I had the first session of a new Dungeons and Dragons campaign last night. I am friends with everyone playing, but the GM is the only person that I've played with before. It was a blast. I had a lot of fun. We almost got TPK'd. The first encounter resulted in the ship we were was attacked by some kind of massive sea-turtle monster. Managed to get into life boats and make it to shore. That's where the *real* encounter started. A bunch of orcs and an Ettin decided to come see what they could salvage, and the Ettin wanted a snack. The bard went down first. Our ranger took a Nat 20 to the face and dropped. The round after that our rogue went down. I stabilized the bard after he crit-failed his first death save. I pulled aggro for that and took a mild hit. The next round I cast Shield of Faith and subsequently got pounded into the ground with a Nat20 from a large sized battle axe being swung by the Ettin. Ranger crit-failed on her second death save, which she also failed the previous round, so X.X to the ranger. Then there was some shenanigans with some kinda necromantic object that raised a bunch of zombies aka the washed crew. Our wizard, who was the only one still standing at that point got to the macguffin and realized she could command the zombies. She basically had the zombies dogpile the Ettin, and two of the orcs managed to run away. The wizard made it through the encounter with 2hp left so yay, we lived. That's roughly where we left off because we heard sounds of howls from wolves, and horns being blown and we high-tailed it into the treeline. It's the first proper DnD game I've played in, aside from a few sessions of Adventurers League when 5th first launched. I'm really excited for the next session. Sadly it's probably going to just be a once a month game. Ye olde adult responsibilities and all that.

it’s funny because the dm (our history teacher) told us that the mayor of this town was losing his shit about us being Not Gnomes so tim (rat’s player) and i (del’s player) decided to be the conmen we are and pretended he was a fire genasai noble and i was his bodyguard. also i embellished the fact that he was a dragon slayer (he is in fact NOT a dragonslayer or a noble- he’s actually an orphan rouge) and he BOUGHT IT so now we’re going to buy bears. also one player tried to make out with a bear. we now have a quote to put on a shirt

If a half-orc and a half-elf had a baby, would they just be human or???