Jackary Oakenbaum

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Jack Oak Wood Elf
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Beastmaster Ranger
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2017

Jackie is a ranger with a wolf companion.

cannot emphasize enough how little i remember about this character. here's what i do remember:

we played like two sessions. i dont even have old drawings of him

2018

Thus begins my forays into the high school D&D club. I remember being so nervous to join, but I'm glad I did - I met a lot of friends through the club.

You might notice that all of them are girls - I was actually more interested in playing with gender a little more at the time. But as one of two or three girls in the club, and since none of the boys* ever played characters who were women, I felt compelled to stick with team girl. For feminism.

* at the time

Winter

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Blue Dragonborn
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Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer
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Fall 2017 - Spring 2018

Winter is a sorcerer with a vice for drinking.

my first real campaign! for the d&d club at my high school. we would meet at 7:30 in the morning, and then play for an hour until school started at 8:30. it was kind of crazy, looking back on it. i think i had fun though, for the most part.

Quill

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Tiefling
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Fiend Pact Warlock
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Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
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Evil Campaign

Quill is a warlock who made a deal with a devil - endless power in exchange for causing some chaos in the world.

I made her for an "evil campaign" we played at d&d club! ngl all i remember from this campaign was getting really pissed off at the spotlight-hogging chaotic neutral murder hobo antics of some of the party.

Sable

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Half-Elf
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Great Old One Warlock
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Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
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Lost Gods

Sable always had vivid dreams. When a war between the gods locked the pantheon behind a series of barriers, a figure approached her in her dreams and pleaded with her. They offered a promise of great magic if she would help free the gods. She accepted.

The second campaign of this year! I think this one met on Thursdays, and evil campaign met on Mondays. We were trying to free the gods, and each god had some kind of cool challenge associated with it. I'm pretty sure the only reason I wanted her to be a warlock was because the DM thought warlocks were bullshit and boring and I wanted to prove him wrong. I'm not sure that I did.

the only thing i remember about this campaign is that we were trying to pull a sword out of a stone for the earth god challenge. everyone in the party failed.

ranger: can my horse try?
dm: fine, but it has disadvantage.
> the horse rolls a natural 20.
> the horse rolls a second natural 20.
the players lose their minds, the DM puts his head in his hands.

Sparrow

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Firbolg
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Wild Magic Sorcerer
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Winter 2018 - Spring 2019
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Curse of Strahd

A farmgirl touched by the wild magic of the world, who left home to understand magic and chase her fortune. She joins up with a group of fellow adventurers as they make their way into Barovia.

I made Sparrow for a short-lived Curse of Strahd campaign. I remember being sooo nervous to play because I only knew one other person in the campaign, but I had a lot of fun. :) Me and the DM fudged the rules for Wild Magic Surges so they would happen more often, bc we were sad they they would only happen like once every other session.

Years later I would meet someone who was a big fan of CoS and was excited that I played it, but I unfortunately had to break it to them that I remembered nothing about the plot. I think half of the time we would play for a bit and then go bike around the neighborhood.

Remora Starkova

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Wistera Wood Elf
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Swashbuckler Rogue
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2018, 2019-2020
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Team Taquito, Bagel Brigade

Mora was a pirate on the crew of the good ship Rose Thorn, until it was was destroyed in a firey battle. Since then, she's been making her way by sell-swording across the land. And maybe looking for revenge, but it's kind of side thing. She's charming and easygoing, very much inspired by The Princess Bride vibes. I played her with a (likely bad) british accent, when I wasn't deeply embarassed about doing a voice.

I played her in two campaigns! One silly campaign with my minecraft friends, and one with some of the people from d&d club.

The first campaign was a very straightforward dungeon crawl. We goofed around a lot. I think we adoped a goblin as our party mascot when it was too scared to fight back?

The second was a campaign that I was invited to after it had been running for a while. This was my first real, 3-hr sessions once a week campaign. It was a bit of an adjustment - the club session required us to make a character just to mess around in the DM's pre-defined world. Because we were only playing for 45 min once or twice a week, there was not a lot of time to get into player backstory (and with 5+ people playing at once, there was definitely not enough time for everyone). I came to this campaign with the same bare-bones stock character I brought to club.

The DM later made up some cool backstory for me involving a shipwreck and sea god to give me some plot hooks. It worked at the time, but I kind of wish that I was briefed a little more about the requirements of a good D&D backstory at the time. Ah well, we were 16 and dumb. I learned the hard way :P

2020

This is going to sound very silly. At some point in 2020, I was looking on artfight at people's d&d characters, and I saw an asian elf. And it blew my mind. It was like I had suddenly realized that "????? YOU CAN DO THAT?????"

Somehow I had never even considered that I could make fantasy characters that looked like me. I loved playing elves and tieflings, but in all of the art in the books or that I saw online, those characters had white features. And I'm not alone in this! this tweet by game designer Brandon Leon-Gambetta and its various replies show a dozen people had that same glorious realization.

22 AKA Tango Terpsichore

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Elf (Selkie)
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Battlemaster Fighter
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2020-2021
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Big Time Rush

Tango is a selkie who was kidnapped, like all the members of the party, by a far-future time-traveling organization who gave her the designation number 22. She and the other agents would go on missions to various timelines to aid in the fight against a second time-traveling organization. She accumulated enough points to buy her freedom, and bounced around with a space pirate crew called The Dancemat. At some point, someone stole her sealskin, and she was trying to hunt them down to get it back.

She's kind of blunt and very direct, and prefers to face problems head-on. Usually with a sword.

I made Tango for a campaign that I got invited to that had already been running for several months. I never quite got caught up on what exactly the plot was? But there was a lot of time travel and a cast of fifteen evilguys to keep track of. The DM designed a super cool sword for her, and later made it for me as a physical prop for a secret santa gift. It was sick.

Playing her solidified how much I actually love playing martial classes. For a long time, I was baffled by the concept that anyone would want to just swing a sword around when you could be casting spells, but I came to really appreciate the simplicity of the fighter. It's a lot easier to keep track of, too. I would feel overwhelmed with the amount of choice that spellcasters have, and I would end up picking the same spells over and over again anyway. Fighter maneuvers are really fun to pull off, and I enjoyed playing with them a lot.

She's one of my favorites! I've retooled her to exist as a character on her own in other universes haha.

Felix Saelim AKA MAKESHIFT

Masks: A New Generation

Masks: A New Generation
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Beacon
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Summer 2021
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Extra Credit

Phasing and martial arts abilities. Naive face. Casual clothing. Stylish costume.

god i had so so so so much fun playing felix

Chance Moonbeam

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Aasimar
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Way of the Sun Soul Monk
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Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
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Angler's Isle

Chance is a scion of the Moonbeams, a noble house of Aasimar living in Stormhaven. Their family was being hunted down by a cult for their blood connection to the divine, so when Chance was a baby, they were sent to be raised by the Sun Monks where they would be safe. When he came of age, he left the monastery and joined a band of airship pirates. Eventually, she returned to Stormhaven to find her roots. However, a fateful meeting in a tavern will lead her to join a group to take down Vecna and his undead armies.

Chance is blunt and impulsive and a little silly. They feel out-of-place in the noble society they are heir to, and much more comfortable bouncing around the continents adventuring with their friends.

Kind of a life changing campaign for me. I met some of my closest friends ever in this group. We were really really obsessed - we would play for 6-8 hours every weekend, and once played for 14 hours, from 5pm to 7am.

Florence Lancaster

Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark
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The Lurk
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Fall 2021
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Inkblades

Florence was an aspiring art student at Charterhall University. In her second year, her debts became overwhelming. In a desparate attempt to pay them off, she forged a copy of a piece in the University gallery, swapped them out, and sold the original for a hefty sum. She realized, eventually, that stealing and forgery were much more lucrative and exciting than her art, and she dropped out of university. She joined up with the Inkblades, a gang of Shadows, as they fought their way up the ranks of Doskvol's criminal underworld.

Florence is pretentious and meticulous. She's a thrillseeker - she loves the rush that comes with rappelling down buildings or pulling off a good heist. She rolls her eyes at some of her showier compatriots, but she they work together well.

I joined this campaign because I heard the GM mention it when I was walking across the quad and went "omg I love blades!!" We geeked about Blades and other TTRPGs and he invited me to join his game. It was really fun!!

Shay Song

Monster of the Week

Monster of the Week
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The Chosen
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Winter 2022 - Present
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Fremont County Monster Hunters

Two years ago, Shay's dad died in a mysterious car accident. Three months later, Shay found a meteorite sword in the woods. Since then, he's been having weird dreams and seeing monsters everywhere. Shay has resigned himself to giving up on his out-of-state college dreams - he has an apocalypse at home to worry about. After arriving at Fremont County Community College, he's joined up with the other freshman that can see through the Glare to try and protect people. He still wants to pursue his dreams of being a photo-journalist, but it's hard to fit the school newspaper in between slaying vampires and trying to prevent the end of the world.

Shay is serious and awkward and a good tactician. He does care a lot, but connecting with people doesn't come naturally to him. He feels a lot of weight on his shoulders because of the prophecy. He copes with this by thinking as little as possible about it. He's chronically underslept - monster hunting and newspaper staffing and studying do not a good sleep schedule make.

Shay is hands-down my favorite ttrpg character ever, no contest, not even close.

Ophelia Quentin Tel

Scum & Villainy

Scum & Villainy
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The Stitch
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Winter 2022

Ophelia is a medic with a checkered past, riding with a crew and trying to keep a low profile. The space station she was stationed on was taken over by a zombie-like virus, and she was one of the few who were able to escape. She's been on the hunt for a cure ever since.

This was also a very short-lived campaign. Someone in the group was very clearly setting up our PCs for a romance as a proxy for flirting with me, which was fun and terrifying. I originally envisioned Ophelia as a dude, but this girl I was playing with really really wanted to do a lesbian romance plot, so Ophelia she became.

Malachi

Urban Shadows

Urban Shadows
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The Oracle
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Spring 2022
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ban iadows / sable ferrets

Malachi is quiet by nature

I think we only every played two sessions of this game, but I had a lot of fun. A lot of the people in this campaign would later become very close friends, but not until months after the game fizzled out.

Kalevi Santeri Elendar Lunetta

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Drow Elf
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Swarmkeeper Ranger
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Summer 2022
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Kairzen - Jaw Squadron

Kalevi is one of three heads of a large city in the underdark caves of Valia. He found a flock of fireflies living in the surrounding area, and they became his companions. As the Protector of his city, he's a skilled archer and tactician. He's a little quiet - he tends to leave the public speaking to his husband and wife.

I played him for a level 20 oneshot that was a prequel to the campaign for the next character.

Coda Cadence

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Aetherborn
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Creation Bard
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Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
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Kairzen

Coda is an aetherborn, a being made from the radioactive mist of the dead god of the Furrows. They were found by a traveling bard who took them in and taught them how to perform. Being an aetherborn, they have a life expentancy of only a few years. This botheres their friends more than it bothers Coda. Their goal is to write a song that will outlive them. When they left the troupe to find inspiration, they met Wynona, a wizard who would become their best friend and travelling companion.

I chose bard as a class because someone I was playing with "had never played with a bard that he liked", and I wanted to prove him wrong. Eagle-eyed readers may remember that this is the second time I choose a class to spite another player. Well, joke's on me, because I did not have fun playing Coda at all LOLLLL. Coda was me playing against type - someone who loves to shine and take up space and who has very little stakes or connection to the world. This meant that I had to work reall

Avens

Wanderhome

Wanderhome 🙪 Moth-Tender 🙪 Fall 2022

My job asks me to be calm and blunt. I am actually cheerful and trusting. I am a bat who wears ink-stained gloves, a mottled bark-colored cloak, and a satchel full of papers. I wear a silver moth pin on my cloak and carry a lantern at my hip. I would devote my life to protecting a decoder for the secret Moth-Tending cipher, an ancient relic gifted by your imaginative mentor. A pink orchid, constantly reminding you of the promises you made to your fellow revolutionaries is in danger of falling apart. I am carrying: A royal summons from the King of the Floating Mountain For Paolo, a poetic blue jay you once dated. A wax-sealed love letter For a wandering and miraculous wizard-in-exile A book with dangerous and illicit information For the heroic leader of the last outposts of the rebellion, Myriam Retrieved old decoder

Esteri Elendar Santeri Lunetta

D&D 5e

D&D 5e 🙪 Drow Elf 🙪 Runekeeper Wizard 🙪 Winter 2023 🙪 Kairzen - Isophe Oneshot

Louise

Brindlewood Bay

Brindlewood Bay 🙪 Spring 2023 🙪

Cinna Callisto AKA Orsino Portillo

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Half-Elf
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Oathbreaker Paladin
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Spring 2023 - Hiatus
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Kairzen - Wayfarers

The secondborn in a set of twins, Orsino Portillo was always in the shadow of his older brother, Derrin, who was the golden child of the family. While Derrin was naturally skilled in combat and excelled in the Isophe guard academy, Orsino fell behind. Orsino was selected as a good mark by the Dreaming Dark for his close proximity to and dissatisfaction with the Royal Guard, and he was recruited

When he flunked out of the academy, Orsino went all-in on the Dreaming Dark. He was accepted as a low-level agents, and was assigned a partner named Pyrite. Pyrite was charismatic and sneaky where Orsino was strong and thoughtful.

Aira Arran

Blades in the Dark

Blades in the Dark 🙪 The Slide 🙪 Fall 2023 🙪 The Clockwinders

Beatrix of Abyssinia

D&D 5e

D&D 5e
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Tabaxi
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Swashbuckler Rogue
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Fall 2023
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Spirus Tostitos

Trix grew up in Seramore: the smallest of the floating Golden Isles and a major airship trade hub. She'd always had an affinity for shiny things, and eventually found an apprenticeship under a local treasure hunter.

Things went bad on a hunt. Trix left him for dead, and she returned to Seramore and took over his position as Councilwoman Trasatra's pet adventurer. It was a good deal - decent pay, a regular schedule of jobs.

On a job for a noble family, their child Thakkai tagged along to help retrieve a long-lost family heirloom. He touched an artifact he shouldn't have, and unwittingly entered a pact with a wishing lantern. Trix and Thakkai have been traveling together ever since.

This campaign was a short one! There were far too many people playing - 9 players and 1 GM - because my friends wanted to play a campaign with everyone in it. It was tough to get an equal spotlight on everyone, but I had fun playing. (Though I'm glad it was short - idk if it was sustainable long term hahaha)

Kimberly Horatia

Triangle Agency

Triangle Agency 🙪 R&D 🙪 Backbone 🙪 Timepiece 🙪 2025 - present 🙪