#ard&dno

[ardienothesieno]

you asked, and so I shall deliver

doodles of my D&D character! as decided by a spontaneous poll I did a week ago bvfghbnjk

this is Theo. they are a sarcastic little bean with trust issues and no love for conversation. they are also. a robot. secretly. shhhh.

i made a toyhouse page for him if that interests anyone

[ardienothesieno]

I agree, you should talk more about DND here

i would be honored to talk about D&D here

i don't want to go to deep into the details of the campaign without getting permission from my DM, but i have been taking notes on each session so far... >:)

this is the first full campaign i've been in and it has been INCREDIBLE so far. i've had the luck to have both an amazing DM and already the coolest freaking storyline (AND WE'RE ONLY ON SESSION 4. THE REAL STORY APPARENTLY HASNT EVEN STARTED YET.)

it's almost entirely homebrew because. well. it's in space. IT'S A FREAKING SCI-FI FUTURISTIC PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR CAMPAIGN AND WE'VE ALMOST DIED SO MANY TIMES ALREADY AND AHHHHHGGFGB IT'S. SO. COOL.

and. just from the sessions we've had already. AUGHHHHH i'm going insane and bouncing off the walls and rampantly theorizing about parallel realities and geeking out over giant factories and being thrown into leading all the big crucial decisions and ACK

my character is named Theo! he's a robot. but nobody knows he's a robot. he's a very... inconspicuous robot! of course if you hang around them for more then a couple minutes you will notice that they're a bit. off. not quite right... not quite human.

he's on this mission (the one that the campaign is centered around) because he has the alternate motive of looking for his little sister! who went missing seventeen years ago and no one has heard from her since... until a very distorted and broken message comes in from the far reaches of space... from where no one has gone before... hmmm...

it's been so fun and chaotic and amazing and as soon as I get permission to talk about it more then HOOOO BOY. you guys will have to bear witness to my insanity lol

[ardienothesieno]

im going to post my session notes from today at some point but i would like everyone to know that i caused psychic damage to a giant white blood cell just by being really fucking awesome

[ardienothesieno]

i did not prepare enough and thus everything went badly. i was not a very good DM at first but according to my friends i improved a lot as the session went on, and apparently the ending was pretty fun!! but uhgfcfgyhuj anyways:

the party was almost able to sweet-talk their way out of the first encounter aaaaaaaand then the bard started talking

but it didnt even matter that much because said bard then killed 7 enemies (WHO ALL HAD FULL HEALTH) with one use of vicious mockery.

the monk had to leave irl so we left her character going crazy and repeatedly punching a corpse. our rogue proceeded to pickpocket her.

i handed out extra points of damage based entirely on ✨style✨

the bard also had to go so i let the cleric take his bagpipes of invisibility. said cleric then rolled a nat 20 on performance and instantly became a world-renowned bagpipe player.

and because this encounter was in a cave the bagpipe music the cleric was playing echoed around the cave walls which caused all the enemies got a minus ten to perception and combining that with the absolutely INSANE stealth roll the rogue made and THEY WERE JUST ABLE TO *COMPLETELY* SKIP THE ENCOUNTER.

i got to roll *16* d6's at a couple points. and then half that damage and then half it again BUT IT WAS STILL FUN

the cleric cast 8th level inflict wounds and single-handedly took out half my final boss dragon's health in one attack.

instead of dying honorably in battle the dragon turned around, glared at the party, flipped off the rogue, and swan-dived off the cliff to his death.

and we canonically left the monk behind to forever beat a singular corpse into dust.

me, a first time DM: oh yeah i can run a oneshot made for 15th level characters thats primarily combat centered with no prior experience DMing or playing a character above level 5, this'll be easy no problemmmmmmm