#how many people are they randomly dming???

[solace-seekers]

why did (one of???) the christian college groups for my college just dm me on instagram trying to get my to go to bible study or read the bible together???

[nemisisnemi]

Nemi’s 100 followers Art Raffle! 

I’m holding this event as a way to thank you all for getting me to 100 followers :D 

I’d like to give a special thanks to: ( @loser-jpg @spookyavenuestreet, @lemonchuu @artistnettles, @nyx-of-night, @celestcelest, @vauxxnm (and so many more i cannot @ in one go due to the tag limit but you know who you are!! I'll be tagging more ppl in the reblogs!) for supporting me on my journey all the way to 100 followers! Thank you for always interacting with my posts <3 

EVENT RULES: 

No harassment is allowed. You will be taken out of the raffle and blocked. 

If you have multiple accounts, be sure to link your other account(s) in your bio or intro post. 

Do not ask me when I will be starting the pieces. I have a busy schedule and do not know when I will have the time. 

No NSFW & suggestive requests allowed!!  No furry & mecha requests, I do not have the skillset to draw these. 

The winners must send me(preferably multiple) references and or descriptions of what they want drawn. Any overly complicated details and or clothes will be simplified. 

The winners will be allowed 2 changes when I check in with them with their pieces. 

GUIDELINES + INFO: 

This event will be held for a week from (July 23 12:00 am - July 30th 11:59pm est time) and I’ll randomly select the winners at the end of the week via the wheel of names (https://wheelofnames.com/)

To enter, all you need to do is to reblog this post with the tag “nemi 100 followers event”! Each username will apply as an entry. While multiple reblogs are appreciated, you’ll only receive one entry to give everyone a fair chance! Any follows during this event are greatly appreciated

There will be 5 winners selected in total

The 1st & 2nd place winners get to choose one of the options I've given and the rest of the winners will get their respective prizes. Once the 1st & 2nd place winners have selected their choice, it cannot be changed. 

I will be tagging & DMing the winners so make sure you have your dms opened! If there is no communication from the selected winners within 24 hours, I will select someone else for that slot. 

Prizes:

1st place: (choose only one of these options!)

Full body colored/rendered piece w/ a simple background 

2 characters simple interaction bust shots in one drawing sketch/clean lineart (can be characters or ocs but no color!) 

one character colored bust shot w/ simple background 

examples below!:

first piece(from left -> right) is full body example, 2nd one is of the bust shot, 3rd one is the type of rendering I'll be doing, 4th one is an example of the sketch I will be doing

2nd place: (choose one only)

a full body sketch/lineart piece w/ no color & background 

one character bust shot w/ no color & background

examples below!:

ignore the doodles around the first piece, but that will be somewhat what a full body no color will look like, 2nd piece is closer to what the style might be in & is also what the bust shot looks like.

3-5th place: one character bust shot w/ no color & background 

If you're curious on what my current art style looks like, go through my recent posts or master list! The examples I gave aren't 100% accurate to how my art looks like right now.

link to masterlist: here

I would like to give another special thanks to @/celestcelest @glidiaxoxo @raguiras @twistedwonderlandshenanigans for helping me with this event. Go show these people some love!! This event would not be possible without their help!! 

Good luck to everyone and thanks for participating!! 

[wifegideonnav]

No but literally not even 10 years ago, ask blogs for characters were a MAJOR major thing on tumblr and it's so sad that cringe culture really pummeled everyone here so hard that we all just stopped doing fun things and interacting beyond likes and reblogs

literally!! i joined the site in early 2016 and the amount of silly fun that people had back then is so much compared to what we’ve got going on. and even that was less than in the years preceding from what i’ve heard. and to be honest i think it’s in big part because the users started taking themselves and their experience more seriously. don’t get me wrong, i much prefer the site’s culture in 2024 to what it was like when i joined, but there’s really something to be said about how pretentious everyone got (for lack of a better word) and how the way that people have shifted towards posting more serious or academic or artsy things means that they seem less approachable now. nowadays everyone seemingly wants to come across as smart and sane and worldly. whereas before, you got followers by being weird and hyper and excited about things, and by interacting with as many people as you could!! and ofc i think it also has to do with the average age on here going up, because it’s a lot easier to just interact with people and be energetic when you’re 13 as opposed to 23. (not even factoring in increasing demands on your time and energy as an adult.)

and not to say that people aren’t silly and weird and willing to be cringe now! but it’s in such a different way that it doesn’t really build site-wide community. idk i think if people want this site to stay fun like this we need to all get re-used to just randomly dming people and striking up a conversation, sending mundane asks, tagging people in shit, REBLOGGING posts we like, etc

[astronomic727]

Welcome to my art account!

I'm Astro, I'm primarily a digital artist but I also do traditional sketches now and then too! A bit about me I'm from Ireland and currently 22! I was an Instagram artist for the longest time but am no longer happy with where the site's going, so... here I am! I'm also on Youtube which is where my most ambitious projects take place lol I do play video games in my past time, more on that in the next paragraph :) I LOOOVE space stuff, which of course is the inspiration for my name and sona, which also trickles into my other interests. I am also getting into music production! So, what to expect from this account? A lot of my artwork is fan art based on the video games that I enjoy. Primarily Kirby, Terraria, Pokémon are the main 3 to expect but there may be the occasional Mario post or whatnot lol My OCs! I also have my own OCs that I also post about a lot! The main trio of characters are Via, her little sister Kayleigh, and her best friend Orion. The posts about my OCs are just slice of life kinda stuff, but I also randomly insert them into other media or memes now and then xD One of such (the most prominent) is in one of my art projects! What are these art projects? First off is Project Dream! My Kirby art project, a fan made story that takes place after the events of Kirby Star Allies, my favourite Kirby game! Each of the illustrations are primarily dedicated to each of the Dream Friends. Each installment also gets an accompanying timelapse/speedpaint video over on my Youtube, which is where most of the story is explained and visualised. There is a main antagonist of the story, and the Project has been going for almost 5 years now. It is in it's later stages, but how will the story end? Stay tuned to find out ;) The other one is Terraria Legends! Terraria Legends follows the tale of two heroes as they progress throughout the land of Terraria and facing the many bosses and events the game has to offer. These two heroes however are Via and Orion! The Terraria versions of Via and Orion are different to their original counterparts however. Terraria Legends isn't as old as Project Dream, but our heroes currently are almost at the end of Pre-Hardmode! Where else can I be found? Youtube, Ko-Fi, Cara, Terraria Forums Or alternatively, all my links can be found through my Carrd! Anything else? So, my ask box is open atm, but I'm still learning how this all works so I may close this at any point. In terms of rules, don't say/ask anything super weird/nsfw. I personally don't mind any light jokes in this vain, just keep it relatively clean lmao. Any questions about my characters and their stories are all good! In terms of Project Dream or Terraria Legends, I like seeing speculation, but please don't just ask what will happen in the next episode or stuff like that, I don't wanna just spoil things for people y'know? ^^; Oh, and fan art of my OCs or my projects is very welcome, I'd be delighted to see that so feel free to @ me for that! :D Just be sure to respect any existing relationships with the characters, like don't ship two characters who definitely should not be lol DM's aren't really open, sorry about that. Only people I'm familiar with I'm ok with DMing. It usually takes me a good while to get comfortable with new people. Main Navigation Tags (#Astro Art) (#Astro Sketches) (#Project Dream) (#Terraria Legends) (#Astro OCs) (Each post with my OCs will be tagged with their name) I'll edit this whenever I have anything to change/add, but that's about everything for now! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy your stay here! :D

[somelazyassartist]

Hopefully gonna be playing Lezreth in a one-shot to help my mom practice her DMing soon and I am in love with just how many Warlock spells are just the worst (best) thing you could give to a centaur. Especially a centaur with memory issues. Spider Climb. Mirror Image. It's gonna be so fucking good.

Also I love how the Centaurs have multiple skills dedicated strictly to stomping people to death with their hooves. Imagine you go out to get the mail like usual and your 2,222 pound mailman randomly just decides to crush your skull like it's nothing because at some point you accidentally pissed off a fairy one time and probably didn't even realize it. And then they move on to delivering the rest of the mail like usual and it's not even a big deal for them. I love DnD

[achocolatemouse]

Fur Art Scammers and YOU

Hello fellow furs! I'm Mouse, I'm an artist who's passionate and knowledgeable about navigating the current digital art scene. I wanted to make a FUR ART SCAMMERS AND YOU post with a few details about the modern commission scene and how to keep yourself safe. I feel like it's never a bad time to reiterate and practice good online safety. A lot of this applies to both art and fursuit parts. I hope the people who read it find it useful!

First thing is how to use google lens. Simply go to google and click on the camera icon next to the search to open google lens. Click on exact matches or find image source to find links to the image. Google lens is your first line of defense against a scam. Any image that's a "sample" image from an artist can be fed into google lens and look for the results. When you feed one of my images in, it shows up with my DA, FA and YCH.art profiles amongst others. They all share similar usernames. If you fed another sample in you'd see that it shows up in the same profiles. Check profile pictures too if they're art. If, for example, one sample is from a FA, another is from a different FA and a profile pic is from an obscure twitter they're probably stolen. You can double check by PMing any of those source accounts to see if they are associated with the account you're in communication with.

What do you do if there are no results for ANY of their samples? That's ALSO a red flag. An artist should have a consistently hosted gallery. Most real artists who are serious about it try to promote themselves on as many places as possible to broaden their audience and commission pool, so why isn't this one? The "samples" could be AI, stolen from obscure sources, or drawovers of other peoples work. (A small note about why a public gallery hosted on multiple websites is SO important. Scammers show up in overwhelming numbers. Think of how many nigerian prince/genital enlargement emails you get. Currently most groups cannot keep up with the flood of them and tactics change regularly. What does not change is that when someone finally figures it out and the jig is up the account gets banned, and sometimes ip banned, bewares go out, which causes the scammer rebranding problems. So to preserve their accounts they will try to host on as few places as possible because when you are a scammer having fewer people see your work means fewer people to find you out and fewer moderation teams investigating and monitoring you. As a legitimate artist, hosting in lots of places means more eyes who want to buy your art on your account and won't report you for scamming, because you're not. This is why having a big gallery hosted in multiple places is such a strong and important dichotomy.)

The second is how are they contacting you. You should be contacting the artist not them reaching out to you unless you post publicly, and then they should be replying publicly not DMing unless you dm first. Generally a legitimate artist will not randomly DM you. If someone randomly DMs you they are probably a scammer and most groups ask you to report and remove them. They will also use odd language; "I will make your furry dreams come true/bring them to life/make them real!" "Hi I notice you are in the furry fandom how long have you liked furry characters? I want to make friends, can I ask you a few questions about your fur fandom characters?" "Do you have any art of your fursona?" "Do you happen to be a furry lover" "Do you play vr chat game?", etc. They may also use tags in weird ways such as using a tag like #furry in a private furry group. It follows some scripts/chatgpt like responses, so take care.

If you still want to order from someone who has red flags, consider asking for past clients to contact, speedpaint videos, or pictures of one of the samples (your pick) with layers visible. A reliable artist should have these things going back a few years or can produce one they posted before. They should be able to pull from any of the samples they send to you and send you layered versions of the image to prove they made it. It should show not only the layers in the program but what the picture looks like with some of them turned off so that you can see if they make any sense, as opposed to just someone taking a picture and making a bunch of fake layers. Lots of scammers fake these things too so don't rely only on them. Fake speedpaints, fake photos of workspaces, and shell accounts pretending to be past clients are real. When receiving your image the artist should be able to send you WIPs as well, make it clear you expect these so you can ask for changes.

Just say no to anyone who wants to use a sketchier payment form like wiring them money, checks, Paypal friends and family, etc. Just say no to anyone who asks you to send them any money before they send you money. If you say no to them "sorry I'm broke, not sure when I wanna order" they should take no for an answer immediately or they might be a scammer. Ask for a turn around time on your picture that happens BEFORE you can no longer issue a backpay or request a refund through your payment service.

Most scammers just try to take your money and run but some of them send you either a bad drawover of someone else's work, or an AI image. There's whole articles about how to spot these things so I won't go into it, a lot of it is vibes and asking to see layers on their work/WIP images helps prevent these things. If you receive one of these things it's important to know that you *likely did not receive an image you own or have rights to*. This is especially true in the USA where only human generated content may be copywritten or owned (see images). Bad drawovers will have the same problem - the person who owns the image rights is the person whose works were traced. For drawovers of AI, they're copying a public domain work and so the copyright is public domain. Given that what you paid for was a custom created work that you can post online and own, you probably still got scammed even if you received something.

-Help! I've been scammed! What now!?-

Depends on how badly you got scammed. You can request a refund through your payment facilitator or bank to recoup the costs if you used a safer payment method. You can issue a beware, through groups like artistbeware or big facebook art groups, etc. But if it is a straight up scammer with a fake profile and stolen/ai/drawover art, they will not care because they're not trying to keep their profiles or a good reputation. They will get banned and make a new one. At that point your best choice is to report their profile to the facilitating company (fb, discord, tumblr, x, etc. as a scam/fraud/phishing profile) and get them removed from your circles/groups through local admins. A beware only matters for artists with a name to protect, your best solution is to block, report, and move on.

A couple of other small notes about misc conduct;

*Ownership of copywritten works is tricky, especially if one person made a design but another person drew an image of that design. If you commission a work you typically own the character you designed/own, but you DON'T own exclusive rights to the image. The rights belong to the artist too unless otherwise stated. A good artist will have a ToS/contract that details what your rights are and what the artists rights are to avoid conflict. Common terms may be the artist can share the work in galleries/self promotion, the commissioner does not own commercial rights, or you can't use the image to support hate groups.

*In some states it's becoming SUPER illegal to even accidentally present 18+ content to a minor. (see; the e621 issue) If you are ordering/asking to access NSFW, it's becoming more normal for artists to ask to age check people to cover their butts. It's standard procedure on a lot of big discords to access 18/21+ channels now a days. Most places encourage you to treat it like an ID check at a bar or a con, we just want to know you're 18+.

*NSFW art production is SW. Respect your artists boundaries and consider being willing to pay extra for it since it comes with certain risks regular art does not.

*Artists can get scammed too, and sometimes will do a whole commission and then never get paid. Having been/seen folks get burned plenty will not start drawing until the work is paid in full or half is put down as a deposit. This is pretty normal. Better to use other methods than asking to pay at the end of work to avoid getting scammed.

*New artists might not have past clients but should still have a full gallery and at least art trades under their belt. Labor for labor matters too.

*Excessively low prices matter and are often cited as a red flag, and not entirely unjustly so. A decent fullbody picture typically takes an artist a couple hours at least, and they have to pay to keep lights on and account for time spent communicating. It varies based on country and state but if you're paying $12 for a fullbody they have to live in a country with a very low cost of living for that to be worthwhile. But if they're just taking your money and run, it doesn't matter much. Ordering discount art CAN be fine (maybe they do live in a low COL nation), but MAY be a red flag. Also debating prices is not OK. The artist has a reason to ask those prices based on how much time it takes them to do their work and what they need to live. This is true for fursuit parts too. Art is a gig economy profession. Many people argue against paying artists a living wage per hour for various reasons but it's pretty simple; if you pay $20-50/hour for private tutoring, dog walking, babysitting, house cleaning, DJing, etc. your artist is deserving of those wages too. This helps keep skilled, local, furry artists working in the scene and keeps the community healthy.

I hope this information helps people avoid scams now and in the future. Scammers are always changing their systems. We all know not the fall for a Nigerian prince scam, but there's other, better scams these days. So be savvy, ask questions, and stay safe out there furs!

[fierceawakening]

Ah, okay. Yeah, I didn’t think they were saying it was acceptable, I was asking why some people seem unaware it’s unacceptable. I don’t think cis men would want me randomly dming them asking for photos of them spreading their butts, so I wondered what the disconnect was.

They seemed to think I don’t understand “monkey brain want booba,” which… I mean, maybe I… don’t?

It seems a little odd to want a photo of a random person topless when there are many other ways to find images that will more specifically arouse me personally.

But no, I wasn’t asking why arousal makes people want to see random booba, I have definitely seen random women around and imagined their booba. I’d be a hypocrite if I thought no one else does that.

I was asking… how do you get to the point where you’re so clueless you think you’ll get it by that means?

Or is the idea that aroused males are just so intensely lusty that they forget rationality entirely, where as an aroused female I might think “booba” but not blurt it out? That… I know being a dude is associated with being more intense about horny, but I’ve been around horny guys. They don’t forget how everything works? Or have I messed around with the wrong guys? Is… that the claim?

I don’t know why the person assumed my bafflement was about them saying I should be cool with it. I didn’t think they said that, so I asked why they thought I thought they had.

Is anyone else utterly baffled by this conversation? Did I miss a cue somewhere or is this person just very weirdly rude?

[saltminerising]

Does anyone have advice for making friends on FR? Admittedly I've never had many, and I'm looking to actually reach out for a change, but I don't know how to even go about it.

I do!!!

1. Find people with similar interests to you. There are plenty of in-flight familiar trades and other threads. I love familiars, and I have a couple friends I trade rarer familiars with for awakening. You can also ask to help with your flight’s dominance, join a cauldron association, basically if you find a group of people providing a service sometimes they’re looking for more people to join :)

2. Compliment people on their lair or specific dragons! Just a really quick compliment like “wow that outfit on Asher looks so nice!!!” can spark a conversation.

3. Gift bombing! I’ve had some really sweet interactions by finding random people (with active lairs) and DMing them a gift bomb. Sending a sentence like “randomly saw you in the forums and liked your lair a lot, here’s some stuff from your wishlist :D” is cute or you can make a joke… it doesn’t even have to be The Most Expensive Item, most people are happy to receive even one or a few apparel item(s) or Baldwin mats. If the person doesn’t have a wishlist, you can send them some stuff their lair reminds you of! It’s only weird if you make it weird, and you might even get stuff back 😄 (but obviously don’t gift with an expectation of return gifts because that’s often pretty obvious and doesn’t feel good to the recipient)

4. Discord is a good method for some people but challenging for others. I often struggle with larger discords for example, so I’m in a smaller one, but I’m also in my flight discord to stay updated on group stuff. Try to keep in mind that there are tons of other people just like you, nervous and wanting friends but not knowing where to start. Being nice on discord is a great way to show people that you’re fun to have around! You can try different ones too and see which you vibe with best. There’s lots of FR discords to check out!

5. My final recommendation is to not have expectations that every interaction will turn into a friendship. If you have really high expectations, it’s really easy to get let down. Some people aren’t looking for friends, or don’t like messaging, or whatever the roadblock is, and there’s nothing wrong with that—and nothing wrong with you. You’ll find a place, even if you have to make it yourself. Waiting for stuff to happen almost never works, which is why I’m glad you’re looking for a more active approach. I hope this helps :)

Best of luck anon 💕

[you-deserve-to-love-yourself]

hey how have you been?

weird question but, i hope its ok to ask advice on this one, if not thats totally ok

i was wondering if you know how to,, make friends? i joined so many chats and followed so many people but all i do is comment on their posts or just chat in the group chat. it doesnt get to the point where i pm them

while i do have acquintances in those chats that i recognise and talk to A Lot i just,,, feel like its not the same as a maybe close friendship? i dont know

i even made a friend application and talked to a lot of people but a weird situation happened where a lot of them left me on read randomly(which is ok im not mad at that) and i thought id text them later but then i didnt... so now im just occasionally dming 1 person but idk.

i dont know where im going with this but basically, i dont know how to make friends,, or how to get to the friend stage,, any tips? thank you

(please tag as frog emoji if ok)

Yeah it’s totally ok to ask for advice! 

Oof,, making friends. I’ll admit that it doesn’t come to me easily either, and I especially struggled with making and keeping my friends a ton when I was younger. I hope talking about my own personal experience might help.

For me personally, when I think about who I consider a friend now, a lot of my online friends, or even my friends “from” school, are people that I talk to in Discord servers or group chats but don’t really dm. And surprisingly? I’m okay with that. I used to be at a point where I craved close friendships to the point where I was accepting treatment that wasn’t okay, but I’m not really there anymore.

And as for the people I do text or DM? Now that I think of it, all of them come from previous hobbies or interests that I don’t really do anymore.

A lot of the times, the reason I started out dming or texting people was for working on something, and not necessarily chatting. I have a friend from when I used to do activism, and we started texting to get work done. I worked with a ton of people, but I happened to click with her.

I think of that example as an “accidental” friendship, where I wasn’t really trying to get to know her, but we liked each other and became friends.

A lot of the friends I made actually came from a period in my life where I decided that I was done with my obsession with making friends, and I was going to spend some time completely alone. I talked about it here; I’d sit in an empty classroom reading during lunch and didn’t really talk to people.

Somehow, I acquired two friends I really liked during that time. From class, no less. I think part of it came from letting go of my expectations of what a friendship was supposed to look like, and being okay with being alone. One of those friends I made in a hard class where we exchanged numbers just to help each other with homework. The other I sat next to in a chiller class because no one was sitting at her table. We started chatting and I thought she was cool. I don’t really talk to either of them anymore, but I think that’s an example of how sometimes you can stumble across cool people after you stop looking for them.

I was in some online communities though, and I did tend to reach out to people a lot. Not necessarily because I wanted to be close to them, but usually because I thought they were cool or I just wanted to tell them something. Seriously, I started speaking to one of my online friends when he was asking about restaurants in my area and I didn’t feel like announcing my location in a big server. Lol.

And the thing is? The ratio of people I clicked with versus people I talked to was pretty low. If I reached out to, say, 100 people (it was less don’t worry lol), I became friends with fifteen and I’m still speaking to three.

And I’m okay with that! Since at that time, I’d “given up” on my desire for close friendships, I talked with those people just because I wanted to. And even with the people I haven’t spoken to in months, I genuinely enjoyed talking to them and I’m happy we started chatting.

I’ve also reconnected a group of online friends I first met when I was very young. I’m talking fifth grade, sixth grade age. I don’t DM any of them, but I consider it a pretty close knit group and I’m happy just talking to them through a Discord server.

Tl;dr: I personally used to have an unhealthy obsession with an idea of what I thought friendship was. In my personal experience, letting go of my need for friendship was not only freeing, but actually helped me in my interactions with others.

Of course, everyone’s different. This is my background as one neurodivergent girl who’s had specific experiences.

My question is, are you enjoying the chats you’re in? Please remember to have fun, okay? If you joined your chats or followed people with like, a specific goal in mind, you might get disappointed. But if you genuinely like interacting with them through Tumblr and through other communities, maybe that’s the type of friendship that’ll bring you the most happiness in that specific case.

When I was in fifth or sixth grade, my mom bought me a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People for Teen Girls, by Dale Carnegie’s daughter Donna. Obviously it’s targeted to a specific demographic, but I haven’t read the original and it might be a lot less accessible.

I thought it would “help” me make friends. It didn’t really; It took me many more years before I was happy with my social circle. But what it did do was give me specific stories and help me rework some of my beliefs around what friendship was supposed to be and how they start. It taught me super important things about how to admit mistakes and communicate with people. And honestly? Even though I didn’t really apply what I read until many years later, I think that information stuck around in my mind and contributed to where I am today.

Maybe it’ll be helpful to you, maybe it won’t. But I’d consider checking it out!

I hope some of this was helpful to you and I’m wishing you all the best! 💚

[neopiacentral]

heyyy this is gonna be a long post about sexual assault / rape / suicide so mega tw ... i would make this a read more if i could on mobile if those even still exist. anyways

but the other day i was having a mental breakdown as i do and this one was more so thinking about how a little over half of the people i’ve had sex with from ages 17 to 23 (how old i am rn) ..... i only had sex with bc i was coerced or forced into it. and i started thinking about this one scenario in particular that i literally basically had forgotten and pushed out of my head until the other night and somehow i feel like putting it out in the open and talking (typing) about it will help me deal with it better or at least in a way where it’s not just being pushed down for another few years lol

around october of 2017, i was at the most suicidal point of my life not even for any “specific” reason .. i was just really struggling and my depressive episodes would not ease up and i spent a lot of time just trying to distract myself from it. this was the only point in my life where i have ever smoked regularly because even though i hated (and still do hate) the feeling of being high, it felt easier to deal with that instead of just thinking about dying nonstop. i didnt really talk to anybody, i wasn’t in a relationship or anything. and i think i had matched w this guy on tinder or we just followed each other on twitter, i can’t remember but he lived here (but i hadn’t ever met him irl) and he was dealing with a lot of the same things i was so we started talking kind of regularly. he was in a relationship so i never flirted with him or anything even though he was gross and would ask me if we could be “fwb because his girlfriend has a medical condition so she never really wants to have sex” lmfao and i obviously always said no and told him i wasn’t interested but still talked to him bc i felt like he understood me in a way nobody else in my life at the time could and i didn’t want to be on my own. we texted and called so often and thinking back on it it was SO unhealthy bc we didn’t help each other at all we just talked about different ways we would want to die if we ever did .. things like that. like retrospectively it’s so clear that it was just making the situation worse and i wish i would have just stopped talking to him.

i can’t remember if this happened before or after he broke up with his girlfriend but it was 100% before we met up in real life. we had each other on snapchat back when i used to use it and snap maps were a thing obviously. and one day i was home alone and i can’t remember if he had told me he was doing this or not .. like genuinely i just don’t know. but he had shown up at my apartment unannounced, rang the doorbell and waited outside for a bit and i only remember knowing it was him bc i looked through the peephole in my front door and i started having such a massive panic attack bc i had never given him my address and even if he had gotten it from snap maps..... theres 10+ other apartments in my building and he just came straight to mine. it freaked me out SO fuckinf bad and i didn’t answer the door but he texted a bit after he left and i asked how he knew which apartment was mine and he said “ur apartment had a welcome mat so i just figured it was urs haha” like what ........ god.

i have no idea why i kept talking to him bc that really genuinely terrified me and even my friend bella i talked to here and there was literally telling me to call the police and stuff. but yea. i can’t remember how long after it was that we finally hung out in person but i did end up just giving in because we were talking for months and lived in the same city and i felt like i owed it to him to hang out irl after flaking or blowing him off the dozens of times he had asked before.

and he ended up picking me up, he lived about 45 minutes away from me so it was a long drive back to his apartment. he actually made dinner for us and we watched some stuff together and i was surprised how much fun i was having and how nice it was. butttt out of nowhere he just started kissing me and undoing his pants and trying to get me to give him a blowjob no matter how many times i said i didn’t want to or was uncomfortable but he just kept asking. and i was so far from home, i didn’t drive there so i couldnt just get up and leave and didn’t even really know where i was. it was like 2 in the morning at this point i had no person i could call and ask to come grab me or anything and i just felt like i had no choice which . looking back is maybe what he had wanted. i was so scared and we ended up having sex just because i wanted it to be over and i wanted to just be done with what was happening.

and then he literally ghosted me right after. the one person i talked to and trusted and opened up to when i was REALLY hurting mentally basically raped me and just left me alone afterwards leaving me feeling even worse than i did before we had met. i never even told anyone about it after it happened because i didn’t want to deal with it and honestly don’t think i was capable of processing it at that point bc i probably would have completely and fully broken down and lost it. which is also why i have barely even thought about it over the last three almost four years.

last year he started to try and come back into my life just a couple months after alec and i had just started dating. like just randomly interacting with me on instagram and trying to reply to my stories like everything was normal and even tried to talk to me about how things with alec were. and once i made a post on my story about me being at work and he kept dming me asking if he could come visit me bc he knew where my job was and i started having horrible panic attacks at work that i never told anyone about. i have him blocked on everything now but for months i was always looking over my shoulder bc i was so afraid of seeing him.

i want to heal from these things but i don’t feel comfortable going to therapy even though i know i really should. until i feel ready to do that i will just do my best to cope with it all on my own even if that means just telling other people what happened so i can start coming to terms with it myself. it is so hard some days and i am afraid that these things will end up eating me alive sooner or later

[elftwink]

Hi!! I’m trying to get into DMing and I was wondering if you could help me with were to start or if you have any tips that you’ve picked up yourself over your time asa dm? Thank you so much for your time and I hope you’re doing well!! 💙🤟

oh absolutely i love talking about dming and pretending i’m on talk shows where my methods of doing things are interesting. Also this is very long but generally speaking the main points are about communicating with players (eg making sure everyone has fun and wants to come back as priority #1), designing a session (by lying to your players and giving them to illusion of a wide sprawling world while not creating that much work for you), and the rule of cool. i’ve bolded it so it’s easier to navigate but also like. sorry i just like to talk a lot lol. anyway i hope this is helpful. 

I think when you’re just starting out the first thing on your mind should be communicating with players. Running a session 0 to lay down house rules (even if you don’t have any, you should use it to ask players what they do and don’t wanna see, to introduce their character, to make sure you know what kind of content your players will and won’t like, etc. plus, house rules are implemented to solve problems which means you will almost certainly have a house rule or two after the first few sessions), checking in with players to see that they’re still having fun (even just like, noticing if someone is bored), figuring out which players are comfortable with roleplay, etc. This is mostly learned via experience and will vary between groups so there’s not a lot of specifics other than just to stay on your toes but the two things I will say in specific is:

1) learn to recognize your own mistakes and bad calls and apologize for them asap. you’ll def make them cos everyone does and that’s just being a person making judgement calls, but it’s usually easy to resolve if you apologize and make a note for next time. 

& 2) if a player is being disruptive or annoying (breaking rules, constantly arguing your judgements, ruining roleplay, metagaming 24/7 etc), don’t be afraid to out of character be like “hey. cut that out right now”. the third time a player says they kill an npc for no reason, you don’t have to let them roll for it. you can just say “no dude if you kill all the npcs the story can’t progress and besides, i and the other players are here to play dnd.” although like, unless it’s really severe, probably just text them after the fact. it’s easier and also you don’t run the risk of embarrassing or shaming them in front of their friends, because that’s not the goal— you just want the disruptive behaviour to stop

if your whole party is being ‘disruptive’ in the same way though (eg all of them constantly start bar fights), that might just be how they want to play, in which case you may just have to adapt. if it’s really screwing up your adventure or annoying you, talk to the party, but you will generally have a much easier time designing to your players goals than you will trying to make them play to yours

the other main thing is learning to move sets. by which i mean it’s important that players aren’t railroaded and that they feel like they have a bunch of options even when they definitely don’t because listen. no one has time for that. most dms are not professionals and we don’t actually have time to account for every possible story arc that could ever happen, especially because someone will definitely come up with something you never would have thought of in a million years

instead you want to rely on false choices and moving sets. false choices are stuff like asking your players if they want to go left or right knowing that no matter which way they pick they’re going to encounter some goblins. doesn’t really matter. even if you had prepared a second encounter, they never would have seen it— they only experience a linear version of a dungeon crawl. so you only have to write a linear version. as long as they feel like they could have had a second option that they chose not to take, you’re in the clear. that being said, generally only do this with minor choices; huge choices should absolutely impact the storyline drastically. it’s just that with small things, the illusion of choice is going to work about the same and will cause you way less stress

moving sets is stuff like: you planned for the players to talk to the innkeeper and learn about the mystery. but then they don’t go to the inn. they’re not interested in the inn no matter how many hints you drop. your choices here are either drop ooc and say “look, the plot hook is in the inn” (which tbh, i’ve done, and it works if you don’t do it often and your players are willing to give you a break, but if you don’t have to do it, don’t) OR you can decide to make the vital npc a blacksmith instead, or a town guard, or whoever else the party is going to encounter in the next two minutes. playing dnd is constantly moving things around so the party encounters vital information when they decide to do whatever they want. it’s also good to keep in mind that it’s probably not on purpose, and even if your hints seem obvious to you, it’s because you read or wrote the whole adventure already. to your players, the town hall and the inn are both equally important. they have no idea you didn’t prepare anything for the town hall, and it’s your job to just pretend you knew what was going on the whole time. i have npcgenerator.com open during sessions just in case the players start talking to random people

finally i live and die by the rule of cool as much as humanly possible, and most people have said it better than me but generally speaking, coolness always supersedes rules and rolls and everything else. player wants to do some dope shit that doesn’t quite work with the spell description? just let them. you’re designing a dungeon and think of something interesting that breaks a mechanic? do it anyway. your boss was accidentally unbalanced and the fight is going to be over in 20 seconds (either by tpk or by the party wiping the board) but you know it would be much more fun to have the dramatic battle you saw in your head? lie about the rolls, the enemy’s health, its attack bonus, its abilities. player figures out the big twist like 5 sessions earlier than you planned? reward them and be ready to think on your toes. as long as you’re prioritizing the players’ fun and them thinking the session is cool, you’re probably fine

generally like, players want things to feel fair, they want it to be cool, and they want that without sacrificing the stakes and the feeling that their character could die, that they could loose horribly, because it’s the risk that makes it feel cool and like a victory. sometimes you have to manufacture that risk or mitigate it so that you preserve that feeling of fairness, and you mostly have to do it where the players can’t see. 

tl;dr i know this is a lot but generally it all comes back to having fun and remembering to work with your players, not against them. you are in charge of a lot but you’re still just another player at the table. you throw obstacles at them not to beat them, but because it’s fun to see the obstacles be overcome. players are okay with losing as long as it doesn’t feel like they’re losing just so you can win. they should feel (and it should be) that that was just the risk they took, and that they understood that risk, and that they feel like how you decided the result was fair. ik i said this already but it’s that risk that makes it fun in the first place, and sometimes to maintain that sense of risk, the players have to lose. 

anyway. i hope this was helpful, and good luck in DMing! if all else fails, you can just randomly roll some dice and try to look like you know what is going on, because that works probably way more than it should. people are already assuming you know what’s going on, so all you have to do is not correct them

[stargazing-enby]

hi, hullo, i'm new on Tumblr (not new "new" but like i was just reblogging before) and i wondered how to make friends ? like i want to talk to people w/ the same fandom as me and make friends ; this sounds so cheesy n random omg but can i ask sum advices? (ps: I rly rly like ur writing♡)

Hi! Thank you 🙈😊 and sorry I took so long to reply—I've been trying to come up with a good reply, but I've just accepted that I'm no online-friendship-expert and can only speak from my own experience. Which is:

- DISCORD. That's where conversations happen! If you're active on a discord server, chances are you'll find someone you get on well with. People ask for betas and alphas and cheerleaders all the time, people bring up random topics and headcanons and prompts for people to add on to all the time... It's awesome 😍

- But servers can get overwhelming and take up too much time/emotional energy, so here's some ways I've become Internet friends (or at least Internet acquaintances) with people through Tumblr:

- I made a personal post about my gender, someone told me they related and we just kept talking (we even met irl!)

- Person messaged me to ask for writing advice, then started randomly sending cute animal posts, aka my greatest weakness. I started sending them back, and we just... kept talking 😂

- Some people reblog from me often and I do from them too. If they also tag me in posts that remind them of me, I immediately consider them my friends, even if we haven't had an actual conversation 😂

- Some people send me nice chain asks or tag me in lovely posts (the "tag 10 people who are awesome" kind); immediately frens.

- I tag people I like in lovely posts/send them cute asks and they start sending them back; omg!!! Frend!

- I commented on someone's amazing fanart and they replied; the conversation just went on. Yay! :D

- I realised I lived close to someone I follow, got excited with them about it — we met irl!

- Some people have reblogged my posts adding tags about how they really like my way of explaining something or of writing, or just saying they admire me, and I'm always like: 😳😳🙈 I'm your friend now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

- Basically if you reblog/like someone's posts often, chances are they recognise you! So don't be scared to comment on posts they make that you relate to, and if you come across a post that you think they could like, why not share it with them? (maybe that's just me, but I love it when people do that 😂😍) Sending asks off-anon when people are doing ask games (or just randomly) is also a good idea! And you'd be surprised how many people just reach out to chat about headcanons, or asking for beta help, or to collab, or just wanting to say hi!

- One thing I don't recommend is DMing someone saying just "hi" and/or "how are you/what's up"—I don't know about people without anxiety, but I at least need to know where the conversation is going, otherwise I'll feel awkward. Small talk online is too much for me!

[didnt-hear-idsb-live-again]

I wish I could interact w you guys but you have ur own separate little group and I just don’t fit but I’ve loved watching tonight’s discourse from afar 😂

NOOO, i’ve replied to everyone who has had anything to say about this thus far and i think so has everybody else, don’t feel weird! i only ever made friends in the first place by randomly joining in discourse and i think a lot of people feel similarly; you’d be surprised how many fall into the same boat. DMing people and just saying hi can usually feel awkward, joining in just screaming is deadass the best and easiest way to make friends hjfgsdkhj

[annakie]

Life in Waterdeep

I watched some of the D&D Stream of Many Eyes a few months ago and just the little bit I heard about Dragon Heist there made me really really want to play it.  Like I’ve been dying to play Curse of Strahd and never have.  I decided this time I would at least attempt to play in this official campaign.  

Problem is, as much as I love my RL friend game group (and I literally just posted yesterday about how much I love them) we already had 13th Age slotted as our next campaign and my DM generally does all his own original content anyway, and I’m already DMing my own game for members of my friend group, AND we have a Pathfinder game we play sometimes when we can’t have all the main group together so playing with my friends was out.

I’d have to venture to the scary world... of online gaming.

I’ve joined several rando groups of strangers both IRL and online in my years of gaming, and I’d basically given up on that route because oh boy you meet some people you don’t wanna meet going that way.  Also flaky DMs and other party members who just don’t show randomly, etc.  I decided I needed to curate this experience a bit more to have any hope of having a decent game.

So I went looking on Roll20 for paid-DM games.  And found a small company who has a troupe of DMs and the games were reasonably priced.  $10 per 3-hour session, once a week.  There was a Dragon Heist group starting in a week or two on Wednesday nights... perfect.  So, I took a deep breath and was the first or second person to throw my hat into the ring for that game.

I decided to play Indyara, a human bard with an elaborate backstory who’s character I had created literally a dozen years ago and have tried to play in about a half dozen games but have never gotten much past the first few sessions in most games (see above paragraph about online games).  I also play her in our Pathfinder game, which is fun, but not the deep RP experience I was hoping for.  

I was super ready to bail at a moment’s notice or after the first session of this DH game if I didn’t like the people.  I also talked to the DM on Discord ahead of time and made sure he was good people who would take care of any sexism, or creepy behavior should we get an unfortunate jerk who either would do the “GIRLS DON’T BELONG IN GAMES” schtick or try to sexualize the game / my character.  Or any other female character.  The DM assured me he’d never put up with any of that in his games, so I was like “Well, score one.  Now let’s see how the other five players are.”

The first session there were only three players.  But uh, it turns out, it was a lot of fun.  One of the guys dropped out after the second game because he didn’t like that the game actually started filling up, which was sad because otherwise he seemed cool.  The other one is playing a Dark Elf Divine Soul Sorcerer, so that week after the first game we spent the entire week talking about spells we’d each pick up to make sure that if we didn’t have a cleric join the group we’d get divine spells covered, and just hanging out talking about gaming in general.

Off to a.. really good start??!!

Week two we had a Half-elf Paladin, Elven Eldridtch Knight (or, planning on getting there anway, just a fighter at the time) and Elven wizard join us.  I was super nervous, but we were welcoming ahead of time on the Discord server and even before they started we were having fun conversations.  The game was... still really fun and all the guys were really cool.

The third week we had a half-elf Monk who would multiclass warlock join us.  I had already been planning out my character as having to fill rogue shoes, but as a shadow monk he took over scouting, which was a relief TBH, and am just filling in as lockpicker/trap disarmer.  

And the thing is... this group is fucking magic.

Not just in the D&D sense, but man... every person in this group is just a really nice, cool, fun person.  I thought I was the only woman, but happily, one player let us know last night that she is trans, and I was really happy that she felt comfortable enough with us to let us know, and everyone’s reaction, thank God, was like “Oh cool!  Sorry we’ve been misgendering you!” (and she was like of course, you didn’t know!) and we clarified her pronouns and her character’s pronouns (he/him) and moved right along.  And we also spent that night in a happy coincidence shopping in the neighborhood where our characters live and turns out there’s an agender shopkeeper (they/them) and two genasi husbands.  All of which is in the actual module, not just our DMs creation, so knowing everyone was totally onboard with, you know, being decent human beings... was really great.

And they treat me with just... personhood.  No putting me on a pedestal or tearing me down.  I’m just another player and all our characters are pals, and my GOD it’s so refreshing.  Nobody’s hit on me.  No NPC has called me a bitch.  

We all look forward to Wednesdays and talk most days on the Discord here and there.  The DM and I chat a LOT and we all love this game SO MUCH.  We all think we hit the jackpot finding each other.

The Eldridtch Knight decided to change characters, so last night the EK disappeared and now we have a Half-Orc Path of the Ancestral Guardian Barbarian with us, and after just one session we love the new character so much.  (So to recap... PotAG Barb, a Paladin who’s path I realize I don’t know, a Shadow Monk/Warlock, Divination Wizard, Divine Soul Sorcerer and Lore Bard.  It’s SUCH an interesting party.)  And a really great DM who’s treating our backstories and the entire game with love and care and putting WAY MORE time and effort into our game than we pay for.

I will say I think we all agreed that paying for the game might have helped us find a more quality game.  We know the DM is going to put in the effort, and we all said we’re paying for the same reason, because we didn’t want to just hope we’d find good people, being willing to put money on the table definitely is elevating the expectations from our DM and having a party of capable, mature players who know how to act at a table.  $10/week is well worth three hours where I’m excited to be there and interested even when I’m not involved in the action.  I just love hanging out with these other characters in the world.

D&D is so great when it’s good, y’all.  So good.

Also? Dragon Heist is REALLY AMAZING.  I’m sure it’s elevated by having a skilled DM, but it’s so much more than your typical module.  It also really helps having a group where we agree that we just wanna take our time and really live in the world... but I really feel like my character is a part of Waterdeep, that the city is way more than a backdrop.  That my day-to-day is not hampered by running from one place to another to get through as much story as possible.  And I also got to make my bard’s dream come true by joining... well by joining an iconic group I’ve always wanted a character to join.

So well worth playing.  I’m almost not looking forward to Mad Mage.  But we’re gonna do that, too.

[abouttogetdicey]

Imma be real annoying and ask ya all of the odd numbers from the DM asks, if that's okay? :3 Take your time >ω>

Yikes on bikes!!! So, I’m just going to tell you if I’ve already answered some of these, so HA!1. Answered!3. In Ylvi’s first campaign, we got sent to the underground and met his dad (who had been banished from his city, Dolio’o.) We had to run a bunch of errands to get at this thief lord and join the theive’s guild. One of them included visiting a brothel with Peg Leg Peggy, a pirate queen turned bordello mistress. Ylvi was HORRIFIED by her. Anyway, so we run all the errands for rare components and hard to get and expensive armors and weapons and finally get to see him. We find out it’s Ylvi’s dad and then we find out the Peggy is his mistress and Ylvi was so horrified and so embarrassed and ashamed and it was super fucking funny.5. Answered.7. Answered.9. Roleplaying. Building a character. I absolutely love the improve elements. Whether DMing or playing, and whether I am in a funny moment or a serious moment, I love just really getting into character and telling the story. Also… dice!11. We try to play once a week, but given we are all adults with busy schedules and graduate school and work, that doesn’t always happen. I wish I could play twice a week, though!13. Current party: @partycrashers-campaign plays Alitza Sokol. She is a 200 something bitter wood elf druid. She has lived in the woods alone since she was about 100 and shuns society, especially wealthy society. She loves documenting the flora and fauna around her and has a sweet owl named Celandine. Slowly but surely she is warming up to the rest of the party. Ask her about bird facts! (currently enamoured with Gideon Jura)@rollforcrabs plays Aria Saheeli. She is a human paladin from Amonkhet. She worships Oketra and previously served the princess of Oketra before she was sent to Theros to study under the temple of Heliod (a sort of multi-pantheon exchange). She is very loyal, very brash, and incredibly strong. She is also VERY GAY. She hits on pretty much every hot NPC lady. She keeps oranges on her at all times and has a pet crab named Clamps and a horse named Hunnie. She might start seeing a certain NPC~And finally, I play a DMPC. This is Ylvi Leofdaag. He is a wood elf rogue. He loves cards, dice, stealing, and has a penchant for getting drunk and making VERY BAD decisions. He loves jewelry and is pretty good at disguising himself using make up. He comes from a large family. His father was also a rogue and his mother is a laundry maid. He has a twin sister named Pyryth (they do not get along) and two other little sisters. And an on-again off-again boyfriend named Kyan, a bard.We also have @exor-schist as the wonderful WIcket Wobblecog. They are a tiny gnomish monk. They worship Irohas, the god of victory, and wear reds and golds. They come from a very large family (who knows how many Wobblecog children there are) located in the Gnomish city of Medias. Their family are clockmakers, but as a middle child, they had to find their own way. She sometimes joins the party and has saved them a swamp hag or two.15. As a DM its hard for me to eat and play. Also I have misophonia and can find food triggering. So we try to eat before game and take breaks for snacks instead of trying to play through them.17. Already answered!

19. I don’t. I just have a lot of dice and play with 3 sets in any given game! My players all have multiple sets and tend to swap out pieces randomly here and there when their dice mis-favor them, lol! In an old campaign I played though, if the DM brought out the ‘butter dice’ which was an ugly speckled butter colored d20, then we were all doomed.21. Many times. I think most recently, when a rogue named Amets from my Dragon Age campaign gave into a lust demon and got her memories back in exchange for betraying her party. It was absolutely heart breaking, because she kept setting them up for failure and couldn’t explain it and had to lie to them constantly. And she had to cope with a flood of her memories returning while her companions knew nothing. I regret her giving in deeply. She really hurt the people she loved. 8(23. I try to use original campaigns, but have run some pre-mades!25. Answered!27. OH YES! I use a lot of MTG homebrew stuff, given my current campaign setting. 29. RP heavy for sure!

31. Favorite class; Rogue and Bard Race: Tiefling. 33. I write lots of back story. I have one on ones with m players about their characters and introduce little things about them or with their family. I also use NPCs to convey knowledge about the places they visit to them. THey just have to ask and listen.35. TONS OF IT! Gobs and gobs of roleplay!

[teachmetoanimate]

My List Of Online DnD Resources That I Have or Haven’t Seen On Other Lists Of DnD Resources

Roll20 is by far the most important site. It allows the players to fill in their character sheets right on the page, and allows you, the DM, to view and edit it at your leisure. You also have your virtual tabletop right there, which gives the possibility to not have the fights all in theory, but right in front of the players. I won’t go too detailed since I think most people know about this one.

Tokentool. Now, if you’re a DM who, like me, has never developed the whole artist and digital art skill (or photoshop skill. Or any skill rly), then using Roll20 is a bit limited for you as getting cool tokens and whatnot is more than a hassle. Tokentool is great for us! Now you don’t have to worry about transparency or the size in the pictures your player provides you to represent them on the virtual table, since you can turn them all into the same standard size and put whichever border you’d like around the token, chosen from some presets. I’ve chosen to put a green border around the Player characters, and a red around their enemies, so they’re easily distinguishable from eachother. Now, Tokentool is a program you download, I’ve got it both on my PC and Mac (it works on the Mac, but it for some reason keeps the Windows layout when you go to choose files, just a heads up), so I’ve linked to the download page.

RPGTinker is GREAT for your overwhelmed, stressed out DM who dreads everytime you need to sit down and make a new NPC for your players to fight. You can fill out the basics, what class and race or you can generate that randomly as well, then choose the dice set in which the stats will be randomised among a few arrays which let you judge somewhat in which direction the NPC goes, and voila. The site generates it all, I N C L U D I N G  S P E L L S. There are tons of generators out there for ‘High Elf, Chaotic Good, Talks with a lisp, Is Energetic, Has 3 toes’ etc but when I make NPC’s I dread choosing spells the most so this was a GODSEND. Also great if you’re a player and has trouble making a character, poof, take this one!

donjon has many resources, so I’ve linked to the one I end up using the most, the 5e monster list. It has a bunch of generators though, and the dungeon map generator is a bit limited but given it’s free it’s great ;). Be sure to check that out!

PlugDJ, which by FAR is my favorite resource since it took a lot of effort finding it. It wasn’t made for the purpose I use it for, which is to play music to my players simultaneously in sync, but more for some cool music hipster kids to play music to others of similar taste, so there’s a voting system for every song that’s played and such, but you can just ignore that. I play with my players over discord since we’re in some cases towns apart, and the sessions we did with no music was sort of bland. I’ve tried a few options like the more known youtube sharing site Syncvideo, but I feel this is more superior in the way it lets me save playlists right on the site. This way, I can organize all my music in playlists that are fitting for the right occasion. Roll20 has a feature for playing ambiance music, but I found it lacking content wise, so this is a great alternative for my fellow online DM’s. Heads up: you have to be level 3 in order to create a community (room) unless you want to pay money, but you earn XP just by being logged into the site, so leave the window up for a few hours and you’re good to go. The site also operates from Youtube videos (you either search right in the seach bar for music and the results from youtube show up so that’s neat) or Soundcloud, and I think you can import sets and such from there but I haven’t tried it as I only use Youtube for this.

Random.org! It has a coin flipper, dice roller, and what I love the most, a playing card shuffler which is what I linked to. In case you don’t have an actual deck of cards available in case you need to draw a card.

Siri. We discovered you can ask her to roll any kind of die you want. It’s true. She’ll also flip coins if you ask her. “Siri, roll a d20, pls.” It works as long as you don’t ask her to roll more than one die, at least not when I asked her to roll 3 d20. She thought I said 3D 20 every time. She’ll also draw a card. She’ll do all the standard dice (d3, d4, d6, d10, d12, d20, d100).

Cityographer is just wonderful, but its very limited if you don’t buy a license. But the things you can do if you are very artistically limited (like moi) is great. You can generate a town (up to 5000 in population if its the free version), and then export the town as an image. The best thing about it however is that even if you don’t buy the license, you can still fine tune and add things to the map (if you have patience), adding roads wherever you want. The biggest flaw is that you can’t put down buildings by yourself, rather you add roads (or have the program do that for you) and then the program puts down the buildings for you alongside the roads. The generator isn’t perfect either, as it can generate roads in the ocean and through bigger buildings, so you’ll ahve to be careful how far you want to overextend. If you can, you really should get the upgraded version (i haven’t, but when I can I will!) Another great thing with it is that for every building there is a short decsription of what it is, and some randomised people that either lives or work there, very basic stuff of course but still. If it’s a shop, basic inventory and price is also generated. This is only available in the actual program, or you can get a list of all the decriptions. I have the program open and export an image that I show the party in Roll20, and they tell me the little label with the code of which building they want to learn more about or go into.  

This was half for me to be organised lmaobut here ya go! Happy DMing!