TTRPGs count as gaming, right? So tell me a little about what you have going on!
I’m currently in two DND 5e campaigns.
The first one is a homebrew setting, but still pretty standard as far as DND settings go. All the usual races. My character is Velena Zausek, a level 3 half-drow draconic sorcerer. Her backstory is that her drow father escaped the Underdark when he was young, then he and her human mother went on to start a successful weaving business. One day a badly wounded man stumbled into their town and they gave him shelter, fully expecting him to die. But he miraculously recovered, and then he claimed to be a dragon in disguise. As thanks, he offered them a boon: He would ask his dragon god to bless their bloodline. Thinking he was just nuts, they accepted and thought nothing more of it… until Velena hit puberty and started growing scales and setting things on fire.
When she reached adulthood, Velena inherited the weaving business but was bored to tears by it, so she decided to set out to be an adventurer. She and her buddies just finished fighting some drow who were about to sacrifice people to perform a ritual, and I suspect we’ll try to figure out what their whole deal was as our next move.
Oh, and one of the party members is a draegloth (drow monster thingy) who took one look at Velena and decided she must be in charge lmao. Velena didn’t initially realize this, but upon figuring it out she is so uncomfortable with it. I’m loving roleplaying it.
The second campaign is set in the Old Margreve, though I believe the DM just borrowed the setting and isn’t planning on using any of the premade stuff otherwise. This campaign is newer, so I have less to say about it, but it seems really fun so far. Amusingly enough, we’re following what seem to be drow through the forest, so drow are possibly the bad guys in both my campaigns.
My character is a Tabaxi swashbuckler rogue named Wind on Water. He just hit 4th level, and if anyone has any suggestions for feats, that would be appreciated. (I already have Alert.) He doesn’t have as much of a backstory as Velena, but he grew up dirt poor in a big city and is adventuring to make money for himself and his brother. He and one of the other PCs are con men who were hiding out from their last heist when they got roped into this adventure. Their game was that his companion would steal from nobles, then Wind would “catch” him and turn him in for a price before freeing him. Kind of like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, if you’ve seen that.
Both Velena and Wind are a blast to play, but for very different reasons. Velena is my first DND character, so she’s a lot like me because I figured that would be easier to roleplay. With Wind, I wanted to try something harder, so he’s not much like me at all.
But enough about my bullshit. Tell me about your bullshit!
Currently we are playing D&D’s Rime of the frostmaiden and I play as a Darf wizard (Order of scribes) that used to be a successful writer/journalist in waterdeep and now wants to write a travel Guide to Icewind Dale. At least that is what he will tell you. In reality he and his publisher (my backup rogue) had to flee the city after some research for a seemingly harmless article about some nobles ended up uncovering a huge cult of devil worshippers. If you are wondering why I have a backup character ready to play: We are currently level 5 and so far we have had three charcter deaths. Also my wizard may have an unhealty amount of curiosity which leads to him beeing the designated “things toucher”. So far I only have been cursed, Vaporized (he got better), teleported, and tranced for a while so things are going fine.
Our last longer game was supposed to be a Oneshot but ended up being 6 sessions (as usual). It was set in Theros (think ancient greece but D&D) and we were participating in a tournament as a team. it was great. Each round had a different game. One was a race around the city in flying chariots. On the side people were betting, attempting to bribe us, some honor duels and lots of sabotaging. Our team had a minotaur with anger problems, an extremely famous (and extremely vain) gladiator/athlete, a very chill, “I’m just here to have fun” druid (guess who got into all those duels), a Paladin who was my grandson and myself, a 90 Year old Human Monk who used to be a Judge until he decided to be an agressively atheistic hermit and philosopher. originally I was going for “Aristotle with abs” but then decided to do an astral self Monk and dump my physical stats.