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Hey there dakka, since we're a fairly nerdy bunch, and I didn't see a thread for this, post your favorite (or longest lasting) RPG character. Please, for everyone's better enjoyment, post the game/edition and relevant info on the character.


Thus far in my RPG "career" my favorite character has to be my current Assassin character.

Game: 4th Ed. DnD
Race: Shade
Class: Assassin

The idea struck me, since my wife wanted for us to do a campaign together (with just the 2 of us, so one DMs off and on, while we each play 2 PCs), and having just rewatched the first 2 seasons of GoT, to make a "Jaqen H'gar" for our game. So, he is a shade, who worships the Raven Queen and runs around with a longsword and leather armor. As the party's striker, he definitely has lived up to that moniker, as he takes massive chunks out of tough enemies with his "shroud" abilities, on top of doing additional damage to those who are separated from friends.

My overall favorite character was more of an NPC since I ended up running pretty much every game.

World Striding Storm, my Lunar exalt. He started as an ally and protector for the PCs and gradually shifted into an antagonist as time passed. Eventually he descended on the Kingdom the PCs were building out of a patchwork of rival nations at the head of a barbarian horde.

He served to humble the PCs who had become quite full of themselves by that point .


My favorite character that I actually got to play was my Get-of-Fenris Ragabash in Werewolf the Apocalypse. He was a charming smart ass who didn't take much of anything seriously. Until he really lost it in a fight.

Riposte Dufort

Pathfinder Rogue

He is the highest level character I have had in any RPG, and the most long lived. He's become something of a fantasy-esque Batman, combining stealth and a whole lot of tinkering and engineering skills.

Ahtman (it was supposed to be a place holder and just stuck), Genasi (Cindersoul) Wizard
4E Level 23

An LFR character played all the way up to epic but we have no DM to run any Epic LFR games (they take forever) and LFR 4E sort of died awhile when Next was announced. I still miss playing him. I also had a Human Rogue/Fighter I really liked to play named Brick Largehuge.

Current is a Dwarven Fighter with Maul in 2E game alternating with Half-orc Barbarian in a WLD game.

Does it count if I play the RPG alone? If so...

Morthos (Tiefling)
4e D&D - Level 8 Rogue

A drunkhard thief that was thrown in prison by the time the adventure started. Currently is wandering a region with the rest of the party, an exile from the human kingdom he was born in.

Also, the character I've made as a backup to my group's Warden...

The inspiration came (again, watching GoT) when I was messing around with the 4E character builder on the Wizard's website, and thought "what would Robert Baratheon look like as a character?"

And thus was born my Warden Fighter (weapon master). Dude uses plate armor, a maul, and half his abilities can be used in place of Melee basic attacks on the charge.

David Hartman - PetroChem Exec in Cyberpunk - shot and schemed his way to power whilst keeping his spendthrift, pleasure seeking girlfirend happy

Lady Sabina Hafna (Warhammer FRP) - minor lordling who saved the world and became a Vampire - when the game finished I even wrote about her in stories:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/528517.page

Tarek (Trek) In an alt universe, the Dominion won - he and two friends took the Federation back in a campaign that lasted years real time

Brony Starch: my deadlands mad scientist. Good start draws off the bat and a helpful mysterious past. Loosely based on Tony Stark. His unique blueprint was an armored suit, after the last mission, he invented a fuel tank and flamethrower for it.

I always GM, so I only have a couple characters.

I think this has to go to "Marcus Kincaid - my only gunslinger who actually did anything".

It was Pathfinder Society organized play for my RPG club at school, and when other people wanted to run those games (or I was on the verge of depression from having to run awful pathfinder society scenarios every week for people who either had no idea what they were doing or else played maxed out characters who beat all the encounters before anybody else even got to do anything) I was roped into playing an actual character.

This guy was pretty awesome. As opposed to every other gunslinger I ever played who accomplished absolutely nothing and whose gun jammed more often than they hit (my gun jammed on 1-3, I usually hit on a 5-6+, imagine that probability).

I vividly remember one time I was playing a gunslinger whose gun exploded and killed another party member... there's a reason I hate playing characters darn it!

A list of fav's.

Pathfinder
Human Fighter Ranger 5/2

I also had an Aasimar Paladin 7 for a short time as well.

AD&D
Human Thief/Ranger 9/3

Marvel RPG
Mutant who had regenerative abilities, and previously worked for a secret government agency as a Spec Ops operative. Kind of a mix between Wolverine and The Punisher.

I have a lot from the last 12 years.
William- Good natured "Jobbing Necromancer", in 3.0 Planescape. Played from level 1 to 14 with two character deaths, including a long stint reincarnated as a Goblin. Best thing about him was his slow slide from being a good guy into being a really pissed off bad ass as the faction war broke out, to becoming a bit corrupted with his own power and disillusioned with the "value" of life after he'd lost his so many times. Great arc, great game.

Bildad- Newly created Angel of Creation in an In Nomine game. Had a similarly satisfying arc, all "loss of innocence" and struggling with a complex world of greys given his firm belief that deep down, everyone was a good person. Really definitive in terms of how I saw role playing games.

Another fun one:
Scrak the Goblin Prince- I invented a whole "life debt" thing for the goblin culture which the party healer had inadvertantly created by saving my life in the first session. I had to save her life to pay the debt back, and since she was naturally psionic and my tribe hated psions, then I'd be honourably allowed to slay the filthy mind witch. Of course, she being the party healer, directly saved me more than I saved her, leading to a long standing rivalry and lots of humour as I would wake up cursing her after she healed me, and be trying extremely hard to save her, even putting myself at tremendous risk, so I could pay off my debts and kill her.

Also played a Lizardfolk druid in Ptolus, playing him sort of as a spiritual guide for the "lost" urban lizardfolk of the city. Had him be middle aged, and really enjoyed playing the old guy archetype. The campaign went on for years and a lot happened, but he remained a very satisfying "support" character to play.
There's lots of others, but they're my longest running.

Nicky 'Nick-Knack' Orphan. Female Halfling Artificer, Eberron Setting DnD 3.5
A plucky quirky girl who found a love for artifice after being taken in by a gnome Artificer in the city of Sharn. Kept several artificial homonculi as friends and pets named: An Iron Defender Renavault Tintanium Mk10 (aka Ren-tin-ten), Bob and Jig Thing'ama (Thing-a -ma Bob and Thing-a-ma-Jig), an Expeditious Messenger named Do-dad, and a talking pocket watched that insisted on being called the 'Jabber-watch'. Traveled with an ancient Warforged named Adam after his adamantine body that she met while working with her adopted father. Runner, a Shifter scout on the run from his own kind who believed him to be a monster and who had taken strange asylum with their last companion; a Lady-Knightess of an all female monk-paladin order in service to the Silver Flame and it's Keeper. Known exploits are little known but stories abound of her accomplishments with a six inch long piece of copper wire that was found stringing three potions together in the body of an ooze. She was fun to play and a playgroup favorite. Though the whole party was designed by me I only ever played Nicky and much later in another story, Runner. Though I did start a short story for Adams past it never was completed but was ten pages long at last check.

Other favorites include the Fey-Kissed Minotaur Bard and Virtuoso that ran a music pub in the docks districts of Sharn(NPC), a prodigal wizard with a dreamweed addiction, and a Commoner that made it to level 13 from 1 in an epic campaign through hell that had collected seven +5 and better swords and the kind attention of a gold dragon ally all of which were DnD 3.5. I liked my character in Shadowrun, Pacifist street samurai but the game mechanics weren't great and the setting sucked. Love playing Feng-shuei and playing older version of Equilibriums main character that has learned to curve bullets like in Wanted is always a blast. I have DM'd almost as much as I've played and am known for deepening the worlds and characters mechanically and even more story wise which has drawn me down quite the rabbit hole with all my characters so it's hard to pin them down to favorites. And remember kids, stats and power are nothing to a good role-player!

Thibeaux Treasurefist - D&D 2nd edition. A dwarf from Vaasa, he took greed to a whole new level, and eventually amassed enough loot to destabilize local economies. Spend an exorbitant amount of money on bounties, trying to drive rust monsters to extinction, after losing a magic sword to one.

I had a Human Wizard, Archmage, Red Wizard of Thay...and some other class that I cannot remember...Arcane Scholar maybe? He was a DnD 3.5 character, I believe we stopped playing when he was level 41. We had a base of operations on a Genus Loci that was comprised of a small city built around a huge wizards tower. We all had Epic leadership and various followers. For instance, our guard captain was an awakened construct, my wizard's cohort was a lich, an he had around 400-500 wizards who channeled spells through a portal in the tower that my character used for his ritual spellcasting. He had a single insanely powerful spell that he could only cast using the Ritual casting but I had yet to find anything that could survive it. We used it to carve off large swaths of other planes that we were at war with. We all also had gained the Paragon template and were trying to achieve demigod status before people moved away and the group fell apart. Not my favorite, but definitely my longest played and most powerful

Dnd 4th- Zarok my lvl 12 Dragonbron paladin. He never fails its fairly odd

Dark Heresy- Throne agent Lt. Grey (who later became Mar'zanorak Daemon Lord in BC) he was nuts. Before succumbing to chaos he was lost on a planet last seen running after a ship leaving him behind with a wheelbarrow and an unconscious weapon designer inside it

D20- the warband of black shields from the terminator d20game

Rogue trader- Assassin ziplock, she is currently on assignment to take out an eldar farseer. So far she's killed more eldar than her head unit can count, which was especially funny when the gm decided to make the unit malfunction due to overkill

BC- Mar'zanorak or my word bearer Gillies (named after the fishing brand) Gillies hit a techpriest so hard his head fell off.... The body is still sitting in a bar somewhere

Only war- Commissar McMurderage and his band of misfits... Not even gonna start about these guys

Deathwatch- battle brother Artemis based on the inquisitior character of the same name

Shadowrun- Zhuog my technomancer. He failed 6 matrix hacking tests in a row and when confronted by 4 armed guards then killed each one in succession.... WITH A BOW

I think that's it

So far I've had a..

Shadowrun Face, a smooth bastard who worked a lot like the Faceman from the A-team: Have one scam blow up in his face, roll with it and spin it into such a smarmy bs story that they didn't just buy, but utterly believed every word of it. (I tried to steal a keycard from someone in a lobby, horribly failed at the usual sleigh of hand trick, then rolled an excellent conversation roll and could spin whatever lie I could come up with, so I told him I was a security contractor who was checking their security systems, commended him on paying attention to people not belonging to the company and I would like to talk to the head of security please, here have a brochure.) He was a team player, the rest of the team.. wasn't.

Rogue Trader Seneschal / Rogue Trader in a custom setting. He started out as a weasely, smug, ladies man who only joined the Navy because if he ended up in the Guard he'd get fragged by his own troops. Over time I turned the character into a guy who is really good with a sword, in my final session cutting down a Terror Geist in one blow. I was also the guy who charged at a souped-up gun servitor instead of shooting it, much to the chagrin (and joy, because I could have died) of the others. Final session, best session ever, slipping into an ork fleet on silent running, going loud right in front of the enemy flagship, having a pointless shouting match with the big greenie in charge and then fighting our way out. I also got to go guns akimbo on said daemon, not that it was effective, but I always wanted to do that. Damn it, it was glorious.

There's also Cyberpunk where I was a street samurai, that never really got anywhere. Also played a session of Only War as a commissar, I doubt that will go anywhere either.

Right now we're gearing towards a Pathfinder campaign where I'll be a gunslinger.

 BrookM wrote:
So far I've had a..

Shadowrun Face, a smooth bastard who worked a lot like the Faceman from the A-team: Have one scam blow up in his face, roll with it and spin it into such a smarmy bs story that they didn't just buy, but utterly believed every word of it. (I tried to steal a keycard from someone in a lobby, horribly failed at the usual sleigh of hand trick, then rolled an excellent conversation roll and could spin whatever lie I could come up with, so I told him I was a security contractor who was checking their security systems, commended him on paying attention to people not belonging to the company and I would like to talk to the head of security please, here have a brochure.) He was a team player, the rest of the team..

I love face players like this. I had a guy who had like 12 fake ids stashed on him at all times just to be able to do stuff like this. It makes for mental game play even better when their working a job that the runners are running and they all of a sudden get "free rides" everywhere.

Another one i want to add is more of an npc/Johnson/technomancer/face kind of character. Im playing him as well as DM'ing. Now what he is is like those tv series characters you see that are like Abby from NCIS or Alfred from batman essentially. He stays locked away behind a mag locked (4) door with anti tamper circuits and biometric reader. He sits behind a computer and on a commlink dictates the teams moves by hacking sec info, security cameras, hardware, matrix, etc. Then feeds info to the team. He has everything high in electronics and hacking, etc but bugger all in everything else

Yeah, we could've really used one of those in cyberpunk, though our GM told us to either roll up something new or to Shanghai a player who would do something like that. Shame really, as the setting really hinges on having someone around who does stuff like that.

As for the fake ID's and whatnot, it made me for the most part a boring, but extremely effective player, as I maxed out those stats as best I could during creation. At one point the GM split the party into three separate stories (Never, fething ever run three stories at the same time, because ZZZZZZ) and mine was to infiltrate a corporate party, steal some data and GTFO. Only the GM thought it would be clever to throw in a little corporate takeover scenario for me, hoping I would lose my cool or something. Instead, I stole the data, transmitted it to our hacker when nobody was looking and disposed of the flash drive I had it on (Though only after I got confirmation from the hacker that he got it, I know the GM a bit too well), then proceeded to mingle for the rest of the session, calmly riding out the takeover, seeing as the armed perps only wanted to get rid of the old board, telling the guests that if we acted cool, we'd be left to our devices. So after I did my thing, whenever it was my turn I just told the GM that I was having another drink and rolling for pointless small talk.

My all time favourite RPG character was one run by a friend of mine in very long running Call of Cthulhu campaign

Conrad Nash investigative journalist was every bit the hard bitten reported drawn into the strangeness of the Mythos while chasing a story

One of his favourite investigative plays in small town America was to impersonate an FBI agent, very handy in persuading the local bureaucracy to co-operate

As his sanity slipped and his eldritch knowledge grew this fake persona gained a stronger and stronger hold until the character was convinced he was an FBI agent (in deep cover as a reporter) out to save the world

After looking to deeply into 'that which must not be known' he finally succumbed to a complete mental breakdown and returned (under my control) as an enemy always ready to oppose the PCs who he now believed were responsible for the horrors they were actually fighting to defeat

1st Favorite: I had a High Elf Diviner that I played in 3rd Ed D&D that went from Level 1 to Level 24 with the same campaign group. Was a glorious story of his life that can only come with that much in game time and RPing opportunities. He also found inventive ways to use spells that makes GM heads explode and snickers from the rest of the group.

2nd Favorite: Jeremy Finley, from 7th Sea. Avalon Glamour Mage and First Mate of the player run ship. Forging the narrative is what 7th Sea is all about, so playing in a game with others who immerse themselves into the character is a BLAST.

3rd Favorite: Darryn Merced, my House Davion Battletech/Mechwarrior character. He REALLY liked missile weapons...and the trigger associated with them. Firmly believed in diplomacy via 'Leave somebody left that will agree to your terms'. Eventually started his own Merc group called the 'Wailing Banshees'.

4th Favorite: My old West End Games SW character that was played for about a year, Socorran Smuggler.

5th Favorite: Phoenix Samuari Yojimbo. I love L5R RP, unfortunately my area doesn't have the interest I do.

Well, he definitely is my favorite although I have yet to actually use him in anything or be allowed to.

I am still on the fence about his name, so we will just refer to him as The Luchador.

He is, you guessed it, a luchador who crossed an evil spirit (wrong place at the wrong time) cursing him to travel the multiverse living his life in some cosmic version of the Labours of Hercules.

He is my multi setting character. Nothing special other then he is a luchador (semi competent fighter) with a curse.

my only RPG character (so far) is not really a fighter at all he is mainly a scheming smart guy he cant lift up a sword (this is for a song of ice and fire role playing) he has really high levels in deception, cunning, language, persuasion and knowledge. with good levels in some other stuff as well,he can get out of a lot of situation's with words but he has sometimes got into a situation over he head and he has paid for it. his wounds include loss 3 figures on his left hand, a disfiguring scare that goes up from the right side of his nick to close to his eye and the newest one getting hit by multiple arrows in most of his body. so ya he is not perfect but he is great for anything that does not involve fighting

I have this one Dark Heresy psyker that just WILL NOT DIE. The most distinctive part about his is a freakishly high WP (I was really lucky) and his "tatty robe". That is the description of the clothes you start with and I never got new ones. It has however survived going unprotected into the warp, a lot of fire, las-shots and bullets, and it occasionally is used as a way to distract enemies "I take of my TATTY ROBE!"

I'm playing in 2 DnD 4th ed games currently.

One character is a lvl 16 Dragonborn barbarian, albino, focused on ice attacks. Took the paragon path that gives wings, so can get into combat faster. Although technically a 4th ed DnD game, this game actually is a tabletop skirmish board game which just happens to use the 4th ed rules, so this character has been tooled for max damage output.

The other game is almost all role play. So I deliberately took an unconventional character. This character is a female mage who started off running a scam with a female rogue (another player in the group). My character would locate targets and charm them (either with skill or spell), then the rogue would pickpocket them, with my character ready to facilitate escape if we get noticed. In combat, the goal is to never, ever take a point of damage and just manipulate the entire battlefield. Powers are rogue-like abilities, teleporting/shifting, charms, and damage from a distance (Enchantment and Illusion focus exclusively). This character was built specifically because I hated the 4th ed ethos of all damage, all the time for everything, and she's surprisingly effective. Helps to have a group and DM who like and encourage roleplaying.

My current new character in a campaign is for the setting called OZ, dark and Terrible, which, obviously, is a grimdark Oz setting. We are using Savage Worlds.

I wanted to play something unconventional, yet with a healthy dose of traditional fantasy and a magic-user, which i never really play. Instead of being from OZ, I am playing a golem who was swept up-Dorothy style, from another world that is basically the Summer Court of the Elves. So he is essentially a Warforged Druid. Oddly enough, I am the most "normal" seeming character in the party, lol.

The latest session we were infiltrating the mansion of a guy who was attempting to assassinate the queen. Because "automatons" in the setting are basically unthinking slaves, and I resemble one quite a bit, I dressed up as a butler to move unnoticed through the mansion.

Perhaps the most fun character I've had was in our 2nd Twilight 2k party (after first party was pwiped in a disastrous operation). I had terrible luck when rolling him up. All of his stats sucked - except he was good looking. So what do with him? I selected him 'Rich' background and wrote that before the war he was a B-string gangsta rapper and named him 'Violent J', after a real rap artist of same name.

Our GM took a glance at the character sheet and noticed how he had almost no militarily relevant skills so it was difficult to justify what he was doing in the party. He could drive, so he was made into chauffeur: in reality he was worst driver of the party and almost wrecked our only HumVee. He had a customized Glock with chromed slide which he always bragged around, annoying other characters, but he couldn't shoot worth anything. However, the other characters couldn't just frag him, since he had connections and was good with people and had a nurse gf who kept the party in medical supplies. Said nurse was later kidnapped, and barely survived the rescue as my character grievously wounded her with his indiscrimate machine gun hosing - although none of the characters knew that in-game. Bullet wound was pinned on the bad guys, and my enraged character executed some of the survivors 'in revenge'.

It got even funnier later on, when some older character rejoined the party - one of whom was a German neonazi white supremacist. Much hilarity ensued.

Cyrus Venthorpe a Nosferatu Sabbat gunrunner.

He arrived in the city with a crate load of guns. He got killed when I gave the local Archbishop a Shady Sands Handshake.

Clink and then murdered.

Bishop (Human Cleric from 4E Dnd)
Al total badass, lead the group from the front, blasting back creatures with his big steel skull topped morning star. I think the idea was he was a cleric of the Raven Queen, but he ended up just being a brutal fighter who could heal and throw out some divine retribution.

When I was DMing my favourite character was a Hobgoblin warlord, bound by a code with his warband/

Arthus Erdan. Human Fighter, Pathfinder, ~Lv10. Had a habit of (somehow) being the only party member in a fight, either because I got sent to clear a path through what we thought were low-level guards and open a gate (They were low level, I got the gate open, they had reinforcements, the rest of the party couldn't kill a Will-o-whisp), or the rest of the party failed a save (this happened repeatedly, and not just Fort saves). Anyways, when the rest of the party arrived/regained conciousness/got ressurected, they tended to find Arthus unconscious on top of a pile of corpses.

He finally got killed, after taking off about half the bosses HP in one round. Boss was a Dragon. The rest of the party buried him with all his gear still on.

He was that awesome.

Garret, pretty much stolen straight from the thief games. Sarcastic and often out for himself, if he plays the hero its because he is getting paid well for it.

I pretty much always play rouge/thief/face characters.