Dank Witchery

About a year ago, in  the Mighty Gluestick's  Discord server, the subject of playing underaged characters in D&D came up. In my experience, it is not an especially unusual thing, so I was surprised when a large majority of posters there came out emphatically against it. Mostly, they were uncomfortable with the idea of portraying violence against children in their games. One poster in particular said he did not want to see a child get torn apart by undead. As opposed to seeing an adult get torn apart by undead, which I guess everyone is cool with. Anyway, I posted a long (by Discord standards) spiel about how I was not only okay with underaged PC's but actively liked the idea. It occurs to me that this is a post that could potentially actually change how someone out there plays D&D , so I decided to repost it here where it is findable, rather than leave it to languish in the ungooglable archives of a Discord server: Part of the point of D&D, to me, is emulating fanta

  June 21st, 2022/Worms 10th, 749 - Worms 13th, 748 Adventurers present: • Azaria, level 2 magic-user, played by B • Beowulf, level 4 fighter, played by J • Lady Joan, level 4 cleric, played by A • Lord Pendor, level 4 fighter, played by R Veriax the Elf went missing during the fight. The remaining adventurers turned down the brass mens' offer of parlay and slaught them all. They continued up the mountains, whose forested slopes had been reduced to great piles of ash and scree. Coming over a ridge, they looked down upon a camp-site. There was a great tent and a wooden pen in which were tethered a half-dozen banshee-birds. Two brass men guarded the tent. The adventurers attacked! One brass man went down, but the other freed several banshee-birds before taking shelter in the huge tent. The party killed most of the banshee-birds, but Azaria used her little medical knowledge to stabilize one and keep it from bleeding to death. Meanwhile Beowulf charged into the tent. Inside,

 May 24th, 2022/Worms 10th, 749 - Worms 13th, 750 Adventurers present: •Azaria, level 2 magic-user, played by B •Beowulf, level 4 fighter, played by J •Veriax, level 1 elf, played by M •Lady Joan, level 4 cleric, played by A •Lord Pendor, level 4 fighter, played by R Eager for strong-armed allies, Count Fenheah granted noble titles to Joan and Pendor. He also appointed the newly-minted Lord Pendor as governor of Mossbridge Fief. A year passed. Count Fenheah used the last of his wealth to rebuild Castle Fenn while Lord Pendor carried out the administrative tasks necessary to help Mossbridge recover from the orcish incursion. Lady Joan spent a great deal of that time among the common people working as a healer. Azaria lent her floating disc spell to aid in construction efforts, making a decent amount of money. She spent her earnings on a library of arcane texts and a building in which to house them. Beowulf manifested new powers gained by consuming the flesh of Big Mouth. He gained the a