#dnd homegame

[animatrobin]

The City of Alrez (formally Berez ruins), our home base and personal project as a party throughout the years we played Curse of Strahd. Here's to the next Chapter ❤❤

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Thank you to the Party and to @saintastaeroth for DMing

[justicekylar]

Its a lot of fun recording a game to have the audience figure out soemthing that the players don't

Make me feel like I properly seeded that idea

[idkwhatiamdoingever]

honestly nothing improves art faster than a dnd campaign youre obsessed with

[psychhound]

d&d 5e languages and gender

i know this is already a very nerdy blog but please indulge me a moment,,

for my homegame i've been fleshing out how different languages in the game deal with gender / pronouns based on their cultures (some of them are canon languages but some are for our setting) and it made the little nerd in me very happy so i wanted to make some headcanons for the rest of the dnd languages and share it for anyone who'd like to steal / take inspo

feel absolutely free to use these in homegames but if you use for anything streamed or for your own ttrpg/homebrew/fics then crediting/linking back is appreciated :o)

disclaimer: this blog is run by a genderqueer trans man and any queerphobic interaction will immediately be blocked

common

common started off with the standard he, she, & they pronouns but simply Loves a good loanword and so its not uncommon to hear people using pronouns from other languages in otherwise entirely common dialogue. there is some Fighting about whether this is appropriative based on the individuals culture or whether its unfair to people who only speak common to keep up with them all

dwarvish

not too much variety in what most people would consider pronouns, it tends to be more one singular neutral pronoun for someone you don't know / don't know well, and then variations that are more like honorifics than anything else. their pronoun might translate more readily to "skilled with a hammer" than anything regarding a gender

elvish

lots of pronoun options that explore different presentations of gender but they are also age/experience locked. a feminine male elf would use different pronouns as a child, teen, young adult, young adult with job, middle age, middle aged with children, etc. using pronouns from a different life experience bracket from you is incredibly frowned upon and people just dont do it

giant

there is one pronoun for giants & kin and one pronoun for not giants and the one for not giants is not derogatory at all, its just used to differentiate who is part of the family or not (individuals adopted by giants tend to use the giant pronoun)

gnomish

LOTS of variation in pronouns. gnomes love inventing new pronouns. there are general grammatical rules that they follow to Signify that its a pronoun but hearing three new pronouns a day is like. not uncommon. lots of gnomish teens go through a phase of making up at least four new pronouns they want to go by. uncommon to only go by one set. typically introduced along with your name

(more under the cut)

goblin

no gendered pronouns, all pronouns are instead structured around relations between individuals. so one person would use brother pronoun with one person, son pronoun with another, best friend pronoun to another. the family pronouns are not locked to actual family, just what the relationship is like. if you don't know someone well, its "cousin", "niece/nephew", "auntie/uncle", or "grandparent" depending on their age

halfling

pronouns are split between public and private use. in general in the community or with outsiders, there's a single pronoun that translates loosely to "friend". actual individual pronouns are only known to and used with close friends and family. there's a small handful of them and only some of them have gendered connotations

orc

there are only four categories of pronouns: masculine, feminine, both/mixed, and neither. but there's a decent amount of variations because there are varying levels of formality for each of them. there are ways to conjugate them so they're more formal and respectful, but also lots of diminutives to make them more affectionate and closely-bonded

abyssal

no use of pronouns. lots of very specific derogatory terms that are used in place of them. i shant elaborate.

celestial

lots of variations in pronouns. they are not very closely tied to gender, but are tied to very specific aesthetics. instead of having individual pronoun words, in celestial you just use root words. so one person might use the root word for things that are soft and gentle and natural for their pronoun, while another person might use the root word for things associated with dark and murky and mysterious things for theirs. tend to be tied to domains

draconic

no use of pronouns, only names and titles. if you happen to share a name with another individual who speaks draconic, you would need a unique title to go after it. the full name and full title is said at every reference of someone

deep speech

deep speech has pronouns probably but hearing them for any individual you dont share a close identity group with makes you violently nauseous and then the word immediately leaves your mind so it's just really hard to learn them

infernal

there are words for "you", "me", "us", "we", "this one", "that one", "those ones" etc but no classic pronouns as far as individual usage goes. if someone really needs to be specific they would use whatever pronoun that individual uses in their native language. tieflings have introduced a Lot of neopronouns into infernal but theyre all borrowed from other languages and then reworked into infernal grammar and tend to be localized to communities

primordial

individuals are referred to their elemental type (or "none") rather than pronouns tied to gender. so it would be more like "the windy one" or "the rocky one" than anything like he or she

sylvan

no standard gendered pronouns, it's entirely nounself. so basically infinite amount of pronouns that are easily understood by anyone familiar with that noun. so you would have things like pebble pronoun, teapot pronoun, sword pronoun, with some general affiliations with presentation but less so with gender

undercommon

pronouns are based on level of respect and not gender, but there are also pronouns specifically used for children. like craftsmen would typically all use the same pronoun unless one was incredibly successful and respected, or had a very bad reputation, etc. there are pronouns used only for royalty and pronouns used only for deities

speak with animals

when translated into common, tends to just be translated as the animal's bio sex, but it can go a little screwy when speaking about creatures who have biological sexes so outside the humanoid concept of sex and gender that even magic dont fuckin know how to translate it. kind of just makes a weird bubbly noise in its place

if you read this far thank you thank you and if you end up using these in your campaign lore or fics i would love to know :o)

[roookery]

I recommend everyone record their dnd homegames just so you can listen to your friends argue about crossing a river for a good chunk of the session the next day

[creacherkeeper]

fave song at the moment?

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

fave song at the moment?

honestly i have been fuckin jammin to texas hold em by beyonce lmaooo. fixing me while i work on finals

what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are?

in chronological order:

shawn spencer from psych. uh. oops

this is gonna sound silly especially to people who are newer to my blog but i wrote a fairly extensive au for an old fandom where four of the main characters were children who get adopted by one of the older characters and it started from an anonymous ask and eventually evolved into a full au with like a lot of installments and tens of thousands of words and writing it is what made me realize i wanted to be a dad and adopt kids and now thats a fairly central part of my future plans. weird that an anonymous ask with an au prompt can change your life like that but

the library of lensa dnd homegame run by @masculinepeacock. the most important people in my life were strangers who i met through that game and i am now 2 years sober and in a masters program learning game studies because of it

[asamis-jodhpurs]

WIP File Game

Tagged by @aesadraws

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet (or sketch, if for artwork) or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Okay so this is kind of a challenge because I don't actually have a folder I keep WIPs in, I just kind of toss them into different folders by fandom but I'm gonna go through and scour! Most of these are partly on AO3 already so there's not a ton to ask about but:

BWtR Act Four

Jaded Fang

Calamity Kids

Remembrance and Robberies

Option where if you pick it I'll spin a wheel and pick at random one of my unfinished DnD homegame fics because for full transparency that is all I wrote for like two years and so there are a BUNCH

Okay that makes five options sooooo @stellarfatalism @newty @terra-bunny @liltypoman @dnainers

[wyrmtooth]

Homegame dnd posting bc I’m a bit in shock tbh that Orlo actually ended up dead in the big fight against his evil mom. She really said “I’m gonna kill you and use your bones to kill the moon” and WENT for it

Amarys successfully Disintegrated her right after though, so revenge was quick

[tshuuls]

DnD hivemind i need your help finding a video. can anyone please find the video of a homegame where that big as BBEG get revealed. it’s a massive black creature with light coming from it’s mouth, everyone freaks out and the polayers are like “we’re not ready” and it’s utterly amazing

[wall-eye]

first off! thank you! i love character design so much, and i had some doubts about it being too much but im glad it all works together well <3

second off

you have activated my trap card /j!

Fawn and Wager are from our dnd game! It is a homegame, aka not streamed or directly shared anywhere, but we do post about it under #crows nest crew and #crow's nest crew. Fawn is a player character, the pinkest satyr rogue (/freshly sorcerer multiclass), and Wager is her non player character boyfriend (now fiance)! He is a fox folk. They are both from the feywild! Some art ive done of them:

fawn is played by @yarn-dragon and our dm is @theccrowsnest!

so, if i explain out what the fawn wager situation is here, this post will be a mile long so ill just link the other mile long post i have already made along with the two others where i explained more.

the tldr tho: They got together, wager was forcibly taken away, we went to get him back, we found him, he was forced to propose by an archfey antagonist and was forced to kill her during it. We brought her back, but the angst and heart break. is so much.

She doesnt hate him, but he thinks she should and is terribly sad about this. We are going to kill the archfey who is behind this next session, both for this and also because shes one of our newest party member's extremely controlling abusive mom <3

i was in the feels about the fawn wager situation and decided to remind myself of their happy ending and heather let me design a fawn/wager kid! This is Cassidy Danger Joey, one of their 8 kids that they will have.

[tokenmenagerie]

⚒️Dungeoneer's, 📍Explorer's,✒️ Scholar's, 👣Burglar's DND postcard visual aids heading your way. Thanks, Daniel!! 😁

[swarmkeepers]

god I love when ppl post primers about their home games. yes I am reading ur posts yes I am taking notes yes I am opening this handy little pocket reference guide to better yell along with you when something bonkers happens please tell me more

[ashmcgivern]

Tiefling cousins! Makera and Zeal.

[fel-fisk]

So would it be okay if I use the art of the changing rouge as art for my dnd character

thank you for asking, but that one's a commissioned piece of someone else's character, so i can't really give any permission to use it that way ^^; sorry

(you could check with the person who commissioned the piece, @/mangaqueensora on twitter, but yea)

[punishandenslavesuckers]

“If you were working on a scheme that took decades to complete and a small slip of a tiefling snatched victory from your grasp, turned your allies against you, and ruined everything you were working for... how impatient would you be to kill them?”

“... I hadn’t considered it in that context exactly... but that sounds pretty annoying. Yeah.”

“You have a talent for such annoyances.”

In which my Knowledge Cleric, Rime, makes an alliance of convenience with a cursed acid dragon to help her kill her Black Dragon dad. She points out that I might be under-selling how hard I fucked him over in my last character arc. Art by @coolcootyart

[fooxart]

I have an unhealthy amount of stupid DnD sketches from our party.