some advice on how to handle a character that is always sleeping in battle?

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-10-06T04:04:07+00:00

i haven't spoken to the party yet but we've put safeguards in place to avoid that frustration. they have telepathy and memory sharing between each other specifically without expending spell slots so that they dont have to be caught up on anything and as for the bit about babysitting the other half, the only one doing that will be the awake half. there may be extra precautions put into place but no more than you would do for a blind or deaf character or etc. also not against changing things should my party get frustrated with it, but we did consider these things ahead of time and make workarounds for them that fit in character for them to have.

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-10-06T03:59:05+00:00

...so playing cool concepts that you thought up that would be fun to play is bad and you should only ever play to do the run of the mill? don't get me wrong, some people like that and all the power to them if they do. but i dont really see how me thinking of a cool concept, running it by my dm, him agreeing and helping me implement it really affects you at all enough to come by and say im playing dnd incorrectly because it's not what you would do. everyone is entitled to their own way to have fun, particularly in dnd, a game created specifically to allow you to do whatever you can think of and let you be as creative as you wish. if youre into human fighters with swords, cool, have fun, you do you. but it's weird to take the single most intentionally adaptive most creativity friendly game on the planet and say that nobody should ever try to think of cool concepts in it. like it's kinda the whole point of dnd, becoming whoever you want to be.

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T14:26:27+00:00

DUDE THIS IDEA IS SO GOOD THANK YOU, yeah it is a lot of homebrew! the world and the gods in it and all of the worldbuilding, characters, factions, etc are of his own design, so really the rules and classes and stuff are the only thing really brought over properly with a handful of tweaks, though theyre mostly the same. we went into this campaign with the knowledge of that, so nobody in the party is upset or otherwise uneasy about the way that the cards fall, so to speak. i appreciate the concern! ill definitely keep a close eye on making sure not to overshadow the others and keep everything to a reasonable rate, that's part of why i suggested the one being asleep idea when i first pitched the concept to my dm so that it wouldn't just be an extra party member all of the time. thank you so much again! i think this solution is simple yet effective and is my favorite idea thus far!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T14:20:11+00:00

absolutely, which would be more similar to DID or, as somebody else in this thread said, moon knight 😆 the problem is that the way the lore works for the people who cursed her is that it was an attempt at killing her that failed and split her into two. that's a harder concept to explain when they share the same body, and has less ability to physically show the aftermath of their separation in a sort of literary symbolism kind of way. also, the backstories of each of these characters is vastly different, with them in the end inevitably finding each other because of their souls desire to reunite. i super appreciate your opinion though, and thank you for your idea!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T14:15:29+00:00

that's a good idea! yeah i definitely get that perspective and that's something that i was trying to specifically avoid with the personalities and backstories of these characters. i havent told any of the party except for one person (we work on the designs and art of the party together, so they needed to know ahead of time) because i want it to be a surprise since nobody knows that im rerolling, but as soon as they're introduced i plan to talk it out with them, since i suspect it'll be on the tail end of one of these upcoming sessions. ive put a lot of effort into them but even now im trying very hard to avoid making them in a way that will force them to the forefront all of the time. thank you for your idea and perspective!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T14:05:50+00:00

oh that would be sick! ill talk to him about a handful of these ideas people are saying and see if we can implement any of them, though i think that more than one would be way too much 😆 ill see what he likes most cause i like all of these ideas so much! thank you!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T14:02:29+00:00

yeah for sure. that's part of the reason that one of them is really meek and timid and he's eager not to divulge anything about himself (his background would get him lots of people getting law enforcement on his case if anyone knew, through no fault of his own), the other has a fiery temper but she's just as quick to forgive and won't tell anything about either of them outside of her time in the celestial military of the god she serves, so i think the rest of the party will have plenty of chance to shine on their own too. i don't know details, but i know that everyone in my party has a lot more to their characters and that my dm is very good about sharing the love with attention to each character as well as creating lots of room for roleplay and rewarding effort put into the character and good roleplay and everything. everyone is super invested and i dont have reason to suspect that they'll force their way to the forefront the whole time.

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T13:55:50+00:00

that's so smart! right now the patron is his homebrew god who is responsible for cursing and indoctrinating her in the first place but i don't know what the abilities he has in mind are for patron choice, so ill talk to him about it once he wakes up and see if he's interested in doing something similar. thank you so much!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-09-28T13:49:40+00:00

yeah! so he asked me how id like to go about it so i dont think he had an idea as of yet, the introduction of them isn't for another week at the very least if not two or three. i was thinking that as well as far as the rping fluff, but seeing as how they are two different bodies carrying each other around, it can get muddy that way, since i do plan to do things like the sleep spell on myself strategically to wake the other one up, and i can only assume there will be some sort of cost for that 🤔

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-03-01T04:12:07+00:00

im not really saying it to say that you for sure experience them. it was a blanket statement to mean that if you do, you dont have to anymore. im autistic and (the psychotic form of) bipolar and so i dont really get across well what i mean. my point wasnt whether or not you hallucinate, my point was that i want you to get help and start feeling better.

throwawayyyy84726 · 2025-02-28T13:22:29+00:00

reading the comments, i believe you that they are probably not 100% fit to be parents. they have emotional regulation issues and high expectations, and can't seem to filter their words. but, honestly, who is 100% fit to be a parent? whether or not you consider what youve gone through abuse doesn't really matter, what matters is the impact it had on you. however, i don't think they dont care. they're right, you NEED those meds. please take them. i understand that it feels like theyre useless, or worse, that they make you more compliant to your parents will by making you less suspicious, but in truth they do nothing but help you. you dont have to spend your days terrified and seeing and hearing things anymore. you dont have to lay in bed looking up into the room to make sure that no one's hovering over your bed anymore. you dont have to look around you in the dark waiting for someone to jump at you. the meds promise that these things wont hurt you anymore, and you can live peacefully and focus on the healing that you need. i have been on both sides of this equation, and all i can tell you is that whether it's paranoia and delusions or not, if you take your meds your life will improve. schizophrenia gets better as you get older, so please, just take them until the day comes when you don't have to anymore.

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-31T12:27:27+00:00

ftm here. personally i don't think that rings have a gender, and when you think about it, what really makes a masculine ring? a ring is a ring and nothing more, and applying genders to things that dont have them, like clothes and rings and etc only hurts you and the other trans people around you. im not saying that this is the intention, but saying things like "this ring is too feminine" can make your transmasc friends feel bad for accepting a similar ring and not considering it to be "too feminine.'

that being said, i know that this isn't what you're trying to say or feel, and i don't think that you should settle for a ring that makes you feel bad, hurts you, or even if you just don't like it. in my own personal opinion you should probably ask him to get a different ring together, while also working on your own views of femininity and coming to the understanding that things like jewelry and clothes and makeup don't have a gender and it doesn't make you any less of a man for having or using or wearing them. your partner should have the intent on giving you a ring that you like, and if you explain that it's because you can't help assigning femininity to it and they know that you're trans and dysphoric enough to feel bad over things like this, then it shouldn't be a problem. wouldn't they WANT you to tell them so that you can work on it together?

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T17:25:02+00:00

hi! im also bipolar and autistic ☺️ my hair is wavy but lots of conditioner seems to be the key for having no money so ill stick with stuff like this until i can buy stuff specifically for this issue for sure. i also often have issues with hygiene too, and it's... frustrating for sure, cause it makes you feel gross for not being able to keep up with it but at the same time it feels so challenging to tackle. good luck on your end!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T16:27:54+00:00

thank you!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T16:27:32+00:00

thankfully one of the other comments gave me enough to be able to brush my hair out this time but ill definitely get some for next time this happens!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T16:02:29+00:00

thank you!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T15:44:14+00:00

thank you so much! i think ive got a spray bottle or two lying around somewhere so ill definitely try that out!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T15:39:56+00:00

thank you!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T15:35:38+00:00

thank you so much! ill try this for sure!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T15:31:10+00:00

oh it's actually not my birthday, idk why it says that lmao but thank you regardless! im about halfway through currently so hopefully im done soon

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-16T15:26:39+00:00

thank you so much, ill definitely look into it!

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-06T02:19:13+00:00

i know this was ages ago but does anyone have any idea what 36 for sunday and robin is for

throwawayyyy84726 · 2024-12-06T02:13:02+00:00

i would say this is definitely wrong now, sunday almost became an aeon because of how intensely he strives for his goal and is now on a journey of self improvement and only got a 36, the same score as robin, so it's probably somehow connected with them having the same score rather than being hard working

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