photo saturday: miss jamjar

Sometimes a random conversation will lead to... an entire character. And then sometimes you need to wait until Hero Forge releases the Face Customiser they had in Beta testing since August.

So welcome to this week's DnD Character Colouring Book starring... the halfling version of Miss Marple.

This started out as a conversation between Fluffy and I on the drive home after the Friday Night game. I don't remember how we got there, but Agatha Christie is a regular topic of conversation at times, so it makes sense. And, of course, we made the leap between Christie and DnD, because all conversations eventually get there. Especially in the approaching midnight zone.

But the idea of DnD Miss Marple kept circling around in my brain, especially after I dropped Fluffy off and was driving home.

Thus, Miss Marigold Jamjar was born.

And, as much as I really don't want to play another bard... like... ever, she had to be a College of Lore bard...

Bards of the College of Lore know something about most things, collecting bits of knowledge from sources as diverse as scholarly tomes and peasant tales. 

They also meet at festivals or affairs of state, where they can expose corruption, unravel lies, and poke fun at self-important figures of authority.

 I mean, that's not the whole description, but it's the relevant bits. Maybe not that very last bit... but the rest of it, yes.

She also needed to be a Courtier, because while Miss Marple isn't aristocracy, she is a gentlewoman of independent means and she does know a lot of people who are, or at least considered upper-class. So that made sense.

And halfling... because... halfling.

Actually, it started off as just a halfling because I love halflings, but then I remembered that Miss Marple has a nephew who is an author. And I just happen to have a halfling character who is also an author. So, yes, Miss Jamjar is the great aunt (rather than aunt, because halflings live longer) of Harland Honeypot and the aunt of Mimosa. Hence the purple in her look also.

And the cornucopia brooch, which is a symbol of the halfling goddess Yondalla, is a gift from Harland. Basically it would be like a real world older lady wearing a little cross on a chain.

I also love the idea that the teacup and saucer are her spellcasting focus and just appears out of nowhere when she's casting. Either that or she just takes out knitting needles and knits her spell effects into the world. Actually, I kind of dig the knitting option.

But the "un-old" version of Miss Jamjar sat on my desktop, initially I was going to just post it as it was, but then Hero Forge said "hey, look, we're launching the Face Customiser for paid users, but we'll be launching it for everyone soon". And one of the options was a "make old" slider.

And that was August. And now we're here.

Is the Face Customiser terrifying? Yes. Does it make nightmares? Yes. Is it going to take some getting used to? Yes. Am I going to remake every single model? Fuck no. But once I have certain characters worked out, they'll make an appearance.

There was one that I updated earlier today where it just worked pretty much perfectly immediately. So, that friend might make his fourth appearance. What's going to be weird for me is that some of these will kind of change the way that some of these characters live in my head. Some of them will get more real, others will just get... stranger.

So that's fun.

Also, would I play Miss Jamjar in a full campaign? No. Would I play her in a one-shot? Absolutely.

Anyway.

This week's soup... it's October, and the weather is still appropriate for soup. What is weather? Why are seasons? Climate Change who? Urgh. But, yes, this week's soup was Minestrone. And it was decent.

[clandestine reference to being about 90% of the way through Stage 1 of the ongoing project... granted, as I said last week, Stage 2 is redoing the original pieces. Then I think Stage 3 is hoping that I actually have enough supplies in order to complete that bit, but I do now have a plan for that, which I didn't really this time last week. Oh, wait, no, that's Stage 4. Stage 3 is prepping Stage 1/Stage 2 for Stage 4. Confused? Good. But, yes, the project consumes much of my brain.]

So, Thursday Night DnD is officially cursed. We were supposed to be playing, but it got cancelled at the last minute. Well, at 8am that day, but still.

Which means there's no game for the next three weeks because DM Fluffy is doing a thing... then we'll all cross our fingers that we actually get any November games in before the enforced Christmas break that generally happens at the start of December. But I complained about that already.

Friday Night DnD was not cursed. Yay.

It had also been a minute since we'd played though. We did get back into it fairly quickly though. And mostly we just wandering around the town we got to at the end of the last game. Also, poor DM Mrs... this group are very "let's all split up in this location and go to three different places". Every. Single. Time.

And we'd probably get the exact same amount of stuff done if we were all together, but we'd all be in the scene. But no. We go off on our own.

Anyway.

Today wasn't much of anything.

Thankfully though, because we both already voted two weeks ago, we didn't need to go bother with that nonsense before going shopping, so that was good. Remind me to do that again later when voting needs to happen. Vote early, that's what I say.

But that's it really.