Dear, Reader. Words flashing along this page blotted virtual ink having strained for a long time without any sort of patience or timing. I wonder if you’ve been well. Presumptuous of me to assume otherwise. But though life has kept me busy, learning and enduring new things, my mind often wanders to this space asking those who scroll the nether deep of strangers or perhaps acquaintance’s minds and thoughts spilled onto the blank canvas that is the internet’s algorithm. I tell you politely I have missed this space right here and perhaps the affirmation and quiet solitude of 2-3 likes per a post that I find my comfortable blogging experience to be.
So the topic my mind has been dwelling on most, time I spend free to wander is my new D&D character Grub. The irony of this post is I haven’t played him yet, his amorphous state of being in the ether is still malleable and flexible waiting to be forged and sculpted, bent and rendered anew from my mind. But I think that’s the part that most excites me with D&D, it’s the way it captures circumstance, it’s the potential of things that keeps me coming back. What choices will this character make and what drives it to do so?
You see Grub is a goblin, he’s small and nimble, a bit unkept and dirty, oh and he’s a right bastard to boot. Why is he a bastard? Well simple, to quote Hagrid, “They’re goblins, Harry. Clever as they come goblins but not the most friendly of beasts. Best stay close.” Simple words said offishly in passing but strike true to how I think my character will play and how he will run in the campaign. Don’t get me wrong Grub isn’t always a bastard but he looks out for himself and greed is a powerful tool in roleplaying.
So why is Grub the topic of this post, well it’s my writing and I felt like talking about him, heh, but also because I enjoy showcasing the power of stories on my blog and D&D has the ability to create without the taxation of building a world. In my world I need to explain why Grub is where he is, what brought him here, and why he finds himself in his current predicament, but as PC (Player Character) I only need to understand who Grub is as a person, and so the heavyweight is done for me. It’s as I stated before he’s simply a bastard.
So what does that mean? Well, Grub didn’t grow up easily, he fought for what he has, but goblins are small creatures who are not often accepted in cities and are discriminated against often, with some of Grub’s wilder kin outside the cities known for pillaging and killing those who they come across. So he does what he has to to get by, and more often than not that means scavenging, preying on those who don’t know better, and occasionally violence unfortunately. In short a bastard.
But you’re probably asking but then why tell me this? Why should I even bother with Grub? Well you don’t have to, and to be honest Grub probably would think you’re dimwitted for doing that anyway, but what Grub doesn’t realize is a new direction is about to come his way. You see Grub’s fortune is changing ever so slowly and it starts with a corpse. An unfortunate everyday occurrence where he’s from and Grub usually rummages quickly and leaves in case he is blamed for the scene painted in a shadowed alleyway a man laying on the floor blood curdled around him, picturesque, a guilty frame of Grub’s own creation, but this time is different. This time the corpse has something odd, a book? A book from a man that was carrying swords? Weird and yet oddly exhilarating?
Grub doesn’t care for words but perhaps just this once he’ll try be more?
And who knows how this will change Grub’s perspective on the world he’s scrounged in for so long?
To be honest it probably won’t… Because I’ve told you before Grub is and will always be a bastard…
Well a wizard bastard now, but still a bastard.
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