An Eighth Shot of Espresso: Coffee and Creativity on Mum's Third Shift

I roll for my stats but no one has ever told me why they ended up so low Last on the initiative list Every time. I would have liked to go out on adventures and not just kill rats in a tavern basement in a small town. Then I thought if I cannot go out on adventures maybe I can have them come to me. That's why I have too many dice but so many characters who are all a part of me.

Clickity clack the dice hit the table fate chooses whether or not you succeed or if you live or die Do you think that the Gods sit high above and play tabletop role playing games move all their miniatures on a cosmic graph board? Who among them is the Game Master? Or does it change on a whim? One day it's Fate and the next day it's Whimsy? Look at your stat sheet and make sure you level up and pick up better gear as you go from quest to quest in the Game of Life.

Frog sitting serenely on a toadstool what a strange thing to see on our journey through the fae forest. Dressed in fine silks sitting cross-legged and smoking a pipe full of fragrant smoke. Big bulging eyes watching intently as if divining all your secrets. It smiles beckoning without saying a word. Does it have a quest for us? Is it an enemy? Why don't we find out.

  Lawful Good: "Cool motive, still murder." Neutral Good: "It's murder, but he was a bad person." Chaotic Good: "He was a bad person, why is murder a bad thing if it's morally right?" The champion of ethics. Lawful Neutral: "Murder is against the rules. I don't care what your reasoning." True Neutral: "I don't really care, keep me out of it." Chaotic Neutral: "I should be free to do what I want, including murder." Middle ground of self serving. Lawful Evil: "As long as it's within our law and order, murder can be justified." Neutral Evil: "I can sell you information for the next murder, pay my price." Chaotic Evil: "I murder to watch the world burn." The dark side of 'freedom'.

Rolling the dice hearing them clack and bounce onto the tavern tabletop you control their destiny whether or not they live. A world adjacent to ours heroes and villains airships, castles, mine shafts cities and villages other planes of existence. Anything is possible everything is dangerous magic swords and fireballs wizards and dragons relics and cursed objects. Paths drawn by hand a pepper shaker stands in for the big bad antagonist the mundane transformed into the amazing. I miss doing this the cameraderie the creativity the adventure the door is always open.

  Ale (full name: Aleain LeCroix, originally Oathbreaker Paladin, became Oath of Redemption, level 11/12). Digital, Marker, 2019 Ale the Paladin, with his 2 familiars, named Dark and Stormy. He was my DnD character from a campaign years ago. He started out as a comic relief, always drunk, needed alcohol to fight, and was generally a pathetic guy. But then his background came out. He was a Fallen Paladin, who abandoned his first Deity after a tragedy. Then the God of Alcohol recruited him. A fierce fighter, he actually had a combat  bonus  if he charged into battle soused. Ale picked up 2 magical familiars when they bonded to  him  instead of the party’s ranger. The orginal Ale eventually met his end when he made a suicidal run against a horde of cave gnolls. They engulfed him in a fireball and he had so much booze in his veins that when the fireball exploded, it took out him, the gnolls and the cave itself.