Who was/is your favorite [type of] character?

[Senkusha]

I'm sure we've all had that favorite character that was blast to play. Who what he/she?

 

For me, I had a ton of fun with a ShadowRun character. Hikari was an uncouth unholy terror who suffered from Neoteny and had bi-polar disorder. She loved her heavy weapons and stalked the crappier parts of Seattle looking for "fun" (people to terrorize). She also had an obsession with leaving her "signature" card (a rainbow business card) behind at every "run" she participated in.

I'd love to bring her back, she was so much fun!

[rorytheromulan]

Not my favorite, but my very first character, not here, was an edgy alcoholic rage ball of a barbarian, who sometimes chased skirt (and failed). He (I) might have been what scared off several players when I was first starting out. I think I would like to return to him and "remaster" the character concept and chisel down the chip on his shoulder. I've been told that in spite of being That Guy, my roleplay of the character was off-and-on compelling.

Typically I like to stay away from intensive resource management and roles that test your patience, like dedicated casters and rogues, and just make a dirt simple, straightforward DPR.

[cailano]

In TTRPGs, I'm primarily a GM, and I have very little experience playing. My favorite PC is actually a group from the game Icewind Dale.

 

Taren: Paladin (sword and board)

Kharn: Human Fighter (two-handed sword)

Morgrym: Dwarf Fighter (axe and board)

Alaina: Human Cleric of Lathander

Shane: Elf Fighter/Thief (archer)

Uldred: Human Magic-User (Diviner)

 

I love that group. I must have played a half-dozen different iterations of them at various difficulty levels and on different platforms. IWD is probably my favorite video game of all time.

 

[Raistlinmc]

I certainly play martial and healer PCs more than I ever play casters or skill monkeys, if we're talking party roles.

As for favorite characters themselves, I've had a few, no doubt about it. Tkuk the half-orc from Cailano's Jade Regent game, Caithas the half-elf from an early Pathfinder campaign run by Vlad and Brüna, a dwarven warrior who I played as for years over on another site in a Forgotten Realms campaign who went and got herself married and elected to the Council of Phlan before subsequently getting TPKed.

Really, all it takes for a PC to become memorable for me is a dedicated GM, an active group and for the game to last long enough for me to find her or his voice. Once I really get the hang on a PC, from their tone to their motives to their accent, they usually end up having a fond place in my memory somewhere. :)

Edited February 28 by Raistlinmc (see edit history)

[Kelb_Panthera]

Hard to pick between 'em so I'll just list all 3. These are all 3e D&D multiclass monstrosities.

 

Luther Askarda; Paladin, Ruby Knight Vindicator, and Fist of Raziel. Had an absolute ball of a time trying to square the Paladin's code of conduct with the doctrine of The Ruby Sorceress Wee Jas. Protect the weak and punish the wicked but also those in the lowest stations in life deserve to be there if they're too weak and/or stupid to rise higher and even death should not be a barrier to the furtherence of one's "life" goals and the pursuit of spreading magic. Bonus points; while I was away (temporarily dead) several of my party members sold some orphans they were supposed to escort to safety. So that was a mess I needed to clean up. Guilty party did the -one- thing that could prevent a smiting; came straight to me with a confession and a declaration of desire to atone.

 

Hida Ken; Samurai of the Crab clan & unparalleled master of unarmed fighting. GM put us in a "You've been abducted by unknown forces and must find your way home" scenario. Extremely dutiful samurai in a world very much not the Emerald Empire. Trying to stick to Rokugani manners (read, my best understanding of Edo Period, noble etiquette) when no one else in the party is even Rokugani, much less samurai made for some interesting conflict both in and out of battle. Got to pull that scene from DBZ where Cell kicked Gohan in the head and just totally no-saled it except it was my character and a gnoll.

 

Geoffry the Blue; Warlock and Master of Incarnum. I was trying to do something novel since I don't build roguish types very often. I accidently made a hyper-competent character that was kind of a pain in the butt for the GM. Among the classes I built him with was a Chaos Incarnate and I defined his personality from that; the most dedicated "down with the man" anarachist I could manage. At one point we found ourselves on the wrong end of an ambush but because I was scouting ahead in stealth, we became aware of each other simultaneously and I wasted the first one instantly. Turns out, it was the nearby city-state's militia waiting for an enemy combat group. We discovered this when we walked into said city-state with one of their dead in tow because the party's exalted monk wanted to see to him getting a proper burial. I was willing to negotiate with the local authority (anarchist not idiot) until the head of the guard gave me "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." Didn't win the ensuing combat but I just -had- to. I was knocked out more or less immediately and the party's winged sorcerer ended up hanging from a building by his fingers with the size large head of the guard in easy striking range and asking him if he'd -really- like to continue to resist arrest. It all worked out in the end. After my character died and got ress'ed. Ultimately got asked to keep Geoff on the shelf for a good while after that adventure. You make -one- DC 50 knowledge check at level 7 and suddenly you're a problem. 😏 I have honored that request, of course.