What are some of your Favorite chars you've played?

[shilsen]

Same approach as Crothian, but unfortunately I haven't been playing D&D that long (started in 1999 and had a 1 yr hiatus in between) and have also been DMing a good part of that time, so I've been able to play few PCs. The three most recent ones:

1) Eranilor Nailo, elven ex-teacher, scout, archer and cynical optimist wiseass. This is the only character I've ever played whom I based totally on myself. Same philosophy, attitude to life, manner of speaking, etc. He was typically elven in some areas (loved poetry and literature and curled up when not on watch with a collection of plays by the famed Greyhawk playwright Shakespeare, esp. "Hamlet, Prince of Dyvers" and "Othello, the Half-Orc of verbobonc") and atypical in others - purely carnivorous, teetotaller and completely lawful in that he followed his personal code to the T but ignored society's. Was great fun to play, and would have been even more so if it wasn't a dungeon-crawl-focused campaign (RttToEE).

2) Tharg - orc barbarian. Stupidest PC I ever played, with a 6 in Int/Wis/Cha. All power attack all the time. Survived till 2nd lvl (when the campaign folded), which midly surprised me. I usually play smart PCs, so it's a nice change to sometimes play a really dumb character. Had a lot of fun doing his voice, being unable to communicate in or understand words of more than two syllables, and trying to explain his mathematical system of "one, two, three, many" (which anyone who has read the Terry Pratchett novel "Men at Arms" will recognize).

3) Granny, i.e. Althea Nackle. Current PC. 180 year old gnome grandmother, who decided to become an adventurer again (she retired 120 yrs ago) because she was post-menopausal, sick of her daughter-in-law, and tired of babysitting. 'Nuff said

 

[Panthanas]

Let’s see...

1. My first character ever was a 2E Fighter/Mage named Xannax (This was before the drug) and I was quite pleased with myself for having a cool sounding name and because it was spelled the same forwards and backwards. Yay for me

2. In my last campaign I played a LN Human Cleric of St. Cuthbert named Akiva Darius. I enjoyed dolling out "Righteous Vengeance" and punishment on all law-breakers and non-believers. The rest of the group usually fell in line at sight of Akiva's heavy mace and the words, "Order MUST be maintained!" Now that I think about it, maybe Akiva was a little to heavy handed...

3. Although I Have enjoyed all of my characters, the one that I would have to say was my favorite was a werepanther thief in a 1st Edition Palladium Fantasy game named (surprise surprise) Panthanas. Again, I was rather proud of myself (at the time) for coming up with a "cool" name. He was fun to play was well. Quick story...he was a naturally occurring werepanther (born as) and at one point in his adventuring career he was inflicted (by bite) with lycanthropy from a werewolf. It was ...interesting... playing a werepanther werewolf. He was eventually cured of the lycanthropy.

 

[Captain Howdy]

OUt of all the characters you guys have played over the years which have been your top 3 character to play as and Why?

1) In Captain Howdy's recently deceased Eberron campaign I was playing a Gnome Druid/Ranger named Jago Murnig.

2) In the start of Captain Howdy's long running 3.0 D&D campaign I was playing a Water Genasi Sorcerer.


3) Uthuk Y'llan Barb I played in the same campaign as # 2.

That Eberron campaign is NOT deceased... Just temporarily on the back burner. D20 Future is too much to pass up.
Ah... The good 'ol 3.0 campaign. That one was the best ever. Saris was an annoying ****

As far as my favorite characters, I DM 99% of the time, so there aren't really any that I can think of... So I'll do my top 3 favorite NPC's!
(In no particular order)

1. Daldius: Captain of the Magnificent Flying Ship, Bronze Dragon
Ask any of my players. I will safely assume that this NPC is probably their favorite also. A Bronze Dragon that stayed in human (pirate) form most of the time. Only once or twice in a year of playing with him did he show his true form. Really great character, too. Nothing like an airship pirate to spice up a campaign.

2. Dragon Bumper: Fat hobbit with an attitude. Also, invincible... One of the weirder NPC's I made. His nickname was Bumper because he would charge at people and ram them with his gut, sending them flying. He did this to numerous pirates, as well as the occasional dragon... Don't ask.

3. Crucius: My personal favorite. I would bet that none of my players even remember him, but he will always be favorite. A paladin who was obsessed with ridding the world of Devils. He kind of dropped off the scene for a while, only to be rediscovered by the group a lot later. He had become so obsessed that he went to Hell to take on the Devils there. (I took the idea from that fiendslayer PrC in an old issue of Dragon, and ran with it). He felt he needed to become more like the Devils in order to kill them. Crazy, but my favorite anyway.

So that’s the top three (that I can remember off the top of my head).

 

[Gilladian]

Three of my favorites:
Gilladian, my 1st edition dwarf fighter of L6. He had a 6 intelligence, a 4 wisdom and a 15 charisma. He had a mule named "mule go bang" who kicked down dungeon doors for him. Eventually he owned a broom of flying, which due to being breathed on by a red dragon, smoked, sparked and sputtered. He was a riot. Gilladian believed everything he was told, so long as you promised him it was true.

Buttercup, my halfling rogue/shadowdancer, eventually retired at L14. She was chaotic good - no idea of how to follow a rule to save her life, but she always meant well. Shadowdancing is Sooooo powerful! She was a "mafia princess" sort, but her parents died in a world-wrecking war, so her "Uncle Ogre" took her in; he was a thoroughly self-serving old bas**** whom she convinced everyone was a good guy because SHE believed it, sort of.

Thorny, a half-elven bard. She wasn't terribly powerful, but her very high charisma and a hat of disguise led her eventually to a situation where she strip-teased a fire-giant king long enough for the party to put hallucinatory mushrooms in the stew-kettle and disable him and most of his army.

 

[demiurge1138]

My three favorites:

1) Klaatu M., an abjurer turned alienist. Chaotic neutral, fun-loving and a source of both wisdom and randomness, Klaatu was in the habit of summoning eldritch horrors on a fairly regular basis, and he excelled at bad puns.
Klaatu was my first character, and he made it all the way to epic levels, becoming an NPC in the process (as in, I started DMing). Still my favorite.

2) Jack Skellington. Skellington was the inheritor of his father's ancestral sword. And that was about it. Dejected, he bought passage on an airship to seek his fortune, and was promptly knocked to his death by a pirate raid.
Then he got back up, and his flesh fell off.
Bound to unlife by his cursed sword, Skellington now has little reason to un-live except to kill the pirate who killed him. And if he makes a little money in the process, he wouldn't mind.

3) Mok the Magnificent. Mok was a gruwaar, a horrid little ape-like fey with a penchant for burglary and sorcerey. He was also on a quest to write the Great Unseelie Novel, which was a shame as he had very little talent. But he was working on it, and that's what counts! Mok's basic character traits were cowardice, mockery and sarcasm, yet he was generally beloved by the party. Maybe it was because, when push came to shove, Mok was a vicious little fighter.

Demiurge out.

 

[Wombat]

I have three favourite characters, but none of them are from D&D sessions...

Julia Pelegrina filia Cerebus Facto of House Merinita (and her brass baby Ori) from a long-running Ars Magica campaign. Well versed in many types of magic, she proved that non-combatant did not mean the same as non-vengeful.

Charlie Eastway, PI, The Man With A Thing For Ming, a pulp private detective from Over The Edge who could play his own saxaphone solos...

Ky O.T. Rampant, netrunner and vox-box player from Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0, one half of Dead Doonesbury and object of affection for Nurse Magruder.

 

[Larcen]

1) Grey Hawk (real name Loren Elissar) - High level elf Fighter/Magic-User character in 1E who once during a fight with Orcus set up a staight 50/50 situation of killing Orcus.. or he himself dying. The DM made the roll for all to see, and Grey Hawk won.

2) Larcen Silvaborn - 2E elven Spellfilcher whos name means "Thief from the woods." Where I got my Enword handle from.

3) Aurum Dragonsend. My current 3E Cleric/Sorcerer. I wrote a 13 page background from him. The DM was so impressed he gave me a very nifty miniature gold dragon familiar....for a price. I'd would like to post the background somewhere someday.

 

[Shadeus]

1. Derek ShadowWalker - 1st-edition human thief (started in 1987). It was the first campaign I played with my now best friends from high school. He was a CN thief that ended up CE before the campaign ended. He stole a good 200,000 gp from the party and was at least 2-3 levels higher than anyone because of it. He ended up dying when one of his own party members tied him up and sacrificed him to a demon. Long story.

2. Brynmar Lungdren - 3.5 human ranger. Started in late 2002, I'm actually still playing him now. He just got banished the plane of Shadow when the lich's demi-plane collapsed after they teleported him away to be banished. He took the path of the bow and it pretty much death on a stick to anything within range of his bow (favored enemy humans is the best!)

 

[ivocaliban]

I'm more often a DM than a player, but my favourite character was probably Ulerand, a grim, but determined Druid/Bear Lord whose forest home was utterly destroyed by hobgoblins. He was accompanied by a large grizzly bear named Mourn whose cubs were slain for food by the same hobgoblins. Ulerand saved her from the same fate and they protected one another from then on. They were accompanied by a massive half-orc Barbarian PC whose name I can't recall, but they were a fairly fearsome team.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Bosmo Gudasky - a 1st ed LG halfling (formerly human monk)
He was on a quest for immortality, he firmily believed that owning all four rings of elemental control would make him a god. He spent most of his time stopping party fights with walls of ice and finding new and ridiculus ways to use his agility and magic rings. Made a transition into 2nd - spelljammer only to be enslaved by Mindflayers in a TPK. ah well.

A gnome professor 2nd ed. bard kit - who firmly believed that reality was a shared construct that souls used to relate to each other, thus only sentiant beings existed, everything else was window dressing. Achieved some amazingly specatcular failures of engineering - incluing a partical accelerator
(trying for a new wagon) which accelerated his pony before exploding.
burning hoofprints were all that remained. We are pretty sure his pony was later adopted as an avatar of a horse god.
He eventually received an artifact that allowed him to disbelieve reality - which hardly ever worked out well.

Pierre - a Sorcerer with a int and wis of 6 chr 18
he was the heir to the throne for a city state, and was somehow found wandering lost on the plain of shadow, without his bodygaurds or minders.

He had a few clever techiques, which he would use for every occasion, regardless of suitiblity. He never learned from mistakes and was prone to planning out what was going to be done, offering many helpful suggestions, finally agreeing on a plan and then ignoring it.
He was eaten by hungry ratmen after a few adventures.

a CoC mid 30's antiquarian pregen convention char. whose name I have lost.
She carried a purse, and had tight lips, and a specific manner of speaking.
She spent most of the adventure flirting in a English way with the valet (another PC) basically by being nice to each other. The Valet, Myself and his Rich Master, were great roleplayers and stole the adventure. We did find out at the end that if cultists are about to ritually sacrifice a cow on an alter, shooting the cow doesn't help.