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six-improbable-things · 4 months ago

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Soooo.... we ended up not actually testing ship combat... We spent 2 hours talking about the rules and making sure we were both solid on them and on the same page, and then the DM asked me a very unrelated question and we talked for almost 4 more hours and never tested ship combat. [*sigh*] Nah, I'm not mad I genuinely had a ton of fun talking to him. (We're very similar in some ways and complete opposites in others. It makes for interesting conversations.) Plus it gives me time to actually make the Tide Breaker's map... Since I didn't have that done for this week.

The dnd ship combat doc I made for my DM is 2.5 pages long now... (but that might be in part because I do not know how to be concise.) I know dnd is not the system for sea combat or extensive sailing. But it's happening anyways (blame me, ofc), so I'm going to make it work. Me and the DM are doing a trial run of ship combat tonight, and since I wrote the rules and also will be playing the captains of the ships we'll be on, I'm basically becoming co-DM for these fights, which is gonna be great.

#love my dm and love my party but I feel a little bad for him sometimes.#bc the party is literally the least reactive party ever and he's literally told me that he has had to totally reshape how he plan the game #to deal with their lack of reactivity. And it PAINS me to hear that. He's a people pleaser (his words) so he'll just keep going like this #but it HURTS me. Meanwhile me and him are very similar in how we write stories and play the game so it's perfect.#I genuinely think that me being a writer outside of dnd makes me more amenable to stuff in-game???#like one of the other players fucking HATED this NPC who I loved and so the DM spoiled a major reveal (that he's the BBEG) to please him #and even the player was like ''I would not have told me that''#but the point is that: I was obsessed with that NPC because he really was my dream NPC.#but even if I hated his guts I know that the DM isn't stupid. I know that everything he does has a purpose.#including ''unlikeable'' NPCs. (usually. there's a few joke characters but it's very easy to tell who those are and who's not.)#Idk I just feel like it was blatantly obvious that this character had a larger narrative purpose whether he was ''likeable'' or not.#and maybe I'm just a bit upset about it *because* he is/was my favorite NPC of all time. But yeah idk. It pisses me off a bit.#and I keep setting myself up for failure with this party because I keep setting up these huge moments with tons of emotional stuff #for the other players to react to. And then they just... don't??? And it drives me nuts.#ahhhh I love these guys but sometimes I want to hit them over the head.#self-reblog #morrigan plays dnd #personal #luckily they will never read this so I can be as honest as I like.#like I said. This is my favorite campaign I'm in atm (since I'm only in 2 active ones rn) and I love these guys I really do.#it's just a bit frustrating sometimes and I feel bad for the DM because he claims it doesn't bother him #but he also has literally had to change how he runs the campaign to accommodate their lack of reactivity.#I have hope for them yet though. At least I *have* to have hope bc if the giant stuff I have set up for Rook falls flat bc of a lack of #reaction from other players I will be heartbroken. Nothing in my life brings me more happiness than dnd and nothing in my life can hurt me #more than dnd.#it's a double-edged sword it really is.#(this is the problem that comes from getting unhealthily attached to fictional things to a perhaps obsessive degree. yay for me.)

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