New Campaign, Who Dis?

 After lengthy preparation, our Wildemount campaign has finally begun.

Having played several half- and third-casters in my lengthiest campaigns, I decided to push myself in the opposite direction and play a Wizard. Rather than picking characters for party balance, we pretty much all just rolled characters we wanted, and so our party is actually... well, there are some repeats.

My character is Vodalos Sarpadiath, a 22-year-old Triton Wizard. A recent graduate of the wizard training program at the Hall of Sagacity in Gwardan, he is now on a quest to find a number of sentient "Gate Books," having made an extremely impulsive decision to simply follow the instructions of the ancient wizard whose consciousness was bound to a book he stole from the Cobalt Soul - of which he is a novice member.

Our party also includes Sip, a high elf fighter who is a traveling anthropologist who seems to think the world is coming to an end.

Next, we have Carnelian, a dwarf paladin, who seems to have been having a really rough time and is staying with a friend in Port Zoon.

We also have Quinn, a tiefling paladin who is an old acquaintance of Carnelian's, and the two seem to have some major beef from way back. Quinn these days is a drunk doing day-labor to keep himself in booze.

And then we have Ghashi, an earth genasi wizard, who is a fisherwoman and has been way cagier than Vodalos, with whom she has been sailing in a tiny fishing boat down the Menagerie Coast.

So yeah, we've got a shield wall and then artillery in the back.

Anyway, I've been having a ton of fun in this first session, playing Vodalos as a well-meaning but very naive (and unconsciously snobby) recent college grad. One decision I made is that he's not even remotely trying to hide the fact that he's a wizard - for example, freely offering to use prestidigitation to dry people off in a tavern after many came in to take shelter from a freak storm.

So far, the party has met up and got involved in an altercation in a tavern - it actually worked out because initially I had thought Vodalos would be likely to sit out the fight, until one of the thugs (a kobold inventor) attacked Ghashi, with whom he had started to develop a friendship (and he's really excited to find out she is also a spellcaster, even if he's confused as to why she didn't say anything before.)

Thankfully, the one fight was all we had to do to get to level 2, so now I've picked up my subclass - Order of Scribes. I'm holding off on picking spells until I can coordinate with Ghashi's player so we can maximize the total spells we get and just copy one another's new spells (luckily, as a Scribe, I'll be able to do so incredibly quickly - normally a wizard takes two hours per spell level to copy a spell, but with the Scribe's Wizardly Quill, it's two minutes per spell level, a factor of 60.)

Anyway, it's very exciting to start a new campaign. I'm eager for the next session.