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Riverdance
2012-08-05, 11:11 PM
What was your first character? DnD, Call of Cthulu, Pathfinder, WoD or whatever your first system was. Were they entirely unequipped or hopelessly munchkinly? Were they core race, or whatever monster you thought was cool? Did you try to make it yourself, or did someone else dictate?

For my first character I was convinced by another novice player, to make an 8th level hound archon ranger. On top of that I was promptly given a Vorpal Greatsword. Actual roleplaying was out of the question.

Wyntonian
2012-08-05, 11:18 PM
Lared Mackenzie, human ranger. EWP Bastard sword because IRL those are decent, decided later to go Wildshape. God, that was a bad game. Barely got started before it died.

Kelb_Panthera
2012-08-06, 12:05 AM
Kelb_Panthera, were-tiger cleric of no-god-in-particular. I created him as a thought experiment before I ever had a chance to play a single session. In-fact, he never saw a single session. Intuition told me I had done something wrong the first time I looked at a published adventure for a first level party. I did enjoy imagining him in little skits in my mind though.

NotScaryBats
2012-08-06, 12:14 AM
Xena, a Fullplate wearing 2nd edition Human Fighter with a 2 handed sword. Later, got embarassed by her name and renamed her Crystal.

She adventured with my big brother's Cleric of Poseidon Mike Garamonde.

Laura Eternata
2012-08-06, 12:49 AM
My first D&D experience was as a DM for a long lasting 3.0 game with my brother, where I DMPCed a human barbarian who I gave arbitrarily high stats because I wanted him to be cool (I know, I know...)

My first PC for a game that lasted more than one session was a human vampire paladin in a Morrowind themed game. For some reason my brother reduced the Monster Manual vampire's LA to +1, so she was on the overpowered side. The character concept was basically Angel as a woman, which I maintain is the best way to play a paladin. Sadly, that game fell apart when my brother fell out of love with Morrowind, into love with Civilization IV, and promptly made my character the new empress of Tamriel.

Kol Korran
2012-08-06, 01:51 AM
1st edition, 3rd level rogue (All rogues were human then- no distinction between race and class). I build him myself (Though in 1st edition that's done in about 10 minutes. Rogues mostly needed to assign percentages to "rogue skills") died 2 sessions into the game (some sort of a mega dungeon). That game was quite lethal. (Next character was blinded in one eye and lost a leg due to poison).

But we were kids, and this was new and exciting, and so quite a lot of fun. :smallsmile:

Morithias
2012-08-06, 02:09 AM
Tamaki Suoh. Blonde hair, blue eyes, major womanizer. Very flirty and charming.

And a dread necromancer

Theoboldi
2012-08-06, 02:19 AM
Uskton Slek, dwarf barbarian. He ended up being a child due to me not reading the age tables correctly, and later one-shotted a party member during some inter-party conflict. After that he went insane, and was left in the dessert. Not quite what I envisioned when I made the character, but fun non the less.

Temotei
2012-08-06, 02:23 AM
Xephyr Lintarias, human rogue. He was going to be a pretty boy skillmonkey with little combat prowess beyond sneak attack. Never got to play him, though, which is sad.

I guess my first-played character was...I don't remember his name. But he was a human psychic warrior. DM and everybody else didn't know much about psionics except for me, so I could read minds when they were unguarded (during sleep, etc.). That was pretty cool. :smallsmile:

Tridax
2012-08-06, 02:30 AM
I don't specifically remember, but I think it was either a human wizard with proficiency in Necromancy school named Renbour or a half-elf paladin Alnir (whom you can see on my avatar).

...When I became a DM, they turned out to be good NPC's.

I have tension to make characters based on the type of world, book, movie etc. So making a necromancer was a fine perspective, although I had to use my own homerules since we had almost nothing about D&D except a 4e handbook. When I began DMing, Renbour became one of the main bad guys in my campaign. That role suited him well. :)

Demidos
2012-08-06, 03:51 AM
Err. I was at a soccer game. And we lacked any books other than the PHB. So my druid was a bit odd. But managed to beat off some gnolls! :smallwink:

Krazzman
2012-08-06, 03:54 AM
I'm not sure either an:
Homo Sapiens Robusto (Orc) Gunsmith or Pistolero Adept or Detective...
The pregenerated SR4 Char.

I don't really know anything about the plot anymore but one of the trolls got wounded in the head... to stop it from bleeding someone put a Zippolighter in there... and one refused to come out of his car because he said his car is safer than that Steelconcreteinfused Brickwall House thing.

JetThomasBoat
2012-08-06, 04:44 AM
My first character was a human fighter named Wayne that someone wrote up for me. Everyone in the group made fun of the name Wayne, though, which I picked. He was focused on greatswords, but I asked to redo the feats when in like the third adventure, I was cursed by an unlucky die and rolled nothing but threes like 90% of the time for the next six months, but happened to pick up a neato magical longsword.

I was always kind of a useless character, as all the older players were playing much better fighters than me (and one was just plain too high to remember how dwarven defenders worked, so his character was completely overpowered) and they were made even stronger by getting experience from the Deck of Many Things. Later, though, most of them dropped from the game and I had to take the place of the meat shield.

He ended up dying a couple of times, but was always brought back. And he made it to epic level, somehow.

North_Ranger
2012-08-06, 05:00 AM
A barbarian warrior whose name I've forgotten, played in a game of RuneQuest when I was 11 or 12. Our GM was the same age and as much a newbie as the rest of us, so the game pretty much dissolved into the party becoming brigands and ending up having their fingers (and one other thing :smalleek: chopped off).

First proper character, Jaradan Storm-Eyes, priest of the Sun God in a friend's Lone Wolf-inspired homebrew. We had fun testing out his point-based magic system, and the adventures were pretty memorable.

Driderman
2012-08-06, 05:43 AM
My first character (of a real game, assuming heavily modded Heroquest don't count) was an AD&D cleric named Hector. I don't think he actually had any god and we never left the tavern where the game started, in any case :)

Jay R
2012-08-06, 06:26 AM
When Paladins first came out in Original D&D, I rolled one up. (Yes, I actually rolled him, on 3d6 rolled in order.)

He was named Theseus, and couldn't afford a sword, so he went out on an adventure with a mace.

Along the way, after a couple of melees, when we were down to 1-3 hit points each (in a game in which 0 HP = dead), we found a magic sword, which Theseus, of course, requested.

It was a high-ego Chaotic (= Evil) sword, which dominated him and used him to kill all the other characters. I changed his name to Darkstar.

So, yes, my first character was a Paladin who, in his first adventure, killed the entire rest of the Lawful party.

Sith_Happens
2012-08-06, 07:13 AM
Shonen Seinenson (working title was "Generic Shonen Protagonist"). D&D 3.5, human warblade. As the name implies, personality-wise he was basically supposed to be a mash-up of Naruto Uzumaki and Ichigo Kurosaki, with a dash of Yusuke Yurameshi to keep things interesting. I picked the class partly because I'd done my research on the system and knew that ToB is awesome, and partly because the book's animesque qualities fit the character like a glove. In fact, I went ahead and plotted out a full 1-20 TWF Stormguard Warrior build with a side of crit-fishing and White Raven-powered charging shenanigans that would have eventually been able to carve up anything with HP in two rounds (like I said, I'd done my research:smallwink:). As silly as the overall design process was, though, I was prepared to roleplay the character as seriously or unseriously as the campaign demanded.

Sadly, the campaign only lasted one session.:smallsigh:

DigoDragon
2012-08-06, 07:56 AM
My first character was from AD&D 2e, the first tabletop RPG I played. She was a paladin by the name of Relm. I was told I played a good paladin, being honorable and just without being a jerk. Started at level one and made it to about level 5. She had a fondness of dogs and wanted to train one as a guard dog for when the party was camping out in the wilderness.

I don't remember the details on the artifact the party was trying to retreive, but the party didn't survive the dungeon. We got as far as getting our hands on the artifact, but then the party wizard killed my paladin in a back-stabbing move and tried to escape with the artifact, the rest of the party trying to catch him. The wizard tripped a deadly trap that would of made Grimtooth proud. TPK'd.

Malak'ai
2012-08-06, 08:00 AM
Very first RPG character was a Noldor Elf Fighter called Aliriel in I.C.E's MERP (expanded with RoleMaster supplements).
He was created by the GM, who was my Intermediate School science teacher. Myself and the rest of the group (six 10-11 year olds) got to choose the character names and roll on the GM's homebrew background table.
Aliriel ended up being a (very) minor Elf Lord who was somehow related to Galadriel. Only problem was, this meant that he was known, or at least heard of, by all the really big NPC's (the likes of the Istari, Nazgul and other Elf Lords), so when the party rode up to a meeting of the White Council and he fell off his horse (doing it so badly he took an A Impact Crit in the process and then proceeded to soil himself) he not only had the party, the Istari (including the two Blue Wizards) laughing at him, but Galadriel, Caleborn, Glorfindel, Elrond and Cirdan making fun of him as well :smallfrown:.

As for D&D, it was a level 3 Human Dual Classed Fighter/Wizard. He lasted about 5 sessions, ending up with an AC of about -3. He was eventually killed in a really pathetic way... He got hugged to death by a Cloaker (or something very similar.)

link16
2012-08-06, 08:56 AM
My first character was a barbarian pilot/fighter on a small island off the coast of Harn. Our GM didn't let us have anything metal but a sword. That character still lives, but barely. That campaign has lost most if not all interest by all parties involved.

Rallicus
2012-08-06, 09:13 AM
Just a plain old Legolas wannabe, AD&D 2e.

I'm not even sure he had a name. Didn't really matter though, since he lasted all of five minutes.

Next character was a Drizzt wannabe in an evil campaign, who kidnapped elves for a living. He lasted a little bit longer, about two sessions.

In my defense I was 11 years old and very stupid.

Hyena
2012-08-06, 11:43 AM
When I started playing DnD first, I had two characters and I fail to remember which of one was the first, and which one was created after. So...

Merem Thistlethorn, halfling fighter/paladin. She was horribly, absolutely horribly optimized character (10 str for paladin? REALLY?), but was memorable for her reckless behaviour, that often could nearly got her killed, like attempting to kill necromancer, despite knowing there is no one to help her nearby... AND for her extreme luckiness and ability to roll two or three crits in a single encounter, dealing absurd amounts of damage. After she wised up and became paladin, she also became rather boring character, who never did anything interesting or outstanding.

Kelen the Searcher, my kobold wizard, was an improvement, so I think he was not the first of mine characters, but I really doubt about it. He had rather interesting backstory (like, his tribe was slaughtered by adventurers, and he decided to look for an answer why they did it and something, that will let it never happen again), he was sort of the face of the party (and it became sort of running gag that every city guard notes how he finds the kobold charismatic). Unfortunately, the campaign was rather short lived, and my wizard never really got his chance to shine, except the case when he converted some beggars to worshiping Kurtulmak.

Chromascope3D
2012-08-06, 12:15 PM
Huh, I actually started 2 years ago. My friend convinced me to give it a try (little did I know that, despite his big talk, he was still a noob as well). So I rolled up a 3.5 death cleric, who used a scythe for his weapon. He lasted for one session before the DM (my friend) gave up.

Topus
2012-08-06, 01:11 PM
My first character dates back to 1993, basic D&D, a 1st level rogue (or better, a thief, as translated in italian edition). Neutral alignment (as, you know, there was only three alignment: Good, Neutral, Evil, things where so simple back in the days... :P). He went through a lot of adventures, incidents, enemies, incredibly surviving. He was the only one who survived from the original party of three, the other two being a priest, who was beheaded, and a warrior who commited suicide suffering crushing despair in jail (that was a huge roleplaying moment). I remember our beginners first steps into this new fantastic world, mastered by a friend who already was a roleplayer. I remember our first plans, in the Wile E. Coyote style, also called "The Acme plans" by our master. After a couple of failure and being almost wiped by kobolds, we got the point. By the way we had a lot slow leveling adventures, leading us to be more confident with the game mechanics and role playing. As i remember my character at one point blew his former guild with a barrel of gunpowder, becoming a lone thief. Of course he had to survive to a couple of killers sent by the guild a few months later (it was a huge plot surprise because i was sure that no one was aware that he was the bomber). I had only two magical items, gained at around sixth level, but they were amazing: the cloack of invisibility (a must have for a rogue), and a dancing sword, that let him fight with two weapons. Good memories about that game :)

By the way I reached eight level when we stop playing Basic D&D, moving to AD&D 2Ed. We finished with a huge cliffhanger, with our party landing on Logres, with my thief being threatened by Lancelot (or Gawain, i can't remember) with a spear pointed to the throat. Poor Topus "Lockheed" Littlereds (his name), threatened since 1996 :P

Manly Man
2012-08-06, 01:43 PM
I've always liked fighters myself. My first character that wasn't pre-made was Lo, who was pretty much a Regdar clone. He survived well enough, and since I was the only one who bothered with a martial class- didn't even have a rogue in the party, that was a job done by the bard- I got most of the magic weapons. Stopped playing with him by about level eight.

Jay R
2012-08-06, 02:22 PM
To be fair, the paladin was merely the first character I played in a store-bought RPG. The first role I ever played was probably either Roy Rogers or Superman.

Exediron
2012-08-06, 02:27 PM
Some good stories in here, a few even actually good!

The first character I ever created in any system was a dragon cleric (no type of dragon specified, but he used the figure of a green) named Disan Moro in a hybrid 1st/2nd edition game. He was horridly overpowered, as one might expect - level adjustment rules as such didn't exist in those days. He eventually ascended and became a god of chaos towards the end of our 2nd edition days.

The first character I created in MERP was a Noldo (seems to be pretty common for a first character) mage named Eldrane. He was notoriously lucky, from winning any gambling event he participated in to finding a never-ending stream of rare and fabulous minerals at his stronghold. He also took numerous 'E' criticals and never suffered worse than a broken arm in his entire career. He ended at level 11 when we abandoned that copy of Middle-Earth for being a little too screwed up.

In D20 Modern, my first ever character was a martial artist named Ken who eventually was revealed to be the son of an Oni and a war goddess. He (with the help of his group) slew the orc god Ilneval and took his divine power, ascending to become the god of Terrorism and Bank Robbery (also Bankruptcy). His high priest is now an insane robot who once adventured with him.

In World of Darkness, my first character was a horrid Nosferatu imitator named John Smith who preyed upon Chicago's Grant Part, murdering innocent girls, sucking their blood dry and then feeding them to the birds in tiny cut-up pieces. He suffered from extreme hallucinations which sometimes came true. Early in his career, a vampire broke into his room and burned one of his arms off as a message from the Prince; he was one-armed after that.

My first Pathfinder character was Isidor Shadowkiller the Sniper, a wonderfully critical man. He started out as a quite man who hated religious figures because he believed that they were trying to scam him. In the first town the party visited, he and the group's cleric (named Vahk) found themselves at a charlatan show where a mage was trying to sell an instant hair growth formula, using illusions to make it appear to work.

Vahk unmasked the charlatan with Dispel Magic, and Isidor shouted at the crowd that he was an imposter and that they must tear him apart. After starting the riot, they left. They quickly murdered the NPC contact of the party before dogging the group across the desert, finally arranging an ambush by a large sand dune. When they appeared atop the ridge, they both talked completely differently than before and were fast friends despite previously loathing each other.

The DM wouldn't let us fight other players, so oddly enough the tensions dissipated. Isidor met his death next session, when we arrived at a druid grove where an aged druid demanded a toll of us before he would escort us across an impassible stretch of desert. This led to Isidor's last words: "I won't pay your fee, you communist bastards! I would sooner die!"

The druid blinded Isidor, who then wandered the desert for a scant five minutes before going mad and clawing out his eyes. He then fell into quicksand and died horribly. Oddly enough, when Isidor died Vahk felt it and committed suicide, shouting "Noooo!" to the desert air.

--=-=--

I promise that not all of my characters are as weird as that lot.

Sutremaine
2012-08-06, 04:17 PM
My first character was in a PbP here, which felt slightly awkward and ground to a halt after the first combat. The character was a second-level(?) paladin who was maybe a little too close to Lawful Neutral -- not Miko-like, just not a shining beacon of Law and Good -- and a bit of an unwarranted cynic, but I never really got to do anything with her.

My next character was five years later in a game I'm currently playing on the forum. At one point I realised I'd created a Binder who could have been created to be based on a particular anime/manga character, so I rolled with it. He's based less on the character and more of the rather (http://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/longd/The%20Principle%20of%20Four.pdf) odd (http://hermetic.com/osiris/levibaphomet.htm) stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlobzMvkm4w&t=1m16) that the author may or may not have had in mind when writing the manga but which fits it pretty well ('stuff' is NWS for violence).

So far we haven't rolled initiative once and have spent more time arguing amongst ourselves than interacting with NPCs, and in fact the only violence has been the party berserker whacking the party ranger upside the head for yelling about killing the NPCs during a negotiation session. Luckily, none of them understood him, so we just smiled and nodded and rolled some Bluff checks and I carried on talking.

Lord Il Palazzo
2012-08-06, 04:56 PM
I posted this a week or two back in the First Character Stories (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250492) thread in D&D 3.0/3.5/D20 forum, but I'll put it here as well.

My first character was a human cleric of Corellon Larethian. The DM pulled up a list of D&D core deities, their portfolios and domains and told me to pick one whose domains looked interesting. I wanted to be in the fray more than being a healer, so I picked Corellon Larethian because he had the war and chaos domains. We had already decided I would be human, so my picking the chief god of the elves was handwaved with my backstory. My character, Tolsemir Elfchild, had been the child of a family of human lumberjacks who were killed by a band of radical elvish eco-terrorists and was given to an elvish temple to be raised. That's pretty much all I had. No reason the temple took him in rather than sending this baby off to a human settlement. Nothing about what it was like to grow up as a human among elves., just a sentence to handwave my deity.

I played Tolsemir pretty badly too, never really deciding whether I wanted to hang back and sling spells, or pull out my flaming long sword and rush into battle (often siding with the latter and doing it very badly.)
I never really roleplayed much. Not wanting to step on any of the other players' toes, I usually hung back and went along with their ideas until a fight started, at which point I'd spend a turn casting Prayer (because +1 on attacks and damage is so worth a 3rd level spell and an action) before running off to play fighter with my sword. I still don't think I could give more than a few simple adjectives to describe my cleric's personality.
I was far too stingy with my spell slots. It never really sank in that casting Inflict Serious Wounds (or similar) was better than my flaming long sword even though 3d8+5 (at least) as a touch should be much better than 1d8+1d6+4 rolled against full AC. After all, I might need the spell more later.
Toward the end of the campaign, I decided I wanted to focus even more on melee and decided that taking Two-Weapon Fighting and buying a spell-storing dagger and upgrading my sword to a keen flaming-burst long sword was the correct way to do this. The game ended two or three sessions later and I don't think the dagger ever landed a single hit.
For all my attempts at melee, I only cast Divine Might about 3 times in the campaign, even though it was a domain spell. I guess Chaos Hammer was just so appealing. (I got +1 caster level on it from my domain and it didn't have friendly fire as most of my party was chaotic.)
I never cast spells in melee so I never really used concentration until the final battle where I got grappled by a barbed devil and it came to light I only had a +8 to concentration at level 13. I was quickly fireballed to death by the horned devil who summoned it.

Rest in peace, Tolsemir. Sorry your player was such a noob.

Eldonauran
2012-08-06, 06:41 PM
Half-elven sorcerer for a 45 minute, one-shot, solo adventure (3.5e). I had fun stomping a few kobolds into the ground all by myself. Eight years ago...

I had a rapier and a spell component pouch. Thats all I needed :smallcool:

The Bandicoot
2012-08-06, 07:25 PM
D&D 3.5, half-ogre fighter with 8 whole intelligence points. He had a habit of getting one good hit in with his masterwork greataxe before losing it on a fumble.(I kid you not for three straight combats I'd roll a crit then a 1 and it would go flying.) So I picked up Quickdraw and started throwing the Greataxe at an enemy and then quickdrawing my spiked chain to go in for the melee.

I played him as the steriotypical dumb brute but he was quite the conisuer of humanoid flesh. Goblin? Too spicy. Orc? Too bitter. Bugbear? Waaay too fatty. Kobold is perfect though, really crunchy and tasty with the scales.

Logic
2012-08-06, 07:40 PM
Xena, a Fullplate wearing 2nd edition Human Fighter with a 2 handed sword. Later, got embarassed by her name and renamed her Crystal.

She adventured with my big brother's Cleric of Poseidon Mike Garamonde.

Good god, this tale sounds familiar. You live in Tacoma, your first character was a 2nd edition, Fullplate-clad, Greatsword wielding female human fighter named Xena, and later changed to Crystal.

But, I am pretty sure the player I knew with a character with this EXACT description did not adventure with a Cleric of Poseidon.

My first character was dictated to me. I was an AD&D Elven Warmage (Fighter/Wizard kit class, basically) that was apprenticed to the player whose first character was XenaCrystal. Name of character, Yacob. Name of master wizard: Fizzle.

Zale
2012-08-06, 08:53 PM
The first character I played was a Mystic Theuge.

He died within three rounds.

The first character I made was an Evoker Wizard from a desert country. Arrogant mercenary type.

That game never went anywhere though.

Lvl45DM!
2012-08-06, 09:16 PM
Halfling assassin 2E. This was about 13 years ago so before Belkar or Montaron for me to use as a basis. I just read the Hobbit and thought "What if Bilbo was more like Batman?" So i had this shadow halfling that was heaps good with throwing poisoned daggers. Still play him today, he had quite the career going from the party trapspringer and lockpick who barely contributed to combat to Lord of the Cult of Mako (a shark god in Lankhmar) due to a Wish spell he got hold of to a Shade to an avatar of Nyarlathotep to Guildmaster to Vampire and now he's got a shadow sword that drains souls a shield that protects him from negative energy a pet young shadow dragon and the only member of the party who HASN'T tried to betray everyone else, the Nyarlathotep thing was a big mistake. Honest.

Only embarassing thing was his name...Bloodspiller.

Darth Grall
2012-08-06, 09:33 PM
My first character I ever played was a Monk, which I played for a single session, for a 3.5 game with some relative strangers from college.

The DM walked me through creation and more or less picked everything for me, deciding that it would be best that I take ALL the monk vows just to beef up my character. Sadly the character's name escapes me and I don't remember much besides my character hopping onto the back of another character with flaming armor as I punched ghouls.

After that singular session, I started GMing a SAGA edition game of Star Wars that ran for 3 years. My favorite recuring villian, and arguably my first "real" character, was in fact a Darth named Grall who time and time again fought off the party and ultimately lead them through a conspiracy within the Jedi Order and revealed the "true sith" before redeeming and fighting along their side.

Remmirath
2012-08-06, 10:10 PM
My first character of all was Nedla, a human cleric in version one AD&D. I had originally planned for her to be a paladin, but her stats were not good enough. She retained the lawful good alignment for the first campaign or so, but after a stint of breaking into buildings to destroy evil artifacts, lost the lawful part to be replaced with chaotic after a few more campaigns. Mechanically speaking, she was not a very good character, but I liked her. She lasted as one of my PCs until we switched to third edition, at which point I retired her.

In MERP, my first character was one of two - I do not recall which I made first, and they were for the same campaign: Eriar, a hobbit scout who eventually was killed attempting to jump over a steam trap in Moria (she failed rather horribly and died rather completely); and Roheve, a dunedain ranger who was shot in the head during an ambush by crossbowmen in the woods. She did some things first, but nothing really notable.

My first character in third edition was Liareth, a grey elven necromancer. At his time of death he had offended everybody in power he had ever come across, and was both nearly epic level and nearly a lich. Truly, the hand of every man in the land was turned against him, by his own device.

In D20 Modern, my first character was Sidney Xardos/Shar'izoth X'doryl, a drow Fast Hero/Gunslinger who had come through shadow. In the end, the party took a vote against her and decided that for her evil conduct she should be executed with poison. Oddly enough, this was while they were in flight.

The only thing I recall about my first World of Darkness character was that it was a game of Vampire: The Masquerade, and he was very short-lived.

My first Pathfinder character was Jasadath Goven-Sidor, a Githyanki fighter. He was not very talkative and disliked several members of the party, but still managed to work together with them decently well. He tended to be one of the more useful members of the group, had barely resisted the unfortunate effects of an evil artifact they were carrying with them, and had just recently acquired a really cool sword when the game stopped.

I, Dashing Cube
2012-08-07, 11:58 AM
My first character was a orange mohawked Dwarf Barbarian (don't know where that idea came from...) with a distinctive hatred of goblins, named Ulfgar Gundrak. That did for great RP when we started the RHoD campaign eventualy, because he was also NG and disliked the useless slaughter of intelligent creatures. He ended up being more lawful than neutral, but not really enough to warrant an alignement shift. He also was an accomplished dragon slayer (mostly by luck). From than on, he strolled around with two dragon head spoulders until his untimely retirement by the death of an airborne dragon who he had decided to jump on for the kill. It was well worth it.

cardboardbox!
2012-08-07, 12:16 PM
First character was a 2nd edition fighter named Thanatos(I was young okay :smalltongue:) I can only remember 2 adventures in his time the first one was at level 3 hunting a vampire lord in his hauting castle in the moorslands of fake England, and the second was hunting a white Wyrm and his black knight rider in a treetop villiage.

Blisstake
2012-08-07, 12:42 PM
Eldrin Crass, a 3rd edition cleric who took more spells than he probably should have been able to (we didn't know how to play, I stumbled across the 3.5 SRD and took bits and pieces that I liked). He ended up becoming the mayor after the last one ran away. I guess that stopped him from adventuring.

Incidentally, my first Pathfinder character (I DMed it so many times before finding a game on these forum) is Aldrin Cress. Yeah, very similar, but I have trouble making names sometimes. He's a sorcerer, and he's still in commission.

Cicciograna
2012-08-07, 12:46 PM
D&D 2nd Edition, Dwarf dual class Fighter/Cleric, 18/00 Strength, 19 Constitution. Nuff' said.

Insofar the character I remember more fondly.

Kane0
2012-08-07, 07:41 PM
Not including D&D videogames, a Half Elf Magus (PF). He didn't die, but god he felt useless until I picked up intensify spell.

Gnome Alone
2012-08-08, 09:25 PM
Jobin the Nice, first level cleric of Pelor in a 4E game that took place, surreally enough, in a Borders in San Francisco. My brother had been playing in it and invited me to come. Named after a terrible nickname in I Love You Man and explicitly based on Mr. Rodgers, Jobin was provided with a decent backstory on the fly by the DM; he had a sweet, cushy appointment at a Pelorite temple, but did something to piss off the upper echelons of the clergy and was sent to the boondocks to spread religiosity to the fuzzy wuzzies as penance. Sadly, that was right before I moved away from the Bay Area so presumably Jobin wandered off and got eaten by a grue or something.

Mindartis
2012-08-09, 10:27 AM
I will never forget my Eladrin Wizard, Mindartis. Hence the username. He was a cool character. One of my proudest moments was having a telekinetic battle for a key to the cell we were trapped in, and pulling the poor creature through the wall, and through the bars of the cell. It was quite messy.

He died a tragic death. We were fighting a wraith when it retreated. Our paladin, instead of letting it go and having an extended rest, he chased it into the mountain. As a party, we followed him. Not only was Mindartis hit by a poison arrow trap, but he also activated a Glyph of Warding. He was the first character death we ever had. I was sad to see him go, but Im glad I got the chance to play him.

RandomNPC
2012-08-09, 10:52 AM
Gnome Wizard, only played one game. We were in the desert and I decided to walk under a hyper intelligent elephant for shade. It decided to go to the bathroom on me. Despite being soaked, I cleaned up a bit in a river we were following and resumed my spot, figuring, bladder has to be empty now.

It was a good game, we made it to a town where non-noble women wore face coverings, and our party pally was assumed to be our leader because she didn't wear anything over her face. The half-orc decided to insult the temple of 1000 gods, and she was kindly asked to beat her slave. Quite amusing.

Stegyre
2012-08-09, 10:57 AM
Some name-I-forget cleric in a 1st ed game my older brother invited me to play in when I was maybe in late-elementary school.

I sitll remember how I impressed my big brother when, faced with a rust monster, I tied a stake to the end of a 10' pole to do battle.

Kalmageddon
2012-08-09, 11:09 AM
A 1st level half-elf C/G fighter in D&D 3.0, named Mallym, it lasted only one session, after that I actually read the manual and wanted to play a half-orc barbarian. The DM made my old character uncerimoniously die a gory death via wall trap.
I actually felt gulity...

DragonFang
2012-08-09, 04:11 PM
Grog Axesmith, an AD&D 2nd edition dwarf fighter.

I decided to start out with a simple character, who gradually gained a personality of his very own. Of course, the campaign sure helped - he was a new recruit at a Star Trek-esque starship.

Somehow he managed to accidentally kill off half the crew, become commander of the ship, teleport it back in time several thousand years, and almost rekindle a long war between two civilizations. Our DM was mad when I did a coup-de-grace on what turned out to be the spiritual leader of a whole planet, and at that point the only one who could get us out of the mess I had gotten us into.

Combined with his complete lack of perception except when elven feet are bared nearby, his humble origins as a doomed sculptor and weaponsmith, and inability to keep his beard unscathed, he was a very fun and remarkable character. :smallsmile:


Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that he eventually gained possession of a sentient sword that was much more intelligent than him. He called it Squidmaimer after encountering some giant octopus creature in a river. I'm sure you get the idea.

Masaioh
2012-08-09, 04:52 PM
Ithiel the half-incubus-cleric-psychopomp-samurai-prostitute-psychpath...thing. 3.5, but pretty much everything was homebrew.

Nero24200
2012-08-09, 05:19 PM
3.5 D'n'D - Aust Liadon, wild elf Druid. He had a curse on his right arm similer to the curse A****aka has in Princess Mononoke. Last quite a few games until the DM ended the campaign suddenly. I remember distinctly that his strength was pretty high, 18 base, +2 racial and managed to get a hold of some strength boosting items early. We RP'ed the curse growing stronger each level (which counted towards his strength) so strength was the stat raised every 4 levels to accomidate this.

Giegue
2012-08-09, 05:33 PM
Counting D&D videogames here? Then my first character was my NWN human sorcerer who focused on Necromancy and tended to spam save or-dies. While NWN is admittedly light on RP, he was still a fun character to play and in epic levels would gate out balors only to one-hit kill them with one of his offensive spells(and actually leveled several times just by the XP gained by killing balors.) while my friend's character, a rogue, would take care of all the buying and selling. Yes, this character was chaotic evil. Loads of fun, but sadly had very little chances to RP him because it was a videogame, and not much RP to be had out of pre-gen conversations. Sadly, I forgot this guys name. God that was so long ago...

If we're not counting videogames? My first character was a lawful neutral elf wizard who's name I also forget. He was made and played in a VERY stripped down version of D&D(even more narrow, restricted and stripped down then core only, if you can possibly imagine that.) that was meant as an "intro" game for new players. That game only lasted one session, though, and then we switched to actual rules instead of the striped down "D&D lite" that was used for that "intro" game. Unlike my NWN character who was memorable for his almost comedic chaotic evil-ness(and he in fact managed to get to a perfect chaotic score of 0 and a perfect evil score of 0...) this guy sadly was not played long enough to develop into anything interesting.

DigoDragon
2012-08-10, 07:44 AM
I only played d20 Modern once, but it was a nifty "X-Files" kind of game. My character was a 16-year old arcane prodigy hired by the FBI as a consultant for the study of magical phenomina. Her skills came in handy when we discovered a mining corporation that was using necromancy to employ undead workers to extract copper.

While necromancy itself technically wasn't against Arizona state law, grave-digging was so we broke up that operation peacefully. :smallbiggrin:

MachineWraith
2012-08-10, 03:55 PM
D&D 3.5: Xeros, human Sorceror, blaster through and through, and my first character ever. Tall, thin, sharp tongue. Campaign got to 12th level, I believe. Favorite combo was a very simple Fly + Disintigrate, worked pretty well in our (very) unoptimized group.

D&D 4E: T174N (Titan), Warforged Barbarian. We played the campaign on Maptool. I had great fun with this guy. He was specced for damage with a side order of control. He had a bunch of attacks for repositioning enemies. Saved my teammates on more than one occasion, and right before the campaign fell apart, he was about to sacrifice himself to save the party.

NWoD Werewolf: James W. Grant. I'll be honest, I have a hard time remembering much about this campaign. It was the first and only time I played World of Darkness, and I don't know the rules terribly well. I know I was very good at sneaking, and a pretty nasty combatant whether wolfed out or with my shotgun, but that's about it.

Drako_shorty
2012-08-10, 04:11 PM
Drako. Human Rogue. He was excessively over-geared and he was a noob, just like me, every single thing that was incredibly (Namely, everything) that happened made him faint from excitement. I created him to join an overly long running game that I had previously not been apart of. So, everyone knew each other, and there was me, hopeless little noob. I soon scrapped him and made a Gith Ninja named Obani who quickly fit into the group. I generally consider Obani my first and Drako my test character though.

LibraryOgre
2012-08-10, 04:27 PM
Though I played in a 1st/2nd edition cusp game as a fighter and a mage (two sheets!), the first one I created was Zerek, a half-drow mage/thief. He wanted to be a bard, but he had a 6 charisma and a 7 Constitution. But he was brilliant (16 Int) and had a great dexterity (16), which lead to him using tumbling a bit more often than you'd expect (it was free +4 to AC! Combined with Armor and Dex, he could be a 0 AC during movement!).

He still has one of my favorite stories associated with him, too. We'd been assigned to gather the sword Warwinner from the Haunted Halls of Eveningstar, and, eventually, manage to find it. We weren't positive, but Zerek became slowly convinced that we were carrying a Luck Blade, with at least 1 wish left, as people keep trying to steal it as we carry it to Berdusk.

We'd been ambushed, and it was a fierce and nasty fight, especially since the Combat and Tactics critical tables had just been released. My younger brother's halfling fighter (leather armor, 19 Dex and a dagger specialist... FRIGHTENING in 2e, since he could toss 3 daggers a round, at something like a +5 to hit, and do d4+2 damage with each strike) was stuck in a Darkness, 15's radius spell, and still took down mooks with thrown daggers. But we were beaten down, and they demanded the sword. Our mage and cleric at sword point. I take the sword, unsheath it, and offer it to them, blade first.

When he grasps it, I say "Halito, mother****er." Halito, in addition to being a blatant and intentional reference to Wizardry, was the command word of my ring of shocking grasp. Fight's back on, and now I'm toe-to-toe with the leader, who's just taken a big hit.

Miss that character.

joe
2012-08-11, 09:39 AM
My first character was made when I was 6 years old. His name was Jack and he was a Fighter armed with a Heavy Flail and Ring Mail. I used a miniature holding a guitar to represent him even though he didn't actually have a guitar. He got killed by a giant lizard in the Moathouse of Hommlet.

My father at that point decided that Hero Quest might be a better introduction to RP gaming at that age, and I wouldn't get into D&D again for another 3 years.

16 years after he was made, Jack would return, as a bard, though completely insane and with a paralyzing fear of lizards. I gave him a last name and a bit more story/personality.

Talyn
2012-08-11, 10:01 AM
My first character was a human fighter with studded leather armor and a greatsword. I'm pretty sure he was large, boisterous, and bearded, and I named him "Barak." My father, who was running an AD&D 2nd Edition game (I was about 11 at the time, and really thrilled to be able to play a game with his friends from work!) informed me that I was following in a proud tradition of people creating a big, boisterous fighter named Barak.

If I recall correctly, he died heroically holding off a gelatinous cube so that the party could escape.

Kymriana
2012-08-11, 10:12 AM
Fantasy GURPS in a homebrew world setting and my character was a nancing male Elf 'Shaman'(homebrew designed class based off of the Shaman King anime were he had a companion Ghost and used a spell to merge and gain abilities from it) that was more or less the 'doormat' of the party because he was a healer AND had the 'Nice Guy' disad and 'Loyalty to Party'.... Pretty as hell and in total love with his ghost companion dude. Got treated like crap by the party and eventually got talked into allowing them into selling him for 2 weeks to a chick so she could cure the two mercs in the party from the 'Zombie Guts' they had contracted by NOT 'laundering' the loot from the necromancer's lair like the Shaman had TOLD them to.... My GM was shocked I agreed to it, since he wasn't interested in women at all, and then gave me a BUNCH of bennies for staying in character and letting it happen... which included some new skills(tantric magic ftw lawlz), new clothes(very high class clothing), and the lady in question taught him a neat word to use on the party: NO. The GM let me switch Nice Guy out for a new habit and he came back unwilling to do the usual Clean and Heal spells for the group unless they desperately needed it. Usually he just looked at their minor wounds and handed them salt for the demon icor and bandages before walking off and stealing all of the tavern wenches and bath boys so no one else in the party got any. Vengeance is a ticked off Elf with massive scores in Appearance and Diplomacy that can talk to spirits and sic them on the mercs.

Played him for 7 1/2 years before I moved to another state. He still sits in my folder, lamenting his lack of being played. He had just become the Champion for Arrum the Grey Man, too. Le Sigh.

I miss Lomion Calacirya... ;_;