15 Questions 15 Mutuals

Tagged by @complicitsacrilege thank you ❤

1. Are you named after anyone?

My birth name was from a great aunt who apparently made corsets. The names I've chosen are inspired by people and some characters

2. When was the last time you cried?

Probably when I went to see the DnD movie 😅

3. Do you have kids?

Nope, I have four cats though, and they are like children.

4. Do you use sarcasm?

Occasionally

5. What sports do you play/have played?

I played a lot of hockey in high-school, but nothing recently. I did used to do ballet.

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Probably their clothes?

7. What's your eye colour?

Bright green with gold centre (got some woerd peepers)

8. Do you like scary movies or a happy ending?

In general I like action or fantasy with a good ending. But I'll watch anything I find interesting.

9. Do you have any special talents?

Uh, is hyperfocus a talent? 😅 I do embroidery and sewing.

10. Where were you born?

A city in Scotland.

11. What are your hobbies?

Too many. I collect ball jointed dolls, sew, write and a bunch of other crafty things

12. Do you have pets?

Yes! Four cats; Loki (f), Mortimer (m), Khoshekh (m), and Cassian (m)

13. How tall are you?

Not very 😅 5'3" or 160cm (though possibly 5'2" ?)

14. What's you favourite school subject?

It was probably art and English. I have a good English teacher.

15. What's your dream job?

I would like to make enough money selling my artwork

Tagging any mutuals who want to do this! Also if you're a mutual say hi becuse I'm not sure where to find out who my moots are. I know some of you

15 questions, 15 mutuals

Tagged by @toooldforthisbutstill for a “15 questions, 15 mutuals” thing, thank you buddy 💙

1. Are you named after anyone?

My second birth name is the first name of my great-great-grandma. And my chosen name is inspired by Alexander The Great (and maybe a little bit by Alexandre Astier but you can't prove anything)

2. When was the last time you cried?

I cried on Thursday but it's because I had a big dysphoria crisis (I don't have many of those, to be fair, so I was quite surprised). Fortunately, I had my binder with me and I also was with my crush and they comforted me.

3. Do you have kids?

Zero and I don't want to have any.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I think I use sarcasm a little bit, but I almost often use tone indicators now bc I know some people (including me!) can struggle with knowing when it's the case!

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

I currently do Do-In/Qi Gong all the two weeks, some yoga sometimes and I also walk each day. I used to do running, fitness, zumba and a lot of other things but depression prevents me from doing all this now (and yeah, I know "sports help with depression", but actually it's a little bit more complicated than that, sometimes depression is too deep for it).

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

Their "fashion style" (I don't have better way to say it, sorry). And if they're an extrovert or an introvert, depending on their body language. Shit, it makes me look like a very judgmental person 🙈 I swear I'm not a superficial jerk!! I just try to adapt myself to the person I'm talking with, a little bit like a social chameleon

7. What’s your eye colour?

Dark brown

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings all the way! Like @toooldforthisbutstill , scary stuff isn't for me (or only in very specific contexts, like said by a Youtuber or by a streamer - yes, I'm thinking about Squeezie's horror threads xD)

9. Any special talents?

Writing, playing the ukulele, ending up in complicated polyamorous situations

10. Where were you born?

A city in the Parisian suburbs (I'm not doxxing myself again, this time!!)

11. What are your hobbies?

Writing, reading, going to the movies or to the museum, playing the ukulele, going for a walk, going out with friends... [edit] Oh and also DnD and video games! I forgot to mention that I'm a nerd xD

12. Do you have any pets?

Not me personally, but my parents have a dog and I love her a lot!

13. How tall are you?

168 cm / 5,5 ft

14. Favourite subject in school?

French/Literature

15. Dream job?

Writer ✨

And I tag: @krwzprtt @chonaku-things @paceees @datcreolebitch @adiosleblues @chubbychummy @peribytes @literallyjustanerd @harinezumiko @moldy-junk @solaneceae @shakeskp @thesquidkid (yeah, I know, it's not 15 but I don't know how to count xD) No pressure, only do it if you feel like it :D And whoever wants to do it can too!! Consider yourself tagged ^^

PLEASEPLASEPLEASE rant more about ur ocs im fucking dying over your tags.. played like a cheap kazoo.. good god... the way you summarize megatons of plot into a few lines.. my god.. please.. please share anything else please. whos the mf w the glowing eyes and scars now. which oen's that. ptlease. in shambles

HII yes FINALLY my friend you've provoked a beast that's been waiting for AGES. You're in for a long one.

Crimson Night is a 2 year long running project between me and my friend @artist-from-outersp-ace !! And as a preface, cn is less traditional story telling and more like me and my friend made a long-ass-dnd-campaign scope story. Like when I say at least 10 characters have main character backstory and development, i mean it. Also I have no idea how to start this lmao so I'll give a brief look into the main character's (mf with glowing eyes) backstory in the most broad of strokes

Khaled Ben ali!! Aka the Tragedy ridden, doomed chosen one

He was born the younger twin of two (trans)boys 16th of april 1877 to hajer al naser and khalil ben ali in yathreb, carthage. 7 years later, due to complex political issues, his country was invaded by the luminian empire and his city was ambushed one early February morning in 1884, his father was killed and he was taken away as a part of a government program to regulate the carthaginian youth. He was soon thereafter taken in as protégé by the marshal general of luminia, Anton philippe armagnac, given the name william A. Phillip, and admitted into the baskan military academy.

When he's 13, he's given as a subject for trials for crystal augmentation (in which a gem is fused to the body in order to give it more power) of which he's the only survivor. His gem, a Ruby, grants him the power to change the chemistry/physics of anything he touches but causes him debilitating pain to use, takes a lot of energy and comes with heightened senses that are hell to live with (he starts smoking at 15 to cope, later when he turns 17 he starts drinking heavily). He later becomes the empire's youngest champion gladiator, at only 14, and goes undefeated for the next 8 years (ends there because he refuses to do it any longer).

In 1895, at 18, he graduates and takes an oath to never betray luminia, which is a requirement, then is sent to serve in carthage, as there's been unrest and many attempts at revolt, as lieutenant general. He serves for the next 6 years, periodically coming home to piles of bureaucracy, aristocratic bullshit, and a shitty apartment above a pub in the southern district of Calis (capital of luminia).

Over the course of his backstory he meets 3 important people, in the following order:

Eden Claeys (they/them), child of the lightless wonder (god of the moon, the tlw church's deity) and prince of luminia. They grow up very close but drift apart at a certain point. Eden goes by "isra", a name that means journey through the night, which was suggested by khaled.

Genevive Thomas (he/she), godsister of the prince, an important businessman's daughter and is betrothed to a nobleman from Caspeterra. She's also a ballerina. the two meet, when they're 16, after a particularly unsavoury night for Genevive and they become good friends.

Anastasia Kiers (she/her), bartender at the pub underneath Khaled's apartment. They meet through Khaled's alcoholism. She's also a famous singer and a reasonably wealthy lady, luminian society doesn't think highly of her because of the "lowly" entourage she keeps and her rebellious sentiments.

The story proper begins on his 24th winter solstice, on which he was invited to a royal ball, but im not gonna go into it cus that's proper spoilers and it's long. I can't even get to the bitch that got played like a cheap kazoo cus that's even more complicated than this. That being said if prompted I would rant about it for hours :)

The most difficult fankid: Len Birch

Happy birthday to Len! In the past week we work shopped Len again and I don’t even think I made a post about the last time we did because I forgot so here’s current Len and some of the process of how it’s come to these changes. Things hopefully won’t change but it’s Len so it might 

Fun fact, did you know Axel and Len used to be the same character? Years ago (before we started this blog) we had a single chess kid. For reasons we decided to split them into two different characters. One stayed a chess kid (Axel) and we weren’t quiet sure on what to do with the other.

We eventually decided we liked the idea of Brendan as his dad. But that counteracted the fact we really wanted Len to live in Castelia. Mainly due to the fact he was a city kid when him and Axel used to be the same person. It was also due to the fact he was close to Hilda and needed to be somewhere for him to meet. 

So for a while we were just ‘okay his mom is going to be someone from Unova we’ll decide later’. It took long enough for us decide that I named a tomodachi life character in 2013 ‘Unova’ as the placeholder (yes I made all of the adults and forced them together for our kids in tomodachi life). 

Shortly after the ORAS contest designs we thought ‘oh this is perfect we can have Brendan do this for a short while, meet yancy, and have a kid with her’. It’s a crackship it doesn’t need much for it work. We specifically choose Yancy because she was an idol from Unova and fit. If we wanted it to make sense we would’ve chosen Lisia, a contest idol from his region.

Now why is this all relevant? Because we’re scrapping Len (and Larentia as a result) living in Unova all together now. Living in Castelia only made sense for Yancy out of the 4 of them so there wasn’t any point of keeping it? At this point we only kept it so Len would be forced to meet Axel and Lloyd (before was before Axel and Len were a ship if you’ve been following us long enough you’ll remember originally we had Len and Charlotte and scrapped that years ago) but they meet other ways so we really didn’t need to force that. Logically we should change ships to Brendan and Lisia but we like our crackship too much and our Lisia specifically goes out of her way to not have kids so it doesn’t work.

Now the Birch’s live on route 104. Specifically Mr. Briney’s old house. Which is right outside of Petalburg (where 3 other kids in hoenn live). Which of course changes a few things.

Larentia and Gale have always been good friends (another thing that used to be a ship that we scrapped simply because it just was not vibing with us). If anything they’re just closer now. Larentia originally only became a ranger because she knew Gale was there and hated living in Unova (they moved when she was 9 originally so she was never there long). Now she just goes because she misses her buddy.

The biggest change this cases is Adele and Len are now childhood friends. Which is something that logically should’ve always been a thing but we kept avoiding it for whatever reason. The ketchem’s move there when Adele’s 5 and the two become friends quickly. And of course Adele and Brendan are still BFFs (best fucking friends).

We also changed Len’s team. Len now only has a poochyena and we’re scrapping the rockruff/dog team. He befriended said poochyena when with his grandfather and it was scaring his grandfather and his thought was ‘oh this is a friend I’m going to keep it’. 

Because Len only have one mon now that makes contests (for when he does them) more difficult. It cases some issues in his first year but eventually he gets the hang of it. The bigger hung up is grand festivals require 3 or more pokemon so for those he’ll borrow (with permission) his dad’’s, mom’s, and sister’s pokemon. This also means we’re changing his design. We haven’t decided to what yet though. 

Other changes we’ve made that I don’t think I put on here (from the last rehaul not this one). Len only does contests for 4 years he’s traveling, he decides while he likes it theoretically he’s more of a supporter then someone who wants to do it. Then while he’s taking a year off for his sister he ends up joining (and quitting) the poke idol stars reboot while it’s still in development phases. Decides he doesn’t like doing that either and settles on becoming a connoisseur by suggestion of his sister.

Also he Axel Llloyd and 2 npcs have a online dnd group. Len dms while everyone else is a party memeber. Axel and Lloyd obviously know each other but everyone else sees each other as online friends. Axel figures out Len is their online friends right away but Len and Lloyd don’t figure it out till a couple of years. 

For how this changes the timeline it goes the following it

2034-2035 

Len and Adele do (regular) contests in Hoenn together. Len struggles a lot because he’s stubborn and refuses to change the way he wants to do things. Only Adele makes it to the grand festival so the two decided they’re going to try to do their own thing for a year.

2035-2036

Len goes to Galar to try out contest spectacular. There he meets Lloyd and Axel for the first time (in person). Because Axel can tell Len is the DM (through things he mentioned online that related to Len as well as his voice) right away and asks him to join him and Lloyd. Len agrees

Adele, not wanting to travel alone after traveling with her buddy convinces Autumn to travel in Johto with her when she learns she’s also in Johto. The two do super contests together. As for Autumn’s crush on Adele this is when it hits it’s highest and lowest point. At the start Autumn’s all ‘this is great we get to spend so much time together’ and the more time she spends with Adele the more she realizes she prefers her as a friend and grows out of her crush

Also during this time Adele and Harley become texting buddies because it’s a thing Adele always gets along with at least 1 of her traveling companions dad’s and May and Drew’s reaction to them being friends is too funny to pass up

2036-2037

After splitting up Adele and Len decided to go back to traveling with each other in Sinnoh for super contests. This is when they originally meet so much (if anything) changes minus the fact they don’t meet for the first time

2037-2038

(regular) contests in Kanto. Again this doesn’t change much from how it was before

2038-2039

This is when Adele and Len take a year off. Adele to mourn for Gale and Len because he’s worried about his sister who just got in an accident. 

Adele stays for around half a year and ends up traveling (without doing contests) with Jean and Bridge for the second half. 

Len gets offered a job through his mom to be part of the poke idol stars (often referred to as just pokestars) reboot. He takes it and is the center of Treaty for a short while with Noel and Kitty

His pokemon is a shiny poochyena (so sadly cannot use his own pokemon for the role)

He quits right before the reboot game releases which causes a lot of issues. He needed a replacement but fans didn’t want the exact character replaced so they made a new member for treaty

It’s scout he was pulled in by Marina for the role (yes this pisses Penny off) last minute and his character is a shiny pancham (gotta replace the only shiny with another shiny

Because of this his character didn’t get content at the release and was added a bit later. This made fans feels bad for him (as the voice not the character) and he quickly became the most popular voice actor of those introduced in the reboot. He lets the fame get to his head, stops talking to penny and then that plot line

2039-2040

Len’s done with contests and doesn’t want to be an idol. His sister suggests he becomes a connoisseur and he takes to that quickly. Like contests he’s doing his own thing and not following the exact root for that but he still manages to do his own thing well (eventually takes the root of becoming a teacher/guidance counselor)

Still wants to go back to traveling so he joins Adele who’s doing contest spectacular. Charlotte and Elise are here too.

I think that is everything. If anyone has any specific questions about how this changes things/relationships between characters feel free to ask! If anything it’ll make us develop this further and hopefully stick to this 

OC Tag- 25 questions

tagged by @m0rdecaw o:

Let’s have some fun and talk about our OCs! If tagged, pick the best/most developed OC you have and fill this out!

Rules:

Post these rules.

Answer the questions about your OC below. Go ahead and give more info than just a one-word response!

Tag at least 5 people! (If you don’t have an OC, you should make one and then fill this out *winky face*). You don’t have to be tagged to do this, if you want to do it, tag me so I can see! :D

Questions:

OC’s name: Xanthippe “Xanthe” Xenia! Fandom (if any): DnD character for the Falcon’s Hollow campaign Jay DMS for us Age: 227 bc they’re an old fart (elf) Occupation: low level witch

1: Any nicknames?

Xanthe is actually their nickname! But they won’t let anyone know that it’s not their full first name, canonly

2: What is ‘home’ to your OC?

They haven’t really had a place they’d call home in a long time :c they left their village around 50-75 years ago, and has been moving around more or less ever since.

3: Favorite food and drink?

They have a secret sweet tooth and like chocolate and iced sweet tea

4: Any scars/birthmarks?

One scar diagonal across their face from when they first met their familiar Kara the Owl

5: What does your OC do in his/her free time?

they’re reading up on magic of the Occult Patron and learning new skills. they’ve only recently started being a witch, after all! Gotta learn so much

6: When does your OC think killing is ok?

They’ve killed for various reasons before. It doesn’t bother them and they’re neutral on it.

7: Biggest fear?

Dying

8: What does your OC think is his/her biggest accomplishment?

They don’t really have anything super proud of just yet. One achievement they got back in their hometown was becoming a candidate to become Chief but they ran away before anything else really happened.

9: How clean/tidy is your OC?

They like to be organized.

10: Favorite smell?

Xanthe probably loves the smell of nature

11: What does your OC smell like?

I have no idea? I’d say owls and nature

12: What kind of clothing is your OC the most comfortable in?

Thinner summer wear, sleeveless tops with almost ankle length skirts. Sometimes they have a scarf, they have some earrings and hair jewelry, but never any shoes if they can help it.

13: What do your OC’s living quarters look like?

Currently a bedroll in their bag.

14: Is your OC impulsive?

Xanthe can be, very much hit now questions later, but they’re attempting to work on it.

15: Most treasured possession?

Kara the Owl!

16: What does your OC consider to be good entertainment?

A good book and some peace and quiet

17: Most noticeable physical characteristic?

Stark white hair/eyes, I’d say

18: You OC is going out somewhere. Where is he/she going and what time is it?

Probably spending the evening in a tavern either to drink or to con people, late evening til early morning.

19: Did your OC enjoy his/her childhood?

Up until about 150, yes, then it started going downhill from there.

20: What would your OC die for?

Xanthe is almost certain they will get swept up in another “SAVE THE TOWN” scheme and die painted as a hero, which they do not want

21: What does it take to earn your OC’s respect?

Don’t be loud and overly cheerful, mostly. Let them have their space, don’t touch them without permission. Let them take their time.

22: Pet peeves?

People being loud at inappropriate times

23: How forgiving is your OC?

It depends on who you are mostly. they have a grudge/strong hatred to their cousin Billy Jean that has lasted 50+ years

24: What does your OC sleep in?

short midthigh shorts, an oversized shirt that looks like a tourist shirt going “welcome to Xenia”, if they have a place to stay in 

on the go it’s usually whatever they had in the morning

25: Biggest secret?

Xanthe came from a small town?? city?? named Xenia, founded by a maternal ancestor. More than half of the years since its founding, the Chief of Xenia has been a descendant of the original Xenia founder; at the current point, the Chief is Xanthe’s mother, Xanthippe Xenia. Xanthe and their cousin Billy Jean were the two chosen to become Chiefs in Training, because they exhibited the best qualities to become the next Chief. Xanthe, after a while, became fearful of the position, and ran away from home and has not been back since. Xanthippe is still currently Chief, as the final ceremony that ends the training and chooses the Chief cannot be completed unless all candidates are present (except in case of death)

tagging: @hopelesslydimwitted @krakendra @xionbooty @dcupsofjustice and anyone else up to it

and i’m open to being retagged bc I have a shit ton of OCs

My first almost D&D but Not DND session!

Soo way back when, my dad gave me a book - a AD&D DMG from a market stall. And it was soo intriguing - but completely almost incomprehensible. A DMG made some sense - but all the numbers & mechanics were weird alien concepts that followed no simple path (some went up, others went down - and there was all these weird changes to add or subtract everywhere! AD&D was a chaotic book to say the least). Later, I’d discover my school had an original D&D players guide (ok, it was actually just the D&D book. There was only meant to be one. It was the very first book every made & meant to be a all in one concept). Suddenly things made sense - and we even had 2 modules. D&D could be had! Sooo I went to a friends house & he loved the concept. He also loved elves - no really, you have to understand he worshipped elves soooo much his ears gear almost 2 inches longer & pointy when he was leaving highschool. it was OMG scary. No surgery, no fakes - just straight up brain power misspent to reshape his body after his favorite image. He was already kinda tall & thin. And a pale skinned gaming geek naturally... So all he needed was to grow out his hair & grow pointy ears. Sooo he did... Kinda freaky... Kinda explains a lot about being human - and yeah, ‘Worshipped tolkieen type elves’ is the best description I have. But otherwise a nerdy nice guy. Annyyywayyy, I went over (pre-elf state) & asked about D&D. And he produced a rulebook - for Lord of the Rings. I didn’t care, we’re doing this. So we rolled up some characters. He had a Warrior or a Paladin I think. And I had a rogue - were-tiger. The LOTR RPG was a point buy system similar to white wolf games. You buy advantages and flaws to gain talents/powers/magic/skills & flaws. I found some for balance, jumping & damage resistance. And something like claws/teeth. Add in some rogue skills & movement skills & I was set! Now my friend was the by the book type - which I thankfully cured immediately by suggesting we do a ‘By the seat of our story pants’ session - we just started. Soon we were running atop rooves of the city doing a chase scene - totally awesome for a thief. And the paladin was running below trying hard to keep up. Rogues are totally awesome! Ooohhh yes! Anyway - we dived into this brave new RPG world. We had lots of fun. At some point we decided our setting was Faerun’s Waterdeep - we’d read a D&D novel about it & that was all the inspiration we needed. We also grew our party to like 3-4 people, maybe 5? And we were working for the political movers & shakers of Waterdeep. But we started with 2 characters chasing a thief across rooftops... Using a completely alien system that had almost no magic what so ever - improvising everything from rules to dice. We knew D&D needed d20s, so we rolled d20s plus our skills. That worked well. Damage was a d6 or 2d6 for something big. Life was soo simple - then we got loot! And we had a DMG for that! OMG, but my mate surpassed me here. Suddenly we had a gnomish inventor with a self moving carriage. It was steam powered.. ish... Magic steam I think... And we ended up with a self shooting crossbow on top at somepoint. That was actually scary - it shoot anyone & everyone, sometimes even us! I remember leaping from the rooftop of our carriage as it steamed it’s way over snowtopped fields, leaping for our opponent’s horses & chariots. I had to make so many agility checks (or was it balance?) - and aced them all. I was a were-cat & I knew where to specialise. Movement skills! Later our paladin died - and we wanted him back. So we planehopped over to the elvish heavens to steal his soul back (we’re adventurers after all! We know we’re here to loot the place!) So the GM distracted us with various scenes of heaven. I was really tempted to try and open this ornate obsidian door that seemed to glow with red runes everywhere. It was chained up with heavy mithril chains & magic locks - and omg it was so tempting... But the party managed to guess it might actually be a portal to the Nine Hells & dragged their curious kitty away... Then the GM tried to distract another player with a beautiful glade. However it was the Kitty who ended up wandering inside & being all curious. There was an elf there & we talked a lot. We kinda got into a debate about religion - and realized we had the same goals, but completely opposite perspectives on how to achieve it. We laughed a lot as everyone else realized the GM & I we’re arguing the same points from the opposite side of the lens. After that, I decided I liked this god - and well our campaign was slowly getting a VS Evil Hell Demons vibe. So believing in a particular god was appropriate. We did a lot of the ‘I pay homage to each different deity when I do something related to their portfolio’ type of prayers - partly as jokes & partly just to be characterful. So having one God was kinda cool. Anyway this elf asked if I wanted to start on the path as a cleric. Sure I said - now the other players had noticed when the GM said this god was forgotten on our world (it was a grey hawk god I think? Some other setting besides Faerun either way). And we’re pretty powerful folk now. We dance with the city’s politicians, royalty & gentry. We go to fancy parties & hang out with the royal poisoner, do work for the head Assassin sometimes & we even helped out the temple of helm so much we have a writ from the High Priest of Helm - allowing us shelter, food, aid & even a few coins from any temple of Helm. Amazing right? Well imagine my surprise when someone introduced me as a cleric of ‘Long Forgotten God’ when we finally retrieved our Paladin’s soul, avoided accidentally opening the door to hell a second time (It glowed and everything! I mean spoilt sports!) and we went to a royal ball to our success & our Paladin’s resurrection! Cleric’s were kinda a rare thing - we had lots of priests. But they could do no more than light healing (cure wounds & disease, produce food & water kinda magic. Very limited- because the system was also kinda limited in regards to magic) but clerics could open portals, summon angels & do real magics. Of course, I had 1 spell (*cough I had just enough exp to buy 1 ability cough*) - and slightly elfin features. There was the promise of an elven lifespan if I was a dutiful cleric though. So almost immortality was a pretty cool boon for a were-kitty... Now you’re wondering what the catch was - because there was one. I was just a cleric of this god. The only cleric actually. I’d been charged with spreading the word & given a cool title. Cleric! And then someone finally completed the sentence - we walked into the Royal Ball - and I was announced as the High Priest of ‘Long forgotten Elven God’... High priest... Yeah... The GM saddled me with ‘promote my faith’ & ‘High Priest’ in a political campaign... Now the GM was cool - the royal folk gave me a plot of land to cultivate into a druid glave with an underground cave/temple space. Which was cool. I even got a gold grant to help transplant soil & plants to the space. And it was near the Temple of Helm. The High Grand Temple of Helm... Where we have that lovely writ of aid... Soooo I maybe started preaching on the steps to the Temple of Helm... About my new god. And that made the High Priest of Helm just a little mad... Then we summoned a angel. The GM read about this spell where you could trade goods & gold to gain the service of angels. And they were anime angels that could build cities in days instead of months. Or nuke cities filled with undead and such... Sooo we traded some stuff from our stash & roll a d100 like all good gamers asking for a miracle. Got a 99 or was it a 100? That called forth some angels, saved our city in a big climatic battle & then sponsored a massive party - and our Angels turned DJs & Dancers and we jammed all night long! I mean we literally had them in our service for 2 days, so we just jammed & partied, then cleaned up the city some the next morning.  Amazingly, given how rare Clerics with real magic were, this had an impact on the populace... Preventing the Devil Apocalypse, Summoning Angels & Jamming with the rarest of planar beings after kicking all the BBEG’s collective butts! Yes we made an impression... Now prior to this I had established a kitty theme for loving high places. I always liked to sleep atop these massive columns that adorned the Temple of Helm. 20 to 30m tall columns that were under an even taller roof - so I could nap up there or watch the city flow below me like ants... it was awesome! Which meant I was now awoken by crowds of faithful, flocking to the temple of helm, to wake my charrie up with shouts for wisdom & sermons. I’d tell stories on the front steps (just so I was taller than the crowds. They had a bunch of statues to climb over and leap atop too!) & it was sooo fun! Anddd the GM was secretly making rolls to see if the High Priest would finally snap & do something evil against me... Even turn to the devils just to ‘silence’ this menace to their god... I totally stole so many of their followers... I mean the GM saddled me with being a High Priest... So I lied, tricked & teased my way into becoming the most popular cleric in the city. You let the rogue make a faith after all. This is totally before we ever read Terry Pratchett btw - So you can’t think I’d ever read Going Postal or Making Money. All original madness I’m afraid :) - And yeah... I nearly broke apart the campaign world in my childish teasing of Helm’s chosen... Heeh... Still almost no remorse there :P Sooo that was my role in our first campaign. I mean, we fought wars, assassinated assassins trying to kill us in our supposed sleep, raced steam chariots & besieged armies! We stole artifacts, invented flawed intelligent items like repeating crossbows (we had a sciencey type player who got on well with the mad gnomish inventors guild) and ended up nearly killing the party 3 times with our own repeating crossbow (twice we luckily ran out of arrows, the third time we had to throw a boulder onto our carriage - and boy was that expensive to fix...)  And don’t get me started on the politics... It literally flew over my teenage head... I was so clueless then. I even was tricked into being a high priest... Seriously, our party laughed me out of the room when I realized my easy-street lazy rogue was now saddled with actually working & promoting something, raising funds & even having to preach to get followers... And then people worked out I was actually a really good talker & on state debate teams... I just really enjoyed being lazy, stealing & leaping my way through problems... Anyway... long rambling stories... Probably not that interesting - but OMG my fondest memory is just that beginning - we rolled up characters & started playing before we read the mechanics. We invented everything we needed in 5 minutes & learnt some real rules later - which we half ignored as we tried to recreate the spirit of DND with d20s & Lord of the Rings Character Sheets. Still have that sheet too! If you ever want to start a game - just take whatever books you have and go for it. Don’t stress about the rules, make stuff up. Borrow the Advantage/Disadvantage system from fifth Ed - and just go with the flow. If it feels like success, tell the player. If it doesn’t, describe the player's misfortune...