Post by Dash Sean the Ragemonster on Aug 14, 2016 23:02:30 GMT -6
OK, this might seem like the opposite of a problem, but for me this is a quandary. Tomorrow I will be playing in a new weekly D&D game run by my brother which is a 5e take on the original Ravenloft campaign. Everything I know about that campaign and setting is from a Spoony video I watched one time when I was drunk as a cactus, so I am walking in blind. I haven't gotten much of a chance to even talk to my brother about it, since we live about a 45 minute drive from each other and have very busy lives.
So, yeah, what the fuck should I play? I was tempted to go Dave, since I usually go Dave, but I'm not sure how well a good hearted simpleton who has a kink for heists would actually function in a horror game world where the consequence of a bad choice is usually death and damnation (and the best part of Dave is his bad choices, because he is a moron)
Apparently race and class are both fully open, as well as cross class specializations (my brother mentioned a warrior who specializes in large weapons who also had been trained to pick locks and infiltrate building at an early age) so apparently I can be whatever I want. But really, that's the wrong question. Class and race are a means to an end. The end is the character. We don't care about Rinaldo because he is a human warrior, we care about him because who he is as a character. Drop being a monk isn't a billionth as important as his attitude toward life and his personal experiences that colored that.
So I phrased the question wrong. It isn't what I should be. It's WHO I should be. Character concepts. That is what I want. Maybe I won't even use any, maybe I will use exactly one. If I get any response, and people actually are interested, I might consider a thing. A recap thing, maybe audio, maybe text, maybe just interpretive dick pics, I don't know. But really, I need ideas people. You are my shack. Funk me up.
So, yeah, what the fuck should I play? I was tempted to go Dave, since I usually go Dave, but I'm not sure how well a good hearted simpleton who has a kink for heists would actually function in a horror game world where the consequence of a bad choice is usually death and damnation (and the best part of Dave is his bad choices, because he is a moron)
Apparently race and class are both fully open, as well as cross class specializations (my brother mentioned a warrior who specializes in large weapons who also had been trained to pick locks and infiltrate building at an early age) so apparently I can be whatever I want. But really, that's the wrong question. Class and race are a means to an end. The end is the character. We don't care about Rinaldo because he is a human warrior, we care about him because who he is as a character. Drop being a monk isn't a billionth as important as his attitude toward life and his personal experiences that colored that.
So I phrased the question wrong. It isn't what I should be. It's WHO I should be. Character concepts. That is what I want. Maybe I won't even use any, maybe I will use exactly one. If I get any response, and people actually are interested, I might consider a thing. A recap thing, maybe audio, maybe text, maybe just interpretive dick pics, I don't know. But really, I need ideas people. You are my shack. Funk me up.