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heyitsharborI've spent most of the day fiddling with minutiae on my neocities website (the main place this will likely be displayed, anyway), and I wanted to take a break and just...write something. No more brackets and semicolons!
Well, I can't promise there won't be semicolons.
But today is a Pathfinder day, so my mind is there. We aren't playing today - scheduling conflicts - but it's been such a consistent schedule that I inevitably get ideas...for writing, for drawing, for something Pathfinder-y! So I thought maybe I'd sit down and write a bit about it.
I've always been a fan of TTRPGs, but my experience has been pretty damn limited, even if it's been a part of my life for a really long time. I first started playing when I was.....honestly, I might not even have been ten yet, because I remember being shocked that this girl in my first D&D group was thirteen- a real big kid! There was a children's bookstore that had a big room for locals to run things like story time, children's yoga, and game circles. One brave parent somehow managed to wrangle at least ten of us into playing some 3.5e D&D, and I was immediately hooked.
However, I never really had longterm friends who were interested in D&D like I was, so aside from that early-on campaign of messing about (All of us playing monstrous characters, mine named after my favorite fictional character from The Monsters of Morley Manor), most of my 'experience' was just...poring over the 3.5 sourcebooks, and then when I found Mythweavers, making D&D versions of all my OCs, never actually playing a game with them.
Until now! Or, well, a year and some change ago. A couple of friends asked me and another couple of acquaintances if we'd want to join a Pathfinder campaign, and since then, it's been such an important part of my life, and getting to know and play with those folks has been the highlight of my week. I've gotten to develop my OC - named after that first crazy D&D campaign - and get to know their OCs, their styles of writing, drawing and improv. We have two co-GMs, and it's incredible how well they both work together to paint such an immersive and engaging story...and how they've worked so hard to make this an incredible experience for us, when myself and the other non-GM player are, in practice, pretty damn new to the game.
I've always loved writing, but I love roleplaying more. I like to be in the place of a character and to interact with other people, other characters. I've never been as good with standalone writing, unless it's character-driven, and largely just about one character's perspective, introspection, etc. I'd like to get better and branch out with my own writing - this campaign has helped with that, too - but it's just such a fun creative experience that I'm so grateful for.
Well, I can't promise there won't be semicolons.
But today is a Pathfinder day, so my mind is there. We aren't playing today - scheduling conflicts - but it's been such a consistent schedule that I inevitably get ideas...for writing, for drawing, for something Pathfinder-y! So I thought maybe I'd sit down and write a bit about it.
I've always been a fan of TTRPGs, but my experience has been pretty damn limited, even if it's been a part of my life for a really long time. I first started playing when I was.....honestly, I might not even have been ten yet, because I remember being shocked that this girl in my first D&D group was thirteen- a real big kid! There was a children's bookstore that had a big room for locals to run things like story time, children's yoga, and game circles. One brave parent somehow managed to wrangle at least ten of us into playing some 3.5e D&D, and I was immediately hooked.
However, I never really had longterm friends who were interested in D&D like I was, so aside from that early-on campaign of messing about (All of us playing monstrous characters, mine named after my favorite fictional character from The Monsters of Morley Manor), most of my 'experience' was just...poring over the 3.5 sourcebooks, and then when I found Mythweavers, making D&D versions of all my OCs, never actually playing a game with them.
Until now! Or, well, a year and some change ago. A couple of friends asked me and another couple of acquaintances if we'd want to join a Pathfinder campaign, and since then, it's been such an important part of my life, and getting to know and play with those folks has been the highlight of my week. I've gotten to develop my OC - named after that first crazy D&D campaign - and get to know their OCs, their styles of writing, drawing and improv. We have two co-GMs, and it's incredible how well they both work together to paint such an immersive and engaging story...and how they've worked so hard to make this an incredible experience for us, when myself and the other non-GM player are, in practice, pretty damn new to the game.
I've always loved writing, but I love roleplaying more. I like to be in the place of a character and to interact with other people, other characters. I've never been as good with standalone writing, unless it's character-driven, and largely just about one character's perspective, introspection, etc. I'd like to get better and branch out with my own writing - this campaign has helped with that, too - but it's just such a fun creative experience that I'm so grateful for.
