Reverb Gamers 2012 - #6

"Describe your all-time favorite character to play. What was it about him/her/it that you enjoyed so much?" - Reverb Gamers

Oh wow, this prompt is actually kind of hard. I have so many characters that I love and it's hard to pick just one.  Most of my characters have been either halfling rogues or human wizards.  I know it's not very versatile of me as a gamer but those are the 2 things that I really have the most fun playing.  Something that really makes it fun for me is that my DMs would always takes my back story and find a way to work it into a major plot point in the campaign (they tended to do this for all the players).  It's really nice to feel like my character is important to the story.

If I had to pick an all-time, absolute favorite then it would probably be Lily, a human wizard.  She actually started out as a joke but I got to play her up to 22nd or 23rd level.  Our group was trying to get rid of the Dragon Cult and prevent the return of Ashardalon.  I think we were playing the Heart of Nightfang Spire module and our party was TPK'd while trying to fight a dracolich.  Robbie was playing an evil wizardress named Raven and luckily, she had been experimenting with cloning.  When the party was killed, Raven's clone awoke and attempted to summon the party back by using an epic level spell.  Unfortunately she wasn't able to cast the spell as it was written (Robbie didn't role high enough) and she summoned back the party from an alternate plane (everyone's alignment was switched).

Instead of summoning back the opposite of my original character, Randy, the DM, talked me into playing a good version of Raven.  We were sitting around the table and as Randy was describing what happened when Raven botched the spell, he got to me and he says, "She looks just like Raven."  Robbie brushed it off but Randy said, "No Rob, she looks JUST like Raven."  Robbie's reaction was priceless as I sat at the table and pretended to be petting a white cat (Raven had a black cat familiar, so Lily's familiar was a white cat).  It turned out that my character was actually from this plane and that Raven was from the opposite plane but that our characters had been switched at birth, somehow.  We finished that campaign with an anti-paladin, an evil cleric, & 2 arch-mages and in the end, Raven redeemed herself and killed Ashardalon by sacrificing herself. 

Best. Campaign. Ever.