Rogue with an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer dip for some subtle illusion spells and telepathy in case my DM wants to enforce mimicry only. Day job as a small, adorable, "Boblin the Goblin" style wandering tinker so he can justify disappearing when assassin/spy work comes in.
Can't get caught if I'm perpetually unarmed and have a double digit Deception modifier.
I'm playing a game with my friends as a necromancer kenku named "rattle/rattles/rattler" and speaking in mostly hisses. It pisses them off so much lmao
I always name my Kenku Cawlin.
My kenku is a barbarian her name is the sound of thunder bc she is a storm harold
One of my current characters is a kenku rogue. I named her Khadri and it took the DM a long time to get that I was making a joke on how crows/ravens caw. I love playing her, but sometimes I'm just not good at sound effects. I was talking mentally with a creature that was going to try to take one of the characters in our group, it was basically "Give me the Aasimar and I will let you and the rest of your party live." Someone caught my character staring off while talking to "the gaunt man" and asked what was going on. She pointed up to the ceiling of the cave they were in and I went "she mimics the sound of a large group of rats"
I did this while messing around with a mechanical pencil www.deviantart.com/enkeli19/art/Khadri-Kenku-Rogue-765452357
Are you sure Khadri’s not a warlock? ;)
The DM said that it was The Gaunt Man mentally talking to her and that she could talk back to him in this way.
Three brothers, klang, bang and klatter. Their cousin, splat!
i have a kenku thief named spoon, he eavesdropped on a chemist teaching some criminal how to make pipe bombs
Can't wait to play as a kenku named MetalPipe.mp3
So just pick a kenku who’s backstory is they’ve lived amongst humanoids... or better yet, one that’s grown up as Sean Connerys assistant.
Samurai kenku I might throw either monk or gunslinger or both it's a battlefronttear campaign I've been told haven't started it yet
Nice!
what is a group of crows called
A murder.
Can you please give me a description of that Kenku merchant you had in your campaign that you briefly mentioned?I want to make a Kenku merchant character so I thought I might get inspired by yours.
I am considering the Kenku. I think it would be amazing to play. I was thinking of starting out as a Thief who's back story is that I "obtained" a spell book (wizard spells) but doesn't yet understand any of them. Eventually, when he reaches high enough level thief, he will learn first level wizard spells. His goal of course is to learn spells of levitation and flying. I am looking for adventures to team up with to explore deep dark dungeons and other places where there is a potential to find caches of treasure to find scrolls, magic items and of course sources of income.
That's great. We love the idea of a character that has a thing while adventuring and later that's why they multiclass. Why did they start out as a theif?
@@SkullSplitter Straight up honest it is because of the dex bonus. Dex/Wisdom just makes me think Thief primary with a few wizard spells. Thief also so I can sneak into places that are not too dangerous that might have magic items or clues to their location. I think the primary motivation of the Kenku is to fly and as a strong motivating force you are compelled to seek out information in that regard. As a Kenku you can't ask people outright for information and it becomes too frustrating. So you just sneak around and snoop lock boxes and chests. Obviously magic users would be the best targets which is how I "obtained" a spell book that I can't yet understand. I need to learn the spells to see if any of them will let me fly. To continue with the thought process, the Kenku start out not being able to converse in common and need to hear phrases to mimic. I believe wizard spells need to be spoken aloud. However from what I recall the Kenku, upon reaching a higher level, can become fluent in conversational languages. To that end I would probably not be able to call out spells until I can read and say them aloud. But maybe I am mixing up my RP games.
"what I recall the Kenku, upon reaching a higher level, can become fluent in conversational language"
@@SkullSplitter I don't know where I read it but I know I did. Probably wasn't canon. What I am curious about is spell casting as they are said to have no internal monologue. So how can they read and memorize spells as that would require them to be said either internally our verbally in repetition? I think it would be fun to play but as I said initially I am only thinking of it. Mainly because I ended up with a Kenku miniature that I painted and was happy with how it turned out. I find table top boring for the most part so I usually like to play chaotic and the abnormal to mix things up and cause mischief. Probably never actually play one unless I find a DM willing to put up with it.
I'm playing a soul knife kenku and my DM's making it so that the telepathic voice is an actual true voice and bypasses the curse which makes it even more tragic because all of his party members will be able to hear his true voice but he never will. Think krieg from borderlands
❤️🤌
Warlock kenku
*motions to the sky*..*makes noise of tentacles sliding across rock into the water*....
I made a treachery paladin kenku that I am currently using and got him to 4. Tricking people to come around the corner thinking its some weak wizard with only a few spell slots and than bam a fucking paladin smite to the face from behind a box i was hiding behind cause I am only 5 ft tall.
Kenku were first introduced in the 1st Ed AD&D Fiend Folio as a monster. 3rd Ed as playable, maybe. Although 2.5 might have had them in the Advanced Players Guide? Good ideas for the 5E character. 👍
I'm a kenku barbarian, and it is great narak is my characters name and he is 6 foot tall and is just a brute but super dumb my intelligence is a 3 lol it has been awesome playing as him and it is my first character and first time ever playing dnd and been at it for about 3 months now
7:22 yeah right, I picked Kenku cuz I wanna be a cute crow
Kenku Swarmkeeper Outlander
i think they're crows, not raven, though maybe they can be any kind of corvid idk.
i'm trying a way to get around the speaking part without having a soundboard. they're a warlock who was chosen by a tome that is a knowledge seeking entity. sorta athena vibes. and their character motivation, which is why the book is helping it, is to free all kenku of the curse. they used to serve an old wizard, who had the book, and died (maybe killed by the character, but it's ambiguous). so they're generally quiet or say old man phrases. when it's absolutely necessary they use telepathy or write something down (which i think is allowed bc the creativity is related to speech?). also the book saw that they're unusually creative for a kenku, though are still limited compared to other races. also bc of the knowledge entity, they're not a charisma based warlock, they're intelligence based with high wisdom bc i wanna get into divination later in the game. also charisma sorta has to be a dump stat for my characters because it's hard to get in that headspace, so i can't play a normal warlock without it being a complete meme that i say awkward things but for some reason people like me (yes, i know how that sounds). they do have some points in deception though. and though i wanna stray from a soundboard, i'm definitely gonna write down cool/funny/useful things that npc's or other players say; to show they're learning about the world after being isolated for so long opening up, and that they're warming up to their party members and friends.
sorry for the rant, i just thought my unique take on it might help people who wanna go a slightly more serious route!
their name is nox (two knocks on wood, so pretty much i rap my knuckles on the table)
also they can forge their former master's writing, and have idetic memory of many books in his library, so they can write spells and even manage to speak some.
Playing a kenku necromancer!
Iam Kenku rouge named choopiy & the only sound I know is the 2014 Godzilla roar
Kenku twilight cleric
Kenku Rogue
I know this is old but I’m having trouble making a kenku rouge cause it seems really op for a rouge cause of the proficiency I get from being a rouge and being a kenku idk if it adds or if I subtract idk I’m confused (I’m just starting out and making this kenku my first character a rouge so idk I’m my idea of op is right;-;)
Talk with your DM is the best advice we can give!
@@SkullSplitter ok will do thanks
I play a Kenku Druid who only use part off song as speech talking is not realy possible .
When humans have dreams they can’t talk in
kenku: oh yea it’s very bad by the way I’m being sarcastic.
can you mimic spells????
I would 100% allow that at my table
I run a kenku artificer
Same, actually! The idea of a character who discovers their "voice" through their craft is just such a compelling idea.
Kenku ranger or tabaxi bard?
Depends on what you prefer...
@@SkullSplitter I love kenku but it doesn't have much abilities
We find that we like what is fun, Tabaxi can be fun too, but if you love kenku...