Original Thread: >>46665661
Propose a simple character concept, and the next poster has to add a twist to it and then propose their own concept, which the next poster will twist etc etc. The end result is making interesting characters, so decency is appreciated.
These threads may get chaotic sometimes so twisting multiple concepts is acceptable.
I'll start:
>A lone desperado with a revolver and a grudge...Let's hope this one doesn't die so soon
>>46687128
>>A lone desperado with a revolver and a grudge...
The gun is a piece of evidence that will exonerate his father, but he needs to deliver it before before the month is through and the route crosses a state where he's wanted for robbery.
>A powerful alien raised on a farm...
>>46687195
The farm is for Aliens of their species and they want to break out and liberate their kin
>An ex-miner Starship Captain scorned by his former partner
>>46687273
His ex partner scorned him because he was moving to become an outlaw and they wanted nothing to do with it.
>A cleric of a barely worshiped god who is feared for their abilities over death.
>>46687293
...is a good man who wants to scare people away from his recently turned evil/corrupted god.
>a dwarf living in a human settlement
>>46687332
>>46687332
>>a dwarf living in a human settlement
... Because he can't hold his liquor and has embarrassed himself too many times to return home.
A wizard who doesn't believe in magic...
>>46687389
... but studies it because they find it interesting. Before long they have become a master wizard without even realizing it.
>A thief who steals from the beggars...
>>46687407
.. who all work for a mind controlling scientist ordering them to pillage peaceful villages.
A recently created AI robot working as a butler..
>>46687429
... Still a prototype, slightly clumsy, but extremely deadly.
>An tinkerer who invents new things by the minute, rarely has full days off...
>>46687429
But hates every second and constantly plans to take over the world
>A Medic who likes hurting people
>>46687482
...emotionally.
>A warforged who lived for so long he cant even remember his origins...
>>46687482
... So they dabble in dark arts to jinx their patients, so they will hurt themselves again and need stitches.Alt: ... So they wander around battlefields treating and disinfecting wounds of the soldiers
>An enormous skeleton who sits in a throne room...
>>46687535
.. But he has an autobiography engraved on the back of his head.
An elderly farmer who just buried the last of his 7 children..
That was hilarious, with the medic, by the way.
>>46687549
...is actually fossilized remains of an ancient animal that the local savages misunderstood as the body of a demigod, reassembled it incorrectly as hominid and built a temple around itthis pretty much happened sometimes in ancient times. Apparently elephant bones resemble those of a human giant, missing the snout etc.
>>46687563
... Now he dreads the day the curse bestowed upon him will reach his grandchildren.
>A sentient that tree sat upon the Cherry Hill for millenia...
>>46687407
....whom the thief turned into beggars by stealing from them when they were rich.
>a halfling afflicted with gigantism born into a halfling only town...
>>46687665
.. was raised to be a warrior once his condition was realized, but ran away to pursue his passion of cooking.
A cowardly kobold at the bottom of the pecking order in his clan..
>>46687665
..is actually the only healthy person in halfling pepilation. Others are humans suffering from dominant gene that causes dwarfism
>>46687610
Oh yeah, a concept.
>an alcoholic private detective who is an ex-cop...
>>46687724
.. didn't ask for this.
Had to.
>>46687738
Fuck you! I refresh the page see the damn post and get halfway through a depressed cyborg post and then scroll down to see you crushing my hopes and dreams.
>>46687718
... They were the next in line to be the clan's leader, but after the leader was usurped and killed, they needed to get by on their own, in which they are not good at.
>>46687724
...Known to be a giant wuss while drunk and is not tough enough to play bad cop for suspects.
>A lone hunter in the wild, toughened by years of hunting...
Bumping with some twists
>>46687535
...Fights not because he wants to, but because that's all that he remembers doing.Pretty decent BBEG / NPC I thinks
>>46687664samefagging but you can't stop me...Decorated every year by the nearby villages. Then one year, it disappeared, and reappeared in the mountains thousands of kilometers away, where it has stood for hundreds of years now.Again with this one, cuz I love it
>A ferryman of River Styx went on a strike...
>>46688207
...and his work got outsourced to a bunch of mortals. Hilarity ensued.
>a powerful relic is a mimic in disguise
>>46688207
...because his pet African Darter was poisoned by toxins in the river. A long companion, and a core means of subsistence by catching fish, the ferryman went on strike in opposition to the factory owners that tasked him to ferry it's workers across the river.
>a young woman visits a battlefield memorial site in search of what happened to her grandfather...
>>46688328
...that took a liking to its owner and has already thwarted two attempts to steal it.
>a trailblazer who has been dauntlessly exploring the New World for the last 20 years...
>>46688328
...Inside three chests that all say progressively more insulting things about the opener.
>>46688330
...All she found was evidence her grandfather's romantic endeavors with the other soldiers.
>A local carpenter thinks they've got the mettle to start hunting vampires...
>>46688370
To "uplift" local tribes into fighting his own private war. Also to find a cure for his New World ills.
>A God has been corrupted by unknown sources...
>>46688414
... resulting from his sacred limestone statues being eroded by acid rain.
>Dragons have been sighted around the volcano...
>>46688581
... Little do the villagers know that lava baths are a central part in Dragonic mating ceremonies.
>A druid lives in a manufactory...
>>46688629
... crafting massive stones for henges.
>Centaur horselords have arrived at the city gates...
>>46688629
Because he has no other place that welcomes him, and hey, plants make the place livelier.
>A general is bent on conquering the main landmass...
>>46688728
... which is an Antarctic-style frozen near-wasteland.
>Huge riots have started in the capital city...
>>46688862
Over a lost game of cricket. Mayor is still adamant that "red hooves are a bunch of losers"
>the king ordered codification of the law in his realm
>>46689107
...The king tries to bypass his opposition by instating the codification of law while the law is still heavily biased in the king's favor.
>A paladin who still wears the armor ages old, fixed and polished, but still very worn...
>>46689922
The paladin got the armour from grave-robbing the tomb of an ancient king.Whose spirit haunts the armour
>The expedition to the northern wastes has returned...
>>46690777
...with no valuable information whatsoever, since they were supposed to go South.
A young boy follows in his father's footsteps and becomes an adventurer...
>>46690922
...Sadly, taking "following his father's footsteps" too literally, he fell to his death in the same spike pit as his father did.
>Villagers ravage monsters of the surrounding area...
>>46690922
With the difference that his armour is all salvaged from dead monsters hanging as trophies on the walls of his family's house.
>>46690995
... after dispute over the outcome of the annual district humans vs. monsters Cornish hurling game.
>The council of elders is increasingly worried about piracy...
>>46691170
...as the pirates refuse to pay them their protection money.
>The skeleton of an ancient warrior is raised by a necromancer...
>>46691170
They are all going senile simultaneously, the town they are the elders of is 300 miles in land.
An incredibly snarky watchmaker.
>>46691170
One of the more darker members of the council is using this crisis to push for the issuance of letters of marque to groups he controls.
A 40k character. Worked as an Adept in the administratium on a forge world. Has become a Seneschal and is known for his cold and cunning attitude as hes only used to dealing with machines. He joined the crew of a Rogue Trader as the only thing he appreciates in life is money. He is extremely skilled at using pistols in combat, a bit of a desperado.
>>46691372
Has a toaster fetish.
>The Lord of West Halida iss determined to have a lava moat for his fortress, physics be damned.
>>46691598
His fortress is a toy replica and his servants are determined to fulfill the young child's wish.
>A cleric who is an aspiring artist
>>46691331
...in a vain attempt to relive the glory days of old when they were companions on a quest to save the world.
>A dragon who demands a yearly tribute of virgins...
>>46691331
....who discovers he was actually a bard who made all his own stories up.
A famous magical puppet-maker opens up a doll shop...
>>46691746
...So that she has plenty of friends to play dress-up with.
>>46691761
>A famous magical puppet-maker opens up a doll shop...
In order to spread out the pieces of his soul that he has buried within each of the very expensive dolls.A rookie (naive) paladin of order is being sent out on his first solo expedition.
>>46692156
>A rookie (naive) paladin of order is being sent out on his first solo expedition.
...so that he can redeem for the sins of his family.
A sppoky-scary skeleton has risen from eternal rest...
>>46692320
>so that he can redeem for the sins of his family.
I mean, at least try.
>>46692156
To get her away from the palace and to stop distracting all the princess's would be suitors.
A plucky star ship captain who invariable manages to lead his ship and crew out of every perilous encounter intact
>>46692320
...But loses his will to (un)live, and must figure out how to die (again).
>An untested combat droid escapes from a military base...
>>46692320
...because Steph Curry ran put of humans to defeat, so the gods are raising the greatest ballers of all time to SHUT UP AND JAM.
>A high school drama club prepares for the spring play...
>>46692359
and is periodically spotted near a local celebrity's hosted charity events
>>46692360
...Ironically the club's inner drama was more dramatic than their play. So they decided to make a new play, about themselves!
>A blind watchmaker...
>>46694495
... makes watches in which awakened ladybirds / ladybugs turn the hands from inside the watch. Rumou has it they've formed a workers' union.
>The king's flagship has sunk due to...
>>46696197
The fact that no matter how hard you try nor what materials you make it out of a ship sized flag and pole will sink or at the very least be negligibly useful in a firefight.
>a hairy halfing raised ugly duck style by dwarves
>>46696791
... is mistaken for a hobbit and given a quest to slay a dragon.
>The jungles of the south are considered to be very dangerous...
>>46697104
As the southern wood elves don't take kindly to "yankee" elves and legitimately believe they won the war.
>a puppeteers doll modeled after marilyn manson has attained sentience...
>>46697386
... Despite falling hard into the uncanny valley, still manages to be endearing in some weird way. Acts nothing like the original.
>A wizard who carries a broken lock as a pendant...
>>46697386
And will soon be adopted by Marilyn Manson so that they can finally perform the ventriloquist routine that the world never knew it wanted.
>The Far Realms begin leaking into the Feywild...
>>46698913
... the lock used to be on a cage door that held a wild beast he had summoned but been unable to tame. The beast broke out of the cage, shattered the lock, and ate the key, fleeing off into the land. The wizard has since been seeking to recapture the beast.
>a colossal human-intelligence cobra with arms made out of the corpses of his deceased children...
>>46700087
Sadly the baseline for "human intelligence." Was a fanatic believer in ancient aliens, horoscopes, moon landing fakes, and hollow earth theory as he was the only one to answer the "hyper cobra 5001 volunteers needed." Ad.
>>46700292
Oops.
>an aging and tired vet somehow tasked with guiding the next generation of adventures
>>46698920
...And decides that this "destroying the mortal planes" stuff is just slightly worse than beer.
>The ghost who cannot rest before righting an ancient wrong...
>>46700623
and his Wrong was Ancient Shitposting just before Vesuvious erupted
>A Doppleganger decides that his next infiltration choice will be an order of monks
>>46700776
... Who unbeknownst to him have trained to see through doppelgänger disguises and are luring him into a trap.
>a shapeshifter circus ringleader who is his own travelling troupe
>>46701267
... Who still must fill out income tax for all his personas
>retired adventure runs an inn
>>46700390
...hires instructors to form a training camp that teaches basic survival and combat skills while he takes a mostly do-nothing position as headmaster.
>A great evil stirs after being imprisoned for one thousand years
>>46701662
The very evil that spurred the Crusades begins to whisper to the inhabitants of the Middle East, leading to the formation of ISIS. The world's collective fear of Islam fuels the evil creature beneath the sands.
>A lord is called from his holdings to be the king's High Thane...
>>46701662
And grants amazing powers and magical control to a random chucklefuck peasant, continually babbling in ancient Eumerian in the poor sap's head as he quickly becomes one of the prime magical pivots of the continent.
>A wizard irresponsibly creates life using a local woman and his dog...
>>46701718
...it's actually a trap to assassinate him so that the king doesn't have to pay back his debts to the lord.
>A brash young man sets out to become the world's greatest warrior...
>>46701788
And happens to accidentally beat the current record holder as he overconfidently trips on a stone. Now, two weeks into his quest, he's got the title, a magic sword, and a whole parade of angry near-gods-of-war chasing him.
>>46701819
Crapdangit
>An ancient king's burial amulets are stolen by an inexperienced tomb robber...
>>46701819
No lie, I'd read that manga.
>A crude dwarf and a snobbish elf trade insults in a tavern...
>>46701526
Has to deal with his old companions frequently trying to mooch of him
A mercenary goes on his last job before retirement...
>>46701839
Those aren't the real amulets. The Tomb Robber discovers this too late.
>We fight aliens with giant robots...
>>46701839
...only to discover they're actually fakes. The real ones were stolen by the people preparing the corpse for burial.
>A horde of orcs marches through the countryside towards the capital...
>>46701868
... and instead of getting shot, his brother out of town kills himself, passing his debts over to him. Looks like he's gonna have to wait a little longer.
>An old mannequin carver who recently discovered his sorcerer powers...
>>46701945
...and makes a fortune selling Maid Marian onaholes.
>A chef prepares a meal fit for a king...
>>46701961
...Attracting a bunch of local kings and causing a diplomatic incident. Just as planned.
>The dead begin rising from their graves en masse...
>>46701983
...and the living crawl into the vacated graves to sleep while the dead work the night shift, just as it always has been and always will be.
>A boy throws a stick for his dog...
>>46701899
...Protesting unfair taxation, colonial rule, and swaying the local populace to their cause with inspirational speeches and rhetoric.
>The god of the moon kills the god of the sun...
>>46702009
...Who somehow manages to fetch the court wizard's staff instead. Demons invade, and chaos reigns as the staff is used to prop up a section of hut ceiling for a family of peasants.
>>46702050
Argh.
>A mysterious knight with a rose patterned helm challenges and defeats all comers...
>>46701895
...Then discover the aliens are filming it for galactibux, sue for half share of the business, and spread the name of humanity across the stars as giant robot WWE-style fighters.
>>46702066
...because the princess bribed the challengers to lose so that her secret paramour might gain favor with her father.
The prince disguises himself as a commoner so that he can see how they live...
>>46702197
...And ends up accidentally becoming 'prince' again, as he rises to leadership of the thieve's guild.
>An ancient war machine is reactivated, and begins marching to an ancient battlefield, now a thriving city...
>>46702238
... where it finds that its enemies won that war, but stole its allies' flags and set them up all around the city. The machine recognises the flags as those of its allies and is tricked into working for its old enemies.
>>46702238
... where it finds that its enemies won that war, but stole its allies' flags and set them up all around the city. The machine recognises the flags as those of its allies and is tricked into working for its old enemies.
>a schizophrenic superhero who hallucinates villains for him to defeat, causing him to kill innocent civilians while achieving no real goal
>>46702320
...Is constantly broken out of jail by the media conglomerate that films his exploits in a crapsack future.
>Gangsters shoot up all the local noodle joints...
>>46702320
...Is actually the victim of a cruel experiment by his *actually* evil brother, who resents his powers and wants to discredit his greater sibling.
>A young druid, raised in the forest by a single, solitary old sage wanders into a big city for the first time...
>>46702320
...because his meds were intentionally tampered with to provide public support, and funding, for increased domestic military intervention.
>The vast ruins of an enlightened precursor civilization dot the landscape...
>>46702393
...And ends up with ownership of a failing menagerie, swearing to get it working again to show all and sundry the wonder of nature.
>A crew of notorious pirates hit the capitol's red light district on a bender...
>>46702466
...only to be quickly robbed of their pay by the brothel before being turned over to the law for the bounty on their heads.
>A teenage girl inherits a starship from her mysterious and distant grandfather...
>>46702452
...Providing magically free food, education, and magical training to all and sundry. Some worship them as gods, some suspect they're trying to rebuild their lost society, others try to beat them at chess.
>A famous wizard dies, and his familiar flees with his most coveted magical artifacts...
>>46702532
...which is his vintage magical erotica collection.
>A dragon sleeps at the bottom of a nearby lake...
>>46702521
Only to discover that it has far too strict biometric locks, preventing her from piloting the ship and triggering it's auto-pilot to return to a designated safe spot, which happens to be a planet in a distant star system.
>A grumpy, homeless hobgoblin makes friends with a priest who is the only one to show him kindness...
>>46702568
...which is actually a collossal gelatinous ooze. (the dragon is dead btw)
>A mysterious peddler sells magical lanterns that burn with a black flame said to reveal secrets
>>46702568
And the local office of the law wants to you unofficially do something about the dozens and dozens of littering, public disturbance, and noise complaints aimed at the local fishing industry that keep magically appearing on their doorstep.
>A warforged begins the long and arduous process of becoming fleshy by incorporating reanimated cadaver parts into its construction...
>>46702586
...Resulting in the spread of worship of the priest's god when the hobgoblin hordes trample the local government and the hobgoblin vouches for his goodwill.
>A powerful shapeshifter finds itself stuck in one form...
>>46702609
... attaches the hand of a serial killer and becomes possessed by their soul; apparently being human isn't as great as you might thing.
> A legendary fixer has to call in the one favor she hoped she'd never need.
>>46702594
...That work perfectly fine, but cause a peasant uprising when it's discovered that the king is a savvy illusionist and hides the workings of his government under a veil of glamour.
>A condemned man is hung for the third time...
>>46702664
>A legendary fixer has to call in the one favor she hoped she'd never need.
She needs you to get her some toilet paper because there's none in the house and she just took a dump.
One of the world's most powerful megacorps is about to go bankrupt, and Mr. Johnson wants to ensure that he gets his investment repaid, one way or another.
>>46702664
...Moving back in with her parents, severely limiting her operations.
>A 450 pound troll claims to be a ninja and have conducted several infamous heists...
>>46702702
...Unfortunately no amount of Shadowrunners can change the terms of a bankruptcy settlement, so Mr. Johnson has to settle for 70%.
>The legendary sword of the first king has been stolen...
>>46702697
... because he has three heads which had to be hung individually due to the town only having one noose. Unfortunately as long as at least one of his heads is alive, the others will quickly regenerate any missing parts and functions, even recovering from being hung.
>a king who hates goblins and pirates is asked by the most feared pirate captain around to help kill the goblins who constructed the captain's ship
>>46702822
...By a young thieve's guild initiate, whom it's planning to influence into bringing the kingdom back to its original values: Crush their neighbors, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women.
>A powerful ghost haunts the Hall of Lords, changing the features of all the paintings...
>>46702842
Beginning a beautiful friendship and the introduction of the kingdom's navy, so everybody wins. Except the goblins. Fuck them.
>A widower king's only sheltered daughter is discovered to be in a family way...
>>46702874
... making them appear more like women by elongating their hair and softening their facial structure. Slowly the current Lord's subjects begin to notice a more feminine aura surrounding him, and his soldiers are heard remarking about his surprisingly round ass.
>two nations across a mile-wide sea agree on a new way of waging war such that neither nation needs to lose fortunes of gold building ships to fight on
>>46703085
>magical realm detected
...By only holding wars during the winter, when the strait freezes over. Setting traps that dump entire camps into the churning, icy water becomes common, as does frostbite from the lack of burnable fuel.
>A famous ancient king's crown is discovered, then immediately disappears...
>>46701861
The addition of an orc, a rude warforged, and a gnome results in a bar fight and the formation of the world's greatest comedy troupe after a whirlwind roadtrip adventure to discover what the hell happened last night.
>Mermen and molemen finally cease their perennial war to take on the surface...
>>46703287
...only to discover that their inability to leave the water for long periods of time and their poor eyesight and disorientation in open spaces, respectively, rapidly cause their war effort to die out.
>The cheeky pickpocket is actually the princess of a neighboring kingdom escaping her royal duties...
>>46688720
Looking for booze, gambling, sightseeing, and two words:HumanPussy
>Mage-created insect warriors offer to peaceably surrender after the defeat of their master...
>>46703379
...Causing her more practical younger sister to send assassins to pave her way to the throne.
>Magical show illusionist diva cracks under relentless criticism...
>>46703435
note that if said mage dies the entire plane they are on explodes as well
>an adventuring group is challenged to stop the seemingly unlimited wave of orcs
>>46703512
...Takes the money, kills a shitton of orcs to level, then skips the plane to do something more interesting.
>A robot that turns into a motorcycle is a local celebrity, and is embroiled in scandal when...
>>46692354
Is actually a very advanced AI
>>46703566
When public discovers his affair with a regular car. He claims that her computer is very convincing.
>a magical tornado just started outside the town
>>46704848
... it had originally set up shop inside town, but its loud whooshing and disturbance of the peace led to it being asked to take its business elsewhere.
>a retired Soulhunter (demonic assassins trained to rip the souls from their targets and offer them to their lords) experiences an attempt on his life by another demon...
>>46705380
Turns out he's been skimming a little off the top, which isn't such a good idea when dealing with souls or demons.
>the gunslinger carries his trusty six-shooter and an assortment of custom rounds...
>>46705681
Custom rounds are all blanks or other non-dangerous munition.
>A tough biker gang leader becomes the world's first mage...
>>46705716
...aboo.
>an uplifted chihuahua is tasked with destroying an ancient mcguffin at a large geologically active site where it was originally made
>>46706511
...Gears up by getting a mechsuit with various weaponry.
>Assassin who never strictly kills their targets...
>>46706681
....has become a master at moving every bit of the victims furniture, bathroom fixtures, and stairways down and to the right by 2 inches ensuring fatal accidents.
>a child of untold potential, born into your average peasant farming community.
>>46706703
... Becomes the best farmer that has ever been, and then also becomes the protector of the community. Even after several tries to recruit them, they stayed in the community.
>>46706772
Shit, forgot concept...
>Blood mage who carries blood packs and other medical supplies along...
>>46706787
used his powers for good as a battlefield robin hood-esque medic stealing blood from the blood rich and giving to the blood poor.
>your families curse is to do seemingly grand things that ultimately end in failure and you are the last surviving kin even after many tried attempts to halt the ending of the family lineage
>>46706825
...but on this curse sprang a kind of immortality that kept the last sufferer of the curse alive long enough to pass it along to the next of kin, wherein the parent of the child would know death, finally, after possibly lifetimes of suffering, unless by chance the child survived longer than the parent, or even other siblings.
>>A mindflayer with a mostly good oriented set of moral codes is set upon a self motivated pilgrimage to contemplate the nature of it's existence, and perform praise worthy deeds...
>>46707131
... who feasts upon the hearts of the vile instead of their brains. His house sigil is a burning mind.
>A kenku who finds its own voice...
>>46707286
... The voice is so appealing it becomes a public speaker, until a politician.
>A gravedigger who has to fight the undead every night...
>>46702663
...which happens to look exactly like a great king's long-lost son.
>The evil warlock engineers a magical plague...
>>46709228
...which makes the inflicted rubbery and melty, unless they fuse with another inflicted, turning them into a new joint organism.
>The captain of the guard introduces a curfew...
>>46709295
... at 06:00 in the morning; it's a vampire city which is serious about health and safety.
>Merchant ships have stopped arriving at the town's harbour...
>>46710300
because, three weeks ago, the tide line rather suddenly receded over a mile and the water level never returned to normal.
>After several hours of stalking, the cutpurse decides the time has come to move in on her mark
>>46710650
...Wait, no. Move in WITH them. I-it's called a long con, baka!
>The dungeon centering around one oddly specific sexual fetish...
>>46710963
...goes out of business because they don't have a client base large enough to cover their costs.
>Everyone in a small village is troubled by the same nightmare...
>>46711008
...about living a long and happy life with their wife/husband and children. Adventurers must investigate the villagers' skewed priorities.
>The fountain of the town's founder that's said to bring good luck...
>>46711214
...actually does bring good luck, but the sheer number of actions taken that have a probabilistic outcome mean that most people never notice as it affects minor things.
>A barrow deep in the woods is said to be cursed...
>>46711351
That wheelbarrow has been lying in the forest since before living memory and hasn't rusted at all.
>The University's sacred tome must be opened every full moon...
>>46713009
...as its spell fuels the dean's powered chair
>the village lays on the literal verge of the world
