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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor DM" data-source="post: 3349997" data-attributes="member: 49937">Hey everyone this is my first post. Yeah! (apologies if this subject has allready been posted)Anyway, I was wondering who everyone's favorite NPC that they ever encountered was. It can be an official well known character, such as Mordenkainen or Drizzt, or just someone you or your DM created. I'll start it off:Mine would have to be Lortes, the over eager party apprentice. His beginings were simple enough. I was running the adventure "Bloodlines" from Dungeon #94, and in it, the baron sends one of his men, Lortes, a good natured lad of 16, to guide the party to the ancient ruin. That was it. Nothing special, just a simple guide. Well, as the party traveled they started talking with Lortes, and I played him as this wide eyed farm kid who was just in awe of the REAL LIFE adventureres, and just kind of clumsy and super eager to try and please the party so they would like him. And the party really took a liking to him. When the Baron turned out to be an evil wizard and the party killed him, Lortes had nowhere to go, so the party took him in as thier squire/intern type guy.That was the begining of Lortes. He became a group favorite. Always doing whatever he could to impress the party, staying up late and being super intense on watch, doing all the hunting and cooking, throwing himself at monsters and villians he had no chance against, stuff like that. When one of the group got a much better weapon he gave his old +1 longsword to Lortes, who nearly wet his pants with happiness. He thought that sword was the greatest ever, and his battle cry became: "It's +1 Longsword Time!". Lortes took quite a beating in his career. Far below the average party level, he never stood a chance against the challenges they faced. He couldn't hit the higher AC's of the opponents, and he was never attacked much (it was a big party, and he wasn't much of a threat) , but when he was he would drop like a sack of potatoes. I don't think he EVER made a save, and was constabtly being mind controlled, and villians would always try to hurt the party through Lortes. However, he was never down, and the few times he did manage to do a few points of damage, everyone would cheer. Once he even delivered the killing blow against an Ogre Mage! The party went nuts. We all loved him.As time went on, Lortes gained feats that made sense: Weapon Focus and Specialization as he trained with his +1 Longsword, Improved Toughness as he grew accustomed to getting hit hard, and Alertness, as he was always so intense, along with others. At higher levels he even became a Kensai! (it made perfect sense, he had his signature weapon, and was devoted to the party). He even gained a small measure of fame himself, when you're the apprentice of 16th level character, you're gonna be pretty sweet yourself.We've finished that campaign, but I've always wanted to bring Lortes back, this time as an epic leveled great hero to send the new characters on quests, or even have "Lortes's Longsword" as a legacy weapon or something. Yeah, Lortes was the best...</blockquote>

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