Top Five Favorite Characters (NOT RANKED)

[dkbuckley]

TO Play:
1. Kashmir: drow mage. Powerfully fun
2. Mergin: dwarf mage/theif. Not at all powerful with spells or the sword, but crafty like a mother and could always find something to do in nearly any situation.
3. Marasmus: human priest of Ilmater (god of suffering). A glutton for punishment that adventured without any armor whatsoever and every trip featured excuses to work in new and more painful self-inflicted tortures.
4. Ronan Tynan: the singing human paladin. Just like the concept and enjoyed not having to think about whether to do the "right" things, he just acted how his code demanded and it was simple. Plus he was tough.
5. Glinfrimmis: elf pretending to be a human, mage-thief pretending to be a bard, character pretending to be a performing NPC. Specialized in illusions and mind altering magic. SO successful he convinced DM he WAS a human bard. ;D

As Other PCs:
1. Eihonder? Cheese's paladin from Greyhawk. Just because he jumped in the mouth of a black dragon on purpose. Got to love guys on your side willing to do anything that it takes, even if it is ludicrous.
2. Ug: Papo's one-named lizardman from Invincible Campaign. Gotta love a right hand man that is there even after shaking off losing his right hand as if it were merely an eyelash. Super-powerful bad-ass ally. Plus he soaked up the damage, which was a nice treat. Plus he is a lizardman and I love lizardmen.
3. Kreig Dragonaxe: Booth's minataur barbarian raging warrior. Now, Cheese played too, but he slept thru it, leaving the campaign a two man operation. We had fun and ever designed a barracks complete with training grounds and a battle wagon. Silly, but fun.
4. Loom: Albino's elf warrior. Battled so many times in Ravenloft it's not even funny. Then he switched over to the good side and became my lieutenant. Nice to have him working for me instead of against me.
5. Ring's devilish character in Larry's campaign. Just because there was some reason my PC decided to "look after" him. Which meant casting spells at him to prevent him from killing bystanders and eating their brains.

NPC Land:
1. KOZAR. If you don't know the legends of Kozar, there is not enough space here to explain why he is immortally placed on this list.
2. Raistlin. (Dragonlance) Super powerful, super evil. But cool too, in a creepy sort of way. I am biased, having read some of the books about him.
3. Kettle Mezaner: halfling sorcerer from Stormrealm. Hard not to like the big bad guy you chase all night only to sit down and have rational conversations with and try to ally with. Literally talked to him for an hour before fighting every time.
4. Pact Lords. Parties of monsters to fight? Bring 'em on. Cool idea and good battles.
5. One armed McGinty, the barkeep so horribly insulted for his lack of a second arm that he went out and bought himself a new one. Just plain memorable.

[Rob G]

Ok, Most of you wont kinow any of this charcters but i wanna play too.

Tandrin Azinar- Wild elf tiger clan nomad cleric of tempus. All clerics of tempus are insanely tough and this guy defined it. The chaotic order of Tempus's clergy made for great fun. He has a floating citadel in the para elemental plane of lightning which everytime he returns too he has to fight his toughest follower and kill him. As they are always trying to take control.

Damoc -21st level drow wizard -Need i say more. He lives in a black tower with nothing but evil beasts that he creates. When adventures come he shinks the tower and takes it with him. But regardless a true high level wizard is the best.

Pern -High level elf ranger -Rangers are great and should be done to erfection once by any player.

Mouser- Kender ranger/theif. The funnest ever. Always underestimated. One time on 3rd level was able to distract a red dragon because kenders are immune to fear. Meanwhile larry and ring raided its horde. Ken as DM let us keep ths horde. GREAT

Lazarus -githerai cleric of elemental fire- In kens planescape campaign. The guy burned things constantly. Very enjoyable for the less mature folks.


MY NPC's (funnest to DM)
Kozar -King of the NPCs

Gondegal -20th level fighter with a non-magical two handed sword and utterly insane. Never sleeps and constantly hunts evil. He is ill prepared, his attacks unplanned but he has more hit points then everyone in Ravenloft added together.

Elkhorn -The 1st NPC ever. In the old days when i was dming at age 12. You could hire an army of dwarves for a day of battle. They ofcourse were always slain down to the last guy. Except for one time. One dwarf lived. Boof was unsure what to do with him and thus made him king of his further 1 day armies. Being second level. This dwarf survived. This continued for many years. Now Elkorn the first NPC is a 27th level fighter, champion to his god OGAR (boof's god charcter). This guy will wreck yo sh*t.

Laris the chess playing goblin- An encounter i personally threw into a module. The party took him with and he stayed for ever.

Lord Soth -A Villian so cool he makes a cameo in every module. I kind of feel at this point lord soth is past his prime and people have lost interest in him. So i keep him working by throwing him in here and there,

Other people charcters:
Talon Doomhammer -Kens signature charcter. This man examplyfies power hungry PC. I love it.

Mergin -Buck- Something to do always. Including roleplaying. Nothing to do. He'll make locks.

Amer Stringblade -cheez- a palidin in ravenloft. In the end he took on strahd one deep. With the dispelling effect of holy sword he laid it down. Bad ass.

Andrais or lorath - Both bladesinger, both really the same charcter except boof played one and ken played the other, Blade singer are awesome

Any one of Groza's gnomes- Drazzius the pit bull rider. Doc Wud, the gnomish traveling salesman with tinker wagon. Infernius the lava shooter. Vindolf the lightning gnome vinking. They were all great.

That was fun---

[dkbuckley]

I seriously considered Gondegal. Just because he was always showing up and then disappearing in Ravenloft. I totally discounted the bad guys from there also, since they were all undead and a little bit similar to one another in some way. But Lord Soth has a cool name, kicks ass, and makes many appearances. My favorite was reading a book wherein he said something like "I can kill you with a word" and you know he has a spell that can do this, but you also know he's this bad-ass undead knight that can also kick your ass with his sword. Same goes for Groza's characters that I saw. They were memorable, but a little too similar to stick out individually. Especially since he was double-timing with two characters when I saw him play.

Considered Amer Strongblade too, since he was the king on the chess board and I lived in his castle, but at the time I could not think of his stupid name.

[larry g]

lord kai god of the blitzcret 36 level druid ranger samurai ninja if you can believe it. rides around on a cloud city fighting for the underdog .

eonis macstone midlvl fighter psionisist cilt wearing willium wallace wanna be in kens planescape campaign

my minotuar paladin from robs ravenloft campaign.


npc
darkmoor the dragon turtle, he has mad aperances in robs , kens ,daves, and of course my campaigns.

[Rob G]

Lars Paladin minataur of Paladine from dragonlance was named Mordenthaxus.

Yes yes gondegal is the bomb.

I first found him the npc section of the original ravenloft book. He was 20th fighter with non magical sword. I was like what the heck is this. So i started using him. In the next ravenloft source they explained that Gondegal was once king in far away world.

Then they came out with the huge Forgotten realms box set. Next to each page in the book was a small box with writting in it. In these small boxes they had put stories and poems to kind of set the mood. In the section where they details the cities of the realms theres a boxed text that tells fo the first king of arabel and how he was lost in the misty forest and never returned. His name was Gondegal. Cool right. In the newest incarnation fo ravenloft Gondegal has built a knighthood in ravenloft which oppose the darklords. They are called the Knights of the Shadows.

Concerning Darkmoore:
Yes yes i grew up with this guy and it was inevtible that i should use him. especially since the old guard had all but retired from DND. One thing we never got straight was who invented this guy. Larry, ken, dave.??

[The Nasinator]

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DARKMOORE!!!!!!

I'm not exactly sure who invented Darkmoore, it was either Dave or Lar. In those days the campaign was completely interchangeable! But this was one of the most beloved NPC's ever invented! I would eagerly burn in Black Dragon breath Acid for Darkmoore.

[Larry the dm]

of the characters ive dm'ed my favorites would have to be kens elvin bladesinger lorath, robs tiger clan elf tandrin believe it or not randys minotaur mace and of course brians classic character the black bowsman