Archive of Our Own

Notes:

• For septemberbells.

Written for Septemberbells in FIAB, answering the tag Autist/Bad Bitch They Pulled by Being Autistic (OW) and Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Spreadsheet.

Betaed by Odaigahara and NixieTricks, thank you so much!

To any readers, the spreadsheet is interactive in a limited way— on Table/Player to-date and Table Current you can change the dropdown menus to show you results for different tables or specific players, to drill down on specific story arcs. If you are familiar with D&D or TTRPG story structure, you can probably follow through the entire campaign by selecting one party at a time and seeing where they overlap. If you are not familiar with D&D or that just seems like a lot (I originally said "this is parseable!" and then sat bolt upright in my bed and was like "no, what"), what you're gonna want to do is to go to Table/Player to-date, and select the player Jay, and then look for any note tagged Personal.

If you are not familiar with D&D but trying to figure out the stories anyways: a mephit is a tiny mischievous elemental, a "west marches" campaign is a game in which multiple tables play through stories which interlock into a grand overarching story, and really powerful dragons can shapeshange and pass as humans and green dragons (poison-themed) love to lie and deceive. A "DC" is a "Difficulty Class" or the number a roll has to beat to success— higher DC is a harder roll to succeed on. Con (constitution), Dex (dexterity), Str (strength), Int (intelligence), Wis (wisdom), Cha (charisma) are the base skills that your player character has— each player will have a few of these that they're very good at and a few they're weaker at. A Save and a Check are types of rolls— (check is something you intentionally do, save is something you're trying to avoid or overcome).

The google account used for this spreadsheet is made for the project and is not my real name. Click on the image to be brought to the spreadsheet. The characters referenced in the tag is the person making the spreadsheet and Jay, at the Goodberries table.