1988, I was 8 at that time and my parents took me to our friends' house. The oldest son was running a game of S.A.M. (an Spanish homebrewed game) and he (and the party) didn't want me there.
They just gave me a Level 1 Warrior, and after 15 minutes of gameplay or so, a Kraken assaulted the party trying to break the ship we were travelling at.
The whole party just convinced me that I, as a warrior, could SOLO it... of course, I just lasted 1 turn.
My actual first character was born around 8 years ago. It was around the winter holiday's and my brothers and I had just discovered d&d. We starting playing with the fourth edition starter kit, and I chose the pre-made dwarven fighter to be my character. I named him Thorden. The character didn't ever make it through the starter dungeon, because we took a break and never came back to that came, but I will always remember him, as he is what got me into this wonderful game.
My second first character was the first character I ever made. It was also in 4e. I made a dragonborn warlord named Bharash. I continued to play him off and on for the better part of a year. He eventually met his end deep within some dungeon, but is still one of my favorite characters that I have ever played.
I think it was 1984 .... I'd got the Basic set for Christmas and had been running games for my best friend and his brother, with my little sister sometimes joining in.
Then my friend decided he was going to run some, so I needed a character.
I picked a Halfling (back then if you were non-human, you didn't get a class) and named him Fashlan.
Mostly I DM'd and my friend or his brother only ran stuff here and there, so Fashlan didn't get much play.
Something like 3-4 years later, TSR published the Five Shires Gazetteer, allowing Halflings to go above 8th level and my character gained a clan name, becoming Fashlan Stormhin.
My friend's little brother had grown up some now and was splitting DM duties with me, so I got to play a reasonable amount.
Oh and here's a voiceover of my character by someone. :)
When I started we had a small group so we each got two to start with
First one lasted I think one game, he was a Thief named Tulio , back in AD&D so this was in the mid 90's. He was Lawful Evil and part of the theifs guild ( Unknown to the party) he was allowed to aid them as long as when he did didn't effect the guild sadly the guild was also a target by the party so Tulio had a choice betray the guild or betray the party. So he lures the party into a kill zone and locks them in. The party wins hunts him down , kills him and places his head in the theirs guild hideout.
2nd was a wizard named Ronin. He wasn't very brace and was basically a kids party mage that got forced into going with them, after a few months of or dm having dragons attack us he quit the grup got his old job back only for a dragon to attack and eat him.
Glendor, fighting man. 1980. I was... young. Also accompanied by Glicia, elf fighter, and six henchmen (two clerics, three fighting men, and a magic user).
I still have a scanned pdf of those pieces of paper. I don't recall the specifics of the adventures they went on, though I know it began with B2, The Keep on the Borderlands.
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ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he). Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
Ahahaha, my older sister's campaign needed a cleric back in 3.5, so they got me to play one... Of course I was a dumb teenager so I was 'that player' who refused to heal anyone if they weren't nice to me. We all start somewhere, right?
My first character wasn't from DnD. I got into more of the post-by-post scene first within the world of Stargate. Stargate Worlds was to be the start of the franchise going into the MMO market. Made a character by the name of Brook. Tried to play her off as the over-the-top shy girl in the group. Managed to find a RP guild that were waiting for the game to come out. The game never made it though, the guild over time split apart.
After awhile found the world of DnD and other tabletop gaming systems. So, having a rolling based system instead of a group give-and-take "attempting" system was new but enjoyable. And I have been hooked ever since.
I think my first character was a dark elf in Everquest, the trpg version. I disliked the DM, he kept telling us what we would do and I almost never played again... but then a buddy of mine convinced me to play D&D (3.5) and I gave it a go. I made a human rogue. He found a man in a dungeon who promised him he'd help him leave if he wears a ring for him. I agreed, thought I was becoming like a Planeteer...I was wrong and I learned my most valuable lesson in D&D that day. DMs are evil af! I became evil, attacked my party, oh and I grabbed the Sword of Kas. Good times...lol
Now, if we are talking about my first memorable character; well that can be none other than Corbert Darkbreeze, halfling beguiler and martyred saint of Cuthbert. I took down a thieves guild by myself, by accident. Was just using my spells and trying to do some recon looking for the half-drow princess in the Shackled City...oops :P
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"...Debts must always be paid, sometimes in more than blood and gold. But this is Ordo Ursa," Ren places his hand on Erakas's chest, right where the Dragonborn's heart is. "Right here. And it always has been and always will be. Don't ever forget that. Because I won't."
Serandis Mendaen (Aereni Elven Rogue/maybe one day Wizard)- Project Point Playtest
My first ever character was a Dwarf Thief I played for a D&D Tournament event in my old hometown, I think I was 10 or 11. It was one of those things were several party of people play the same adventure, and with a certain time allotted (I think it was something like 3 or 4 hours) the party that got farthest or completed the adventure in the shortest time would be the winner (I genuinely do not even remember what the prize was...).
I was the youngest one playing, in a party with my older brother and a couple of his friends. The adventure was revolving around a series of murders in an autonomous town, with his government and "king". The dead bodies found where almost all drained of blood, so our main suspect was a obviously a Vampire that was getting sloppy. I was REALLY into vampires already at the time, so I had a lot of player knowledge, but I tried my best not to make use of it (as much as my little 10 y/o brain could manage to hold back). I remember vividly, while the other were discussing what to do, I decided to go on my own into the cathedral of the town, as a lot of the deaths were from monks (the western conception of monks, so basically friars) there. Relaying my intent to the others, they told me I could go but that I'd probably won't find anything. Once I got to the cathedral (it was obviously a dark and stormy night), I happened upon the vampire feeding on another one of the monks, catching him red-handed thanks to my stealth skills. He noticed me, and almost killed me, living me dying on the floor. Thankfully, my companions not seeing me return decided to come look for me, and healed me back to health. While fighting with the vampire I was able to notice something about his clothes thanks to the occasional lightning illuminating the scene, and our suspects gathered around the king's advisor (which we previously tried to "check out" with a small mirror during and audience with the king, but were interrupted). I was already suspicious of him, but the other were not because that would have been "too cliché". Needless to say, my discovery convinced them, albeit they reserved the right of not being fully sold due to the possibility of the vampire trying to frame the advisor.
In the end, our time was up right when we were chasing the advisor vampire (yeah, it was obviously him) along the secret passages of the castle. I do not really remember his name, but that little thief dwarf was my first try at a real RPG (after a few years of Hero Quest and Dungeon Quest to "prep" me ;P), and one I remember fondly, if anything because I was right all along :P (and because dwarf thieves are awesome)
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Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
My first character was a psionic-- I must have asked if I could have some kind of power or other, and the DM pointed me to the psionic handbook and told me to have FUN (our party also wound up with a centaur ranger who was only ever defeated by stairs, like, things got wild in that game because of how pro-creativity our DM was and just willing to homebrew anything that didn't already exist for us to work with if someone had an idea they wanted to pursue).
The main highlight of the game for me was that I found a sword in a swamp and became queen of the frogs, and they were pretty ride-or-die little dudes. Wound up having a frog army fight our battles with us for a good leg of the journey.
My first character was a psionic-- I must have asked if I could have some kind of power or other, and the DM pointed me to the psionic handbook and told me to have FUN (our party also wound up with a centaur ranger who was only ever defeated by stairs, like, things got wild in that game because of how pro-creativity our DM was and just willing to homebrew anything that didn't already exist for us to work with if someone had an idea they wanted to pursue).
The main highlight of the game for me was that I found a sword in a swamp and became queen of the frogs, and they were pretty ride-or-die little dudes. Wound up having a frog army fight our battles with us for a good leg of the journey.
I loved the 3.x Psionics, most probably because they were edgy and OP XD But they were a lot of fun flavor-wise, and it seems you definitely had a blast with it. Having a DM willing and open to what the players want to play is one the best things that can happen to anyone starting to roleplay.
How did it end with your frog army?
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Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
I think when our quest moved us past the swamp, we had to part ways so they could stay in their home environment, but they were pretty helpful up until then. There was enough swamp to cover to make them useful allies, they had tiny weapons and armor and everything.
Naith Ungoal, Duskling Druid in a 3.5e game. I relied heavily on Summon Nature's Ally spell, while not trying to engage very little as Naith. Unfortunately, after a time, the game just sort of stopped. Here's a story from our game:
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"For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life."
My first time playing D&D was 4E. My friend, the DM, helped me make a 2nd level cleric for his homebrew game.
I rummaged through my older brother's miniatures collection looking for a model and found a nice pewter piece of an old wizened looking fellow holding a large tome and stave. During the sixth session of the game, the group made a mistake and ended up getting ambushed by a some Famorians. We all got murdered pretty hard.
I still have that cleric mini, I think I finally got around to painting it last year.
First time was 1E, I had a human cleric that ended up turning chaotic evil because he was just a little bit screwed up. He became an NPC because my DM didn't allow evil players.(At least, he became an NPC after completely snapping and trying to eat the rest of the party's hearts out)
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"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
Vaguely. My friends were interested in gaming but hadn't the money to buy any of the books, so we came up with characters that didn't have classes or races and winged it. It could hardly even be called D&D, but it pushed me in the right direction.
1988, I was 8 at that time and my parents took me to our friends' house. The oldest son was running a game of S.A.M. (an Spanish homebrewed game) and he (and the party) didn't want me there.
They just gave me a Level 1 Warrior, and after 15 minutes of gameplay or so, a Kraken assaulted the party trying to break the ship we were travelling at.
The whole party just convinced me that I, as a warrior, could SOLO it... of course, I just lasted 1 turn.
His name was Will, and I will never forget him!!
I've had two first characters really.
My actual first character was born around 8 years ago. It was around the winter holiday's and my brothers and I had just discovered d&d. We starting playing with the fourth edition starter kit, and I chose the pre-made dwarven fighter to be my character. I named him Thorden. The character didn't ever make it through the starter dungeon, because we took a break and never came back to that came, but I will always remember him, as he is what got me into this wonderful game.
My second first character was the first character I ever made. It was also in 4e. I made a dragonborn warlord named Bharash. I continued to play him off and on for the better part of a year. He eventually met his end deep within some dungeon, but is still one of my favorite characters that I have ever played.
I think it was 1984 .... I'd got the Basic set for Christmas and had been running games for my best friend and his brother, with my little sister sometimes joining in.
Then my friend decided he was going to run some, so I needed a character.
I picked a Halfling (back then if you were non-human, you didn't get a class) and named him Fashlan.
Mostly I DM'd and my friend or his brother only ran stuff here and there, so Fashlan didn't get much play.
Something like 3-4 years later, TSR published the Five Shires Gazetteer, allowing Halflings to go above 8th level and my character gained a clan name, becoming Fashlan Stormhin.
My friend's little brother had grown up some now and was splitting DM duties with me, so I got to play a reasonable amount.
Oh and here's a voiceover of my character by someone. :)
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When I started we had a small group so we each got two to start with
First one lasted I think one game, he was a Thief named Tulio , back in AD&D so this was in the mid 90's. He was Lawful Evil and part of the theifs guild ( Unknown to the party) he was allowed to aid them as long as when he did didn't effect the guild sadly the guild was also a target by the party so Tulio had a choice betray the guild or betray the party. So he lures the party into a kill zone and locks them in. The party wins hunts him down , kills him and places his head in the theirs guild hideout.
2nd was a wizard named Ronin. He wasn't very brace and was basically a kids party mage that got forced into going with them, after a few months of or dm having dragons attack us he quit the grup got his old job back only for a dragon to attack and eat him.
Glendor, fighting man. 1980. I was... young. Also accompanied by Glicia, elf fighter, and six henchmen (two clerics, three fighting men, and a magic user).
I still have a scanned pdf of those pieces of paper. I don't recall the specifics of the adventures they went on, though I know it began with B2, The Keep on the Borderlands.
ey/em/eirs, or they/them works, too (just not he).
Role-playing since that keep on those borderlands. Here's my D&D stuff. I love it so.
Campaign links for Game Log access because DDB has abandoned the forum dice roller, apparently.
Radiant Citadel by cbaer8 ~•~ Stormwreck Isle by Rforrest14 ~•~ Wildspace by Rhanloi ~•~ Rise of Tiamat by SteveThaiBinh ~•~ The Long Road currently by me
Ahahaha, my older sister's campaign needed a cleric back in 3.5, so they got me to play one... Of course I was a dumb teenager so I was 'that player' who refused to heal anyone if they weren't nice to me. We all start somewhere, right?
My first character wasn't from DnD. I got into more of the post-by-post scene first within the world of Stargate. Stargate Worlds was to be the start of the franchise going into the MMO market. Made a character by the name of Brook. Tried to play her off as the over-the-top shy girl in the group. Managed to find a RP guild that were waiting for the game to come out. The game never made it though, the guild over time split apart.
After awhile found the world of DnD and other tabletop gaming systems. So, having a rolling based system instead of a group give-and-take "attempting" system was new but enjoyable. And I have been hooked ever since.
I think my first character was a dark elf in Everquest, the trpg version. I disliked the DM, he kept telling us what we would do and I almost never played again... but then a buddy of mine convinced me to play D&D (3.5) and I gave it a go. I made a human rogue. He found a man in a dungeon who promised him he'd help him leave if he wears a ring for him. I agreed, thought I was becoming like a Planeteer...I was wrong and I learned my most valuable lesson in D&D that day. DMs are evil af! I became evil, attacked my party, oh and I grabbed the Sword of Kas. Good times...lol
Now, if we are talking about my first memorable character; well that can be none other than Corbert Darkbreeze, halfling beguiler and martyred saint of Cuthbert. I took down a thieves guild by myself, by accident. Was just using my spells and trying to do some recon looking for the half-drow princess in the Shackled City...oops :P
"...Debts must always be paid, sometimes in more than blood and gold. But this is Ordo Ursa," Ren places his hand on Erakas's chest, right where the Dragonborn's heart is. "Right here. And it always has been and always will be. Don't ever forget that. Because I won't."
Serandis Mendaen (Aereni Elven Rogue/maybe one day Wizard)- Project Point Playtest
My first ever character was a Dwarf Thief I played for a D&D Tournament event in my old hometown, I think I was 10 or 11.
It was one of those things were several party of people play the same adventure, and with a certain time allotted (I think it was something like 3 or 4 hours) the party that got farthest or completed the adventure in the shortest time would be the winner (I genuinely do not even remember what the prize was...).
I was the youngest one playing, in a party with my older brother and a couple of his friends. The adventure was revolving around a series of murders in an autonomous town, with his government and "king". The dead bodies found where almost all drained of blood, so our main suspect was a obviously a Vampire that was getting sloppy. I was REALLY into vampires already at the time, so I had a lot of player knowledge, but I tried my best not to make use of it (as much as my little 10 y/o brain could manage to hold back).
I remember vividly, while the other were discussing what to do, I decided to go on my own into the cathedral of the town, as a lot of the deaths were from monks (the western conception of monks, so basically friars) there. Relaying my intent to the others, they told me I could go but that I'd probably won't find anything.
Once I got to the cathedral (it was obviously a dark and stormy night), I happened upon the vampire feeding on another one of the monks, catching him red-handed thanks to my stealth skills. He noticed me, and almost killed me, living me dying on the floor. Thankfully, my companions not seeing me return decided to come look for me, and healed me back to health. While fighting with the vampire I was able to notice something about his clothes thanks to the occasional lightning illuminating the scene, and our suspects gathered around the king's advisor (which we previously tried to "check out" with a small mirror during and audience with the king, but were interrupted). I was already suspicious of him, but the other were not because that would have been "too cliché". Needless to say, my discovery convinced them, albeit they reserved the right of not being fully sold due to the possibility of the vampire trying to frame the advisor.
In the end, our time was up right when we were chasing the advisor vampire (yeah, it was obviously him) along the secret passages of the castle.
I do not really remember his name, but that little thief dwarf was my first try at a real RPG (after a few years of Hero Quest and Dungeon Quest to "prep" me ;P), and one I remember fondly, if anything because I was right all along :P (and because dwarf thieves are awesome)
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
My first character was a psionic-- I must have asked if I could have some kind of power or other, and the DM pointed me to the psionic handbook and told me to have FUN (our party also wound up with a centaur ranger who was only ever defeated by stairs, like, things got wild in that game because of how pro-creativity our DM was and just willing to homebrew anything that didn't already exist for us to work with if someone had an idea they wanted to pursue).
The main highlight of the game for me was that I found a sword in a swamp and became queen of the frogs, and they were pretty ride-or-die little dudes. Wound up having a frog army fight our battles with us for a good leg of the journey.
But they were a lot of fun flavor-wise, and it seems you definitely had a blast with it. Having a DM willing and open to what the players want to play is one the best things that can happen to anyone starting to roleplay.
Born in Italy, moved a bunch, living in Spain, my heart always belonged to Roleplaying Games
I think when our quest moved us past the swamp, we had to part ways so they could stay in their home environment, but they were pretty helpful up until then. There was enough swamp to cover to make them useful allies, they had tiny weapons and armor and everything.
Naith Ungoal, Duskling Druid in a 3.5e game. I relied heavily on Summon Nature's Ally spell, while not trying to engage very little as Naith. Unfortunately, after a time, the game just sort of stopped. Here's a story from our game:
My first time playing D&D was 4E. My friend, the DM, helped me make a 2nd level cleric for his homebrew game.
I rummaged through my older brother's miniatures collection looking for a model and found a nice pewter piece of an old wizened looking fellow holding a large tome and stave. During the sixth session of the game, the group made a mistake and ended up getting ambushed by a some Famorians. We all got murdered pretty hard.
I still have that cleric mini, I think I finally got around to painting it last year.
First time was 1E, I had a human cleric that ended up turning chaotic evil because he was just a little bit screwed up. He became an NPC because my DM didn't allow evil players.(At least, he became an NPC after completely snapping and trying to eat the rest of the party's hearts out)
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
The reason I remember mine... is because I still have it
Vaguely. My friends were interested in gaming but hadn't the money to buy any of the books, so we came up with characters that didn't have classes or races and winged it. It could hardly even be called D&D, but it pushed me in the right direction.
"The Epic Level Handbook wasn't that bad, guys.
Guys, pls."
A half-elf bard named Tess, circa 1995
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