#I even started a new campaign

[corvidlvr51]

My Astarion obsession is back noooooooo fuuuck meeeee

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[saltedcaramelchaos]

so bizly’s new character totally made a deal with the devil to get music powers right?

I haven’t listened to the mystery oneshot yet, but-

It’s called Judgement

The backstory has vaguely biblical themes

The character is a country dude who “perhaps wasn’t always so talented”

Mans totally pulled a reverse Devil Went Down To Georgia

[blujayonthewing]

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

[yakam0z]

𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐒𝐎 𝐅𝐀𝐑 𝐏𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃, 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄 . do you know the taste of sorrow ?

[pharawee]

So many shows, so many gifs to make and so little time

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i know that when carlo suddenly decided that he needs to marry guy made a whole list in his head n like had a deadlines n shit. like it was some kind of a task he needed to do

[sharkaroni]

hmmm i was planning to update plum calendar on monday but i guess that's when ao3 will be down. so looks like it'll be either late monday night or tuesday. sorry i know the wait's a little longer than usual. but you're gonna flip your lids i guarantee it

[michameinmicha]

I love my fwiends😭💙💗🤍💗💙

[ardentkurashk]

[humblegoatart]

daily sketch 2/8/24

bugbear paladin ideas…

[varjopeura]

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[savageboar]

tbh replaying pmdgti makes me curious if any good pmd rom hacks are out there

[satvrniia]

hey y'all- i am succumbing to the madness !! ( <- has a new dnd character it's so excited about that he is vibrating so hard air clipping through nearby surfaces )

[blujayonthewing]

[gritting my teeth clenching my fists] it's SO FRUSTRATING because felix was lowkey designed to end up in Situations and be trembling and covered in blood all the time but I don't even get to enjoy 'heehoo my little guy's in dire straights in this fight oh noooo' because the stupid encounters are so wildly badly balanced that everyone is dying very fast and I'm too busy stressing out in real life as a player that we're about to get completely pointlessly TPK'd in session three