#we get dragonborns and thats IT?? THIS IS DND

[littlegalerion]

So, I was wondering why this dragonborn called my dragonborn "veyemniri"-

-so I ended up falling down a rabbit hole of forgotten or supposedly retconned lore for the race.

I will never get over nor get behind what WotC has done to D&D. Why was all this hidden and not in the main core books?!

And so help, for those that for some reason hate playing by lore or people obsessing over strict lore, I present an explanation from Bluey as to WHY playing by the strict rules of lore makes the game fun.

[skrunklyaceartist]

First session of dnd!

-new guy joined our team

- their character is literally Jesus Christ

Start:

-We attack a convoy

-I ambush them from the forest, Bard is in the carriage , Jesus Christ is just there I guess.

-Jesus Christ rolls a nat 20 on an intimidation check

-soldiers are scared shitless

-I stab someone but it didn’t go through their armor.

-Jesus Christ then picks up the horse, WITH the carriage, and THROWS it, killing 3 soldiers

-1 soldier survives, then gets mauled by something idk yet.

-witness some guy get murdered by a black dragonborn in a cave

Go to a town

-Stole skeleton key from a fountain

-shady guy tells us about a dungeon with three locks on it

-Wanted poster for some guy called Jack the Black (hope thats not important)

-buy the second key for 1 G

-“Wait where are my keys?”

-sees guy running away, chases him

-Takes of hood and its…

-JACK THE BLACK

-fight him

-nearly get obliterated by his acid breath

-poison breaths him in return

-he runs and drops all three keys

-Victory!! (I think?)

And thats it for now! Is jack the black going to return? Whats in that dungeon? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!

Art of us stealing skeleton key:

[gidianthe]

jaz - first ever tav & finished the game with her. my cinnamon apple. oath of ancients paladin married to shadowheart

nav - wild magic barbarian i made for a multiplayer game with gwen that we havent gone back to in like a month. whoops. she and laezel are girl yaoing it up in heaven

sav - assassin rogue/gloomstalker durge who murder kills so good like is so fucking good at it but also hates the perverted joy they get whenever they spill blood so theyre hanging onto that "resist the urge" journal entry with their fingernails. romancing shaddy

dawn - selunite cleric / oath of devotion paladin. romancing shadowheart obviously. literally just a good boy and faerun's most princely handsome butch and thats her entire job and shes doing it great. she's ken

taz - frenzy barbarian literally been running on adrenaline nonstop since the nautiloid crashed she's just smashing her way through everything including that gith pu-*the sniper*

genuinely cannot remember her name rn and bg3 keeps crashing when i try to launch it again - fighter dark urge. going to be evil-leaning but more in an uncaring self preserving practicality way of siding with the more powerful in any situation. enjoying the violence sure but its more abount keeping herself alive so that she can find out what happened to her and tear apart the person who fucked her over. hence her helping minthara. thats definitely the only reason

ash - bhaal's prettiest princess is having the worst fucking time of her life. tiefling druid of spores so she's getting bullied from both sides in act 1. everywhere she goes its like i can hear her just saying "this sucks i hate this". shes already so sick and tired of this adventure but the thing keeping her going is sneaking glances at karlach outta the corner of her eye every 5 seconds

don - this guy is a remake of a previous durge guy that i made bc the previous durge guy i suddenly realized looked far too much like the american biblical jesus christ from the bible and i had to get rid of him. he's gonna romance astarion bc ive heard so much about durge/astarion that i gotta. oh and an oathbreaker paladin

sora - dark urge monk. honestly half my reason for this is my friend mentioned a dragonborn monk tav he has and i in my head was like fuck now i wanna do one. ive been wanting to start a monk playthrough for a while now anyway and now i have her :l laezel gets to kiss a red dragon now <3

ta'lia - draconic sorcerer gith cause fucking of course you gotta do one. idk where im even going with her other than kissing laezel

jinx - ex-angsty bard/fighter multiclass. based off a dnd oc i had 3 years ago but specifically my post-scene-era version of jinx. prolly gonna romance karlach cause god knows she loves a tough woman

jace - i dont have much to say abt this guy. he's starting as a sorcerer but he's gonna be my attempt at a jack of all trades character. might make him romance gale just for the sorcerer wizard dynamic and also theyre both disaster human guys

[name unknown] - this little fucker is a rogue bhaalist military asset and a danger to public safety. gortash hsd deployed reaper drones equipped with missiles to take her out. this pink tiefling bard has zero regard for human life and in fact takes extremely unnecessary pleasure in gutting ripping tearing bloody murder. she's so fucking nasty and evil in a silly way

im gonna get a screenshot of all my tavs and durges in one post

[dragonsisterofthemanyfandoms]

So it’s been about 2 or 3 years since i’ve been on this site…

Some shit has gone down with my goblinoids. And i have recently found out that my cousin might just be the worst player in existence. Her main character now is a firbolg bard named Primrose.

A collective list of shit Primrose has done in the 2 campaigns she’s in:

-snorted bone dust from a skeleton she powdered with shatter

-put the halfling bard’s discarded teeth in Esku’s hood. Esku is a traumatized Yuan-ti pureblood wild magic sorcerer. He has really bad anxiety. Needless to say, Albion the party mom friend gave her a strict talking-to.

-She and the halfling bard (Calfira, played by my sister) got into an argument with a bunch of grung about Esku. I had to have Ria explain to them that the FROG PEOPLE were scared of the SNAKE MAN.

-in my sister’s campaign, where I play Albion the lawful good teifling fighter, she found a cursed book. Every time you open it, a wild magic surge happens. Albion, naturally, did not like the book.

-Primrose fucking loved it though. She opens it wayyyyy to much. In doing so, she ACCIDENTALLY GASSED A BLACKSMITH SHOP TWICE. Naturally, it was up to me to save the smith.

-She ran into the shop to save the smith’s flower crown. In doing so, she got lost in the poison fog. First instinct? Fucking steal a knife.

-after being lost in the fog for a few minutes, she decided that the only option was death. Not calling for help. Just fucking stabbing herself with a sword.

-eventually, i rescued her. She immediately ran back in and tried to kermit sewer slide AGAIN. SHE SUCCEEDED ON 8 DEATH SAVING THROWS BEFORE SHE FINALLY DIED AFTER ALBION ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED HER.

-we then found out that she had done all that BECAUSE SHE WANTED A NEW CHARACTER SHEET. SHE WANTED TO PLAY AN ORDER OF THE SCRIBE WIZARD BECAUSE I HAD GIVEN ONE OF MY NPCS IN MY GAME A TALKING NOTEBOOK.

-needless to say, her new character was a dragonborn wizard named Drexac. We ‘lovingly’ nicknamed her nutsack. Yeah everyone in the party hated her new character. Albion especially.

-we explored a magic items shop. Drexac found invisibility boots. Her first instinct? Tickle Albion. My sister made her roll for it. She rolled low. It was more like she was groping him.

-she decided it would be funny to pull Albion’s tail. That did not go over well.

-Accidentally cast Compelled Duel on Albion with an enchanted glove. She then refused to duel him. She made a ur mom joke at him.  -we ended up at this cute little elf village. Albion accidentally got engaged within the first minute of being there, but that’s a different story for a different time.

-by this time, my sister and i were so sick and tired of Drexac. My sister’s solution as the dm? Kill off nutsack and resurrect prim. That’s exactly what she did.

-now that prim is back, what do we do? Go get some funky animals.  -after that, it’s time to torture Albion. She opens that fucking book again.

-Prim and Albion swap bodies. This is where it gets wild.

-after realizing she’s been body swapped with a good, pure-hearted boi who has never done anything wrong in his life, she decides to flirt with girls. Remember, Albion is engaged at this point. 

-after ruining his reputation, what does she do? RUIN IT MORE. SHE STEALS A FUCKING DINOSAUR FROM A PET SHOP. AND RUNS AWAY WITH IT. ALBION IS PRACTICALLY IN TEARS BY NOW.

-thankfully, we catch up to her and the magic effect ends.

-wanna know what she fucking does next? Sulks because Albion said he didn’t like her. After the stunt she just pulled.

-there was a whole debacle where Albion and his wife-to-be Juniper had to bake a cake. She tried to help and got powdered sugar FUCKING EVERYWHERE. SHE ALMOST KILLED EVERYONE WITH POWDERED SUGAR.

Thats all i can think of at the moment, but rest assured i will post more dnd shenanigans because there is A LOT.

[gaberoothekangaroo]

so me and my friends are playing the curse of strahd campaign. for those not up on dnd, we’re basically fighting dracula in his own little pocket dimension where he’s kept an entire region of three cities and a bunch of people hostage for....generations?

enter us idiots. a split personality warforged (robot) paladin on the hunt for evil things, a tabaxi (cat person) druid who discovered her dead sister isnt dead but potentially helping strahd, a wood elf monk (who started as a wizard but thats just a fever dream now) who spends most of the time crooning to the wine barrel we borrowed, an apologetic cowardly lion-esque human barbarian that accidentally took the wild magic path, and recent addition a goblin ranger that hoards any and all weapons he can find in his fanny pack bag of holding. we had a black dragonborn rogue that played like a ranger, but we lost her mid campaign cause she had baby #2 at home in real life. we had a tiefling for like 1-2 sessions but lost her cause in real life things.

last night we walked into the ruined paladin fort. the warforged open not just one but four doors into the same room crammed full of spiders (which our dm kept reading the same passage as if it were a new room, to all of our delight ahaha). we also strolled into the chapel to find statues? that turned out to be three kneeling revenant paladins of the silver dragon. oops.

big oops. the barbarian, when he rages he has some random magical effect happen, magically grew vines and flowers and grass all over the floor around himself. this understandably made him angrier because hes spouted out other, more helpful magic before. he has successfully become enraged again in the past in order to try to trigger something else magical to happen--more often than not to the detriment of his party around him.

bigger oops. after a couple of hits by the revenants and two rounds of combat of throwing two handaxes from a distance before rage and swinging twice with a longsword enraged, he was at 9/52 hp.

biggest oops. surrounded by two revenants, he decided it would be best to leave their combat range and run back a bit to try to get angry again with a different magical effect. he knew he wasnt going to survive getting hit again. backing up, the first revenant missed with both swings of its sword. the second revenant struck with an opportunity attack which brought him to 0 hp. bleeding out on the floor. the second revenant took his turn--per initiative order--and proceeded to slaughter the barbarian bleeding out all over the flowers and vines growing from the rubble.

the party watched the dad figure get murdered before their eyes.

the warforged took the human, stormed out of the ruined fort, threw him on the back of their magical steed named jack, and raced off to the nearest town to go beg the priest for help.

now, to be fair, our dm typically pulls his punches and will have enemy characters move away once we go down but we had a friend playing some of the enemy characters last night and he took the initiative to kill. also since our dm has been pulling his punches, we havent faced nearly as many threats as we should have nor have the enemies been using all of their features against us. as our tabaxi put it last night, hes been having us play a hard campaign on easy mode lol

its not all bad. theres 2 potential paths the warforged has at trying to bring me back. if neither of those work, i get to play a new character. which should in all fairness be a cleric because we have someone go unconscious at least once a session. no one has heals. the druid forgets and is generally shapechanged into a giant creature doing lots of damage and our paladin only has like two opportunities to cast a spell and needs to keep those for doing radiant damage--which is the only damage type that really does any damage against all these evil vampiric creatures

so im sad that my barbarian may have bit the dust struggling to cope with the magic he thinks the fortune teller cursed him with, but i may get the chance to play someone else

[void-ivy]

Dnd stories? Hell yeah

So let's do a story time with some things that have happened while I've played some campaigns!

So this happened over the summer. I was playing dnd with a group of friends and we were minding our business, doing the quest we were tasked to do and suddenly this weird old dude popped out of no where and told us to get the venom from the spider queen. So us being us, went to go do that but it didnt quiet work properly. I had to leave to do something for a second and one of the other players was playing my character while I was gone. So while I was gone the person playing my character he somehow managed to seduce the spider queen??? I cant express the pure confusion and shock that was going through my head as I heard what was happening and i actually went along with it! The spider queen joined our party and we left the spider camp but the old dude from before popped out of no where again and murdered my new girlfriend. That led to a series of quests through the underworld to get her soul back and also get her a body. My party also met gordan Ramsey while we were in the underworld so that was interesting.

So this one happened more recently, this happened during my dnd club at school. My party and I were in the middle of doing a quest and we some how got captured by a big ass black dragon. At first he seemed lonely and since my character is a druid, she tried to conjure a bunch of fake animals to keep him company. Since the conjured animals only last a little bit, I was sitting there scheming while everyone else was trying to get out of this situation. The DM not so subtly hinted that if we sacrafice something to the dragon, we would be freed! The party and I started to loom around the area we were in hopes to find an animal of some sorts but no luck. So my genius idea was to trap one of my party members with my entangle spell and steal his pet goldfish. So i did that and sacrificed the goldfish and that somehow gave the dragon a shit ton of power and reality kinda ended for a little bit... But we got everything back to normal after we played the murdery version of spin the bottle! I cant really do this story justice in a textpost but dear god it was glorious and chaotic to all hell.

Now the most recent strangr story happened 2 weeks ago at the time of writing this. So before the quest even actually started I bought myself a cat (who i named julian thanks to a group chat's suggestion) and the party member who's goldfish i sacrificed was also with me and bought himself a snake. So we get the quest started and it goes pretty smoothly until we have to talk to a dragonborn in the tavern. Now since im the only dragonborn in the party, im tasked with talking to her in Draconic. So I do and the party member with the snake tries to fight me. We fight and I summon an elemental to fight for me and the snake party member ends up knocking me out, making the summoned elemental hostile to EVERYONE. While im knocked out, my cat is hidden somewhere but apparently she's within the radius of the snake man's thunder strike. So my cat enda up dying and im out of character now, yelling at him for killing my Julian like how he killed my pet opossum fridge. More shenanigans occur and im brought back, get knocked out again, and get brought back once more at 1 HP!! My character is loopy and totally out of it at this point and gets dragged to some secret cult meeting with the rest of the party and end up threatening the cult leader and my dumbass got my party nearly killed.

So thats all I've got for now, Ill add more stories as more shenanigans occur

[shrineheart]

More dnd updates:

In the current town Roger has gotten a rapier... which he has some feelings about because of his family history and his relationship with his sister.

Our Cleric and Paladin have been struggling with their connections to their gods. To the point that our Cleric lost his powers temporarily.

Roger had to physically get between the two of them to stop them from fighting each other. One of them threatened killing him.

Roger is 5ft flat and these are two very large dragonborn.

The three had to go out into the woods to hunt down a monster that might have something to help the cleric and paladin. The woods that make you go insane and get lost in memories. Roger and the Cleric keep failing Wisdom saves, the Paladin keeps his shit together. So the Cleric and Roger are having hallucinations of people from their pasts. For Roger it's mostly his sister.

We face off against a demon creature and the Cleric, charmed by the monster, turns on them. Roger casts countercharm and the Cleric stops an inch from killing him.

As a group they kill the thing, the Paladin and Cleric get fixed up and have their magic back.

Then we got a cutscene of the other group at the town.

Where a purple tiefling has just shown up. (his sister is purple)

Roger is going to have a fucking conniption fit. He's really going through it.

He also has words for the dragonborn which we get to cover in another session.

SO THATS GONNA BE FUN.

DND Update Time:

A LOT has happened in our game and I'm not 100% sure where we left off but let me just cover some things about Roger and some of the shenanigans he's been in.

Fuck Roger Cummingham, born Roger Cunningham, is a tiefling from an upper-class family. This family practices the tiefling tradition of taking on the name of something important in your life. His father is Honor, his sister is Charity.

And he is Fuck.

And hoo boy does his family hate it. They thought he was joking at first but he's been firm. That is his name.

Most people call him Roger but he'll answer to Fuck too.

He always did poorly in his household because he doesn't quite fit in. As a result, he sought friendships in different areas of town. He fell in love with the idea of being a sex worker and performer. He could do his favorite thing AND get paid for it?

A friendly madam by the name of Kimora took him in when he was old enough and taught him the ropes. Well before that he was learning dance and various performance tricks from the folks at the brothels.

He fits in immediately and does quite well.

The usual exchange on introductions is something along these lines.

"Fuck Roger Cummingham, at your service."

"Who's Roger?"

"Me. I'm Roger. It's my name and instructions."

During his time working at the brothel he caught the eye of many customers. One in particular though... one became something more to Roger. A boy who went by the name Lauren.

The pair fell in love. The young man was from a noble family and knew his parents wouldn't approve. So the two made plans to run away together once he'd finished schooling.

And then it came out that Lauren wasn't the only member of the family Roger had been involved with. Due to the anonymity of the brothel Roger, without knowing, had had Lauren's mother and sister as clients.

Lauren's father was furious and sent men after him. Kimora arranged passage for him out of the city.

But Roger wanted to see Lauren to explain himself.

And it didn't go well. Lauren had fully turned on him. Calling him a whore and saying he'd never loved him.

When Roger pleaded with him one last time to listen to him, Lauren called for the guards. And Roger ran.

On board the ship out of the city Roger met a chef/wizard named Paul. The young man made excellent food and seemed rather... dense about things like flirting, innuendo, and dirty jokes. Curious, Roger kept hanging around him.

And eventually fell for him.

Paul is asexual but he fell for Roger too. The pair moved in together. Paul doesn't mind Roger's work and Roger spoils Paul any time he can.

NOW, for our Game. Roger has:

Traded sex to a gator merchant for a magical tattoo.

Now has three magical tattoos which can move around his body. One is a tentacle that gives him the ability to use Eldritch Maul once a day. Another is a tattoo that gives him the ability to use Disguise once a day. And the last is just a little tattoo that he can move around his body and use to spell things out or make images etc. We've joked that it's the emoji tattoo.

Somehow been the least horny of the group while making the most sex jokes.

Gotten a tiny fire elemental sort of companion who he named Jake... because all I could think of at the time was Jake from State Farm due to my sister and I cracking jokes.

He also got a bow that can be used to shoot spells from a distance using said elemental.

Surrendered himself to a villain to save two random slaves. Persuaded her to take him on as a pet. Survived three rounds in the bedroom with her and fled the scene. They ended up killing her not long after. He's got some feelings about that.

Been downed twice but survived both times.

Has, with the rest of the party, adopted a small orphan that they all love.

Managed to NOT be the person who taught the child curse words first. That was the cleric... Who specifically warned the group not to teach the kid curse words.

Has acquired a magic mirror that shows you how others see you.

Dealt with a bounty hunter who was sent by his sister to track him down.

Is trying to score a threesome with the Paladin and the spirit inhabiting the Paladin's sword. Who happens to be the BIGGEST himbo on the planet.

Pole danced his way into a town. Rolled with advantage and got a NAT 20. Ends the performance perched on top of the pole.

Has been abducted in a case of mistaken identity and forced to perform in an opera.

Become the secret keeper and resident emotional support tiefling for the party.

He's a blast to play with a thick southern accent and a pretty easygoing disposition most of the time. He's such a wholesome little dude too which makes the whole thing even funnier.

[gracelandmp3]

if you're still looking for asks - who is/are your dnd character(s)?

BOY HOWDY DO I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT MY OCS also i dont think ive ever fully written them all out like this before i really have,,,,, lots huh

ok so my main bitch, who ive had for like ,,,, damn this frog game @torpidglory is running has been going for almost a year now thats wild - anyways her name is hadassa silverstone & shes a black dragonborn uhh,,,, failed revolutionary & priestess of the raven queen? mechanically shes a level 5 grave domain cleric w a criminal background and a Lot of issues - im kind of overhauling her right now in terms of like personality / rp stuff bc i know a lot about her backstory but i never really decided what kind of person she is? shes ,, the reluctant mom friend & she believes in fate and i think she tries to believe that most people have good in them & she should try to find it, but that kind of goes against her instincts (she grew up on and off the streets & was adjacent to the thieves guild, her dead twin brother was a member) so its something shes working on. she was a casual worshipper of the raven queen for most of her life and i think originally joined the temple as cover / to give her comrades access to a safehouse? but then over time she developed a really deep connection to the raven queen & now since the first thing she remembers after her whole backstory Nonsense which i dont have time to get into here went down is waking up in the temple, she really believes that her goddess has a plan for her & brought her back to life to achieve that. (sorry i think about hadassa a lot shes probably my favorite oc and i would die for her shes got a whole playlist which is a wip but like.. so u know how serious i am) 

then just continuing in order of when the games started we got ifrit kheferu, a tiefling sorcerer whos part of this dragon religion we made up?? narratively hes a favored soul but mechanically his sorcerous origin is phoenix bc i wanted to play an immolator but dnd doesnt super have that build so i improvised - anyways hes got a god complex & thinks hes a prophet & the dragons speak to him and also hes a pretentious nightmare twink..... hes heavily inspired by ephrim friendsatthetable and somebody else who i cant remember, hes only level 1 and we havent played this game in a Minute bc its a rotating dm west marches thing & i think im running the next oneshot (his full list of titles is the Reverend Ifrit Kheferu, Flame-touched, Lightbringer, Lesser Dauphin of the Coruscat of Thalia - formerly of the Marid, Third Flagship of clan Ifrit)

then we got Val, my bouncer paladin from the dungeon world game that my friend james is running - theyre a temple guard at the temple of the Lady, which we created during world gen as like.... a sanctuary for vice and stuff like that?? (weird things happen during the quiet year its a fun game lads) anyways the Lady is the goddess of thieves, luck, & protector of all those who use the roads so within the walls of the temple compound is kind of a combination hostel, casino, brothel, and marketplace? like generally the vibe of the Lady is that thing of where a bartender ends up being ur therapist, except that theyre a priest - so val is a bouncer, pretty much, but w a divine connection. theyre legally required to scam people in order to keep their quest boons. 

last but not least, brand new and untested, is ismene assam, tiefling swashbuckler rogue & first mate of the pirate ship la salope. she hates furbies, loves deals, and was gonna be my only non spellcasting character but, well, tieflings - her spells that she gets from her infernal legacy are like friends & charm person & stuff so i think she doesnt think of them as magic, just like,,, force of personality - i rolled on some tables from xanathars guide for backstory stuff and i think she was born in the city of dis and then moved around a lot growing up - one of her parents is a devil and she has some connection to nobility maybe?? i think she scammed her way into a court somewhere & ran off after getting engaged or married to a princeling im not entirely sure - again, untested. she cheats at cards, cant resist a bet, thinks she’s more or less unconnable, and shes gonna be EXTREMELY fun to play. her original concept was a gunslinger who’s just zoe from firefly but a tiefling, so theres still a bit of that in her? but shes changed a LOT since then

anyways i have a Problem and i play way too many divine classes

[spinyax]

Hey there!!! I saw the post asking about dnd character questions if we have them and hey!! I would love to hear an absolute infodump about your dnd characters because I love hearing about characterssss

IM SO GLAD YOU ASKED (under a read more bc its uh. very long)

SO starting off we have Orchid, my true neutral tiefling Ranger/Druid!

(art by @.spectralfelinae / @.spectralscribbles go check him out!)

- he has a pet swarm of butterflies and can turn into them since he's a circle of the swarm druid (the butterflies look identical to anyone else but he can identify each and every one of them)

- he doesn't speak! he's not mute, but in his culture they just don't talk. i haven't come up with a specific reason yet so if he comes into a campaign ill just let the dm figure that out lmao. he communicates with magic sign-language and if a spell requires verbal components he just whistles and makes bird calls instead

- he's lived in the forest for his whole life so any modern technology is VERY confusing to him and he's probably stabbed a train before

- one day im gonna hide him in a flower patch to ambush a target and its gonna look sick as hell

- personality wise he's very calm and serene, but also super brutal and unfeeling. kinda like Shinobu from Demon Slayer. (though the butterfly motif is unintentional aksjdhask)

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NEXT we have Taliesin, my neutral good Dragonborn Grave Cleric!

- He has a Russian/eastern european accent

- Taliesin (or tallie) used to be a battle medic in the military before the war ended and left him real fucked up.

- He eventually found sanctuary in a temple devoted to the Eternal Shepherd and became an acolyte, eventually becoming head of the temple

- That's also where he found his son, Galahad! He was left at the temple a la baby left on the steps of a church but instead of a baby its an egg and instead of a church its a death temple. Talie was the only one who remotely knew how to take care of an egg so he was put in charge of it.

- Admittedly, Talie had no fuckin clue how to take care of a kid, and a lot of his parenting techniques were probably fucked up in retrospect (teaching galahad to read via obituaries, teaching him math with bones, playing hide and seek in a cemetery, etc) but he genuinely loves his son and everytime i think about them i cry

- Galahad is grown up now and probably doing something in the world that makes talie proud

- It's not super well shown but talie wears skirts/dresses bc pants are a Hassle for dragonborn so he said fuck it

- He also has a pet bearded vulture named Carry it's short for Carrion) she helps him find stray corpses for him to bless and properly bury

- Personality: Taliesin is basically a healing/support main that's too old for this shit and is 👌 this fuckin close to snapping

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Xyraga Takimros! My first ever dnd character and the one i've changed the most over the years. She's a chaotic neutral half-elf rogue

[aight so i don't have recent art of her so uuuhhhhhh imagine there's a picture here]

- she's a dark skinned half-elf with long dark curly hair in a ponytail with a little bit covering her face. she has 3 scars on her face (one going over the bridge of her nose, one over her left eye bisecting the first scar, and another one on the corner of her chin) and yellow eyes.

- She used to be a member of the Courtyard of Miracles, a thieves/smuggler's den that focused on going out and stealing from rich cities to redistribute to their poor community

- she joined the court because her unofficial dad/caretaker was a founding member and she kinda got in because of that

- i have a whole bunch written on the court and how it was run but all you need to know is that xyra was the one who got stolen goods from point A to point B

- Xyra was a prominent member, known for being the fastest runner and the one who's been caught the least

- That's also where she met Bharu her orc husband. he was a bodyguard for her sometimes when they were transporting goods and eventually fell in love

- one day the courtyard is raided and xyra loses bharu in the chaos, so she's on a quest to find her dumbass husband and get the fuck out of dodge

- she also has a tattoo of a roadrunner bc that was her nickname when she still worked for the court (design isnt finalized but thats the Vibes im going for)

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Up next is Oni! Oni's a neutral evil tiefling/half-orc/half-demon/????? barbarian/warlock

(i know the sketch is super rough but it gets the idea across)

- Oni is a half-demon/half-orc who's essentially the antichrist. i'll be honest i'm probably not gonna stat her out like a proper PC but i might make her a BBEG if i ever DM (which is super unlikely but the chance isnt 0%)

- Her patron is her dad and they both loath that fact

- Her entire goal in life is to kill enough gods to gain enough power to kill her dad, since he has her lifeforce in the palm of his hand and can decide on a whim if she dies or not and she's not about that shit

- she looked and grew up like a normal orc until she hit puberty, and then all the demon features came in

- She's like, super tall. even for an orc at about 8 1/2-9ish feet

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THEN we have Halfey! She's my chaotic good high elf monk/bard

[i uh,,,, dont have an actual picture for her but i have a goofy lil sktch that'll just Have to Do]

- she's a dark skinned sun elf with a half-shaved head and bright red/pink curly hair

- she says she's 100 but she's actually only 75 years old (like 16 in Elf years)

- originally she and xyra were going to be twins separated at birth but i decided against it bc that was Too Much

- her parents are both high-ranking nobles and he was supposed to grow to be a proper noblewoman and be a bargain chip to marry some rich duke for the sake of alliances or whatever

- she instead grew up loud and rambunctious as hell and was the exact opposite her parents wanted her to be

- eventually they get fed up with her and sent her to live in a monastery in hopes the strict lifestyle would tame her in some way

- that didn't work lmao and she spent the next few decades miserable before the circus came into town and she snuck out to see it

- she fell in love with the general chaos of the circus and ran away with them, getting a job as a trapeze artist /tightrope walker and occasional dancer

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FINALLY We have Connie! She's a lawful evil fallen aasimar paladin

[uhhhhh no image here, but one day i will]

- she's a pale-skinned aasimar with short wavy blonde hair done in that marilyn monroe hairstyle and has pure white and slightly glowy eyes. she also has a barely-there halo around her head. she's also got a southern belle accent

- her full name is Condemnation Odette Nancy Delilah Elizabeth Maybelle Newman the Third, but her friends call her Connie

- her deity is the first horseman of the apocalypse, Conquest (or Pestilence depending on who you ask) and she does everything in her power to bring on the end times

- tbh she's more of a joke character that i haven't fully thought out yet but she's fun

[bookworm-2692]

8, 14, 17 for the dnd asks!

thank you!!!!

8: what does your dream dice set look like?

hmmm i’m not sure…. definitely blue. probably that etheral yeti one miho sent yesterday that i fell in love with haha they’re so pretty!!!!!

14: what inspired you to make your character?

i guess i’ll go through each of them.

norixius kava, dragonborn paladin (out of the abyss). this was my first one and i had no idea how dnd worked haha at all. in the car on the way to my cousins place, i was driving, and my dad and brother were reading through the books and talking about the races and classes and stuff and explaining to me bc obvi i couldnt read them bc i was driving haha. anyway we got to my cousins place and each of them paired up w the three of us to help make our first characters and we rolled for stats and they asked if i had anything i wanted to play and i was like “idk dragonborn sounds really cool” and they were like thats as good a reason as any, and then they suggested paladin would work well w my stats so i was like sure why not and did it haha. she survived the campaign, to level 11

matilda, human monk (curse of strahd). this was point buy system. i had mentioned seeing a homebrew avatar thing, so one of my cousins mentioned how way of the four elements monk is like the avatar, so i read through it and thought it sounded cool. i took the mobile feat, and went way of open hand instead. in this campaign we had a fight where four characters died outright (three deaths due to natural 1s in the death saves) and only two survived, including matilda. the dm mentioned taking the dead people to another room to discuss what to do and i was like “nah brian and i will just move since we’re the only alive one and theres more of you”. they ended up becoming revernants (idk spelling) but i suggested adding a caveat in place where every time you died as a revernant, you lost 1hp from your max, which we did. we then abandoned this campaign after 4 levels bc my uncle who was dm-ing was having trouble finding the time to read the campaign

jamnugget, gnome fighter (arcane archer) (storm kings thunder). this was rolling stats. one cousin rolled between 13 and 18 for every stat, and after race ability improvements got all 14-18…. so he multiclassed all of them and got to level 12 as one of each class it was a beautiful amalgamation (omg i spelt that correctly first try haha). then someone else rolled three single digit stats but was told he wasnt allowed to reroll so he became a druid for wildshape. he had -2 con, so only adding 3hp per level, starting at 6hp. 3rd level before he got double digits. if you averaged the rolls of these two you got normal stats haha. anyway onto my character. my cousin suggested the arcane archer thing on unearthed arcana so i was like “sure ok”. turns out you only got two magic arrows per rest thing and they werent very good so i hardly used them. the sharpshooter feat was way better. the best part tho was bc we were fighting so many giants, at one point someone cast fly on me, someone else cast greater invisibility on me, someone else gave me bless, so then i went in a chased a giant just shooting him on my own while everyone else was doing something else it was great. i also accidentally succeeded on an intimidation check bc an npc was saying “im sure we could handle a giant” when we asked about that and i was like “ive killed 15 myself” (bc we were keeping tallies on our sheets) and the guy panicked bc was technically in an alliance w them whoops. jamnugget survived the campaign. six of the seven original characters survived to the end, my brother went through four characters

maegrakka, half elf barbarian. we were told to make characters for a quick one shot dungeon thing for when storm kings thunder dm wasnt able to make it. so i made a barbarian bc i decided that was something i hadnt done yet and would be easy to just make (no spells. i have a strong aversion to spell casters). i think shes level 3 now???? every time we play this everyones like “wait whats my character again” bc its so long in between haha

nissa, human rogue 1 monk 2. one shot a friend wanted to dm before he moved to canberra. it was very fun. i made a monk bc i was desperate to play again bc matilda had been abandoned. i added a rogue level for sneak attack damage, w mobile feat, it was great

clover, human fighter 11 or 12, monk 3 or 4. level 15 fight to the death situation. i knew how powerful the arcane archer stuff was so i did it here. monk levels were to give me back up in case i got engaged in melee. i shouldve had some sort of healing that was my downfall. my first character to die bc three of them were ganging up on me!!

meredith, elf wizard (tomb of annihilation). we started off playing as commoners, as servants to this lord guy. so i was a librarian and realised id have to be a wizard dammit. i hated the spell casting part haha. she died. its funny bc my dads character died at first level, then we levelled up. brians character died at second level, then we levelled up. they were also sitting next to each other. i was sitting in the next seat along so was worried i was also gonna die… then my brother took that seat and died instead. so i was like there is definitely a curse. i was in the next seat along, and then one of my cousins. then came a fight where my cousin next to me turned to stone and then i died. turns out he could come back to life so the death seat thing continued. we levelled up to level 4 after my brother and i died in separate sessions in the same location. also my dad and brian died in the same location in separate session. so now theres multiple patterns - theres the “someone needs to die to level up” thing, and the death seat thing, and the two characters dying in the same location in separate sessions thing. w my cousin who got turned to stone, i keep on insisting he stays in the death seat bc either he dies (death seat) or he doesnt (he tricked death w the stone thing so is now immune), and if he doesnt die either it skips him and my uncle dies, or no one else dies ever. its very exciting haha. also w this campaign theres a map thing only the og characters can see and we’re joking how now only three characters left can see it and you can see how my cousin the dm is getting worried that we’ll all die haha. also the campaign is about how the og characters lord got sick and we need to find a cure, but once the og characters die then who cares about the random lord? itll be very funny haha

elenoa, tabaxi monk (tomb of annihilation). since i started at level 4 here, and matildas campaign got abandoned at level 4, it felt fitting to play a monk again. no mobile feat yet, but im playing the sun soul monk from xanathars which gives a radiant punch w a range of 30 ft so i dont need to get close to punch and then use mobile to run away. 

i havent even talked about where the names for each one came from….. maybe another time if asked……..

17: what is your favourite race?

idk actually. the only races ive ever played multiple times are humans, but altogether ive played longer as a dragonborn or gnome than human so like. theres not super much difference in the races in phb, like its just flavour. the new races and stuff have heaps extra stuff, but tabaxi is the only one of them ive ever played and only two sessions so far. i think humans are cool bc you get a feat at level 1 haha but other than that theres not really much difference in them yknow? races w darkvision make things easier too haha but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

thank you for these asks!!! it took so long to respond haha im gonna be late to uni now (bc still in pjs havent made lunch or brushed teeth or anything and if i wanna be on time i gotta leave in the next 15 minutes so maybe ill just…… skip this lecture lol idk haha

[ask-team-talon]

Overwatch D&D Log #1

(or: the beginning to that D&D campaign Reaper mentioned. Will do more if I ever get all the way through the askbox XD anyway, thank you for 100 followers! actually 102, but I was a little late. sorry, and enjoy! -s)

Reyes: are you guys sure you wanna do this 

Reyes: i can personally guarantee neither of you are gonna get any sleep tonight 

Amari: pfft are you kidding 

Amari: this is gonna be GREAT 

Amari: right Rein 

Wilhelm: Yes. Are we going to start or something 

Reyes: please tell me everyone brought character sheets 

Reyes: also where the hell is mccree 

McCree: right here, boss. 

Reyes: good 

Reyes: now character sheets 

Reyes: and i swear to god if everyone is a rogue im gonna shoot something 

McCree: i'm a human rogue. 

Reyes: of course you are 

Reyes: what about the rest of you 

Amari: halfling sorcerer 

Reyes: not the best combo but ill take it 

Wilhelm: Dragonborn Paladin. 

Reyes: 

Reyes: is this the same character you used in the crisis 

Wilhelm: I changed his backstory

Reyes: reinhardt please 

Wilhelm: Ana's reusing hers 

Reyes: yeah but hers doesnt suck ass 

Amari: ok but gabriel 

Amari: just give him a chance 

Reyes: fine 

Reyes: but its kinda tradition to introduce our characters anyway

Reyes: ana you start 

Amari: got it 

Amari: so her names amaryllis nimblefoot 

Amari: she lost one of her closest friends when she was young and became something of a necromancer as a result 

Amari: she uses her powers for good though 

Amari: mostly 

Reyes: alignment 

Amari: chaotic good 

Reyes: fine 

Reyes: mccree 

McCree: his name's- 

Reyes: if you say jesse james i will personally giftwrap your cigar stash and send it to angela with a note expressing your undying love of the sole reason you never get laid

McCree: 

McCree: ok hold on.

McCree: his name's James McDonald. 

Reyes: are you fucking kidding me 

McCree: he had a rough life growing up. 

McCree: then this guy taught him how to fight and died. 

McCree: so he adventures around looking for his mentor's killer.

Reyes: well its better than the last one 

Reyes: alignment 

McCree: true neutral. 

Reyes: thats fair 

Reyes: reinhardt 

Wilhelm: His name is RASDHALL SHUCHENDREAL 

Reyes: i like him already 

McCree: why? 

Reyes: his name isnt john cena 

Wilhelm: He is a DRAGONBORN PALADIN, sworn to protect the innocent and less fortunate from all manner of evil 

Reyes: i take back what i said 

Wilhelm: Or at least his halfling companion Amaryllis 

Reyes: what 

Amari: if you kick him out im going with him 

Amari: and you can't play dnd with one person 

Reyes: 

Reyes: i hate you all

[hdawg1995]

DnD Antics: VENRAMOUSA!!!1!! (pt.2)

12 hours remain as the party battles the dracolich, Venramousa.

okay so alicaria is stealthed and can’t be seen by dracolich but dracolich knows shes there. theres some goblin/skelly-dragonborn things running around the lair doing what ever, and Ven takes a few steps out. Nazul had gotten behind the cave wall to avoid being seen. he is crushed when the dracolich tries to pull herself out of her cave by grabbing the wall he was standing against. (also shafiek wasn’t here cause we were going to play tomorrow but then we didn’t and sadness) Lady (vale’s winged serpent) got eaten by a burrowing black dragon so she casts blade wall.

lindsy:-it makes a dex save to avoid the blades- DM: it can’t avoid this... Ryan: cause its in his mouth lindsy: >:3 he hears “chock on it, BITCH” in his head.

Envoy turns the dead dragon that Elizander surfed (forgot to mention that, sorry coolie!) into dust. Coolie: i make dragon surfing my next legacy event! haha no DM: you get dragon surfing as legacy event. Sam: does spine count as a dragon? DM: Spine counts as a dragon for when you activate the dragon surfing ability. Ryan: i am a fucking dragon XD

Monk plays support hella well and makes a air vacuum to get the acid breath from the burrowing dragon to go away and plugs another undead water hole. bear and Spine are underground. Life Shield is a blessing!  so alicaria gets in and- ryan: leap of faith it. its based on what ever favor you have with your deity. sam: which one? ryan: the one thats not DEAD! sam:....which one? XD DM: haha dameon would turn it into a game.

Sam:...dameon... ryan: wait- Sam: could use youe help here- Ryan: HOLD ON DONT LISTEN TO ME! Sam:- cause im either gonna live or join you for a game! and she jumps. Ryan: DID YOU SERIOUSLY JU- WHY WOULD YOU LISTEN TO ME???

so alicaria closes her eyes and leap of faiths into the hole where the phlactory is. two skelly dragons attack- the first takes out her leg, the second crashes into the first and they fight. the head of the second gets knocked out and almost kills alicaria. seeing the bone spike pit, she hears “are you feeling lucky?” and rolls. we ended up using ALL our rerolls in order to save alicaria. she turns into a white dragon, lands, then looks at her leg and yells “WHAT THE FUUUUUCCCKKKK????”

back above ground envoy surpresses dracolich’s breath weapon and hits her with PRISM MOOSE BLAST! then spine DOES THE THING! THE THING RYAN HAS WANTED TO DO SINCE THE START! THE THING THAT VAUGHN HAS NEVER SEEN!

SPINE. SUPLEXED. THE DRACOLICH!

she took her weight in damage and died/scattered on impact. oh wait yeah also Spine killed the burrowing dragon too! so now she has to spend a round to repair so everyone gets ready. as she raises spine creates a fissue and fills it with lava, Elizander has “witcher’s mark” on her (so shes agroed to him only) and wolf finds out dracolich has 5000 health. wolf word of recalls into the pokeball, dracolich charges and dragon rages. monk kicks butt but dies, vale kicks butt but DOESNT die, bear and spine work together to try and stop her but fail (in doing so dracolich dies AGAIN cause returning damage SUCKS for anyone hitting that bear). Spine calms down and blinks into the cave. together with alicaria (who has spent the battle making a new leg for herself) they break the phylactory. a pearl rolls out and thats the thing controlling the soul well. ryan: spines gonna pray to yethan DM: 200,000 souls.... excellent. all for me.  Spine: yeah about that....

with the phlactory broken its time for one last battle! 

lindsay: wait shes leaking arcane energy? DM: yes. lindsay: odds or evens? table: *chants ODDS* linday: *rolls. its odds* im going to feed algris. DM: its not gonna do anything to ven. linsday: i don’t care, its on my to do list! “feed algris”

dracolich gets beat up real good again and then- DM: she opens her mouth. roll will. Coolie: *fails* DM: a green swirling liquid pours out of YOUR mouth into her’s. you are dead. me: FISHFACE FOLLY! DM: it goes off after the spell. elizander’s body is next to you.  coolie: a ress wouldn’t save me? DM: no. and if she flees, you’re perma dead. ryan: hey heather. you have soul bond as a paladin right? me: yeah, it was on the list. ryan: can she pull his soul out of her? DM: she’ll have to roll.

10 VS a 72. Envoy pulls elizander’s soul out of the dracolich “Thats Not Yours, Sir And Or MadAm!” then shoves it back into elizander. she then fires about MOOSE PRISM BEAM and KILLS THE DRACOLICH!

DM: fuck it! you level! its my birthday and Envoy finally killed something.

bonus: spine explains to yethan why he needs half of the souls. yethan shows up. talks o devil. gets spine’s phalactory and all is good. hopefully. 

[diamondnokouzai]

chatting about my dnd character under the cut

bernard is the second son (a twin) of a farmer.. his father and twin brother died in a hunting accident when he was three, so he grew up with only his mother. his mother went through a lot of stuff after that, which resulted in, in order, 

half-elf triplets (two girls and a boy) (misky (f) tayze (f) and beauregard (m))

a half-dragonborn (gold dragon) child (cotalla) 

a half-drow son (drixben)

tiefling twins (a girl and a boy) (diana (f) and johann (m))

a halfling stepchild (jessie, but theyre the same age as the triplets)

a half-orc daughter (tarora)

these kids didnt start coming around until bernard was six. so bernard’s mom (molly) had nine children over the course of nine and a half years, and then when bernard is sixteen, his mother dies because of a terrible illness. so now heres bernard, who had a steady boyfriend, and now bernard has nine children, all under the age of ten, two are under the age of five, and he just. he cant be dating right now. so instead, he joins the guards of sarenrae (essentially the army, bc bernard’s country is devoted to sarenrae) because the guards get a good pay and their children get a good education

so youve got bernard, who is quite possibly the kindest, sweetest guy in the world, hes a paladin of sarenrae, and every week he drags in his nine siblings, usually carrying five or six of them with the other three or four on toddler leashes so they dont wander off.

so bernard is just, doing the best he can, and five years after he joins the guard, he gets called away to go to war. hes got nine kids to take care of, only three are old enough to take care of the others, but misky, tayze, and beauregard are all much less trustworthy than bernard. they arent bad kids, by any mean, because they were raised by molly, who was the nicest woman in the world, and bernard, who is the nicest man in the world, so these are pretty nice kids. in game theyre considered to be chaotic good, but like. misky and beauregard arent above pickpocketing to survive, and tayze will only do things for his family.

bernard still goes, because bernard believes in sarenrae and believes in fighting the good fight. so he leaves the farm in the hands of the triplets and jessie, and after giving every single one of his kids a hug and a kiss, he goes out to fight the war. hes gone for three years.

when he comes back, tayze and misky are gone. all that beau and jessie will tell him is that the two of them are out on the ocean

(tayze and misky are pirates. they have shifted to chaotic evil and chaotic neutral, respectively. they make a good profit, and bernard’s hometown is fairly far inland, so they arent at great risk when they go home to visit, which they do once a year. they take tarora and the twins on a tour of the ship once and let them pretend to be part of the navy of sarenrae, even though the ship is very obviously a pirate ship.)

so now bernard is twenty-four, beau and jessie are eighteen. beau is terrible at farming, and he really doesnt like to do it, so beau moves to the middle of the nearest city and joins the thieves guild there. he does it on the DL tho bc bernard does not, precisely, approve of thievery. he tells bernard that he studies from the school of summoning (bc he summons things from other peoples pockets into his hands, and bc he makes things disappear) so bernard is very proud of beau. beau is proud of himself too, but he keeps lying about being a thief because bernard’s Disappointed look is a terrible thing to suffer. beau also has some fun with bands of roving thieves that try to attack the farm, because beau can use a scimitar like no ones business

jessie goes kind of the complete opposite direction. they leave the farm and head into the nearby woods, and they keep going north. they get to the northernmost part of the continent, and they just start. living there. so they become an ice druid, and they also get a moose companion that they name afeeha. jessie comes back south every so often, shows tarora and the twins how he can polymorph into a snowy owl. bernard is VERY proud of jessie for following his heart, and jessie is all ‘yes yes thank you, how are tayze misky and beau?’ because he is the ONLY one that knows everybodys secrets and he uses that to his distinct advantage

cotalla is fifteen at this point, and they go to a nearby city (not a big city or anything) and they join the bardic college there. they are very good at singing and playing the lute and other string instruments, but cannot play a wind instrument for the life of them. so cotalla becomes a bard of kord (the fightin’ god) and essentially, what that entails is cotalla sings a shitload of battle songs with the guards of sarenrae, and then gets nasty when the fighting gets to them. bernard is SO proud of cotalla, because cotalla kiiiiiiiiind of technically joined the military? and he really loves the guards of sarenrae, who helped give all his siblings basic education, so hes real proud that cotalla joined.

drixben, at this point, is thirteen, which is a bit young, honestly, for him to go to any college. he doesnt, really, actually, want to do much of anything. he visits beau sometimes, who is lying to everyone about being a wizard, so beau invites his warlock gf and bf over and lets them teach drixben about magic. this is a terrible idea, actually, because drixben kiiiiiiiind of sort of becomes a warlock. which, if you done know, is, like, he made a contract with an ancient bestial terror.

so beau and drixben are like, ‘okay, this is a Secret From Bernard’ (its mostly beau because he kind of ruined drixben, even though bernard would still love both of them) so now drixben has warlock powers but he doesnt really ever use them. so now drixben is kind of having. problems. with his powers.

diana and johann (yo-hahn, yes these two and bernard are the only ones in the world with normal names) are nine years old. so they dont do much. u know. they still have to go with bernard wherever he goes bc those two would definitely burn down the house if left alone

tarora is eight years old, and is kind of in the same boat as the twins. the thing everyone asks when they come back to visit bernard is ‘where are tarora and the twins’. at this point its tarora-and-the-twins as one word, and, honestly neither tarora nor the twins like that.

so you have

tayze, chaotic evil half-elf pirate (who loves her big brother to death)

misky, chaotic neutral half-elf pirate (who loves her brother but also is less mean than her sister)

beauregard, chaotic good half-elf rogue

jessie, true neutral halfling ice druid

cotalla, chaotic good half-dragonborn bard

drixben, neutral good half-drow warlock

diana, ??? tiefling

johann, ??? tiefling

tarora, ??? half-orc

bernard is very satisfied with his life. however, its at this point that the current king, who was a SUPER good dude, dies and gets replaced. not by his daughter, who was a super awesome girl, but by his sister in law, who is not so phenomenal. she kind of ruins the country, and the guards of sarenrae TECHNICALLY serve the goddess sarenrae, so theyre like, i will not serve you. and the new queen is like, i will not force you. and then she takes their families captive and is like, but i recommend you do because otherwise your families will die.

the queen does not manage to nab all nine of bernard’s siblings. she does nab tarora, diana, johann, and drixben, whereas jessie is too much trouble to get, beau is too damned sneaky, misky and tayze are already technically wanted by the crown (but they use stage names, at first because they didnt want bernard to know about how bad they were being, but now theyre like ‘yes!! we knew this would happen we are so smart’), cotalla is actually in a foreign country fighting a war, and then when the war is over, theyre like ‘no thanks’ and they just. dont come back.

so bernard leaves the farm. he puts his ex in charge and now hes traveling the country,  searching for his family. hes no longer part of the guards of sarenrae, but he still considers himself a paladin, except he hates the government.

so anyway thats bernard and i love him.

[dnd-inspiration]

Okay if you’ve sent me an ask in the past week, its here!

I'm currently working on a campaign for a group i'm currently playing with. At one point i'm going to be splitting the party. One player has to go alone while the others have to stay in a room watching the other through some kind of magic eye thing. The thing is I'm not sure what to do with the half of the group thats just stuck watching. Any suggestions? (also the villain of the arc is a crazed cult leader)

They both fight a pair of monsters. They’re life linked, when one has damage taken the other takes it too. If a player manages to move the monster, the other monster moves in the same direction.  2. The group is in a large room with puzzles and levers, and has to help the lone player by opening doors and such? 3. The players can find hidden lore to read that can help the lone player.

@propertyofthereaper said to dnd-inspiration:

So I'm thinking of pranking my party tomorrow, nothing permeant. What do you think would be a good way to do this?

Probably too late to answer, sorry. It sometimes takes me a few days to get to these so if you have anything time sensitive, send them more in advanced. If you still want an idea: You’re gearing up to fight a dragon. Its just a really big kobold.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

hey ! any ideas for writing a really detailed campaign with a mystery for the players to solve? im trying but everything i write is just too obvious

Try reading some mystery books, or modules, or even look up murder mystery party games. Look at how they set up the murder, the suspects, etc. and twist it to your own liking. If you can’t come up with your own detailed story, this is probably the best thing for you.

@tobmind said to dnd-inspiration:

I have a plan for the person my PC's are chasing to teleport them away. Im just not sure where to or what they might have to do to get back.

Teleport to under the water in a lake. Nearby is a village, along with a magic man who can teleport them back if they do him a favor.

A different plane that seems exactly the same with the players in the same spot. There are subtle differences, like words being backwards and doors opening by just falling over. They can get back by saying their plane’s name backwards?

Theres way too many possibilities that might or might not fit with the character/campaign. I’d be more help if you had more detail.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

Do you happen to know if there is a god/godess of Spite?

“- Cas (NE) (Heroes of Horror page 19): Also known as the Lord of Spite, the Red Grudge, and He who Balances the Scales. He is the demigod of vengeance and spite without end. He is the moose-headed god who nurses rage and fosters frustration. The scattered priesthood of Cas maintains that beneath the veneer of civilized folk lies the accumulated fire of all the injustices he or she has ever suffered, just waiting to be releases; that all secretly worship Cas, even if only in their deepest, truest subconscious.”  you can google these pretty easily, and you can make up your own or just change the name/gender/etc to make it fit better.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

So my gang wants to join a thieves' guild and I thought it would be fun for them to do challenges based on dexterity, stealth, and deception. Problem is I can't think of a decent challenge to test their deception.... Any suggestions?

Convince a villager of a strange, untrue fact.

Convince a guard you’re here to replace him for his shift.

Convince a villager to let you stay with them for the night, then rob them blind.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

A pair of magic scissors called The Fated Shears. What should they do?

If they come apart, one always goes back to the other one at 20 speed.

If you cut your hair, the ends weave a story of someone near you who is going to die. Death can be prevented.

If you cut at the air in front of you, a small portal opens. Just big enough for an arm to reach in.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

So my players are headed to a town that is considered a ghetto and the entire population is non-human. They're going to retrieve a package, but I don't want it to be so cut and dry and have them get the package immediately. What should I put in their way while they're in town, side quest wise???

Highway robbery. Guards trying to get bribes, harassing players, etc. Someone trying to steal the package, bribing characters for it, etc. Rioting and looting due to new laws, beggars, thieves trying to get sme coin.

@postseptimus said to dnd-inspiration:

I'm running a campaign where magic is pretty strictly prohibited and I'm having some trouble figuring out how to get cool items to my team of two. Can't think of what to give them or how to give it to them. For now, I'm thinking random dungeon loot, but I figure you've got to have to wicked ideas as well.

Non magic or magic items?

Non-magic: thanks from people they’ve done quests for.

Some bloke broke into a facility, stole items, and is selling them at a nice discounted price.

Magic: Someone ditched the items before being caught.

Black market was raided and shut down. In the commotion, no one noticed a bag hidden. Comes with sick items, but also a man looking for his things back.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

I'm trying to come up with some magic items (good and bad) that my players happen soon during a dream walk, but I am coming up short on ideas. Think you can help and maybe recommend something?

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/5e_Magic_Items_by_Rarity

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

Ok so I'm DMing a game for a few first time players. I'm gonna be the only one who has any firsthand experience with D&D but this will be my first time as DM and I'm not really sure how to balance the challenges for them. Like, I don't want to make it so easy that they lose interest but I'm a bit worried that if I throw anything too hard at them, they're not gonna know what they're doing and they'll be killed. early on. Any advice?

If they’re dying, fudge your rolls. Make your guys miss. If it's too easy, make your guys hit harder or have more come in.

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

The dnd I'm running had my group returning a lot to a home base, which is a fairly large town. I have a lot of trouble thinking of npc events though, do you have any ideas?

Thieving street kids, a granny who gives you sedative laced cookies, a man who wants to buy your base for… shady reasons, a pair of halflings that want to worm their way into the house and steal/murder, a very VERY large dragonborn who says this was his old home and that he’d like to mourn his grandmother's passing by their old oak tree, a new set of guards who are strict and aggressive [they demand all weapons are kept at home, stop looking so shady, get out of here before we arrest you, etc.], a new vendor who pushes his products on everyone [everyone loves it a little too much… curious].

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

Hi! My players are going to be rescuing their friend from a mob soon, and I intended them to disguise themselves as members to do so, but I don't want to railroad too hard. Any ideas on how to subtly convince them to kill as little as possible? Not sure if this'll help, but they have a NPC who grew up in the city alongside this mob.

NPC begs them not to, as a favor. Keep as many alive as you can in exchange for your friends life. Keep alive for information. Keep alive for bounties. Keep alive for less backlash from the mob boss [who will be very, very upset. And is very powerful.]

Anonymous said to dnd-inspiration:

I'm making a campaign where the heros eventually fight aliens (I made custom monsters already). How should I introduce the aliens without being obvious?

Describe them as any other creature you would. Don’t make them little green men with big black eyes. Or, if you do, describe them as “Strange with a short stature. Their skin has a twinge of green, and are humanoid. Their limbs are gangly, their bellies slightly round and their eyes seem to show intelligence.”

@onlyslightlytwisted said to dnd-inspiration:

I'm dm-ing a campaign where my players have been employed to essentially assasinate a king, who rules over a land where magic has been outlawed. And little do they know, they've actually been employed by the kings soon. It's a big mission, but they're up to the task. I wanted something to go wrong that's a little more creative than " they get caught" but I'm at a loss. I'd love a few ideas, thank you in advance!

The son betrays them, reveals your plan to everyone in the middle of the act and uses magic to save the king. He wanted to help magic users.

The son is a heavy magic user. He’s addicted. He doesn’t want to stop. The king is dead, but magic is still outlawed and he can’t change it. Instead, he’s decided to murder anyone who tries to stop him. Also you, so you won’t tell anyone about his plans.

[gaylienn]

4, 6 & 35 for dnd ask 🌱🎲

Hey tazz!

4. Your current campaign.- We uhh well, the team went to this city called seemsworth, for various reasons, where a bunch of dragons attacked during the moon festical, and one of the fucking moons disappeared, and now we gotta find the moon again, thats where Va’taal joined

6. Favorite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc).- Hmm, have we had any really? The only one i can think of right now is Viola’s brother, but he came back. I men we have goten some monster deaths... Well I did get to burn a dragonborn to crisp with burning hands, kinda cool

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?- I’m not amazing, but I try to RP and be like in character as much as possible

[ventrue-rosary]

ALL the dnd asks

Holy shit thanks! I won’t answer the DM ones cuz I’m not really a DM. Or at least not yet.

1. A favorite character you have played.

I am really fond of all my children but I think the character I am having most fun with right now is Autumn. A very untypical Princess, and I enjoy the dynamic she and Winter share

2. Your favorite character that someone else has played.

Hmm a tough one. I know so many people who have just amazing dnd characters but I would have to give it to Balthazar or Winter. Both fantastic well-rounded characters I quickly grew attached to, even though they aren’t mine haha. Or probably helps both of these have some attachment to one of my characters

3. Your favorite side quest.

Oh, the masquerade ball last week in Dragon Heist for sure. I’m a slut for balls. And the whole evening was very romantic for Autumn, which then took a dramatic and heart-breaking turn at the end

4. Your current campaign.

Ohhhh I can’t choose. Dragon Heist and The Third Ring are both amazing. 

5. Favorite NPC.

DRIZZT DO’URDEN. Though Marcion won my heart big time last week. 

6. Favorite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc).

Zazif getting one-shot was pretty satisfying ngl 

7. Your favorite downtime activity.

Interacting with other characters

8. Your favorite fight/encounter.

Out first encounter with Strahd was definitely pretty unforgettable. Our DM had a guest come in and play as Strahd and he was...terrifying. We got rolled over haha 

9. Your favorite thing about D&D.

Answered here

10. Your favorite enemy and the enemy you hate the most.

Answered here

11. How often do you play and how often would you ideally like to play?

2/3 times a week is good I think. Not too much but enough to satisfy the itch 

12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from.

Answered here

13. Introduce your current party.

Right! So in Dragon Heist we have Autumn (thats me!) daughter of my other dnd character Amaranthe and Balthazar (both PC’s from CoS), a tiefling Princess with a fiery temper. She and her aasimar twin, Winter, stole away form home four years ago. During their travels they met a handsome tiefling warlock, Kevir Pride, who seems to take a shine to Autumn but not Winter. In Waterdeep, they happened across a human rogue by the name of Gar who seems to have a penchant for gambling and thieving, his bad habits getting him thrown into jail. Warkon, the stout, righteous dragonborn paladin once proudly served as a guard of Neverwinter now seems to be regretting his choice of travelling companions

And in The Third Ring, a homebrew campaign we are part of, we basically all opted to play our CoS characters. So you have Amara (me!), blood-hunter and Balthazar, a barbarian the Princess and her protector who are romantically involved, Chip, the sweet 13 year old druid everyone now vows to protect, Vander, the ranger/rogue in desperate need of a hug and Zazif, dickhead wizard in need of a punch. As of now all our characters are pretty shook up after a humbling defeat and our looking to strengthen ourselves so we won’t fail a second time. 

14. Introduce any other parties you have played in or DM-ed.

I won’t do all the one shots or we’ll be here all day. Tyranny of Dragons consists of my character, foul-mouthed flirty lush Lyris who should probably go to therapy and her army of lesbian daughters, sweet bean Nix, equally sweet Zinnu (though she left to be with her family), Siria the resident loveable bitch cleric, along with their reluctant step-dad barbarian Branek, drunken pyromaniac druid Varis and the only normal one, the warlock Lyle who is probably wondering wtf is wrong with the rest of us. 

15. Do you have snacks during game times?

Usually yes

16. Do you play online or in person? Which do you prefer?

Online solely now. I was part of a weekly meet-up group for Tomb of Annihilation bout or DM grew too busy and the group just sorta fell apart after that. While online is more practical and means its easier to organise, there is an appeal to having hand-written character sheets and rolling physical dice you can never capture through roll20  

17. What are some house rules that your group has?

I don’t think we really have any house rules really, but Dess refuses to kill PC’s 

18. Does your party keep any pets?

Well Lyris has an animal companion, as does Vander. Do they count?

19. Do you or your party have any dice superstitions?

Sometimes our die rolls are so cursed I believe we have angered RNGesus sometimes 

20. How did you get into D&D? How long have you been playing?

I got into dnd through Critical Role and a university friend. I have been playing for over 2 years now, I believe 

21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done?

There are a few things, yes. I wish Amara told Balthazar how she felt earlier. I wish she could have stopped him and Vander chasing their deaths in the Amber Temple. That Lyris’s past caught up to her friends, affecting them so badly one had to seperate from the group. 

22. What color was your first dragon?

Blue, I believe 

23. Do you use premade modules or original campaigns?

I DM’d once, and it was all homebrew. I have played a mixture of homebrew and premade modules 

24. How much planning/preparation do you do for a game?

Errr...the one time I DM’d it was weeks worth of prep 

31. What is your favorite class? Favorite race?

Blood hunter/half-elf or feral tieflings. Not sure

32. What role do you like to play the most? (Tank/healer/etc?)

Answered here

33. How do you write your backstory, or do you even write a backstory?

Answered here

34. Do you tend pick weapons/spells for being useful or for flavor?

Answered here

35. How much roleplay do you like to do?

A lot. RP to me is one of the major appeals of dnd and one of the most enjoyable aspects! I understand there must be narration and combat too, but I do generally prefer RP-heavy sessions