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My favorite character is Audey Smith. (Yeah, I'm not so creative with names. My players have stopped picking on me about that. I am a good DM and have great imagination elsewhere. But names? Forget it)!

Audey was raised in Istan with his parents, Robert (LG Fighter) and Susan (NG Wizard). He has a sister, Ashley (NG Priest).

Audey is an unexpected favorite character. He's a thief, which is my least favorite class to play. He's also not very powerful.

Audey has tons of personality, though. He has nerves of steel when it comes to slinking and sneaking; but in actual combat, Audey is a coward! I don't know how many times Audey will be in a fight (he won't run unless he's dying, so he's not a complete wimp) and be screaming, "Steve! Sam! Someone! Help! Help me! He's killing me! Helllp!" Audey can be winning the fight and still swear up and down he was getting killed!

He's the funloving rogue, for the most part. Just takes life as it comes, and moves on. On one particular adventure, they came accross a village that no one knew was there. These were simple folk, living much as the old Nordic peoples lived. In his attempt to procure information about their surroundings, who these people were, where they came from, etc, Audey decided that the ones who have the loosest tongues were children. So, he gathered a bunch of junk, and started playing with the village children; tumbling routines, funny stories, juggling the junk he collected, and teaching the kids to juggle and play his lute. Audey, I think, had more fun than the kids!

He has great stats for burglary (traps, shadows, silent, locks) but can't pick the purse of a corpse.

He's great fun.

It has been more than 20 years since I played the game.  My characters were usually lawful neutral or lawful good (?reflection of my desire for law and order?).  I tended toward LN so that I have more freedom to act independently.  I preferred warriors (straight to the point?), but liked the offshoots (paladins, monks, rangers-especially rangers).  (Reflections of loner?)  I had played a cleric several times.

Memories:

I once lost a good character (paladins) because my companion refused to back down against a impossible opponent.  The creature was too high for our level and willing to parlay with us when my companion attacked against my protests.  As a lawful good character, I chose to die uselessly rather than abandon my companion.  What a shame.

Another time, I lost a good character by destroying a tree that had grabbed me instead of applying patience before acting.  I could have waited since I had not really been attacked but merely grabbed.  My spell burnt the tree fullfully and instantly, however, the forest I was in turned against me and destroyed me in next with overkill x4 or so. 

Another time, I had a character be visited in a dream by a powerful creature.  I rashly refused to give up my sleep shooing him away.  Offended, the creature sent a minion to destroy me.  Only begging and willingness to disfigure my character by removing and gifting a body part allowed my character to live.  Later, when the episode was a faint memory the DM had our party facing a creature that caused damage mostly based on that body part.  The creature attacked the whole parting resulting in massive damage to all, to which I replied that I took half-damage based on my previous encounter and the DM awarded me with many extra points for outthinking his creature....

A different, but similiar game (cannot remember the name) had various alien creatures.  I chose an insect like creature.  One of my companions really gave the DM a hard time to the point he incurred some vengence from the DM.  The companion forced the DM to seemingly kill him.  At that point, being an insect, I chose to not let the body go to waste.  So unbeknowst to the companion/player I passed a note to the DM stating that I cut off a nice finger, began roasting it over a fire, and ate it.  Delicious.  I would have continued, only the seemingly dead character was not really dead and regained consciousness.  The other companions and I spent the rest of the adventure avoiding the subject of how he lost his finger.

Fun times. I really do not play anymore.

slick willie tarson the "legitimate businessman"..a fighter/thief with the gift of gab. he could sell snow to a white dragon. in the early levels he peddled snake oils as magical potions and tacos as lich detectors. later on as he became freakin awsome at high levels he had a chance to pull out random magical items that he could sell...sometimes they stayed magical but often the enchantment wore off and the buyers would come looking for him..luckily he had an ogre magi fighter/thief bodyguard that was never very far from slick willie. once around level 10 the group took down a small army controled by a "powerful" (lv15) wizard in the loot i somehow won 101 +1 awl pikes...i was still trying to sell those damn pikes for another 6-7 levels.. we finally ended up using them as part of a plan to kill a rabid bronze dragon..theres sooooo much more to willie he became a longstanding NPC character in the questlines of just about every DM from the group. he was started in 2.0 AD&D and in some incarnation was last seen in late 3.5 D&D..