Going full nerd and not looking back

I used to play Dungeons and Dragons with my brother all through high school. It was something we’d dive right into in the summers and sometimes we’d play one game for a whole week straight. It was something we obsessed over; drawing our characters, meditating on their pasts and their futures. It was all-encompassing, something our dad didn’t get and didn’t want to.

At one point in Grade 10 I realized if I didn’t stop playing with my brother’s friends in the stairwell though, I’d never make any friends of my own and I took a step back. Then I went to Turkey on exchange and never had the interest to play again. Until this summer.

I think Baldur’s Gate 3 brought it all flooding back. When my boyfriend and friends (Vicky Goodall and Mike Donohue) expressed interest in trying it, I asked my brother if he’d be interested in putting something together. And he was. And he did! And the obsession came flooding back.

Patrick 3-D printed our characters and has a whole treasure trove of dungeons and play sets for us to get lost in. It’s been so much fun.

Vicky is playing a tiefling rogue named Lilith, Mike is a halfing bard named Elden John, Scottie is a dwarf monk, and I’m playing an adorable tortle druid named Cooter, who’s a total bro and badass nature lover. As soon as I found out who was in our party, I jumped on the AI and asked it to make us beautiful. A little photoshopping later and we had our troupe.

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