Buncha D&D things this week!

I’ve been in a weekly campaign for well over a year now. Last session was particularly intense. We were fighting a six-armed bigass troll on a platform in a cave. I, being the stealthy rogue muddafukka, used a magic item that allows me to walk on the sides of the platform to gain some well-needed leverage. I tried (and failed) to pull the troll off the platform, into the water deep below. He struck struck back by pushing me off the platform.

Falling into water wouldn’t be such a problem, were it not that I had another magical item active that repulses all water off me. So instead of plunging into water, I fell much farther and hit the rock bottom of this body of water, knocking me out, well out of reach of the rest of the adventurers. I’d been working on a new character for a bit, but I wasn’t really planning to bid farewell to my current one so soon. So it caught me a bit by surprise, and I’m a bit embarrassed to admit it, but it genuinely saddened me to leave this fictional roleplay character behind me. I didn’t expect that at all to happen.

The feels were unwarranted however, because after two failed death saves, I rolled a natural 20 on my third roll, which was the only way I could still be saved in time. Welp.

I also organized a one shot this weekend. As soon as I learned that my girlfriend’s old roommates almost all play D&D and she hadn’t ever done so, I knew it had to happen some day. We did a magic forest setting, and the DM is doing a PhD in literature and is pretty baller at creative writing, so she did a great job. Everyone played as a fairytale character. I played Frau Holle, and rejigged it into a cranky and greedy old woman who had to go on an adventure because she ran out of pension funds and free maids. It was a lot of fun, definitely not the last time.