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2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

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*hitting ttrpg fan with a stick* not everything fantasy is about D&D!

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coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

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negative affirmations

I can be worse

I still have time to fuck things up

I can kms any time I want

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blowjob? more like nojob! #unemployed

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Ohhh okay so god doesn’t answer my prayers because I’m a monster I get it know

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I LOVE using this in my campaigns.

There're some examples that I can't give, just because one of my players follows me, lol.

But I love using this as a tactic to make them think critically about who they're aligning with early on.

For instance, on one quest they had to go to a kingdom they'd only been in briefly before- and all they really learned from that is that the people they were supposed to visit had formed a pretty dour culture- so one of my players wanted to go to the library ahead of time and try and learn something about them.

So, he goes to the library, and learns all these facts about how they're isolationists, and ruthless, and only care for martial prowess, and also that they had no written language, so all their actual history is stored orally, and historians in other kingdoms have no access to it.

So, he leaves a little frightened of this place, and convinced he might not be able to learn anything of note about their history- and heads off to the new kingdom.

Except when they get there, there's an obelisk with the names and titles of all of their past kings in the center of their city... Not something a kingdom with "no written language" would have...

This serves 2 purposes in an interactive medium

1) it causes tension, because the players no longer know the factuality of the things they've read or heard, and are now afraid they've walked into something they haven't prepared for. It puts them on their back foot and reminds them to keep their guards up.

And 2) it makes them think twice before they just accept things as being true... Especially from a royal library in a kingdom that they ALREADY KNEW LOOKED DOWN ON OUTSIDERS AND LOVED TO PUSH THEIR IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA...

Obviously you shouldn't ALWAYS lie to your players

But think about who they're getting their information from, and the narrative they would want to push... And push it...because you're them... For 5 minutes you want what they would want... And you will say and do whatever they would to make sure you get it...

I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

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Florence, trying to keep the party from being killed: just SHUT your BIG FAT MOUTH! I'm going to muzzle you!!!

Alethriel, trauma dumping: I'm sorry... It's been nearly 1000 years since I've been able to talk to people that could respond...

Florence: KEEP IT THAT WAY!!!

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This is unironically one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. It stuck with me from the moment I first read it. The art, the story of it...

THE GOBLIN

A short comic about a mysterious creature living with the monks of a secluded abbey.

I made this comic five years ago, and it's still probably one of the most personal things I've written.

If you'd like to support more of my comics, consider preordering my new graphic novel, THE PALE QUEEN, wherever you get books.

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He's a goblin

He's a cultist

He's a teen dad

He's a Barbarian

He's a Warlock

He's a Sorcerer

He's a Paladin

He's only SOME of those things at the same time

He's got demons in his blood

He's an amnesiac

He no longer has permanent disadvantage on wisdom saves

He sold his soul to a lich

He was trapped in stone for 25 years

He gave up godhood to give it to his dipshit little brother

He kept his friends head in a jar for 20 years

He's an absent father

He's the nosiest man in the world

He almost caused a tpk

He's Middlesdwell's worst dish washer

I didn't say his name, but you thought of him, didn't you?...

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Not Mine. Thought to Share.

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>the goblin leaps to attack!

>the goblin misses!

>the goblin has scraped his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

>oh, his little knee!

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Horrible dnd ideas!

The next time your dm has a creature guarding a treasure or something. Steal the whole ass creature.

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will axis let me hit next session 🙏

Are you deserving? What do you have to offer? Can you handle that little freak? These are all questions we can ask ourselves...

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Welcome

This Is my side-blog for me to put all of my DnD thoughts, memes, etc. For a little background about me: I'm 22, I've been playing ttrpgs since high school, in 5e I'm a divine caster main (just say you're having an identity crisis and roll the damn dice (¬_¬")...), I'm currently working my way through a bhaalist!durge run on BG3 (sorry to anyone who reads this and didn't know what durge's deal was ig...), and I'm an avid liar- considering my bio says I'm a DM and I'm actually running a CyberPunk RED campaign rn... Call me nothing, but ask me anything! Seriously! You don't have enough money to make me shut up! Ask me questions, tell me about the game you're playing, start a fight, find love, the world is your oyster!

To anticipate some questions before I potentially receive them...

Where did you get your header? Through the power of photo editors, all things are possible... And your pfp? That was actually my first 5e character, drawn by my lovely roommate @synarthrosis Why do you call this a DnD account if you're also talking about other ttrpgs? Are you a cop?

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Oh, Dude... at this point get a lawyer...

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