#critical success

[dawnbringerjevella]

Nobody:

Astarion:

[dungeons-and-dictions]

My fave phrase as a DM

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[shiroikabocha]

UPD8 on the HOMESTUCK WEDDING: we did it man. we made it hapen.

Details and pictures under the cut!

Everyone had a fucking BLAST! I didn't think it was possible to throw a party that would provide Fun Times for all our loved ones, from all their varied walks of life, but we DID, and it ROCKED! I rode that high for weeks. I felt like I had every positive party moodlet from the Sims active at once.

We rented out a science museum for the event, which was fucking RAD, since we got to have our ceremony in front of an actual dinosaur skeleton, which most wedding venues don't provide:

(these images are intentionally small and crappy. Both because smaller files load more quickly, and because no, I don't need to post high-res photos of all my friends faces online)

Despite being known On Here as The Homestuck Wedding, most guests who attended would probably refer to it as The Klingon Wedding. My one and only wedding wish was to marry my partner in a traditional Klingon ceremony, and my perfect, wonderful, amazing wife was willing to indulge me in this.

The role of officiant, aka Master of Screams, traditionally performed by the mother of the groom or the matron of the groom's house, went to our dear friend D who knocked it out of the park.

On the one hand, it's very silly to reenact the Klingon creation myth at the altar with your spouse, whacking each other with pool noodles (because the museum didn't let us bring in real batleths). On the other hand, I genuinely, truly love the Klingon wedding ritual. It emphasizes that marriage isn't only about love, it's about commitment and allegiance. It's about vowing to be on one anothers' team, to have each others' backs when times are hard, for as long as you both shall live. The combat's just a fun bonus.

When we said our vows and kissed, our officiant announced that we were married, and invited our friends and family to attack us with their pool noodles as the DJ started playing the song for our first dance. The battle was glorious.

And my dad gave a speech that made everyone cry, and then my wife's sister gave a speech that made everyone laugh, and my new mother-in-law hugged us both and told us she loved us, and there was dancing and great food and also a ton of cool exhibits on North Carolina wildlife and prehistory (I mean, those are always there, but they are still very cool), and it was a great wedding.

Also, my florist is a god. 12+ unique centerpieces, all based on characters she doesn't know from a comic she hasn't read, all with different flowers and shapes and containers and-- dude just look at them, okay? They're amazing. I can't believe how awesome they came out. (this isn't quite all of them, unfortunately-- I thought I got pics of them all but I could only find these nine. Can you tell which ones were based on which characters?)

It was so much fun, and then we got to go on our honeymoon in Amsterdam and THAT was so much fun, and now I get to be married to WIFE!! for the rest of our lives! and THAT is going to be so much fun!!!

My sincerest wish for everyone reading this is that you, too, get to have a party some day that is filled with all your favorite people and all your favorite activities, whether it's a wedding or not, and that it goes so well you can't believe how much fun you're having.

p.s. the flower arrangements are, in order: Kanaya, Gamzee, Sollux, Tavros, Eridan, Terezi, Equius, Vriska, Feferi.

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[verdantvulpus]

D&D Mosaic Triptych 

So back before Hasbro and Wizards shoved their entire leg in their mouths I made these mosaics for my husband’s Xmas gift. I’ve hesitated to post them because a lot of people have justifiably soured on D&D, but I worked really hard on them and I’m proud of the work I did despite the recent bout of D&D related jackassery.

[risendella]

Yes!

But....

[kensatou]

i'll let phie-san say it:

[i-roll-d20s]

Intimidate: +15

You rolled a 35! CRITICAL SUCCESS!

Shaking you until your bones rattle dazzle razzle battle the cattle yippie

RRRRRAAAAAAA

CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE SNAIL ATTACK CONE

[dungeons-and-dictions]

Player rolls a natural 1

Player then rolls a natural 20

[recordsoftherealms]

We had quite the collection of crit rolls tonight!

[trashydm]

This roll was so clutch! This is TWELVE successes! That is just insane. I have never rolled so well in my life and will never roll so well again.

[agwitow]

A way to side-step some of the auto fail/succeed issues is to have to have them confirm the critical fail/success. Similar to how weapon crits work.

It makes it significantly less likely to have an actual critical fail/success that way.

For myself (as a forever 3.5 DM), I like to twist the original intention of the check on fails. And give temporary perks on successes.

For example, failing a diplomacy check might result in hitting someone instead of a friendly clap on the back. But a success could mean you get a bonus toward a friend of the NPC you just smooth talked.

Saves are a little less open-ended. I generally give temporary resistance or a bonus toward the next save of a similar type on critical success. And the DMG already has rules about critical fails for saves.

But, anyway... it's a bit of just how you mentally approach the concept of fails and successes, and then a lot of practice.

Some of y’all’s games sound like they go like this:

DM: a strange glowing rune floats in the air

Wizard: i roll arcana to see if it’s magical *natural 1*

DM: the mystical glowing rune floating in the air appears perfectly natural and mundane

[strangesmallbard]

god and how FUCKED is it that the succession ultimately hinged on shiv’s choice, but it was actually no choice at all. your brother (empty husk groomed for power his whole life) or your husband (empty husk who craved power his whole life). for five minutes she had the most power in the room, but it was actually nothing.

[siohbhanroy]

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