#forever dungeon master

[jaffabelle]

Dungeon master dragons (dmd):

You all agree on what the villain's evil plan is before the campaign starts but nothing else and just rotate who runs the game each week. Each week the dm of the week adds something to the boss to make them stronger. You have 12 weeks to make it the bbeg or the campaign is over and you lose.

[derangedbasementcreation]

Lowkey I've been thinking about how since I always DM I never get to make a character that I interact with the way one of my players would, I don't get to experience the story from their perspective.

But I kinda realised that I am making playable characters, I build stat blocks, back stories, how they fit into the world, everything.

It kind of hit me that I create the whole story that they get to live, every interaction is my own played character, every puzzle is one I've usually hand crafted that I can guide them through, everything they experience as a player is something I have put my everything into.

I know it's the cliché joke of "the DM is the god of the DND session" but it really feels that way, I've built everything from scratch as I always play home brew and I feel that this level of accomplishment and joy that I get from seeing my players working together, befriending my own characters, and creating memories for themselves and their characters is something I would be missing out on if I was a player and not a DM.

Basically I'm really happy that I'm a forever DM as I never had this much fun as a player.

[dante-and-dragons]

Changelings... you can't tell me that WOTC didn't put them in the game purely for the Forever DMs finally getting to play a character...

[ao3-anonymous]

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[educationaldm]

As a Forever DM, I feel this. They sometimes make appearances as NPCs though.

[momotech764]

i am this close to just begging people in the streets to DM a 5e campaign for me to play in. it's so bad

[saltavenegar]

Hi tungle dot hellsite. My friend @thesoupisburning and I were talking and both lamenting missing being players in a dnd campaign. We both suck and don’t know how to find dms but joked abt this but::::::::::::::: to anyone out there, I’d draw sooo much cool free art if someone were to dm us or weasel us into a campaign lmaoooooo. Think of all the silly little emojis I could make for you it could be so fun

If this is a cringe fail, this never happened 🌀🌀🌀

[masky-mask-art]

Yo @crowcalledfish this your man?

[venisonhare]

I need to find a different way to cope with the imposter syndrome Dming gives me because I cannot keep going, ok ill write another campaign. I'm running curse of strahd, shadow of the Dragon Queen, I have a one-shot server revolving around a dnd academy setting which was created from period cramp delirium later abandoned and never started, AND NOW. God and now my mind is telling me to start writing a witcher dnd oneshot. I need to be put out of my misery I need to be a PC with my friends ill go mad.

[corpsecoochie]

WE CAN PLAY D&D WITH YOU?????

Literally writing out a couple of short campaign ideas as we speak. Slowly. Because my cat has stolen one of my arms.

[strawbebearts]

The last gift I made is for our forever DM (also my wife). She's been playing longer than any of us and she creates the most incredible homebrew adventures to excite, amaze and terrify us. She has a real gift for storytelling and we're so thankful to have a DM as kind and fun as her.

Merry Christmas everyone. Stay safe and share love.

[jaffabelle]

God dammit. I can't stop myself from coming up with more ideas for DND games. I'm currently working on a game where the party are members of an after school ghost hunting club at this boarding school.

AND NOW I've got an idea where it's gonna be more fairytale fae inspired and the characters would be based on characters from fairy tales. Like someone could be goldielocks or one of the dwarves from snow white or the fucking big bad wolf.

[idonotblogatall]

Nothing like laying in bed at night thinking to myself:

"You know since you're taking a break from playing DND you should pick up another hobby."

20 minutes later:

"So hypothetically if I was having DM burnout that doesn't mean I shouldn't try GM'ing a space opera...."

[ao3-anonymous]

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Over 10,000 Fics:

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[ryan-waddell11]

the hellfire scene >>>>>>>>>>>>

[frogoboggins]

Gawd fuk i need people i can talk to about my dnd campaigns who are not active players but are still interested in the ✨LORE✨

I wanna ramble but i dont wanna spoil anything