Anything BUT whatever dumb ass 💩 WotC has recently done or is currently doing, literally ANYTHING

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So we just put anything on here so long as it’s not the OGL 2.0? Gotcha.

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Anyone here read JoJo?

 Yes and No.
Yes to your first question, no to the second.

But for sure, just anything goes here other than said OGL.

While I've not even heard of JoJo, I admit, my reading is primarily fantasy (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, Death Gate Cycle, Darksword Trilogy, along with other books).

It's interesting, I love Scifi movies - but I hate reading scifi books. I think because books sometimes try to get too technical on how things work... "The warp drive works, due to the max fluxinator, connecting to the hyper fusion which allows it to snap and collapse, creating an ion flux of energy, which allows the ship to then bend space and time." That techno mumbo jumbo always kills me in a boot.

And it could be because I've been doing IT for a living for like....... over 40 years. So I don't enjoy it. lol

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QOTD: What is an idea for a campaign you've had for a long time but will probably never get to run.

 

I think, the most difficult campaign ideas I've had are murder mystery ideas. Because the use of magic can really unfold things pretty quickly.

Also romances in a campaign are typically difficult. But you find them all the time in movies, books, etc., frequently it's lacking in D&D campaigns. My current main one has a strong one going, and my off week one has a "dating game" thing going on - so I've finally managed to find a way to tell those stories.

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Quote from Jobah619Official >>

So we just put anything on here so long as it’s not the OGL 2.0? Gotcha.

…

Anyone here read JoJo?

 Yes and No.
Yes to your first question, no to the second.

But for sure, just anything goes here other than said OGL.

While I've not even heard of JoJo, I admit, my reading is primarily fantasy (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Dragonlance, Death Gate Cycle, Darksword Trilogy, along with other books).

It's interesting, I love Scifi movies - but I hate reading scifi books. I think because books sometimes try to get too technical on how things work... "The warp drive works, due to the max fluxinator, connecting to the hyper fusion which allows it to snap and collapse, creating an ion flux of energy, which allows the ship to then bend space and time." That techno mumbo jumbo always kills me in a boot.

And it could be because I've been doing IT for a living for like....... over 40 years. So I don't enjoy it. lol

 

I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.

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I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.

Have you gone out to see the Dune movies? (I've not, wife has medical issues, so we pretty much wait for everything to come to streaming...)

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Quote from Jobah619Official >>

I always enjoyed the technical aspect of that stuff, but it’s probably because I’m a foolish youth. I love sci-fi books, but my main problem is that they make the world too large and it doesn’t make sense. Like Dune. When they introduced the idea of gholas and sandtrout and the thinking machines, I was out. There never should have been any books after the first Dune.

 

Have you gone out to see the Dune movies? (I've not, wife has medical issues, so we pretty much wait for everything to come to streaming...)

 

Not yet, I’d been planning to not long ago but problems arose at the local cinema and at that point a few things began snowballing so I haven’t had a change to.

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QOTD: What is an idea for a campaign you've had for a long time but will probably never get to run.

I used to think all of my campaign ideas would never get played, but then I joined the PBP forum, so now I can do most of them.

 Against the Giants. G1 G2 G3

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Also romances in a campaign are typically difficult. But you find them all the time in movies, books, etc., frequently it's lacking in D&D campaigns. My current main one has a strong one going, and my off week one has a "dating game" thing going on - so I've finally managed to find a way to tell those stories.

 I had one of the vampires in CoS try to seduce the paladin in one of my live games. 

For the campaign QotD:

I have a time traveling dinosaur campaign concept that involves hopping back and forth in time that I’d like to run but I doubt I ever will. I posted an embarrassing amount about it awhile back.

There is a sorrow themed campaign idea bouncing around in my head that involves monsters based off the five stages of grief.

And I would like to run a game that is pretty much a Huckleberry Finn style riverboat adventure set on the river Styx.

I don’t have the time to run a campaign unfortunately.

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 And I would like to run a game that is pretty much a Huckleberry Finn style riverboat adventure set on the river Styx.

I don’t have the time to run a campaign unfortunately.

If you ever get a chance on that last one, I’d be thrilled to play. It sounds like a blast.

Alright so about the Campaign question, this is a campaign i have wanted to run not in D&D, but mutants and Masterminds. Of course nobody here knows how to play so unless they had enough time to learn AND found the idea interesting it would never happen.

so, Greek Myths are real. We didn’t think they were but then Typhon escaped Mt. Etna and a very select group of people saw Zeus and a few other Olympians putting him back in his prison before he could regain his full power. Those people founded an organization called the Anomalous Theory of Hellene Environmental Neglect Analysis Institute (ATHENA institute) studying how the newly discovered Greek mythological creatures remained shrouded from modern day humans for all this time, studying them and learning of their capabilities. The party could be workers from the Institute that have started practicing the recently discovered magic, superhuman descendants of Greek heroes, or even possibly demigods themselves (as well as other options, they just need some form of power, even if it isn’t magical, your power could also just be knowledge and money) and they need to document and learn the truth behind these wonderful myths, avoiding monsters along the way and possibly even meeting the gods themselves.

so yeah, Percy Jackson crosses with SCP foundation.

Here's one that everyone can partake in. I am sure we've asked this before - but we got new people, and some people have changed theirs...

So...

What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!

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Here's one that everyone can partake in. I am sure we've asked this before - but we got new people, and some people have changed theirs...

So...

What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!

 My DDB is glitchy and I cannot have one.

Exciting story, I know.

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What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!

 The one I’m using now of a skeleton with a tongue of flame above his head is art from the comic I’m writing. It is the Ankou, a graveyard guardian from English folklore and an important character in the first few issues.

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QOTD: What is an idea for a campaign you've had for a long time but will probably never get to run.

 

I think, the most difficult campaign ideas I've had are murder mystery ideas. Because the use of magic can really unfold things pretty quickly.

 

Same. I'm just considering making a murder mystery and banning detect thoughts. But the ideas always been appealing and that's been even more true since I started watching old TV adaptations of Agatha Christie's books.

But hopefully I'll figure out how to power through and work on my wererat boat murder adventure plot... I kinda doubt it though. :)

Oh, and I say this a lot but... Affair on the Concordant Express is an adventure in Keys From the Golden Vault and it has a really cool mini-murder mystery in it.

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Here's one that everyone can partake in. I am sure we've asked this before - but we got new people, and some people have changed theirs...

So...

What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!

Uhhh... Tiamat looks kinda cool and I thought it was a better idea than what my PFP used to be (a random Bard with a flute). I might change it at some point but I'm too lazy to find something else I really like.

OK, cause I'm bored, I'm gonna post my D&D timeline here.

It starts at a local club, where a few people get together to hang out, chat and play a few different RPGs. I met my best friend here(who DMs dnd), and also the worst person I have ever encountered, in the literal sense of 'worst'.  (To give you a picture, he called my favourite game tatty, made a ripoff dnd where he, as the GM, played the game, and he ended up with a weapon the auto-hitted and did 125 damage straight up which he insisted wasn't OP)

 I play D&D. This goes on for 4 months before I decide to DM myself. Only 3 players? Who cares?

Start a proper campaign.

The day after my birthday last year, I joined DDB.

December that year, I discovered the forums.

The rest is history.

My pfp is Morgan Le Fay from the King Arthur stories. I just find her a fascinating character. Plus I’m drawn to arcane casters and red haired characters in general.

@BoringBard you should try the versions of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile that came out a few years ago. They’re really good. And yeah! I loved Affair on the Concordant Express.

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Here's one that everyone can partake in. I am sure we've asked this before - but we got new people, and some people have changed theirs...

So...

What's the story with the avatar you use on the forum? Why do you use it? Tell us whatever you want to about it!

 It was a dark and stormy night...

I'm just kidding, the weather was regular weather that night. But I had just gotten the DnD monster manual for my birthday. I was flipping through the pages when I came across something. The gibbering mouther. I thought this was a very weird looking monster. I loved it.

Then I got DnD beyond and simply thought to myself, "Hey! A gibbering mouther would be a cool pfp!" And the rest is history. I've never changed it, unless you count that variation Klein made me for Christmas. (I was eating a Christmas Tree. Very tasty.)

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@BoringBard you should try the versions of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile that came out a few years ago. They’re really good. And yeah! I loved Affair on the Concordant Express.

I watched the Death on The Nile adaption with my mom and absolutely loved it. I haven't seen Murder on the Orient Express yet though.

I'm not sure if it was an old or new version of Death on the Nile and I'll try and check later, but we figured out the actual entire plot before the reveal. 

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