#alien's asks

Oooh, well, this is gonna have to cover the intricacies of guild life, so I can't take too much credit for this. Props goes to our Dungeon Master, Denzel, for creating the backdrop of this highly-political world.

Guilds within the City of Verdane are the pillars of society. There are a couple umbrella guilds that cover many aspects of life, which for the purposes of this response, were created by the government. The Outcasts, however, was not! The Outcast umbrella guild was created out of necessity after a masked rogue threatened the lives of the first ever Council and exposing their corruption. The Outcasts are a decentralized "underground" guild that basically everyone knows exists. They exist to be the proverbial check and balance to the powerful leaders of the city. The idea is that you can't be too power hungry if you're at knifepoint at every waking moment.

Those ideals are how Stephanie interface with her "job". She believes in the good that she's exacting, even if it goes against the law. In her mind, it's a necessary step to keeping her friends, and by proxy, the city, safe. This tugs and pulls on her, however, because on an ideals standpoint, many actual criminals take solace within the shadows of the Outcast label, which dilutes the intent and goals the guild was set up for. It also tears at her on the day-to-day because of the missions she and her party go to. Many times, she has to abstain her blade not only because she is not contracted to kill just anyone, but also because one wrong move, and that's one dead individual who might have been integral to various aspects of the system that is the city.

This plays out in a funny way, mechanically, too. I end up playing combat as our "objective" person--grabbing key items, harassing key targets, but almost never killing unless necessary. Because when even just one of my attacks hit: Best case scenario? The target's HP is chunked. Most of the time? They just die. Don't even get me started on crits.

My last tip is to have fun with Obsidian :) you don't need to know and use every single plugin and do extremely complicated stuff with it to use it, have fun and write down what you want in plain text and then when you need it to do something more look up if there's a feature or a plugin that can help you do it - that's the best way to use Obsidian to its fullest, in my opinion! Have fun!

Thank you kindly, Obsidian anon!

I've been messing about on Obsidian a tiny bit already, and oh boy.

This thing is powerful.

I'm still getting a little bit of that intimidating feeling, in awe of the sheer scale of the whole system, but already I'm seeing how useful it can be.

I really appreciate how it seems like using Obsidian incentivizes just getting ideas out there without it having to be neat and tidy. In the games I play in, I write session notes in a very haphazard manner as the game goes on, just listening to the words and letting my fingers type faster than I can actually think. Back when our campaign was small and plot threads were manageable, I had all the time in the world to go back through my scribbles and pretty up the whole page. Nowadays, the threads are so convoluted and roleplaying takes so much out of me that I basically just leave my notes in their unrefined state. I can still parse them (I am the one who wrote 'em after all), but man, it'd be amazing to have tools to help sort information out. Luckily, it seems like Obsidian's backlinks and references literally do that for the users, so I'm very excited to see how my process fares in that environment!

Hey, thanks for this wonderful resource!

Just checked out her channel, and woah. There's a huge repository of information here. Two whole playlists for Obsidian beginner use and Obsidian TTRPG use!

Looks like I know what I'm going to be doing for the rest of the week :)