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Here's the links to parts 1 and 2. Enjoy!
Pt. 1: http://imgur.com/gallery/HnPRbnY
Pt. 2: http://imgur.com/gallery/dssWS7f
BronzeLeaguePro
You make a big backstory so you can improvise very quickly.
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
Greatest compliment I've ever been given about my DMing "If I knew how interesting the world lore was, I wouldn't have dumped my Int."
GioGiosTripleBagel
#17 you had my curiosity, now you have my attention
Sawrock
#12 with the cleric worshipping the DM is Forgath from the webcomic Goblins.
EvilDeadTed
#2 The Odyssey, for instance.
arelmcii
BC2k2
#11 I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
GeneralNuclear
No one wants to talk to the hooded figure! just give boblin his quest line instead.
diregamer
"I lost my trinket. In the woods. Over there." *points* Trinket is a Gray Render bonded to the Goblin that if he doesn't find him...
SpoonLoeffel
#2 needs some Adagio for Strings Op. for the trip to Hiigara.
WoopDeFrickenDoo
Hiigara…. our home....
TresusIbor
#3 This is basically how we meet characters in One Piece.
moonshadowkati
Senor Pink. How did they manage to make that guy a serious character? Ridiculous.
wyrde
"No plot survives contact with the players." & "Listen to the players, they often have ideas they'll later regret." are my 2 rules of GMing
maliciousGman
WestNiall
and that is one of the rat queens
sykoticflaw
That is Trinket, the greatest bear who ever lived, protector of Vox Machina.
cozynester
I tried to play a kid sorcerer once My DM now has a "minimum age" rule.
friendsofsandwiches
I NEED to know more of Slappy.
LastoftheMcKettrickSupplicants
He exists now only in our memories
friendsofsandwiches
He tried so HAAAARD, but in the end, it didn't even maaaatter,
FireSolvesProblems
The world needs more Slappy.
drGrafenberg
Well, the one about not going north is a fairly simple one to fix.
Dustfinger4268
Slappy is like half my characters. So fun to play a complete joke character and play it straight
mpangelu
#2 Hit me right in the nostalgia feels. And it was a great reminder of a great story . Thanks for sharing that one . #homeworld
PersonenschadenImGleisbett
Hiigara - Home
Manticore21
Scrolled down right away to see if there was a homeworld comment - not disappointed
TheHasegawaEffect
The guidestone!
BuddyHank
I doubt OP knew it was homeworld, and shared it for DND
mpangelu
That’s fine , I still appreciated it being shared
CreampieSorbet
This makes me wish I had a good D&D group. I have so many characters waiting, yearning, plotting.
SaganIsMyLordAndSavior
This made my whole entire day. Thank you ☺
Jinxies
#5 is from the comic Rat Queens, which I highly recommend as it is freakin awesome! https://imgur.com/HGb09hF
cadesama
Imbued.
Crowlands
If your players care about the "Wrong" thing, or go the "Wrong" way, do what I do: Either let the party decide where to go at the End of a -
Crowlands
- session, or write some variant on "Whichever building they chose to explore, it has this map layout. Add undead template if they picked -
Crowlands
- the tomb, fiendish if they picked the cult." Sometimes you just gotta work around them. A random NPC generator helps too.
Crowlands
"Schroedinger's troll" is a classic DMing tool: 2 doors. First one they open has the fight. Second one has the prize. Illusion of choice.
DarthBallsDankLordOfTheShit
The vine one killed me
Steamjack
I didn't get that one. I guess they were all referring to old vines?
Solvedmind
Has anyone done a Rick and Morty dnd session. Themed as a heist? “ you SOAB , I’m in!”
Qualtagh
There's official R&M DnD content. So someone definitely has.
RandAIFlagg
couple weeks ago I did a heist session in a game where I stole a fucking building, and definitely used that line when I accepted the job
RedVanGhoul
I love DMing for those players that think you're not allowed to kill PCs. I'm not necessarily trying to TPK, but I also dont pull punches.
RandAIFlagg
For one of the games I like to run (L5R), I tell my players their objective is to die in the coolest way possible. They go in prepared for >
RandAIFlagg
> their character to be killed, so when it happens they don't lose their shit. They just make it as glorious and fitting as they can.
diregamer
L5R would be the best system for that. Reminds me of my dual wielding tainted dragon samurai. 16 years ago ah good times.
RandAIFlagg
Yea. Conversely I'm running a Fate game where I'm intending to avoid any PC deaths. And there are fates worse than death.
RedVanGhoul
Is it short for something? Maybe I'll have to check it out.
RandAIFlagg
Not exactly. The setting is heavily inspired by Feudal Japan, and your characters are (typically) Samurai and should embrace death.
DillPixels
Rusarules
I have a Kenku Swashbuckler who can only say "kawkaw" ala "I am Groot" with proficiency in persuasion.
MisterDictionary
Does the weapon cursed to only work properly if he yells "LET IT RIP!" at the start of the encounter.
MrA007
Bugbear barbarian rogue raised by professor of bardic studies. Despite being both clown and thespian he's more misinformed professor eachday
JustARandomKorean
I mean I running a psycho kenku plague doctor named Cork, been fun almost unleashed yellowmold grafted skeletal rats into a city
Cammo353
I need to know more about ripcord
Marwick42
I concur.
Danishlmgurian
I conthree.
siegfriedwatson
I conquatro.
IHaveAMemeForThis
I concinco de mayo
DefinitelyNotACrow
I mean, my kobold rogue that was convinced he was a knight after he stole an actual knight's certificate of pedigree ended up going well.
DefinitelyNotACrow
There really isn't a way of knowing how a character will turn out, but the more fun ideas are always a hell of a ride.
The5lacker
I’ve got a Warforged Druid named Moss on the back burner for a similar occasion. Guess what he’s covered in.
DillPixels
Dirt
The5lacker
I like you, you try to keep ahead of the curve. Was gonna say "Lichen", though.
DillPixels
I would’ve loved that. I adore a good pun.
apbadogs
So I never got into D&D, can the DM just do whatever the fuck he wants?
DanFendi
Yesish. The DM is the stage setter/manager, but if he doesn't keep things fun, he's liable to run out of players quickly.
ihateimgurffs
If you want it all to be fun, consider the DM the Director, players the Actors, and both groups are Screenwriters. Then make the best story.
BronzeLeaguePro
DM tells the story. The players are the protagonists of the story. You try to challenge the players, so they'll just BARELY make it.
BronzeLeaguePro
Some GM/DMs are weak, and let the party live, but people remember the time that they beat the BBEG with 3hp left in the entire party and a
BronzeLeaguePro
fried sausage as the only weapon left afterwards. If your players are prepping like mad and praying to the dice god, they're having fun.
DanniLuxgarbe
Within reason, yes. Generally speaking, the players won't put up with your bullshit if you don't allow them to 'win' from time to time, /1
DanniLuxgarbe
but the best DMs in my opinion treat the games like telling a story together. You have an outline of where you want to go, but the players/2
DanniLuxgarbe
come up with the specifics. You decide that the session will be a heist film, the players decide it it'll be a comedy, a spy film, or /3
DanniLuxgarbe
a period drama.
hoopsnek
You never want to get to the point where the DM is sick of your party’s shit.
Cammo353
You want to coast along the line between enjoyable hijinks and the DM pulling a TPK out of their ass to spite you
barbwirelove
I was invited to play a Star Was tabletop. My first idea for a character was nixed and I was asked to leave the group right there.
barbwirelove
For me that is 100% a win. I wanted to bring Michael Winslow's character from Space Balls to SW (after the mega maid explosion)
INeverSayNi
HighImpactSexualViolence
But that's how you win D&D. First player to make the DM tell you to fuck off purely in-game wins. Then you stop fucking with the DM & play.
HedonistBeard
We had a DM who was pretty bad and refused suggestions for improvement... but we had lots of fun avoiding his attempts to murder us.
HedonistBeard
Most of them in game.
DiabloD3
Gawky
dice fudging, plot railroading and sudden PC willpower rolls, if they fail they have to do what the DM, insists is their concious
moosegirlblackbear
Agreed. That's when mountains appear from nowhere and fall on top of your shitty edgelord rogue.
TimmyDans
You hear distant mooing.
RenaissanceDesign
Rocks fall, everyone dies.
ID1746
MrBananahat
I'll have you know my rogue is a sniveling coward who stays as far away from combat with his crossbow as he can, not very edgy at all.
ElbowDeepInStudentDebt
I've got a player who lights EVERYTHING on fire, and a paladin who thinks he has the ablility to pull LITERALLY ANYTHING out of their...
ElbowDeepInStudentDebt
priests pack. They rolled a nat 20 looking for their "holy hand grenade"... they found it once, and now they won't shut up about it.
JackalopeElope
A character in leather armor walks up to your inn table with 6 mugs of beer in his hands. As he describes the job you start to feel funny.
JackalopeElope
Suddenly you realize he's describing the town guard you killed two seasons back. You woozily draw your weapons.
friendsofsandwiches
Wait... when did I drink the beer?
JackalopeElope
He darts back showing the other patrons his warrant, for dead or alive. Only the barbarian is standing long enough to be stabbed to death.
Crowlands
I played the "Paladin" Warlock. I dreamt of the Raven Queen, she told me to destroy undead, and she granted me a holy smite (Eldritch Blast)
ColonelColon
Fellow Raven Queen worshipping warlock! Though I went the stabby path instead of the blasty one.
Crowlands
I've always loved non-evil death gods in Dnd/Pathfinder. Had a Mystic Theurge who worshipped the 3.5 god of death and magic, too.
moonshadowkati
I'm just a goblin fighter, but I'm using a shard of Blackrazor as a bayonet and have an affectionate nickname for RQ, can I join your club?
Crowlands
You're not an intelligent undead, or other immortality seeker, so you're OK with me.
moonshadowkati
Nope, just a regular goblin carrying a storm giant's child.