Sunday, December 16, 2007
Moral of story
What I have learned today - creating a blog to talk about D&D is waaaaaaay more fun than doing work for my finals. And that should be all for tonight.
New layout yay!!!
Okay not really, but new colors and header. So it looks shinier. And yes, I did do the image in the background of the header. There's a link to it in my previous post.
Art - Current characters
Here's some art of the three characters I play currently (whether or not they're really being played or on hiatus). Instead of posting the images on here, because of the Terms of Service, I'm posting links.
Gazit - my NPC-PC in the campaign I run:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Unbalance-in-Balance-27237510 - an old drawing of her with her parents.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Just-Trying-to-Help-27236522 - another old drawing, depicting a scene from one of our adventures.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Gazit-s-Glasses-61679953 - a more recent picture, showing her new glasses.
Rasurda - a bard I play when my girlfriend and I are bored and want to play DnD but we're the only ones around:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Rasurda-Badgerkin-55904266 - first pic of her evar!
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Proving-Them-Wrong-63399670 - her bellydancing.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/100-Themes-Magic-57706374 - some bard magic goodness.
Zoey - the Barbarian I play in the campaign I don't run.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Zoey-to-Valeda-63398592 - a picture I drew when I had to redesign her, though now she wears different armor again.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Barbarians-heart-D12s-61242725 - some Barbarian humor.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Cultured-59513859 - in some more traditonal Gnomish attire.
And here's some that include two or more of them:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Active-Characters-61243784 - all three!
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/100-Themes-Eyes-65981996 - Zoey and Gazit.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-Chicks-Rock-50947523 - Zoey and Gazit with two of my previous characters.
....and that's enough of that. I promise I'll stop blogging now.
Gazit - my NPC-PC in the campaign I run:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Unbalance-in-Balance-27237510 - an old drawing of her with her parents.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Just-Trying-to-Help-27236522 - another old drawing, depicting a scene from one of our adventures.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Gazit-s-Glasses-61679953 - a more recent picture, showing her new glasses.
Rasurda - a bard I play when my girlfriend and I are bored and want to play DnD but we're the only ones around:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Rasurda-Badgerkin-55904266 - first pic of her evar!
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Proving-Them-Wrong-63399670 - her bellydancing.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/100-Themes-Magic-57706374 - some bard magic goodness.
Zoey - the Barbarian I play in the campaign I don't run.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Zoey-to-Valeda-63398592 - a picture I drew when I had to redesign her, though now she wears different armor again.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Barbarians-heart-D12s-61242725 - some Barbarian humor.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Cultured-59513859 - in some more traditonal Gnomish attire.
And here's some that include two or more of them:
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Active-Characters-61243784 - all three!
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/100-Themes-Eyes-65981996 - Zoey and Gazit.
http://comethime.deviantart.com/art/Gnome-Chicks-Rock-50947523 - Zoey and Gazit with two of my previous characters.
....and that's enough of that. I promise I'll stop blogging now.
My DnD history
Its very slow at work today, so here we go again.
My Dungeons & Dragons history, as a player and DM
I started playing several years ago, at some point in high school, though I don't remember how old I was. A former friend of mine convinced me to join the game he was playing in (3rd edition) so he could spend more time with me. I started playing a Gnome, and her class was Psionicist, which was a huge mistake. I picked it because he was playing one and I know nothing at all about DnD. After one session I realized I needed to change classes, and *poof* she was a cleric. I honestly have no idea how we resolved that in-game. Anyway, that game died after a while, and the DM (his mother, who also became a friend of mine) started up a new campaign. I made a new character, another female Gnome cleric of Ehlonna, hoping to improve on playing clerics. I was already addicted to playing Gnomes, so there really was no other option there ^^; That game lasted quite a while, and was very fun. And even when that game died, we started a new one, and I played a female Gnome bard, discovering how much I love that class too. Throughout all the campaigns and one-shot sessions we played, I also played a sorceress, a rogue, and a human fighter who specialized in archery.
But anyway, I left that gaming group for the most part once I left town for college. For a while, when I would come home, I would join a session or two, but that's died out for personal reasons. I stopped gaming altogether for a couple of years, because there was no desirable game to join in my college town. I was invited to join a 1st edition game, but I really didn't want to because I loved 3rd so much, and I kinda just forgot about it. Then, eventually, I got the idea of starting my own campaign and teaching my friends to play. I taught my girlfriend and two of our friends first, starting off with a very small group. Because it was small, I made an NPC who functioned/functions as a PC (she's another Gnome cleric of Ehlonna, le gasp). However, I had the brilliant idea of inviting more and more people, even though I wasn't very good at first. The group got to be almost 10 people, and it was way too much. At that point, my girlfriend and I were co-DMing, but I was still really frustrated. Soon after the group got that big, people started dropping out anyway, and soon it was back to just me, my girlfriend, and one other friend of ours. At that point the game went on a hiatus, because even though there were just three of us, we could never get ourselves in one place at one time to play. I needed to do research and learn more anyway, so retrospectively, that worked out okay.
That started another period of not really gaming, and both my girlfriend and I started to go through withdrawal. Then a friend of her's at work invited us to a campaign her husband was running. It was 3.5 edition, so I had to get over my refusal to upgrade, but we joined. I played another Gnome bard. Initially I had issue with the setting because it was a blend of modern/fantasy, with magic coming back to the world, and technology/magic is a very firm divide in my head. But in the end I did have a lot of fun, and we made good friends of the DM and my girlfriend's friend from work. As for my campaign, it was still kinda on hiatus, but I was doing work for it when the mood struck me.
After the campaign we had been playing in ended, our DM started up another, and we joined that one too. It was really awesome to play in a campaign with them from the start, as we had joined the previous one after it had been going for a while. For this game, I chose to play a Gnome barbarian, and came up with this idea of playing through the core classes. I was afraid that if I kept playing the same race and the same class I would end up playing the exact same character over and over. Besides, I thought it would be fun to branch out and see what the other classes had to offer. So I started my plan to play like that, with Barbarian first, and skipping over Bard and Cleric (and possibly Fighter) since I've played them already. Anyway, we're still playing that game, and its been very interesting. I've discovered through playing my Barbarian, no matter how much I love her, I'm not really a melee-class kinda person. Also, after this campaign had started, I ran my campaign a couple of times. For the last 2 sessions our DM from the other campaign joined the game, coming up with a character I really enjoy and can't wait to see interact on certain levels with the PC's. My girlfriend and I have also started a mini-campaign that goes along with the original one, where only she and I play, and I'm playing another Gnome bard in that. Sadly, though, my game has been put on hiatus again because of college, but once I graduate in May I'll be able to work on it again and make it even better. Hopefully all who were playing before will still want to play then.
Plans for teh future: Once the current campaign is over, our usual DM's wife is going to run a game. I had initially planned to play a Forest Gnome Druid, but now I think I'll just play a regular Gnome (but still a Druid since that's next on the list). I've also come up with a plot recently for my own campaign, so its not just a string of random encounters. I have a lot of work to do for it, but once I graduate I plan on getting right to it, and making my campaign a regular occurrence (and hopefully one of awesomeness).
My Dungeons & Dragons history, as a player and DM
I started playing several years ago, at some point in high school, though I don't remember how old I was. A former friend of mine convinced me to join the game he was playing in (3rd edition) so he could spend more time with me. I started playing a Gnome, and her class was Psionicist, which was a huge mistake. I picked it because he was playing one and I know nothing at all about DnD. After one session I realized I needed to change classes, and *poof* she was a cleric. I honestly have no idea how we resolved that in-game. Anyway, that game died after a while, and the DM (his mother, who also became a friend of mine) started up a new campaign. I made a new character, another female Gnome cleric of Ehlonna, hoping to improve on playing clerics. I was already addicted to playing Gnomes, so there really was no other option there ^^; That game lasted quite a while, and was very fun. And even when that game died, we started a new one, and I played a female Gnome bard, discovering how much I love that class too. Throughout all the campaigns and one-shot sessions we played, I also played a sorceress, a rogue, and a human fighter who specialized in archery.
But anyway, I left that gaming group for the most part once I left town for college. For a while, when I would come home, I would join a session or two, but that's died out for personal reasons. I stopped gaming altogether for a couple of years, because there was no desirable game to join in my college town. I was invited to join a 1st edition game, but I really didn't want to because I loved 3rd so much, and I kinda just forgot about it. Then, eventually, I got the idea of starting my own campaign and teaching my friends to play. I taught my girlfriend and two of our friends first, starting off with a very small group. Because it was small, I made an NPC who functioned/functions as a PC (she's another Gnome cleric of Ehlonna, le gasp). However, I had the brilliant idea of inviting more and more people, even though I wasn't very good at first. The group got to be almost 10 people, and it was way too much. At that point, my girlfriend and I were co-DMing, but I was still really frustrated. Soon after the group got that big, people started dropping out anyway, and soon it was back to just me, my girlfriend, and one other friend of ours. At that point the game went on a hiatus, because even though there were just three of us, we could never get ourselves in one place at one time to play. I needed to do research and learn more anyway, so retrospectively, that worked out okay.
That started another period of not really gaming, and both my girlfriend and I started to go through withdrawal. Then a friend of her's at work invited us to a campaign her husband was running. It was 3.5 edition, so I had to get over my refusal to upgrade, but we joined. I played another Gnome bard. Initially I had issue with the setting because it was a blend of modern/fantasy, with magic coming back to the world, and technology/magic is a very firm divide in my head. But in the end I did have a lot of fun, and we made good friends of the DM and my girlfriend's friend from work. As for my campaign, it was still kinda on hiatus, but I was doing work for it when the mood struck me.
After the campaign we had been playing in ended, our DM started up another, and we joined that one too. It was really awesome to play in a campaign with them from the start, as we had joined the previous one after it had been going for a while. For this game, I chose to play a Gnome barbarian, and came up with this idea of playing through the core classes. I was afraid that if I kept playing the same race and the same class I would end up playing the exact same character over and over. Besides, I thought it would be fun to branch out and see what the other classes had to offer. So I started my plan to play like that, with Barbarian first, and skipping over Bard and Cleric (and possibly Fighter) since I've played them already. Anyway, we're still playing that game, and its been very interesting. I've discovered through playing my Barbarian, no matter how much I love her, I'm not really a melee-class kinda person. Also, after this campaign had started, I ran my campaign a couple of times. For the last 2 sessions our DM from the other campaign joined the game, coming up with a character I really enjoy and can't wait to see interact on certain levels with the PC's. My girlfriend and I have also started a mini-campaign that goes along with the original one, where only she and I play, and I'm playing another Gnome bard in that. Sadly, though, my game has been put on hiatus again because of college, but once I graduate in May I'll be able to work on it again and make it even better. Hopefully all who were playing before will still want to play then.
Plans for teh future: Once the current campaign is over, our usual DM's wife is going to run a game. I had initially planned to play a Forest Gnome Druid, but now I think I'll just play a regular Gnome (but still a Druid since that's next on the list). I've also come up with a plot recently for my own campaign, so its not just a string of random encounters. I have a lot of work to do for it, but once I graduate I plan on getting right to it, and making my campaign a regular occurrence (and hopefully one of awesomeness).
Idea for Zoey
Situation - A member of her party has stolen something VERY important from her father, who has been absent from her life until now. He told her not to attack him, but she still wants to help in whatever way she can. She ran into him by accident, and he mentioned that her father had done something horrible to him, though she didn't respond and only told him that if he ever crossed anyone she loves again, she'd slaughter him.
Idea - To get Scotty (the person who stole) to Nix (her father), she could lure him somewhere under the pretense of finding out what her father did to him. She really doesn't give a shit, but she can get him alone that way, and let Nix know where this is happening. Then Nix can do whatever he wants with him to get the item back. Should wait until after our current mission, or at least this day of it, to do so - as rescuing Enta is still important to her. There will still be emotional conflict, though, as Zoey wants to know what happened even though she doesn't want to see her father in a bad light, and wants to help him. Should be interesting. Mlar.
Idea - To get Scotty (the person who stole) to Nix (her father), she could lure him somewhere under the pretense of finding out what her father did to him. She really doesn't give a shit, but she can get him alone that way, and let Nix know where this is happening. Then Nix can do whatever he wants with him to get the item back. Should wait until after our current mission, or at least this day of it, to do so - as rescuing Enta is still important to her. There will still be emotional conflict, though, as Zoey wants to know what happened even though she doesn't want to see her father in a bad light, and wants to help him. Should be interesting. Mlar.
Beginning
...Yes, I am this much of a dork. I wonder if many other people have Dungeons & Dragons blogs. Huh. Well, this is mine, and it was inspired by my girlfriend's crochet blog.
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