I joined a new RPG group last week and the first time I gamed with them was this past Friday. It was good timing due to the fact that they started a new Forgotten Realms campaign on Friday. It’s set in Cormyr to start with, and I have no idea where we’ll be heading. That’s part of the fun of a game… not knowing the future. That’s why I like being a player. However, I had lots of downtime as we started at 3rd level and had quite a few powers/items to learn how to use properly. That’s OK. That’s part of a new game and a relatively new system. None of us have played much D&D 4e, and all of us are fresh from a Pathfinder campaign. There are rules that are similar enough between the two systems that we’d have to stop from time-to-time to look up a rule to make sure we had it right. Fortunately, we all are experienced role players and the 4e indexes are of high enough quality (though, they still fall short of Steve Jackson Games in the index area) that we can find most things quickly.

My character is an Elven Druid named Tallinhaldorian Milladorius (Tallin for short). I like the name. It’s sufficiently long to make Ed Greenwood proud. I had quite a bit of fun with my eight move, my powers and my abilities while wild shaped. It’s going to be a good campaign, and I can’t wait to get into the meat of things.