#dm academy

[itsallreallythere]

I cried when Aabria first graced the dome behind the DM screen. I cried and then I got serious studying a master. I've stolen so much from this bitch she needs to come after me for grand larceny. Every game I run I think about her hitting the fucking timing of a school bell to get people moving to the next scene and I know that's like, only a little thing but that moment was skill, and I made a note.

i don’t think you understand

we have had aabria autumn on d20 since 2020, when she stole the show as myrtle in pirates of leviathan. you could feel her inhabiting that mermaid over a zoom screen. felt like i was watching a mermaid roll around in a life-size martini glass full of vodka with my own eyes.

then she changed the game with mismag in 2021, bringing kids on brooms, personalized props, lighting effects, and projections to the dome, after which she held it down as antiope jones. the reluctant leader, the late bloomer who is not late but merely arriving in her own time.

in 2022 she came back with kisses, with regency, with good society, with flowers and tokens and projections and a willingness to follow up on consequences that never stopped moving. wuvvy my beloved. kill me with the devotion of a life lived in service to the one you love why don’t you.

in 2023 she was the spiciest assassin. fit for the genre in fits for the genre. replacing skalds like she was born to do it. and then burrow’s end. a genre exploration with a splash of the violence of dnd and the tragicomedy of family. beautiful sets, incredible audiovisual effects, and horror both visceral and cosmic.

in 2024? she’s back with wizards baby. she’s taking a 4 episode jaunt of americans becoming wizards in britain and making an adventure of eleven episodes. planets move, the dm screen talks, and the wind is on the rise.

aabria adds such a fun, artistic, genre-bending, cinematic flavor to her time in the dome; it’s no wonder that the Q4 mid-length season is hers.

[hiscursedness]

So I found this on reddit and I think there's an interesting nexus of rules here that many newer DMs might not appreciate, so I'm gonna give some advice on how to handle it.

First of all, if you're ambushing party members or if your party members are setting an ambush, attacking mid-conversation, or whatever, you roll initiative. It's the first thing you roll.

That determines if some people spot you before you strike or are just faster to the draw.

Now, the players might be Surprised, but they might not be either. With the Alert feat, as mentioned here, a PC who beats the ambusher on initiative can take the dodge action (or any other action) on their turn, because they're not Surprised.

Even if they are surprised, they cease to be at the end of their first turn, meaning they can now suddenly take reactions where they couldn't before.

In an ambush, this is critical, because Monks can use their reaction to catch projectiles.

So that's step one. No attacks until initiative is rolled. That applies to the players and to the monsters. Rest of it, I'll put under the fold, but that's the most important thing.

Second, Dodge is not an action you can take outside of combat, RAW. You might situationally approve it as a DM, but players do not have the *right* to demand they can.

The Actions in Combat section is just that - the things you can do once initiative is rolled. This is because they're balanced by the time they take. Outside of initiative, that isn't a factor.

Side note: This also applies to the Help action. Helping with a check and Taking The Help Action are two different things.

Your pet dog who can take the Help action cannot automatically grant you advantage on a history check to decipher ancient runes. All they can do is distract a foe to make it easier for you to land a shot.

Thirdly, there is actually a rule for if you want to move through a dungeon carefully! There are three travel paces (and they apply in dungeons too). Choose the Slow pace, move Stealthily to avoid ambush, and lastly, have a good Passive Perception.

If an ambusher rolls stealth and gets lower than the Passive Perception of any of your players, they fail to hide. It's important to do that bit by the book or you're robbing players of their wins!

And if an ambusher fails to hide, they no longer get the benefit of surprise. This means when initiative is rolled (see point 1) an alert character might win and get to take their dodge action.

[hemiltonlajos]

dorianepin: It’s time to go home haha 🙈 Thanks for the support everyone!🫶🏼

[fuzzyhairedfreak]

um uh uh um. so. did anyone else used to follow Nate Stevenson's D&D campaign drawings back in the day or-

[aphrocheesiac]

I don't know a damn thing about you but that's not true. This text post was better written than some games I've played in, not even kidding.

I want desperately to be a DM, but I don't know if I am smart enough.

[batneko]

when you pass out at work from low blood sugar and wake up with a PTSD dream and your bear coworker is weirdly chill about it???

I'm still enjoying the school AU lol

[umbrellaupdates]

i kind of want to make playlists for each of the brellies specific to what their karaoke songs would be, but I also don't want to make it in a vacuum / I would love others to submit their ideas/songs. So this is me checking if others would be interested?

[oatmealdiva]

me taking notes while watching dimension 20 / adventuring academy on how to run a dnd game

[leelarots]

canon deca alignment chart

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

When you are so obsessed with a fucking show and have so many feels about it and could write pages upon pages of analysis but the fandom is dead since the last season dropped because the finale was so terrible-

[abyssmalice]

(tumbloo literally kicked me out while i trying to do 100line encouragement posting on here. it Knew)

[tai-updates]

New instagram icon as of 17/12

[viktor-leagueoflegends]

Viktor / "Cyrus" sprites from Summoner Sweetheart, a fanmade League dating sim

[blueberry-juliana]

🫐 [ Okayyyyy let’s get this started!! :3

Hi! Im cerulean! But you can also just call me Juliana!! I’m a pokemon scarvio fictive, with a large attachment to the Blueberry academy dlc (but I still have all game and other dlc memories of course!!)

But yeah!! I’ll be doing some stuff when I get the chance so requests are open currently at any time!!

Though I may take a while!! I have chronic pain and fatigue so please be patient:) also I do any fandom I know about! Not just pkmn!

[ON HIATUS!]

Here’s a list of what I can do!:

Mood boards [closed]

Pfp’s [closed]

Headers [closed]

Just general chat!

Stimboards!! [closed]

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Blacklisted fandoms: not many!! Just hazbin hotel and helluva boss due to past experiences [sorry :((] and regretavator

Whitelisted fandoms: some fandoms I will do requests for quicker since I have an interest in them are!! Undertale, deltarune, pokemon (well duh..), Minecraft, animal crossing and httyd

Okay bye!! Nice to be here!!

[agoodgirlhasnoname]

Confession: I have a huge fetish for big men in uniform and cannot control it 😵‍💫

Pretty please spam my inbox if this is you with your pics in uniform so I can tell and show you how appreciative I am of your service 🤤

[expensivemistake]

If you’re expecting me to make umbrella academy content again after that season uuuuuh…