Having an off day, let’s try out this meme from birdsite! One like equals one answer (unless I feel really ambitious).
2. My first experience playing D&D was trying to keep a friend company while he recuperated from a ruptured appendix. I played a wizard! And remember nearly nothing of that game.
Years later my friend Ryan got me into playing. The fad of the early 80s had come and gone, so he inherited a second set of books from his cousin and sold them to me cheap, which is the only way I could have afforded them.
3) I love playing halflings! But I kinda want to try playing a gnoll or minotaur again. I tend to enjoy cleric or bard a lot.
4) I wish I could improve my CHA. In this world, being charming, likable- and knowing you’re okay- really changes a lot and let’s face it, part of me wants to be the character with the great stories and witty comebacks at all times, especially if I can encourage and help others by doing it (see “probably bard”).
fantasy violence
5) probably the time my cavalier, cornered on a spiral staircase a hundred feet from the ground, threw his longsword, impaling his overwhelmingly powerful foe, who gave an ugly shriek before tumbling to his death far below. It was VERY cinematic.
fantasy violence, death
6) despite how earnestly Cadell got himself reduced below 0 hp, he never actually died. I had a character die in a one-shot, and my rogue, Kinyago, was cornered by gargoyles while trying to escape a tower. She fought bravely with dagger and rapier, which don’t really hurt gargoyles much, and never saw the finish to her personal quest.
7) I agree with @hyenagrin that Mending would be an absurdly useful cantrip.
8) since this is a less chunky couple of questions. I tend to wind up taking high CHA or DEX given a fondness for fast-moving “face” characters. Occasionally if I’m playing a cleric my DEX will be pretty low. And if I’m not playing a cleric WIS is often dead average if not lower.
Another twofer since one question is less crunchy;
9) no favorite dice, I can roll badly on anything! I favor dice in horrible bright easy to spot under tables/on carpet colors.
10) “okay, did you like Lord of the Rings, Rogue One, Harry Potter, The Thirteenth Warrior? D&D is sort of like those, only because you’re acting and writing one of the main characters, you’re much more involved. Your friends are also writing and acting characters too, so it’s like playing any other game with friends.
Another two for one!
11) for a while I was really enjoying WebDM on YouTube - I really think they have great ideas! I’d also recommend Richard Whitters’ Instagram (he’s a senior artist at WotC), Order of the Stick still kinda counts, and Oglaf only vaguely counts but it’s awesome! weirdly it’s usually funnier the less sexual it is.
12) idk, I logged so much time trying to get Shot On the Run, it’s hard to remember other Feats exist - but I also dunno if I’d actually want/use it IRL.
Let’s keep doing two for one!
13) not sure, I’m honestly not good with spells? Maybe Charm Person if I were being selfish or Cure Disease if I were being community spirited.
14) Hard to tell the most epic fail but I *do* remember the round that Cadell got four attacks AND MISSED WITH ALL OF THEM. Oh was I pissed off!
15. This is an interesting enough question to answer on its own, since I basically *started* with homebrew content.
Almost universally as kids, we discarded AD&D's stat limits for women, the table for weapon types vs AC, and any idea of the DMG to-hit or saving throw tables being off limits for players. A house rule *everyone* used was allowing a player one 18 stat - everything else was rolled randomly - and most people allowed single-class non-human characters to gain levels indefinitely.
When 2e came out, I was in a hybrid game for a while which used some of Unearthed Arcana's rules since we weren't that well off and getting new rules books was a slow process - I played a cavalier.
By a different definition, though I've never been in the definition "homebrew" where people used D&D rules to create a completely new battery of wildly different races or class options (f'rex, trying to make Middle Earth, the Wild West with animal people, etc).
@Leucrotta my first d&d experience was... less good but amusingly creepy -- it was basically a one-player game with Young Travis Bickle as GM. details sometime after i get home
@zebratron2084 I played a wizard! I carried off a captive Amazon warrior, swinging to escape across a chasm, because other PCs were doing it and I’d seen Vikings carry off captives in books- no clue what you’d DO with a captive, I think I figured you’d play chess with them. Also no clue that maybe a wizard can’t carry an armored warrior. I kinda cringe now, telling that story, it’s gross when I think about it.
1. I would probably be a half-elf (hybrid, ages weirdly, slim graceful build prettier than my face) much as I want to say gnoll. Probably bard, much as I want to be a ranger or druid.