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[–] superkret@feddit.org 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Missing:

  • god-like magical being, masquerading as Just Some Dude (closely related: The Super-Powered Self-Insert)
  • Most boring, generic build available in the system, played ironically ("His name is Hugh M. N. Fi-Thor")
[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh! My first dm assigned me the god-like magical being role! It started as a group campaign and ended up being just me and her husband, and I was super new to it, so she wrote out a whole thing that my character was unaware of, and the entire story became finding out about this.

My own backstory probably sucked, but my character was a fire genasi mix who was trained as a mage blade. She was purple with white eyes due to badly botching her familiar summoning spell, so she ended up with a thievy purple monkey (incapable of following directions, unless I critted the roll) instead of the phoenix she was aiming for.

The dm snuck a giant gem into my inventory thanks to that sneaky thieving monkey (which caused a lot of problems, as you can imagine of a familiar that doesn’t obey fucking anything.) it ended up being an artifact from her ancestors, and unlocking the secrets of it brought out my latent goddessness.

So that was a blast.

Thanks for bringing up those memories! It was so long ago now..

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

DM assigned specialness is different and often really fun.

I've played a few "mystery backstory" games those are really fun, especially the one where we had to figure out even our class

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

one time my buddy was running a game of Monster of the Week and I came up with the most mundane character possible: a Wisconsin corn farmer named Pete Faber, competing with angels, demons, and the miscellaneous supernatural

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds like he could be the next Ash Williams who works on over in housewares at S-Mart!