Today's D&D Character Colouring Book is what happens when you're trying to style a Hero Forge piece that looks a little weird on it's own or with the full set it came with. Also because I haven't made a halfling character in a minute. Hence, Reed Greenleaf.
And, yes, the name came after the decision to give him the Farmer background. Plus, honestly, with the new rules allowing for small characters to use big ass swords... that's going to happen at some point.
While the other Fighter I made recently, Rin, is also a Champion Fighter, she should technically be a Battle Master... I just don't really care about most of the other Fighter subclasses... so I tend to default to the idea of the Champion.
For Reed, I kind of had the idea that one set of his grandparents used to be adventurers back in the day, and the chainmail is his grandfather's, while the right arm and the sword belonged to his grandmother. Cleric and Barbarian respectively maybe. Also that his partner knitted/crocheted the green cowl and arm.
Anyway.
This week's "soup" was an experiment that... mostly worked. I was kind of going for more of a pasta bake/variation on my lasagne soup with just regular pasta... but I kind of didn't have enough liquid when I put the pasta in, so the whole thing was a little... tight. Basically one of those situations where adding a little water before reheating it solved the problem. Not maybe the best version of the idea, but tasty.
There's not really a Mini Movie Review this week... firstly because I'm actually revisiting old content I've seen before, and also because it's a TV show. Finally, after having said "I must do this" for what feels like the last four years, I'm finally revisiting Teen Wolf which I started some time back in about 2013 (there isn't a direct reference to me starting the series, it must have been pretty close to this Random Hotness... ah, the memories).
Knowing where the show goes to, watching this early stuff again is... rough. I mean, the bones are there, the characters are there... these first couple of seasons are just... rough. They're also High Camp Supernatural Melodrama... and I'm absolutely here for it.
It's also slightly weird, I've only seen the series once, and I never finished if for a variety of reasons (all of which were logistical and none of which had anything to do with me falling out of love with the series), but there are certain moments that stand out very strongly. Also helped, I guess, by the fact that some moments showed up as Tumblr gifs. But there are points that are fixed in my memory and other parts that I have literally no memory of. Which is interesting.
Have I also accidentally convinced Fluffy to give the show a try... yes, yes I have. Which is amusing. How long he'll last I don't know, but it's nice to have somebody to actually talk to about the show.
This week's weather was... too damn hot. Basically it was the weather where it's hot in the day but doesn't cool down much at night, which I hate at any time of the year. But it's only October, that shouldn't be happening yet. And then we had a big old thunderstorm, and it went back to sensible October weather.
I started a new crochet project this week. Should I have frogged the whole thing and started over because I only worked out how to do the turns after it all went a little wonk. Will that matter in the final piece? Probably not. And I'm too far in at this point to want to go back.
And either it'll turn into a much lighter weight cardigan than my first one or I'll have made a blanket with a slightly wonky top part.
Friday Night DnD was also a thing. Yay. Because it's been a minute, given that the last time we were actually together we just sat around and didn't actually play. This was mostly a roleplay session honestly, but we are kind of in a "between action beats" portion of the campaign.
Anyway...
Today was mostly the usual... although with some added twists.
We did the supermarket stuff and then we were just going to head to Spotlight for a Wander with optional Looking At Things. And then I discovered that the Lego DnD Minifig collection was definitely out in the wild. So that required a trip in completely the other direction to Big W, followed by a round trip back to Spotlight.
I ended up with the Gith Warlock and the Halfling Druid. I give literally no shits about Gith. And the mini is slightly more yellow of skin tone than it really should be. The Eyeball On A Stick staff is fun, but otherwise blah. But Halfling Druid. I'm here for it. There are also another two that went into the "Away For Christmas" Abyss. So I might still be lucky enough to get some of the other ones I really like.
That was about it for the day.
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