Look at all these scraps of paper.
Graphite sketchmarks
Breathing life into entire worlds
Inventory, backstory, spells per day.
You wrote these character sheets
Put the devil's weed in their pockets
Spell books on their shelves.
Their numbers clasp fingers like chain mail.
You wear it like a valiant knight.
Without your charecter sheet
You feel like an infant
covered in pots and pans.
Clanging, Banging,
Holding colander to your head
playing make believe.
This world doesn't fit you right.
You've Won wars against Kingdoms you founded.
you've fallen off the backs of behemoth gods.
you've slain incomprehensible creatures from other plains
At the end of every session you collected your experience.
said "See ya next week!"
This session doesn't end.
Can't just stop playing
Gotta keep rolling dice.
Drink the +5 energy Brown beverage.
Roll to see if your car starts.
Perception check to see if you hit that baby in the crosswalk.
Nailed it.
The roll. Not the baby.
You didn't check for traps in this relationship.
Take 15 heart damage.
Spend the next six months trying to recover.
You are noticed by a woman.
Roll initiative.
She goes first.
tells you she loves you.
You're knocked prone.
Gets an attack of opportunity on your ability to sustain relationships.
You wonder why you wandered in this coffee shop to begin with.
Make a will save.
You Leave
Double your move speed.
Burst into the town bar.
You ask for quests.
They give you whiskey.
You wake up in a strange place.
Roll me a knowledge check.
The apartment of some girl you hooked up with last night.
Your eyes part drowsy open
Unveiling a beautiful...
Man.
You did not roll very high on your knowledge check.
Roll dexterity
to gracefully get up from the bed.
Fails.
You Fall flat on your face
Roll initiative.
You run out of there
Double your move speed.
Roll another Dex check to see how much of your stuff you were able to grab.
You snag your bag but you never bothered to put your clothes on
So you're running down the street in your boxers with a black backpack.
When you finally stop to take inventory of your bag.
You can't seem to find your phone.
Spend a luck point
to reroll perception to find your phone.
Fails.
Spend another luck point
to reroll perception to find your phone.
Fails.
Spend your last luck point
to reroll perception to find your
Oh, thank god.
You found your phone.
Call a cab
Get out of this town.
Roll effectiveness of taking this shower.
There's no
"That was a great session guys!"
"You all get 500 experience points!"
"See you all next week."
You just keep rolling.
And Rolling.
Until one day
You roll poorly,
Encounter something way above your level.
You can run.
Find a healer.
Go home, take a full rest.
You can't just make another character sheet.
There's nobody to look at your scraps of paper,
All the characters you rerolled to be who you are now.
All the Dragons, Quests, kingdoms.
They're you.
Remember them,
Learn from them.
Keep rolling.
