Kal-el Adonis

Player: Ray

A character in Jon's Dungeons and Dragon's campaign. Back in the early days of AD&D a common system of rolling up characters was to roll 4d6 and take the highest three numbers. After six rolls you have your six characteristics and you placed them anyway you want. It was about as fair a system as any. So, one night Ray rolls up a character. He rolls: two 18's, a 17, a 16, a 12 and a 10. He decideds to make a fighter called Kal-el (he added the Adonis part after he rolled a 17 for comliness). Ray puts the 18 on STR and DEX and a 17 on CON (hoping to roll an early age for a starting fighter which would raise his CON by 1 & lower his WIS by 1. Which he did). He puts the 16 on INT (for a chance at psionics, which he did not get) and places the 10 on WIS and the 12 on CHA. Later in the campaign (about level 6 or 7), when Kal-el picked up a Deck of Many Things he drew the card which granted him the duty to a small keep and a permanent 18 CHA). The last time we played AD&D together (maybe 10 years ago) Kal-el was 10th or 11th level and his final stats were:

STR 18/xx (I think it was in the 50-75 range)

DEX 18

CON 18

INT 16

WIS 9

CHA 18

COM 17

It was the best rolled (non-cheated) character I've ever seen. Hence the name. Also, in another stroke of luck, anytime Kal-el leveled, Ray never rolled less than a 7 for hps (and I seem to remember a lot of 10's). So, with an 18 CON, I think Kal-el averaged about 12-13 hps per level. He was pretty badass.

Allies:

• Nankin