Uuuuuh. Well. ^_^;
I tend to get REALLY INTO a whole bunch of things and go on benders to just get into as much of it as I possibly can. Like, I got into tabletop podcasts sometime last year, and now listen regularly to Friends at the Table, The Adventure Zone, Rusty Quill Gaming^ - and most of all, Critical Role. Since I first started listening/watching it some 4-5 months ago, I've plowed through nearly 300 straight hours of CritRole.
It is amazing, and its fan-community is amazing as well. <3
I finally cleared enough stuff out of my to-do list yesterday to celebrate with my first real CritRole fanart, so here's my new favourite weirdo NPC, Cenokir:
^) I also listen to RQ's non-tabletop podcast, The Magnus Archives, which is some pretty intense horror. A+, if you can stand it. I barely can. >.<
... But let's be PERFECTLY HONEST now, folks. My obsession with tabletop podcasts in general and CritRole in particular, is only a distant second to the all-consuming obsession I've got with my own tabletop campaign - and specifically my intense shipping of my own character and one of the other player-characters. My tabletop OTP, if you will.
Like, y'all. It's ridiculous.
Tapastic-folks might have missed out on this completely, since I tend to confine my yelling about it to Twitter and Tumblr, but we game every Thursday (due for another session tonight!), and I do a kind of highlights-recap-sketchcomic-thing on Twitter/Tumblr in the days following each session, and, uh. I think I've drawn the equivalent of nearly 80 pages since we started playing? And that's not counting the silly, self-indulgent, non-canonical shipping art I'm plaguing the internet with right now.
So.
We're playing Dungeon World - which is a bit like Dungeons and Dragons, only it's got fewer dicerolls and fewer stats to keep track of, and so is easier to start your very first gaming experience in (hi, this is mine!). This is my character:
Her name is Iris, and she's an Immolator - which basically means she's a very, very literal firebrand. As in, she's fuelled by fire, and she's got some dangerous ideas she wants to spread.
This is my buddy Viktor's character:
His name is Tim. He's a plain-spoken fighter in exile from his home kingdom, which fell into ruin a long time ago. It's a whole thing.
The session-scribbles are, uh. Well. Excerpts, folks:
.... and that's just the canonical events. There's a looooot of self-indulgent non-canonical shipping art.
('''>.<''')
Like I said, I yell about these on Twitter every week - and you can find all of them (with a whole bunch of scrolling) in my Dungeon World-tag on Tumblr. I have put together a PDF of the first 14 sessions, but thus far it's only been released to Patreon-backers (and they're due another PDF soon, with sessions 15+).
... and when I tell you I'm obsessed, I don't want you to think that I just roll some dice and pretend once a week, and then draw some comics. No, like. I keep an in-character diary for Iris. I was up till midnight a few days ago, writing out a detailed timeline of her early life, and short character-bios for all of her family members. I'm drawing a map of her home city and inventing a political system from scratch in the coming weeks, so our GM gets a new setting to herd the party into whenever he wants.
I'm writing in-character poetry.
