EPTMy friends and my brother and his wife all wanted to play this game for a while now. Since we change games every so often, get tired of them or just don't like them.
We decided, hey Dnd 3rd edition. Its simple enough, but fairly complex that we can actually be challenged, and we have a semi core group that can play all the time. So hey, pretty okay choice.
Mitchell Is our DM, dungeon master, he narrates the game.
Well, I'll just talk about our characters. Maybe it will inspire you guys to play on your own, or just out of amusement. Either way, I don't really care, but interesting stories, or even scary hilarious stories will be appreciated.
My brothers wife Kat chose to be a paladin. She rolled very well, and had only one negative attribute, I think it was intelligence. So she was like an 18 year old charismatic paladin with 17 strength. The picture My brother drew of her wasn't exactly close to how the stats looked, but it was really good anyhow. Basically a standard anime chick in like some angel looking armor, yeah he's very talented.
I decided to be completely different, but choose something I sort of do in my own life. I chose a BARD. Thats right, the effin bard. The character NOBODY wants to be. The guy who you remember from final fantasy 4 was it? with cecil and kain and junk, there was that bard character who was totally useless, and had a lame story, yeah bards were ruined for everyone then. I wanted to choose a bard to make the adventure different, and because I kinda always wanted to be one, and figure if my life was DND, then I would be a bard.
But lets look at Bards differently. I didn't choose some random race like half orc. I went Human. Second, Bards are Jack of All Trades. They are Skilled in all but Master of None. So I could fufill the role of anything, I could adventure out on my own, because I can do everything. Third, they are the entertainment of back then. They didn't have tv's or video games. So storytellers and Guitarists just shredding while your fighters are tearin up goblins in the mountainous hills. That's pretty awesome.
So really, even though they are evened out and not shining anywhere, they can preform like the wind, which may enchant more people than you can even think of. You might be so good at talking to people that you get plenty of free stuff. You can encourage bar fights. You can write stories which lighten up the mood, you can twist the stories to make your party seem much more than it already is. Basically the bard is the perfect "role playing" class. You actually get to do what the whole genre is about. Sure a fighter can prepare an onslaught, and be fierce, but so could a Bard. Yet the charm is different.
I rolled really well, I had an 18 in charisma and a 17 in constitution(I joked that my guy was gonna be super healthy, and so I picked that stat there). The lowest stat was a 10 in strength. Which wasn't a big deal to me, even though I did alot of fighting the first adventure.
I had good magic at the start, I had daze which stuns an enemy for a round and some other skills which helped decided how we would fight.
I named my Bard Johann Amadeus Brahms..(J.A.B) Just a little reference to the Bach generation. Anyways, I made my guy look like Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple. A young Ritchie. Long Black Hair, Black Eyes. Yeah, here he is.
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Peter, my brother Mitchells best friend. He is the definition of a complete nerd his whole life, he has every rpg known to man and every edition, his own gaming group with intense personalities, no car license.(our group isn't serious, we just do it for fun, and we aren't even a group, we just play because we want to) Anyways, he is a rather loud annoying individual, basically you will know you won't like him the first 10 seconds he even speaks. He challenges everyone at everything, and he criticizes everyone, and he makes foul jokes which have no timing, and he tries too hard. Basically everything he says, he tries to add the word penis or something and go on about it to some imaginary land in his brain to make it funny.
Anyways, he chooses a Wizard and goes on about how many cool things he WILL be able to do and neglects how badly they suck at level one. He customizes his equipment to have a 10 foot pole and a bunch of paper and ink. He says he wont do anything for all the adventures and he will just write scrolls all day. Kinda boring if you ask me. He was basically saying he knew so much more than us. But Peter has NO tact, it doesn't matter what character he will be, he is gonna get himself hurt, and probably dead in the adventure. We will get to that in a second.
My friend Aaron showed up later, Aaron is a somewhat of a quiet guy, his only friends in the entire world are me and my brothers. I don't know why that is. But we've known each other as long as we can remember. Basically he comes off as strong too, but he's actually a good guy, and he talks much much less then peter. His girlfriend didn't want to play, which was okay, she likes electronic gaming. I mean so do we, but this is kinda a new thing for us, so we want to play this.
Anyways Aaron chose a Fighter. Now this is an interesting choice. Aaron in his whole life of gaming. He has ALWAYS been the healer, or whitemage, magician, whatever! He was like, I'm just gonna be the generic fighter since we don't have one. I mean we had a paladin, but we needed a guy who could actually use his feats. He had power strike and Cleave as his feats. Now for those who don't know what these are.
They are special attacks where if you kill the guy you attacked, you get another free attack on the next guy. So he just rushes in the big crowd and just hacks away.
Also one of his items was an iron pot....for cooking. He insists we are gonna be using it. haha.
Now for the adventure. This was our first one, we didn't want to have an introduction, we are just Kicking in the door and just fighting. Just to get out of level one, because level one is boring.
Right off the bat peter starts pining in about whos doing what, whos mapping and whos keeping records. Hes played alot I decided I would do mapping, and kat did record keeping. So anyways, I didnt draw the entrance because it was just a generic entrance and peter calls me an Ass. And he starts talking about how he is gonna use his 10 foot pole to look for traps. My brother was having a weird stare because he doesn't really do traps in his adventures.
So we found a paper which says people died here basically and then we start the fight in the next room. Peter shoots his arrow, misses. And then it was my turn, I run in to the nearest goblin and slash him for ZERO damage. Peter yells before I even strike, that we are gonna get him killed, because we are just rushing in, there was only like 4 goblins and 1 orc. Easy peasy. So I say shut up and I attack anyways. So then for some reason we were unclear about attacks of opportunity rules and spell rules, so mitch and peter argue for a while about it. And peter just makes everyone uncomfortable
a goblin rushes to peter and attacks him, and basically he has two hitpoints left and he is just whining. We stop the game after some battle. Kat has to feed her baby and then Mitch goes up with her upstairs, they come down after an hour, and then mitch takes peter home.
We play the game without peter, We didn't tell him that we were gonna continue playing. And we go to aarons house and finish the dungeon killing about 17 orcs and this level 7 ogre guy with the help of 2 mages that were captured by the orcs. The adventure ended about midnight, it took 2 hours away from peter to play it out, and we ended up scoring like 2500 xp each, going close to level 3.
Didn't feel like talking about every description since it took long enough to talk about the characters.
So yeah, also we found some potions that were mysterious and I drank it without seeking for ispection so I gained all my health back. Haha, "Down the hatch" I suppose.
Anyways, If you read all of this, you probably have played your own adventures or you want to bash my iccup ettiquette.
So what have it? Give me a tip to build my bard or talk about your adventures.
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