Warforged Artificer

I'm pretty excited for D&D on Friday night. I haven't played it in a long time, and we've got a party of 5 people playing this time, and an actual DM, so it should be fun.

I'm playing a Warforged Artificer. Basically that means I'm a robot who makes machines and enchants things. I thought it would be a nice change of pace from my usual Elf/Human - whatever-the-fuck-has-big-swords. And now that I'm reading up on it more thoroughly I am finding that it's going to be a little complicated.

Basically I am playing a character who uses simple/melee weapons and attacks, but I have the ability to craft magical weapons that can deal crazy damage. I also have the ability to turn weapons that my allies and I wield into magical weapons by enchanting them. There's a whole system of rituals and shit that I need to figure out and it's pretty complicated. But I like it.

Also! Being a Warforged means I get all these neat little things. like the fact that I don't need to eat or sleep or breathe. Also, I have the ability, later on, to build myself a Homunculus, a little guy who I carry around (or who follows me around) who I can teach to carry out enchantments or to build weapons and items while I am doing other things. And the concept of a little robot dude following me around is ... hilarious. All in all I think it's gonna be fun to play.

Okay, that's enough of that.

I am nearing the end of the year almost, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that York isn't going to be helping me out with my money situation in any way. I just don't understand why, after jumping through ever hoop, and knowing full well the amount of money they have put away for these situations, I can't get any help. I have run into 3 barriers that were only there because I'm a design student. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense seeing as we pay much much more tuition than the majority of undergraduates here. Hell, we pay a little more than some grad students. So the fact that we pay more tuition means that we have ...less access to funding? What? I swear to god I am this close to switching to OCAD.

But ah well, the money things will be worked out somehow. I don't know how yet, but it's not going to keep me from going to school, I know that much.

Oooh, I have bananas!