#i havent actually even been able to run my campaign this year yet either

[kelleycubes]

I miss the streams

me too!! i've been working a LOT sadly :( my current job has me traveling and working on weekends. and on top of that January is our busy month so i've worked every week so far this year,,, so my only real days where i could stream are on mon-wed and im usually catching up on rest, time w/ friends, and my two ttrpg games, one of which i run. . I really love streaming and am going to try and make an active effort to try and get a stream or two in this week since i'm finally off!! but sadly until i can start makin money from some of the stuff i do online i have to prioritze work 😔😔

[ghostlyheart]

Please tell us about your dnd character!!!

WAIT THANK YOU

Okay so backstory: a couple friends and I have been playing dnd once a month online, run by our local library, and we all kinda fell in love with it. The dnd character isn't actually a PC, I had an idea for a campaign of my own I'd like to play with my friends (I'm Very New so I have to actually familiarize myself with the rules and mechanics of the game before I do that, I may never even get around to it, but anyway) 

more under the cut because Oh Boy this is longer than I intended

The gist of my idea for the campaign is that theirs this huge library filled wall to wall with books that the players are all drawn/summoned to for one reason or another. The books are all magical, and function as portals into their respective stories (à la The Magic Treehouse series.) The players can explore the world of the books, fighting whatever monster there might be or helping the characters with whatever they need (I still haven't decided if I'm going to use actual books, like Dracula for example, or tweak the details and just make them Inspired by real books.) The campaign would function as a series of mini adventures fitting into the overarching narrative

Okay so NOW here's my character: his name is Judas Gildengaurd (because it's the most ridiculous and pretentious name I could think of.) He's a half-elf, well-to-do magical scholar who originally owned the library. He's a true adventurer and is absolutely fascinated by the books (I haven't decided how he comes into possession of them, maybe he inherits them or collects them? I haven't decided yet.) He delves into them and hops from book to book, doing his swashbuckling thing and trying to uncover their true nature, along with his adventuring companion and confidante (with another incredibly stupid name, currently I'm thinking Caleb Straeth which is So Awful it fills me with joy.) This is all great until Caleb gets a taste for power and wants to bridge the divide between the books and the real world (either because he's power hungry and wants to use the malleable, warp-able nature of the books to rule or because he falls in love with a character and wants to take them out of the books. Again I havent decided.) Judas thinks this is a really bad idea because it will upset the balance of the universe or whatever blah blah blah, they get into a huge power struggle, and Judas ends up binding Caleb to the books so he can't carry out his plan, effectively trapping himself as well. He exists as a kind of wandering soul, moving from book to book but forever trapped within them (or maybe he's stuck in one specific book, again I haven't figured out The Rules.)

When the players come in, Judas has been Mysteriously Disappeared and presumed dead in the real world for like 30-40 years. There's a huge portrait of him up on the wall of the library. The party will explore some of the books for a few sessions, maybe there's hints of Judas' presence there and they can slowly piece together the puzzle. Eventually they'll encounter him and he'll tell them his story. Caleb has been gathering power and forces for years and has transformed into a Lich because of how imbued with the books magic he is by nature of being bound to them, and is going to make another push at breaching the barrier between the books and the real world. He's the Big Bad Evil Guy the players will eventually have to face. As kind of a side thingy, if the player collect certain artifacts (a special quill, magical ink, etc) from the books, they can create their own book and "rewrite" Judas back into the real world, freeing him.

adventurous, gregarious, mischievous in a good-natured way, stringently guided by his moral compass and what he believes is right, to a reckless extent. His strong desire to do the right thing can cloud his judgement. He is ravenous for adventure and has thrown himself into learning everything he can about the magic of the books. He is the type to rush in boldly and self sacrifice (why he binds himself to the books to stop the lich)

I really just wanted to create a character that would be really fun to act as, and totally out of my comfort zone. As a younger man he’s charming and dramatic and ridiculous, sort of a combination of derring-do gentleman hero and pretty-boy degenerate. The best way I can think of to describe him for now is a combination of Prince Hal from Henry IV and Westley from the Princess Bride. He’s kind of pretentious, a bit full of himself, but also starry-eyed and lively, and ultimately has a good heart. As an older character, after he’s been stuck in the book for 30 to 40 years, he’s a little more serious. He’s still definitely sort of roguish, but he has a sort of gravity of regret around him after all he’s seen and done. I want him to still be fun, but a little older and more grizzled.

Hes not super well formed yet, I'm not a very creative person and I have almost no experience creating stories or building characters so, I feel like this whole idea and this character are both kinda cringy. But my friends and I are new to this, so hopefully (if I end up being able to pull this off) it will be a fun learning experience for all of us!!

[huntershowl]

GETTING  TO  KNOW  THE  MUN:

NAME : raine

NICKNAME :  ive been called rainey before? thats about it tho

FACECLAIM : we’ll get there

PRONOUNS :  she/her

HEIGHT : 5′10″

BIRTHDAY : may 25th

AESTHETIC : if i say rain will u kill me

LAST  SONG  YOU  LISTENED  TO :  ghost - acoustic by au/ra

FAVOURITE  MUSE (S)  YOU’VE  WRITTEN : honestly. this bastard child

GETTING  TO  KNOW  THE  ACCOUNT :

WHAT  INSPIRED  YOU  TO  TAKE  ON  THIS  MUSE : i’ve had hellhound for about 4 years now – she started off as a D&D character for a sci-fi campaign. back then, there was no ‘hellhound’ - just a girl with a gun and a (very different) twin brother. she was an artificer, ironically, with a knack for tinkering and poisonmaking – still just as hard to get along with though, lol. but, yeah - that campaign died out, then a couple years later my friends and i started a blades in the dark campaign. muse for her did not die out, and i really wanted to play her in something, so she became hellhound – an industrial fantasy sniper with smoking hair and a beastly persona. thing is, we haven’t actually played that campaign in like two months. hellhound muse was banging on the walls SCREAMING – and i had no outlet.         the idea to make a blog for her sorta... floated through my head at one point. but i’ve made an oc blog before. had a multimuse, a while ago, and it got absolutely no traction, so in low spirits i decided never to try to make an oc blog again! just to stick with my canon blog ive had for five years and let that be that. i made a sort of joking sort of self-deprecating post on that blog about making one for hellhound, assuming folks would scroll past it. instead, @waywardsignns​ encouraged me to do it and gave me a list of cool blogs to follow, so i decided to give it one last shot. and here we are! i havent been this happy on an rp blog since the early days of my canon when the community was thriving.

WHAT  ARE  YOUR  FAVOURITE  ASPECTS  OF  YOUR  CURRENT  MUSE : i really love playing with mystery and misconceptions. running this blog in a way where i slowly reveal her past as it comes up naturally in threads was a risky decision, because i had no idea if i was gonna be able to really hook people like i wanted to. i didn’t know if i could make them care! but yeah, i really like being able to focus backstory-wise on the other character and have hellhound’s personality stand up on its own without context.         i also just ... i love to play with the rumors, the fear – when muses are scared of her or hate her from the outset because of her reputation (rarely happens but c’est la vie!) that’s my absolute favorite shit. i understand why most muses just treat her like a normal person, but i do wish more people had Opinions and preconceptions on her notoriety upon first interaction.          another thing i really enjoy about her is that despite everything, despite the sheer unholy amount of shit she has been through and inflicted upon people, she still loves easily. if she didn’t? like – if the body pile and the sins that make her lungs feel black had snuffed out that trait, i think hellhound would have skewed FULL evil by now. she’s still clinging to this tiny ember that’s kept alive by her brother, by the ghost that manifests in her subconscious. that provides a really interesting contrast to how hard she pushes people away, because it’s kind of a constant push and pull. it also provides an interesting contrast to her anger. which i’d talk about if i wasn’t already pushing the length of this post lol – just one more thing, though: i don’t know everything about her yet. because she’s a character in an ongoing campaign, there are a lot of parts of her lore that i’m still not even clear on, so it’s really fun to be able to find out about her along with everyone else!

WHAT’S  YOUR  BIGGEST  INSPIRATION  WHEN  IT  COMES  TO  WRITING : i listen to hellhound’s instrumental playlist when i’m writing her a lot. in between threads or campaign sessions, i’ll watch the punisher season 1 or read six of crows – both have characters ( frank castle, obviously, and inej and kaz in soc ) who really resonate with parts of hellhound’s character. for the most part it’s music, though. there are playlists for all the major figures in hellhound’s backstory, all with very different moods. there are three different playlists for hellhound herself. (slaps computer) spotify is Always Open on this bad boy

FAVOURITE  TYPES  OF  THREADS : that’s a great question, i’m not 100% sure yet. like i mentioned previously, i really, really love threads where muses fear or hate hellhound upon meeting her because of her reputation. the public LITERALLY calls her a dog. a beast. so like – when muses share in that, it shows that the mun took the care and time to think about how their character would react to this important lore and it makes me really happy. no loss if they don’t, of course! i’m happy to write with people either way.         i also love threads where hellhound’s actual feelings come up beyond her walls. her repressed anger, her grief, her fear of losing people. i don’t think any of those have actually happened yet because she’s SO guarded but... we will get there. i’ve really been enjoying threads where people annoy the shit out of her, because for some Fucking reason she always ends up developing a soft spot for those folks ( @prphyrik‘s vicente and @nclled​‘s litho come to mind. ) that ends up evolving into enemies to friends and i get so soft when people hate hellhound at first and then warm up to her over time it’s... so good...         threads with muses either very similar to her – violent people, angry people, those who are hell-bent on revenge – are very fun as well. look into that mirror and see yourself motherfukcer

BIGGEST  STRUGGLE  IN  REGARDS  TO  YOUR  CURRENT  MUSE : god... hellhound’s always in an INTENSELY UPSET headspace. she hasn’t been happy in like five years. she has pretty severe PTSD. she’s suffered and made people suffer. she’s guarded, violent, and destructively angry all the time, and she can repress in one minute what i have to take like a month to process. it ends up falling into the same issue that method actors face – because she’s a big hyperfixation of mine rn, i’m almost always thinking about her, listening to her music or writing her because i love to do so. i have to immerse myself fully into her mindset in order to play her properly. to an extent it’s cathartic but it’s also a lot to feel this way all the time. i wouldn’t say it’s taking an actual toll in any sense, but it does get kind of exhausting? i gotta remember to force myself to take Breaks sometimes.

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