Fond memories AKA When you munchkined out as a newbie

[MEG Hal]

All these how you got started threads made me think of one of my twinkiest PC's.

Pyro a low level mage in 1ed (I think) who wore all black and had a wand of fireballs and a dagger . He was solo with my friend Brian DM'ing we were in junior high and I blew up Hommlet, I mean I blew it up good!

So what was your twinkiest moment, we all had a few...
come on spill it, man I want to play Pyro the CN Human Wizard again.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

WaY back in da day ('81ish) I had a permanantly invisible character: "Legores" the elf fighter/mu. I ummm... fudged a bit on the potion compatibility results chart. He had to take off his armor to become totally invisible though. I think I got really "lucky" on his ability score rolls too. I don't remember him having a single stat under 15.

I was the DM too, and of course we killed Demogorgon. In his lair - In the Abyss. No sweat.

edit: IIRC, the reason I went with the invisibility thing was my inability to draw a good character portrait in the provided box!

 

[Macbeth]

Kevlar the Elf Wizard. Ability scores that would make an outsider blush, a penchant for blowing things up, and a player with little grasp of the magic system. Many things went BOOM!

 

[WanderingMonster]

It has to be from 7th grade. I had an anti-paladin with a mace of anti-disruption. His steed was a black "pega-corn" with black bat-wing ears.

 

[DaveMage]

My character's name was Piedmont.

He was a cleric/fighter/magic user.

Of 238th level.

And he had psionic ability (1st edition).

And he had a +20 holy golden flaming bastard sword.


(Ok, so I was 11 years old on a power trip.)

 

[Psion]

We invented the standard array for lunch hour one off games. Of course our array was 1 18, 2 17's, 3 16's.

Our DM had to ratchet up the HP of deities to keep them a challenge.

Four classes, not unusual. We were just sad Druids, Monks, and Assassins had level limits.

 

[jdrake3]

2nd Edition

Elven Mage
High Stats
High Magic
Personal Mythal
Hyped on Spells

Final Battle of the Campaign (One Shot Session)
55% Magic Resistance
Negative Init
First in combat
Leaps Castle Wall
Lands On Top of Keep
Fires at Wizard in Corner Turret
Hits

Of course he killed himself about three rounds later. The GM had approved all this, very high powered session. But he trusted me and I let him down. That was the night I decided to never play a PC Wizard again.

Edit: This was college.

 

[Piratecat]

Randimar the Manyhanded, baby. Two bastard swords, and helped kill two green dragons when he was 6th level. TWO! In THREE rounds! Go, me! woot woot....

And let's not talk about Sir Valkoron, my 1e cavalier. Poor guy eventually got eaten by a red dragon. Sob. And by using the alternative ability score generation tables in UA, he was tres buff.

 

[BryonD]

When I was around 11, I had never played but was very interested. All I knew about how the game actually worked came from looking at some other kids' character sheets.

So, anyway, somehow I end up talking to an older kid about the game. It struck to me as obvious that I needed pretend that I knew what I was talking about. So I told him, yes, I played. I had a wizard (perhaps I said magic user) with an intelligence of 24/158 (or some equally bizarre distortion of the exceptional strength rules). He just looked at me weird and walked away.

That is a lot funnier now.

More on topic, a year or so later I started to play for real. But I still did not have any books or anything. I just trusted everything my DM said. I now know that my first DM was probably the worst "munchkin" I would ever play with. My elf character went through a series of "tests". The only one I recall was the last, fighting an iron cobra (I think the FF had just come out). Anyway, the fight consisted of requiring me to roll a natural "1" on a d20. Don't ask, I don't know. Anyway, by some fate I hit it on the first roll.

The DM declares my character promoted or somesuch. He reaches into his bag, pulls out a book and turns to page, declaring "this is your character now."

This is how I learned who Corellon Larethian was.

 

[Mark]

So what was your twinkiest moment...(?)

Slid Bluffside off edge...