Taran Goblinkiller, aka Wanderer
Taran Goblinkiller drawn by Justin Pfeil colored by Kelly Westermeyer The first of several character stories to come on this blog! One Christmas , after I had already been reading a borrowed copy of the Player's Handbook for months, my parents gave me the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set and the Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set for Christmas. I created my first character and I Dungeon Mastered my first game that day, with my father and my sister playing. My father played the only D&D game of his life that day as a fighter named Sir Grumpsalot. 🤣 The character I created was Taran, unimaginatively based on one of my favorite fantasy literary characters, Taran, Assistant Pig Keeper , from Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles . Those works were my first exposure to the fantasy genre. In 6th grade I purchased the final book in the series, The High King , at a Scholastic Book Fair in my school. I was instantly smitten, the following year I wou...