Sonja Redhorse

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About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.

Backstory

  • Female human
  • Age 19
  • Height 5’6″
  • Weight 145

Born in the town of Twinforks, a community on the trade route. Her parents own the Redhorse Inn. She grew up helping her parents, doing chores and waiting on customers. She heard talks of adventure from the sell swords and rousing songs of love and battle from the bards. She heard merchants tell of wealth made from their trade.

She learned to charm the the customers and earn an extra coin or a favor. From a bard she learned to play the flute. She applied her charm and received one of his old flutes.

But it was a handsome traveler who stole her heart. She was charmed by his captivating ways and gentle manner. He claimed to be a Barron from a far-off land. He said his father had been killed and his cousin had stolen the estate. He was on his way to take back his inheritance. Before he went away, he gave her a silver necklace with a ring. He promised to return when he had claimed his estate and ask for her hand in marriage.

He never came back and now she has sworn to find him.

Character Sheet

  • Class & Level: Fighter 1
  • Race: Human
  • Background: Folk Hero
  • Experience Points: 0

Statistics

  • Strength: 16 / +3
  • Dexterity: 14 / +2
  • Constitution: 13 / +1
  • Intelligence: 14 / +2
  • Wisdom: 11 / +0
  • Charisma: 9 / -1
  • +2 Initiative
  • 12 Armor Class
  • 11 Max HP
  • 1D10 Hit Dice
  • +2 Proficiency Bonus
  • 30ft Walking Speed

Saving Throws

  • +5 Strength
  • +2 Dexterity
  • +3 Constitution
  • +2 Intelligence
  • +0 Wisdom
  • -1 Charisma

Skills

  • +2 Acrobatics DEX
  • +2 Animal Handling WIS
  • +2 Arcana INT
  • +5 Athletics STR
  • -1 Deception CHA
  • +2 History INT
  • +0 Insight WIS
  • -1 Intimidation CHA
  • +2 Investigation INT
  • +2 Medicine WIS
  • +2 Nature INT
  • +0 Perception WIS
  • -1 Performance CHA
  • -1 Persuasion CHA
  • +2 Religion INT
  • +2 Sleight of Hand Dex
  • +2 Stealth DEX
  • +2 Survival WIS

Proficiencies & Languages

  • Armor
    • Heavy Armor
    • Light Armor
    • Medium Armor
    • Sheilds
  • Weapons
    • Martial Weapons
    • Simple Weapons
  • Tools
    • Cook’s Utensils, Vehicles (Land)
  • Languages
    • Common
    • Elvish

Actions

  • Standard Actions
    • Attack
    • Cast a Spell
    • Dash
    • Disengage
    • Dodge
    • Help
    • Hide
    • Ready
    • Search
    • Use an Object
    • Opportunity Attack
    • Grapple
    • Shove
    • Improvise
    • Two-Weapon Fighting
    • Interact with an Object
  • Bonus Actions
    • Second Wind 1/Short Rest
      • Once per short rest, you can use a bonus action to regain 1d10 +1 HP

Senses

  • 10 Passive Wisdom (Perception)
  • 10 Passive Wisdom (Insight)
  • 12 Passive Intelligence (Investigation)

Weapon Attacks & Cantrips

  • Longbow +4 1d8+2 Piercing
  • Unarmed Strike +5 4 Bludgeoning
  • Long Sword +5 1D8+3

Features & Traits

  • Fighter Features
    • Hit Points
    • Proficiencies
    • Fighting Style
      • Two-Weapon Fighting
    • Second Wind
  • Human Racial Traits
    • Ability Score Increase
    • Languages

Equipment

  • Leather
  • Dagger
  • Longbow
  • Arrows
  • Backpack
  • Bedroll
  • Caltrops (bag of 20)
  • Candle
  • Clothes, Common
  • Clothes, Traveler
  • Holy Water (flask)
  • Mirror, Steel
  • Oil (flask)
  • Pot, Iron
  • Potion of Healing
  • Rope, Silk (50 feet)
  • Soap
  • Tinderbox
  • Torch
  • Waterskin
  • Cook’s Utensils
  • Playing Card Set
  • Flute
  • Small Knife
  • Weight carried 73 LB
  • Encumbered 240 LB
  • Push/Drag/Lift 180 LB

My thoughts…

It seems like a lot of D&D Beyond characters start out with a standard kit of equipment. Mom sure did like to have a flute, though.

InConJunction Convention planning notes

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About: This is part of a collection of notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was a long time science-fiction convention attendee and volunteer, starting in the late 1970s. She ran registration, hospitality suites and chaired a few conventions.

Registration Supply list (two pages)

  • Number machine
  • Ink
  • Bags – 450 + 80
  • Ribbons
    • 4 Blue Committee
    • 25 Gray guest
    • 2 Gold GoH
    • Yellow badges – 67
  • Rubber bands
  • 3×5 1 Pkg
  • Blank yellow badges
  • 1987 buffet tickets
  • Blank white badges
  • Markers
  • Pens
  • Scotch Tape
  • Staples
  • Date stamp
  • Press badges
  • Paper clips
  • Stamps
    • Friday – Saturday – Sunday
    • Under 21
    • InConJunciton
    • For Deposit Only
    • Committee
  • Orange dots
  • Ribbons – Multi-color
  • Dots multi-color
  • Receipt Book – 5
  • Stapler
  • 36 Badge holders
    • 36 + 29 + 167 + 69
    • 12 Small
  • Stamp pads
  • Money till
  • Rubber glue
  • 5×7 cards

SOP Registration (three pages)

  1. Index card for every one
    • Pre Reg checked by person:
      • If person using someone elsees reg: he/she must fill out new card. Cross ref with person who originally paid.
    • At door:
      • Fill out card. Print name, add
  2. Check I.D.
    • Will eccept [sic] anything that has name and birth date
    • If under 21, and/or no I.D. give yellow badge
  3. Payment
    • Checks made out to InConJunction w/I.D.
      • Address on check or write it on back of check
  • Rates:
    • Posted by each person
    • $20 for adult
  • Listings
    • Badges for GoH
      • Yellow ribbons
    • Badgets for writers/panelist
      • Gray with guest
    • Badges for committee
      • Blue
    • Hucksters – white

Additional notes

I would guess that these notes were for the 1987 InConJunction, due to the note “1987 buffet tickets”. InCon certainly didn’t draw that number of people, so it’s likely the year. So, it sounds like Mom was in charge of registration that time around. Judy Eudaly was the Con Chair, so that also makes sense. They were good friends.

Mom worked as a civilian employee on a local army base as a computer programmer. She would always bring home stacks of printer paper that would otherwise be tossed. We used it for everything. And since Mom was military adjacent, her writing out “SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)” was par for the course.

Desirea Daekedia – Hand written character sheets

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About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.

The hand-written sheets for Desirea show a level 4 Rogue / Level 1 Fighter give us an armor class of 16 and 36 hit points. Desirea is described as Age 80 (half-elf), height 4’6″, weight 120, eyes black, skin is tanned and hair is black.

On sheet notes that Desirea is “Inquisitive, Root our secrets, Sharp eye, Seeker of lost treasures”. She also notes an Amulet of Detect Magic and studded leather armor. A hand written note mixed in with the character sheets adds that she has “bullets for sling 20”, “pouch of 40”, and “4 healing 5 does [sic] 1D6”. A note of 8 gold and 1 gold next to the some of these items may be a cost associated with each.

Of course, leave it to my Mom to misspell her own character name.

Additional notes

That about wraps it up for Desirea. Over the span of just a few years, she managed to get to level 4 in her primary class, which tells me that the campaign wasn’t run very often. The last known date on the printouts places Desirea near the end of my Mom’s adventuring career, but honestly – I couldn’t say what might have been her last player character since not all of her sheets have dates.

Mixed in with Desirea is an unnamed character from January of 2020, so that may really be it. I’ll wait to post that character sheet. There’s still plenty more to get through.

Desirea Daekedia – Level 4

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About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.

Updates from Level 3

Hit Points are possibly still 51? Is that a serious hit point score for level 4? Experience is listed as 6000, which feels low. Once again – I have no idea how the system she was using really works.

Her armor class is noted as +15 with the “vampric armor” that we saw on a previous equipment list. Her AC seems to have bounced around over the levels, so who knows. Her AC at level 3 was noted as “14 + 17 = 3”, but that was erased.

An added Feat is “Uncanny dodge” and she is sitting with 4446 gold, 49 platinum, and 1 silver piece.

Desirea’s Equipment

Armor

  • Leather
  • Black cape +2 AC
  • Vampiric armor +15
    • +3 sneak

Weapons

  • Short sword +5 to hit 2D8 Damage (Dipped in silver)
  • Dagger +2 to hit – Returns – 1D4 (Dipped in silver)
  • 4 Daggers 1D4 (Dipped in silver)
  • Sling 1D4
  • Cross Bow 1D6
  • Short sword +5 to hit 2D8 Cursed

Gear

  • Backpack
  • Belt pouch
  • Bed roll
  • Candles (10)
  • Flint & steel
  • Water skin
  • Healers kit
  • Flute
  • Thieves tools
  • Rope silk
  • Soap
  • Mess kit
  • Sewing kit
  • Change of clothes
  • Silver mirror
  • Oil

Hand written note

Cursed sword (only women can use)
+5 to hit 2D8 Damage

My thoughts…

I wonder if she was running in a Ravenloft, or similar campaign. The Vampiric Armor and silver-dipped weapons suggest some sort of undead or supernatural nasties.

Is it really a curse if only women can use a magic weapon?

The printed character sheet has a date of 12/31/2019 and is 1 of 2. I haven’t found the second sheet yet, if there is one.

Desirea Darkedia – Level 3 Character Sheet, Equipment and Treasure

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About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.

Level 3 character sheet – multi-class rogue / fighter

  • Hit points 19
  • Experience 4132
  • Base Attack Bonus 2 3

Fortitude bumps up to 3, Will moves up to 3 and Melee moves up to 3. Ranged is now a 6 modifier. She got a pay day, with 9 platinum pieces and 810 gold pieces.

Her skills are from her level 1 sheet, so who knows what’s up there. She includes a new language called “Cant”, which I assume to be Thieves Cant. Trap sense is added as a Feat and her Sneak Attack is noted as +3.

Desirea’s treasure

  • Silver 10
  • Pink Peal [sic] Amulet identify magic
  • Black cloak +1 AC
  • Pouch 5 lbs trade silver bars 25 gold
  • Gems 2 10 gold each
  • Platinum 7 bars
  • Star rose quarts [sic] gem necklace 50 gold
  • Large ruby 500 gold
  • Rubies 3 small 70 gold each
  • Silver bracelet 10 gold
  • Pink pearl amulet identify magic 1 time a day
  • Flask 10 doses lust [sic] last until morning
  • Cameo Pin 5 gold
  • Troll blood 2 flask
  • Healing 2 flask (10 does [sic] each)

Treasure (hand written note)

  • 1 Ruby 500 gp
  • 3 Rubbies [sic] 70gp each
  • 8 Rubbies [sic] (fine) ??
  • 9 Saphires [sic] (common) ??
  • 4 3 Diamonds ??
  • Knitting needles
  • Playing card with skull
  • Gold 3508

I have… (hand written note)

  • Short sword +5 to hit 2D8 damag [sic]
  • 1 dagger +2 returns 1D4
  • 4 dagger dripped in silver 1D4
  • Crossbow – 10 bolts. 1D6
  • Leather armor +2 AC
  • Thieves Tools reg.
  • Black cape +1
  • Pack
  • Flute
  • 1 change of cloths [sic]
  • 1 Sewing kit
  • Eating utinsles [sic]
  • Mirror/silver
  • Water skin
  • Bed roll
  • 3 candles
  • Rope silk soft
  • Soap
  • Healers kit
  • Sword +5 to hit 2D8 damage
    • Cursed only women can use it
    • Bar Tusia
  • Armor Vampiric +15 AC
    • +3 Sneak
  • 2 flask healing 10 doses each
    • Used 6

Treasure on me in a pouch

  • 1 Ruby 500 GP
  • 3 Rubies 70 gp each
  • 1 Flask 10 doses (lust)
  • Knitting needles
  • 1 star rose quartz necklace 50gp
  • Pink pearl amulent [sic] (identify magic)
  • 5 Bars trade silver 25 gp each
  • 2 1 gems 10 gp each
  • 7 bars platium [sic]
  • 1 silver bracelet 10 gp
  • Cameo pin 5 gold
  • 7 platinum
  • 5000 gold + 600 gold + 650 gold
  • 9 silver
  • 22 copper
  • 9 Saphires [sic] common
  • 8 Rubies (Fine)
  • 3 Diammands [sic]

Random hand written notes

  • XP 4132
  • Roge [sic] 3 – 2700
  • Fighter 1 – 300
  • Hitpoints
    • Fighter 1D10
      • 1st level 10 + Constitution or 6 + CON
    • Rogue 1D8
      • Leveals [sic] 1D8 + Constitution or 5 + CON

My thoughts…

I’m really not sure where some of the treasure lists fall in the levels of her characters. Items appear at level two that are crossed out. But here are those same items at level 3, and they’re not marked out. The vampiric armor is probably more of a level 4 thing, but then there are level 3 items making an appearance that aren’t noted at level 4.

I need to know more about this Lust flask.