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organsinajar · 1 year

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An IRL History

OOG: Back in middleschool I heard of this game called dungeons and dragons and my bff patrick played it with his family, i thought this sounded awesome but never got a chance to play

In the 9th grade (2018-2019? i think) i was finally in highschool and they had a dnd club! I signed up immediately and was brought into dellilah’s epic campaign; this campaign was really rough on the edges and was the continuation of someone else’s story, but we had a lot of fun with it. My first character was a changeling sorcerer who proved the hard way that dellilah didn’t know fall damage rules :))), soon after i played an awoken cat wizard who flew with mage hand.

The problem strikes when dellilah graduated that spring and for the next year her younger boyfriend was put in charge because nepotism~

10th grade rolls around and we have the honor of playing in chris’ epic campaign. not gonna sugar coat it, this fucking sucked. the game went at a snails pace and we couldnt do jack because his catgirl oc was the main character, but chris showed up less and less before eventually ghosting us all.

now chrisless and with a table of players and no dm i got my turn at being the guy behind the curtain and ran a few one shots with everyone’s preexisting characters. After we accepted that chris wasn’t coming back i got everyone to roll up new characters and we started a campaign of my own. The campaign is a little wonkey but we all enjoy it, i start bleeding players where a cast of [Patrick, Eric, Dakota, Heather, Joyce] became [Patrick & Joyce]

later into the year i also start a side game where patrick makes me run all of the lord of the rings (im too stupid to read these books it goes weird)

CRISIS STRIKE AGAIN! crisis being the covid-19 pandemic, no more school, no more dnd, big cliffhangers /_ \

next school year my dad makes me stay home and do online school, i hate my life. i try to get people from the club to play online. they dont

the big thing from this is im able to run a one shot testing out my post apocalypse idea of THE SEA OF BLOOD, i run it for patrick alex and rowan. they killed a dragon and it was cool; there was a followup with weird gravity shit and illithids that had the LORCUS on the walls of a dungeon but patrick just walked past it.

12 grade baybeee! last year of highschool, next year i can be cool and go to college. This year i walzed into the club and gave a brief presentation on my kickass campaign idea, apparently no one heard me but several people still thought it would be cool and joined. These legendary adventurers were [Patrick (again), Joyce (again), James, DJ]. This kickass sandbox campaign with players all in it for the game was my best experience to date! Things go shockingly smooth and we find a natural endpoint near the end of the year and leave satisfied.

Those times were alike to ancient greece, here come the sea people.

My next venture into tabletop games is attempting to run 5th edition’s curse of strahd. I assemble a team of [DJ, Rosali, Mikey, Zander, Cricket]. This was rough. No offense to most of them but it was a disaster group; i was struggling to parse this poorly organized module, dj was coming in with lofty expectations of roleplay, rosali has seen too much critical role and googled spoilers, zander didnt know what was happening and is a little too silly goofy, and mikey has just kinda been an asshole to me in the past and i accidentally talked myself into a corner and invited them during the “second chance” phase.

On the side i run a silly goofy tiny critters consisting of [DJ & Maryam] (we tried to bully ares into it but he wasnt complacent enough). this kinda went no where and fizzled out while the curse of strahd campaign crashed and burned

to salvage the wreckage i not only drop curse of strahd but drop 5e, i start running cyberpunk 2020, zander stops showing and i kick mikey out of my life (finally). Early cyberpunk goes really good but i make a fatal mistake, i assume my players care enough to follow the plot they beg for. They do not. I change the status quo dramatically putting them in a less great position game wise but it pushes for this grand plot, they resist and only desire to sit on their asses. fuck. While the group grows back in numbers to be [Rosali, Rae, Cricket, Rachelle, Zander (haunted)] i slowly lose my motivation, i get increasingly burnt out, it becomes harder and harder to run but i do it. The characters actually are motivated enough to go do something for once so it becomes a little easier.

In the background my interest grows in the OSR, i pick up old school essentials, beautiful beautiful minimalism. my desire to run something else grows but im stuck working on a minecraft tournament (ew)

The final season of minecraft heroes concludes, this is my chance! i quickly harass several people and get a shocking ratio of yes:no, i assemble [DJ, Maryam, Patrick, Alex, Gaber] is this my new dream team??

as it stands my weekly cyberpunk game is going and in just over a week my new dnd game will begin, i am hopeful

i pray this not be the end, until we meet again tomecrawler

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