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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 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")
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks 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..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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

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