Re: encounters. Two stand out, off the dome. One was from the pre-Avernus side of Descent Into Avernus, where we went to a wretched hive of scum and villainy to try to capture this loan shark guy who did business there. Navigating the web of tenuous alliances, and just having a big bar room brawl, good stuff. We also went in with a stupid plan where we pretended to need a loan, and it got very silly.
The other was from the Durlag's Tomb module for Adventurers' League. It's an intricate sort of Indiana Jones trap. There's a narrow beam across a lava pit, and balanced across the middle of the beam is a long plank that extends to the walls on either side. At the ends of the plank are two levers that must be pulled in tandem to unlock the exit. The wall behind the characters begins to slide forward, towards the pit. Also, there are devils that swoop down from the rafters and try to kill you. It's such an insane setup, but the stakes are really obvious, and the parameters are clear enough that my players were able to solve the probably creatively. Sometimes being extremely vicious to your player characters is the play!
Re: dice. I don't think I have a favorite set. I can't commit.
What is your favorite encounter you have been in or planned (Player/DM)?
My favorite as a player was a "heist" that my Tabaxi Sorlock executed by yeeting the targeted object out of the office of the Tabaxi Mafia don it was kept in, and then engaging in a literal 'catch the cat' scenario as I teleported, dashed, mirror imaged, and wild magic'ed my way to the object and then to freedom (didn't work , was knocked unconscious right before getting to the exit after literally evading like 20 enemies and having the mafia don's super magical gun jam due to misfire rules, but my party members were able to take it from there and get me and the object out)
My favorite as a DM was a split party scenario where half the party distracted a group of nobles (one of whom they were searching for evidence of corruption against) at a fancy party while the other half broke into the castle looking for evidence. It turned into a kidnapping (later presented as a "citizens arrest" when the trial happened later) of the noble in question and the palace guards thinking that a dust covered goblin riding a flying mechanical cat was the strangest ghost any of them had ever encountered in their lives
Question: Have you got a favorite set of dice? (You can post a picture if you want) - But what makes them your favorite set of dice? (This includes digital or physical dice!)
I have a set of these I only bust out when getting a cat butt for a critical failure seems appropriate
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
What is your favorite encounter you have been in or planned (Player/DM)?
The party I'm DMing for is very good at being a Chaos Crew, but two stand out:
1) Two of the players are brand new to TTRPGs, and at some point the group decided they needed to experience a bar fight. They got one in a hidden seaside thieves town that was somewhat a cross between Tortuga and George Street in St. John's, Newfoundland. The warlock grabbed a stuffed pelican off the wall and used it as an improvised weapon, and the pirate rogue wound up hiding under a table and bumping into an old shipmate of hers who owed her money. Good times
2) Later on in the campaign, I was running a heavily tweaked version of the Price of Beauty from Candlekeep Mysteries (I'll put the rest in spoilers for those who haven't played through it).
They'd figured out hags were behind what was happening, and wanted to find out just how many people had been hoodwinked/cursed by the coven and had their portraits done, so a couple of them just walked up and knocked on the door of the hags' tower studio lair posing as... art critics. Since I knew the hags were already onto them, I had the coven play along, invite the two in (leaving the rest of the party outside) and attempt to charm them. Meanwhile, the paladin had circled around the back of the tower and was using their Rod of Cake to turn a small section of wall into sheet cake in case the two inside needed an escape route
The hilarious part for me was that when things finally broke down into a big fight, the party did well and took out two of the hags... then inexplicably ran away before taking out the third, because I'd apparently done such a good job of making the hags seem weird and freaky that they just wanted to get out of there. I'm sure the survivor isn't off forming a new coven and plotting revenge or anything, though
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Question: Have you got a favorite set of dice? (You can post a picture if you want) - But what makes them your favorite set of dice? (This includes digital or physical dice!)
My friend and fellow player got me some very nice dice from Dispel Dice. They roll terribly for me!
When I was about 9(?) my brother had a friend who had some AD&D stuff and brought me along to play. We played a couple of times over the next 3 or 4 years with a few different friends and that was about it until I picked it up again about 30yrs later and started DMing for some friends who were keen to try it out. So I bought the Starter Set and I was hooked all over again.
Now I have pretty much everything published in 5E, some cool Loreish stuff from older editions and have written 5 novels based on our campaigns.
At first I had a friend who tried to teach me how to play Pathfinder, though he called it Dnd for some reason, and we played a couple of times. It was only a few, really short sessions. But I had a lot of fun. Later, one of my friends who was in that "campaign" had learned how to play, and invited me to join a campaign. The rules were never actually explained to me, but I still had a lot of fun. Then our DM moved to New Zealand, I have no idea why, but by then another friend had started playing and lent me Mines of Phandelver. That was the first time I actually read the rules and understood how to play. Since then, that friend and I have introduced so many people to Dnd that we don't have enough campaigns to run with them all.
Question: Have you got a favorite set of dice? (You can post a picture if you want) - But what makes them your favorite set of dice? (This includes digital or physical dice!)
I like transparent dice, so it's either my clear bright green set or a clear sparkly set that a friend bought me for my birthday. The latter set is sometimes a little hard to read, but it has tiny pieces of glitter and sparkles which are always fun.
I also have a set of opaque black-and-red swirly dice that I'm rather fond of.
I might be repeating myself here (this thread is getting long lol) but I first started when a friend invited me to play. We were both about 15 and I had no idea what the game was so I didn't know what to expect. Despite apparently having never read any of the rulebooks, my friend's dad was an excellent DM and from there I was proverbially hooked.
I was kinda late to the TTRPG scene (2018) but I've had a great time thus far, discovering different systems and playstyles
I was in a new school and had made a new friend, who invited me over to his house to try a game that sounded cool. On his kitchen table, we rolled up a Ranger or me and I went through a random roll dungeon (it was his first time as a DM). I died horribly.
The player side didn't hook me at all.
But the DM side...
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What is your favorite encounter you have been in or planned (Player/DM)?
2) Later on in the campaign, I was running a heavily tweaked version of the Price of Beauty from Candlekeep Mysteries (I'll put the rest in spoilers for those who haven't played through it).
They'd figured out hags were behind what was happening, and wanted to find out just how many people had been hoodwinked/cursed by the coven and had their portraits done, so a couple of them just walked up and knocked on the door of the hags' tower studio lair posing as... art critics. Since I knew the hags were already onto them, I had the coven play along, invite the two in (leaving the rest of the party outside) and attempt to charm them. Meanwhile, the paladin had circled around the back of the tower and was using their Rod of Cake to turn a small section of wall into sheet cake in case the two inside needed an escape route
The hilarious part for me was that when things finally broke down into a big fight, the party did well and took out two of the hags... then inexplicably ran away before taking out the third, because I'd apparently done such a good job of making the hags seem weird and freaky that they just wanted to get out of there. I'm sure the survivor isn't off forming a new coven and plotting revenge or anything, though
That sounds awesome and hilarious! The Price of Beauty is easily my favorite adventure in CKM, and it was written by a streamer I watch. It's neat to hear so many cool stories. This thread is pretty much just a Nerd Hangout Room.
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I honestly don't know what my favorite encounter would be. Probably the funnest encounter I played through was in a one-shot where the players were cats, and they were fighting the dreaded Dog King, a Death Dog who stranded cats in a maze and slew them for entertainment. The players were using the survivor stat blocks from Van Richtens, and they all had low AC. So when one of the members of the fearless band of valiant cat knights fell... The wizard used their body as a makeshift shield, which I ruled (in the moment) gave them +2 to armor. Thanks in part to the shield and the courageous efforts of the team, no more cats lost their life that night, and the previously deadly labyrinth was never used to destroy the lives of cats ever again.
Another fun encounter I had was in a one-shot I just ran this weekend. The party was sneaking through a casino, trying to get into the vault and steal gold. When they got their, they encountered a Mimic. I run a lot of one-shots since things happened to my old group, and I'm trying to get another one. There were only two players in the adventure, and they eventually defeated the Mimic and claimed the gold but had to run as a giant monster (that was also meant to guard the gold) pounded on the door.
The players then fled to the upper floor of the casino, where the employees were waiting for them. They fought some of the casino's staff and then came upon the boss that would easily kill them if they had failed to quickly escape after their heist. They knew this, and one of the characters turned invisible while the other - a Rogue - disengaged as an action and used Cunning Action to dash with their bonus action, running out of the casino and jumping over some guards as they escaped with close to 600 gold pieces. The other character was left to die.
Question: Have you got a favorite set of dice? (You can post a picture if you want) - But what makes them your favorite set of dice? (This includes digital or physical dice!)
I have 50-60 dice, but no favorites. I would just lose any dice that I got too attached too, anyways, lol.
As a sidenote, am I the only one who used paper and scissors to invent a custom built dice jail?
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Way back in the 4th grade, my friend Sean came up to me and showed me the original Player's Handbook. He explaned how D&D worked - but he only had the Player's Handbook. My next move was not eating lunch for months and saving my money and going to the book store and buying The Monster Manual. I thought that's all we needed. But then I discovered there was a Dungeon Master's Guide. A few more months of no eating lunch at school. Purchased the Dungeon Master's Guide. Starting creating adventures. Sean let me borrow (eventually have, I think I bought it off of him) the Player's Handbook. My adventures back then were pretty straight forward. Orcs attacking towns. Dragons demanding things of towns. Nothing else really to it. Then my friend Tim, his brother John, offered to DM for me when I was in (I think the 5th? 6th? grade) - and he was older, so his adventure were far more planned out, and I think he used modules. It was my first official character - a dwarf fighter who had a hammer that would return to him (I was obsessed with the Thor comic in Marvel and John had Deities & Demigods which I went out and purchased no longer after). I think that lasted for a year - I got up to, I think it was level 5 - and then one day, Tim and John had a fight - John DM'ed and killed both of our characters. (If memory serves me correct - we entered a cave in search of someone, turned out to be a giant snake that devoured us - Star Wars anyone?) After that, I began DMing for people and really developing a world - that to this day, my current campaign still has some elements of the many worlds I've created over the years - although my current campaign focuses on a new continent, so everything there is new, and heavily influenced by my player's actions, backgrounds, origins, etc. D&D and the creativity it gave me was one of the best blessings.
As a sidenote, am I the only one who used paper and scissors to invent a custom built dice jail?
AH There we go. Mini-Question of the Day. Do you believe in talking to your dice, punishing your dice, giving your dice a nice home to live in and pleasant yard to roll around in?
After consistently rolling multiple Nat 1s I took a blow torch to my d20 then showed the blackened bubbly corpse to other dice to keep them in line.
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
A friend of mine was interested in trying it after Stranger Things Season 1 came out...miserable failure, but then we heard about D&D events at our local game shop...so we started going, I stepped in as a DM for one group after a while, and this whole thing blossomed into a fun hobby for all of us.
As a sidenote, am I the only one who used paper and scissors to invent a custom built dice jail?
AH There we go. Mini-Question of the Day. Do you believe in talking to your dice, punishing your dice, giving your dice a nice home to live in and pleasant yard to roll around in?
After consistently rolling multiple Nat 1s I took a blow torch to my d20 then showed the blackened bubbly corpse to other dice to keep them in line.
Do you ever wonder just how insane we must seem to the outside world?
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
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AH There we go. Mini-Question of the Day. Do you believe in talking to your dice, punishing your dice, giving your dice a nice home to live in and pleasant yard to roll around in?
No. I figure that if the dice are mad at me I probably deserve it for some reason or other. They do all live in special pouches though, nice and cozy.
I was in grade school in the late 70s and my friend asked if I wanted to play this cool game. My friend showed up with the basic box and Keep on the Borderlands.
My sister and I fought some orcs and the owlbear. We died horrendously but I was hooked! I didn't really know how exactly the game worked but it didn't matter. I began drawing maps like crazy and sold them for 25 cents.
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
As a sidenote, am I the only one who used paper and scissors to invent a custom built dice jail?
AH There we go. Mini-Question of the Day. Do you believe in talking to your dice, punishing your dice, giving your dice a nice home to live in and pleasant yard to roll around in?
After consistently rolling multiple Nat 1s I took a blow torch to my d20 then showed the blackened bubbly corpse to other dice to keep them in line.
You got to show those dice whose boss or they will never stop acting up. But you also must reward their good behavior.
Re: encounters. Two stand out, off the dome. One was from the pre-Avernus side of Descent Into Avernus, where we went to a wretched hive of scum and villainy to try to capture this loan shark guy who did business there. Navigating the web of tenuous alliances, and just having a big bar room brawl, good stuff. We also went in with a stupid plan where we pretended to need a loan, and it got very silly.
The other was from the Durlag's Tomb module for Adventurers' League. It's an intricate sort of Indiana Jones trap. There's a narrow beam across a lava pit, and balanced across the middle of the beam is a long plank that extends to the walls on either side. At the ends of the plank are two levers that must be pulled in tandem to unlock the exit. The wall behind the characters begins to slide forward, towards the pit. Also, there are devils that swoop down from the rafters and try to kill you. It's such an insane setup, but the stakes are really obvious, and the parameters are clear enough that my players were able to solve the probably creatively. Sometimes being extremely vicious to your player characters is the play!
Re: dice. I don't think I have a favorite set. I can't commit.
My favorite as a player was a "heist" that my Tabaxi Sorlock executed by yeeting the targeted object out of the office of the Tabaxi Mafia don it was kept in, and then engaging in a literal 'catch the cat' scenario as I teleported, dashed, mirror imaged, and wild magic'ed my way to the object and then to freedom (didn't work , was knocked unconscious right before getting to the exit after literally evading like 20 enemies and having the mafia don's super magical gun jam due to misfire rules, but my party members were able to take it from there and get me and the object out)
My favorite as a DM was a split party scenario where half the party distracted a group of nobles (one of whom they were searching for evidence of corruption against) at a fancy party while the other half broke into the castle looking for evidence. It turned into a kidnapping (later presented as a "citizens arrest" when the trial happened later) of the noble in question and the palace guards thinking that a dust covered goblin riding a flying mechanical cat was the strangest ghost any of them had ever encountered in their lives
I have a set of these I only bust out when getting a cat butt for a critical failure seems appropriate
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
The party I'm DMing for is very good at being a Chaos Crew, but two stand out:
1) Two of the players are brand new to TTRPGs, and at some point the group decided they needed to experience a bar fight. They got one in a hidden seaside thieves town that was somewhat a cross between Tortuga and George Street in St. John's, Newfoundland. The warlock grabbed a stuffed pelican off the wall and used it as an improvised weapon, and the pirate rogue wound up hiding under a table and bumping into an old shipmate of hers who owed her money. Good times
2) Later on in the campaign, I was running a heavily tweaked version of the Price of Beauty from Candlekeep Mysteries (I'll put the rest in spoilers for those who haven't played through it).
They'd figured out hags were behind what was happening, and wanted to find out just how many people had been hoodwinked/cursed by the coven and had their portraits done, so a couple of them just walked up and knocked on the door of the hags' tower studio lair posing as... art critics. Since I knew the hags were already onto them, I had the coven play along, invite the two in (leaving the rest of the party outside) and attempt to charm them. Meanwhile, the paladin had circled around the back of the tower and was using their Rod of Cake to turn a small section of wall into sheet cake in case the two inside needed an escape route
The hilarious part for me was that when things finally broke down into a big fight, the party did well and took out two of the hags... then inexplicably ran away before taking out the third, because I'd apparently done such a good job of making the hags seem weird and freaky that they just wanted to get out of there. I'm sure the survivor isn't off forming a new coven and plotting revenge or anything, though
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
My friend and fellow player got me some very nice dice from Dispel Dice. They roll terribly for me!
Question: How did you get into D&D?
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
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When I was about 9(?) my brother had a friend who had some AD&D stuff and brought me along to play. We played a couple of times over the next 3 or 4 years with a few different friends and that was about it until I picked it up again about 30yrs later and started DMing for some friends who were keen to try it out. So I bought the Starter Set and I was hooked all over again.
Now I have pretty much everything published in 5E, some cool Loreish stuff from older editions and have written 5 novels based on our campaigns.
At first I had a friend who tried to teach me how to play Pathfinder, though he called it Dnd for some reason, and we played a couple of times. It was only a few, really short sessions. But I had a lot of fun. Later, one of my friends who was in that "campaign" had learned how to play, and invited me to join a campaign. The rules were never actually explained to me, but I still had a lot of fun. Then our DM moved to New Zealand, I have no idea why, but by then another friend had started playing and lent me Mines of Phandelver. That was the first time I actually read the rules and understood how to play. Since then, that friend and I have introduced so many people to Dnd that we don't have enough campaigns to run with them all.
I like transparent dice, so it's either my clear bright green set or a clear sparkly set that a friend bought me for my birthday. The latter set is sometimes a little hard to read, but it has tiny pieces of glitter and sparkles which are always fun.
I also have a set of opaque black-and-red swirly dice that I'm rather fond of.
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I might be repeating myself here (this thread is getting long lol) but I first started when a friend invited me to play. We were both about 15 and I had no idea what the game was so I didn't know what to expect. Despite apparently having never read any of the rulebooks, my friend's dad was an excellent DM and from there I was proverbially hooked.
I was kinda late to the TTRPG scene (2018) but I've had a great time thus far, discovering different systems and playstyles
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I was in a new school and had made a new friend, who invited me over to his house to try a game that sounded cool. On his kitchen table, we rolled up a Ranger or me and I went through a random roll dungeon (it was his first time as a DM). I died horribly.
The player side didn't hook me at all.
But the DM side...
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
That sounds awesome and hilarious! The Price of Beauty is easily my favorite adventure in CKM, and it was written by a streamer I watch. It's neat to hear so many cool stories. This thread is pretty much just a Nerd Hangout Room.
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I honestly don't know what my favorite encounter would be. Probably the funnest encounter I played through was in a one-shot where the players were cats, and they were fighting the dreaded Dog King, a Death Dog who stranded cats in a maze and slew them for entertainment. The players were using the survivor stat blocks from Van Richtens, and they all had low AC. So when one of the members of the fearless band of valiant cat knights fell... The wizard used their body as a makeshift shield, which I ruled (in the moment) gave them +2 to armor. Thanks in part to the shield and the courageous efforts of the team, no more cats lost their life that night, and the previously deadly labyrinth was never used to destroy the lives of cats ever again.
Another fun encounter I had was in a one-shot I just ran this weekend. The party was sneaking through a casino, trying to get into the vault and steal gold. When they got their, they encountered a Mimic. I run a lot of one-shots since things happened to my old group, and I'm trying to get another one. There were only two players in the adventure, and they eventually defeated the Mimic and claimed the gold but had to run as a giant monster (that was also meant to guard the gold) pounded on the door.
The players then fled to the upper floor of the casino, where the employees were waiting for them. They fought some of the casino's staff and then came upon the boss that would easily kill them if they had failed to quickly escape after their heist. They knew this, and one of the characters turned invisible while the other - a Rogue - disengaged as an action and used Cunning Action to dash with their bonus action, running out of the casino and jumping over some guards as they escaped with close to 600 gold pieces. The other character was left to die.
I have 50-60 dice, but no favorites. I would just lose any dice that I got too attached too, anyways, lol.
As a sidenote, am I the only one who used paper and scissors to invent a custom built dice jail?
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.Way back in the 4th grade, my friend Sean came up to me and showed me the original Player's Handbook. He explaned how D&D worked - but he only had the Player's Handbook. My next move was not eating lunch for months and saving my money and going to the book store and buying The Monster Manual. I thought that's all we needed. But then I discovered there was a Dungeon Master's Guide. A few more months of no eating lunch at school. Purchased the Dungeon Master's Guide. Starting creating adventures. Sean let me borrow (eventually have, I think I bought it off of him) the Player's Handbook. My adventures back then were pretty straight forward. Orcs attacking towns. Dragons demanding things of towns. Nothing else really to it. Then my friend Tim, his brother John, offered to DM for me when I was in (I think the 5th? 6th? grade) - and he was older, so his adventure were far more planned out, and I think he used modules. It was my first official character - a dwarf fighter who had a hammer that would return to him (I was obsessed with the Thor comic in Marvel and John had Deities & Demigods which I went out and purchased no longer after). I think that lasted for a year - I got up to, I think it was level 5 - and then one day, Tim and John had a fight - John DM'ed and killed both of our characters. (If memory serves me correct - we entered a cave in search of someone, turned out to be a giant snake that devoured us - Star Wars anyone?) After that, I began DMing for people and really developing a world - that to this day, my current campaign still has some elements of the many worlds I've created over the years - although my current campaign focuses on a new continent, so everything there is new, and heavily influenced by my player's actions, backgrounds, origins, etc. D&D and the creativity it gave me was one of the best blessings.
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AH There we go. Mini-Question of the Day. Do you believe in talking to your dice, punishing your dice, giving your dice a nice home to live in and pleasant yard to roll around in?
After consistently rolling multiple Nat 1s I took a blow torch to my d20 then showed the blackened bubbly corpse to other dice to keep them in line.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
A friend of mine was interested in trying it after Stranger Things Season 1 came out...miserable failure, but then we heard about D&D events at our local game shop...so we started going, I stepped in as a DM for one group after a while, and this whole thing blossomed into a fun hobby for all of us.
Do you ever wonder just how insane we must seem to the outside world?
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
No. I figure that if the dice are mad at me I probably deserve it for some reason or other. They do all live in special pouches though, nice and cozy.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
I was in grade school in the late 70s and my friend asked if I wanted to play this cool game. My friend showed up with the basic box and Keep on the Borderlands.
My sister and I fought some orcs and the owlbear. We died horrendously but I was hooked! I didn't really know how exactly the game worked but it didn't matter. I began drawing maps like crazy and sold them for 25 cents.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
You got to show those dice whose boss or they will never stop acting up. But you also must reward their good behavior.
Ever think you spotted someone from these forums even thought you have never met?
Totally thought I spotted IamSposta!
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