I am wondering what your favorite "lame" character was, and it could be your character, or someone elses
Personally mine was Hemo the half elf bard, his stats were something like
STR 4
DEX 12
CON 6
INT 10
WIS 8
CHA 14
Believe it or not, but these stats are probibly too high, I am just having a hard time believing any less myself
Even though there wasn't a single combat that he did not go below 0 hit point, he was never actually killed. And even though he was a bard of little worth (little worth partly because of the bard, but mostly because of the stats) Hemo not only was helpful to the party, but on at least two occasions was able to save the party from TPK, and was even able to start a slave uprising of kobolds so as to kill their evil lizardfolk masters.
Oh, and his weapon of choice, slingshot.
he only even got 1 hp a level. but he was loads of fun to play because I was challenged every encounter to not only not die, but to actually find some use.
do you have any bad characters worthy of note?
Probably every single character from Hackmaster.
:-P
In a 3.5 game, we had a party full of dwarves, gnomes, and halflings (I think I was lone human), mostly spellcasters, and we were all 1st or 2nd or maybe 3rd level. I was a rogue 1. Anyways, we were raiding a bunch of kobolds, and their crossbows and slings were taking us down pretty quickly. I was reduced to 1 or 2 hit points in the first round. Anyways, I did some hit and run tactics, which pretty much meant I got a sneak attack every other round. I eventually went down, as did all the other PCs. But one PC was a sorcerer or wizard, and his familiar (a ferret) killed 4 or 5 kobolds after everyone else was down.
Another time, it was d20 Modern, we had to defuse a bomb by cutting the red wire first, then the blue wire. We mis-heard, tried to cut the blue wire first, rolled a natural 1 on an untrained Disable Device skill check, and accidentally cut the red wire first. So we accidentally defused the bomb!
I once rolled a character for Call of Cthuluhu that started with a sanity of 20. My back story was that he was WWI vet that was horribly traumatized by the war. He lived in the fringes of a small town, and made a living brewing bathtub gin that didn't make people go blind. Unfortunately, The GM was terrible and my character made it through the adventure. I was denied the wonderfully terrible fate a character with a SAN of 20 has coming in a Call of Cthuluhu game.
My favorite dud of a character was Ban Dade the cleric who using 3d6 had no stat above 11. I remember secretly trying to kill him in hopes of stating a new character and for what ever reason he would always survive.
On one occasion I rolled a three consecutive 20s versus a vampire and some how saved the entire party.
Ultimately I came to love my less than effective heal stick. I believe in my last game with him we were ambushed by giants and he was trapped under several tons of rocks. The party left him there to die... Claiming it wasn't worth the trouble to dig him out.
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There's a player in my game whom we routinely call the Worst Ninja Ever. He's 6th level now, has no ranks in disable device, got enlisted into a foreign army trying to get to the Field Marshal, and took charge shuriken and shadow clone for his first two ninja tricks. Now those aren't too terribly bad. However his third choice was going to be forgotten trick. Guess how many ki points he had? 3. Per day. So his plan was going to be to use forgotten trick to get vanishing trick. Once. Per day. The rest of the players usually want to throw things at him. A lot.
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7Str 12Dex 11Con 11Int 10Wis 15Cha v3.5 Warlock. Poor gear, but untouchable by monsters by sheer luck. Lucky saves with "Dark One's Own Luck" invocation, never failed an important save, yet. Poor damage, but always hitting vs. touch.
The other players are terribly confused how is this even possible, she gets away with just about anything (also, bluff!). Compared to her, they got huge stats, hit points, AC, saves - and they keep getting the short end of the stick. And yes, everyone rolls in plain sight.
Mako - basically a reskin of the private eye/detective archetype from Shadowrun 3rd edition.
No magic
No cyberware
Not any good with weapons
But he had Distinctive Style disadvantage. The player basically turned this into a "Famous" advantage. Everyone everywhere seemed to recognized this nobody who couldn't actually do anything.
I've had a player play a characher called "Myagi the Giant", who was a level 1 halfling monk with 2 hit points. He failed miserably in the very first combat when he missed (by rolling a 1) with a running side-kick and flew straight off a 12ft high balcony causing him 5 hp of damage. He bled to death on the living room floor below.
Man we laughed!
Ultradan
7Str 12Dex 11Con 11Int 10Wis 15Cha v3.5 Warlock. Poor gear, but untouchable by monsters by sheer luck. Lucky saves with "Dark One's Own Luck" invocation, never failed an important save, yet. Poor damage, but always hitting vs. touch.
The other players are terribly confused how is this even possible, she gets away with just about anything (also, bluff!). Compared to her, they got huge stats, hit points, AC, saves - and they keep getting the short end of the stick. And yes, everyone rolls in plain sight.
That's one of the big advantages of the 3.5 warlock. You don't need any really big ability scores. With the right selection of invocations, you can create a character that doesn't force saving throws, so you can even ignore having a high casting stat.
Heck, there are builds that allow a warlock to almost always hit on a natural 2+ (Darkness + Devil's Sight, Beguiling Influence + Eldritch Glaive or Hideous Blow with Combat Expertise + Improved Feint...though you need decent Int and Cha for that). And once you get to 6th or 8th level, you are flying, invisible artillery, so you're difficult target.
You don't need a high Strength because you don't need to melee.
You don't need a high Dexterity because you use a ranged touch attack.
You don't need a high Constitution because you don't get targeted.
You don't need a high Intelligence because you aren't a skill monkey.
You don't need a high Wisdom since you already have a good Will save.
You don't need a high Charisma since you can choose saveless invocations.
That said, it's still nice to have high ability scores.