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Bartmanhomer
2017-08-02, 10:47 AM
Hello everybody. It's been a while since I posted here. What's the worst character that you ever play in any RPG games? Here my story. I'm still playing my current D&D 3.5 games which my character is a Level 2 Neutral Good Male Lesser Drow Rogue that goes by the name of Eric Spade. So far in the past encounters Eric got knocked out in battle by demons because he disobey orders. Right now Eric is fighting a demon hybrid and so far things aren't looking to well. I must say that this is the worse character that I play so far. Tell me your story about the worst character in any RPG game. Ok, Go!

johnbragg
2017-08-02, 11:03 AM
My most unfortunate character was a 2E Ranger-Thief multiclass named Dark Raven. My DM was *very* reluctant to let me play 2 characters at once, so it was a few weeks--and 3-4 levels-- of mostly-daily play (high school after school) before he finally joined the party. (2 PCs, a few NPCs).

So he was light on hit points to begin with.
Which meant he died.
And in 2E, resurrection cost you a point of Constitution, so he was even lighter on hit points.

Intended as a Batman-type urban stalker, he ended up being a consistent failure. I don't remember if he finally failed a resurrection check, or if I gave up on him after the DM's summoned demon did an arbitrary 100 points of damage with his fire breath, save for half. Dark Raven, at full health, had 48 hit points.

Lo'Tek
2017-08-02, 02:36 PM
2E "Blade" kit bard.
He looked good on paper.
+ 3 bonus skills (Reading/Writing (native tongue), Local History, Blind-fighting, Juggling)
+ Ambidextrous for free, too
+ Level = Bonus for catching thrown things
+ Level/5 = Bonus for trick throws
+ Level/2 = Bonus armor class when doing "defensive swirl" (no attacks, but "small counterattacks" with level/2 dmg save for 0)
+ Offensive swirl ability (may force an enemy to disengage)
+ Weapon display ability (enemy moral -2, allies to hit +1)
- Unlike many other bards, Blades do not gain the l0th-level ability to use all forms of written magical items

Sounds great

Problems in practice:
Can't dps: bad thac0, no specialisation, lacking strength bonus. Srsly this char does no damage.
Can't support: weapon display is a nice opener (only works if not hit on that turn), then bardic spells. Worse than other bard kits
Can't assassin: no backstab, no assassination skills. He is a bard.
Can't tank: low hp, AC would be better with heavy armor, the counters chip damage is only useful against lots of small enemies.
And lots of enemy attacks means dead bard...

This kit should be played like the character is the greatest, yet sucks if actually played.
The offensive swirl is the worst ability ever: it takes two turns, has a long list of success requirements and only rarely works, which just means the enemy attacks another member of the party. "Do nothing useful for two turns".

This kit could be nice in a party that does not fight, like "thieves and mages" where its more about others believing you have the best swordfighter of the whole kingdom, than about actually having any fighter at all. Could be skilled as a face / leader type, or carry support skills. The moral debuff only helps when combined with other moral debuffs.

In our adventure, which sounded like thieves and mages, the discrepancy between "assumed fighting skill" and "actual fighting skill" became too obvious to ignore, which just makes this character a sad failure, because we kept getting into actual fights and i was happy to find a reason to have him leave the party.

Khedrac
2017-08-02, 03:01 PM
Ooh crumbs, this one goes back to school - in the mid 1980s...
1st Ed AD&D we generated characters for the 7 module sequence G1-3, D-13 & Q1 (an absolute classic). I generated a 6th level cleric.
1st session went OK (may have been first 2 or 3 - not sure) but in the middle of the next session the GM's best friend finally got to join the group (he had been unable to make the first session) - an elf (I think) cleric 7 / fighter 7; might not have been fighter but he definitely made me feel fairly useless.
(What was worse, we were sneaking through a hill giant dormitory when the DM described the new character as someone at the door to the room and said "say hello Jock", so Jock said "hello" which woke the giants up...).
For whatever reason I missed the next session (don't now remember why, only it was not in my control) so I turned up to the session after to be told that my character had died and been reincarnated as an ogre...
I didn't bother with the rest of the campaign.

n00b17
2017-08-02, 03:32 PM
Oh god, I remember the first character I ever played. He was a true neutral thief named Conway in 3.5. The problem was the DM didn't have any systems mastery, and wanted a game that felt like 1e, so he made the following houserules
1) Everyone gets 6 skill points per level
2) All skills are class skills.
And the big one:
3) Sneak attack can only be used on unaware targets.

The last one hurt even more than expected because we had not one, but two paladins in the party, one of whom went beyond Lawful Stupid all the way to Lawful Vindictive. I think I sneak attacked once in that year long campaign. Effectively, I was a commoner who happened to have a couple points in sneak and open lock.

Saint Jimmy
2017-08-02, 05:09 PM
This is a eulogy for my most recent character. Not nessicarly the worst, but by far the most unlikeabke.

Sir Bloodreign the Vile, or "Fredrick", like his family called him, was a joke. I said I would make "the edgiest edgelord ever." Even though I was joking, the rest of the players begged me to do it untill I did. Supposedly, I did not disappoint. As I presented it to the group, he was one part angst, one part early 2000s emo song, one part murderhobo. Basically he was a parody of those who expect people to take their edgelords seriously.

As a Tiefling wizard who's "flaws" box included "THATS NOT MY NAME MOM! ITS NOT JUST A PHASE!" written in it, who changed his name to Bloodreign the Vile and insisted that that is his birth name (because Fredrick isn't edgy enough) was actually really fun to play. I haven't seen a group more into conversing in character then when Fredrick was passive-aggressively moping and talking about the "darkness of his soul." Everyone loved it, it was hilarious.

Until we met a group of assassins on the road who were sent to kill us, about two days ago. Bloodreign tries sneaks up on them to cast fog cloud to conceal his allies charge.
The assassins see Bloodreign, and as the fog forms their strongest fighter rushes him, putting him down into death saves in one hit. The rest of the party charges, but the fog cloud is gone after Bloodreign was knocked out, and they were unable to reach him before the assassin plunged both of his blades into the tiefling's body. With one last gasp, Sir Bloodreign the Vile died like a dog, in obscurity, with allies who would neither mourn his loss or really care, outside of the lizardfolk ranger who would only mourn the loss of an asset.
It was a young life cut too short. It was sudden. It was brutal. It was (as far as we can tell) pointless.
IT WAS SO EDGY.
And that's how Bloodreign would have wanted to go out anyways.

Friv
2017-08-02, 07:02 PM
I played in a Vampire game in which the GM pitched us as members of the Sabbat - cruel, kind of violent jerks who believe that vampires deserve to rule over humanity. I wasn't super-familiar with the concept, but I built a Lasombra manipulator who used a bit of shadow control and a lot of mind control to terrify local political groups and control mortal affairs, in order to direct them against his enemies. He planned to step out of the shadows, as it were, when the enemy vampires (the Camarilla, who want vampires to stay hidden) were wiped out and stepping out of the shadows wouldn't get him killed.

I spent most of my dots on social skills, and most of my free dots on Backgrounds to give me extensive political sway and control.

And after approving all of the characters, the GM informed us that the session began with us being inducted into the Sabbat as front line fighters, our characters were known to be dead, and we needed to go right for the throat. And every time I suggested going to any mortal contacts the Sabbat NPCs snorted and basically said, "You don't need mortal contacts, you're a vampire killing machine and they're ants."

So I couldn't use any of my skills or people for basically the first three sessions, which was conveniently how long the campaign lasted before everyone killed each other (IC, that is) and I got my head chopped off.

Calthropstu
2017-08-02, 11:53 PM
The worst character I ever played was not of my creation. I joined a Pathfinder campaign a few years ago. It was advertised on meetup. It sounded cool, and I was allowed to pick from a group of 12 different characters, pregenerated. I was ok with it, I have played pregens before. I pick the druid, figured I can't go wrong with a druid.

So the game starts and... there are 12 people stuffed into a cramped room. The gm hands me a mini for my character and it looks like a werewolf. I thought it was odd, but ok...
We start the game and I am 7 years old, learning to hunt. I chase down a wild boar. The combat takes 2 hours because of how many people were there but whatever.
So things happen, and we somehow unleash the bbeg... a great wyrm black dragon with class levels... it destroys our village and...
We get put in stasis for 10 years. But we somehow continue growing in stasis So yeah... I'm a 7 year old kid who became 17 overnight and we all get marked by different gods. My mark turns me into something that looks like a werewolf but with none of the perks but claw attacks, I can never transform back and somehow my character picks up a level of druid. But I can't cast spells. Oh and I have to be.a boar shaman. And I don't get an animal companion yet. And... yeah.

This started bad and just got worse and worse. I have to learn what kind of spells are available in game... and the only druid I ever came across was a dm plot railroad forcing me to have a boar for an animal companion in the third session. That game is EASILY the worst game I have ever seen.