Since there is already a most memorable quotes thread I thought I would evolve the topic to most memorable character.So if anyone would like to share a story about a character they played in a role-playing game step up and lets hear some good stories!

The main group I have played with over the years had two main GM. The first was a mostly improv GM and ran episodic games mostly just to entertain the group. The second did a mix of improv and planing. The second GM also did mostly several sessions of main campaign and the group lost interest. So most of characters haven't lived beyond roughly four sessions.

One sticks out in my mind the most whoever based what happened in retrospect. I was playing a home-brew mass effect game involving a smuggling ship named " The Paradise 13 and our adventures with the crew of the ship plus the other player characters. I was playing a Turian cop trying to get back to the Citadel after the colony he was stationed at was overrun by a mysterious military organization. So the crew on the third session disembarked on a Alliance colony and most of them were arrested by the local police. When we first arrived they were simply being held during the investigation but if we did not hurry the cops might have actually found the illegal goods abroad the ship. So my group went on a adventure to find out who set up The Paradise 13 and discovered a local gangster was trying to use the arrest of the The Paradise 13 to distract the cops as he left the colony with enough drugs to make him rich.

The group and since we were on a time crunch decided to take a direct approach. We walked up to the guy's front door at his HQ and bluffed our way in. The GM at the time did not describe our surrounding correctly so to me the way to gangster lead was just boxes and non incriminating items. Apparently I found out later that his entire drug option was viewable from certain windows. So thinking he would come quietly since he had nothing to hide I declared I was a cop. Tried to grapple the gangster leader, failed, and was throw in a sack and dragged to docks. My group escaped but we spent ten minutes just evading and incapacitating our armed pursuers.

Well see, there's characters you remember because they were awesome, and then characters you remember because of how embarrassingly awful they were in hindsight.

My awesome one was a short-lived Forgotten Realms campaign, where I was a Troll Paladin with a Dire Polar Bear for a mount. He could walk through the worst parts of towns and nobody dared to fuck with him. Hell, after the rest of the party deceived him into doing a job for an evil NPC, he managed to turn it around by taking the forged work order (made to look like it was from the captain of the watch) and turning it in directly to the actual captain of the watch... which resulted in not only the crime lord losing a valuable weapon permanently, but the party getting jobs with the city watch. He really kept the party on the side of the angels.

My embarrassing one Noble Bear might remember. We were playing a TMNT & Other Strangeness campaign, I had just gotten the expansion book TMNT Adventures, and we created two mutant frog characters that had been created by a mad scientist listed as a potential villain in the expansion book. The idea was that these two frogs had been so heavily modified, the two of them together were nigh unstoppable. Every skill in the book was on one or the other of them, at 98%. The stats were all maxed out. The two of them were able to (easily) overcome not only the Nightmare Bears, but their later, stronger version, the Doom Bears. We made what was the most boring invincible hero team ever. But we loved it at the time, because we were just looking for a power trip fantasy and that's exactly what they were.

I had a favorite high level character die because I did not want to give up an experience bonus. That was the death knell of D&D for me.
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My Pathfinder Alchemist.

Chain smoking redhead chick with no nonsense attitude, especially when it comes to business.

One of the party members that was sexually harassing me usurped control from the captain of the ship the party was on and summoned a high CR demon. Spammed bombs after being zapped, crushed, grappled, poisoned, attacked by the entire party, still brought the stupid wizard to 1 hp. and basically had to be punched repeatedly by the demon he summoned for 2 rounds whiled tied up, before i finally fell.

I wasn't even powergaming, but damn I made an impression... nobody on the party expected me to last more than a round.

Mine would be a relatively recent one. Soshi Kurou the Soshi Magistrate in our most recent L5R campaign. Kurou was an "honest" scorpion. He never lied or did sneaky underhanded things, but he was a master manipulator and always got the better end of a deal. When the campaign ended, the group was on the way to gaining minor clan status, and he was in the process of manipulating the crab daimyo to not only support them, but bring the idea to the court for consideration. Throughout the entire campaign I had also held onto a favor from the Shosuro from his background roll, it got called in to deal with one of the greatest opponents to our plan to gain minor clan status.

It's a toss-up between two FTC5 characters right now. Either Ray Becker - my character in Mikel's "Dread: The Last Hurrah" game - or José Sanchez from Jeb's Fiasco game.

I'm not going to describe either one; the first would spoil the game and the second would make no sense to anyone not in the game. But they were both amazing.

That would have to be the character I ran in a pick up lucid game that took place at the durry just before world wide wing night. He was the a mob under boss who hired a team of extractors to find out information about a con mans next con.( if your not familiar with lucid it's a modified version of dread,based on inception).
He was an over the top stereotype. What made him interesting is that since he was not trained to go into the dreamscape and had no totem. He lost perspective on which was actually real. While the team was trying to extract the secret from the mark he kept saying. " so when are we going to go inside this chumps brain" . We barely beat the game with seconds left on the timer.

Ah Alchemists. They're absolutely obscene unless you try to make a bad character. They're also a load of fun!

In pathfinder absolutely. I remember a con game I played two years ago where the alchemist turned into the hulk and began smashing everything to bits.

My most memorable characters have always been when I try to stray as far as I can from my own personality and values. I do a much better job of making choices and taking actions that fit for the character and the journey becomes more important than the end goal to me.

I remember playing Daren the bard in a RttToEE game. He was a true neutral character mainly around to record the story and reap the prestige of helping save the world and all the gold and women that would bring. Most of the rest of the party were LG extremists about 1 step from falling to evil so he provided a voice of reason on actions.

The LG core of the party was worried that Daren would end up betraying them all to the big bad (which was unfounded and never in the cards) despite several times when Daren would save a party member from death or turn down chances to back-stab the party.

Towards the end of the campaign I wrote a short poem about each PC from Daren's perspective (and in PR friendly terms) that was used as part of an in-game recruitment drive to the cause.