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Question: As a DM (or Player) - do you take inspiration from anything (outside of the game source books) for your world (or your characters)?

 

Forgot this one.  Absolutely; but I've yet to find a way to put the classic SNL Olympia Deli "Cheeseburger, cheeseburger" sketch.  I think it's going to involve deviled eggs.

 

 
well, I mean, first ya gotta have Pepsi. No Coke, Pepsi.

and come on! You gotta have at least one place you can do that! Hell, I have a goddess that runs an Inn she moves around the world at random.

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Follow up question, are deviled eggs served at all levels of your game's Nine Hells or just particular levels?

 I believe they exist in one form or another on all except the 7th. It is too cold to boil water there.

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Follow up question, are deviled eggs served at all levels of your game's Nine Hells or just particular levels?

 I believe they exist in one form or another on all except the 7th. It is too cold to boil water there.

 
I have now decided that, in my D&D canon, the sulphurous compounds in abyssal chicken eggs create an edible facsimile of mustard when hard boiled, resulting in natural devilled eggs.

I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 
To make them a little fancier and make them finger food. They’re delicious.

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 First off, because they’re pretty.  

Second, and more substantively, the texture.  With a devilled egg, the creamy part gets extra creamy - the egg yolk crumbles and incorporates into the mayo and mustard, producing a smooth texture free of any clumps.  Meanwhile, the egg white stays intact, so you get a nice bite to the egg as well. When you mince the entire egg, the white forms chunks that get in the way of the smooth texture of the yolk, and the white forms small little pieces where you may or may not get the texture depending on where they sit in your bite.

Third, and just as important, you can eat them with your fingers—with an egg salad (which is what you describe) you need a bowl or plate and a utensil of some sort. That means dishes, means taking up more space at a table, and generally means more mess and hassle.

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Question: As a DM (or Player) - do you take inspiration from anything (outside of the game source books) for your world (or your characters)?

 I am always trying to find ideas to use in Dnd.

This includes my research in paleontology, chemistry, biology, my geometry class, ancient Hebrew, and Latin.

I have drawn from Charles Dickens, Michelangelo, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Charles Schultz, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and other classic literature like the Picture of Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Discworld, Dune, Princess Bride, Middle-earth, Wingfeather Saga, X-files, Ashtown Burials, One Hundred Cupboards, Gravity Falls, and more.

Historical events and people like Lafayette, Beethoven, the Molasses Flood and the Johnstown Flood. (I haven't combined them.... yet.)

Real world geography.

Dad jokes and puns.

90s music, and older stuff.

Tall Tales, Mythology, Cryptozoology, Folklore, Legends, Wive's Tales, and stuff like that. 

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 
To make them a little fancier and make them finger food. They’re delicious.

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 First off, because they’re pretty.  

Second, and more substantively, the texture.  With a devilled egg, the creamy part gets extra creamy - the egg yolk crumbles and incorporates into the mayo and mustard, producing a smooth texture free of any clumps.  Meanwhile, the egg white stays intact, so you get a nice bite to the egg as well. When you mince the entire egg, the white forms chunks that get in the way of the smooth texture of the yolk, and the white forms small little pieces where you may or may not get the texture depending on where they sit in your bite.

Third, and just as important, you can eat them with your fingers—with an egg salad (which is what you describe) you need a bowl or plate and a utensil of some sort. That means dishes, means taking up more space at a table, and generally means more mess and hassle.

That makes sense. Either deviled eggs aren't much of a thing here in the UK, or I am just very ignorant on food lol

Anyway, to get this thread back on-topic: what's your favourite homebrew race/lineage/species you have found or created?

Edit: actually I've got a better question: what are your opinions on the OSR, and retro TTRPGs in general?

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 
To make them a little fancier and make them finger food. They’re delicious.

 

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 First off, because they’re pretty.  

Second, and more substantively, the texture.  With a devilled egg, the creamy part gets extra creamy - the egg yolk crumbles and incorporates into the mayo and mustard, producing a smooth texture free of any clumps.  Meanwhile, the egg white stays intact, so you get a nice bite to the egg as well. When you mince the entire egg, the white forms chunks that get in the way of the smooth texture of the yolk, and the white forms small little pieces where you may or may not get the texture depending on where they sit in your bite.

Third, and just as important, you can eat them with your fingers—with an egg salad (which is what you describe) you need a bowl or plate and a utensil of some sort. That means dishes, means taking up more space at a table, and generally means more mess and hassle.

 

That makes sense. Either deviled eggs aren't much of a thing here in the UK, or I am just very ignorant on food lol

Anyway, to get this thread back on-topic: what's your favourite homebrew race/lineage/species you have found or created?

Edit: actually I've got a better question: what are your opinions on the OSR, and retro TTRPGs in general?

 I created a tiefling of krampus once and thought that was fun.

Sorry, but I don't know what the OSR is.

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Anyway, to get this thread back on-topic: what's your favourite homebrew race/lineage/species you have found or created?

Furlings - Mouse Folk and Fox Folk.

OSR -- "Old School revival/Renaissance" or other such terminology. It is folks who are going back to older rules sets (pre-d20) because, in the parlance, 5e is way too soft, 4e was just weird as hell, and 3.5 was overly complex but still soft.

They want crunch, speed, and tradition.

My thoughts on them are mixed. I am pretty much one already -- I dragged my players into 5e,and technically still are, which is why I have so many issues with some of the mechanics and describe it as "player focused, not DM focused".

I do find that a significant number of them, in behavior and outlook, resemble people who keep showing u here with variation on the same theme through very new accounts, bemoaning the loss of ability score bonuses...

And my own House rules are a lend of 2e and 5e, but we still don't use THACO anymore, lol.

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To make them a little fancier and make them finger food. They’re delicious.

The question on who shall get the 1,000th post has been answered! It does seem kinda fitting though that Sposta, the OP, would be the one to get this landmark. Anyways, I remember seeing this thread  and thinking "Oh a reprieve for a couple of days and a few pages." We're 50 pages into this thread, let's keep it going ya'll!

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Anyway, to get this thread back on-topic: what's your favourite homebrew race/lineage/species you have found or created?

Edit: actually I've got a better question: what are your opinions on the OSR, and retro TTRPGs in general?

I made a llama species once for fun, back when I hadn't done that much homebrewing. This isn't shared with the public, but it was a fun bit of work, even if the end result was terrible. As for viewing, the 3 Kobold's In a Trench Coat stuff was funny.

On the topic of retro TTRPGs, I don't really have much of an opinion. I am not an enthusiast for old games myself, but I fully support players who like games or editions that have already been out for a long time.

Homebrew Heritage:

For Wyrlde,  am proud of the Meka, who were a last minute addition, and the Therians, who were one of the original asks. they are the Robot maid (and butlers) anime trope, with some doll dropped in. I really like how I fit them into the history of the world and came up with how they could be coming to appear recently.

The therian are the kemonomimi of my world. 

I am also fond of my "not Roma" traveling folks, but mostly because they are not roma, lol. Along with the Therians, they are  the only ones who have an "ethnic state".  And my set up uses Heritage and Homeland -- Heritage is family traditions, Homeland is where you live and are from. 

one quirk that has been flowing through a lot of stuff is clockworking. It is the equivalence of tech, more or less, and so there are clockwork limbs and clockwork chairs and this is helping me get past the ableism that I have problems with excising in my own life.

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 
To make them a little fancier and make them finger food. They’re delicious.

 

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I finally caved and looked up what deviled eggs are. Seems a little unnecessary tbh, why not just mince the eggs and mix them with the other ingredients?

 First off, because they’re pretty.  

Second, and more substantively, the texture.  With a devilled egg, the creamy part gets extra creamy - the egg yolk crumbles and incorporates into the mayo and mustard, producing a smooth texture free of any clumps.  Meanwhile, the egg white stays intact, so you get a nice bite to the egg as well. When you mince the entire egg, the white forms chunks that get in the way of the smooth texture of the yolk, and the white forms small little pieces where you may or may not get the texture depending on where they sit in your bite.

Third, and just as important, you can eat them with your fingers—with an egg salad (which is what you describe) you need a bowl or plate and a utensil of some sort. That means dishes, means taking up more space at a table, and generally means more mess and hassle.

That makes sense. Either deviled eggs aren't much of a thing here in the UK, or I am just very ignorant on food lol

Anyway, to get this thread back on-topic: what's your favourite homebrew race/lineage/species you have found or created?

Edit: actually I've got a better question: what are your opinions on the OSR, and retro TTRPGs in general?

 
They’re “deviled” because the mustard, onion, and paprika make them spicy.

Considering that the “topic” of this thread is literally “anything but the OGL,” there’s really only one thing we can’t talk about, everything else is by definition “on-topic.”👍

My favorite species are some homebrews I’m developing, but I plan on publishing them in future, so I can’t talk about them yet. Spoilers after all. 😉

I like the OSR, I cut my teath in 2e and still have a fondness for it. I’m also still rocking 2e/3e Shadowrun (if my group ever gets back to it), and whatever edition of WoD was out in the ‘90s (2e I think). 

I love the xenoblade chronicles game series, and I've developed a Nopon race after one of the races in the game that I'm quite proud of...haven't gotten to playtest it though

In my D&D session today, I had a moment that perfectly encapsulates why I love this game so much.

The party has been chasing a cult for a while and found their hideaway, built atop the prison of their evil god.  But it turns out the cult is not all that bad and just trying to help the poor, using the evil God’s power and counting on the fact that he was very much trapped by other gods.  All that evil they had been investigating was the cult being framed by a different eldritch god’s cult.  The leader of the cult seems to know more than he lets on, and clearly has a library with information that might be relevant—he even consults the library when the party is present.

So, how do the party go about getting more information?  Do they: 

A. Send their roguish type into the library to take the book the cult leader consulted?

B. Ask around the shanty town the cult has built for the poor for more information? 

C. Talk to the cult leader’s husband and try and get more information?

D. Follow the cult leader to see if he might show you new information?

Any of those would have made sense. They chose E - go to the alter over top the evil God’s prison, use the warlock who is worshiping a third Eldritch god to form a connection, and try to spread the psychic damage of directly connecting your mind to a god through the psionic (Mystic from UA) so everyone gets damaged a bit with the hope the party could collectively withstand the contact.

It went as one might expect - a few cryptic answers later, they were all unconscious and with varying levels of short and long term madness. 

The ability to casually ignore all the possible clues and say “hey, let’s just go to the source!” is just something so delightfully D&D.

Today i framed the new poster sized map of my new world that I splurged on. Had a heart attack in November of last year, and been feeling the creepy eepies, so I am taking the time to spoil myself now. Then, because I finished the last of the editing on the lore book for the world, I went and grabbed all of the1139 images that have, to some degree, influenced the world (the images, mind you, not what they came from or what inspired them) and now all my assorted screensavers on TV and other devices is all this massive collection of stuff to inspire me even more as I start adding in a bunch of them to a copy of the book that will go to players and friends and such (the regular version will go on Amazon and if I sell like 1,000 of them I will have enough to buy two professional images, lol).

in the midst of my two meetings going on, one of my players called me for three reasons, and all three of them were very mixed up and interwoven: I am to use she/her for her from now on as she has come out to me and will be a girl at our games, I am the best DM ever because I not only managed to get a robot maid in, and not only got the mortal Kombat in, but i used the name of one of her Mom's characters for one of the heroes of old. I am certain there was more, but she was rather excited, and I can't talk about the medical stuff.

Which means she read the whole dang thing in like a day.  

in regular 8.5 by 11 size, it is 350 pages. I have it set up for the tablets we use, and that makes it like 612. I am now expected it have the final version of the player's handbook type guide by middle of March, which may be pushing it. My own kids aren't near as excited about this stuff as my oldest friend's kids are, lol.

we haven't even played a game set in it yet. We are still using the dungeon and the city set up I threw together. 

And now I am bound and determined to figure a way to get druids in. I just need a way into the world for them...

Edit: I found it, I found it! It took going back to my Malian and Lakota roots, and tossing in a bit of Yoruba, but I have my path, and it fits existing lore and tools. I feel a fool because it was right there in my face the whole time, but I couldn’t get away from the term and history of Druid.

shamans gonna have their own version a Paladin, as well, for the Ranger will fit well. I am so thankful I made the Spirits of the Wyrlde Into a deeper concept.

Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

None. Even if a woodchuck could chuck wood, I don't see why it would bother.

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Question: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 Or, how much ground would a ground hog hog if a ground hog could hog ground? 

A ground hog would hog as much ground as a ground hog could hog if a ground hog could hog ground.