[Cerek the Barbaric]

These are some experiences from other members in my group. JL was the person who taught me how to play AD&D and Felix is one of the best roleplayers you will ever meet. ALL of his characters were very tough, and he played them strictly by alignment. Everybody from this "veterans" group had characters that had reached 35+levels of experience.

JL - His very first AD&D character was a straight fighter named James. James was originally Chaotic Good, but changed alignments when he recieved the Sword of Kas from a dungeon. He became an extremely powerful character.
In one dungeon, James and a paladin were leading the party through a high-level dungeon when they came to a corridor that "glowed with magical traps". The DM expected the corridor slow the characters down for a long time while they tried to Identify and Disarm all the traps. James had a different idea. He grabbed a Wand of Healing in one hand and the back of the paladins neck in the other. He then used the paladin as a human shield..shoving him down the hallway ahead of him and setting off all the traps. Whenever he felt the paladin "slump" from the damage he was taking, James would ZAP him with the wand and restore him to full hit points. They cleared the corridor in about 5 minutes.

Felix - One of his most feared characters was a NE female mage. Everybody in the group agreed that she was probably THE most evil character they had ever seen. In one particular dungeon she was in, the party encountered some type of horrendously powerful monster that was trapped in a 50' deep pit. I can't remember the specifics, but - for some reason - the party HAD to kill this monster. Since it was in the pit, the party couldn't use any spells (except for Magic Missile) without hitting a party member. So the fighters grabbed their weapons and leaped fearlessly into the pit. One of the clerics also jumped in to keep healing the fighters as needed. One of the fighters took an extreme beating and was reduced to 1-2 hit points. The cleric was busy with one of his comrades and the fighter knew he would be killed if he got hit again...so he decided to "bug out" and climb back up out of the pit.
After 2 rounds of strenuous climbing, he crawls over the lip of the pit...right at the feet of the mage.
She takes one look at him and says "Ohhh, you poor dear. You need the cleric. He's down THERE!"...she then kicks the fighter in the face, sending him head-over-heels back down into the pit.