character saturday: light as a feather

Last week's post led pretty directly into this week's DnD Character Colouring Book.

I played around with some character ideas based on that, although I kind of took a left and ended up here. And for some reason I just want to play Aasimar as very tall folk. Probably because both the Solar and the Planetar are Large creatures in the game.

Ayda ended up more than a little bit Genasi-coded, especially since I figured that both her Aasimar lineage and her monastery are connected to Akadi, the elemental goddess of air. There was another god I was considering, Shaundakul, even though technically he disappeared a couple of editions ago.

I don't have a full backstory for her yet, but I know that she acts as a guide and protector for travellers, merchants and caravans. And her reason for getting involved in the campaign would be that she's the one who knows the way there or she's been there before. Something like that.

I also decided that I was going to theme her Warrior of the Elements powers, because who says you have to use all of the damage types. I can totally theme her as a cold/thunder/lightning monk. 

It's also always interesting to me when a character just quietly announces their sexuality to me. And maybe it's because there's a slight visual similarity to my Storm Sorceress with the close cropped hair and also because I was looking through similar names. But at some point I just realised she had a female partner. And I ended up thinking about a gold dragonborn, but honestly, brass might be a better fit. There was a moment where I thought about adding a kid to the mix. But I've done the partner and kid vibe already fairly recently. But I haven't done just a partner. So there's that.

And I found it amusing that the clown pants from, I think, last April Fool's, were what I ended up going with. Because I just wanted loose "harem pants", and those were the best fit. And had a belt. Which too many Hero Forge pants just lack.

My main issue right now is that while I'm excited about this character right now, I don't know if I actually want to play a monk in this campaign. Yes, I want to play something melee based. And yes, I'm still leaning in the general direction of barbarian. I just haven't found a character yet that really excites me. There's the original version of Havoc. I just don't know how he'd actually play at the table. Like many other character ideas, he'd really need a full backstory.

I think the other problem is kind of that I'm not really that excited about most of the 2024 Barbarian and Fighter subclasses. And it doesn't seem like a lot of point not playing a 2024 subclass.

So, I'm just going to keep playing around with ideas until I get somewhere. Maybe Kordela from last week would work as a different subclass.

Anyway...

Firstly, fuck you Blogger. No I don't fucking want to have you force "search links" into my posts using, presumably, AI. I would love to turn that fucking option off. And never have to see it again. I will definitely never be clicking that button. Not even to test how badly it works. 

Moving on.

My toe is... fine. Technically. The fact of having tape across two toes for like three weeks means that the skin is wrecked. So I've had to unstrap it. And it's not really any worse than when it was strapped. So there's that.

I am still on my shorter walk though. Just to be safe. 

This week's soup was Chicken Noodle. Partially to make up for last week's disappointing noodle soup. And partially to chase away the end of the cold I had from the week before. Even if the chicken and the noodles didn't help, the slight excess of black pepper and cayenne pepper certainly chased it away. Also I decided to use some linguini noodles that I had, broken into four pieces, and I'll be doing that again, because they were amazing.

Mini Media Review for this week... was something of a failure. I had grabbed the first series of The Originals. Without knowing that it was a spin off from The Vampire Diaries. And it was about vampires and werewolves and witches and set in New Orleans.

And also fucking terrible. I mean it wasn't unwatchable terrible. And not as bad as the Van Helsing TV show I tried to watch back in May. It was just... overly dramatic and very much a WB drama that they threw a vampire story over the top of. I made it through two episodes before I gave up.

So we're not counting that.

Nothing much else to report for the week really. Still no Friday Night DnD.

Anyway...

Today wasn't much of anything either. We did take a slightly pointless trip to Spotlight after the supermarket this morning. But while they have both Halloween and Christmas stuff out, nothing really caught either of our eyes.