Your First Character and their impact

[Henry]

My first character was a 1st Ed. Elf Fighter/magic-user/Cleric, and he couldn't fight worth a darn (never rolled over an 8 the whole session!) his only mage spell was magic missile, but he had three cure light wounds, and was useful to the party as a healer.

Funny thing, clerics are my favorite character type, so maybe there is something to that.

He never died, he just started his war against the Slave Lords, and the campaign went away unfinished and untold, like so many campaigns do.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I have no idea what my first character was now. I remember Flexor but he was years after I started playing.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

My first was a Fighter back in 2e...and he didn't live too terribly long. It was more a generic character than anything, really, as I was just getting used to things.

Nowadays most of my characters are pretty diverse, though I do lean towards Fighter types.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I think mine was a 2nd ed psionicist who was spoon-fed to me before I knew anything about the game. Didn't impact my future PCs, but it might have something to do with my psionics-influenced campaign setting though. I don't think I've ever played another psion.

First 3.0 character was a halfling sorcerer (I thought being able to hide with cross-class skills was so amazing). Played him for maybe two sessions. Zero impact on future characters.

Mine are different every time.

 

[werk]

I tend to play whatever the party needs or is missing. My first character was a cleric, and while i've played numerous clerics since, I don't think it's related to my first character but rather my selfless nature.

 

[Psionicist]

I think most gamers have a few character concepts that appeal to them more than others and, naturally, it's one of these concepts the new gamer tries first. I was alwas fond of archers so my first character, during the AD&D days, was an elven marksman who, in his greatest moment saved the whole party from petrification by carefully placing a couple of arrows in the basilisks eyes (a feat I later learned was not really technically possible for my level but my kind DM allowed in the heat of battle).

The archer archtype (archertype?) is still one of my favorites but I haven't actually played one since my first character. I do however have an unusually large proportion of characters with longbows-skills, be it clerics, wizards, rogues or fighters.

 

[Scribble]

I played a chaotic neutral halfling cleric of yondola named Roofus Thistleknot...

He lasted a pretty good time, outlived a fireball and almost drowning... then he was eaten by a giant mole.

 

[Scarbonac]

My first PC was a 1e barbaric fighter (not a Barbarian; we didn't have that class) who wielded either a broadsword and morningstar or his trusty two-hander. I still play him from time to time, as he's survived fairly well (only been killed three times!) over the last 26 or so years.


I play a reasonably wide variety of characters (though not of the Dire pseudonatural deathless paragon halfling catfolk half-warforged weresquid rogue/fighter/paladin/assassin/OoBI/Mystic Theurge sort).

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

My first character - named Patrin, because my own name is Patrick and everyone else was waiting on me to come up with a cool fantasy-sounding name before we could start - was a human Fighter with a handaxe, created while on a Boy Scout campout.

Why did he have a handaxe?

Because, all told, it was a pretty sweet weapon in Dragon Warrior.

I also asked whether, after defeating my first opponent (a wolf! scary!) in combat, he had any gold. Hey - you get 6xp and 6gp apiece in Final Fantasy! The other players all laughed, and wondered, aloud, where the wolf would keep it, pray tell? In his mouth, perhaps?

Since then, I've tried to play characters who are slightly more clued-in. Or, in other words, "I play characters which are purposely unlike my first one."

EDIT: Oh - he also had a Potion of Cure Light Wounds, which he carried around but never drank. After all, I never took any "light" wounds. I may have taken some "dark" wounds from the skeleton, or perhaps some "fire" wounds from a trap, but never any "light" wounds. And, anyway, wouldn't "light" wounds be those inflicted by my allies? I was immediately suspicious.

 

[Evilhalfling]

lost to the depths of time,
although to hazard a guess he was a Basic D&D Elf.
I spent many years running games, frequently with an NPC in the party.

First charater in a game that someone else ran? A mutant River Otter with an axe and a .44 He could paralyze things with his mind, and flew into berserk rages at loud music
(we thought the random insanity tables were mandatory)
Do I make other characters like him?

no.