#literally feels like the fucking . what’s the dnd thing. when barbarians go into a rage or whatever
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bright-and-burning · 5 months ago
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those web weaves abt daughters w their fathers’ tempers are so fr bc why did i just get so mad i gave myself a headache
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thepringlesofblood · 2 years ago
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Casting My Opinions Into The Void: d20′s Neverafter ep 1+2
this is the first d20 campaign im going to be following live and i am excited enough to do a lil post each week or so about it. mostly bc recycling and adapting and retelling and retranslating old stories that “everyone knows” is my whole shit. like i got a degree in the study of ancient greek and roman civilization (classics). my whole thing is reading old myths and plays that “everyone knows” how they go and seeing what each author/translator brings to the table.
anyway i watched episodes 1 n 2 and i am excited and my observations are below
(like if you were really into the Sisters Grimm series as a kid and are similarly excited for this lol the modernized fairytale characters in that series are literally called “Everafters” and its because it’s really good shorthand for the audience. i see you brennan i see you)
normally ppl who do the whole ‘dark/horror/thriller fairytale’ thing fuck it up bc they think it’s about the shock value, or about seeing how nasty you can get with it, so I usually avoid them, but after bingewatching a kadrillion d20 campaigns, I trust brennan to do it right. you have to find the core value/crux of what is horrifying about the story and tease it out, and play with the symbolism and icons of the original story to reflect that. and brennan fuckin delivered.
ep 1
folks, give a hand to the people who put detailed yet non-spoilery content warnings in the description. tbh dropout shows are setting the standard for sensitivity and inclusion in media. it’s so lovely to see a show w content warnings or pronouns put up onscreen and it just not be addressed. i am forever spoiled for any other kind of media tbh
at some point in the past, brennan found out he could make a really good realistic choking/gagging noise, and he has used it in every campaign since.
i appreciate the ‘scare off the meek early’ approach of it all.
th. the briars. the concept. the dead princes - UGH good backstory yall
i very much like the idea of becoming a ranger out of necessity, and because plants obey you on account of that whole feeding-on-your-blood thing
puss in boots using ‘pib’ as a nickname instead. of ‘puss’ or ‘boots’ - inspired
also zac is using his ‘smart little shit’ voice like he did w lapin and i am v excited.
look ill say it - the little red hen did nothing wrong and thats on that. i read that one when i was very little, it was on electric company or sesame st or between the lions, and i’ve always liked it.
so......anyone see how mother goose’s husband has the last name hubbard? like old mother hubbard lol
also there really is a Jack in so many stories, i’m glad we’re addressing this. little shit gets up to so much trouble
it feels like I have seen so many tired rewritings of little red riding hood, even though I can’t think of any off the top of my head. it’s usually a sort of surface-deep ‘girl power!’ situation. i’ve never seen one like this. i LOVE it. it was terrifying. the fact that we all just sort of accept ‘barbarian’ as a normal dnd class is kind of wild tbh, i like exploring that rage and its source.
Ep 2
saying the actual nursery rhyme in the context of being the nursery rhyme is so powerful. i fully didn’t understand what was happening to nat king cole (v powerful) until he was gone.
also, herr drosselmeyer - fantastic get. you have to talk about the sugar plum fairy at some point and they already went in hard on her in acoc so i love that they were like you know what, it’s weird uncle time.
(context: herr drosselmeyer is clara’s eccentric uncle with a bunch of automatons and he gives her the nutcracker)
also every production ive seen has his drip immaculate. 
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my gender is this man’s cloak
Murph is the fucking ball again
“Please tell me how you’re a monster too so I don’t feel so alone” - Jesus Christ Emily Axford
Almost getting distracted by a bird instead of picking up v obvious plot hooks: pt 2
cinderella.......dude
Brennan really looked at K’s finale scene from mismag and went “how DID the mice get lithium?”
The POV of the mice - simplifying it makes it sound ridiculous, but if you really dig into the idea of the mice as sentient beings it’s horrifying.
Dude the symbolism…stepmother eating her kids bc they were always either a tool or an obstacle to her, of course they would be a sacrifice to her hunger for power.
i’ve always liked endings that have the stepsisters reconciling w cinderella bc in the end they were also victims of abuse and it wasn’t the same or the same degree of abuse as cinderella but they were still constantly on thin ice
can you tell that i rewatched d20 live recently and sobbed at adaine and aelwyn’s ending?
Cinderella stabbing the fairy godmother with the broken heel of the shoe that symbolizes both the ending she was meant for and the life that she was forced into. Turning that into glass armor. dude.
The pumpkin carriage rotting bc the fairy godmother is trying to make the happily ever after stay exactly how it is forever but nature decays and time passes and she can’t acknowledge that without realizing both that her role is in the story is over and not only does cinderella not need her anymore, cinderella doesn’t want her anymore, and maybe never wanted her in the first place. 
When puss in boots was asked what he wanted in life and he just said ‘to be comfortable’ #relatable like I know all this is gonna end with him realizing the value of love and friendship over material goods and I 100% agree with that but i feel like this goal or some variation of it are v common today and not often addressed in stories like this
Pinocchio swearing - 10/10. Also how the fuck is Lou doing a Pinocchio voice that perfectly straddles the line between hilarious and annoying. It’s ridiculous enough to always be funny, but sustainable and varied enough that it doesn’t grate on you.
i think we’re getting into “all the princesses in all the stories are all sisters” territory and i for one am THRILLED
"mirror, mirror.......leaned up against the wall”
we learn in this adventuring party that the OG concept for lou’s pinocchio is that he snapped off his nose so he would be able to lie, which is AMAZING. i fully did not put that together.
i am v excited for this battle, and v terrified.
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creacherkeeper · 3 years ago
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How is the cowboi doing? :) I’d love to hear about some of their recent adventures.
OH WELL IT'S ME + ALSO MY DICE HATE(/love) ME SO YOU KNOW THEYRE GETTING WHUMPED CONSTANTLY LMAO
there have certainly been some Events Unfolding so those are under the cut, casey since youre in our campaign now NO PEEKING
fair warning this is .... long ..... you have asked me to talk about my dnd character and you simply CANNOT stop the floodwaters now. enter at your own risk
okay so basically the first arc of the campaign kind of kicked off with them getting a vision from their goddess (the grain goddess/goddess of agriculture) saying that she was trapped in a fey gate and that they needed to come rescue her
so erley immediately Rallied The Posse and set off to do that. they NUMEROUS times tried to pray to her, commune with her, basically just get ANY sort of communication or guidance from her, but the dice like to tell their story so i literally never got above an 11 (paladin with only +2 to religion my beloved) and they never heard from her, which was making them. pretty nervous. when it seemed like everyone else was able to talk to their gods just fine
well we eventually figured out that there was a huge gathering of fey in the woods (me: this might be too big for us to fight. what if its like 30 fey? / my dm, glancing at his notes where he has 2000 fey written down: (: ) and basically the fey like. had captured and were trying to kill what was left of the pantheon so they could bring back gaia as the One True God
we found all this out because it turned out several members of the party had been lying about how much they knew of the fey and had personal connections to the fey they'd kept hidden. and erley, who is ALSO HIDING A LOT from the party like. immediately went on the offense and was just generally very unhappy about this
there had been this fey merchant who kept popping up wherever we were trying to sell us magic weapons that seemed tied to us specifically. erley was always VERY suspicious of her and did everything in their power to stop the others from buying her weapons (which we literally had to buy with -5 to a skill point, not money, v sus) to mixed results. but basically when we got to the fey gathering (we called it gaiapalooza) erley rolled a 1 on their survival check to get through the magic field and like. got teleported to her. and they really wanted information from her so they basically were like LEORA I DONT KNOW WHO TO TRUST I THINK MY PARTY HAS BEEN LYING TO ME, CAN YOU TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THEM CAN YOU SEE US WHEN YOURE NOT THERE? and basically pretended to need a therapy session in order to milk her for information lmao. she also seemed like. REALLY interested in erley and i was also very nervous about that
and i was RIGHT to be suspicious of her because we found out she WAS ACTUALLY THE BIG BAD and we had to fight her in the arc finale. and several of our party members had rl stuff and were not there, and in game our druid was away casting an 8 hour long spell to try and stop the palooza ceremony, so our party was SUPER nerfed and also as soon as erley realized it WAS actually leora who was behind all of it and she WAS trying to hurt them with those weapons (the weapons were tethers to the gods to be able to kill them basically), they got .... a little angry
and my party found out after irl a year of playing these characters that erley's first level is barbarian :))
so erley raged and did frankly a staggering amount of damage in this fight, and also only stayed up because of rage because they took a LOT of hits. but also. they dont rage FOR A REASON so it sort of took them over and when leora dropped, one of the other pcs ran over to stabilize her as she was making death saves and erley :) maybe :) drove a spear through her heart and killed her :)
and her body immediately just like. overgrew with plants and vines and flowers and basically wrapped the spear in a bed of plants and it was very cinematic and cool
(we have since found out that leora was like. actually an aspect of gaia so. that is. interesting)
of course then erley popped out of rage and was like FUCK this is why i dont do this, i went too far, it always goes too far, THIS is why im ashamed of this, and just got very emo boi about it. so they used their last spell slot to cast restoration on the space they had fought in and reached out to their goddess, having just saved her and the rest of the pantheon like she had asked them to
and i rolled a nat 1!!!
(the dm was like "you have committed this violent act, you feel so low and so bad and in need of guidance, and reach out to your goddess. and the absolute lack of a response just makes you feel empty inside" and i was like :) oh :) okay cool :) you love to see that with your paladins huh)
at this point the druid came back in and, instead of erley like. examining any of their own shit immediately lashed out at her and was like "why did you lie to me about the fey, why did you lie about why you were here, why ARE you here because i realize now it wasnt to help me"
and at that point ONE OF THE FEY QUEENS WALKED IN and the druid was like "... mother ..." and we were all :O
so it turns out the fey queen is her birth mom but had like? kidnapped one of the children of her firbolg tribe and was holding her hostage and the druid was on a quest to find her and bring her back
so erley :) felt :) even more bad about that :) and very shamedly pledged their help to her, and basically was like "as long as youre on this noble quest i will follow you if you'll have me"
so we're on our second arc now, which is traveling across the country to go meet the fey queen and get this kid back. as we were traveling my dm had me roll religion and a luck check and i got a 21 ON RELIGION FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER and a 6 luck. and he was like "you dont usually dream, but you have a nightmare. you know this nightmare was given to you, it was divinely inspired, but you dont know who sent it" and it was just erley killing leora over and over and over again. so they were like. well fuck
(my dm also messaged me privately and we talked and he was like. yeah you can get rid of your oath of devotion and change it to oath of the ancients, i am not telling you or erley why the subclass has changed and you also might get nerfed later. also level up barbarian for the next fight)
so erley was. feeling PRETTY DANG BAD and very guilty and stressed and all that. they did also realize their barbarian side was getting stronger which, considering their backstory is all tragic barbarian shit they were NOT happy about. i was fully prepared to have them be more ostracized from the party and go into full angst mode, but then the druid actually like. pulled them aside and explained why she had hidden information from them, and had a very sweet conversation with them and held their hand and it was VERY touching (she also had the baller line "you think your goddess can hear you and she's not answering. but maybe you're talking in a whisper and she needs to hear you scream")
we had another fight (we're level 7 and my dm told us after it was a cr 32 fight like. dude??? what the fuck?????) and once again erley didnt go down only because of rage
THEY ALSO UNINTENTIONALLY CAST MISTY STEP (which is an ancients spell they didnt have before) and were like WELL NO TIME TO UNPACK WHAT THAT WAS RIGHT NOW, HAVE TO NOT DIE
after the battle was over i asked to roll a check to figure out why i had access to that spell and got :) yeah you guessed it :) another nat 1 :) so erley has literally no idea how they cast that or what it could mean. we just had a new pc introduced who is a sorcerer so erley is definitely going to talk to her and see if she knows anything. because they are FULLY IN THE DARK about their subclass change or what that means in game
we're also (because of the fucking cr 32 fight) going to be leveling up again soon, and babey you KNOW im leveling barbarian. after rage kept me up and then rolling another nat 1 religion check, and also me the player not knowing whats up with their goddess/magic, i simply cant level paladin rn. so im BETWEEN A FEW SUBCLASS OPTIONS and ive been thinking them over but i think it really depends how the next few games go
my FULL ANGST option was to make them level into zealot barbarian like their awful dad, but i thought that made the least sense in universe rn
secondary angst option is to level into berserker, which i think fits pretty closely with how i've been roleplaying the rage so far. trading off an extra attack for a level of exhaustion fits pretty closely. also whump central
the NICE option is to have them be a totem warrior barbarian, and have both their paladin steed and their totem be a bull :) (they are a cowboi after all) i think thats the closest i can marry their two classes and potentially have some healthy growth for them, let them see that the rage doesnt HAVE to be a bad thing, that being a barbarian isnt something they HAVE to be ashamed of. reskinning the bear totem would give them resistance to all damage but psychic while raging, and im planning on taking the tough feat, so theyd pretty much be ... an unstoppable tank. plus i can still divine smite while in rage so theyd be VERY powerful
and now youre all caught up on my very special boi :))))) bet you didnt expect quite that much of an infodump but. listen. listen im simply obsessed with dnd i cannot help it. any chance to talk about my characters i WILL TAKE IN A HEARTBEAT (thank u for prompting my ramble lmao)
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vividlywriting · 6 years ago
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Dbh and DND you say....( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Alright, let's try this on for size: the main cast of Detroit: Become Human plays DND? Who plays what class? I imagine Millenial on a Mission Hank DMs but I'd be open to any of them writing a campaign and forcing the others to play
So my partner and I are pretty into DnD, and as he partook in my play through of DBH and listens to all my fanning out I asked his opinion on this prompt.  So I will put his additions or contradictions in here as well.  This is gonna be a bit long
Let’s start this off right!
DnDBH
Hank Anderson, millennial.
Has played DnD at least once in his life.  
It probably wasn’t his forte at the time, likely something his roommate pulled him into, and the campaign was probably a bust as it was.  
Has most likely played video games like Divinity Original Sin 2 and Baldur’s Gate and liked them.  
He’s also played WoW and Guild Wars 2 at different times and for different reasons in his life
neither of which lasted super long, but he did enjoy them at the time
He honest to god hasn’t thought about DnD or anything even similar to it for a couple of decades until Connor found an old set of dice in the spare room (now Connor’s room) at Hank’s place
Now Hank is running a campaign and he has no gods damned idea how he got roped into this
He thinks it’s hilarious when he throws moral quandaries at his players, which all happen to be androids
He once had his players break into a government building to locate a prisoner for information, they were forced to choose between freeing the prisoner and escaping or leaving them behind.  
All of their information on the prisoner was shaky at best and they had no way of knowing if the character would turn on them later because they all failed their sense motive checks
He was dumbfounded when they managed to befriend the character, completely ruining the arc that had the character as the big bad
Hank is well over the “I roll to seduce” aspect of the game, and is thankful none of his players tried to do that more than once
The only time an NPC flirts with a player character is when Hank is trying to throw a player off/fuck with them and derives a lot of pleasure from seeing his players stumble and try to get out of it
Except for the time when it backfired on him
He finished two glasses of whiskey after that
Hank will not admit that he enjoys DMing, he often complains it’s a pain in his ass and he can’t wait until the whole thing is over
Hank agreed to test Markus’s homebrew oneshot…once
Hank Anderson, millennial, by Zeke
No bad guy at first but increasingly intricate moral quandaries
Before moral quandaries he forgets he can’t just throw puzzles at the players cause fuckin androids
General DMing
Almost everyone has DMed at one time or another based on their interest
Connor as a DM
Connor’s DMing style is very straight forward
He usually goes with premade campaigns, luckily there are a lot out there
He’s not the best at improv when his players go off the beaten path
But he’s very good at playing NPCs
Probably thanks to his programming as a detective, because he can play the NPCs’ emotions to a T
As a DM he is a little bit of a hardass though
Connor as a Player
Connor style of character play is much different than how he is in real life
He seems to enjoy the fact that he doesn’t have to “complete his mission” 
In fact he seems to enjoy causing as much chaos as he can, while still somehow doing what he needs to, and often by accident (or design, no one really knows)
He started with a classic rogue character build
Now he takes characters not often in the rogue class and building them in ways that end to his chaotic play style
Connor is the main reason Hank has had to set off random events or traps, e.g. rocks fall sort of situation, just for annoying him
Connor takes incredible care to keep his characters alive, somehow in spite of the trouble they get into
His character’s tend to have a much higher charisma stat that Connor portrays in real life, he takes it as a challenge for himself more so than his characters
Connor as a Player by Zeke
Likes to play Dex based characters
Likes the concept of spells and often leans towards characters that can do both sneaky stuff and magic
Tried playing evil alignment character once, went balls to the walls and then got banned from playing characters like that because even North was like “wtf”
Markus as a DM
Markus usually starts with a premade campaign
By the time the party gets through the first “dungeon” he’s tossed the script out off the window and is rolling dice and making it up as he goes along
His NPCs often sound a little the same
And when he digs into the homebrew style of DMing he likes to bring in scenarios that either play for or against his players personally
Markus as a Player
Markus avoids leadership character roles like the fucking plague
He actually leans towards the utility characters, buffing and healing the rest of the party
That does not stop the other players from looking to him to be the deciding factor in major decisions of the game
Sometimes he literally just rolls a dice to determine his character’s answer out of frustration
When anyone but Hank DMs he enjoys flirting with most NPCs to try and mess with the DM
He has flirted with enemies before
He has bedded enemies before
It is ridiculous how his lowkey background character playstyle manages to have that much charisma
He is usually the reason Connor doesn’t die in game, and he never lets him live it down
Markus as a Player by Zeke
Every once in a while Markus likes just playing a barbarian and raging
After the first campaign of him ending up as a leader character he just wants to play something simpler
Simon as a DM
Simon is a very thorough DM
He’s very keen on everyone enjoying themselves
But he’s also a very fair DM and if you roll a Nat 1 you’re gonna have to deal with the consequences
He actually really enjoys building homebrews, but he also has a handful of backup plans depending how the players move forward and how much time they have to play
His NPCs have a decent amount of variety, and they often come back into play later whether or not the players realize it at the time
Simon as a Player
Simon is probably the most diplomatic character player you’ve ever seen
His characters are usually quiet, and startlingly efficient
He plays arcane casters usually, and uses it about as equally against enemies as he does against the party to quell the in party bickering that tends to happen
He likes being useful, but more importantly he enjoys the fact that there are many times the party would have been screwed over if he hadn’t stepped up
It took about three sessions before the other players stopped underestimating him and his characters, they tend to be quite lethal 
Simon’s characters usually try to solve things without violence, or without deaths
Someone, either player or DM usually makes that impossible 
While Simon usually just sighs and says “ok then”, he often laughs at the resulting destruction
He has incredible luck with his dice rolls
Simon as a Player by Zeke
Tries making things with high charisma scores but usually ends up defaulting to Markus’s leadership who just tries to put back to simon
Really good in the cleric/healing character classes
North as a Player
Prefers playing, not DMing, the one time she tried to take over for someone to run a oneshot everyone died. 
It did not go well
Most of North’s characters fall somewhere between chaotic neutral to chaotic evil
The others have fallen in the Lawful side of the chart, lawful evil to be exact, and it is terrifying
Her characters change alignment the most as she plays based on how she feels towards other characters and NPCs
Despite that she has yet to fall into the Good column of the chart
Her characters are also either highly destructive or just plain really good at violence/fighting
She doesn’t have a preferred class type, she just likes doing as much damage as possible
North does like playing races that are often less liked in the campaign world
She also likes to retaliate to in game racism and has before collected a small gathering of NPCs she’s helped in someway because of this
As a character player she can be quite cold
She has yet to play a game where the DM included any sort of brothel, unless it is there for the sole purpose of being infiltrated and the workers being saved
Yes that was a game Markus ran
North as a Player by Zeke
Fighter, Ranger, Swashbuckler/Pirate Characters
Josh as a Player
He is just happy being a player
LOOT
This boy will find the loot and you may or may not know about it
He has killed the least number of people than anyone in his party
He prefers to not kill anyone if he can
Leave them out cold, or tied up, he’s even fine with dismemberment so long as they still have their life
When he does have to kill its in either one of two ways
Either he poisons them and they or most characters have no idea he did it
OR he makes it quick and clean
He plays the assassin class very very well, or he would if he actually did his job as an assassin
Josh as a Player by Zeke
Uses the loot for a good cause
Chaotic good or neutral good
Always good and opposite of north, by accident
Monk or brawler and always specifies he is doing non lethal damage
Stealthy monk - josh becomes one punch man
Kara as a Player
Kara is a healer
She’s learned the best builds to give you the best buffs all day long
Her characters are often pretty fragile though so the other players usually have to strategize around her to make sure she lives so she can make sure they deal the most and take the least damage
Her characters have all ended up rescuing someone or something at some point 
This has lead to her almost always having a companion animal or favors she can call in from NPCs later in the game 
It’s been pretty handy
Kara Player by Zeke
Witch, Druid, Shaman classes
Alice as a player NPC by Both of Us
Was allowed to join to play as an NPC, reprising similar roles, because the first one went over so well
She learned to make stuffed animals just to slam them on the board
They are always too big
It was a dragon
It only happened because she found Hank’s old copy of The Hobbit
When she plays as her NPC she jumped up on her chair and holds up a stuffed animal of a dragon and screamed “I am fire! I am death!” slammed the toy onto the board and yelled “ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!”
Hank’s response was to look at his confused players and say “Well, go on, do it.” because they didn’t think it was serious
Almost no one has it in them to actually kill her characters, even tho they only exist to be fought
So Hank has to come up with “an out” for the NPC baddie to get away
Because of this Alice gets really into high fantasy books and movies
Hank doesn’t mind babysitting her as much now
Luther as a Player by Both of Us
He only plays occasionally
Mostly oneshots not full campaigns
Plays the smallest characters he can
He knows what it’s like to be big, he wants to be smol
He made one min/maxed orc that was too broken to be used more than the one time
He’s a really soft spoken player, he doesn’t say much but he enjoys playing
The Jerry Gaming Collective
Is a thing
Find them on twitch
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