On the subject of character creation – as curtains part and, from out of a far distant past, out comes that wonderful lady who miraculously could produce new adventures, it seemed weekly – Jackie Mason and Purposeful Pastimes! The second home for D&D aficionados! And Mom and you made a weekly trip to Jackie’s to be sure these new characters found you !
But back then these were all fictional. Today we’d call them Senators and Congressmen, created by their individual turbulent seas of voters. Enough on that subject.
And back then we had delightful occasions to create real characters, who developed their very own background stories and elements. Ours started at level 1 and, without AI, over time, rolled out strong, worthy characters of ‘No score below 10.’
And our lives always had the sound of rolling cubes, as new doors opened to unbelievable excitement and the sound of new living room battles!
And, every once in a great while, quiet reigned as our Queen commanded dinner or the character took a pottie break!
Those were the times, my friends. The very best of all times.
Young Angus... LOVE IT!! And we also miss playing D&D since our first couple of groups disbanded due to life in general. Milo has had a couple of groups that have been playing regularly for years, and every time he walks out the door I threaten to crash their adventure party. He invites me to "bring it"... then laughs and heads out to hang with friends much cooler than his ol' mom.
On the subject of character creation – as curtains part and, from out of a far distant past, out comes that wonderful lady who miraculously could produce new adventures, it seemed weekly – Jackie Mason and Purposeful Pastimes! The second home for D&D aficionados! And Mom and you made a weekly trip to Jackie’s to be sure these new characters found you !
But back then these were all fictional. Today we’d call them Senators and Congressmen, created by their individual turbulent seas of voters. Enough on that subject.
And back then we had delightful occasions to create real characters, who developed their very own background stories and elements. Ours started at level 1 and, without AI, over time, rolled out strong, worthy characters of ‘No score below 10.’
And our lives always had the sound of rolling cubes, as new doors opened to unbelievable excitement and the sound of new living room battles!
And, every once in a great while, quiet reigned as our Queen commanded dinner or the character took a pottie break!
Those were the times, my friends. The very best of all times.
Young Angus... LOVE IT!! And we also miss playing D&D since our first couple of groups disbanded due to life in general. Milo has had a couple of groups that have been playing regularly for years, and every time he walks out the door I threaten to crash their adventure party. He invites me to "bring it"... then laughs and heads out to hang with friends much cooler than his ol' mom.
I love the idea of creating characters for fun, even if you have no specific plan to use them. I might do this as a creative exercise sometime soon.