Your first D&D Character? (The dice game, not the MMO)

[Jinx_Dragon]

An Arial, a form of winged elf that was made under non-standard rules for early era second edition. Oh how I remember her fondly... and the 3.5 seconds she managed to survive after a critical iron bolt found a new home in her heart.

It was a 'house of horrors' game that my first ever game, that a random DM had set up for an experiment. For those who don't know, In house of horror games the characters are meant to die in the most gruesome ways imaginable. They are all about finding interesting ways to watch your characters die and no one is meant to come out alive.

The ironic part is the death was just... random... completely random. It wasn't something he had set up to slaughter a character. wasn't an elaborate trap or an epic monster that could rip your head of. Just a simple metal bolt, fired by Joe-warm-up-encounter, that happened to critical hard against a low level character.

 

[Dante2015]

Because I like the wierd: a Thri-kreen monk, who had a terrible habit of intimidating people by standing behind his clutch mates eating human arms and such forth, and escaping from trouble by leaping onto tall buildings...

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I only played D&D a little bit because I'm kind of a jerkass with games like that and I pissed everyone off (mainly because I refused to learn all the details and numbers and stuff and kept making the DM figure everything out for me.)

That said, I told him "I wanna be a dwarf, and I wanna be a melee tank." And he wrote some stuff down, and I was. My name was Stiffy Bloodaxe. I was quite bad-ass.

I didn't get too far. They booted me after the 10th time I suggested we open a cursed treasure chest by letting me hit it with my giant hammer, spell splash damage be damned.

I also thought it was funny to swear and make fart jokes to the NPC royalty who were giving us quests. No one else had any fun breaking out of the dungeon the guys would throw us into after this.

Man, I miss that game...

I would of let you do it too.... Then again I am a "Anything goes" sort of person and if you didn't listen to a DMs warning (goddess, I was a DM once wasn't I....) then you deserve to see what happens when you hammer a magical chest or make a monarch pissed with you.

 

[Eoeoz]

Mine was an evil binder halfling, in the Realms, with a grudge against Tyr. Ended up killing quite a few of the PCs, without the others really noticing (blessed Hat of Disguise) and eventually when they snuck into the big lair of the Cult of the Dragon I turned sides.

Twas good, though I did sorta end up disintegrated by the party's cleric...

 

[dweomermaster]

Oh I remember my first character, an elven cleric named flute, she was awesome til some twat in our party accidentally killed her at level 11 *sob*

 

[anaphysik]

Only 2 years ago, 3.5 - Tork, a borderline-LE dwarf monk/swordsage. Had tons of fun backflipping down hallways, jump-kicking the heads off statues, and punching people so hard they exploded. Ah, good times, good times....

 

[MysticnFm]

I had a shifter monk, waaaaay back in the 3.5 days (okay, so it was only, like, 5 years ago...). Named Shisno, because I thought that Red vs. Blue was soooooo funny at the time.

What are you talking about, RvB is still funny. Just not as much as it used to be.

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... ok, i played a lot of other Pen&Paper games before D&D... my first character ever was in "The Dark Eye"... but oh well you asked for D&D (One of my least favorite games... even if i am in a group right now) - Let's see

I think that was the guy i recreated for this campaign too: Zangulus, a Warrior/Sorcerer/willbesoonrogue. (Bonus points for the dudes who know where i stole the name *g*). He is a complete coward, trickster and funny man (and chaotic neutral). Best stat: Bluffing. Had no attack spells (the one i play now just got some - the most evil ones one can learn). He sometimes has strange episodes of bravery, nicedom and honor... but regrets every minute of it. Also he has some neuroses and phobias. Fun Character to play, especially his interaction with the honorable group he is in right now)

 

[lemonofdoom2]

My first was in 3.5, none of that 4th edition bollocks. He was a male half vampire/half human neutral evil wizard with school focus on necromancy and a stitch patch work cat familiar.

My character's name was Griever, and his cat was Gir. Whenever i DM i usually throw him in there in some sort of cameo role. along with my other five of my top 6 characters.

My favorite to play though his an Ogre SkullCrusher Monk named Roth. He's a large creature, so he gets the upped damage. Plus he has superior unarmed strike from the tome of battle giving him even more damage. At first level his strength modifier was +14. He also had the feat knock down, from the complete divine (i think). Plus combat reflexes and improved trip from his monk levels. it insured that when it came to melee, i always won. Plus he eventuall got a white dragon and a blue feather he tied into his hair that allowed him to spread wings and fly at equal speed to his movement.

they're great.

 

[Joos]

My first DnD (3.5) character was a Human Rogue/Fighter named Dirak. He was a bounty hunter favouring a heads on approach rather than sneaking around and traps. Being Lawful Neutral, he honored every contract, but used any means necessary to carry it out.

With his cold-enhanced Bastard Sword (did the buckler/bastard-sword combo together with power attack to seamlessly toggle between defense and offense without needing to use a move action to put away the shield), I critted a back-stab of a devil lord and managed to do 74 damage in one two handed, power-attack hit. After that, the rest of the party looked at my damage dealing ability with envy until the wizard learned some uber area effect spell. Excellent front line fighter in his full plate, but he was also and excellent adventurer with heaps of skill-points. He later became an astral champion. I always carried around a pair of masterwork manacles, but I never got to use them. *sadface*

He was fun to play in a party dominated by good aligned characters. Our lawful good cleric was like >:-C

Aaaah, good times.

 

[Tempest Fennac]

My first ever character is a GC Gnoll Cleric of Ehlonna using an LA 0 Gnoll variant which I made (I consider Gnolls to be cute, and I didn't think that much to the Core races, or listed alignments, but I wanted to avoid being rubbish thanks to LA and Hit Dice). Here's his sheet (I haven't got to use him much due to the games I use him in dying sadly): http://mydndgame.com/character/104/sheet .

 

[TheBluesader]

I would of let you do it too.... Then again I am a "Anything goes" sort of person and if you didn't listen to a DMs warning (goddess, I was a DM once wasn't I....) then you deserve to see what happens when you hammer a magical chest or make a monarch pissed with you.

I had no problem "seeing what happens." I thought it was funny, and the DM really didn't seem to care (obviously he was cool with helping me, so he was kind of open minded about the whole thing.) It was the other players who got sick of my goofing around.

Seriously, I just wanted to see what would happen if we never actually got around to the "quest" because I kept causing trouble and kept throwing us off on stupid tangents.

We were in college so we really didn't have that much time to play, so I think they got pissed because I was wasting so much valuable time. But I don't feel bad because all of them were just in it to get high-powered magical items for legacy characters (or whatever high-level characters are called in D&D).

I guess I just can't help it. I do the same thing with video games too - do my damnedest to see how far I can push things before I'm forced to come back and do it the way the dev intended.

 

[Woem]

I think my first DND character was a 2E human ranger, an archer called Eagle-Eye Greyhawk. I know it's not very original but it's still one of my favorite stereotypes.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

The first character I made for myself was an elven ranger, Inabi Raycrest. He was a black elf. Not a drow, just an elf of the African-American persuasion. And he could crit like a mother--

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He should have had an evil white brother named Raycest

My first character was a human sorcerer. I was about 9, so I tried to make him as much like a super-saiyan as possible without my friend seeing what I was up to. His name was Kaega. (Yes, he practiced Kaegan learning styles, and sat his enemies at tables of four.)