[Plangkye]

Vaskre, on Jan 26 2005, 03:29 AM, said:

He's not the most interesting character, but EVERY group needs a dwarf!

Funny. My groups rarely include dwarves... mostly elves and humans, with the occasional halfling. Or, if I'm playing Minx, Ellani, or Helga (Minx is a gnome barbarian/sorcerer), there will be a gnome or half-orc.

[Vaskre]

How can you have an adventuring group without a dwarf?

How do you get comical relief when fighting hordes of orcs?!?

Or ogres?!?

Or goblins?!?

Or HOBgoblins?!?

Or.. or.. BUGBEARS!?!

"Ye stinkin' kobold-brained son o' an ogre!"
*after a critical hit* "And yer mother was an orc!"
or..
Cleric style..
"In th' name o' Moradin, turn yer stinkin' wormy-self around ye durned vampire!"
*brandishes holy shield of kick [CHAIR]!*

Dwarves are just too fun to RP, imo.

[RDQ]

We have shapechangers, minotaurs, halflings,and sorceresses amongst others

[Lyinginbedmon]

I've only really played a few characters, mostly related to each other, but my all-time favourite is the same one that I'm still playing: Yep, its

Morganth
My 48th level Wizard with no definable species to date and no memory to speak of.

[Plangkye]

Vaskre, on Feb 15 2005, 09:55 AM, said:

How can you have an adventuring group without a dwarf?

How do you get comical relief when fighting hordes of orcs?!?

Or ogres?!?

Or goblins?!?

Or HOBgoblins?!?

Or.. or.. BUGBEARS!?!

"Ye stinkin' kobold-brained son o' an ogre!"
*after a critical hit* "And yer mother was an orc!"
or..
Cleric style..
"In th' name o' Moradin, turn yer stinkin' wormy-self around ye durned vampire!"
*brandishes holy shield of kick [CHAIR]!*

Dwarves are just too fun to RP, imo.

Helga is excellent at providing comic relief, what with her gender-identity-disorder. Ellani is also good, because she knows exactly how to use Mage Hand, Ghost Sound, Invisibility, and Wall of Force to their best effect. Minx is comic relief without trying - a Gnome barbarian? And Zillia's pretty good too, with her tea addiction and penchant for hog-tying enemies.

[lee mu bai]

well, since my first character was human Paladin, i didnt like a lot. as you know paladin has a lot of restriction, for you and for your party. but as time gone by, i actually loved him for everthing that you can do. your loyal to your patron and church, if you promise something its gonna happen no matter what, than special power, mount and lot of other things... anyway our campaign was enden (DMs choice) but i stayed alive and lived till 13 level.

[Raven Bloodmoon]

My favorite is actaully an NPC I used in a weird little dungeon crawl. I have always found that suspence has a far better effect on my players than does a horde of angry orcs, so I had them in an ancient temple dedicated to a goddess no one knew of, including the party cleric. The temple was really dank and under the effect of a permenent unhallow spell so everyone was pretty creeped out by that. There were a couple of fairly innocuous traps and one really nasty siege trap to protect the inner sanctums, but the part that made everything so great was the fact that the walls were covered in carvings of a cloaked androgenous figure either flanked by a pair of balor or commanding legions of balor in battle. There were also a number of very large and daunting statues of these balor and the figure. To make matters worse, the only living thing in the temple was the NPC, a little girl dressed in black robes named Mara.

Mara was a Wizard/Shadow Adept raised from birth by the former inhabitants of the temple who told her that she was the reincarnation of Nyx, Night, Queen of Darkness. You can see where this messed her up mentally. She was very playful, but would use magic secretively, Silent Spell and the like. A number of the doors were jammed really good in the temple, and she kept using a Silenced knock to open them, but the others never noticed. They thought she was insanely powerful or something. Also, because Mara had never left teh Temple (which was carved into the side of a sandstone cliff), she had never seen the sun, had no concept of Day and Night, and worst of all, she never really learned hwo to tell time. All of this combined with the fact that she was in such a creepy temple had the PCs asking me if she WAS Nyx. They all got out alive, and man were they glad to be away from her.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Now that would be a very intriguing blog entry

[Lyinginbedmon]

Just to add [And gravedig I'll admit], Blue Jester is rapidly becoming my favourite NPC, as I'm sure Raven can appreciate having recently received him in an NPC trade

I'd post his abilities etc. here, but I know there are people watching it who shouldn't really know as much as they already do about him

Either way, don't mess with him, but feel free to joke.

[Raven Bloodmoon]

Yes, Blue Jester is quite intriguing. Something I am half-tempted to play with, myself. But I think I am already stealing the idea of a half-mad powerful wizard living in fortress in hell--except replace "half-mad powerful wizard" with Lucifer and "hell" with Abyss. I wouldn't want to infringe too greatly on Lyinginbedmon

[Lyinginbedmon]

Relax, neither are copyrighted, just slightly tinged on the side of Gordon-Ramsay-Mad

Though of course, I'd be careful of where you put Grimdolf in

[Raven Bloodmoon]

Gordon-Ramsay Mad? IMPOSSIBLE!!

Well, perhaps if the opportunity arrises, I may just institute a form of the Blue Jester.

[Lyinginbedmon]

Or put him in an institute

[Gleddon]

I'd have to say that my favorite character was Gleddon Shadrock (hence the name here). He was a Fighter / Planar Champion that specialized in the Mercurial Greatsword (before the errata). He was also my longest-lived character. I believe he got up to level 19 or 20 before we ended the campaign by defeating the Tarrasque (isn't that always how it ends?).

Of course, we did a one-shot follow-up campaign where we leveled them all up to lv30 and set it 10 years later. At that point he had added 10 levels of Holy Liberator to the mix. The extra abilities didn't get to see too much use, but it was appropriate to the character.

Last I heard, he was living happily with his Drow bride (not my idea, but eh, it worked).

[Bloodstar]

dragonhand777, on Jun 18 2004, 01:38 PM, said:

As a veteran player, I have played many charaters over the years. I've enjoyed playing them all, but a few of them I feel were just really awesome.

Also, being new to the DM/World Builder scene I'm constantly on the look out for cool and interesting npcs. I've found one at the resources section of this site, but thought it would be interesting to see what characters (or npcs) that others have played.

So, please post any note worthy pcs/npcs you've played. The ones that really stick out to you. It would be nice to see their stats/abilities, and general character descriptions along with a breif tale of any adventures/backgrounds that really stand out.

I need to do some digging (hopefully I still have a couple laying around), but plan on posting them when I have more time (I'm about to leave for work). As of right now, the only one I for sure have is the dwarf in my sig.

I have played DND for over 14 years I started in 1980 with pencil and paper. And have played a lot of PCs and NPCs. I've GMed 6 years. I think my most special pc was Moonshaddow: 16 lvl Mage
Alig. True Neutral
Nice as he could till you pissed him off.
There are so many PC/NPCs I played and such great times.