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this is the point where the henchman turns on the villain and comes to us to rat him out so we can take him down.
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At some point it was decided that only DMs use this thread, and then it turned into a publishing house. 🤷 😅
who decided that, and why wasn’t I consulted, and what’s my percentage of the royalties?
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QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
for me, pretty much any of them, lol. As a PC I have fought orcs, one dragon, two mimics, and a bunch of people.
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Well the beauty of this thread is that the title says it all - "Anything BUT the OGL 2.0, literally ANYTHING" - so yeah there's not much to keep track of because the general plot of the thread changes pretty frequently with just whatever people come in here to discuss. Whether it's a Question of the Day, Building an Adventure, how someone's day went, etc. - The point of the thread is really just to have fun.
At some point it was decided that only DMs use this thread, and then it turned into a publishing house. 🤷 😅
I don't think that's the case at all, that only DMs use it. There was an influx of new people (that you yourself even inquired about why there'd been an influx of new people!) - so I think the thread ebbs and flows - new people come in, new people go, some of the old timers keep blabbing just to keep the thread bumped and alive... Certainly don't think it's just DMs. Pretty sure some of the people who added to AEDOrsay's latest 10 dungeon room are not DMs?
have you ever thought about how the Keebler Elves have the same hats as Redcaps? Suspicious.
why do you think no one has ever actually returned from seeking the Keebler tree?
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speaking of redcaps, it would be really cool to play as one somehow but then again I have no idea how that would work, considering they need to soak their hats in the blood of someone they jus killed every three days or die.
speaking of redcaps, it would be really cool to play as one somehow but then again I have no idea how that would work, considering they need to soak their hats in the blood of someone they jus killed every three days or die.
I think if you did an "Evil Campaign" - because of the blood soaking - it'd be much easier.
A campaign where you're employed by a hag to go out and kill other Fey kind.
QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
Prior to my life as a forever DM, especially beginning with 5th Edition...
In 1st and 2nd edition - there was a lot of monsters I never encountered as a PC from the Fiend Folio books. And naturally stuff from Deities & Demigods.
A lot of out of the Monster Manual and Monster Manual II.
During 2nd edition, I eventually became the forever DM - and I try to look at new things to throw at my party so they're not always fighting the same monster. So, for games I've run, I've thrown a lot of different official monsters at the party. There's plenty I've homebrewed if they were common monsters. I believe in throwing new things at the party so they're always interested in what's this new thing we're fighting? Rather than, "Oh. Goblins again, is it?"
The few games I do play in 5th edition (I am in a Curse of Strahd game and a Dragonlance game) - this makes me very familiar with the monsters we encounter. But I toss away player knowledge in favor for character knowledge (as most do, ideally).
QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
for me, pretty much any of them, lol. As a PC I have fought orcs, one dragon, two mimics, and a bunch of people.
As a PC, I've never encountered a young kruthik, adult kruthik, or kruthik hive lord. I have a slight fear of kruthiks as they remind me of XCOM's chryssalids, which are terrifying. Kruthiks are also loosely related to the kythons from 3rd edition, who had tiers including the impaler, slaymaster, and slaughterking.
The funny thing is, despite me contributing to the "DM" things, I never get to DM. I have homebrew worlds and plots rattling around in my head but I never get to act them out.
QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
Personally, as I've said before, I've gotten little sessions as a player. So, if memory serves right, any monster but goblins, bugbears, and I think an ogre or a giant or something like that. Everything else I've never encountered.
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QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
for me, pretty much any of them, lol. As a PC I have fought orcs, one dragon, two mimics, and a bunch of people.
I have not actually fought a dragon, but that may be changing very soon. Also haven't dealt with the mind flayer family of monsters. But I also haven't played much high level, so who knows what the two campaigns I'm in (one's at level 11, the other 10) will bring?
Ok now, how can you possibly say that Zombies are the least interesting undead?
I mean, sure, if you turn to movies and TV shows, then, I guess, maybe yeah, but actual zombies?
Oh hell no.
At the core of the concept of a Zombie is the idea of a dead thing that has returned to a kind of unliving state, and folks in ancient greece used to pin down corpses with heavy stones in their burial places to keep them from getting up again. The general idea is that of a revenant, folklorically, so revenants are a kind of Zombie and zombies are a kind of revenant. Local tales of the risen dead are all over the place -- although most aren't the flesh eating sorts. THe most common basis for a lot of it is the notion that one "still has something to do", or that some folks have such an indomitable will that they literally refuse to die.
up into the 1700's there were slavic folks who swore to tales of Soldiers who could not be harmed by lead or iron bullets and were no longer living, having died in battle and just kept going. Silver bullets and glass bullets were often said to kill them, though.
Copper was wound around the wrists of the dead to bind them to the earth in other places, for if they rose they could then only be stopped by cutting out their rotting hearts and burning them in a fire of Rowan wood.
Zombies are terrifying, because there is little worse than seeing Pawpaw staggering at you not with some treat or toy, but with a desire to rip your arms off and impale you upon a stake. How do you get close enough to kill a zombie when its Aunt Ida Fay, who used to bake cookies for you? THe fear and conflict can be paralyzing.
Zombies are rotting flesh things, carrying filth and disease and ill humors. Contact with one can leave you sick unto dying -- and in some tales they carried the Black Death, whil ein others they caused leprosy or consumption.
No, no, Zombies are freaking awesome.
ok, yeah, D&D zombies are kinda lame, but meh. That's what homebrew is for, lol.
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At some point it was decided that only DMs use this thread, and then it turned into a publishing house. 🤷 😅
yup. I remember when it was qotds
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this is the point where the henchman turns on the villain and comes to us to rat him out so we can take him down.
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who decided that, and why wasn’t I consulted, and what’s my percentage of the royalties?
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QOTD: What is a monster you have never encountered as a PC?
for me, pretty much any of them, lol. As a PC I have fought orcs, one dragon, two mimics, and a bunch of people.
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
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An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
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Well the beauty of this thread is that the title says it all - "Anything BUT the OGL 2.0, literally ANYTHING" - so yeah there's not much to keep track of because the general plot of the thread changes pretty frequently with just whatever people come in here to discuss. Whether it's a Question of the Day, Building an Adventure, how someone's day went, etc. - The point of the thread is really just to have fun.
I don't think that's the case at all, that only DMs use it. There was an influx of new people (that you yourself even inquired about why there'd been an influx of new people!) - so I think the thread ebbs and flows - new people come in, new people go, some of the old timers keep blabbing just to keep the thread bumped and alive... Certainly don't think it's just DMs. Pretty sure some of the people who added to AEDOrsay's latest 10 dungeon room are not DMs?
Well, keep in mind, no ONE person's job to ask the Questions of the Day. Anyone can. Including you.
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have you ever thought about how the Keebler Elves have the same hats as Redcaps? Suspicious.
why do you think no one has ever actually returned from seeking the Keebler tree?
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Oh dear, that’s quite terrifying to think about.
speaking of redcaps, it would be really cool to play as one somehow but then again I have no idea how that would work, considering they need to soak their hats in the blood of someone they jus killed every three days or die.
I think if you did an "Evil Campaign" - because of the blood soaking - it'd be much easier.
A campaign where you're employed by a hag to go out and kill other Fey kind.
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Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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Prior to my life as a forever DM, especially beginning with 5th Edition...
In 1st and 2nd edition - there was a lot of monsters I never encountered as a PC from the Fiend Folio books. And naturally stuff from Deities & Demigods.
A lot of out of the Monster Manual and Monster Manual II.
During 2nd edition, I eventually became the forever DM - and I try to look at new things to throw at my party so they're not always fighting the same monster. So, for games I've run, I've thrown a lot of different official monsters at the party. There's plenty I've homebrewed if they were common monsters. I believe in throwing new things at the party so they're always interested in what's this new thing we're fighting? Rather than, "Oh. Goblins again, is it?"
The few games I do play in 5th edition (I am in a Curse of Strahd game and a Dragonlance game) - this makes me very familiar with the monsters we encounter. But I toss away player knowledge in favor for character knowledge (as most do, ideally).
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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I didn't mean to tear down what you've been up to. I've just been out for a week and lost the thread.
As a PC, I've never encountered a young kruthik, adult kruthik, or kruthik hive lord. I have a slight fear of kruthiks as they remind me of XCOM's chryssalids, which are terrifying. Kruthiks are also loosely related to the kythons from 3rd edition, who had tiers including the impaler, slaymaster, and slaughterking.
The funny thing is, despite me contributing to the "DM" things, I never get to DM. I have homebrew worlds and plots rattling around in my head but I never get to act them out.
I would have to say, the Darkmantle. terrifying little beasties, and notable enough to get a quote in the MM.
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Personally, as I've said before, I've gotten little sessions as a player. So, if memory serves right, any monster but goblins, bugbears, and I think an ogre or a giant or something like that. Everything else I've never encountered.
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I have not actually fought a dragon, but that may be changing very soon. Also haven't dealt with the mind flayer family of monsters. But I also haven't played much high level, so who knows what the two campaigns I'm in (one's at level 11, the other 10) will bring?
Almost all of them. Forever GM and whatnot.
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For you then, What monsters do you use rarely or not at all?
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Hm. Out of the basic rules, I’d say:
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Ok now, how can you possibly say that Zombies are the least interesting undead?
I mean, sure, if you turn to movies and TV shows, then, I guess, maybe yeah, but actual zombies?
Oh hell no.
At the core of the concept of a Zombie is the idea of a dead thing that has returned to a kind of unliving state, and folks in ancient greece used to pin down corpses with heavy stones in their burial places to keep them from getting up again. The general idea is that of a revenant, folklorically, so revenants are a kind of Zombie and zombies are a kind of revenant. Local tales of the risen dead are all over the place -- although most aren't the flesh eating sorts. THe most common basis for a lot of it is the notion that one "still has something to do", or that some folks have such an indomitable will that they literally refuse to die.
up into the 1700's there were slavic folks who swore to tales of Soldiers who could not be harmed by lead or iron bullets and were no longer living, having died in battle and just kept going. Silver bullets and glass bullets were often said to kill them, though.
Copper was wound around the wrists of the dead to bind them to the earth in other places, for if they rose they could then only be stopped by cutting out their rotting hearts and burning them in a fire of Rowan wood.
Zombies are terrifying, because there is little worse than seeing Pawpaw staggering at you not with some treat or toy, but with a desire to rip your arms off and impale you upon a stake. How do you get close enough to kill a zombie when its Aunt Ida Fay, who used to bake cookies for you? THe fear and conflict can be paralyzing.
Zombies are rotting flesh things, carrying filth and disease and ill humors. Contact with one can leave you sick unto dying -- and in some tales they carried the Black Death, whil ein others they caused leprosy or consumption.
No, no, Zombies are freaking awesome.
ok, yeah, D&D zombies are kinda lame, but meh. That's what homebrew is for, lol.
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