I was not expecting to get an entire books worth of stuff dealing with writers block and getting ideas. You all are awesome! I may have to revisit this page a ton to fully understand all the stuff you all posted because it is so detailed and mind blowing. :D
We're a friendly lot here, really. It's pretty much the ONLY thread I really post in anymore. Because everyone here is great and helpful. So many different ideas and different views and everyone's civil about it.
I was not expecting to get an entire books worth of stuff dealing with writers block and getting ideas. You all are awesome! I may have to revisit this page a ton to fully understand all the stuff you all posted because it is so detailed and mind blowing. :D
We're a friendly lot here, really. It's pretty much the ONLY thread I really post in anymore. Because everyone here is great and helpful. So many different ideas and different views and everyone's civil about it.
It's a rare find out in the Internet World.
Welcome to the thread.
Hey now...
I am rarely helpful. I am rude and insulting at my best, and we all know I never write more than four words in a reply.
Wait, it *is* opposite day, right?
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I was not expecting to get an entire books worth of stuff dealing with writers block and getting ideas. You all are awesome! I may have to revisit this page a ton to fully understand all the stuff you all posted because it is so detailed and mind blowing. :D
We're a friendly lot here, really. It's pretty much the ONLY thread I really post in anymore. Because everyone here is great and helpful. So many different ideas and different views and everyone's civil about it.
It's a rare find out in the Internet World.
Welcome to the thread.
Hey now...
I am rarely helpful. I am rude and insulting at my best, and we all know I never write more than four words in a reply.
Wait, it *is* opposite day, right?
It may be because that may yet be one of the shortest replies I've ever seen from you! :D
I was not expecting to get an entire books worth of stuff dealing with writers block and getting ideas. You all are awesome! I may have to revisit this page a ton to fully understand all the stuff you all posted because it is so detailed and mind blowing. :D
We're a friendly lot here, really. It's pretty much the ONLY thread I really post in anymore. Because everyone here is great and helpful. So many different ideas and different views and everyone's civil about it.
It's a rare find out in the Internet World.
Welcome to the thread.
Hey now...
I am rarely helpful. I am rude and insulting at my best, and we all know I never write more than four words in a reply.
Wait, it *is* opposite day, right?
Opposite Day silliness makes my brain hurt lol.
Your Essay type posts are pretty interesting to read. Makes me feel like an intellectual in a coffee shop :D
Thank you. I was thinking of PMing AEDorsay about that question before I posted here but I’m glad I didn’t. :3 I’ll try to remain active in this thread since it is a lot friendlier than most other thread discussions about D&D related topics.
Well, everyone is always welcomed in the thread. So even if you're not active and you vanish for awhile and then come back, still be greeted with a tavern welcome!
This thread - somehow - managed to attract a lot of creative people and it's wonderful for it. Everyone has different ideas, different takes, and it's all welcomed, it's all embraced.
Thats amazing! Along with finding a group that can help me share and find wisdom, I finally got inspiration to work on a campaign again. Thank you all! :D
I’d love to but it may take some time. I have to rebuild parts of it yet again since my other two versions have issues with it. I may have to get drummer and maybe a couple of the really nice people from this thread to help me with parts of it.
How streamlined everything is. I wish it were crunchier.
We are of different mind sets, clearly. :D
The fact that it is streamlined allows the games to run smoothly.
I currently play in a World of Darkness game that is very crunchy - and I feel like that can choke the game sometimes.
I never found WoD to have that problem, but I never ran the story for that, so I only needed to know my characters’ stuff. But the Magic system in particular was simpler than D&D’s because it just had examples of stuff that you could do at various power levels and the Storyteller just adjudicated based on those. Of course, that was an older edition of WoD, I’m not familiar with the current version.
Heh. I am not the DM of the World of Darkness game. I am the player. So in the Mage game - you're right, in a way - that it gives examples of what "Mind 2" does, for example. But that also leaves it very open to interpretation.
So rather than just knowing what it does - it becomes a discussion. "Well, with Mind 2 would I be able to use..." DM considers it. Then player says, "OK, so then I would like to..." DM considers it. Rather than just, "I read his mind" (if that's all Mind 2 did). Each time something happened in the Mage game - the game halted as we all tried to figure out what powers to use, and if they'd work how we think, see if the DM agrees with how we think we can use these powers.
In the Vampire game, it's far less of a problem because spells aren't really a thing you use in Vampire. It's more about Potent and Disciplines you have. But still, even doing skill checks - why isn't JUST THE SKILL? Why if I am brawling am I rolling the BRAWL and then need to roll Strength too? Why isn't it simplified to just roll Brawl? So there's weird quirky things about that.
Imagine if in D&D - "I want to make a Perception check." "OK. Click Perception. And also click Wisdom."
Just seems like there's needless steps.
I never minded that conversation, it just seemed natural to us. Roll twice? Why wouldn’t you just grab all the dice for both and roll them all together? (Or am I missing something?) Plus, after playing for a decade we kinda just knew what we could do and didn’t even bother rolling for lots of things. Imagine using Passive scores for most things. Then, when you do have to roll for something it really wasn’t a problem.
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I was not expecting to get an entire books worth of stuff dealing with writers block and getting ideas. You all are awesome!
I may have to revisit this page a ton to fully understand all the stuff you all posted because it is so detailed and mind blowing. :D
Anytime! PM me if you ever want detailed writing designs and structures. As an author with book one on the way I have plenty of tips! I also have a plethora of VERY helpful videos saved that I can pull out at any time!
How streamlined everything is. I wish it were crunchier.
We are of different mind sets, clearly. :D
The fact that it is streamlined allows the games to run smoothly.
I currently play in a World of Darkness game that is very crunchy - and I feel like that can choke the game sometimes.
I never found WoD to have that problem, but I never ran the story for that, so I only needed to know my characters’ stuff. But the Magic system in particular was simpler than D&D’s because it just had examples of stuff that you could do at various power levels and the Storyteller just adjudicated based on those. Of course, that was an older edition of WoD, I’m not familiar with the current version.
Heh. I am not the DM of the World of Darkness game. I am the player. So in the Mage game - you're right, in a way - that it gives examples of what "Mind 2" does, for example. But that also leaves it very open to interpretation.
So rather than just knowing what it does - it becomes a discussion. "Well, with Mind 2 would I be able to use..." DM considers it. Then player says, "OK, so then I would like to..." DM considers it. Rather than just, "I read his mind" (if that's all Mind 2 did). Each time something happened in the Mage game - the game halted as we all tried to figure out what powers to use, and if they'd work how we think, see if the DM agrees with how we think we can use these powers.
In the Vampire game, it's far less of a problem because spells aren't really a thing you use in Vampire. It's more about Potent and Disciplines you have. But still, even doing skill checks - why isn't JUST THE SKILL? Why if I am brawling am I rolling the BRAWL and then need to roll Strength too? Why isn't it simplified to just roll Brawl? So there's weird quirky things about that.
Imagine if in D&D - "I want to make a Perception check." "OK. Click Perception. And also click Wisdom."
Just seems like there's needless steps.
I never minded that conversation, it just seemed natural to us. Roll twice? Why wouldn’t you just grab all the dice for both and roll them all together? (Or am I missing something?) Plus, after playing for a decade we kinda just knew what we could do and didn’t even bother rolling for lots of things. Imagine using Passive scores for most things. Then, when you do have to roll for something it really wasn’t a problem.
Ah, sorry - yes. Both the Mage and the Vampire (we also did Hunter, which I immensely enjoyed) are all remote - on Roll20.
So on Roll20 - when you click Brawl, you then select the secondary attribute that goes with it. And sometimes, it makes sense. Brawl + Strength, makes sense.
But there were some rolls, where I wasn't sure why the combo was being used - but new to the system, I just did whatever the DM told me.
(DM is someone I know in person, we just found it far more convenient to play online since several people have kids and it was easier to manage online, so they wouldn't have to drive somewhere, drive back, leave a significant other with kids, whatever the case... then when some players departed, some of the new ones were completely remote - as in not living anywhere close).
How streamlined everything is. I wish it were crunchier.
We are of different mind sets, clearly. :D
The fact that it is streamlined allows the games to run smoothly.
I currently play in a World of Darkness game that is very crunchy - and I feel like that can choke the game sometimes.
I never found WoD to have that problem, but I never ran the story for that, so I only needed to know my characters’ stuff. But the Magic system in particular was simpler than D&D’s because it just had examples of stuff that you could do at various power levels and the Storyteller just adjudicated based on those. Of course, that was an older edition of WoD, I’m not familiar with the current version.
Heh. I am not the DM of the World of Darkness game. I am the player. So in the Mage game - you're right, in a way - that it gives examples of what "Mind 2" does, for example. But that also leaves it very open to interpretation.
So rather than just knowing what it does - it becomes a discussion. "Well, with Mind 2 would I be able to use..." DM considers it. Then player says, "OK, so then I would like to..." DM considers it. Rather than just, "I read his mind" (if that's all Mind 2 did). Each time something happened in the Mage game - the game halted as we all tried to figure out what powers to use, and if they'd work how we think, see if the DM agrees with how we think we can use these powers.
In the Vampire game, it's far less of a problem because spells aren't really a thing you use in Vampire. It's more about Potent and Disciplines you have. But still, even doing skill checks - why isn't JUST THE SKILL? Why if I am brawling am I rolling the BRAWL and then need to roll Strength too? Why isn't it simplified to just roll Brawl? So there's weird quirky things about that.
Imagine if in D&D - "I want to make a Perception check." "OK. Click Perception. And also click Wisdom."
Just seems like there's needless steps.
I never minded that conversation, it just seemed natural to us. Roll twice? Why wouldn’t you just grab all the dice for both and roll them all together? (Or am I missing something?) Plus, after playing for a decade we kinda just knew what we could do and didn’t even bother rolling for lots of things. Imagine using Passive scores for most things. Then, when you do have to roll for something it really wasn’t a problem.
Ah, sorry - yes. Both the Mage and the Vampire (we also did Hunter, which I immensely enjoyed) are all remote - on Roll20.
So on Roll20 - when you click Brawl, you then select the secondary attribute that goes with it. And sometimes, it makes sense. Brawl + Strength, makes sense.
But there were some rolls, where I wasn't sure why the combo was being used - but new to the system, I just did whatever the DM told me.
(DM is someone I know in person, we just found it far more convenient to play online since several people have kids and it was easier to manage online, so they wouldn't have to drive somewhere, drive back, leave a significant other with kids, whatever the case... then when some players departed, some of the new ones were completely remote - as in not living anywhere close).
*It was her (Hurst’s player) that came up with the “in their pockets” theory I mentioned earlier. You really know your character when you can list what’s in their pockets without having to look it up or think about it.
How streamlined everything is. I wish it were crunchier.
We are of different mind sets, clearly. :D
The fact that it is streamlined allows the games to run smoothly.
I currently play in a World of Darkness game that is very crunchy - and I feel like that can choke the game sometimes.
I never found WoD to have that problem, but I never ran the story for that, so I only needed to know my characters’ stuff. But the Magic system in particular was simpler than D&D’s because it just had examples of stuff that you could do at various power levels and the Storyteller just adjudicated based on those. Of course, that was an older edition of WoD, I’m not familiar with the current version.
Heh. I am not the DM of the World of Darkness game. I am the player. So in the Mage game - you're right, in a way - that it gives examples of what "Mind 2" does, for example. But that also leaves it very open to interpretation.
So rather than just knowing what it does - it becomes a discussion. "Well, with Mind 2 would I be able to use..." DM considers it. Then player says, "OK, so then I would like to..." DM considers it. Rather than just, "I read his mind" (if that's all Mind 2 did). Each time something happened in the Mage game - the game halted as we all tried to figure out what powers to use, and if they'd work how we think, see if the DM agrees with how we think we can use these powers.
In the Vampire game, it's far less of a problem because spells aren't really a thing you use in Vampire. It's more about Potent and Disciplines you have. But still, even doing skill checks - why isn't JUST THE SKILL? Why if I am brawling am I rolling the BRAWL and then need to roll Strength too? Why isn't it simplified to just roll Brawl? So there's weird quirky things about that.
Imagine if in D&D - "I want to make a Perception check." "OK. Click Perception. And also click Wisdom."
Just seems like there's needless steps.
I never minded that conversation, it just seemed natural to us. Roll twice? Why wouldn’t you just grab all the dice for both and roll them all together? (Or am I missing something?) Plus, after playing for a decade we kinda just knew what we could do and didn’t even bother rolling for lots of things. Imagine using Passive scores for most things. Then, when you do have to roll for something it really wasn’t a problem.
Ah, sorry - yes. Both the Mage and the Vampire (we also did Hunter, which I immensely enjoyed) are all remote - on Roll20.
So on Roll20 - when you click Brawl, you then select the secondary attribute that goes with it. And sometimes, it makes sense. Brawl + Strength, makes sense.
But there were some rolls, where I wasn't sure why the combo was being used - but new to the system, I just did whatever the DM told me.
(DM is someone I know in person, we just found it far more convenient to play online since several people have kids and it was easier to manage online, so they wouldn't have to drive somewhere, drive back, leave a significant other with kids, whatever the case... then when some players departed, some of the new ones were completely remote - as in not living anywhere close).
*It was her (Hurst’s player) that came up with the “in their pockets” theory I mentioned earlier. You really know your character when you can list what’s in their pockets without having to look it up or think about it.
That's really cool! I don't have a lot of experience with dnd, but I love writing. For most of my characters I can instantly recall what they have on them, in their bag, pockets etc. without looking
We're a friendly lot here, really. It's pretty much the ONLY thread I really post in anymore. Because everyone here is great and helpful. So many different ideas and different views and everyone's civil about it.
It's a rare find out in the Internet World.
Welcome to the thread.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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Hey now...
I am rarely helpful. I am rude and insulting at my best, and we all know I never write more than four words in a reply.
Wait, it *is* opposite day, right?
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.
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Thank you. I was thinking of PMing AEDorsay about that question before I posted here but I’m glad I didn’t. :3
I’ll try to remain active in this thread since it is a lot friendlier than most other thread discussions about D&D related topics.
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It may be because that may yet be one of the shortest replies I've ever seen from you! :D
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Opposite Day silliness makes my brain hurt lol.
Your Essay type posts are pretty interesting to read. Makes me feel like an intellectual in a coffee shop :D
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Well, everyone is always welcomed in the thread. So even if you're not active and you vanish for awhile and then come back, still be greeted with a tavern welcome!
This thread - somehow - managed to attract a lot of creative people and it's wonderful for it. Everyone has different ideas, different takes, and it's all welcomed, it's all embraced.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Thats amazing! Along with finding a group that can help me share and find wisdom, I finally got inspiration to work on a campaign again. Thank you all! :D
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Well if you make that campaign on here I'd love to join, Niiki.
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I’d love to but it may take some time. I have to rebuild parts of it yet again since my other two versions have issues with it. I may have to get drummer and maybe a couple of the really nice people from this thread to help me with parts of it.
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I can help if you like, I don't need to play, I just like doing dnd related things
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It’s okay Ella. I’d rather have you experience and interact the world I would create as a player than help me build it as a DM.
Thank you for offering though :3
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Okee :D
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I never minded that conversation, it just seemed natural to us. Roll twice? Why wouldn’t you just grab all the dice for both and roll them all together? (Or am I missing something?) Plus, after playing for a decade we kinda just knew what we could do and didn’t even bother rolling for lots of things. Imagine using Passive scores for most things. Then, when you do have to roll for something it really wasn’t a problem.
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We try to keep things amiable around here. The Mods leave us alone so we kinda just police ourselves around here.
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Welcome to Anything but, where the title is the rules, HelloImL
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.
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I believe I've posted here before actually, I used to be PRTR, thanks for the greeting though, AEDorsay
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The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)
Anytime! PM me if you ever want detailed writing designs and structures. As an author with book one on the way I have plenty of tips! I also have a plethora of VERY helpful videos saved that I can pull out at any time!
Ah, sorry - yes. Both the Mage and the Vampire (we also did Hunter, which I immensely enjoyed) are all remote - on Roll20.
So on Roll20 - when you click Brawl, you then select the secondary attribute that goes with it. And sometimes, it makes sense. Brawl + Strength, makes sense.
But there were some rolls, where I wasn't sure why the combo was being used - but new to the system, I just did whatever the DM told me.
(DM is someone I know in person, we just found it far more convenient to play online since several people have kids and it was easier to manage online, so they wouldn't have to drive somewhere, drive back, leave a significant other with kids, whatever the case... then when some players departed, some of the new ones were completely remote - as in not living anywhere close).
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
Need a character story/background written up? I do it for free (but also take donations!) - https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?591882-Need-a-character-background-written-up
Ahh, that makes sense. We played in person so we just rolled all the dice together. I loved my Fallen, Tony Martelli, a mob boss. I also loved my Vampire, a Bruja named “Broken” Eddie Jones. He was broken because when he rose his fiancé was grieving graveside and in his hunger he drank her dry. When he realized what he’d done it broke him and he spent the next 200 years enabling and then feeding off of every drunk and junky he could to try to escape his reality. It wasn’t until Tony and his crew (a Werewolf named Hurst player by one of my best friends* and her pack) found him and promised to find a way to resurrect Eddie’s beloved that he finally found purpose. God I loved those characters.
*It was her (Hurst’s player) that came up with the “in their pockets” theory I mentioned earlier. You really know your character when you can list what’s in their pockets without having to look it up or think about it.
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That's really cool! I don't have a lot of experience with dnd, but I love writing. For most of my characters I can instantly recall what they have on them, in their bag, pockets etc. without looking
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The Goddess of the Strings (thanks for the title Drummer!)