The Blog of Roon

Never let it be said that roleplaying is entirely divorced from Real Life ™. I recently noodled on a piece of (probably non-canon) Dragonhunt fluff, in which Renate took the Ilium police files manager/researcher out to lunch.

So she asked him…

“How’d you get your job, anyway?”

“Majored in archives administration at university. They wanted me to stay for grad school and teach, but that’s a sucker’s game. You end up like Shem Matas.”

“Dead?” Renate’s eyes widened.

“Worse. Adjuncting.”

“Oh.”

I was not wholly responsible for the setup on this one. Long before SLIS tried to recruit me, the Dragonhunt GM had established that Shem Matas was an adjunct professor at Eldorado University before a demon lord took off the top of his head and burned out his brain. In fact, I think Shem’s so-called career was established in previous iterations of the Dragonhunt campaign in which I had zero involvement.

So it’s not my fault. Honest! It just worked out into one of those purely irresistible real-life/gaming jokes.

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