Me and a few friends have started playing D&D together for the first time and it's a lot of fun so far. We're playing Curse of Strahd, so I'm gonna go ahead and say there will be SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS throughout the rest of my post.
My character is a Ranger named Aldwyn Wolfsbane that comes from a clan of people who earn their last names through accomplishments. Aldwyn is a bit odd when it comes to people, but he knows his way around the woods. His goal is to earn a last name worthy of respect from even the hardiest of his village's elders.
What follows are some highlights from Aldwyn's adventure thus far:
Aldwyn is a graceful swimmer...not so much a duelist:>Instead of the cliche tavern meetup, our DM decided to have us all meetup at a festival in my village where the mayor's daughter gets kidnapped.
>During the quest, we kill a couple of baddies in a cave and find a body of water that leads further into the cave.
>I decide to swim through it and roll a natural 20
>Gracefully come out the other side like a dolphin and see a guy with his back to me
>I decide to sneak up on him and roll low and am discovered immediately
>I draw my shortswords and roll to hit with both of them
>1 and a 3, he retaliates and takes half my health in one hit
>Decide to attack him again and miss both times
>He misses too and his friend up ahead hears the commotion and comes around the corner, standing 6 feet, 4 inches tall
>nope
>I decide to swim back through the water
>20
>Gracefully swim back to tell the rest of my party what I saw
>
MFW they don't believe me due to bad rolls I made earlier investigating a dead body, despite bleeding from my chest.
>They think I scraped myself on a rock
Aldwyn really isn't good with people:>We arrive in the town of Barovia and discover an abandoned looking house
>Woman named Irena eventually lets us in after I fail to bust the door down
>Didn't even attempt to talk my way in, I just wanted in
>Cleric in our group talked our way in, and she tells us about how her father died recently
>The father is lying in a casket when we walk in
>Without a word to anyone else, I go to investigate the body to see how he died
>Didn't even cross my mind to ask her if that's something she knew already
>Stares-from-the-rest-of-the-party.jpg
Aldwyn almost dies:>We get told by Irena to find her brother and investigate the church
>We find him and head to the church
>Once there, we split up to search for a way downstairs where we just heard some screaming
>We find the way down and see something move
>I decide to walk up on it
>No stealth roll or anything, I'm confident we can handle anything this early in the campaign
>The vampire spawn attacks me immediately and I get reduced to 0 hp in one hit
>DM says "Welcome to Barovia"
>My turn comes back around and I roll a 1 on my saving throw
>Party manages to kill it before it's my turn again, so I live!
Aldwyn becomes an addict:>On our way to the town of Valachi
>Strahd appears and kills Irena's brother
>RIP
>After the encounter, we come up to a windmill
>Walk in and see pies baking and hear noises upstairs
>An old woman comes down and offers us pie
>We've come across another old woman before selling pies
>We're all tentative, but I decide to give her the benefit of the doubt and eat a pie
>Instantly fall asleep after failing a con saving throw
>old woman is hag
>two more upstairs
>Rest of the party finds a little girl upstairs
>I wake up after a few turns of my party fighting the hags
>We are very much losing this fight
>Paladin decides to grab the girl and we run away
>Get safe enough distance away and talk to the girl
>"Thanks for saving me but they still have my brother"
>Groans all around the table
>Aldwyn stares at the sky with a sense of longing for more pie
Aldwyn gets a bitching new cloak>Rest of the party meets up at the church to collect the reward for a quest we did
>I decide to instead look around town
>Find a tavern that the priest told us beforehand that the village wolfhunter's frequented
>Enter and proclaim myself as the world's greatest wolfhunter
>two men get offended by this
>I challenge them to a contest
>Whoever hunts the most wolves by tomorrow wins. If I win, they have to make me a wolf cloak, if they win, I basically become their slave
>Journey to the woods alone
>Kill 4 regular wolves, and 2 direwolves.
>Was rolling 18s, 19s, and 20s the whole time
>Why can't I do that any other time
>Win the contest and now have a bitching cloak
>Swagger up to the rest of the party and they don't even pay me the slightest of compliments
>Assholes
Aldwyn and the gang kill the hags>We managed to do a B&E on the windmill the next day and save the little boy
>After running away again, we devise a plan to kill the hags
>Gonna hide in the bushes and wait for them to come out and pick them off 1 by 1
>Aldwyn initially doesn't want to go because he's trying to resist his pie addiction
>Explains to the paladin who came up with the plan that "Hey, those hags are evil, but I'm sure we can find some bigger evil to smite instead. Plus, it's evil to take an addict to the source of his addiction"
>Paladin is adamant in destroying the hags, so I reluctantly go
>We wait up the trail and see not 1, but 2 of the hags coming
>Shit
>Fight them anyway, paldin casts Channel Divinity: Turn Undead and manages to fear one of them
>We fight the other one
>Strahd shows up to watch our battle
>I decide to try and strike fear into his cold black heart by aiming my bow in the air to hit the hag rather than shooting directly at her
>DM tells me to roll at disadvantage
>4 and 6...my luck
>Strahd laughs, and I bury the feeling that I should have been a jester for a living deep down.
>Manage a crit on my next turn and turn to give a gloating look at Strahd but he has left already
>Not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that he doesn't see us as a threat
>We kill the 2 hags and before anyone can say anything I steal a pie from their cart
>Sweetdreams.html
>Party carries me back to town, and I wake with a feeling of sadness knowing that if we kill the last hag, I'll never have one of those pies again.
>Secretly hope we never find her
Aldwyn almost dies for real this time:>Party gets a new NPC member
>Can't remember his actual name, so I call him Kashmir Vel'koz (It's similar to that)
>We journey to a wizard's tower and see an abandoned wagon with a locked door
>We tie a rope to the handle and try to pull the door open
>DM has the Paladin roll 3 times for it and take the highest number
>Highest was an 8 lmao
>I decide to try and burn the lock off
>11
>I set the entire thing on fire and it explodes
>DM says make a DEX saving throw to take half damage, or take 55 damage and 10d10 damage
>Just barely make the throw and survive insta-death by 2 damage.
>My hair is burnt off, and my bitching wolf cloak I got earlier is now burnt too
>I decide that Aldwyn is now a bit more off mentally now than he was before and he spends the next ten minutes crushing ants while the rest of the party tries to get into the tower
>After figuring out that the way to open the door is to dance, the rest of the group irl decides to have me act it out
>Explain it in character as Aldwyn getting up from crushing the ants and then just busting out some dance moves without a word to anyone
>The door opens, party is perplexed
>Aldwyn finally does something useful
Pie tastes like crab:>After finishing up with the tower, party decides to head back to town
>I tell them I want to hunt for a crab I saw a few days ago when on my wolf-hunting mission
>We find the crab pretty easily
>I attempt to hit it 3 times before it makes it's way to me and miss every time
>Finally hit it and kill it
>Rip the top layer off its shell and start eating it on the way back to town
>It
almost satisfies my longing for pie
>Third hag is still alive somewhere
>Rest of the party has forgotten about it
>But I still remember
>And I won't remind them either, I want more pie
Pretty fun so far. Sorry for the long post, but I'm excited.
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