Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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If I don't write down my ideas immediately, they quickly vanish into the abyss of forgotten memories. I've gotten into the habit of filling google docs just with my trove of ideas that I might use months/years down the line. For example, a long time ago I had the idea of an MK Ultra-inspired Eberron adventure. I only ran that adventure for my table this last winter.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
cool. Usually when I have ideas, it's when I can't take a break and write it down, like when working or exercising.
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I am The Grand Envisioner!
I don’t really have a limit. Most of my players don’t write anything up and I have to interrogate them in person to get any sort of background out of them.
When I write up my character backstories, they are usually about a page long. Most of that backstory isn’t really history, it’s me designing their ideas, personality, a details that I think the DM could use like stuff they love and enemies they have. It try to keep it short because I don’t want to subject the DM to ridiculously long writings.
nothing. it keeps going. does any backstory really end?
No news is good news…
I'll lay a white rose on the cold earth, knowing it that it has not claimed your soul.
‘the number of years the PC has been alive and able to function as an individual.
so, more or less, 15 and up on Wyrlde.
i provide tools to help create and form a backstory that covers early childhood through the day they start adventuring, and one big key is that the things that happen have to be part of the world as a whole. Which generally means “no adventures before you start adventuring” since we always start at 1st level except for play testing.
Things can happen, don’t get me wrong, and I don’t have a limit on number of words or pages or whatever — the bits of backstory I need as a DM are relatively few and small.
one big rule is that backstories cannot talk about the motivations, thoughts, goals, or ideals of another — all NPCs are outside a backstory, because those are what I use to craft something. It is somewhat flexible — big brother tells little sister they are going to get vengeance and disappears is ok, telling me that big brother becomes obsessed with vengeance is not.
We do a lot of backstory work — roleplay is a big thing.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
I usually have my best ideas before I go to sleep, so I always think: “If I forget this idea it wasn’t worth it. If I remember it in the morning I’ll write it down.”
My brain is a maelstrom that is never silent. There are voices demanding for their stories to be told, songs and lyrics and poems to be written down.
As I mentioned in this thread already (https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=4816) I love writing backstories (see my signature that will take you to a thread on another forum where I offer to write backstories for people's characters).
If I could, I would, simply, always write.
But that, sadly, does not pay the bills.
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
I always carry a notebook on me for when I have ideas and I use my phone to jot inspiration down so I won’t forget. I have huge documents for future writing projects or simple one line story ideas.
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A respectable choice. For me it’s Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The Bloody Barnacle | The Gut | The Athene Crusader | The Jewel of Atlantis
It is so hard to choose just one, but I think it would be N. D. Wilson
Rick Riordan is my favorite, but I like a lot of different authors. Tolkien C.S. Lewis (Narnia) and Ursula LeGuin (especially The Wizard of Earthsea) are some other good classic fantasy authors.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms. My pronouns are she/they.
I like reading and writing too, but I’m not much of an artist.
David Weber
David Drake
John Birmingham
Jim Butcher
Brandon Sanderson (stop printing my ideas in your novels!)
Matt Colville (If you haven't read his books, you really should)
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Jim Butcher is great. I also like Wheel of Time and Song of Ice and Fire (the novels Game of Thrones is based on).
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms. My pronouns are she/they.
I like reading and writing too, but I’m not much of an artist.
‘I can’t answer this, lol.
This is partly just me (I tend not to have a favorite anything), but also, I think in terms of stories, not authors (it was hard for me to just do a list of authors who inspired Wyrlde — and that came after I reached 250 books in a list and realized it was going to take a lot more).
rather annoying, I know.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Oh yeah... she's ^ one of my favorite authors but I haven't gotten my hands on any of her novels yet.
And that Tawmis dude. He can write! And draw!
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Terry Pratchett.