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I don't know about you, but I tend to make lots of characters to play with. What I wanna know is, what are your favorites?
My favorite right now is Kiri "Blackjack" Bluebrook. He's a pimpin' halfling Cavalier of the Cockatrice in the Second Darkness campaign. Having ranks in Profession (Gambler), and being a halfling whose only concerns are making money and nabbing babes, he wants the world to be at his fingertips.
However...
He has one weakness. A crippled half-elf Oracle of Lore has held his heart since he was young. He never could get over not being able to court her, so he lost himself in other women as a result. However, now she's returned from long years of dedicated study to study the Blot. Could they eventually get together? Will he finally work up the courage to tell her how he feels?
The campaign is still going, so we'll have to find out!
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My favorite is Kyle Surlent, a human Crusader of Cayden Cailean/modified Holy Liberator who's currently going through Curse of the Crimson Throne. He has a rather obscenely high Intimidate and Diplomacy despite having no Charisma, but that's not why I enjoy him.
I enjoy Kyle because he has the following feats as of Level 11: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (Mercurial Greatswords), Monkey Grip, Weapon Focus (Mercurial Greatswords), Improved Critical (Mercurial Greatswords), Critical Focus (Mercurial Greatswords), Power Attack, and Cleave.
That's right. He's using what I termed a "twelve-foot long thirty four-pound kill stick." And it's magical. I don't remember his Strength mod off the top of my head, but I think the damage is written as "3d6+8 Sla 19/Q Critical" on his character sheet.
His crowning moment of awesome so far is killing a blue dragon through massive damage shock. (There was only one way for it to have failed the Fort save...)
I am between games at the moment, but when I play sword and sorcery games I usually lean toward rangers.
Lars Darkwood was my favorite. A human ranger, he eventually became an Elven king (being adopted into a royal family near his birth). What he was mostly known for was introducing a new god.
Those were the days...
Half-Orc Barbarian/Rogue. He and his Kobold ranger pal were a terrible duo. Cities and armies beware, your order will be disturbed, your kegs emptied, your wom... eh, we had a good time orchestring fun for the group.
I've been DM for quite some time, but one of the more colorful characters in my Council of Thieves campaign is a gay half-orc bard. He loved that party in the mayor's mansion! Becoming a performer in the play was pretty good for him, too. (Don't want too many spoilers.) He also made me have to figure out what NPCs are susceptible to his seduction, which is a rare but interesting twist. He really fit in well in the decadent setting, looking for interesting stories to tell, while maintaining some objectivity and still wanting to be famous. I normally prefer Good characters, but neutral was interesting for this setting.
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About to play PRPG for the first time....I've run two different versions of it for over a year now, so my first real character.
Siladril Timbo'ra'lyn, a Half-Elven Bard6/Rogue4. Finesse based combat, wielding a whip and heavy repeating crossbow, he uses combat maneuvers and bard songs to help his party, while setting up advantageous sneak attack shots with his crossbow.
He has 3 distinct alter-egos, and he uses them to move around in the various cities and territories either in the open or incognito, as he sees fit. "Sil Silvertongue", a singing bard of great renown, master orator and all around noble born hob-nobber of the rich and famous. "Boralin the Bold", a percussionist and warchanter, master tactician and historian. "Tim Twicetongued" a slick and cunning street-born fighter, knife-fighter and all around rogue-ish type.
Each alter-ego has different mannerisms (high acting/bluff/disguise) and speech patterns, clothing, and backstories. Each is known for different things, and each is useful in certain situations. I try to switch him back and forth as needed.
Of the three characters I am currently playing I am having the most fun with my Fighter 2/Ranger 2/Warblade 2 Hobgoblin named Lorak.
He currently works for a Human Paladin of Zeus who saved his life (Lorak was considered a runt among hobgoblins and was about to be beaten to death by his hobgoblin troopmates for entertainment) as his Thief Hunter. When criminals get away or escape, Lorak is sent out to bring them back alive.
Lorak is small (for a hobgoblin) but increadibly hardy and agile and has been trained as a tracker and hunter and by the warmasters of the Hobgoblins so is familiar with many weapon but he loves his Composite Greatbow above all else.
Lorak, when speaking common, often laments on how crude the language is in comparison to the 'noble tongue' (Goblin) and has not mastered the use of personal pronouns. As such whenever referring to himself he uses his own name.
Oh, he is also the greatest Hunter and Archer in the world. Just ask him! And he will prove it.
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Favorite ever? That would be my cyborg Jedi swordsman with four arms, who was halfway to becoming a Dark Jedi who had a very cordial, though violent, relationship with a Sith Lord. Oh yeah, he also was in a committed relationship with a Twi'lek ex-slave girl that was given to him by a Hutt crime lord as a gift. Shame that campaign had to be put on indefinite hold due to personal issues.
As for my current character that is my favorite, it would have to be my Half-Ogre Paladin 5/Fighter 2/Fist of Raziel 2/Crusader 2. For starters, he is my most organic character ever in terms of how he went through character advancement. Also, it is a bit fun playing the "cat-herder" in the group.
Eh, I have a few favourites.
Samael, Half-Orc left outside a monastery, raised as a Monk and ended up adventuring when the party staggered into the monastery to recover after running afoul of a Bugbear raiding party. He was just this monster in combat, but his monastic training allowed him to use his pressure-point strikes to help out the other players, and eventually he ended up founding a monastery of his own where he helped reform criminals and monsters.
Grench Ninefingers, Half-Orc Rogue, little more than a thug but he did have some rules, such as not hurting women and old people, went on to become a vigilante-style hero but was always hurt in social situations by his past. Grench died around 15-16 level, saving the Crown Princess (they were lovers, but kept it very, very quiet for obvious reasons) from an Assassin by bullrushing the Drow off the balcony, and falling over with the Assassin and falling 8 stories to the ground.
Gerald of the Black Robes, a Human 'White Necromancer', very fussy man, created all sorts of weird things to ease the party's burden outside of combat, and created several spells that dealt negative-energy damage and positive-energy damage, effectively dealing damage to either living or undead targets. He ended up gaining the Deathless subtype at 17th level via a pair of carefully worded Wish spells. Gerald went on adventuring into the Epic levels, leaving his old companions behind with the rights to his old inventions to help keep themselves and their families wealthy and the DM had him ride off into the planar sunset of the Positive Energy Plane, seeking the source of Primal Spark of Life itself.
He came back as a new God of Magic in the next campaign. Made me go O_o, I can tell you.
For the 'Current' character, my Human Were-Rat Fighter is really intriquing me, the fight to spread his 'curse' in combat and keep his control over his more base instincts, and keeping word of his lycanthropy a secret from the world at large to avoid getting killed on sight.
I think my favorite PnP character of all time thus far would have to be Shezzarin, my Killoren Archivist who along with her party was rather rudely dispatched onto Krynn where she was very out of place. ("I'm like a priest." "But you have a spellbook. Wizards have spellbooks." "....") She is probably best known in my playing circle as constantly bemoaning the fact that her "stupid healer's oath" prevented her from knocking sense into her party members when they needed it, and for headbutting Raistlin Majere in the face with a smite attack and living to tell the tale. (It's a long story.)
My favorite currently-active character is probably Karish, my amnesiac Hellbred Binder. But that may only be because my other active character, Illumian Crusader Zhaorae, has only been played in one session so far.
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I also have a few (3).
Joffrey Wingler - A funny little halfling rogue who thought he was a bit of everything. Really liked playing darts and even fought with them as his primary weapon (rapier as backup) with bandoleers of darts across his chest. He kept a log of all his "accomplishments" that were extremely biased and written to favor him as a hero. By the time he died he thought he was a Fighter/Rogue/Cleric/Bard/Paladin/Ranger. He was, of course, just Rogue 5. He died because he held an artifact desired by Asmodeus (then just a greater demon) and was brought to hell by a minion of Asmodeus that failed a spot check to notice Joffrey place the artifact in another player's bag seconds before. Joffrey made a couple epic will saves versus fear (being a halfling helped) and flipped off Asmodeus when it was demanded he betray his party. Needless to say, that was the last thing he ever did.
The book he wrote his stories into was preserved in the libraries of hell by the minion of Asmodeus that Joffrey tricked, and later recovered by a high level wizard Joffrey had met during his adventures. This wizard attempted to use it as a phylactery but ended up sealing his soul into it (ala Intelligent Item) instead. The book/wizard travels the world looking for interesting stories and often follows adventuring bards. Epic events witnessed by the book are written into it automatically (infinite pages) and always written so that its current owner performed the deed. If the owner died before the event, but the book had yet to move on, the event is credited to the ghost of Joffrey.
Thirhe - Deaf oracle kobold. Expert in disguise who had a couple different personas and whose name is the draconic word for "vengeance". He discarded his real name when he became an adventurer to seek out the one who destroyed his clan. After he exacted his revenge he got caught up on a typical "save the world" plot. Afterwards he did some soul searching and decided to use his abilities to reduce/remove the anti-monster sentiment in one of the larger empires in the world.
Laucian Holimion - Venerable Elven Shugenja (Water). Created when I rolled nothing lower than a 16 and the DM allowed it if I suitably gimped it from the outset (hence venerable and the class). He only had 8 con, but had no mental stat lower than 20. He had "Knowledge (Everything)" written on his character sheet (and really had it) and was often able to pull out things through sheer ingenuity in order to overcome the limits of his old body. Sadly the party (near)-TPK'd at around level 7 and the group voted to move on to a new party. Laucian was the only survivor, though we never decided exactly what he ended up doing. His strangest exploit was casting create water a several times during a fight with a red dragon (which wasn't going well). Just as people were about ready to give up, he used a ring with Raise Water to raise the water he created to surround the dragon, and had the wizard freeze it. This event was recorded in Joffrey's book under the (joke) title "Dragoncicle"
My two favorite characters were from the two games I was in my final semester at college.
Lyzek: This was a homebrew setting and an all-evil campaign. The goblins had a giant desert empire and worshiped the Sun-god of Tyranny. Lyzek was a cleric of said god, and ambassador to the new empire founded by the rest of the party. He was very draconian in the belief that people should be willing to give up everything, including their lives, in support of their superiors. Hence the tyranny. However, he also believed that the reason those superiors had their authority was to give their subjects as close to a perfect life a possible. His crowning moment was putting a temple to one of the good deities out of business by healing people in the city for free. The one-sentence description of his beliefs was "selfless charity for all - enforced selfless charity". In the final session, one of the other character managed to ascend to demi-godhood through a display of shocking ineptitude on the part of Lyzek's god's angels, and he ended up being promoted to a Pit Fiend with the job of cleaning house and reforming the infernal hierarchy.
Lord Percival Maverick: Maverick was a Thrallherd (a Psionic class that's like having Leadership but better) in an Eberron game and his "herd" was a small band of various monsters and criminals who were outcasts from society but had sworn off their evil ways. He essentially ran a retirement community for reformed villains. One of the other PCs was a time-traveler, and in the Epilogue she went back to her own time thousands of years in the future. Maverick waved a teary goodbye, and then as soon as the time portal closed he set about turning himself into a psionic construct to achieve immortality and founding his own demi-plane. Using his incredible intellect and the little bits of knowledge he had secretly gleaned from the time traveler he slowly took over the world through careful investments and subtle manipulations, becoming a kind of behind-the-scenes puppeteer of the entire world. Several thousand years later, the time-traveler and her friends pop out of the other side of the time portal back in her old university office, and Maverick is sitting in her chair waiting for them just so he can say hi.
Lord Mykael Caine; King of the Damned: Human, Half Black Dragon, Werebear, Death Knight, Spell Stitched, Blackgaurd 10, Warrior of Darkness 5, Divine Rank 5 (Demi God)
I was playing in a game were we had to create the most rediculas character you could think of, little did i know that i had created the lich king, but with my own flavor. Could control up to 4200HD of Undead, had damage reduction of 39, AC was near 50, Strength was insane, his armor had no armor check or max dex, he had the powerful build trait, so he weild a large sized brillent energy scythe, that crit at 17-20 x5 (ring of assiassin senses). He single handed took down a fallen solar, by himself, which is what caused him to become a death knight and spell stitched actually. My Favorite moments though was when he killed his father (the black dragon) in one shot and raised him as an undead mount for him to use, and when he made a 'deal' with a pit fiend he shook his hand, smiled and his bracers of destruction activated, which turned him to flames. He became so unstoppable he actually achieved demi godhood, doing so when a group of noble adventures did everything in there power to stop him.
good times.
My current fav is a warforged fighter/ardwright in Rise of the Runelords, and my avatar's namesake. When I roleplay him, I try to channel the robot from lost in space :D
After my monk was killed in the first RL AP by a goblin named Hurtwurst, I asked my DM if I could make a warforged artificer. He said ok, and the party discovered AnBuraid in the ruins beneath Sandpoint, having been deactivated for thousands of years. They repaired him, however his memory has been long corrupted and he knows very little about how he came to be there, but occasionally has creepy insights about ancient Thassalon from time to time.
After the party cleared the glassworks, Anburaid took it over for the Kaijutsu family (what little there were left) and used his dedicated wright homunculus and his crafting expertise to keep it running. Some ranks in profession (merchant),some expensive clothes, and now he is part of the mercantile guild, as well as a fellow at the Magnimar golemworks. We just finished the Hook Mountain Massacre, and he is working with the golemworks to repair Skull's Crossing dam. sigh, a robot's job is never done ...