Thread by @rontalkstbtop

I started a new #DnD campaign in #Eberron. It's interesting to see how players come up with characters.
Thread.

One guy only decided to join the campaign a couple of days before but he was familiar with the setting and made a Dragonmark Heir. He really wanted to play an Artificer so he made one at the table.

Another guy was in from the get-go but wasn't familiar with the setting at all. He had his heart set on playing a druid so he made a half orc druid. He saw that he could be a Gatekeeper. Perfect!

A third guy decided he would "fill in the blanks." There was melee tanks in his mind so he made a Goliath Barbarian. No backstory. Okay, we can work with that.

The fourth person wanted to play a librarian.

She wanted to play a character who loves knowledge and has loyalty as one of the key characteristics. She made a warforged. The character has some level of amnesia and doesn't remember their master. They just know that they are an archive and an assistant.

The player had NO CLUE what class she was going to play. She just knew she wanted to play a librarian. For some reason, this really tickled me pink (considering my skin tone that's very hard to do).

Why? The player really wanted to engage with the setting and the role that she was going to play. The mechanics of the character wasn't even close to a consideration. I'm fascinated by that. I don't know if I have it in me to do that.

Many of us engage with the mechanics first. Or at the very least, mechanics comes into play at some point. But for this person, the character class didn't matter at all. It was all about the story.

Now she ended up making a Wizard but only because she had to pick something and they seemed the most bookish.

My point is that there are many ways to decide what kind of character you're going to play. Don't let someone tell you how you need to play of what you are doing isn't hurting the people at the table in any way. Do you.

@threadreaderapp unroll please