I keep pointing to Chapter 9 of the 5e DMG (which basically says to alter the game to whatever suits you and gives several examples of things to try).
Artificer: I'm going to lasso him with my Magic Rope. DM: Okay.
Renactment: *Artificer is walking around the assassin (played by the DM as are all NPCs), slowly wrapping him up with a normal rope repeatedly saying, "Magic Rope".* Assassin : "Are you sure this is magic?" Artificer: "Yup. Real magic. Totally not Ordinary Rope."
(Trivia: It was a Rope of Climbing, but the DM in a Behind the Screens stream said he wasn't going to punish new players for trying to use everything at their disposal in creative ways.)
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
So we're doing a christmas one-shot and someone gives us cookies
Me: How many
DM: uh 12
Me: are they snickerdoodle?
DM: uh sure
My Mom (OOC): You won't write down your Psychic Blades, but you'll put cookies in your inventory?!?!?!
Me: (straight face) well, yeah.
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so we get kidnapped and end up in a nice hotel and i, the completely reasonable rainbow brite dragonborn rogue i am, chuck a ball bearing out the window at someone
DM: this is a terrible idea
Me: nat 20
DM: *sigh*
so it lands next to a guy, and we're not sure this is even happening
guy: is this yours
Me: yes
Me: are you real?
guy: i think i'm real
Me: ok but are you real
guy: i'm pretty sure
And then I proceeded to argue with my party about if i should try to climb down the toilet. It did not end up happening.
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It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
Crazy NPC (DM): "If you knew what I knew, you'd go mad!" Player 2: "So... ... What do you know?" NPC: "Do you want to go mad?!" Player 2: "I like trying new things." Player 4: "You going mad is nothing new."
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
DM: Okay, the tree reaches out and grabs you. Druid: Why me? DM: I was picturing you farthest from the fire, near the treeline. Druid: I was picturing us all sitting around the fire. Sorcerer: I was picturing there not being a fire, because with [Rogue] around, he probably would have tripped and fallen into it.
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Cut & Paste from my quote list. Don't ask me why the spacing comes out this way.
Player 1: That’s a snuggle-puddle of wrong.
Player 2: That would be a tactical snuggle puddle.
Would you like us to remove your butt-muzzle? (Came up in the same game three times.)
Any omelet is horrifying to a chicken.
Ok, Jen, while you are being mugged I am going to put Leo to bed.
Hold on, did I hear that right? You burned your toilet bowl seat by...yeah, ok, right, giving your hamster a viking funeral. I just wanted to make sure I heard that right.
When it was the water-logged body with a huge erection lodged in a barricade I understand, but just the mention of wood and you start giggling?
[With my character build] I am basically a sharp invisible bey blade
Look if you'd just stop screaming "Oh God what is that thing?" for a second, I could actually answer the question…
Player 1: I don’t get it. You’re in a fantasy world with no consequences. Why do you always want to play the good guy?
Player 2: Maybe my no-consequences power fantasy is being able to help everyone ok? Dick.
What would I be doing riding your polar bear?
Ninjas can't touch you if you're on fire. Fact.
If there had been gamers in the Garden of Eden, all theology would have been oriented around how to kill a cherubim who's armed with a flaming sword.
Why are you always a 14 year old Asian? That's not a character concept, that's a creepy fetish.
OK, I missed the memo about the 5 Dragons apparently...
NPC: He's being very compliant.
PC: If you like that sort of thing.
Why don't you leash these things before you try raising them from the dead?
Like I said before, 'Half of me doesn't like it, but the monkey and the other half does.'
Can you tell me when you're not a big, evil demon thingy so we can talk?
Player Over The Phone- "Are there any cute guys there?"
Game Master - "Like, 2 and a half."
A gerbil? Well, you know what a cougar is? Opposite.
Player: I attempt to seduce the queen.
Game Master: As she is about to carry out your execution?
DM: You stab him through the shin, severing tendons and opening a nasty bleeding wound. He collapses on the ground screaming and clutching his wounded leg, before passing out from the pain and blood-loss. Player: I said I was doing non-lethal damage. DM: He's still alive. This is how non-lethal with a rapier looks like. It's not a gentle weapon.
In the sunless citadel, directly after a battle with goblins, when we took a hostage.
[lizerdfolk player]: "I eat the goblin's heart out."
[DM]: "The hostage goblin squirms as he watches you eat the fallen goblin's heart out."
[player]: "No, I meant the hostage goblin."
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Pronouns: he/him/his.
My posting scheduled is irregular: sometimes I can post twice a week, sometimes twice a day. I may also respond to quick questions, but ignore harder responses in favor of time.
My location is where my character for my home game is (we're doing the wild beyond the witchlight).
"The Doomvault... Probably full of unicorns and rainbows." -An imaginary quote
My posting scheduled is irregular: sometimes I can post twice a week, sometimes twice a day. I may also respond to quick questions, but ignore harder responses in favor of time.
My location is where my character for my home game is (we're doing the wild beyond the witchlight).
"The Doomvault... Probably full of unicorns and rainbows." -An imaginary quote
Changeling: I make my skin, hair and eyes reflective like mirror and make aggressive eye contact with a medusa. GM: Give me a Con save, please. Changeling: 17. Now her save. GM: 7. She actually turns to stone instantly. With a very confused face. Like seconds before saying "oh, I didn't expect that".
Changeling: I make my skin, hair and eyes reflective like mirror and make aggressive eye contact with a medusa. GM: Give me a Con save, please. Changeling: 17. Now her save. GM: 7. She actually turns to stone instantly. With a very confused face. Like seconds before saying "oh, I didn't expect that".
I think as a DM I might well offer an inspiration for such a creative idea.
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When my players get nat 20s on dex. checks, I have them do really flashy stuff like this.
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I keep pointing to Chapter 9 of the 5e DMG (which basically says to alter the game to whatever suits you and gives several examples of things to try).
Artificer: I'm going to lasso him with my Magic Rope.
DM: Okay.
Renactment:
*Artificer is walking around the assassin (played by the DM as are all NPCs), slowly wrapping him up with a normal rope repeatedly saying, "Magic Rope".*
Assassin : "Are you sure this is magic?"
Artificer: "Yup. Real magic. Totally not Ordinary Rope."
(Trivia: It was a Rope of Climbing, but the DM in a Behind the Screens stream said he wasn't going to punish new players for trying to use everything at their disposal in creative ways.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I constantly avoid having to write things down
So we're doing a christmas one-shot and someone gives us cookies
Me: How many
DM: uh 12
Me: are they snickerdoodle?
DM: uh sure
My Mom (OOC): You won't write down your Psychic Blades, but you'll put cookies in your inventory?!?!?!
Me: (straight face) well, yeah.
It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
My Homebrew: Spells, Magic Items, Monsters, Feats, Races, Backgrounds, Subclasses
so we get kidnapped and end up in a nice hotel and i, the completely reasonable rainbow brite dragonborn rogue i am, chuck a ball bearing out the window at someone
DM: this is a terrible idea
Me: nat 20
DM: *sigh*
so it lands next to a guy, and we're not sure this is even happening
guy: is this yours
Me: yes
Me: are you real?
guy: i think i'm real
Me: ok but are you real
guy: i'm pretty sure
And then I proceeded to argue with my party about if i should try to climb down the toilet. It did not end up happening.
It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
My Homebrew: Spells, Magic Items, Monsters, Feats, Races, Backgrounds, Subclasses
BBEG: You'll never stop me!
Me: *throws a train at him with telekinesis*
BBEG: *dies*
It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
My Homebrew: Spells, Magic Items, Monsters, Feats, Races, Backgrounds, Subclasses
"Stop eating the frustrated shrimp!"
"NEVER!"
you get no context
It is I, the Murder Marble Mistress/High Priestess Of Garlic Bread herself! Check out my Homebrew (below) as well as my website (here) and remember that you will always be a nerd.
I am working on more garlic bread stuff, so stay tuned!
My Homebrew: Spells, Magic Items, Monsters, Feats, Races, Backgrounds, Subclasses
Honestly, this is better without context.
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Istari and White Counsel in Club. Not the wish-granter of a thread.
Become a Plague Doctor today!
Join the Knights of the Random Table and Calius and Kothar Industries!
Homebrew: Artifact, Dungeon
May be offline due to school
Crazy NPC (DM): "If you knew what I knew, you'd go mad!"
Player 2: "So... ... What do you know?"
NPC: "Do you want to go mad?!"
Player 2: "I like trying new things."
Player 4: "You going mad is nothing new."
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
me:im going to call gust
whole party:who on earth is gust
me:eh shes just my wife who is mentally bound to me thanks to questionable psonics
Check out my homebrew subclasses spells magic items feats monsters races
i am a sauce priest
help create a world here
"GUYS WE SHOULD OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT" (in public, shouted by one of my party)
I loot the hidden compartment and reset it, then leave and reenter with my party.
They find the compartment
"oh well, its empty"
lol had that same line at the begining hey work for the goverment (well worked)
Check out my homebrew subclasses spells magic items feats monsters races
i am a sauce priest
help create a world here
From our most recent session:
DM: Okay, the tree reaches out and grabs you.
Druid: Why me?
DM: I was picturing you farthest from the fire, near the treeline.
Druid: I was picturing us all sitting around the fire.
Sorcerer: I was picturing there not being a fire, because with [Rogue] around, he probably would have tripped and fallen into it.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Dm: Roll to hit.
Rogue: Natural 1.
Cleric, OOC: You can reroll that with your lucky trait.
Rogue: ...2.
Dm: Silently laughing
The fire giants made a gundam wheeeeee
Cut & Paste from my quote list. Don't ask me why the spacing comes out this way.
Player 1: That’s a snuggle-puddle of wrong.
Player 2: That would be a tactical snuggle puddle.
Would you like us to remove your butt-muzzle? (Came up in the same game three times.)
Any omelet is horrifying to a chicken.
Ok, Jen, while you are being mugged I am going to put Leo to bed.
Hold on, did I hear that right? You burned your toilet bowl seat by...yeah, ok, right, giving your hamster a viking funeral. I just wanted to make sure I heard that right.
When it was the water-logged body with a huge erection lodged in a barricade I understand, but just the mention of wood and you start giggling?
[With my character build] I am basically a sharp invisible bey blade
Look if you'd just stop screaming "Oh God what is that thing?" for a second, I could actually answer the question…
Player 1: I don’t get it. You’re in a fantasy world with no consequences. Why do you always want to play the good guy?
Player 2: Maybe my no-consequences power fantasy is being able to help everyone ok? Dick.
What would I be doing riding your polar bear?
Ninjas can't touch you if you're on fire. Fact.
If there had been gamers in the Garden of Eden, all theology would have been oriented around how to kill a cherubim who's armed with a flaming sword.
Why are you always a 14 year old Asian? That's not a character concept, that's a creepy fetish.
OK, I missed the memo about the 5 Dragons apparently...
NPC: He's being very compliant.
PC: If you like that sort of thing.
Why don't you leash these things before you try raising them from the dead?
Like I said before, 'Half of me doesn't like it, but the monkey and the other half does.'
Can you tell me when you're not a big, evil demon thingy so we can talk?
Player Over The Phone- "Are there any cute guys there?"
Game Master - "Like, 2 and a half."
A gerbil? Well, you know what a cougar is? Opposite.
Player: I attempt to seduce the queen.
Game Master: As she is about to carry out your execution?
Player: What have I got to loose?
Game Master: True...
DM: You stab him through the shin, severing tendons and opening a nasty bleeding wound. He collapses on the ground screaming and clutching his wounded leg, before passing out from the pain and blood-loss.
Player: I said I was doing non-lethal damage.
DM: He's still alive. This is how non-lethal with a rapier looks like. It's not a gentle weapon.
In the sunless citadel, directly after a battle with goblins, when we took a hostage.
[lizerdfolk player]: "I eat the goblin's heart out."
[DM]: "The hostage goblin squirms as he watches you eat the fallen goblin's heart out."
[player]: "No, I meant the hostage goblin."
Pronouns: he/him/his.
My posting scheduled is irregular: sometimes I can post twice a week, sometimes twice a day. I may also respond to quick questions, but ignore harder responses in favor of time.
My location is where my character for my home game is (we're doing the wild beyond the witchlight).
"The Doomvault... Probably full of unicorns and rainbows." -An imaginary quote
DM: (me) the Ghoul bites your arm for 7 points of damage
Forge Cleric (Lizardfolk) : I bite it back!
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Lizardfolk get into all kinds of shenanigans.
Pronouns: he/him/his.
My posting scheduled is irregular: sometimes I can post twice a week, sometimes twice a day. I may also respond to quick questions, but ignore harder responses in favor of time.
My location is where my character for my home game is (we're doing the wild beyond the witchlight).
"The Doomvault... Probably full of unicorns and rainbows." -An imaginary quote
Changeling: I make my skin, hair and eyes reflective like mirror and make aggressive eye contact with a medusa.
GM: Give me a Con save, please.
Changeling: 17. Now her save.
GM: 7. She actually turns to stone instantly. With a very confused face. Like seconds before saying "oh, I didn't expect that".
I think as a DM I might well offer an inspiration for such a creative idea.
Talk to your Players. Talk to your DM. If more people used this advice, there would be 24.74% fewer threads on Tactics, Rules and DM discussions.