Andrew D. Gable
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First PC was Beorn the Chaotic fighter in OD&D. Name lifted from my fave character in The Hobbit.
What was your first PC's name?
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Kesh
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Xhoral Fahrliss, human wizard.
His claim to fame was defending a castle under seige, first by (accidentally) using a wand of lightning bolt to kill the enemy leader. Then, by lowering the drawbridge.
No, really! It actually worked. Let part of the enemy force come over the drawbridge, then cast web, followed by burning hands. Instant barbeque.
His claim to fame was defending a castle under seige, first by (accidentally) using a wand of lightning bolt to kill the enemy leader. Then, by lowering the drawbridge.
No, really! It actually worked. Let part of the enemy force come over the drawbridge, then cast web, followed by burning hands. Instant barbeque.
Veandercult Trochspacous
Started as a Raistlin type in 1988 for me. Though I hadn't read Dragonlance yet. But my intent was to make him evil someday. No clue why anymore, but he DID end up becoming the great evil spellslinger of my homebrew world. He had a son, who becomes the great hero. Yes, yes, Star Wars must have been in my subconscience then, though I don't remember it as such.
V
Started as a Raistlin type in 1988 for me. Though I hadn't read Dragonlance yet. But my intent was to make him evil someday. No clue why anymore, but he DID end up becoming the great evil spellslinger of my homebrew world. He had a son, who becomes the great hero. Yes, yes, Star Wars must have been in my subconscience then, though I don't remember it as such.
V
Shadowdancer
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A human fighter named Dirk Stryker. And yes, I still have the character sheet somewhere. I use him as an NPC from time to time.
I was first introduced to AD&D by my two cousins, who brought their books over to our house one summer day (they lived like an hour away) with a homemade dungeon and an assortment of pregenerated characters. So my first PC was not one that I had created myself, just one that I chose out of the available batch. He was a druid named Jon (real original, I know, but they had named the potential PCs as well), and I chose him not because I liked druids in particular, but because a) he was a human, and I didn't want to be anything "sissy" like an elf or a halfling 
, and b) his stats didn't completely suck. (They had created a random number generator to determine the potential PCs' stats, only instead of randomly determining numbers from 1-6 and adding them together, they just randomly determined numbers between 3 and 18. So the PCs we had to choose from had quite a few 3s and 4s...I think Jon's lowest was a 6. After the game was over, we had a little discussion about bell curves...)
Anyway, it was a simple little game: we woke up in a dungeon and had to find the way out. Our first encounter was with 4 giant rats, and I had Jon run away at full speed (it seemed like a logical response), until my cousins informed me that was somewhat of a breech of adventurer etiquette...
Good times. I don't have Jon's character sheet, though.
Johnathan
, and b) his stats didn't completely suck. (They had created a random number generator to determine the potential PCs' stats, only instead of randomly determining numbers from 1-6 and adding them together, they just randomly determined numbers between 3 and 18. So the PCs we had to choose from had quite a few 3s and 4s...I think Jon's lowest was a 6. After the game was over, we had a little discussion about bell curves...)Anyway, it was a simple little game: we woke up in a dungeon and had to find the way out. Our first encounter was with 4 giant rats, and I had Jon run away at full speed (it seemed like a logical response), until my cousins informed me that was somewhat of a breech of adventurer etiquette...
Good times. I don't have Jon's character sheet, though.
Johnathan
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