What was the coolest D&D character you ever made?

Question

Why was he or she so cool? Give us all the details!

Answer 1

A male ranger, whose one starting difference was he had silver hair, who unwillingly contracted lycanthropy (with all attendent problems, but the DM let me keep running the weretiger except when he changed), who put on a girdle of femininity (which quashed his plans for making a female priestess fall in love with him), and to cure the condition he tried downing a few potions and ended up a tiny, female, tiger in front of his unrequited love.
The diminution eventually wore off. It was my first experience at adversity actually creating character rather than causing me to feel unjustly punished.
A lot of years have gone by since then, but that same character sticks in my mind as she struggled with her lycanthropy and repairing the damage she did (or suffered over the damage she couldn't repair), the loss of face, and still held true to his (her) principles, adapted to being female with strength and character (what a twist for a teenage male player to learn to do so. Made all my future female characters as a DM very easy to believe from then on).
She ended up founding a city, designing it, gathering the help, defending it, all years before such rules came out, of course. It was a very satisfying and educational character to run. Made me a much better DM for all the female gamers who joined the game, but a little harder for the young males who still had some preconceptions about females they didn't recognize in themselves. One of women married me and we now have a six-month old daughter!
I wonder if I could have understood her as well had I not had Pharamond, the tiny (briefly) silver female weretiger ranger.

Answer 2

A wizard with five penises so that he could shoot five magic missles at once. The only problem was that he needed the assistance of five beautiful half dwarf males.

This one time, my DM had us go through a parallel door to Magic Kingdom to see the castle, and on the way we had to go through the Atlantian soulgrounds, our party got into quite a scuffle. The ranger, the druid, Karl Marx (an actual character with a sickle and hammer), and the fat, stupid kid who played the dwarf all died. Well, the druid didn't because he always bragged about having the diehard feat, but otherwise he was useless, he couldn't even train horses to assist me. That loser. Well, anyway, my 5 magic missles killed five bogarts at the same time, I felt so proud, then I realized I was a big loser, and I'd been in my friend's mother's woodpaneled basement tooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long.

Answer 3

I had a super fun character in Ravenloft. 2nd edition. The premise was that we were all characters from elsewhere who get shipwrecked and sucked down a vortex and wind up in a land of strange horrors. I decided to really run w/ the fish out of water element and made up a socialite fire wizard, who was really only studying magic because her father wanted her to 'make something of her life.' She kept carrying around a letter of credit and showing it to the cowed merchants she'd encounter, and was perpetually shocked that no one would honor it. Eventually of course she adapted to her environment, but playing someone so obviously ill-suited to the campaign was a ton of fun.

Answer 4

Ellyn the Ranger. Why was she so cool? Because she started out as a first edition ranger made straight out of the Player's Handbook - no special house rules, no fancy frills, nothing the DM had to "okay". She didn't have a single stat over 15. No power gaming, about as far from a cheesed munchkin character as it is possible to make.

I made her to reflect myself, to be my "alter-ego" in the campaign world, to be someone I could empathize with completely and through whom I could immerse myself in the story.

Sixteen years later that 6-hit-point Ranger is an immortal 17th-level "Star Trek" engineer and just a few XP from Heirophant Druid. She is a Baroness of the realm and is married with a Ranger/Bard son and another child on the way, a social activist who has fought for and won equal rights for goblins and half-ogres in her kingdom. Through her, I have come to love her homeland and her people as if they were my own. She has travelled in Ravenloft, Kara-Tur, the Outlands, Sigil, several outer planes, multiple primes, through time, and of course in space. She is probably one of the only characters to have ever cured Strahd's vampirism and turned him to good. She has loved and lost, and always hopes and loves again.

The point is this: She started as nothing special skillwise, but with a lot of heart. Ellyn will always be a part of me. I've learned things from her about myself, about dealing with others, about looking at the world. Her mottoes:

"Hey! A monster! Let's make friends with it!"

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi

"There's something you don't see every day... unless you're us." - Xander, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

She's never been afraid to try the impossible, and her egalitarian, live-and-let-live views often annoy the Paladin. Don't get me wrong. She has a fiery temper that she has learned to control over the years, and a few things she simply will not tolerate. But no character has ever wheedled her way so successfully into my heart.

With the emphasis on power-gaming made in 3rd and subsequent editions, I am sorry to see younger players (I'm 39) missing out on great stories and depth of character development in favor of cool feats and first-level characters that could clean Strahd's clock.

Answer 5

Played an assassin based on the character Cawti from Steven Brust's JHEREG novels. She was my most successful so far.
Not built just for killing, but for surprises- she was a little of this, a little of that. It was my first "role playing", not just hack and slash PC.

Answer 6

chaotic evil gnome cleric/illusionist,because he could trick ppl into believing they were healed,ppl AKA,player character,robin