Desirea Daekedia – Hand written character sheets

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

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

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.

Desirea Darkedia – Level 2 Character Sheet, Equipment and Treasure

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.

Character Sheet

At level 2, Desirea is still a single class rogue, and not a rouge / wizard. So I’m going to be comparing this sheet to the screenshot from the browser.

Hit points show as 15, which is crossed out and hand written to 28. That seems excessive, but, ok. Her level 1 sheet had the same sort of note, so I’m not sure what that’s about. Her base bonus attack is now 1.

The characteristics are the same, but her ranged attack is now at a 5, up from 4. I assume that’s a modifier. The armor class is back to 14, and gold has gone down to 70.

Skills (changes from level 1)

  • Balance is now 9
  • Climb is now 4
  • Disable device 5
  • Escape artist 9
  • Gather information 4
  • Hide 10
  • Jump 2
  • Knowledge nature 4
  • Listen 5
  • Move silently 7
  • Open lock 9
  • Sleight of hand 8
  • Spot 4
  • Survival 4
  • tumble 8

Feats/Specials (changes from level 1)

  • Stealthy
  • Evasion

Desirea’s Equipment

Armor

  • Leather
  • Black cape +2 AC

Weapons

  • Short Sword +5 to hit – 2D8 Damage
  • Dagger +21 to hit – returns – 1D4
  • Dagger 3 – 1D4
  • Sling – 1D4
  • Short sword – 1D6

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
  • Healing potions 3
  • Oil
  • Silver mirror
  • Black traveling cape

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 last until morning
  • Cameo Pin 5 gold
  • Troll blood 2 flask
  • Healing 2 flask (10 does [sic] each)

My thoughts…

It’s hard to say that these equipment and treasure lists belong specifically with this character sheet, but it makes the most sense, when seeing the other equipment sheets.

And who doesn’t need 2 flasks of troll’s blood?

Desirea Darkedia – Stapled character sheets from March 2017

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 character sheet here matches the printed character sheet from earlier, complete with the wizard multi-class. This could have been the original sheet, complete with notes showing 0 experience and a level 1 designation.

Additional Spells

  • Message — Trans — 0
  • Open/Close — Trans — 0
  • Arcane Mark — Univ — 0
  • Prestidigitation — Univ — 0
  • Detect Magic — Div — 0
  • Obscuring Mist — Conj — 1
  • Detect Secret doors — Div — 1
  • Magic Missile — Evoc — 1
  • Color Spray — Illus — 1

I can’t even begin to translate the skill points, weapons, and such from the additional pages stapled to the character sheet. I think those skills are well represented on the previous character sheets. Suffice it to say that this looks like a form from an application, complete with increment and decrement buttons. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

An item under Gear and Tools is noted as a Sunrod. That sounds near but it’s probably some standard sort of thing for the game system. Maybe it’s a time-keeping device. She did choose to carry a Flute, which is penciled in.

Separate gear list

Similar to the stapled gear list, is a loose skill list and gear list, also from the same print date of March 23, 2017. These look like duplicate bits, with the same hand written notes.