Ok ok, hear me out. I play as any race, take the Hermit background, and class into Bard: College of Spirits. Then I ask the DM if I can use a set of dice as my spiritual/arcane focus. I might take a level or two in Warlock: Pact of the Great Old One (With my patron being my DM). For my hermit revelation, I have the following vision:
I see several humans, dressed in strange clothing, sitting around a rectangular table. Each one is holding a piece of parchment, which has lots of numbers and words written in boxes, except for the one at the end. The man at the end of the table has a strange board, depicting a dragon attacking a village. Books and small statuettes litter the table, along with a set of oddly shaped dice. The same dice I have in my bag.
...what do you think? This isn't a very serious concept, I just find it funny and interesting. Role-play-wise, I'd claim to have visions and can speak to alien beings, while everyone else thinks I'm insane. I also really like the idea of using dice as a focus. I imagine that I would "summon" dice to use in spells. For example, if I cast Thunderwave, I'd throw a pair of glowing d8s on the ground, where they emit a thunderous pulse. Or if I cast Eldritch Blast, I hurl an energy-enveloped d10 at someone.
EDIT: I have made a few changes: My race will be a Kenku, and I will take at least two warlock levels to get access to the Mask of Many Faces Eldritch Invocation. I can roleplay this as my character disguising himself to avoid persecution as a Kenku, to make his tales more convincing by impersonating others, and to try and show others the faces he sees in his visions.
EDITS: Corrections and revisions.
EDIT: This is a joke. I'd only use it in a one-shot or a silly campaign.
I was once in a Champions game where it was suggested that a super-hero was able to hear the narrator and could take actions based on that.
The DM is the Narrator, they provide the information. There's nothing wrong with having a silly game where the player character can see past the "4th wall" and talk to the audience. Loads of movies do that. Ferris Beuler does it constantly. Deadpool is a super-hero whose entire body is made up of Cancer cells, so he can't really die, he just keeps on healing. This has given him a strange sense of humor.
D&D isn't all that good as a Super-Hero game, but it's possible to make it work. It's a great idea. I think everyone would have fun with it.
Sounds like it would be fun for you, and be problematic for everyone else's immersion. Essentially, whenever your character has his 'visions' he's reminding everyone that they're playing a game and breaking their imagination.
It's impossible for you to be anything but the main character in a story where you're the only one who really has a grasp of reality.
Sounds like it would be fun for you, and be problematic for everyone else's immersion. Essentially, whenever your character has his 'visions' he's reminding everyone that they're playing a game and breaking their imagination.
It's impossible for you to be anything but the main character in a story where you're the only one who really has a grasp of reality.
Sounds like it would be fun for you, and be problematic for everyone else's immersion. Essentially, whenever your character has his 'visions' he's reminding everyone that they're playing a game and breaking their imagination.
It's impossible for you to be anything but the main character in a story where you're the only one who really has a grasp of reality.
I'm aware, this is primarily a joke.
Not a very good joke then, is it?
Seriously though I have difficulties seeing this working in anything but a rather silly one-shot. If that's the kind of game you're going to play, go for it. Other players could play fantasy clichés or other silly concepts. Like the super-ordinary person who just wants a normal life but keeps on being dragged into all sorts of crazy adventures and all of their friends and family keeps getting kidnapped, possessed or killed...
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
Has anyone claimed that or are you just shouting in the wind?
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Who’s Deadpool? (JK, I know who Deadpool is, but I don’t know anything about them or have seen any of their movies.)
Deadpool is one of the few Marvel characters in history who is aware (or at least seems to be) that they are a comic book character. He regularly breaks the 4th-wall and actively engages in meta conversations with the audience. Of course, he also has at least two other people in his head that he has conversations with too. He’s certifiably insane. But he’s also a badass antihero Who also happens to be cursed by Thanos with immortality since he is jealous and hat they are both in love with Death, but she picked Deadpool as her love and Thanos was all butthurt about it. (So it’s kinda a situation of what can anyone do to stop him? The answer is “nothing.”)
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
Has anyone claimed that or are you just shouting in the wind?
Geann was asking it as a rhetorical question. They weren’t making a statement.
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
Has anyone claimed that or are you just shouting in the wind?
Geann was asking it as a rhetorical question. They weren’t making a statement.
I think if you didn't "meta" stuff all to hell, it could be a truly fun and interesting angle to RP from. Your character isn't sure if these are "gods" or simply other people, or what they are. He wouldn't ever get a CLEAR look at the sheets and such, to KNOW with certainty exactly what was happening, but would be getting, as you say, these odd visions, which would (for the players) all show he's seeing them at the table, playing D&D. If the group is a good one, and imaginative, it could be tons of fun. Anyone crapping on it and saying it would break or ruin the game lacks the imagination to pull it off and can be dismissed as jealous, IMO, as it's a stolen idea (as stated by others, Deadpool et al) applied to a TTRPG.
I'd run it by the table first, to make sure the DM and the rest of the group isn't too down on the idea, and be careful to not get TOO tied up in his/her awareness, as that could put a little damper on stuff, if they suddenly KNOW they are simply a fictional character. More that they see these humans at the table DO things, that SEEM to correlate with what the party is doing or has done.
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...what do you think? This isn't a very serious concept, I just find it funny and interesting. Role-play-wise, I'd claim to have visions and can speak to alien beings, while everyone else thinks I'm insane. I also really like the idea of using dice as a focus. I imagine that I would "summon" dice to use in spells. For example, if I cast Thunderwave, I'd throw a pair of glowing d8s on the ground, where they emit a thunderous pulse. Or if I cast Eldritch Blast, I hurl an energy-enveloped d10 at someone.
If you want to get really wild with this, go divination wizard for the Portent ability
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Sounds like it would be fun for you, and be problematic for everyone else's immersion. Essentially, whenever your character has his 'visions' he's reminding everyone that they're playing a game and breaking their imagination.
It's impossible for you to be anything but the main character in a story where you're the only one who really has a grasp of reality.
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
Has anyone claimed that or are you just shouting in the wind?
Geann was asking it as a rhetorical question. They weren’t making a statement.
Isn't that just shouting in the wind, then? :P
Pretty sure Geann was responding to Sanvael, just didn't quote the post.
I actually had a friend that was a monk in the game and he drank a joke potion made from pure gold and enlightened rat and instantly his wisdom and intelligence went into the millions.
Was instantly aware that he was just part of a game and the other characters were all like who are you talking to?
He responds the real you, the ones who created us, the true gods of this world!
Actually i'll send him a message and he can talk about it if he like's it was real funny lol.
when i drank the potion my strength and constitution went into the millions and I could one-shot anything and one-block anything but only one-shot if i rolled 2 20s in a row and went above half my total achievable damage. i also started weighing over 20000 pounds and couldn't ride anything or even sit down without causing a tremor. Which came in handy when there was an army.
I was literally all:
Hey DM! I jump into the air and pound the ground as i land with all my might.
DM: You create a 2km diameter hole in the ground that goes down to the core of the earth but also you sink into the ground about 1 km deep, you are two heavy to climb out on your own. Oh and the army has been erased from memory and existance
My friends 4th wall breaker character: Has a seizure from being able to hear the dialogue as he watches both the rolls of the dice, us talking, and the events we roleplay all at the same time.
Lucky I had teleport at the time lol.
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Also please don't be smart or sarcastic towards him or anything he's kinda clueless in those areas of social conversations.
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Ok ok, hear me out. I play as any race, take the Hermit background, and class into Bard: College of Spirits. Then I ask the DM if I can use a set of dice as my spiritual/arcane focus. I might take a level or two in Warlock: Pact of the Great Old One (With my patron being my DM). For my hermit revelation, I have the following vision:
I see several humans, dressed in strange clothing, sitting around a rectangular table. Each one is holding a piece of parchment, which has lots of numbers and words written in boxes, except for the one at the end. The man at the end of the table has a strange board, depicting a dragon attacking a village. Books and small statuettes litter the table, along with a set of oddly shaped dice. The same dice I have in my bag.
...what do you think? This isn't a very serious concept, I just find it funny and interesting. Role-play-wise, I'd claim to have visions and can speak to alien beings, while everyone else thinks I'm insane. I also really like the idea of using dice as a focus. I imagine that I would "summon" dice to use in spells. For example, if I cast Thunderwave, I'd throw a pair of glowing d8s on the ground, where they emit a thunderous pulse. Or if I cast Eldritch Blast, I hurl an energy-enveloped d10 at someone.
EDIT: I have made a few changes: My race will be a Kenku, and I will take at least two warlock levels to get access to the Mask of Many Faces Eldritch Invocation. I can roleplay this as my character disguising himself to avoid persecution as a Kenku, to make his tales more convincing by impersonating others, and to try and show others the faces he sees in his visions.
EDITS: Corrections and revisions.
EDIT: This is a joke. I'd only use it in a one-shot or a silly campaign.
Deadpool?
Who’s Deadpool? (JK, I know who Deadpool is, but I don’t know anything about them or have seen any of their movies.)
I was once in a Champions game where it was suggested that a super-hero was able to hear the narrator and could take actions based on that.
The DM is the Narrator, they provide the information. There's nothing wrong with having a silly game where the player character can see past the "4th wall" and talk to the audience. Loads of movies do that. Ferris Beuler does it constantly. Deadpool is a super-hero whose entire body is made up of Cancer cells, so he can't really die, he just keeps on healing. This has given him a strange sense of humor.
D&D isn't all that good as a Super-Hero game, but it's possible to make it work. It's a great idea. I think everyone would have fun with it.
<Insert clever signature here>
Sounds like it would be fun for you, and be problematic for everyone else's immersion. Essentially, whenever your character has his 'visions' he's reminding everyone that they're playing a game and breaking their imagination.
It's impossible for you to be anything but the main character in a story where you're the only one who really has a grasp of reality.
I'm aware, this is primarily a joke.
Not a very good joke then, is it?
Seriously though I have difficulties seeing this working in anything but a rather silly one-shot. If that's the kind of game you're going to play, go for it. Other players could play fantasy clichés or other silly concepts. Like the super-ordinary person who just wants a normal life but keeps on being dragged into all sorts of crazy adventures and all of their friends and family keeps getting kidnapped, possessed or killed...
It's impossible to run a silly style D&D game and have people enjoy it? Yes, it's a joke. There are no DMs or players in the world with a sense of humor?
<Insert clever signature here>
Has anyone claimed that or are you just shouting in the wind?
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Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Deadpool is one of the few Marvel characters in history who is aware (or at least seems to be) that they are a comic book character. He regularly breaks the 4th-wall and actively engages in meta conversations with the audience. Of course, he also has at least two other people in his head that he has conversations with too. He’s certifiably insane. But he’s also a badass antihero Who also happens to be cursed by Thanos with immortality since he is jealous and hat they are both in love with Death, but she picked Deadpool as her love and Thanos was all butthurt about it. (So it’s kinda a situation of what can anyone do to stop him? The answer is “nothing.”)
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Geann was asking it as a rhetorical question. They weren’t making a statement.
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Isn't that just shouting in the wind, then? :P
I think if you didn't "meta" stuff all to hell, it could be a truly fun and interesting angle to RP from. Your character isn't sure if these are "gods" or simply other people, or what they are. He wouldn't ever get a CLEAR look at the sheets and such, to KNOW with certainty exactly what was happening, but would be getting, as you say, these odd visions, which would (for the players) all show he's seeing them at the table, playing D&D. If the group is a good one, and imaginative, it could be tons of fun. Anyone crapping on it and saying it would break or ruin the game lacks the imagination to pull it off and can be dismissed as jealous, IMO, as it's a stolen idea (as stated by others, Deadpool et al) applied to a TTRPG.
I'd run it by the table first, to make sure the DM and the rest of the group isn't too down on the idea, and be careful to not get TOO tied up in his/her awareness, as that could put a little damper on stuff, if they suddenly KNOW they are simply a fictional character. More that they see these humans at the table DO things, that SEEM to correlate with what the party is doing or has done.
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.
If you want to get really wild with this, go divination wizard for the Portent ability
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Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Not if you do it quietly on a still night. Then it’s just creepy.
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Pretty sure Geann was responding to Sanvael, just didn't quote the post.
I actually had a friend that was a monk in the game and he drank a joke potion made from pure gold and enlightened rat and instantly his wisdom and intelligence went into the millions.
Was instantly aware that he was just part of a game and the other characters were all like who are you talking to?
He responds the real you, the ones who created us, the true gods of this world!
Actually i'll send him a message and he can talk about it if he like's it was real funny lol.
when i drank the potion my strength and constitution went into the millions and I could one-shot anything and one-block anything but only one-shot if i rolled 2 20s in a row and went above half my total achievable damage. i also started weighing over 20000 pounds and couldn't ride anything or even sit down without causing a tremor. Which came in handy when there was an army.
I was literally all:
Hey DM! I jump into the air and pound the ground as i land with all my might.
DM: You create a 2km diameter hole in the ground that goes down to the core of the earth but also you sink into the ground about 1 km deep, you are two heavy to climb out on your own. Oh and the army has been erased from memory and existance
My friends 4th wall breaker character: Has a seizure from being able to hear the dialogue as he watches both the rolls of the dice, us talking, and the events we roleplay all at the same time.
Lucky I had teleport at the time lol.
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I've sent him a link to this thread now
"Know your enemy, know your self"
Click here to read my Homebrew thread!
"Veni, vidi, vici...
Status update:
I am going to be afk very frequently for a currently un predictable amount of time, for more information/details on this, check my homebrew thread which can be found easier by clicking the 'here' above ^^^
Also please don't be smart or sarcastic towards him or anything he's kinda clueless in those areas of social conversations.
"Know your enemy, know your self"
Click here to read my Homebrew thread!
"Veni, vidi, vici...
Status update:
I am going to be afk very frequently for a currently un predictable amount of time, for more information/details on this, check my homebrew thread which can be found easier by clicking the 'here' above ^^^