Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Lordaelyn. D&D p3

As you may have seen on my instagram, I bought my representative figurine for our game! And painted! And I found an STL on thingiverse to use as a base! (she's kind of giant on top of the base)

Dungeons & Dragons Session 0: Let build a Bard, a Bard

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Character Stats 

Name:  Lordaelyn Penrose - AKA Dally.

Race: Half Elf

Class: Bard

Gender: Female

Alignment:  Unaligned

Height: 5´ 7˝

Weight: 140 lb.

Ability Scores: +2 Constitution, +2 Charisma

Size: Medium

Speed: 6 squares

Vision: Low-light

Languages:  Common - Common - Everyone

                      Elven - Rellanic Script - Elves, eladrin, fomorians

                      Giant - Davek Script - Giants, Orcs, Half-orcs

                      Abyssal - Barazhad script - Demons, Gnolls, Sahaugin

                      Primordial - Barazhad script - Primordials, Efreet, Archon, Elemental

                      Supernal - heiroglyphics - Gods, Angels, Devils/Demons

Skill Bonuses: +2 Diplomacy, +2 Insight

Traits: Dual Heritage:You can take feats that have either elf or human as a prerequisite, as long as you meet any other requirements.

             Fey Origin

             Group Diplomacy: You grant allies within 10 squares of you a +1 racial bonus to Diplomacy checks.

             Wild Step

             Dilettante

             Combat Virtuoso: Uses Charisma ability score to make attack roll for Dilettante or multiclassed powers. Damage determined normally.

Worship: The God Lapuard: Unaligned, male, Sphere: Alcohol and Taverns

relationships: Patron: Melosius, a Deva Aristocrat, male

                        Patron's lover: Ruvog, a Giant Scholar, female

                        Lover: Milil, an Exarch/demigod: Good aligned male of Song, realm: House of Knowledge, Priests: sorlyn, adjective:Mililan

                        Sister: Ladella, Half Elf Noble by marriage, good aligned

                        Brother-in-law: Elaryus, Elf Noble, married to Ladella, good aligned.

                        Deceased mother: Clemantine Penrose. Human Artisan

                        Deceased father: Daeven Elven Artisan

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Background story 

Unaligned half-elf bard named Lordaelyn(lor-DAL-in) Penrose aka Lordaelyn, aka Dally.

Born and raised in a human metropolis to human mother, Clemantine Penrose and Elven father, Daeven. Both parents were middle-class tradespeople. I have one sister, five years younger, named Ladella (luh-DEL-uh) aka Del.

Until I was 13(Del was 8) a great and powerful, beloved ruler was in power in our region. Our parents died during the riots following her fall/the rise of her nefarious replacement, who is still in power today. Our mom died saving us.

With no nearby family, I ended up scrounging on the streets to support Del and myself. I sang and played on the streets of a popular market. I made quite a take, enough to keep us fed and housed for 2 years. (I was 15/Del was 10) This is when I discovered my bard power. I felt very different and brought it up with other entertaining beggars. An older performer told me I might have Bard powers, so I started researching in my free time.

I was discovered and taken in by the Deva Aristocrat, Melosius, and his longtime, live-in girlfriend, Ruvog, a Giant Scholar. Melosius took us in, sent my sister to boarding school and became a patron of my arts. He gave me a lot of money to write songs/stories and perform at parties.

Because of my aristocratic patron, I've met a lot of aristocrats and nobles, as well as clergy, royalty and minor deities, one of whom I had a brief fling with (Milil). I am a giant flirt, have had many romantic, but inconsequential relationships, nothing long lasting. mostly musicians, nobles and Milil.

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Personality Quirks

I have a soft spot in my heart for musicians, sad poets, emo/broody guys, merfolk and farmboys.

I am thrifty, always looking for a deal and always willing to perform for drinks, room and board, tips.

I am kind of a know it all - striving to learn everything, collects books.

I get mildly impulsive after battle. (sleeping with dudes, eating the livers of slain monsters, etc)

Secret desire to find a hunky artist who will illustrate my stories. We will be married, or just live like hippies, open a bookstore with a secret back room for black market spells and risque materials.

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Reason for Adventure

I have chosen to start adventuring now because my mother's journal expressed regret about not travelling or not doing more during the fall of our beloved ruler.

I've also heard rumors of a series of old journals, full of forgotten tales and adventures of my ancestors. They may or may not be acquainted with Milil.

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Short Term Goals

I would like to acquire a "never ending" enchantment for my flask

I need to learn to tame animals - I want a giant peacock to use as a mount.

Adventures in dungeoneering. Dungeons and Dragons Pt 1

Old Friend from High School and Her Husband (or OF and HH?) have been dabbling in tabletop RPGs. They started with one called werewolf and have recently started Dungeons and Dragons. During a game night, they invited me along to the game the next night. Being the slightly introverted gal that I am, I declined, i needed at least one day of rest before returning to work.

But it piqued my interested and I messaged her a couple days later, asking if i could join in. She asked the rest of the team, and the DM and they said they could work me in. They had only had one or two sessions - and all sat as level 2. DM said he would allow me start at lvl2 as well, so everything is even.

I spoke with Ex-Roomate, as he is in love with Tabletop RPG. He gave me some pointers and suggested some easy shit. OF told me who was playing which character so far, and i really didn't want to double up. So I soul searched a little bit. What would be easy for me to play? Something close but neater? When the BF asked me what I would be if we lived in a Warcraft style world, i didnt really know, but it all became very clear. I would be a Bard. Of course I would. I love singing, telling stories, i'm introverted, but I am always interested in what people have to say. 

I found a detailed guide on the internet to Barding. Ex Roommate said he couldn't help me, as he had doesn't like 4th edition of D&D, and didn't know much about it. So I was on my own. He gave me some basica advice for character building/background/motivation to adventure. My BF on the other hand, was the devil on my shoulder, telling me to do weird stuff (like drink blood to absorb powers)

I decided on a Half-Elf Female Party Bard. She worships a homebrew god of Taverns and Alcohol. She know 6 languages(using feats) I built a pretty solid background for her, so I guess I'll be kind of sad if she dies. More incoming.

Success - Dixit Game insert

Here is the dixit insert. Originally printed in mostly white, it ended up milimeters too tall, so i reworked everything and came up with the black version - it has space for the original game + all 7 expansions, and can probably squeeze the promo cards in there as well

Dunno what to do when the next expansion comes out...

Unboxing - Mynt3d 3d pen

Unboxing - Mynt3d 3d pen

Because the pens are a new technology, units are faulty, and people get paid to review things it, is possible that my iPeson was faulty as a one-off experience. To be honest, with 27 4+ reviews and no 1 reviews on amazon, the odds are high. I did a bit more research, reading reviews sites, amazon reviews, etc.

I enjoyed the experience of opening the box. I am delighted to see the filament color combination. Black, Orange, Purple - Halloween colors! I also have a selection of left over rolls in PLA and ABS from my adventures in printing. I have 3 full rolls of blue/red/gray, because I couldn't get the calibrations figured out on my printer.

I have had some time to actually play around with my pen, without anything jamming or breaking. So that's exciting! So far this pen is amazing. The worst con it has is that it needs a power cord to run, and the power cord is a little short. I need to get an extension cord for it, because it is awkward to use.

Other than that, it is super simple to use, it is smaller/less bulky than the iPeson and is easier to write with. My hand doesn't tire like it did with the iPeson. I have doodled with both ABS and PLA and am having pretty good luck with extrusion speed and my hand speed. It needs a little bit of refining, but i am definitely getting the hang of it! You can double click the feed button to make it auto-feed, which is great. I need to develop the skill to turn it off again, without messing up my doodle.

All in all, this is the superior brand. Even the box was nicer! It was a heavy duty cardboard that snaps into place with a magnet. The artwork is better as well. It looks like they actually paid a designer to put time/effort into making it look nice. The iPeson's box looked like someone cutout pictures of some 3d pen artwork and slapped them haphazardly all over the board.

I have only one other, faulty-unit pen to compare this to, but it is going to fulfill all my needs. I will do a follow up review in a couple months, to see if I still feel the same down the road. After 3 days of use, I give it a 4.5/5 (-0.5 for super short cord.)

Unboxing - iPeson 3d Pen

Late Monday night I decided to splurge on myself, post-holidays. First I ordered a $40 pair of spider earrings from the Betsey Johnson collection, from Macy's.. The boyfriend wanted to buy them, but could buy two cool pairs of her earrings for the same price; I'm telling myself that he wanted to bury me in presents.

The second, topical purchase was this 3d pen from amazon.  Tuesday, as I started work I got a delivery - my 3d pen! Unfortunately I had to work, and couldn't tinker. When I took lunch, I used the pen to doodle on one of my previously made puzzle boxes.

The design came out. . okay I had to experiment with speeds and hand fatigue. I definitely need practice. Sadly, I won't be getting the chance to get that practice. On this particular unit while I pressed the unload button, which swaps colors of filament, the whole thing jammed. I followed the vague instructions; removing a couple screws to pop out the filament tube and pull the filament out, easy-peasy. However, when I put the whole thing back together, the LED screen screamed ERR.... ERR. none of the buttons changed anything, turning off and on again did nothing. I took it apart again to make sure everything was tight and in place - it appeared that way.

I contacted the company in the middle of the night who told me that basically they would send me a new nib if the nib was defective (didn't seem to be). Also - I should have pressed the unload button to get the filament out (I did, I can read basic instructions.) Otherwise, just send it back. So I put it back in the box, minus the 3-4 grams of filament i practiced with, and scheduled a pick up.

In the meantime, I ordered a Mynt3d. It should be here Friday, so I guess we will have a second  unboxing, with a different brand! and I can compare!  I have been on the fence about Lix Pen, but I see a lot of mixed reviews for them. I would love to try one, but the price tag is a little hefty in comparison to other pens. Too Expensive for something that has enough questionable reviews to make me wary.

I also have been busy printing! The same puzzle boxes from thingiverse, which I handed out at Christmas. They were a hit!  In this bottom picture, you can see a leftover box with my feeble attempt at a zentangle pattern on it, in purple.

Coming up soon - some seemingly successful designs for my Dixit BoardGame collection!

Merry Christmass - With Cura Settings

Here's a picture of a remix of the Christmas boxes I printed last week.  The bows and ribbons were separated and snap in (i had some issue snapping the bows, so I used some glue.

My favorite thing about this build is that I was able to print the top, bottom, ribbons and bow complete set in one full color. Then I can mismatch which goes where. I am not sure what to do with them - fill them with coins? A little bit of candy - They are small, maybe two snack packs of m&ms from Halloween would fit.

BASIC SETTINGS
Quality
Layer Height - 0.24
Shell Thickness - 1.2
Enable Retraction - X

Fill
Bottom/Top Thickness - 1
Fill Density - 20

Speed and Temperature
Print Speed - 50
Printing Temperature - 201
Bed temperature - 60

Support
Support Type - none
Platform Adhesion Type - raft

Filament
Diameter - 1.75
Flow - 89

Machine
Nozzle Size - 0.4

ADVANCED SETTINGS
Retraction
Speed - 40
Distance - 4.5

Quality
Initial Layer Thickness - 0.0
Initial Layer Line Width - 100
Cut Off Object Bottom - 0.0
Dual Extrusion Overlap - 0

Speed
Travel Speed - 150
Bottom Layer Speed - 20
Infill Speed - 0.0
Top/Bottom Speed - 0.0
Outer Shell Speed - 0.0
Inner Shell Speed - 0.0

Cool
Minimal Layer Time - 5
Enable Cooling Fan - X

EXPERT SETTINGS
Retraction
Minimum Travel - 1.5
Enable combing - all
Minimal Extrusion Before Retracting - 0.02
ZHop When Retracting - 0.0

Skirt
Line Count - 1
Start Distance - 3.0
Minimal Length - 150

Cool
Fan Full on at Height - 0.5
Fan Speed Min - 100
Fan Speed Max - 100
Minimum Speed - 10
Cool Head Lift -

Infill
Solid Infill Top - X
Solid Infill Bottom - X
Infill Overlap - 15
Infill Prints After Perimeters -

Support
Structure Type - line
Overhand Angle for support - 60
Fill amount - 15
Distance X/Y - 0.7
Distance Z - 0.15

Black Magic
Spiralize the Outer Contour -
Only Follow Mesh Surface -

Brim
Brim Line Amount - 20

Raft
Extra Margin - 5.0
Line Spacing - 3.0
Base Thickness - 0.3
Base Line Width - 1.0
Interface Thickness - 0.27
Interface Line Width - 0.4
Airgap - 0.0
First Layer Airgap - 0.26
Surface Layers - 1
Surface Layer Thickness - 0.27
Surface Layer Line Width - 0.4

Fix Horrible
Combine Everything (Type A) - X
Combine Everything (Type B) -
Keep Open Faces -
Extensive Stitching -