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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