I'm not clear on the question being asked for this one. Is it a character I made but haven't every played a game with, or is it any character I've ever seen but haven't played as? I'm going to say it can be any character I've seen, just to open up the field. But I'm also going to say it can't be an NPC I created or used as a DM, because that kind of counts as 'playing' them.
There are a lot of good characters out there I've seen my friends create and play. There's Marcus (the Carcass), the human fire mage who couldn't ever get past 4th level (due to dying). Buster Pelgrande the backstab-happy halfling thief with his magical dagger "Spinethruster." Serpico, the Lawful Good Necromancer in Ravenloft just trying to keep his village safe from evil monsters and his family from the G'Henna secret police. Tersus, the scheming Lawful Evil mage/thief, leader of the local Assassin's guild and always sporting his signature magical red cloak he would use to escape trouble; the "Cape of the Montebank". There's Fignor, Fulthor, Drogar, and RustyGuts; the four dwarf warriors in our sporatic but really fun
Warhammer Fantasy campaign. Those guys are like the three stooges but extremely violent towards kneecaps and groins. Wait, does Warhammer Fantasy count in the D&D Challenge? Yeah, I'm going to say that it does. Blog.
Okay, it is a really tough choice, but after careful consideration I've come to the following conclusion. My favorite character I haven't played in a D&D campaign is:
RatThrasher!
A Goblin Ranger (?) we originally encountered in the sewers of Luskan while infiltrating the city to rescue a political prisoner from Neverwinter. We paid him handsomely to lead us through the twisting passageways under Luskan and get us to the prison tower. He carried a rusty-looking shortsword and spouted short dumb statements in a high-pitched yoda-like screech (that surely made the DM's throat hurt after a while). We thought he was just the comic relief for us until we ran into a group of acid-spitting giant slugs in the sewers. Quinn lost his shield that day to the metal-eating acid loogies from multiple slugs, and it looked like Marcus was probably going to die again to another. But RatThrasher came up behind the slug and leaped onto its back, chopping it deep with his rusty-(looking) shortsword before running to help Quinn. After the battle he said nonchalantly something along the lines of "Slug makes good eat when sick of rat!" or something, and we all knew we had just met the most bad-ass Goblin in the Realms.
Later RatThrasher was actually played by people in the DM's gigantic dungeon crawl adventures, but I've never played him myself. He's my Favorite Character I Haven't Played.
5 comments:
Reading this blog makes me want to play. Like right now.
I would have liked to play Marcus the Carcass. Casting flaming sphere into groups of your friends, and then laughing "oops, did I do that?" would be really fun.
I can think up about 1000 things like that, totally in character.
i think over the years Quinn has taken more than 80+ points of "heat damage" in 2d4 increments from nonchalant flaming sphere placement. Keep in mind Quinn's only ever at most had 42 max hit points at one time.
It kind of surprised me to hear you say RatThrasher. He's such a two dimensional character. Sure he knows the sewers of Luskan like the back of his little green hand, but what's his background? Why does he live there? Where's his goblin tribe? Why do the Harpers have a goblin guide contact? Who trained him how to fight so well? Where does he spend his money? How did he get so smart?
It's the voice, isn't it? It's too much fun to do a screaming Yoda.
*Loud splashes down a side passage*
RT: "Don't go that way. Those are the polywugs. Veeeery dangerous."
Quinn: "What's a polywug?"
RT: "I just told you....veeeeery dangerous."
Quinn: "Fine."
The weird yoda voice is exactly it. Plus he's got all those interesting unanswered questions I could ignore while perfecting throwing out frustrating non-answers in the yoda voice.
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