Okay, 'fess up

[Mr. Wilson]

I hadn't thought about it until this thread honestly.

Gonna play around with it tonight. I have a feeling my favorite Eberron character would have been much better as a Warlord rather than a Bard/Fighter.

I don't think I can make my monk yet, given he finished at around 14.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I don't think I can make my monk yet, given he finished at around 14.

Well, if he fits the one build they've given as a preview so far, you can. It goes all the way to 30th (though it's missing its level 22 utility powers, for some reason). I actually just created a 25th-level monk myself, during my character recreations.

(Of course he wasn't 25th-level in 1E, but I'm guesstimating equivalents.)

 

[RefinedBean]

Yep, definitely re-make the old favorites.

Not only that, but I'll do different "versions" of characters I'm currently playing, just to see how they'd work as a different class/race.

I think I have a problem.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Hell yeah I made my first ADnD PC, Garush Half-Orc Ftr/Ass when the half orcs appeared in the CB. He was based on the orc sitting on the front of the city system box. Chainmail, shield etc

I made a hybrid BRV ftr/rogue... close enough

 

[Destil]

Not just my characters... I've made up entire adventuring groups of yore...

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

Well, I don't really have all that many characters to choose from, but yeah, I have recreated a number of my past characters. I need to recreate my Human Fighter/Wizard (Swordmage probably) and my Warforged Ranger (he was a Warforged scout, which I can't make) and I will have all of the characters I played more than one session with finished.

I kinda wish I had kept all of my 2E stuff, I could have some serious fun remaking a lot of those characters.

 

[arscott]

Guilty. Not only am I making up my own characters, I just whipped up versions of Tordek, Lidda, Mialee, and Jozan for a friend's one-shot.

 

[Timeboxer]

How many of you have used the character creator to recreate some of your favorite old characters from past editions, even though you know you'll never play them again?

Yep, I do this -- I love trying to reinterpret my old characters in a new light.

But I'll do you one better: I recently started up a sequel to one of my old campaigns, in which (almost) everyone picked up their old characters from 3E. Everyone has been pleasantly surprised at how much more effective they feel compared to days of yore; plus, my new campaign gets an instant nostalgia boost!

 

[Mouseferatu]

But I'll do you one better: I recently started up a sequel to one of my old campaigns, in which (almost) everyone picked up their old characters from 3E. Everyone has been pleasantly surprised at how much more effective they feel compared to days of yore; plus, my new campaign gets an instant nostalgia boost!

I haven't done that for 4E, but I sort of did it back in the early days of 3E. I ran a campaign that was set several centuries after an earlier campaign, with the earlier party now legendary heroes of yore. The players weren't playing those same characters for most of the campaign, but I ran a game where the current characters were able to see back in time to learn something that had happened, and the players got to play their old characters--recreated for the new edition--for that game.

Of course, being a bastard, I also set things up so that for the old "guest star" characters to succeed in what they were doing, they'd have to take actions that would make things harder for the "real" party, a few hundred years later. My players loved it, even as they cursed at me.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Not on DDI, so no. I don't think I would even if I could though as most of the characters are too dependent on their rulesets to be easily ported over. Plus, unless I am gonna play them in a game, why bother?