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darchildreTonight is makeup D&D night: since we didn't get to play at all last week, we're playing twice this week. Therefore, let me tell you about my D&D characters!
My online group has been playing together for about 2 1/2 years now. It's me and four dudes - I have met none of them in person and probably never will. We finished our first campaign sometime last year (wherein I was a dragonborn cleric named Tirath) and now we have two new ones that we play on alternate weeks.
Tonight's campaign is the newer one that we started after the end of the original. It's set in the same world but hundreds of miles away - our original campaign was set in, basically, fantasy!Alaska and now we are in the fantasy!Caribbean. I'm playing Tal: they're a changeling rogue (because I had never in my life played a non-caster before) and are basically what would happen if Errol Flynn and Nightwing had a genderfluid baby. We are only level two right now but I am excited to get to level three and officially become a Swashbuckler. The rest of the party is Sol, a barbarian kid who hears the voices of his ancestors in his head; Torrent, a monk who is basically Chirrut Imwe if Chirrut was a weretiger; and Kamal, a bard who mostly performs as a fight promoter. The DM for this one wants it to be a little more sandboxy, so it doesn't have a major story throughline yet, but we have fought some shark cultists, so that was cool.
Our other campaign has been going on longer - we're about level 6. In that one, I'm an elven druid named Rinn who's a swamp witch bag lady. She's a Circle of Spores druid, so she gets to do creepy things with mushrooms. I have an ongoing list of all the things she has in her pockets - by the time the campaign ends, I hope it's at least two pages long. The rest of the party is Fray, a feral child elf barbarian who is also from the swamp and is somehow the only reasonable person in our party; Toby, a warlock who fakes being a bard most of the time and is occasionally possessed by something called the All-Mother; and Ahn-gree, a grung monk who has challenged multiple NPCs to Iron Chef-style cooking battles. In this game, we have met the Duke of the Moon, fought a terrible snake made of human hands, and attended an actualfax Agatha Christie-style dinner party murder mystery complete with a chef from fantasy!France.
I like playing Rinn sliiiiightly better - the campaign is a little more fanciful, which is more to my taste - but I think Tal is going to be a lot of fun once they get to a slightly higher level.
I really lucked out with this group - it was the first game I tried to join on Roll20 and they all turned out to be pretty cool dudes who were all pretty committed to playing regularly, which is like finding a unicorn. They're all crazy - I'm the only one on the west coast, we start playing at 7:30 my time and usually play till 11:30 or 12.
Before I tried Roll20, I had tried going to game stores to find a group there and couldn't make myself go in and talk to anyone because my anxiety got so bad. I also tried play-by-post games and I'd get a post or two in before, again, my anxiety got so bad that I couldn't continue and flaked out. Weirdly, I have no problem at all playing with these dudes and basically never have. I have no idea why that is but it's pretty awesome.
D&D is the best, you guys. I'm glad there are online options now so I can play in my pjs. It's pretty great.
My online group has been playing together for about 2 1/2 years now. It's me and four dudes - I have met none of them in person and probably never will. We finished our first campaign sometime last year (wherein I was a dragonborn cleric named Tirath) and now we have two new ones that we play on alternate weeks.
Tonight's campaign is the newer one that we started after the end of the original. It's set in the same world but hundreds of miles away - our original campaign was set in, basically, fantasy!Alaska and now we are in the fantasy!Caribbean. I'm playing Tal: they're a changeling rogue (because I had never in my life played a non-caster before) and are basically what would happen if Errol Flynn and Nightwing had a genderfluid baby. We are only level two right now but I am excited to get to level three and officially become a Swashbuckler. The rest of the party is Sol, a barbarian kid who hears the voices of his ancestors in his head; Torrent, a monk who is basically Chirrut Imwe if Chirrut was a weretiger; and Kamal, a bard who mostly performs as a fight promoter. The DM for this one wants it to be a little more sandboxy, so it doesn't have a major story throughline yet, but we have fought some shark cultists, so that was cool.
Our other campaign has been going on longer - we're about level 6. In that one, I'm an elven druid named Rinn who's a swamp witch bag lady. She's a Circle of Spores druid, so she gets to do creepy things with mushrooms. I have an ongoing list of all the things she has in her pockets - by the time the campaign ends, I hope it's at least two pages long. The rest of the party is Fray, a feral child elf barbarian who is also from the swamp and is somehow the only reasonable person in our party; Toby, a warlock who fakes being a bard most of the time and is occasionally possessed by something called the All-Mother; and Ahn-gree, a grung monk who has challenged multiple NPCs to Iron Chef-style cooking battles. In this game, we have met the Duke of the Moon, fought a terrible snake made of human hands, and attended an actualfax Agatha Christie-style dinner party murder mystery complete with a chef from fantasy!France.
I like playing Rinn sliiiiightly better - the campaign is a little more fanciful, which is more to my taste - but I think Tal is going to be a lot of fun once they get to a slightly higher level.
I really lucked out with this group - it was the first game I tried to join on Roll20 and they all turned out to be pretty cool dudes who were all pretty committed to playing regularly, which is like finding a unicorn. They're all crazy - I'm the only one on the west coast, we start playing at 7:30 my time and usually play till 11:30 or 12.
Before I tried Roll20, I had tried going to game stores to find a group there and couldn't make myself go in and talk to anyone because my anxiety got so bad. I also tried play-by-post games and I'd get a post or two in before, again, my anxiety got so bad that I couldn't continue and flaked out. Weirdly, I have no problem at all playing with these dudes and basically never have. I have no idea why that is but it's pretty awesome.
D&D is the best, you guys. I'm glad there are online options now so I can play in my pjs. It's pretty great.
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Date: 2019-01-25 04:02 am (UTC)We should definitely get in a group together and play sometime!
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Date: 2019-01-25 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-25 05:31 am (UTC)Anyway both your characters sound fun, and I'd be interested in hearing more about them! I was considering doing some session highlight posts myself so I can ramble about stuff.
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Date: 2019-01-25 06:07 am (UTC)Thanks! I love hearing about other people's D&D characters and campaigns - I'll look forward to hearing about yours.
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Date: 2019-01-25 11:48 am (UTC)I love the descriptions of your parties; they sound like a really neat collection of characters, and I'd enjoy hearing more about them and their adventures.
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Date: 2019-01-25 01:19 pm (UTC)