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Tell me about your favorite D&D character!
I want to hear stories about your beloved characters that you've created. What's their backstory, their style, their hooks, their interesting achievements, etc. Got a pic? Post it! Wrote a lengthy history? Share it!
I'll post mine too in a bit. After a character death in Curse of Strahd, my DM and I decided to reveal Rictavio's secret identity as my new character, a Water Genasi Tempest Cleric :)
On that note, no Strahd spoilers please!
I'm actually still kinda miffed that our DnD party basically broke up months ago and haven't met since. I was having a blast playing as this little ratfolk necromancer, "Skueen".
She was an ugly little old rat lady, she was. Oldest of the party. Smallest of the party. Covered in tattered and muddy robes. Smelled like death and shit on the account she had no qualms about rummaging through gore and literal shit. Routinely disgusted everyone else with her disregard for the decency of the deceased. My favorite time was when she worked a combination of her necro magic and rat-like skillset to burrow into a corpse and use it as a meat-puppet disguise. The rest of the party didn't initially realize it was her so she had to pull the jaw of the poor skinsuit back and stick out her sniffing little rodent nose with blood tipped whiskers. Despite her utter lack of charisma or moral standards, she was actually rather kind to living folks.
Deeper elements of her story are still up in the air, since the party ended pretty early, and I'd love to play her again with a new group.
That's one of the best things I've read all week! I've only played a tiny bit of DnD, but this story makes me want to go drag my group that I played with back together so we can, hopefully, have some awesome characters like that crop up.
One of my recent favorite D&D characters that I ran was Elrond Hubbard. He was a half-elf warlock to the Fey. He may or may not have been running a soul-based pyramid scheme in exchange for warlock powers. Don't worry about selling yourself into servitude, if you recruit other people you can pay off your debt and keep the powers. He even had pamphlets that explained how it all worked and what sort of powers you would get at different 'levels'. He may or may not have converted several villagers and even a few baddies we ran into.
I ran him for a friend's LMoP game, but didn't keep playing him after that, unfortunately.
Warlock is by far my favorite class, it's just so fun.
There was this NPC we were doing jobs for; a master blacksmith named Bayden. We ran three or four dungeons for him and then we went back for our pay and, like all players we had forgotten his name. And the DM replies, "Bayden."
"Wait... So he's Master Bayden?"
We were never able to recover the campaign.
At that point I feel the DM is obligated to make him a reoccurring character.
I had a high Elf druid who was very intelligent, but panicked under pressure. In one outing she accidentally started a forest fire in a misguided attempt to frighten away an agitated bear. :|
Favorite character was a silent monk that I had created. Background included a mind flayer who had destroyed the monastery that he was a part of. There was another monk in the group, and we ended up pairing up and creating this knock-down beat em up duo. I would knock guys down, and he would just face stomp them. Was really fun.
Never got to finalize his story as RL kicked in, and the campaign came to a end after about 8 sessions.