August, 1977
Eechy, Gnome Fighter
S17
I10
W10
C11
D12
Ch10
My first character was assigned to me. I was about 13 and had no idea what I was doing but it was fun. That's when my obsolute obession with anything D&D began.
I played a Ninja from OA. I'm unsure what level he was but he had a +1 sword, caltrops, and a cool item called the Bag of Hellfire. Basically the Ninja could open the bag, and a gout of Hellfire would shoot out.
Also what got you interested in D&D in the first place? My parents and uncles used to play, but I never did until my friend bought the V3 PHB and brought it to school. How about the rest of you?
I got interested because it was recommended by my friend in an email. He has been playing for 9 years, and I just started last Friday. I was also wondering if there were any other girls that play this game.
my first character was a female paladin of torm.
and the reason for that was because i was eventually persuaded to play by a workmate in 1996 and he said he would make me a character. she is now lvl 17 and a member of the harpers.
extremely hard character. not played her for years since second edition rules, but i have converted her to 3rd edition.
she has an intelegent holy avenger of cause. also there are no rules for greater equars in 3ed ed so i now jave a celestial unicorn as a bonded mount. also her item ''talisman of pure good'' is now an extremely hard item
"Drake Knight, Elven Ranger; son of the legendary weaponsmith of the Imperial Akiba family, Hikaru Kamisaki."
Although born as a medeval Elf, Drake was kidnapped and brought into the orients as a young slave, but later adopted by Hikaru Kamisaka-san.
My character was based off of my ideal hero. Not a super-hero who could defy odds and always save the day, but one who is human (sort of) and is capable of mistakes, and deception, and even death. I wanted Drake to not only fight, but be capable of fighting with two weapons, and close to nature. Druid was my first ideal class, but they were more focused in nature spells rather than fighting. Ranger was the only class that fit my ideal hero perfectly. He also has his black wolf (Shadow. Lame name, but it was all I could think of...:p) as his faithful companion.
That's my PC (when I play)! Blessed * Be!
My first, ever D&D character was created using the rules out of the little white box edition of Dungeons and Dragons. Back when the rules were in little pocket book editions...shortly after Chainmail was in the game store.
The year was 1978 or 1979 I believe.
Arthnek (later Arthnek the Boar as he contracted lycanthrope)
Human, Fighter who I played the hard way up through the ranks to level eight..nearly level nine if I remember correctly.
A really wonderful campaign run by some high school friends. We were thrilled when the first blue box set, the first ever large boxed edition of Dungeons and Dragons came out and played through that first adventure so many times we (all of the players) had every passage and secret door memorized.
I played Arthnek through a number of campaigns and different incarnations until he ultimately retired around 1984 as high school came to an end.
Fun days, very fun days.
My first character was a human rogue. She got killed by a pit trap though. My new character is a sirine sorcerer.
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Naitsabes the bard was my first 2e character. He had a pseudo dragon familiar and was basically my first voyage into munchkinism. I loved the bard because I figured it was a great combo of fighter/rogue/wizard. And, as part time DM, I never bothered enforcing that whole 'bards should learn illusion spells, not flashy stuff like magic missile and fireball.' He made it to 8th or 9th level, built a stronghold, and retired.
Sebastian
I got interested because it was recommended by my friend in an email. He has been playing for 9 years, and I just started last Friday. I was also wondering if there were any other girls that play this game.
There are indeed other girls that play. I've not only gamed with several of my female friends, but have taught my sister and wife to play as well. And yes, in the game our characters do have a romantic interest in each other. Though I have to admit there are definitely more guys than girls that play. Think it comes from the whole nerd aspect...and I can say that because I am one! LOL
There are indeed other girls that play. I've not only gamed with several of my female friends, but have taught my sister and wife to play as well. And yes, in the game our characters do have a romantic interest in each other. Though I have to admit there are definitely more guys than girls that play. Think it comes from the whole nerd aspect...and I can say that because I am one! LOL
Being a nerd isn't always a good thing to admit to, but I'm glad to know about other girl gamers.
Luckily for me, the DM was very forgiving, so my character survived long enough for me to get to know the game and enjoy it. Since then, I've played with DMs who were not so forgiving, and I think I may never have gotten into D&D if I'd started with them...blood-thirsty b*stards. DMs make all the difference.
Who Y'a callin a blood-thirsty b*stard?
(Just kidding!...)When I DM, I chuckle when the players miss their target. I laugh when the players roll a fumble. I hit the floor when the players roll 1 on their hit die. In return, my players just love whooping the monsters I throw at them (sometimes screaming at me "BRING IT ON!!!"). It 's a love-hate relationship between us. I'm like everything the characters are put up against.
Like I always say: If I don't take the monsters side, who will?
Ultradan
Actually, I remember the first party of characters my brother and I created. The were original D&D (not Advanced) PC's. It included such stalwart heroes as Bucky the Halfling (whose brother later appeared....you guessed it, Bucky's Bro, hahaha), Pictorin the Quick (I think he was an Elf), Stratos the Thief and several others whose names elude me right now. Those were fantastic times. I remember coming home from school every afternoon to watch Starblazers and then our neighbor would come up and we'd play on our living room coffee table until dinner. Ah, to be a kid again. The best game ever created, hands down.
Back in '87 a friend showed me the red box set, and from the looks of this thread it must of been popular! My first character was Taron (half-elf ranger) which later conquered the Isle of Dread. He then with parties help built a fortress in the trees. Much like the Ewoks! lol I guess back then we never thought of sailing back to the mainland. I think the reason why was because archery and hunting were big in my family and it just related to me easy to play. That and the younger guy just had to be the wizard!
Whoo boy.
I don't remember my first character. Back in '77 or '78. I was 10 or so. Killed in the first adventure. After that I bought the books and GMed. ;)
First one I can really remember was Starhawk - this would have been about 81 or so. Magic User and Monk. I remember this one because she was the only character that lasted more than a couple of levels, I actually got to play her and learn about her personality.
The next major one was a Drow raised by Dwarves named Obsidian. This would have been in '83 IIRC. He had a long life and retired the prince consort of a human Queen sometime in '87. Basic fighter. Had a lot of fun playing him. When he got his first wish, he wished he had a beard...in the campaign elves had no facial hair, and, well, he thought of himself as a tall dark Dwarf. That surprised the GM and completely confused the other players.
I'm amazed at the creativity of these first characters. Mine was red box with the crayon dice. I was about 12 years old. Rolled up a halfling thief named....Bilbo. He died pretty quick. I then quickly made a human fighter. Named him Boromir. I actually wanted a magic user but my friend had already killed Gandalf around the same time Bilbo died. He got dibs on Merlin and I couldn't think of any other wizards. We actually went through quite a few characters before we started making up our own names. Talk about a group of creative kids!
Though this isn't about my first character, I do remember a HUGE family that I had when steal... PAYing homage to Tolkien. My first human fighter was named Borin. When he died, his brother Norin (another fighter) joined the party...when he died, the father Orin (another fighter) tried his hand..when he died it was a cousin Glorin (or something like that) joined for a session or two. I think there was even Lauren, the fighter sister in there for a while too. It seems like I went thru 4-5 fighters all in a row and had the party hold all the equipment till my new character heard the sad news of the family member's death and then showed up to avenge him! (them)!?!?
I also remember going thru a phase with extra apostrophes, like D'akk the Mighty and O'vik'torian the Wise or something like that too.
The one time we played Oriental Adventures, everybody wanted to be Akira Takasaki, the guitarist from the AWESOME japanese metal band Loudness. After that arguement went on for a day or so, we all picked out the rest of the band for names. Can't remember what class I played...that campaign didn't last too long.
I also remember playing a husband and wife team at one point, Violet Brandywine (a wizard of some sort, I think) and Beau Binder (an archer, get it?)
I think what dragonlvr probably meant is that he is a "geek" and not necessarily a "nerd". There is a distinct difference :)
Being a nerd isn't always a good thing to admit to, but I'm glad to know about other girl gamers.
There are indeed other girls that play. I've not only gamed with several of my female friends, but have taught my sister and wife to play as well. And yes, in the game our characters do have a romantic interest in each other. Though I have to admit there are definitely more guys than girls that play. Think it comes from the whole nerd aspect...and I can say that because I am one! LOL
Ha, I think someone was a Tolkien & Arthurian fan.
I'm amazed at the creativity of these first characters. Mine was red box with the crayon dice. I was about 12 years old. Rolled up a halfling thief named....Bilbo. He died pretty quick. I then quickly made a human fighter. Named him Boromir. I actually wanted a magic user but my friend had already killed Gandalf around the same time Bilbo died. He got dibs on Merlin and I couldn't think of any other wizards. We actually went through quite a few characters before we started making up our own names. Talk about a group of creative kids!
My first-first character doesn't count. I was somewhere in middle-school and a group of high-schoolers had permission to use the public library's meeting room to start up a group. There must've been forty of us rolling characters that day. I ended up with a wizard (highest roll was a 16. . .) One of two things I remember that day: snickering when the guy suggested my male wizard purchase a girdle--he explained it to me later; and afterwards, my best-friend and I talked with the guy as he explained an adventure he went through with his friends. There was a tale of an elven thief, a chest, and a pile of rot-grubs. At that moment, I was hooked.
Unfortunately, the group never met again. I'm still not sure what happened, but I suspect that there were parental complaints because the room was "unavailable" after that first day.
My friend and I later met two other kids (with whom we formed a long-term friendship based, initially, around the game). I had been reading a book by Joel Rosenberg called _The Sleeping Dragon_. In the first chapter (might've been the second chapter) there was a brief encounter between a one-armed thief and the local guards. The character didn't make it past the second page.
For some reason, the idea caught fire and I decided to "flesh-out" that character, thus was born: Einar One-handed, thief extraodinare. My incarnation lasted until the game group broke up before high-school--18th level thief.
By the bye, he managed to get his arm back, sort of, by cutting a deal with a demon in the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth--the DM added a little bit to the adventure. The loss of every characters' major magical item sure did piss off my friends, but Einar was built like that, what can I say.
I was also wondering if there were any other girls that play this game.
Chiming in on the "I'm a girl gamer, too!" I DM mostly now. My current group has one other female player in it, who's been playing since D&D was first hand-packaged in little cardboard boxes. Me, I've only been playing since the Red Books.
I honestly cannot remember what my first character was. I think it was an Elf. As we were playing the Blue and White covered Basic book out of the Red Box, that meant I was good at fighting and casting spells. I don't remember the name or any of that, but strangely enough I could draw you out most of the dungeon my brother took me through.
Let me think... I don't remember his name, but he was a Gnome Wizard, he died ten minutes after his creation and then I became adicted to D&D... My first and last "real" character was Ardakar Evanson a fighter with green long hair and gray eyes because of a curse (or a bless). I decided to be a fighter because I always wanted to be a wizard (but we already had one, and well, I was in a rush they were starting and the fighter is the quikest to edit). He was CN and achived level 30 (we used to play a lot) he died three times and rised again before I retired him for good and then he became the DM AVATAR and I became a DM and started a world of my own. I hated Ardakar at the beggining, but he strugled to achive my love. Now he has all kind of powers... But he wasn't like this before, he had a Blue Axe of Returning and he became quite strong 24 after a lot of years of gaming... I want to play a Bard (not a wizard any more), but I have to be the DM... I have to because I love to, and my friends are always asking for "new and exciting adventures" (textual words)
"Thank's guys I'll be your DM for a life and more"
Turgon Stormbringer, elven fighter. 1978.
I was an annoying little Lord of the Rings and Elric fanboy. The character looked and acted like a Tolkienesque elf: it was a couple of years before I started treating D&D elves as they were intended.
Jack
My siter plays and she is a good player.
Halfling Ranger she is, her character has a Constrictor Snake as animal companion the snake's name is Basilia... and well, she is very funny (Basilia of courese), my sister is a butt-kicker with a heart of gold and feet of stone.
My first character was a NE figther because I told the DM I wanted to play a rough guy, it was in 1981, I was only 17 and I wasn't playing him really evil, it was my first rpg.
I don't remember his name, we saved the village from bandit attack and I died killed by a samurai at 2nd level in a campaign 3 month later.
Meanwhile I had a new character, still living, a LG dwarf fighter named THILOR TASSROCK but only 7th level which I haven't played for 15 years at least.
I have around 60 characters between 2 and 45 level.
I don't rememeber too much about him, it was 25 years ago and I knew nothing about DnD. It was the Basic Set and a friend of a friend was running the adventure out of the rulebook it was a short adventure in a keep full of hobgoblins.
I was a magic-user, the character was given to me. I though a "Magic Missle" was great because it always killed the hobgoblins. So in the future when I was DM I always allowed the magic missle to kill whatever creature it was cast upon, until I finally read the rules. The adventure took a while because we kept running out of the keep every time we saw any creature.
The first time I made a character in AD&D it was a paladin. I was so excited to roll 4d6. I rolled better than I have ever since. I actually rolled 18/00 STR the first time I played!!!
Just wondering what people started out as and why. My first character was a Dwarven fighter named Rurik Dunkil. I come from a Scot/Irish family and the dwarves have always stood out to me because of their accent. He is still my favorite and I still use him as an NPC.
Also what got you interested in D&D in the first place? My parents and uncles used to play, but I never did until my friend bought the V3 PHB and brought it to school. How about the rest of you?
Mine was a dwarf fighter too. I got into D&D through playing the old Fighting Fantasy books by Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson.
As an aside, it always amuses me the way dwarves are thought of as having Scottish or Irish accents. Being Irish I have no idea where this comes from (except it is usually American players that make this deduction) and always thought the Celtic fey-ness to be more elvish than dwarvish.
I think what dragonlvr probably meant is that he is a "geek" and not necessarily a "nerd". There is a distinct difference :)
I will never understand why people do this "Geek/Nerd" thing. Apparently there are loads of D&D players serving the U.S. in Iraq. You wanna call an automatic rifle wielding, muscle-bound marine a Geek? Well, that's just up to you. :)
My first char was given to me as well. He was a 15th lvl dwarven fighter with an Axe of the Dwarvish Lords as his primary weapon. Even back in the early 80s we ignored the racial cap level...
The first "real" char I created though was a human fighter named Ragnar. He was the typical meat shield and once he had collected the items for a belt of giant strength, the claymore he had really got fun.
Then I was asked to DM once, and since then my player days have been very limited.
My first character(circa 1990) was a River Spirit Folk Bushi, and I don't recall ever giving the character a name. At the time I only owned the DMG, and the Oriental Adventures book.
i started i 2000 i ended up as an elven ranger who eventually died from mummy rot.
My brother bought the game, 1978, from the Compleat Strategist in NYC. Before that, it was SPI (We loved 'War of the Ring'), but we'd wanted to try the game with the 'funny dice'. We figured we'd try it as a 'family game', and so we each had a PC, me, my brother, my mom (who was an excellent amateur illustrator), my dad, even the dog (We ran a war dog in her name, with fighter levels, in a strange precursor of 3.5...)My first PC was a dwarf fighter, with 4hp (on a d8). His name, Dix Masonhelm (He was named for Ft. Dix, in New Jersey, but I never heard the end of that name...). He died in the dungeon under Port Town, in the blue rulesbook, brought to zero HP by a kobold
(It was really upsetting, but then we bought the PHB and DMG and found out that you didn't die until -10...).
Eventually, mom and pop decided that this was way more of an investment of time than Monopoly or Stratego, and dropped out. My brother got bored with D&D (sacrilege!), leaving me to pursue my addiction in the high school setting.
Lord Dix made it until 17th level (by UA rules) before (in 1984) falling in a duel with an elf from Celene, Kurufein the Wicked. As a result, I had to give over all of the records and sheets of this PC to my friend who ran the elf, and that was it. No wish nor resurrection to bring him back.(The other player and I had agreed on this condition beforehand-we then went and got roaring drunk to celebrate...and we are good friends to this day.) The dwarf's brother, Vix (Yeah, like the cough drop, I know...), who'd never made it past 4th level as an NPC, was the last of his kin. I brought back their names playing Baldur's Gate and especially Icewind Dale I and II, but that was never the same as 1st edition...
Just wondering what people started out as and why. My first character was a Dwarven fighter named Rurik Dunkil. I come from a Scot/Irish family and the dwarves have always stood out to me because of their accent. He is still my favorite and I still use him as an NPC.
Also what got you interested in D&D in the first place? My parents and uncles used to play, but I never did until my friend bought the V3 PHB and brought it to school. How about the rest of you?
Mine was a dwarf fighter too. I got into D&D through playing the old Fighting Fantasy books by Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson.
As an aside, it always amuses me the way dwarves are thought of as having Scottish or Irish accents. Being Irish I have no idea where this comes from (except it is usually American players that make this deduction) and always thought the Celtic fey-ness to be more elvish than dwarvish.
Oh I tend to agree, its just their accents. I can do a pretty mean scottish accent and thought I'd be great for a dwarf. But you're right, elves' fey qualities have more in common with the Celtic lore. Thats the reason I've also played an Elven Druid. But I didn't play her for long. Can't even remember name or how high I levelled her before she died...oh well.
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I think what dragonlvr probably meant is that he is a "geek" and not necessarily a "nerd". There is a distinct difference :)I will never understand why people do this "Geek/Nerd" thing. Apparently there are loads of D&D players serving the U.S. in Iraq. You wanna call an automatic rifle wielding, muscle-bound marine a Geek? Well, that's just up to you. :)
Well I am in the army...though I'm still a "Geek/Nerd". Now I'm not that muscle bound marine you were talking about, but I am in pretty good shape. In fact my friends used to joke that I was the biggest geek outta all of us even though I was the one who was in the best shape. Oh and I do have a rifle so BEWARE! MWA-HA-HA! Sorry bout that...But you are right, I've met more gamers in the Army than anywhere else. Boy am I glad!
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Well I am in the army...though I'm still a "Geek/Nerd". Now I'm not that muscle bound marine you were talking about, but I am in pretty good shape. In fact my friends used to joke that I was the biggest geek outta all of us even though I was the one who was in the best shape. Oh and I do have a rifle so BEWARE! MWA-HA-HA! Sorry bout that...But you are right, I've met more gamers in the Army than anywhere else. Boy am I glad!
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LOL! Well that told me. :)
Hey, maybe we can settle this middle east problem over a game of D20 miniatures. :D
LOL! Well that told me. :)Hey, maybe we can settle this middle east problem over a game of D20 miniatures. :D
That'd be nice! But my biggest thoughts to solve the war problem is to have the world leaders get in a big gladitorial ring in their underwear and beat each other over the head with clubs until they get things worked out. Hey a soldier can dream can't he?:D
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Well, I'm a relatively new D&D player (I started in early 3.5 edition ;P)
My first character was halfling rogue. He was pretty generic for two reasons.
a)He was my first character ever.
b)I wasn't really sure what to do with a halfling rogue to make it interesting. (I'm still not sure)
I was a halfling rogue only because we needed a rogue in the party the night that I joined my current group.
It's actually quite easy to make a halfing rogue interesting.
Have a wizard show up with a bunch of dwarves, claim the halfling is a Burglar, and go on some long quest that will at various times include magic rings, preciousness,giant birds and trolls.
I heard of some guy who did something like that.
I got the white box set in 77 while I was in the Navy; didnt get to play until I was out and met some guys at college. I liked what I saw in the first books, the original Chainmail and wanted to play something like the fantasy stories I had read.
My first character was a dwarf named Gimli (I don't think you should take new players to task for names! :P ). I was told I had "...to play a dwarf because that was what was penciled in the marching order." I didnt understand why the marching order was so important but I like dwarves so it was ok. He was a fighter/thief, 19 strength and 3 charisma; it was sweet. He got a magic mace after helping the party fight a barrow wight (!) on his first adventure. I worked him up to 6/6 the last time we played that campaign.
My first was an elven ranger named Bashtan Silverstaff. There wasn't much thought behind him. I wanted to play an elven ranger. His first adventure was the Dragon's of Ice Dragonlance module. This was Jan-Feb of 1992.
WAAAAYYYY back in 1982 I played Druir, a male Ranger... that lasted about a year. I got out of gaming until this past October when I finally got into a group that just started the Age of Worms/Whispering Cairn module. The group I joined is small and straight-forward so I ended up being the "tank" Fighter-type... sigh..
my first character ever, i believe in 1987 for BD&D, was a Fighter. why? because the DM told me playing anything else would be too complicated. ;)
I played my first game in 1995, and i was Fyre, the minotaur fighter. my dm let me use the Dragonlance rules for minotaurs, and it was a little overpowered. I had both a 20 str and con, giving me a distinct advantage throughout the 12 levels i played the character. In 2ed rules, it meant that i had "stone giant" strength, with a +3 to hit and a +8 to damage. I also had an insane amount of hit points, and regenerated 1 hp every 6 rnds from the con. One of my earliest adventures pitted me against a blue dragon, in which i not only survived, but left a sword in its gut and broke its leg with a tree i pulled out of the ground. That and i was allowed to use a 2h sword in one hand and a shield in the other. for me, he defines the word tank in d&d
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When I made my first character, I didn't really have any ideas about backstory. Mine was just about creating a cool character. I was a Shifter (with Longtooth) Psychic Warrior. I was definitely the muscle of the group. By the end of the game, I could do massive con damage on my attacks. I had a wounding weapon, I can't remember my feat names but I did an extra point of Con damage on my first attack by expending psionic focus, and I also did a point of Con damage on my bite as well. Not to mention I had Empathic Transfer, Hostile Empathic Transfer, and Enlarge Person as my main feats. I haven't had a chance to be a fighter-type character since then and I so miss the amount of damage I was able to do in one round.
Last year, one of my friends joined a "beginner's game" that was being run and I thought I might give it a shot as well. Well, the friend ended up quitting and I ended up really liking it. I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that I had a great GM.
Lug Silverman
red box Basic Set classic D&D Fighter
Born 07/03/1983 by falling in a hole (lol) while crossing Blackwood Forest. Turned out that was an ancient shrine to a dark god, full of skeletons.
Retired in 1986 as Overlord Lug "OrcBane" Silverman 19th lvl Fighter after a huge home-made campaign.
Never had a higher level character since then.
Just wondering what people started out as and why. My first character was a Dwarven fighter named Rurik Dunkil. I come from a Scot/Irish family and the dwarves have always stood out to me because of their accent. He is still my favorite and I still use him as an NPC.
Also what got you interested in D&D in the first place? My parents and uncles used to play, but I never did until my friend bought the V3 PHB and brought it to school. How about the rest of you?
Well the first time I ever played the game was in 1998 or so, and I had really just met the guy who got me into it. We were all into the medival themes and fantasy movies. Conan and Excalibur were all huge influences on me. I was always inspired by Knights and the like, and the fact that I valued others lives above mine (still do). So he said I should try and play a paladin, so the next campaign they started I got to play a paladin named Galen Targaryen (yes, Targaryen is from George rr Martin, I am sure he doesn't mind) He was a paladin of tyr who actually ended up blind and missing his right hand at one point, so I was a blind paladin! He went on to save the life of Tyr and also free Waukeen from one of the Nine hells and Kill a major player in the power struggle, however he was also then sent to find the possessed body of one of Tyr's major Paladins Tarn. He wore this awesome full plate with wolves emblazoned on it. Coincidentally I loved wolves, not to the DMs knowledge at the time though. It kind of seemed like fate at the time, but maybe just coincidence. Anyways, he also had a cloak that worked with the plate to make him immune to cold. SO killing white dragons was child's play. He did it once one on one to make up for fleeing combat. Of course he had his trusty Holy avenger! it was 2ed AD &D.
Then in the next campaign he was used as a NPC and the character i used was sent on a geas to find him and eventually ended up bringing back the possessed paladins body and helping my first one out, it was quite weird and cool at the same time.Next I played a cleric, so I think I have pretty much made the gambit, the only other character I have played was a Half-orc Barbarian named Rift, who just kicked ass in Greyhawk for one adventure, but who knows I haven't played in more than a year, the DM and my friends just can't seem to nail down a few days a month to get together and play, but we still play Warhammer but we are all starting to make our generals and armies come alive so I think I could see a new campaign come out and then some new characters.
So all in all I can't say I have a favorite they were all great for different reasons, the Paladin for just being so damn cool with his armour and cape and sword, and the monk for just kicking ass at almost everything, and the barbarian for just kicking ass in general. The cleric was fun but too complicated with all that magic, I think a Ranger/figher is in the works for the next one if we ever get together to game. Oh well not much you can do about it.
later
the first character i can remember goes back to the end of the days of revised first ed.
he was a halfing fighter /8th and a thief/21 by the time we ended his adventuring days, i was a big sci-fi fan in those days so i gave him a name from one of my favorite sci-fi shows,Adama
it was a sort of monty haul campaign as at various times i had the rod of seven parts, a deck of many things(i had used my allowed cards from it but it still stayed with me) and the throne of the gods...had to destroy the rod in a retributive strike that i barely survived..had less than five HP left...he also went on a dragon war on the side of the neutrality, helping to maintain the balance...had some nice armor for this guy, studded leather plus 5 and i could go to thew etheral plane at will(this was used aganist me several times)
i keep wanting to do the final conversion of this guy from second ed to third or 3.5 but never seem to have the time
i could go on but i think this is good enough