So, ignoring stats for now, here is Mystara's very own iconic adventuring party (dossiers to follow in another post):
FLEETWOOD, male Thyatian fighter (paladin of Benekander after AC1004 or 5/9th level [depending on rules set used]); (future) Member, Order of the Gryphon.
CLARION Ladonnaris, female cleric of Chardastes, Church of Karameikos; (future) Member, Order of the Gryphon. (The eagle symbol illustrated is the symbol for the church.)
Darek FELONIUS, male Thy/Tra wizard; Student of the Great School of Magic; Heir to Sargon of Lion Castle.
GREEGAN Mikov, male Traladaran Rogue; member, Kingdom of Thieves.
ROLF Shieldsplitter, son of Grolthkor of the Stronghollow Clan, male Rockborn dwarven fighter.
BELRAIN Callarii, female wood elf fighter/wizard. (For this character, I use the elf illustration from the RC, as the oak-leaf pattern clothing is typical of the Callarii tribe.
James TOUCHBERRY, male hin fighter/rogue.
This is just an intro, I'll post background stories (and one big secret that even my oldest of player's don't know) later.
Enjoy, Roger
I always thought he looked like Bono from U2.Shane
This is way overdue.These characters, as I said above, were the "sample characters" provided in the '83 red box. I first used the party as a challenge. A powergamer friend of mine said that pre-rolls were never good characters (mainly because they had more than 1 stat that had less than a +1 modifier). So as a challenge, I provided the stats for the characters, and allowed him to pick only non-stat features (name, alignment, appearance, etc.)
Needless to say, I proved him wrong. On a related note, I used the same comcept to prove another point to another player, years later--by providing four fighters, who were statistically identical, and ran a short campaign with them... by the end of the third or fourth session, all four characters (still statistically identical at this point) were all very much different and unique characters.
With that said, here are the much belated promises of "Icon" PCs...(con't in next post)
Enjoy,
Roger
Level 2 Lawful Fighter
AC: 2 HP: 18 Thac0: 19 XP:2000
Str 17
Int 9
Wis 8
Dex 11
Con 16
Cha 14
Languages: Common, Alignment
Skills/Abilities:None
Equipment: Plate Mail, Longsword, Shield, Dagger, 2 Oil flasks, Tinderbox, 50' Rope, Backpack, 1 week Iron Rations, Waterskin, Lantern, 2 Torches, 2 sm. Sacks, 1 lg. sack
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Neutral Cleric
AC: 5 HP: 6 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 9
Int 11
Wis 17
Dex 8
Con 14
Cha 16
Languages: Common, Alignment
Skills/Abilities: Turn Undead
Equipment: Chain mail, shield, mace, holy symbol, oil flask, backpack, iron rations, 6 torches, tinderbox, 50' rope, 2 waterskins, 2 sm sacks, 2 large sacks
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Chaotic Magic-User
AC: 7 HP: 4 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 8
Int 17
Wis 11
Dex 16
Con 14
Cha 9
Languages: Common, Alignment, Dragon, Elf
Skills/Abilities: Spells (RM, Sleep)
Equipment: Backpack, iron rations, silver dagger, holy water, lantern, 4 oil, tinderbox, small mirror, waterskin, wineskin, 2 sm sacks, 2 lg sacks
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Neutral Thief
AC: 5 HP: 4 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 16
Int 14
Wis 9
Dex 11
Con 11
Cha 8
Languages: Common, Alignment, Elf
Skills/Abilities: Thieving skills
Equipment: backpack, iron rations, longsword, dagger, lantern, 3 oil, tinderbox, thieves' tools, 2 sm sacks, 2 lg sacks
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Lawful Dwarf
AC: 1 HP: 6 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 16
Int 7
Wis 11
Dex 14
Con 9
Cha 9
Languages: Common, Alignment, Dwarf, Gnome, Goblin, Kobold
Skills/Abilities: Infravision, detection.
Equipment: Backpack, iron rations, plate mail, shield, longsword, dagger, small hamer, 12 iron spikes, 50' rope, wolfsbane, wineskin
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Chaotic Elf
AC: 3 HP: 5 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 16
Int 9
Wis 7
Dex 14
Con 9
Cha 11
Languages: Common, Alignment, Elf, gnoll, hobgoblin, orc
Skills/Abilities: infravision, detection, spells (RM, CP)
Equipment: backpack, iron rations, chain mail, shield, longbow, 20 arrows, longsword, 50' rope, 2 sm sacks, lg sack, wolfsbane
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Will add RC additions later.
Level 1 Neutral Halfling
AC: 4 HP: 5 Thac0: 19 XP:0
Str 16
Int 11
Wis 14
Dex 9
Con 9
Cha 7
Languages: Common, Alignment
Skills/Abilities: Hide, initiative, ac vs giants, missile attack
Equipment: Backpack, iron rations, chain mail, shield, shortbow, 20 arrows, short sword, 4 silver arrows, tinderbox, 6 torches, wineskin, waterskin
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Will add RC additions later.
. At that time, we didn't quite grasp the subtlety of the Byzantine/Roman/German and Slavic/Romanian/Hungarian name scheme for Karameikos. Though in our defense, even canonical Karameikos, for better or worse, has its share of "generic fantasy" names.Travis
Also, IMC the fighter in the intro scenario is named Mentzor, after a well known D&D author.
Mentzor and Anielle are ofcourse determined to Kill Bargle [TM] ;)
Havard
I'm impressed that your campaign used culturally appropriate names...back in my Red Box days, besides "Shayne" (suspiciously similar to the character's RW alter ego), our party consisted of the likes of "Bilbo", "Yclept" (Old English for "called"), and "Wild-Man One-Ear Crab-Slayer"
Travis
"Yclept" is actually a rather nice name, methinks...
