Why is Your D&D character Legendary?

[banraeth]

My legendary-est character was Razorwire, who lived in the harsh world of Dark Sun about 17 years ago. Raz was a half-giant gladiator in the employ of the local templar warlord until a falling out saw him left for dead in the desert. Luckily, Raz was godly strong (I think he had a 21 strength) and cunning enough to improvise some darts from the local cacti. Upon emerging from the desert Raz was specialized in darts. With his strength bonus (+17 damage or something) applied to thrown weapons and the additional attacks given by the specialization, Raz was throwing 5 darts a round for 20 damage EACH. Then someone hasted him and he mowed down a legion of Orcs by himself, killing 5 or 6 a round. Think "Ole' Painless" from the original Predator.

Hahaha, that was fun.

Oh, another time Raz was sitting guard and one of his party members was on partol and got startled by a group of monsters. This party member used some device to shapeshift into a ghost and started running back to camp passing through doors and walls. Well, suddenly a ghost passes through the door in front of Raz and he does what any normal watchman would do. He grabs a Mace of Disruption from one of the sleeping characters and hurls it at the ghost. I rolled a 20. The DM decides that the 20 means the Mace works on the shapeshifted character and *BAM*, insta-dead party member. Hahahaha. The fallout from that was awesome.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Wow, seems the DnD based games really don't do the tabletop version justice. I've only played those, and to me level 10 seems sort of weak-ish. Most builds I make only come into their own around level 25 or so. At which point I'd consider them fairly legendary because they can spontaneously cast a whole arsenal of metamagic'd arcane spells while wearing full plate and tower shield with zero spell failure penalty while still maintaining medium BAB.

So yeah - Neverwinter Nights has -really- skewed my view on DnD, it seems. This thread gives me the impression that I should probably try actual DnD, although that might just end up dissapointing me compared to the high-powered extravaganza that is the DnD CRPG. should I?

OT: I did have a halfling rogue/swashbuckler once that got pretty amazing 'round level 9, 10-ish. It's fun sneaking up behind folks and unleashing a barrage of kukri slashes on them that drop 'em before they could even turn around. And you don't even need armour. People that did not engage me face-to-face tended to die. Fast. (But he was also the party's main tank, so that might've been a mistake) Still, no amazing stories because it was in NWN too. But it sort of counts, right?

No computer game has ever come close to matching the fun and imagination of table top D&D. That being said, I've never really had a Legendary character because I'm always the DM. I guess that my campaigns could be considered pretty legendary though, since we've had several campaigns where the characters made it to epic levels.

 

[Alakaizer]

OK, so my sorcerer is a human named Calvin with the familiar being Hobbes (especially since the reality explosion deleted Hobbes' physical form from this plane and Hobbes now only existing in Calvin's mind) and a cohort named Susie (who bought a stuffed tiger for Calvin after the blast and now the image of Hobbes is linked to the tiger). He has now reached level 10 and is therefore legendary. The reason that Calvin reached level ten is because of what can only be described as "the noodle incident." When my DM told me that, I nearly passed out laughing. I had to explain the joke to the group when I finally stopped laughing and could breathe again.

Having a good DM is probably more important than a good group. I've had some issues with my group over the year we've been slogging through this, and I would've probably quit long since, if not for the DM keeping things really interesting. He merges actual challenge with the possibility of huge reward, and there's usually several ways of getting through any situation. He also rewards good roleplaying, inventive ideas and solutions, and I even got an XP bump for making a joke about his main antagonist NPC(I said that the NPC had an immovable rod up his ass with the button on the inside).

In short- DM is the one who makes the game, so find a good one and stick with him/her.

 

[SimuLord]

I must be one of the 5 people on Earth who has never played any kind of DnD game.

I should start..

DnD can be an amazing experience; it can also be a slow, boring grindfest. It depends largely on the group you play with, the DM and you. It's also fairly time-consuming regardless of how much fun you have. If I could guarantee a creative and fun group for everyone, I would be shamelessly telling the world to start. Unfortunately, I only found one good group ever and while I have some epic memories, I am loathe to go out and invest the time in finding another group.

Truly, if your DM is shit, that's bad. But you could have a medium channeling the ghost of Gary Gygax as the DM and if your playergroup is shit, that's just as bad.

I've never found a group or a DM worth playing with, so I stick to CRPGs.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

My assassin made a first shot, death shot of a demon posing as a human king and managed to get away in a crowded city with hundreds of guards looking for me.... until one of my "friends" turned me in.

 

[ever-vigilant]

My current team suck ass. I had to make a jump where all I had to do was roll a 4 and we would have succeded. I got a 2 and now we are all vampire spawns who have been dominated by a high level vampire. Now we need to make a new team to finish the job we started and possibly kill off the old characters.

 

[Karlaxx]

I only ever played my druid once, and he didn't even get beyond level one, but he brought down a cave-in on an orcish poker tournament. Casualties: All but 6 of the 25 were instantly killed.

 

[Mariakitten]

With a -5 penalty my character shot a arrow at max range at a fleeing assassin and got him in the leg so he fell to the ground and could be captured, not as cool as some of the stuff here but I thought it was awesome.

 

[psivamp]

Truly, if your DM is shit, that's bad. But you could have a medium channeling the ghost of Gary Gygax as the DM and if your playergroup is shit, that's just as bad.

I've never found a group or a DM worth playing with, so I stick to CRPGs.

Yeah, it's a shame. I had the one really good group and DM, then a mediocre group with a good DM, and it was just downhill after that.

 

[quantum mechanic]

My 3.5 druid led her druid clan to war by having them all use the "Awaken" spell (creates treants) on the entire forest. Think Ents vs. Isengard, but bigger.

Oh yeah.

 

[Wizard007]

Can you tell the reference book in 3rd or 3.5 where it says "a level ten character is legendary and immediately known to all bards and such."? I know I read it somewhere before, but I don't remember.