Best character you've ever played.

[The Pressman]

Today one of my friends ran a simple module, and it ended well, we all leveled up, and a good time was had by all. Also, there was an amazing trick involving flour and fire, but i digress.

My character was named Kjård McVan Der Brændøn, he was a dwarven druid, and his animal companion was a medium Monstrous centipede named Nikolaj.

So my question is this:
What has been your favorite and/or most fun to play character over the years?

[Prodan]

A smooth, suave, sinister warlock called Iago.

[Machiavellian]

Definately the original version of Sanguine Dragon, a Half-Hobgoblin Half-Orc Gladiator

[FMArthur]

That's easy: A Changeling Factotum/Chameleon named Terris. Disguises are basically the most hilarious thing to roleplay ever, and I always used disguises. It got me into trouble about 30% of the time, which was its own kind of entertainment. Combat was always a new and refreshing thing because I was always changing Aptitude Focus. I had so much fun being a Chameleon I was inspired to homebrew it as a base class, since while I sometimes used Factotum abilities, all I really wanted to be was a Chameleon, start to finish.

[arguskos]

Well, I like all of my recent ones, for various reasons.

Current:
-Molten Steel (magma para-genasi Duskblade 1): Molten Steel, called Mo by his friends, looks identical to a standard magma para-elemental, but his elemental connection is weaker than it should be, so he lacks all of their powers. He's like playing a living lava flow (which is about as awesome as it sounds).
-Thaxos, Elder Serpent (Elder Serpent of Shikinester Cleric 5/Divine Oracle 1, look at the avatar): He's a small-sized viper who casts spells, has floating runes drifting around him, and is generally totally awesome. Love him.
-Nikola Aristar, aka War Machine (human Artificer 4): Check the picture. Ask yourself if that's awesome. If yes, you get the idea. If no, go check your head out professionally, cause you're broken.

Recent:
-Prototype Soul-Holding Module: Design 0.01 (silentium Binder 3//Barbarian 1/Fighter 1/Rogue 1): Playing a robotic armored starfish who slices and dices things into cubes is totally freaking awesome. Playing that and also binding the spirits of creatures that exist beyond reality itself?
-Marchaud and Vinton (dvati Warlock 1/Binder 2): A pair of psychopathic murdering assassins, Marchaud and Vinton are bloodthirsty and very very interesting to play, due to their dvati nature and a generous DM (I get those a lot, it seems).

Those are all the ones I've got on deck right now. Might have more later.

[Chambers]

I played a Changeling Rogue in Sharn, started at level 5 or so, got into Cabinet Trickster later on. Con man straight up, had connections all over Sharn. It was a neutral/evil game, so I played him against the party as well. After a few sessions the entire party was completely paranoid and he had dirt on nearly of them, blackmailing the more vulnerable characters. Everyone (the players) was having fun, so it wasn't a problem of conflicting gaming styles.

I retired him for a few levels for story reasons. Even when he wasn't in the party anymore, there were still repercussions from his machinations and some of them were still continuing in his absence. When he finally did come back (as a vampire, plot reason), it was really fun to see the players instantly switch back into paranoid mode. That was a great campaign.

[Xallace]

Mortimer Ezekiel Black, Dread Necromancer gardener.

...why else would he walk around in dirty work clothes with a shovel?

And Mortimer can't be a necromancer, he loves life! He respects all living things, because they're materials when they die he's just such a great guy! Why is he carrying all of those holy symbols around? Oh, he uses them to sneak into church graveyards dressed as a priest is just so accepting of all the various religions!

Oh that wacky Mortimer Black! He's a gardener, you know.

[Vangor]

Jared, Paladin-of-Helm (full name), the Halfling Bard turned Cleric of Dallah Thaun turned Divine Prankster (adapted). Retributive against anyone unkind to anyone, especially halflings themselves, "small" in stature or place in society. His name gives an air of trustworthiness and buffer against simple lie detection, and he has a terrific set of underhanded skills with which to vandalize, steal from, or otherwise hamper the arrogant and pompous.

[Greymane]

An incubus/succubus who was the terribly skilled dart-thrower in the equivalent of a traveling circus. His/her favorite past-time was to get as many women pregnant with half-fiend children in every city as possible, without the use of charm abilities.

No real aim or goal for his/her kids. He/she just thought it was deliciously ironic that he/she, a demon, was running about and creating life instead of destroying it.

[WeeFreeMen]

It's so hard to choose!! Hmmm...
Its between my Tech-Specialist (Simon Boush) or my Monk (Augustus Cornelius Terranis [St.])

I will merit both, cause after 15 mins to deliberation I still cannot decide.
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Enter Simon Boush, a wasteland refugee just trying to survive and make ends meat in a post-apocalyptic / futuristic world. He was very adept at technology, mostly droid technology of all sizes and aspired to create a perfect race to replace the "weaklings" that died out due to the "Great War." His animal companion was an automated robo-backpack called "Jack" who spoke in a deep English accent with a butler over-tone. He never lifted a single weapon in combat, his presence demanded respect (Frightful Presence, Dreadful Wrath, Imperious Command, etc) all it took was him to lift a finger and direct his robotic horde into the fray whilst he sat back, when personally confronted he would Intimidate them into oblivion and on the off-chance he was challenged by a mechanical being he would simply hack it to make it his own. All and all, Simon was a simple man with a Chaotic nature, respecting no laws but the laws of physics.

Epic Feats:
Stop'd a missile barrage from destroying a settlement by Bluffing his way into the enemies fortifications, then proceeded to booby-trap them so they would shoot straight up and fall back down on their base.

When thrown in prison, he rallied the entire place using Diplomacy and Intimidate and over-threw the system, charging into combat on the back of a fellow prisoner. When we rowed across the lake, it was picture-esk of Washington.

Managed to roll a "Bad-ass" roll on the final boss to Intimidate him, I rolled a 20. Since I had Imperious Command I made him Cower, we ended up Curb-stoping the Boss to the point where we asked the DM to make another encounter. (Still ended fun).

I loved Simon for the simple fact that he was PURE RP, very Sub-Optimized damage wise. Pure Utility and support, always had an answer to things.

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Enter St. Terranis, short for August Cornelius Terranis, he started out in a monastery (as most monks do ) in a setting akin to Diablo. A master of the fist, his preference of combat was to disarm and if that failed he would disable. (Falling Star Strike, Pharaoh's Fist, Weakening Touch, Medusa Strikes, etc). Upon sacrificing himself for his fellow teammate by way of throwing himself in-front of a disintegrate ball (I forget the name, it was one of those giant black-hole things) he barely managed to survive. (I was allowed 1 savings throw, with a DC 45, my save was only a 13 so I had to make the 20. After about 2 mins of rubbing rabbits feet and picking clovers I rolled the 20) Augustus became the a Saint [Template] his domains were Luck, Courage, and Mercy. Abiding by his lawful nature, he deceded into the rings of Hell to vanquish the demons and devils who sought to destroy his home world. The party and Augustus made it down to the last ring, to face the dark prince himself. However, he once again was forced to sacrifice himself for the good of a party member (who's character was a young Boy who was adept at magic, Sorcerer). Augustus was risen on the Upper-Planes where he diplomacy'd to send an army to Hell to finish destroying the dark-prince. Rolled another 20 on a will-save (to see "god") and came down to the rings of hell reborn as a Saint/Celestial. Bring the party back on their feet with the reinforcements Augustus made his only Fatal kill the entire campaign on the Dark Prince with 18 flurry's of punches. Hero-pointing for max damage, with Smite in effect.

A master of the Shinto ways, a master of the Fist, and a way-layer for man-kinds virtues, Augustus finally ascended to the Upper planes and joined rank in "gods" divine army.

Epic Feats:
Everything, but mainly his RP. Cause combat with him lasted so few rounds even the Sorcerer was impressed.
Disabling my opponents and converting them to "The faith" (Think the new Dante Inferno game, where he liberates the demons souls)

Anyway, thats my Wall-O-Text. Hope you enjoyed it.
^_^

[PretzelKing]

human ranger/rogue in "The Age Worms" campaign. first DnD campaign i ever played in, and our DM is great (so that probably helped)!! close second, a dwarven rogue in our current homemade campaign.

[DranWork]

A rogue/fighter/ranger of malar in a core only campaign. Led a pack of wolves into Selgaunts noble district during a festival and laughed as the wolves mauled the nobles. Use to live with a chosen of Malar which was a demonic wolf that would only appear on the full moon. Was such a crazy guy.

[Rixx]

Miles Cale Skystrider, a completely idiotic sorcerer/fighter. He had plenty of optimism and enthusiasm, but was about as bright as an obsidian shard painted black. He had an over-inflated view of his own abilities, but had a good heart, thinking that his (oft wasted) sorcerous abilities gave him a responsibility to protect others (like those poor wizards, who don't have their own magic and have to read to get it!)

[Reynard]

*Sniffs.* Bandit Steve Davidson-Smith, you will be missed.

[arrowhen]

Corb, a nerdy and slightly gothy wizard with no self-esteem, terrible social skills, and a wisecracking raven familiar. I had to argue with the DM to let me lower his Charisma to an appropriate level, given the ridiculously overpowering stat-rolling method she had us use.

Corb (or Corbinzar, as he called himself, thinking it sounded more impressive) was obsessed with gathering as much arcane knowledge and power as he possibly could -- as a substitute for the love and acceptance he secretly craved but didn't feel he deserved and didn't know how to ask for.) He fell in with a party of elves who were orders of magnitude cooler and sexier than him and stubbornly refused to show even polite interest in his long-winded ramblings about obscure magical theories.

They went on some adventures. Corb rarely knew what they were trying to accomplish, since he was too busy sitting in a corner with his nose in a book to pay attention to all the boring expository talky bits. But when it was time to fly over the battlefield lobbing fireballs left and right, buff the party rogue into a one-woman killing machine, or phantasmal killer a particularly unlucky white dragon to death in the very first action of what was supposed to be a long, difficult combat, he was always ready to rise to the occasion -- desperately hoping to earn a pat on the back from his fellow party members that never came.

Eventually (after singlehandedly killing an entire army of orcs by turning some poorly thought out DM magical cheese back against its wielder) he fought his strongest enemy yet and, after exhausting every last spell, sacrificed his very life to save the lives of his "friends", even though he knew they didn't give a rat's ass about him.

Or at least he would have if the DM hadn't, despite my strenuous objections, spontaneously houseruled that death no longer occurred at -10 but at minus exactly one more hit point than whatever my negative total was.

We played a few more sessions after that and some stuff happened, but I just didn't care anymore.

[Octopus Jack]

My Chaotic Evil Gnome Bard/Barbarian/Ragemage in a very strange adventurers guild type campaign. He was a chaintripper tripped a t.rex just to prove that he could. Didn't like the party sorcerer and accidentaly killed him in a very complicated plan gone wrong. The plan was basically to get a group of bandits to accept him into their number so he could slaughter them all to do this he needed to attack the convoy he was hired to protect, along with charming several of them. The sorcerer didn't know about this plan and thought he had turned to the bandits side and promtly empowered scorching rayed my poor gnome who wasn't very happy about that one bit

[RE:Insanity]

My old d20 modern shadowrun character was a kobold mage who liked to summon elementals to give him cover while he went crazy with a shotgun. The little bugger was a freaking genius, and had a great DEX score. He once managed to jump high enough to roundhouse kick a dragon in the face.

[TurtleKing]

Lets see there is Thigardo my Prinny Deity of Legend.

Thigardo became a prinny-immortal embodiement of failure- was kicked around for most of the campaign, but toward the end he shone very brightly. In a sandbox homebrew game Thigardo's backstory took over and became the campaign. He used to be a norse deity (divine rank 0) that gave up his divinity to go on a quest that Frigga had sent him on most likely to restore them back to power since they fell before Ragnarak. After dieing twice in the his first session he became the homebrew prinny race. After traveling back in time with a time lord (yes like the time lords from Doctor Who), and we proceeded with our partly new group members to try to get back to our time. My character ended up getting sent to the Abyss in particular Baphomets layer. My character met a gnoll where we worked together and defeated one of Baphomets personal guards. Well in fact I mostly did it by making the guard commit suicide, and if you die because of a prinny you become a prinny. We then procure a portal out of there, but on the way me and the gnoll plus 5 ogres I had bought defeated a Purple Wurm and I am only level 3! After that when I am out my character with his band plus the other PCs and their band defeat the BBEG who is very optimzed. Well partially defeat for half the party is dead the other half are captured, but we did stop her plot with a several thousand years setback. Next session back in the present we meet the BBEG who has learned her lesson that then helps us by getting us in touch with the last remaining human deities to whisk the nearly extinct human race away for rehabilition. This process incured the party into becoming deities.

When my DM for that campaign left he had a custom MTG made of that character.

Sorry for the wall of text.

[Tyndmyr]

A swashbuckling hero-type in 7th Sea. A knight of the Rose and Cross from Avalon.

[potatocubed]

Ubar the goblin wizard. Ejected from the underground goblin city for reasons I'm not sure I ever nailed down, he set out to forge an empire on the surface through the power of magical mind control and blackmail. He had a Strength of 4 (Hissy, his tiny viper familiar, was Str 6) and rode around on a flying siege crossbow wearing nothing but a turban, a loincloth, and a crocodile-skin cloak - all dyed luminous orange.

(Hissy survived Ubar's death and hid in my next character's voluminous ginger afro without anyone noticing, since we were all so spectacularly bad at Spot checks.)

[Earthwalker]

My favourite character was

Jake Diamond P.I.

A private detecive in a flm noir style struggling making a living in 2050 Seattle. A former secret service agent and trained mage he would be able to make a much better living on the light side of the street but life forced him into a life with a fake ID and taking what job comes along.

Was so much fun to play a mage P.I and have the skills / spells to find out information. It worked really well with me finding the bad guys then the samis and real mages in the group making them all dead.

The film noir just fitted perfectly with the world and feel of shadowrun too, even down to Jake never having any money and always having to choose between two evils, I did get some small victories tho.

[Ingus]

Kraghen Righthanded Thunderroar, Chameleon, main personality of a poor, distressed boy (Chasketon the Shoe-boy). He basicly had a personality for every possible chameleon combination and role, everyone with strong traits and everyone unwilling to leave the body to the new come or to Kraghen.
That was particularly funny, becausa it meant to role quite a few PCs: George the Right, paladin of Tyr; Kraghen himself, a gishy cleric of Gond (yes FR based); Phylias Flamefire, a blaster wizard; (pretending to be) Artemis Entreri; Rabbit, a nameless thief; Gordon of the West Coast, former bard, now talent scout and so on to no less than thirty different personas. Switching to one another during the campaign is sweet.
And sweeter was the end: Kraghen managed to discorporate any identity and leave the body to the original Chasketon, now that he's free from harm (soundtrack: "The days I had with you", Kings of Convenience) and then, in-game years later, imagine/roleplay the death of any of them.
Two years after the end of the campaign, I still smile to the death of George and Chasketon.

[Mr. Anon Omys]

Northrup Forkineye, Lord of the Trout, and his familiar, Morris, the Astral Trout. Northrup is a nearsighted gnome wizard out to learn the secrets of trout based magic under the tutalige of Morris, the lord of the astral trout, who floats over his shoulder on the astral plane. Needless to say, the other party members cannot see Morris, and beleive him crazy. Fun to play because I get to trout theme all of his spells and skills. (Favorite spell: Summon trout. Cantrip, summons a live trout. What problems cannot be solved with a trout?)

Sorry for the rambling, but I love this guy's concept.

[Kaww]

I don't know if I am crazy or is it like this with everybody. I feel that my character is an extension of me and my favorite character is always my current character. Havelock the Traveler, lesser aasimar, CG; lvl 5 Bard/lvl 1 Mindbender / lvl 3 Virtuoso/lvl 1 Marshal/ lvl 10 Sublime chord is my current alter ego.

He is a plane traveler 47 years old (or he thinks so). He uses all sorts of nonviolent means to end encounters including illusions, morphing, bluff, diplomacy, and when all fails he is telling jokes and then casting Tasha's hideous laughter if people don't laugh. He is a VoP char dedicated to increasing the number of lesser aasimars on the plains all by himself with help of local females. And he has got an insane charisma (31 at lvl 8)

[Satyr]

The best character ever is always the one I am currently playing or will be the very next one I play. Everything else is just nostalgia. (Current character: Toran Balthasar von Trontsand, the Bastard of Trontsand; warrior, protector, pacifist and explorer; friendly, introvert, involuntarily heroic and extremely shy when it comes to all things related to romance).

[Crossblade]

My favorite character ever was the first serious one I ever played. It was for an role playing MUD, fantasy based.
Ganlo Stonefist. A TWF fighter. He was as naive as all get out (a cover for my noobness), and he worshiped an ingame god (played by an admin) who thought it was a book (because it was very insane/innocent). The game even had a "chosen" system, where a god would pick you amount their followers and give you a Branding, which gave extra powers/boosts; and Ganlo and become chosen as the 2nd ever chosen of Fizzfaldt, which at the time included de-aging Ganlo to being a child.
It was fun as a whole. My best friend at the time had even decided we'd be twin brothers (non-identical) through RP. He played a crane-style monk.

Following that, I've had an ideal character that I've never gotten to fully play through RP, though did personify a few times in avatar form in MMO's. (Though he'll be making an NPC appearance in the solo campaign I play with my gf soon)
Ryal Crossblade. TWF Theif. Stated out as a Rogue/Ranger/ShadowDancer, a danger loving, fast thinking, over confident desert thief, who has a policy of never leaving anyone behind.

[comicshorse]

Grand Duke Jacob Corleone-Sigmar, Elector of Nuln, Count of Sommersland, Bogenhafen and Detrich, Lord of the Shining Marches, Knight of the Knights Crusader and Holder of the Order of the Bear (second class)
It was a very long ( over 6 years) and fun Warhammer Campaign

[thorgrim29]

Currently I've got a level 13 human duskblade, named Fregnus, who one-shots lot of the mobs the DM throws at us. So that's fun. Also my level 7 dwarf duskblade (seeing a theme here?) who I have lots of fun rping as a realist with an idealist bend guy rising through the ranks of an hardcore pragmatist organisation.

[klemdakherzbag]

Best/favorite character was an AD&D 2Ed Minotaur fighter named Barag of the Bloodhawk. Most memorable encounter was one-hit-critting an owlbear at 3rd level. Eventually went on to be a very respected business owner (leathershop, blacksmith and shipworks) and a feared military captain

[*.*.*.*]

Yog:1/2 ogre weretiger(free La and HD)barb/frenzied berzerker




his motto:
YOG CRUSH!