I ' ve never seen it done well I ' m sure someone out there has a lot of love poured into their character and might think it ' s a great story , but the more a character is larger than life , the less room there is for their story . Imagine if Harry Potter were also half dragon on top of being a secret wizard and marked for Death by HWMNBM . Now , imagine if Harry Potter were also heir to Camelot and Excalibur as well as being a halfdragon . Ok , now imagine Harry Potter the half dragon wizardwarriorheir to Excalibur is also reaaaalllyyyy wacky and likes to use his magic to turn his head into a duck and people ' s hands into breadcrumbs as his normal type of attack . I mean , the experience I ' ve had with different characters has never been til this session I ' m running I ' m picking a drow . No , I ' m not a tortured soul seeking redemption more of a malcontent in Drow society who got to escape from the underground due to a cavein . It ' s always been I ' m a gnome who travels in this guy ' s backpack , I use all of my stats for minmaxing killing , and I don ' t talk to NPCs or even in character ever really except to threaten them with death from the backpack . or I ' m a vampire , but also a werewolf , I have all the strengths of both , none of the weaknesses yadda yadda nonsense , and I like to both be the most powerful member of my party combatwise , and insert myself into every conversation as though I ' m the Main Character of a book and all the other party members are at best Ron or Hermione to my Harry Potter . Now , I ' ve done the let ' s do something interesting thing and asked the DM for fiat to play different things I think the ' wackiest ' in terms of notserious was a friend and I playing two goblins standing on eachother ' s shoulders to be 1 fighter , but when we split we became a rogue and fighter of half our character ' s level . In that same game we also asked if we could play an awakened boar , because that ' d be awesome . Didn ' t pan out , but I thought it would be cool . I don ' t know , too many things all at once makes me feel an instant sort of distaste . I ' m a bit of a purist I guess .