Ahh, yes I remember my first character. T'was a day like any other day, except it was my first D&D game.
Did our session zero, rolled for a Rogue and named him Viskar. He was a Tiefling Rogue, and I wanted it that way because I had every intention of getting into trouble just because of how (allegedlies) much prejudice other races had against the Infernal beings. On top of this I decided to make him more saturated purple and only slightly red. Yeah...that would do the trick. People don't like Tieflings, and now Tieflings would look at him all funny like, "What's all dis?!" To my surprise, the homebrew campaign...My DM freaking put the Queen of the realm up on the board and she was a Tiefling. So now that was ruined. T_T I was Mr. Popular
Two more sessions go by, we're doing mostly Roleplay since it is my first time (clean thoughts please...) as well as two other members. I began building a reputation, in character, as being basically nothing more than a murder hobo that liked to harass and taunt people. Fourth and fifth sessions go by, time for combat! Oh...I'm squishy asf...
So long story short every time we fought I went down at least once and my DM just smiled (I said clean thoughts...) because he knew it was my first time (plz stahp) and was having a blast watching me struggle with it (for the love of....)
I eventually get the hang of playing a Rogue, chose the Assassin sublclass. I was getting good at dishing out high numbers for damage, but man...I was still really bad and the whole "Don't get hit and you won't die." thing. You see, I had played games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse years prior, so there was an auto-dodge roll you got whenever an enemy attacked, and if you succeeded against their roll and difficulty, you dodged and took no damage. I could not wrap my head around this mechanic not being a thing for D&D!!!!
Fast-forward: We're about four months in, getting really good at clearing Dungeons, even got a hireling to come along with us that was also basically a murder hobo. I remember this one time we encountered a Revenant that was guarding a bridge, and his mission was not to let anyone cross the bridge. My toon took that as a challenge and literally ran across the bridge, not ever attacking, screaming at him, "I'M CROSSING AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!! NEENER-NEENER-NEENER!" and would occasionally turn around and wiggle his butt at the Revenant, who promptly hit him (many times). That Hireling...he walked around the bridge, I didn't like him after that.
My DM and the other players really loved how I played the toon, even though their characters hated him with a passion. Then, as I believe I posted elsewhere on the forums on DDB, this character met his demise all too soon.
He died to a critical hit from a rock after a crit-fail death save from being downed just prior.
My first character was inspired buy Guts from Berserk. I tried to emulate him the best I can and took Barbarian with a really huge sword and Warlock for the demonic stuff. I still have the character sheet but I dont get to play him very much and I think the best time I had with him was when we stormed a huge castle during one of our campaigns and ended up fighting a horde of wyrmlings that were a mix of black and green dragons. The boss in the castle was an adult Red dragon and she killed everyone except me because I managed to get myself knocked down into a hole in the floor and almost died from the fall lol
Yes ... he is the character I am still using. Zebedee, a gnome wizard who is a writing a travel book. Most of his book's anecdotes are outright lies or greatly exagerrated. He claims credit for everything his companions do.
Unfortunately, his time may be up. Got hit by Mummy Rot and it's looking like his time may be up.
I played my first session of D&D a few years back, possibly not too long after 5e came out, but don't quote me on that. I rolled up a half-elf bard named Ennara. The campaign disbanded after a few sessions because reality ensued, but my interest was piqued in the game. I even got a Players Handbook for Christmas in one of those intervening years, despite having no one to play with.
Fast forward to February of this year. I was playing a TRPG developed by a neighbor and his two sons with said neighbor and sons and some other folk. Oldest son was DMing a campaign online and wanted to get into DMing a live game at the local game store. Owners said yes, I said "Consider me a member of the party," and thus my first true campaign began with Eilra, another half-elf bard in the Ravnica setting. I didn't do much interesting with her in terms of character development, although at the campaign's last session we got to do a sort of epilogue where we explained what our characters did after all the adventuring. Eilra ended up writing a memoir on the group's rise to prominence in Ravnica, albeit with the more... incriminating details left out.
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A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." - Douglas Adams
Derlick was a dwarf thief from 2e back in 1996-7. We had just finished playing the campaign in Hero Quest the board game. I was the dwarf, cause it's the best thing about Hero Quest besides the broadsword. I was trying to make that character, I succeeded but then i was hooked. Both on dnd and rogues, I do not miss THAC0 at all.
Last year, first game of Pathfinder. She was a dwarf wizard named Kneebender Ironside who convinced one party member to attack a mimic and gave a one-armed goblin three melee upgrades by rolling poorly with my magic and crossbow attacks.
Derlick was a dwarf thief from 2e back in 1996-7. We had just finished playing the campaign in Hero Quest the board game. I was the dwarf, cause it's the best thing about Hero Quest besides the broadsword. I was trying to make that character, I succeeded but then i was hooked. Both on dnd and rogues, I do not miss THAC0 at all.
I have D&D 2e's Rules Encyclopedia! Personally (on the topic of AC), I like that higher numbers represent better AC, as opposed to lower numbers.
How could I forget? Fernwhistle Goldfeather was a bookish and nervous half-elven cleric with a good heart. I created him back when my mom introduced me to D&D with her old Red Box set...I was probably around ten at the time.
Ah, yes, Kefnen Flintfist, Dwarven sorcerer. I remember playing him for the first time like it was yesterday.
Actually, come to think of it, it was yesterday.
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Current D&D Characters: Kromen Flintfist, Hill Dwarf Order of the Scribes Wizard/Armorer Artificer Eiphrok, Half-Orc Oath of Glory Paladin/Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
My first D&D's 1st ED char was a Human Wizard.... uhmmm... his name it was Dertinus Aldabor.... and it was inspired by the "The Immortals" movie. He had no skills in sword fight, nore he wore a single martial weapon, only his staff, a knive, and a sling with some random spiked balls he found in a tavern. He reached lvl 5, launching Magic Missiles, and enjoying the fact that those missiles could Auto-follow the target until the end. In a random encounter, the party found a castle where the militians there, were the raiders who allways menaced the province, just to collect random loot. We decided to side-attack ( a raid ) the castle, so the ranger threwed an arrow on the nearest guard on the walls ( he missed the shoot ). The Knight aimed the crossbow, fired a dart, missing the shoot again..... and I took the decition to aim an spiked ball on the sling ( with no proficiency in throwing ammo ), and TADAAAAAAAAAAA !!
I insta-proned via stun the guard with only a sling !!!! ..... xDD
AD&D, level 1 human magic user named “Wimpy”... generated using 3d6 rolled six times, first roll is strength, second is intelligence, and so on. I rolled a 3 for strength.
He ended up getting killed by a wandering monster... a giraffe... underground in a dungeon. Go figure.
A tiefling paladin. I don't think I realized that I could do magic and mostly fought with a whip even though my DM tried to get me to use a better weapon. We were running death house (the curse of Strahd module) and were having a lot of trouble figuring out the mystery, but it didn't really bother anyone.
I later adapted the tielfling paladin into a sorcerer with a different name and adjusted backstory who I played for a while at AL games.
Theren Liadon, High Elf Necromancer Wizard. He will forever be present in all of my campaigns, as a villain lurking in the background that all players can possibly foil, or just ignore.
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I've only played the video games so far, and I've been playing them for years, so memories have become vague. My first D&D character would have been created in one of the SSI Gold Box games, and I can't remember what sort of character I created. Usually, with games like this, I'll create some sort of throwaway character just to get used to the game engine and then create another one to seriously play the game. I tend to be drawn to cleric-type classes in D&D, and I'm drawn to tieflings if they are available, but humans otherwise, so I would guess that my first serious character was a human cleric, probably with a neutral good or chaotic good alignment. Outside of the D&D realm, the first characters I created in a role-playing game of any kind would have been a 4-member party for Ultima III. For the first playthrough, I would likely have used the usual fighter-thief-wizard-cleric combination, and at least one of them had Other for the gender - because that was an option (rather surprising for the early 1980s), I just had to use it. Characters in these early games didn't have any personality. In Ultima III, they were just a generic group of murder hobos, simply because the game mechanics essentially force a party into that role. Out of curiosity, I just turned on my Atari 800 and loaded an ancient savegame, and I found that in the party, three out of the four characters were cleric-related classes, and they were creatively named "1", "2", "3", and "4". Some of the stats were corrupted, so I suspect that I had tampered with the disk using a sector editor. This wouldn't have been the first party that I played, but it is the oldest set of characters for which I can find direct evidence, and it shows that I liked clerics a long time ago.
The earliest D&D character that I remember at all well is the chaotic good female tiefling cleric that I created for Neverwinter Nights 2. In that game, it feels like the protagonist actually has a story and a personality, so the characters are more memorable than the characters in earlier games. This goes for Baldur's Gate as well, but for some reason, my memories of my first serious character in that game are vague. I'm currently replaying it with a neutral good female dwarf fighter/cleric, and it is going well. Just to get some writing and characterization practice, I am in the process of creating a tiefling somewhat inspired by that earlier character from Neverwinter Nights 2; if I ever get into the tabletop game, perhaps this character or a modified version (depending on the setting) will be suitable. Good-aligned tieflings seem like a good choice for role playing, as they can add some complexity to the story.
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Ahh, yes I remember my first character. T'was a day like any other day, except it was my first D&D game.
Did our session zero, rolled for a Rogue and named him Viskar. He was a Tiefling Rogue, and I wanted it that way because I had every intention of getting into trouble just because of how (allegedlies) much prejudice other races had against the Infernal beings. On top of this I decided to make him more saturated purple and only slightly red. Yeah...that would do the trick. People don't like Tieflings, and now Tieflings would look at him all funny like, "What's all dis?!" To my surprise, the homebrew campaign...My DM freaking put the Queen of the realm up on the board and she was a Tiefling. So now that was ruined. T_T I was Mr. Popular
Two more sessions go by, we're doing mostly Roleplay since it is my first time (clean thoughts please...) as well as two other members. I began building a reputation, in character, as being basically nothing more than a murder hobo that liked to harass and taunt people. Fourth and fifth sessions go by, time for combat! Oh...I'm squishy asf...
So long story short every time we fought I went down at least once and my DM just smiled (I said clean thoughts...) because he knew it was my first time (plz stahp) and was having a blast watching me struggle with it (for the love of....)
I eventually get the hang of playing a Rogue, chose the Assassin sublclass. I was getting good at dishing out high numbers for damage, but man...I was still really bad and the whole "Don't get hit and you won't die." thing. You see, I had played games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse years prior, so there was an auto-dodge roll you got whenever an enemy attacked, and if you succeeded against their roll and difficulty, you dodged and took no damage. I could not wrap my head around this mechanic not being a thing for D&D!!!!
Fast-forward: We're about four months in, getting really good at clearing Dungeons, even got a hireling to come along with us that was also basically a murder hobo. I remember this one time we encountered a Revenant that was guarding a bridge, and his mission was not to let anyone cross the bridge. My toon took that as a challenge and literally ran across the bridge, not ever attacking, screaming at him, "I'M CROSSING AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!!! NEENER-NEENER-NEENER!" and would occasionally turn around and wiggle his butt at the Revenant, who promptly hit him (many times). That Hireling...he walked around the bridge, I didn't like him after that.
My DM and the other players really loved how I played the toon, even though their characters hated him with a passion. Then, as I believe I posted elsewhere on the forums on DDB, this character met his demise all too soon.
He died to a critical hit from a rock after a crit-fail death save from being downed just prior.
I miss Viskar T_T
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My first character was inspired buy Guts from Berserk. I tried to emulate him the best I can and took Barbarian with a really huge sword and Warlock for the demonic stuff. I still have the character sheet but I dont get to play him very much and I think the best time I had with him was when we stormed a huge castle during one of our campaigns and ended up fighting a horde of wyrmlings that were a mix of black and green dragons. The boss in the castle was an adult Red dragon and she killed everyone except me because I managed to get myself knocked down into a hole in the floor and almost died from the fall lol
it was 1994, I was playing a thief in 1e at a buddy's house. Pretty sure he died the first outing. I was sold.
Yes ... he is the character I am still using. Zebedee, a gnome wizard who is a writing a travel book. Most of his book's anecdotes are outright lies or greatly exagerrated. He claims credit for everything his companions do.
Unfortunately, his time may be up. Got hit by Mummy Rot and it's looking like his time may be up.
I played my first session of D&D a few years back, possibly not too long after 5e came out, but don't quote me on that. I rolled up a half-elf bard named Ennara. The campaign disbanded after a few sessions because reality ensued, but my interest was piqued in the game. I even got a Players Handbook for Christmas in one of those intervening years, despite having no one to play with.
Fast forward to February of this year. I was playing a TRPG developed by a neighbor and his two sons with said neighbor and sons and some other folk. Oldest son was DMing a campaign online and wanted to get into DMing a live game at the local game store. Owners said yes, I said "Consider me a member of the party," and thus my first true campaign began with Eilra, another half-elf bard in the Ravnica setting. I didn't do much interesting with her in terms of character development, although at the campaign's last session we got to do a sort of epilogue where we explained what our characters did after all the adventuring. Eilra ended up writing a memoir on the group's rise to prominence in Ravnica, albeit with the more... incriminating details left out.
A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that." - Douglas Adams
My first character was a half-elf sorcerer, middle-aged with arcane ties.
Derlick was a dwarf thief from 2e back in 1996-7. We had just finished playing the campaign in Hero Quest the board game. I was the dwarf, cause it's the best thing about Hero Quest besides the broadsword. I was trying to make that character, I succeeded but then i was hooked. Both on dnd and rogues, I do not miss THAC0 at all.
Last year, first game of Pathfinder. She was a dwarf wizard named Kneebender Ironside who convinced one party member to attack a mimic and gave a one-armed goblin three melee upgrades by rolling poorly with my magic and crossbow attacks.
Chasing Hymnal - Tabaxi Bard - The Tale of the Pumpkin King
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I have D&D 2e's Rules Encyclopedia! Personally (on the topic of AC), I like that higher numbers represent better AC, as opposed to lower numbers.
How could I forget? Fernwhistle Goldfeather was a bookish and nervous half-elven cleric with a good heart. I created him back when my mom introduced me to D&D with her old Red Box set...I was probably around ten at the time.
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Ah, yes, Kefnen Flintfist, Dwarven sorcerer. I remember playing him for the first time like it was yesterday.
Actually, come to think of it, it was yesterday.
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Laugh at life or life will laugh at you.
Current D&D Characters:
Kromen Flintfist, Hill Dwarf Order of the Scribes Wizard/Armorer Artificer
Eiphrok, Half-Orc Oath of Glory Paladin/Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
My first D&D's 1st ED char was a Human Wizard.... uhmmm... his name it was Dertinus Aldabor.... and it was inspired by the "The Immortals" movie. He had no skills in sword fight, nore he wore a single martial weapon, only his staff, a knive, and a sling with some random spiked balls he found in a tavern. He reached lvl 5, launching Magic Missiles, and enjoying the fact that those missiles could Auto-follow the target until the end. In a random encounter, the party found a castle where the militians there, were the raiders who allways menaced the province, just to collect random loot. We decided to side-attack ( a raid ) the castle, so the ranger threwed an arrow on the nearest guard on the walls ( he missed the shoot ). The Knight aimed the crossbow, fired a dart, missing the shoot again..... and I took the decition to aim an spiked ball on the sling ( with no proficiency in throwing ammo ), and TADAAAAAAAAAAA !!
I insta-proned via stun the guard with only a sling !!!! ..... xDD
My Ready-to-rock&roll chars:
Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk
AD&D, level 1 human magic user named “Wimpy”... generated using 3d6 rolled six times, first roll is strength, second is intelligence, and so on. I rolled a 3 for strength.
He ended up getting killed by a wandering monster... a giraffe... underground in a dungeon. Go figure.
Basic D&D in the late 80s. No I don’t remember. Had to DM. Barely got to play at all for the first few years
A tiefling paladin. I don't think I realized that I could do magic and mostly fought with a whip even though my DM tried to get me to use a better weapon. We were running death house (the curse of Strahd module) and were having a lot of trouble figuring out the mystery, but it didn't really bother anyone.
I later adapted the tielfling paladin into a sorcerer with a different name and adjusted backstory who I played for a while at AL games.
My first one died to a crab. Don’t ask.
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Listen loud and listen bold
What never comes can't be foretold
Listen hot and listen cold
That crab was while you was playing Elder Scrolls : Oblivion... or Morrowind ???
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My Ready-to-rock&roll chars:
Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk
Oblivion
they/her Always open to chat. Just send me a PM
What never dies it can't get old
Listen loud and listen bold
What never comes can't be foretold
Listen hot and listen cold
Theren Liadon, High Elf Necromancer Wizard. He will forever be present in all of my campaigns, as a villain lurking in the background that all players can possibly foil, or just ignore.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
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I've only played the video games so far, and I've been playing them for years, so memories have become vague. My first D&D character would have been created in one of the SSI Gold Box games, and I can't remember what sort of character I created. Usually, with games like this, I'll create some sort of throwaway character just to get used to the game engine and then create another one to seriously play the game. I tend to be drawn to cleric-type classes in D&D, and I'm drawn to tieflings if they are available, but humans otherwise, so I would guess that my first serious character was a human cleric, probably with a neutral good or chaotic good alignment. Outside of the D&D realm, the first characters I created in a role-playing game of any kind would have been a 4-member party for Ultima III. For the first playthrough, I would likely have used the usual fighter-thief-wizard-cleric combination, and at least one of them had Other for the gender - because that was an option (rather surprising for the early 1980s), I just had to use it. Characters in these early games didn't have any personality. In Ultima III, they were just a generic group of murder hobos, simply because the game mechanics essentially force a party into that role. Out of curiosity, I just turned on my Atari 800 and loaded an ancient savegame, and I found that in the party, three out of the four characters were cleric-related classes, and they were creatively named "1", "2", "3", and "4". Some of the stats were corrupted, so I suspect that I had tampered with the disk using a sector editor. This wouldn't have been the first party that I played, but it is the oldest set of characters for which I can find direct evidence, and it shows that I liked clerics a long time ago.
The earliest D&D character that I remember at all well is the chaotic good female tiefling cleric that I created for Neverwinter Nights 2. In that game, it feels like the protagonist actually has a story and a personality, so the characters are more memorable than the characters in earlier games. This goes for Baldur's Gate as well, but for some reason, my memories of my first serious character in that game are vague. I'm currently replaying it with a neutral good female dwarf fighter/cleric, and it is going well. Just to get some writing and characterization practice, I am in the process of creating a tiefling somewhat inspired by that earlier character from Neverwinter Nights 2; if I ever get into the tabletop game, perhaps this character or a modified version (depending on the setting) will be suitable. Good-aligned tieflings seem like a good choice for role playing, as they can add some complexity to the story.