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If you want to get your players to use consumable items, here are the top 3 things that get me to use consumables:

very limited inventory

very high difficulty without them so that they're basically mandatory

very easy to replenish

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does every1 know about how every font in Pentiment was custom-made for the game and different characters speak in different fonts depending on their standing in society. theres no voice acting but theres a pen-scratching sound that accompanies dialogue. peasants/townsfolk speak in a handwritten script. the monks all speak in intricate blackletter script. the town printmaker's dialogue has its own font and makes a clunking sound like wood blocks or a printing press. Sometimes someones font will change mid dialogue as you learn about them and their life. the dialogue writes itself out and looks like wet ink for a second before setting into dry. there are even intentional imperfections. sometimes there will be typos that sit there for a sec before being scratched out and corrected. the ink visibly bleeds a little bit where the correction was made. did you know this

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THE FLAILING AT THE END-

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Press Y to Eject

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OH NO MY HEART :’)

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why are moms so afraid of Doom turning their kids into devil-worshippers. like, Doom has a pretty strong anti-demon message to it

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tarantula 5, griffin mcelroy 0

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 If I ever end up DM:ing for a DnD party again, I’m going to allow the players to give their characters extra points in their stats in exchange for, like, absurdly stupid weaknesses.

 Being allergic to magic. Being incapable of making a rhyme on purpose. Having the compulsive urge to steal forks. Being straight-up immune to a certain kind of spells due to a botched blessing. Botched blessings of all kinds, really. The kind of shit that makes the players think “lmao this will never actually happen in a game.”

 Then I design a campaign that will absolutely involve all of their weaknesses.

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big dick energy

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Why a Nat 20 shouldn’t be an automatic success

Some people tell you a Nat 20 on an ability check should make you succeed on the thing no matter how unrealistic, others think you shouldn’t even be allowed to roll on unrealistic things. I would like to tell you my opinion on this:

According to RAW, the Nat 20 on an ability check doesn’t mean anything. However, it does mean something on an attack roll. However, if you think of “Sword attack” as an ability check and the goal being “Kill the Dragon”, then a Nat 20 isn’t an automatic success. It just means you made the most possible progress towards your goal, slaying the dragon, by dealing an increased amount of damage. And I think a Nat 20 on an ability check should be treated the same. Yeah, you can’t seduce the Dragon while fighting it, not even with a Nat 20, but this Nat 20 might mark the moment where the Dragon started considering it for the first time. You can’t punch through the stone wall, not even with a Nat 20, but this Nat 20 might mean that you break off a decent amount of wall.

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My DMs Guild Stuff!

If you like my ideas, you might also be interested in my homebrew found at DMs Guild! Here is all the stuff I have published there at the moment:

Abyssal Tieflings allows you to create a Tiefling character that gains power from a Demon Prince, instead of a Lord of Hell. 

Alternate Level 20 Features gives you alternative, less boring features for level 20 for many classes

Eldritch Invokations for every Warlock Cantrip lets you create powerful Warlocks that aren’t just Eldritch Blast machines

Mixed Races has many new races like the dwelf (dwarf-elf), the nephilim (Tiefling-Aasimar) or the Smoke Genasi

Oath of the Revolution is a Paladin subclass that lets you build a character who fights for freedom and against oppresion

Spooky Character options let you play an Animated Jack-o-Lantern, or a Cleric of the Spook domain, dedicated to spooking your enemy. A bit out of season, I admit

The Archivist is a class all about knowledge. The subclasses focus either on Psionics of Arcane.

The Young God Patron binds your Warlock into the service of a god who is still trying to establish a following

Check them out, I think they are all pretty good! And if you like them, leave a review!

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just playing the new spider-man game when something caught my eye…!!!

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Ok, this looks cool as hell.

Enter the world of Cyberpunk 2077 — a story-driven, open world RPG of the dark future from CD PROJEKT RED, creators of The Witcher series of games.