I like how my other thread turned out . So I thought I'd start this one.
What was/is your all time favor character you played
Mine was
Horagon
he was 1ed half orc assassin 15 / cleric 7 of Set.
Remember that 1ed had level limit for different races and classes . Half orc cleric level limit was 4 . I got him to 7th with book of evil ,ion stone and something else that I can't remember . I played him as VERY lawful . It took me about a year and a half to get to that level . I really wanted to figure out a way to get him to 9 th level cleric so he would have the title of High priest .
"Lefty," a 2e elf magic user 10/ thief 12 when the campaign stopped. He was the only MU or T in the party, so he got to be pretty cool near the end, there. Fought with 2 magic swords, too.
Deugler Tottlebottom, a Halfling Cleric of prodigious weight who was famed for sitting on captives and sermonizing them until the desired outcome was reached.
I like how my other thread turned out . So I thought I'd start this one.
What was/is your all time favor character you played
Mine was
Horagon
he was 1ed half orc assassin 15 / cleric 7 of Set.
Remember that 1ed had level limit for different races and classes . Half orc cleric level limit was 4 . I got him to 7th with book of evil ,ion stone and something else that I can't remember . I played him as VERY lawful . It took me about a year and a half to get to that level . I really wanted to figure out a way to get him to 9 th level cleric so he would have the title of High priest .
Dren Eveblack. 2nd edition. CE Drow Elf Fighter/Rogue and all around scoundrel. He eventually infiltrated a ninja clan, learned martial arts, and aquired two magical ninja-to.
I like how my other thread turned out . So I thought I'd start this one.
What was/is your all time favor character you played
Mine was
Horagon
he was 1ed half orc assassin 15 / cleric 7 of Set.
My fav AD&D was 'deadly nightshade', he to was a 1/2O.C.A....i think he got to about 4/8 or somesuch
God, this is a tough one...
I really enjoyed Zaira, my CN Elf Beguiler 10/Dragonmarked Heir 1. Obviously, an Eberron character. Not much use in combat, but fun to play.
Outside of D&D/PF, my old werepanther, Cellimar, I played in RQII/III (translated, he's a Magus 12/Ranger 6 or so, CG... with regeneration). Kind of a scary guy.
Dren Eveblack. 2nd edition. CE Drow Elf Fighter/Rogue and all around scoundrel. He eventually infiltrated a ninja clan, learned martial arts, and aquired two magical ninja-to.
Once I put on an "opposite alignment" item and became LG. Our DM started calling me Nerd Neverlight. Humiliating... but funny.
Daedelus Greatness, bard to the Stars,founder of Team Greatness. His old friend Nathaniel Draken had formed this team during their childhood and continued this into adventuring career, much to the dismay of another player. We just ran around getting into trouble causing the party hassle by association.
Yeager The Whiteknife: my first 3.0 character. Ended campaign as 8/8 Bard/Shadowdancer. Known for brandishing a Frosting burst rapier. Not really good at anything except hiding, but he was fun to play.
Honorable mention: Bjorn Bjornson, 2ed fighter 9 with a two handed sword, great helm, and little else.
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Mine is Dame Carmen Fortunato, who as of the last time I played her was a Human Knight 11. Her alignment is technically Lawful Good, but I played her as Awful Stupid. She was gloriously dumb, mean-spirited, haughty, racist, referred to her comrades as "craven, murderous cowards" (because they used stealthy tactics) and could beat the ever loving crap out of just about anything you put in front of her.
But a close runner-up is my PFS character Elar Stravan, who is a lot nicer than Carmen, but still kind of a wild character. I play him as an uber-libertarian full of crazed get rich schemes, like turning dungeons he's cleared into casinos and resorts. He carries a crowbar because only stealing everything that isn't nailed down is for slackers. He's the reason I wish Pathfinder had the Monkey Grip feat, so he could carry an even bigger hammer.
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BillyBob Hickmiester 2nd edition Halfling Thief(swindler kit).He started off as a 100% joke type characterful as I was not really enthused about playing at the time but turned into the most enjoyable roleplaying I have ever done.
It was a largely city based campaign in a very large city and BillyBob would use his forgery skill to sell fake permits and documents to unexpected people as they went about their business in the city. "Pardon me sir, do you have a permit to carry that really big sword around town? No, well I can sell you a permit for that." A lot of stuff along that line, it was a good time.
Roscoe Greenbottle III, a fighter/swashbuckler/rogue I played when going through a 3.x version of Night Below. He was a rich halfling from a proud family of winemakers who traded his fortune for a life of adventure hunting bandits.
Or Snagletooth, a gnome barbarian who specialized in getting hit from a 4e Keep on the Shadowfell campaign.
My second DnD character. Thomas Becket. Clerical priest who was on a quest to complete a Staff of Law. Made him a one trick pony besides healing, and that was turn undead. Took every feat/item i could so that I could jack up the abilities.
Most memorable part was tunneling straight into the BBEG at the end of the module who gathered up all his posse. One turn undead later, room was filled with a hell of a lot of ashes.
Vane Bowen, A dual class Paladin 14/Evoker 12 in 2nd edition AD&D. I actually remade him as an Npc in our epic level Forgotten realms Campaign a few years back, there he was a paladin 14/evoker 5/eldritch knight 7.
He did some pretty epic stuff like saving the world from a vampiric red dragon who wanted to make Cormyr a part of his Ravenloft domain. Defeated an Avatar of the God Cyric. Singlehandedly defeated an army of over 200 Zentharim soldiers. And in the end sacrificed himself to keep an evil entity sealed away forever. Good times
From 1E/2E, it was Darley, an alu-fiend daughter of Graz'zt who became lawful good by accident and spent all of her years dealing with her family's shenanigans (including Graz'zt, Iggwilv, and Iuz on that list). Lived in the Realms, went on lots of crazy adventures. Now comfortably settled in Myth Drannor as the Spell-Major of the city. She'd be somewhere around level 50 if I converted her to Pathfinder, though I don't know if she'd be a sorcerer with the arcane bloodline, an enchanter with the manipulator subschool, or a diviner.
From 3E onward, it would be Morag, from my current (soon ending campaign). A merchant who died and agreed to serve Death, now the one known worshipper of Death in her world. Cloistered cleric (UA variant)/contemplative, levels 10/9. It's fun being a goth, depressed woman who can call down the occasional miracle :)
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One of my favorites was the Mad Badger: Scottish barbarian/rogue set in the times of the one hundred years war orginally and we somehow got transported to a DD& world.
He dula weilded a morning star and cutlass and had a brace of flintlock pistols. A mercenary type and followed a noble mercenary captain. Very fun to play.
I also really like my current character Rene Lanfaire a necromancer/fiendbinder.
Phineas Gil'Aral - Half-elf Fighter 16, Cleric of Abraxas 1
Phineas (CG at the time) befriended Jjolg, a Half-orc Monk, and together (with some others) successfully stopped the 2nd coming of Golarian Fall. In the end, Phineas (who was already sliding into evil) found the whip of Abraxas and turned to the dark side completely. He is now an agent of evil and bent upon the destruction of the Elven race entirely.
my favorite is my current character for kingmaker
GENERAL ZAPP BRAMBLETHORN (LN halfling cavalier (order of the cockatrice) lvl 4) a high charisma, low wisdom and intelligence kind of general, the inspiration for whom i hope is obvious.
my favorite 1st edition character was ORION WHISPERRAIN (N halfling rogue lvl 17) he and my brother's halfling character PADDY WHACK (n halfling rogue lvl 19) ran the fire knives out of westgate then ran protection rackets and fake guild wars against each other, then my other brother's elf (whose name escapes me right now) led the harpers and city watch against them. they escaped the city and retired in quiet luxury in mistledale.
I like how my other thread turned out . So I thought I'd start this one.
What was/is your all time favor character you played
Mine was
Horagon
he was 1ed half orc assassin 15 / cleric 7 of Set.
Remember that 1ed had level limit for different races and classes . Half orc cleric level limit was 4 . I got him to 7th with book of evil ,ion stone and something else that I can't remember . I played him as VERY lawful . It took me about a year and a half to get to that level . I really wanted to figure out a way to get him to 9 th level cleric so he would have the title of High priest .
I didnt start playing till the beginning of 3.0. The group I joined had been playing since 1st ed. First game they asked me what I wanted to play before showing me a single book. I said Id read alot of fantasy novels... could I play a dragon? Of course they chuckled and said no but the DM set down with me and helped me make my first character. I wanted a bruiser and I wanted him to be draconic in some way.
We came up with Barbarian 4/Sorc 1/Dragon Disiple 10...
I named him Drake and played him for the next 3 years from first lvl to about 26. During that time we switched to 3.5 but left Dragon Disiple as 3.0 since Id aready had my Enlargement.
Even the DM didnt realize how well it would work. The extra stats plus the enlargement bonus... and my last 5 levels I took Frenzied Berserker and started taking Epic Dragon Disiple after 20 lol. Still one of our groups favorite characters. I played him as a good natured gold half dragon who had anger issues during battle. He loved his friends and loved to fight evil.
When I moved for a 4 year stent I picked up with a new group. They decided to try and 4th ed. I made Drake as my first try at 4th ed. The game stalled after about 5 game sessions as we didnt like the new design. We soon after started up Pathfinder but the group made me recreate Drake lol. I guess I was good at RPing a good natured, niave barbarian by then. Ive played several other characters in other games and now that Im back home with my original group Im the DM, but I will always have fond memories of my first character.
I've got two, like a lot of people that have responded.
1) Yokozuna Enyago, 2nd edition half-elf ranger 30 with Samurai kit. The character I played the longest, ever, somewhere around 5 years of play got him to that point. Lots of wishes. LOTS of wishes, to increase abilities, and to exceed racial level limit. He eventually ascended to demigod status as the demigod of honor and dragonslaying. He was a samurai from Kara-Tur that traveled west to Faerun to find his fortune and commit acts of valor adequate enough to restore honor to his family, which he did by slaying a great wyrm and claiming a kingdom in the name of his daimyo.
Yes, I know that elves don't exist in Kara-Tur, and I know that Yokozuna is actually the title for THE sumo champion. But I didn't know these things when I first made the character.
2) Devereau, 3.0 edition Fighter 7/Wizard 8/Divine Champion 2/Arcane Devotee 2. Champion of Mystra. If he had gotten one more level, my DM was actually gonna award him the Chosen of Mystra template. He was a magehunter that specialized in dispel magic.
Ichi the Undead Slayer.
He started out as a barbarian variant I had made up to make it more like a samurai (I was big into samurais in high school). He was nothing spectacular at first, just really strong and really hardy and really agile. Halfway through the first adventure we played (City of the Spider Queen) he began to hate, hate, hate undead, to the point of making his signature weapon (a katana) undead bane. A few adventures (and a few deaths, particularly the ones caused by incorporeal undead) he hated undead with a burning passion. So the DM decides to throw him a bone, and gives him an artifact that makes him more or less immune to undead attacks, with a curse that causes him to spend a fortune every time he enters a bar. The result? Ichi becomes known far and wide as Ichi the Undead Slayer. The rest of the group plays this up, to the point where the party Cleric (a Lawful Evil Cleric of Mask) begins giving Ichi the sole credit for each and every victory the party has (even the ones where I was DMing, and thus Ichi was absent). Soon, Ichi's name is world-famous, known as the unstoppable juggernaut of whirling death blades.
In truth, though, he was just a really tough Barbarian. After a few adventures, in the hopes of giving him some depth, I had a custom magic item made for him that allowed him to use Prestidigitation at will- which mostly manifested itself as special effects coming from his sword (quiet hums, colorful glows, etc.) that gave the illusion of his sword being intelligent. (It would glow one color when it was happy, such as if it had killed some undead, and another color when it was angry, and so on.) The campaign went on, and Ichi became more and more powerful (and more and more feared across the world), and eventually I made Ichi's sword truly intelligent- and thus Kyonshi Satsu, the sword of Ichi the Undead Slayer, was born.
By the end of the campaign, Ichi was quite a fearsome sight to behold (physical stats through the roof, tons of contingent spells and items to make him practically invincible, etc.), but I still felt like he didn't have enough depth as a character. So, seeing as how we ended the penultimate adventure with several million gp and a few years' downtime, and seeing as how I had taken an interest in the planes, I made Ichi another custom magic item- a rod that let him travel the planes whenever he wanted. (Plane Shift 1/day, Greater Teleport 1/day, Attune Form at will, you get the idea.) That meant that every day, Ichi would shift to a new plane, teleport to a particular destination, and do his thing. At first, he used his days to party. Get into a fight with an efreeti in the City of Brass, start a barroom brawl on Ysgard that lasts for months, stuff like that- but eventually, he began to gravitate away from having fun and towards exploring- he'd try to travel all over every world he could, seeing everything there was to see.
Once the campaign was over, Ichi disappeared from my mind for a while, until a time when I was DMing a side adventure for a friend in another campaign and, in need of a random encounter, I threw in a weird occurance that (in my head) meant that Ichi had recently passed through, despite the fact that this was a completely different game world than Ichi's (Ichi was from Faerun, this was Greyhawk). Then I did the same thing a while later- another subtle reference to my favorite character, that likely nobody even noticed but me. Then I got thinking. How did Ichi get here? What is he doing here? That led me to a big story breakthrough- something that has become a part of my personal mythos, that shows up in some form or another every time I run a game: Ichi became a god.
The story is, at some point or another, after Ichi had been adventuring for decades, he went searching for a treasure said to be unattainable- not for the glory or the wealth, but simply for the experience of doing so. It turned out that this unattainable treasure was a remnant of an old god left behind- a god known as "the Watcher". This deity's entire purpose was to travel the world, see everything there is to see, do everything there is to do, and to record it in some way. The previous Watcher had completed his duty, in his eyes, and so he left behind his power in a place where only someone who sought to experience everything he could- that is, the very goal of the Watcher- could find it. And so, Ichi found it, and Ichi was given this divine power. He is now an immortable being who travels the world- every world, plane, realm, dimension- to see and experience everything.