D&D General First D&D Character?

[Istbor]

My first was a 3.x Ranger that I ended up going arcane archer with. He was out for wealth, glory, and the perks those two things bring with it. Probably not a typical motivation for a ranger, but hey... I was in like high-school.

It was a very sandbox adventure, and really, I don't think there was a 'plot'. At least, until that dang Gnomish cleric of Garl Glittergold found a deck of many things, and went insane. He shadowed us, and tormented us with this powerful magic item. We ended up hunting him all across the 3 kingdoms. Honestly, some of the ridiculous magical items we found drove that story more in that campaign. Trying to secure the Deck. Casing an NPC paladin who was overpowered by an intelligent lion statue, who happened to have a good portion of our loot. Finding an Orb of Dragonkind, and trying to return it to some benevolent dragon before others tried to fry us for just having it.

That Ranger got to lvl 19. Our very random and somewhat purposeless adventures will stick with me.

Can I make him today? Probably. I think the 5e ranger would still work well. I probably would only change that the character wasn't as womanizing as he was back then. I have grown up some.

 

[Musing Mage]

My very first PC was Diaz the Elf... playing in the BECMI system. He had several adventures, including one where he gained controlled Lycanthropy after being bitten by a wererat, (but for some reason changing into a werewolf because it was cooler than being a rat, and we were 13 years old and stupid) until he finally faded into the graveyard of abandoned characters.

 

[Richards]

I started in the AD&D 1st Edition days, and I was almost exclusively the DM from the get-go, so I seldom got a chance to create PCs of my own - of the handful I can recall, none were particularly memorable.

It wasn't until my grown son Logan decided he wanted to try his hand at DMing that I finally got to run a PC through an entire campaign. The first 3.5 campaign was based on the Skylanders video games (it was a means by which to convince my nephew to give tabletop RPGs a try), and while it was based on standard D&Disms it was different enough I don't consider my PC, Sam Crow (a humanoid crow gestalt ranger/rogue) to be a D&D character so much as a Skylanders character using the skeleton of the D&D system.

Therefore, my first truly memorable D&D character was Jace Syngaard, a horrifically scarred human fighter who moonlighted as a bouncer in a whorehouse. He was a former bodyguard to a crime lord, fell in love with the boss's daughter, and had a daughter by her - only to have her die in childbirth, all before the start of the campaign. So Syngaard, the crass, brutish lout with a distinct hatred of halflings was secretly donating most of the money he earned adventuring to the temple of Pelor, whose orphanage was raising his daughter for him. (He'd told them he found her in the forest - which was technically true, if not all of the story.) He preferred the morningstar (starting the campaign with the very weapon that had been used by an enemy thug to give Syngaard most of his facial scars), although he later wielded a human bane scimitar he took from the body of an enemy druid he slew. But he was, in the latter half of the campaign, best known for the figurine of wondrous power he used, a bronze griffon he gleefully named "Dick."

Johnathan

 

[Hexmage-EN]

I think the first D&D character I ever made was maybe some kind of monk that I just used in one sample combat encounter run by an acquaintance from high school.

My first 5E character was an aasimar divine soul sorcerer called Brightseer.

He was killed by a shadow.

After that I had a longer career with a yuan-ti pureblood battle master fighter/hexblade warlock whose name escapes me at the moment, but he was designed to have as many 4E-style forced movement effects as possible (pushing attack, repelling blast, grasp of Hadar, maneuvering attack).

 

[Sithlord]

My first character was a ranger named pathfinder that died fighting giant ants

although I also played a dwarf fighter/cleric named Thborgaerennondaerzoeren. And how I remember that name 30 years later I will never know. Except there were some umlaut’s in there instead of e’s. I can’t use them on my cell phone

 

[Laurefindel]

My first character was a ranger named pathfinder that died fighting giant ants

although I also played a dwarf fighter/cleric named Thborgaerennondaerzoeren. And how I remember that name 30 years later I will never know. Except there were some umlaut’s in there instead of e’s. I can’t use them on my cell phone

I still use some of my most intricate character names as passwords or safety questions. Good luck guessing Thborgaerennondaerzoeren...

 

[Sithlord]

I still use some of my most intricate character names as passwords or safety questions. Good luck guessing Thborgaerennondaerzoeren...

He was called forge for short lol. I put all my nonweapon proficiency slots on weapon smithing and armorer.

 

[TarionzCousin]

I became the "forever DM" in our Junior High school group, so my first real character was a level 15 paladin named "Checkace." His big claim to fame was killing the god Arioch via a vial of "super poison" thrown into Arioch's laughing mouth with two natural 20's and Arioch rolling a 1 on his save. The DM was into punk rock, so my character suddenly sprouted a two foot high purple mohawk which required a special helm to accommodate.

Ah, to be a teenager again.

 

[Azzy]

My first character was with BECMI rules. He was a chaotic fighter named Gideon. I was doing sword and board until the party found a flaming two-handed sword (of some + value), and, well... that became his signature weapon. The DM ran kind of a gonzo game, so he also found a magic shotgun (). Since 2e, I've tried to recreate him in each edition as my first play through the character creation process.

In 5e, he's be a Chaotic Good Human (maybe V-Human), Str-based fighter with the Folk Hero background. As a fighter, he'd take the Great Weapon Fighting style. I can't decide if he'd go Champion (to keep with the simplistic BECMI fighter) or Battle Master (to play with the manuevers).

 

[hopeless]

My first memorable character?
That would be Chauros the Fighter from the red box basic d&d set from the 80's.
Built up A LOT of character for that system that it took up a couple of folders I stored in a filing cabinet I was lent.
Then the filing cabinet went back and everything inside was chucked and this being before I started storing this kind of information on computers meant I lost pretty much all of those characters and other details I kept in those folders.
On the plus side I have a pdf of the red box so I can recover Chauros's stats easy enough it just won't work equipment wise in 5e or anything after the red box era though!