My first written post
You own DnD adventures!
Good afternoon to the citizens of SubStack who may read this Stack.
As I read though everyone else’s Stacks, bored on watch (I’m a military man), consuming content about politics and COVID and the Gender phenomenon, I find myself dreaming about moving house and getting to play something close to my heart that my job has often meant I have to put on hold.
Now I’m a geek and a nerd at heart. I grew up loving fantasy and dwarves and magic and adventures (I read GoT at 12, my father not realizing some of the content in the book, love LOTR) so I was naturally drawn to DnD. Unfortunately my job has meant that my Tortle Wizard, Hakan, a Tortle with a deep love of books and knowledge has never really been on an adventure, something I hope to change eventually.
So the aim of this post, is for anyone who reads this, to talk about their own DnD characters. What adventures have they been on? Any stand out moments?
Will anyone see this post? I’m not sure which makes me chuckle. I’m very new at this. If you do read this and it interests you then please share. It’s just something different to the negatives of politics, Joe Biden, Trump, COVID, wokeism etc.
If there are any spelling mistakes then please excuse me. Any punctuation then once again please excuse me. This is the first time I’ve ever written something that could be potentially read by other people.
Good health to you all
Vulkan
My psionic sorcerers are never allowed to do anything because the way it's played weirds out the DMs and my Stormbringer warlocks are never allowed to fight. When I read an article saying the three big unfilmable novels are Don Quixote, A Wrinkle in Time, and Dune I thought that sounded like the perfect basis for a D&D campaign. I wish they would stop renaming things like Dimension Hop to Misty Step unless it's supposed to be a reference to Mistborn (it decidedly isn't) since hey, I just mentioned A Wrinkle in Time plz gib, and I don't want my telekinesis replaced with literal floating hands conjured by loud hand-wavey incantations. Also we should play in Eberron so we have the WWI war robot revolt, I don't want to play black and white deity politics in Forgotten Realms (though the black and white deity politics in Dragonlance manages to be also racist and worse!) unless it means stranding Mystra on Abeir to be torn apart by dragons, elementals, and psions. I have given up on playing D&D games with strangers, since it inevitably leads to the standard renfaire tavern crowd hating me and vice versa, but I shouldn't have been doing that to begin with when I come in like "Have you heard of [insert book here] by Ursula K. Le Guin?" and the only response I get is "Sword of Shannara."
At least there's 40k and Magic: the Gathering for when I just want to play a game where fantasy basically just means more mythological sci-fi like it used to, even if it's not much of an RPG?