Forcing Myself to Write- Day 9

Too many to count.

I have played many characters, many of which I have forgotten. But I will forever have a part of my brain that comes up with more I'd like to play. Hell, I have been invited to play with another group recently, and I am excited about playing a Drow noble entrusted with guarding the world from a demon bound in his sword, Toreador Malkovian.

But Toreador is just the one that is up next. I have a dozen superheros waiting to be played, some shadow runners, a fewer sci-fi characters... the list just goes on.

So, I guess my final answer to "favorite PC I'd like to play" is "the next one."

Forcing Myself to Write- Day 8

I will get this question wrong unless I go about it objectively.

I have played many characters, and have a tendency of playing drastically differing roles each time I play. And this is just characters I remember playing! So, I will elect my favorite via most sessions played:

• Fox (first character I remember playing, half-elf ranger) 5? (actually, assume a question mark following all numbers except 1)
• Myself (seriously, just stating myself up as I was at the time and running like that) 36
• Fitz the Fighter (no description needed) 3
• Short Shank (halfling rogue) 2
• Taylor Jannorson (half-elf pirate rogue) 20
• Evelazaira Dua'Clarys (elf illusionist) 4
• Reno Sanchez (elf gun bunny) 2
• David Colden/Winter Waif (werewolf college student in Nome) 3
• Daniel Aether (mage, mercenary seer) 12
• Tesla, Priest of Science (human rogue) 8
• Bergerac (drow bard) 8
• Keith (just... Keith) 15
• Dr. Sigmund Kavorkian Cid (alchemist) 5
• Talon Rose (aerosmith) 3
• "Jaq" Jaquilyn Lindquist (mecha buster/assassin) 1
• Dorian the Pornomancer (drow enchanter) 1
• Sgt Robert Williams (SWAT vampire hunter) 1
• Dorugar (dwarf rogue) 3
• Azael (half-elf rogue/ranger/monk) 1
• Squishy (slime assassin) 1
• The Mokoto Brothers (a samurai and a wizard) 6
• The Fearsome Dave (engineer) 1

So it looks like just from the sheer sessions played, I am my own favorite PC.

I don't have too much of a problem with this. I am not to special, but part of the fun of games for me is creative solutions to problems, and if I can not do this with my skill set and my tools, what good am I?

I think part of the problem with "escapism fantasy" is that because people want to play someone better than themselves, they forget to improve themselves in the process. They stop learning, stop trying, and stop having their own adventures until "adventure" is just a game term to them.

Look outside! Look at the news! Look at science! The real world is fucked up and awesome. We have monsters, political intrigue, strange afflictions, explorable landscapes, weird facts of reality, and treasure everywhere. You could, right after reading this blog, go maybe five miles and pass by so many adventure hooks that if you were made conscious of each one your head would explode.

Maybe yourself sucks. That is a common complaint I hear from people who stat themselves up honestly. I used to game with a guy who had mostly 8s in all his stats except Int and Wis, which were 11 and 10. My answer is so what? Is that any worse than the thief with 5 Str who knows he could never win in a honest fight? It just forces you to think! If you, as a person, have a bunch of 8s and 7s for stats and still want to try it, you're already part bad-ass. You graduate to full bad-ass once you survive one adventure with your sucky, neck-beardy stats. And maybe that success in a game will show you your potential outside it.

Forcing Myself to Write- Day 7

Yes (except 4)

I refuse to play any game "straight" more than once. I started in D&D 3, learned about AD&D and played some of that, tried 4 and hated it straight, and from what I played of 5 I liked it enough. And the conclusion I have drawn is that all the editions need help. 4 is beyond help for me to enjoy it, but I like D&D 3 with AD&D encounters, initiative and henchmen, and a lot of the things I change looked like the things that happened in 5 anyway. Never got a copy of 2 (same with Halo) so I have nothing to say on that, nor have I even seen a copy OD&D. But you can bet I would steal crap from those if I could.

Forcing Myself to Write- Day 6

Brigid, hands down.

I have a personal vestment in this. I am a pagan, so this is not so much a gaming question as a religious for me. Thus I have a patron goddess, and she is Brigid, a goddess of healing, smithing, creativity and poetry. A goddess so robust that she has survived virtually unchanged across three religions that I am aware of.

Which reminds me, I need to collect some notes on some Irish and Celtic gods and make a gameable pantheon.

Forcing Myself to Write- Day 5

Do I have favorite dice? What does the hell does that even mean? Are we talking a die type, or my favorite die to use, or what the hell?

(distracting dance)

I still have to write, huh?

....

fuck it.

Just about all my dice hate everyone and seem to determined to cause the most grief to the greatest number of individuals possible. Thus, they are ideal for the GMing trade,  but so unlikable that I have no favorites. My blue and silver moon d20 is the one I hate the least.

I like thirty siders. They are dorky cool and never used in any game ever. Thus, you buy them and immediately set up excuses in which they are to be used. Hell, I think they even have their own knightly order or some shit.