(crossposted to !pathfinder@ttrpg.network)
I like all sorts of characters. I’ve yet to find a class I don’t enjoy playing. That said, my absolute favorites tend to be high-charisma types and blow-stuff-up casters.
Mechanically, my favorite character was my first ever TTRPG character: A half-drow draconic sorcerer in DND 5E. I focused a lot on fire spells and damage. Like I said, I love blowing stuff up. Plus I just think the fantasy of being innately magical is cool.
Roleplay-wise, my favorites have been my tabaxi swashbuckler rogue and my aasimar celestial warlock (DND 5E and 5.5E, respectively). The former was a pretty selfish guy who gradually became a better person as he grew to care about the party, and the latter started off as a magical cop who slowly started to realize that all the authorities she’d trusted were corrupt. Sadly, both campaigns fizzled before they could complete their arcs, but they were still a blast to play.
Some of my characters are a lot like me, while others are nothing like me at all. My first character, the aforementioned sorcerer, was more or less a self-insert because I was new to roleplaying and thought I should test the waters with something easy. By contrast, the aforementioned rogue, who was my second ever character, was someone I created specifically to be extremely different from me because I wanted a challenge. Most of my other characters have been somewhere in the middle of the “nothing like me” to “me irl” spectrum. (Although I’m currently playing another self-insert, just because I hadn’t done so in Pathfinder before and thought it might be fun. She’s a kitsune grandeur champion with the draconic sorcerer archetype. Yes, I WILL make and play a fox-dragon self-insert OC and there is nothing you can do about it. I may be cringe, but I am free.) For example, my warlock had pretty similar morals to mine, but she was much more naive and less confrontational than me.
So yeah. Tell me about your characters!
I play a variety of characters, all very different from each other, and mostly different than me.
My favorite character was in a game of Kult: Divinity Lost. The game took place around Detroit in the 70s, during the boom years of the auto industry. She was a housewife and church lady with an emotionally abusive husband and a son in college. Since a traumatic event in childhood, she’d had visions of things that she believed were angels, but were actually dark entities beyond the unravelling veil of what we call reality. By the end of the campaign “chapter”, with the help of the other PCs she had killed her husband (who turned out to be worshipping these entities), her son had died after a prophetic vision, and she had bargained with dark forces to make them give up her son’s soul from their tortures. Her faith is so strong, even after she abandons Christianity, that some powerful forces are vying for her, and she is trying to broker that power.
We’re going to be playing another chapter in a few months, and I have some exciting plans for her.