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

Oh, haha. I get it now. Sorry for being obtuse.

Now we just need someone to get inspired to write a new story based off of these versions of our characters.

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-Nothic2SeeHere2: not a character, but rather an NPC nothic that pops up from time to time and gives strangely good advice. 

Interesting. I’d imagine myself as more like comic relief than anything else. Giving advice is a cool idea for sure.

And the AEDorsay one is hilarious, and probably true.

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-Nothic2SeeHere2: not a character, but rather an NPC nothic that pops up from time to time and gives strangely good advice. 

Interesting. I’d imagine myself as more like comic relief than anything else. Giving advice is a cool idea for sure.

And the AEDorsay one is hilarious, and probably true.

 Im editing your entry, give me a minute

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Ok, so, for those who remember, a long time ago, in a land far, far away (not really, it was a couple of months ago in this thread) I assigned the active participants in the thread each a race and class based off of their personality (or the part of it i could conceive) and their post style. we've had a few members join and I've gotten to know the veterans of this thread better, so Imma do an overhaul. feel free to use these as legendary adventurers in your world (thats what i'm doing)

 

-WoodsGirl0402: firbolg trickery cleric. they have a strange obsession with spiders, arachnophobes beware.

 

 I love this! I’m actually scared of spiders in real life, but not so scared that I don’t recognize they perform a useful function in the environment.

 i'll let you in on a secret: you're a trickery cleric cause that is Lolth's divine domain

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The dog shaped sixth continent.

No clue what it is named.

 Spot!

When the settlers found it, the celestial guide who led them there told them it was called Spot. She could see it from above and had a sense of humor, as all celestials do. Didn't tell anyone why it was called that. Many theories arose: Someone spotted it from the homeland; it was the spot where something happened; it was one tiny spot on the vast map to come; the word "spot" means something else in the celestial language. At least one prophet has been killed for uncovering the truth.

 I loVe, making official.

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Ok, so, for those who remember, a long time ago, in a land far, far away (not really, it was a couple of months ago in this thread) I assigned the active participants in the thread each a race and class based off of their personality (or the part of it i could conceive) and their post style. we've had a few members join and I've gotten to know the veterans of this thread better, so Imma do an overhaul. feel free to use these as legendary adventurers in your world (thats what i'm doing)

 

-WoodsGirl0402: firbolg trickery cleric. they have a strange obsession with spiders, arachnophobes beware.

 

 I love this! I’m actually scared of spiders in real life, but not so scared that I don’t recognize they perform a useful function in the environment.

 i'll let you in on a secret: you're a trickery cleric cause that is Lolth's divine domain

 That makes sense!

What do y'all think of this idea: if we want a new story, then we make it collabrative. we start a thread in Story & Lore, and then we each write a paragraph about what happens next in the story. we'd take turns in the same manner as QOTD and write like a paragraph or two that builds off the previous story. if someone new reads the story, they can join this thread and after I get a feel for them I can give them a character and they could join in, so that way we get more people to join this thread, and grow our cool (if i do say so myself) little community.

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-AEDorsay: Wood Elf Transmutation Wizard. A former writer whose books were so popular that every time they went into a city they got mobbed, so they took up adventuring. they wear artfully torn robes that were mangled by the paparazzi.

 This is such a good and humorous concept. Love the idea of one party member being extremely famous but not for adventuring.

It's probably because I'm a critic as much as I'm a creator, but I'm perpetually enchanted by characters who are or can be interpreted as creatives. I love the Bard concept so much but I really don't feel like D&D's Bard has ever even approached doing it justice. But I digress

I haven't participated in this thread much lately but dang y'all are creative. I should probably get back to prepping my session tonight...

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-AEDorsay: Wood Elf Transmutation Wizard. A former writer whose books were so popular that every time they went into a city they got mobbed, so they took up adventuring. they wear artfully torn robes that were mangled by the paparazzi.

 This is such a good and humorous concept. Love the idea of one party member being extremely famous but not for adventuring.

It's probably because I'm a critic as much as I'm a creator, but I'm perpetually enchanted by characters who are or can be interpreted as creatives. I love the Bard concept so much but I really don't feel like D&D's Bard has ever even approached doing it justice. But I digress

 Yeah, bards & monks have always been very hard for me to give good flavor and backstory too. like, you can play music, why the frick are you going in dank dungeon with no audience when you could be making money. monks are supposed to be eastern in a western fantasy game, so its just like "why are you here? you don't belond" thats why so many people reflavor them. i personally have a great idea for a Dwarf Astral Self Monk who was once a crafter who lost both arms in an accident but trained themselves through sheer force of will to use magic to manifest 2 magic arms. they need arms because they have to finish their masterpiece.

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Ok, so, for those who remember, a long time ago, in a land far, far away (not really, it was a couple of months ago in this thread) I assigned the active participants in the thread each a race and class based off of their personality (or the part of it i could conceive) and their post style. we've had a few members join and I've gotten to know the veterans of this thread better, so Imma do an overhaul. feel free to use these as legendary adventurers in your world (thats what i'm doing)

-AEDorsay: Wood Elf Transmutation Wizard. A former writer whose books were so popular that every time they went into a city they got mobbed, so they took up adventuring. they wear artfully torn robes that were mangled by the paparazzi. 

 -SirTawmis: Beasthide Shifter Battlemaster Fighter. a grizzled veteran of war with a love for colorful, illustrated stories.

-ChoirOfFire: Tiefling Eloquence Bard/Fiend Warlock. a former human acolyte of a sun god, who caught the attention of an archdevil who made a bargain with them to expose the church of its misdeeds. so they became a tiefling & burned the church to the ground.

-Fry_Doodles: Goblin Scribes Wizard. they use drawings to make magic, and could cast 9th level spells if they wanted, except for 1 thing. the more powerful the spell, the longer the drawing takes to make, and they are too impatient to finish a drawing and end up frying the doodles with fire bolt

-IAmSposta: A minotaur genie warlock. a unicorn headed genie who is their own patron, who during a time of disaster and mayhem, took a group of refugees into their sanctuary where they were safe. very bad at giving advice, never let them become a therapist.

-DrakenBrine: Dragonborn Fathomless warlock. a topaz dragonborn who fell in love with a curropted kelpie (beatiful lady made of seaweed), so the kelpie granted them powers in exchange for serving their dark whims

-Gnomarchy: forest gnome assasin rogue. a revolutionary whose sentences are as short as their targets lives

-KayakingPoodle: Gnoll Ranger. they are a protecter of boats who travels up and down the river, keeping the beasties away from the boats filled with shipments

-Quar1on: Aarakocra lunar sorcerer. there three forms correspond with their three different spellcasting focuses: an origami duck (new moon), a pair of scissors (Crescent), & a moon rock (full). 

-WoodsGirl0402: firbolg trickery cleric. they have a strange obsession with spiders, arachnophobes beware.

-Nothic2SeeHere2: not a character, but rather an NPC nothic that pops up from time to time and gives strangely good advice in the form of cracking dad jokes. 

-Wsyperra: a willowisp (reskinned fairy with telekinetic feat) shepherd druid. they are friends with many small forest animals such as rabbits & rats

-The_summoning_dark: unknown race shadow sorcerer. a skeletally thin, tall figure whose features are hidden by a grinning white mask, they disappear sometimes and then return. its strange, but once they return, an NPC always get murdered, and the_summoning_dark knows exactly where to find the body

If i forget anyone let me know!

 

 
LOL! Well, I think you nailed me down pretty well. Old, grizzled, fighter, and loves telling stories!

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-IAmSposta: A minotaur genie warlock. a unicorn headed genie who is their own patron, who during a time of disaster and mayhem, took a group of refugees into their sanctuary where they were safe. very bad at giving advice, never let them become a therapist.

This had me cracking up. My own patron. Damn skippy. But I gotta ask what bad advice have I given?

 
Hahahahahahahahah... That may be my fault. From the previous version - when I wrote stories based on the characters provided.

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-IAmSposta: A minotaur genie warlock. a unicorn headed genie who is their own patron, who during a time of disaster and mayhem, took a group of refugees into their sanctuary where they were safe. very bad at giving advice, never let them become a therapist.

This had me cracking up. My own patron. Damn skippy. But I gotta ask what bad advice have I given?

 its a reference to your original character, the satyr bard who was really bad at inspiring people

HHAHAH - I should have read the next post. That's what I figured as well.

For the new folks in the thread - and the previous story of characters... Here you go... if you're really, really, really, really bored and want to read a story that is very, very, very, very silly.

The Map:

Note: The thing with the map is I was only filling it out as the story demanded it. So all that vacant area was unused in the story.

I was going to repost the original story but hit this fun error - Must be within 1 and 100000 characters long.

So instead here's links to the various segments in this thread...

Part 1:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=501
Part 2:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=522
Part 3:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=552
Part 4:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=599
Part 5:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=631
Part 6:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=665
Part 7:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=696
Part 8:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=748
Part 9:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=811
Part 10:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=821
Part 11:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=829
Part 12:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=880
Part 13:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=972
Part 14:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=986
Part 15:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1006
Part 16:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1050
Part 17:    https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1141
Part 18:  https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1222
Part 19:  https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1678
Part 20:  https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1778
Part 21: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1834
Part 22: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/166611-anything-but-the-ogl-2-0-literally-anything?comment=1974 

The Story Map: http://www.tawmis.com/ogl/ogl_map.jpg

The Fey Map: http://www.tawmis.com/ogl/ogl_fey.jpg

I am going to come back and say stuff about the new characters and all, but right now I am dealing with a bit of disappointment that Wizards hasn't even seemed to make mention of one of the folks that helped to make D&D what it is today going through a hard period right now.

Jennell Jaquays has been in the hospital for weeks, and only recently came off a respirator.

She has some serious medical issues going on, and this interrupts her update to one of the most key books of all time from 3rd party people: citybook.

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I am going to come back and say stuff about the new characters and all, but right now I am dealing with a bit of disappointment that Wizards hasn't even seemed to make mention of one of the folks that helped to make D&D what it is today going through a hard period right now.

 

 I had not heard either - and apparently this happened 2 months ago.

This thread has more info: https://www.enworld.org/threads/jennell-jaquays-one-of-the-founding-creators-of-this-hobby-needs-our-help.700564/

And a link, set up by her wife, for a go fund me page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jennell-jaquays-has-a-long-road-back?utm_campaign=p_cp share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram_feed

Both Beck and Jen are my friends.

They like more crunch than I do, lol, but they have put much of their lives into things that changed the way others did stuff. Things like the Strongholds book a third party released recently? They ultimately were building on something that Jennel did first.

I have been watchign the people who guided me in all of this stuff when http://www.wyrlde.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Incarnalia-Wyrldica-2023-DEC-15.pdf was young, who inspired me, dying (kinda happens at this point) and it hurts to know the and feel powerless to do more than offer some coin and give my condolences, while thinking about games.

Flying Buffalo, Judges Guild, TSR --  the people and places that gave this whole damn game actual life are doing what happens when things hit 50 years, but I am not seeing acknowledgement of any of it from the folks whose current lives were made possible by them.

Just really hurts at times.

Ok, I have officially named the sixth continent "Spot", and here is the fifth continent: Chelfth.

Clicky to embiggen, of course.

I do like the new Character, lol. Might even take some time to put it together, and I love the Transmutation thing as well as the fame thing.

I like it! Mountainous terrain is usually fun to play in for me, did you use Inkarnate for it?

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I like it! Mountainous terrain is usually fun to play in for me, did you use Inkarnate for it?

 
Yes, and both the world and the contents are shared -- the links are provided earlier, just scroll back.

There are four more continents to go...