Last month, Vesper’s story came to a close as our campaign had its last session. I have been playing as Vesper for two years, starting in July 2023 and ending in August of 2025. I am getting emotional writing this and for those who have never played a table-top roleplaying game, you might find this to be silly. When you play as one character for so long, you become attached to their story. I included some of my own personal struggles into Vesper’s story and as such, I became attached to her. This post serves as a goodbye to Vesper, but also being incredibly thankful that I got to be a player in this campaign.

For our last session, Vesper finally got to face her ex-husband, Garrick. In Vesper’s back story, prior to the events of our campaign, Vesper was married to Garrick, an evil vampire. Vesper left her marriage and trained at a magical academy with the ultimate focus of going back to defeat Garrick. Garrick, in turn, became obsessed with Vesper and wanted to be reunited with her. Vesper felt that in order for her to move on with her life, she would have to face him, even though she was scared to do so.

In this last session, I rolled seven natural 20s. This means I rolled a 20, seven times on a twenty sided die. This was unreal. Some might say that I’m lying or making this up, but I swear I am not. The other players looked at the 20 in my dice tray and could vouch for me if I needed them to. When I say the dice tell the story, I mean it. In Vesper’s story, I rolled many natural 1s which serve as critical failures. These had dire consequences for Vesper, so to see myself rolling so many natural 20s meant the world to me as a player. I have taken the two dice sets out of my dice pool, those belong to Vesper now. They sit on my TTRPG shelf along with my Vesper character miniatures.

While it’s easy to focus on Vesper, I think when it comes down to it, I’m so thankful that I found my group. Throughout these two years, I have become close with the players in our group. We exchange gifts with each other and we get together outside of our campaign to hang out. I find myself messaging the other players on Discord and chatting about all types of topics. I never thought that when I joined this group, I would meet new friends. I figured this would be a game and that’s it. In our epilogue session, one of the players bought us Coca Cola bottles with our character’s names enscribed on them. How cute is that?? On top of that, our GM gave me a d100 and told me if I made it through the campaign, I could keep it. There’s significance here as I rolled a natural 1 on a d100. It almost killed Vesper’s now husband Cam, but he survived. The d100 is now sitting on my shelf and serves as a souvenir for Vesper’s story and what it means to both her and me.

I can’t write this post without shouting out Badwolf Adventure Studios. Badwolf is where I play every week and they created my character art which I have shared multiple times and will continue to do so. Badwolf helped to create Vesper and gave her story life which is something I am grateful for.

With all that said, I’m excited to say that our new campaign will begin soon, so while Vesper’s story is complete, my time with Badwolf will continue. Here’s to Vesper; the character who taught me so much and who’s story will continue to stay with me for many years to come.