The Mini Adventures of the Wandering Yeti

Dungeons and Dragons has taken over my hobby life. It started innocently enough about two years ago when a friend asked me to join her mini campaign because she wanted to learn to DM. I'm a child of the 80s, so of course I'd heard about D&D, but my high school's gaming club left a lot to be desired. Like any other girl who was willing to deal with the individuals who made up the gaming club. As an adult, I've become friends with several of them, but at the time, these were not people that I was comfortable spending my free time with. So, while I was a self-proclaimed nerd, I had never cracked open a Players Handbook before 2024. And then everything changed.

The short campaign, which ran a modest 8 sessions at an all female table, opened the door to playing in another campaign (two years running) as Runtigus Grimm, a goblin barbarian/warlock who grew up in a circus and turned out to be the missing son of a murdered royal family. It also led me to becoming a GM for an online table, running a Daggerheart campaign based on the Witherwild campaign frame, which is able to meet in person just often enough for me to justify buying minis, paint, and basing material. Which has, unexpectedly, led to a whole new hobby.

Turns out, I quite like painting ridiculously small character details. I find it weirdly soothing for both my anxiety and my insomnia. Painting for an hour or so before bed makes me calm in a way no amount of prescription medication has ever managed. Fast forward to today - a new blog to document my mini painting (and probably TTRPG) adventures, and a handy way to put all the bits and bobs of my hobby life in one convenient spot.

This Bullywug boss I painted about nearly two years ago recently made his NPC debut in my Daggerheart campaign, as a ribbit named Veereg.