#i wanna do another campaign with them so i can multiclass druid/bard with them since i played them on explorer first time around

[bishopony]

damn I went to write some notes on my bg3 tav-turned-OC on toyhouse so I could remember their full story and ended up just writing a bunch of narrative for them and now I have no time to draw them 😔✊

[catboyolli]

Omg I love DnD and I love this concept 😍 Can you share any more details? Like have you settled on specific character classes for everyone yet? And have you already created some art for the story?

hiiiiiiiii thank you so much for the ask!!!! I love talking about this stupid concept that has been rotting in my head since 2021 😬💖 and oh well, this one is gonna be long but if you also have any ideas I would love to hear them 🥰💘💕💖💕

But okay, I lied because I have two concepts related to high fantasy ( I am so normal about this lol)

For the "main" project I went with Pathfinder 1e because it has so many classes to choose from, that I didn't have to rely on homebrew stuff (and because I had to learn how this system works and after 5 years I still don't get some of the stuff 😅), so I settled on:

Joel as a haunted spiritualist looking to get rid of his phantom (spellcaster with occult magic and a "pet" aka phantom)

Niko as an urban skald who pledged to retake his family's ancestral land (d&d's bard/barbarian multiclass, probably will change the backstory because it feels too meh).

Joonas as a flamesinger bard, he's just some lucky guy and nothing bad has happened to him (yet), other than some tasteless patrons disliking his music

Olli as a stargazer oracle searching for many answers in the stars (kiiiiinda like a cleric, but not devoted to any or to a single god)

Tommi as an aspect of the bear shifter whose druidic circle succumbed to corruption (melee shapeshifter, kinda like d&d's circle of the moon druid)

Aleksi as a universalist arcanist tasked with paying back a heavy family debt and no, it isn't related to money at all (d&d's sorcerer/wizard multiclass, he gets to summon a familiar and ofc it's Rilla 🥰)

If I go with that, I'm going to use Paizo's Pathfinder main campaign setting because I really don't want to come up with the worldbuilding lol (tbh that would imply creating a lot of everything from scratch, unless I actually go 100% insane and do it........)

The 2nd one is another fantasy AU where they are tieflings because who doesn't love tieflings???? I used d&d 5e and assigned one ability score to each of the boys:

Strength: Tommi as a Zariel bloodline tiefling, Path of the Totem Warrior (bear ofc) Barbarian (he strong)

Dexterity: Aleksi as a Mammon bloodline tiefling, Arcane Trickster Rogue (he's a rich little shit who loves to steal for fun)

Constitution: Joel as a Levistus bloodline tiefling, Blood Hunter from the Order of the Profane Soul with an Undead patron (I know it's mouthful but yeah.....)

Intellect: Olli as a Mephistopheles bloodline tiefling, Artillerist Artificier (and before anyone says oh but Olli is a dumbass, why intelligence? Listen. He's actually smart, but he's sooooo forgetful that not all his creations succeed...)

Wisdom: Niko as a Baalzebub bloodline tiefling, War Domain Cleric (originally I wanted to assign him the strenght attribute and Tommi would have the wisdom one, but I feel it works better this way. Niko seems to be a very wise dude IRL and not as physically strong as Tommi)

Charisma: Joonas as an Asmodeus bloodline tiefling, Wild Magic Sorcerer (I really really wanna homebrew a devil bloodline for this)

I haven't thought of any backstories or a storyline for this AU, I'm just vibing with the concept 😅 a lof of inspiration for the designs (that are in my mind ofc) comes from Pointy Hat's tiefling video, which please go watch if you haven't, it's an amazing channel.

I have a complicated relationship with art due to Not Having Enough Time And Skill. I tried to make some art back when I was choosing the horns and skin tones for tiefling!Olli, but I got frustrated and left it there to rot lol (+ i didn't like the style + took too much time)

For skin tones + eye color variation: red / purple / blue

Zoom of the two concepts I "finished" 😬 (smooth vs ribbed horns)

But yeah, that's mostly it! I wish I had more to show you, but I'm hoping to have enough time work on the tiefling!AU around December or early 2024😊

Again, thank you for enabling me to ramble about something I really really really love 🥺💕💖💘💖💕💖

[anomalousresources]

I’m sorry I don’t even have that much experience playing D&D but now I’m thinking about this and I’ve gotta expand on it (partially pulling from my tags on the original post).

Nikhil and Sally both played it a lot in college back in their original timelines

at some point back in 19XX ODAR’s doing something sketchy and one of them makes some snide remark along the lines of “roll to destroy the space-time continuum” and they have the Moment of Realization

cue Campaign the First

they somehow con Anthony, Esther, Mateo, and Carmen into agreeing to play

they both want to DM but they also both wanna be a player character so they have an unnecessarily convoluted co-DMing system set up, something along the lines of a plot that jumps back and forth between two alternate realities/planes of existence, and every time the character move between the two the DMs switch (Sally and Nikhil’s respective characters both only exist in one version of reality, so they’re just conveniently Not There while DMing is happening)

since the assorted handbooks and materials don’t exist yet, they make their own

(almost all of the spells are bizarre and extremely specific)

they also create character sheets and help the players fill them out

Anthony starts out as a dwarf wizard, gets VERY into the games, and ends up multiclassing as a cleric or something Just ‘Cause; he’s probably big on homebrewing things later on when he realizes how little material Sally and Nikhil actually have down in their version of the manual

Mateo is a bard (he has like a -2 wisdom modifier but a +4 on charisma starting out and he spends 60% of the game starting brawls and then talking his way out of them) and rolls nat 20s with a wildly improbable frequency

I’m legitimately not sure what Esther’s character would be like but I can tell you that she makes Nikhil and Sally’s lives 500% more difficult by derailing the main quest so that her character can go off and save villages, flirt with NPCs, take up farming, etc. 

Carmen plays either a dragonborn druid or a gnome barbarian, those are the only two options for her, sorry

Eventually Anthony starts DMing another campaign (with Sally, Jack, Carmen, Chet, and Penny as players) and Carmen does a series of one-shots (usually with Petra, Bridget, Maggie, and Lou, although sometimes other people will join)

Chet is just...so terrible at this game. He’s constantly rolling 1s. He’s awful at improv. Every character he’s made has died and he’s running out of names to give them, but hey, he’s trying.

Petra, on the other hand, rolls suspiciously high and may or may not be playing with loaded dice. Her character has killed Chet’s at least twice.

Lou isn’t sure how he got roped into this but the NPCs have named his character as their ruler and now he’s turning the game into an academic study on societal structures.

Bridget is the master of remembering people’s throw-away jokes about their characters and bringing them up in relevant combat situations. She would make a wonderful DM if she had, you know, the free time in which to do that. 

I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts on this later but for now I’ll stop here. 

At least one iteration of the timeline has gotten screwed up because Nikhil & Sally introduced d&d a couple decades too early.