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The first character I ever created was a fighter-type in Steve Jackson’s The Fantasy Trip.
His name: Chris the Conqueror.
Alliteration was a thing for me, even though I didn’t know it then, due to reading comic books.
I think I ended up naming the other two members of our party, Nelson the Intelligent and Anders the Swede. Real original, huh?
We spent a good part of freshman year of high school playing Melee/Wizard and all of the adventure modules that we could get our hands on.
We fudged the rules a bit as we played, giving ourselves magic weapons as we progressed in skills. Nelson ended up with Excalibur (yes, THAT Excalibur) and I had some enchanted sword that I named Phoenix. Anders stuck with a two-handed battle axe throughout our time in that world.
By the time we finished playing, we had another set of characters go through one of the last adventures, Orb Quest. I think we may have had a larger party (4 or 5?) and to this day I think Nelson’s character is still stuck on the second to last floor in that tower, frozen for all eternity.
And while it seemed like it was a long time, I don’t believe we played more than a year with that system. We abandoned it before sophomore year, when something more interesting came along, at least for me, personally.
Star Fleet Battles.