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I'd like to be, under the sea, in encounter area 22, in the shade (cartography credited to Diesel -- David S LaForce -- from AD&D adventure “The Wreck of the Shining Star” by Richard W Emerich, Dungeon 15, January/February 1989)

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when you make enemies with one of the two unofficially assigned chefs in the groups

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ARCANE SEASON 2

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Look, if someone wants to buy me a suit of armour, I’ll test the hell out of it. But until then, here’s some theory!

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✨New item!✨ Cloak of the Condor Wondrous item, common (requires attunement)

As a reaction when you fall while wearing this cloak, you can cast the feather fall spell, targeting only yourself. Once this spell has been cast from the cloak, it cannot be cast again until the next dawn. Roll a d20 each time you cast the spell from the cloak. On a 1, the spell fails and the cloak permanently loses its magic.

Falling from a devastating height is the most probable way a drake rider will meet an untimely end. To mitigate this risk, drake riders of the Hotho tribe weave condor plumage and protective enchantments into their riding cloaks. It’s not an infallible practice, so it’s also common to pray to the gods before mounting up. - 🖌🎨 Like our work? Consider supporting us on Patreon and gain access to the hi-resolution art for over 200 magic items, printable item cards and card packs, beautiful creature art and stat blocks, and setting pdfs with narrative hooks and unique lore!🧙‍♂️ Thank you so much for your support! 💖

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ttrpg seinfeld

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Merrill with daisies flower crown 🥰

Okay I’m loving this texture brush so much, and playing around with it.

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I might have some insight on this. I think there's a subtle, but important difference between the two planes.

Kamigawa is modern, but it's also unfamiliar. While it's obviously inspired by culture from the real world, very little about it (from clothing, to food, to tech, to architecture) feels like something we could ever experience in our everyday lives. It's all been fundamentally altered by the presence of magic and magical beings like the kami. And because of that, it feels less like "our modern world" and more like "a constructed fantasy world that just happens to be modern".

But Duskmourn... as much as I love Duskmourn as a concept, it can feel a little too familiar sometimes. Familiar names, familiar clothes, familiar technology, familiar fears. The world that became Duskmourn feels more like our ordinary, mundane world than anything that came before it, so it doesn't feel like constructed fantasy anymore. It just feels like what our own world would be if Valgavoth got to it.

And that can undermine the player's suspension of disbelief. Magic was designed with a distinct constructed fantasy flavor. For some people, Duskmourn's urban fantasy vibe can be too much of a change.

There's a delicate balance to be struck here. When building a fantasy world, it needs to be fantastical and unfamiliar... but it can't be too unfamiliar, because the audience needs familiar concepts to help them navigate this strange new world. So what is "too familiar", and what is "not familiar enough"? Unfortunately, there's not an easy answer for that. For some players, even Kamigawa was too much. No creator can please everyone.

Again, I love the idea of Duskmourn; I'm not writing this to be a hater. In fact, I'd love to see it return someday! I just hope that when it does, it has an identity that's more its own. What was this plane like before the house consumed it? What interesting things did people eat, wear, build, and tinker with? How did Valgavoth warp those things to inspire fear, and how have vestiges of that culture survived despite Valgavoth's efforts?

There's a boundless well of possibilties here. There's a lot you guys did right with Duskmourn; you were really cooking when you served up Valgavoth. But by leaning too heavily into familiar motifs, I fear you might have held yourselves back. Only by embracing the unfamiliar can Duskmourn unlock its true potential.

Why do you think modern Kamigawa was so beloved but other planes got so many complaints for "too modern for Magic". Personally, I'm a fan of all the different things you've been trying, but I'm curious on why those things were perceived differently.

It’s not as if Kamigawa was liked by all and others were liked by no one. Each had its fans and its foes. Kamigawa just skewed heavier towards fans than the average set, I think because it was a home run of a set.

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Embrace of Nature

Wondrous Item, rare (requires attunement by a druid)

“This necklace is made of a complex pattern of vines, weaving and interlocking with one another.  They hold a single deep green emerald close to the chest. Despite being made of flora, this magic item cannot be broken or torn.”

When you expend a use of your Wild Shape feature, you can grant temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier plus your proficiency bonus to a creature you can see within 30 feet of you.

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Storyboard sequence I made from the video game "Baldur's Gate 3"!! Love Karlach.

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Be warned: if you ask this bookcase to sort its books by the size or colour of their covers, it will express its disgust by immediately falling on top of you.

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god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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A group of friends and I did a one shot recently in 5e. The catch is that they play something called “Dude Squad” where the only play “dudes” (not exclusively male people, just dude mentality) and they hate all magic and magic users. They think true strength is muscles and only muscles, and have in the past encountered magic users who they then convince to give up magic.

We got told to build a level 17 character for this one shot, most of the other folks had previous Dude Squad characters to resurrect. But I didn’t really want to play a straight martial class. In my heart, spellcasters are my true class, and I didn’t really have a strong idea of what kind of character to make.

So I approached the DM and said, “Hey, I have this idea to play a character that pretends to be a martial class but is actually a magic caster?” My girlfriends character is an aasimar who thinks he’s Thor and my backstory was that after meeting him and falling for him she decided to invest heavily in deceptive magic so as not to alienate him.

And my DM. Loved it. So he helped me build an extremely custom character. Two levels in Hexblade warlock gave her a good weapon and the ability to cast disguise self pretty much nonstop to appear buffer than she actually was.

Then there was four levels in Stone sorcerer in order to get 4 sorcery points, the ability to use those points to cast using Subtle Spell and no one could tell she’s casting, and to buff her AC.

Finally there was 11 Bladesong wizard levels in order to get some attack bonuses, even more AC, extra attacks, and the ability to burn spells to take less damage. We had a secret code we made up to cover my casting.

So the whole time I was burning spell slots to recharge my sorcery points every time I cast things like Haste and Spider Climb and use my Bladesong powers. We busted through walls and smashed our way through puzzles. We lied and said my character was a Barbarian/Monk so they didn’t bat and eye when she ran on walls with spider climb, but no one noticed when even after dashing she “held onto the stone wall” without any kind of check.

The final battle: the goblin wizard boss we were fighting had cast invulnerability on himself and had our friend mind controlled. So I’m trying to cover for not attacking as I try to dispel his invulnerability. I can no longer run on walls, or make the jumps my party is making on floating platforms over a spike pit so I try to use my actions on other helpful things like tying ropes for friends in the pit. I manage to dispel the magic on our friend but I burned almost all my spells trying to secretly dispel the boss’ spell and finally we just ended up grappling and suffocating him then pummeling him to death.

But at the last moment as we’re running out of this horrible goblin mansion I’m running down a wall and my friends are climbing down. The building says there’s 6 seconds left and my very injured love interest is not gonna make it so my character shouted “Fuckfuckfuck!” Ran over and cast dimension door to bring them both to safety. (Two people got left in the blast but both survived cause Dude Power). Then I critically failed my deception about how I had used magic and came clean and everyone lost their shit when they heard what we’d done. Her final confession, after dropping her buff disguise self, was, “When I met Kathor I really liked him and he freakin’ hates magic so I just kinda figured out how to hide that I was castin’ magic cause I though we might go to pound town.”

Kathor then declared, “I’ve never had someone try so hard to get in my pants!” And swept her up and they messily made out. It was deeply satisfying the wonders that DnD can create, like making a whole class based on the lie that you’re not spellcasting.

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make me choose @jodieliker asked: Xenk when he’s hot/badass or Xenk when he’s funny/literal/overly serious

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Delicious and dragons