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So I've created a mountain dwarf, war domain cleric, with the haunted one background.

I don't want the haunted-one background to be actual ghosts. I want it to be a somewhat extreme form of PTSD. I haven't exactly hashed out the inciting incident, but it was Tymora's intervention that saved him. In combat, he's calm, collected, and unwavering. It's outside combat that the voices come.

The problem I see would be that a lot of the things that would make the PTSD accurate and compelling, could be pretty toxic at the table.

Any suggestions to be able to play this character and not come off as an asshole?

Also should be noted that his charisma is a 5.

I'm still fairly new to DnD, I've only played around 2 other campaigns.

A warforged who died in some undetermined way and their corpse found its way to the feywild, eventually their soon to be archfey patron gave the corpse life anew. the new life is separate from who the warforged was prior, a new being. she's very loyal to her patron, mostly because her patron created her.

also anything mechanic wise would be nice, i like the idea of being intimidating with illusions and such.

Look, I want to play something that’s “werewolf adjacent.” Not actually playing a lycanthrope because they’re broken as hell for PCs in 5e. Figured the Beast Barbarian would scratch that itch.

How do I make the claw attacks as effective as possible?