D&D General Who was your first character, and do you still play them?

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Theren Liadon, a premade High Elf Wizard from the Lost Mines of Phandelver starter set. My DM hadn’t read the rules, so he didn’t know what my spells did and made up their effects on the fly. He ruled that Magic Missile only did 3 damage and thought burning hands just lit your hands on fire, leading me to melee attacking a Lion for 4 damage and then catching myself on fire. The lion killed me next turn.

Pretty soon after that I bought and read the core rulebooks and became my table’s forever DM. I have from time to time included Theren as a villain in my campaigns, a necromancer servant of Orcus that is building a tower made of dead bodies (stolen from Matt Colville’s Kaleral the Vile video).

 

[R_J_K75]

Pretty soon after that I bought and read the core rulebooks and became my table’s forever DM.

Sounds like a wise choice and a good investment

 

[Stormonu]

It's interesting how many of these 80's characters dies in their first adventure - yet the players came back for more.

 

[mekhawretch]

My friend at school had the 3.5 books and introduced me to the game. I had a halfling rogue called 'Obi Quiat' - said like 'Oh, be quiet'. We were lame kids.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

My first character was Fairblade, a Fighter, back in the Red Box days. I didn't get to play him much as I ended up being the DM most of the time.

My first D&D character was a halfling thief named Malak that was completely different than that thief in Conan the Destroyer. Toatlly different character.

In his own words..." I know when to steal and when not to."

 

[aco175]

One was a thief called Gojack ( after Kojack) and the other was a magic user called Wandalf ( after Gandalf)

I made Orf the Dwarf after Melf the Elf when we first started playing. I think we had an all dwarf party and my brother made Snuker, after Jimmy Super-Fly and roll .00 for strength bonus only to find out dwarves max out at .99. We were kind of bummed. It wasn't like all the other character that showed up having magically rolled it at home.

 

[CleverNickName]

My first character was a dwarf named Ivann Ironforge (red-box rules). He survived the Keep on the Borderlands, but didn't make it out of the Temple of Death.

Because of Ivann, I've been addicted to D&D for almost 40 years.

 

[jasper]

that was september 1980. Too much beef, and Jim Beam ago. I only have maybe 6 of my original pcs. Somewhere.

 

[TheRottenPixie]

Jyn D. Stillery. A rogue from 4e who was the answer to the question “what if Bilbo Baggins was an even bigger @$$&*£€?”

 

[Minigiant]

I'm first PC in any edition is a "good" Half elf ranger who HATES GIANTS AND FIENDS.

Lets me make up biological facts about giants and demons and why shooting them deals high damage because I shot them in their 3rd kneecap or their jibjab organ.

The jibjab is sensitive.