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Scone cake sounds pretty boss to me! ;)

There’s the part of my mind that finds this a really interesting character choice and is trying to be cool.. but was overriden by the part that had to turn the stream off because I could not watch them scream at each other anymore. :( -L

i think it would have been easier to watch if we’d been reading the story instead, tbh. scanlan is essentially mad that no one stopped to ask him what’s wrong when he never gave any indication that something was wrong and when he hid most of the indicators - like the drugs. when people did ask, he blew them off. he expected his friends to dig deeper, and maybe they should have, but most people will take a step back when someone’s like “nah i’m fine.” 

i also just have a huge issue with him being all “how dare you bring my daughter here” like 

clearly sam has never lost someone he couldn’t be there for. i have. i know what it’s like to find out later that someone you cherish more than life itself is dead and that you couldn’t hold their hand as they went--i know what it’s like to get there when a body’s been cold for a day and a half and that is not fun

scanlan was asking his friends to do two things: to keep kaylee away from his dead body (wow that’s horrible) or to LIE TO HER to make sure she never finds out--which then leads her to think that he abandoned her again like dude

Alas, my 7-year-old turned out to be a murder-hobo kept from murdering the thief NPC with them only by the restraining arm of my sister. ;) What color did N pick? J really wanted the fire AOE so he's a golden one.

N~ is a black dragonborn. He wants to be good, though, so we’re nixing the whole “chromatic = bad” thing for our campaign. I’m not sure why he particularly wanted acid breath, but he was very clear that’s what he wanted.

Hahaha Raiface texted me when she saw them pick it last night.

Haha, did she really?

THIS WAS NOT THE EPISODE TO START WATCHING LIVE I HAD TO TURN IT OFF.

afookingpinecone said: I have a high elf wizard and she basically me but with a couple exaggerated traits, like she’s kind of a bitch lol! She’s my first character ever and I’ve found that she’s easy to play in a group of people I don’t know!

I hope that’s the case with me. I warm up a lot better around people I’m familiar with, so I can be pretty quiet around people whom I don’t know well yet. This is essentially my first character ever too, so I’m hoping I warm up to her pretty well. :)

doriandandy said: okay so i played a sorcer in dnd (3.5 and then 5e) and I definitely had the best charisma in the party, i couldve done all the negotiations in the party, but I NEVER DID instead our warrior who was the more or less leader of the party ended up doing most of it. and this basically just became a running joke in the campaign that actually always made things funnier? so like. if u like the class better, dont worry about HAVING to fit a certain role! just have fun!

doriandandy said: also imo sorcers > wizards bc you only have to pick ur spells on level-up, instead of EVERY SESSION… and as a very indecisive person this was a very good thing lmao

I don’t think I care particularly either way whether I’m a wizard or a sorceror, but the latter does fit better with a particular narrative I’m constructing for her backstory. Though that’s an excellent point about being indecisive with spells. So many of them sound awesome, and I think I might get anxious trying to pick spells for the right situations, lol.

biowearables said: Listen, if you can write Dorian fic you can fake charisma. ;) Just channel Dorian.

Haha, I thought about that. Her personality IS shaping out to be kind of Dorian-ish. The thing about writing, though, is that I’m able to think it through what he’s going to say. But maybe I’ll keep him in mind as a proverbial “spirit animal” for the character.

thessalian said: Also, keep in mind that if it comes down to actually having to use Charisma for something *other than magic*, if it matters to the plot I will let you make a Persuasion check with the dice. Maybe your tiefling only breaks out the silver tongue when it REALLY MATTERS and has no idea how she does it…

Oh, yes, I fully expect to be rolling dice for any particular persuasion or deception I might attempt. I’m just hoping my RP will be somewhat convincing, haha. But I also know that it’s something I’ll get better at with practice. Just me being neurotic! :)

warsonghold said: Truly, once you get going in D&D, the roleplaying comes. I have a neutral evil warlock who looks down her nose at people and makes a ton of snide comments, yet in reality I’m nothing like her! Have fun!

Wow, neutral evil! Is the rest of the party evil too? That sounds like it’d be fun! And yeah, I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it after a few sessions. I have a tendency to worry about everything, so this is par for the course.

cyansomnia said: It takes a short time to adjust to roleplaying in D&D. It might help to imagine your character as something you’re writing in your head, then say what you’re thinking. You get used to it after a while. ^u^

Yeah, it’s my first time, so it’s just like doing anything new for the first time. I think it’ll be easier when I find my character’s “voice”, y’know? Like when I’m writing, I have Dorian or Aeric or whoever else in my head and I hear them saying what they’re going to say. It takes me a while with writing, especially with original characters, so I figure my D&D character won’t be any different.

krshush said: I’ve ran into a similar issue playing a warlock as they use charisma too ;w; I would say it is hard sometimes, but it can be fun. Plus your character doesn’t have to Flaunt their charisma all the time. My boy Merit was going to be much more extroverted for example, but now that I have played him, he’s become more sit-back and watch and be smooth when a time presents itself.

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