Favorite Roleplaying Characters!

[VanimaEdhel]

Well, I have been role-playing in a while, so this will be calling up some Old School games that a lot of you probably don't even really remember.

Okay, firstly, I played Barzûn, a Dwarf in Resettling the Lost Kingdom. It's the only time I have ever played a Dwarf - and it was one of the best times I've had. I don't think I necessarily did a fantastic job, but it was so interesting playing a character from such a race. We really don't know all that much about Dwarves - Tolkien gave us far more insight into the world of Men and Elves. And Dwarves were so different from any other race on Middle Earth.

I blushingly admit that I really liked Castar and Windheneb. They were in The White Horse Inn, Act II. It was really to get over my quiet fear of playing male characters - if you look, I do not play men that often. I just think I'm not so good at it - they always come across as very feminine men, in my opinion. It may just be my paranoia, I don't know.

And to be honest, there were some games where I was absolutely miserable - without a doubt (no names, don't worry). Another reason I quit - I kept falling into games where half of the members were absent three-quarters of the time, often including me. Tempers grew short, the owners weren't the most organized. But I do have an idea for a game brewing in my own mind. It'll have to wait until I come back from vacation, probably, since I leave in a little over three weeks. It'll give me time to work on it more. *Rubs her hands together and gives a sinister little smile*

[Amanaduial the archer]

It's back. Admittedly, I haven't had the time to get fully involved in an RPG for about six months now - saaad - but I hereby hand this thread over to the new generation of RPGers! Share, do: your favourite RPG characters, your own and other players', your favourite RPGers themselves, and reasons why.

For a quick, updated version, I was recently skimming through a few old threads, and came across the last game I was involved in, and sadly neglected near the end, I'm sorry to say. But it had some remarkable characters in it! I've always been a fan of corsair RPGs, such as the Ambassador's Son, but Numenorean Blood Runs Black was a fantastically enjoyable game to play in.

Anguirel, ever a joy, came out with a perfectly wicked character: Sangalazin. Evil, thou knowst know wisdom until you've taken a leaf out of this guy's book...and yet, at the same time, he was both beautiful and charming. The embodiement of the spoilt brat of the richest king in the world. And Anguirel himself - you're a marvel to play with: reliable, creative and dependable, as well as having such a wit - 'banter', I believe you Southerners would call it...

On my own side, I can add to my repertoire a new favourite character to play, or one of my favourites at least: Captain Chatazrakin Telmenzar, or merely Rakin for short. Ooh, I do love playing pirates - v. fun.

And I don't know why I didn't previously mention this - I suppose I concentrated mainly on the characters of the now-extinct Green Dragon in my last post - but the games Shadow of the West and The Ambassador's Son as well. Two excellently constructed games that allowed me to play around with excellent characters and settings. Extraspecial mentions do, however, go to Maikafanawen and Nuranar for creating that game (there were too many brilliant characters and writers to pinpoint one or two - Devon, Jythralo, Adeline, Calnan...); and to Fordim , of course, for the Shadow: he makes an excellent baddie! And my particularly 'co-actor', Firefoot: always one of my favourite RPGers...

Good times.

[Durelin]

I had forgotten about this thread!

Good to have you back, Aman. We've missed you in the RPing world (not that I'm suggesting you need to come back to it or anything... ).

Some newer favorties: CaptainofDespair's cameo as Ulfang in Treachery of Men already seems to be too bloody interesting (and crazy!), and the game's just started! Ang has really out-done himself with that game. It's going to be incredible. I'm so happy to play again with Fordim, Celuien, Mithalwen, and Kath.

In The Fellowship of the Fourth Age: A New Beginning I think everyone deserves a lot of kudos. It's seven pages long, and we still haven't united the three groups that were essentially supposed to start out together. It's been a wonderful game, with some amazing characters. Regin Hardhammer, Undome, Firefoot, Child of the 7th Age, and Nogrod have all taken on the insane task of playing as "good" Orc characters as either major or minor characters, and they simply amaze me for doing so. And they've done such an excellent job.

It's been great fun to play with Nogrod's Hadith and Brinniel's Shae, as well as the whole "Fellowship": Pio, Child, Folwren, Tevildo, and Hilde. Folwren's Athwen is a marvellous heroine, and Hilde's Carl has made me really want to play as a Hobbit again. Special kudos to Pio for her very "different" character; he's unique, lovable, and so incredibly well done - and is such a difficult sort of character to "do" well, I think.

Really, I'd just like to say how spoiled I am because of the roleplaying here! Everyone's just so...good!

[Mithalwen]

so obviously, I remember Angore and Ondomire with particular affection

Of my own characters, I feel I could have written a lot more of Elfride, there was loads of stuff I knew about her and didn't use. May have to take her to the Mead Hall .. but I "my boys" need to be my priority for a while..

[Anguirel]

I love this thread.

In Island of Sorrow I could list everyone who played...but I think Oremir, by Envinyatur, was a particularly tragic character, forced very much against his will into the West.

I remember Aman's Rakin with awe and respect, and I also liked Alcarillo's Gondorian captain in Numenorean Blood. I hold out hope for a sequel...

Audrey's Skittles in ATM II is just a hoot.

But the supreme prize goes to Firefoot's Grimkul and Ulwakh, (have I got their names right?) who gripped me as a spectator in Sirannon.

[Folwren]

Red Flows the Sirannon was my first RPG ever. In it, I met a whole handful of memoriable characters and although I've played a couple games since then and am busy in several now, I can't say that I have enjoyed writing so much since.

My character was Bror, a young dwarf from Moria. He was a ton of fun to play - more than I expected. I'd never written about a dwarf before and it was a ton of fun. He might be my favorite character that I've written thus far. . .but I dunno. Athwen cuts a close second. My captain fellow in Numenorean Blood Runs Black was fun, too.....

Bror's two brothers were Skald and Riv and these two great characters were played by Poi and Arry. I laughed many times while reading those two's posts, and I cried when Pio killed Riv.

Right now, I am enjoying playing with Tevildo's two characters in Fellowship of the Fourth Age. He has Azhar and Dorran. Both happen to closely tied to my two characters, Kwell and Athwen.

Firefoot's steward like character in Numenorean Blood etc. cracked me up to no end, even if he was a grumpy snob. I don't remember his name.

Really, I have played with a ton of great characters in my short time here at the 'Downs. I also much respect Elempi's Eodwine character and enjoy many other characters at the Mead Hall. The list could go on decades!

-- Folwren

[Firefoot]

So many to choose from.

Elempi's Jorje from "Friends of Nimrodel" is one of my newest favorites. A perfect example of what an animal character can be.

"Shadow of the West" remains one of my favorite RPG's, though in the end we lost most of our writers. Aman's and Fordim's characters were both superbly done.

There are currently many enjoyable characters in "Fellowship of the 4th Age" - too many to mention, really. I love Tevildo's Azhar, Folwren's Kwell, Nogrod's Hadith, and Brinniel's Shae.

I loved all the Dwarf characters especially in "Red Flows the Sirannon" - an RPG that I think was well-written from all corners, which was why it worked so well. Another fun RPG.

And I know I'm forgetting so many more...