Our bard got a magic item that let them cast Wall of Thorns before we would normal have access to a spell that high level. We used it on a boss pretty much immediately to trap it in one side of a room while we mopped up the rest of its adds that didn’t get killed by the Wall. The boss we were fighting was a bug queen. What we didn’t know was that, while we were fighting the first adds, it spent the whole time spawning more behind the wall, since it didn’t have any other actions it could spend. That did not go well lol
It was our first TPK, most of us were new to the game, and we put a lot of focus on RP, so the DM gave us the choice if we actually wanted each of our characters to die, or if we’d prefer to be Deus ex Machina’d. I was the only one that chose to let their character die. My warlock had made his pact initially as part of a deal to save his sister who was crushed in a cave-in. He decided to swear more oaths, fully giving his soul for eternity to his patron, in exchange for saving the lives of his friends.
It was a pretty cool way for him to go out, and now he gets to be an antagonist later. That’s going to be interesting, because our bard took up his fake religion out of a desperation to know that he went to a better place
Curse of Strahd in 3.5: Who knew Con damage to a mostly spell caster group could be dangerous not just once but 4 times. In comparison both fights were Strahd were a f**ing walk in the park.
More of a test game than an actual campaign: We were testing if a CR appropriate group of goblins with levels vs a group of players would play out for the players: Well as it turns out I suck at calculating CR so our first fight was 5 players vs 5 goblins level 15 (Same as players) plus 10 starting goblins. We adjusted it for a correct CR and it was still a massacre. Ambush is a HELL of an advantage.
Anything goes campaign. Well turns out anything goes for the DM too so Level 3 half colossal half minotaur barbarian opponent with a posse of gobs with a ballista safely away means players die every other round or so.
A huge part of what makes me a Forever GM is the fun of making stories for my friends to play out.
This is a map made with random dungeon dice, first time I've actually used them in 6 years ha ha =)
DnD 3.0, dnd 3.5, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Pathfinder Second Edition, Blue Rose AGE system, Call of Cthulhu, Adnd (advanced dungeons and dragons), it's all great.
What do you play, or are you curious about playing yourself? And yes, plenty of characters from stories have been built in game, and plenty of chars made ingame have found their way into my written stories!
@Sandra@dnd cheers enjoy, feel free to use the map. At first i tried doing each dice face on a 2x2 but that didn't work. A 3x3 grid is better and allows for the 8 exits on each face (2 each direction, up to the roll to make "rooms" that connect etc.
As for gm cheating, I offer to give rules if the other gm asks, otherwise I shut up and let them run the game. I recall about 99% of the useful rules (environment no one remembers haha) and only for pf1. Any other system I'm happy to go to round the table of situation x, get everyones imput and then make a ruling and stick to it, looking up the rules after etc.
Plus the golden rule, have fun, change however you want!
@proflysun@pf2general@dnd@rpgmemes let me know if you get a set, I'll let you know how the dungeon goes wheb I run it.
Atm party is facing an undead shipwrecked dwarf crew (they're friendly, but the darkest corners of their ship is not), then I'm looking st Drow and Ratfolk dungeons.
Unsure how they'll look, but the ratfolk will be 2 tribes, the clean folk who live in cities and the dirty brutish rats who create the bad reputation all ratfolks are plagued with.
I have an idea for a get-rich-quick scheme: using the Bessemer process to create massive amounts of high-quality steel. However, I'm sure my #DM has not given a single thought to this (because I know her) so I'm worried that this might give God fun #worldbuilding ideas to fuck with our party. How do I tell my group my plan, without having the industrialized slave company I know is on the other side of the map spontaneously develop a similar process?
I don’t necessarily think those things follow. You can’t build CRIPSR in game because half elves have a human and an elf parent, because half elves imply inheritability which implies DNA.
The rules are the rules. So you might assume oxygen exists because your character needs to breathe, and you might assume metallurgy exists because the rules say you can mine, and forge.
But you can’t just say “with this facet on industryy characters downtime will be more productive than the book says”. If the book says you can mine 10gp worth of ore a day, or turn 10gp of ore into twenty a day… Then that’s what the rules say.
Obviously none of this would survive rigorous scientific method as dnd is not a science simulator. Once upon a time I wanted to use Minecraft as a science simulator… Alas…
As a DM: Trying to sneak such an idea by me and trying to exploit the world with knowledge that doesn’t fit are two surefire ways for you to get that idea blocked completely with no chance to ever use it again.
If you want to introduce that technology to the world, talk to the DM, tell her that you would hate for that idea to be used by the enemy company and work out a way that makes it fun, but not completely game breaking for this to appear.
Seriously, how come people still don’t get the number one rule of playing a COOPERATIVE game?
@dnd Hey everyone. I recently went to a miniature store to pick up some more premium paints for my miniatures I'm 3D printing for DnD. While I was there I saw a really nice paint cup for brushes. I knew I could get a model offline so I didn't buy it and instead opted to print one. I found a really nice one, but it lacked that little extra something. So I modified the original design and added the DnD logo. I think it turned out really nice.
What do you guys think?
@dnd Last night we ran part two of a campaign I'm running and while some pieces are still unpainted I'm overall very happy with how my abandoned temple looks. There were some secret passages but at this point they were hidden so not displayed here.
@dnd running the Dragon of Ice Spire peak, when my group came upon the logging camp. I printed the models in my 3d printer, paint them, and try like hell to have a functional set every other week for our game.
@dndbeyond@dnd@paizo taz my character that I made and killed the king of all liches and used my luck and the luck dice tooo look for more once he died and got a few weapons one a Sentient something and the other one a healing sword a divine healing sword., I to be continued Tas 1#birth @DnDBeyond