#he's just a gay wizard who wants to have his half-human bf very much

[niofo]

not to be the basic bitch about it, but i think i'll have aneirin and the rest of my drows be from menzoberranzan, just bcos i know the most about it through the drizzt books. also i was reading more about other drow deities, and i have Thoughts.

like, i want aneirin's mother to be a wizard and a necromancer (they're not nobility, so she's not a priestess), so perhaps she's very secretly worshipping kiaransalee, a lesser goddess of revenge and undeath. aneirin's mother was on the surface to search for more necromantic knowledge when she met and then later killed and brought back to life aneirin's father. perhaps she was working as a wizard for the matron mother of khareesa's noble house (one of the minor ones, but still with big ambitions, like all of them).

also, was thinking, wouldn't it be really fucked up if khareesa and orion were siblings. and aneirin was actually teaching them the basics about magic before they were both sent to tier breche. khareesa, the older sister, was very much Not Impressed that she, a future prestess, was taught by some lowly half-human. meanwhile orion, her youger brother, was probably the only person ever in menzoberranzan who thought that aneirin is good looking (bcos he proceeds to have questionable taste in this universe too), but also he knew that as soon as he finishes the sorcere, his matron mother wouldn't have a need for any wizards from outside of the house, which in drow terms usually meant murder.

but long before this even started to be a problem he ended up being visibly too nice to be in the academy, so aneirin organized orion's escape. weirdly enough, with the help of khareesa, who already concocted this plan - she'll get her matron mother out of lolth's favor by having her son run away (well known occurence), so then khareesa could murder her mother in lolth's name, take over as the matron mother, and then catch and sacrifice her runaway brother in the name of lolth, just typical drow shit. like, she thought she's being cunning and clever, but it was like a Typical Drow Tuesday, aneirin knew what she was up to before she even had the chance to speak, even more so bcos she didn't expect some half-human to catch up with intrigue.

long story short, after orion and aneirin escaped, she was tasked with bringing them back for sacrifice by her very much alive matron mother, so then maybe her schemes will be forgiven. i'm sure there'll be some more necromancy shit going on with aneirin's mother, bcos i need aneirin and orion get separated for the time being, but i don't have it ironed out yet.

[ventrue-rosary]

All the odd numbers

Thank you so much! I’ll put in a read more because of the lenth of the behemoth!

1. A favorite character you have played.

My elf ranger Lyris is best girl

Plus she’s just really beautiful and kick-ass

3. Your favorite side quest.

Unfortunately we haven’t really done many side-quests, but there was a cool one our DM threw together to rescue our druid’s sister

5. Favorite NPC

Already answered

7. Your favorite downtime activity.

Already answered

9. Your favorite thing about D&D.

There’s a lot of thing I really like about DnD. I adore all the different vast worlds in the DnD universe. It’s on such a scope no one else can possibly compete with. All the different locations, the God’s, the magic, the races and classes…the entire world-building behind it is just breath-taking, and opens up so many opportunities to be creative!

Creating characters! I really love creating characters and DnD gives me a good excuse to scuplt amazing, developed characters. Not only that, but then you get to BECOME these charactera. Which brings us on to roleplay, another of my favourite things. I do adore combat but I prefer roleplaying. Idk why I do I just do.

I really like the current dnd campaign–Tyranny of Dragons. It’s just a super-fun campaign to play, and its only enhance by our DM and our party. It’s sadly on hiatus but I can’t wait to get back into it

11. How often do you play and how often would you ideally like to play?

Answered

13. Introduce your current party.

I can’t tag anyone in my Thursday campaign):

We have a halfling rogue named Barrett, who’s rather sly and selfish. Has very sticky fingers but he’s not pick-pocketed any party members yet thankfully. Very tongue-in-cheek when he’s talking to people

The handsome human cleric Ivor. I can’t remember his god, but he seem’s like a nice guy. Very gentle, friendly, gets along well with everyone. Raised amongst a community of tieflings, strangely enough, but still became a very compassionate person.

Humphrey, a dragonborn wizard. I remember his name because its ridiculous. Everyone else chose pretentious fantasy names (myself included). While not a bad guy, he’s a bit of a loose cannon. Tends to keep to himself a little bit, but goes all-out in combat, and thinks up very creative ways for his spells to manifest.

Our tank Azrael, goes by Rel to people he doesn’t know. He is a famed hero and soldier from his lands, but ended up banished and blacknamed by the people he protected. Despite this he has a relaitvely happy-go-lucky attitude.

Then there’s me! Order of the Lycan Blood Hunter, Elvira Branwe, Born into nobility, and into the ancient curse of lycanthropy that plagues the Branwen home, Elvira accidentally killed her own father one transformation. Her mother sent her off the the order to learn to control herself. One might think the strict training and meagre living quarters might teach her humility. Truth is, Elvira holds herself in high esteem above others and isn’t ashamed to use her family name to get what she wants.

Now, onto the on-hiatus Sunday game!

Firstly I’ll introduce @witchyeevee‘s two characters: 

Siria Dovefeathers (that’s her last name right?). A human cleric to the life domain. She may seem friendly, but you serously do not want to get on her bad side. She has no mercy for wrong-doers, and her character intro was pure badass–she essentially saved our skin. Pretty sure she broke alignment last session when threathing a cultist member but she maintains otherwise. I’ll defer to her judgment on this one

On the flip-side, Zinnu Thunderbane in the most precious bean. A dragonborn wizard belonging to a large family, the one she apparently is the runt of despite being, what 8′?? Zinnu is essentially the light of the party, but that doesn’t mean she won’t yell and get serious when the situation demands it (Lyris and Zilong’s intense rivalry one example). Whether she likes it or not my character adopted her. (Oh and I feel it’s important to mention both of these characters are extremey gay)

@that-was-fucking-spectacular plays a dragonborn barbarian names Branek who has the most tragic backstory. Basically, a dragon destroyed his entire city, killed his huband and left him half-covered in horrific burn scars. Despite this, Branek has a good heart, even if he is a it ridiculous at times. He and my character entered a relationship last we played. You blame Beth for the trend in naming our weapons absolutely ridiculous things. 

After our original party’s druid died due to the player dropping out of the campaign, Varis was introduced, yet another druid lol. (can’t tag him because he doesn’t have tumblr I don’t think). As the chaotic neutral, he’s a bit of a wild card and usually ends up in cahoots with my character. They encourage each others drinking habits, knowing or unknowingly, and after a journey with the worlds most unpleasant dragonborn NPC they became pretty tight friends. 

Which then brings us to my character, Lyris Ravendoor, who I talked a little bit about earlier so I won’t go into too much deal. She’s the party’s flirty ranger. While she is really attractive, the girl has no game (the dice apparently hate me whenever I try and flirt). Fenrir is her ever-faithful wolf companion. She’s had a thing for Branek for a while now, abut they’re finally together.

15. Do you have snacks during game times?

Usually I munch on some chocolate or have a bag of sweets nearby

17. What are some house rules that your group has?

Well nothing too strict or anything that really falls outside of DnD rules. @theasexualityfandom is the kind of DM who plays fast and loose with the rules anyways and we love them for it (because it usually means we survive!)

19. Do you or your party have any dice superstitions?

My dice rolls are cursed when it comes to flirting with NPC’s

21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done?

Answered

23. Do you use premade modules or original campaigns?

I’ve played in a few premade stuff, in two homebrewed ones. The one-shot I ran was all homebrew content. It’s why it took so long to prep 😫

25. What have your players done that you never could have planned for?

Haven’t DM’d enough to answer this, so I will answer this for the groups I’m in. @that-was-fucking-spectacular has a tendency to flirt with things that shouldn’t be flirted with–a door, some mushrooms and a giant toad so far. She and my bf Alex flirted with skeletons in a module Dess ran us through… @witchyeevee‘s cleric Siria absolutely going OFF on that NPC last session…a bunch of crazy shit has happened

27. Do you allow homebrew content? 

To an extent, I would, provided it doesn’t add too much extra work on top of what I was doing

29. Do you prefer RP heavy sessions or combat sessions?

As a player, I prefer more RP but there’s gotta be balance you know? From a DM standpoint I prefer doing combat

31. What is your favorite class? Favorite race?

Elf and ranger. Shocker, I know

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

I tend to write very long-winded, in depth backstories, usually starting with their family before talking about hardships or events that sculpted them. I put a lot of effort into backstories.

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?

A loooooot. I love RP’ing in sessions with the other players and NPC’s and I also like doing additional RP between sessions, either privately or with another person or the whole group. Me and Beth have done a few awesome one-on-one RP’s