Monday, Monday...

[alexandraerin]

Not much to report. I just wanted to get a blog post up to give me a timestamp for the start of the week.

I didn't sleep too well last night... I have to remember to get more melatonin tonight. I think there's some tilapia on sale at the local grocery store right now, so I've got a reason to out shopping anyway.

Last night was the first night of my second online D&D group. It had an even rougher start than the Wednesday night group did. Two of the members were having problems getting Skype to work on their Linux-based computers... both ended up borrowing laptops in order to join in fully. One of them was my roommate, which left me without quick access to a lot of my game notes. I could have had her join in the following week, but my philosophy was that it was better to have everybody present for a really rough first session than have to keep shaking out kinks in subsequent weeks as more people join.

Anyway, between scrambling to get her online and then sorting out various issues at the beginning of the session, I was feeling very frustrated and until about half an hour in I was inches away from giving up and just asking everybody to come back in a week and try it again.

Then I kind of found my stride, and I was glad that I didn't. By one hour into the session, I think I was kind of on my stride, and by two hours in, it seemed like everybody else was, and at the end of the night it sounded like everybody had had a good time.

It's a good lesson in the importance of not letting minor frustrations get in the way of things we enjoy. Dungeons & Dragons is a social outlet for me that lets me exercise my native creativity and keep the writer juices flowing... I think it's a good thing for me to stick with.

Anyway, I'm about 25% of the way through a Tales of MU chapter, which I'm going to get back to now. I just wanted to throw out a blog post while it was on my mind.

Comments

[doctoreon.livejournal.com]

I like the fact that you can get cantrip casting from Arcane Initiate, too. Swordbonding with either a wand or songblade/performer's blade would awesome.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Arcane Initiate is a dandy feat to begin with just to get something like Thunderwave as a once-per-encounter get the fuck off me! power. Getting cantrips along with that would add a lot to the character.

[doctoreon.livejournal.com]

And, on top of that, I actually think bardic ritual casting is better than the Wizard's. While the Wizard does get to learn more for free, the Bard has those few extra rituals that no one else can use.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

To me, the real key to that ability is that the Bard can use those rituals for free once a day. Even if other people could use them, I don't think they would do so nearly as often.

[doctoreon.livejournal.com]

You know, I actually kicked myself for not adding that as I was walking away from the computer after posting that comment.