Milo the halfling rogue. He was my first character, and I made him when I was 8. Got to 4th level, but then school exams started happening, so I had to stop mid-adventure.

Arthas Mc.Leud, Human Wizard from the Clan of the Mc. Leud family ( an obvious "The Highlanders" movie reference ).

He managed it well until he died in a town, at lvl 5.

Theren, the Elven Ranger. This was in the early two thousands and his biggest thing was that he loved trees. He loved trees so much in fact, that he sided with a lich to kill his party members. They and their races were killing the forests. I was the Lorax.

I started as a DM. Before being a player. Terrible idea. (My first character when I was a player was a Draconic Ancestry sorcerer, Vladislak Ulmokina.)

dwarf light cleric level 3 4 years ago 

Mountain Dwarf Bard named Thronir. He sang war chants while bashing orcs with his steel lute

Uhh, since I'm on my first character, I really hope I do.

Yes! Amber d’Ambreville in my first bf’s Mystara campaign. She was a magical prodigy (a 9th level wizard at 21, which since I was 13 irl seemed incredibly old to me lol).

d’Ambreville as in THE d’Ambrevilles? That’s something all right!

Mmmhmmm. Amber was Etienne’s granddaughter. Told you the DM was my bf 😊.

I've been thinking about my first character a lot lately because today is the one year anniversary of my very first D&D session.

Kefnen Flintfist, Hill Dwarf Wild Magic Sorcerer, met up with some Adventure League adventurers exploring the Sunless Citadel... and five minutes later took 18 points of damage when he was ambushed by a pair of goblins (he only had 10 HP, so he very nearly died outright five minutes into my first session).

I later had to retire Kefnen, and I'm now on my third character, but I'll always remember that first session fondly, even if I did nearly die.

My first character was the pre-generated melee fighter from the 5e starter campaign. Named him Salazar Slade. At the time I was playing him, I was also dm’ing. We thought that you needed all 5 characters to complete the campaign. This was also my first time dm’ing, so you can guess how it went...

I do remember my first character as I just started a month ago :D I started out in WoW and transitioned through Discord RP to Conan Exiles and was then coerced/convinced to try DnD, which I have heard a lot about. It is quite daunting to get my head around the lore, but I enjoy the richness of it, and the chance to play with friends I trust and have fun with.

My character is Elizira, a half elf rogue who is working as an unlikely bodyguard, but who is expanding her repertoar to include more typical rogue tasks. I am in a superb group. lead by dedicated and amazing DMs, so I feel lucky to get an introduction to DnD like this.

Edit: Ok, so, WoW was several years ago now. I was 14/15 at the time I tried that and had been watching my big sister RP there even before that. I guess that is how I fell in love with RPing.

I used to love WoW but I still prefer DnD (and other tabletop games). Elizira sounds like a cool character.

Thank you! You are most kind :)

Welcome 😊

Picture it, southeastern Pennsylvania 1993: A high school classroom after school let out.

My friend who was the DM told me and my more experienced friend to each make one character. My friend started to say something and the DM shot him a look. I noticed it, but had no idea what it meant. My friend must have, because he clammed up right away. The DM asked my friend to help me make my first character. I wanted to make a Greatsword wielding behemoth like Conan. The DM and my friend both convinced me to make a different character. So after about an hour we were ready to play, I had a character designed to be a longbow wielding Ranger.

We started playing, and within ten minutes my character had found a coin purse in a pile of junk in a desk. My character started to investigate the purse. Upon opening it, the DM told me I could see a platinum coin in the bottom of it (back then that was a fortune for a 1st level PC). I stated that my character was going to get the coin out. My friend who was the other player started to say something and the DM quickly shot him another look and informed him that his character didn’t see this happening. My friend again clammed up. The DM asked specifically if my character had put their hand into the purse. I looked at my buddy who was near about to explode keeping his mouth shut. I said, “No, I turn it upside down to shake the coin out.” The DM informed me that nothing fell out. I said that my PC looked into the bag again. The DM informed me that I could still see the coin in there. I said “Okay, I put my hand into the purse.

The purse turned out to be a Bag of Devouring (they worked differently back then) and it bit my character’s right hand off. My PC lost his right hand and almost died (he only had 6HP, that was normal back then).  I was very upset (we were all kids). The DM told me that D&D was not a game where we could run around like idiots doing foolish things without consequences. Characters died. I needed to know that. 

At that point our fourth finally arrived. The DM instructed each of us to make three PCs for the real adventure that was about to start. 

I realized that my DM has been doing me a favor. I learned that PCs died, and that I shouldn’t get too attached to them so quickly. By having me make that first PC as something other than what I really wanted, I was spared the hurt of that experience happening to a character I was really attached to. I learned a lot about D&D, education, and friendship that day.

For that next campaign, each of the 3 players made 3 characters, so 9 in total. We went into a dungeon because we heard it was there.* 9 went in and by the end of the second (I think) session, 5 PCs limped out mostly dead. We went back to town for supplies and reinforcements (new PCs) to add to the party. The first things I bought for my characters were a 10-foot pole to check for traps, extra waterskins, extra tinder boxes and rations, and blankets to add to their bedrolls. 
*(That was all we needed back then, knowledge of its existence, we didn’t really need story hooks or a plot or even an excuse. We were there to explore dungeons after all, so we explored it.) 

Very cool. My first experience was somewhat different (I had a whole elaborate backstory drawn up) but there’s something to be said for just shutting your eyes and plunging into the dungeon too.

Well, the whole point was to show me how bad it could get for my PCs, so having an elaborate backstory would have defeated the purpose of having me play (unknown to me at first) a disposable character.