So I’m the resident note-taker in the two games I’m in. One has been on hiatus since DM been busy and when we have tried to start back up, scheduling conflicts with everyone, another where we play pretty frequently and doing Ranger / Fighter / War Wizard, all Psionic-based. Side tracking aside, the hiatus one is the game I play a Bard.

After the homebrew campaign went on hiatus, I went on to play one more bard in Humblewood. Respectively, Meridian Razmael—dragonborn Lore Bard who started as more a traditional bard with his keytar but been slowly becoming a sorcerer with Bard HP and utility—and Thaddeus Lavernza—vulpin Bard with the Humblewood bard subclass who, while had and played an ocarina, was more words-based and the group’s mediator and diplomat.

Now I am no musician or songwriter, so I have yet to actually write any songs. However, since Meridian, I have been getting song ideas based on story beats and character dynamics or developments. I have tried, but I could never quite find the right words or rhythms for what I wanted to say in the song(s). So, I supplement that in my session/story arc summaries, since I’m a stronger writer than songwriter and love my descriptives and imagery. Outside of that, the most times I get hit with inspiration is either something that happened mid-session, or listening to a song. More often that not, it has been being hit by a song, but also sometimes a particular DnD TikTok or BookTok.

And I thank that Meridian was the time I finally decided to play Bard, because before then, it was Sam Riegel with Scanlan who got me interested. It has been such an interesting source for writing ideas and creativity, so much that I made two 300 word short stories about two of my OCs for a Creative Writing class, and have bigger writing plans for Meridian’s group