CollectorOfMyst

The Death Knight's Squire [D&D 5e One Shot]

Transferring my WIP over here for posterity. 😅

Keannan

Name ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Keannan Ivaenodel Age ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ 137 Gender ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Male, he/him Sexual Orientation ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Bisexual Languages ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Common - Elvish - Druidic - Primordial - Sylvan Specialties ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Animal Handling (Skill proficiency, Speech of the Woods) - Healing (Medicine & Spells) - Navigation & Tracking (Survival, Outlander) - Perception (Skill proficiency) - Shapeshifting (Wildshape) - Summoning if we get to level 5 (Conjure spells)

Druid - Chaotic Good - Wood Elf ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Keannan is a brusque, often short-tempered young man - well, young for an elf. He has little patience for posturing or pretending, and does not care to give his respect to someone he does not see as having earned it. As for how to earn it? Do not pretend to be someone you are not and do not expect things from others when you yourself give nothing. So... mostly he respects animals. Despite his attitude, Keannan possesses an inquisitive mind, a kind heart, and a genuine desire to better himself - and if he needs to humble himself to do that, he'll do it. He still has much to learn, after all, and his life has been longer than most. Background ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Some people have a picture of elves in their head. Proud. Noble. Regal, even. Practically perfect in every way. Never making mistakes. Everything they do is what they intended to. Most of the people who hold this ideal are elves. And anyone who doesn't meet this standard - well, they're troublemakers. Miscreants. They don't belong in polite society. That has been Keannan's experience, at least. Someone who didn’t fit the mould. Who didn’t care for 'perfection' or 'politeness'. Who rejected the idea of it. And took joy in disrupting the sensitive sensibilities of those who found discomfort in his very existence. But he was hardly ninety at the time, and eventually, being rejected by the very people you surround yourself with... eventually, you'll break and lash out. Which is exactly what Keannan did. As a more juvenile elf, he could not be punished as a full adult. Notes on the rest of this; - Keannan was sent to a druid circle to study under one of its masters - Typical resilient mentor story. No matter what Keannan did, the master did not give up on him, and taught Keannan not just about druidcraft, but about the natural world, the order of things, how to manage his anger - and how to deal with particularly annoying peers. - He also taught Keannan the value of life - what it means to have it, and what it means to take it, be it in a form of combat, or as a hunter searching for food. This is why Keannan carries a wolf fang on a leather cord around his neck - a memento of this exact lesson (and also, it came from the background items, 'a trophy from an animal you have killed', so). - Related note - Keannan still hunts and eats meat, that sort of thing. He respects life, and what it means to take it. So when he kills an animal, he does his best to be respectful, does not prolong its suffering, and tries to calm it, if he can. Which is sometimes an ordeal, given he can understand the thoughts and emotions of animals. Things I haven't pinned down: - What, exactly, Keannan did to get himself 'socially excommunicated' from his home. - Who his master is (though likely an elf?), and what has happened in the fifty or so years between then and now that Keannan is no longer at their side, under their tutelage. Starter Equipment ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Leather armour - Wooden shield - Scimitar - Sprig of mistletoe (Druidic Focus) - Staff - Hunting trap - Traveller's clothes - Wolf fang amulet - Explorer's pack - Coin pouch (10gp) .................................................................................................................................................

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

@Benzaiten he did, it's a little bit further up

Got my rolls here:
roleplayerguild.com/campaigns/983

I'll add everything up tomorrow so I can get a move on my character.

@rocketrobie2

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

Got a WIP for you.

Keannan

Name ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Keannan Ivaenodel Age ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ 137 Gender ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Male, he/him Sexual Orientation ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Bisexual Languages ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Common - Elvish - Druidic - Primordial - Sylvan Specialties ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Animal Handling (Skill proficiency, Speech of the Woods) - Healing (Medicine & Spells) - Navigation & Tracking (Survival, Outlander) - Perception (Skill proficiency) - Shapeshifting (Wildshape) - Summoning if we get to level 5 (Conjure spells)

Druid - Chaotic Good - Wood Elf ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Personality ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ Keannan is a brusque, often short-tempered young man - well, young for an elf. He has little patience for posturing or pretending, and does not care to give his respect to someone he does not see as having earned it. As for how to earn it? Do not pretend to be someone you are not and do not expect things from others when you yourself give nothing. So... mostly he respects animals. Despite his attitude, Keannan possesses an inquisitive mind, a kind heart, and a genuine desire to better himself - and if he needs to humble himself to do that, he'll do it. He still has much to learn, after all, and his life has been longer than most. Background ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ WIP, sorry Just a few sentences, a rough idea is enough. Or write as much as you know about them. Starter Equipment ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ - Leather armour - Wooden shield - Scimitar - Sprig of mistletoe (Druidic Focus) - Staff - Hunting trap - Traveller's clothes - Wolf fang amulet - Explorer's pack - Coin pouch (10gp) .................................................................................................................................................

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

I use Dicecloud, personally. You have to enter most things in manually, and understand a little bit of coding logic, but I like it.

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

@rocketrobie2 Well, I'm going to be a Shepherds Druid, so I can be tanky, or I can make everyone a little bit more tanky for a little bit.

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

@Mistress Dizzy From the looks of it, your stat arrays are as follows, not including a racial bonus;

Stat roll 1: 9(-1), 12(+1), 15(+2), 16(+3), 12(+1), 15(+2)
Stat roll 2: 12(+1), 14(+2), 12(+1), 12(+1), 18(+4), 15(+2)

I'm assuming you know the whole ability modifiers thing I'm doing in brackets? Like, 10 and 11 mean a +0 modifier and all that?

Neither of them are much to sniff at, that's for sure

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

@Mistress Dizzy For rolling stats; you roll 4d6 and add up the three highest numbers - so on a 5, 4, 4, 3, you would take a 13, but if you get 3, 2, 1, 4, you take a 9. You do this six times to get a stat array, which you can then put anywhere you like.

For example, if someone were to get 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, and 8, and they were playing a fighter, they might put their 8 in Charisma, 15 in Constitution, and so on.

With the dice roller, what I did was 4d6+4d6+4d6, four times (1A, 1B, 2A, 2B), to get my first and second stat array. 1A and 1B are both parts of the same array; I can't mix up 1A and 2B, in this case.

The dice roller can't do more than 5 sets at a time (so 4d6+4d6 up to 5), so I split it up into two halves. It's also helpful to add a note as to what it was for, i.e., if you're rolling to attack something, you put a note saying 'attacking wolf' or something like that.

Does that all make sense?

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

Welp. I've rolled stats for my druid.

This is abysmal. 😅

Before any additions:
Stat roll 1: 10(0), 12(+1), 10(0), 10(0), 8(-1), 6(-2)
Stat roll 2: 8(-1), 13(+1), 9(-1), 12(+1), 11(0), 7(-2)

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

@Benzaiten Well, specifically the role/s that need filling and how much I can get away with.

I have a couple of premade characters that I can slot in just about anywhere with a little bit of work and I have one character that's a back-up for one of my current campaigns that I might want to get into the mind of, but he comes with Conditions™️ that would decide if I play him in particular or not. It's me being fussy, basically.

The Death Knight's Squire [A short D&D 5e RP]

Putting forth some tentative interest, if you'd have me. I have a couple of ideas for characters I might want to play, though I think some stuff would need to be pinned down first.