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I am thinking my next campaign will either revisit an old gothic horror campaign that never got off the ground, a circus horror campaign inspired by/set in the same place as the aforementioned campaign, a political intrigue, or some type of cyberpunk noir campaign... I am realizing my issue is less that I have no campaign ideas and more than I have too many.
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My Curse of Strahd campaign finished yesterday, and I feel so strange now! I'm only DMing one campaign right now, and it's on hiatus until the second week of college...
I think this is the first time since 2022 that I'm not DMing two, or at least DMing one with a second campaign being planned or in the player-getting stage. Time to plan a campaign to run with whomever I meet at college, I guess!
Anyway, my Strahd campaign actually only had three sessions. The first was pretty great, the second was awful, and then we had scheduling issues and skipped to the final battle. It was my first time running a proper boss fight, actually, and it was so fun.
I'm really proud of how well I managed the combat, too, since usually that's my weakest area as a DM. I still did some goofs, but it was far better than usual, and I think I've absolutely improved and streamlined my initiative/condition/"did Strahd take radiant damage this round?" tracker.
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I think people should make more skill checks using non-standard abilities! Like Intimidation (Strength) checks and Persuasion (Intelligence) checks.
#i was thinking about a) my werewolf player who isn't that high in charisma but REALLY intimidating and#b) like... politics. and how i hate that charismatic leaders get more votes even if they're really stupid and terrible... how i wish people#voted more based off of policy and intelligence/compassion than straight up confidence. but in a d&d context my one character is#leading a revolution and very high charisma. it would be extremely interesting to play a revolutionary leader who isn't particularly#*charming* but more... honest and compassionate. or even awkward charismatic? like Autism Rizz or whatever.#which to be fair... you could still put a lot of points in charisma and make it clear to your DM that you're going for something other than#suave-charismatic but overall i feel like the game nudges you towards suave-charismatic. it would be fun to have say...#a terribly awkward wizard get to make a persuasion (intelligence) check at a wizard convention or maybe even... this is a stretch#but a cunning rogue make a deception (intelligence) check based on the quality/believability of the lie rather than their delivery of it#dante dicit#d&D#dungeons and draagons
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BAHA? I got a Dropout subscription, and I figured I would jump back into Fantasy High, so I am watching the Live in Brooklyn session, and... This is where the "two arms and two legs and is a person" thing came from?
Mainlt, it is so funny to me... before that point, I was like, "Ah, it's the potion of truesight... this is the adventure hook... I can't tell if the players get that?" And I guess Brennen Lee Mulligan couldn't tell, either, hence the, like, making it very clear that the NPCs are seeing something different. I find that entertaining.
#it's like! i think it's funny to me because it's...#kind of the same way i can't watch a theater production without noticing things about the costuming that most people don't#it feels like that but noticing DM things. makes me feel like a competent DM i guess!#dante dicit#dimension 20#fantasy high
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I am working on session plans for my Curse of Strahd campaign, and I'm rereading Version 1 of Kolyan Indirovich's letter regarding Ireena. On a second read-through, it's jumping out at me a lot that "Kolyan" refers to Ireena as the "love of [his] life." To be clear, I do think that "love of my life" can be intended in a familial way, but... I don't think Wizards of the Coast holds that opinion and in the context of the campaign it is SO clear that it is Strahd and not Kolyan! I love that an attentive player could, in theory, notice the discrepancy between the language used and Ireena's patronymic. Super cool!
#curse of strahd#curse of strahd spoilers#dante dicit#sigh i should sleep because my college orientation is tomorrow but orientation is overnight and my session is on friday#and i'm procrastinating on sleeping because i'm anxious about my orientation so if i stay up longer there is more time between now#and orientation. in my head.
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Do you think... I don't know how attentive my Strahd group is... I am wondering if I can have a "Mind if I step inside?" without them noticing... Ough...
#i've seen some people homebrew it so that strahd can pop in where-ever he wants since barovia is all his but... i dunno it seems#it seems unfair to take Possible Clues away from the players#i did for a while consider making it a barovian Cultural Thing that EVERYONE asks before entering buildings though...#i didn't really commit to it in our first sess though so seems a touch late#curse of strahd#dante dicit#as you can tell i'm procrastinating on session plans rn#i kind of hate session planning for prewritten adventures omg like.... ough i have to read and take notes??? you're kidding...
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If there was a divination wizard in my Curse of Strahd group, I think I would... imagine if the party met Ireena Kolyana for the first time and I was like, "This is Ireena Kolyana. You know that the best ending for her is death." Wouldn't that be great?
#curse of strahd#ireena kolyana#dante dicit#i didn't prepare much for my first cos session and i fumbled a lot of ireena's intro so i am Mulling Over Alternatives#we don't have a divination wizard :(
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I think TMA is bleeding into some of my D&D worldlore. Some of my gods are more like... people who have committed themselves so much to a concept/ideal (eg. luck, ambition, family) that they became the gods of those things. And then some of them are just... the raw, unfiltered/unworshiped ideals themselves.
For instance, there isn't really a god of war, but there is just straight up War, an entity, or the essence of war itself, which... exists.
I guess to some extent, the more concrete/person-shaped gods could be taken as avatars of the more essential forces/ideals.
I'm still not sure exactly how I want to do my pantheon, to be honest. I have a few gods developed, and some have names and take on physical forms, but others are... thereish.
#i kind of like the idea that the base entities/forces/ideas Exist but don't really interact with the world beyond abstract influence#and it's the named/worshipped “gods” (who were once people) that do things by channeling elements of the entities#but they don't necessarily worship those things.#so far the only god who canonically was once a person is the god of ambition. which i suppose is kind of fitting.#imagine being so ambitious that you become a god. like. that fits.#and then the only decided abstract god is War#maybe some of the gods were once people (eg. ambition) but then others came about through worship and mythology as#avatars of the Forces but they themselves don't “worship” those forces so much as they are strongly influenced by them#it does kind of bring about the question though of like... what happens to clerics and such? do they eventually inevitably become gods?#to me it would be deeply sad if the god of family was once a person because that would mean that their whole fam is now dead#so i'm thinking that one came about through like... abstract Feelings Of Familial Closeness#or to be honest could be an abstract entity that has a physical form because like... if people can become gods#maybe gods can become people (like immortal powerful people but like... with emotions and fleshy forms)#to be honest maybe my gods don't need to be super consistent or systematic i think that fits things in a way#mainly i am thinking abt War because one of my players succeeded a sword in the stone type puzzle andlike...#technically now they're a paladin of war but i'ven't given that god a name#i see war as an apathetic distant figure but unfortunately the trial already happened and it was partially a morality trial of like...#“please don't kill civilians” and it generally focused on the Horrors Of War which... idk if the apathetic figure of war would do that#dante dicit#might delete
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Blehhh I had a D&D session and I am feeling kind of bad about it. At the end of the day, everyone had fun, but I was just... noticing myself doing all of my DMing bad habits (saying too much, being too soft on the players, not really enforcing consequences or agency) and I feel like shit!!! Like. They had fun. But I am doing a lot of the things that I did in my very first, pretty bad campaign and like... It is really uncomfortable. I know they are bad and make the game less fun, but I guess I just felt like I was floundering a bit. I don't know. I'm just... bummed. Everyone had fun, so I should really calm down, but there are like... three major things that I kind of fucked up.
#like i just showed way too much of my hand i guess and there were a lot of things that i let them do that i wouldn't normally do#like i was very anxious going into the session and i think that made the session worse because to make me feel less anxious#i was just softer as a dm and it may have comforted me in the moment but it was like. ugh. i feel like the tone of the campaign...#just got really squishy and this session was very much given to Filler because i was too unsure of myself to let bad things happen#i guess. idk.#i also just. if i made a mistake while narrating or switching the music i feel like i didn't improvise or roll with it well i would fully#be like “OH SHIT WAIT I FUCKED UP ONE SECOND SORRY...” and awkwardly fumble with things for a super long time where i could#have just improvised away from it which i usually don't have a problem with??? at all??? but for some reason this session it was just... no#not working out.#dante dicit#vent#dm'ing#dungeon master#might delete
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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town
academy
adventurer's guild
alchemist
apiary
apothecary
aquarium
armory
art gallery
bakery
bank
barber
barracks
bathhouse
blacksmith
boathouse
book store
bookbinder
botanical garden
brothel
butcher
carpenter
cartographer
casino
castle
cobbler
coffee shop
council chamber
court house
crypt for the noble family
dentist
distillery
docks
dovecot
dyer
embassy
farmer's market
fighting pit
fishmonger
fortune teller
gallows
gatehouse
general store
graveyard
greenhouses
guard post
guildhall
gymnasium
haberdashery
haunted house
hedge maze
herbalist
hospice
hospital
house for sale
inn
jail
jeweller
leatherworker
library
locksmith
mail courier
manor house
market
mayor's house
monastery
morgue
museum
music shop
observatory
orchard
orphanage
outhouse
paper maker
pawn shop
pet shop
potion shop
potter
printmaker
quest board
residence
restricted zone
sawmill
school
scribe
sewer entrance
sheriff's office
shrine
silversmith
spa
speakeasy
spice merchant
sports stadium
stables
street market
tailor
tannery
tavern
tax collector
tea house
temple
textile shop
theatre
thieves guild
thrift store
tinker's workshop
town crier post
town square
townhall
toy store
trinket shop
warehouse
watchtower
water mill
weaver
well
wind mill
wishing well
wizard tower
#ohoho i NEEDed this#i figured i would start planning the capital city of my campaign setting but then i chickened out because... i could not think of#what to put in it. this will help a lot#d&d#dungeons and dragons#reblog#worldbuilding
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Sigh... Do I... Do I think that my players can be mature about it if the highest ranking official in a criminal organization known as the Redhands is known as the High Fist.
#it's keeping with the Hand theme yk but... will they be mature about it...#i feel like every dm can relate to matthew mercer with purval suul or whatever#d&d#dungeons and dragons#dungeon master#dm#otherwise i'll just call him the Red Emperor or something#but I kind of like the High Fist#sigh
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I just planned such a fucked up delightful encounter and I am so sad because there is a 50/50 chance that my party will not encounter it at our next session.
#i will of course re-use it but!! ough i want to use this encounter now...#dante dicit#dungeons and dragons#d&d#dungeon master#dm#dming
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OH! I never posted about it, but my first ever campaign (The Order of the Owlbears) which was running for four years ended recently, which is pretty cool.
And I am starting a Curse of Strahd campaign with some people who I don't know but who will be going to college with me next year. Which is also pretty cool!
And, along with continuing my second campaign (The Lunch Bunch—which needs to be renamed), I will be running a creepy circus oneshot with the people from The Owlbears plus a few others.
#i am living my forever dm life!!!#i am a player in One campaign only and that campaign meets this saturday too for i believe our fourth ever session#i'm very excited to sneak attack people and get traumatized#but OH MY GOD i am soooooo in love with CoS just from the campaign book i cannot WAIT for our first session#i am obsessed with the fact that strahd can like hijack attempts to talk with a deity/patron like???? hELLOOO??#can you imagine like in your darkest hour turning to your god for guidance and it's just... strahd#i'm already brainstorming like good lines for that like “oh? you thought there was any god but me in this place?” but like!!#ough. i am so excited for this campaign mainly because of strahd toying with the party like!!!! ahhhh!!#dante dicit#dungeon master#dm#dming#forever dm
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And you muzzle yourself
Forcing your fur to lie flat, forcing yourself to be docile
Yet you are a creature of carnage and ruin
Of bloody jaws and wild eyes and murder, hatred, rage
I see your sacrifices, my dear, how you bow when you want to bite
You restrain yourself for the good of others, and that is a kindness that will not go unrewarded
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there's something about characters with doppelgangers and mirror selves and masks and personas that's like catnip to me. something about how it tells you so much about them while telling you nothing at all.
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This is my first time not being deeply fatigued after a session, and it is weirding me out!!!
#guys is this normal#is it just that i am improving as a dm#does it mean that i wasn't emotionally involved enough in my session and i'm repressing my emotions again???#i'm being hyperbolic but i am also genuinely kind of wondering if that is the case this is really weird for me#if i am improving as a dm i guess that's good but it feels...#um it's like an insecure attachment style where you need someone exhausting and if things go too well you lose interest#or whatever#like a part of the appeal of d&d for me besides the Friends Time is that it is challenging and complicated to dm#it's like the sherlock holmes “my mind is an engine” quote you know???#d&D#dming#dungeon master#might delete#dante dicit#did i just over plan???
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