I actually had an idea of Ares not even being welcome anymore in the local church for being a zealot. ;)<br/><br/>A cleric getting kicked out of church, yeah... it's a good thing he's serving a neutral deity. :P<br/><br/><br/>Anyway, serving on the same platoon works for me. I figure my character would serve out of a sense of duty and a chance to deliver his own justice to those who wronged him. Well that, and the pay was well and after all, a man has got to eat. My character's personality is "I enjoy sailing into new ports and making new friends over a flagon of ale." so that'd fit well with your idea of them meeting up at the tavern. As far as the practice sessions go, I think my character would join in on those. He's a lot older than the average soldier with his age of 47, but he likes to stay fit. He's also pretty good with his rapier and might even teach the soldiers a thing or two about how to fight with finesse weapons. :-)<br/><br/>By the way, it's also fun to get another chance to write with you again. I'm not sure which game we were together in, but I'm pretty sure we were in a group game before. I'm starting to like this story better with every new person joining in. ;D<br/><br/>I'm pretty excited about this game either way though, it's my first 5e forum game. I'm playing tabletop weekly too, but I'm just not getting my RPing fix with 1 weekly session.