#third unnamed dnd character idea I have…

[watercoloredlie]

So I read Flight of Icarus and it wasn’t that bad.

I love that Eddie got his love for music from his mom. She sounded like a cool lady gone too soon. It’s cute that he shares her initials.

Al Munson can rot.

Wayne should be protected at all costs. I hate how people lump all the Munsons together when Al is the only real bad one. Wayne always had Eddie’s back and I love that.

Higgins can rot too. I hate that stereotype of the jocks getting away with bullying while their victims get in trouble.

Bev is cool for the most part. I didn’t mind the idea of Eddie also working at the Hideout.

It was cool to get a glimpse of another Hellfire campaign with Eddie as DM. Also kind of cool to get a glimpse of earlier versions of the characters we saw on the show.

Ronnie was cool. I can see why she and Eddie were compared to Robin and Steve. Love that Granny Ecker was cool with Eddie too. At least until he upset Ronnie. It was cool to see Ronnie not backing down to the bullies.

Paige. I expected her to be terrible given everyone’s reactions to her, but she really isn’t that bad. Eddie was his cute dorky self with her. I was surprised that she bailed him out after their argument though. It’s funny that people think Eddie was a virgin with no game. Man had Chrissy skipping up to his doorway. He had her smitten with him in the woods. But I digress.

Chrissy my love. She was so badass standing up for Gareth and Eddie. This book just made me love her more. I loved the flashback to the night of the talent show. She and Eddie were adorable.

Reefer Rick was pretty much just how I had headcanoned him.

Eddie meeting the Byers boys and protecting Will was awesome. I love that Will got the first invite to Hellfire. I wish Eddie knew how the boys didn’t want to play DnD with Will in season three. Oh he would have reamed them out.

I appreciate the Warners for being welcoming to Eddie. Props to Mr. Warner for calling Wayne a good guy. Sure, Eddie had to downplay stuff a bit, but it was nice to see a family like Paige’s not immediately brush off Eddie as no good.

Eddie deserved to live and to graduate. This book just made it clear how even more unfair it was that his storyline ended the way it did. There was a lot of foreshadowing to it in the book too.

It was also pretty cool to see Corroded Coffin band moments. I still think Dougie is the unnamed member of the band since they did say their rehearsal space was in his garage and that kind of does match up with what was shown in Season 4. Although he’s supposed to be a senior in the book so that doesn’t line up. I don’t really know if he is the unnamed band member or not.

Also unless I read wrong, did they really mess up Gareth’s wrist when he’s a drummer? Only to have Jason mess up his hand in season four? That was uncalled for. Leave Gare alone.

I appreciate how understanding Hop was with Eddie. I think deep down even he knew Eddie was a good kid for the most part.

Eddie’s LOTR monologues were just so Eddie lol. It was cool to see Ronnie try to help him with his studies though. Hurt to see him call the assigned reading for English bland, but I get it. There were some books we had to read for English that I didn’t like either.

It was a nice touch that they mentioned Eddie enjoying comics. Especially the Xmen ones since it kind of confirms he got the Hellfire Club name from the Xmen comics.

All in all, not a bad book. Third ST novel I read. Lucas on the Line was really good despite the descriptions of Eddie not really being accurate. Also read the Hopper book which was pretty good too.

[cc-writes-stuff]

Blorbo Repository (Under Construction)

Aka “I have too many ocs and not enough time, campaigns or stories to put them in”

This is basically just a masterlist of all my semi-developed or developed ocs either for use in DND or wips i have no concept of yet. Arranged by category. Links to small character intros will come eventually, if you want to know more about the oc.

[Note: Some of these OCs are for half-thought or half-drafted wips, subject to be changed in the future]

WIPs

Away From Hallowed Ground

1. Theodore Agnelli (The High Prophet)

18. Gay. Nonbinary. Main character of Away From Hallowed Ground. False prophet of the God of Death who doesn’t realize he’s a false prophet. Dark academia vibes mixed with Catholic guilt. Devoted to the point of obsession. Needs a hug.

2. Silas Payne (The Devoted Saint)

19. Bisexual. Cisgender. Deurogonist and “love interest” (it’s complicated) in Away From Hallowed Ground. Ritualistic serial killer for the God of Death. Also devoted to the point of obsession. Doomed by the narrative. Funny, but macabre.

3. Paya (The Surviving Pariah)

20. Lesbian. Genderfluid. A mage with a grudge towards followers of the God of Death. Likes shiny things. Nameless wanderer.

4. Camilla Navaroo (The Lost Ghost)

22. Lesbian. Trans woman. An archer and a secondary character. Bastard child of the God of Death and has the world’s worst daddy issues as a result. Strategist. Likes fishing.

5. Dante Verden (The Third Priest)

42. Repressed gay. Trans man. Theodore’s mentor/father figure. Doing his best. Enjoys music and gardening. Needs a cigarette.

6. Elizabeth (The Grand Bishop)

45. Bisexual. Cisgender woman. Main antagonist and leader of the House of Kathados. Motherly figure hiding a deep secret. Has spent her whole life in service to the God of Death. Has pink hair.

7. Hunter Rask (The Forgotten Heir)

19. Straight. Trans man. Another Etheri like Theodore, but was not chosen to be the High Prophet. Resentful of Theodore as a result. Though he specializes in hexes and jinxes, he is most recognized for his grasp on the theory of magic.

More Under the Cut

Unfinished/WIP concepts

1. Moriko (Local Witch)

20-ish. Demiromantic Lesbian. Cis woman. Main character of The Town At The Edge Of The Void (TEV). Local witch who's trying her best but is really in over her head. Needs a hug. Loves baking. Hunts demons and ghosts in her spare time.

2. [Redacted] (Stranger in Town)

20-ish. Asexual panromantic. Cis woman. Secondary character & love interest in TEV. A stranger who wanders into the town of Delendia without knowing her own name. May or may not be cursed. Really, really shitty luck.

3. Elise Kilroy (The Lighthouse Keeper)

24. Lesbian. Cis woman. Main character of the unnamed and unplotted lighthouse wip. A lonely soul who tends to the Cypress Peak lighthouse. Writes many letters that never see the light of day. Has many regrets. Loves raspberries.

4. Kasumi Hiakimoto (The Runaway)

25. Lesbian. Cis woman. Secondary character and love interest to Elise in the lighthouse wip. A young dreamer who wanted more; from family, from Elise, from life. May or may not also be cursed. Loves blackberries.

DND

1. Vina de Elstrade (Stressed Student)

44. Asexual Aromantic. Air Gensai Chronurgy wizard. Former noble turned stressed student turned adventurer. Going insane as she tries to write her thesis on the idea and concept of time travel. Killed her abusive ex-husband with a shoe. Colorblind and has awful choice in clothes as a result.

2. Warren (The Guiding Saint)

98. Lesbian. Cisgender woman. Triton Monk/Ranger. Lives in the town of Yalvun in Escia, my main world After getting kicked out of her monastery by traitors inside, she became an adventurer. Got cursed by Hadar and dealt with a months-long crisis in faith. After the events of the campaign ended, she went back home, kicked out the traitors, and was named as a Saint after her death. Brought a god to his knees.

3. Blake Deeproot (The Alchemist)

27. Asexual Aromantic. Nonbinary (He/Him & They/Them). Kender artificer. Was a normal inventor up until a simple shopping trip to fix the radio their mentor broke ended up with them becoming an enemy of the state. Became a fugitive for the next several months and ended up joining a resistance and saving hte world. Stole a robot dog and make it their companion. Accidentally blew up a mountain and a prison. Really tired of everyone's BS. Was one of the first people to go to space.

4. Tomiko (The Shopkeep)

8. Doesn't care about gender, sex or love. Friend's homebrew Dohwar (penguin) bard who used her barding skills to sell nice soaps and candles. Silly little gal. Tries so so so hard to make everyone happy all the time. Master of manipulation (puppy-dog eyes).

WIP/DND Crossovers

1. Cary Catoni (Detective of Flames)

29. Arospec bisexual. Cis woman. Grumpy detective/mage who lives off of caffeine and sarcasm. Main character of A Traitor's Return (ATR). Has a bit of a drinking problem. Has a bigger problem with Jordie, her ex-boyfriend. Goes nuts over strawberry jam tarts. My oldest OC and the one I hold closest to my heart. Has a younger sister named Zayaneck. Sorcerer with fine control over fire/flame magic.

2. Jordie Lapiz (Rogue Turned Ranger)

31. Bicurious. Cis man. In my WIP, he's a rogue/thief who got in over his head and betrayed Cary and her love interest (It's complicated). In DND, he's a rogue-turned-ranger who found a portal to another world and decided to use it to run away from his problems. This, of course, came with the caveat of him fighting a dragon god a year later and watching his friend get ripped in half (RIP Azzy). Smoker. Househusband with his own honey-making business in DND. Wants to make amends. Originally meant to be an antagonist but I liked him too much and made him an anithero instead.

3. Rath (The Arctic Healer)

27. Asexual Demiromantic Panromantic. Trans man. A nomad who has left his tribe to explore the world and help others. Did some studying under a few doctors and healers. Joined a war, where he met Liben and saved his life and was his primary doctor for a while after Liben was injured. Good bedside manners but awful in all forms of personal relationships. Prickly like a cat. Would much rather be taking a nap. Druid, but make it ice. I'm a healer, but- Enjoys the cold. Falls harder.

4. Liben (The Crimson Warrior)

28. Gay. Trans man. War hero in Escia who was betrayed and captured, though he eventually managed to escape. Suffers from PTSD as a result. Met Rath while on bed rest after his escape. Though he now runs a deli/is a mercenary, he misses the glory days of his life as a warrior. A werewolf but, like, a golden retriever kind. Naturally charming and a good strategist. Is going to beat you with the power of friendship and his big fucking axe. Wears an obnoxious red coat like Edward does in FMA. Enjoys riling Rath up. Falls first.

5. Glitch (An Anomaly)

Late teens. Questioning queer baby. Cis man. Originally a side-character who is now my character in a campaign I'm in, Glitch is someone who didn't die when they should've. Protective of his sister. In over his head with some powerful people he made deals with. I want to write a story about him but don't really know what kind. In DND, he died, came back to life, died again, temporarily became a mindflayer and only just got that part fixed. Someone get this man a father figure.

[knowlessman]

okay so

the campaign in general (ig tsane will show up after a couple paragraphs or so):

I was fuckin about in the Trash Heap, right? and I felt like RP-fightin' or something (I had a whole freeform fighting RP thread to do that in anyway but ig I felt like doing it with Rules), and I had pdf's of the core 5e books, so I go "hey does anybody else happen to have the 5e books and want to just like, bash a couple monsters from the Monster Manual against each other for funsies?" (I have to assume that's been done on a whim before by SOMEBODY, dnd's been around too long and its rules are too well-set-up for it, I've just never really heard of it as a thing)

what feels like ten minutes later, people are goin "oh, you're gonna run a dnd game? I want in" which, altho not what I'd been asking for, I found I wasn't against the idea of.

I liked the MM's lore behind "blights," these plant monsters that apparently came about when an evil druid got ahold of a stake that somebody had used to kill a vampire, and bc I guess I'm just Like This, opted to homebrew an entire campaign using nothing but the 5e Dungeon Master Guide's dubious advice and my own imagination, even though I'd never tried to run a campaign at all before (I assumed that there was more "canon" lore for the blights, and ig decided I didn't care; what I hadn't known, and which maybe (?) would've changed things if I had, was that there was already an intro-level 5e module using blights, The Sunless Citadel, which I could've just... I could've just done that).

My version of the villains given in the lore - the vampire Gulthias and the unnamed-in-the-MM "mad druid," who I named Zorman - ...uh, ended up being kind of ineffectual and impossible to take seriously. ...TBPH I dunno if I'm, like, cut out to write villains, it amuses me too much to portray them as arrogant losers who don't even win often enough to be threatening.

But yeah, Tsane Sepret.

...Over the course of the campaign, I made a LOT of character (and place) names using anagrams and silly references, so I still suspect an anagram was involved with naming her in some way, but have never managed to pin it down. It's possible that her first name came from an anagram but I threw out the last name to give her something closer to Serket. (Turns out it's an anagram for "sea serpent" but I'm quite sure that's not where my head was at)(Also I never bothered deciding how to pronounce her first name since we weren't using voice chat anyway; to my mind, it uses the "ts" sound that I knew Japanese uses because of Digimon, but could be either "tsah-ne" or "tsayn," I think I've said it both ways in my head.)

Tsane introduced herself to the party by entering a manor that, as a vampire, she shouldn't have been able to enter uninvited (I forget if that's in the MM or not), but could because of some pact a long-dead noble had made with Gulthias.

In, I think, her third appearance (she was in a siege on said manor that went on way too long), she had a big argument with her boss, who was telecommuting via possessed tree, and cut ties with him (which a vampire spawn isn't sposed to be able to do but Gulthias had technically died ages ago so she'd had the option open and simply not taken it), then insulted both him and the party and fucked off.

She reappeared some time later (two "arcs" later, so, checking old notes, an IRL year and like idfk twenty-odd sessions), in the employ of a random hag. After the party defeated said hag, she persuaded the party to spare her so she could share intel on her old boss.

Now, this last part happened during the day, but the hag had accidentally given Tsane a way to cheat sunlight damage: one of the "weird magic" items she left behind was a jackalope skull that could turn a person touched with it into a jackalope (homebrew obvsly).

Uh, so yeah, long(er) story short, Tsane started wearing it as a hat and being the team pet during the day and an OP ally npc during the night. (And then got, uh, "mutated" and then returned to mortal form via deus ex machina at the end of that arc, so ig her last canon status actually is, she's a normal mortal half-elf now living in the town from arc 1, but in my head I still picture her as the vampire animorph DMPC)(anyways the group p much fell apart after that arc; emotional investment dried up, plus other factors)

Just realized something: I do have a blorbo OC. She's an npc from my old homebrew DnD campaign: Tsane Sepret. Half-elf vampire spawn, former rogue, part-time jackalope, and general asshole. Her personality was very loosely based off, I guess, impressions of Vriska Serket I'd gotten from the Homestuck fans who used to hang around "The Trash Heap of the Tv Tropes Forum" (old shitposty forum thread, it was finally locked a few years ago, god knows what drama caused it to be)(pretty sure I made the character well before I actually read Homestuck, but only pretty sure).

...2 likes and I overshare about Tsane and that campaign in general. (If "1 like and I x" is still a thing anybody says)

[peach-pot]

I don’t play dnd to fight and use magic I play dnd to roleplay as a little guy who needs some friends