The Friday Night Crew

 

Regina the Dungeon Master

This is Regina, the Dungeon Master. Regina learned to play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons back in High School, a little over 40 years ago, from an amazingly cool math teacher named Paula Hough. She's since learned 5e through playing for years in  Trey Causey's (From the Sorcerer's Skull) Azurth campaign. 

As a kid, she read in the paper that business about the kid "playing games in the sewer and then going nuts and killing himself." 

Even as a kid, she knew something about that story was horseshit. 

She also knew she needed to find someone to teach her that game.

Tifinin the Bard

Tifinin "Just Tifinin" is a Lightfoot Halfling (he wouldn't call himself a "Halfling", though. He prefers to refer to everyone else as "Doublings.") bard of some renown, especially after he saved the music festival in Saltmarsh and wrote a song for and about The Smoke Ring, the tavern in Underwillow. 

Tif is played by a real-life musician and songwriter, who actually occasionally writes and records songs for our game (needless to say, he almost always has some DM-bestowed Inspiration kicking around). This is his first time playing any sort of RPG.

He is a gentle soul, and prefers good food and music to just about anything else, but do not play games with bacon. Because that's the line nobody wants to cross. 

Macterah the Druid

Macterah Danorae is a copper Dragonborn who found herself in Parabor after fleeing violence in the south. She is very protective of her chosen family, and sees closely to their safety and health, often using wild plants and herbs in her craft. 

She is played by someone for whom this is also true in the real world. This is her first 5e campaign.

"Mac" has decided she needed to learn to shoot, so she got her companions to teach her and then practiced and practiced until the DM let her do it.

Ivar the Rogue
Dorian & Llewellyn, the ship's cats

Ivar Greenleaf is a half-elven swashbuckler rogue from Saltmarsh, whose parents believe him to be working on a merchant ship. 

He did work on a ship, that much was true. He just didn't feel the need to elaborate on exactly what kind of ship it was really.

So imagine his delight when a small smuggler's ship came into his and his friend's possession shortly after his old teacher's funeral.

He doesn't even mind it when his brother uses the ship to haul cabbages. 

The person playing Ivar started this whole thing by requesting a D&D game happen. 

Atalaya the Ranger

Atalaya Loravaris is a half-Elven ranger from the High Forest. She is stern and no-nonsense, and is more or less the tank of the group. Inheriting her Wood Elven father's restless nature, she followed in his footsteps and became a ranger, though she also learned much from her mother, a human healer and midwife. 

Atalaya is played by an old gaming friend of the DM's, and though they've played in two other campaigns together over the years (one complete homebrew and one Boot Hill), it's the first time playing 5e.