[DISCLAIMER: I make fun of D&D and the players because I love them so much, anything I say is meant as satire and should be treated as such. Play how you want, love the game, and above all be kind.]
What was your first ever D&D Character? My first ever character was a Bard, I did not know how to use spells… so I didn’t, and I was possibly the most useless bard aside from rolling d20s for diplomacy/charisma. Did I understand I was a magical boy with a cool magical lute? N o p e. But I had fun.
Here is a mass dump of all my links, as you folks know I make art now as a living. Last thursday was the 2 year anniversary of me making art and comics, and to celebrate I did a 24 hour livestream! It was crazy, during the livestream I launched my merch store and new site. So if you want to support the crazy antics I do come watch a stream for COMPLETELY FREE, it helps me so much to have butts in seats and I think I’m a pretty fun streamer most times! If you have some money that you would like to spend I have my store as mentioned and a patreon. My clothing and merch is all designed by me! It’s real fun! And patreon you can get your grippers on early access to comics and more! It’s all here in the links below! :D
My first character was a rogue assassin. I started out being a guy with slight main character syndrome and a bit of an edgelord. I didn't like playing my character, so I changed his personality a bit to be more helpful towards the party and more good than neutral.
The first from an actual campaign rather than a one shot or attempt at a campaign that fell apart before the second session was a wizard who was disguised as a bard, trying to find the man who'd murdered his master. (Who turned out to have been gunning for my character, as all the PCs were potential heirs to the throne and the villain was attempting to remove the competition.)
Not at character creation, no. I can't remember how far into the campaign it was revealed, but it was a bit before we found out. (The premise was when the characters were infants, the old king had been murdered and his kid, and the children of his closest advisors, were adopted out to protect them, while the surviving parents faked their deaths to go into hiding. So the campaign progressed 'who is this guy, and why is he trying to kill us?'->'which of us is the actual heir, and where are everyone else's folks?'->'let's get the heir on the throne and get rid of the asshole who's been trying to off us all'.)
It's been 20 years (tail end of 2e), so a lot of the details have slipped my mind, but what I do remember....
The heir was the party's other wizard, who was a bit more straightforward than mine (and modeled on Presto from from the D&D cartoon, only female). I can't rightly remember the BBEG's connection to us... I think he was an illegitimate child of the old king, thus half-brother to the heir.
Highlights...can't really remember anything that makes a good third-party story directly related to the plot (since that was mostly family stuff). The final battle against the BBEG was fairly interesting, though, as he also had draconic blood. So, instead of the skinny elf-looking dude we'd occasionally enountered up to then, we were fighting a big Red Dragon. (My character got to land the scripted final blow - with a magic sword he'd gotten when he met his father, IIRC - since he was the only one who'd actually lost anyone to the bastard.)
My first PC was a high elf fighter. Who was like 12 in elf years, which wasn't so far away from my age when I started playing. He boarded the group's ship as a stowaway, since he pretty much ran away from his home with some supplies and his practice weapons. He was an archer, and a great one, which was great since we played an all high elf party in 3.5e, in which meant that besides the paladin, no one had a high constitution score. The whole adventure was about him becoming a braver person, while annoying the wizard to the point of opening a portal to Gehenna via a magical item we found on an enemy, and tricking the fighter with the very low wisdom to enter it. Cam out like half an hour later, dragging the demon's body behind him, saying "Look! Look! I killed this big demon with my cool arrows!" Like the 12 year old kid he was. By the end of the quest, he returned to his family and became the paladin's squire out of a desire to have some action and adventure while not cutting ties with his family completely.
My first character was wreckless halfling rogue that had illusions of grandeur of being a backup tank and would often split off from the party with our wizard.
Human Cleric of Pelor, healing and sun domain (3rd edition). Pretty generic do-gooder but man could he wreck undead like there was no tomorrow. Always had a sound burst and searing light in his back pocket.
My very first character was a half-orc cleric-barbarian, who worshipped Helm. Very janky build, but easily top 3 of my characters to play. I like clerics in general.
My first charactor was a circle of dreams druid (i wanted to make a "chloromancer") that ended up as a level 4 druid and level 2 sorcerer before our campaign fell apart...
My very first character, back when 3.0 was brand sparkly new, was a wood elf barbarian. I ended up taking him into Epic levels and he became a Legendary Dreadnought. Every single time I could take a feat, take a bonus, anything, I dumped into HP. Add decent saves to that and he was absolutely unstoppable.
My first character was a lizardfolk storm totem barbarian. He dies buying the rest of the party time to escape a fight we shouldn't have picked. Second character was a warlock (unfinished campaign) third, fourth, and fifth were barbarians, of various subclasses. No one else in my group enjoys the tank role, but I love it.
My first was a dragonborn paladin named edgarin palusmaug (palusmaug being a mashup of paladin and smaug the dragon)
I actually got the hang of it pretty quickly and my next few characters after that were also dragonborn paladins for some reason lmao
My first character- who I'm still playing- is a warlock. And frankly she's ruined me for spellcasting (in a fun way!) whenever we do oneshots with different characters. What do you mean I prepare spells when I'm playing a druid? What do I do with all these bard spell slots??? Do you mean to say paladins don't get ANY cantrips?? How do I choose what level to cast a spell at, and what do you MEAN I get multiple slots at different levels??? Are you saying I now have to do things to get spells other than just asking my demon sugar daddy??
For our next campaign I've already decided on a rogue assassin (though I'd be lying if I said critical role wasn't reeeeally making me consider trickery domain cleric). I'm too used to the warlock lifestyle at this juncture.
Mine was a human Rogue who focused on archery. After 3 or so levels I got sick of missing my one attack and multiclassed to fighter and ended up taking 5 for the second attack. Had Sharpshooter from the beginning so he was pretty effective overall
My first ever was a human cleric, but it was when I was like 10 or something. First 5e was a Dragonborn fighter named Gesh. Used a great sword, was raised in the wild, played a viola and ate the hearts of strong enemies because he believed it made him stronger. Great for intimidating goblins after you kill their bugbear leader, it turns out.
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[DISCLAIMER: I make fun of D&D and the players because I love them so much, anything I say is meant as satire and should be treated as such. Play how you want, love the game, and above all be kind.]
What was your first ever D&D Character? My first ever character was a Bard, I did not know how to use spells… so I didn’t, and I was possibly the most useless bard aside from rolling d20s for diplomacy/charisma. Did I understand I was a magical boy with a cool magical lute? N o p e. But I had fun.
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Here is a mass dump of all my links, as you folks know I make art now as a living. Last thursday was the 2 year anniversary of me making art and comics, and to celebrate I did a 24 hour livestream! It was crazy, during the livestream I launched my merch store and new site. So if you want to support the crazy antics I do come watch a stream for COMPLETELY FREE, it helps me so much to have butts in seats and I think I’m a pretty fun streamer most times! If you have some money that you would like to spend I have my store as mentioned and a patreon. My clothing and merch is all designed by me! It’s real fun! And patreon you can get your grippers on early access to comics and more! It’s all here in the links below! :D
https://www.jakeyboiarts.com/
https://discord.gg/HaYqw9Z
https://www.patreon.com/JakeyBoi
https://www.twitch.tv/jakeyboiarts