What was the best character you played...

[krazykid]

For me it had to be Earling, The halfling Barbarian of the North

He almost individually took down the young blue dragon in RttToEE. And he survived a night being played by other party members - The b*rstards found a stone of monster summoning and looking at it as free XP had Earling touch it again, and again, and again ....

Ahh the drinking and whor*** (sorry eric's grandma) that little bugger got up to.

 

[Kalendraf]

My most memorable character was a 1st edition bard named Kalendraf (yup, that's where my posting nickname comes from). That's back in the days when you becoming a bard meant starting with several levels of fighter followed by levels of thief before finally becoming a bard (who got spells mostly from the druid list). He was a fighter7 / thief 8 / bard X. I don't actually remember how many levels of bard he managed to get, but I remember that the rest of the characters were around 14th or so. Experience was handled a bit differently back then as well, so I'd have to crack out the books to figure that out.

It was my longest lived character, in what at that time was the longest running campaign I'd ever played in. He was chaotic and had a tendancy to get drunk at the worst of times, and it was a blast roleplaying his drunkenness. He made it a point to frequent every bar he could find under the pretense of looking for leads, but always manage to put down a few drinks before moving to the next bar. Once the party had to hightail it from the bar to a docked ship under attack, and he managed to fall overboard during the fight and almost drowned. Another time, he was so drunk he bedded an ugly half-orc prostitute, and nearly had to perform the coyote option to get away.

 

[Acid_crash]

My most memerable character was a drow psychic warrior/cleric/paladin who worshipped a god of mercy. It was the only time I actually had the chance to play in a role-playing focused game (not combat focused game) and it was the best gaming I was ever a part of.

To this day, I say it's really hard to pull off a drow paladin who followed a god of mercy (my drow didn't ever quite understand the concept of mercy, but he tried )

 

[Galethorn]

Most memorable? Eolan, a kind-hearted barbarian from the North (in FR). I played him from level 2 to level 16 or so (at a highly accelerated rate between about level 2 and 10, then between 12 and 16).

His first great feat of mightiness was to (pretty much) kill a Young Adult Black Dragon with no real aid from the party, at level 2. I've never seen so many criticals in a row...

Next, he grappled a level 20 fighter when he was level 12, and pinned him for about five rounds while the party beat on him.

His last great, heroic effort was to outfight the tentacled-beat-thing in the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. He got something like 5 negative levels, but he almost killed it, near the beginning, when it attacked at on the hilltop. He retired some time after that specific adventure.

Now, I hardly ever play (since I'm usually DMing), so that's the only character I ever got to any sort of high level.

 

[scourger]

AH, Durnagar, my 2e dwarf fighter/cleric. Back when multiclassing was special. In true munchkin fashion (and after racial adjustments and one 2 for 1 point trade), he had 3 18s where they counted (STR CON & WIS) & 3 10s where they belonged (INT, DEX & CHA). That was back when exceptional Strength was special, too. The Fihgter's Handbook opened up weapon & shield fighting. The Complete of Dwarves took it to new heights as a warhammer specialist. But I would even play him again as a 3.5 conversion. Sole survivor of many scrapes, most of them in Feast of Goblyns. Also stood fast in the face of a charge by a blue dragon--thanks to a scroll of protection from Dragon breath. Those were the days! Makes me want to download the module at WotC and check it out for nostalgia.

 

[Evilhalfling]

Bosmo Guadaski LG 1st ed halfling monk (from polymorph)
He had 2 rings of elemental command and was just sure if he got all four he would become a god - He spent much of the time dropping walls of Ice to keep PCs from killing each other. He jumped to 2nd ed and heard that the third ring was in spelljamming territory and was quickly hosed by a ship of 20 mind flayers- ended his days as a nimble fingered brain caretaker.
poor little guy.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Baron Vado Radalesczu, a Romanian Crusader in the holy land in a friend's Ars Magica campaign.

He was a Knight/Sorceror of House Flambeau.

 

[LazerPointer]

Kurt Bregolad, a human fighter 7/barbarian 1 spiked chain specialist in a friend's homebrew. My best antic so far has been to have Wanted posters made and put up across the land of our current nemesis for "horse rape and the spread of sexual diseases."

 

[Taneel BrightBlade]

I'm alway stuck as DM so the only character I've really role played (my insane paladin and door kicking dwarf don't really count) Taneel "Brighty" BrightBlade male barbarian/fighter.
greatest feat: talking his way out of an orc camp he jumped into (literaly) and got the map to the loction of the tower we were looking for.
PS: No ranks in diplomicy

 

[Wombat]

Julia Peregrina, filia Cerbus Facto, of House Merinita. She was a partially fey maga of semi-flippant nature who turned serious on a dime.

While she was a non-combatant, and often asked others not to attack the enemy, she did have a vicious streak. One spell she invented tied the fate of a single individual to the fate of a specific tree for a whole year. In spring, the target/victim was bright, boisterous, and happy (and usually quite ... attentive ... to the opposite sex). In summer, the target was bold, daring, and convinced that nothing could defeat it. In autumn the person turned more sedentary, but very generous, loving, and thoughtful of the community. In winter, the person was all but inert -- slow, docile, sleepy, and quite cranky.

If any harm came to the tree in the year, that harm was also reflected in the person -- blow for blow, break for break, burn for burn. Rather nasty, that

She is also well-famed for the baby exchange incident, where at first she was going to steal a baby to give to a faerie queen, but after being convinced this was a vile act decided to have one of her own to give. The queen had given her a changeling made of brass to leave behind (a glamour would make it appear to be a child as long as certain rituals were performed, but at least for a season). When Julia handed her own daughter over to the faerie queen, the queen asked, "Why do you still have the changeling?" "Because it was to be left behind in a child's place!" "But that was only to confuse the mother." "Yes," replied Julia, "and I am very confused!"

Things happened