I played my first campaign this year at Katsucon as a dealers room staff member "once a year" campaign as one of our teammates wanted to beta test their dungeon modules and get some DMing experience, and I was one of three relatively inexperienced players joining: When he asked if anyone wanted to join the campaign I immediately jumped on the chance, having wanted to play for decades and never having an opportunity before: No local leagues, no one I knew had a campaign with room for a newbie, or I'd run into a group, ask if I could join as they were just beginning and didn't have a full party, and got shot down due to the moronic claim "Girls don't play D&D" by the entire group.

Having been trying to get an opportunity to play since the very start of third edition as a teenager, I'd known what I wanted to try out first as a Class: my love and research of primitive technologies, learning herblore and always having loved the idea of shapeshifting, I always wanted to play a druid. And Tieflings just seemed like a fun potential race for a hermit druid, since being ostracized by society could lead to one living in the woods, being an impish trickster and protecting the forest.

Which was what Smirk was SUPPOSED to be, a mischievous little sardonic pain in the butt for the party that I wouldn't care if he died because I fully expected to mess up royally at some point as a new player and get myself killed doing something stupid.


Instead, a few hours of RP and dice rolls in and I ended up with the most innocent, gullible and fresh off the turnip truck nerd who was desperate for love and attention with no idea that Tieflings even had issues in society. Thankfully, the setting was a bit of a new frontier/wild west, so Tieflings actually were fairly common as regular members of society.