#d&d

[fischyplier]

New reaction gif just dropped

[greatwyrmgold]

Siphonophores are colonial organisms, which are as much like complex multicellular animals as they are groups of animals. Like, the zooids aren't just a bunch of free-floating worms that came together; they were born from the same egg and specialize in various essential functions.

Anyways, if the DM is hesitant on anemones, his concern isn't a strong opinion on where the line between "single organism" and "many organisms" should be drawn. (It shouldn't be drawn, but that's an argument for another day.) The DM is concerned about the lack of mobility.

Remember that abilities like Wild Shape are based on creature type, not taxonomy! Rocs are birds, but their creature type is Monstrosity, so you can't wild shape into them. It's a rules-based limitation, not a science-based one.

"What's the creature type of a coral," you ask? Same as a tree, or a corpse, or a table that someone is about to turn into an animated object: It doesn't have one! Corals are animals but not creatures, just like treants and golems and ghosts are creatures but not animals.

I'd probably let my players wild shape into a coral or an anemone if they had a fun idea, but the same is true of plants.

who let biologists play dnd

[e-johnsen]

It's been a wild ride. For the Bells Hells finale I immortalize THIS bullshit instead. Cerkonos is so much bigger than Scanlan I couldn't get the idea of a body builder riding a pony. Trying to hold his feet up so they don't drag on the ground. Anyway, thanks for all the wonderful stories critical role.

[vintagerpg]

LOL. So, I thought I had all the major anti-D&D religious tracts that floated around from the ‘70s through the ‘90s (with the exception of the original Pat Pulling pamphlet, which seems vanishingly rare), but then Ed Park showed me A Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons (1987). The subtitle is “The Catechism of the New Age,” which, I wish, and then on the back the hype copy is titled, “They want our children. They want our future.” Which may as well be the tag line for like, a Body Snatchers movie.

I have to say, if I saw this in ‘87, it might have made me nervous. While ultimately the authors seem somewhat exhausted, there is some rigor in the argument here, ten years or so into the panic, that is perhaps a little troubling. They seem aware of RPGs beyond D&D, for one, and have a working knowledge of how to play, a major flaw in most other tracts of this kind. They also lack the shrill panic of Pulling. But for all their attempts to better package their concern, before long they eventually claim that D&D in a primer for occult practice, which is a deeply stupid thing to say.

I find this stuff fascinating because it displays such a profound lack of imagination. By design — the authors actually argue that the imagination encouraged by RPGs puts us in the roles of those who would rebel against God. “Since Descartes, modern man has retreated from the bright light of God’s creation into the dark world of his own mind and imagination,” they say.

I hope it drives them nuts at how completely they lost the argument.

[chaoticcomposition]

hey my girlfriend saw you from across the bar and we hate your vibe. she's gonna beat the shit out of you

[sidechumster]

The Way of the Drunken Fist

Monk Subclass

Matt McCreary

[mindboogling]

I love making a gag character for D&D, forgetting they’re just a gag character, and then take a step back to look at the original ref

[probablybadrpgideas]

The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters

[fanonical]

spin this wheel to get a random d&d class. you are instantly transported into the d&d world and have to live as that class

[official-dnd-posts]

official dnd post

I got my tetanus shot we can play polearms again

[bramblepatch]

It's very funny to me that the stereotypical gelatinous cube is bright fucking green when the monster itself is almost perfectly transparent. Like its gimmick is that it's a monster that imitates an empty 10x10 hallway. How many people have fallen victim to gelatinous cubes because they "know" that the ooze is bright green and so don't bother to check the suspiciously clean corridor in front of them.

[ihaveatypeanditstrickstergods]

One of my favorite D&D gags that I ever came up with is part of a oneshot I've run a few times where the party is hired by a young wizard to help clear out a few active security measures in a tower that the wizard inherited from her old teacher.

The first obstacle to be cleared is the re-animated skeletons that the old wizard was using for gardening help. It's a pretty straightforward fight, but during the encounter, players may notice one particular raised bed of herbs that is set back in a corner of the garden by itself.

Upon further investigation, this one raised bed is absolutely shining with magical protections. There are runes carved into the wood of the bed, gemstones inlaid in the top of it, this bed is absolutely protected out the ass... and an arcana check shows that the protections are all pointed inward, attempting to keep what's in there from getting out.

What's growing in that raised bed, you may ask? What is so dangerous that the old wizard felt the need to place all these protections?

Mint.

[official-dnd-posts]

official dnd post

[shows up at your door at 2AM] hey can we go through that last D&D session scene by scene and discuss the symbolism and the narrative themes and their implications, and how each character has grown and evolved? But in a normal way?

[shutinthenutouse]

[just-dnd-thingys]