Favourite characters of my time.
Below are listed brief descriptions and bits of info of some of my favourite characters
I've ever played *sigh* Happy memories.
Elendal (AD&D Forgotten Realms)
Elven Thief/Mage/Fighter. (9/9/7) Survived over three years of campaigning in the
forgotten realms, despite being unhealthier than a paralysed kobold.
Elendal believed in style over everything else, hatred Drow, and was basically a thief
with a good natured streak for his friends. He used scimitars as they looked so much
better than boring old longswords and possibly had
the largest and most diverse collection of crossbows in existence (including but not
limited to pistol crossbows, a collapsible light crossbow, a heavy crossbow of distance,
and a steam-driven mechanical crossbow nicknamed "Bessie")
He enjoyed a healthy income after immediately assuming the position of party
accountant, after the initial paranoia from the rest of the players (He claimed to be a
ranger for his entire career) he was soon raking in the profits by taking a 20% cut of
everything the party found and any spare magic items they happened to forget about.
Although most of his money seemed to vanish in resurrection costs for the rest of the
party who insisted on getting themselves repeatedly killed.
Best moment
The romance from hell; In his early days of campaigning Elendal happened to meet a
half-Drow Enchantress who after fireballing him (and nearly killing him) slipped him a
philtre of love and the romance of the century,
or at least that campaign was born. He and Sh'au an a Larithian then enjoyed a stormy
sort of affair where she killed him at least twice before being killed by the party fighter
and burnt to a crisp to make sure she never came back.
After time skipping to the beginning of the universe (about 8 billion years ago) he
finally managed to gather enough cash for a clone spell to get her up again plus a
bracer of alignment changing and several philtres of love.
Whereupon she confessed her deed (feeding him the philtre in the first place) and the
wizard dispelled the effects of both the philtres and they became "just good friends"
which was somewhat of an anticlimax for the poor fool after
waiting 8 billion and 5 years to pop the question.
Brad "the brave" (AD&D)
Elven Thief/Mage (4/3). It's the game style as much as everything else that I remember
about Brad "the brave". No-one in the entire party was sure of any of the other
characters classes, alignments and in some cases race!
Just to be confusing Brad posed as a Bard. His charm was in his utterly cowardly
nature and the immediate claim to all the glory once the fight had ended. He specialised
in cowering, wingeing, creating elaborate cover-stories and attempting to
impress his mage girlfriend, who frankly could have done a lot better.
Best moment
Stuck in a cell after being captured by chameleon men I innocently ask the DM "So
whats the chance of me picking this lock with no lockpicks?", "Oh I'll give you a 1%
chance" he replies. Lo and behold I roll 01 on d%. (I would like to
point out that I am usually one of most unlucky gamers you could ever meet) After the
initial stunned silence I announced to the party "Hey look! They left the door open!"
At which point the dwarven fighter held the door shut (despite the
rest of the partys attempts to pull him off the door) and shouted for the guards. Love
those lawful good characters! *sigh*
Doomsday/Speedball (Cyberpunk)
Doomsday started out as your typical depressed gung-ho killer. If anything could go
wrong, he'd expect it to, if it didn't it certainly would next time. After a near fatal crash
in a hovervan and a bit of surgery he underwent a complete personality
change and became Speedball, fastest solo in the west. Yeah-yeah, I know what you're
thinking, "So what's so different about a solo who wants to be fast with his gun?" well
it wasn't combat speed he was obsessed with, although he was a rather dangerous
person to get on the wrong side of, no, he was obsessed with flat ground speed. Skate
feet, enhanced cyberlegs, speed boosters, he had them all. He could skate at about 70
odd miles per hour on a decent road.
Best moment
We formed our own terrorist organisation (named "PAGAN" after the group from the
film "Dragnet", although the acronym meant "People Armed with Guns And Napalm")
after one particular terrorist group (Anarchy America) claimed responsibility for one of
our
defective "hits". (we weren't going to let some two-bit organisation get the glory for
the chaos we created!) However we hatched a plan to get more publicity for
our group than anyone else; After about a weeks worth of work to set up demolition
charges and convince a media helicopter to be at the right place at the right time we
struck. The sewers under night city had been rigged in explosives in such a way to
spell the word "PAGAN" in demolished roads, and all this with live TV coverage.
Great stuff!
Pixie the Netrunner (Cyberpunk)
Pixie lived for the rush, in anything she could find, anyhow anyway. She was usually so wacked out on some drug or other that it was an achievement to get a straight answer out of her, or any kind of answer for that matter.
She wrote programs galore (the GM hated me!) that did anything and everything I could think of, from my infamous insulting parrot program (that hurled abuse at people fluently in sixteen different languages in order to make them attack
it) to her own AI-Shrink, (She needed it!) She ended up as a party queen millionaress in Europe with her lover, Mahoney, a female solo to be reckoned with, from the huge profits she'd raked in writing strange and wonderful programs. Including
one that wrote programs for her so she could stop worrying about having to program in the first place and just party non stop!
Best moment
Whilst working for some covert operations group on an orbital station she got involved with a station security guard belonging to a corp. we were investigating (Hey! Gotta combine business and pleasure!) When we finally busted the group he was there
staring in disbelief that this innocent young thing (She could be rather subtle when she wanted) had turned him in; Not being the most stable person he attempted to blow her away with his gun, he missed, she disarmed him and blew him away with his
own gun. 'Course she was wacked out on combat drugs at the time... (Whatta Rush - blowin' ya lover away!)
Kavis Dunbar "Wonder Shaman" (Runequest)
Kavis was one of the last from a nomadic tribe of animal tribes, his tribe being the llama tribe. Not particularly suited for war (llamas hardly making fearsome attack beasts) the llama clan was virtually wiped out except for old man llama (the tribal shaman)
Kavis, a few others and of course his own llama, Ralph "the wonder llama", who Kavis maintained, could do absolutely anything, although as far as anyone else could tell, Ralph's talents didn't really stretch beyond chewing meaningfully and kicking anyone that
annoyed him.
Best moment
I was possibly the most unlucky player in existance during the entire course of this campaign, Kavis seemed to survive whatever we met, barely, but nothing he ever did ever seemed to work or go right for him. The situation I particually remember was when we
were fighting a bunch of trolls, Kavis being no slouch in the sword department had a fairly reasonable 65% chance to wack someone, not bad at all. However I managed to miss this damn troll I was fighting 11 times (yes eleven) in a row, before
finally fumbling attack number 12, breaking my sword and nearly disembowling myself. *sigh*
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