Your First Character and their impact

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I don't remember what my first character was. My first game was played on a picnic table at summer camp.

 

[Nerfwright]

An relatively bland AD&D fighter - a reasonably nice fellow, just not particularly interesting. Just did his job basically; went into dungeons, killed the evil things and took their stuff. A basic blue-collar fighter.

My characters still orbit the NG-CG-N circuit, and I worry that they're too bland. I hope my fetish for Bards helps offset that tendency.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

My first character was a Lawful fighter named Fairblade.

I can't say he had too much of an effect on my subsequent characters. That being said, the following character, Ralif Redhammer set a huge precedent for me in that I very often play dwarves.

The character I played to the highest level, Dalon of Tyr, set another benchmark in that I often play clerics. And sometimes even dwarven clerics

 

[SpiderMonkey]

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.

I'm guessing TMNT? My first guy in that was a mutant polar bear with a japanese greatsword (whatever it was called), and an intelligence score that put him in the realm of the mentally handicapped. I think his name was "Dizzy."

 

[Lord Ipplepop]

My first character didn't have a direct influence for me and my other characters through the years.... however, it DID have an indirect influence:

My first character was a mage. It was 1978, and I had visions of being Gandalf, and causing the evil hordes to flee in terror at my (imagined) power. About 15 minutes into my first adventure with my first character, the party ran into 6 orcs, also on patrol. Being the all-powerful, all-knowing, moron that I was, I jumped in front of the party and attempted to decimate the vile creatures with my... magic missile spell. I hit the first orc in the chest, and caused him to giggle at the attempt. He and his partners soon made very short work of an over-eager magic user.

The very next character I rolled up was a 1ed paladin, and- although, I can play any caracter class and race- human paladins have become my trademark.

 

[awayfarer]

My first character was a half-orc rogue/fighter with somewhat more emphasis on the roguely bit. I wouldn't say that he influenced future choices. I do tend to play tanky/melee types more frequently than not but thats a bias I've noticed in my video gaming habits too.

So in short, nope.

 

[wildstarsreach]

My first character was a paladin. Having a character that gives and keeps his word and follows all the laws even if it let's the enemy get away was my first venture with rpg. Unfortunately, at 3rd level my character struck a bargain to fight the big baddie and he won. The bargain was to take his sword and that sword fubarred the character beyond playability. I've always been tepid about playing a lawful alignment. I'm a chaos monger because of it.

 

[Herobizkit]

My first character was a 1ed mage named Delsenora, swiped right from the pages of the DMG. I played her to 20th level, then dual-classed her into Cleric (upon the arrival of 2ed) where she only reached 15th level. During the in-between times (when I was playing instead of DMing), I made a number of mages, thieves, and then multi-classed just-about-everything.

To this day, I still can't play a single-classed character, so I guess Delsenora DID inspire all of my subsequent characters.

 

[Baby Samurai]

My first character was a 1st edition AD&D half-elf assassin named Yoshi, with a slight ninja-vibe.

Hey, I was 13, it was the 80's; need I say more?

 

[Jack99]

My first character was a dwarven fighter, who went from 1st to 12th level, before the campaign crashed in 1990, when we ran into a room with 3 liches and a tarrasque (dont ask haha). He had a obscene hp average (8.9 iirc) and was called the brick. Since then, we called all HP-fighter types for bricks. He also won a jousting tournament where he won a barony, but due to the unfortunate run-in mentioned above, we never really got to expand on that barony. A shame.

And no, I dont think it influenced my characters. While I rarely play one (I DM mostly), but i tend towards rogues or wizards, usually invokers or enchanters. I played a druid in the last campaign, which was pure power. Fun, but got a tad boring at times.