“Wow, just lump assuming that they're on drugs? I mean if this were the 80s, sure. But I don't think many of them are into drugs as big as it was in the 80s. Yes, some naturally. But one of your co-workers is probably as likely to be into drugs, as well, though may not be obvious.”
Quote from SirTawmis. I meant this as in the drugs they did do in the 80’s. I don’t know who does drugs now, I’m purely thinking about what effect these drugs could have had on them that has lingered and inhibited their mental ability. It’s one of many reasons I say not to meet celebrities. They often aren’t what you expect because they aren’t who they were anymore. One (extreme) example is Ozzy Osbourne. Love the music, but he ruined himself. There are other celebrities who did as well. I have plenty of reasons to not want to play with them though.
“Wow, just lump assuming that they're on drugs? I mean if this were the 80s, sure. But I don't think many of them are into drugs as big as it was in the 80s. Yes, some naturally. But one of your co-workers is probably as likely to be into drugs, as well, though may not be obvious.”
Quote from SirTawmis. I meant this as in the drugs they did do in the 80’s. I don’t know who does drugs now, I’m purely thinking about what effect these drugs could have had on them that has lingered and inhibited their mental ability. It’s one of many reasons I say not to meet celebrities. They often aren’t what you expect because they aren’t who they were anymore. One (extreme) example is Ozzy Osbourne. Love the music, but he ruined himself. There are other celebrities who did as well. I have plenty of reasons to not want to play with them though.
Fair enough.
Some celebs, however come back from that - a great one is Robert Downey Jr. Dude was a complete waste in the 80s - so deep into drugs he literally murdered his acting career for a long time. Does Tropic Thunder, gets a little recognition. Gets cast as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and he's a household name.
But it's true that meeting some celebs - drugs or not, can be ruined. I'd met a few that were pretty short (attitude) wise - but in hindsight, these were at conventions where they're not stop signing and answering questions and talking to people. That's going to ware anyone down. But I admittedly met an artist outside of that - and had a horrendous experience with that encounter. But I've met others that I look forward to seeing, meeting and talking to. I can tell you - one of my favorite encounters was with Joe Hill (son of Stephen King). My best friend is an enormous fan of his - and was too damn shy to go up to him and ask for a photo. So I went over there, asked for a photo - and just got to talking to him. Explained what was going on. He said to drag my friend Chuck over. Did so. Snapped photos. Ended up talking. Then he signed his book for each of us and gave it to us free. Had nothing to do with the free book and such - but the fact that he just sat there talking to us for like 30 minutes. No care in the world. When we saw him at the cafe later, he nodded and waved to us. Was absolutely incredible. I'd not read anything from Joe Hill, but I ended up reading Locke & Key because of that encounter. Marc Silvestri is another one I freaking love meeting - always super down to Earth (comic book artist). Also Walter Simonson was super down to Earth (another comic book artist), though he had a line behind me so I kept it super brief. But he was definitely easy to talk to. Only one pair of artists I met (the horrendous experience) that marred everything I thought about them for like 5 years or so. And I finally just got over it and said, it is what it is. I've met them since then and had brief discussions with them. But definitely ripped the veil away after that first encounter. (Like they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression).
QUESTION: Since I was messing around with a hater thread, this came to mind to lighten the mood. What's your fantasy D&D table of famous people, living dead, who are not already known D&D players? Me, off the cuff, I'd want to play with Prince and Thomas Haden Church. Just two players, we alternate DMing in a world we collectively homebrew. Maybe we'd have Robin Williams and Aubrey Plaza over at different times for a one shot, but I sense both might be game wreckers.
I honestly have no idea. As others have said, explaining how D&D works to some people would likely be incredibly difficult, and people from certain years might believe that the game was a Satanic cult.
Honestly... I would have to pick Mark Hulmes (from High Rollers D&D) and Matt Mercer. Then, I would just have the rest of the group be rounded out by my friends in real life.
P.S. Sorry about not being more active in this thread and the whole forums for a while. I don't know if I'll ever post as much as I used to, but I'll try to participate in discussions at least a little bit more frequently from now on.
QUESTION: Since I was messing around with a hater thread, this came to mind to lighten the mood. What's your fantasy D&D table of famous people, living dead, who are not already known D&D players? Me, off the cuff, I'd want to play with Prince and Thomas Haden Church. Just two players, we alternate DMing in a world we collectively homebrew. Maybe we'd have Robin Williams and Aubrey Plaza over at different times for a one shot, but I sense both might be game wreckers.
I want to play with N. D. Wilson, Andrew Peterson, S. D. Smith, A. S. Peterson, and C. S. Lewis. I want either Lewis or Andrew to be the DMs. These folks aren't all super famous but they are authors that I enjoy. I feel like this is a table of players that would get along really well with each other and they would probably spend half the game time having interesting discussions.
I doubt they would all get along well, but I would also like to play with Brandon Sanderson, Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Terry Pratchett, Mike Mignola, and N. D. Wilson (again). They are all more authors who would all be great DMs and players, but I don't know if they would all get along well with each other.
For fun, I want to throw Jack Black into one of those groups.
QUESTION: Since I was messing around with a hater thread, this came to mind to lighten the mood. What's your fantasy D&D table of famous people, living dead, who are not already known D&D players? Me, off the cuff, I'd want to play with Prince and Thomas Haden Church. Just two players, we alternate DMing in a world we collectively homebrew. Maybe we'd have Robin Williams and Aubrey Plaza over at different times for a one shot, but I sense both might be game wreckers.
Hmm. This is tough. I would like to see the some cast members of my favorite tv shows (Ie voice actors for Owl House and Dragon prince as well as some of the leads for my other favorites, including Wednesday, the new Willow, and Lost In Space)(i find the idea of Emma Myers (Edin) creating the most edgelord tiefling in existence hilarious considering her personality on the show)
"Come with me, and you'll be. in a world of pure imagination. Take a look, and you'll see, into your imagination. we'll begin, with a spin. traveling in a world of my creation. what we'll see will defy explanation!" ~Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
their is no light without dark. no calm without storm. no heroes without villains. I, unfortunately am the dark. I am the storm. I. Am. The. Villain (not really considering I'm a forever player and never get the chance to DM)
“Wow, just lump assuming that they're on drugs? I mean if this were the 80s, sure. But I don't think many of them are into drugs as big as it was in the 80s. Yes, some naturally. But one of your co-workers is probably as likely to be into drugs, as well, though may not be obvious.”
Quote from SirTawmis. I meant this as in the drugs they did do in the 80’s. I don’t know who does drugs now, I’m purely thinking about what effect these drugs could have had on them that has lingered and inhibited their mental ability. It’s one of many reasons I say not to meet celebrities. They often aren’t what you expect because they aren’t who they were anymore. One (extreme) example is Ozzy Osbourne. Love the music, but he ruined himself. There are other celebrities who did as well. I have plenty of reasons to not want to play with them though.
Fair enough.
Some celebs, however come back from that - a great one is Robert Downey Jr. Dude was a complete waste in the 80s - so deep into drugs he literally murdered his acting career for a long time. Does Tropic Thunder, gets a little recognition. Gets cast as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and he's a household name.
But it's true that meeting some celebs - drugs or not, can be ruined. I'd met a few that were pretty short (attitude) wise - but in hindsight, these were at conventions where they're not stop signing and answering questions and talking to people. That's going to ware anyone down. But I admittedly met an artist outside of that - and had a horrendous experience with that encounter. But I've met others that I look forward to seeing, meeting and talking to. I can tell you - one of my favorite encounters was with Joe Hill (son of Stephen King). My best friend is an enormous fan of his - and was too damn shy to go up to him and ask for a photo. So I went over there, asked for a photo - and just got to talking to him. Explained what was going on. He said to drag my friend Chuck over. Did so. Snapped photos. Ended up talking. Then he signed his book for each of us and gave it to us free. Had nothing to do with the free book and such - but the fact that he just sat there talking to us for like 30 minutes. No care in the world. When we saw him at the cafe later, he nodded and waved to us. Was absolutely incredible. I'd not read anything from Joe Hill, but I ended up reading Locke & Key because of that encounter. Marc Silvestri is another one I freaking love meeting - always super down to Earth (comic book artist). Also Walter Simonson was super down to Earth (another comic book artist), though he had a line behind me so I kept it super brief. But he was definitely easy to talk to. Only one pair of artists I met (the horrendous experience) that marred everything I thought about them for like 5 years or so. And I finally just got over it and said, it is what it is. I've met them since then and had brief discussions with them. But definitely ripped the veil away after that first encounter. (Like they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression).
That’s good to hear. I have yet to meet a celebrity who hasn’t been somewhat disappointing or even outright rude. I am headed to a concert and I have a chance to meet the band so hopefully they aren’t what others are. And RDJ is one of the best recovery stories. I’m not a huge fan of the guy, but I respect him.
QUESTION: Since I was messing around with a hater thread, this came to mind to lighten the mood. What's your fantasy D&D table of famous people, living dead, who are not already known D&D players? Me, off the cuff, I'd want to play with Prince and Thomas Haden Church. Just two players, we alternate DMing in a world we collectively homebrew. Maybe we'd have Robin Williams and Aubrey Plaza over at different times for a one shot, but I sense both might be game wreckers.
I want to play with N. D. Wilson, Andrew Peterson, S. D. Smith, A. S. Peterson, and C. S. Lewis. I want either Lewis or Andrew to be the DMs. These folks aren't all super famous but they are authors that I enjoy. I feel like this is a table of players that would get along really well with each other and they would probably spend half the game time having interesting discussions.
I doubt they would all get along well, but I would also like to play with Brandon Sanderson, Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Terry Pratchett, Mike Mignola, and N. D. Wilson (again). They are all more authors who would all be great DMs and players, but I don't know if they would all get along well with each other.
For fun, I want to throw Jack Black into one of those groups.
I’d agree with you on all accounts here, except on Christopher Paolini. Frankly one of the most boring and generally dismissive people I’ve met. I enjoyed some of his books, but he made no effort to really engage people at a signing I went to and even outside of those. He sadly isn’t who he seems to be.
Sunday: Sun's Day. The Sun gave people light and warmth every day. They decided to name the first (or last) day of the week after the Sun.
Monday: Moon's Day. The Moon was thought to be very important in the lives of people and their crops.
Tuesday: Tiw's Day. Tiw, or Tyr, was a Norse god known for his sense of justice.
Wednesday: Woden's Day. Woden, or Odin, was a Norse god who was one of the most powerful of them all.
Thursday: Thor's Day. Thor was a Norse god who wielded a giant hammer.
Friday: Frigg's Day. Frigg was a Norse god equal in power to Odin.
Saturday: Seater's Day or Saturn's Day. Saturn was a Roman god.
So most of the days of the week are named after Norse deities... what if we made our own world, where there are seven days of the week? And come up with a story (like the above, brief) as to how the day was named. Just for fun until someone else comes in here with a new topic.
Whoever goes next grabs the next day...
Sunday = Solantan's Day. Solantan is said to be the "Mother of All Gods" - and when the idea of tracking time (days) was initially conceived - they looked at how to name the days, and on this day, the sun had changed appearing to be an eye - as if the Mother of all had been watching and so they named it after her. It would not be for another century until they realized what the original creators of the calendar had witnessed was a solar eclipse.
Lowday - The day after the Solantan's Day celebrations was usually spent recovering from hangovers and from sunburn. Originally Aloeday, it transformed linguistically to Lowday at some indeterminate point during the Lost Century. Scholars of the Internal Pantheon suggest that this transition was related to the fall of Talcor, the rain god, but because Talcor was back in power by the end of the Lost Century, his fall from godhood is a matter of academic trivia rather than one of common knowledge.
Hjørday was the third day of the week and was generally regarded as the first day of the working week. This is due to Solantan’s Day and Lowday’s positions being generally regarded as days of festivities and recovery, respectively. The name originates with Jørik, a primal deity that was worshipped by the Hesker’s, a working caste that had been assimilated to the culture of the Prime Empire. When the Prime fell and the Internal Pantheon became the ruling force of the mainland they became full citizens and their culture and beliefs was tied in to the traditional Internal practices and though Jørik has since become a relic of the past, his domain and name lives on in Hjørday. -From the journal of Kor Loden, later published as Regarding Culture and Development
Hensday, when fools are wise men and wise men are fools. It is named after the most famous poultry farmer in all of history, an unremarkable young man who repeatedly accomplished very remarkable things by nothing but dumb luck. Bards often sing tales of a week of tending to chickens followed by a day of adventure. One week, an errant shot from his sling would knock the crown off a vicious king and onto a pig; the next, he would accidentally shatter what turned out to be a lich's phylactery while trying to learn jewelry; the week after that he would stumble into godhood, which he would never fully reach due to dying of food poisoning during the ascension ritual. Although some are superstitious about the day, asking children for advice instead of elders and steering clear of any especially frail or unarmed pedestrians in the street, most people are perfectly content to go about their second workday as normal.
The day was originally called Whaleday, after a whale that an ancient philosopher saw while trying to think of names for the days of the week. Society as a whole decided that it was pretty lame, and that those ancient philosopher guys really lost their edge after the first couple days, so when stories of a mundane man accomplishing great feats every Whaleday reached the greater world, a push was (successfully) made to change the name. Some pompous intellectuals still refuse to call the day by anything other than Whaleday, which is why whaleman is an often-used term for someone with an excessively cumbersome verbiage.
After the superstitions of Hensday comes...
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Trox day was the fifth day. It was named for Troloxian, the god of remembered spirits and past battles. It was named this because the 5th day of naming the days of the week the gods fought about what to name the day, ending with multiple nameless, forgotten gods dead at the hands of Alus, god of blood, sacrifice, and misfortune. Troloxian then slew Alus, but fueled by the blood which he had sanguines from the bodies from the dead gods, Alus rose again and then slew Troloxian in turn. Since Troloxian died in battle he came back as a ephemeral spirit that shall haunt and hinder Alus for all eternity
"Come with me, and you'll be. in a world of pure imagination. Take a look, and you'll see, into your imagination. we'll begin, with a spin. traveling in a world of my creation. what we'll see will defy explanation!" ~Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
their is no light without dark. no calm without storm. no heroes without villains. I, unfortunately am the dark. I am the storm. I. Am. The. Villain (not really considering I'm a forever player and never get the chance to DM)
Sunday: Sun's Day. The Sun gave people light and warmth every day. They decided to name the first (or last) day of the week after the Sun.
Monday: Moon's Day. The Moon was thought to be very important in the lives of people and their crops.
Tuesday: Tiw's Day. Tiw, or Tyr, was a Norse god known for his sense of justice.
Wednesday: Woden's Day. Woden, or Odin, was a Norse god who was one of the most powerful of them all.
Thursday: Thor's Day. Thor was a Norse god who wielded a giant hammer.
Friday: Frigg's Day. Frigg was a Norse god equal in power to Odin.
Saturday: Seater's Day or Saturn's Day. Saturn was a Roman god.
So most of the days of the week are named after Norse deities... what if we made our own world, where there are seven days of the week? And come up with a story (like the above, brief) as to how the day was named. Just for fun until someone else comes in here with a new topic.
Whoever goes next grabs the next day...
Sunday = Solantan's Day. Solantan is said to be the "Mother of All Gods" - and when the idea of tracking time (days) was initially conceived - they looked at how to name the days, and on this day, the sun had changed appearing to be an eye - as if the Mother of all had been watching and so they named it after her. It would not be for another century until they realized what the original creators of the calendar had witnessed was a solar eclipse.
The following day they named...
ChoirOfFire added...
Lowday - The day after the Solantan's Day celebrations was usually spent recovering from hangovers and from sunburn. Originally Aloeday, it transformed linguistically to Lowday at some indeterminate point during the Lost Century. Scholars of the Internal Pantheon suggest that this transition was related to the fall of Talcor, the rain god, but because Talcor was back in power by the end of the Lost Century, his fall from godhood is a matter of academic trivia rather than one of common knowledge.
The day after Lowday came to be known as...
Amnon_Balderk added...
Hjørday was the third day of the week and was generally regarded as the first day of the working week. This is due to Solantan’s Day and Lowday’s positions being generally regarded as days of festivities and recovery, respectively. The name originates with Jørik, a primal deity that was worshipped by the Hesker’s, a working caste that had been assimilated to the culture of the Prime Empire. When the Prime fell and the Internal Pantheon became the ruling force of the mainland they became full citizens and their culture and beliefs was tied in to the traditional Internal practices and though Jørik has since become a relic of the past, his domain and name lives on in Hjørday. -From the journal of Kor Loden, later published as Regarding Culture and Development
Hjørday was followed by…
Quar1on added...
Hensday, when fools are wise men and wise men are fools. It is named after the most famous poultry farmer in all of history, an unremarkable young man who repeatedly accomplished very remarkable things by nothing but dumb luck. Bards often sing tales of a week of tending to chickens followed by a day of adventure. One week, an errant shot from his sling would knock the crown off a vicious king and onto a pig; the next, he would accidentally shatter what turned out to be a lich's phylactery while trying to learn jewelry; the week after that he would stumble into godhood, which he would never fully reach due to dying of food poisoning during the ascension ritual. Although some are superstitious about the day, asking children for advice instead of elders and steering clear of any especially frail or unarmed pedestrians in the street, most people are perfectly content to go about their second workday as normal.
The day was originally called Whaleday, after a whale that an ancient philosopher saw while trying to think of names for the days of the week. Society as a whole decided that it was pretty lame, and that those ancient philosopher guys really lost their edge after the first couple days, so when stories of a mundane man accomplishing great feats every Whaleday reached the greater world, a push was (successfully) made to change the name. Some pompous intellectuals still refuse to call the day by anything other than Whaleday, which is why whaleman is an often-used term for someone with an excessively cumbersome verbiage.
After the superstitions of Hensday comes...
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Trox day was the fifth day. It was named for Troloxian, the god of remembered spirits and past battles. It was named this because the 5th day of naming the days of the week the gods fought about what to name the day, ending with multiple nameless, forgotten gods dead at the hands of Alus, god of blood, sacrifice, and misfortune. Troloxian then slew Alus, but fueled by the blood which he had sanguines from the bodies from the dead gods, Alus rose again and then slew Troloxian in turn. Since Troloxian died in battle he came back as a ephemeral spirit that shall haunt and hinder Alus for all eternity
Are there any monsters that are currently not in any D&D book (whether you saw it in a movie, in a book, comic, etc.,) that you think would be cool in D&D?
For example, I'd love to see the Brood (from the pages of X-Men) be a Spelljammer monster.
Yes, they're an Aliens knock off - but I love the fact that they can talk.
They also use their stingers for lethal poison. The Queen can put "eggs" inside of people who then grow inside of them and take over them, absorbing all of their powers, and turning them into Brood.
Are there any monsters that are currently not in any D&D book (whether you saw it in a movie, in a book, comic, etc.,) that you think would be cool in D&D?
For example, I'd love to see the Brood (from the pages of X-Men) be a Spelljammer monster.
Oh absolutely!
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I kinda like the Langoliers from the Stephen King novella of the same name. I could see them being a sort of antithesis of the Modrons, or maybe kin. Modrons arguably look to the maintenance of structure. The Langoliers dismantle the structure of reality after its moment has passed. They're an incredibly improbable monster to encounter under "normal" circumstances (the characters in the King novella did so because of a Bermuda Triangle type space-time displacement, which had a sort of old school planescape vibe), but I could see some sort of breach occurring bringing in the Langoliers wrecking crew into "present" reality. Come to think of it my favorite sorta Planescape book, Tales from the Infinite Staircase does have a sort of Langoliers type "bad force" being contended with (something encroaching to dissolve the multiverse on multiple planar fronts, "the structure can not hold" type stuff ... and it's not hard to associate both that force and the Langoliers with The Nothing from Neverending Story).
There is this small community of authors that I have mentioned before here. They all write in similar styles and have often done crossovers together, writing stories in each other's worlds and incorporating each other's monsters into their stories. One example is the raggant:
The brainchild of N. D. Wilson, a raggant is a small, simple creature. It has a body the size and shape of a basset hound with leathery gray skin and small wings on its back. Its head is that of a rhino with a small snub for a horn. These creatures can fly it looks silly and they are too proud to do it in front of people unless absolutely necessary. In the wild, raggants live in small herds on islands and are often guarded by faerie shepherds called ragherds. Raggants have the remarkable ability to track beings across dimensions. If a raggant is given something to smell from a specific individual, that raggant can follow the trail no matter how far or old it is. They move fairly slowly but they always catch up to their being eventually. Their small size is helpful because it allows them to squeeze through small passageways that connect different worlds, particularly wooden cabinets and cupboards. A raggant is bonded with its specific individual, will always attempt to remain near its target, and once it has been sent on a trail it will never hunt down anyone else. Raggants possess remarkable stubbornness and will and their quaries often find that they make pleasant companions.
“Wow, just lump assuming that they're on drugs? I mean if this were the 80s, sure. But I don't think many of them are into drugs as big as it was in the 80s. Yes, some naturally. But one of your co-workers is probably as likely to be into drugs, as well, though may not be obvious.”
Quote from SirTawmis. I meant this as in the drugs they did do in the 80’s. I don’t know who does drugs now, I’m purely thinking about what effect these drugs could have had on them that has lingered and inhibited their mental ability. It’s one of many reasons I say not to meet celebrities. They often aren’t what you expect because they aren’t who they were anymore. One (extreme) example is Ozzy Osbourne. Love the music, but he ruined himself. There are other celebrities who did as well. I have plenty of reasons to not want to play with them though.
Also, my polymorph would be a silver dragon. Ancient, of course, because silver dragons are great.
Fair enough.
Some celebs, however come back from that - a great one is Robert Downey Jr. Dude was a complete waste in the 80s - so deep into drugs he literally murdered his acting career for a long time. Does Tropic Thunder, gets a little recognition. Gets cast as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and he's a household name.
But it's true that meeting some celebs - drugs or not, can be ruined. I'd met a few that were pretty short (attitude) wise - but in hindsight, these were at conventions where they're not stop signing and answering questions and talking to people. That's going to ware anyone down. But I admittedly met an artist outside of that - and had a horrendous experience with that encounter. But I've met others that I look forward to seeing, meeting and talking to. I can tell you - one of my favorite encounters was with Joe Hill (son of Stephen King). My best friend is an enormous fan of his - and was too damn shy to go up to him and ask for a photo. So I went over there, asked for a photo - and just got to talking to him. Explained what was going on. He said to drag my friend Chuck over. Did so. Snapped photos. Ended up talking. Then he signed his book for each of us and gave it to us free. Had nothing to do with the free book and such - but the fact that he just sat there talking to us for like 30 minutes. No care in the world. When we saw him at the cafe later, he nodded and waved to us. Was absolutely incredible. I'd not read anything from Joe Hill, but I ended up reading Locke & Key because of that encounter. Marc Silvestri is another one I freaking love meeting - always super down to Earth (comic book artist). Also Walter Simonson was super down to Earth (another comic book artist), though he had a line behind me so I kept it super brief. But he was definitely easy to talk to. Only one pair of artists I met (the horrendous experience) that marred everything I thought about them for like 5 years or so. And I finally just got over it and said, it is what it is. I've met them since then and had brief discussions with them. But definitely ripped the veil away after that first encounter. (Like they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression).
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I honestly have no idea. As others have said, explaining how D&D works to some people would likely be incredibly difficult, and people from certain years might believe that the game was a Satanic cult.
Honestly... I would have to pick Mark Hulmes (from High Rollers D&D) and Matt Mercer. Then, I would just have the rest of the group be rounded out by my friends in real life.
P.S. Sorry about not being more active in this thread and the whole forums for a while. I don't know if I'll ever post as much as I used to, but I'll try to participate in discussions at least a little bit more frequently from now on.
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HERE.I want to play with N. D. Wilson, Andrew Peterson, S. D. Smith, A. S. Peterson, and C. S. Lewis. I want either Lewis or Andrew to be the DMs. These folks aren't all super famous but they are authors that I enjoy. I feel like this is a table of players that would get along really well with each other and they would probably spend half the game time having interesting discussions.
I doubt they would all get along well, but I would also like to play with Brandon Sanderson, Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, Terry Pratchett, Mike Mignola, and N. D. Wilson (again). They are all more authors who would all be great DMs and players, but I don't know if they would all get along well with each other.
For fun, I want to throw Jack Black into one of those groups.
Hmm. This is tough. I would like to see the some cast members of my favorite tv shows (Ie voice actors for Owl House and Dragon prince as well as some of the leads for my other favorites, including Wednesday, the new Willow, and Lost In Space)(i find the idea of Emma Myers (Edin) creating the most edgelord tiefling in existence hilarious considering her personality on the show)
"Come with me, and you'll be. in a world of pure imagination. Take a look, and you'll see, into your imagination. we'll begin, with a spin. traveling in a world of my creation. what we'll see will defy explanation!" ~Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
their is no light without dark. no calm without storm. no heroes without villains. I, unfortunately am the dark. I am the storm. I. Am. The. Villain (not really considering I'm a forever player and never get the chance to DM)
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That’s good to hear. I have yet to meet a celebrity who hasn’t been somewhat disappointing or even outright rude. I am headed to a concert and I have a chance to meet the band so hopefully they aren’t what others are. And RDJ is one of the best recovery stories. I’m not a huge fan of the guy, but I respect him.
I’d agree with you on all accounts here, except on Christopher Paolini. Frankly one of the most boring and generally dismissive people I’ve met. I enjoyed some of his books, but he made no effort to really engage people at a signing I went to and even outside of those. He sadly isn’t who he seems to be.
Saturday: Seater's Day or Saturn's Day. Saturn was a Roman god.
So most of the days of the week are named after Norse deities... what if we made our own world, where there are seven days of the week? And come up with a story (like the above, brief) as to how the day was named. Just for fun until someone else comes in here with a new topic.
Whoever goes next grabs the next day...
Sunday = Solantan's Day. Solantan is said to be the "Mother of All Gods" - and when the idea of tracking time (days) was initially conceived - they looked at how to name the days, and on this day, the sun had changed appearing to be an eye - as if the Mother of all had been watching and so they named it after her. It would not be for another century until they realized what the original creators of the calendar had witnessed was a solar eclipse.
The following day they named...
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Lowday - The day after the Solantan's Day celebrations was usually spent recovering from hangovers and from sunburn. Originally Aloeday, it transformed linguistically to Lowday at some indeterminate point during the Lost Century. Scholars of the Internal Pantheon suggest that this transition was related to the fall of Talcor, the rain god, but because Talcor was back in power by the end of the Lost Century, his fall from godhood is a matter of academic trivia rather than one of common knowledge.
The day after Lowday came to be known as...
Hjørday was the third day of the week and was generally regarded as the first day of the working week. This is due to Solantan’s Day and Lowday’s positions being generally regarded as days of festivities and recovery, respectively. The name originates with Jørik, a primal deity that was worshipped by the Hesker’s, a working caste that had been assimilated to the culture of the Prime Empire. When the Prime fell and the Internal Pantheon became the ruling force of the mainland they became full citizens and their culture and beliefs was tied in to the traditional Internal practices and though Jørik has since become a relic of the past, his domain and name lives on in Hjørday. -From the journal of Kor Loden, later published as Regarding Culture and Development
Hjørday was followed by…
Hensday, when fools are wise men and wise men are fools. It is named after the most famous poultry farmer in all of history, an unremarkable young man who repeatedly accomplished very remarkable things by nothing but dumb luck. Bards often sing tales of a week of tending to chickens followed by a day of adventure. One week, an errant shot from his sling would knock the crown off a vicious king and onto a pig; the next, he would accidentally shatter what turned out to be a lich's phylactery while trying to learn jewelry; the week after that he would stumble into godhood, which he would never fully reach due to dying of food poisoning during the ascension ritual. Although some are superstitious about the day, asking children for advice instead of elders and steering clear of any especially frail or unarmed pedestrians in the street, most people are perfectly content to go about their second workday as normal.
The day was originally called Whaleday, after a whale that an ancient philosopher saw while trying to think of names for the days of the week. Society as a whole decided that it was pretty lame, and that those ancient philosopher guys really lost their edge after the first couple days, so when stories of a mundane man accomplishing great feats every Whaleday reached the greater world, a push was (successfully) made to change the name. Some pompous intellectuals still refuse to call the day by anything other than Whaleday, which is why whaleman is an often-used term for someone with an excessively cumbersome verbiage.
After the superstitions of Hensday comes...
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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Trox day was the fifth day. It was named for Troloxian, the god of remembered spirits and past battles. It was named this because the 5th day of naming the days of the week the gods fought about what to name the day, ending with multiple nameless, forgotten gods dead at the hands of Alus, god of blood, sacrifice, and misfortune. Troloxian then slew Alus, but fueled by the blood which he had sanguines from the bodies from the dead gods, Alus rose again and then slew Troloxian in turn. Since Troloxian died in battle he came back as a ephemeral spirit that shall haunt and hinder Alus for all eternity
after the solemness of Trox day comes….
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Carrying this over from the previous page...
Saturday: Seater's Day or Saturn's Day. Saturn was a Roman god.
So most of the days of the week are named after Norse deities... what if we made our own world, where there are seven days of the week? And come up with a story (like the above, brief) as to how the day was named. Just for fun until someone else comes in here with a new topic.
Whoever goes next grabs the next day...
Sunday = Solantan's Day. Solantan is said to be the "Mother of All Gods" - and when the idea of tracking time (days) was initially conceived - they looked at how to name the days, and on this day, the sun had changed appearing to be an eye - as if the Mother of all had been watching and so they named it after her. It would not be for another century until they realized what the original creators of the calendar had witnessed was a solar eclipse.
The following day they named...
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Lowday - The day after the Solantan's Day celebrations was usually spent recovering from hangovers and from sunburn. Originally Aloeday, it transformed linguistically to Lowday at some indeterminate point during the Lost Century. Scholars of the Internal Pantheon suggest that this transition was related to the fall of Talcor, the rain god, but because Talcor was back in power by the end of the Lost Century, his fall from godhood is a matter of academic trivia rather than one of common knowledge.
The day after Lowday came to be known as...
Amnon_Balderk added...
Hjørday was the third day of the week and was generally regarded as the first day of the working week. This is due to Solantan’s Day and Lowday’s positions being generally regarded as days of festivities and recovery, respectively. The name originates with Jørik, a primal deity that was worshipped by the Hesker’s, a working caste that had been assimilated to the culture of the Prime Empire. When the Prime fell and the Internal Pantheon became the ruling force of the mainland they became full citizens and their culture and beliefs was tied in to the traditional Internal practices and though Jørik has since become a relic of the past, his domain and name lives on in Hjørday. -From the journal of Kor Loden, later published as Regarding Culture and Development
Hjørday was followed by…
Quar1on added...
Hensday, when fools are wise men and wise men are fools. It is named after the most famous poultry farmer in all of history, an unremarkable young man who repeatedly accomplished very remarkable things by nothing but dumb luck. Bards often sing tales of a week of tending to chickens followed by a day of adventure. One week, an errant shot from his sling would knock the crown off a vicious king and onto a pig; the next, he would accidentally shatter what turned out to be a lich's phylactery while trying to learn jewelry; the week after that he would stumble into godhood, which he would never fully reach due to dying of food poisoning during the ascension ritual. Although some are superstitious about the day, asking children for advice instead of elders and steering clear of any especially frail or unarmed pedestrians in the street, most people are perfectly content to go about their second workday as normal.
The day was originally called Whaleday, after a whale that an ancient philosopher saw while trying to think of names for the days of the week. Society as a whole decided that it was pretty lame, and that those ancient philosopher guys really lost their edge after the first couple days, so when stories of a mundane man accomplishing great feats every Whaleday reached the greater world, a push was (successfully) made to change the name. Some pompous intellectuals still refuse to call the day by anything other than Whaleday, which is why whaleman is an often-used term for someone with an excessively cumbersome verbiage.
After the superstitions of Hensday comes...
AllMightyLordOfDND added...
Trox day was the fifth day. It was named for Troloxian, the god of remembered spirits and past battles. It was named this because the 5th day of naming the days of the week the gods fought about what to name the day, ending with multiple nameless, forgotten gods dead at the hands of Alus, god of blood, sacrifice, and misfortune. Troloxian then slew Alus, but fueled by the blood which he had sanguines from the bodies from the dead gods, Alus rose again and then slew Troloxian in turn. Since Troloxian died in battle he came back as a ephemeral spirit that shall haunt and hinder Alus for all eternity
after the solemness of Trox day comes….
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Are there any monsters that are currently not in any D&D book (whether you saw it in a movie, in a book, comic, etc.,) that you think would be cool in D&D?
For example, I'd love to see the Brood (from the pages of X-Men) be a Spelljammer monster.
Yes, they're an Aliens knock off - but I love the fact that they can talk.
They also use their stingers for lethal poison. The Queen can put "eggs" inside of people who then grow inside of them and take over them, absorbing all of their powers, and turning them into Brood.
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Oh absolutely!
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"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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Monster.
I kinda like the Langoliers from the Stephen King novella of the same name. I could see them being a sort of antithesis of the Modrons, or maybe kin. Modrons arguably look to the maintenance of structure. The Langoliers dismantle the structure of reality after its moment has passed. They're an incredibly improbable monster to encounter under "normal" circumstances (the characters in the King novella did so because of a Bermuda Triangle type space-time displacement, which had a sort of old school planescape vibe), but I could see some sort of breach occurring bringing in the Langoliers wrecking crew into "present" reality. Come to think of it my favorite sorta Planescape book, Tales from the Infinite Staircase does have a sort of Langoliers type "bad force" being contended with (something encroaching to dissolve the multiverse on multiple planar fronts, "the structure can not hold" type stuff ... and it's not hard to associate both that force and the Langoliers with The Nothing from Neverending Story).
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For the Monster Question:
There is this small community of authors that I have mentioned before here. They all write in similar styles and have often done crossovers together, writing stories in each other's worlds and incorporating each other's monsters into their stories. One example is the raggant:
The brainchild of N. D. Wilson, a raggant is a small, simple creature. It has a body the size and shape of a basset hound with leathery gray skin and small wings on its back. Its head is that of a rhino with a small snub for a horn. These creatures can fly it looks silly and they are too proud to do it in front of people unless absolutely necessary. In the wild, raggants live in small herds on islands and are often guarded by faerie shepherds called ragherds. Raggants have the remarkable ability to track beings across dimensions. If a raggant is given something to smell from a specific individual, that raggant can follow the trail no matter how far or old it is. They move fairly slowly but they always catch up to their being eventually. Their small size is helpful because it allows them to squeeze through small passageways that connect different worlds, particularly wooden cabinets and cupboards. A raggant is bonded with its specific individual, will always attempt to remain near its target, and once it has been sent on a trail it will never hunt down anyone else. Raggants possess remarkable stubbornness and will and their quaries often find that they make pleasant companions.
Minecraft warden. No question.
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