Did your very first character die or level up?

[Bullgrit]

Note that this poll is asking about your first experience with D&D, not your first experience with each edition. This is only regarding your very first character in your very first D&D gaming experience.

Bullgrit

 

[weem]

Can I go with neither?

My friends brother ran the first game I ever played in, and it was also the last time I played with them (mainly because they had moved and we lived far from each other - all games after that took place with my friends back home).

We played just that game, no death's, no leveling.

---edit---

Oh, I answered before the poll

 

[Bullgrit]

Yeah, the poll should have a "neither" option. But it's a monster as it is.

Bullgrit

 

[Piratecat]

1980. Morak the Grey, 1e human monk with 4 hit points, died when he was lured into a small room by a trash-talking imp; once inside the door vanished behind him. Morak found and opened the heavy secret door which then fell off its hinges onto him and knocked him unconscious. Morak's party members walked on top of the now-mostly-flat door to come and try to find him, doing just enough damage to bring Morak to -11.

Sniff.

 

[Woas]

I think the first game I played we got one level up and then stopped playing for awhile... so I voted that. Although the memory is fuzzy and could have been a 'neither'.

 

[Raven Crowking]

1979. I'm getting old, and can't remember his name. Died in the minimodule in the back of Holmes Basic. To a wandering monster, I believe. The next character, Damien the Undaunted, lasted to 5th level, where he met his fate (having been adjusted to 1e) in the Slave Pits. I had a stable of characters at that time, ranging in levels between 1 and 6.


RC

 

[CleverNickName]

1986: Eric Storm, 1st level Fighter. He discovered a 20-foot deep pit the hard way. Though he survived the fall, the ghoul at the bottom of the pit was more than he could handle.

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

My first character was the fighter from the Mentzer basic set, who I named "Duke" because I was a G.I. Joe fan at the time. My step-brother ran several homebrew adventures and X1 and good old Duke made it to level 6, I believe, before I started DMing.

 

[Halivar]

Elithir, elven Ftr-Mu with 18/90 strength (I had no clue what that meant at the time). Died 3 times in the first session. On the plus side, he killed a level 20 wizard with a lucky critical from behind. I have no clue how, as I never played D&D again until 3rd Edition.

 

[El Mahdi]

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