New player understood the assignment too well and it was kind of adorable /u/crustdrunk DnD: Roll for Initiative!

Newbie player absolutely floored me by understanding the assignment too hard

So I just started a new campaign with most of the old crew, for long winded boring reasons I won’t go into here. It’s a homebrew 3.5 campaign with slightly twisted forgotten realms lore.

The relevant context here is that I based this world as the same as the last campaign but set about 20 years later, so some plot points and characters get mentioned. As always I have a very detailed lore document that nobody ever actually reads but it explains everything from local politics to deities and so on

One of my players is a friend who is brand spanking new to dnd andvery enthusiastic. So this dude read the lore doc about 10 times came up with a 500 word backstory and went above and beyond.

I was going for a bit of an open world beginning so I gave the players a bunch of leads they could follow up and mentioned there was a festival to Sune in a nearby city, and they went to check it out.

I’m describing this beautiful, lavish festival with the high priestess praying to Sune and conjuring multicoloured flames and all of a sudden this new player in full character interrupts with “LADY OF LOVE OR SHAR THE LADY OF LOSS?”…he was so serious because he somehow connected these goddesses in his mind and he’s looking at me across the table so intensely and I was floored, like WHAT

I worked with it trying not to laugh but basically the priestess finished her ritual and blessed him with a charisma boost for 24hrs, forgiving his mistake but holy crap it was funny

We have since discussed the difference between deities that begin with S

Newbie player absolutely floored me by understanding the assignment too hard

So I just started a new campaign with most of the old crew, for long winded boring reasons I won’t go into here. It’s a homebrew 3.5 campaign with slightly twisted forgotten realms lore.

The relevant context here is that I based this world as the same as the last campaign but set about 20 years later, so some plot points and characters get mentioned. As always I have a very detailed lore document that nobody ever actually reads but it explains everything from local politics to deities and so on

One of my players is a friend who is brand spanking new to dnd andvery enthusiastic. So this dude read the lore doc about 10 times came up with a 500 word backstory and went above and beyond.

I was going for a bit of an open world beginning so I gave the players a bunch of leads they could follow up and mentioned there was a festival to Sune in a nearby city, and they went to check it out.

I’m describing this beautiful, lavish festival with the high priestess praying to Sune and conjuring multicoloured flames and all of a sudden this new player in full character interrupts with “LADY OF LOVE OR SHAR THE LADY OF LOSS?”…he was so serious because he somehow connected these goddesses in his mind and he’s looking at me across the table so intensely and I was floored, like WHAT

I worked with it trying not to laugh but basically the priestess finished her ritual and blessed him with a charisma boost for 24hrs, forgiving his mistake but holy crap it was funny

We have since discussed the difference between deities that begin with S