Ok, so, I am making this post to celebrate my 500th post (really its the 502 because I accidentally posted on Lords Rest Inn even though I was saving my 500 for this post. stupid brain) (on this account, my other has like 400 something so I technically hit 500 a bit ago but whatever, not the point)
I know it don't seem like much, but I thought I ought to share a milestone with the community that started it all.
and so, I close out the day (at least for me, its 8 where I am) with a
Quest Of The Day: share how DND and its community has impacted your life.
I started playing 7 years ago, and fell in love at first sight (is that the right word? read-through of the books? IDK). Even though it didn't always make me the most popular at school (I sometimes get a "oh, you play DND? thats so lame") It has stretched my creative muscles, frankly gave me most of my social skills, and helped me become a better writer and actor. So thats my story. I could wax poetic all night about the awesomness that is DND (and I bet most of you would wax with me), but I don't have that kind of time. Some people have to sleep.
I know this seems out of the blue but IDK. I'm feeling sentimental tonight for some inexplicable reason. IG I'm just thankful for the amazing community that is the Anything But The OGL Thread.
Edit: my internal dialogue right now: Oh god do they think I'm some sappy weirdo too invested in their online friends? I hope not
Quest Of The Day: share how DND and its community has impacted your life.
First off, happy 500 posts! Second,
In the time I've been on the forums, it's been great. Like you, it's helped develop my writing and social skills, and it's overall been a great thing for me. Unlike a lot of other social medias (not gonna name names), this is one of the few that actually sharpens your mind. As for DND itself, it's helped me make friendships (and allows for my friends to come together to do some sessions) and is one of my favorite games.
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
Nothing to feel nervous about. I like to believe that all of us are thankful for where D&D has brought us.
Many of us have had the same experience of social awkwardness or public scorn. Luckily I had a group of friends that shared the interest of gaming. D&D was my first dip into RPGs and it opened my world to other RPGs. I feel as if there was a flood of games that came out in the 80s, of which I played most of them. The 90s was the beginning of LARP thing which I did not get into. Overall I still have friends from that time and it's in a way because of D&D. If I didn't play D&D and everything else, I wouldn't have made such great friends.
I am uncertain about how gaming warped my personal growth =)
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"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?"
I think we may be butting heads because I'm trying to distinguish using Lovecraftian tropes from reusing plots wholesale.
Rest assured we're not bumping heads. I was being silly. I am not a fan of the whole space horror genre, myself. So I wasn't bothered. Again, just being silly with my comment. (Being the very old man that I am, few things bother me... lol)
Quest Of The Day: share how DND and its community has impacted your life.
I know this seems out of the blue but IDK. I'm feeling sentimental tonight for some inexplicable reason. IG I'm just thankful for the amazing community that is the Anything But The OGL Thread.
Edit: my internal dialogue right now: Oh god do they think I'm some sappy weirdo too invested in their online friends? I hope not
Heh - the folks you can meet on a forum can indeed become real friends, and there's nothing to feel weird about it. The woman who would become my wife, I met through an online gaming community (many eons ago in the days of dial up modems!) On EverQuest, the guild I was in - we all met in Vegas every few years - and many of them became real friends. A number of my real friends I had all originally met on a BBS I ran (again, back in the day of dial up modems!), I met someone on World of Warcraft (who I've yet to meet in person) who is someone I consider a friend. On the Sierra forums (a gaming company called "Sierra On-Line" now defunct), there were several people I met - one of them ("Collector") - he and I have known each other for over 20 years (and never met) and I help admin his forums (after the Sierra forums went away). One of the people on that forum named "Jules" I met in New Orleans, and she and I are very close friends. So yeah, it's all good.
For me, I've really enjoyed the folks who post - no matter how frequent or infrequent. I see so many different personalities, but all of us with one shared passion. And how everyone just jells together, despite all these different quirks we each have.
One of the other things I've vastly enjoyed is when we do those random "create an adventure" type things, or the ... stories?... can they be called that?... that I've written using the people from this thread. Instances of creativity feed my soul.
One of the other things I've vastly enjoyed is when we do those random "create an adventure" type things, or the ... stories?... can they be called that?... that I've written using the people from this thread. Instances of creativity feed my soul.
Should we do another one soon? We've had some recent additions to the thread, so some haven't done one yet.
Also, recently I have had a campaign idea knocking around in my head, and wanted to see what you guys think considering it is a bit...uncoventional
(TLDR: party is level 20, has bossfight at bottom of dungeon, gets cursed to lose levels, and must escape before they become lvl 0 and die. If that sounds cool to you and you want to play in it {i would run it on PBP here on DBB) then don't read the spoiler)
So, the party starts at level 20. They have infiltrated the depths of The Dungeon Of The Mad Mage and are about to face the BBEG's: A group of adventurers (each has monster stats based on the classic 4 classes: fighter, rogue, wizard & cleric. each will have some cool extra abilities, maybe connected to the whole undermountain rune thing or something) led by Halastar, who is the parties wizard. the game starts with a boss fight against these 4. The party will defeat them, and then the real fun begins. Through their journey throughout Undermountain, they have been stalked by an uber-powerful undead lord (Lich+Vampire+Death Knight+Mummy Lord), who has been secretly using the adventurers to stage a coup against the rulers of the dungeon (IE the aformentioned BBEGs). Now that they are dead, the undead lord tries to take over. Of course, because they are level 20, the party kills the undead lord, but as the undead lord dies, they recite an ancient curse, which does 2 things:
It raises all the dead things in undermountain (of which their are many, especially since the players went through a hack and slash of the whole dungeon) back into undead creatures
It curses the party. While cursed, they will be drained of vitality and memory until they escape the dungeon. This curse essentialy has them go down in levels as they work their way backward through Undermountain, until they pop out at floor 1 at level 5. If they do not reach it in time, then they are drained of vitality and memory and die, rising as undead. Who knows what the consequences will be in a power vacuum like that.
Tell me what you think, and if you are interested in playing, say so
One of the other things I've vastly enjoyed is when we do those random "create an adventure" type things, or the ... stories?... can they be called that?... that I've written using the people from this thread. Instances of creativity feed my soul.
Should we do another one soon? We've had some recent additions to the thread, so some haven't done one yet.
Me! Me! I had an idea. Basically, this one is creating a new creature for DND.
QUEST OF THE DAY
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
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Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. It is difficult to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. It is difficult to detect when it is not moving.
Wysperra… have you been reading the Stormlight Archive?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. It is difficult to detect when it is not moving.
Wysperra… have you been reading the Stormlight Archive?
Why yes! I'm on the last book. I'll admit to skipping some parts.
read read read read *cliffhanger* "6 Years Ago..." I don't give a shit! flip flip flip read read read
I'm also a fan of John Ringo and the Posleen war. Himmit are experts at camouflage.
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"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?"
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. It is difficult to detect when it is not moving.
Wysperra… have you been reading the Stormlight Archive?
Why yes! I'm on the last book. I'll admit to skipping some parts.
read read read read *cliffhanger* "6 Years Ago..." I don't give a shit! flip flip flip read read read
I'm also a fan of John Ringo and the Posleen war. Himmit are experts at camouflage.
I realized when you perfectly described Cryptics XD
It really is a great series though! If you enjoy it then definitely check out the Licanius Trilogy. It’s a little more similar to Wheel of Time, but it fits the more modern style of fantasy that Brando writes in.
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Anyone wanna tackle #4 and keep it moving?
I would, but I just did #3.
How about a lurker does this one? Yeah, that's right, if you haven't posted or only posted like once and got ignored (if that happened, sorry, we sometimes get caught up in our own nerdyness. at least, I do. :) Then you MUST answer this next question, so that way we can complete the monster. I implore you! Accept this quest. Accept. Your. DESTINY! (which is to join us)
Sorry if i'm being dramatic. I've been listening to too many musical soundtracks (recently, SIX: the musical and Mean Girls on Broadway)
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Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, a young genderfluid actor, writer, explorer, and bass vocalist. Pronouns They/Them/Theirs
My Characters:Brorminthe Devout Crusher; Ellorathe Romantic Rookie
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Anyone wanna tackle #4 and keep it moving?
I would, but I just did #3.
How about a lurker does this one? Yeah, that's right, if you haven't posted or only posted like once and got ignored (if that happened, sorry, we sometimes get caught up in our own nerdyness. at least, I do. :) Then you MUST answer this next question, so that way we can complete the monster. I implore you! Accept this quest. Accept. Your. DESTINY! (which is to join us)
Sorry if i'm being dramatic. I've been listening to too many musical soundtracks (recently, SIX: the musical and Mean Girls on Broadway)
4: It feeds on arcane energy, so it tends to be found in areas of dark magic, so it doesn’t drain the power from well meaning individuals. However, this causes people to see it as a being of darkness, and adventurers who hear these rumors try to destroy them immediately. When low on health, it uses its Glyph Explode ability to try to survive. This causes the chance of more to spawn from surviving shards. Others who know of its power track them down to find answers to their questions. However, it it sense the soul to be impure, then when it attacks, they target does not get its answer.
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Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Anyone wanna tackle #4 and keep it moving?
I would, but I just did #3.
How about a lurker does this one? Yeah, that's right, if you haven't posted or only posted like once and got ignored (if that happened, sorry, we sometimes get caught up in our own nerdyness. at least, I do. :) Then you MUST answer this next question, so that way we can complete the monster. I implore you! Accept this quest. Accept. Your. DESTINY! (which is to join us)
Sorry if i'm being dramatic. I've been listening to too many musical soundtracks (recently, SIX: the musical and Mean Girls on Broadway)
4: It feeds on arcane energy, so it tends to be found in areas of dark magic, so it doesn’t drain the power from well meaning individuals. However, this causes people to see it as a being of darkness, and adventurers who hear these rumors try to destroy them immediately. When low on health, it uses its Glyph Explode ability to try to survive. This causes the chance of more to spawn from surviving shards. Others who know of its power track them down to find answers to their questions. However, it it sense the soul to be impure, then when it attacks, they target does not get its answer.
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5. The creature was created by the spider-shaped Goddess of Destiny, woven from strands of fate that determine the course of mortal lives. As servants of the goddess of fate, they were sent to the mortal world to preserve the weave of destiny by closing off magical loopholes that allow dark powers to change the future.
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Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. Requires DC XX to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Anyone wanna tackle #4 and keep it moving?
I would, but I just did #3.
How about a lurker does this one? Yeah, that's right, if you haven't posted or only posted like once and got ignored (if that happened, sorry, we sometimes get caught up in our own nerdyness. at least, I do. :) Then you MUST answer this next question, so that way we can complete the monster. I implore you! Accept this quest. Accept. Your. DESTINY! (which is to join us)
Sorry if i'm being dramatic. I've been listening to too many musical soundtracks (recently, SIX: the musical and Mean Girls on Broadway)
4: It feeds on arcane energy, so it tends to be found in areas of dark magic, so it doesn’t drain the power from well meaning individuals. However, this causes people to see it as a being of darkness, and adventurers who hear these rumors try to destroy them immediately. When low on health, it uses its Glyph Explode ability to try to survive. This causes the chance of more to spawn from surviving shards. Others who know of its power track them down to find answers to their questions. However, it it sense the soul to be impure, then when it attacks, they target does not get its answer.
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5. The creature was created by the spider-shaped Goddess of Destiny, woven from strands of fate that determine the course of mortal lives. As servants of the goddess of fate, they were sent to the mortal world to preserve the weave of destiny by closing off magical loopholes that allow dark powers to change the future.
Quest Of The Day: share how D&D and its community has impacted your life.
Oh, god, um, that's a hard one.
Well, I certainly made my best friend by playing D&D and similar RPGs, and I have had a lot of fun and quite a few memorable moments here on DDB, but also a few bad moments with my parents saying DDB is social media and not wanting me to be on it, threatening me with bans, and a lot of angry S-words. So, overall, it's been a little bit in-between
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Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day and totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
Milio has been ditched. Now Xerath is my friend.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 15%.
Quest Of The Day: share how DND and its community has impacted your life.
I'm ridiculously late to answering this question but whatevs lol: I'd say D&D's made me nerdier and happier. And the main D&D community I really interact with is this one, which is shockingly an internet forums that I've found has been wonderfully supportive overall.
For folks who have played D&D for awhile - is there a setting you prefer (Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms - Homebrew, aside) - if so, why?
For the folks newer to D&D - what is you've discovered you've enjoyed about the setting you're playing in (whatever it may be)?
Ok, so, I am making this post to celebrate my 500th post (really its the 502 because I accidentally posted on Lords Rest Inn even though I was saving my 500 for this post. stupid brain) (on this account, my other has like 400 something so I technically hit 500 a bit ago but whatever, not the point)
I know it don't seem like much, but I thought I ought to share a milestone with the community that started it all.
and so, I close out the day (at least for me, its 8 where I am) with a
Quest Of The Day: share how DND and its community has impacted your life.
I started playing 7 years ago, and fell in love at first sight (is that the right word? read-through of the books? IDK). Even though it didn't always make me the most popular at school (I sometimes get a "oh, you play DND? thats so lame") It has stretched my creative muscles, frankly gave me most of my social skills, and helped me become a better writer and actor. So thats my story. I could wax poetic all night about the awesomness that is DND (and I bet most of you would wax with me), but I don't have that kind of time. Some people have to sleep.
I know this seems out of the blue but IDK. I'm feeling sentimental tonight for some inexplicable reason. IG I'm just thankful for the amazing community that is the Anything But The OGL Thread.
Edit: my internal dialogue right now: Oh god do they think I'm some sappy weirdo too invested in their online friends? I hope not
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"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
First off, happy 500 posts! Second,
In the time I've been on the forums, it's been great. Like you, it's helped develop my writing and social skills, and it's overall been a great thing for me. Unlike a lot of other social medias (not gonna name names), this is one of the few that actually sharpens your mind. As for DND itself, it's helped me make friendships (and allows for my friends to come together to do some sessions) and is one of my favorite games.
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
Nothing to feel nervous about. I like to believe that all of us are thankful for where D&D has brought us.
Many of us have had the same experience of social awkwardness or public scorn. Luckily I had a group of friends that shared the interest of gaming. D&D was my first dip into RPGs and it opened my world to other RPGs. I feel as if there was a flood of games that came out in the 80s, of which I played most of them. The 90s was the beginning of LARP thing which I did not get into. Overall I still have friends from that time and it's in a way because of D&D. If I didn't play D&D and everything else, I wouldn't have made such great friends.
I am uncertain about how gaming warped my personal growth =)
"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
Rest assured we're not bumping heads. I was being silly. I am not a fan of the whole space horror genre, myself. So I wasn't bothered. Again, just being silly with my comment. (Being the very old man that I am, few things bother me... lol)
Heh - the folks you can meet on a forum can indeed become real friends, and there's nothing to feel weird about it. The woman who would become my wife, I met through an online gaming community (many eons ago in the days of dial up modems!) On EverQuest, the guild I was in - we all met in Vegas every few years - and many of them became real friends. A number of my real friends I had all originally met on a BBS I ran (again, back in the day of dial up modems!), I met someone on World of Warcraft (who I've yet to meet in person) who is someone I consider a friend. On the Sierra forums (a gaming company called "Sierra On-Line" now defunct), there were several people I met - one of them ("Collector") - he and I have known each other for over 20 years (and never met) and I help admin his forums (after the Sierra forums went away). One of the people on that forum named "Jules" I met in New Orleans, and she and I are very close friends. So yeah, it's all good.
For me, I've really enjoyed the folks who post - no matter how frequent or infrequent. I see so many different personalities, but all of us with one shared passion. And how everyone just jells together, despite all these different quirks we each have.
One of the other things I've vastly enjoyed is when we do those random "create an adventure" type things, or the ... stories?... can they be called that?... that I've written using the people from this thread. Instances of creativity feed my soul.
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Should we do another one soon? We've had some recent additions to the thread, so some haven't done one yet.
Also, recently I have had a campaign idea knocking around in my head, and wanted to see what you guys think considering it is a bit...uncoventional
(TLDR: party is level 20, has bossfight at bottom of dungeon, gets cursed to lose levels, and must escape before they become lvl 0 and die. If that sounds cool to you and you want to play in it {i would run it on PBP here on DBB) then don't read the spoiler)
So, the party starts at level 20. They have infiltrated the depths of The Dungeon Of The Mad Mage and are about to face the BBEG's: A group of adventurers (each has monster stats based on the classic 4 classes: fighter, rogue, wizard & cleric. each will have some cool extra abilities, maybe connected to the whole undermountain rune thing or something) led by Halastar, who is the parties wizard. the game starts with a boss fight against these 4. The party will defeat them, and then the real fun begins. Through their journey throughout Undermountain, they have been stalked by an uber-powerful undead lord (Lich+Vampire+Death Knight+Mummy Lord), who has been secretly using the adventurers to stage a coup against the rulers of the dungeon (IE the aformentioned BBEGs). Now that they are dead, the undead lord tries to take over. Of course, because they are level 20, the party kills the undead lord, but as the undead lord dies, they recite an ancient curse, which does 2 things:
Tell me what you think, and if you are interested in playing, say so
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"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
Me! Me! I had an idea. Basically, this one is creating a new creature for DND.
QUEST OF THE DAY
Answer these questions in the same format as the other story/adventure thingies. Now, like the create a race/species one from earlier, no making the stats until the last (and technically first, as alignment has some statistical uses) question. With that out of the way, let's begin!
1. The creature's alignment. Is the creature evil, good, neutral, etc.
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, your firstborn child and your liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer from Drummer, the Endless Maws from Isis, the Mad Murderer from PJ
The creature is Nuetral Good. Though it often waits to see which side is more likely to win and not engage - if it sees what it believes to be people of good intentions - it may attempt to help and sway things to their favor.
Next Set of Questions are:
2. The creature's physical appearance. How does it appear when adventurers stumble upon it?
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
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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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2. The creature appears as a spiderweb of glyphs on a surface - wall, ceiling or floor. Often times it tries to blend in with the environment - carpet pattern, wood grain, or such. It is difficult to detect when it is not moving.
The next set of questions are:
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
"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
3. It's abilities. But since no stats for this question, say we have a creature that freezes people. Just say 'it freezes people' instead of 'all targets must make a blank saving throw or blah blah blah'.
It can strike people with pseudopods it extracts from the wall and strike a creature. When struck a creature makes a Int Save or be flooded with info, taking pyscich damage, becoming stunned for a turn. Once the stun ends though, the creature gains the answer to a one question in its mind of its choice. In addition, it can explode itself like a glyph of warding, scattering it into different pieces. If a piece is not destroyed, it can grow into a new one of these creatures.
The next set of questions are:
4. It's behavior, mainly how it acts. Wanted to put abilities before behavior to do stuff like 'it uses (ability) to (blank).
5. A brief description of its lore. How was it created and brought into this world?
6. The name of the creature.
7. The interesting bit! Someone here makes a homebrew stat block for the monster made and posts it here, incorporating the abilities and stuff into said stat block in mechanical form.
Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, a young genderfluid actor, writer, explorer, and bass vocalist. Pronouns They/Them/Theirs
My Characters: Brormin the Devout Crusher; Ellora the Romantic Rookie
Check out my EXTENDED SIGNATUR (hasn't been updated in forever, fyi) and don’t forget to join the Anything but the OGL 2.0 Thread!
"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
Wysperra… have you been reading the Stormlight Archive?
Why yes! I'm on the last book. I'll admit to skipping some parts.
read read read read *cliffhanger* "6 Years Ago..." I don't give a shit! flip flip flip read read read
I'm also a fan of John Ringo and the Posleen war. Himmit are experts at camouflage.
"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
I realized when you perfectly described Cryptics XD
It really is a great series though! If you enjoy it then definitely check out the Licanius Trilogy. It’s a little more similar to Wheel of Time, but it fits the more modern style of fantasy that Brando writes in.
Anyone wanna tackle #4 and keep it moving?
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I would, but I just did #3.
How about a lurker does this one? Yeah, that's right, if you haven't posted or only posted like once and got ignored (if that happened, sorry, we sometimes get caught up in our own nerdyness. at least, I do. :) Then you MUST answer this next question, so that way we can complete the monster. I implore you! Accept this quest. Accept. Your. DESTINY! (which is to join us)
Sorry if i'm being dramatic. I've been listening to too many musical soundtracks (recently, SIX: the musical and Mean Girls on Broadway)
Hi, I'm Raccoon_Master, a young genderfluid actor, writer, explorer, and bass vocalist. Pronouns They/Them/Theirs
My Characters: Brormin the Devout Crusher; Ellora the Romantic Rookie
Check out my EXTENDED SIGNATUR (hasn't been updated in forever, fyi) and don’t forget to join the Anything but the OGL 2.0 Thread!
"I don't make sense to you, and I don't make sense to myself. Maybe the only one I make sense to is God" ~ Me, trying to sound smart
4: It feeds on arcane energy, so it tends to be found in areas of dark magic, so it doesn’t drain the power from well meaning individuals. However, this causes people to see it as a being of darkness, and adventurers who hear these rumors try to destroy them immediately. When low on health, it uses its Glyph Explode ability to try to survive. This causes the chance of more to spawn from surviving shards. Others who know of its power track them down to find answers to their questions. However, it it sense the soul to be impure, then when it attacks, they target does not get its answer.
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Hi, I’m DrakenBrine, here’s my Sig and characters
I am The Grand Envisioner!
5. The creature was created by the spider-shaped Goddess of Destiny, woven from strands of fate that determine the course of mortal lives. As servants of the goddess of fate, they were sent to the mortal world to preserve the weave of destiny by closing off magical loopholes that allow dark powers to change the future.
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Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
6. Name of the Creature: Fate Weaver.
Next.
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Oh, god, um, that's a hard one.
Well, I certainly made my best friend by playing D&D and similar RPGs, and I have had a lot of fun and quite a few memorable moments here on DDB, but also a few bad moments with my parents saying DDB is social media and not wanting me to be on it, threatening me with bans, and a lot of angry S-words. So, overall, it's been a little bit in-between
Hi! I'm EJO. I am a silly billy who forgets to play Genshin Impact every day and totally DOESN'T simp for at least three different ninja girls. Some other facts about me:
Milio has been ditched. Now Xerath is my friend.
My average accuracy in Marvel Rivals is about 15%.
I like cheese.
I'm ridiculously late to answering this question but whatevs lol: I'd say D&D's made me nerdier and happier. And the main D&D community I really interact with is this one, which is shockingly an internet forums that I've found has been wonderfully supportive overall.
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.For folks who have played D&D for awhile - is there a setting you prefer (Dark Sun, Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Forgotten Realms - Homebrew, aside) - if so, why?
For the folks newer to D&D - what is you've discovered you've enjoyed about the setting you're playing in (whatever it may be)?
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