How I Do Character Creation in D&D 

Gunslinger turns into slinger

Thinking quickly, my character is able to make a makeshift gun using only a stick, some horse hair, and a gun

'Unless you have a really good way to justify it' *rolls nat 20 persuasion*

I am playing a Twilight Cleric And I can entirely understand why DMs would ban them

I mean, a prehistoric Gunslinger would likely be an ace with a sling...

The prehistoric gunslinger could actually be a Battlesmith who stumbled on some strange black powder and used it to make a shoddy boomstick.

For some reason I just has this scenario in my head where a player walks up to you asking about greenlighting some homebrew so you're like "okay no problem, which one do you want?", and the player is like "okay so I found this really cool content creator..." and they show you something from Laserllama or Kibblestasty and you are like "bitch what about my work???" (Bonus points If you make it into a skit with a french rant at the end)

"If we are playing in a prehistoric setting don't bring a gunslinger" Captain Kirk: "And I took that personally."

A gunslinger that uses that one pistol from Rust that you keep hammering a rock onto until it shoots

IMO, if the twilight cleric is the only support character in the group, then it’s not toxic. It’s only toxic because it often invalidates support features from other characters. But I’ve got a twilight cleric in my campaign and my players have a good dynamic where they seem to consider the twilight cleric’s features as “our features” and it’s actually really fun for everyone if you have one super powerful support character. The only Person it’s unfun for is another support character who is being overshadowed

Always thought it's interesting that a lot of dms ban flying races.

The Gunslinger "I see, we're in the viking Era." "INDEED!"

It would be cool to see a flying race where their wings are their arms meaning they can't use items while flying.

That runescape music still slaps

I don't ban anything anymore because I'm too soft and give cool stuff to my players and it breaks the game anyway. But hey, they like it and as long as we're all having fun that's not a problem.

I'm my group's DM & Twilight Cleric is my FAVOURITE Cleric subclass 😂

What is the rework human? Just curious for future

Made a gunslinger with 3 levels in artificer and he made his guns but as a mechanical contraption to heat up metal pushing the gear to sling out a stone ball bearing. Fun time

Me, loving Aarakockra and birds in general: YOU HAVE TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME

I have found that rolling stats individually can lead to unbalanced builds so I just up the standard array or roll stats and give every player the same number block. Let them put a +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1 whenever they want so that they don’t have to worry about “oh no my half orc isn’t great for playing wizard”

As a DM myself, the advice has been heeded.

oooh im interested in the different version of variant human now. How does it work?

The way a lot of DM’s cower in fear of Silvery Barbs is just hilarious.

Id play an artificer for that ancient campaign, and just dr stone my way through things.

I say the same exact stuff to my players with the exception of flying races. Personally I don't think they are broken unless they are abused which goes for everything in dnd. :p

Hi! How do you reworked "variant human"? i think it is something interesting😊

This makes…….complete sense

My gunslinger slings rock-like bullets from his "+1 sling of returning".

I ban all that you said with the addition of chronurgy wizard. that shit's busted. and by doing that I also give players a reason to choose graviturgy (or transmutation which I allow) wizards for the dunamancy spell list.

As long as players are equal in roleplay, they don't have to be equal with stats

I think one way to bypass broken things is to give inuniverse and incharacter reasons to limit them until the other characters catch up. I'm playing an Aarakocra in my Dragonlance Campaign, but we gave her a character reason not to fly too often early on (she's a gravekeeper, a profession that requires her being on the ground and in caves a lot, and thus makes her uncanny valley to her species, so she covers her wings and rarely showed them). She never actually flew openly until level 4 despite us starting at level 1, and at present in the campaign, she's only spent one combat flying, and it was to do nothing a character couldn't have done by climbing around in the forest canopy (in fact our Arcane Fighter was also up there the entire combat). The agreement with the DM was that I don't use her flight openly until level 5, when the Fly spell would be available, which seemed fair as we're using post nerf Aarakocra. Not only did this keep her balanced, but it also resulted in her spreading her wings and flying openly for the first time a big moment.

A hole in space-time.

Any changes to custom lineage considering it gives a feat as well? Also chronurgy wizard completely outclasses other wizards, any thoughts to that?

Wait, Peace Cleric? Why they though? They aren't that broken

Gun slinger: I have rock, I use many very small rock to send big rock flying

Gunslinger but instead of a gun it's that fish that spits water with surprise accuracy

D&D is as much a game of luck as it is of skill. Now, roll 4d6 and combine the 3 highest numbers of them

I'm curious as to why peace cleric is banned for you? It's strong, but not gamebreaking in my opinion.

Time traveling gunslinger

The gun is ancient technology invented before the fall of Atlantis eons long forgotten.

Ok so we were in a volcanic cave, made a campfire with charcoal over a bunch of sulfur. A bat showed up and we were so drunk we tried to cook it alive, it got so scared it shat over the campfire and flew away. We didn't have a way to extinguish the fire so we peed on it. The cave entrance was facing east so the whole thing dried with the morning sun There, gunpowder

The other thing you should do is ask the power gamer nicely to play a support class. You can still power game it, but it will make the whole party feel powerful rather than left in the dust.

Gunslinger, trapped in the past, trying to find a crystal to re-power their transport, but their shots are limited

“Good way to justify it” WM sorcerer cast time stop and surged, so now the gunslinger is stuck fighting a T Rex

Imagine a game so broken you're banning official whole categories of first party content.

I hate it when dms ban stuff. I have literally never banned anything at my tables. I can work around it if it gets bad, but for the most part my players care more about big damage numbers than anything else so I anticipate nothing and am constantly disappointed nonetheless.

Gift gunslinger from the astral seas. Dimensional tourist turned adventurer

I understand why certain things could be banned in games but I like my games to be fun for my players, I'll put in the extra work to deal with difficult minmax shenanigans and powerful classes.

Really good reason= this is never going to be allowed unless you have the most awe inspiring, beautiful, and logical reason and backstory of all time.

Gunslinger has a gun with 1 bullet because he got sent back with no prep, he now has to figure out how to use a sling or bola

Imagine using a makeshift blunderbuss by stuffing rocks into a wooden gun barrel and lighting flammable dung in the back.

I have twine, a peice of leather and a rock. Time to be an articficer

Gunslinger pissed off angel girlfriend so she sent him back in time, but forgot which point in time she left him.

One of my favourite ways to make a low tech gunslinger is a red dragonborn with a blowgun

A really good example of a gunslinger fitting into a medieval-ish setting is the glass cannon podcasts run of pathfinders gaintslayer. One of the characters is a dwarf gunslinger inquisitor who, after his whole clan got wiped out by a organized clan of giants, was found by another dwarf couple who where only there to plunder what his late parents had left him. GUN!but they decide to take the baby, and He grows up not knowing his true heritage until one day he decides to run from home, drugging his adoptive parents and stealing GUN on his way out.

Can you play as a flying race that lost its ability to fly in a traumatic childhood accident.

In my party we almost never play variant human or we never chose the most broken subclasses (we even play mostly martials cause are the ones we enjoy the most), but still we tend to power creep the campaign with magic items, pacts with gods, etc.

I use sticks that really look like guns and make noises with my mouth “pew pew pew” in order to cast my spells I have to have a stick and I have to shout “pew or bang” depending on the spell

Gunslinger whips out his slingshot

How to play a gunslinger: Diddy Kong

never let this man cook again

As someone who is such a Forever DM that I have yet to play DnD as a Player…yeah, this helps with the inter/post-session headaches.

Just enjoying the RuneScape score in the background, reminiscing about when I first started. 😊

Gunslinger throws flaming rocks and claims he invented firearms. Gunslinger approved?

Me whose never played DND before: I like your funny words magic man

Time traveler gunslinger trying to stop a war or something

last time I DM'd, I had 1 rule that was more important than the others, but it was fair for everyone. "we start at level 3". this way, you get what you need and what you've learned, and it's a nice way to get to level 5 in a few short quests and / or side quests. another rule was, if you're gonna bring snacks, make sure you bring enough for everyone else. most parties thought that was stupid, but others had fun with it, even putting it into the gameplay on our long/short rests. stay frosty!

My gunslinger would just have a slingshot

Play with a DM who likes the work and wants you to play everything the game has to offer. This way they won't shy from throwing all sorts of even crazier things at you and you'll get to experience even more the game should offer.

My favorite way someone's justified a gun is basically a water gun for potions. Load a prefilled bottled and single shot it

This is how I handle it for the most part as well, especially silvery barbs

Sounds like i would absolutely hate being at your table

Gunslinger time traveled trying to kill himself along with his whole family tree . Starting from the prehistoric era . 😂😂😂 i am so sorry

I remember I was in a campaign and someone was a gunslinger. As it turns out, the Chinese actually developed a very early version of a gun. It didn’t fire bullets, but crossbow bolts. It was called the Chinese hand cannon. My DM allowed this, but the weapon had to be a rifle type, as rifles have less ammo and longer reloads than other guns of the fighter gunslinger.

My excuse for bringing a gun slinger I give the DM a 16 inch sandwich of his choice with a brownie and a drink of his choice

I mean technically you could make a type of gun in a prehistoric setting, if you have some black powder and some kind of casing. Obviously not as presice or powerful as pistol but it technically works.

“I discovered guns”.

silvery barbs being banned is so smart

I CANT EVEN FLY ???? I understand the rest but MAYNN FLYING RACES ARE SO COOL

Banning is bad, adapt, improvise, overcome is good.

Gun slinger becomes quick draw slingshot

God that RuneScape music hits 😩

I’m always a dragon borne. I also can fly so maybe I shouldn’t be myself in DnD. Hmm

I knew he was gonna mention silvery barbs in at least one video

“S I L V E R Y B A R B S”

Another way my friends and I do it cause we enjoy high power shenanigans is we make everyone roll a set of 4d6 keep highest 3, until we have 6 rolls. Then we add those all up and make that the point pool where the players can allocate them however they want with the restrictions of no stat can be over 20 and none can be under a 3. Seeing the various min/maxed builds is p funny and how some people finagle some stuff.

I like the idea of making a bowgun like in the monster hunter series. It’s basically a fancy giant crossbow.

Gunslinger but he just throws a rock really hard and says bang after every throw

Had an Aarakocra Sorcerer. My DM avoided dealing with my flight by making most combat encounters take place in low-ceiling dungeons.

Even the characters you are attached to might slowly be tortured and have their mental state deteriorate as they are forced to watch all of their friends and family slowly die Infront of them and then they get released after you put the idea that they could have saved them into their mind so they live on with guilt and trauma thinking that it's all their fault as you sit back and watch them slowly go more and more insane until eventually they snap

My dm loves when we use silvery barbs

Nlg, I came for the info, stayed for tge osrs music XD

Having a +17 like in bg3 is so fun at level 4 i get 20 in any stat thx auntie Such a petal

I imagine incorporating the gun slinger would be something like this. (Name) is from the future and is a seasoned battle veteran. After hundreds of battles won, they grew bored. They tried giving themselves a handicap, but they would still get bored at some point. So they went to the past to see if they could take on prehistoric creatures, taking only 50 bullets and one shotgun shell in case of an emergency as their handicap. Running out of ammo would mean using alternatives, like pistol whips or making slings to be a sling slinger! Though, the cost of time travel was all their battle experience, they still have their memories of the strategies they used in battle. Something like that.

I outran ban Peace Clerics as I played one during a one shot designed by the DM to test a broken monster he was making and wanted to balance it. Turns out we had to run it back a second time with different characters because my Cleric trivialised the whole thing

I FEEL that last bit about prehistoric games... My players wanted to be an artificer and a Vedalken respectively when I pitched the idea of a prehistoric campaign to them. I was kinda just dumbfounded by their choices, and had to work with them both one on one to get ideas that were more setting friendly.

My old DM did strictly homebrew. Races, classes, feats, items, you name it. Now, this tended to make us very powerful. In exchange, he held NOTHING back. We had to face a tarrsque at lvl 11 and were expected to win. And we did.

I'm happy that your having fun that way i guess

FUCKING THANK YOU! No one EVER does point buy even though it's 100% better for everyone.

I don’t like the ban on flying races, but I understand it. Honestly, would you ban the fly spell aswell? Or something like bladesinger wizard/shield spell, stuff like that can be equally as op