All part of the charm luv.

[pasithea]

On Sunday I played Dungeons and Dragons with paka and centauress I hadn't played D&D in a long time.

Actually, I hadn't played in a long long long time.

The last time I played was about 5 years ago and basically I spent 3 hours making a character, sitting in a room with a very pissy annoying guy and a bunch of other guys that also bugged me and two that seemed nice. One was the friend that invited me, the other the DM. The DM was inexperienced and not used to players who have inordinately bad luck with dice and very macho 'serious' players. To make a long story short, I spent 3 hours making a character, then rolled a 1 on saving throw and was dead 5 minutes later. Blah.

Anyhow, back to the present. Paka DM'd on Sunday and it was fun! Due to my typical bad dice rolling, even with 4D6 (drop lowest) for stats, my best roll was a 15 and the majority are under 10.

This character is pretty loathesome. Much lower charisma than I usually play, so I had to work to stay in character for her. She's a neutral sort, very low and common. Basic street pick pocket. I tried to pick her skill set based on what I imagined might have kept her alive to level 4 rather than what skills I'd ideally like to have. For the most part that means good pickpocket and fast-talking skills and escape artist stuff.

She put quite a hustle on the person sending us on the adventure but Paka played the character's disgust with her pretty well. Crissa's character is a shiny pretty paladin with nothing I can easily steal. It's kind of interesting, playing a character that's a total coward and really an unwilling participant in the adventure. Especially one as low and common as this character.

So during the traditional D&D bar scene, I got into some good character acting doing all sorts of loathesome things like slugging back Meyers dark rum, picking my teeth with a dagger, and playing a bit of mumbleypeg. (Don't worry, this dagger is a Smokey Mountain Toothpick. Made of hard american surgical steel and just about impossible to sharpen without a laser. I'd be more likely to cut myself with a tomato)

Now if I can just make her survive a round of combat. :)

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that pretty much described my very first experience as a player (as opposed to being a DM, which I'd been doing for five years before I ever played in a game). Although I add on that the DM forced my (female) character to engage herself in marriage to all three of the other (male) characters in order to get her sword and armor. And that bout of roleplaying took something like 10 hours. aaaauuuugggh.

It took me another five years before I was willing to play in a game.