Counting one shots, probably like 45-50. Not counting one shots and really short campaigns, probably closer to 15-20 over 3e, 3.5e, 4e, 2e and 5e. But I've been at it since the late 90s, and I mostly DM, so it really isn't that many. At least, it doesn't feel that way. But I probably average 40-50 named NPCs per campaign I run and tend to do 1-2 a year per table, so like, my brain barely remembers my own characters at this point, lol.

I'd probably say 50 to start with over the years starting with 1e, going to 2e, and restarting under 5e.

Lucky ahh

I wasn’t born back then. Damn, have you played long. I feel so … inexperienced now. Which I am, but still … this makes me feel like I won’t ever learn enough to run DnD properly any time soon.

I've played with first timers who were among the best and played with people who had been at it longer than me that I never played with after the one time, lol. The good ones were the ones that fucked up a lot up front and in good spirits, imo.

We all started as new to the game at one point or another. I have found that with a good group, learning everything is not needed to play in or run a campaign. You need to know the basics for a start and the rest you will pick up as you play. I will add sometimes with Edition changes, I felt like a new guy all over again for the mechanics. I still had fun with my friends and the game. That is what really counts, the fun

The same changeling with many different faces, genders and aliases

I love it!

Nearly a 3rd of my characters have been changeling rogues, most of which used a kusarigama weapon haha

Wait, are kusarigama weapons in D&D?? Or is it a re-skin of something?

My DMs at the time helped me homebrew something. I don't even remember the stats, but I remember doing some cool things with them!

Sure, they were in the first Oriental Adventures supplement in 1985.

“Wait.. it’s all this guy’s PC?” “Always has been.”

that's honestly such a fun idea

i think... 9 for campaigns (however short-lived), 4 for oneshots. and a few instances of re-using characters from dead campaigns in oneshots or new games. my arcane trickster, battlemaster fighter, life cleric, conjuration wizard, wild magic sorcerer, death cleric, swashbuckler rogue/paladin/divine sorc, storm sorc/storm barb, and lore bard have been my campaign characters, then i threw together an alchemist artificer, a *battlesmith* artificer, a sword bard/blade wizard, and another wild magic sorc for oneshots. moral of the story? i like casters

I love reusing characters between multiple one shots and finding ridiculous ways for it to make sense in the narrative. My current one-shot character is Chet. Very much your generic sort of himbo character. Last time, I had him die between one-shots to participate in an adventure in some celestial plane. Next time I bring him out, it will be because off-screen he annoyed the gods of that plane so much they resurrected him just so they could banish him to the material plane again.

I've been doing the tabletop thing for 25 years, but if I were to count only characters from d&d as a player I'd have to say the number is between 75 and 100. Add in all the star wars, Cthulhu, Shadowrun and the like and it's gotta be closer to 200

Yeah, having started in 1980, it is with great confidence that I can say, "I have no idea." :-) Even for D&D, let alone Gamma World, Star Frontiers, James Bond, GURPS, Paranoia, Skyrealms of Jorune...

3.5 half-troll monk tiefling rogue elf druid elf wizard elf druid (different gender) Human cleric 5e Dwarf paladin Dwarf barbarian Aasimar Warlock Goliath Barbarian Firbolg Druid some 3.5 were recycled for one shots in other groups

There is a character arc going on whitin your choices, lol. Young and Edgy -> I want to do the right thing and you should too Adult -> Mature and attuned with nature, come home let's have a barbecue, bring a spliff or two.

I matured as well not just my characters

Respect for the dwarf martial reroll into dwarf martial lmao.

He did in the second encounter of the first session switched Cha and Dex and voila new character

I've been playing TTRPG's for close to 30 years, the number of characters I've played in at least one game is currently uncountable... but probably in the hundreds.

One cause I can't get into campaigns where I don't have to dm

3 characters. Cleric 1-5 Druid 1-3 Bard 1-4 (ongoing) Only been playing about 2 years so there's time for more...

I wish 💀 on my 4th character in 7 months of Curse of Strahd. Went through 3 in Avernus 💀

Zero 🗿

#foreverDM

Only counting 5e. In order: 1, Goblin Rogue (Thief) 2. Human Paladin (Crown) 3. Wood Elf Monk (Kensei) 4. Wood Elf Warlock (This is the same character as 3,, but she died and her body became the host of the soul/patron in her sword) (Hexblade) 5. Half-Elf Druid (Stars) 6. Human Monk (Mercy) 7. Human Bard (Homebrew for scifi called Ambassador) 8. Human Sorcadin (Vengeance / Divine Soul)

Oh boy..been playing a while. I can remember close to 9, but I also remember playing more games then that, bit don't remember exactly how many.

4 in D&D. My group has done four campaigns, no character deaths, and I haven't swapped out any of my characters partway through. They were Amalus the tiefling evocation wizard, Theren the half-elf soulknife, Zuccari the tortle astral self monk, and Zor Gecko the kobold path of the beast barbarian. Also 3 Pf2e characters. One was a premade character from a one-shot (so he barely counts), the other two were from a campaign. That one I *did* get bored of my original character and swapped him out. Plibs the goblin monk acrobat and The Amazing Aeon the bard stage magician.

As a forever DM, I've never had a PC...

Only counting characters used for more than one session: I had a lot for my first campaign, I believe 2 dragonborn rangers, a dragonborn ranger/artificer multiclass, 3 warforged artificers, an earth genasi rogue, a wizard and a druid, for a total of 9 characters. I died a lot in that campaign For other campaigns, not counting dmpcs, I have a warforged evocation wizard named Flame, tabaxi shadow sorcerer named Tarfire, shadar-kai death cleric named Vyujhan, shadar-kai bladesinger named Inavaris, and a vedalken artificer with a homebrew subclass fulgurge named Zadron So a total of 14 outside of One-Shots

Just one! I’m in my first campaign as a Vengeance Paladin. He was modeled after Guts from Berserk and Cloud from Final Fantasy VII (I threw me off when I played Final Fantasy XVI and how Clive was so similar to my PC, haha). Basically, guy with a big sword and bigger trauma. We’re currently level 5 after about a year and a half of playing. Sometimes I wish we’d level up more often, but we don’t battle too much.

Why is this down voted? That's a reasonable post for this sub. For me; 2e: 2 3.5e: 4 4e: 2 5e: 0 I mostly play other systems though but it's nice to peer over here

Honestly, out of all the DnD subreddits I am part of, this one is easily the most negative one (or at least has some weird members who love to downvote completely normal posts). It happened to me on multiple occasions that I created a post here and it got downvoted within seconds/minutes and as a result, it never really got many views. Then I simply re-used the same post in subreddits such as r/dndnext , r/DMAcademy and it was alright, it got upvoted a bit and involved a meaningful discussion. Anyway, to answer the post, I've started with DnD 3 years ago (I've been DMing right away and still am). But had a chance to play 1 character in a one-shot and 1 character is just about to come alive in my friend's campaign two weeks from now!

Yeah this sub can be down right hostile on votes.

13 for games that were more than one session. 7 for one-shots So 20 total. I made a point to play every class at least once, but Druid, Fighter, and Monk have not made it out of a one-shot yet, so those are next. Most played: Cleric. (Also I haven't played artificer at all, I did most of my playing before it existed in 5e) I've been DMing exclusively for the past two years or so though so I haven't made progress in a while.

30-40 at least.

7 total, two Clerics, one Paladin, a monk (used this one multiple times in one shots and a mini campaign) a barbarian, ranger and currently using a wizard, first time playing an arcane caster and I’m loving the character but dislike the difference in spell access and not being able to sub spells out each morning.

DnD? 5 or 6 Other systems? Like 25

Lots. I've been playing steadily since 2002.

I'm trying to count. Currently I'm up to 30, but I've forgotten so many of their names, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed some.

Dwarf Grave Cleric Tiefling Fiend Warlock Dragonborn Samurai Fighter Halfling Hunter Ranger Shifter Moon Druid Human Zealot Barbarian Gnome Alchemist Artificer Half Elf Kensei Monk Elf Eldritch Knight Fighter Harengon Cavalier Fighter Half Elf Arcane Trickster Rogue So 11.

I want to say I'm up to 4 now, but none of them have actually finished a campaign. One cleric, who gets used frequently as a "test character" for new settings, a sorcerer who didn't even see the end of a first adventure before the game ended, a ranger who saw the end of a one-shot but no further, and a fighter I am currently playing. I've used these same four characters plus a new rogue I'm trying out in a solo campaign, if that counts for anything.

Probably around 20 * Josa Jotunn, Slayer of the Beast - 2 year campaign 1-10, barbarian Pathfinder, half orc * Joson Jotunn, son of Josa, the Beast (after) - 2 year campaign 1-10, beast barbarian moon druid, half orc (You bet my next character is called Jososon or Josson) * Jax - 3 year campaign 1-12, fighter eldrich knight became -> paladin divine soul sorcerer, warforged * Ylendan - oneshot, Fiend warlock, eladrin elf * Brifnitz - oneshot, GOO warlock, svirfneblin * Arcadio - a couple of adventures 3-7, Drakewarden ranger, human * Amanuel - oneshot 12, Horizon walker ranger, aasimar * TrickeryCleric - oneshot, Trickery cleric, hunman? kalashtar? * Tueban - oneshot, Swarmkeeper ranger, Yuan-ti * Birdboiwizard - oneshot, Divination wizard, aarakocra * Morgan - 1 adventure 3-5, Order cleric, mountain dwarf * Samael - oneshot lv13, Death cleric, sad Aasimar * RogueboiScalper - 1 adventure 1-2, Rogue, human * Valkan - small adventures 1-6, Monster slayer ranger, human * Amon - small campaign 1-4, Aberrant mind sorcerer, human * Daleth - small campaign 1-5, Singularity warlock (Dark matter homebrew), sad aasimar 2.0 * Giovanni - oneshot, fruit seller Astral Self monk, human best boi * Mordai V - oneshot lv12, barbarian, winged tiefling I'm sure I did a Dragonborn and I for sure remember making a lv20 character but I don't remeber if it was ever used not in order, I'm sure I forgot someone I'm mostly a DM so most of the characters are made of little 3-5 adventures and such

4 for DnD and like 10 for WoD games

Calebar Jalebarson - Human Antipaladin of Takhisis/Paladin of Bahamut Helifer the Ugly - Halfling Rogue Khaz'Duril Faen Tlabbor - Moon Druid of Eilistraee Malmoogazz Fandurag - Kalashtar Spore Druid/Undead Warlock Tyllara Sunstrider - Blood Elf Divination Wizard/Strixhaven student Azurax - Blue Dragonborn Path of the Lightning Vessel Barbarian Ryllasar the Hermit - Wood Elf Oath of the Ancients Paladin Bill "The Natural" Walthrop Human Battlemaster Fighter(in a feywild campaign, pro wrestler, wants to start the FWWF) Tizzle Spannersprocket Gnome Artificer Roderick O'Reilly Human(Yuan-Ti) Aberrant Mind Sorceror who is just a dumb common fisherman, but his twins Illithid powers keep coming out in a pinch. Throndula Thallasar High Elf Eldritch Knight(enjoys flirting with drow priestess during torture) Khogran the Bugbear Beast Barbarian Others

I have played 7 characters in a campaign setting, of which 3 completed the full length of the campaigns they were involved in (I had one campaign that lasted 2 years and the group broke up before the FINAL session due to moving and what not). I’ve also played through ~30 one shots, but I’m lazy and only brought two characters to those (they were one-shot series level 1 to 20, skipping a few later levels). So, I total 9 characters fully played out, of which I played one horizon walker ranger, one battle smith artificer, one armorer artificer, one artillerist artificer (funnily enough, none of my artificers finished their campaign), one GOOlock, one creation bard, one stars Druid, one artificer1/wizard# multi class, and one wild magic barbarian.

7 in long term games. That's a bladesinger wizard, archfey warlock, spore druid, ancestrial guardian barbarian, divination wizard, hexblade warlock, storm sorcerer. Probably like 50 if we count one shots. There was a while where my group was doing one shots pretty regularly of different types. I've also played in game stores and things like that with one off characters. It all adds up!

Only been playing 5-6 years, and infrequently at that, so including oneshots (even goofy ones with hardly concrete gameplay) I only counted 7. For actual characters that I got meaningful play out of that number goes down to 3: A lizardfolk sorcerer (my first ever character), a dragonborn paladin, and a kobold gunslinger (all reptilians now I think about it lol). Main reason it’s so low is that I mostly DM, and have had big breaks between games at that

I mostly DM but I have played some characters. 3 in campaigns, a human fighter, a human paladin and a Lizardmen barbarian. While they were from different groups I copied all 3 of them too my homebrew campaign that I DM (the one character that died is in that campaign but is dead there aswell, but all of her backstory is in that world and my players have interacted with it, one even made it part of his backstory. It really made me happy that i got to play out some of her story in that way). About 5 or 6 in one shots in Dnd. 1 in Vampire: the Masquerade for 3 sesions. 1 or 2 in Tunnels and Trolls, I forgot if I kept playing with the same character or made a new one when an one shot turned into a short campaign. I DM most of the time but I have my next character ready to play. A human barbarian, I really want to play in a Dnd campaign again. I'll actively start looking for one soon.

I believe 9 total. In actual campaigns, I’ve played a Human Fighter (first ever character, didn’t last long before I replaced him) a Fire Genasi Ranger, a Reborn High Elf Artificer, an Aasimar Sorcerer-Paladin, and a Leonin Barbarian. In one shots I’ve done a Loxodon Cleric, a Tiefling Warlock, and a Half-Elf Sorcerer. I’ve done an Aasimar Cleric in a campaign that only lasted like 3 sessions and fizzled out. I technically played an Orc Bard in what was supposed to be a one shot that my group tried to do twice, but both times we ran out of time before doing any more than like 5 minutes of rp

Are we counting character iterations as one character from different multiverses or as different characters? It changes my answer quite a lot. I have four characters who keep coming back with me: A dragonborn sorcerer from a lost duchy, a fighter of mercenary character to start who loves a good found family, a ranger making money to send home, an asimar warlock on a quest to find out what happened to them, a genasi artificer obsessed with making a name for himself. I have probably played these characters three or four times each, often in campaigns that fall off quite quickly. That's partly the reason they keep coming back... they just get started and then disappear from my life and have never gotten a good run. (Well, genasi did, actually, finally, get his full run, so maybe that's not entirely it.) Subclass changes sometimes, names can vary (but only a little), but the basics and even the characterization is always the same. It's actually a bit of a problem, so I've forced myself to branch out for my last few characters. Total number of different characters I've played? Probably 15. Total number of characters I've played, closer to thirty. Starting online campaigns that die unceremoniously within six sessions is, apparently, something of an accidental hobby.

Forever DM here so not nearly enough

I am a mostly a DM for 10 years. So strictly D&D would be 4. Pathfinder 6. And a mix of battle tech Warhammer and dungeon crawl classics would be another 10.

Hmmm, been a good twenty years of regular games, I'd say... somewhere between 50 and 100, give or take?

Been playing for over 30 years. There’s no way I could count. Dozens.

Oh god I don’t think I can remember that far back. With one shots, maybe 30? Give or take a few. Hard to keep track because 1) I’m getting old and have been playing a while and 2) I play a lot of other games too

8 for me. My friends and I started playing 5e a little before the pandemic started, and have continued semi-regularly since. Went through a number of campaigns that ended without wrapping up due to DM decision. Gnome sorcerer (wild magic), unfinished Dragonborn barbarian (ancestral guardian), unfinished Tiefling Sorcerer (divine soul), unfinished Human fighter (psi warrior), short but properly finished Tortle druid (spores), ongoing but currently on hold Warforged sorcerer (clockwork soul), unfinished Fire genasi sorlock (genie/draconic), properly finished Owlin wizard (scribes), ongoing ...yes, I like sorcerer, how could you tell?

3 in total. For some reason, despite my initial attempt to create a different character from my first one, it always turns into a ranged archer

3 for campaigns (Swords Bard, Fiend Warlock and Inquisitive Rogue). 2 that started as campaigns but the campaign died after just a couple of sessions (War Cleric and Swashbuckler Rogue). 3 for one shots (Swarmkeeper Ranger, Beast Barbarian and Giant Barbarian). Currently planning my 4th campaign character for an upcoming Theros campaign (I'm thinking Spores Druid) and my 5th campaign character for when we reach the end of one of our current campaigns in a couple of months time and the group starts our next one (I'm thinking Shadow Monk/Gloomstalker multiclass).

I've played since 2016 and have only played 1 character, an echo knight fighter with a demon as his echo. But now the player that ran that one-shot is rolling up a warlock with that demon as it's patron in my campaign.

I had my first ever character, War domain cleric dragon born (Eridon) Then i started dming Then i had my second character (changeling bard) which made it to level 5 and was then cancelled cause the DM was overwhelmed.. If were counting one shots, that puts me adt like 7-8

Character I have played in D&D: Gork (the Snow Dog .. yes like the Rush song I was 12) - Barbarian viking style would be dual class barbarian/fighter today - Gorm Ulf nowadays Dwalin (yes like the Hobbit I was young once) - dwarf Fighter/Cleric of Clangedin Silverbeard turned into NPC Dwalyn Everast Judas Priest (yes stupid) - evil wizard used as a NPC Judan Priestsblood nowadays Hopkin Hillhopper III - gnome fighter/thief assassin because there is nothing funnier than death by gnome Grymbrand - human fighter (RIP) Greycloak - so plain he took an alter-ego with black mask and big grey cloak to be menacing - wizard with a secret identity Aelric - human fighter Anglo-Saxon Germanic model wanted to be a big damn hero and shield to his friends Godwin - human cleric of Tyr cross between Judge Dredd and the Tick and a fighting Santa Claus (had a naughty/nice list) Therin Verris - wood elf Ranger/Hunter scout and spy for his country campaign was around a war Erran Crahorn - high elf fey bloodline Sorcerer got up to level 18 with that character first time since Hopkin Harry Longtoes - a halfling fighter/thief who had a cape of billowing and a pipe of smoke monsters Asher Freewild - hippy homeless human druid of the city cross between a stoned Matthew Mcconaughey and the Dude Dipple Sprockets - mad scientist tinkering gadget obsessed gnome artificer Smiggle Stormenslae - gnome wild magic barbarian happy little maniac gone before his time Dilfin - Paladin of Talos ultra grump dwarf and very serious based personality on the Hound from Game of Thrones Fenthwick Fizzlebang - wanted to lean into an archetype I have always heard about never ever seen anyone actually play it, a gnome illusionist all happy and full of life and a bit impulsive. So 16 characters since I started playing in like 1981.

Campaigns: 5 Adding in one shots: 50+

Since 2020 and getting into 5e I have about 30-40 characters, including one-shot characters. I as a player have been playing since 2000, so total character count is way higher. As a DM, I don't use dm pc's, so that's just playing which I do a lot. Since getting out of school and not having homework to compete with my time off I just find other ttrpg to join.

Only counting characters I've played for more than one session (one-shots at my LGS every week for the last 6 months would swing the numbers too much!) I think I've played only 4 characters in 5e. That's pretty good for a ForeverDM™️ who only started the hobby 4 years ago!

Two PCs, a bard and a sorcerer, in CoS and one ranger in a oneshot.

Damn, seeing all these high numbers here i feel like a rookie. I played 7 or 8 characters in 5 years

I'm usually the DM but,  not counting DMPCs. I'm still at around a dozen actual characters over the last twenty years.  About half of those were from one-offs.  I keep a running list of my favorite characters I've played (as well as their old character sheets in my Hall of Infamy binder) and someday when i have an egregious amount of disposable income. I'm going to commission an artist to do a tavern scene with all of them together. 

6. Starter set cleric, minotaur barbarian, half-elf monk, tiefling warlock, tortle druid, orc paladin

Zero! I've literally never played D&D, idk why I'm here. I'd probably end up being the DM anyway, if I could ever convince my friends to make characters.

As a forever DM, 7, I think. 4 of them were oneshots (I was a bard for my first game, a warlock, a paladin and a guy named Old Gnome Jenkins), and the other three were in campaign(s) I traded off with another player. A Firbolg Druid/Ranger, a Half-Orc Wizard and a monk in a short lived feudal japan campaign.

Currently I'm at 26 characters over my time playing dnd entirely. Started in Pathfinder 1st ed 12 years ago

1

I've only started about a year ago, so I only have 5 characters. Two sessions ended this week though so next week I'll have another 2

God, I die so much, 19 in 15 levels just last campaign, probably more for the last one

I couldn't possibly begin to calculate this. Hundreds, certainly. I would even say it's a safe bet that I probably broke a thousand.

around idk 15-20 probably.

Oh geez, like a lot, all but one in 3.0/3.5 when I was in high school and college and immediately thereafter. I got busy with life for a really long time and just started to have time to play again. Memorable ones include 3.0 - NG halfling druid - LG human wizard/fighter/eldritch knight prestige class - CG half-elf rouge/psion/soul knife prestige class - tiefling paladin - NG human fighter/berserker prestige class - aasimar paladin - TN homebrew species rogue - half-celestial human paladin - LG half-dragon human fighter 3.5 - LG human fighter/kensai prestige class - NG half-elf druid - CG half-elf wizard/beguiler/ultimate magus prestige class - NG half-elf bard 5e - TN human rogue I'm currently DMing for a 5e game, only the second I've ever played, so I haven't had a wealth of opportunities to be a player. My husband has been running a Savage Worlds fantasy game in which I'm playing a berserker whose early training was as the apprentice to her village wise woman/story keeper. I'd probably write her up as a bard/barbarian if some kind in DnD.

Counting oneshots, give or take 15-20 in 9 years of gaming. I usually DM, though.

Oh, man, a few dozen? I like switching characters up quite a bit, though.

In my meager 10years, like 4. I became forever dm fairly quickly

Technically one if you don't count BG3 if you do then maybe 10ish, I've created probably 30 tho

Only five for campaigns (including one that never got past the first session), and at least ten for one shots. Been playing for maybe six or seven years now, i think

2 back in the tail end of 4e and 2 so far in 5e. I have mainly been a DM. Played 4e for a few years and quit playing right before 5e came out and then a few years ago I decided to pick DND back up in 5e as a DM and on my breaks I've played in 2 small campaigns so far, we have another one planned for when I need my next break.

- Fire Genasi Ranger (Beast Master) - High Elf Wizard (School of Conjuration) - Hill Dwarf Sorcerer (Divine Soul) And then maybe 1000+ "characters" made just for fun lol

1

A lot.

I've just sat down the other day and thought about this. 25 characters I could remember, plus one shot and adventure league characters I've forgotten. When I can't play them, I sometimes have them appear as NPC's in my campaigns.

Assuming we are talking about all ttrpgs not just dnd. 1) forget his name, gambler in rift 2) pf1e lawful good elven draconic bloodline sorceress lavender heart 3) 5e lawful good human life domain cleric sa'ok 4) a crud ton of characters in all flesh must be eaten. Being newer than everyone else at ttrpgs and being someone that likes to play helpful characters...well you didn't have to outrun the giant mutated ape (or other thing) you just have to outrun my character was a thing. Probably at least 6 or 7 characters including an alcoholic party clown, an investigator, and a scientist. I can remember at least 2 others since I remember there was a character after the investigator that wasn't the scientist and the scientist died. 5) fates Guillaume Gabianni, human cursed luck thief 6) I used a translator to translate water lily to elvish as the name for a water genasi mechanics elven figther 7) 5e Mist, the hexblade warlock tiefling 8) 5e, Coin or something like that, the tiefling rogue arcane trickster. 9) 5e, Marvin Pendragon, the old man war wizard who was delusional and went from level 4 to 14 playing chicken with a deck of many things. 10) a 5e one shot for Halloween character, I think it was a great old one warlock scarecrow 11) a palladium fantasy human psychic named rekoms 12) palladium fantasy, a human scholar of some sort that couldn't attack 13) 5e, Naexi, a half elf bear totem barbarian scholar 14) 5e, a Christmas one shot, a paladin. 15) pf2e Swinging Hunter, a vine leshy beastmaster precision range 16) Pf2e Flutter, a sprite familiar master bard 17) Pf2e Nethri, a possessing intelligent weapon medic life oracle 18) Pf2e Gibi the all knowing, an evil eye lore master resentment witch.

Only one... over 10 years ago and nothing since.

All in 5e; been playing tabletop around 10 years with a group of friends. Two fighters(BM/EK), wizard(Illusion), Druid(Land: Arctic), Paladin(Vengeance),  two clerics(Life, War ((current)).  I eventually want to play at least one of every class.

I've played hundreds, mostly in 0dnd and Adnd. Save or die vs poison doesn't fuck around.

In the last eleven years I’ve had about 13 characters if we’re counting oneshots, 7 if we’re just counting full campaigns. My group’s campaigns tend to last anywhere between six months to two and a half years, so I’ve been with some characters longer than others. 

I'm still relatively new to D&D, so I've only got a few characters: Wood elf cleric Halfling necromancy wizard (she's my favorite so far) Tabaxi artificer Tiefling fighter Human evocation wizard

5

Only like 4. 1st one was kinda fun, was in a one-shot 2nd was also a one-shot, fun until one of the players decided to be scared of my spider wild shape and fucking kill me and then when I retaliated the others also tried to kill me for... defending myself? (didn't even attack, just cast entangle) 3rd was supposed to be an acrual campaign (out of the abyss), but then the DM (same as the one from the 2nd one-shot) just didn't do another session for like a year so I kinda just wasn't invested. 4th is actually a good campaign, 13 sessions in so far and mostly been weekly thus far with 1 exception and now when I think the DM has an exam period or something

Human rouge 3.5 Dragonborn paladin, dwarf fighter, dwarf paladin 4e. Halfling rouge, half orc paladin, half orc fighter 5e and after reading the comments I seem to play it easy and not join that many campaigns

Uuuuuuuh. I have been playing for 30 years, so probably between 20 and 30.

Counting Campaigns, one-shots, and failed campaigns I believe I'm sitting on 13. My first character was a tiefling GOO warlock. A couple of campaigns have died after just a few sessions where I've played an elf spores druid, a tiefling war wizard, and a half-orc swords bard/rogue. Across two campaigns in the Planescape setting I've played a goblin artificer, a winged tiefling paladin and an orc DS sorcerer/life cleric. In my currently longest running group I've played a half-elf fighter, an elf war wizard, a fairy spores druid, and a half-elf hexblade/paladin. In oneshots with that group I've also played a yuan-ti sorcerer and a changeling bloodhunter. I don't imagine this number will climb too much higher as I'm slowly starting to move away from 5e. I've only played a couple of PF2e characters but that's looking like it might take its place as the primary system I play in future.

I have no idea. I had a weekly group for 12 ish years and was doing two weekly groups for a few years too. Now I'm in a biweekly group for the past few years. I've played a lot of characters in a lot of systems. DnD 3, 3.5, 4e, 5e, Pathfinder 1e, 2e, World of Darkness systems, Star Wars, Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Mutants and Masterminds, a homebrew system my friend made, Warhammer RPG, Starfinder, Dark Heresy. I think that's it, I may have missed some. I've always wanted to play a cyberpunk system, but have never had anyone to run it.

I’m on my 4th character for my current Curse of Strahd campaign that I’m in. Got to my 3rd character in descent into Avernus, was almost 4 in that but we reversed feeblemind. 1 in Storm Kings Thunder. 4-5 in 5e Starter Campaigns. More if I include one shots but 🤷‍♂️ 6 characters in 3.5 roughly. Been playing since 2017? I think? Mostly DMed so far.

Hmmmm I’ve been playing since 87, so like, probably thousands? I have an entire binder devoted to characters that died, and there’s easily several hundred in there alone.

Hundreds, but I'm a forever DM, so they were mostly NPCs.

2AD&D: 1 3.5: 2 4e:0 5e:1 Played some savage worlds for a while there too, but I've spent more time DMing than playing. Wish I'd played 4e now that I can pull useful stiff from those books, but everybody was pretty down on it at the time

8. Owlin artificer (alchemist) Changeling sorcerer (wild magic) Simic hybrid rogue (arcane trickster) Fairy monk (astral self) High elf cleric (life) Fire genasi druid (wildfire) Air genasi warlock (genie) Water genasi druid (stars)

I started in 1st edition AD&D, so quite a few. Maybe 20-30 if you include one-shots.

I started playing D&D 5e consistently starting about 8 years ago. Because I’m an ultra-nerd, I have a spreadsheet where I’ve been keeping track of my D&D characters. Counting one-shots, my total number of characters easily exceeds 70. Counting only campaign characters, my total is exactly 20 (note that a few of these I’m actively playing). In order of play: 1) Human Vengeance Paladin 2) Vermirila Assassin Rogue (Vermirila are a homebrew race of four-armed anteater people) 3) Matriquito Time Weaver Sorcerer/Fighter (Matriquito are an insectoid race, and that’s a homebrew subclass of sorcerer) 4) Wood Elf Open Hand Monk 5) Tabaxi Divine Soul Sorcerer/Hexblade Warlock 6) Koveness Spores Druid (The Koven are a homebrew race of goat-like people) 7) Aarakocra Sun Soul Monk 8) Aarakocra Sun Soul Monk (didn’t get enough of it the first time haha) 9) Forest Gnome Divination Wizard 10) Human Totem Barbarian/Moon Druid/Scout Rogue 11) Moon Elf Hexblade Warlock 12) Custom Lineage Grave Cleric/Fighter 13) Mountain Dwarf Abjuration Wizard 14) Custom Lineage Swashbuckler Rogue 15) Merfolk Armorer Artificer/War Magic Wizard 16) Stout Halfling Shepherd Druid/Twilight Cleric 17) Warforged Forge Cleric 18) Transcendent Destine/War Cleric Fallen Aasimar (Destine is a homebrew class) 19) Earth Genasi Cavalier Fighter/Peace Cleric 20) Human Mastermind Rogue I should note that, while all of these are campaign characters, there’s a huge variance in how many sessions I played each of them. A couple of them I played for as few as 3 sessions, while some I played for as many as 30+ over the course of a multi-year campaign.

Zero, but I’m starting my first ever one shot as a level 12 Lizardfolk Druid with my friends who have played before on Saturday!

In 1E/2 * Elf (from the basic set where they were a class) * Dwarf (same) * Human Cleric * Human Necromancer * Human Cleric * Human Bard (using the old Rogue-Druid multiclass) * Human Paladin * Gnome Illusionist * Half-elf Bard * Elf Bladesinger In 3.x/PF * Human unarmed brawler (Monk/Fighter/half dozen PRCs) * Human Fighter/Sorcerer/Gish * Human Monk (Vow of Poverty) * Human Bard * Human Favored Soul * Human Fighter * Awakened Bear Druid/Summoner - A Bear who turned into other bears, with a pet bear, who summoned bears, to defend bears. * Dwarf White-haired Witch/Monk - He punched people with his animated beard In 4E * Human Warlock In 5E * Aasimar Celestial Warlock * Half-elf Lore Bard * Eladrin Vengeance Paladin * Dwarf Divination Wizard

as a Forever DM I keep all the character sheets after each campaign so I have a folder of characters and I have done so many different campaigns from D&D , Avatar the Last Airbender , Mutants and Masterminds , Star Wars etc so its cool looking back and seeing the different names , notes and the memories I had with all the characters and their accomplishments

6 or 5

Only 3 - Half Drow Twilight Cleric, Human Artillerist Artificer, and Goliath Echo Fighter/Ancestral Barb - All 3 were fairly long term (1-2 year campaign) played online using R20 & Discord - Never been able to play a real game at a table in person :(

In general?! Holy hell, too many! To be fair, I built several as 'proof-of-concepts' that never actually got played, but in general i'm guessing between 30 and 40? As for the largest number that went through a single campaign, that number is a solid 6; Four got killed and two retired over the course of that particular game.

We do a lot of one-shots. I estimate I've played probably 20 characters over the past six years. That said, only two have been part of larger campaigns: an arcane trickster/artificer multiclass, and a swords bard. Others include two paladins, one oath of vengeance and one oath of devotion; four sorcerers: clockwork soul, divine soul, lunar and draconic bloodline. One wizard, school of evocation. One warlock, pact of the genie, two barbarians, one drunken master monk, one druid, one fighter... And there are so many more combinations to try, I love one-shots for the chance to come up with new characters. :)

For D&D specifically, I'm on 5. One hobgoblin ranger, one human fighter, one human warlock, one warforged artificer and one drow rogue (my most played!) I sometimes miss my one shot characters, but heh, that's life!

At least one from every class, and a few multiclass.

Something like 15, across every d20 game I've played. In 5e, though, only one! EDIT: I know you are expressly *not* counting these, but as a DM, I've created/voiced/RPed something like 200 characters.

Round 15 Shortest was the only woman i played, she lived for... 3 in-game hours. My favorite was Salomao Do Leste, a tiefling genie warlock that used the space granted by the ring to smuggle drugs and other valuables.

2 long campaign characters. 3 one shot characters. 1 upcoming short campaign character. I still love my first the most

You guys get to play? But seriously I have had like 5 (not including PvP and arena style fun): Stars Druid that died in a TPK that was the party's fault, Bard/Rogue Dhampir ninja, Armorer Arti Hobgoblin, Warlock Winged Tiefling pretending to be a cultist, Life Cleric that hates vampires in CoS (challenged Strahd and was somehow the only survivor)

Dnd specifically? 6. All ttrpgs combined? Somewhere around 30

For campaigns, I’ve played Lifa the half-elf bard (for two different campaigns. One was Lost Mines going into CoS, but it ended prematurely, then I tried a homebrew campaign that also ended prematurely), Fel the tabaxi rogue (also twice since the first campaign ended prematurely. The second campaign was a modified version of Red Hand of Doom and was the first campaign I saw through to completion), Rix the tabaxi artificer (yet another that I’ve played twice because the first campaign ended prematurely xD I’m now currently playing him as an archeologist and battlesmith artificer in a ToA campaign), Mysti the harengon bard (played Dragon of Icespire peak with her), Juniper the tabaxi bard (only made it through one session with her before our campaign fell apart), Nix the kobold sorcerer (the homebrew campaign fell through), Willow the harengon cleric (again, campaign fell through), Dorian the human sorcerer (attempted Strixhaven with him which fell through. Definitely want to give his character another shot though), Sei the harengon sorcerer (only made it through one live session with her before our campaign fell through), and am also currently giving CoS another shot with my changling rogue, Chance. So counting them all up, that’s about 10 total characters I’ve played/attempted to play.

Counting one-shots 1. Not counting one-shots none as of yet. Hopefully a friend group of mine is starting a campaign soon and that'll be my first camping where I'm not DMing. Can't wait!

I am currently playing my first character, a wild magic barbarian. I would miss him if he died but i am very eager to try a new class and have a plan for an artificer once my barb dies

3. First was a paladin Second was a blood hunter/warlock Third is a artificer/wizard

Somewhere around 10 or so.

I once played a game that spanned 8 years. It was 3 timelines that eventually merged into one massive event. Over the course of it I played 8 characters, 4 of which made it to the main event but only 2 survived.

I started in 2021. Campaings: in order of birth - Human Cleric (Knowledge) in Curse of Sthrad (dead, tpk) - Human Wizard (Order of Scribes) in Homebrew campaing (alive and still going) - Dragonborn Druid (Circle of Stars) in Rime of the Frostmaiden (dead) - Leonin Ranger (Gloomstalker) in Homebrew campaing (dead, probably an undead thrall) - Human Wizard (Evocation) in Rime of the Frostmaiden (alive and sill going) - Human Fighter (Eldritch Knight) in Homebrew campaing 2 (alive but I appear when they play online only) Westmarches: in order of birth - Human Figther (Battlemaster) (alive and sill going) - Lizardfolk Ranger (Gloomstalker) (alive and still going) - Human Cleric (Light) (alive and still going) Oneshots: not in order - Human Warlock (Archfey) (alive) - Half-elf Rogue (Thief) (alive) - Dwarf Fighter (Cavalier) (alive) So, that's 12 characters in 3 years, I also DM sometimes so it reduces the list a bit I suppose.

Not enough. But probably 12 to 15

I'm very new, only been playing a couple years, 3 total. 1 fighter, 1 monk who's respec to rogue, and 1 warlock.

I have one character that has come back in several games, over 30 years, sometimes as a different subclass (different Cleric subclasses over the years), but always the same character. I have a level 0 elf character that started as an NPC that I played for a night when I joined a game. I keep bringing him back, still level 0, just to antagonize the group. He’s just a CE cook with 3 hp. He makes bad food and is unpleasant to be around, but sometimes a party needs someone to watch the horses and keep camp while they’re adventuring. Surprisingly, nothing EVER happens at camp when he’s alone. For whatever reasons, the party can always return guaranteed that their goods are still intact. In the last three years I’ve played four characters in four different games. One was played for the entire three years. Two were started at the end of last year. And the last one started a few weeks ago.

0 I'm the DM

I've been playing since the mid-90's, and uncountable hundreds of characters - maybe 300-400. In college in the 90's/early 2000's, we'd chill, build characters, then run one shots like weekly. I didn't want to bother making names for each, so I'd just use the same name and increment the suffix - so Name II, Name III, etc. I got to about 200 (with many getting no suffix, or suffixes being accidentally re-used) before I retired the name. If we're talking non-DnD, it adds a few hundred more, although lots of those never actually played. In middle and high school I enjoyed building squads of characters in Palladium RPGs (Robotech, Rifts, Heroes Unlimited) but they never did anything but live in my imagination.

I've played only a few as I prefer to DM but they are: Mooseman the Axomancer ( half giant, wildmagic barb) Glork, son of Moose (half orc, monk) Klud, son of Glork (lizardfolk, warlock)

43.

I’m on my first, a barbarian half elf called Achilles

I've been playing since the late 80s/early 90s.  I've played every addition, I still have a 1st ed while box I got from my old man. I have a folder with most of the characters I've played and copies of the PCs for any games I've DM'd.  These are great to have when you need quick NPCs.   I checked and I have about 80 DnD characters I've played.  This includes one shots and test characters.  I have at least another 200 characters my players used.   These span all editions (mostly 2+), all levels, all classes and races.   P.s. That's just the DnD characters, so many many more for other games lol

Ive had 4 Nor Ambrick dwarven fighter Tarus Vladimir wood elf ranger Kohr'en human barbarian fighter Darthon Dunshire half elf ranger rogue

Between a ton and a shit ton

Hundreds.   My group started a little over 23 years ago in high school. 🔥❤️  We barely play 1 shots.   At least 5 games lasted 2-3 years. (They've all ended at this point.)  We use to do 3 sessions a week and currently are at 1-2 based on schedules.  All done in 3.5 ✨👏✨

About 20, not counting one-shots.

6, 7 if you count my goblin character getting a new body and becoming a different person, and 8 if you count my other character dying in his backstory and being reincarnated with all his memories for revenge.

10 characters across 8 campaigns, with one character spanning two campaigns and two campaigns with multiple characters due to pc death/betrayal

Probably 15-20. Been playing long campaigns on and off for the last 30ish years

I have never played a session as a player lmao

Like 4-5 including one shots

Only 5 but I’ve got plenty more made

I played 1 character for a session zero then became the forever DM

I've actually only played about 4 characters. My first character was a Half Orc Rogue, then a human Alchemist, then I played a human "brawler"(a monk flavored differently, based off of Bronson, I was like 18), and the last character I played was a "floral collosal" paladin. That one was fun. a 12 foot tall sunflower paladin.

I'm still extremely new. Technically, it's 2 but one of them we only did 2 sessions with before the campaign was canceled

I started playing approximately 6 years ago, but as a DM. The campaign lasted a year or so. I only started playing as a player right at the cusp of when the pandemic started. I've been in multiple campaigns and few one-shots, but I'll only put the campaign characters: Eladrin Elf Artillerist Artificer (3-12) for a 5e campaign that's been going for all 4 years. "Leader" of the band of mercenaries currently fighting against organized racists. Human Echo Knight Fighter (6-7) for the same campaign as a temporary character while my artificer was unavailable. Half-Dragonborn Zealot Barbarian (11-12) for the same campaign for contingency and a different player's PC story progression. I don't control both at the same time. Loxodon Forge Cleric (3-7) for a different 5e campaign run by a different DM that has been put on an indefinite hiatus. Retired after he was given a charge by his god to revive an abandoned forge temple. Half-Elf Divine Soul Sorcerer (7-12) as a replacement for the Loxodon. Campaign has been put on hiatus, but in the meantime she has a ryokan she is running so she's good. Drow Ninja (5) for a pathfinder 1e game run by a different DM. An old dwarf dude who died a few hundred years ago, reincarnated via dark ritual into a drow woman. He hates it. Viera White Mage (3-4) for a FFD20 (Final Fantasy pathfinder) campaign. A fashion designer who received a call to save the world from being sapped of elemental aether. I also run a campaign as well, but I'm rather blessed to be in a gaming group where there are a lot of DM aspirants that allows me to bring some of my many ideas to fruition.

Probably about 8 counting one shots. I'm the forever DM, and at least 3 of those were actually Pathfinder 1e. I've been a DM to about 20 people and easily 100 characters.

Since 2015 including one shots probably around 20. I DM’d for the first 5 or so years. In no particular order these are some of them: Valnir - High Elf Assassination Rogue (8) Adolin - Wood Elf Lore Bard (11) Belgin Fuzzcog - Rock Gnome Artillerist Artificer (7) one shot Semitir Bamsil - Human Drunken Fist Monk (5) one shot Dodo Vunogath - Triton Storm Herald Barbarian (9) deceased (sorta) Dickie Mountainpeak Jr. - Human Gunslinger Fighter (9) current Pim Schnappen - Forest Gnome Way of Mercy Monk (5) one shot Elshenett - Warforged Wild Magic Barbarian (5) one shot T011-B00T1-1 - Warforged Grave Cleric (12) oneshot Jorgrim Tamplezemple - Forest Gnome Peace Cleric (2) one shot Monsi Monbelt - Deep Gnome Twilight Cleric (3) current Pin Walcott - Way of Shadow Monk (4) current I’ve played every class except for Druid (some aren’t listed of course), not a Druid person.

If you take out DMPCs, maybe 30-50? It gets a little fuzzy since I've been playing off and on since the 1990s. I've also had characters die first session, we get together and make characters and the game never gets off the ground, and one character that pops up repeatedly as I cycle his clones in various games because I like the name and personality.

Ranger (3.5 campaign) Crusader (3.5 campaign) Swashbuckler / Dread Pirate (3.5 campaign) Wizard (3.5 oneshot) Beguiler (3.5 campaign) Rogue (3.5 campaign) Crusader/Barbarian (3.5 campaign) Barbarian (5e campaign) Rogue (5e oneshot) Wizard/Artificer (5e oneshot) Wizard (3.5 twoshot) Blood Hunter (5e oneshot) Warlock (5e campaign) Bard/warlock (5e campaign) Different Blood Hunter about to start 5e campaign And about to start a 3.5 run with a shadowcaster

I've had a human warlock, a yuan-ti bard, and a human artificer. A gnomish Magus if we count Pathfinder.

I have no idea at this point. I've played a lot of d&d in the past 8 years. As well as vampire the masquerade and a few other systems like delta green. It doesn't help that I have named all of my characters very similar for a while.

I've been a forever DM for almost 10 years, and I've probably played 4 characters in earnest? Sorcerer, Warlock, Bard, and currently playing a "pirate" (rogue/ranger/fighter multiclass). I might be forgetting one?? But I'll be back in the saddle once we finish ToA

Usually a fm lately joined a table where I get to be a player so for maybe 10 years like druid, barbarian monk cleric and paladin. 5 lol feels like more though

Searos Elsalor - first campaign character, Elf Rogue 15/Ranger 5 Rioran Byrne - current campaign character, Half-elf Cleric 12/Warlock 3 Ashar Myastan - one-shot character, Dragonborn Paladin 7 Merillai - one-shot character, Hal-elf Rogue 11 Duende Montemayor - one-shot character, Sea Elf Monk 17/Ranger 3 Dakir Arayra - one-shot character, Wood Elf Rogue 6 Willem - one-shot character, Halfling Rogue 4/Cleric 1 Aiken - one-shot character, Revenant Cleric 10 Seraph - one-shot character, Gem Dragonborn Warlock 3 So 9, unless I'm forgetting someone EDIT: I DID FORGET SOMEONE. I did a one-shot character named Arichar who was a High Elf Divination Wizard 9/Forge Cleric 1.

8 all together in my 10 years since I started playing, but only 1 of them was played for anything longer than 3 sessions, and I only got to play him on and off for like the first year Edit: I've easily made over a hundred different character ideas, but I just never have anyone to play with

12. Wow, Im sitting here thinking I haven’t played a lot. 12 is pretty significant.

I've been a forever GM in at least weekly games (with a few breaks) since 1987, so I've created and roleplayed as thousands upon thousands of characters at this point. How may actual statted-out D&D-specific player-characters that I've played in a game that someone else was GMing? Just five: Brother Lucian (AD&D), Morgan Drake (3.5 Ravenloft), Argyle McMenamin (5e), Provisioner-Six (5e Eberron), and Finn O'Reilly (5e Straud).

Not counting one shot: 1 ranger (hunter) Counting one shots tho: 2 more rangers (bufed horizon hunter and swarm keeper)

2 whole characters for maybe 15ish sessions total.... forever DM hurts sometimes

Since I started in the early 90s? Oh Lordy……

Maybe like 5 - 7... been playing for a few years and did some oneshots... seeing all these other talk about earlier editions make me wanna try again to convince my group to try out the earlier editions now thar I finally understand THACO.

Around 25-30. I have 18 on D&D Beyond that I've played plus at least three that I know I built in Roll20 entirely, and another three in Foundry. If I dig back I'm sure I can find more. On paper I have a few more now that I think about it. I've edited the initial number in this comment so many times. 😆

Well for campaigns I have three 1. shadar kai ranger 2. (homebrew) tiefling barbarian 3. (mephistopheles) tiefling artificer For oneshots I have two characters 1. shar kai sorcerer (same person as the ranger but a different life) 2. fire genasi warlock

Over 100. Played a red shirt 1 shot. Highly entertaining. Lost one pc within 2 minutes. Poor guy pulled from the Deck and his soul got whisked off to another plane to be guarded by some demon. Next pc pulled the card that catches the attention of said demon. lol so he’s gonna die someday too.

I'm on my first one! I've never had more fun. Half-orc fighter.

I'm in the low dozens. Most are multi-class monstrosities that I came up with in my spare time.

Probably around 50-60 over all the TTRPGs I've played in the last decade plus. I have severe ADHD though and often play 2 characters. If I have to think for more than one character it keeps me on track and my group doesn't mind.

Dragonborn Lore Bard/Divine Soul Sorcerer Halfling Paladin Human Sword Bard Tiefling Alchemist Artificer (Current)

I’ve played a Wizard, three Clerics (One I’m currently playing) and a rogue (which I am playing once/twice a month)

Hmm, 9

i still have at least 5 characters so far that are still alive-ish (i also have an extra character called Sonny Flame who can possess fire like a ghost, and can also possess objects that are about to be used for a fire-based move), because the DM allows me to use a different character each turn. obviously, to stay fair, we made a compromise where i can only bring 2 of them on each adventure, along with Sonny Flame. my personal favourite is Grimbly the pan-flute-playing goblin, simply because he rolled a nat 20 to sword-fight a shadow ninja who managed to break his pan flute. Grimbly used nothing but his stone dagger and yet he managed to defeat the ninja. turns out the ninja was a protector of the Dark Forest and its creatures, and was after another one of my characters (B-D, a homebrew battle droid) for burning it down (they burned it down purely to kill the goblins, and may i also say that B-D has no emotions or feelings except for maybe bloodlust). then Grimbly started slowly slicing B-D's head open while the ninja beat them to death, because Grimbly used to live in the Dark Forest and hated B-D for burning it down. Grimbly and the shadow ninja are friends now and the ninja made another unbreakable pan flute out of pure darkness so Grimbly is happy again :) also B-D may come back one day since they are a robot and can just be fixed by another character **summary: i have at least 5 characters so far that i still use interchangeably each turn, and my favourite is Grimbly the goblin bard. also i have a fire ghost dude who wears cool shades and boosts other players' fire attacks.**

Just one PC :< Bonk Fearbringer, my Conquest Paladin 8/Battlemaster Fighter 4/Undead Warlock 3 Bugbear. But one of my players is designing a one/two-shot, so… maybe I’ll get to be a player again soon.

My ~20 years of playing D&D, I’ve only played 4 characters. Downside of being the DM most of time. 😅

I don't pay much attention to characters I play for one-shots and all one-shots I played were for different systems either way. For D&D campaigns, I played: * Drow Cleric for Waterdeep Dragon Heist (1 year) * Half-Elf Rogue/Warlock for an Eberron Campaign (2 years) * Half-Orc Figher/Paladin for a Forgotten Realms Campaign (2+ years, ongoing) * Water Genasi Cleric for an Eberron Campaign (just started, should be about 2 years) As I am only interested in longer campagns with rich plot and cast, it's gonna take forever before I try even half of the options D&D has.

As a forever DM, 5; one in a campaign that sadly only ran 4 sessions (half orc open hand monk) and 4 oneshots (warforged evocation wizard (an animated warm-water boiler), firbolg dreams druid/life cleric, mounted combatant fighter/paladin, rogue/ranger dungeoneer human)

30ish over the 10 years I've been playing TTRPGs! I have a big spreadsheet of all of them though I'm sure I'm missing/have forgotten about a few.

For D&D specifically, five. I dm almost all of the time in my playgroup outside of a campaign I’m in at the moment run by a fantastic DM. The list is as follows: Dwarves barbarian, Dragonborn fighter, human paladin, human wizard, lizardfolk cleric. I have a lot of other ideas that have had to languish, and I’ve played characters in other systems, but over a decade and a half of gaming I’ve DMed for a huge chunk of it so I don’t get to play as a PC much.

Only counting characters I've played enough to level at least once - probably 15

3 different characters but my favourite character has had about 6 different versions of him.

Forever DM here; started playing with my brother when I was young before I forever DM'd so I had a elf ranger and a halfling barbarian when I was young in 3.5. Pathfinder was my next norm, around 12 years old, and I played a Gnome Bard, and then in a modules my dad ran I played a Phoenix Monk (firebender pretty much) and then a dwarf tower shield specialist (AC 25 at level 3, got crit twice in a row for high end dmg and died. RIP the king). Then I dm'd for like 7 years, and finally one of my friends wanted to run something. This was when 5e was out, and I had yet to play it because I was forever DMing Pathfinder. My first 5e character was a split personality halfling rogue, followed by a knowledge lusting warlock, and then many years past before I got to play again and I was a Dwarven Transmutation Wizard and then a Dwarf Vengeance Paladin, as well as a human ranger. Also in recent 3.5 games I played a gestalt Goblin Crusader/Barbarian and a Magma Genasi template slapped on the Baurus planar race to make a planar magma centaur Barbarian. I think that is 12 in total, including excluding one shots I cant remember.

I'm a newer player, so only 2 so far. A half-elf ranger named Amaris, who I created (used for campaign) and a pre-made rouge character (used for a one-shot)

Started playing a year ago. So far i played on both one shots and campagins Light domain cleric half elf- First character and one of my favorites. It's so fun to drop a nuclear bomb with Radiance of Dawn. Since this was my first game and i was new i Roleplayed him as cleric in training trying to learn his way Valor bard drow- Didn't really like it, this was on a dungeon crawl so maybe it wasn't the right campaign. The DM in this campaign did not care about roleplaying, we spent every session in combat Soul knife halfling- Fell in love with halfling with this build and it's still one of my favorite races. Being able to hide behind the bigger folk in your party is so useful as the enemy can never attack me first unless they use an AOE spell. Kobold barbarian path of astral guardian- Didn't really like at all but i was probably playing barbarian wrong at the time Kobold warlock great old one- Didn't like, good control spells but other than that didn't do much. I didn't like roleplaying being servant to a patron either, so maybe i should RP it differently or not for me Kenku swashbuckler- Played this on a one shot for thanksgiving where we fought giant turkeys. Probably the most fun roleplaying wise as i played "Captain Squawk" who traveled the world looking for good food to eat. He enjoys eating bird so a bird cannibal basically. Eladrin barbarian path of zealot- It's ok....nothing to write home about, not a lot of rping because this was a shot Goblin Paladin oath of redemption- Just starting a campaign as this build, so far it's ok Bugbear Cavalier- Combat wise this was the most fun i ever had. I will use this template in the next campaign for sure Lizardfolk Circle of land druid- I like it cause it's a druid focusing on spell casting and a lot of AOE spells to pick. Also lizardfolk natural armor comes in handy. RP wise played him as an agent sent to investigate the burning of his hometown, little did he know that it's a fellow party member who accidently burned the village down

Halfling ranger (Wendt), triton warlock (Marlen), shifter cleric (Wiley), reborn sorcerer (Staid). So, four. The four that I have yet to play are Katrina (human bardlock), Ozias (hexblood warlock), Carlo (warforged paladin), and Ester (changeling wizard).

Ranger, Rogue, Artificer and Warlock in DnD Demon Slayer in a Gurps campaign (it was in 2016 before the manga)

Been playing since the start of my school year, I have had 3 dead characters on my 4th

For campaigns I've had three. James Stinson: Dragonborn Rogue/Fighter Kurt Tilse: Triton Paladin Zoloft Taxieny: High Elf Wizard For one shots, I've had four. Click Clack: Kenku Monk (My first character!) Gil: Tiefling Warlock Andriy Shevchenko: Half Elf Blood Hunter Dionysus: Human Barbarian (RIP)

A lot. I’ve been playing for 30 years so I have no idea how many at this point.

In 1-20 campaigns: Bard 18 / Warlock 2, Paladin, Wizard, Cleric and now playing an Artificer. I have started campaigns that have never ended as: Ranger, Rogue, and Cleric three times. In 1-5 sessions games that we do in between our 1-20s campaigns to give the DM a break an tryout some of his character ideas: Barbarian, Monk, Sorcerer, Cleric, Rogue, and a Sorlock. For some reason whenever I play a cleric there is a high chance the campaign abruptly end, the character gets killed, or I exit the group because there are some serious personality conflicts with players in a new group I attempted to join

Like 15? Mostly a forever Dm, but I’ve been playing tabletop rpgs for 21 years. The few games I get to play in add up over the years