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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 1878483" data-attributes="member: 14159">Back in 1998, my first PC was a humble Half-Elf cleric named Eandra Moonsilver (Generic Lawful Good Cleric, since the DM allowed generic alignment clerics and I didn't know the gods of his world), written under AD&D 2e with another player in the game helping me write her up.  I'd written a long character background to the DM about her childhood, about the temple she studies in, about her life.Which went promptly out the window 10 seconds into the game.  There were 9 other PC's and I was the only cleric (the other PC's begged me to play a cleric, it was a party of almost entirely Fighters and Mages, a Paladin and I think a Thief/Psionicist).  The party was ~14th level, but I was starting at 1st (DM's rules).  To get me into the fray quickly, he had my character back at her temple accidentally step through a one-way Portal one day she didn't know about and wind up in the same dungeon room as the PC's (on the other side of the world).It was a bit of a challenge keeping an brand new 1st Level Cleric alive in a High-Level 2e game.  There was a little culture shock since all I knew about D&D was reading the old "Black Box" Basic Set from the early 90s'.  I was amazed I got spells at 1st level instead of 2nd, and thought I was dead when I hit -1 HP in the first encounter.  In one adventure on the Outer Planes we encountered the true form of his campaign world's God of Lightning, a playful CG deity who wanted to spar with us.  So we fought the true form of a god (he promised to revive us all afterwards, he just wanted to see how well we could fight).  Now, the DM had a house rule that Gods lost most of their divine powers on their home planes so we lasted most of a round.  Thanks to sheer luck my PC was one of only two to hurt him (nonartifact weapons could hurt him on a Natural 20, and one PC had an artifact sword he had Specialization/Mastery in so he did some damage himself).  From that point on she carried around her morningstar, stained with the blood of a god with pride, something of her own personal symbol.  After the campaign was over it became a minor artifact.She ended up surviving to 17th level, when the campaign ended, I still keep her character sheet around for the memories.</blockquote>

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