#morrigan plays dnd

[memento-morri-writes]

oc bingo tag

I wasn't tagged by anyone, but given that I've jumped on a few open tags (most recently @space-writes and @oh-no-another-idea), I figured it was time I share some bingo cards of my own.

In order, we have: Fallon, Rook, Theo, and Carrion.

I'm making this an OPEN TAG, so if you have an OC who you think might fit one of these, feel free to fill one out! Oh, and here is the link to the site to make your own.

[morrigan-sims]

D&D OC Intro

(inspired by @goldenwaves's post!!)

[transcript under the cut]

This is FAR from everyone, but it's the characters I've played for more than a oneshot, and the ones I actually talk about.

TRANSCRIPT:

Zenara Raventhorn (aka Zen)

Tiefling Warlock (Pact of the Fiend)

The first D&D character I ever played.

Only got to play two sessions with them.

Unintentionally inspired by Critical Role Campaign 2

Backstory written between 1-3am on my phone.

Has an imp familiar who looks like a raven.

Occasionally gets possessed by their patron, and then gets given new powers as an "apology".

Fire theme.

Rook (Adrian Lockwood)

Half-elf Rogue (Swashbuckler)

First (and only) character to make it past 8 sessions. (So far.)

Disaster bisexual pirate boy with SO MUCH trauma.

Wields a magic rapier that was a gift from his captain + first mentor.

Enemies with a different pirate captain who wants to capture him.

Has decent charisma but relatively terrible social skills.

Bastard son of a nobleman. Has daddy issues.

Reckless and impulsive to a fault. Would die for his friends.

May or may not be cursed by a demon lord.

Asola Riava Ashmark

Aasimar Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)

Made it 8 sessions before we switched campaigns.

Doesn't know she's an aasimar. Her powers show up when she experiences extreme emotions and it's only ever happened twice in her life.

Got briefly possessed and then force-shut-down by a literal god.

Has a habit of picking up stray traumatized young people.

The party's moral compass. Tried to keep them somewhat in line.

Believes that laying down her life to save someone else's is worth it. Swears she doesn't have self-worth issues.

Morana Novak

Witch (Curse Patron)

Character for an eventual Pathfinder game.

Named after a Slavic goddess of death and winter.

Necromancer, got kicked out of her hometown for graverobbing and experimenting on corpses.

Her familiar is a raven named Miro, who she rescued and trained.

Autistic as hell, which will be fun for me to play.

Very creepy and unsettling person.

One of her future party members nicknamed her "Mortician".

Cyra

Fire Genasi Barbarian (Path of the Storm Herald)

Newest character on this powerpoint.

Fights with a magical flaming quarterstaff that she can summon from inside herself.

Has a stolen, magically powered vehicle.

Formerly part of a cult. Only stayed around for their toxic then-girlfriend.

Somehow basically the least traumatized member of the party. That was NOT the plan.

Avra Shadaowbreath

Shadar-Kai/Reborn Rogue (Phantom)

Devout follower of the Raven Queen, has utter faith in her actions.

Used to work for an assassin's guild until she was killed after a job gone wrong.

Revived by the Raven Queen herself to be her assassin.

Sent to Barovia to kill a powerful lich.

Has complicated feelings on her own resurrection, but her faith in the Raven Queen is stronger than her doubts about herself, for now...

A massive hypocrite when it comes to other people being resurrected.

Odynia Adrasteia Erinys

Aasimar Paladin (Oath of Vengeance)

Devoted follower of Nemesis, goddess of divine retribution.

Got transformed into an aasimar after being chosen to be Nemesis's eye on the mortal plane.

"And eye for an eye" but make it literal.

Has black feathered wings sometimes.

More than a little bit of a bitch. Very prickly at best.

Her name means "inescapable pain/grief" so that bodes well.

Hellbent on revenge... but why?

Aspen Vale

Half-Elf/Changeling Bard/Warlock (Glamour/Archfey)

Pied Piper'd into the Feywild as a child.

Learned bardic magic there, and made a pact with their patron, Fin, the god of death.

Sent back to the material plane with ZERO memories.

Named themself after the first thing they saw in the material plane - an aspen grove.

Carries a "broken" compass that Fin uses to guide them in the right direction without their knowledge.

Carrion Vice

Barbarian (Path of the Fractured)

Physically a tiefling, mechanically a Beasthide shifter.

He grew up religious and his birth name was Reverence.

Received his name after being left for dead and told "Soon you'll be nothing but carrion".

Transforms into an unrecognizable monster when he rages.

Transformations caused by exposure to Delirium (magically radioactive crystal) when he was a kid.

Current goal is to kill his former mentor, the one who left him behind...

[six-improbable-things]

Looking back at the dnd notes, and man, session "thirty-six" (aka the 36th session since Rook joined. the rest have been playing longer) was a wild ride.

I start off the notes with this, and it just gets weirder from there.

[continued under the cut bc this got long]

I roast the wizard and the gunslinger during the fight summary:

This entire sequence of events is both wild and very funny to me:

(yes I Gladiator'd a guy into a pit. Yes I then jumped down on top of him and stabbed him through the back. Yes, the guy I did all this to save turned out to be a puppet of the BBEG.)

We put someone we thought was the BBEG in a hamster ball and gave it to a demon. (But it turns out the BBEG's puppet was waiting in the minivan the whole time.)

(We had this "war machine", but it could somehow fit like 8 people so I started calling it a minivan and couldn't stop.)

We get back to the city and Rook starts playing mind chess with the siblings who rule it, absolutely living up to the "bastard" part of his nickname in the process.

Rook is So Normal About Affection.

This was vague on purpose because the party didn't know yet, but Rook went to go buy a magic ring to hide the symptoms of his demon curse and saw Sigmar also buying an enchantment to hide the effects of the serum Ivan injected him with. And then Rook dissed the chihuahua-that-use-to-be-a-gnome who we rescued without knowing it was the guy who sold Rook to Wolf in the first place.

Also, I didn't write it in the notes (obviously) but we fucking LEFT A VERY IMPORTANT ITEM IN (the equivalent of) THE GLOVE COMPARTMENT OF A RENTAL MINIVAN. It ended up working out in our favor because otherwise we would have had to fight Sigmar in the werebeast labs after what was already a hard fight, which would have been extra traumatizing for Rook and might have ended with someone getting killed, but it's still really funny to think about.

[rooolt]

Brian Murphy is constantly looking out for us losergirl dykes, first jaina bronzebeard, now Kenna ironheart. He knows what the people want

[memento-morri-writes]

Thank you!! <3

so, apparently aspen and emery have invaded my brain, because I came up with a new idea for a dnd character (glamour bard / archfey warlock multiclass who got lure into the fey wild by a Pied Piper-type entity, and has no memories of anything before than appearing in a grove of aspen trees on the material plane. Doesn't know they're a warlock and thinks their familiar (who is a fey sent to spy on them by their patron) is just a normal animal.) And one, they're mainly a bard, and two when I was trying to come up with a name, the ONLY name that sounded right was Aspen. (I decided they named themself after the first thing they saw when someone asked them their name: aspen trees.)

So uhh... congrats on infecting my head with TSS. This is a testament to how AMAZING your characters are, truly. I can't WAIT to get my hands on TSW. I preordered it the first day you made the announcement, and I'm eagerly awaiting for 1) it to come out, 2) my copy to ship to my dad's house, and 3) for my school semester to be over so I actually have the time and energy to read it.

~Morrigan (@memento-morri-writes)

Ahhhh I love this!!! So much fun! <3 I'm glad you enjoyed TSS- hope the rest of the semester goes smoothly for you!

[paragonrobits]

"Gaining Karlach's approval centers around being forthcoming and somewhat heroic - showing compassion toward the wronged and almost uncompromising good." WELL I KNOW WHO I'M BEFRIENDING WHEN I PLAY THIS GAME

[willowwormwood]

2018 > 2023

I got reminded of this drawing, this was the first drawing I made of my OC Morrigan! They were my first d&d character

[flashhwing]

plotting out this warden like "oh i am gonna need SO many mods"

[memento-morri-writes]

I lost my mind, truly. I can’t wait to see where this goes!!

Hiii space!! This is Morri. I know you were invested in Carrion, so I thought I’d update you on how his first session went. It went SO differently than I expected, but in a really good way!!!! One of the other characters, a cosmic warlock named Valeska, completely and utterly unbalanced Carrion and his world is already starting to crumble.

So, our characters had been hired to guard a merchant’s wagon heading towards the last stop before Drakkenheim, and we camped for the night. Some people who were leaving Drakkenheim came up to us and asked to stay the night with us for protection. The merchant who hired us said yes. One of them was corrupted by Delirium, the super dangerous, kind of radioactive magic crystal that is found in the meteor that destroyed Drakkenheim.

I choose 2nd watch on purpose, knowing it’s when we’re most likely to get attacked. My prediction proves correct and the corrupted man transforms into a monster, killing one of his companions. Carrion transforms in his rage, and fights the monster. Everyone else was asleep and wakes up to see TWO big freaky monsters fighting it out. (And as described in the official description of my subclass, if people haven’t seen me transform, they don’t know it’s me.)

So they end up attacking Carrion as well as the actual monster. But Carrion kills the actual monster and luckily still has a bonus action left to end his rage.

Instead of reacting with fear, Valeska responds with nothing other than pure and naked curiosity, which baffles Carrion. He expected fear or revulsion, could even maybe fathom pity, but none of those?? He doesn’t understand it.

He plans to leave assuming the party doesn’t want him around, but Valeska stops him, confused as to why he’s leaving. He says that they don’t want a monster around and she says she doesn’t see him as a monster. She asks if he’s used to people trying to kill him, and he just says “My name wasn’t always Carrion.”

The next day she asks him to come with her into Drakkenheim.

AND THEN THIS IS WHERE VALESKA’S PLAYER BROKE ME. We’re sitting in our tavern room, the Paladin is at the chapel, and Valeska asks if he’s afraid of his transformations. Carrion says he’s not, more afraid of other people’s reactions to them. Valeska says “I think you’re lying. Why else would you call yourself a monster?” Carrion pauses and then says “Because no one has ever called me anything different.” She doesn’t respond right away so he tried to brush that confession aside by saying that they have to be up early in the morning, and turns away to go to sleep. As he turns away, Valeska calls his name. He asks her what she wants, and she says “Nothing, just saying your name. See? I called you something other than a monster.”

I WAS BROKEN, SPACE. FUCKING DESTROYED. These two have known each other for like a week and only been talking for like 24 hours and she’s already said arguably the kindest thing anyone has ever told him. (We will ignore the backstory of how he got that name. It’s the thought that counts.)

Okay, sorry for spamming you but I HAD to tell SOMEONE about this because I’m losing my fucking mind over this.

~ Morri (memento-morri-writes)

hi morri!

ohhh my god i am highfiving valeska's player, that RP was SO GOOD. emotional devastation session ONE asdljakdj

“See? I called you something other than a monster.” HOW EVEN. AHHHH

i love that the first transformation happened like that though, it's such a great bit of storytelling to get into

it seems like the campaign is off to a PHENOMENAL start

[geezmarty]

ooo what inspired your tav design? like did you go in with a specific character in mind, or did it come from playing around with the character maker?

Oh boy ok. You’re about to find out just how insane I get over RPG character creation. “marty you don’t have to disclose it” I can’t believe you guys are forcing me to do this.

SO, I actually started bg3 with another character entirely, a ghityanki bard, which I thought would be fun and for a bit it was! But I wasn’t feeling crazy about her and when I play an RPG I love to turn my PC into a proper OC I can be obsessed with, so I restarted the game and before I went to character creation I literally sat down with a sketchbook and started brainstorming.

I wanted my pc to have an aesthetic of her own separate from the main companions but I also wanted her to blend in with the rest of the cast, I went for dark urge bc I heard that it gives you a personal quest and I landed for half drow and wild magic sorcerer, which is another class no major companion has (and also, I’ve always wanted to play wild magic even in regular dnd and this was a nice excuse to!)

Her aesthetic pretty much came up as I was sketching her and thinking about all the info above, what could set her apart but still feel like she could blend in? And most importantly, what would be fun for ME to draw? And so I went for witchy goth woman and luckily the design I sketched was very easy to reproduce in the character creator - and the rest came up organically as I drew more of her.

(I also named her after my very first dnd character Brigha, a half orc warlock, and it’s only after I finalized her design that I realized I’d borrowed some elements from hers eheh)

Witch goth was especially fun to play with bc I feel like most companions have a goth vibe about them but we’re missing the mean, spooky, feminine witch archetype (yes, morrigan from dao was part of the inspiration I love my wife <3). You could argue that Gale sort of fills the witch role already but I feel like they stand very nicely at opposite ends of the witch spectrum which is also fun considering their wizard-sorcerer one sided animosity.

[memento-morri-writes]

Silent Saturday Tag

Rules: Share a snippet that does not include any dialogue.

So I was tagged a whole three weeks ago by @space-writes but I never got around to sharing anything. A lot of my best or favorite writing involves dialogue, and given that what I've been writing lately is mostly dnd campaign interactions, there's lots of dialogue involved. But today I went back and revisited a snippet that I'd initially written a few months ago, after our first session of the Drakkenheim campaign, and I realize it would be a perfect candidate for this! (Especially since I already told Space about the events of this scene in the campaign...) So here, have a bit of what ended up becoming Session 1 PVP. (I'm sorry in advance if this sucks. I'm not very good at fight scenes. I make my sentences too long, and I never know how to describe motion.)

tw for body horror, death, and violence

Carrion stared out into the forest. The long-dead trees loomed menacingly overhead, but nothing moved between their trunks or in their branches. Satisfied that the woods were silent for the time being, he cast his gaze out over the sleeping travelers who lay spread out around the dying fire. None of them stirred or even snored. Ricard’s unsettling rasping breaths had stopped a few hours ago, and Carrion wasn’t even sure the corrupted man was still alive.  He peered closer, trying to see if he could see his chest rising and falling. Before he could really take in any details, Ricard threw off his bedroll. Moving fast, faster than he had any right to be, he got to his feet and moved over to where his companion, Ludwig, lay sleeping. Carrion leapt to his feet as Ricard grabbed Ludwig’s rapier.  Carrion opened his mouth to call out to him, but before he could get a word out, there was a blur of movement. Something lashed out from under Ricard's cloak, wrapping around Ludwig’s head and neck. There was a sickening squelch and snapping of bone as his skull and spine were crushed by what looked like a massive tentacle.  Ricard dropped Ludwig’s body and moved towards where Endra lay, still asleep. As he approached the remains of the fire, Carrion was able to get a better look at him. His mouth, nose, and ears had been replaced with gaping inky purple holes. The tentacle that had killed Ludwig, crushed him with so little effort, emerged from under his cloak, writhing in the air like an enraged snake. He raised higher, preparing to strike at Endra.  Carrion threw himself forwards, leaping over the embers of the fire as he barreled toward the monster. As he lept, his body began to grow. His bones lengthened and his flesh swelled. Strange bony ridges bulged under his skin, and short, thick spines erupted from his arms. Long, clawed nails extended from his fingers until each was at least the size of his pocket knife. His horns grew and split, fanning into a spiked crown-like growth. The world blurred and took on a dusky haze as his eyes were engulfed in purple. By the time he landed beside Ricard, he towered over the man by several feet. Ricard spun to face him, tentacle raised in defense. Carrion batted it aside and tore a clawed hand into Ricard’s side. Hot, sticky blood coated his skin, caking under his nails, and he remembered Valeska’s warning. Don’t touch him. It might be contagious.  It was too late for that, though. He attempted to dodge, throwing his body to the side as Ricard lashed out at him. He wasn't fast enough. The tentacle was surprisingly strong, lifting him off the ground as it wrapped itself around his ribcage. He thrashed against it, roaring in protest as the rest of the camp began to wake around them.

I'm going to tag @transmasc-wizard @zmwrites and @akindofmagictoo and anyone else who's reading this and wants to share!!

[morrigan-sims]

OC Height Tag

I was tagged by @hauntedtrait. Thank you fangs!!!

I'll tag @goldenwaves (I wanna see Clem next to Asa, aksdjasds.), @potionio @salemssimblr @panicsimss and @warwickroyals

OOPS, SORRY, I FORGOT THE LINK. HERE YOU GO

Commentary under the cut.

Here's the main cast of RTQ/ATQH (I really wanted to add the side characters too, but it was already getting to be so many...). Technically Fallon is the only one of those sims that I made, but I have custody of all of them. (Order is just the order they're in on the character page, cause that's where I had to check all their heights, lmao.) I try my best to include height differences in my poses, but they're usually more subtle than the actual ones, partly because posing two drastically different height characters is a pain in the ass.

The second group is some of my favorite D&D characters I've come up with. Cyra and Rook I'm currently playing, Zen was the first character I ever played and I played them for two sessions, Laverna was made for a tumblr thing well before I ever played dnd, but I'd love to play her someday, and Morana is for a pathfinder game that I will be in someday. I could have done more, but I didn't know who else to choose, these were most of my named characters anyways, ajdakjds.

As you can probably tell, I have a very skewed perception of normal heights, lmao. I'm 5'10, and Fallon is my shortest OC that I can name off the top of my head, at 5'6". And I rarely make any taller than 6'1" or so. Most of them clock in at either 5'10" or 5'11" because those are the ideal heights in my mind, lmao.

[six-improbable-things]

"summon lesser chicken" was a success.

i love dungeons and dragons

[six-improbable-things]

Compilation of the ways Rook has told his mentor that he literally fucking died:

and

[nellieofthevalley]

Been playing lots of DND lately and decided to draw my character for my main campaign, Morrigan! Shes from “The curse of strahd” universe :))

[memento-morri-writes]

asdkajdaksdj, this was me. I meant to put my url at the end of the that message, and then I got too distracted, lmao. Anyways, here's the picrew:

(picrew link)

And Drakkenheim setting is originally from a podcast (I think it's called Dungeon Dudes? Something like that.) And they published a campaign for it, as well as an additional sourcebook with some really fucking cool subclasses. (The other players are playing a Cosmic Warlock and Urban Ranger from the Guide to Drakkenheim sourcebook, which are both super cool. The last player is playing a paladin subclass from Valda's Spire of Secrets.)

SPACE, HI. How are you? I hope you're doing well!!!

I feel like you would appreciate my latest fucked-up dnd character and his backstory, and I need to tell someone or else I'm gonna explode, so here I am, adjakdjs.

For a little context, my Friday DM just went back to college after taking a couple of gap years, and he knows some weeks he won't be able to play bc homework and stuff, and one of our players really wants to DM something, so she decided to run Dungeons of Drakkenheim for us. (If you don't know anything about that setting, tl;dr is there was a magical meteor that destroyed the capital of a country 15 years ago. The whole city is now a horrible corrupted ruin. Something called the Haze covers the whole city and you can't take any long rests in it. The fragments of the meteor contain a mineral called Delirium that is exceptionally powerful for magic, but also causes horrible corruption and mutations. There's 5 factions fighting for control of the ruins, as well as what to do about Delirium.)

So anyways, my character is named Carrion Vice, and while he looks mostly like a tiefling (canonically he was born one and then changed) he's mechanically a Beasthide Shifter. He's also a Path of the Fractured Barbarian (from the Grim Hollow Player's guide. It's an unarmed strike-based barb subclass that literally says when you rage you transform so that you are unrecognizable.)

And basically, Carrion's birth name was Reverence, he was born to a very devout family living in Drakkenheim. When the city was destroyed, he was trapped under rubble for a while. While he was rescued before too long, it was enough to grant him a strange mutation, unlike the "normal" ones from Delirium exposure.

After being rescued and fleeing, he joined up with the Knights of the Silver Order, a group of devout paladins who are sworn to purge the land of "unnatural" things. However, over the years, as his mutation became evident, they grew fearful of it. They came to see him as a monster, and his incurable mutation as a threat to the world.

So one day, while traveling, they decided to get rid of him. But seeing as he had been a member of their band for years at this point, and he saw them as family, they found themselves (most of them, anyways) hard-pressed to run him through themselves. So they tied him up and left him by the side of the remote, rarely-traveled road they were on.

The last interaction Reverence had with them was the Knight-Commander, who had been like a father to him, telling him "Soon you will be nothing but carrion."

He was luckily rescued, a couple of days later, but his faith in both the church, and the Order had been lost. He's determined to kill the Knight-Commander, and bring about the end of the Order that betrayed him. He calls himself Carrion now, so that he can prove the Knight-Commander both right and wrong when he kills him: he maybe be Carrion, but he is far from nothing.

It won't let me send images with anon asks on, but I can show you the picrew I made of this silly little man if you're interested.

hi anon! i’m doing not too bad!!

i am rubbing my hands together i love fucked up dnd characters hell yeah. yo drakkenheim sounds cool as shit what the hell. how have i never heard of this.

CARRION VICE IS A BALLER NAME NO NOTES 10/10

holy shit that’s an excellent fucked up backstory. i hope carrion gets the knight-commander’s ass

absolutely i want to see the picrew. show me the boy!!