The Maitre d': A Legacy of Failure (in Pixels) - Part 2

The Maitre d'

OK, yes, I'm a D&D geek. So it's time to see some picture of my characters, and even better, hear story after story about how cool they were! Because no D&D player ever talks about that.

Seriously, though, let's start off with a sketch of a Dark Jedi that wasn't actually a character, but I kept in my character notebook:

OK, now for the real characters. Let's start off with The Bard. The Bard is one of my greatest accomplishments of D&D. That's not because he had great stats; like all my characters, he sucked in the performance department. Hard.

The Bard was my first real campaign character, and he was created to counterbalance the effects of people taking the game too seriously. The Bard, you see, realized he was in a game, and didn't mind screwing around with people as such. He didn't even have a freaking name. I think someone suggested Thom after Thom Merrilin from Wheel of Time, and I did use that for a while, but everyone just called him "The Bard."

And it stuck. It stuck so well, there was a time that people I played with called me The Bard on campus. For some that was because I'd just met them and they didn't know my name, but for others it was just a nickname. I think it's the only nickname I've ever really liked, but that may be nostalgia talking.

So without further ado, here's The Bard:

Now that we've gotten the comic relief out of the way, let's move on to something a little bit more serious. Those of you who know me know I like to play Paladins and Clerics, and Uther is my prototypical Paladin. He's been many races and many things, but his first incarnation was a half-elf that specialized in non-lethal weapons. Sadly, I didn't get to play him very long.

I actually have a few other character sketches in my notebook, but I never scanned them in. Most of what I have left here weren't major characters. Take Arn and Xerxes. Arn was a Jedi of some sort in a very short-lived Star Wars game. Xerxes was a Verrik Oathsworn from a similarly short-lived Arcana Unearthed game.

And finally, here's McCoy, a character from John's futuristic home-brew bounty hunter game. Yes, he was named after Sam Waterston's Law and Order character. You got a problem with that?

Hmm. I did have one more random sketch. I think I actually submitted this to the literary magazine at TWC, and it wasn't accepted. Bah. And as a side note, I'm going to blame the subject matter on my then-budding Jars of Clay fanboyism.

OK, so that's three pages of more artistic crap. I promised you humor, or at least a cheap knockoff of humor. Well, that'll have to wait for next time.

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