![]() I’ll likely choose to create this character in a sea-based adventure. This sets up all kinds of fascinating roles for my inherently royal, sea-based character. Really, this race is straight-up inspired by Aquaman and his Atlantis. The most obvious mythological example I could pull from is Atlantis-not so much Plato’s version, but what the story transformed into. Hidden undersea kingdoms make for a mysterious character background. If you’d like a premade campaign to play your Triton character, check out my pirate adventure below. However, their Atlantean-like civilization brings a sense of honor to the character.Ĭonsider these elements when building a triton character in DnD 5e: Their royal nature makes them a bit arrogant. Historically, this distant race are keepers of the sea-battling krakens and other monsters from the Elemental Plane of Water. For background, I'm going to go with Folk Hero.įor this I am using my typical theoretical 30 pt array of 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10.Tritons in DnD 5e are regal, blue-skinned people of the deep sea, gaining +1 to Strength, Constitution and Charisma. Though what little I've seen of her character implies she's a bit more on the ball with thinking about other people's feelings than most tritons are, many of whom will get offended when a person has never even heard of their species before because these primes should just know all the good things the tritons do for them.Īnyway, we're not talking the standard triton, we're talking this character, so on we go. But I think in this case we'll have to go with a triton, that race of extraplanar insufferable do-gooders. There's a sidebar in Sword Coast that has a little bit, but I don't think it's a fully fleshed out set. Though she would still be hampered by a silence spell as a result.įor race, there's sea elves, which I don't have much in the way of stats for. However, I'm going to assume that the muteness in this case does not hamper her spellcasting, that magical words have a power of their own and come from a source that isn't entirely her voice once formed in the mind. For example, I believe there's a list of about 17 spells which can be cast without using verbal components, so a truly mute character would be unable to do much in the way of casting, which would heavily hamper a lot of concepts. So the sort of internal conflicts that come with a disability which are easily handled by other game systems create character concepts which are nigh unplayable in D&D. It was originally conceived with a fully able-bodied and neurologically typical person as the default. So I think this will be a Divine Soul Sorcerer.Īs to the mute thing, D&D is really bad at this sort of character type. Looking at my list of characters so far, I have an equally small number of clerics, sorcerers, and rogues. Lack of armor might be an issue, though the image presented comes from a superhero setting, which is a genre where worn armor is rare. Light Cleric is another possible route, as is Arcane Trickster Rogue. Though, that said, I could do a Celestial Warlock, but I've done a lot of Warlocks already. Alternately, I could go with a Divine Soul Sorcerer, but again the character doesn't seem that heavily embossed with magical abilities. ![]() The character above doesn't seem particularly fighty, but I could look into a Sun Soul Monk just considering the powers displayed being natural abilities, sort of like a sorcerer but with abilities that are more associated with monks. (At least three, maybe four different creatures.Īs to the bioluminescence, I know how to handle that. Where as the stereotypical debased deep one type creatures also have their analogues in the game. D&D has a number of aquatic cultures, both good and evil, so for the noble aquatic types we already have a set race to use. ![]() The thing is that the matter isn't really necessary here. I do have a history of portraying the deep ones as a maligned culture. I hadn't had a particular character in mind to do, though I likely would have tweaked off of a deep one sort of character possibly. It's an interesting enough concept and I can think of a good way to do it. I don't know much about the character, but it does seem that she is a mute who is capable of using bioluminescence for various purposes. In any case, I figured I'd take the chance to create an aquatic themed character. Judging by the image search she's been around for quite awhile. An image search showed her to be a character by the name of Dolphin from DC Comics who is connected to Aquaman. ![]() Earlier today, an acquaintance of mine linked me this picture. ![]()
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