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So, my sister, her husband and I have started what I hope will be a regular and continuing D&D game. We had a world-and-character-building session a couple weeks ago and our first game on Saturday.

You guys, I love this game. We decided early on that a thing we all really wanted was a world that was, above all, whimsical - full of wonder and silliness, basically a good children's cartoon. We also decided to dump all the more humanoid races and stick with more fantastical stuff or animal people. So Sean is playing a cleric who is a huge shoebill stork person (a reskinned half-orc but with the ability to use his wings to glide) and I am a wee blue-tailed skink artificer (basically a kobold with a few gnomish traits).

We had a great dungeon crawl where everything we encountered was basically friendly - special shoutout to the flumph who wanted us to listen to his mixtape. I think the only combat encounters we actually had were against a Rug of Smothering (can't talk, not a person) and the hag at the end of the dungeon (had kidnapped and enslaved a beer elemental, clearly a jerk). After about the third chamber, Katie looked at the two of us and said, "I don't know why I thought you guys were going to fight any of these creatures."

NGL, about 60% of the Monster Manual is full of creatures that I would prefer to be friends with.

Now we are 2nd level, we already have our next session scheduled, and my lizard found herself a cool new flowered hat on our dungeon crawl.

This is already the best D&D game I've ever been part of.

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"I don't know why I expected you to fight this" is the constant refrain of all GMs, I feel :)

That sounds like an awesome time! I love the idea of everyone being animal people and reskinning races like that; both of your characters sound absolutely fantastic.

That sounds great! :D
The poor beer elemental, I hope they're fine.

The beer elemental is fine now that he has been reunited with his boyfriend, the mushroom king.

My online group is very much "attack first, ask questions later" in philosophy, with me as the lone voice of "but maybe we could talk to the gnolls!" Being able to make friends with a flail snail instead of stabbing it is much better.

:) I'm so glad that your in-person group aligns with you more!

Flail snails are also just great creatures; I love them very much and keep wanting them to show up in games I'm in because I think they're very cute.

That sounds like a romp and I hope it continues in this way for the whole time.

That sounds great, and somewhat reminiscent of some D&D I played at university.

Whimsical and silly, with creatures that you want to befriend...I can totally get behind a campaign like that. It sounds like so much fun!!! I am glad that you're having a great time. <3 :)