Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
Yeah sounds good. I've been really into the idea of doing a fantasy alt-universe of 1800s Boston because for some reason dwarves in suites makes me happy. Also I read about the Great molasses flood and knew that needed to be played out.
I haven't been participating in any of the ongoing discussions and even I am exhausted of it. The worry and desire to push back is merited, but after over a week of discussion it just feels like doom scrolling at this point, with people declaring the end is nigh for D&D.
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I recently got into 3D printing, and have been coming up with all sorts of ideas for D&D-related print projects. One of my most recent ones was a dice altar. I am not sure how common the idea is, but I saw one made of wood once at a game store in St. Charles, where it collected spare change as 'tribute' for cleansing the dice of bad rolls, and all of the money collected went to a local animal shelter.
I am trying to design a simplified version of that, with a stage that fits over top of a mason jar or some other common container for collecting the coins. The first prototype came out okay, but the width was a little too small for fitting over a wide-mouth jar. I also am not sure if there is an easy way to model the thread of a mason jar head onto its interior so it will actually screw on top like a lid.
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My introduction to Dungeons & Dragons was not through the tabletop game but through video games and television; as far back as 1982, when 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' and 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin' appeared on Mattel Electronics Intellivision game console and the Saturday Morning animated television show, 'Dungeons & Dragons'.
Played almost all of the popular D&D video game adaptations to date. So far, nothing out there rivals the 'Baldur's Gate' series.
Picked up a Starter Set box of D&D almost 10 years ago yet ended up collecting dust in a storage trunk.
What warmed me up to the tabletop game was the YouTube video, 'Lost Odyssey: Promised Gold' featuring Debra Ann Woll, Michelle Rodriquez, Jack Black and Gaten Matarazzo from 'Stranger Things' playing D&D for a charity benefit back in 2022 (or was it 2021...?).
This is where my obsession of D&D began. Almost anyone I come into contact with I tell them about D&D and what changes have been made; be it my doctor, or a passerby in a retail store or a friend that could make a potential D&D player.
Reading the comments on D&D Beyond forums drew my attention to 'Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel' and 'STRIXHAVEN: A Curriculum Of Chaos' are unquestionably steps in the right direction for Dungeons & Dragons.
Planning to pickup 'Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything' and the Bigby's Giants theme monster book when time permits.
By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
I'm not Sposta, but I'll take that offer.
I'm currently in...four? Yeah, four. One of them is actually a PbP game alongside Sposta here on DDB, run by Wysperra. Everybody in it's a bizarre multiclass and we're all at least 85% sure one of the other characters is an escaped Loony Tune. Also my gal's hand got turned into an evil mummy hand that can now obliterate organic matter, which is super worrying because she's made of organic matter and has to be real damn careful about scratching her nose or something Q_Q
Another is a wild game where we started in a Cybernetic Future Hellscape where magic had been drained from the world and trapped in machines/technology and Nature was basically entirely dead. To the point where druids weren't allowed in char creation and subclasses for other classes were heavily restricted. All our spells were different arcane machinery, our magical class features were same, and True Magic was incredibly rare and a sign of both a person of incredible power and talent and Big ******* Trouble. One example is that my Swarmkeeper ranger's "swarm of nature spirits" was instead a swarm of microdrones running off a V.I. net integrated into her hardsuit. After a particularly egregious ****up, that campaign's world was invaded by the Hordes of Hell, demons swarmed the streets by the thousands, and we were sent back in time fifteen hundred years to stop the events that created the Apocalypse in the first place. My gal got to use the phrase "we are canceling the Apocalypse" in a real conversation and I couldn't be nerdier about it.
The third is my Sunday game, which was a delightful surprise here on DDB. I saw an LFP add looking for players for a high-level (level 12 start) D&D campaign and was in a squirrely mood at the time, went "y'know what? Sure. Maybe I'll get a few sessions out of it and actually get to try some higher-level stuff nobody ever gets to see before it explodes off the rails." Game has been running for over a year now and I'm currently a 17th-level wizard in it, the tactical backbone and Team Dad of the party. That game's about stopping the Convergence, straight out of Dead Space. We're dealing with Unitologists, necromorphs, mind-altering twisty rocks, and the constant threat of psychosis and delusion causing us to attack our allies or even harm ourselves. This is a campaign where the wizard's normally-useless proficiency in Intelligence saving throws has saved my fuzzy catgirl ass on at least a dozen occasions and made Mira rather the bane of the BBEG's existence. Not only is Mira very difficult to sway, but her ability to cast Mind Blank and render our ranger with the ~200-damage Emergency Super Arrows completely immune to Mind ****ery has had the DM giving me the squinty eye and the slow clap more'n once. Heh.
The fourth is an Eberron game, run by a newcomer to our usual table. That one's a sandbox, player-directed plot for the most part, which started as a Suicide Squad set-up - we were all prisoners of Breland sent to handle tasks Breland didn't want its own people to be seen doing. We've spent the last half-the-game-thus-far building up the resources and positioning we'd need to make a break for it before we end up either too useful for Breland to let go off or compromised enough that we'd end up disposed of. There's an undercurrent plot of frequent brushes with daelkyr cults and monstrosities, since my particular character is a dedicated daelkyr hunter from a society outside the normal Khorvairan continent. That's been a lot of fun, gives me a chance to play Fish Out of Water and experience Khorvaire from the perspective of a non-native.
We might be resuming a fifth (for me, anyways) that was interrupted last year sometime relatively soonish, but that's iffy. A lot of folks at my table are feeling overstretched, since for a while we had four concurrent campaigns running just in my group, let alone my two extras. We'll see if that happens, but I'm not holding my breath too hard.
Since MonteneroDomina started the topic of introduction to D&D and that's a good one, I'll bite:
D&D is one of those things I had heard about for years but never found a group for... and just realized "oh, yeah, I suppose I can DM". Got my brother, his then-girlfriend (oh boy was that a disaster to have them both in the campaign together), and my dad to play over summer break with a homebrewed campaign. I wish I had kept audio recordings of those early sessions--I am sure they were a complete disaster, having gone into DMing basically blind and having only read DMG and PHB.
Ended up finding a group in law school the semester after initial summer of playing, and being a player and seeing someone with more experience certainly helped improve my own DMing. Since then, I have mostly been thrust into the role of DM since no one else wants to do it--which is fine by me, I enjoy creating new worlds and the madcap joy of trying to react to the utterly ridiculous things my players come up with.
Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
by the lords above yes, i need something other then that to read later while im at work
so whats everyones favorite character atm? one your actively playing
im enjoying my necromancer wizard, hes got a massive army and my bloodhunter/cleric/paladin jedi themed character
I've been really into the idea of doing a fantasy alt-universe of 1800s Boston because for some reason dwarves in suites makes me happy. Also I read about the Great molasses flood and knew that needed to be played out.
I just started a campaign over Discord that's basically Oregon Trail But D&D, in which I'm playing a dragonborn druid/town drunk and doing a bad Walter Brennan impression
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Since MonteneroDomina started the topic of introduction to D&D and that's a good one, I'll bite:
D&D is one of those things I had heard about for years but never found a group for... and just realized "oh, yeah, I suppose I can DM". Got my brother, his then-girlfriend (oh boy was that a disaster to have them both in the campaign together), and my dad to play over summer break with a homebrewed campaign. I wish I had kept audio recordings of those early sessions--I am sure they were a complete disaster, having gone into DMing basically blind and having only read DMG and PHB.
Ended up finding a group in law school the semester after initial summer of playing, and being a player and seeing someone with more experience certainly helped improve my own DMing. Since then, I have mostly been thrust into the role of DM since no one else wants to do it--which is fine by me, I enjoy creating new worlds and the madcap joy of trying to react to the utterly ridiculous things my players come up with.
ahh...I remember my first time dming, it was crazy
I started like 20+ years ago, the night my younger brother was born, cuz my parents couldnt watch me, so placed me with their friends who played dnd with them. I got to help the dm out for a one shot that night, and got to choose the big boss monster they were gonna use for that fight...I accidently picked a really big dragon, and ended up killing the party. that happened a few times with them winning about like 75% of the fights until I was old enough to actually join the party as a player, and become obsessed with shiny math rocks
By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
Wubbout you, Caer? Any fun table tales to share?
Presently I am in two campaigns--both DMing. One is a Strixhaven campaign I run for real-world friends and family--one of the players is a huge Harry Potter nerd (but the kind that actively pretends Harry Potter came into existence due to spontaneous generation and not from a certain someone's mind) and had been toying with the idea of starting to play, but never committed. "Hey, it's a Harry Potter college where you get to be a student" sold them on starting. We just finished the first year of school, with them stopping a particular threat, while getting hints of a larger threat to come.
It has been fun so far--I greatly expanded on the rules for test taking, exams, and downtime, and have been keeping track of their progress and rolling for the other students in their year, so they can have class rankings.
Eventually the plan is for them to graduate (likely around level 10), then skip forward to level 13 as the party returns for their 5-year reunion. Something bad will happen at the reunion as one of the classmates they treated awfully comes back for vengeance, and that will kick off a more traditional "explore the world fighting bad guys" campaign. (If it gets that far, one of the party is about to have a baby, and that might kill the campaign--as life so often does).
The other is a complete homebrew for a group of folks I know online. That one is set in a world where to blokes 300 years ago killed a god and the gods reacted rather violently, retaliating with a massive magical strike that broke their world. Then they left, and some of the things the gods imprisoned have been getting free. The world is mostly centered around a few guilds that exist to survive in this world--a group of archeologists trying to find dangerous things, a group of hunters who kill the big bad monsters that are getting free, and a group that tries to prevent magic from being used for such a devastating purpose again.
It's been fun--the party just had a run in with the BBEG (they are at level 10 now) and got more information about his plans--including the fact that he tricked the warlock into giving him information he needed to erase the warlock's patron from existence. They'll be starting the second arc--trying to stamp out some cult activity that has grown up in the capital city--later today, which should be fun.
By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
Great question. I’m in 2 currently, one of them is completely homebrewed, homebrew setting, homebrew race, subclass, etc. We’re playtesting stuff for a sourcebook we’re writing if the new OGL doesn’t suck, but we won’t get into that.
Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
by the lords above yes, i need something other then that to read later while im at work
so whats everyones favorite character atm? one your actively playing
im enjoying my necromancer wizard, hes got a massive army and my bloodhunter/cleric/paladin jedi themed character
Let's see, what's on the go at the moment...
I've got a vedalken zealot barb/swashbuckler rogue in a Spelljammer campaign, a former neogi slave who's vowed to rid Wildspace of all the slavers
I've got a "human" rune knight fighter/aberrant mind sorc in a Curse of Strahd campaign who was plucked from the Dark Domain of Souragne (the bayou one) and now has some big questions about exactly how human he is
I've got the dragonborn druid I mentioned above, using the Circle of the Blighted subclass from the new Tal'Dorei book
And, started tonight hopefully, I've got a shadow sorc/fighter (stopping with two levels, so no subclass) in a "evil" campaign (never done one before) that will give me a chance to try out this One Weird Trick. As a child he was viewed as the chosen one of a cult, but then the cult got wiped out by a bunch of do-gooding adventurers and he was "rescued" and raised by one of them. Now his powers are beginning to develop and he's out trying to find some remnant of the cult so he can be the center of somebody's universe again
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
Wubbout you, Caer? Any fun table tales to share?
Presently I am in two campaigns--both DMing. One is a Strixhaven campaign I run for real-world friends and family--one of the players is a huge Harry Potter nerd (but the kind that actively pretends Harry Potter came into existence due to spontaneous generation and not from a certain someone's mind) and had been toying with the idea of starting to play, but never committed. "Hey, it's a Harry Potter college where you get to be a student" sold them on starting. We just finished the first year of school, with them stopping a particular threat, while getting hints of a larger threat to come.
It has been fun so far--I greatly expanded on the rules for test taking, exams, and downtime, and have been keeping track of their progress and rolling for the other students in their year, so they can have class rankings.
Eventually the plan is for them to graduate (likely around level 10), then skip forward to level 13 as the party returns for their 5-year reunion. Something bad will happen at the reunion as one of the classmates they treated awfully comes back for vengeance, and that will kick off a more traditional "explore the world fighting bad guys" campaign. (If it gets that far, one of the party is about to have a baby, and that might kill the campaign--as life so often does).
The other is a complete homebrew for a group of folks I know online. That one is set in a world where to blokes 300 years ago killed a god and the gods reacted rather violently, retaliating with a massive magical strike that broke their world. Then they left, and some of the things the gods imprisoned have been getting free. The world is mostly centered around a few guilds that exist to survive in this world--a group of archeologists trying to find dangerous things, a group of hunters who kill the big bad monsters that are getting free, and a group that tries to prevent magic from being used for such a devastating purpose again.
It's been fun--the party just had a run in with the BBEG (they are at level 10 now) and got more information about his plans--including the fact that he tricked the warlock into giving him information he needed to erase the warlock's patron from existence. They'll be starting the second arc--trying to stamp out some cult activity that has grown up in the capital city--later today, which should be fun.
Yeah sounds good. I've been really into the idea of doing a fantasy alt-universe of 1800s Boston because for some reason dwarves in suites makes me happy. Also I read about the Great molasses flood and knew that needed to be played out.
Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
by the lords above yes, i need something other then that to read later while im at work
so whats everyones favorite character atm? one your actively playing
im enjoying my necromancer wizard, hes got a massive army and my bloodhunter/cleric/paladin jedi themed character
So, basically taking the most grimdark race (“we have to put iron nails in our arms to anchor us to this plane!”) and making a happy go lucky chaotic good barbarian (whose actually a cleric). Should be fun.
By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
Wubbout you, Caer? Any fun table tales to share?
Presently I am in two campaigns--both DMing. One is a Strixhaven campaign I run for real-world friends and family--one of the players is a huge Harry Potter nerd (but the kind that actively pretends Harry Potter came into existence due to spontaneous generation and not from a certain someone's mind) and had been toying with the idea of starting to play, but never committed. "Hey, it's a Harry Potter college where you get to be a student" sold them on starting. We just finished the first year of school, with them stopping a particular threat, while getting hints of a larger threat to come.
It has been fun so far--I greatly expanded on the rules for test taking, exams, and downtime, and have been keeping track of their progress and rolling for the other students in their year, so they can have class rankings.
Eventually the plan is for them to graduate (likely around level 10), then skip forward to level 13 as the party returns for their 5-year reunion. Something bad will happen at the reunion as one of the classmates they treated awfully comes back for vengeance, and that will kick off a more traditional "explore the world fighting bad guys" campaign. (If it gets that far, one of the party is about to have a baby, and that might kill the campaign--as life so often does).
The other is a complete homebrew for a group of folks I know online. That one is set in a world where to blokes 300 years ago killed a god and the gods reacted rather violently, retaliating with a massive magical strike that broke their world. Then they left, and some of the things the gods imprisoned have been getting free. The world is mostly centered around a few guilds that exist to survive in this world--a group of archeologists trying to find dangerous things, a group of hunters who kill the big bad monsters that are getting free, and a group that tries to prevent magic from being used for such a devastating purpose again.
It's been fun--the party just had a run in with the BBEG (they are at level 10 now) and got more information about his plans--including the fact that he tricked the warlock into giving him information he needed to erase the warlock's patron from existence. They'll be starting the second arc--trying to stamp out some cult activity that has grown up in the capital city--later today, which should be fun.
Cool stuff. I always love homebrew.
I tried something new with this homebrew that I’ll probably use again - since players won’t know the world, I wrote a. In-universe guidebook to give them an introduction to the world, politics, gods, etc. - all the things their characters would know having grown up in the world. The book is written by an extremely eccentric person and is full of mockery, casual disregard of lethal threats, and other silliness. I went a bit overboard on this primer (some 86 single spaced pages. Whoops), but think the idea has some merit for future if shorter—my players read the totality of it this time and enjoyed it, but can’t remember the contents all that well.
Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
by the lords above yes, i need something other then that to read later while im at work
so whats everyones favorite character atm? one your actively playing
im enjoying my necromancer wizard, hes got a massive army and my bloodhunter/cleric/paladin jedi themed character
I’m only in two campaigns at the moment, and I love both characters a lot. However, I’m really enjoying the big, stupid Barbarian I’m playing. He doesn’t have to think, he just acts, and I get to make really funny statements for him in character because he’s a dimwit. Plus, it’s a homebrewed race and subclass I’m playtesting, which is always fun.
Who wants to talk about anything other than the OGL? That includes not talking about switching systems, or canceling accounts, or anything even remotely related to the OGL.
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By all the gods, of each edition, homebrewed or official, yes.
So, what campaigns are you currently in Sposta?
Yeah sounds good. I've been really into the idea of doing a fantasy alt-universe of 1800s Boston because for some reason dwarves in suites makes me happy. Also I read about the Great molasses flood and knew that needed to be played out.
There was a Dragonlance thread I posted in earlier. It got quickly buried though.
Your best bet might simply be to give the forums a break for a while while... this... runs its course.
I haven't been participating in any of the ongoing discussions and even I am exhausted of it. The worry and desire to push back is merited, but after over a week of discussion it just feels like doom scrolling at this point, with people declaring the end is nigh for D&D.
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I recently got into 3D printing, and have been coming up with all sorts of ideas for D&D-related print projects. One of my most recent ones was a dice altar. I am not sure how common the idea is, but I saw one made of wood once at a game store in St. Charles, where it collected spare change as 'tribute' for cleansing the dice of bad rolls, and all of the money collected went to a local animal shelter.
I am trying to design a simplified version of that, with a stage that fits over top of a mason jar or some other common container for collecting the coins. The first prototype came out okay, but the width was a little too small for fitting over a wide-mouth jar. I also am not sure if there is an easy way to model the thread of a mason jar head onto its interior so it will actually screw on top like a lid.
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(This was the first non-OGL thing I could think of lol. All this panic is even more stressful than the alignment debates.)
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My introduction to Dungeons & Dragons was not through the tabletop game but through video games and television; as far back as 1982, when 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' and 'Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin' appeared on Mattel Electronics Intellivision game console and the Saturday Morning animated television show, 'Dungeons & Dragons'.
Played almost all of the popular D&D video game adaptations to date. So far, nothing out there rivals the 'Baldur's Gate' series.
Picked up a Starter Set box of D&D almost 10 years ago yet ended up collecting dust in a storage trunk.
What warmed me up to the tabletop game was the YouTube video, 'Lost Odyssey: Promised Gold' featuring Debra Ann Woll, Michelle Rodriquez, Jack Black and Gaten Matarazzo from 'Stranger Things' playing D&D for a charity benefit back in 2022 (or was it 2021...?).
This is where my obsession of D&D began. Almost anyone I come into contact with I tell them about D&D and what changes have been made; be it my doctor, or a passerby in a retail store or a friend that could make a potential D&D player.
Reading the comments on D&D Beyond forums drew my attention to 'Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel' and 'STRIXHAVEN: A Curriculum Of Chaos' are unquestionably steps in the right direction for Dungeons & Dragons.
Planning to pickup 'Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything' and the Bigby's Giants theme monster book when time permits.
I'm not Sposta, but I'll take that offer.
I'm currently in...four? Yeah, four. One of them is actually a PbP game alongside Sposta here on DDB, run by Wysperra. Everybody in it's a bizarre multiclass and we're all at least 85% sure one of the other characters is an escaped Loony Tune. Also my gal's hand got turned into an evil mummy hand that can now obliterate organic matter, which is super worrying because she's made of organic matter and has to be real damn careful about scratching her nose or something Q_Q
Another is a wild game where we started in a Cybernetic Future Hellscape where magic had been drained from the world and trapped in machines/technology and Nature was basically entirely dead. To the point where druids weren't allowed in char creation and subclasses for other classes were heavily restricted. All our spells were different arcane machinery, our magical class features were same, and True Magic was incredibly rare and a sign of both a person of incredible power and talent and Big ******* Trouble. One example is that my Swarmkeeper ranger's "swarm of nature spirits" was instead a swarm of microdrones running off a V.I. net integrated into her hardsuit. After a particularly egregious ****up, that campaign's world was invaded by the Hordes of Hell, demons swarmed the streets by the thousands, and we were sent back in time fifteen hundred years to stop the events that created the Apocalypse in the first place. My gal got to use the phrase "we are canceling the Apocalypse" in a real conversation and I couldn't be nerdier about it.
The third is my Sunday game, which was a delightful surprise here on DDB. I saw an LFP add looking for players for a high-level (level 12 start) D&D campaign and was in a squirrely mood at the time, went "y'know what? Sure. Maybe I'll get a few sessions out of it and actually get to try some higher-level stuff nobody ever gets to see before it explodes off the rails." Game has been running for over a year now and I'm currently a 17th-level wizard in it, the tactical backbone and Team Dad of the party. That game's about stopping the Convergence, straight out of Dead Space. We're dealing with Unitologists, necromorphs, mind-altering twisty rocks, and the constant threat of psychosis and delusion causing us to attack our allies or even harm ourselves. This is a campaign where the wizard's normally-useless proficiency in Intelligence saving throws has saved my fuzzy catgirl ass on at least a dozen occasions and made Mira rather the bane of the BBEG's existence. Not only is Mira very difficult to sway, but her ability to cast Mind Blank and render our ranger with the ~200-damage Emergency Super Arrows completely immune to Mind ****ery has had the DM giving me the squinty eye and the slow clap more'n once. Heh.
The fourth is an Eberron game, run by a newcomer to our usual table. That one's a sandbox, player-directed plot for the most part, which started as a Suicide Squad set-up - we were all prisoners of Breland sent to handle tasks Breland didn't want its own people to be seen doing. We've spent the last half-the-game-thus-far building up the resources and positioning we'd need to make a break for it before we end up either too useful for Breland to let go off or compromised enough that we'd end up disposed of. There's an undercurrent plot of frequent brushes with daelkyr cults and monstrosities, since my particular character is a dedicated daelkyr hunter from a society outside the normal Khorvairan continent. That's been a lot of fun, gives me a chance to play Fish Out of Water and experience Khorvaire from the perspective of a non-native.
We might be resuming a fifth (for me, anyways) that was interrupted last year sometime relatively soonish, but that's iffy. A lot of folks at my table are feeling overstretched, since for a while we had four concurrent campaigns running just in my group, let alone my two extras. We'll see if that happens, but I'm not holding my breath too hard.
Wubbout you, Caer? Any fun table tales to share?
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Since MonteneroDomina started the topic of introduction to D&D and that's a good one, I'll bite:
D&D is one of those things I had heard about for years but never found a group for... and just realized "oh, yeah, I suppose I can DM". Got my brother, his then-girlfriend (oh boy was that a disaster to have them both in the campaign together), and my dad to play over summer break with a homebrewed campaign. I wish I had kept audio recordings of those early sessions--I am sure they were a complete disaster, having gone into DMing basically blind and having only read DMG and PHB.
Ended up finding a group in law school the semester after initial summer of playing, and being a player and seeing someone with more experience certainly helped improve my own DMing. Since then, I have mostly been thrust into the role of DM since no one else wants to do it--which is fine by me, I enjoy creating new worlds and the madcap joy of trying to react to the utterly ridiculous things my players come up with.
by the lords above yes, i need something other then that to read later while im at work
so whats everyones favorite character atm? one your actively playing
im enjoying my necromancer wizard, hes got a massive army
and my bloodhunter/cleric/paladin jedi themed character
I just started a campaign over Discord that's basically Oregon Trail But D&D, in which I'm playing a dragonborn druid/town drunk and doing a bad Walter Brennan impression
As yet, no one has gotten dysentery
Active characters:
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
ahh...I remember my first time dming, it was crazy
I started like 20+ years ago, the night my younger brother was born, cuz my parents couldnt watch me, so placed me with their friends who played dnd with them. I got to help the dm out for a one shot that night, and got to choose the big boss monster they were gonna use for that fight...I accidently picked a really big dragon, and ended up killing the party. that happened a few times with them winning about like 75% of the fights until I was old enough to actually join the party as a player, and become obsessed with shiny math rocks
Presently I am in two campaigns--both DMing. One is a Strixhaven campaign I run for real-world friends and family--one of the players is a huge Harry Potter nerd (but the kind that actively pretends Harry Potter came into existence due to spontaneous generation and not from a certain someone's mind) and had been toying with the idea of starting to play, but never committed. "Hey, it's a Harry Potter college where you get to be a student" sold them on starting. We just finished the first year of school, with them stopping a particular threat, while getting hints of a larger threat to come.
It has been fun so far--I greatly expanded on the rules for test taking, exams, and downtime, and have been keeping track of their progress and rolling for the other students in their year, so they can have class rankings.
Eventually the plan is for them to graduate (likely around level 10), then skip forward to level 13 as the party returns for their 5-year reunion. Something bad will happen at the reunion as one of the classmates they treated awfully comes back for vengeance, and that will kick off a more traditional "explore the world fighting bad guys" campaign. (If it gets that far, one of the party is about to have a baby, and that might kill the campaign--as life so often does).
The other is a complete homebrew for a group of folks I know online. That one is set in a world where to blokes 300 years ago killed a god and the gods reacted rather violently, retaliating with a massive magical strike that broke their world. Then they left, and some of the things the gods imprisoned have been getting free. The world is mostly centered around a few guilds that exist to survive in this world--a group of archeologists trying to find dangerous things, a group of hunters who kill the big bad monsters that are getting free, and a group that tries to prevent magic from being used for such a devastating purpose again.
It's been fun--the party just had a run in with the BBEG (they are at level 10 now) and got more information about his plans--including the fact that he tricked the warlock into giving him information he needed to erase the warlock's patron from existence. They'll be starting the second arc--trying to stamp out some cult activity that has grown up in the capital city--later today, which should be fun.
Great question. I’m in 2 currently, one of them is completely homebrewed, homebrew setting, homebrew race, subclass, etc. We’re playtesting stuff for a sourcebook we’re writing if the new OGL doesn’t suck, but we won’t get into that.
The other campaign I’m in is a PbP with Yurei that Wyspera runs. Here’s my PC: (https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/45532457).
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Let's see, what's on the go at the moment...
I've got a vedalken zealot barb/swashbuckler rogue in a Spelljammer campaign, a former neogi slave who's vowed to rid Wildspace of all the slavers
I've got a "human" rune knight fighter/aberrant mind sorc in a Curse of Strahd campaign who was plucked from the Dark Domain of Souragne (the bayou one) and now has some big questions about exactly how human he is
I've got the dragonborn druid I mentioned above, using the Circle of the Blighted subclass from the new Tal'Dorei book
And, started tonight hopefully, I've got a shadow sorc/fighter (stopping with two levels, so no subclass) in a "evil" campaign (never done one before) that will give me a chance to try out this One Weird Trick. As a child he was viewed as the chosen one of a cult, but then the cult got wiped out by a bunch of do-gooding adventurers and he was "rescued" and raised by one of them. Now his powers are beginning to develop and he's out trying to find some remnant of the cult so he can be the center of somebody's universe again
Active characters:
Green Hill Sunrise, jaded tabaxi mercenary trapped in the Dark Domains (Battle Master fighter)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Cool stuff. I always love homebrew.
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That sounds interesting.
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I am currently only DMing, but I have a character build for a campaign my brother was supposed to run (but which I doubt will actually happen). Character is a shadar-Kai cleric of the Raven Queen (a cliché) who has basically taken the view that “if Fate controls everything, then it doesn’t matter if I am drunk, goofing off, or completely hungover - that is the state I am fated to be in, and Fate will decide if I live or die, so what does it matter, I just will have fun and let Fate take care of the dear.
So, basically taking the most grimdark race (“we have to put iron nails in our arms to anchor us to this plane!”) and making a happy go lucky chaotic good barbarian (whose actually a cleric). Should be fun.
I tried something new with this homebrew that I’ll probably use again - since players won’t know the world, I wrote a. In-universe guidebook to give them an introduction to the world, politics, gods, etc. - all the things their characters would know having grown up in the world. The book is written by an extremely eccentric person and is full of mockery, casual disregard of lethal threats, and other silliness. I went a bit overboard on this primer (some 86 single spaced pages. Whoops), but think the idea has some merit for future if shorter—my players read the totality of it this time and enjoyed it, but can’t remember the contents all that well.
I’m only in two campaigns at the moment, and I love both characters a lot. However, I’m really enjoying the big, stupid Barbarian I’m playing. He doesn’t have to think, he just acts, and I get to make really funny statements for him in character because he’s a dimwit. Plus, it’s a homebrewed race and subclass I’m playtesting, which is always fun.
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