It was a Saturday afternoon and we were generating characters for a game run by one of my friends. His style of dungeon mastering could have used a bit of polish, but so could our play, as we were all 14 years old at the time. I grabbed the six-siders and let fly, coming up with: Str 9, Dex 11, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 8.

Not too impressive. Sighing with disappointment, I named my new hero: GEK, the Wizard

The party then went off to explore some ancient ruins. Our first encounter was a giant spider, which leapt down upon us as we entered the underground labrynth. Our fighters, the front rank, were first to die. They were soon followed by the cleric and the thief. Gek, hiding at the back in his 4 hp, AC 10 glory, smote mightily with his staff (I rolled a 20) over and over again (…then an 18, then a 19) as the monster failed to connect with its deadly bite (It rolled a 3, then a 5). Finally, the vile arachnid fell before the mighty quarterstaff of the fortunate mage and he staggered home, the sole survivor of the expedition.

Gek went on for several levels, eventually acquiring the sobriquet “GEK, the Incompetent”, as he never actually had an opponent fail a saving throw for any of his spells. Go to Comment

It's always fun to read about other peoples favorite characters, so many of them are memorable enough to fit in as NPC's into ones own game, or serve as inspiration for future characters. A nice trip down memory lane, thanks Mourn!

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I gave this some thought and would have to say my favorite character of all time was Kisanth, (Written up as a NPC sub here: ) a loner mage that got involved in a conspiracy to over throw the kingdom and replace a dopple  king with an outcast prince.

Unfortunately after restoring the prince to the throne is became all too apparent he was worse then the king impersonator, and attempted to disband several lesser guilds, leading to a costly war between guilds and the smaller kingdoms who supported them against the empire and their "state approved" guilds.

Along the way she managed to get revenge upon her father, recovering lost scrolls of wisdom, and offend the entire magi guild of Antioch when refusing to accept their advice over that of her familiars regarding the path her future should take. (They wanted her to join their guild as an instructor after the end of the magi war, her familiar wanted her to return to her home in the forest with him and raise a family.)

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Klauston Mondragon, Archmage (Retired): His career was long and adventurous. Married to a high priestess, two children (a ranger son and a mage daughter), founder of a town that eventually grew into the capital of a realm and founder of a mage school are just a few of his accomplishments. His best friend was an ale guzzling, mule hating dwarf. The two traveled together and got into many tough scraps until Klauston met his future wife, a priestess of high moral standards. She influenced him to change his carousing and mead swilling ways until he eventually married her. Now retired, he spends his days wandering the gardens of the mage school he founded when not in study in his private library and lab in the school's towers. Go to Comment

Truth be told, I wish there were more on these people's personalities and character traits ... several of these folk aren't a lot beyond war stories of favored exploits.  Let's have some bones under the meat!

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Redgre - the goblin with the diamond belt

When I first started roleplaying, most of our adventures crashed due to GM mistakes and sometimes loss of interest. The characters I played almost never survived past 1st level and never 2nd. My older brother was usually GM and he usually didn't want me playing with them and so I always had to roll up my characters in front of him and he was always unmerciful to me in dealing with pathetic stats. I've had a number of characters suicide when they could make little contribution to the game.

Redgre was my first character to have decent stats and to survive the usual crash. I played him until he was 7th level. Redgre, a goblin thief, was officially the side kick of a human barbarian named Thandar. Thandar was physically superior to Redgre except in endurance and in the beginning Redgre always had more hit points than Thandar. Redgre served the American Native god, Coyote and Thandar served Thor. House rules allowed praying to ones' deity and sometimes having something happen if you could roll your level or below on percentile dice. Thor gave Thandar a magic sword and raised his maximum hit points several times. Coyote removed fear from Redgre once, when he faced down an illusionary giant snake. Needless to say there were many times I thought about changing his deity or maybe GMs.

Other interesting features of the game included my character painting an arrow red and calling it his lucky arrow. Strangely, the dice seemed to agree and I rolled a natural 20 with it the two times I used it. Lastly, when we managed to plunder the bad guy's treasure vault, Redgre took belt covered in diamonds. Instead of selling it like I should have, my character wore it and got the reputation of being the goblin in the diamond belt. I would never do that now as I realize it makes him look like a pimp or gay. Go to Comment

May he rest in peace (or fight eternally in Valhalla, whatever would be more appropriate). Go to Comment

Deej

Way back in mid 80's I started my first (and still longest lasting) campaign. I was a freshman in high school, had no ability to mine a "website" for ideas, and many times took whatever was written in the Dragon as gospel. No one else wanted to DM, so it fell to me to create a world and its characters. Very early on I created Deej, the result of wanting to use the random mutation table from Gamma-World. 

Deej turned out an odd color, one ear bigger than the other, extra fingers, and all sorts of minor calamities. I believe he was a 1st level Magic User, but his spell use was always secondary. I gave him a bizarre Igor-like accent, and he was always eager to please the party. Unfortunately, the feelings were not mutual.

Deej was a foil, and seemed to greatly annoy some of the players. Yet on occasion he would have a spark of brilliance (a method for me as DM to help steer the plot or at least overcome an obstacle) and seemed to have extraordinary luck. So the players grew to accept the strange sidekick and he became an on again off again NPC for years. Without question, the DM's pet...

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This was fun! Thanks.

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This is a fun avenue for sharing and for reading about the experiences of others.

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This has potential I think. Just hope it caches on quicker. Go to Comment

How come this has not taken off? if I were more skilled in ideas I would put more up. good job to the guys who thought this Go to Comment

I nearly spit my drink a half dozen times....and haven't really read the entire sub. In my current state it got too complex once the second clergy was added. I need to print and study it, but the bastard running this site has no "print" button so what the hell!?

Still, I think this is a fantastic idea and probably due a change to the wiki since the deadbeat webmaster finally made that at least.

No vote because I need time to figure it out. However I KNOW it is a HoH post so done! Go to Comment

The criminal leader has a son who stands to inherit his father's place as head of the syndicate should he die. The son would very much like his father to die, but can't be caught hurrying him along.

He thought that when his father became ill, his chance had come at last. He was understandably infuriated when the healers announced that the artifact could heal him. He knows that the artifact that was stolen was merely a copy of the original, but he thinks it is an inferior one.

He has kept his silence, hoping that the copy will prove insufficent to heal his father. Should his father die, despite the artifact, he also plans to have the healers killed when he takes over, ostensibly for betraying the leader, but in reality in revenge for spoiling his chances. Go to Comment

A grand experiment, and probably one that should have been made before. Kudos and a HoH. Go to Comment

Strangely enough, Clergyman 3 has some aquaintances with the underground still, and his closest connection is his long-time friend; the son of the criminal leader who ordered the artefact stolen.

Due to his conversion, Clergyman 3 has been long out of touch with the criminal world, but when he finally meets up with his old friend, he will learn of the stealing of the artefact, and also of the sons plots to become leader of the underground.
After Clergyman 3 tells the Criminals son of the groups plan to find and retrieve the artefact, the son decides that this will be of benefit to him; if nothing else than to delay the artefacts passage to the king. Thus the party has an unlikely ally in the midst of their enemies. Go to Comment

A nifty little idea there; getting the whole citadel to work on a post. Go to Comment

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I whole-heartedly support this idea, and applaud you three for starting this! Go to Comment