I've been drinking smoothies this week with beetroot as a major component. It's quite a healthy concoction, but it does have side effects. One side effect in particular is called beeturia, which is fairly terrifying when you need to take a leak late at night and forgot that you've been drinking beet juice. I thought I was hemorrhaging internally until I remembered the beets.
My kid keeps calling #ose#DnD illusionists "illusioners", which honestly seems like a better name the more I hear it. It seems more active.
Illusionist: "I have illusions. I made them."
Illusioner: "I do illusions. I illude!"
(Looking it up, "illusion" comes from the Latin "illudere" meaning "to mock". What do they mock with their phantasms and false sensory impressions? Reality, I guess.)
An idea from my life for your #DnD#ttrpg game:
I once lived in an old Victorian house that was converted into apartments. One day, I looked up at the house from outside & noticed a window on the corner where my bathroom had a blank wall. I checked it out. The bathroom at the end of the hall was 5 feet shorter than the hall. Behind a set of shelves at the end of the hall, I found a door with the knob removed so the shelf would sit flush against it. There was a secret corner room!
#DnD DM tip to really mess with your players' heads:
Act as a neutral arbiter of the game's rules and setting. Don't twist wishes to screw them. Don't present them with "gotcha" scenarios designed to make them mess up.
Just be fair and reasonable. Their paranoia from past terrible DMs and all the "Evil DM" memes they've seen will have them waiting for you to spring something on them.
Then, when they finally let their guards down, just keep being fair. Nobody needs that "Evil DM" stuff.
It occurs to me that most of the #DnD examples of "rolling a nat 20" in media aren't nat 20s at all.
"Bard was able to launch a black arrow and strike Smaug right in the soft skin under his missing scale! Nat 20!"
No. The entire point of that story was that Bard was just that good. That was Bard the Bowman rolling a 12 to hit his mark after being told exactly where to aim.
Thundarr the Barbarian is the Ego of man, attempting to navigate his world between the instinctive impulses of the Id–represented by Ookla the Mok–and the moral compass of the Superego–represented by the wise sorceress, Princess Ariel.
"I still think they're good, but I'm no longer impressed by their incredible range." –me after finding out King Crimson and King Diamond are two different bands
Have you ever had that "Those are two things?!" moment about something?
It's the night before Halloween. October 30th is known as Devil's Night in my homeland, the icy wastes of Nordor (a.k.a. Michigan). In keeping with my personal liturgical calendar, I will now watch "The Crow" and drink whiskey as I do every year on this night. Do you have any personal annual traditions?