Hi, Hello, Hola…I’m Ray, I’m a freelancer; I used to work in Cebu but due to health reason I moved back to my home town. I often tend to the family farm but mostly I take online jobs or assignments.

 

For FolkGate my Character is **Ignacio Thistlespark**, I built him as well rounded Vanguard, he’s supposed to take hits, survive and hit back harder; he can protect from back or frontline. Lore Bard with Armorer Artificer Multiclass. Iggy (pc nickname) used to live a card free life but not without sacrifice or compromise but as long as he had his wife, daughters and a home he was content. is now widowed father, seeking some kind of redemption or absolution, because a certain evil org. killed his family and stole a sacred relic his late wife was obligated to protect. he’s a “Good man”…but not a nice man, due to self inflicted suffering thru training he’s become too rough around the edges, is intelligent but stubborn to a fault, is tense, wary of his surroundings and often during his free time to day dreams of his past. Currently in the FG storyline, he dealing with his internal obsession with vengeance, currently reconnecting with others and with his new love interest re-learning the softer side of fatherhood.

 

 

Well I love that with FG you can express your creative freedom and inter connect with other PCs (player characters) from other groups. I love the shops and help a keeper as besides the crafting during downtime between in sessions; If anything I’ve learned how to use Avare (a Discord bot that helps with DND related things) programming language, helped new players understand the commands…even made a references like free spells for everyone to use. FG is…an evolving mystery, for my PC he’s an old angry, irritable man 🤣 trying to maintain his sanity. he either does combat training or tinkering on his free time. so when he learned new info about the Cultist that attacked his homeland. he’s trying to find meaning or reasoning __WHY?__ such events are happening. the questions he keeps asking himself is *Who are you? Why are you doing this? and How can i stop you (the Cultist)…permanently!!!* Honestly I feel excited both as player and PC because; solving a problem is cathartic in a certain way (for some people). in my last few campaigns I didn’t have a much freedom to express or be creative with what I wanted in my PC; just what in the standard dnd things.

 

What I love about the FG model is that, it has many possibilities to keep anyone interested and with what I can see (despite DM and council difficulty) that as long as the players interact and progress the the over arching story; they’ll find their definition of “__player satisfaction__” But I do need to be honest with my opinion, even **WE** (as the whole group of players and DM in FolkGate) that we’ve had our fair share of hardships and of course the dreaded “DND scheduling”; with the current progression I feel we’ve only made it 1/4th of the way and we all have a common civil decorum to try not over step or waste each others time as much I would like to have everyone their story arch and scenes.

 

I love how we can start with a base story then somewhere down the line it can go like “Oh wait you know this person?” to “Hmmm I think I might know guy for this”. I was a FanFiction writer and reader back in my highschool days; and I was also amazed how some people have the imagination to mix & match or cross reference characters, even professional writers mostly keep track with the main protag in a small circle of friends. ie. Harry, Ron and Hermione, Percy, Grover and Annabeth, Clary , Simon and Jace In my previous campaigns, it’s always been the guy getting to know someone else. for Ignacio he’s more introspective and like old dwarven stories doesn’t trust anyone except family. with FG I get to have connections prior or during the progression of the story

 

I like how despite scheduling that either the DM, players or the overall systems are improving. In my previous groups i didn’t have as much as a spot light or given options to try or do things I wanted before or after a session. ie. I’m the group leader of Drakenhull (DRKH), and I love my duties, keeping track of Lore/Notes, checking in with the DM or players, in session Inventory and of course…Text Roleplaying. I LOVE the text roleplaying because this is the few groups that emphasized it. “wait I get to be my PC as if writing a Fan Fic…except its canon!?” and “I don’t have to wait in-between session to progress my story?!” sign me up!!!

 

I’mma be like a few other players in FG and say I wish we have more **consistent** in scheduling and that the **other players are available; text RP was more active.** I wish this could happen but then again there more to life than DND.