#dnd storytime

[dingodoodles]

It's coming this week :3 ✨

[thatonenewdungeonmaster]

It's my birthday!!!

Share your best and worst dnd moments! The ones that made you laugh, you cry. Even the unimaginable horrors you've beheld at the table. I want it all! I love reading about other's ttrpg adventures, so go buck-wild and share!

[ashes-to-asher]

Storytime, I guess? X'D

So, I'm a DM for a homebrew campaign (Othiat) with 3 players (@everdreamart, @traumallamarama, and @blazingjuniper). We live very far away from each other (the closest player to me is over 400 miles away), so we play via Discord. Whenever a map is needed, I've always turned to Owlbear Rodeo.

Last session, I ran the biggest encounter I have ever run.

The party had to stopped to spend the night at an inn in a small town they'd passed through before. They noticed that something was off; flies were buzzing around even though it was winter, there was a general smell of decay in the air, the townsfolk mentioned that the well had turned foul, etc., etc. The players knew something was up, but I don't think they realized just how bad it was gonna get.

Long story short, that little town was about to be at the center of a demonic invasion.

The PCs were woken in the middle of the night to screams and a poisonous green fog flooding the streets (and their room). They rushed outside, not having had time to put their armor on (so AC was low af). They almost immediately got attacked by a Bulezau, barely dodging out of the way in time.

That's when the map came out.

It's an absolutely monstrous thing: probably 50x100 grids, with each grid representing 15x15 feet. The entire town was on this thing, and the party had free reign to hide, fight, or just run and leave it all behind. Problem is, that green fog made it so they can't see jack.

Owlbear Rodeo had a huge update relatively recently, and now there's a bunch of new extensions and features. One of those extensions is called Smoke and Spectre (by Battle-System and Armindo Flores). I've always been a fan of using fog to hide things on maps, but Smoke and Spectre took things a step further. Each PC had their own independent radius of visibility, and I set it so that everyone could only see out to a radius of 30 feet. I also gave them a few visible points on the map, representing locations they knew of, but the vast majority of the map was empty nothingness to them.

I had been worried that the lack of visibility would turn out to be too frustrating for the players to enjoy the encounter, but it actually worked out well. Everyone was forced to slow down and plan out their moves carefully; the town as swarming with demons, and getting too close to one would prompt an attack. Everyone was going one grid at a time, anxious and terrified (in a good way!) of things lurking just out of sight. Movement also became an issue in general, since one of the PCs (a tabaxi monk) is a lot faster than the others, and another PC (a fairy druid) could fly over certain obstacles.

The party actually got split up in the chaos, leading to them desperately trying to coordinate when they couldn't see each other or even their own surroundings.

They eventually individually made their ways (makin' their way) to the town center, where the invasion had begun. There, they encountered a Wastrilith in the well, which was way too high level for them to actually take down. Knowing that there were still survivors in hiding, though, the level 6 party was determined to end the threat.

See, this wasn't necessarily meant to be a combat encounter; it was meant to be a survival encounter. The demonic invasion has ties to the larger plot, and is supposed to serve as set-up/lead-in to certain things the players are still only vaguely aware of (things I will not be spoiling via tumblr). I expected the players to engage in combat here and there, and they did had combat with some of the lower CR demons around the town, but the overall point was to set up plot and give the players a unique encounter.

They almost had a TPK with the Wastrilith? ^^;

The thing downed two of them, but the druid had just enough spell slots to keep the others from dying. The party was doing decent damage, but there was no way they could survive more than two or three rounds of this thing's damage output. Finally, low on HP and spell slots, the satyr bard pulled a clutch Dissonant Whispers. Wastriliths have great Strength and Constitution, but their Wisdom isn't all that impressive.; it failed the saving throw and was forced to flee, giving the party a chance to escape its radius.

A whole lot more happened (little Opportune Moment has a rough night ahead of him, courtesy of a Tlacatecolo), and the encounter isn't technically over (next session, the party is going after the Sibriex that started it all), but holy crap was it a good session! X'D

My laptop almost caught fire trying to process the map and all the tokens on it, but this was a planed event I'd been excitedly dreading for so long, and it worked!

The limited visibility is what really sold it. Fog effects only go so far, and this encounter would not have worked if the players had been able to see their surroundings. The fear and anxiety about the creatures lurking in the dark heightened the experience for all of us, myself included; I got to play around with the visibility of the demons, figuring out how much they could see and hear.

Next session will be a bit more straightforward, but you can bet I'm gonna use Smoke and Spectre again; in fact, I already have a few ideas... >:3

[rojaceartandgaming]

Well there's a 50/50 shot that my DnD character, Xardos the tiefling rogue/warlock, may die next session!

Basically so a cult-ish part of the Arcane Brotherhood tried to do this thing to revive a lich, Valindra Shadowmantle, and sacrificed Xardos' family but he escaped, and he's been running for years. Apparently they need to sacrifice him to bring back the lich. Next session we engage the cult in combat. Either Xardos here survives and gets some closure... or dies and there's a new big bad.

I'm scared.

This is like my actual first PC

Heavens save me

[jasminesgardens]

The Awards

Conclusion

Last year my best friend and I came together to cheer up our bed-ridden friend by throwing our own Oscar-esc ‘DnD Awards’, celebrating the last year of our campaigns and the adventures we had along the way. We did research into Oscar Categories, we cast votes and heavily debated who should win and finally, we presented over Skype and gave GIFs as trophies. Here’s the categories for your own.

The Categories:

Best Pinterest Board: Choose based for the aesthetic, the memes or the pure organisation of it all.

Best Spotify Playlist: Choose based on the energy it emits, the song choice or the pure chaos of it all.

Best Written Song: Did someone write an original song for a campaign? This is the category to show you see and appreciate their hard work because it is hard work. Trust me.

Dream Daddy Award: Who screams Daddy Energy the most?

Sorry Mummy Award: Who screams Mummy Energy the most?

Most Unpredictable Player: Which player kept you on your toes?

Best Slam Down: Which clap back had you thinking on it for weeks?

Best Way To Kill a Man: As it says in the name, best way a character has slain an enemy. 

Worst Way To Kill a Man: And the opposite, worst way a character has slain an enemy, or perhaps in their attempt to.  

Somehow Still Breathing: Which character is it a miracle that they are still alive in your campaign?

The Voice Actor: Who brings characters to life with just their voice?

Inspirational Speaker: Which character inspired you with their battle call or monologue?

Miracle Worker: Which character is performing miracles left, right and centre?

Chaos Cooker: Which character is creating chaos left, right and centre? 

Critical Failure: Which player rolled low consistently or rolled low when it counted?

Natural Twenty Out of Ten: Which player rolled high consistently or rolled high when it was needed? 

Most “I’m So Glad We Play DnD” Moment: Choose based on the energy of the table, what it meant to you or something you’re proud of.  

Most Cinematic Moment: Choose based on the visuals, what it meant to you or something that truly came to life in the moment.

Most Cartoon Moment: Choose based on the laughs, how you wish it could be animated or a moment so unbelievable but true.

Best NPC: Based on your own preference, who stood out?

Best Villain: What makes a great villain for you? Then reward them for it.

Best NPC Party Member: What makes a great ally for you? Then reward them for it.

Best Session: Choose based on the energy of the table, the story that was told that day or what it meant to you. 

Best Chapter/One-Shot/Campaign: I personally separate my campaigns into mini-chapters and we felt the award was more suited towards a chapter than an entire campaign, as each campaign means something different to everyone, but you are free to change that as you need. Choose based on the story told, the adventure you got to go on together or what it meant to you.

Conclusion:

Hoping everyone has had a wonderful year in their personal lives and through their characters, feel free to tell me which award you’d give and why and thank you so much for reading, my name is PrincessJasmineFliesAway on everything else and my credentials in DMing can be described as Wizarding World 2.0, Shifting into the Star Wars Sequels and Barbie Mermaida the Campaign. Goodbye.

[queenofthewolves99]

I sow the seeds of discord and will watch you all fight over the apple

[godofthestupid]

I play DnD with some friends of mine and it's really fun!

And you know what? I'm gonna tell you random bits from the sessions:

Me and a friend of mine play twins, those twins are based on a dice which fell down and the picture we google afterwards(it was a picture of a dino in military gear,we play wood elfs now)

the Paladin and the tiefling have a beautiful Bromance

They're are also dying most of the time

I don't know if my character is like me or I am slowly turning into my character

My character is a rogue who, upon the very first meeting, stole from the Paladin(who's supposed to be rich) which resulted in the player being angry and the character not realising anything

I stole 100 gold in the first hour of the first session~

We have a drug dealer Druid who is just a hobo with magic mushrooms

I tried to start a prank war just because, it almost failed terribly

The sanest person in the party is the druid, but also one of the shady ones

we have formed two main groups:the shady ones,the bros with an alcoholic

We skipped an entire chase scene because me and my twin killed the person we were chasing

I multiclass as a bard now, not because my character always wanted to play an instrument or be entertaining, but because we needed to identify a stone

My character may not be as chaotic neutral as they should be

the twins are non-binary because we both didn't want to play as one or the other gender so we settle for the middle

Tiefling intimidated a horse into talking

I, irl, wrote the beginning of a ballad about the campaign and have dragged some actual musician friends I know into working with me to make it a song which I can just send to the others

that song made me cringe so hard at my own voice I jumped higher than I thought I even could

I, in fact, am bad at music and sing like a hoarse crow

My character found a magical stone(stone of golorr) and tried badly to pretend like they found it on the street and not stole it

We own a tavern and I got sent to the kitchen because I might steal from our clients

the alcoholic is also the bar tender

she drinks the alcohol away

my intuition regarding story bits is always in the right place,but it's like rolling a nat1 in what it actually means

My character changed guilds like three different times,it flip flopped between the bad guys we are supposed to fight and some shady spies

Every single character has their own design, except for the tiefling who has yet to describe himself,so I just draw him as a stickfigure until he does

[wispynador]

I recently played in a one-shot dnd game as a changeling rogue(soul knife). My character concept was “noir private detective”, which was awesome for the session because the plot hook got our party involved in the search for Morgan in a 1920s Chicago setting. Morgan being one of the characters populating the inter-dimensional summer camp our characters live at between adventures.

Being as our characters weren’t from the real-world-analog sphere where our investigation takes place, they didn’t know much about it. However, since our characters are all involved in adventures featuring a lot of travel between planes of existence and spheres of wildspace, they’d been around enough to arcana/history check a rudimentary understanding of most things.

My character in particular managed to recall that the United Kingdom exists, and that it’s got a queen. Also, during the course of our party’s investigation to find Morgan, we encountered Scientologists (I know that’s anachronistic for a 1920s setting, but who cares it’s a fantasy game). They talked to us about their alien deific figure called Xeno, and we all awkwardly walked away from the conversation ASAP.

Our party eventually tracked down Morgan after learning that their father was on his deathbed and that Morgan hadn’t been seen by their family in over 15 years. There was a touching scene in which we reunited Morgan with their family before taking them back to our inter-dimensional summer camp. During this, we managed to convince Morgan’s family that the reason they disappeared suddenly all those years ago, and had to leave again presently, is due to Morgan being placed in witness protection after seeing something crime related happen.

Morgan’s family understandably made the assumption that our party members were government agents working to protect Morgan. As the party left Morgan’s family in the father’s hospital room, my character paused to ask the family to say nothing about Morgan being in witness protection or stopping by to visit. The family nodded their heads and promised discretion.

The final gesture of goodbye my character made was a British military solute and a straight faced “Xenu save the queen” before turning around and leaving.

[symboslug]

Story update: I was talking about this lone wolf edgelord to my DM and another friend that is also in the party and they're all mad at him 💀 He's one session away from being kicked out and lowkey... I want him to be kicked out 😭 he doesn't even want to plan next sessions and he acts like the main character

DnD pet peeve

I'm so annoyed everytime you start a campaign and one of the pcs just doesn't cooperate and acts like a lone wolf or just acts like a dick.

I know, I know, they act like that bcs of their backstory but ughhhh 🙄🙄🙄 I'm a hater.

Booo lame, you're not an antihero protagonist of this story, we're all just as important as u dumbass!!!! >:(

[voidofteeth]

Me: After 2 campaigns of accidental relationships I shall play this character as romo averse + non partnering

Also me: ....it would be really funny if she fell in love with this NPC (for intra player chaos reasons)

[dingodoodles]

We finally made it. LETS GOOOO!! Appreciate all the patience and support. I got real sick while making this (I’m all better now). But that definitely slowed things down. Next episode I’ll be shooting for end of Sept! WE SHALL SEE. Reminder that we will be at GENCON!

We are gonna be doing a few panels. So make sure to sign up while there's still spots available:

Thursday Aug 1st : https://www.gencon.com/events/246249

Friday Aug 2nd: https://www.gencon.com/events/253043

Saturday Aug 3rd: https://www.gencon.com/events/253044

Sunday Aug 4th: https://www.gencon.com/events/259933

We will also be doing a SIGNING AT THE HIT POINT PRESS BOOTH #1538 FRIDAY AUG.2nd 2:30PM-5PM!!

Love you all <3

[thatonenewdungeonmaster]

Worst DnD moment: New player joins our table at an open game. He's incredibly enthusiastic about roleplaying a consistent personality, which is cool until he proudly tells the tale of how he once made his character sit in an inn for an entire session because his character wouldn't have taken the DM's hook.

At this point I realised he a bit of an asshole, but I'm not going to lie, I was still eager to see what this serious roleplay character was going to be like, the guy had put a lot of thought into fleshing out his Japanese Human Sage Monk...

And then he opened his mouth in character for the first time. DM, It was a full "flied lice" racist caricature of an Asian accent coming out of a loud English guy in the middle of a packed pub and he was so proud of his acting skill. My soul withered and flew away when I realised everyone around us could hear. Thankfully he never came back to our table again.

I *cringed* reading that, oh my goodness. That is a good thing he never came back 😄

[lemon-drop-soda]

Lost and Found

Life keeps throwing me curve balls, so read my yap session about Fractalis and Cirina in the meantime while I try to collect myself again.

[syntax-forest]

I spent way too long on this.

[moonlightduelist]

generational divides are fake and this obsession with generational differenses is just seperating us from forming meaningful connections with people older and younger than us piece and love on earth etc.

[dantenyhpmir]

Dante Nyhpmir Masterlist

Send me requests. I can't guarantee I'll write them but if the idea strikes me, I'd love to have more to work with.

Simon Ghost Riley;

One offs/Kind of the same timeline;

* You're Put back in Basic training with Ghost (NSFW)

* Ghost is Jealous of Konig's Crush on you (NSFW)

* You Keep Ghost Alive on a mission (NSFW)

* You Help Ghost with his Mask Make Up (Fluff)

* Ghost Brands What's His (NSFW)

* You See Ghosts uniform for the first time (NSFW)

Reunion "Series";

* Ghost tracks you down after you've been discharged (Fluff)

* You're reunited at your place and he helps you with your decision fatigue (NSFW)

Konig:

*Konig pays you a visit in the hosptial after saving you(NSFW)

*Something supernatural is underneath Konig's mask(NSFW)

DND CAMPAIGNS

Descent into Avernus;

* Maula meets Grazz'zt (SFW)

* Slumber Party (SFW)

* Maula Summoning Aithur (NSFW)