Oh to Play a Character

I’ve mentioned how I’m looking forward to playing D&D as a Player (vice as DM) in our group’s current round-robyn-DMing campaign. But as has happened to me so many times over the many years, I’m finding frustration in this excitement.

Our group agreed to try this round-robyn style several weeks ago, and I was to be the first DM of the campaign. I had two adventures ready, each of which I figured would take us two game sessions to run through. After these four game sessions, I would get to play a character while one of the other guys DMed an adventure. So I made my character (based on a cool miniature figure I found).

The first adventure ended up taking 3 weeks to complete (we skipped D&D one of those weeks), and the current adventure will, hopefully, finish up next week, the fourth game session in it. So I’ve had this character created, and I’ve been looking forward to playing it for 7 weeks. Most D&D Players create their characters the week of, or maybe the week before the day they start playing it. And not only that, but as most Players are always Players (as most DMs tend to most always DM), they don’t feel that long delay between making a character and playing the character.

Maybe it’s my own fault for making the character immediately rather than just ignoring any ideas until the day of play comes. The other guys in my game group made their characters at the same time I made mine, but they got to immediately (within a week) play theirs. I’m waiting at least 7 weeks before I get to play mine. It kind of gets frustrating, this long delayed gratification. It’s like telling a bunch of 7-year-olds they will get some new toys, then while the others start playing with theirs, one kid has to wait several weeks.

It can break a boy’s spirit.

Bullgrit
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