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Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

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So I forgot about this blog for a while (oops) but don’t worry I’m back! I am DMing a new group and have two groups I am playing in (one of a chronicles of darkness campaign which has been super fun) so just you wait for the stories I need to catch you up on and the stories to come in the future!

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Random mansion generator

The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

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Hi there, your blog has been a tremendous help, thank you so much for making so many good posts. I wanted to ask you if you could maybe make a post about story/novel starters, like with examples or some ideas for it. Thank you again and please keep up the amazing work!

Writing References: Starting Your Novel

The Beginning ⚜ Hooking your Readers ⚜ Your First Chapter

Chapter Outline ⚜ Chapters: What to Include ⚜ Dialogue

Establishing Voice ⚜ Exploring your Setting ⚜ Freewriting

Creative Writing: How to Start ⚜ Elements

"Interviewing" your Characters ⚜ Plotting your Novel

Snowflake Method ⚜ Plot Method ⚜ The Story Circle

Questions Before Writing Your Novel ⚜ Tips: First Novel

Tropes: Borrow from or Subvert them ⚜ Use Templates (Example)

Ways to Generate an Idea ⚜ Your Audience

Hi, thanks so much for your kind words. Here are some references and tips you can consider. Some links include examples in media portrayals, such as those on literary and character tropes that you can use for inspiration. All the best with your writing!

More: On Plot Development ⚜ Writing Templates ⚜ Tips & Advice

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Verdante is a world after the end. Hopeful communities thrive where humans and ICE (Intelligent Cybernetic Entities - technology born sentient after the fall of the old world) live in hard-won peace. But the scars of the past haunt them. Poisoned ruins, mutated half animal/half robotic beasts, and unstable relics.

What does one find in a world that's healing from an apocalypse?

Villages and towns separated by time and under-population.

Rogue warlords and tech-overlords that try (and typically fail) to control the regions.

Natural disasters from old-world echoes.

Mutant wildlife and poisoned places that refuse to die quietly.

The world knows what came before. Not in fullness...but enough.

The ICE remember; walking archives that live and breathe sun and electricity. Living proof that the old world happened, and that something survived.

The humans work to build, work to breathe, work to live. They grow what they know and craft what they can. Nature embraces them like old friends.

Together? The two races are learning to thrive in a world that died and breathed again.

Welcome, traveler, to Verdante.

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DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.

Me: WHAT.

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Reblog this by April 20th and I'll give your blog a Vibe check.

Vibe Checks include:

What type of vibe you have

Is it a good vibe or bad vibe?

Maybe a little doodle that represents your blog's vibe.

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The Cleric ignoring God for Nekos

“You are a cleric devoted to healing HOW IS HELPING YOUR BIG TIDDY NEKO GF STEAL GLASS BOTTLES RELATED TO CLERICY ACTIONS” ~Me, the DM, to a cleric who isn’t being the best cleric.

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the classes as bernie sanders, part 1

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celebrating 500 followers with a homebrew giveaway!!

There will be 5 winners:

The first 4 winners will get a custom subclass for a class of their choice!

If you win, we will DM you for a discussion of what kind of subclass you  want–any flavor you want us to incorporate, what class we’re working with, etc. We can tailor it to your character if you like, or make a class with the intent to be used more broadly.

The Grand Prize Winner wins a custom campaign/oneshot setting! 

This could be a city, a region, country, full world–we’d even opt to craft a plane of existence if that’s your thing! The larger the scale, the more room we’ll give you to add your own flavor and plot hooks (a whole world will get countries, lore, legends, etc.) while a smaller-scale creation like a city or dungeon will be rich with details and care (cities can include inns and taverns, culture, important NPCs, plot hooks, etc.)

If you aren’t the DM, this can be an excellent way to get your character’s home region developed with detail. If you are the DM, this is your freebie, your chance to sit back, relax, and let someone else do the work ;)

We will contact the winner’s DMs to learn more about what you’re looking for, important flavor and existing worldbuilding details to be aware of, etc. 

rules:

you must be following this blog to win (we will be checking)

enter as many times as you like, but only reblogs will count as entries

the winners will be chosen at random. If you do not respond to our message letting you know you’ve won within 48 hours, or your DMs/askbox is closed, we will pick another winner

obviously a passion for D&D is a must! we want to share our love for creating fantasy worlds with all of you!

entries close at 5:00pm Central Standard Time on 2/18/2020, with announced winners being contacted before midnight that day.

thanks to everyone so much for 500 followers, and here’s to many more adventures to come. <3

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Photography by Ray Kachatorian

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Downloads are here!

The stairs so long concealed in the lair above lead down, deep into the earth. The stale air and utter silence of the place are disturbed only by the torches burning on either side, lighting your way to a large stone door. A small socket lies waiting for its key, the golden staff hidden away in the dilapidated passage above. An instrument of the last warden of this pale mausoleum, and the terrible power imprisoned within, both long forgotten. However one manages to breach the door, silent stone sentries stand guard over six sarcophagi. The seventh, and most terrible, depicts a shrouded figure carved in stone, the lid chained to the stone floor. But are the chains to keep robbers from getting in, or to keep what’s inside from getting out?

This is the second part of a 2-part dungeon I came up with for a one-shot I’ve planned for my friends. The first floor at first appears to be a generic hideout for a necromancer’s cult or graverobbing bandits using it as a convenient hideout. But, if players are assiduous enough, they might find the magic staff used by the original clerics who occupied this tomb to keep their wayward brother imprisoned in secret, and the hidden stairway leading down to his resting place. With enough luck, they might gain entry, only to watch as the rusted chains holding the lid in place begin to quake, and hear the scrape of stone as the rest of the sarcophagi push their lids aside and crawl out to repel their intruders.

It’s just an idea I had. I hope you all enjoy :)

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Using Hypnotism in Horror

Hypnosis is ever-prevalent in horror, appearing in many horror media (Notably the Cthulu mythos). 

There are three major types of hypnosis. Subservience / Psychosis, the hypnosis used by Lovecraft, involves the user living only to serve a specific cause or person. There is not an original person in there. This breaks the rules of modern hypnosis (you can only do something you truly wish to do) which is partially what makes it scary. Your sense of identiy is 100% gone. There is no you, just a mind in your body. 

The second trope is pleasurable hypnosis, seen in Harry Potter as the Imperius curse. As described in the fourth book, Harry felt as a voice was commanding him, and because he was feeling immense pleasure he had little will to fight it. This takes away your free will, but if you have a strong enough mind you can overpower it. This is definitely the most interesting, but it’s criminally underused. 

The third trope, which is the absolute scariest, is when another force dominates your body. You no longer have any free will, but you’re still conscious. You’re forced to watch every second as you’re being controlled, forced to do (usually evil) things, with no way to fight it. The feeling of helplessness is what makes this the scariest. You’re not overwritten, and you have no way at all to control your body. 

This third trope should be used more. In D&D the first trope is the most used, simply because it’s the easiest. The second is used often as well, just forcing the player to make a Will save every time they’re forced to do something. This one is the most fun for the player if they aren’t really into the whole RP part of an RPG. The third one, though, that’s the Pepsi among a sea of Coke. That’s the hidden gem that allows for some great moments, as the player is forced to watch and essentially spectate as their character does evil, horrible, and terrible things. This can be done poorly, especially if you don’t inform or ask the player first, but can go so right. 

Bonus points if you tell the player how to act first. If they’re on board the rest of the party will have no idea OOC instead of just IC. They’ll be angry at the player as they should be, as that is the response you want. You want them to be upset. You want them to feel betrayed. You want them to feel what their characters feel, because that allows for the best roleplaying moments. 

(The reason so many long posts have come recently is that I got internet again, so I can type stuff up on PC instead of using a terrible phone kb)

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Well this was a wild session...

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Turns out the knife was cursed

“I pick up the knife” is now a mini-meme among my party and obviously it just means “I did something impulsive and now it’s going to take two sessions to solve.”