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DnD idea:

let your players make up the magic system as they go along, doing whatever overpowered bullshit they want as long as they give a brief in-universe explanation of why they can do that (e.g. “actually i’m immune to fire magic because i’m wearing red”).

keep track of everything they do. then use the magic system they created against them, turning every deus ex machina they ever gave themselves into a diabolus ex machina (e.g. “you notice that the giant plant monster has a red ribbon tied around its trunk, making it immune to fire magic”).

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I think most people in our generation have a story like this - mine was on a proboards chatbox. We used to say “dunt” instead of “don’t” - so obviously I did the same with “can’t” and uh.... you can guess the rest :P

I remember when I was 9 years old neopets taught me what cum meant. Not what an orgasm is, but what the word cum meant. I was postin on the neoboards, doing my 9 year old thing, and all of a sudden I was kicked off the forum and blocked????? I was like what the fuck I’m 9 I just want to talk about my jubjub?? (his name was JubInATub how clever is that I know). So I investigated and it said I had been soft banned for using inappropriate language, and it had the word like censored and I had to click on it to see what it said, so I do and I see the word CUM written in bold red letters, plain as the morning sun, strung up and exposed to the brisk wind like freshly laundered linens, and was understandably offended like??? Cum on guys this has to be a mistake I was just asking what was the best time to cum to the ice caves and try to sneak some free shit from that ice snake bitch, that thing was ALWAYS awake. So my bitty 9 y/o brain was like what the hell neopets, maybe they just don’t understand Internet Lingo like obviously I was using a Hip and Cool instant message shorthand to save my precious 9 y/o time (a girls got shit to do like damn). So I was like let’s lay this to rest, I’m gonna google search this shit, screen shot the definition and send it in an email to the CEO Mr. Neopet himself, lay down some knowledge on these fogies. So my sweet little innocent fingers pull up Google dot com and type in the letters C-U-M expecting validation and let me tell you friends, what I found shocked my innocent child psyche to the core. The root of who I was got ripped to shreds, obliterated by the wood chipper that is this cruel and disgusting world we live in. That day changed me, it was a crossroads of my life and I was thrust down a path that I have yet to return from.

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help i accidentally created a cleric with a -1 to religion checks how the fuck did i even do that

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i literally dont talk to anyone unless they talk to me first

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All of this is gold

Random DnD Worldbuilding

Male tieflings wearing skirts because having custom pants tailored to accommodate their tails is too much of a hassle

Firefighter clerics, wizards, and druids

(and the apologetic sorcerer that probably started the fire by mistake)

Young, forty-something dwarves joining druid circles and protesting the damage their clan mining does on the environment

Everyone gives up trying to categorize sexuality when a half-elf can bring their cute dragonborn boyfriend home to meet their family

Human kids having an awesome bearded dwarf vodka-aunt that adventured with a great-grandparent decades ago and gives the best presents

Ok but there are several disciplines of magic that let you bring people back from the dead wtf

Young punk elves barely in their 80s but yelling at humans “Check yourself knave I made out with your grandma before she even had your Da.”

Wizards for Familiar Rights

Spellcasters using ‘alter self’ and switch genders at will

A giant half-Orc mom adopting street kids and giving them shoulder rides

A normal human whose sibling was born a tiefling beating up village kids who mistreat them

Integrated cities made to accommodate smaller folk like halflings and gnomes

Would alchemists be the ones to concoct magic medications for psych disorders? Are divination clerics and wizards psychologists?

Convoluted age laws because a half-orc is an adult at 15 but an elf isn’t considered of-age until their first century.

Maybe democracies aren’t a thing in Faerûn because all you’d need is a few necromancers to literally have dead people voting

Bard rock bands

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Y E S

Concept: a post-apoc survival game where the premise is that the previous batch of heroes stopped one of those allegorical JRPG-style apocalypses, but the physical consequences didn’t magically undo themselves afterwards, so now everyone has to to deal with symbolic bullshit like your agricultural land being replaced with forests of stone hands, or that giant eyeball where your capital city used to be. The tone could be horror, but it’s not; rather, the emphasis is on how incredibly inconvenient it is for everybody that pieces of the world have been transformed into half-baked metaphors for hating your dad.

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Yes!!! Rolling to generate plot is an awesome way to get a draft written while having fun :D

can you make a dnd campaign with yourself and only yourself. like u have a bunch of different characters and you play all of them and you’re also the dm

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Better than to imitate Cicero, who to lengthy and elaborate clauses, whose subsections alone, endlessly nesting, continue across inordinate reams of virtual paper, multiplying and expanding, as though the universe, black ink-dark sky scattered with stars, whose light is ever-burning, and nebulae, were transformed into words and set down, letter by letter, upon this transient screen, cleaves.

writing style: author from the 1800s with a severe love of commas whose sentences last half a page 

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the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu

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I have many OCs so here are the highlights:

1) I gallivant around on adventures with my step-daughter, having been forced to throw my ex-husband off a cliff.

2) My best friend died and now I’m a mass-murdering sado-masochist.

3) I found my True Master and she’s a 15yr old pacifist. I’m a killing machine. We solve mysteries together.

4) I fed a kid who fell through my ceiling and now I’m desperately trying not to be an abusive guardian coz she won’t leave h-e-l-p.

5) My best friend is incredibly powerful, but very adorable and people keep trying to manipulate her, despite my best efforts to protect her with my political know-how.

spoil your OC's storyline/character arc with no context

(inspired by those “spoil the ending of your favorite game/movie/book but with no context” posts)

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I really like this!!

So the other day, I was thinking about the classic alignment chart, and how it doesn’t really do much for me personally since it’s more about how characters interact with systems rather than how they interact with other people

I had a minute, so I figured I’d throw something together that DID suit my needs!

(Note: This chart regards a character’s intent rather than the outcome of their actions—and for sake of clarity, here are the definitions I’m working with:

Good: concerned with the well-being the collective, often at expense of the self

Evil: concerned with the well-being of the self, often at the expense of the collective

Kind: concerned with the emotional responses of others

Cruel: unconcerned with the emotional responses of others)

I like conceptualizing things this way, cause sometimes Bad People behave with ‘good’ or ‘kind’ intentions, and sometimes Good People do things that seem ‘evil’ or ‘cruel’

Also this gives me a way to compare/contrast characters who get lumped together under the other system

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I have a spiritual obligation to reblog this.

Is dnd strictly tabletop or is there a digital community to play amongst

There are digital options, roll20.net/ is the one I use most frequently. The only thing you technically really need to play is a consistent means of communication and I dont know dice probably 

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Jaded by female protagonists who apparently do hard manual work, such as fighting or mechanics, but have perfectly-manicured slender smooth hands.

very fucking tired of female characters having to be younger and smaller than their male counterparts

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This gets better every time I see it.

Shrek makes infinitely more sense if you ascribe to the theory that everyone is a PC in an RPG, and Donkey’s player managed to avoid a boss battle by rolling a nat 20 to seduce the fucking dragon

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In this essay, the English first person singular pronoun will be discussed, without once using said pronoun. This will inevitably lead to much circumlocution, suggesting that this is in fact a ploy to pad the word count to the minimum stated in the brief.

“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

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This gives me faith in humanity.

An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon. She mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson and takes care of him. The demon decides to stay at his new home.

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on the topic of rewriting racist d&d narratives

it takes work, yes!

it’s worth it. for both you and your players, but especially for new players who can see the game in different ways than you

examples I’ve written that you should feel free to use:

-orcs: rather than give in to the weird “tribal savages who fight all the time,” consider connecting orcs and their inate strength/constitution to the earth. in my most recent campaign setting, orcs are descended from a human champion who bested an earth primordial; the primordial, impressed with their strength, blessed them and their descendents with powerful tusks and a greater constitution.

-drow: instead of the entire drow narrative being “they’re dark skinned and bad because they betrayed the fair skinned elves and their gods,” consider playing up their connection to spiders. perhaps they worshiped a spider God who gave them the ability to blend into their darkened surroundings. if you’re married to their current aesthetic appearance, take care to present multiple drow societies that have different outlooks; not a homogenous race of black skinned slavers. consider pigmentless drow, who’ve lost all skin color because they never see the light of day. drow who use echolocation? distancing your drow from the bad connotations carried by the current zeitgeist is a useful endeavor

-include. colored. elves. in. your. game

-drop the ‘tribal’ aesthetic and the connotations that goblins and other monstrous races have. it’s lazy

-focus less on race and more on societies; a society can be evil or good, but a race cannot

-consider that fantasy races have no reason to conform to any gendered structures (especially our current human binary). dwarvish societies who express their varied and fluid genders through beard braiding. elvish societies who reproduce asexually. don’t limit yourself to what you can relate to from a 21st century human perspective

it takes a bit of elbow grease to decolonize your d&d, and the process is never done, but in my own experience, it’s only ever lead to more innovative and engaging experiences!