Die Schwarze Katze
Jun. 4th, 2022 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkOur D&D campaign was put on hold due to COVID and still hasn't resumed. I hold out hope that we'll continue the campaign one day... fingers crossed.
In the meantime I've found another group to play TTRPGs with. We're playing "Die Schwarze Katze", an off-shoot of the popular German TTRPG "Das Schwarze Auge" where everyone plays as a cat. It's fun! We've played four sessions so far and have already faced dogs and ghosts and allied with sentient cockroaches and are currently planning to rob a group of thieves.
I'm having a surprising amount of trouble with my character. We're a party of five: two of them are new players that play mostly passively so far, and two of them play fairly chaotic characters who tend to be impulsive and go off on their own (and get into trouble.) I sort-of accidentally fell into the role of planner and peace-maker again. I like thinking about what our options are and how to do things, and making use of allies is just smart. It just gets frustrating to feel like I constantly need to keep an eye out and be ready to stop other party members from doing something impulsive and, uh, counter-productive. I know I don't actually need to, even if they "screw up" that can still lead to other unexpected and fun situations even if it makes things harder for us, but that's hard to keep in mind in the moment.
And being indecisive on how I want to play this has also made it hard to get a grip on my character. I hope that it'll become clearer in our next session. Goal for tomorrow: don't stop anyone from making a stupid decision if they want to.
In the meantime I've found another group to play TTRPGs with. We're playing "Die Schwarze Katze", an off-shoot of the popular German TTRPG "Das Schwarze Auge" where everyone plays as a cat. It's fun! We've played four sessions so far and have already faced dogs and ghosts and allied with sentient cockroaches and are currently planning to rob a group of thieves.
I'm having a surprising amount of trouble with my character. We're a party of five: two of them are new players that play mostly passively so far, and two of them play fairly chaotic characters who tend to be impulsive and go off on their own (and get into trouble.) I sort-of accidentally fell into the role of planner and peace-maker again. I like thinking about what our options are and how to do things, and making use of allies is just smart. It just gets frustrating to feel like I constantly need to keep an eye out and be ready to stop other party members from doing something impulsive and, uh, counter-productive. I know I don't actually need to, even if they "screw up" that can still lead to other unexpected and fun situations even if it makes things harder for us, but that's hard to keep in mind in the moment.
And being indecisive on how I want to play this has also made it hard to get a grip on my character. I hope that it'll become clearer in our next session. Goal for tomorrow: don't stop anyone from making a stupid decision if they want to.
