Simon, a tabaxi nature cleric is a wonderful sight to behold when it is scampering up a tree, carrying a fully armored paladin, to get it away from a deadly beast.
Said paladin was at 0 HP and not doing so well at the time.
We had hoped to have battle Saturday, but the whole group didn't show up, so we await next week's chance to fight heroically, or die an ignominious death.
@SimonH. played, sadly don't have the time to play properly any longer, (the hiatus started with some UX breakages and graphics driver issues, and I just haven't had the time and energy to really get back into it since)
might be a bit shameful to admit, but I miss minecraft.
the more secluded servers had small, tight-knit communities that it was a joy to be a part of
but my last computer (a macbook) had a corrupted driver which I wasn't sure whether it was a hardware or software issue, and then the battery pack expanded
Guilds also tend to have their own tanks or healers. Since encounters tend to hinge on tank/healer performance, guilds prefer to have people they trust in those roles.
So if you want to get picked up for raiding, it's a lot easier to do so as a DPS.
I was not part of any major raid guild, but someone or other from my online social circle at the time asked if I could off heal
It went pretty well until I didn't see a thing until it was murdering me (I never found out if someone else had pulled agro or what, but it kinda discouraged me)
@Shalvenay I'm never quite able to pull those off. I have a dwarven ranger right now, but my DM is using a steampunk homebrew and I couldn't help but take some guns. it's come full circle lol
@SimonH. ah, heheh. I find myself gravitating towards characters that challenge norms, although I'm not 100% sure what the boundary between "norm challenging" and "edgelord" is other than the spotlight-hog aspects of the latter
@Shalvenay haha yeah, edgelordism is an easy trap to fall into. a former player played a gnome rogue and tried to set himself apart by telling another PC he killed his parents, which ended in his character's grisly demise
@SimonH. yeah, I tend to play with different sorts of norms/boundaries myself. lots of challenging the traditional race/class/alignment interlocking norms/tropes, for instance
as well as some of the miscellaneous perceptions re: backstories and such
(it's also a theme of my DMing, which helps -- worldbuilding-tinkering is common, with lots of custom setting bits. let me know if you want spoilers on any of it :)
@SimonH. ah. so yeah -- I haven't ever run a full campaign, but I do quite a bit of short-form stuff (usually convention-sized, although I do want to get a playtest group together for a mini-campaign sometime)
one of my few in-person stories comes from my one time so far as a convention DM -- I had brought a short-form dungeon to the campaign, and the party decided to try some doors in the dungeon, but didn't read the sign that said "FIRE EXIT -- ALARM SOUNDS WHEN PUSHED" in several languages
@SimonH. xD well, it's a "dungeon" from more of a mechanical standpoint than anything else. it's actually an old castle that was renovated by a witch coven into their HQ
@Shalvenay you're right, that is pretty unique. when I want to have something to have a certain tone, I'll change settings rather than transplanting stuff from other settings