Playing Andromeda

Last night we started a new D&D game. I absolutely LOVE role-playing. I dressed up as my character, practiced wand movements, and carefully crafted a mini. I started forming a back-story and tried to figure out how to work the dice. Everything about D&D excites me.

I'm playing a half-elf named Andromeda. Andromeda Constantia Della-Roma. Her backstory, in a few short sentences, is as follows:

Andromeda was raised by her human father after her elf mother left. Andromeda identifies with her elvish heritage and runs away to join a tribe - only to find that they don't accept her either. She joins a traveling troupe of performers and learns music, and is later trained by a bard. She joins a group [the people she's with now] to earn some money on the side while looking for her parents and trying to find a place where she fits in.

I love this character already. Although she's a grifter, known for her powerful, sparkling personality, she's not happy. She feels alone, unaccepted, and it shows when she feels abandoned [like last night's game - long story]. I just started writing her backstory for our xanga [xanga.com/Shadowhawke_Run]and I am ecstatic that I get to play her.

It is such a wonderful thing to get to work on improvisation and acting and witty banter, along with a group of people interested in the adventure we're on - it's a great way to get closer to people and learn more about them while imagining a grand adventure. I think we've lost a lot of that as "grown-ups" and humans in general, and I intend to keep playing because it's a deep source of creativity and and entertainment that is so much more compelling than sitting down to watch a sports game or read the newspaper. To those who enjoy those things - wonderful! I'm glad you enjoy them. I just...find D&D so much more enthralling.

Anyway, a half-elf bard is not what I would have chosen myself [I prefer halflings], but I am thrilled that Andromeda is shaping up to be a character with depth and feeling. Something I can really work with. And I'm totally dressing up for every game. :)