What is your all time favorite pen and paper DnD character you've made?

[Mollerz]

Mine would absolutely be my drug addicted preserver wizard who died in a blaze of glory saving my party in a dark sun campaign my friend was running.

His drug of choice was the black lotus flower

https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Black_lotus

"The juice of the black lotus is a deadly poison, and the scent of its blossoms induces a deep, comatose (but temporary) slumber haunted by vivid, fantastical dreams."\

I was level 6 and just felt like a bad ass.. We ran into a massive sandworm at the edge of the sea of silt and I sacrificed myself to kill it saving my party. The five months or so I played that character in my group was just a blast.

[Aoroi]

A Necromancer who ended up disabled. Now to get around he is encased in a bone armour set powered through necromancy. Movement penalty and 1 less spell slot but increased armour proficiency and difficult terrain checks are counted as standard. A few other rules as well but I like it.

[EricHVela]

I have "janitor" characters when starting at level 1. I'm a Roger Wilco "anyone can be a hero" fan. They're not called janitors in-lore, but that's the job they have before they're dragged into adventure.

I've done the whole already-a-hero thing and found, even when starting at level 3, already-a-heroes fail to live up to their backstory. I start only with "nobodies" now with an excuse for the character to have a little combat-related skill.

Let the character become a hero. Those are my favorite characters.

[Aoroi]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

Let the character become a hero. Those are my favorite characters.

Same here. Especially when I read DungeonCore or LITrpg books. I am tired of the "reincarnated average human becoming a demi-god in 2 chapters" type of books. Happens so often. The best ones are when they struggle, learn, adapt, and gain power through effort/loss.

[Yojo0o]

I'm usually the DM, so I don't get to play too often, but I did recently play a short campaign with this character: https://ddb.ac/characters/90668609/GtyLvp

I'm a Custom Lineage (swarm of cranium rats in a trench coat) Swarmkeeper Ranger with the Druidic Warrior fighting style. The fighting style wound up being a displacement-heavy quarterstaff gish, dragging and shoving enemies across Spike Growth zones and off cliffs. PAM+Warcaster+Fey Touched meant I could Attack of Opportunity Dissonant Whispers anybody who entered melee range against me, which was hilarious for skirmishing and avoiding being surrounded.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

was really big into the witcher and created my own witcher character. played him all the way to level 14. now hes pretty much retired and given all the witcher schools are gone, he felt it was his duty to start over and opened a new witcher school, School of the Dragon, which was thematic given his success and relationship with dragons throughout his time.

I decided to retire the character after he reverse engineered a legendary potion and, at that point, would've been unkillable. So now he is training some kobolds how to be witchers and after bringing peace to a few towns managed to get some supply routes where orcs, goblins, humans, and kobolds all live in harmony with patrols, trade routes, and even the occassional dragon protection (as who in their right mind would want to cause problems in an area that dragons frequent).

I really have no idea how he managed to survive so long.
for the record the best way to play a witcher is as a human variant ranger, use the rules for silvering a sword, and you can take magic initiate feats to grab the witcher signs.
~Ætlas, The Witcher- School of the Dragon