Fun with Dungeons & Dragons

[thrillingdetectivetales]

So I'm working on my intoabar story and because I'm needlessly particular in many deeply embarrassing ways, I statted out character sheets on D&D Beyond for both bard/rogue Lew and paladin Dick.

I know at least one of you plays D&D so I figured I might share the sheets here in case that's something you lot feel like you might be into. I built both characters at level 8 because it seemed like a nice "not too low, not too high" starting point. (And also because I'm joining a second D&D game in which the party characters are currently at that level and there's a very real possibility I will use Lew's build in that campaign because it turned out pretty dope.) Behold:

Lew the teifling bard/rogue.
Dick the human paladin.

 

 

Comments

[scandalinbohemia]

This is insanely cool. I love it that Lew is like, REALLY weak. Which is okay, it's not like Dick will let anyone lay a finger on his fragile, velvet-wrapped body :D

I have a feeling that Dick should be faster at walking than Nix, but I honestly can't remember which modifers affect the walking speed. I haven't played in forever and it was a much older version of D&D anyway (like... v3? v4? Fuck, I'm old).

Have I gone blind or the alignment is not specified?

... Okay, now I seriously need That Fic :D


PS. Do you know D&D Is for Nerds, the podcast by Sanspants Radio? I think you would love it.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Hahaha Lew is a back-row combatant for suuuure. I also picked most of his bard spells to suit espionage rather than combat so he’s a true support class character. (After all, the man never fired his weapon in combat according to the show.)

And you’re totally not old! xD I started playing with 3.5 back in...like ‘09? Maybe? And then after that there was the whole minions bullshit in 4th edition that I try my best not to remember. I don’t know that 5th edition has walking speed modifiers outside of like, difficult terrain and such, but based on Dick’s general stat block he’d probably shake out as faster to move on saving throws and what have you.

The alignments are in some weird spot on this version of the digital sheet that I can never find but I have Lew as Chaotic Neutral, and Dick currently as Lawful Good, though I feel there’s an argument to be made for Chaotic Good in his case, based on the whole “second patrol” thing and other instances where he went against the letter of the law to prioritize a value he personally felt was right.

I have never heard of this podcast but I do love liveplay D&D and will totally check it out! I’m almost through the introductory parts of the fic so I imagine I’ll invite you into the doc sometime around the weekend to start getting some feedback even if it’s not finished.

Glad you’re enjoying my supremely nerdish inclination to craft actual character sheets for this thing, haha. <33

[scandalinbohemia]

I think you could make a good case for Dick to start off as Lawful Good and then slowly evolve into a Neutral Good (I'm not sure about Chaotic). In his memoirs he had kind of a chill attitude about his soldiers looting and there was this documentary where he definitely didn't seem too happy about the men doing "bad things" during the war, but he also didn't seem *terribly* bothered by it. Though of course it's very different to talk about this kind of things 60 years later.

I like Chaotic Neutral for Lew! Spot-on. The cool things about Neutral characters is, I think, that both Good and Evil characters can find elements in common with them. (Like, say, Dick and Speirs both liking Lew for very different reasons.)

And baby, I actually played the first time in... '03 or '04. Yep.

The podcast is really cool. I have only listened to the very first campaign (the one that starts here) and the thing is that the players are actually first-time D&D players, so they do a lot of really random and out-of-the-box stuff (while the DM is a proper DM who gets constantly frustrated at their antics). And there's a NPC who's an obese and very vindicative cat.

Please do not ever feel pressured to share anything, but DO feel pressured to stop procrastinating :D

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Yeah you have a point there with the lawfulness. I'm pretty sure I was thinking about the times when he specifically didn't adhere to a command HOWEVER to your point, even when he was like, pettily signing himself up for a court-martial or secretly not sending his men on a patrol he still operated within the letter of the law and basically just fire-bombed the spirit of it, haha.

You are the superior D&D queen, lol. And you know, it's funny, but in the other live-play podcast I listen to the last two character arcs have had cat characters, one of whom was a sort of mysterious force of chaos and one of which was GIANT and lived in a chasm in a magical basement, basically.

<333 I have also cued up the first episode of D&D is for Nerds to listen to on the flight to Savannah this weekend~

[muccamukk]

I'm going to have to figure out what all that means eventually. I am impressed by the level of work you put into this. That is some A++ procrastination, bb.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Hahaha it's all just numbers garbage at the end of the day. :P

I am procrastinating SO GOOD. Although I've finally gotten about 3K down on my intoabar fic and it's starting to run very slightly more smoothly. Which, whether it's good or not remains to be seen but I figure that's a problem for future me.

[slightlytookish]

I don't know anything about D&D but I am very intrigued and will absolutely read this.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

I...am not sure I will finish it in time to meet the actual requirements of Intoabar, but I'm trying to work with it anyway. I'm running into a little bit of trouble where I've kind of abandoned most of BoB canon in favor of exploring the D&D aspects and I'm feeling pretty certain that the overall narrative is a little weaker for it so I need to make some adjustments.

I'm very glad you're interested, though! AND ALSO YOUR ICON MAKES MY HEART HAPPY.