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Friday, January 17, 2014
It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN
I hope that you keep that song in your head for the rest of the post. During our last epic fight game we all would randomly break out in it to keep the momentum going...it was really great guys and I highly suggest doing it for your friends if they have a big roll coming up. ANYWAY, so I am sure you all are so excited to hear about how this battle went eh? I mean I bitched enough about getting ready for it, so it's only right that I share with you how everything went.
So our heroes prepared for this fight (we had a demi-plane and instead of the normal 48 hours, we essentially had years to get ready) and then went out to tackle our foe. Now in my head this was really bad ass, the 6 of us all walking over-in slow motion of course-to our theme song ("The Final Countdown"), waving at the crowds, having roses thrown at us...really a majestic scene folks. Then in walks our foe, the Prince of Thrones who is a fey creature but also part plant (granting plant and fey immunities) with his 5 clones and we all get our game faces on.
Quick side note, apparently EVERY other PC had the ability to be changed into a large creature except for my character. This means I am the only normal sized person pretty much running around with some giants. OH but super exciting, I did have 5 other doppleganger zombies that were hanging out around me to help take some hits for me and the others. They helped a few times so that was semi successful I suppose.
Anyway back to the meaty bits...so we all get buffed, get our shit ready and start the attack. OF COURSE his init is higher so he goes first and proceeds to almost kill myself and another player in the first round. To be fair though my AC is shit compared to the rest of the party (it's a hot nasty 55 and he had attacks at a bonus higher than that) and so I knew I was going to get hit. On my turn I used a scroll of Iceberg (it's a FANTASTIC 3.5 spell giving out 20d6 damage with no save) and then teleported away so that I could heal/harm (cause undead yo) and get back at the fight. Everyone did really well in the fight on their turns and it was like this beautiful dance of damage and murder. The next time I have I Iceberg him again, because if it ain't broke don't fix it, and that helps to knock out two of his clones, so I am feeling fairly decent. Then on his turn he decides that playing in a normal arena isn't fun anymore and fills it completely full with water. Thankfully we all had a spell up that gave us the ability to fight and breathe (I mean my character isn't bothered by such mortal tasks, but still) underwater, which was really nice. Essentially the rest of the fight went on splendidly for us and the killing blow was dealt with over 700 points of damage to him by my character's boyfriend Raither. It was hot guys...well and by that I mean it was imaginary hot.
Now that is said and done and what we have left are even harder battles with bigger stakes. The next session that we have, I have to deal with the fact that 1 (or ALL) of my sisters might be dead, like dead for good. Which is really going to suck, because they are awesome and bad ass bitches. But the story will be good and I trust my DM, so I am excited/anxious to see what happens next. This might be a fairly short post, but I am working on trying to get back to posting more regularly since the holidays are over.
So our heroes prepared for this fight (we had a demi-plane and instead of the normal 48 hours, we essentially had years to get ready) and then went out to tackle our foe. Now in my head this was really bad ass, the 6 of us all walking over-in slow motion of course-to our theme song ("The Final Countdown"), waving at the crowds, having roses thrown at us...really a majestic scene folks. Then in walks our foe, the Prince of Thrones who is a fey creature but also part plant (granting plant and fey immunities) with his 5 clones and we all get our game faces on.
Quick side note, apparently EVERY other PC had the ability to be changed into a large creature except for my character. This means I am the only normal sized person pretty much running around with some giants. OH but super exciting, I did have 5 other doppleganger zombies that were hanging out around me to help take some hits for me and the others. They helped a few times so that was semi successful I suppose.
Anyway back to the meaty bits...so we all get buffed, get our shit ready and start the attack. OF COURSE his init is higher so he goes first and proceeds to almost kill myself and another player in the first round. To be fair though my AC is shit compared to the rest of the party (it's a hot nasty 55 and he had attacks at a bonus higher than that) and so I knew I was going to get hit. On my turn I used a scroll of Iceberg (it's a FANTASTIC 3.5 spell giving out 20d6 damage with no save) and then teleported away so that I could heal/harm (cause undead yo) and get back at the fight. Everyone did really well in the fight on their turns and it was like this beautiful dance of damage and murder. The next time I have I Iceberg him again, because if it ain't broke don't fix it, and that helps to knock out two of his clones, so I am feeling fairly decent. Then on his turn he decides that playing in a normal arena isn't fun anymore and fills it completely full with water. Thankfully we all had a spell up that gave us the ability to fight and breathe (I mean my character isn't bothered by such mortal tasks, but still) underwater, which was really nice. Essentially the rest of the fight went on splendidly for us and the killing blow was dealt with over 700 points of damage to him by my character's boyfriend Raither. It was hot guys...well and by that I mean it was imaginary hot.
Now that is said and done and what we have left are even harder battles with bigger stakes. The next session that we have, I have to deal with the fact that 1 (or ALL) of my sisters might be dead, like dead for good. Which is really going to suck, because they are awesome and bad ass bitches. But the story will be good and I trust my DM, so I am excited/anxious to see what happens next. This might be a fairly short post, but I am working on trying to get back to posting more regularly since the holidays are over.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Memories: Like the Corners of my DnD mat
So for this post I am doing something a tiny bit different...and my tiny I mean not really. I am still going to talk about DnD, but more about reflections of the past year and not so much about the game. Sorry to disappoint, but paired with the fact that the weather has been shit and everyone has been getting sick, we have had to cancel a few games leaving my material a little thin. In any case though I have been wanting to do a post like this at the end of the year anyway, so it's the perfect opportunity.
This year has been really great for expanding my knowledge of RPGs and becoming more familiar with the game's rules, worlds, and items. I am definitely not a pro or "fluent" in the workings of DnD, but I can work my way around a character, which is more than I could do in 2012. More than that though, my games this year have brought me to know more people and make some really great friends that I wish I knew sooner. Of course there are all you kids on twitter that I adore and have been really fortunate and thankful to have "met" you and consider you friends. There are also my two fantastic DMs that have literally changed the way I view gaming and have become some of my very best friends.
I know plenty of people that don't play DnD and that is fine, I don't judge them too harshly, but I really feel like they are missing out. It isn't because of the activity itself, it is more what you get from it. Since starting playing, I have no only gained more friends (and better friends than some that I know outside of games), but playing has really helped my personality and creativity. I know that it sounds cliche as shit and really corny, but I am definitely more of "who I want to be" and less of who I think I should be.
So little background for you guys that don't know-I have TERRIBLE anxiety and literally worry over everything. If I can't make a dinner invitation with friends, I will worry about it and feel I have let them down, forgot something-I will worry about it for hours. Then there is just the almost constant feeling of anxiety that something will go wrong or someone will get mad (I REALLY hate confrontation), which I can tell you does not bode well for your mental and physical health. As anyone who has played before, your character can get in some tough situations that can cause a lot of tension within the group and possible confrontations. Roleplaying through it with the right group can be fantastic for learning to overcome your fears in these situations. I say the right group because it really does depend; I have played with some people who take things that happen in game out of game and that is really detrimental to a friendship when the other person literally thinks that you agree with your character's actions. But this has been a really big thing for me, through this, I have been able to work on my ability to confront people and deal with the stress and anxiety that I feel in real life in more positive ways.
The other major thing that I have noticed that DnD does for me is enhance my creativity. For those that have seen my Instagram and Twitter, you know of my miniature painting. I do this for games to have figures, but mostly it is because it is really fun and something I enjoy to exercise my creativity. Playing DnD has helped this as giving me insight into the idea behind my minis, creating not only a painted figure but a story behind the character. Each character that I paint has a story associated with them, where they are going, what they have defining who they are and the adventures they have experienced; making them more than one dimensional (at least I like to think so).
So yeah that is what gaming has done for me..it really is more than just sitting around on your friend's couch for hours at a time. Hopefully this wasn't torturous for you all to read and if it was, well then good thing these posts only come up once a year so SUCK IT UP! Anyway, love you kids and thanks for the support and reading this past year!!
This year has been really great for expanding my knowledge of RPGs and becoming more familiar with the game's rules, worlds, and items. I am definitely not a pro or "fluent" in the workings of DnD, but I can work my way around a character, which is more than I could do in 2012. More than that though, my games this year have brought me to know more people and make some really great friends that I wish I knew sooner. Of course there are all you kids on twitter that I adore and have been really fortunate and thankful to have "met" you and consider you friends. There are also my two fantastic DMs that have literally changed the way I view gaming and have become some of my very best friends.
I know plenty of people that don't play DnD and that is fine, I don't judge them too harshly, but I really feel like they are missing out. It isn't because of the activity itself, it is more what you get from it. Since starting playing, I have no only gained more friends (and better friends than some that I know outside of games), but playing has really helped my personality and creativity. I know that it sounds cliche as shit and really corny, but I am definitely more of "who I want to be" and less of who I think I should be.
So little background for you guys that don't know-I have TERRIBLE anxiety and literally worry over everything. If I can't make a dinner invitation with friends, I will worry about it and feel I have let them down, forgot something-I will worry about it for hours. Then there is just the almost constant feeling of anxiety that something will go wrong or someone will get mad (I REALLY hate confrontation), which I can tell you does not bode well for your mental and physical health. As anyone who has played before, your character can get in some tough situations that can cause a lot of tension within the group and possible confrontations. Roleplaying through it with the right group can be fantastic for learning to overcome your fears in these situations. I say the right group because it really does depend; I have played with some people who take things that happen in game out of game and that is really detrimental to a friendship when the other person literally thinks that you agree with your character's actions. But this has been a really big thing for me, through this, I have been able to work on my ability to confront people and deal with the stress and anxiety that I feel in real life in more positive ways.
The other major thing that I have noticed that DnD does for me is enhance my creativity. For those that have seen my Instagram and Twitter, you know of my miniature painting. I do this for games to have figures, but mostly it is because it is really fun and something I enjoy to exercise my creativity. Playing DnD has helped this as giving me insight into the idea behind my minis, creating not only a painted figure but a story behind the character. Each character that I paint has a story associated with them, where they are going, what they have defining who they are and the adventures they have experienced; making them more than one dimensional (at least I like to think so).
So yeah that is what gaming has done for me..it really is more than just sitting around on your friend's couch for hours at a time. Hopefully this wasn't torturous for you all to read and if it was, well then good thing these posts only come up once a year so SUCK IT UP! Anyway, love you kids and thanks for the support and reading this past year!!
Monday, December 23, 2013
Motivation and Knowing Your Limits
So since I am crazy behind on games to posts, I am going to lump the two of my regular D&D games into this post and give you all some thoughts on the upcoming game I have this Sunday.
For the whole of this game (overarching story line) our characters have been labeled as the harbingers of the apocalypse for the continent of Khovaire and capable of changing the world around us through our actions. We have fought together, made allies, made enemies, and come to know each other's motivations along the way. For the most part my character has had her schemes, but each scheme has been "fulfilled" or met in some way, leaving my character now with having to find a "sense of purpose". Of course I don't mean this in a mean way at all, I think that when you have a good DM who wants your plans/schemes for your character to succeed, this is a position in which you will naturally find yourself. The struggle I am facing is just trying to figure out what my character is wanting to accomplish, which is getting to be more difficult as the game is quickly coming to an end.
Anyway, what I really have to worry about now is getting ready to fight someone who is several levels higher than our group who is INSANELY powered. I guess I should backtrack though and give you some background on this character. This is supposed to be the father of one of the party members who is partly ruler to the fey realm, is pretty much considered a deity, and calls himself the "Prince of Thorns" (which by the way I have the hardest time not calling him the Prince of Thrones...it just rolls off the tongue better right?!). He wields magic but is strong, fast, adept with melee weapons, and immune to a shit ton of stuff (like paralysis which is the bread and butter of my character). All in all this dude is a huge bad ass and this is going to be a really tough fight. If you don't believe that this is going to be a tough fight just from that...our DM gave us 2.5 million gold to spend to get ready...so yeah we are so fucked right now. Pretty much this break from work over the holidays is going to be me making of a list of shit that I need to buy to try and not die when we go to battle.
Basically I am writing this post in reverse...I have given you the problems my character is facing with this overpowered character and the failing of her motivations at her current state, so now here is the background as per what has happened in the story. My character has had a romantic interest with another party member and they are pretty awesome together and by awesome I mean we have 12 pages of saved gchat conversations of their relations so this is a pretty epic relationship. A few games ago he kind of became King of Karrnath and then the whole of the continent, which is really awesome and fantastic for your boyfriend to be ruler of everything right?! Well my character might have kind of been a little bitchy-just the tiniest bit and now he thinks that they "broke up"...which totally wasn't the case at all (if you asked her at least). So now two games later we are getting ready to go into this huge fight and they still haven't had a chance to talk things out. To be fair though we did try, but there was so much going on that the opportunity never came up until the very end in which we got ourselves set up for this fight. That means that if we don't get a chance to talk before this fight, one of us could die (a very real possibility put forth by our DM) and that means that the last things we talked about were petty passive aggressive words to each other-which really doesn't make me feel great at all.
So this is the predicament that I find myself and my character. This might really be a scattered post and didn't really give much about the actual story that we encountered, but these are the main things that I have found myself thinking about in reference to these sessions. What is my character going to do in this situation with the Prince of Thorns? So far she has been intelligent in her reasoning, quiet in her opinions, and very mild in her manner of actions; but now we NEED to win, we HAVE to work together successfully, and melding into the background isn't any option anymore. I need to bring in some of Sylara (my Star Wars character) and fuck some shit up-in a constructive way-and push Kai passed the way she has previously acted. I have relied on what I thought my character's strong points were, but really was really resting on it more like a crutch. It made me feel as though my character wasn't as powerful or as "useful" as other characters, but this is going to be a changing point and it's really a do or die situation.
I guess this Sunday will be the reckoning for our characters and we will fight for our motivators and push past our limits to hopefully find victory and not the death of our friends....
For the whole of this game (overarching story line) our characters have been labeled as the harbingers of the apocalypse for the continent of Khovaire and capable of changing the world around us through our actions. We have fought together, made allies, made enemies, and come to know each other's motivations along the way. For the most part my character has had her schemes, but each scheme has been "fulfilled" or met in some way, leaving my character now with having to find a "sense of purpose". Of course I don't mean this in a mean way at all, I think that when you have a good DM who wants your plans/schemes for your character to succeed, this is a position in which you will naturally find yourself. The struggle I am facing is just trying to figure out what my character is wanting to accomplish, which is getting to be more difficult as the game is quickly coming to an end.
Anyway, what I really have to worry about now is getting ready to fight someone who is several levels higher than our group who is INSANELY powered. I guess I should backtrack though and give you some background on this character. This is supposed to be the father of one of the party members who is partly ruler to the fey realm, is pretty much considered a deity, and calls himself the "Prince of Thorns" (which by the way I have the hardest time not calling him the Prince of Thrones...it just rolls off the tongue better right?!). He wields magic but is strong, fast, adept with melee weapons, and immune to a shit ton of stuff (like paralysis which is the bread and butter of my character). All in all this dude is a huge bad ass and this is going to be a really tough fight. If you don't believe that this is going to be a tough fight just from that...our DM gave us 2.5 million gold to spend to get ready...so yeah we are so fucked right now. Pretty much this break from work over the holidays is going to be me making of a list of shit that I need to buy to try and not die when we go to battle.
Basically I am writing this post in reverse...I have given you the problems my character is facing with this overpowered character and the failing of her motivations at her current state, so now here is the background as per what has happened in the story. My character has had a romantic interest with another party member and they are pretty awesome together and by awesome I mean we have 12 pages of saved gchat conversations of their relations so this is a pretty epic relationship. A few games ago he kind of became King of Karrnath and then the whole of the continent, which is really awesome and fantastic for your boyfriend to be ruler of everything right?! Well my character might have kind of been a little bitchy-just the tiniest bit and now he thinks that they "broke up"...which totally wasn't the case at all (if you asked her at least). So now two games later we are getting ready to go into this huge fight and they still haven't had a chance to talk things out. To be fair though we did try, but there was so much going on that the opportunity never came up until the very end in which we got ourselves set up for this fight. That means that if we don't get a chance to talk before this fight, one of us could die (a very real possibility put forth by our DM) and that means that the last things we talked about were petty passive aggressive words to each other-which really doesn't make me feel great at all.
So this is the predicament that I find myself and my character. This might really be a scattered post and didn't really give much about the actual story that we encountered, but these are the main things that I have found myself thinking about in reference to these sessions. What is my character going to do in this situation with the Prince of Thorns? So far she has been intelligent in her reasoning, quiet in her opinions, and very mild in her manner of actions; but now we NEED to win, we HAVE to work together successfully, and melding into the background isn't any option anymore. I need to bring in some of Sylara (my Star Wars character) and fuck some shit up-in a constructive way-and push Kai passed the way she has previously acted. I have relied on what I thought my character's strong points were, but really was really resting on it more like a crutch. It made me feel as though my character wasn't as powerful or as "useful" as other characters, but this is going to be a changing point and it's really a do or die situation.
I guess this Sunday will be the reckoning for our characters and we will fight for our motivators and push past our limits to hopefully find victory and not the death of our friends....
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