What was the best character you played...

[Bigwilly]

Dancer

Dancer was a Satyr Houri (Seducer) in Rulemaster. His highest skill was Seduction at 128 or something equally riduculous, so he usually got the babe. Unfortunately, this meant that he always got into trouble as all the GM had to do for a plot hook was introduce a good looking female NPC (and believe me, he did it regularly). His spell lists included one called Kisses, which could be delivered as touch attacks and did all sorts of nasty enchantment like effects to opponents (from sleep to Kiss of Death at higher levels). Not a pure fighting machine, he was more like a dex-based fighter (ranger), but a combination of spells and some nifty magical armor and weapons meant he could usually hold his own in a fight. Despite several close calls, he's one of the few characters I've played that survived to the end of a campaign.

Bigwilly

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Well, there are several.

Pharaun Craulnober, later Pharaun Veluuthra, Moon Elven Bladesinger from Cormanthor. I played him from 1 to 30 (with a short jump from 21 to 25 where the campaign skipped a couple of years). In addition to the vast amount of punishment he could inflict (despite his one-handed sword style) and evade (despite wearing only medium-turned-light mithral chain mail), he was a more than passable diplomat. Like the rest of the party, he was destined for greatness (it was epic, after all): He became the High Bladesinger of Faerûn (highest level bladesinger on the continent), was the regent of all elves in the queens absence (though he didn't actually rule since he was busy seeking the queen), freed evereska from the shadovar, was the champion of Corellon, later the chosen. Improved the relations between drow (Vhaeraunan and Eilistraeen) and other elves and made the first contacts with a long-forgotten race of psionic elves (blue elves). His career as adventurer ended when he and his companions defeated a long-ago banished elven god who tried to send all elves to his former prison Cerceri. For this accomplishment, he was made a demigod and became the patron of Bladesingers.
Funny enough, in our current campaign (which plays several years after the first in the "same" Faerûn), one player (not me) plays a sun elven bladesinger who worships Pharaun.
And no, the name wasn't stolen from the War of the Spider Queen novels, but rather from the FRCS: I couldn't think of a name, and the elven ones didn't sound so good, so I took a drow name (and it later was revealed that Pharaun had a drow father). Phrarun Mizzrym is actually the third Pharaun I see, as in my campaign, someone also took the name for her drow priest.

The other momorable character was Antar Nimesin, the gold elf who really was Antaros Dlardrageth the fey'ri. A spy and assassin, this character meant tons of fun with his shapeshifting abilities!

 

[mirivor]

Letharieon, or Shadow, also called the Forestwarden. 2nd Ed elven fighter/mage 21/21 (Bladesinger)

Played from my freshman year in high school (1992) until I graduated from Penn State in 1999. Weekends typically meant at least 36 hours of game time, although the marathon sessions just about stopped outside of high school.

He is a soft-spoken elf with the heart and ideals of a ranger. Shadow has visited many places and seen his share of combat. White-Plume Mountain, Lost Caverns of Tsocjanth?, and even the Tomb of Horrors were all successfully navigated by his adventuring company. He has been through many adventures, including the rescue of Waukeen? in the FRCS module in which she was kidnapped. He has also dared to engaged Tiamat in her avatar form with the help of his equally powerful companions, though not to the death. His highest honor, and his curse, is having earned the right to be counted as one of Mystra's Chosen.

I loved, and still love, playing him. I translated him into 3.5 and he is now a Ftr4/Wiz15/Bladsinger10. Very cool.... not to mention vast stores of fond memories with my old friends from school.

 

[reanjr]

Probably either Julien the Half-Orc bard or Roland the Halfling Bard.

Bards rock.

Julien had a nice memorable incident where you determined through bardic knowledge that the weird looking creature on the other side of the wall was a rust monster. Without hesitation, he forked over his gear to his fellow party member on the other side of the wall and then tackled the rust monster. I thinked he knocked it out or something...

Roland was a happy go lucky individual who always cracked jokes and made snide comments at everybody. He was also official liaison for the party when meeting anyone important. And he had a fun habit of forgetting to tell the rest of the party things ahead of time ("oh, yeah, Filius told me there was going to be a guardian, I suppose I should have mentioned that earlier...").

 

[Thanee]

That would be my shadowrun magician.

Very cool character whom I had a lot of fun with, but obscenely powerful in the end, so I had to create a new one after about seven years and a couple hundred karma points eventually.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Darmanicus]

Mine is most definitely Dire Wolf, 6th lv Wood Elf Beastmaster.

One of the things that made him really memorable was his bonded Cooshee, (Elven hunting dog), Anagwa.

Anyway I was able to make the Anagwa more powerful by investing some of my XP into it. It ended up the equivalent of a 4th lv fighter that could seriously kick some ass. Anagwa met his end though at the hands of some Trolls however I managed to get him ressurected by a bunch of Svirfneblin that we'd managed to befriend. My DM got it into his head that Anagwa now had no fear of death which I only ended up realising for proper when it charged straight into another bunch of Trolls a bit later. The party was in a bad way but I couldn't leave me buddy behind and the Trolls ended up giving me a good kickin' to death!

The same Svirfneblins ressurected me but I ended up coming back as an Ogre Magi, (DM soon realised the mistake of letting loose a very hard, permanently invisible and flying character but rectified the situation with a Spectre that caught me away from the rest of the party), but Anagwa couldn't quite get his head round the concept of my new form and sadly we never got the chance to work things out, sob.

Aaah, those were the days. Thanks for rekindling those fond memories.

 

[Belen]

Bilben Silverfox: He was a 2e bard who had a knack for finding trouble, especially with a certain party member, Evenstar D. Stroyer, dragonslayer and most annoying halfling that ever lived. The guy was kender level, no lie!

I miss the old days.

 

[jinx crossbow]

My best Charakter was my Exalted tax collector. An extrem bureaucrat who was absolutly loyal to the Dragonblooded, which hunted him when he was exalted. He was a real nag and no other player did like him.

My best DnD Char was Olom Hammersong a dwarven barbarian with vermin in his breard, though he had allways a lite snack.

 

[iwatt]

My 2e thief Simon. He was actually more of a spy than a thief. And the biggest liar in the world. And somehow was still trusted by his party allies ( actually they trsutde him to keep them alive and wealthy and one step away from those that hunted them). His quest for power led him to sell his soul to about 4 different forgotten gods, bluff his way past dragons, and to become the sole possesor of 3 of the 7 most powerful artifacts in the world. By that time it become so exhausting to remember what lies I'd told whom, I leapt at the chance to make him ascend (he became the avatar of one of those gods) and he became a new power. Is till miss him, but he really was hard to play. My most powerful character in 2e (which past10th level was just Mage's domain) wasn't a spellcaster.

 

[Wombat]

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.

Forgot to respond to this last night, but nice to see another Ars Magica fan

Oh, and since he lives up in your neck of the woods, if you spot Niall Christie (author of Blood & Sand), give him a Hi from me!