5 Character Ideas you should play in Waterdeep: Dragonheist!

This video changed my life!

I played a goblin ranger/fighter named Chunky the boss who canonically always tried to fake a sort of over the top mobster/Italian accent of which I was not the best at, he was accompanied by a goblin he had rescued from the xanithar guild named Donny who even though only had the stats of a goblin boss managed to survive the entire campaign while chucking javelins and dragging allies to safety, donny did die once but do to some very lucky wild magic roll he came under the effects of the reincarnate spell (50 on the table) he came back as a halfling which I believe we managed to reverse him back into a goblin somehow but I may be misremembering,

Ps. Our dm had made a few homebrew changes to the setting and long story short xanithar had tunnelled underneath the treasure room causing the whole thing to collapse and gold to fall into a giant shining whirlpool of gold and jewels at which point I saw the perfect end to my very greedy goblin I told the dm "I drop all the gold I've picked up and swan dive into the wave of gold" a perfect way to end a character that greedy, being crushed by thousands of gold coins

I played a Dragonborn ranger who fled to waterdeep after getting cast out of his old military. Now he tends to The City of The Dead with his wife and two kids and crosses briefly over to the ethereal plane to deliver last words to deceased loved ones.

We somehow ended up with two wilderness guides who sometimes have a sense of direction when they put their brain cell together. They've turned their skills from game trails to heists.

Also, neither of us are rangers.

Is a rogue Swashbuckler/pirate he has not earned a lot in reputation so much that the gards choose too just ignore his antics. He sees this as his opportunity to show that he is a true pirate among the seas.

Good ideas but the Stone of Golorr is a spoiler that players shouldn’t know about until chapter 3

I have a Hexblade Tabaxi in mind with the Gambler or Urchin background. He’s a Gambit/Jack Sparrow type looking for the treasure to try and make a new life for himself and what better way than this fun gamble to get his paws on it first. Got into some beef with a crime guild in Baldur’s Gate and he fled to Waterdeep to meet a friend and hearing rumors of the treasure hoard.

Can't stand this adventure. DM was terrible along with the module just not grabbing my attention.

After my warlock died in dragon heist, i made a drow arcane trickster, who worked directly for jarlxel. The party asked jarlaxel for help with finding the treasure and was basically like " ya take this definitely not a spy as anew party member. She totally wont be feeding me info about the party and helping me to jse you to gain plausible deniability as i try and gain the treasure for myself." And the party was like " thank jarlaxel youre such a good person. And i spyed on the party for the rest of the champaign

Pollimorph into xanathars fish

I’ve got two Zhentarim and a Drow that wants to be Bregan D'aerthe. The other is a sell sword. They all really want to be evil in this campaign lol.

Grey Hand and Harpers are bad advice, sorry. The players shouldn't necessarily have the objective early to find the stone. Chapter 1-2 are completely independent from the stone, and it serves the purpose of introducing the characters to the city without a major urgency. If there is already a race for the stone, you introduce an unnecessary diversion.

your players should really be a lot less connected to the stone than the first two imply. waterdeep's plot hooks are kinda fucked in general, but the first two chapters are about making you care about waterdeep specifically before the dragon hunt begins, so if players are already gunning for the stone before the game starts, then they're losing all of that. players can still be faction agents, of course, but any assignments to find the stone should come later. you can also join factions later if you so wish.

since this campaign occupies too much of my headspace... my party is a borderline satirical horny bard who has recently been revealed to be a doppelganger, an undead shadow monk who is kind of a robot, a grave cleric who gave 500 years of his elven life to save the mind of an undead warlock, an oath of devotion paladin who was an ex-member of a local religious paramilitary group, but who broke his oath and left upon discovering they were all secretly cannibals, a moon sorcerer who looks like she came out of a radioactive vat, and an honest-to-gods war criminal artificer who sees all living beings as constructs. we... we make it work.

I'm running this module and wound up with a party that basically made their own plot hooks completely on accident... It's kind of great!

The best one would be to play a Zhentarim agent and use the dragon hoard to bring Waterdeep under full control of Black Network.

There was three of us and we all showed up as swashbuckling rogues, so we leaned into it and played it out more like the three Musketeers, had a blast