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

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Question of the Day: Do you dance? What sort of dancing do you do? Do you ever use dancing in your DnD game?

 

I only danced when I was intoxicated. I no longer drink. And so, I no longer dance.

Mostly because what I called "dancing" when I was intoxicated was more - just random movements on a dance floor.

To be clear, I didn't stop drinking because of those dance moves.

I just quit drinking in general, for my own health and sanity.

i BEEN DANCIN IN THE STREETS

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Just got back from an awesome night of salsa dancing.

Question of the Day: Do you dance? What sort of dancing do you do? Do you ever use dancing in your DnD game?

To answer my own question, the biggest city in my world is known for its swing and jazz halls. It’s based on New Orleans. The swing hall is where you go there to get information and socialize rather than a tavern.

 I adore this lore.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 Well, I want to know what you would have cooked up if given the chance to make something for your category in the current Comp of Finest Brews.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 Maybe you can help me. I’ve been thinking about a kind of ‘Fragmented Staff’ that had an offensive and defensive form. Any ideas or do you need more context?

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

A race of bipedal Prawns.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 
You should wait until the CotFBXIV and write a submission for that.

Ok, 

Through a series of unfortunate accidents, on a different space in the wild and wooly internet, I made a comment about PCs engaging in fights with Plushie versions of monsters using pillows and cardboard armor.

Cute and adorable cardboard armor and plushie monsters.

Played straight. Because nothing is more subversive than the absurd treated as normative. Or at least, I thought that way until the current election year.

In any case, I thought I would share this idea with you because I am feeling particularly cruel, in light of the spooky season coming upon us, and the notion of a Party of Hardy Souls with mighty powers flinging sparkly rainbow and flower magic (I cast Fireball! The room detonates in an explosion of rose petals.) and swinging pillows round while the barbarian has a giggle fit (Rage) might just be exactly the kind of peculiar brain worm that can stick around in the heads of some of you.

I am a generous lass.

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 

A race of bipedal Prawns.

 
I have to note that this hit me because I saw a "joke" called the Circle of Allergies by Xen the DM which features an AI image of a bipedal Prawn. And I need a deep sea pair of peoples since I am expanding things a bit.

WHich reminds me, tomorrow I should bore you with some stuff about Wyrlde...

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QotD: What should I homebrew next?

 

A race of bipedal Prawns.

My instinct was Chuul, but alas, too many legs.

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Ok, 

Through a series of unfortunate accidents, on a different space in the wild and wooly internet, I made a comment about PCs engaging in fights with Plushie versions of monsters using pillows and cardboard armor.

Cute and adorable cardboard armor and plushie monsters.

Played straight. Because nothing is more subversive than the absurd treated as normative. Or at least, I thought that way until the current election year.

In any case, I thought I would share this idea with you because I am feeling particularly cruel, in light of the spooky season coming upon us, and the notion of a Party of Hardy Souls with mighty powers flinging sparkly rainbow and flower magic (I cast Fireball! The room detonates in an explosion of rose petals.) and swinging pillows round while the barbarian has a giggle fit (Rage) might just be exactly the kind of peculiar brain worm that can stick around in the heads of some of you.

I am a generous lass.

 
😳…

OK, so, the real trick to it is that the plushie monsters are real monsters that have been turned into plushies. All they can do is physical attacks, and because they are plushies they can only do improvised weapon damage -- just like the PCs. But they can still talk, and they are not at all happy about this. 

especially the Beholders.

THe whole thing takes place under the eyes of a Fae Lord, of course. Who just wants everybody to have fun while they are playing. And everybody should play.

OF course, to overcome the whole thing, you have to not play -- but who's going to do that in a game?

.-= as threatend =-.

So, Wyrlde now has an entire set up in space, where the idea of doing the kessel run in fewer than 12 parsecs is an actual thing, and the ships use sails and thee is air and there's more involved. If a person on the surface of the planet flies high enough, they enter space. And it won't be a lack of air that kills them. It will be the extreme cold (not absolute zero, though).

It also has a second continent, where the basis for it is literally the disney films. Everything is a Principality. 

Then there is a third continent, that I will figure out when I set up to do an open game on Wyrlde.

Hey quick question does anyone know how to apply for disability benefits? It's only a matter of time before I graduate high school and I have to fend for myself, so I was wondering if anyone knows the process. 

I do. 

https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/text-apply-ussi.htm

I will tell you something most people do not believe, or,,really, are prepared for. It can take up to three years to get onto SSI, and 90% of the time, that is through the appeals process, because almost everyone is rejected.

in some cases, it can take seven to ten years.

in short, it is the worst possible experience for people who need the best possible experience, because for decades and decades, some people have been worried about folks who are not disabled gaming the system more than they are the people who need it.

Question: If you were a Jujutsu Sorcerer in the Jujutsu Kaisen universe, what would be your Domain Expansion?

Mine would be called ‘Chained Spirits’. It’s basically an endless expanse of incredibly durable chains that as long as I am in contact with one, I control them all. I can use them to block and dodge attacks, move incredibly fast and teleport somewhat (by going underneath them all and rising elsewhere), restrain opponents, and perform whip like attacks.

Mine would be called 'Infinite Platypodes/Platypuses/Platypi.' It would essentially be me and the other person(s) as platypuses/platypi/platypodes swarm around us, which sounds awesome.

BUT. They would be male platypi/platypodes/platypuses  so you would keep getting spurred by them, causing crippling pain, causing you to double over, getting spurred more, going through more excruciating pain, until you are eventually pulled by the horde of platypodes/platypuses/platypi and then a giant platypus would surge out of the horde and eat their corpse/half-dead body and turn them into more platypuses/platypi/platypodes/. They are immortal, and if you try attacking me, then they will come to my aid.

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…in short, it is the worst possible experience for people who need the best possible experience, because for decades and decades, some people have been worried about folks who are not disabled gaming the system more than they are the people who need it.

Because, God forbid, a handful of people who don’t really need it might get it, so better to deny people who really need it benefits they should get because they are entitled to it. (That’s why they’re called “entitlements,” because simply for being citizens of this country we are entitled to them.) Unemployment insurance is something we pay into every time we get paid, just like paying premiums on any other type of insurance. Collecting from that insurance when we are unemployed is not “asking for a hand out,” it’s just like collecting on any other type of insurance. Social Security is also something we pay into out of each and every paycheck we get. Receiving SSI is just like collecting on any other type of investment. And it doesn’t matter if collecting that money is part of one’s retirement income, or just because one cannot work for health reasons, it shouldn’t matter. The contract every government agrees to with the citizenry is that we will support the government, and the government will see to the needs of the citizenry. It disgusts me that the party of the second part in the social contract (the govt.) is openly failing to live up to its side of the deal.

—Rant over

As my rather snarky insertions may have noted, I agree.

So, I watched the cool new video about the new DMG that told me all the same stuff I already learned from the last video, the one they used parts of this one in.

So, now I am waiting with bated breath to see what the bastions one is, lol.

as longer term folks here can likely guess, a lot of the PHB isn't exactly useful to me, what with my being so damned salty about the changeover from Original Edition and all (*giggle*) and not using any of the default classes or races. I know, I know, gasp, Omg, the sky is falling and I am no longer playing D&D except for the whole still playing D&D thing.

I did like the new organization, and a lot of the way they set it up (it was obviously influenced by this site), and so far I haven't come across anything that bugs me in it after finally getting through the whole thing. But, in fairness, that's due to my having already done my minor adjustments in some ways. It does mean a lot of little changes that I have to make to existing stuff on my end, but I don't disagree witht hem, so, meh, cool.

The thing that I am going to be as all in on as the other folks were about the PHB is going to be the DMG. Which, i suppose, makes sense, as I am only ever a DM.

It will be a long and bitter wait, lol.

In general Wyrlde news, I am back to three books, and editing has gotten them down to under 600 pages each. Rules, Lore, and Character is the breakdown, with magic going into rules.

I will be doing a fourth book next year on the other two continents and space.

My current games are 4 monthly ones (9, 9, 7, and 6 players each week, respectively), plus an open game that is averaging about 6 people in it that I started up after the teaching game ended. 

Ok, for the worldbuilders in the group, I was turned onto something that is proving hilariously fun to play with.

It is an AI that uses and is focused on the material you upload to it. So, a kind of "personal AI" set up that you can turn to. Doesn't have the image making, doesn't do the whole "i will create this for you" kind of stuff. 

it is from Google, and is called NotebookLM.

So, thee reason I am having fun with it is that one of the secondary tools for it is a little "conversation" styled like a podcast. I am laughing because listening to AI create people talking about Wyrlde is hilarious, since it doesn't quite get what Wyrlde is about just enough of the time that it makes the stuff it does get stand out. It's like hearing two people you have never met do a review of your work.

Naturally, I have a sample: "A Deep Dive Into Wyrlde". This is a wav file because I am too lazy to convert it to an mp3.

Now, the reason I am having a blast with it

So, "Disney Princess" Land.

I did a small deal a few years back with something like this, but I decided to take another go at it. I will note that the list technically includes Treasure Planet like stuff, but that's separate for now for reasons.

I was wondering if any of you have thoughts or ideas?

Here's what I kinda have right now: