Gerard Way Celebrated His Birthday Playing Dungeons And Dragons On Zoom

By Katrina Nattress

April 11, 2020

Gerard Way's not letting quarantine getting in the way of a "fun," "great" birthday. On Thursday (April 9), the My Chemical Romance frontman celebrated turning 43, and though he was stuck at home he was joined by his wife Lindsey, brother Mikey, and some of his closest for a virtual game of Dungeons & Dragons.

On Friday (April 10), Way shared a lengthy note about the festivities on Instagram alongside a screenshot of the Zoom party.

"So for my birthday, my loving wife @xlindseywayx and my dear brother @mikeyway got together with my friends and planned a birthday Dungeons And Dragons session! It was so much fun!" he exclaimed before going into acute detail of everyone's role in the game and their adventure, which involved a wizard transforming into a talking sheep.

"It was so nice to see my friends and communicate with them and be able to play a game together. I consider myself very lucky to have them as friends and such a wonderful group of players," he added. "And thanks for all the birthday wishes, I had a great one."

See Way's full post below.

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So for my birthday, my loving wife @xlindseywayx and my dear brother @mikeyway got together with my friends and planned a birthday Dungeons And Dragons session! It was so much fun! @jeremyfranklambert was our DM (who did amazing voices, the sheep being my favorite, but the half orc was pretty amazing too, heck all the voices were great), @angryzen was our Goliath barbarian Oolock (who ate a bear/human), @brigitte.__ was Whoolan, our wood elf bard (who played a mean flute), @jonrivera80 played his ever continuing dimension and game hopping fighter Gwar Dengar (Gwar has been in many of our games, also he had completely skinned a wolf and wore it as a cloak and hood) @malloryomeara played our gnome magician Mabe (who absolutely slayed the door riddle), Mikey played Elbin, our human cleric (who looked like Eric Stoltz and crushed a half orcs head with a spiritual weapon), and I played the birthday boy, Belquist, the halfling rogue (who was good at hiding and sneak attacks). We used zoom and it was awesome, and completed the whole adventure, which involved an elf wizard that had been polymorphed into a sheep that could talk— we had to help him get his wand back so we could turn him back to his natural form. It was so nice to see my friends and communicate with them and be able to play a game together. I consider myself very lucky to have them as friends and such a wonderful group of players. Now we are talking about having more zoom sessions and playing more games. This is the screenshot Jeremy took at the end of the session. Some of us had funky backgrounds (a fun feature of zoom) and you may notice my background is a field of wheat. Little known fact—some form of wheat is the background image on all of my electronic devices, phone, laptop, desktop, just anything, because it calms me down and brings me to a zen place. If I ever get stressed out, I just look at the wheat. That’s sometimes while you’ll see me using wheat as a background for things (as recent as my updated soundcloud). I love these people! And thanks for all the birthday wishes, I had a great one. #tabeltopgames #tabletoprpg #rpg #rpgs #dungeonsanddragons #friendship #quarantinegaming #sheep

A post shared by Gerard Way (@gerardway) on Apr 10, 2020 at 3:00pm PDT

On his birthday, Way revealed The Quarantine Coloring Book, and last weekend shared four new solo songs, one of which was written for a post-MCR band that never materialized.

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