IC DnD [MINGLE]

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Who: You
What: IC DnD? IC DnD!!
When: End-May
Where: Residential floor lounge area
Warnings: Potential discussion of monster murder and other PG13 rpg themes. Some Bard's also gonna try seducing every enemy, I can feel it. Please tag if other things come up!

[ Did someone say IC DnD? Chiaki’s got your back.

Those frequenting the dormitory lounge may find that she's transferred several books from the library. There are two different versions of the Dungeons and Dragons Handbook, and two more of some different universe’s equivalent- it's called ‘Cellars and Cryptids’, and involves some unusual rules like settling all player disputes with dance battles but yeah. The spirit is the same. Some supplies have been provided- paper and pencils mostly, a few blank character sheets, and a box full of Ridiculous Assortments Of Dice. Good luck trying to find a 20-sided one, how about a d9.36?

She's tried to do something for the visually impaired, but unfortunately the braille copy of ‘Dragons in the Dungeon’ that she found is not in fact a DnD guidebook, but some kind of trashy romance novel. Sorry. :(

Grab some friends and go on an adventure together!]

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[have_hat_will_travel]

[As Pidonus comes into the lounge, she's just... Looking at the Player's Handbook, kind of confused.]

Wait.

Is this...

No, different cover... But that might be coincidence?

[Someone who knows D&D may need to enable her to give this a go...]

[riderofcharlemagne]

[Astolfo has no familiarity with D&D, but he's one hell of an enabler.]

These are kind of like those games you like, right?

[As in 'there are rules and dice', and he hasn't bothered to look at the rules and taken to stacking the die ontop of each other.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Actually, it... Looks kind of like the rules my reality runs on?

But different?

It's really weird.

[riderofcharlemagne]

No doubt...

[He can't begin to conceptualize how Pidonus feels about it.]

Hey, that means you'd already know how to play, right?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Er.. Maybe?

If it's not a different edition. Or system.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He dismissively waves his hand.]

It'd be a good enough starting point, surely.

[He's not about to go and do something like read the rules himself, now.]

[have_hat_will_travel]

Maybe? As long as it's not using like, three-sided dice as a core. That'd be awkward.

[riderofcharlemagne]

[He picks up the little triangular dice at the top of his stack to double-check the number of its sides.]

Those exist?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Yup. And five-sided, too, somehow. That one always wigged me out.

All sorts of strange dice, honestly...

[riderofcharlemagne]

I haven't seen one around here, so I think you're okay...

[He's taken all the dice currently not in use hostage, so he knows.]

So, how do we play this thing?

[have_hat_will_travel]

W-well, uh...

It's weird because it's definitely not a typical short-form game. You take the role of a heroic-ish character and play them over many sessions, alongside the rest of a group, with a 'Dungeon Master' adjudicating the entire mess and creating the stories the rest of you seek to work your way through?

The dice come in for the details.

[riderofcharlemagne]

I see, I see.

[He nods thoughtfully.]

So- what kind of hero-ish character do I get to be?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... That's a long question to answer, potentially. And it depends on what's in this book, but usually there's a whole lot of options, ranging from the simple-but-effective combat power of the fighter, to the might of crazy wizards.

Usually, you pick one of a specified array of standardized-ish humanoid races to play as.

I'm a weird case. REALLY weird.

[riderofcharlemagne]

What kind of humanoid races are we talking about?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Well, lessee...

[Pidonus opens the Player's Handbook...]

Dwarves, Elves, Halflings, Humans, Dragonborn, Gnomes, Half-Elves, Half-Orcs, and Tieflings, it looks like. In this edition. Tieflings as a core race? Interesting choice...

[riderofcharlemagne]

[Halfway through listing them off, Astolfo's already made his decision.]

Oh! I'll be a Dragonborn!

[Whatever those are.]

[dragonmouth]

...something the matter?

[ She's looking over the Cellars and Cryptids book, whose core races seem to be... humans, aarakocra, kenku, tabaxi, dragonborn, and aasimar? So basically Dungeons and Dragons but just. More furries. ]

[have_hat_will_travel]

These rules are.. Similar to those my reality runs on.

[dragonmouth]

...oh.

I suppose... this might not be the most unusual thing we've seen here.

[ She flips open one of the books. ]

And I have to say, it's quite the world.

[have_hat_will_travel]

Yeaaaah. My world didn't have a literal DM or players, but the rules were still definitely there and measurable. And somehow it all still works even though now I'm in a place where the numbers don't work like that...

It's. A thing.

[dragonmouth]

I suppose I could sort of wrap my head around it...

Although. I'm starting to have a few questions about my own world.

[have_hat_will_travel]

It's... Odd to me that it's so weird to others.

And what sort of questions are you having?

[dragonmouth]

...there was a girl I was traveling with. She seemed alright, most of the time, but when I caught her speaking with Nakari-

Well, speaking in the loosest sense of the word entirely. It was in a mess of tongues.

"Don't forget to save", or, "stand in front of this thing and press the space bar", that sort of thing.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... That sounds like a very strange bit of code speak.

[dragonmouth]

Whatever it means is a mystery to me.