#i love dungeons and dragons its just my friends and i playing with the blorbos in the sandbox and adding angst and fluff as needed

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I find your characters fascinating! Would you tell us more about Miri?

Hello Anon! You are VERY sweet! x) Thanks for sharing your interest in Miri! And I cannot resist blabbering on about a good blorbo:

Let's see... Miri is/was a half-elf Cleric for one of the long-running campaigns that my friends from university were heavily involved in. My best friend--who is Korean-American--reallllllly wanted to create the Korean-mythology-inspired cleric of her dreams, and so Miri and a lot of HCs about Miri's home town and home country were born.

She did die within the confines of the campaign, but she is such a special character that my bestie and I have an on-going post-canon world for her and the lingering plot threads and relationships she left behind. All that out of the way, here's more about her!

Miri LOOKS like an elegant cleric but she is/was a bit of a firecracker, with bursts of bravado and confidence, though she was prone to failing to back up her big talks about magical power thanks to (well-timed dice rolls) some general clumsiness. She was very curious about the world, and had an adventurer's spirit at heart that looked at everything with wide-eyed wonder, though she also was quick to cover up her inexperience with her chin tilted up as if she knew everything all along. Call it a bit of a hedgehog's dilemma--she had a softer, squishier part that she was reluctant to share with the group right away, and hid those softer parts all with well placed barbs or teasing banter, and sometimes, a bit of blunt honesty.

((Also a fun Miri trait: She loved a good party, and she was particularly fond of alcohol, which lead to some Memorable Moments xD Notably: We encountered a monster made entirely of alcohol (don't ask), and Miri did end up drinking some of it to attack its HP))

Still, once you got past the barbs, loved fiercely, and was especially proud of her family and where she came from, and who she was destined to be. (And I think she would have learned to be more comfortable with the softer parts of herself if the Dice didn't say "NOPE")

(Oldest art of Miri I have on hand, before my friend asked for a different hair style)

Miri was set up to be a sort of "Chosen One" character, with close ties to a mountain god that her family of shrine keepers worshiped. Once a generation one of the shrine keepers would serve as the avatar of this deity, and Miri through luck (Fate) was chosen as the god's avatar and vessel between the heavens and earth.

Now, Miri was quite PROUD of this fact, and despite the trappings of being a woman of the cloth, she was a little haughty and arrogant and very naive about the world outside her mountain and the love and support of her family and the other shrine keepers. But she wanted to prove herself capable as a cleric and a magic user--and so set herself off on a self-imposed journey to "grow stronger" and hone her skills.

That's how she stumbled into our main party--and fatefully ran in with her most stalwart companion/my Fighter/love interest, Felix, via a drunken tavern brawl that lead to the two of them spending a night in jail to sober up together. One thing lead to another, and a jail break or two later, the pair were inseparable--if at each other's throats, because Felix loves to tease people, and for all her pride, Miri always kinda fell for his attempts to rile her up.

While they all leveled up and gained a lot of combat experience, the fact that Miri's dice LOVED to tell a story (give her a cool moment, but then fail at a critical moment), towards the end of the campaign Miri fell to what could've been a preventable death. We (the party) were all a little too cocky entering an encounter that turned out to be a major boss fight, and we paid for it, Miri especially. It wasn't a satisfying end to her arc--which I think was important, all things considered even if it didn't Feel Great.

All that potential, all that room still left to grow and mature as a proper cleric and vessel for her deity, that developing softer, budding thing with the Fighter that seemed to be at her side since Day 01 -- all snuffed out in an instant for a character that was still so bright and FUN to banter with.

My friend had to roll a new character, we ALL missed Miri, but we also have the power to write so we have some extensive post-campaign headcanons about how she's brought herself back from the dead, the eventual reunion with Felix and the other companions they were closer to, and other adventures they go on after.

;'D That's a lot of TEXT but hope you enjoyed it! The two of us can get VERY verbose and write a LOT, even if the overall vibe of the campaign is more chill and fun than say, epic or plot-y, and these PCs have meant a lot to us, even years after the campaign has ended so it's nice to hear someone else have interest in them, especially our Mir-Mir!

Alright all that said, here's a little art gallery :)

Also jump scare, this is some of my OLDEST and earliest art of them from like, 2022 so the quality is ROUGH

(^ This one had to have been right after she died in game and Felix wrapped her up in his cloak--has to have been some time in 2023)

But it 's okay we rewrote canon so she's okay now; just a flesh wound :'D

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Right now, YTA. You need to pause and think about what you want out of the game you're playing.

Do you want to tell a story, or do you want to WIN? Right now, you're doing the latter and stopping great chances for the former. Failure is a good chance to develop your story. How does your tabaxi react when something goes poorly or ends in disaster? How do other characters react to it? How does that inform their worldview and their perception of themselves?

You say you're OK with anything bad happening to your character except death... and except bad stats... and except saving throws... so you actually aren't.

Talk with your DM.

Talk about how you're very anxious about a character death and how attached you are to your character. It sounds like your DM is likely to make sure there are options available to you in case the worst happens. Mention that you would like paths to resurrection available to the party.

You are not wrong! A character death sucks in the moment! And in that moment, your relationship with the DM and the other players at the table means everything. I've cried real tears at the table, both in frustration at an unwinnable situation with a DM i was just not clicking with and in the middle of gorgeous scenes with my dear friends that rival the best parts of professionally produced games.

That kind of relationship needs TRUST. Right now, you are not earning the trust of the other players or the DM.

I also fucking love DnD and hang a good portion of my mental health on it. Last month, we had a character death of a beloved blorbo during a climactic battle. We were able to win the battle and the DM provided us the means to raise him back the next in-game day.

That brief death with a guaranteed resurrection led to scenes that were so deep and meaningful it had everyone at the table in tears. (I was Crag here)

DnD is a game about telling stories, and part of that is accepting that sometimes the luck just doesn't go your way. Try telling the story of what happens next. I promise you with all my heart that it makes the real successes so much sweeter.

(Edit I had a link to thar resurrection scene and it went away? Here's the link on its own)

AITA for fudging dice rolls in D&D?

For the past few years, I've been playing D&D with a group of other people every week online. I try to be honest about my dice rolls, but I lie about the numbers in certain circumstances. We use our own dice, so nobody can actually see what I roll. I sprinkle extra +1 and +2 in sometimes if it seems to be really necessary, usually for saving throws and once for rolling character stats (I replaced one number that was terrabad).

But the main one is death saving throws. For those who don't know, if your character drops below 0 HP in D&D, they are at risk of dying unless you roll a number greater than 10 on your 20-sided dice three times. If you roll less than 10 three times before you roll greater than 10 three times, you are dead, the end. I am willing to go through whatever the DM puts me through, just not my beloved tabaxi cleric blorbo dying, so if there's at all a chance that might happen I just fudge the rolls and make sure I don't reach 3 failures before 3 successes.

Now, this is technically against the rules of D&D, but I justify it to myself because literally none of the players at the table, including the DM, actually want the character to die. The DM has expressed this on previous occasions where I had to roll a saving throw. D&D is good for my mental health (I am a pretty anxious person) because it gives me something to look forward all week, and I think my OC dying would take all the joy out of it. And, all the players are working together for a cooperative goal so it's not like I got some unfair advantage against another player's character, except for bad guy OCs literally made up to die.

However, I do think that if the DM found out, it might hurt their feelings. So this instinct to worry about it has made me think I might be doing something actually harmful.

TL;DR: I lie to the other players at the D&D table if I think it's necessary to save my OC's life. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

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HAAIIIIII you can call me Lago, im 21 (i dont know how EITHER), im just some guy*. this is my main blog and where i throw funny things that makes my brain produce juices and also random ass personal poasts.

one of those he/shes they never warned you about (pathogenic variant they have yet to make any vaccines to protect you from)

my art tag is #feral art tag.

there will be adult things in this blog because im an adult. follow at your own risk etc. were horny in here towards men occasionaly.

I'm brazilian. From Brazil. As in born here, living here and stuck here for the foreseeable future. é nois 🤙

Everybody says I'm really nice! I am Unable to hit people up first though, but if you'd like to be friends, send me an ask and I'll give you my discord!!!!

i have many interests (mostly music and nerd shit) and funny things that I'll be putting under the read more lest this post get Unbearably Big. There are flashing blinkies down there by the way.

OK SO INTERESTS. I like MANY things! and i have favorite things! I think it's really cool of me to have favorites. i decided I'm going to wear them on my sleeve. anyways Here's some things i Like.

MUSIC!!! its one of my favorite things ever. I play the guitar and a bit of bass. heres stuff in no particular order of favoriteness. Just stuff i care enough right now to remember.

Linkin Park (meteora, hybrid theory <3)

My Chemical Romance

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Mindless Self Indulgence

scalene

Rammstein

Ft-rj (listen to it or i am going to chase you with a broom)

francisco el hombre (i recommend the rasgacabeza album)

danny bond

2000-10s pop!!! fuck it, lady gaga, britney spears, kesha, katy perry, black eyed peas, that sorta jazz.

Every single Homestuck song there is. i have listened to all of them multiple times. My favorite albums are colours and mayhem and also the beforus fan album.

Dad rock (acdc, queen, talking heads, nirvana, judas priest, Some pink floyd etc)

Industrial and Adjacent. I've been listening to code:redcore a lot and some grammostola actaeon lately. processor also fucks.

OTHER THINGS I ENJOY

Eragon (the books)

Disco elysium.

ADVENTURE TIME. I AM OBSESSED.

How to train your dragon (the books. specifically.)

Animated movies!!! Specially the hand drawn ones.

My horrible little OCs (@honsebeasts just go there but also Beware.)

Worldbuilding. I do aliens and monster speculative biology. Most of my thoughts on it are on the Above mentioned blog though.

Real life physiology and anatomy also

MEN (and like 3 fictional women.)

HORSES!!!!!!!!!!!

stranger things

Pokemen (i do not know a single thing after gen 6 though.)

Dungeons and dragons, sometimes

Traditional art like watercolors and oil pastels

Drawing my blorbos in the same side facing pose or just standing there.

Drawing in General actually! Designing characters is my passion

Fictional fathers

sewing and felting and sculpting and painting and singing and playing

COLORS. i love colors. i love looking at them. i love playing with them. i would like to eat them if i could. i love warm palettes.

Hiveswap (pissing screaming CRYING)

MONSTERS!!!!!! They're really cool and gay and hot.

Portal (the games. all of them. glafos........ kissing her)

Half Life.

y2k and 80s-90s vibes. i think its awesome.

I am afflicted by the human condition and also a few other funnier conditions. my brain and my body dont work right.

If you want to know the brunt of the brain ones: autism adhd avpd. they all impact heavily how i interact with people with people. Sorry in advance if i can't keep conversation going.

I'm some sort of queer thing. If we need to get really specific, id say "bisexual aromantic bigender femme", mostly into men and butches, but Queer will do just fine. I'm a self entitled part time pretty fag and ugly dyke in my free hours. Intersex it turns out.