#(its ezmerelda)(i just think she's so cool)

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

BTW, for those following along at home: the rogue in our Curse of Strahd game has apparently reconsidered his situation wrt the group (by means of our DM YET AGAIN sending some very comprehensive messages about the expected tone and playstyle of the game to the player in question) and we have finally taken our first steps outside of Vallaki since arriving!

Wyn was maybe not TRYING to go to that creepy old wizard tower west of the city, but she wasn't NOT trying to go either, so. hopefully she does not regret letting the party wizard's curiosity get the better of him!

[drinkingdeadpeopletea]

I love hearing about people's d&d stuff, so here's some more questions! 1, 5, 9, 22, & 33?

(OH BABY okay sorry this took kind of a long time to do but BUCKLE IN)

1. Favorite character you’ve played?

Once again limiting to d&d and excluding other ttrpgs, it would have to be Lysander Zosso, the human warlock I played over the summer. He was a scholar of magical theory (theory only with no interest in practice) until he found a strange book in a mysterious monastery, read it, and has been plagued by monstrous nightmares and strange powers ever since. I played him as “everyone’s favorite professor, who is slowly going insane.” He was so much fun to play, partly because star pact warlocks get telepathy which is just the BEST and partly because he had super high intelligence and charisma but like 7 wisdom, meaning that i got to poke my nose in places it didn’t belong and make a lot of wildly overcomplicated plans for simple situations. I also almost caused a TPK by using a clearly unstable magical artifact. He was great, I miss him. 

5. Favorite NPC

So I’m running Curse of Strahd right now, and there’s an NPC named Ezmerelda D’Avenir, and HOLY FUCK do i love her. I might model my next PC after her. She’s a stone-cold badass and as a DM she’s so much fun to play. I’ll admit that I kinda steered my players in her direction because I wanted to make sure they got to meet her, and I’m having to hold myself in check to make sure I don’t accidentally create a DMPC because she’s just so freaking cool

9. Your favorite thing about D&D

Ahhhh I don’t even know where to start. I truly love everything about it, but my favorite part I think is just getting to tell a story with my friends. It’s why I much prefer playing in person and with people I already know, why I like such a wide diversity of types of stories and games. I just think its one of the greatest collaborative storytelling outlets we have in the modern world and I am all about that. 

22. What color was your first dragon?

It was a young white dragon that landed on the lawn outside of the house where we were having a fancy dinner party. I still remember the feeling of holy fuck is that an actual dragon i did not think we were high enough level to fight an actual dragon 

(we were. it was a piece of cake, actually. helped that we were an 8-person party) 

33. How do you write your backstory, or do you even write a backstory!

Usually I do! I’ve done it a few different ways. Unless something in the setting has really grabbed me and given me a good idea, my default is to pick race and class first, and then to pick a background in the PHB that looks interesting and to actually use those random tables that you can roll on. I roll on them but ignore my roll if I don’t have any good ideas sparking from the result, and then I use those results to give me ideas for the backstory. That’s how I got Lysander, and it’s how I got Dashia, the cleric I’m playing now. But I also really like games where backstories are made collaboratively, so that everyone has all these cool pre-existing connections and it feels like a homogeneous story. of course, in doing that, you don’t get to hold any secrets back, at least ooc. So there’s ups and downs both way. 

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