Halacosh sounds super cool! If I’m not mistaken, he is a BBEG (big bad evil guy). That is so cool and inspiring (don’t worry, not inspiring to start a cult), mind if I use him in a one-shot or campaign?
My first character was a barbarian, I guess this would have been in 1988. He broke a bunch of magic arrows, and instantly levelled up. He had a full collection of chromatic dragon horns. He carried the sword Thorgrim, which he'd taken off the undead giant Mok-Turoknin.
I seem to have forgotten his name. But he was a Wulfgar analog, I recall.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
My first character was given to me, I turned up to play my first ever game of ad&d way back when and was told I was going to be a cleric because the party didn't have one. I don't recall much about the character but a few things stuck with me over the years: I only got about 15 mins to learn about spell casting and the game in general before being thrown in at the deep end, I missed a couple of sessions and when I returned I was informed the cleric was now also a were-tiger with no control over their transformations and I was given a magic item that the rest of the party didn't want that was a small piece of bark etched with a tree and as I had no idea about magic items or identifying such things I said I toss it into my back pack only for the DM to tell me a 50ft high tree suddenly grew out of my back pack destroying all the contents of said back pack in the process.
All in all it was a small rpg horror story of a start but here I am some decades later still playing so I guess it wasn't all bad.
My first character was a barbarian, I guess this would have been in 1988. He broke a bunch of magic arrows, and instantly levelled up. He had a full collection of chromatic dragon horns. He carried the sword Thorgrim, which he'd taken off the undead giant Mok-Turoknin.
I seem to have forgotten his name. But he was a Wulfgar analog, I recall.
Oh, the AD&D mechanic where barbarians had to destroy magic items to gain experience was quite a thing.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
First character: 3.5e Human caster, homebrew class (it was originally terribly broken, I managed to balance it pretty well for the campaign despite it being my first time stepping into D&D, cleared it with the DM but he didn't make any additional changes beyond what I did). Managed to talk a few encounters down thanks to massive point investment in Diplomacy, even got a long-term companion/squire out of it that had originally been an enemy mook.
First 5e character: Human Lore Bard. She was a lot of fun to play, mostly support/healer/spy.
First Westmarch character: Human Illusionist Wizard. Son of the Bard mentioned above, years after the campaign she was played in.
No, I don't only play humans. I'm aware of the pattern above.
First character: 3.5e Human caster, homebrew class (it was originally terribly broken, I managed to balance it pretty well for the campaign despite it being my first time stepping into D&D, cleared it with the DM but he didn't make any additional changes beyond what I did). Managed to talk a few encounters down thanks to massive point investment in Diplomacy, even got a long-term companion/squire out of it that had originally been an enemy mook.
First 5e character: Human Lore Bard. She was a lot of fun to play, mostly support/healer/spy.
First Westmarch character: Human Illusionist Wizard. Son of the Bard mentioned above, years after the campaign she was played in.
No, I don't only play humans. I'm aware of the pattern above.
Thanks for the disclaimer at the end, if not for it, I would of thought you were an exclusively human guy/gal/non-binary, haha.
Half elf thief/illusionist.
Retired at level 12/12(I think, there were limits) back when level was by class not character.
Halacosh sounds super cool! If I’m not mistaken, he is a BBEG (big bad evil guy). That is so cool and inspiring (don’t worry, not inspiring to start a cult), mind if I use him in a one-shot or campaign?
I made my first character in 2018, she was a half-elf life domain cleric named Fey'th who followed Lliira and I loved her dearly.
My first ever character was a Mul Gladiator in Dark Sun, and I had a blast with him.
My first character was a barbarian, I guess this would have been in 1988. He broke a bunch of magic arrows, and instantly levelled up. He had a full collection of chromatic dragon horns. He carried the sword Thorgrim, which he'd taken off the undead giant Mok-Turoknin.
I seem to have forgotten his name. But he was a Wulfgar analog, I recall.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
My first character was given to me, I turned up to play my first ever game of ad&d way back when and was told I was going to be a cleric because the party didn't have one. I don't recall much about the character but a few things stuck with me over the years: I only got about 15 mins to learn about spell casting and the game in general before being thrown in at the deep end, I missed a couple of sessions and when I returned I was informed the cleric was now also a were-tiger with no control over their transformations and I was given a magic item that the rest of the party didn't want that was a small piece of bark etched with a tree and as I had no idea about magic items or identifying such things I said I toss it into my back pack only for the DM to tell me a 50ft high tree suddenly grew out of my back pack destroying all the contents of said back pack in the process.
All in all it was a small rpg horror story of a start but here I am some decades later still playing so I guess it wasn't all bad.
April 1981 war hammer fighter heavily based on Marvel Thor (I was almost 12)
Oh, the AD&D mechanic where barbarians had to destroy magic items to gain experience was quite a thing.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
First character: 3.5e Human caster, homebrew class (it was originally terribly broken, I managed to balance it pretty well for the campaign despite it being my first time stepping into D&D, cleared it with the DM but he didn't make any additional changes beyond what I did). Managed to talk a few encounters down thanks to massive point investment in Diplomacy, even got a long-term companion/squire out of it that had originally been an enemy mook.
First 5e character: Human Lore Bard. She was a lot of fun to play, mostly support/healer/spy.
First Westmarch character: Human Illusionist Wizard. Son of the Bard mentioned above, years after the campaign she was played in.
No, I don't only play humans. I'm aware of the pattern above.
Thanks for the disclaimer at the end, if not for it, I would of thought you were an exclusively human guy/gal/non-binary, haha.
First Character was a Half Dragon Archivist who died in the first session, followed by a Drow Binder.
For 5e it was a Dragonborn GOO Warlock.
Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge
Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock
Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock
ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
DM - "Malign Intelligence"