The most fun character you have ever played/seen

[Set]

Speaking of comedy routines, I had fun playing a sorcerer with a raven familiar in an online game over the past few years. Edgar the Raven would make snide or off color comments and be scolded by Alton the sorcerer (and straight man) for being rude. Edgar particularly liked to insult the elven eldritch knight in the group. Seriously, when playing a character with a familiar, ravens are the most interesting one because they can talk... to anybody.

Oh yes, in my current game the Transmuter has a Raven familiar, and the party Fighter is prone to saying terribly ill-conceived things.

In this Freeport game, some of the members of the evil cult have the sign of the Unspeakable One tattooed on their thighs, and the Fighter has gotten in the habit of undressing anyone he defeats to check if they have the tattoo. The mage walks into the room to find the Fighter having taken a guards pants off and checking between his legs and says, 'Oh!' and I have the Raven say, 'Awkward!'

I've had more fun with that bird. He's also encountered an elven wizard who has a parrot familiar, similarly able to speak common, and the birds fly up to the 'crow's nest' and jabber about what has happened since they last saw each other. Edited by their Int 6. It's like a tiny recap of the last adventure, narrated by complete idiots.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

The evolution of my Eberron PC made for fun play. Started as a "brother with a sword." That would be brother as in Monk. I based the character's cool demeanor and near vow of silence on a piece or artwork of a figure in a heavy black cloak. In the meantime, DDM put out a mini that matched the basic build (monk that flurries with longsword) that was a female wearing a white gi. I introduced the new mini after one session when we had leveled and my character went through her "Purity of Body" cermony that allowed her to don the white gi. The revelation to the party that the "guy in the black cloak" was actually a girl was a great intra-party roleplaying moment. Her personality has come out a bit more since donning the white gi, discliplined but joyful. She relishes cinematic adventure, leaping onto departing airships, rushing the enemy wizard only to be tripped but dragging him down with her and still trying to take the "big boy stairs" in Xen'drik. She spends too much time practicing her arts and decided to purchase a ring of sustenance to give her even more time since she doesn't have to stop for meals.

Another player in the group (our PowerGamer) scoffed at the seemingly odd non-minmaxxing choices made in designing the character. But she has proven her worth over and over again despite being "gimped."

 

[theskyfullofdust]

I once played a kender (Talos Kinder) and his 'pet' gully dwarf, a dim-witted servant called Togglet Blibblob.

The kender would send poor Togglet scouting ahead (he had decent stealth, but was not good in combat); but Togglet could only count to 2, so every time he saw some monsters he reported back that there were but two of them; got the party into plenty of trouble, but he was a cheerful chap and great fun to play.

There was Malaria Virus from an old Judge Dredd game, notable just for her name (she was a Med-Judge).

There's been plenty of others over the years, but I'm actually enjoying my current characer, a simple human ranger; he has grand ideas that almost always fail when put into practice (eg. running along rooftops, trailing bad guys; only to fall when jumping between buildings), tries his best at diplomacy and often puts his foot in it, and attemtps tactics (trip, disarm) but ultimately has bad luck and ends up on the floor.

We have a barbarian in that game too, a viking-type who is loud, boisterous, likes his drink and women, and is played hilarously by the player.

 

[The Green Adam]

My most funnest of characters...

As someone who usually GMs and has been lucky enough to have some very creative and dedicated players, I would be hard pressed to name one over another, though a few stand out in my mind. Instead, I'll mention one of those rarest of beasts, a favorite that I myself have played, my Champions character...The Imperial.

I was GMing a scifi campaign when a friend came to me with a bit of a predicament. One of the players in his Champions campaign was essentially playing a villain though he believed himself to be the good guy. The player and his PC believed all aliens, regardless of their actual alliances, to be enemies of Earth, god and Humanity. The GM asked if I would come in as an alien hero and help reign the PC in (read: knock him down a peg). The GM designed the character with some input from me and then worked out all the numbers. I designed the name, look and origin, making sure it fit my friend's universe.

The end result was StarGuard! The leader of an alien empire's equivalent of the Legion of Superheroes/Shi'ar Imperial Guard, StarGuard was usually referred to simply as 'Imperial' or 'The Imperial'. His powers were those of a superman/paragon type with a force field he constantly generated adding extra protection and enhancements. The field could be shaped and redirected to increase his physical attributes, speed up his flight, boost his heat vision, etc. His preferred tactic was to place the vast majority of his field around his fist before a punch for example.

Anyway, Imperial was awesome. He flew threw Suns to heat up his force field, punched enemies through the surface of the Moon and dissolved interstellar disputes by travelling back in time on cosmic treadmills. In an Iron Age campaign he was so Silver Age his force field must've been made out of 100% pure cool. His costume was over the top, his dialogue full of thees and thou arts and his combat tactics all style. I must've beat the snot out of the mad, miscreant PC a dozen times.

Ah, those were the days...

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