What exactly do you play in D&D?

[Sudduth]

This might help people get to know each other and such, I've searched the forums a little and couldn't find something like this.

So what are you? A half-orc barbarian? A human paladin? Or even the DM?

If possible give a description of your character, epic things they he/she did, and a picture if you have one. And if you feel like just spilling their entire story then go ahead, sounds epic to me.

I myself am a DM, and only a DM.

EDIT: Not specifically D&D any roleplaying game.

[Aramir21]

For my group, I am typically the DM. When I am a player, I am usually a Half-Elf Wizard and on occation, a Human Rogue. I enjoy giving all races and classes a try, these are just my main two.

[The Big Dice]

I don't play D&D anymore, we kind of ground 3.5 into the dirt with a 21-level campaign, followed by a couple of 10-14 level ones over the past few years. But the character I'm most proud of was a human Ranger who went from level 1 to 21. Sure, he wasn't the most optimal thing to play, but I had a blast being the whirling blender o' death in the party. And being able to switch from ranged support to melee saved the party's collective behinds on more than one occasion.

More often than not though, I GM. I'm just coming off the back of a Star Wars Saga campaign that got to level 14 or so before I painted myself into a narrative corner. And currently I'm starting up a GURPS Fantasy Zombie Apocalypse campaign. Yes, it's as daft an idea as it sounds and we're only one session in, but I have a plan.

Sort of...

[Zincorium]

Wait, only one thing?

I've been playing since I was eight. I have long since lost track of all the things I've been.

[Delaney Gale]

I'm best described by my top three stats- INT/DEX/CHA. Yep, I'm the smart one, better at getting out of harm's way than taking it, and good at talking my way out of things. This lends itself well to playing rogues (obviously), bards, swashbucklers, and other bits of crazy. My main character right now is a rogue/transmuter/arcane archer/arcane trickster, and I'm in the process of writing up a rogue/swashbuckler to play a character role in another campaign.

[Sudduth]

Wait, only one thing?

I've been playing since I was eight. I have long since lost track of all the things I've been.

Then the one you are most proud of? I've been playing since I was 9 and I'm 17 now.

[Forever Curious]

I am a spellcaster. Main blaster, healer, whatever. I've played them all. Currently, I'm playing a Whisper Gnome Beguiler (level 1, hopefully up to 20 if the campaign continues) who functions as the parties scout/trap breaker. He's Chaotic Good with an emphasis on chaos, and if you've never roleplayed a schizophrenic, then you're missing out.

[bosssmiley]

DM, or beatstick jockey as a player. I liek teh crushing, driving and lamentations.

[Sillycomic]

I am most proud of my Dwarven Grandma character actually.

She was a cleric. And I made her an middle aged dwarf, 168 if I remember correctly. At first I simply wanted to make her the healer of the group, as such the way of the cleric goes, tending to other PC's when they rough house with those bad monsters that live down the street.

The concept was that she had lost her son adventuring some time ago, so she feels compelled to go adventuring to take care of the other characters in the game. If a cleric had been with her son, he might not have passed away.

Although it's kind of a sad backstory, it never really came off that way. Mostly it was... because of this backstory I'm able to treat the rest of the party as if they were my grandchildren.

I had a wooden spoon that I regularly used whenever characters did something stupid, like try to kiss a harpy.

Skill Focus: Sense Motive. Why? Because no one lies to Grandma. No one! The rogue tried once... once... when she wanted to steal a magical item from a cleric's tomb. Grandma squashed that idea and hard.

I made her a sword and board fighter, although she didn't fight all that much. Grandma didn't fit to me as the one to do physical fighting, but rather help the PC's fight. So this led to fun tactics like... flanking so the rogue could get her sneak attack. Aiding another so the Monk could do his flurry of blows and it not suck super bad, Shield other on any of the non tanks that pretended they could just run in and not have any consequences.

It was a fairly solid build considering. The entire point of the character was to be a buffer for the group, and in turn the rest of my group simply shined. Only one person died in our entire campaign, and that couldn't be helped. A charging Gorgon criticalled on the ranger, nothing I could do about that... lol, except make a tomb for her using Stoneshape that brilliantly displayed her destroying gnolls. (her favored enemy)

[Forever Curious]

To Sillycomic: And that is how D and Dis played, my friend. Not exploiting the rules, not TPK'ing, but through beautifully crafted characters with hopes and dreams, going on quest for glory.

[Vangor]

Arrogant, Elven Wizard was the usual for me. Enchantment focused which helps avoid his inability to converse with others which he never learned assuming he could dominate others easily, what with his focus on Enchantment...

My brother is campaigning, and me and three others are taken prisoner by a powerful caster for reasons we do not know. When a guard sought to move a few NPC prisoners from my cell, I cast Suggestion and succeeded. I convinced him to release me because, being his friend, I was obviously not who his master was after and was willing to assist. Baffled by having imprisoned his friend, we walked from the cell and by the Dragonman (5 ECL one) Warblade who stole the sword from the scabbard and killed him after the guard hesitated to wonder why I was in his way.

With the keys, we began our escape with the remaining NPCs in tow. Confusion ended a fight after a guardsman raised the alarm and we were confronted by six prepared fighters and a couple crossbowman who I won Initiative against. Our Warblade grappled one of the NPCs unfortunately affected, while the guards generally babbled, fled, or killed one another (three of em died to themselves).

Upon escaping through an old mine tunnel, we found ourselves in deep snow for which I fortunately had a few Endure Elements for those of us with weaker fortitudes. Lost one of the NPCs attempting to cross ice slicked rocks upon a swift river, though I saved another with a Dexterity check. Came upon a cavern which appeared to lead further down the mountain but were ambushed by Wyverns, which Slow hampered horribly two of the three.

Finally, making our way through the cavern, we came from the snow, finding the river from further up the mountain in hopes of finding our friend. Instead, the caster who imprisoned us was waiting with a couple of his more elite guardsmen. Deep Slumber ended him due to a not terrific Will save. Unfortunately, this was probably an apprentice due to his meager magical equipment, which we found after we coup de graced through his mirror images.

We wandered along to find a village which seemed deserted, but truly people were frightened. Well, we all knocked on houses to find what was happening, I literally Knock'd to let myself into the biggest house more stealthily. An old man with a flaming great sword greeted me, who I immediately threatened and attempted to Hold Person. I failed. He Mass Hold Person'd, and this is how we found a goodly archmage trying to thwart the master of the keep which held us.

To note, after this winding quest through a catacombs and such, we eventually came upon a town. I was imprisoned for charming a merchant to receive a better price. I was released by suggesting I be freed by the guardsman.

[Talya]

Still playing this one:

For four years I've been a player in a live (non-pbp) game. We started at level 4, and are currently level 17. While I've made a lot of other characters, none have felt so real to me. She has more personality and growth potential from a fluff standpoint than anything else I've ever tried.

Forgotten Realms setting
Nara Aesera Nahid
Nara was a harem girl in a Pasha's palace outside the bustling metropolis of Calimport. Her striking, fiery red hair was almost unheard of among those of Calishiite ancestry, but it was correctly surmised that the girl likely had Efreeti or Genaasi blood in her lineage. When Pasha Jhozim el Fadeel saw the young child with the fiery hair, he knew he had to have her for his own harem, and so the purchase was made.

Growing up in a harem provided Nara with ample opportunities to enhance her social skills and performing arts, as well as religious traning from the Sunite Headmistress Cassindra, but what surprised nobody was how magic came to her so naturally. Nobody understood to what extent, though, until the bugbear raiding party fought its way into the harem looking for the Pasha's blood. They received a warm welcome...warmer than they expected by far when flames burst from 17 year old Nara's hands, incinerating the lot of them. Nara received her freedom from the grateful Pasha in exchange for her act.

House rules in creation: DM granted spontaneous casters +1 spell per spell level, with the caveat that the extra spell HAD to come from a forgotten realms based source.

Mobility requirement for PRC was substituted for "Harem Trained" regional feat.

Bardic Weapon Proficiency: Longsword was substituted for Weapon Proficiency: Scimitar due to her Calishiite (Arabic) heritage.

The non-optimal bard multiclass allowed getting into the PrC early (skills and whip proficiency), as well as giving her some divine-like healing ability. The class has a very divine flavor for a sorceror.

[woodenbandman]

Definitely a bard. Even though I often screw them up, I like bards more than any other character class, and I'm just now learning how to play them correctly. I've since branched out into other things. The character I'm most proud of is and will be a bard forever, though.

Echo the Buomman Bard, and priest of the unpronouncable entity. I've only played him for one session. He is probably my greatest creation, although I do have a lot of great creations.

I also am working on DMing a game, which I like because it gives me opportunity to use all the wacky builds I come up with (like the anthropomorphic bear werebear barbearian bear warrior), but I'm still working on stuff like dungeon design and junk.

[Lvl45DM!]

My 1E human paladin he had a good life
He started off as a bounty hunter, a class from a dragon magazine, kinda like a ranger with lots of assassination skills, with a special hatred for orcs.
He had a lot of adventures, saving a pegasus tribe from some griffons, hunting down the guy who killed Obern king of the faerie folk, this badass half orc with a crazy good knife
Underwater adventure getting a cache of magic (that was gay i lost my field plate)
Smashed a barbarian fortress and challenged the barbarian queen to a jousting match (he was specialized with the spear) we had already won, she just wanted to keep some honour and you know...not die

and then one day his mother contacted him, even though he thought his mother was dead. He escorted his mother to his father, a high level wizard and daddy made mummys soul into a Holy Avenger +5
so i became the sneakiest Paladin ever
Took on a Spawn of Cthulu in my home town single handed while the rest of my party slaughtered (and i do mean slaughtered it was epic) an army of ghouls and vampires
Destroyed a major artifact of evil that a big bad evil wizard was getting his hands on
Adventured in the water plane and destroyed the spirit of a Flying Dutchman kinda ghost
Had a murder mystery in a town, that was actually in the Abyss and there was this whole thing about zodiac signs...deeply ****ed up to escape we used a cursed ring of teleporting and went back TO THE DAWN OF THE HUMAN RACE!
saw the first fight between dwarves and elves, his two slyph ocmpanions started the faerie realms, he shagged a cavewoman just so his seed would be spread amongst like 40% of humans and slew a few T-rexs
Nearly slew an undead purple worm single handed, cos the rest of the party thought it was a waste of time so they sat there, watched me take it down to 2 HP and then magic missled it to steal the kill GRRR!
Fought his soul reflection and lost...becoming a bounty hunter again but getting to keep the sword

But his most epic moment?
In a combination of X-Files and Cthulu myth, there was this black oil corrupting and deforming a town. we cured the town but the source, a magic black stone, was still there. we attacked it using remove curse and other clericy banishy kinda things and it threw up a wall of force which it promptly filled with black oil and started summoning an incarnation of Cthulu.
Using the Holy Avengers magic resistance he plowed through the wall, through the black oil and smote that rock!
and then for a coup de grace, as the Cthulus avatar started to fade he smote that ****er too!

[Sudduth]

I am a spellcaster. Main blaster, healer, whatever. I've played them all. Currently, I'm playing a Whisper Gnome Beguiler (level 1, hopefully up to 20 if the campaign continues) who functions as the parties scout/trap breaker. He's Chaotic Good with an emphasis on chaos, and if you've never roleplayed a schizophrenic, then you're missing out.

Yeah a guy in my game right now is playing a schizophrenic. He also has MPS.

[Akal Saris]

Sillycomic: That's a terrific character, I love it!

I'm the DM for maybe 9/10 games in real life, but in PBP games I actually have a lot of variety. I definitely lean towards playing male characters (I'm a guy), and generally dwarves or humans, but otherwise I don't know how much more I can pin it down.

Current characters in PBP: (Along with a quick summary!)
Human Fighter (I'm Caramon! No, really!)
Dwarf Fighter (I'm the gruff meatshield! My name has Rock and Beard in it!)
Human Barbarian (This character remains undeveloped and lame!)
Human Warlock (She's every spunky anime/comic book girl rolled into 1!)
Halfling Rogue (He's a fat ball of flesh and daggers that likes bubble baths!)
Drow Beguiler (He's bitter!)

Current games in RL:
Dwarf Druid (He's King of the Dinosaurs!)
Human Ranger (He's evil and talks like Batman!)
Human Conjurer (He's Jafar!)

[gdiddy]

I play a DM, but love playing a Cha-money rogue, bard, or Warlock.

[Paulus]

I am everything and anything, roll-wise. However I play Tank + support magic, best. The character which no matter how strong he is, sacrifices much of it to help other people. Charisma ad Unarmed attacks are my biggest selling points. Thus far I haven't played much, but I will be most notable for my concepts over effectiveness. Such as:

Catfolk Bard/Sublime Chord, Factotums and Dragons.

[Rhiannon87]

I like variety! I have a definite preference for skill points, but that just means I'll play a paladin with a 12 INT and focus on what skills she does have. My fave character is my compulsively multiclassed human rogue/fighter/spymaster/psion, but I've played druids (one elf, one gnome), a human paladin, and I have plans in the works for a human psion-shaper. I have character builds for a half-drow cleric, a human sword-and-board fighter, and a rogue/thief-acrobat/evangelist.

Variety is the spice of D&D life. :D

[Sudduth]

My 1E human paladin he had a good life
He started off as a bounty hunter, a class from a dragon magazine, kinda like a ranger with lots of assassination skills, with a special hatred for orcs.
He had a lot of adventures, saving a pegasus tribe from some griffons, hunting down the guy who killed Obern king of the faerie folk, this badass half orc with a crazy good knife
Underwater adventure getting a cache of magic (that was gay i lost my field plate)
Smashed a barbarian fortress and challenged the barbarian queen to a jousting match (he was specialized with the spear) we had already won, she just wanted to keep some honour and you know...not die

and then one day his mother contacted him, even though he thought his mother was dead. He escorted his mother to his father, a high level wizard and daddy made mummys soul into a Holy Avenger +5
so i became the sneakiest Paladin ever
Took on a Spawn of Cthulu in my home town single handed while the rest of my party slaughtered (and i do mean slaughtered it was epic) an army of ghouls and vampires
Destroyed a major artifact of evil that a big bad evil wizard was getting his hands on
Adventured in the water plane and destroyed the spirit of a Flying Dutchman kinda ghost
Had a murder mystery in a town, that was actually in the Abyss and there was this whole thing about zodiac signs...deeply ****ed up to escape we used a cursed ring of teleporting and went back TO THE DAWN OF THE HUMAN RACE!
saw the first fight between dwarves and elves, his two slyph ocmpanions started the faerie realms, he shagged a cavewoman just so his seed would be spread amongst like 40% of humans and slew a few T-rexs
Nearly slew an undead purple worm single handed, cos the rest of the party thought it was a waste of time so they sat there, watched me take it down to 2 HP and then magic missled it to steal the kill GRRR!
Fought his soul reflection and lost...becoming a bounty hunter again but getting to keep the sword

But his most epic moment?
In a combination of X-Files and Cthulu myth, there was this black oil corrupting and deforming a town. we cured the town but the source, a magic black stone, was still there. we attacked it using remove curse and other clericy banishy kinda things and it threw up a wall of force which it promptly filled with black oil and started summoning an incarnation of Cthulu.
Using the Holy Avengers magic resistance he plowed through the wall, through the black oil and smote that rock!
and then for a coup de grace, as the Cthulus avatar started to fade he smote that ****er too!

Wow. What a damn life.

[Winterwind]

If the purpose of this thread is for people to get to know each other better by having them describe the characters they identified the most with when roleplaying, why the arbitrary limitation to D&D? Are people playing other roleplaying games not worthy of being known?

Anyway, I'll go with DM first and foremost, be it D&D or otherwise.

As for characters, D&D-wise that would be an elven sorcerer... but that's the only character I played in D&D ever, and only briefly. Without that limitation, the number of characters would be tremendously much bigger. I think my most favoured characters, then, would be one that is an elven ranger, in D&D terms, from a fantasy RPG I created with friends, and a Cat shaman street urchin in ShadowRun.

[Sudduth]

Are people playing other roleplaying games not worthy of being known?

Thanks, didn't think about that fix'd

[Starbuck_II]

I played everything but a Druid in Core. A Warlock, Swordsage, Crusader, Binder, Shadowcaster, and Wu Jen in non-core.

My favorite was the Slavic Numenstra, Elven Wu jen, from Asia-land (no really that is where DM said I came from since I was Wu Jen). Played from 4th till 14th level in a campaign. I crafted gear, I fireballed the foes, I Snake Darted, and I buffed everyone with GMW.
I even polymorphed.

I lost many cool Wizard spells due to not being a Wizard, but I had fun.

Currently I am playing a Illumian Cleric named Du'Ran in a PbP (mainly buffer with some healing in emegencies).
And in another PbP Warlock/Binder/Swordsage named Harry. Harry is mainly a melee warrior Gish (though not many buffs).

[Sudduth]

Numenstra, Elven Wu jen, from Asia-land

LMFAO Asia-land XDDD

[Roukon]

About half of my time is spent DMing and the other half playing. That said, when I play, it is usually two or more characters (record is 6, I believe, 3 PCs, 3 DMPCs that the DM created, but I half controlled). Almost every time, I make an elven rogue. He concentrates on stealth and sneak-attack, usually with TWF. Also, he is usually and orphen of some sort... Don't know what that says about my psyche.

Roukon

[Foryn Gilnith]

Thanks, didn't think about that fix'd

lol


Characters:
Argider, Gestalt Warblade//(whole lot of dips). Elite commando on a mission to fight undead. Campaign still starting, not too fleshed-out
Ormazd, Evil Dragonkin Warblade. Stalwart tank of the group. Loyal bodyguard, despite not speaking Common. More snarky in Draconic. Currently searching for meaning in life besides mere battle and loot.
N0-2B, Evil Medical Droid. Sort of a flat character, a Sith droid who got captured by the Republic and eventually broke free with a bunch of other Sith prisoners. Still enough time to make a defining personality trait, though - it's Play by Post, and I've posted twice.
Casrath, Socially Retarded Elven Swift Hunter. "Brute Force" of an elven mercenary company. Smart, fast, and very dangerous; but the Charisma of a badger. Without the guidance of a commanding officer he'd sit in the trees and juggle all day.

[Jalor]

Full casters or jack-of-all-trades types with magical ability. I enjoy playing clever, snarky characters with unconventional but clearly defined moral beliefs. That's basically "me but with magic", so I then change some major aspect of their personality and explore the possibilities of character development in that direction as the game goes on.

Like the Beguiler I used to play in a real-life game. He was clever and snarky as usual, but he also had an interesting relationship with the truth. In his mind, nobody is willing to show their true self all at once. Instead, people choose to act in a certain way to get what they want. In these lies, says his belief, is their true self. A man's values are shown by what he says to get what he wants.

Recently, I went for a twist on my usual twist and made a character who's clever, but not snarky. He's a Wizard specializing in Transmutation, and he's devoted his life to helping others when they fail due to outside circumstances. Basically, he'd help a village whose food stores were trashed by a natural disaster, but not a village that had traded all its food away and hoarded the money.

[Assassin89]

So far, I have played a 1st edition wizard and 3.5 edition cleric.

Current character:

Adwren Twinleaf
Half-elf Cleric of St. Cuthbert 5
His father was an elf. He is a mercenary for a 35 level Wizard who destroyed part of the elven lands with an epic spell. He gain the leadership feat at level 4 due to an item called the book of the warlord, has been attacked by a bat as a possible reoccurring gag.

[CharPixie]

Brickwall Fighters (and i mean their intellect)
Down to earth Rogue/Assassins
Confident Wizards
and Ruthless Lawmen.

Actual character class may vary.

[Korivan]

In DnD, I'm about 90% of the time the DM. When I actually get to play...I try to play as many things as possible. I love the veriaty DnD brings. Though often, I do play mages, or trying to play any character class that exemplifies intelligence.