A Short History of My Characters

 A bunch of people on the OSR Discord have been making lists of all the characters they've played, a trend started by Throne of Salt. I haven't been playing RPGs for nearly as long as most of the people who've posted, but I figured I'd hop on the bandwagon nonetheless. 

Past Characters

Olorín (5e V-Human Mystic)

Oh god, I know. Yes, he was literally Gandalf. Yes, it was my first RPG character ever. No, I did not know how anything worked. Yes, the Mystic is a badly designed and ill-considered class that was a very bad decision for a first character. Lasted until... 6th level, I think, until the campaign petered out (very generic fantasy, first time DM, lots of railroading and a very annoying DMPC). 

Finduilas (5e Half-Elf Fighter/Warlock)

A rather edgy and downright sociopathic mercenary in an evil campaign. She started as a pure Dex-based Battlemaster, then multiclassed to warlock when we found a grimoire filled with the names of extraplanar beings (this was sorta planned, I rolled amazing stats even for 4d6 drop low and I didn't want that 18 Cha to go to waste). She was pretty fun to play and murdered a ton of innocent people, along with a fair amount of cultists. She got to 10th level but advancement was super fast because the DM wanted to end the campaign but didn't want it to just stop right away. The Raven Queen is by far the best warlock patron in 5e, WotC should have made her official, I will die on this hill.

Estella of Chelen (5e Aasimar Bard/Sorcerer Gestalt)

This strange character was for a PbP game about princesses. She was a Lore Bard/Divine Soul Sorcerer gestalt (all the PCs were gestalts), and the gestalt rules the DM used for this were super super high-powered. We also had an absurd standard array - my stats, after racial adjustment, were 6 14 18 20 13 20. We started at level 10, but the DM disappeared two days or so into play, far less than a single session of a live game.

Aoife nic Conchobar (5e Human Druid/Paladin)

A moon druid with 2 levels in paladin for that sweet sweet smite. She was more of the Goblin Punch type of druid than anything else, so she hated shoes and writing and houses. She was great fun to play, and we rushed through Curse of Strahd (same DM as with Finduilas, realized once again they didn't really want to be doing this and also we were all heading off to college rather soon), so she got up to 11th level rather quickly. Strahd got absolutely destroyed.

Aoife nic Conchobar, again (5e Human Druid/Paladin)

I was disappointed with how little I'd gotten to play Aoife before the campaign was rushed to a close, so when my new college group started with Curse of Strahd I brought her out again. Once again, she was super fun to play, and Wild Shape is such an amazing intrigue/sneaking tool (not that she had much patience for intrigue). We made some extremely foolish decisions and got TPKed by Strahd at 6th level.

Amanda Jessup (5e Human Cleric)

After the Strahd TPK, the group decided we wanted something different, so we started a fantasy Western (in 5e because 5e players gonna 5e). I played a war cleric with a double-barreled shotgun. It was amazingly fun to brandish a large devastating weapon while ranting about the glory of my god in a truly terrible Southern accent, but the campaign petered out after just a few sessions because the transition from in-person to online was not great (fuckin' pandemic). Nonetheless, a great character while she lasted.

Hollis (GLOG Kidnapper)

This was one of my two randomly rolled level 0 characters in one of Arnold K's playtests of Lair of the Lamb, but the other one died pretty quick. He was (randomly) plump and passionate, but I really wasn't sure what to do with the Kidnapper profession. After acquiring a phobia of water through a method I won't mention for spoilers, he fell into a pit trap filled with water... Then the rest of the party died while attempting to find a way to rescue him, so he presumably starved to death while horribly afraid, or just drowned. Nonetheless, it was a super fun game.

Hereward the Watchful (GLOG Sheen Zouave)

Hereward was my first character in Deus ex Parabola's online Face campaign. He had killed a wizard with his bare hands, and could therefore taste if an item was magic or not. He was also a crack shot with his snapchance (flintlock pistol) He was a devout orthodox Aeshean rather disgusted by the absurd amount of heresy in the party, but nonetheless gained a grudging mutual respect with Vayra's blue heretic Alpha Priest. Then he fell 50 feet onto a ledge on an extremely difficult climb, compound fractured his femur, and died shortly after.

Current Characters

Saoirse nic Conchobar (3.5e Elf Druid)

Regarding the name, no, I am not a creative person. This is my character in Vayra's very slow-moving but very fun PbP campaign, set in a fantasy megacity. She's an urban druid, not one of those symbol-rejecting asshole druids, and her preferred summon is a dire rat. I suppose one might call her the druid of a zondervoze. She's basically a magic anarchist hobo. One of my favorite character concepts ever.

Domhniall Santino Akbar (GLOG Deltan Sage)

My current character in the Face campaign. He's indeterminately old (but at least 100, I think), very knowledgeable, at least a little condescending, and a devoted purple heretic. He calls himself a wizard despite being only questionably magic (he can blow incredible smoke things from his pipe, whistles very well, and is preternaturally good at lighting fires), but he is very good at reading runes and symbols, speaking ancient languages, and is quite well-known across the lands from his long life and far travels. He recently picked up an unfinished adamant sword in full knowledge that it was cursed, which ended up reversing his ability scores. RIP 18 Charisma, you will be missed.

Rahmuna Marghadi (GLOG Acrobat)

Rahmuna, my character from Squig's online Seas of Sand campaign, is a noble from Zolunis who ran away and joined the circus to become an acrobat, then joined the crew of PCs through some somewhat indefinite events vaguely involving piracy and mutiny, maybe? Yes, she's literally Ty Lee, but she can't paralyze people with her punches (yet), and her circus performer background was randomly rolled, I swear. We've only played two sessions so far, and I've only been there for one of them, but she got addicted to the saliva of a giant beast masquerading as an oasis and then saved our ship (the Invisible Hand) from being devoured by said giant beast through a fortuitous crit while at the helm, so we're off to a good start.