My first character was a super stereotypical wood elf ranger named Xorian Aeravel that got killed off after a few sessions (which I'm thankful for, actually, since my next character was much better).
JSKJFH I feel that lmao,, My freshman year of high school I made my super edgy orphan rogue and I hate it so much
Yeah, my next character after that was an orphan who grew up in the city that our party was trying to destroy (we were playing evil characters). He was basically a pyromaniac wizard who was oddly an insanely good tactician and battle commander. He came up with the craziest plans but somehow managed to pull them off through a combination of skill and good dice rolls.
pyromaniacs are so fun to play tbh. That's actually a super cool concept of a battle commander wizard
Yeah, he was pretty fun. I'll pull up the ancient google doc that I wrote his plans on.
Okay, here's one of his weapons that he came up with:
Fragment Bomb
Make a 5 foot diameter hollow sphere out of a soft but firm metal. Leave a small hole in the top.
Fill the sphere with explosives, Molotov cocktails, and shrapnel.
Fill in the hole in the top.
Load onto a catapult and use it against enemies (groups of enemies without cover for the most damage).
he's straight up nuking people
Pretty much, yeah. He also tried to commit mass murder via poison gas. As I said, it was an evil campaign.
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Dear Lord... who can remember that far? This would've been maybe in the 90s, back in the days of AD&D. The earliest I can think of was likely just a human fighter, named Simon Belmont; just cause I was only a kid back then and a big fan of Castlevania, on the NES :D
My first character was a human fighter. Simple. He had no backstory. Backstory wasn't really a thing yet, since characters weren't really expected to survive long enough to merit one. It was 1981. We were using the red Basic Boxed Set, with "The Keep on the Borderlands". And that goddang rust monster ruined my goddang chain mail armor! I barely made enough off that adventure to replace it.
Back in my days of AD&D, I played a Paladin who followed Haphaestus. A friend also wanted to go Paladin, and we had much more fun being fanatics than anything else. Before we'd charge into combat we'd say something like, "A true work of art can only be wrought through the relentless pounding of Haphaestus and the flame of the forge! Through the Forge is perfection!" Before chantint, "Through the forge! Through the forge!" And that was our battle cry.
We didn't have a backstory really. We were just smith zealouts.
This was in Pathfinder, not sure about how drastic the differences are as I only played 6-7 sessions before quarantine and then we never played that campaign again.
My character was a Kasatha Psychedelic Psychic named Obzen. Of course I made his backstory really dramatic, it was a "morally fuzzy" campaign, basically we all aligned some type of evil. The cool thing about Kasathas besides the four arms, is that their culture lends to some cool backstories. When they reach adulthood they go off on what's called a "tempering", which is kinda like the Rumspringa that the Amish do. They get to leave their community and get to decide whether to come back or stay gone forever. While he was out on his tempering, he ended up getting in with a cult that "cleanses the world" of anyone who won't convert and join them. Naturally they come across a group of other Kasatha and Obzen refuses to kill his own people so they tie him up and make him watch as they kill all of the Kasatha. Blinded by hate and grief he wanders the lands searching for the leader of the cult so he can kill him.
Psychedelic psychic was cool cause you literally eat drugs and trip balls and then you can make your target trip too, making them see their worst nightmares. It was a great way to incapacitate enemies, but like I said, that campaign only lasted a few sessions so I didn't get to fully explore his powers. Also the first session or two I was a Ranger, but changed it cause I learned that Ranger sucks. Only cool part was I had an animal companion, he was a giant wasp named Rowboat and he would carry me around.
My first characters name was Hondo. He was a Half-Elf Vengeance Paladin! Our group didn’t write backstories for our first characters. We were new and all learning the system and everything together for the first time, and didn’t realize the importance of it. I will share 2 memorable bits about Hondo though. He had a flame sword, and getting it was the second best moment for me in that campaign! My favourite moment, Hondo like using Find Steed to summon a magnificent Warhorse, and after doing it the 5th time(the 4th time I had him not die for like, 4months in game though MANY battles!) my DM allowed me to Evolve him into a Pegasus! He was the first an only Pegasus I’ve had in my now years of playing...
I’ve been using dnd beyond for a while now, and have played other games like dnd, but technically only started my first ‘campaign’ about half a year ago. Still ongoing, my first character is a Wood Elf Ranger (hunter) named Treffry, whose character ‘quirk’ is that he was raised by Aarackocras, and so knows absolutely nothing about civilization or any of its customs. He has already incited about 2 rebellions, and is learning quickly and crookedly about the nature of things like freindship, death, and worker’s unions. However, he still hasn’t really figured out money.
My first character was made with a group where everyone was new and only one guy knew the rules. It was a very chaotic session, and it never continued into a campaign, but the same DM later started a Tyranny of Dragons campaign, so I resurrected the character for that.
Malvedar is a Dragonborn Wizard, with a pseudodragon familiar. Originally they were given a very basic backstory of traveling around on pilgrimage for knowledge, but when I brought them back for Tyranny of Dragons, I rewrote it so that they were in disgrace, banished from their homeland by their own father. During the battle of Greenest, Langderosa Cyanwrath challenged them to a duel because he knew about their disgrace. Malvedar lost, obviously, they're a wizard (did get a good few hits in though), but were resurrected as the Champion of Bahamut to prevent the return of Tiamat. Bit of a problem is that Malvedar thinks Bahamut is a ****** and has made it their lifegoal to prevent Bahamut from getting their soul. aka Lichhood.
Malvedar was also originally male, but I later figured out a fair bit about myself and rewrote them as nonbinary and gay. They are crushing hard on the party's sorcerer.
The first player I got to play in a proper campaign (Adventurer's League Dragon Heist) between Malvedar's creation and the Tyranny of Dragons campaign was Hara Huleheim, a halfling cleric of Helm. I retired her when she came across a good deal of wealth and used it to renovate the trollskull tavern into the Helm's Hand, best tavern in Waterdeep. I still use her as a background NPC from time to time. After her retirement, I played her girlfriend and later wife, orc monk Malwyn.
My first character was a druid named Dan Technotitlan, but he went by Dan the flower man. His backstory was that he was the son of two former adventurers turned nobles and that his mother died soon after giving birth to him and his twin sister due to complications. His father was emotionally distant and became a workaholic. Dan found out his parents were adventurers and decided to adventure himself, by entering the forbidden forest near his town. His twin sister followed him and ended up almost dying when they were attacked by undead but they were saved by adventurers. The druid of the party agreed to teach Dan druidic magic and then he somehow ended up in Barovia.
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call me Anna or Kerns, (she/her), usually a DM, lgbtq+ friendly
My first char is a wizard elf. no real backstory, this is AL oneshots
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I played an elf ranger in a one-shot where I was handed a character sheet. But I later made up a backstory for her. She was an elven princess who fell in love with an elven girl of her city. But she was supposed to marry a noble (and a man at that). She ran away, disguising herself as a man, and found work protecting and guiding desert caravans.
My friends convinced me to play somewhere in the mid 2000's for the first time. I told them I wanted to be a Half-Orc barbarian so the DM printed out a pre-made character for me and the picture looked like Hugh Jackman. So I named my character Jack Hughman, he was ashamed of his orc ancestry so he pretended to be full human. His name was a pseudonym; he thought it was a 'human sounding' name.
Our first quest was to go to a bandit hideout and do something. When we got there I kicked the door down with a nat 20, the door flew off the hinges and killed the bandit leader. When we got back to town we were finishing up and no one expected to play again, so I tried to 'hide in plain sight' in the middle of a busy street for kicks. I rolled a nat 1 and fell over and broke my neck.
That's the story of Jack Hughman, the greatest barbarian to ever live.
My first character was a wood elf ranger named Lindir. He started off as a Legolas knock-off but he eventually developed his own personality (which can be summarized as: If its evil, kill it. If its not evil, wait a bit to see if its a doppelganger and then kill it. He was a bit of a murder-hobo but he was fun to play. He also had a great Acrobatics skill and I used to do a lot of combat stunts with him (which got increasingly ridiculous as the adventure went on). His backstory was practically nonexistent but I think the realm of elves he lived in got wiped out by orcs and goblins (they were his favoured enemies), and his greatest achievement was killing an orc king by shooting off his bow in the middle of a backflip (I said his stunts were ridiculous)
Friday night I just finished my first campaign after 5 months!
My first character was an astral self monk who RP'ed more like a cleric. He was a warrior priest for the goddess of life and was sent on a quest to kill the god of death. After much training, he acquired a staff of striking and a Ki stunning strike save DC of 16. Long story short, he vibe-checked the BBEG, the freaking god of death, in under one and a half in-game minutes.
Nerf Stunning Strike.
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Life is very busy unfortunately, gone from most Pbp's indefinitely. If you'd like to contact me, I am on Discord at GreatAxeblade#7595, always happy to chat :)
I can't quite remember his name, but my first character was a water genasi druid. I had gotten a few sourcebooks by this time, because I'd been anticipating playing for months. His backstory was essentially this: He left his home, and found a cadaver collector, that for some reason was friendly.
I just wanted to use all of the cool things I'd found in Mordenkainen's, which ended up resulting in a really weird and convoluted character.
Made my first ever D&D character when I played First Quest (AD&D 2nd) at school quite a while ago. The DM didn't bring the books to school (they were his older brother's) and he only provided us with short explanations as to what classes were able to do, so after I heard "Oh, the Fighter uses weapons and armor, the Wizard uses spells, and this Bard does both." I was sold. So my first character ever was a Bard, and a Dhampir (as I had been playing a lot of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night at the time, so basically an Alucard clone).
Not sure if this exists but I thought it was a fun idea!
What was your first D&D character's story/backstory?
I'll start:
I had a half-elf draconic sorcerer and I'm like 90% sure his name was Zylynor. He was pretty moody bc I made him as a freshman in high school but he had some cool traits. I retired him at like 8th level bc the campaign I played him in died out but basically, he served as comic relief and threw out some lightning spells whenever people annoyed him.
He owned a tower in the elemental plane of air, and ended up getting sucked into the feywild with some random ppl who broke in during a fight, and that's kinda how he got started as a character.
I didn't really know how to write a backstory but I thought it was pretty good
If this already exists then I can delete this and post there but in my limited exploration of this forum I haven't seen it.
I was a “fighting-man” and the backstory was. He didn’t like bullies and that’s why he fought.
Pretty much, yeah. He also tried to commit mass murder via poison gas. As I said, it was an evil campaign.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Dear Lord... who can remember that far? This would've been maybe in the 90s, back in the days of AD&D. The earliest I can think of was likely just a human fighter, named Simon Belmont; just cause I was only a kid back then and a big fan of Castlevania, on the NES :D
My first character was a human fighter. Simple. He had no backstory. Backstory wasn't really a thing yet, since characters weren't really expected to survive long enough to merit one. It was 1981. We were using the red Basic Boxed Set, with "The Keep on the Borderlands". And that goddang rust monster ruined my goddang chain mail armor! I barely made enough off that adventure to replace it.
I hate rust monsters.
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Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
Back in my days of AD&D, I played a Paladin who followed Haphaestus. A friend also wanted to go Paladin, and we had much more fun being fanatics than anything else. Before we'd charge into combat we'd say something like, "A true work of art can only be wrought through the relentless pounding of Haphaestus and the flame of the forge! Through the Forge is perfection!" Before chantint, "Through the forge! Through the forge!" And that was our battle cry.
We didn't have a backstory really. We were just smith zealouts.
This was in Pathfinder, not sure about how drastic the differences are as I only played 6-7 sessions before quarantine and then we never played that campaign again.
My character was a Kasatha Psychedelic Psychic named Obzen. Of course I made his backstory really dramatic, it was a "morally fuzzy" campaign, basically we all aligned some type of evil. The cool thing about Kasathas besides the four arms, is that their culture lends to some cool backstories. When they reach adulthood they go off on what's called a "tempering", which is kinda like the Rumspringa that the Amish do. They get to leave their community and get to decide whether to come back or stay gone forever. While he was out on his tempering, he ended up getting in with a cult that "cleanses the world" of anyone who won't convert and join them. Naturally they come across a group of other Kasatha and Obzen refuses to kill his own people so they tie him up and make him watch as they kill all of the Kasatha. Blinded by hate and grief he wanders the lands searching for the leader of the cult so he can kill him.
Psychedelic psychic was cool cause you literally eat drugs and trip balls and then you can make your target trip too, making them see their worst nightmares. It was a great way to incapacitate enemies, but like I said, that campaign only lasted a few sessions so I didn't get to fully explore his powers. Also the first session or two I was a Ranger, but changed it cause I learned that Ranger sucks. Only cool part was I had an animal companion, he was a giant wasp named Rowboat and he would carry me around.
My first characters name was Hondo. He was a Half-Elf Vengeance Paladin! Our group didn’t write backstories for our first characters. We were new and all learning the system and everything together for the first time, and didn’t realize the importance of it. I will share 2 memorable bits about Hondo though. He had a flame sword, and getting it was the second best moment for me in that campaign! My favourite moment, Hondo like using Find Steed to summon a magnificent Warhorse, and after doing it the 5th time(the 4th time I had him not die for like, 4months in game though MANY battles!) my DM allowed me to Evolve him into a Pegasus! He was the first an only Pegasus I’ve had in my now years of playing...
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I’ve been using dnd beyond for a while now, and have played other games like dnd, but technically only started my first ‘campaign’ about half a year ago. Still ongoing, my first character is a Wood Elf Ranger (hunter) named Treffry, whose character ‘quirk’ is that he was raised by Aarackocras, and so knows absolutely nothing about civilization or any of its customs. He has already incited about 2 rebellions, and is learning quickly and crookedly about the nature of things like freindship, death, and worker’s unions. However, he still hasn’t really figured out money.
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My first character was made with a group where everyone was new and only one guy knew the rules. It was a very chaotic session, and it never continued into a campaign, but the same DM later started a Tyranny of Dragons campaign, so I resurrected the character for that.
Malvedar is a Dragonborn Wizard, with a pseudodragon familiar. Originally they were given a very basic backstory of traveling around on pilgrimage for knowledge, but when I brought them back for Tyranny of Dragons, I rewrote it so that they were in disgrace, banished from their homeland by their own father. During the battle of Greenest, Langderosa Cyanwrath challenged them to a duel because he knew about their disgrace. Malvedar lost, obviously, they're a wizard (did get a good few hits in though), but were resurrected as the Champion of Bahamut to prevent the return of Tiamat. Bit of a problem is that Malvedar thinks Bahamut is a ****** and has made it their lifegoal to prevent Bahamut from getting their soul. aka Lichhood.
Malvedar was also originally male, but I later figured out a fair bit about myself and rewrote them as nonbinary and gay. They are crushing hard on the party's sorcerer.
The first player I got to play in a proper campaign (Adventurer's League Dragon Heist) between Malvedar's creation and the Tyranny of Dragons campaign was Hara Huleheim, a halfling cleric of Helm. I retired her when she came across a good deal of wealth and used it to renovate the trollskull tavern into the Helm's Hand, best tavern in Waterdeep. I still use her as a background NPC from time to time. After her retirement, I played her girlfriend and later wife, orc monk Malwyn.
My first character was a druid named Dan Technotitlan, but he went by Dan the flower man. His backstory was that he was the son of two former adventurers turned nobles and that his mother died soon after giving birth to him and his twin sister due to complications. His father was emotionally distant and became a workaholic. Dan found out his parents were adventurers and decided to adventure himself, by entering the forbidden forest near his town. His twin sister followed him and ended up almost dying when they were attacked by undead but they were saved by adventurers. The druid of the party agreed to teach Dan druidic magic and then he somehow ended up in Barovia.
call me Anna or Kerns, (she/her), usually a DM, lgbtq+ friendly
My first char is a wizard elf. no real backstory, this is AL oneshots
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I played an elf ranger in a one-shot where I was handed a character sheet. But I later made up a backstory for her. She was an elven princess who fell in love with an elven girl of her city. But she was supposed to marry a noble (and a man at that). She ran away, disguising herself as a man, and found work protecting and guiding desert caravans.
My friends convinced me to play somewhere in the mid 2000's for the first time. I told them I wanted to be a Half-Orc barbarian so the DM printed out a pre-made character for me and the picture looked like Hugh Jackman. So I named my character Jack Hughman, he was ashamed of his orc ancestry so he pretended to be full human. His name was a pseudonym; he thought it was a 'human sounding' name.
Our first quest was to go to a bandit hideout and do something. When we got there I kicked the door down with a nat 20, the door flew off the hinges and killed the bandit leader. When we got back to town we were finishing up and no one expected to play again, so I tried to 'hide in plain sight' in the middle of a busy street for kicks. I rolled a nat 1 and fell over and broke my neck.
That's the story of Jack Hughman, the greatest barbarian to ever live.
My first character was a wood elf ranger named Lindir. He started off as a Legolas knock-off but he eventually developed his own personality (which can be summarized as: If its evil, kill it. If its not evil, wait a bit to see if its a doppelganger and then kill it. He was a bit of a murder-hobo but he was fun to play. He also had a great Acrobatics skill and I used to do a lot of combat stunts with him (which got increasingly ridiculous as the adventure went on). His backstory was practically nonexistent but I think the realm of elves he lived in got wiped out by orcs and goblins (they were his favoured enemies), and his greatest achievement was killing an orc king by shooting off his bow in the middle of a backflip (I said his stunts were ridiculous)
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Friday night I just finished my first campaign after 5 months!
My first character was an astral self monk who RP'ed more like a cleric. He was a warrior priest for the goddess of life and was sent on a quest to kill the god of death. After much training, he acquired a staff of striking and a Ki stunning strike save DC of 16. Long story short, he vibe-checked the BBEG, the freaking god of death, in under one and a half in-game minutes.
Nerf Stunning Strike.
Life is very busy unfortunately, gone from most Pbp's indefinitely.
If you'd like to contact me, I am on Discord at GreatAxeblade#7595, always happy to chat :)
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A ranger named Hagar. Freshman year in high school. Did Homlet for first module.
I can't quite remember his name, but my first character was a water genasi druid. I had gotten a few sourcebooks by this time, because I'd been anticipating playing for months. His backstory was essentially this: He left his home, and found a cadaver collector, that for some reason was friendly.
I just wanted to use all of the cool things I'd found in Mordenkainen's, which ended up resulting in a really weird and convoluted character.
I have no personality.
Made my first ever D&D character when I played First Quest (AD&D 2nd) at school quite a while ago. The DM didn't bring the books to school (they were his older brother's) and he only provided us with short explanations as to what classes were able to do, so after I heard "Oh, the Fighter uses weapons and armor, the Wizard uses spells, and this Bard does both." I was sold. So my first character ever was a Bard, and a Dhampir (as I had been playing a lot of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night at the time, so basically an Alucard clone).
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I was a “fighting-man” and the backstory was. He didn’t like bullies and that’s why he fought.
fighting-man later editions renamed to “fighter”
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My first Character is actually Silver. The character I've created on this site. Haven't used her yet in any games.