So I’ve talked about it off-handedly on air before, but I play Dungeons and Dragons a lot! Started back when I was in university, early 2020ish (FORESHADOWING). As it would turn out, it was a great way to get friends together even while we couldn’t physically get together!
If you don’t know, D&D is a roleplaying game; you make a character using a lot of very expensive books, one of your friends takes on the Herculean task of making an adventure to go on (think the Lord of the Rings), and then you take that character on that adventure! If you’ve seen Stranger Things, they get pretty much everything wrong about it, but you probably know what I’m talking about already lol. And you’ll also know the classic look of playing D&D; that is, a bunch of nerds hanging out around a table in a dimly lit room with pencils and papers and snacks and tiny little dudes that represent their characters: miniatures, or minis. Despite what Stranger Things, usually nobody dresses up. (Usually.)
Since I’ve played online for most of my career, I haven’t really needed a physical mini since you can just slap a JPEG on your screen and call it good. It’s still fun for visualizing your character though, so I got into this website called HeroForge that lets you build yours so you can show your friends. I think this guy turned out not so bad, little bit of Indiana Jones with a dash of ‘listens to too much My Chemical Romance.’
But, since moving to Yorkton I’ve gotten the chance to play with people in-person at an actual table, and I need a mini. So I thought “screw it”, dropped some money on the website’s printing service, and for the first time had one of my very own minis on-hand! It’s a pretty cool feeling.
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