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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8281386" data-attributes="member: 508">I started in the AD&D 1st Edition days, and I was almost exclusively the DM from the get-go, so I seldom got a chance to create PCs of my own - of the handful I can recall, none were particularly memorable.It wasn't until my grown son Logan decided he wanted to try his hand at DMing that I finally got to run a PC through an entire campaign.  The first 3.5 campaign was based on the Skylanders video games (it was a means by which to convince my nephew to give tabletop RPGs a try), and while it was based on standard D&Disms it was different enough I don't consider my PC, Sam Crow (a humanoid crow gestalt ranger/rogue) to be a D&D character so much as a Skylanders character using the skeleton of the D&D system.Therefore, my first truly memorable D&D character was Jace Syngaard, a horrifically scarred human fighter who moonlighted as a bouncer in a whorehouse.  He was a former bodyguard to a crime lord, fell in love with the boss's daughter, and had a daughter by her - only to have her die in childbirth, all before the start of the campaign.  So Syngaard, the crass, brutish lout with a distinct hatred of halflings was secretly donating most of the money he earned adventuring to the temple of Pelor, whose orphanage was raising his daughter for him.  (He'd told them he found her in the forest - which was technically true, if not all of the story.)  He preferred the morningstar (starting the campaign with the very weapon that had been used by an enemy thug to give Syngaard most of his facial scars), although he later wielded a human bane scimitar he took from the body of an enemy druid he slew.  But he was, in the latter half of the campaign, best known for the figurine of wondrous power he used, a bronze griffon he gleefully named "Dick."Johnathan</blockquote>

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