dungeonlordandmaster

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Paladins don’t have to be cops, paladins don’t have to be boring. Paladins are OP though

Getting the sense D&D tiktok hates paladins so bad (except for Oathbreakers), and they're all wrong.

"Paladins are cops"

They don't have to be, and if the people you play with play paladins like that, they're boring.

"Paladins are too OP"

Buddy, if you're in a group where most are spell casters with low strength and charisma stats, you're gonna need that paladin to come through with their two-attack smiting power while the group benefits from their various different aura that provides buffs AS WELL AS PROVIDE MEDICAL HELP WITH THEIR LAY ON HANDS

"Paladins are boring"

Your group is boring. Like there are so many ways you can play a paladin that isn't "righteous god fearing cop" or "evil oathbreaker" so this is a skill issue and maybe the people in your groups who plays paladins need to get creative.

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Right? Who wrote this? 'I don't know how many' THEYRE CALLED THE 199 STEPS! By the gods I hate whitby so much, it gets me so angry

“Lucy met me at the station”

ALT

“The houses of the old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall.“

ALT

"It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.”

ALT

“Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones. This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay to where the headland called Kettleness stretches out into the sea.”

ALT

“The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse. A heavy sea-wall runs along outside of it. On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse. Between the two piers there is a narrow opening into the harbour, which then suddenly widens.”

ALT

“The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town up to the church, there are hundreds of them—I do not know how many—and they wind up in a delicate curve; the slope is so gentle that a horse could easily walk up and down them.”

ALT

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Yes, but one thing Mina missed is whitby is a shit hole that always seems to be the place to visit when your parents say 'we're going to have a fun day out'

Visiting Whitby with Mina Murray

I thought it might be fun to add some photos to Mina's descriptions of Whitby. All photos from geograph.org, mostly from about 10 years ago. In some ways it hasn't changed much since 1897!

"The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the harbour."

"A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the view seems somehow further away than it really is."

"The houses of the old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg."

"Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes"

"Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones."

"The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse. A heavy sea-wall runs along outside of it. On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse."

"At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind." (I'm amazed that's still there).

"The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town up to the church, there are hundreds of them—I do not know how many—and they wind up in a delicate curve; the slope is so gentle that a horse could easily walk up and down them."

And a final bonus - Mina doesn't mention anything about the train she arrived on, but it might have looked a bit like this:

(OK this locomotive is from 1937, but close enough)

[dungeonlordandmaster]

I tried this, well something similar where the entire map was a sliding tile puzzle. It worked well and the players had fun. So go for it OC! Sounds like a great idea!

I rarely put overt puzzles in rpg games I run, but I decided to try one for tomorrow's Goblinville. The only other time I've done it, I made little cards the players had to put in the right order and they had fun.

So I'm not sure how much I want to pull away the curtain for this, since it might take away from immersion. It's a logic grid puzzle, and it's meant to show that they need to allocate their supplies and workers correctly to dig themselves out of a collapsed tunnel before it collapses completely. Each failed try would mean a character would take a condition.

Have any of you tried anything like this? How did it work out?

[dungeonlordandmaster]

A new philosophy

I feel like I'm at a point with DMing that I've stopped world building in it's entirety. Now, I feel like I'm more drawing the outline of the world and letting the players decide what the colour is. Not even that, I feel like the worlds I build are shadows cast and the players tell me what cast them. It's fulling having four or five players all tell you a story when all you do is smile, nod and sometimes affirm the players that what they're saying is plausible.

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Absolute shenanigans

[dungeonlordandmaster]

We did this for our wedding invites... we had sixty invitations

.

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Dming rule 3: no plot survives contact with the players

Always plan for the absolute last thing you think your players will do, cause that’s what they’ll do every time

[dungeonlordandmaster]

WHOOP! It’s that time again! 

Rules: -Likes are awesome, but only Reblogs will be counted. Multiple reblogs will count multiple times! Do NOT spam reblog, however. It is annoying to everyone involved. -You must be following this blog at the time of winner selection! -No giveaway blogs! I will be checking! - One winner will be selected via Random.Org on Friday, October 4th

-The winner will get a Full Colored Full Body -I will message the winner as well as announce them on the blog! After 2 days, if I get no response, I will select another! -This prize can be OCs, fan characters, whatever (just not IRL people, please!)

So follow, reblog, and good luck, friendos!

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Who has a separate masturbating laptop in this economy? Also domwe forget that in actual Norse mythology, Loki is the MOTHER of Odin's horse

LGBTQ+ superheroes for Pride month ❤ 

[dungeonlordandmaster]

500 FOLLOWER ART GIVEAWAY

Thank you for following! Y’all want some free art?

Winners will be randomly generated, and they will each get a drawing of their D&D/tabletop character.

(If you wish, you may exchange a first or second place price for a lower tier drawing PLUS a bobbing pixel.)

Rules: 1. Must be following me, new followers are welcome! (though I ask you nicely to only follow if you actually want my content on your dashboard) 2. Reblog to enter. 3. Do not tag this as giveaway. 4. Please provide a visual reference or a very detailed description of your character if you win, including of their clothing, as this is not a character design giveaway. 5. If you reblog this to a sideblog, please include the name of your main blog in the tags. 6. This giveaway is for D&D characters. Only enter if you actually have a D&D character. (Similar tabletops like Pathfinder are alright too) 7. Winners are contacted via instant message by default. 8. If I get no response from you within 30 hours, a new winner will be chosen.

Winners will be chosen on Wednesday June 20th 2018 at 19:00 GMT

[dungeonlordandmaster]

@amysbackflippingelbow

I can honestly say i’ve never seen a more entertaining ladle.

[dungeonlordandmaster]

@amysbackflippingelbow

“We have…mead pie. Beer pie. And for the truly daring…Fimbulvinter pie.”

Avengers #24.NOW

[dungeonlordandmaster]

Let me just say something on the subject

The D20 is a randomisation for someone's skill level which is in the 'grey area'. I.e. If they're not masters at something, it's very difficult, someone else is actively opposing them. This does not mean that the dice dictate everything. For example, I was a barista for 6 years (sometimes making hundreds of coffees a day), but inaccordence with the D20 system 5% of those coffee either went all over a customer, gave someone food, poisoning or exploded. On the flip side if I attempt open heart surgery without and previous training one in twenty of my attempts will be a success.

The D20 doesn't define reality, but boils down all the unaccountable forces of the universe to a single random number generator. A barbarian cannot lift a house (under 'normal' circumstances, I'm aware this is a world of magic) and someone can't fail opening a door, or lighting a candle with a lit taper etc.

Barbarian: “Can I try to lift the entire house?”

DM: “I guess? Make a strength check”

Barbarian: “Nat 20!!”

DM:

A nat 20 does not guarantee success when the impossible is attempted.

Discuss.

[dungeonlordandmaster]

500 FOLLOWER ART GIVEAWAY

Thank you for following! Y’all want some free art?

Winners will be randomly generated, and they will each get a drawing of their D&D/tabletop character.

(If you wish, you may exchange a first or second place price for a lower tier drawing PLUS a bobbing pixel.)

Rules: 1. Must be following me, new followers are welcome! (though I ask you nicely to only follow if you actually want my content on your dashboard) 2. Reblogs count as entries. 3. Do not tag this as giveaway. 4. Please provide a visual reference or a very detailed description of your character if you win, including of their clothing, as this is not a character design giveaway. 5. If you reblog this to a sideblog, please include the name of your main blog in the tags. 6. This giveaway is for D&D characters. Only enter if you actually have a D&D character. (Similar tabletops like Pathfinder are alright too) 7. Winners are contacted via instant message by default. 8. If I get no response from you within 30 hours, a new winner will be chosen.

Winners will be chosen on Wednesday June 20th 2018 at 19:00 GMT

[dungeonlordandmaster]

@chimeran-dreams

[dungeonlordandmaster]

@amysbackflippingelbow

I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.