Click this link:
Who The Fuck Is My D&D Character?
It’s amazing.
In a short amount of time I got:
PARANOID TIEFLING RANGER FROM THE RUINED SEA WHO REALLY KNOWS HOW TO PARTY
and
MOROSE DWARF ROGUE FROM A SMALL TOWN WIZARDING SCHOOL WHO LOVED, LOST AND NEVER LOVED AGAIN
and
FLAMBOYANT ELF DRUID FROM THE FREELANDS WHO IS QUICK TO TAKE CREDIT AND ASSIGN BLAME
and it’s really just a delight.
So, you’re going to use this for your fiction.
Now, the question is, does this set you up only for writing fantasy?
On the surface, sure, though realistically, you’re free to tweak this to whatever genre you feel is appropriate. (Or maybe it’s a story about playing a *game* of D&D. Certainly D&D is having a lovely moment in both celebrity culture and from Stranger Things.) You can make this as flexible as you need it to be — it’s just a starting point, not a RIGOROUS EXERCISE WHOSE RULES ARE IRONCLAD.
Length: ~1000 words
Due by: Friday, 9/9, noon EST
Post at your online space. Drop a link to it in the comments below.
Leigh says:
Third roll I basically got Gambit, which made me laugh harder than it should: flirtatious Elf Warlock from the wetlands who always speaks in the third person
September 2, 2016 — 10:40 AM
Abbie Sweany says:
My roll: RESPECTFUL ELF BARD FROM A BACKWATER VILLAGE WHO IS AFRAID OF HEIGHTS
Okay, I was a cellist, lived in a desert town of 18k people and am afraid of heights. I’m also tall.
September 2, 2016 — 10:52 AM
Mark A. Sargent says:
Hah, I love that site. If I can find the time, this should be a fun exercise. 🙂
September 2, 2016 — 11:10 AM
Wendy says:
SHORT-TEMPERED HALF-ELF RANGER FROM A CITY NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER HEARD OF WHO ALWAYS REFERS TO INANIMATE OBJECTS AS ‘SHE’.
Should be interesting enough.
September 2, 2016 — 11:45 AM
Tim says:
This is pretty cool : INSENSITIVE GNOME WARLOCK FROM AN EXTREMIST TEMPLE WHO ONLY SLEEPS WITH THE LIGHTS ON
September 2, 2016 — 1:14 PM
Donna Hutt Stapfer Bell says:
I love you. BRB.
September 2, 2016 — 1:15 PM
SC Rose says:
This website is my new most favorite thing. I’m so happy.
September 2, 2016 — 2:20 PM
karen j carlisle says:
Meant to be? This popped up on my feed on the day of our D&D game!
September 2, 2016 — 7:58 PM
Mozette says:
I loved the first one which popped up onto the screen:
‘Modest Tiefling Wizard from a pompous Wizard School who parties hard, way too hard’
I can do something with this! 😀
September 2, 2016 — 10:01 PM
Mozette says:
http://youcantgoback-andotherimpossibilities.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/the-source.html
Here you go! Enjoy!
September 2, 2016 — 10:51 PM
folkool says:
I like it! That was a fun read. Thank you.
September 3, 2016 — 5:20 PM
Mozette says:
Great to hear!
Somebody out there didn’t like my the one below it – but they didn’t have the courage to say so and just hid behind the ‘Anonymous’ name. How gutless is that? Well, I deleted them because I wrote something that was venturing into the realms of X-Men territory… oh well, can’t please ’em all! 😛
September 3, 2016 — 9:55 PM
Fred G. Yost says:
So I managed to get this out of my headspace and onto the blog.
Sometimes the coming of the Narrative is a scary thing.
https://fredgyost.com/2016/09/02/ffc-rebirth-of-the-dragon/
September 2, 2016 — 10:29 PM
Jason Brezinski says:
That was REALLY GOOD!
Fantastic meta-narrative. Very well done!
And a good sense of place. Good description.
September 5, 2016 — 2:20 PM
Fred G. Yost says:
Thanks! Glad you liked it. It was a bit Redshirts inspired, I have to admit.
September 5, 2016 — 4:12 PM
josephsale says:
This is AWESOME! Gunna have so much fun with this tool, cheers for linking. Here’s my competition entry ‘The Rock’: https://josephsale.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/flash-fiction-the-rock/
September 3, 2016 — 2:28 PM
samjamesparr says:
Love it mate!
September 9, 2016 — 3:19 AM
josephsale says:
Cheers dude, I prefer yours! Awesome. Hope you don’t mind I had to share it on Twitter. Too good you humble man.
September 9, 2016 — 9:59 AM
Jason Brezinski says:
FEARLESS HALF-ELF DRUID FROM A SUNKEN CITY WHO WAS APPRENTICED TO A FAILED ALCHEMIST
First couple of lines:
Perfect hit with the spore bomb.
Kyreana might have been really fucking careless when it came to researching dragonfire, but she’d known how to make bombs. And before the explosion turned her into a rather oddly shaped shadow on the wall, she’d taught everything she knew to her only apprentice.
The rest is here: http://www.jasonbrezinski.com/novels/flash-fiction/flash-fiction-1-dd/
September 3, 2016 — 2:44 PM
Fred G. Yost says:
That was awesome. Great pacing, and I’d never thought of half-elf quite that way before.
September 5, 2016 — 12:22 PM
Jason Brezinski says:
Thank you!
September 5, 2016 — 2:21 PM
folkool says:
YOU THINK YOUR CHARACTER IS COOL
MINE IS A FUCKING SENTIMENTAL DWARF RANGER FROM A RUINED CITY WHO FAILED TO PROTECT THE ROYAL FAMILY
September 3, 2016 — 4:56 PM
Jamie says:
I’M GOING TO ROLL THESE STATS FOR A FUCKING
DISRUPTIVE DRAGONBORN WIZARD FROM THE INNER CITY SLUMS WHO PREFERS TO FIGHT DRUNK
(THAT SOUNDS FUCKING TERRIBLE)
ARE YOU KIDDING ME WEBSITE? THAT SOUNDS FUCKING AMAZING.
September 3, 2016 — 5:33 PM
Allison Maruska says:
That sounds awesome!
September 4, 2016 — 12:09 AM
Allison Maruska says:
I got this: Dutiful tiefling ranger form a boarding school who is absolutely astonished by jugglers.
https://allisonmaruska.com/2016/09/03/flash-fiction-the-deadly-diamonds/
September 4, 2016 — 12:10 AM
Fred G. Yost says:
Well done. Sad, but well done.
September 5, 2016 — 12:23 PM
Allison Maruska says:
Thanks! 🙂
September 5, 2016 — 4:06 PM
Jason Brezinski says:
That was really good. An imaginative and well written different take.
September 6, 2016 — 10:22 PM
Allison Maruska says:
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback.
September 7, 2016 — 10:49 PM
deborahleighwrites says:
Plucky Dwarf Fighter from a small family farm who accidentally torched the local temple and is now cursed by its god.
Oh, yeah.
September 4, 2016 — 12:46 PM
Stephanie Marshall Ward says:
This is cool! My kids attend a homeschoolers’ co-op, and one of the parents teaches a D&D-based writing class along the same lines. Needless to say, the teens dig it a whole lot more than they would a class full of “What I Did Over Summer Vacation”-type assignments.
September 4, 2016 — 3:20 PM
Sadie Hartmann says:
I’ve enjoyed reading some of these entries! Here’s mine:
http://sadiehartmann.blogspot.com/2016/09/d-d-flash-fiction-contest.html
September 4, 2016 — 7:37 PM
Vicente L Ruiz says:
I clicked a couple of times. Yes, let’s say it was a couple of times. I got this: “Restless halfling warlock from a city with towers that rival the clouds who is trying to dodge the draft”.
Then I wrote my story and subverted as many of the descriptions as I could. And in the process “the city with towers that rival the clouds” seems to have been forgotten somehow…
https://medium.com/@VicenteLRuiz/escaping-the-draft-99478be87cff#.wpfournus
September 5, 2016 — 7:07 AM
Fred G. Yost says:
Fascinating world you’ve built there.
September 5, 2016 — 12:29 PM
Vicente L Ruiz says:
Thanks! I decided to move as far from a fantasy setting as I could.
September 7, 2016 — 1:53 PM
v4lies says:
Oh no, I started writing and then for some reason I closed my webbrowser and lost which character I had. It was something like ‘a condescending dragonborn Warlock that won a duel he shouldn’t have won’. Anyway, here goes -> https://wordmashup.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/flash-fiction-challenge-pron-the-dragonborn/ Remarks are as always very welcome (also about “my” English, as it is not my mother tongue).
September 5, 2016 — 10:11 AM
Rebecca Douglass says:
Cute! (well, aside from the pile of puke. Only language comment…I think you meant “opponent,” not “component.” Aside from that, you do well!
September 9, 2016 — 12:01 PM
v4lies says:
Thanks! And thanks for pointing out that typo 🙂
September 9, 2016 — 6:55 PM
Wendy says:
Here’s what came out of short-tempered half-elf ranger from a city no one else has ever heard of who always refers to inanimate objects as ‘she’.
http://waroberts.blogspot.com/2016/09/delilahs-grief.html
September 5, 2016 — 12:23 PM
Sertysh says:
I have fallen in love with my DEPRESSED HALF-ORC PALADIN FROM A PLAGUE RIDDEN CITY WHO NAMES EVERY PIECE OF THEIR GEAR.
https://hikelylads.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/flash-fiction-swindle-in-a-haystack/
September 5, 2016 — 3:19 PM
GuyOHarrison says:
My character:
ADVENTUROUS GNOME CLERIC FROM THE SHADE FORESTS WHO IS SEARCHING FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUE IMMORTALITY
and my attempt below. Hope you enjoy.
https://guyoharrison.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/the-quest/
September 5, 2016 — 5:23 PM
Sertysh says:
Love it. But what if someone had posted the secret to immortality from that post office, only for them to lose it like the rest of the bloody stuff that goes through their doors…
September 6, 2016 — 7:45 AM
Allison Maruska says:
I KNEW that was the secret to happiness! 😉
September 8, 2016 — 8:30 PM
dcxli says:
I enjoy ignoring rules, so I created a party of four characters and went a bit over the word limit.
I refuse to apologize.
https://dcxli.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/who-the-fuck-is-my-dnd-character/
September 6, 2016 — 3:40 AM
S. Nathan says:
When a DISCERNING TIEFLING PALADIN FROM A ROYAL LINEAGE WHO HAS TAKEN A VOW OF SILENCE gets interrogated by the police for a murder investigation, this is what happens. Not in D&D universe, and I regret nothing about the word count. Enjoy!
https://sdotnathan.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/the-silent-interview/
September 6, 2016 — 10:24 AM
Jason Brezinski says:
That was funny and really different. Very imaginative.
September 6, 2016 — 10:26 PM
S. Nathan says:
Thank you! 🙂
September 7, 2016 — 11:06 AM
Joe Turner says:
So, couldn’t choose between my results, so just decided to use all five.
https://joetblogs.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/terribleminds-flash-fiction-challenge-who-the-fuck-is-my-dd-character/
September 6, 2016 — 3:54 PM
mdflyn says:
The Blood Oath Bard by M. D. Flyn “Unbalanced dwarf bard from a tiny village who drunkenly swore a blood oath and forgot what for” http://www.mdflyn.com/blood-oath-bard-original-flash-fiction/
September 6, 2016 — 7:18 PM
Shana Horn says:
https://slwhshorts.blogspot.com/ “Plucky gnome rogue from a small family farm who has a burning hatred for pirates.” I am a bit out of touch with D&D so I used Pathfinder instead, sorry.
September 7, 2016 — 1:02 AM
Matthew X. Gomez says:
https://mxgomez.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/a-small-price-to-pay-a-chuck-wendig-challenge/ ANXIOUS TIEFLING FIGHTER FROM A LOCAL STREET GANG WHO BRIBED A NOBLEMAN TO HELP THEM SMUGGLE SLAVES OUT OF A TYRANNICAL KINGDOM
September 7, 2016 — 10:30 AM
Ethan Asplin says:
So I got MACHIAVELLIAN DRAGONBORN WARLOCK FROM A COMPLEX BUREAUCRATIC SOCIETY WHO WOKE UP IN A BAR WITH NO MEMORY AND A SEALED LETTER. If that isn’t an intriguing character then… then I have really poor judgement of these things.
https://beginimaginingblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/flash-fiction-dd-character-creator/
September 8, 2016 — 3:21 PM
Jason Brezinski says:
Well, that was really good! Great set up.
September 8, 2016 — 9:00 PM
samjamesparr says:
These stories are great – so many interesting characters and places!
I got DISRUPTIVE TIEFLING RANGER FROM THE LIZARD INFESTED MARSHLANDS WHO WAS BADLY BURNT BY A SORCERER. A bit more serious than some of these, but great fun to write:
https://samuelparr.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/d-d-flash-fiction/
September 8, 2016 — 5:01 PM
Toni J says:
I got a GRAVE DRAGONBORN WIZARD FROM THE SEA OF SAND WHO HATES SILENCE.
https://tonij.com/2016/09/08/the-beast-of-the-sea-of-sand/
September 8, 2016 — 6:29 PM
Skye says:
I rolled a couple of times and got “Curious human rogue from a floating city who doesn’t believe in hygiene.” http://runnerskye.ca/flash-fiction-challenge-d-d-character-generator/
September 8, 2016 — 7:31 PM
Rebecca Douglass says:
I got “Snobby elf wizard from a conquered city who never returned anything he borrowed.” He ran into a much more powerful force in “A Wizard’s Not a God.”
http://www.ninjalibrarian.com/2016/09/friday-flash-wizards-not-god.html
September 8, 2016 — 11:14 PM
Jemima Pett (@jemima_pett) says:
I enjoyed the last one of these we did; I’m not sure I really nailed this one, but still…
We lead with: resentful human bard from a sleepy harbour town who has a huge debt to pay back, and then I added a few minor characters. Maybe that was too much for 1000 words.
http://jemimapett.com/blog/2016/09/09/fridayflash-fiction-too-much-of-a-good-thing/
September 9, 2016 — 4:39 AM
Mark Benjamin says:
I wouldn’t miss out on this one at all after I got: “a half-elf monk from a tourist town in the mountains, who was raised by ghosts” Really had a blast writing that one! Thanks Chuck!
http://www.markbenjaminbooks.com/my-journal/the-adventures-of-jimbo-and-sellar
September 9, 2016 — 2:02 PM
deferentialdame says:
I know I’m late to this one, but it was so good I couldn’t resist.
Oh man, it’s been a while since I’ve done anything like this. Welcome back to the site, me. I got two and mostly used and abused one – “confident human warlock from the royal catacombs who has no concept of personal space” – with a small dash of the second. This is one of my first forays into writing in a damn long while, and it feels so good to stretch my finger muscles and get dirty with it. No editing, just going.
https://deferentialdame.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/flash-fiction-challenge-who-the-furry-jesus-is-my-dnd-character/
November 12, 2016 — 10:24 PM