D&D Character Ideas That Are Less Cliché Than Your Last One

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Making an interesting character is all part of the fun of playing, but devising a good concept can sometimes be one of the most challenging aspects. Ideally, a character should feel like a natural part of the world, but creating a stock fantasy trope isn't the most interesting path. It’s far too easy to fall into the trap of using the same clichés when rolling a new character, resulting in a party that feels more like a template than an interesting group of adventurers. Any character can be roleplayed in an interesting way, but having a unique spin up front makes this task a lot easier.

Everyone has seen or read about the lone wolf ranger character or the lovable and Robin Hood-like rogue. A flirtatious bard or an old, cranky wizard are so commonplace that they are practically parodies at this point. While these ideas are not necessarily bad, they have been done so many times that it is hard to find a new interpretation of them. Whether trying to fit a character into a specific race and class or starting from scratch at the idea phase, there's no shortage of exciting approaches to characters to solve the conundrum of novel character creation.

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A wide-eyed former pirate who didn’t know any better could be a fun character idea in. Raised as a pirate from being very young, this character has only ever known a life of travel and raiding. Perhaps they were taken during one of the raids and adopted by the pirates, or maybe they are the child of a high-ranking pirate or even the Pirate King or Queen. It could be amusing to play with the idea of what pirate characters are usually like and turn that on its head by having the character be quite