schneefink

This morning I went for another long run in the sunshine and enjoyed it, and later we made smoothies and went to the market stand to get fresh berries to go with the brownies we'll make for our Eurovision watching tomorrow (there'll be a RQ stream with the entries selected via the RQ semifinals last week), and I was determined to get quite a bit of studying done for the exam next week. But now my knee hurts, and even worse I have a bad headache, which is very annoying.

It occurred to me that I didn't post about our latest short D&D adventure yet, which we finished recently while our main campaign is currently on hold, and now is as good a time as any.
It was a sequel to a "one-shot" that lasted five sessions which we played months ago when our current DM was unavailable so U. filled in, basically a dungeon exploration which ended with us rescuing Fantasy Santa Claus. And now we played part two with mostly the same characters – also originally planned as a one-shot that took five sessions ^^ A rescue mission in which we faced an evil sorcerer living in an iceberg, it was fun. We played via roll20 and U. created quite elaborate maps, usually we just use battlemaps and sharpie so that was a fun change. Unfortunately I enjoy playing online much less than playing in person. It's harder to stay focused too.
I do quite like my character! A halfling druid called Zennys, who rides her monitor lizard animal companion called Yore. Or did – unfortunately Yore died in the final battle against the wizard. I'm not sure yet what animal companion she'll get next: originally I thought a deinonychus, since she's now high-level enough for that, but we're in a very cold region so those are unlikely to be around. So instead it'll probably be a tiger, which should also be pretty cool.
It took me a bit to get the hang of playing a druid – at first I kept forgetting that I could wildshape – but it was fun. Zennys doesn't really have much backstory, since I originally thought I was creating her for one evening only, but now there's even planned to be a third part eventually and maybe I should come up with something. Though it's barely necessary with short adventures like these; guess I'll see.

We'll probably do another shorter adventure before resuming our main campaign. I played a Dragonfire Adept for a two-session mini-adventure recently, that was fun, but depending on setting/party I'm also thinking of trying out playing a bard. Might be interesting to play more of a support character too. And it'd be hard to create a character that could match the damage output of my Reya the warblade ;)