Isolation Diary: Recall, I have identified as an actress all my college life and professional life. Today, playing D and D, reaching a crisis point, a major encounter with a foe, my character, a human fighter with no magical abilities, having been in a lightless mine for at least 3 maybe 4 days, who knows anymore?, is depressed from lack of light and ability to see, is increasingly distressed at not finding a fellow adventurer with whom she is rather infatuated, finally confronts her foe who has been sending minions after this small troupe of adventurers with intent to kill, and she finds that this foe has killed one of her former team mates whom she sees slumped against a wall and she, without thought, fires an arrow at him, the foe, the Black Spider. Which injures but does not kill him and causes him to kill his hostage whom she does not know but who is the brother of one of her current team mates. I, Ruth, not Cor, my character, am so distressed at my recklessness that I end up on Jessie’s couch covering myself with a quilt. Cor is also distraught but has to soldier on. Maybe the take-away here is ‘get this girl back on the stage!’
French S.
What I wouldn’t give to be sitting across fro you in a gingerly tea scene.Richard L.
I literally understood nothing in the post, but noticed and was gratified by your proper use of “whom.” Twice!Ruth Silveira
3 times!Tegan A.C.
It really gets under your skin, doesn’t it…? Are you playing the Phandalin module?Ruth Silveira
Yes, it does! What a great game for the Covid Year! And, yes, we are playing the popular starter game which is based in Phandalin. My first experience with the game. We are near the end and already planning for the next campaign, “The Dragon of Icespire Peak”, which is also based in Phandalin”. I will be the DM this time. (!) New characters are even now being created. Are you playing?Tegan A.C.
DMing?! Ruth, I’m so proud of you!!! I’m always so thrilled when someone starts to play and really takes to it. It is a tremendous game.
My game is on haitus. I started with the Phandalin module and my current game group about 2 years ago (?) which landed us in the Underdark so we’re currently playing through Out of the Abyss (it’s a beast of a campaign).
I was finding that over Zoom I was getting very tired very quickly. In person is just where it’s at for me. I adjusted all right to remote play, and it gave me the opportunity to use fun camera angles and pipe music and ambience directly to my players. But the additional challenge of having to narrate game mechanics remotely undermined my energy levels. So, I’m taking a break. We’ll pick it back up in a bit, after I’ve completely redesigned my working life around the pandemic and have some bandwidth.
Looking forward to your updates! May you roll Nat20s when you really need them. xo TegsRuth Silveira
As I am playing with my family safe pod, we get to play in person most of the time. When the eleven year old (my grandson, one of the better players) goes back to school, we will probably be playing remotely again. Because of a toddler in the family, our sessions are rarely longer than 2 hours. So you are DMing! With effects! Very cool.Tegan A.C.
Yup, I’ve been DMing for a long time. I found I was a better DM than a player, actually. DMing basically happened because I wanted to play more often and regularly, so it was a “If you run the game, they will come…” situation.Jeff G.
I dunno, I feel like this is going somewhere.Laura E.F.
Fight on Ruth!