Because I'm Lawful Like That

This week, I asked Hori's PC to write a blog post about her past experience with RPGs and how the game is going for her.

Take it away!

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I feel like I'm weirdly unfamiliar with D&D considering I've played it before (I'm gonna guestimate... 3 sessions in college which was like a decade ago). I played as a male elf ranger and honestly the only other thing I remember was that one of my friends played a gnome named Gnomi and she would always say "You don't know me, but you could get to Gnomi!" while waggling her eyebrows outrageously. The DM was also there and played with us, sorry I cannot for the life of me remember what you played as. Or what we did as a group. Or how far we got. [DM Note: I was a halfling Ranger and we got demolished by a giant crocodile like three session in. I'm pretty sure I died.]


My sister plays D&D some and she really likes it. I've helped her design a small dungeon before--which was great and I made it way too hard. When her friends played, one of them got the hardest puzzle right off the bat, but no one believed him so they spent 3 hours trying to figure it out. So when the this DM asked if I'd be interested in trying it out again, I was on board. Although I thought it'd be like a fine activity that I'd maybe want to do once every other week. But it turns out I love it and I'm ready to move the game up to at least once a week. (hint hint)


So going into this game, I didn't really have any expectations. I'm not sure how much experience it takes to go up a level, I don't know anything about character types including the one I picked, and even choosing a weapon took me forever. I'm playing a Half-Elf Female Barbarian, and I'm pretty excited about it. I considered being a mage and going the whole magic route because I'm all about highest possible attack in games. But then I thought close range combat would be more fun, plus in my heart I've always wanted to be a 6ft tall Amazon. So I went Barbarian. And I think Smashing Things is for me, I'm really enjoying that part. Even though I can't roll to save my life. Luckily I have high HP for that. Seriously, last game I only managed to roll high on amount of damage I take after failing my roll to escape a tree.

The Bandit Scout by Jedi-Art-Trick

When I was picking an alignment the DM mentioned that there were a ton of people playing Chaotic and she was hoping at least one person would pick Lawful to help wrangle everyone else. So I was like, oh sure, I can definitely be that one. But as we found out, I definitely can not. I don't want to say I'm inherently chaotic evil, but it seems that's the only way I can play. So that part is not going well for me at all. I keep saying things like "well.... there's five of us and we're armed... so we could just take their stuff...." and then going "oh shit. I'm supposed to be lawful." So I'm still... sort of trying? But I think everyone has accepted that that's delusional and I'm the most chaotic one of all.



I'm loving it so far--no complaints. I'm really excited to see where everything goes. Got rumors of a sorceress out West that I'm starting to believe might be accurate. Ran into a mind controlled orc, dwarves are missing everywhere, and some asshole turned a tree evil (or at least the tree is currently evil--could have been more of a side-effect than an intentional evil-ing). No regrets on a team member poking the pig heart in a bag. My vote was to stab it anyway. Because I'm Lawful like that.