My first D&D character was a gnome cleric named Brodrib Efaw. Neutral Good, dedicated to the goddess of healing. He had a tattoo on his lower back of a white rose, the symbol of his goddess. His steed and celestial companion was a Newfoundland dog named Byron. You can probably guess what I spent most of every fight doing. Which suited me, because after all, when your dog's better in combat than you are, you might as well spend your time healing the team's fighters after they jumped from a freaking airship to land on top of the monster, thus getting a whole lot of special attacks according to the rules that I can't remember the names of, and hurting themselves quite badly in the process.

Oh, this was last year. I never had friends I could game with in school years, and later when I was at uni, everyone was doing really advanced, THIS R SRS ROLEPLAYING games. Mostly involving vampires. And you got the feeling that some of them genuinely only came out after dark, and would sincerely like some public-spirited vampire to give them the Dark Gift.

I might mention that my DM in the game last year made a rule that in his story, elves were very scarce, and if someone wanted to play an elf, they'd have to have a very good reason. No one did, although we had a couple of NPC elves we had to rescue from elvish hit-men. I wouldn't have anyway - too ethereal.

In conclusion, um... tell me of your memorable AD&D characters/campaigns/moments.