I don't get the chance to play many characters, since I'm so often the GM. But I think my favorite character was the one I played the longest, in Dan's D&D game that I mentioned earlier this month.
Konrad was a barbarian. I wasn't going to the "X the Barbarian" naming thing. I just didn't give him a last name, so people just kept saying "Konrad the Barbarian." I stopped fighting it eventually.
Dan did a very cool thing as a DM. He would give characters a random magic item when they started out. For Konrad, he rolled a +1 undead bane warhammer. It was very cool and gave him a cool focus.
That went off the rails once Dan started running the original Ravenloft module. There's a fortune-telling scene at the beginning and one of the things determined in this scene is that one of the heroes is actually carrying the fabled Sunsword that can defeat the evil vampire Strahd, and it turns out that it's Konrad.
Konrad points out "But I don't have a sword. I have a hammer!"
The fortune teller takes Konrad's hammer, flips this, pops that and suddenly, it's a blazing magic sword.
I am so proud of Konrad's response and I love telling this story to this day.
"You broke it! Now it doesn't hammer anymore! Stupid broken hammer!"
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That is great!
Sounds like a fun character, and I never play barbarians.
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