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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mandyscog" data-source="post: 2895147" data-attributes="member: 30065">Today I have a special treat.  My very first characters.<img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765175.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> I started playing D&D (note the absence of the "A," it is significant) when I was 7 or 8 years old because my brother wanted to play.  As Air Force brats, I was the only one who was around consistently, so it was either I played or I was beaten.  Naturally, I choose to play.  He was the DM, and I, as the only player, played the standard party of thief, fighter, mage, and cleric.  (I wonder why my current group claims I'm no good at playing multiple characters, it was all I ever did before joining them.)  As soon as I found out that they existed, I wanted to play a party of elves, but since all the was available to play before D&D became "Advanced" was humans, that's what I did.  When we switched to 1st edition a short time later (not even a year I think), I was made to convert my characters and I again requested to play elves I was told that it still wasn’t allowed, but I could play half-elves.  Fearing a beating and not knowing any better, I complied and made a party of three half-elves and one human--but I always thought of the leader as a full blooded elf.  Now that I'm no longer faced with beatings if I don't comply, I've made my characters what they should have been all along.  (Is it any wonder I quit D&D for more then a decade?)Lira Cutpurse is the original eleven thief--the one that started it all for me.  She was the leader of the group mostly because it turned out that the thief class was my favorite.  But now that I'm more experienced, it makes more since to me.  Rouges should always take point in dungeons to search for and disarm traps, and she was the smartest of the lot.<img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765194.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765191.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Lady Morgana was the fighter and second in command.  She's the only one who's still human.<img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765199.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/albums/99/878363184/Sims_Characters/morgannasimface.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Zara the Fire Mage, a.k.a. Zara the Great.  I remember her as "the Fire Mage," but the only character sheet I still have (the rest having been in a box in my brother's possession that had raw sewage leak on it at his former roommate's house) says "the Great."  This is actually not surprising as they went through many incarnations as my brother wanted to change campaigns and settings and required that I remake them each time and I wasn't allowed to always use the exact same names.<img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765186.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765183.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Sister Laura the Cleric.<img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/cache/derivative/4/7/4765180.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/albums/99/878363184/Sims_Characters/laurasimface.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> I'm thinking about doing some of my Rifts characters next, specifically a dragon hatchling named Bob Sherman.  (Rifts was again a "play-or-be-beaten" situation.  In fact, I actually was beaten because I was 14 and had the courage to resist briefly.)</blockquote>

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