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lab_reportsI was asked the context in which I played Wednesday as a D&D character; my answer was elaborate and revealing:
We were playing 5e. Weds was an Inquisitive Rogue... her Sneak Attack had become astonishing. I weighted her stats according to character rather than maxing her saving throw stats; this had some interesting consequences, such as her somehow being the second-strongest member of the party (she wasn't very strong). Let's see... she was a Sage, which meant she just learned stuff... a big part of her role in the campaign was digging up lost knowledge and technology and making practical use of it. She had Healer as a feat, so was able to patch up the party without anyone spending spell slots. Also, no secret door was safe around her.
She was a little lighter than the genuine article, her story not quite so tragic and her family life less messed up, although she still had friction with her parents and her university; in this timeline her mother's the university's head librarian and archivist and Weds occasionally has to answer to her in an official capacity. There's also the stigma of being a natural scientist in a world where magic works just fine, thank you; she's convinced that harnessing the laws of nature has far more potential than magic ever could, which of course sounds absolutely mad. In her backstory she spends a certain amount of time breaking into castles and underground lairs to fight other crazy people over artifacts and arcane documents... in her introspective moments she frets over her bloodthirsty nature and how she's prone to irrational grudges; one of the party's earliest adversaries (now dead) sometimes visits Weds in her dreams, and all of this makes the other party members a bit concerned that she might turn to Chaos at some point.
Did I mention she knew five languages and was learning a sixth? She learned Abyssal in her sleep, from her spirit visitor, who in life she volunteered to execute because she felt only she could give them a dignified death. One of her earliest escapades was collecting spores from a gas spore and using them in an act of biowarfare. She kept a sack of salt in her saddlebag in case she needed to preserve the severed head of an adversary. And yet she spent an inordinate amount of time imploring the party not to simply massacre those who looked frightening or suspicious; she offered haven or redemption to various misfits, including former opponents.
I could probably keep talking about her; I really enjoyed that campaign and I miss it a lot.
We were playing 5e. Weds was an Inquisitive Rogue... her Sneak Attack had become astonishing. I weighted her stats according to character rather than maxing her saving throw stats; this had some interesting consequences, such as her somehow being the second-strongest member of the party (she wasn't very strong). Let's see... she was a Sage, which meant she just learned stuff... a big part of her role in the campaign was digging up lost knowledge and technology and making practical use of it. She had Healer as a feat, so was able to patch up the party without anyone spending spell slots. Also, no secret door was safe around her.
She was a little lighter than the genuine article, her story not quite so tragic and her family life less messed up, although she still had friction with her parents and her university; in this timeline her mother's the university's head librarian and archivist and Weds occasionally has to answer to her in an official capacity. There's also the stigma of being a natural scientist in a world where magic works just fine, thank you; she's convinced that harnessing the laws of nature has far more potential than magic ever could, which of course sounds absolutely mad. In her backstory she spends a certain amount of time breaking into castles and underground lairs to fight other crazy people over artifacts and arcane documents... in her introspective moments she frets over her bloodthirsty nature and how she's prone to irrational grudges; one of the party's earliest adversaries (now dead) sometimes visits Weds in her dreams, and all of this makes the other party members a bit concerned that she might turn to Chaos at some point.
Did I mention she knew five languages and was learning a sixth? She learned Abyssal in her sleep, from her spirit visitor, who in life she volunteered to execute because she felt only she could give them a dignified death. One of her earliest escapades was collecting spores from a gas spore and using them in an act of biowarfare. She kept a sack of salt in her saddlebag in case she needed to preserve the severed head of an adversary. And yet she spent an inordinate amount of time imploring the party not to simply massacre those who looked frightening or suspicious; she offered haven or redemption to various misfits, including former opponents.
I could probably keep talking about her; I really enjoyed that campaign and I miss it a lot.
