AN: Oh no, he's doing a thing. No but seriously, I like what I'm doing here, despite how ridiculous and stupid it is gonna be. I won't be updating this consistently though, so just be aware of that. Anyway, hope you can sit through the first part of this, because we got the character creation getting started this session.
"You can't seriously expect me to just sit here and take part in this 'game' of yours." Weiss' arms were crossed as she sat at the table, unamused by what she was told about.
Ruby slung her arm around Weiss' shoulders. "Oh come on, Weiss, it's not like it'd be a bad thing."
"Ruby, this is not how I wanted to spend my weekend," Weiss said as she grumpily looked at everything that was set up in front of her.
Through some strange sort of phenomena, Ruby had brought up the idea of a game night, one that Weiss stupidly decided to partake in. Little did she know what exactly it was that Ruby had planned when she gave the suggestion.
"Oh come on, Weiss," Yang said sitting at the table that they all occupied, right between Weiss and Blake. "I haven't done this either, but I'm sure it'll be fun. I've seen a little bit from time to time because of Ruby inviting people to play this at our house before. Give it a try, you might like it."
"Yang, she wants us to play Dungeons and Dragons," Weiss deadpanned. "You guys may get enjoyment out of this, but I don't see how I possibly could at all."
"Weiss, if I'm giving it a try, then you should as well," Blake said, looking over to the white-haired girl seated between Yang and Ruby. She had a large mug of coffee in her hands as she was not expecting to be awake this early in the day. "Besides, it isn't going to be all that bad, you have us to do this with, and you've enjoyed trying new things before with us, so what's one more thing?"
"Ugh, fine, let's just get this over with," Weiss begrudgingly conceded, letting her head hang back as she stared at the ceiling. "How long is this going to take anyway?"
"Well this first session is mostly set up, but it all depends on how much is planned out for us in a session," Ruby explained. "We only need to wait on Jaune and we can get sta-"
"Wait wait wait wait a second," Weiss interrupted, slapping her hand over Ruby's mouth. "Why is Jaune involved in this? I thought this was just gonna be between the four of us."
Ruby tried to speak, only for it to be muffled by Weiss' palm. After giving Weiss a look, the smaller girl tried to start over. "As I was trying to say, he's gonna be the DM of this game," Ruby commented, as if Weiss actually knew what she meant.
"The what?"
"Ruby's saying that he's basically creating the story that we're gonna be in, and he's gonna be the one running the game," Blake commented. "In this context, he's called the 'Dungeon Master'." Blake lifted up her hands and made air-quotes when she said Dungeon Master.
Looking into her mug, Blake only noticed that it was halfway gone. 'Need more coffee, can't deal with Weiss' extra right now,' She thought to herself while waiting for something else to be said.
"And what does that mean for us? That we're just lab rats in his messed up experiment of a story?" Weiss argued with a scowl.
"It just means he's the one who's trying to make sure we enjoy ourselves while we're here," Yang remarked as she was looking through one of the many books that were on the table. "Well I think I know what I'm doing."
"Oh, and what would that be?" Ruby asked.
Yang just closed the book loudly, before handing it over to Weiss. "You'll see when we get into this, but I think it's gonna be pretty funny."
"Ugh, fine, what am I supposed to do with this?" Weiss asked as she looked at the cover. "Player's Handbook? Someone want to explain all this to me?"
Leaning over, Ruby walked Weiss through what she was initially looking for, helping Weiss pick out what it was that she was going to play as.
After a few minutes, some small talk between Blake and Yang, and Ruby helping Weiss out with the character she would roll up, they heard a knock at the front door.
"That's probably Jaune," Yang said, standing up and walking over to let him in. "Good to see you, Vomit Boy." Yang took note of how soaked he was. "Jeez, is it raining or something outside?"
Jaune just glared at her as he walked inside. "Yeah, just a little drizzle. You mind giving me a minute, I got some spare clothes that I wanna change into so that I'm dry."
"You know where the bathroom is," Yang smirked as she smacked him on the rear and started to walk back to where the others were. "Just don't take forever in there, we'd like to get started soon."
"Yeah yeah," Jaune sighed as he went to go get changed.
Yang got back to the table and took her seat. "He'll be a minute, it's kinda raining right now."
Weiss just glared out the window before turning back to the blonde. "No, you don't say…"
"Oh boy, she's resorting to sarcasm, she's in a good mood," Blake joked.
"Just what I needed..." Jaune complained as he approached the table, having changed as quickly as he possibly could. "...a sarcastic Weiss."
"That was quick," Yang commented.
"Well when you live with seven sisters, you need to make sure you can get changed quickly so that they don't run in on you midway through," Jaune replied. "Anyway, so who here besides Ruby has played before?"
To Jaune's lack of surprise, none of the other three girls raised their hands. "Ok, so how many of you have at least seen someone else play, even if it was a little bit?" Surprisingly, Blake's hand went up, while Yang's kinda wavered in between, letting Jaune know that she has, but really didn't pay much attention.
"Alright, that gives me an idea of what I'm dealing with at least. So, first things first, everyone gets their own set of dice. Ruby since you have your own, I got nothing for you. You'll be using each of these at various points during the game. Also I got sheets for you to write down stuff, such as stats, equipment, skills, yada yada yada. First things first, you guys gotta tell me what you are looking to play. Ruby, you're first."
"Human Ranger," Ruby replied cheerfully.
"Nice," Jaune nodded as he gave her a thumbs up. "We'll go over rolling for stats and stuff once everyone know what to do with that, then we can actually try out this idea I have."
"And what would that be?" Weiss asked, almost afraid to know.
"Randomly rolling up parts of your character's backstory, and once you have that, you guys can build off of that to make some epic stories for each of your individual characters," Jaune stated, holding up a second book. Weiss looked at the cover, reading the words 'Xanathar's Guide to Everything' on it, and looking at the strange cover art of it. "Anyway, Weiss, what were you thinking of playing?"
"Well, Ruby helped me come up with the idea to play as an Elf Wizard," Weiss sighed, still unable to comprehend how she got roped into this whole thing in the first place.
"Ooh, I think you'll like that one," Jaune said, encouraging her to have fun. "Yang? How about you?"
"Dwarf Fighter, and for fun, can I just be a dude?" Yang commented, chuckling to herself a bit before speaking up again. "I'm not being serious about that, though I was debating it at first."
"Somehow I'm not all that surprised," Jaune replied, shaking his head at what Yang was trying to suggest. "Now, Blake?"
"Halfling Rogue," The black haired girl stated, leaning back in her chair and interlocking her hands behind her mess of black hair. With her coffee finished, she was more excited to be taking part in this adventure that she was brought into.
"Oh that's a good idea."
"I would hope so," Blake said. "It's not like I just picked two things at random. So, now that I'm awake, what do we do?"
"And so the fabled Belladonna coffee addiction has reared it's ugly head once more," Yang smirked, jabbing at her best friends side. "Glad to see you showed up today."
"Oh, I see how it's gonna be today,"
"Well, everyone go and grab their six sided die, we're gonna roll for stats next," Jaune mentioned. "Ruby, you already know what to do, so just let me know what you get."
"Sure thing!" Ruby replied as she started rolling the dice.
"Alrighty then, for the rest of you, here's what you're gonna do," Jaune grabbed one of his own dice and held them out for the trio to see. "Take one of these, roll it four times and note what you get. You add together the three highest numbers you get, and that becomes one of your stats, which you can put into any of the six blocks on the left hand side of your character sheet."
"So like this?" Yang asked as she rolled out her first stat, rolling a 5, 6, 2, and 4.
"Yep, so you would subtract the 2 from that, and the rest of it added together is one of your stat numbers. In this case it'd be a 15, so you can put that in any of the spots you want," Jaune explained. "My suggestion, you get all six stat numbers, and then decide where to put each of them once you know what your highest numbers are."
"Ok, so what would be the best thing for me?" Yang asked.
"We can get to that once you roll out your stats, ok?" Jaune requested.
"Alright, fine," Yang said as she started to roll her next stat.
After a few minutes, everyone had their stats rolled out and was waiting for the next part of their task. "So, now what?" Weiss asked impatiently.
"Well, what did you get as your rolls?" Jaune questioned.
"11, 15, 12, 8, 12, and 17," Weiss answered as she looked at one of the sheets in front of her that she wrote the numbers down in.
"Ok, first and foremost, you want your intelligence to be your highest stat, being a Wizard, it's what you use for all your spells and stuff. After that, have constitution be the second highest, followed by dexterity. So put the 17 in the intelligence, the 15 in constitution, and one of the 12's into Dex. The rest you can place where you see fit, though I would put that 8 into your strength, since you're gonna be squishy."
"Ok," Weiss huffed, writing all of this down, placing the remaining 12 into her charisma, and the 11 in wisdom.
"I already got everything laid out, Jaune," Ruby proudly mentioned. "Here you go!"
Taking a moment to look at Ruby's sheet, Jaune nodded in approval. "Sweet, we can get to that next part in a moment, so for now just sit tight. Anyway…" Jaune turned back to Weiss. "...now let's take into account your race. So, as an elf, you get a racial bonus to your dexterity, so increase that by 2, from a 12 to a 14."
"Ok, would've been nice to know beforehand," Weiss complained, as she started to erase the 12 that she had in there, in its place now a 14.
"Well, what if you had put that 17 in dex instead? It would've changed the outcome," Jaune countered. "Besides, this is the most tedious part of it all, just going through and getting the characters set up. Once we're done with this, we'll take about 10-15 minutes, go order some pizza, and relax before getting into the actual game itself."
"Ugh, fine," Weiss conceded. "So now what do I do?"
"As an Elf, you get the following Racial features," Jaune began to say. "I would write these down in the box along the bottom half of the right side. Also I would just recommend writing down names of traits instead of the full description, you won't fit everything in there at all."
Taking note of where Jaune was pointing, Weiss waited for Jaune to speak.
"You get, Darkvision up to 60 ft., which means you can see when there is minimal light conditions," Jaune began to say. "You also get Keen Senses, which gives you proficiency in the skill of Perception. For that, just fill in the bubble next to the skill in the box that's right next to your stats section."
"Perception, perception, perception, ah, there you are," Weiss said, filling in the bubble that was associated with the skill. "What does it mean when it says Wis on the other side of it?"
"Perception is a wisdom based skill, so when you roll for a perception check, you would take your wisdom modifier, which we will get to in a second, and add it to the roll you make. On top of that, if you have proficiency in a skill, you also get to add your proficiency bonus to the roll as well, meaning a better chance for a good outcome," Jaune explained.
"Ok we can get into that more later, when I assume it will be relevant," Weiss said. "So is that it or is there more?"
"You also get the racial feat, Fey Ancestry," Jaune explained. "You cannot be put to sleep by magical means, and any time someone tries to magically charm you, you have advantage on the save against that. We can get into all those things a bit later as well, again, when it's relevant."
"Right, is that all now?" Weiss asked again.
"A couple of other things, you also get the feat, Trance, which means you only need 4 hours of sleep instead of the normal 8 hours," Jaune continued. "Now, you have a choice. As an Elf, you get to pick between the following Subraces, High Elf, Wood Elf, or Dark Elf. Recommendation, High Elf."
"Well then I'll do that," Weiss agreed. "What does that do for me?"
"You get to increase your Intelligence stat by one, so it goes up from a 17 to an 18," Jaune went on to say. "You also get to pick an extra cantrip, an extra language that you know, and you get Elf Weapon Training, giving you proficiency in the Long and Short Sword, and Long and Short Bow. Finally, you have a movement speed of 30, you are anywhere between smaller than 5' tall, to potentially over 6' tall. You know the languages of Common and Elvish, plus that additional one for being a High Elf that you can pick. And for age, Elves typically reach physical maturity around 18, but they aren't considered 'adults' until they reach 100 years old. Though that stuff we can go over later."
"So is that it?" Weiss said, having just barely kept up with what Jaune was saying.
"For right now," Jaune said, giving Weiss a nice sigh of relief. "While I go over stuff with Blake and Yang, you and Ruby can start to go over some of the next stuff, backgrounds, what you get from your class, etc."
"Oh joy," Weiss sighed as she turned to the red headed ball of energy.
"Ok, now that we are through the most tedious part of the game, everyone recap names of characters for me real quick so that I can start to memorize it for in game," Jaune requested.
"My character's name is Eva," Ruby declared.
"Anastriana Xiloscient," Weiss said next.
"Adrik Goruun," Yang beamed.
"Tye Hogcollar," Blake mentioned.
"Really, that's a weird name," Weiss commented.
"Says the girl with the overly complicated name," Blake smirked, prompting Weiss to scowl and turn her head away. "Anyway, we gonna take a break? I think it's about time we got some pizza and hit the bathroom before we start."
"Here here!" Ruby spoke up as she got to her feet and walked over to grab the phone.
"Hopefully this turns out to be as fun as you guys are making it seem like it is," Weiss muttered as she walked over to the bathroom to freshen up a bit before getting started with this game.
AN: Well, I can't believe that I'm actually doing this. But you know what they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained. As I said in the first AN, this will not be a story that I update on a consistent basis, it's gonna be one of those ones where, if I'm in the mood to write it, then I will.
I purposefully glossed over the character creation details, mostly to save myself the sanity of having to write that out, and keep you all from getting bored from reading that.
As the story goes on, you'll get a better idea of what each person will have on their character sheets, and whenever they level up, I'll give a brief summary of what everyone gets as a result.