Spring has sprung, and with it suddenly everyone wants me to actually, like, work or something.
The fools! DO they not understand I have D&D to plan for? TO develop? TO create?
They have strange priorities.
In any case, I should be back to regale you with great and vast sums of digital ink spread liberally on the morrow.
TOnight Imma gonna read a bit
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What are your favorite toys from childhood - mine are LEGOs, Micromen, Battlestar Galactica action figures, and...some chemistry set my parents got.
My favorites, in order of years, lol (or, well, best as I can recall):
G I Joes. Legos. Legos. Legos.
Oh, wait, Micronauts were in there. Especially during the Golden era with the Marvel Tie Ins.
I finally gave away my lego collection to my youngest child when they turned 19. It was a box that measured three fet to a side and was four feet high. I still regret that. I now have new legos lol.
After that there was D&D, but it ran concurrent to Legos. I used legos to layout our first miniature sets, lol. Then we stopped using miniatures and just used lego figs. Not kidding.
Then had to give up toys for me. So I went to adult toys. No, not that kind. Books. the pricey kind. Then we got serious and bought kitchen stuff (because I love to cook). I still do a lot of that.
I occasionally will buy figurines for some characters I like, lego sets that appeal to me and are not break the bank (like the Tallneck from HZD), and I know you are thinking "but it was childhood, specified" and Imma tell you that, well...
Childhood is a state of mind and a social construct. neither of which are things I am accused of being too concerned with...
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All the DM advice stuff was hilarious to me because, well...
I always let players see me sweat. I will play off a throwaway line or a silly joke and it will be entirely off the cuff, even while doing something straight up "by the book" at the same time. I enjoy the moments of not having an answer because it plays to my peculiar strength: answering questions, lol.
This whole thing is about imagination, so I will run wit hit and imagine the most wild stuff.
Plus, well, my games really do reward "heroic" behavior -- the kind of wild do or die that drives the stories that inspired it. but then, I am a like a cover (and to riff off a previous riff), so please allow me to introduce myself...
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After that there was D&D, but it ran concurrent to Legos. I used legos to layout our first miniature sets, lol. Then we stopped using miniatures and just used lego figs. Not kidding.
Funny, when I started DM-ing, I used Lego figures for PCs and bricks for monsters. Up until relatively recently, when I was graciously gifted a bunch of miniatures and 4e tokens. I think there's a subreddit for Lego D&D somewhere too.
Question: This applies whether you're play a character or a Dungeon Master - are there any stories (character story, or a story the DM weaved together) that you really enjoyed? What was it? What made it memorable?
I'm in the middle of one right now actually. I'll try to explain as succinctly as possible: our party encountered a necromancer who was the sister of a nobleman. She orchestrated an attack on a party at the noble's estate we attended, and we managed to track her down and capture her. She was sent to the capital city, but got broken out of her prison transport on the way. On a lucky casting of Locate Object, we tracked her down in the city due to her powerful magic weapon, pushed past her bodyguards, and killed her, burning her body. We also learned she's part of some nefarious organization known to us only as "the Ashes."
Fast forward to our current quest, where we're searching for another nobleman in the deep mystical forest where portals to the Feywild are said to appear. We meet a drow woman in seeming distress and help her out. Turns out she's heading our way and hires us to escort her. She talks to us, learns about us, befriends us. We get her where we're going, find the noble, and start bringing both of them back, when who shows up but the Ashes, in stronger force than we've seen them before.
Then we get the bomb dropped on us: turns out this drow we've been helping? She's the necromancer, reincarnated by a druid working with the Ashes. She tries to steal a powerful item from us, fails, and combat commences. We got through the first phase Thursday night and we're doing a special session for phase two tomorrow. We're all shook.
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After that there was D&D, but it ran concurrent to Legos. I used legos to layout our first miniature sets, lol. Then we stopped using miniatures and just used lego figs. Not kidding.
Funny, when I started DM-ing, I used Lego figures for PCs and bricks for monsters. Up until relatively recently, when I was graciously gifted a bunch of miniatures and 4e tokens. I think there's a subreddit for Lego D&D somewhere too.
There are indeed entire communities dedicated to using legos with D&D, lol. What started out as a way for us to not have to go buy pricey miniatures became a whole cottage deal, lol. At one point, there were folks selling lego dungeons in pennysaver (and if that doesn’t date me, I am safe here, lol). Not cheap. Not at all.
I still kinda hope that lego and Hasbro can strike a deal for D&D themed sets. If the movie does well, they may finally set aside their rivalry.
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Yeah, it was insane. And our DM had been giving us so many clues; she had even repeated part of a conversation one of our rogues had overheard the necromancer say at the party before the first fight. But we were all fooled.
So, for today, google “4d6&Me”. It is a video with a D&D basis.
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After that there was D&D, but it ran concurrent to Legos. I used legos to layout our first miniature sets, lol. Then we stopped using miniatures and just used lego figs. Not kidding.
Funny, when I started DM-ing, I used Lego figures for PCs and bricks for monsters. Up until relatively recently, when I was graciously gifted a bunch of miniatures and 4e tokens. I think there's a subreddit for Lego D&D somewhere too.
There are indeed entire communities dedicated to using legos with D&D, lol. What started out as a way for us to not have to go buy pricey miniatures became a whole cottage deal, lol. At one point, there were folks selling lego dungeons in pennysaver (and if that doesn’t date me, I am safe here, lol). Not cheap. Not at all.
I still kinda hope that lego and Hasbro can strike a deal for D&D themed sets. If the movie does well, they may finally set aside their rivalry.
I'm fairly sure there's a Lego D&D set being released at some point in the future, done through the "Lego Ideas" programme. Idk much about it but it sounds neat.
Are dice becoming more expensive as of recently? One of my local hobby shops usually sells RPG dice sets for £3.50 ($4.32 USD) but now they go for £4 ($4.94). Also, at another local hobby shop, I picked up a set of Warhammer 20d6 for £6.30 ($7.78). I expected Warhammer-branded dice to be more pricey than a standard set but dang
My opinion has changed over time, though I still want to see it at some point. I'm mostly just tired of all the promotional stuff WotC has done for the film. It feels like they *really* want people to watch it (which makes sense) but I just don't care.
I still retain that it looks great (and again, I am likely to watch it). Just kinda over it.
I feel that there was some wasted potential. An idea I saw floating around (before any real details were announced) was that it could cut between a fantasy party and a group of people sat around a table, actually playing the main characters. Or that a (fantasy) character suddenly dies and is immediately replaced by a different character played by the same actor.
TL;DR, it looks fun, I plan to watch it, mildly burnt out from hearing about it
That’s pro’ly cheap for WH dice, I think they’re $9.99 here in the US. And a set of polyhedrons here usually costs $4.95/$4.99 too.
Hm. I guess the UK is just catching up to the states in terms of pricing. I'm in two minds about it (as a self-proclaimed dice goblin); on one hand, it's a fairly drastic increase in percentage. On the other hand, it's only about 50p difference.
Or, on the other other hand, it probably doesn't even matter. I've already got so many dice that a lack of them isn't anywhere near an issue. I just like collecting them lol
I think dice and a lot of game peripherals have gone up a bit, I noticed a shift in cover prices of core stuff in games that weren't D&D and now there's some sort of catch up going on?
Speaking of peripherals
Question, DM screens, when did short become the default? I picked up the D&D Wilderness DMs screen the other day, and got some other rule sets that came with GM screens, and I'm sorta surprised that the default mode seems to be a sort of landscape style printing, where back in my last gaming heyday I remember the screen panels being taller and thinner. I would custom make my screens out of vinyl binders, so maybe I'm mixing them up, but I could have sworn having screens that at least 11" tall.
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Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
“Are you truly as bad at being a bard as you seem to be?” BoringBard asked. “Between the two of us, it should be me who is the bard with the horrible musical skills. Although to be fair, your musical skills are fine – it’s your … how do I say this delicately… it’s your inability to comprehend how to properly make someone feel good.”
IAmSposta shrugged and strummed his lute. “You see, where I come from – the Feywild – the spectrum of emotions is as wide as the sea,” he said. “When you say something that might hurt someone’s feelings, it’s no different than throwing a pebble into that ocean. They might get upset but it passes so quickly, because that pebble creates no ripples. You mortals,” he began, then readjusted, “pardon me, your Prime Materials – your emotions are like small puddles. A pebble throw into it causes massive tides and has much more impact. I am just not used to singing for you Prime Materials.” IAmSposta strummed the lute again, played a small series of notes as he hummed beneath his breath.
After a moment, IAmSposta asked, “So … tell me about yourself?”
“About me?” BoringBard paused half way through showing IAmSposta the next series of notes to Master of Trumpets. “What would you want to know about me?”
IAmSposta strummed his lute, and shrugged. “Whatever you want to tell, I suppose. Let’s start with your name… you’re clearly quite talented for a bard, but your name would say otherwise. Why do you have the name you do?”
Boringbard’s normally stoic dragonborn features cracked. “My … name…” He seemed to voyage to a distant – and by the looks of it, a painful memory, from what IAmSposta gathered. “The Dragonborn of Auzarin are either born with or without magic. Those born with magic are sorcerers, who channel their inner hereditary bloodline being connected to the dragons of old. Those born without magic are expected to be true warriors to be known and feared for their skill and ability.”
“So where do you fit in that?” IAmSposta strummed holding the D, F, and G notes of his lute.
“I didn’t,” BoringBard admitted. “Well, in truth – I did. I was born with the magic in my blood.”
“So you’re not a bard? You’re a sorcerer?” IAmSposta asked.
“The magic is in my veins,” BoringBard admitted, “but I do not channel it the traditional means that Sorcerers do. Instead, I do it through music and story. However, among the Dragonborn of Auzarin, there is no place for such things. You either fought with sword and shield in hand, or you were born with arcane and wizardry. I didn’t find either appealing. I actually despise fighting. When we fought that manticore back there? I had hoped it wouldn’t have to it. Especially knowing now that it was Deadpan_c’s brother who’d been cursed due to something Deadpan_c had done. This is why I hate fighting. Because too often, violence is the first reaction before we take the time to think things through, understand the situation and see why the opposing side feels as they do.”
“And what about the magic?” IAmSposta asked, as he moved his fingers down a few frets and strummed again.
“It’s in me… I channel it through music and story, as I said. But for the Dragonborn of Auzarin, it is expected that one sorcerer is paired with a warrior, and expected to travel the world together, spreading the glory of the Dragonborn of Auzarin, and that they should defend one another with their life,” Boringbard shrugged. “None of that sounded interesting to me. Instead, I wanted to tell stories and play music. But in Auzarin, you are given a birth name – for example, I was born ‘Wunsyxforfyve.’ But each Dragonborn earns their ‘destiny’ name by doing something magnificent. For example, a sorcerer who creates the largest fireball might be named ‘Firesky’ or a warrior might earn the name of ‘Stonecleaver’ if he can shatter stones with his fists. Our birth names are so odd, that we aspire to earn a destiny name. Well, since I wanted to be neither warrior nor sorcerer, I was teased as being ‘a boring bard’ and soon – that became my destiny name. I brought shame to my family, because I refused to be a Warrior or Sorcerer, so I left, because I could not bear the disappointment I saw in their eyes every morning.”
“So,” IAmSposta played a few more frets and hummed, “how did you meet your companions?”
“I met them because ChoirOfFire was looking for others to expose the secret of…” Boringbard began.
However, at that moment, Sirtawmis slapped IAmSposta on the back of the head and said, “Get up. We’re moving. The hobgoblins have gone to the east. So this is our chance to get out of the cave.” As he’d done so, IAmSposta’s fingers screeched across his lute.
BoringBard suddenly shook his head and thought, “Did that bastard Satyr just using a charm spell on me?”
As his eyes focused on IAmSposta, he could see the sheepish grin on the Satyr’s face…
I think I’m going to not be on here for a while y’all. Idk, but with work and life I may not have time. I’ll be back soon I hope!
Wishing you the best.
People seem to be dropping out of the forum and thread in general, sadly.
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It wasn't for lack of trying!
Spring has sprung, and with it suddenly everyone wants me to actually, like, work or something.
The fools! DO they not understand I have D&D to plan for? TO develop? TO create?
They have strange priorities.
In any case, I should be back to regale you with great and vast sums of digital ink spread liberally on the morrow.
TOnight Imma gonna read a bit
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My favorites, in order of years, lol (or, well, best as I can recall):
G I Joes.
Legos.
Legos.
Legos.
Oh, wait, Micronauts were in there. Especially during the Golden era with the Marvel Tie Ins.
I finally gave away my lego collection to my youngest child when they turned 19. It was a box that measured three fet to a side and was four feet high. I still regret that. I now have new legos lol.
After that there was D&D, but it ran concurrent to Legos. I used legos to layout our first miniature sets, lol. Then we stopped using miniatures and just used lego figs. Not kidding.
Then had to give up toys for me. So I went to adult toys. No, not that kind. Books. the pricey kind. Then we got serious and bought kitchen stuff (because I love to cook). I still do a lot of that.
I occasionally will buy figurines for some characters I like, lego sets that appeal to me and are not break the bank (like the Tallneck from HZD), and I know you are thinking "but it was childhood, specified" and Imma tell you that, well...
Childhood is a state of mind and a social construct. neither of which are things I am accused of being too concerned with...
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An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
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All the DM advice stuff was hilarious to me because, well...
I always let players see me sweat. I will play off a throwaway line or a silly joke and it will be entirely off the cuff, even while doing something straight up "by the book" at the same time. I enjoy the moments of not having an answer because it plays to my peculiar strength: answering questions, lol.
This whole thing is about imagination, so I will run wit hit and imagine the most wild stuff.
Plus, well, my games really do reward "heroic" behavior -- the kind of wild do or die that drives the stories that inspired it. but then, I am a like a cover (and to riff off a previous riff), so please allow me to introduce myself...
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Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Funny, when I started DM-ing, I used Lego figures for PCs and bricks for monsters. Up until relatively recently, when I was graciously gifted a bunch of miniatures and 4e tokens. I think there's a subreddit for Lego D&D somewhere too.
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I'm in the middle of one right now actually. I'll try to explain as succinctly as possible: our party encountered a necromancer who was the sister of a nobleman. She orchestrated an attack on a party at the noble's estate we attended, and we managed to track her down and capture her. She was sent to the capital city, but got broken out of her prison transport on the way. On a lucky casting of Locate Object, we tracked her down in the city due to her powerful magic weapon, pushed past her bodyguards, and killed her, burning her body. We also learned she's part of some nefarious organization known to us only as "the Ashes."
Fast forward to our current quest, where we're searching for another nobleman in the deep mystical forest where portals to the Feywild are said to appear. We meet a drow woman in seeming distress and help her out. Turns out she's heading our way and hires us to escort her. She talks to us, learns about us, befriends us. We get her where we're going, find the noble, and start bringing both of them back, when who shows up but the Ashes, in stronger force than we've seen them before.
Then we get the bomb dropped on us: turns out this drow we've been helping? She's the necromancer, reincarnated by a druid working with the Ashes. She tries to steal a powerful item from us, fails, and combat commences. We got through the first phase Thursday night and we're doing a special session for phase two tomorrow. We're all shook.
Dang, Thorrison, that’s a switcher.
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There are indeed entire communities dedicated to using legos with D&D, lol. What started out as a way for us to not have to go buy pricey miniatures became a whole cottage deal, lol. At one point, there were folks selling lego dungeons in pennysaver (and if that doesn’t date me, I am safe here, lol). Not cheap. Not at all.
I still kinda hope that lego and Hasbro can strike a deal for D&D themed sets. If the movie does well, they may finally set aside their rivalry.
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An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
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Yeah, it was insane. And our DM had been giving us so many clues; she had even repeated part of a conversation one of our rogues had overheard the necromancer say at the party before the first fight. But we were all fooled.
So, for today, google “4d6&Me”. It is a video with a D&D basis.
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.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I'm fairly sure there's a Lego D&D set being released at some point in the future, done through the "Lego Ideas" programme. Idk much about it but it sounds neat.
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Unrelated topic:
Are dice becoming more expensive as of recently? One of my local hobby shops usually sells RPG dice sets for £3.50 ($4.32 USD) but now they go for £4 ($4.94). Also, at another local hobby shop, I picked up a set of Warhammer 20d6 for £6.30 ($7.78). I expected Warhammer-branded dice to be more pricey than a standard set but dang
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That’s pro’ly cheap for WH dice, I think they’re $9.99 here in the US. And a set of polyhedrons here usually costs $4.95/$4.99 too.
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As a side note, the whole thread is an "unrelated topic" :)
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Any1 excited for the dnd movie?
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My opinion has changed over time, though I still want to see it at some point. I'm mostly just tired of all the promotional stuff WotC has done for the film. It feels like they *really* want people to watch it (which makes sense) but I just don't care.
I still retain that it looks great (and again, I am likely to watch it). Just kinda over it.
I feel that there was some wasted potential. An idea I saw floating around (before any real details were announced) was that it could cut between a fantasy party and a group of people sat around a table, actually playing the main characters. Or that a (fantasy) character suddenly dies and is immediately replaced by a different character played by the same actor.
TL;DR, it looks fun, I plan to watch it, mildly burnt out from hearing about it
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Hm. I guess the UK is just catching up to the states in terms of pricing. I'm in two minds about it (as a self-proclaimed dice goblin); on one hand, it's a fairly drastic increase in percentage. On the other hand, it's only about 50p difference.
Or, on the other other hand, it probably doesn't even matter. I've already got so many dice that a lack of them isn't anywhere near an issue. I just like collecting them lol
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I think dice and a lot of game peripherals have gone up a bit, I noticed a shift in cover prices of core stuff in games that weren't D&D and now there's some sort of catch up going on?
Speaking of peripherals
Question, DM screens, when did short become the default? I picked up the D&D Wilderness DMs screen the other day, and got some other rule sets that came with GM screens, and I'm sorta surprised that the default mode seems to be a sort of landscape style printing, where back in my last gaming heyday I remember the screen panels being taller and thinner. I would custom make my screens out of vinyl binders, so maybe I'm mixing them up, but I could have sworn having screens that at least 11" tall.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
All right - since BoringBard won the roll on my post... here's a story where we take a deeper look at BoringBard's character...
Blame: AllMightyLordOfDND (https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=466 and https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=467)
Part 1: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=501
Part 2: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=522
Part 3: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=552
Part 4: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=599
Part 5: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=631
Part 6: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=665
Part 7: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=696
Part 8: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=748
IAMsposta: satyr bard
AEDorsay: elf wizard
Sirtawmis: half-orc fighter
Deadpan_c: leonin barbarian
Theology of Bagels: goblin cleric
Drakenbrine: dwarf sorcerer
Amnon_Balderk: orc monk
Midnightplat: changeling rogue
Wysperra: halfling artificer
Quar1on: gnome warlock
Antonsirius: kobold Druid
Thorrison: Giff Ranger
ChoirOfFire: tielfing paladin
The_Summoning_Dark: tortle bloodhunter
BoringBard: Dragonborn bard
AllMightyLordOfDND – Multi-Race/Multi-Class
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“Are you truly as bad at being a bard as you seem to be?” BoringBard asked. “Between the two of us, it should be me who is the bard with the horrible musical skills. Although to be fair, your musical skills are fine – it’s your … how do I say this delicately… it’s your inability to comprehend how to properly make someone feel good.”
IAmSposta shrugged and strummed his lute. “You see, where I come from – the Feywild – the spectrum of emotions is as wide as the sea,” he said. “When you say something that might hurt someone’s feelings, it’s no different than throwing a pebble into that ocean. They might get upset but it passes so quickly, because that pebble creates no ripples. You mortals,” he began, then readjusted, “pardon me, your Prime Materials – your emotions are like small puddles. A pebble throw into it causes massive tides and has much more impact. I am just not used to singing for you Prime Materials.” IAmSposta strummed the lute again, played a small series of notes as he hummed beneath his breath.
After a moment, IAmSposta asked, “So … tell me about yourself?”
“About me?” BoringBard paused half way through showing IAmSposta the next series of notes to Master of Trumpets. “What would you want to know about me?”
IAmSposta strummed his lute, and shrugged. “Whatever you want to tell, I suppose. Let’s start with your name… you’re clearly quite talented for a bard, but your name would say otherwise. Why do you have the name you do?”
Boringbard’s normally stoic dragonborn features cracked. “My … name…” He seemed to voyage to a distant – and by the looks of it, a painful memory, from what IAmSposta gathered. “The Dragonborn of Auzarin are either born with or without magic. Those born with magic are sorcerers, who channel their inner hereditary bloodline being connected to the dragons of old. Those born without magic are expected to be true warriors to be known and feared for their skill and ability.”
“So where do you fit in that?” IAmSposta strummed holding the D, F, and G notes of his lute.
“I didn’t,” BoringBard admitted. “Well, in truth – I did. I was born with the magic in my blood.”
“So you’re not a bard? You’re a sorcerer?” IAmSposta asked.
“The magic is in my veins,” BoringBard admitted, “but I do not channel it the traditional means that Sorcerers do. Instead, I do it through music and story. However, among the Dragonborn of Auzarin, there is no place for such things. You either fought with sword and shield in hand, or you were born with arcane and wizardry. I didn’t find either appealing. I actually despise fighting. When we fought that manticore back there? I had hoped it wouldn’t have to it. Especially knowing now that it was Deadpan_c’s brother who’d been cursed due to something Deadpan_c had done. This is why I hate fighting. Because too often, violence is the first reaction before we take the time to think things through, understand the situation and see why the opposing side feels as they do.”
“And what about the magic?” IAmSposta asked, as he moved his fingers down a few frets and strummed again.
“It’s in me… I channel it through music and story, as I said. But for the Dragonborn of Auzarin, it is expected that one sorcerer is paired with a warrior, and expected to travel the world together, spreading the glory of the Dragonborn of Auzarin, and that they should defend one another with their life,” Boringbard shrugged. “None of that sounded interesting to me. Instead, I wanted to tell stories and play music. But in Auzarin, you are given a birth name – for example, I was born ‘Wunsyxforfyve.’ But each Dragonborn earns their ‘destiny’ name by doing something magnificent. For example, a sorcerer who creates the largest fireball might be named ‘Firesky’ or a warrior might earn the name of ‘Stonecleaver’ if he can shatter stones with his fists. Our birth names are so odd, that we aspire to earn a destiny name. Well, since I wanted to be neither warrior nor sorcerer, I was teased as being ‘a boring bard’ and soon – that became my destiny name. I brought shame to my family, because I refused to be a Warrior or Sorcerer, so I left, because I could not bear the disappointment I saw in their eyes every morning.”
“So,” IAmSposta played a few more frets and hummed, “how did you meet your companions?”
“I met them because ChoirOfFire was looking for others to expose the secret of…” Boringbard began.
However, at that moment, Sirtawmis slapped IAmSposta on the back of the head and said, “Get up. We’re moving. The hobgoblins have gone to the east. So this is our chance to get out of the cave.” As he’d done so, IAmSposta’s fingers screeched across his lute.
BoringBard suddenly shook his head and thought, “Did that bastard Satyr just using a charm spell on me?”
As his eyes focused on IAmSposta, he could see the sheepish grin on the Satyr’s face…
TO BE CONTINUED?
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