Mine's are:
- Knac Mrkl, Dragonborn Bravura Warlord whose destiny is (unkown to him) to become the Eldest of his town
- A drow Star Warlock (haven't made character yet so I have no name). He made a pact with the stars after escaping from the Underdark as a way to give thanks due to the light they brought (drows are endoctrinated to fear the stars). But he didn't know what he was getting into.
- Definitively a druid, maybe gnoll, maybe a dwarf purely for the whole twings-in-his-beard thing.
i also love to play swordsmen, knights or anything that has a focus on swordplay.
1. Pelroc Ravenhoff, a Deva Ranger. I'll not lie, this guy is pretty much Aragorn in most ways. At least something like 80% of the similarities were unintentional. He has managed to be my favorite character for many years now.
2. Belendorn Winterbeard, a Dwarf Cleric of Moradin. Sort of a battle priest. It was really this piece of art by Todd Lockwood that made me want to write this guy up. He's a lot of fun.
3. Sáwell Riftere, a Shadar-Kai Rogue. I've gotten to play this guy in a whole one encounter, but the ideas I have in my head make him very cool in my eyes. Again, inspired by Todd Lockwood. EDIT: His name is mangled Anglo-Saxon, and means "Soul Reaper".
What I liked most about him was the unity between mechanics and personality. For example, since he always hid--and with a huge hide modifier--he never took damage. After he finally did get hit (and by a pain demon), he became phobic of pain, and took even greater steps to improve his hide abilities. Because of things like this I guess he didn't feel like a set of numbers with a personality superimposed. It was more like all of his ability scores and bonuses were a reflection of this real, living person.
I could go on about Dreblou Findgold--his dwarf bodyguard, his heist money, his vow to stop adventuring, his wife and his girlfriend, his love of inebriation--but the point is that even though I only played him for a few months, he turned into this amazing character, far deeper and more complex than any I had had before. I really looked forward to every Sunday when I got to be this person.
But that was so long ago. The campaign just stopped. I never got to really wrap up his loose ends. Now, I'm not even sure I remember the voice I used for him.
A Elven rogue/assassin. Well not strictly an assassin he got the prestige class but with restriction on who his ethics would allow him to target.
Probably my favourite character because i actuaqlly put some back story into him from the beginning.
Our group was playing in almost a post apocolyptic greyhawk. Our previous campain had failed on the return to temple of elemental evil and so a great evil swept the land. One of the previous campaign characters had become a major player for this evil power and took it upon him self to rid the world of elves. To the point where a new race (the Darkan) was magically spawned expressly for this purpose.
Raiken was an elf with a chip on his shoulder, and a life purpose to take avenge the destroyers of his race and particularly his family.
Ironically the only thing that could resemble a friendship in his life is with a half-darkan barbarian.
A fair bit more story to him than that, including one race change to to reincarnation at low levels before we could ever afford a ressurection.
He was a fun character, alas i suspect that campaign is over now that 4E is here.
Marco was a tall swarthy guy. Surprisingly strong. A very forceful personality. He's never been afraid to nose around where he isn't wanted, or to make his own news. The pact magic helped with this, a lot. A pact with Malphas put a raven under his command, who's eyes and ears he could see and hear through. Andromalius could turn him invisible. Beur could keep him alive when he got into dangerous territory. Karsus let him use wizard wands. Naberius let him look like anybody, and gave him a silver tongue. So on and so forth. He could only make one pact at a time, and could only swap his pact once a day, but the vestiges provided amazing and unique powers.
The way I played it, the vestiges were almost like additional characters. They showed up during binding, of course, but sometimes they'd also influence Marco's personality. I played this up as best I could. It was a lot of fun. Other characters have worn thin after a time, but Marco was always fresh and new. Today he's grumpy and has ram horns. Tomorrow he's forgetful and has hooves. The next day he might be wistfully romantic and have blackened teeth. More often than not, I'd roll high enough on my pact making check to avoid these influences, but they still came up at least once per gaming session.
Marco was the darkest character I've ever played. He wasn't necessarily malicious. Merciless, perhaps, but not evil. Cold, perhaps, but not evil. He bull rushed lizardfolk off high cliffs, trapped Emerald Claw soldiers to in a burning building, etc. All my other characters have been nice guys at heart, and didn't like to see even their enemies suffer. Marco reveled in his enemy's suffering. OK, maybe he was a little bit evil.
Marco was the most successfully brazen character I've played. Other characters have attempted more brazen stunts. None of them have survived as many brazen stunts as Marco. Chalk this one up to Beur. The Grandmother Huntress grants fast healing, and a cure-light-wounds once every five rounds. Marco could also gain DR 2/- through a class feature. So when the party came to a hallway filled with giant slicing blades of death in every single square, Marco just waded through. Unfortunately, when he arrived at the other side he found a locked door, and his Rod Of Escape didn't have enough knock spells in it to open the triple-locks.
Marco Meade, ace reporter.
Possibly one of the coolest character applications i have ever heard of. Great stuff.
Assuming of course he wasn't reporting for Fox
Reporting for Fox? I don't get it. I don't watch Fox News (or much TV at all). His name is a pun on his class. Although I kind of screwed it up a little. It's supposed to be "Marco Meade, five star reporter." He's a binder. Mead is a company famous for making binders. Specifically, they make Five-Star Binders.
There's a silent e at the end of his name because I couldn't remember how they spell Mead.
Starting with Etrigan Nailo a Swashbuckler Wilder Multicalss in 3.5. He was mouthy over the top and completely unreasonable in most every way. Mostly he would just not shut up when he needed to the party would have been in much less trouble much less often and maybe just maybe the evil wizard wouldn't have teleported the party to the artic.
Then also another 3.5 char with a 3rd ed prestidge class. Numiel Thimblethwack aka Ziptie aka Blowtorch aka Steamer 1. It was a Forgotten Realms campaign and he was a Gnome from Lantan starting with a level of Rogue for those oh so groovy skill points and then a few levels of Wizard all cullminating in the Gnome Artificer prestige class. IT was a lot of fun until the after a few very nice scores and the Gnomes, that is plural, not spending a single GP. Then the Dm gave us over 6 months of downtime. The campaign cullminated with the big fight at Mithral Hall in the Hunters Blades Trilogy. At that time both my gnome and the other one basically had small personal mobile armors and lets just say the battle changed up abit though we didn't have any chares left lol.
So far in 4th I'm having fun but don't have a character that I really really like just yet.
As for Fox, i was just making sure his journalistic integrity was above reproach as Fox is well known for crappy reporting :D
Well the "Mead" company reference was lost on me. I just assumed you were naming him after a tasty beverage.
As for Fox, i was just making sure his journalistic integrity was above reproach as Fox is well known for crappy reporting :D
Marco's journalistic integrity was weaker than his curiosity, avarice, and spite. For example, House Orien tried to bribe/blackmail him into covering up a train heist he had helped thwart. He accepted Orien's money. Then he wrote the story anyway, from the perspective of a man he had killed on the train, signed it with the dead man's name, and sent it in to every newspaper who had ever published one Marco's stories.
Marco also always left out any mention of pact magic. Pact magic has a stigma. It's associated with demonic possession, and worship of the Dark Six, despite being a decidedly unaligned magic system with nothing to do with demons/devils. He'd risk being blacklisted if it became common knowledge.
He also wasn't above embellishment to sell a story. He'd often write himself out of a story he was involved in, to make the "hero" of the story seem all the more heroic. Our first adventure had him following a dashing Lyrandar heir (another PC) on an expedition to an ancient sunken temple in Q'Barra. The piece was supposed to be about the Lyrandar heir, not him, so he wrote himself out and made the heir an even bigger hero.
Marco did have a hunger for truth and social justice. He just didn't see the two as equating. He didn't believe he had to be 100% truthful all the time in order to deliver social justice. Certainly there are some things which the public deserves to know, but his search for the truth was primarily selfish.
It was a pretty great game. The other characters were the aforementioned Lyrandar rogue/luckybussard, and a warforged Megaman who was roleplayed more like Brock Samson. The party dynamic was wonderful. And it was towards the tail end of 3.5, so we had all those splatbooks which made it 4esque.
edit: There was also a silly shifter pirate named Plank who joined in occasionally. He had a heart of gold, and a brain of lead. Since he was a Swordsage focusing on Desert Wind and Setting Sun, any fight he was in was always spectacular.
Sounds like you have a particularly imaginitive gaming group.
All-time Favorite- Willow Uffgart, aka "The Great Uff". 7' tall NG human wizard. Created under another DM who was one of those who try to kill the party, the Great Uff has made some of the most amazing saves ever seen. We stopped worrying about his XP. He's too powerful now, so he doesn't go adventuring anymore. We brought all the notes together on one extended weekend and tallied it all up. His last recorded level was 36 in 2e. After amassing all the notes and calculating everything, he's a Wiz119, Ftr5, Rog2. When we finally build a character sheet for him, we're gong to have a friend etch it in bronze or something. That's gotta be some kind of record.
Not quite so epically epic favorites-
Warstory- Warforged with a broken voice box (player couldn't stop speaking in monotone, so we wrote it in). Hums alot, and the players try to figure out what song is being hummed, which is really tough when it's all in the same note.
Havoc- Good example of an Evil PC in a Good party. Tries to manipulate the other PCs (one in particular) into doing things they ordinarily wouldn't do because of moral reasons. He's a Drow, and someday I think the Dragonborn is going to kill him.
The fun didn't stop there. Unluckily the fighter died by a unlucky hit from a memphit. So he made up an elf duskblade and once we had met up with him hed described his character and after some thought I realised he was the anorexic(sp) of me (which again led to a lot of jokes). Through the whole rest of the game me and the duskblade had the strange luck of working on the same line of thought and saying the same things at the exact same time which led to even more joking and some really cool moments.
My previous favorite character was part of a Battletech/Mechwarrior game, with (probably not coincidentally) the same GM as my current game: Major Carinne Olenska-McCloud. She was a straight-up killing machine. Deadly with rifles or a blade, and a crack 'mech pilot. Drove a custom hybrid flying 'mech called the Purple People Eater. Pure carnage in a pretty package.
acts very nice to intelligent undead but not to people
later in life he uses transmutation magic to spawn the large iland of necrolion from the distant waves, nameing himself and his necromancer brother as kings the land of necrolion becomes a sanctuary to magical creaturs and undead hunted by man
but that was my 3.5 character
"Crazy" Ali al-Hassan: CN Male Human Beguiler 6
Captain Jonas Prak: CN Male Human Swashbuckler 5 / Dread Pirate 9
Daerian Sunstar: LN Male Sun Elf Wizard 6 / Loremaster 10
Roh - Elf Psychic Warrior. (Can you tell I can't wait for psionics to be released for 4th?) He's my most memorable character. He fought dragons and gods and it was great. Always ready to put his life on the line and help the helpless. He was even able to charm the local bar maid
. Though since the Military moved me away, my DM gave him a rare psionic disease and had to hang up his blade until he could find a cure through the help of a powerful psychic dragon. Or until I could get back and pick up the blade with him again.