D&D General Your favorite PC?

[Ulfgeir]

I think one my favourite characters was the one I played in Dresden Files rpg. Amy Clarke, a young goth girl (think the elegant types of goths), who was a practitioner of magic, and a believer in wicca. Her specialty was divination-magic (and she was very good with that), and she would often get various visions, some of which were prophetic, but as she suffered from Cassandra's tears, people tended to not believe them. She was a student and was also an actress. She ended up in a romantic relationship with the woman who was the original big bad in the campaign (a 700-year old Italian noblewoman who swapped bodies, and had taken the body of another female student).

My character learned of who her partner was, but fully accepted that, as she saw that the older woman tried to change her evil ways. Amy even helped her get a new body later on, when the Italian womans family (who also had the same powers) went after her for betraying them. If anyone from the White Council would have learned of this, Amy would have lost her head (well, it was quite possible that she was enthralled)

For D&D, my favourite was Alieene Kithai, and elven houri/thief in 2e. Houries was a homebrew thing found in a Swedish rpg-magazine. She was a fun bad girl with loose morals.

 

[Bitbrain]

Farbauti, the stereotypical politically conservative, Bible-thumping atheist, shamelessly transgender fluid*, happily and openly bisexual-gay** Tiefling Draconic Sorcerer who thought he was a bard.

I created him to see if I could get every single other person at the table (players and the DM) to essentially “blue screen of death” from the number of internal contradictions inherent in such a character, and let’s just say I succeeded.


*as in he would change from being physically male to female, and back again.

**as in, if he was physically male, he was only interested in men. If physically female, he was only interested in women.

 

[Odysseus]

I think my favorite would be Bait. Gold dwarf, one eyed Wizard, or fighter wizard depending on edition. Whose favorite line was "Have you not seen a wizard with a battle axe before!" And the name started becasue he was always the bait in any plan the party made.

 

[Spudster]

What day of the week is it and which way is the wind blowing, because that might change my answer.

I'll go with Reverend Bubba, dragonborn cleric of Tempus with a bad southern accent and proprietor of the realm famous Bubba's Chicken Shack franchise. His catch phrase was "Praise Tempus and have some dragon wings!" as he healed or blessed his allies. His dragon wings were of course hot and spicy BBQ chicken wings, guaranteed to put a fire in your belly!

With an oversized waistline to match his oversized personality, everything was right in the world as long as there was some chicken to chew on.

 

[Doc_Klueless]

Brother Merciful Blessings aka Mercy. I fairly clueless Healing-focused Human priest who was convinced that all the other gods were simply pale reflections of his own Uber Deity: The Protector or that of his god's opposite: The Adversary.

And he wasn't afraid to preach it that way neither.

 

[Richards]

I've been the DM for decades so it's only in recent years when my son took on the DM mantle for his own campaigns that I've been able to run a PC of my own. So, having now had a grand total of three PCs in recent years, I'd have to go with Jace Syngaard as my favorite PC. (His friends call him "Jace" but he doesn't have any of those - you can call him "Syngaard.")

Syngaard was a fighter, the son of a whore who grew up on the streets and ended up working as a bodyguard for a crime lord, specifically since he looked so tough - no doubt due to the many scars on his face from the morningstar he took as his own after killing the guy who had attacked him with it. He ended up (as it was the whole point of the campaign) working secretly for the king as an unofficial troubleshooter, taking care of the things that needed done for the kingdom. Syngaard hated halflings (a hatred instilled in him by his former crime lord boss) and honed his fighter skills with the morningstar and later a human bane scimitar he took from the body of an evil druid. Eventually, he was best known for the bronze griffon figurine of wondrous power he purchased, since he named the griffon "Dick" and made a point of whipping his Dick out in combat and riding it into battle. When he wasn't adventuring, he was a bouncer at a whorehouse.

At the end of the campaign, he retired from adventuring (and his whorehouse bouncer job) and opened up a tavern, so he could raise his three-year-old daughter who'd been in hiding up until then as part of a campaign prophecy.

Johnathan

 

[Sacrosanct]

Across editions: Shade (halfling f/t in AD&D, pure fighter in 5e), and Murdock. Didn’t have a 17 cha to play a paladin in 1e, so he was a fighter who became a knight. Powerz don’t make the knight protector, role playing does.

5e only? Kalek Jax, shadow monk. Died at level 8 when the warlock who had a globe of darkness up to hide us decided to suddenly head off on his own to attack a mook, leaving me and only me, outside of the globe in full view of over a dozen archers all with poison arrows.

 

[TwoSix]

Rei Mizuno, 2E paladin of Mars, who was captured and tortured by drow, escaped, and then died in a fiery sacrifice against the plant people of Venus.

Vulture Hossenpheffer, a balding, fat, and lazy halfing summoner, and Mr. Green (nee Gold), his Rod of Wonder wielding eidolon, who spent one session as a golden skinned elemental before turning bright green thanks to the Rod.

Songenkar the Clanless, crippled hobgoblin revolutionary sorcerer, who eventually gave in to his draconic nature and became paranoid and covetous. He secretly killed his wounded draconic mentor and consumed her heart to complete his draconic apotheosis. Certainly my favorite character arc of any D&D game I've played.

 

[Gomezy3k]

Interesting characters. Since I asked the question I should answer my own question. I have a couple of PC's that are/were my favorite. The non-D&D one was a Tzimisce I played back before they screwed up "Vampire the Masquerade" I based him on the character from Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" novels; Steerpike. I named him Gregor and loved playing him as an evil SOB with occasional moments of "nice".

I have pages and pages of various D&D characters that I have played over the years. I started playing back in the ‘80’s right about the time the second edition came out. Out of all of them, the one character I loved to play was a Female Elf Rogue named Vixen.

This was in the 80’s when I was Air Force and stationed on an island out in the Bearing Sea and had just started playing. There was about ten of us that were gamers and we used to have marathon games stumbling bleary eyed over to the chow hall for a quick bite and then go to work. I had made about 3 or 4 characters that I played in various games earlier. We had a new guy come in and he wanted to run a game so we went for it.

He was kind of a strange dude, he had us roll for everything when making a character. We rolled for race, sex, class, and of course the usual stats. And that was how Vixen came to be. The storyline of his game was that an Anti-Paladin was wreaking havoc across various kingdoms and we were picked to stop him. Of course as first levels we couldn’t handle much more than a sickly goblin so we went on a bunch of side quests to level up.

When we finally reached 7th level or so he finally let us face the Evil Big Guy (EBG). He rode in on a nightmare and proceeded to kick our butts. Everyone in the party was lying there bleeding and barely alive. The Cleric had run out of healing spells and healing potions and was one of the ones lying on the ground. When Vixen saw that they were all at the mercy of the EBG she decided that if she was going to die she was going out in a big way. She crept through the tall grass (I rolled awesome stealth rolls) and she snuck up behind the Nightmare, she dipped her dagger in some poison that she had picked up during the adventure and backstabbed the Nightmare killing it (major bad dice rolls). The DM was surprised as was everyone else and he had the EBG stand there for a second shaking his head and then teleported away. That was how she got a headband made from a Nightmare’s mane and tail.

When we got high enough we finally assaulted the EBG in his fortress. We finally beat him and his minions and found his treasure room. While the rest of the party was diving into the gold and treasure, Vixen saw a plain old rock lying off to one side. DM slipped me a note that said she had 3 wishes. So being Vixen, she wished that her and all the treasure was back in her hideout. That left the rest of the party standing in an empty room. Needless to say there were many vowing revenge.

Later on I played her in an adventure that consisted of 2 of us plus a different DM ran. Storyline was a huge bunch of religious fanatics were pillaging the land. The party ended up at a fortress city that the other player's character, a Ranger Lord had vowed to protect the city. The fanatics came up to the gate and demanded the city be surrendered. He began talking to them (awesome rolls) and almost convinced them to go away. Vixen got bored and dipping one of her arrows in the same poison she used on the Nightmare. She shot the high Priest/Mage of the fanatics with it and then the fight started.

She fought for quite a while and finally when the fighting was about over she slipped over the wall and snuck over to the fanatics camp and robbed them blind and left. The Ranger Lord vowed vengeance on her for causing the destruction of half his city.

I have played her a few more times and finally retired her. I made up a whole back story for her. I would love to play her again. She was awesome.

 

[Lanefan]

Ah, so many...

But if I had to pick just one, it'd be one that started as a throwaway secondary character* in a long 3e game, who rolled rather atrocious stats in comparison to the party average and whose basic concept (I later found out) wasn't very 3e-friendly at all: I tried to replicate a 1e Illusionist. (spec. Illusion, banned Evokation)

* - we were each allowed to play two at a time in the party through most of that campaign.

As she was something of a throwaway, and as her Wisdom was a mighty 7, I could legitimately get away with playing her as a complete airhead and thus I constantly had her doing all sorts of silly-yet-amusing things, expecting at any moment her career to crash to a halt either through the enemies killing her or through some self-inflicted disaster.

Incredibly, she survived...and survived, and survived; long after my so-called main character had bitten the dust and to the point where - after all the pre-existing party members had either died or retired - she became the senior member of the party!

We give out year-end awards across our various games for things like Play of the Year, Most Valuable Character, etc.; and every year she was played (2001-2007) she never came lower than second in the voting for Most Entertaining Character, winning it three times.

Her career ended when she was killed off by her own party after frying them (and the enemies) with a fireball from her self-built Rod of Wonder.

Appppil Pagey, I'd play you again in a heartbeat!