#Locus Lilliflora

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level 17 echo knight fighter + great weapons fighting + great weapons master + animal companion that gives me an extra attack + unleash incarnation + action surge makes me feel unstoppable I rolled 10 attacks and they all hit and I did 233 damage and I’ll never stop thinking about it

#Locus Lilliflora #is Locus going through it emotionally? Yeah #is he unstoppable in combat? Also Yeah #he’s got maxed out con so he’s got 202 HP #plus when my echo dies I get temp hp #so pre-combat I asked one of my party members to kill my echo so I went into combat w 13 HP #and then the second I got hit for all my temp HP my echo got killed again so I got it immediately replaced #level 17 play. So Good #mine #the dm said ‘’do you want to add some flavor’’ and I said ‘’I’ve spent 10 minutes rolling dice we can move on from me’’ shdkdkdk

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feeling So normal about leveling Locus up to level 20

#he’s been through so much….. he’s grown so much…… #he used to be so selfish and self-centered and now he’s learning how to be a brother and a friend #I love him :( #anyway what feat should he take I’m stuck between gift of the chromatic dragon and mage slayer #bc today we’re fighting my previous PC who died and he was a druid so I think mage slayer would help #but gift of the chromatic dragon just slaps so hard #and it makes sense bc Calsifer is from Strixhaven and knew the elder dragons #so it’d be cool if they were like ‘’thanks for fighting the people who destroyed our plane— here’s a feat’’ #idk maybe I’ll use my DM points to beg the dm to let me take both shdkdkdkdkd #it won’t work but I can try bc I’m annoying(: #Locus Lilliflora #Calsifer Evergreen #mine

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true power is looking your dm in the eye as you fight the demon that killed your previous PC and saying “306 damage.” RIP to my sweet little druid it’s time for my emotionally damaged fighter to shine

#echo knights are the most subclass ever #Jake Hurwitz was right everyone play fighters and only fighters #I am emotionally Drained I Did It I killed Domri #we got Calsifer’s body back and now we just have to save his soul #I know we’re going to have to fight evil Cas and I’m nervous #but my damage output is so ridiculous that I fear nothing shdkdjdjdj #Locus Lilliflora #Calsifer Evergreen #mine

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I need to commission a drawing of my d&d character ripping his own skin off

#I can see the image so clearly in my mind #he went through it last night and now I need to see it #Locus Lilliflora #mine

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playing a d&d character who’s going through character growth is so ??? oh so he’s allowed to learn and grow ??? he’s finally in a place where he can explore who he is outside of simply needing to survive ??? he’s learning about himself ??? after spending the beginning of his life only learning how to fight ??? he is becoming less self centered ??? and is now in a place where he is able to give ??? he’s a made up guy but also ??? he’s a piece of my heart and he’s getting better ???

#Locus Lilliflora #I’ve never played a character who’s gone through this much growth #usually I play sweeties who may change but have p consistent characterization #but Locus has grown so much #I’m so proud of this made up guy #he’s blorbo from my head and I love him #mine

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For the dnd character asks: 81, 94, 98, and a question that you’re hoping someone will ask!

81. what does your character’s name represent to them? (or: why as a player did you choose your character’s name?) 

Locus Lilliflora is just me taking a locust tree and combining it with the name Lucas so it’s more name-like, and Lilliflora is a plant word that I thought sounded cool while googling 

the last name is special to him because Locus was abandoned by his family as a young child, so he chose his own last name to distance himself from his terrible mother 

94. what is your character’s biggest flaw? 

Locus is Deeply self-centered. it started off as a coping mechanism— he was told from birth that he was an omen of the apocalypse, and his family abandoned him (or more specifically, as I learned tonight: gave him to a cult who was going to sacrifice him to the big bad of the campaign), so his entire life has been him going “I am the only person in my corner, and so I have to always stand up for myself.” because he has always been the only person in his corner, he’s developed a kind of victim complex— until he met his fellow party members, he had convinced himself that he was the worst off person ever. he had a ton of self pity, and he was convinced that no one else would understand. this self-centeredness and self pity extends into helping people— even when helping people, he still picks the side of the person he sees himself in the most and uses it almost like therapy, as if he’s getting closure for his own past by looking at whoever has the most power on their side and going “you’re just like my family.” the tl;dr is: his selfishness 

98. what advice would your character give to a younger version of themselves? 

what a serendipitous question considering Locus just rescued his baby self. I think that Locus is still in a bad place, so his advice would be pretty pessimistic— he would tell himself to grow harder skin and learn to stand up for himself because that has been the only effective thing he’s done. maybe someday he’ll be able to give advice about forgiveness and letting go and letting people in, but right now he’s still hurting 

12. what is your character’s current goal, summed up in one sentence? 

to convince other people to believe in me the way the unicorn that protects the forest believes in me 

tysm !! 💜✨

#ask #voluntarilyginger #d&d #Locus Lilliflora

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4, 6, and 13 for the dnd asks

4. if you had to make your character a different player race, what would it be and why? 

my newest character, Locus Lilliflora, was almost a mountain dwarf! then the dm texted me and was like “hey no pressure but would you be interested in playing a dryad?” so I switched to dryad so I could fit into the world better and get the most out of it (and I’m so glad I did because being a dryad made a ton of my backstory/character stuff fall into place in a really interesting way). so, if I had to switch Locus from being a dryad, I’d switch him back to being a mountain dwarf (which also would have had a lot of interesting narrative potential, but being a dryad made me fit into the story better) 

6. best DM you’ve ever had? 

ooooo I’ve played with a lot of great dms. the dm for the first campaign I ever joined (and am still playing) is great— she’s put a ton of thought and work into making the arcs specific to each of us, and she made a really interesting world that’s super fun to play in. our most recent battle was also just really great— she’s done a ton of great battle with interesting combat design (our first combat was a heist to assassinate a corrupt priest, and it was ridiculously fun to plan a heist for five hours) and basically I could sing her praises forever but she doesn’t love compliments so it turns into me going “that battle was so fun okay bye” 

also the newest dm that I’m playing with (the one dming Locus) made such a great, video game-y world with a lot of super interesting lore. there’s nothing like texting your dm and going “I want to play a man and a dryad” and him responding “fantastic! so you’ve been told since you were a baby that your existence as a male dryad will bring about the apocalypse” like what a great way to immediately throw me into the world (because I joined the campaign late so I met the already-established party and went “hey what’s up I’m an omen of the apocalypse”) 

also one of the most emotionally impactful sessions that I’ve played was at d&d club where I accidentally helped a cult take out an entire city and was handed the power to do it again. I was playing a low-int, low-wis sweetheart whose main motivation was making friends, and I walked backwards into a situation where both sides of this confrontation sucked and it was generally a really rough but really interesting session, and I wish we could have played it out, but campus shut down because of the global pandemic thing and we never got to see it through (some say Ferrek is still holding that vial of poison to this day) 

13. what’s something you’re working on as a player? (e.g., getting better at roleplay, thinking more tactically during combat, writing more notes, etc) 

being less controlling lol I have a bad habit of learning my party members’ abilities and going “hey it would be cool if you did this and then you did this and then I did this” and I need to sit back more and listen. like one of my party members will go “I might do this idk” and then I’ll plan my turn in combat around them doing that, only for them to not do that and me to go “wait what are you Doing.” basically i need to calm down lol 

tysm !! 💜✨

#ask #anon #d&d #coming into a campaign as an omen of the apocalypse was one of the most fun sessions I’ve ever played #especially bc I spent the first battle mind controlled so I was fighting the party #and even when they stopped the thing that was mind controlling the dryads #they still couldn’t trust me #and it was so fun and interesting #I could talk about Locus forever he’s so fun to play shdkdjd #Locus Lilliflora

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me 🤝 Jake Hurwitz

playing hot mess echo knights

#it’s just so FUN #echo knight is a subclass Made for playing hot messes #although Henry Hogfish makes Locus Lilliflora look like he’s doing great shdjdjdj #I’m so excited to see Jake play a subclass that I love w my whole entire heart #I just think that everyone should play an echo knight they’re So Fun #also the fact that your echo is immune to all conditions is such a tiny detail that breaks the game #and being able to go unconscious and send your echo on recon missions!! #I don’t know how many times I’ve been like ‘’Locus is going to lean himself against a wall and act like he’s dozing and go into his echo’’ #every echo knight ability is So Good #also shadow martyr!!!!!!!!!!!! #I love echo knights so MUCH I’m so excited #mine