Coffee & Cigarettes - An Update

I've had all day to get this stuff done and I have been working on it, but I have been doing a lot of other things, too. My neighbor gets off around 11:15-11:30 and, depending on how he feels, he's going to come by and finish his character. We will start the campaign either tonight or tomorrow (he's off all day).

It was interesting, watching him create his character. You could tell he was trying, but he didn't comprehend what he was reading. Once we got far enough along that it did make sense, he admitted feeling overwhelmed. I kept downplaying the reading involved, saying it would all make more sense once we started playing and not to worry about it before then, but by the time we got to selecting Proficiencies, he was more distant than I'd hoped. I think he had sort of given-up.

Still, he generated a great character! A straightforward Human Wizard. Things really came together during his background generation: his mom was an internationally-known courtesan, so even though he is the bastard offspring of a whore, he is upper-class material! In fact, he made three enemies in one fell swoop: he married and somehow drove his wife to suicide. Three of her friends wanted to kill him - that is, until he saved one's life. So he begins the game with a companion who just so happens to be Nobility!

I am poring through the Dragons to see if there's anything in them I want to employ (this is just too good an opportunity to pass-up!) but I'm pretty sure I'm just going to go with a Cavalier. Everything just fell into place randomly - the whole process got me instantly hooked! I'd said I was hoping and looking for something to rekindle that joy and that right there did it. I can run a Cavalier NPC with powerful ties right alongside him; no need for a bunch of convoluted nonsense whenever the little 4hp MU gets clobbered! I should be able to keep him out of harm's way long enough for him to get the hang of things (and hopefully earn enough XP for it to matter).

Like I said, he may be here tonight, so I need to go on and get back to it, but I wanted to drop-by and let you know what's going on. I still have no refrigerator but they did replace the water heater so I have running water. I have been on a pretty steady diet of coffee and cigarettes - the Olsen Twins Diet.

Sorry if this reads sloppily; I haven't slept well lately and obviously haven't been eating right.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009