Gary Harper
January 01, 2020 7:31 PM
Return to D&D! by Gary Harper
Gary dropped his things down at the now designated D&D table in the library. It wasn't nearly as much stuff as it usually was and so thankfully, it didn't make to much noise when he did it. This was the D&D group's first meeting for the year... and he maybe should think about calling it something different. They had played D&D a bit, but they've also played a few other systems in the past few years. Oh well, it worked. D&D was to Role-playing games as Band-Aid was to 'adhesive medical strip'. He sat at his traditional seat and flipped open his notebook while he waited for the others to show up.Hopefully Conner, Parker and Ness would make it. After his discussion with Ness at the opening feast, he realized that some recruiting effort was going to be needed, and they were all supposed to have asked around the school a bit to see if anyone else was interested in joining the group. He hadn't had a lot of success himself, but the people he usually talked to were already in the group.
Unfortunately, some other aspects of that conversation he had with Ness weren't going to work out. Instead, he hoped he had another option available. Eberron's warforged. He greeted everyone as they arrived and had them take a seat around the table. Once they had all arrived, he began his opening statements.
"Welcome all to our new year of role-playing." He began, "As you may or may not know, I'm Gary our resident game master. And, if I'm not mistaken, you are all here for an adventure. Now, I know that there have been some rumors floating around of a game involving robot space pirates, but unfortunately we've run into a snag with that idea. I didn't pack those books, so Starfinder may have to wait for another time. Instead, I think we are going to play some actual Dungeons and Dragons this time around."
He paused for a moment, "The standard D&D world is one of medieval fantasy; knights and wizards, dragons and monsters, magic infuses nearly every aspect of an adventurer's life. The world of Eberron however, is a little different on that front... not much, but a little. There is a little more 'science' going on. Alchemists and artificers tinkering with magic, making strange new dangerous things. One of those things was the Warforged. A race of living, sentient constructs, superficially similar to golems." He glanced around the table with a smile. "Fantasy robots."
"This is all minorly relevant. For this game, it'll be a fairly straight forward D&D adventure. The Eberron aspect is mainly there to allow the option of the Warforged 'race' along with the standard humans, dwarves, elves, halflings, gnomes, dragonborn and tiefling options. Class options are the standard; fighter, cleric, rogue, paladin, druid, ranger, wizard, sorcerer, warlock barbarian and bard."
"If your new to this, don't sweat it to much. Each one of the players will be controlling the action of one character in the situations I present to you. You are working as a team to accomplish the goal before you with whatever resources you have. Making a character can be a little complicated the first time through, so if you just want to give me an idea of what sort of character would be fun to play I can help sort it out for you."
"In case it matters for your character ideas, your characters have all been hired by a rather reclusive Lord Tennesone, to go and 'Make the world a better place.' as he says. Whether or not you know each other before hand is entirely up to you. So, enough of me talking, any thoughts and/or questions?"
Subthreads: Is there a cheat sheet for this ‘having fun’ thing? by Heinrich Hexenmeister with Gary Harper, Evelyn Stones, Morgan Garrett, Connor Priory
I am warforged and angry by Ness McLeod with Gary Harper
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Ness McLeod
January 29, 2020 4:44 AM
I am warforged and angry by Ness McLeod
Ness took a seat at the DnD table. Opposite Evelyn and Heinrich. When Evelyn had been enthusiastic about playing, Ness had been kind of thrilled. Admittedly, DnD had always kind of been the Aladren’s thing, and in some ways it’d been nice to have that, but there could be other things – after all, Ness had pitched the idea for this game, and Evelyn wanting to be in on that had felt best friendy and cool and Ness couldn’t wait to invite her in.Except, now Evelyn had brought her ‘boyfriend’.
It was fine that Evelyn liked Heinrich. It was maybe a bit boring and heteronormative and whatever, but it wasn’t like Ness was mad that Evelyn liked someone in that way. That was what happened. It was fine. Except, like, did that mean Heinrich was going to be everywhere now? Was it not exciting enough for Evelyn to get to hang out with Ness? Apparently not. Because there Heinrich was.
And then Gary dropped the second bombshell within five minutes. No space robot pirates? He… didn’t have the books? Wow, if only there was some way of dealing with that. If only books could be like… mailed or something. Had he not really liked the idea? He was talking about having some ‘fantasy robots’ but in the next breath said they were all but irrelevant. They were just going to do wizards and stuff. And… okay, that should have been cool. It was the game that Kir and Zevalyn had started out in, and it had been something Ness had missed out on. It was The Classic. It would be cool to add that to the list of adventures Ness had had. But it wasn’t space pirates. It wasn’t the idea that Ness had pitched and which Gary had seemed to like, and now… now he was making the flimsiest of excuses over why it couldn’t happen, and Evelyn was here with Heinrich and it was nothing like Ness had planned or wanted it to be. Especially not as somehow the characters Evelyn and Heinrich wanted just went perfectly matchy matchy together. Regardless of what they chose. Either they could fight side by side, or one could be the fighter whilst the other one healed them.
“I’d like to be a warforged,” Ness stated, seeing as Gary had included an alleged robot option. “I do not understand your stupid human ways and refuse to participate in meaningless social rituals. What does that go with?”
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Gary Harper
January 30, 2020 5:21 PM
Yes... use your anger, and your hate and... cookies? Is that right? by Gary Harper
Gary smiled at Ness, he had to hand it to the Aladren. Ness was getting right into character from the sounds of things. "Excellent! That sounds like a perfect true neutral alignment. You just do what makes the most sense to you without society or other people's opinions swaying your decisions." He then thought for a moment, "As for class... Hmm... Probably the best that fit with that mindset would be barbarian or rogue.""Barbarians are usually strong melee fighters. They wield big weapons and carve swaths of destruction before them using their strength and rage. They are not generally known for their social niceties. Rogues on the other hand are your thieves, assassins, scoundrels or thugs of the world. They usually rely more on deftness and cunning, but have a similar disregard for society's rules and regulations."
Gary slides some of the sheets in Ness' direction with the class information on them. "The other thing to keep in mind," He glances around at the table as a whole, "Is your character's motivation. Why have they decided to work for Lord Tennesone? His stated reason to help people is a good one," He looks back at Ness, "but probably not for your warforged. He is also paying you all a stipend for food, board and travel expenses, so you don't need to worry about going hungry..." he paused again, "also not an issue for a warforged, they don't need to eat or drink... or breathe for that matter."
Gary thinks again for a moment before continuing, "There is always the quest for knowledge, understanding, power, artifacts, and... well, money. Those that survive the adventuring trade often become quite wealthy from their endeavors." He shrugs, "On the other side, perhaps your character is somehow indebted to Lord Tennesone and this is how you've worked out paying off that debt. Regardless of the reason, you will want one to give your character a reason to be here and to go on these adventures. Otherwise, there's not much of a game." He grins again, "What fun is that?"
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