Comments | maychorian: Such a Nerd

maychorian

Such a Nerd

Feb 08, 2010 20:28

I am in Huntington discussing character ideas for a new campaign, and I think I'm totally in love with my new character. She's gonna be an Eladrin (high elf) who was stranded on basically this world's equivalent of the Falklands when she was a baby and raised by temperate penguins. She's quite mentally unbalanced, and she's a shaman (a new primal ( Read more... )

character bio, homg i'm sort of a weirdo, d&d, wrath&gunfire, geekiness

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maychorian February 9 2010, 19:22:42 UTC

ratherastory February 9 2010, 01:45:07 UTC

Another gamer! Woo! I am discovering there are a few lurking in the SPN fandom, which is awesome.

Your character sounds hilarious. :D

Also, I love your icon. A friend of mine has that on a mug.

maychorian February 9 2010, 19:24:44 UTC

Yeah, I've come across a few in my fandoms. :D It's fun to find another common interest. What do you play?

I've found, in the three or four years I've played D&D, that I have the most fun if there's something quirky and weird about my character. I had a drunken dwarf paladin who fought mainly to protect grain fields, for instance, and an orc barbarian who was always very sad because she wasn't good at anything but fighting (she had tried being a cook and being a librarian with absolutely no success). This campaign is going to be a ton of fun.

ratherastory February 9 2010, 20:56:13 UTC

I've been gaming for about ten years now, although my current work schedule doesn't allow me to game much anymore.

I started out playing AD&D, and then diversified quite a bit. White Wolf (mostly Mage: The Ascension, with a smattering of Vampire), Deadlands: The Weird West (my favourite ever), Traveller, FVLMINATA, 7th Sea and lots of "custom" campaigns that my GMs made up all on their own.

I always have fun playing really random characters who are nothing like me and yet always end up being more like me than I originally thought. The most fun thing to do for me is to play either not-very-clever or else stupidly-impulsive characters. Sometimes both at the same time. In real life I am an overthinker, so I like to play the opposite: act before thinking. It's very liberating. :D

glorygirl72 February 9 2010, 02:41:32 UTC

That? Is all kinds of awesome. I wish you luck in your rp quest for a mate willing to stand over your eggs for you, you will probibly need it what with the raw fish diet and all.

maychorian February 9 2010, 19:26:23 UTC

::nods:: That is one of many problems with her plan, yes.

glorygirl72 February 10 2010, 07:11:34 UTC

Plus I'm sure the fact that she does not actually lay eggs is going to come as something of a shock to her.

uncommon_folk February 9 2010, 03:15:23 UTC

Your shaman sounds like a blast to play. I'm so going to have to share your concept with my friend who's trying to wrangle my D&D group into a new 4th Ed campaign. We're all playing slightly off balance characters meeting up in a prison (one example is our party leader who is a wizard who receives advice from his dead parrot (think Monty Python type silliness)and I think the DM's been wondering what he ever did to be stuck with us all as his regular gamers. You give me hope that at some point he's going to have to admit that things could be worse then slightly odd/silly characters.

maychorian February 9 2010, 19:29:45 UTC

The shaman is in the player handbook 2, so if you want to do a basic core campaign you couldn't play that class, but you could always use the concept for a rogue or a ranger or even a wizard or something, someone who has been cut off from society and doesn't quite fit. Or warlock would work, probably. Since PHB2 came out my gaming group has been having fun with the more odd classes in there. I've been playing a bard, which is one of my favorites.

D&D is always more if you don't take it super-seriously. There's plenty of room for drama, of course, but it's good to have some sort of character quirk, too. Most of our sessions devolve into jokes and giggles at one point or another, anyway, so we don't try to fight it too hard. :D I've played very serious characters, though, too. Just not this time. ;)

glorygirl72 February 10 2010, 07:16:42 UTC

I loved the bard class, it was always so much fun to play. All the fighters in my groups would be all grrrr... stab... and I would just do some hair tossing and flirt my way into or out of the situation as required. And dude, I could flirt with anything (lichs included). I miss D & D. Sigh....

alocine_89 February 9 2010, 08:51:30 UTC

:O

That's more than a little bit awesome :D

maychorian February 9 2010, 19:30:39 UTC

Thank you, thank you. ::takes a bow::

Your icon is adorable. :D

alocine_89 February 9 2010, 20:11:50 UTC

:D yeah, I love it!

I just saw the film a couple of weeks ago, and I'm definitely a holmes fangirl