I was forced once again to play D&D without the aid of rulebooks Friday evening. What was interesting was not the fact that we could remember most of the relevant rules, but the odd characters that resulted. Mr. Shiny played as a halfling fighter in heavy armor wielding only a pair of daggers. The Strength modifier to damage was more than the max damage of the weapon itself. Another player was a half-orc sorcerer (blaster), who wasn't feeling well so left after character creation. The halfling spoke only in randomly chosen verses from Psalms, and when I remembered to have the half-orc speak I played up his 8 wisdom (he had a 16 cha and 10 int). Hilarity ensued.
Hehe, a strange character showed up in the one-shot I ran last night. He was a human warmage who was so obsessed with destruction he would refuse to be healed by the party's druid. He insisted on being the first to enter rooms so he'd have the first shot at blowing stuff up and he'd always go off on his own while the party was fighting the orc goons. He ended up going into a sealed off cave system marked with a Danger sign and using burning hands on an apparently empty cavern (killing the two hidden darkmantles). The party, fearful of hundreds of insane dwarves, had to stop him before he set fire to a derro town in the upper Underdark.
The party also managed to kill the notorious drug lord Don Juanito(the main evil guy of the one-shot) using a caged basilisk's petrifying gaze.