Your Favorite Roleplaying Character

[Clark]

I've just recently got back into roleplaying thanks to play-by-post D&D. It's made me remember a ton of characters I hadn't thought about in a long time.

My question is this: What is your favorite character that you have roleplayed? While this is an analog gaming discussion, feel free to include characters from video games if they are indeed your favorite.

Some of mine:

Dim
-Troll from Shadowrun. Carried a BFG and wore a Santa Claus mask to avoid the sun

Mother Night
-a current D&D character. She is a swamp hag with a rat familiar named Precious

[Murtaug]

I have had plenty of favorites, but the one that stands out for me was my last 3.5 campaign.

Kelik
- Maenad Psion Shaper. Wore Deep Crystal spiked gauntlets. During his adventures he found a magical item known as a Genesis Heart, which embedded itself in his chest and allowed him to use his Genesis power to create his own planet. Originally the planet was where his astral seed was stored in the event of him dying.

He was by far the most powerful character in the game, I was quite proud of him. I eventually used Kelik and his world as the basis for my own campaign.

[Karak]

Sashine Sarinlord.

A cook with delusions of graduer and a halfling companion who looked up to him and spread untrue stories of his greatness far and wide. He thought he was great and greatly thought of himself.
Many an adventure was seen with this character of self-perceived greatness and lewd poems.
He now lives on in history as the only character of a rogue/thief class to never succesfully pick pockets in our game.

He was terrible at everything and thus terribly AMAZING to play.

I always play against type. Fighters who can not fight, thieves who can no steal, and magic users who can barely cast a spell. Don't know why.

[TheKeck]

Avron - excitement hungry rogue. First character I ever created.

Harshaw - halfling rogue. My DM is just awesome in this game.

Cuts in Dark - evil goblin assassin. Down and dirty.

(Nevermind the fact that this is, like, half the characters I've ever played. :o)

[mightbe]

Reverend Gabriel Chadwick
Preacher in the Deadlands: Wasted West world. Narrowly survived becoming a harrowed during a near death experience by giving over to his werewolf side. Brought down Alcatraz with a series of miracles that may never be rivaled.

[shunoshi]

That's an easy one for me.

His name was Ito Toshiaki, streetname: Shunoshi (yes, that's where the name originated). He was my favorite Shadowrun character of all time. He was a master of jui-jitsu and the katana, swore off firearms, and was an assassin for the Yakuza. Basically a ninja. :D

[Clark]

Reverend Gabriel Chadwick
Preacher in the Deadlands: Wasted West world. Narrowly survived becoming a harrowed during a near death experience by giving over to his werewolf side. Brought down Alcatraz with a series of miracles that may never be rivaled.

I am not familiar with the game, but man this sounds cool as hell.

[Khrymsyn]

Honestly, I'd have to narrow it down to 2 choices.

Braxx Graginruckourus (aka Braxx Atax, Braks Atax).
Dwarven Paladin I created originally in D&D, but played in various MMOs, most especially EQ1. Wanting nothing but to be a great warrior like his father, Braxx suffered a serious injury to his left shoulder on an early adventure, rendering it's range of motion limited. Due to the inability to use anything in his left arm but perhaps hold a bow, or use a shield well, he went into a drinking binge (even for a dwarf). Cursing the gods (yes, all of them), he subconciously tries to make sure something like that does not happen to anyone else. Because he's basically a "protector", his god has granted him abilities that, because of his demeanor, he hasn't exactly gotten control of nor cares about (most of the time).

Gurgle
Originally started as a Firbold Giant in D&D, but eventually became an Orc in everything else, Gurgle incredibly strong, and incredibly dumb. Very gentile personality, but also tends to break lots of things without realizing what he's doing (i.e. he'll accidentally knock someone unconcious because he decided to knock a door down, and you didn't get out of the way fast enough). This character's been fun to play for the times I don't really want to think =)

[shunoshi]

Gurgle
Originally started as a Firbold Giant in D&D, but eventually became an Orc in everything else, Gurgle incredibly strong, and incredibly dumb. Very gentile personality, but also tends to break lots of things without realizing what he's doing (i.e. he'll accidentally knock someone unconcious because he decided to knock a door down, and you didn't get out of the way fast enough). This character's been fun to play for the times I don't really want to think =)

I played a Furbolg in D&D once, his name was Smyte and he kicked some serious ass in combat. He always had to sleep in the stables since no inns had "giant" rooms (that's if the townsfolk even let him in town). :(

[Khrymsyn]

I played a Furbolg in D&D once, his name was Smyte and he kicked some serious ass in combat. He always had to sleep in the stables since no inns had "giant" rooms (that's if the townsfolk even let him in town). :(

Yeah, that was the fun part was when I got into town the reactions my DM had me deal with. My guy generally slept in the sables too =P

[mightbe]

I am not familiar with the game, but man this sounds cool as hell.

I highly recommend the Deadlands: Weird West books to everyone. And you can pick them up on the cheap.

I prefer the old school books to the d20 rehash that they did a few years back. The old books had a unique system that revolved around using a poker deck for character creation, arcane spells, and combat actions.

[Virtual Machine]

I don't play often, very very rarely. Absolutely LOVED my most recent character. He had been the spoiled son of the head of one of Eberron's great houses (the warrior/guardian guys - the name escapes me). Washed out of warrior training in disgrace, promptly murdered his father, and vanished without a trace. Reappeared under a new identity as a thief in the northern lands, a rough drunkard lout who carried two Kukri daggers as weapons. I played him as a cross between Snake Plisskin and Jack Sparrow. Was actually quite effective in the stealth department, played him up as completely useless until he had to prove himself to the rest of the party. Doing his voice used to kill my throat.

[Johan]

I wish I could remember. My last time in D&D was at the dawn of the whole thing, when I was in high school in the early to mid-'80's.

Man...wish I had kept that stuff. :(

[Clark]

I wish I could remember. My last time in D&D was at the dawn of the whole thing, when I was in high school in the early to mid-'80's.

Man...wish I had kept that stuff. :(

I was in a similar situation until very recently. The play-by-post style has dragged me back in after about 16 years.

The old books were so cool. I remember Deities & Demigods just being plain amazing. And the Fiend Folio.

I still have the original set, with the Basic and Advanced rules.

[Superman's Dead]

My favorite character ever was in a custom-system DBZ MUSH. His name was Rush and he started out as...just basically me. By the end of the game he was the most powerful fighter in the world, was blinded by a demon, had scars all over his chest and back from shrapnel and shattered glass, had a holy cut on his neck that was constantly dripping blood, and carried around guns that shot his aura encased in bullets.

My favorite D&D character is one I'm playing in the same game with Keck. His name's Viper, he's a bard who's about to take levels of Master of Masks. He has a fucked up past that only he knows about, and he's a compulsive liar. He just...lies about everything, even stuff he doesn't had to, and takes everything in stride because of how well he can hide his emotions.

[Vandabo]

My favorite character also happened to be the genesis of my online name... Vandabo Alexis was a bodyguard in the Star Wars RPG. He had wrist lasers under his coat and he was fun to play. Lots of good times on Coruscant.

[Utisz]

CoC, we hadn't played in a while and everyone put a little more thought into the characters.

Hieronymus Sinclair -Homeless, former astronomer. Had the second to lowest appearance score. He slept in libraries and his only possessions were a cat and a book on bees. Before the scenario had ended, he had knocked half the party out with his book, crippled another PC with guns taken from the unconscious players, carved a magic symbol into his hand on a hunch, beat a cultist with the book, and escaped a hospital stand off with the police by calling down an unholy swarm of bees after being shotdown.
Oh, and he helped blow up some key story locations.

[Lint of Death]

The only time I've actually played a pen 'n' paper RPG is these past couple months, incidentally.

Har'gyrd MkSördfihs - human paladin, newly level 3. Though he received his sacred education with the dwarfs of the mountain in which he lived, he avoided his destiny for over a decade by following in his father's footsteps as a cave squid fisherman. He's now a polarizing element in his group because he's the only non-neutral character and frequently insists on detecting evil before acting, arresting enemies (throwing his specialty, the hooked net and sometimes tackling them) and questioning them.

Har'gyrd would like to point out that these eccentric behaviors have saved the party on several occasions already. It also helps that he literally cleaves in two anything he barely manages to hit. And his fish are delicious and the party's near-only source of sustenance. :p

See, look how much I had to embellish my character to justify my desire to play a "cave squid fisherman" with a completely ridiculous name.

[biosc1]

Favourite character.

Brian. (yes, that's me)

In the Car Wars universe, though, I owned Brian's Best Busing. A company that people depending on to get them to there destination...a company with some bad ass buses! My brother and friends had an epic world going on...where our cash from battle to battle carried over to our next games. There's nothing like pulling a bootlegger skid and then spraying the opponent with a turret mounted flamethrower...wait, there is something better...barreling down on them, t-boning them, then shooting off some side mounted machine guns while you barrel pass and then finishing them off with some rear mounted rockets...

Dang, I loved that game...

[Superman's Dead]

Har'gyrd MkSördfihs

That's an awesome character idea!

[Mr. Murphy]

I used to play AD&D in the Dragonlance universe, and I had a Gnome named Pug. In the Dragonlance verse, all gnomes had ridiculously long names, and a personal lifequest. Pug was short for a full page of name I wrote down one day, and his lifequest was to dig a hole to the center of the earth. He was always collecting and testing objects to use as drill-bits or heat-resistant plating.

I had a werewolf character once who was an old librarian with bad eyesight and a physical deformity that made his legs twisted and misshapen. Everyone called him Goat. He was basically really meek from years of mental abuse, but incredibly intelligent. Actually, I really like playing characters with limitations - I'm not at all into being a superpower, I like to work within a constraint. I had another werewolf who was a young girl with horrible birthmarks over her face and body.

But Pug was always fun. I used him for years over an epic storyline involving a kender - played by the DM - who ended up being the god of luck and random chance. He used the character to progress the storyline in really subtle ways, so that it never felt like the DM was telling you "hey, look under that rock". It was a pretty big twist when Pug's only real friend - the rest of the party considered the gnome a hindrance and the kender a downright nuisance - turned out to be a god. We added him to the pantheon and even allowed a friend to create a cleric in his name on a subsequent game.

[Lint of Death]

That's an awesome character idea!

For the curious, tonight he got raging drunk and stormed out of a big-city tavern alone on the hunt for evildoers, but passed out fifteen feet outside the door. I, for one, was disappointed :o

There's also been the delicious irony that the foes Har'gyrd has most wanted to detain tend to speak a language that is only understood by the party member least willing to let them live.

[Xydarc]

Dane McBlaster:
A disgruntled Canadian Glitter Boy pilot who fell in love with an Elven Ley Line Walker, but refused to believe in magic. Whenever she'd cast a spell, he'd say "it was the wind" or "where do you hide the mirror?"

[Schnoogs]

I like to play the robber and she plays the cop....oh wait

[Telefrog]

Grungee Rathammer - A dwarf from the Deeping Mines of the Clan Rathammer, a long and distinguished line of pest control experts. Since Grungee didn't think there would be much glory in spending his days killing rats and other vermin to keep the underground dwarven strongholds clear of unwanted guests, he broke away from his family trade and went adventuring. His aptitude with his pest-killing hammer Cat's Pounce is greatly appreciated amongst mercenaries and ne'er do wells. His desertion brought great shame to his clan, which he regrets to this day, but he is unable to return home because his father has effectively disowned him.

[TheKeck]

Cimetrion - Blind Eladrin Ranger who throws and duel wields daggers. Always searching for unusual ways to deal with problems. My new favorite.

Click Click Click Click

[Jon the Uncool]

Raede O' The RoughKnight was my first table top Role playing experience ever in the summer of 2003. He was an elf who had been raised by an unruly mob of privateers and pirates in the southern seas of Faerun in Forgotten Realms. Raede could be cunning, but he possessed absolutely no concepts about the world and was incredibly childlike in his mannerisms. I played him as a combination between Radical Edward from Cowboy Bebop and Jack Sparrow (it had been about 2 weeks since the first pirates movie had opened). The voice was pretty hard to pull off at times, really sing-songy and happy-go-lucky with a touch of Jamaican lilt. The party got a real kick out of Raede because he was seemed so out there in his thoughts, yet was usually the only one with clarity of mind to get through some simple traps.

[Lint of Death]

Pointless update: at level 5 Har'gyrd's holy steed will probably be a huge monstrous centipede. He's also taken to 'rolling for happiness' to see if he needs a beer when he gets up in the morning. He tends to roll lower than 5 :/

[QueQueg]

Brandaboris Badaxe: Stout-heart halfling fighter raised by Dwarves. He thought very highly of himself and his abilities, considering himself the equal of any slayer of the mountain.

Metagaming: Monkey grip rules.