Matar Lin. Thief... sixth level or so. From one of the neatest games I've played.

Matar was a thief's thief. He had eleven different thief skills. He couldn't do them very well, but he could sure do a lot! In the beginning he was a quick thinker. He outwitted and shamelessly taunted an elf who captured him. In the course of the celebration that followed, he cut off a raid on the fort they were in by firing an arrow at the portcullis mechanism, causing it to fall. (Of course, his first arrow went into a guard... natural 1 and natural 20.)

Soon things took a more sinister turn. After entering a forbidding tunnel complex, heavily pursued by guards, the party resorted to desparate measures such as buttering the stairs behind them. They stumbled upon an ancient, abandoned Temple of the Earth, and Matar made a fateful decision.

"Okay boys, get the looting sacks!"

Within minutes, evil undead took out the rest of the party, leaving Matar to face the dungeon alone. Undaunted, Matar stumbled upon a room full of glass caltrops, which he crossed by tying a six-inch steel square to one boot and hopping across. Cleansing the temple of all valuables, he stepped into the other room and faced -- an earth elemental.

One poor thief was no match for an earth elemental, but this one had a weakness -- four stone pots filled with sand. Quickly, he launched an arrow into the air with a rope attached, skittered across it, and pushed the first one over. The second one required help from Ol' Prybar. The third he stood in front of until the earth elemental punched, then leaped out of the way. The fourth wouldn't go over for anything, so he finally tied a rope to his waist and around the pot, then jumped.

With the temple cleared, Matar dragged his friends free and helped them to recover. The earth priest kept giving the treasures suspicious looks. (Matar: "It was him." ::pointing to the paladin::)

I don't remember much more about the campaign, except that he got roughed up by some barbarians and convinced them to teach him how to use the bola. I also have to wonder why "farm implements," "clock", and "spice rack" are items in his inventory list.

But damn, that was a good game.

Drake von Dalis. 2/2 fighter/cleric of Heironius(3rd edition). Master of the longsword. Eldest son and heir of the von Dalis brothers, and leader of the Brothers von Dalis adventuring party.

This was just a one-shot game. Drake and his brothers set out into the woods, intent on rescuing their family friend. In the course of it, they slew kobolds left and right until they reached the cabin in which their friend was supposed to be. He wasn't there, and they realized that the kobolds would assault it. Quickly, they dug pungi pits and rigged traps.

The first victim of the pungi pits was the person they were looking for. Ooops. No sooner had he arrived than the kobolds set the house on fire (after stepping in the pits. All of them. The DM was just staring at his dice in disbelief.) The Brothers von Dalis burst from the house and lay about them, slaying the foul fiends!

Good game.