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Oh hey, probably bard. We thought you were dead

I am lol

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all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

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Sometimes you doodle outfits that have no purpose but hopefully will 

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DMs be like “i know a spot” and then lead you directly into the consequences of your actions 

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I don’t disagree that D&D players who insist on trying stupid shit like using create water to flood people’s lungs or teleport to snatch organs out of people’s bodies are a problem, but I think a lot of commentaries on why it’s a problem are missing the mark.

Like, yes, it’s true that it’s unfair to non-spellcasters, and that these sorts of exploits often rely on perverse readings that can be countered by pointing out that – for example – the human body isn’t an “open container” in the sense that the description of create water is using it, or that you don’t have line of sight to people’s internal organs, but that’s not the reason those stunts are bad for the game.

The reason this sort of thing is a problem is because doing it requires you to engage in bad faith. No set of rules can foreclose on every possible perverse reading without becoming unwieldy – just look at pro sports rulebooks to see where that gets you! Even the most rules-heavy tabletop RPGs necessarily assume that you’re reading for intent as well as for the explicit text, and most such exploits are clearly counter to that intent.

It’s like bringing a twenty-sided die that reads “20″ on every face to the table, and when you get caught, insisting that your die ought to be allowed because the rules merely specify that you should roll a twenty-sided die – they don’t specify how the faces of that die should be enumerated.

Without that presumption of good faith, the relationship between the GM and the players stops being one of creative collaboration and becomes that of a mere referee, and forcing your GM to play full time Rules Cop isn’t fun for anyone unless you’re the sort of hypercompetitive asshole who approaches every social interaction as an invitation to intellectual combat.

(Honestly, it’s a pretty poor way to win at intellectual combat, too. Respecting the spirit of the rules is by no means incompatible with creative play; if you’ve been given a spell that can conjure up to ten gallons of water into any open container within thirty feet at the flick of a wrist, and the best thing you can think of to do with it is try to drown people, if anything that reflects a lack of creativity!)

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Odyssey of the Dragonlords is a published campaign for 5e by Modipheus that's heavily inspired by Greek mythology and has custom subclasses and races for the setting.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros is an official setting supplement published by Wizards of the Coast based on the Theros MtG setting which is also inspired by Greek mythology.

Even if you don't want to run either of these settings specifically they should provide a ton of inspiration, as they both have some really neat ways to give your characters and campaign that distinct 'heroic Greek myth' feel.

(how would you go about starting a campaign inspired by greek mythology? I'm trying to make a homebrew inspired by Blood of Zeus)

I wouldn’t, because I don’t know the first thing about greek mythology. There’s an endless number of starts for a game, though. It doesn’t even necessarily have to tie directly into the blood of zeus right away. Sorry that’s not the answer you probably wanted, but it’s the best i got!

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I made a group illustration for my d&d group in our lovely trollskull manor kitchen bc we’ve been playing for a while and I love them ;v; featuring our amazing dm as a bard.

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Been thinking about teifling horns

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I remembered I sketched this and finished it and now I am crying 

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Listen, I KNOW she’s a chaotic evil witch and in this picture she’s literally talking with a Lord of Hell….

But look at her!! She’s so cute in this art!! Look at her little smile!!

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Story from this week's D&D game:

One of the party members tried to enlist me into pranking my character's twin brother with some alchemical laxatives, I took a raincheck because of a recent traumatic event but told him I would help him later.

That night I told him I wanted to go bigger on the prank, and asked if he'd want to use it on this evil lady we've kinda started working for (if you saw my last post it's the same evil lady that's kind of my mom).

We got a 100 GP bottle of wine and put the laxative in it, using mending to fix the bottle, and I used disguise self to drop it off at her office.

Except I didn't.

I bought a second 100 GP bottle of wine and swapped the two, then brought the original tampered bottle back to celebrate our great prank. I let him and the alchemist who made the laxative share the bottle, while I only pretended to drink it. A couple hours later he found out my treachery

You shouldn't have tried to prank my brother, Melvin ;)

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Shout-out to my DM @dungeonsanddisappointments for putting me through the emotional rollercoaster of telling my character that

A) her and her twin's dad wasn't actually their dad,

b) their mom is an arcanoloth-turned-archfey from the last campaign in an act of miraculous conception, and

C) the miraculous conception involved my dad actually-kind-of being my parent as well as 1) my character from the last campaign 2) the hireling-turned-badass rogue that my last character brought with her and 3) one of the villains that my last character fucked over in the last campaign using said arcanoloth