My favorite D&D character idea generators

I got: CHECK THIS SHIT OUT, I'M GOING TO BE A FUCKING BROAD-MINDED HALF-ORC PALADIN FROM THE NOW DRY SWAMP WHO NEVER TURNS THE OTHER CHEEK I got Shrek

Triumphant Spooky Warrior Girl? She exists, her name is Yasha.

As a forever DM, these seem like they could be pretty rad for making NPCs. Have you found any generators that are more directed at creating NPCs?

If the whole party is “Mistaken for famous knight.” They could be a big gang of famous knight impersonators.

Jhank's Spellbook: Unlike most spellbooks that have space to expand, as a Divination spellbook it already contains every spell she's ever fated to know. She just doesn't understand what they are yet.

"Nervous artificial spy bean." To me, that's a coffee plant turned into an Awakened Shrub. She can mimic an ordinary houseplant if she keeps perfectly still. But her own caffeine makes her jittery, which means it's really hard for her to stay still. And if she's caught, she'll probably be executed. No pressure.

"Let's generate some fucking characters". I'm dead.

The small war-forged spy posed as a noble child's toy. When she escaped to deliver a report of some dire plot, it was assumed she was stolen, and the noble child adored their toy friend, hence there is a reward for her return.

I'm smelling a new series here. Maybe once a month do a random character vid. Maybe have a vote and cosplay the winner at the end of the year.

“Simple straightforward character concept” being said about a foot tall nervous robot spy is why I come here. Hahaha

Okay everybody, I’ve learned that my understanding of the word haberdashery was incorrect, you can stop telling me!! I can’t change the video now that it’s posted

I hope to hear the story of I'm Pretty Sure She's An Elf going on the classic D&D adventure Against They Might Be Giants.

I checked these out and have to share: ANXIOUS TIEFLING WARLOCK FROM A RUN DOWN TAVERN WHO IS SECRETLY FOND OF EMBROIDERY

Ginny killing it with sponsorship spots that reference old sponsorship spots? So good. 🤣💜

"She's an Elf, I'm pretty sure?"... that's all my characters

Me who has like 5 characters I'm not even using already made on D&D Beyond: Interesting

"Sad Damaged Traveler Son" wait, did that generator just make Caleb Widowgast?

Uh, oh look out: I can personally attest that seeing how a random character generator works can easily lead to you living in the dark of your bedroom like Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now running a year long campaign with you, yourself and your randomly generated characters until one of your friends asks 'dude whereve you been I havent seen you around in awhile, and then you realize Oh God how do I explain this without sounding demented and sad?

"Nervous Artificial Spy Bean" - Literally my Star Wars character for a campaign that I've used for a year now. It's a Pitdroid that was designed by a smuggler, so it was trained on smuggling teams. Eventually the teams dispersed/ its creator died, and it was left on its own to just continue doing things along the lines of smuggling. The droid's name? 540R7 (Short). Everyone just refers to it as R7. I did have at the start of the campaign the droid was rundown from needing repairs, so it had a nervous tick that's cliche with rundown robots where its sentences when it was speaking had repeated words and its head would tick to the side repeatedly. So I guess I already had the Nervous Artificial Spy Bean.

I just started using tarot cards to generate character ideas (mostly NPC's) and I'm absolutely AMAZED at how well it works.