forum Favorite characters?

Started February 19, 2018 by @Your-Humerus

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What was your favorite character you've played or have played with? I have a few for later.

I made a bisexual Dullahan character. She's neutral good. Any time someone looks at her funny, she throws a basin of pigs' blood at them (just the blood, not the whole basin. It's hard enough to buy blood or drain a pig whenever I can, much less buy a new bowl). She doesn't take gold, instead breaking into smaller pieces (which was annoying when she got 200 gold in copper). She doesn't currently have anything going on in her life, since all Reaper duties were taken over by the Judeo-Christian Angel of Death. So she just wanders around Ireland, casually saving people.
But what's really fun is that, at the beginning of every battle, she throws her head at the enemy for intimidation. About 3/4 of people run at that. Partially because my head smells like mouldy cheese.

I'm DMing a game right now, and there's this one player, Ophelia, who honestly makes my day. We're playing Monsterhearts instead of DnD, and she chose the character type infernal and named her Dark Power Nice Bear after her siblings stuffed animal. In addition to that, in the middle of a party, she wore a duck costume to try and hide her identity, and somehow escaped from the people surrounding her by flapping her fake wings and bolting to the bathroom. In addition to the party, she wasn't invited and instead snuck into it a day early, dressed as a maid, charmed the butler into thinking she was a maid, and hiding in a spare closet for a whole day.

(Sorry for the long post)
I started playing a Goliath Paladin named Johd Malley recently. Our mission was to steal something from the third floor of a local brothel for some necromancer who freed us from the headsman's block (I suspect he mind-controlled us to get us thrown into prison the week before). Our thief snuck up the stairs at his first opportunity, met some thugs, almost died, and jumped out the window to escape, but the fall didn't kill him. Then he finished himself off with a dagger in the middle of a crowded city street.
The wizard and I found a way up to the fifth floor and failed all of our stealth checks (of course), resulting in several battles where we almost died. A few misplaced Firebolts sent the entire building into a roaring inferno, creating a mad-dash down to the third floor.
After flying down the stairs and with the fire behind us, we found what we were looking for; an oily black orb from which a multitude of evil-looking tentacles sprouted (Johd, being a good-aligned Paladin, hated the whole scenario). The wizard tried to grab it, got caught by a tentacle, and died. Seeing this, I pulled him out, got caught by a tentacle, and then died. After succeeding on our Death saves, I threw a javelin at the orb, knocking it from its pedestal. We eventually got the orb free, and not a moment too soon, as the fire was racing down the hall to meet us.

When we found the Necromancer, he had brought the thief back to life and held out his hands expectantly. We gave him the orb, he dropped a bag full of our reward and disappeared. I'm really looking forward to our next session. Hope you enjoyed reading about my latest adventure as my newest character!

Almost every character I have played has been really fun and interesting that its hard to choose a favorite.
Half-Orc that went into improvised weapons and craftmanship with making ladders. Got both skills high enough that he could make a decent length of ladder from wood laying around and then swing said ladder in a 180 degree arc infront of him.
A extremely young Elf druid that would ride on a dire wolf and use conjure animals to summon a group of squirels. He had proficiency with crossbows and explosives. He would attach bombs to the squirels and have them hold onto crossbow bolts. They were then shot at enemies and would scurry around on them and find weak spots, then detonate the explosives. After awhile the DM made a side quest for me to try to make up for the “mass murders” of the fey people that were summoned.
I got a few others if anyone is interested in more.

I haven't played any DnD, but I've certainly watched enough campaigns to have some funny second-hand stories.

There was a Dragonborn who was a complete narcissist, had a sword named Toothbrush and a toothbrush named Percival. Every time he used an acid breath attack, he would scream-barf while secret frills would pop out like that dinosaur in Jurassic Park.

There was a wood-elf druid named Walnut Dankgrass (pronounced DAWN-grass), and her wild shapes had names. The hawk was Wingnut, the bear was Honeynut, the dire wolf was Wolf Nut, and the weasel was Sweet Bweezy. She had a special inspiration skill (or whatever the equivalent of an "ultimate" is) where she would send a horde of small creatures to do whatever menial task that would eventually get them all killed.
My favorite moment was when she summoned a horde of squirrels to find a specific nut, and the Drow warlock used his staff like one of those trash spears to pick up squirrels to see if they had anything.