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What about treating men badly? What about treating goblins badly? What about treating dragons badly? Do you want your fantasy novel to be all hunky dory for everybody? What's the point of writing any novel without conflict and tension - - or lemme guess, it's just women who are off limits. It has nothing to do with "historical accuracy" (it's a FANTASY novel) it's just this: why make any potential writing tools off limits?

whats the point of fantasy novels if youre still going to treat women like shit

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This is great! The inclusion of "l" confused me a bit though, I use

H=(Con*L)+(a*L)+(d/2)

All of the definitions are the same but just without the little "l". You could also condense it a bit like this

H=L(Con+a)+(d/2)

Or if you wanna get rid of "d" as well since, "a" is just 1/2 of "d" +1.

H=L(Con+a) +(2(a-1)/2)

and since, in that last bit, you are dividing and multiplying by 2, you can git rid of it!

H=L(Con+a)+(a-2)

Oh the joy of actually using the stuff I learned in 6th grade!

How Many Hit Points??

You might be scratching your head at how to determine a PC’s new HP maximum upon leveling up. Well I have a way to fix this problem with just one (1) equation! It assumes you’re taking the average roll from a hit die instead of rolling for your new HP.

H = (Con * L) + (al) + d

Now let’s define all these terms:

H = your new Hit Point Maximum upon level-up

Con = Constitution Modifier @ level L

L = your current Level

d = # of sides on class’ hit die (ie Rogue:d8, Fighter:d10, etc)

a = average roll per hit die - average is calculated as such : ([d/2] + 1) giving us the following answers d6=4,  d8=5,  d10=6,  and  d12=7

l = L - 1 (find levels gained, excluding 1st level)

Let’s Try It Out

You are playing as a Ranger (d10) (d = 10) with a Constitution score of 15 and you have just recently been told by your DM that you are now level 8 (L = 8)! Congratulations! Wanting those extra hit points, you put one point into a stat of your choice and the other into CON bumping you up to a 16 (Con = +3). Now all you need is the average roll for a d10 (in this case, a = 6) and to find your level - 1 (in this case 8 - 1, so l = 7), and you can start calculating! Our equation becomes:

H = (Con * L) + (al) + d

H = (3*8) + (6*7) + 10

H = (24) + (42) + 10  —>  (66) + 10 = 76

H = 76 Hit Points at 8th level*

*note that results will vary depending on your constitution modifier. not all 8th level Rangers will have 76 HP. This (long) list can be used to double check your answer!

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Great tips for writing, terrible tips for role-playing.

Credit

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Roguish Adentures

I have found an amazing site full of generators that are absolutely hilarious to interpret. its called Chaotic Shiny. 

I made a quest out of their “good idea generator”

Here’s the prompt: Avoid paying taxes by driving the chariot straight at the gates with the help of the local fool.

And here’s the bullet points of what I thought the adventure would consist of.

Adventurers are forced to pay they king “visitors tax” of 4,000 gold or be executed by the end of the day

Local man says the king is evil and will pay him his 4,000gp if he kills the king

King has a moat around his castle that is 100ft down and 80ft across

There is no drawbridge, only ramps

The king’s men get across in gnomish “speedcarts”

The village idiot has a speed cart

(I used another prompt to generate a small quest for the speedcart)

Prompt 2:  Recover the stolen artifact (speedcart) by going shirtless.

The only way he’s gonna give up his speedcart is if he sees Darya Vorobyov have sex with someone while he watches

Adventurers must lure her into the idiot's house and bed her

The idiot watches from his closet.

Darya is a nymphomaniac btw.

Adventures get the cart and can jump the moat now, or they have to steal the speedcart

Speedcart is essencially a wind up cart with a big old key you have to turn

They ride through the garden

Through the gates

And straight into the king's chamber

They fight

When the king is dying, he asks for his life in exchange for some gold

If not king dies and his own men loot his castle

If players are fast, they can get like 1,000gp from his treaury

If they hesitate they can find treasure worth 500gp

Crown is a Protective Crown of Mindlessness

(+1 AC crown that treats your INT as 0 for spell purposes)

Hope you’ve enjoyed :3

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Pugilist Class by coolgamertagbro

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Carpentine Race by Kopacha

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Sounds and Music in your D&D games

Sound Ambiance and Effects

TabletopAudio’s Soundboard - online and easy to manage.

It’s main site contains great 10 min looping pieces based on locations to use as background sound.

Ambient Mixer - Similar to the previous, it provides custom combinations of different effects (steps, chatter, wind) to create different classical settings for a fantasy adventure.

Check also this list within that site, focused on caves.

Syrinscape - The product that is trying to be the big daddy of gaming soundboards. It provides both ambiance and effects, and differentiates itself by allowing you to pre-set the sounds for each part of the story. It requires to be downloaded, and works through paid content packages, though it has a free trial. It aims to soon cover all major operating systems.

Soundboard.com - User generated collections of sounds. You can register and make you own. Oddly, the pop-up panel doesn’t have loop or stop options.

Here’s another one from there focused on attacks and doors.

Music Scores

Movie sound tracks -  Conan is very often recommended. Also, Lord of the Rings.

The music from games like Neverwinter Nights, Baldur’s Gate, Bastion, and Might and Magic (VIII)

A list of other candidates, from the Gnome Stew blog.

A Reddit aggregation of themed Spotify playlists for D&D.

Using These

Music should be without vocals and unobtrusive, including in volume. Even if the score feels epic, avoid bringing it to the forefront of the moment, as D&D is a spoken game.

Make sure you quickly pick and separate the tracks you are going to use before the game, so you don’t have to hurry or stall later on.

Check if music distracts any of your players particularly. Some people are more vulnerable to this.

If you have them downloaded, rename the tracks to the mood they set for easy reference. Delete tracks you don’t like to avoid clutter.

Consider having a signature melody for your “Previously on [campaign name]” segment. This can serve as a nice transition into the game and let people know its time to put their phone down.

Regarding sound effects, I’d mostly forgo them in favor of creating ambiances instead. If you want to incorporate them, I’d recommend just leaving them for special occasions to avoid cheesiness. Leave it to moments of cinematic weight, like that moment where they open the huge door to the final boss, or for the military trumpet when the armies are about to finally clash. They also occupy a good amount of mental space, as you have to be ready to press the button at the exact moment.

I’ve read some people had success with using music or effects, but still consider the effort put is not worth it. Knowing this, one could try to facilitate things by:

Leaving music only for specific scenes or perhaps just for the battle encounters.

Make a habit of exploring new soundtracks in your spare time, while you do other stuff, and note down which you like and their mood. This to avoid a crammed prep session the night before.

Dedicate just one afternoon to listen to tracks and choose the ones that you will use during the whole campaign. Choose tracks that fit the theme and that cover the major types if moods and situations, like Action, Ambient, and Sinister, as Martin Ralya recommends on the Gnome Stew Blog. You can then create playlists with those and refer to them quickly later.

If you do decide to incorporate tracks into your games, definitively look into ways a DM can delegate to other players part of the work, like tracking initiative and recording the earned gold. This will make things more manageable.

I also just found RPG Ambiance, a very useful web application that provides a quick track management interface, that even lets you hot key tracks, arrange them in order of events, name your scenes, and play more than one simultaneously. It requires you to upload the tracks you intend to use. Play with it to see what I mean.

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A drawing of an old d&d character, RIP Jamalamin... Always feel free to request what you want me to draw :3 #art #draw #daily #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #magic #nomakup

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Is this art? What is art? I've heard lots of different answers like "it's something that evokes an emotion" or "it's something that took a while to do and looks good" and the actual definition "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power". I guess the latter most answer satisfies me the most, but I still feel like it's missing something. Mountains can be beautiful, photographs of mountains are considered art, paintings of mountains can be art, but are the mountains themselves art? Or only the renderings of them art? Are you yourself, or is the perception of you who you are? #faces #art #whatisart #draw #sketch #pen #ink #deep #3deep5me

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@__kristianpierce my rendition if Satan sitting atop his throne, thank you for the request :3 comment what you want to see next! (I promise they'll be better than this one, I kinda just shit this one out)

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Half baked drawing of some Knight! I'm gonna try to upload one drawing a day, and I want you guys to give me some ideas, so comment if you wanna see me draw your stuff :3

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Math class doodle :3 this is what happens when you mix lack of sleep with caffeine, horrible aberrations! :3