🎲tabletop-and-boardgames

[primal perch]

it be like that sometime

one issue with it for example

once per turn means once per your turn

they dont specify its your turn on the card

just in the book

[silk lion]

There's another game I have that has something like that in it...

oh, it's Dark Moon. you're supposed to attempt to repair the shields after specific actions, but the rules don't say that and there's no clear indication in the rules of how you actually complete a "repair shields" action.

that info is spelled out in a forum post by one of the creators on BoardGameGeek lol

[primal perch]

just did a check

some cards even say once per your turn

[idle hatch]

My local gameshop opened again this week, passed by yesterday and brought back new dice it's cool to buy from them again instead of online, that shop is old, one of the only few left at that 🥺

they got trays full of each different die that you can buy by fistfull y'all

[maiden escarp]

Have any of y'all seen the Adventure Zone?

[silk lion]

TAZ is good but they also cursed themselves by making the first campaign impossible to live up to lol

[burnt flare]

is anyone here like interested in joining a small dnd campaign, its got space fantasy and of course space lesbians.

@ me if you are

[zenith kernel]

I would if I wasn’t DMing a huge campaign and playing two other big campaigns

[coarse cobalt]

I love TAZ (the first two seasons at least) and I have the Bureau of Balance board game

[kindred rampart]

Sovereign Chess

[silk lion]

Balance was such an insanely good campaign. I liked Amnesty, though not quite as much and fell off of Graduation early, though mostly cuz my drive to work suddenly got very short and I didn't wanna listen to podcasts for 10 minutes at a time

[maiden escarp]

I have literally been crying for a day straight over amnesty episode 28

[burnt flare]

oof alright well the offers out to anyone

[cinder spindle]

I've listened to Balance and Amnesty, but I dropped Graduation at ep 10.

I honestly got as far as I did in Graduation because I really liked Justin's character

[silk lion]

My wife ran a game similar to Graduation years ago and let us pick our classes and ran those sessions but she basically ran every class that didn't have all the characters very quickly with one specific thing for the character in class to learn/pick up on

[maiden escarp]

I’m not bothering with Grad

[silk lion]

And she advanced a larger plot constantly so everyone was involved. The climax was my character leaping off an escape wagon to go brawl an eldritch abomination because a) my character was a dumb meathead; b) it was rad as heck

[coarse cobalt]

I would love to say yes but I think i've just hit my limit for campaigns 😭 how often would you be playing?

I tried to listen to Grad but it just... it missed out on the fun group times i loved

[silk lion]

Also I had a duel with another PC who was also a fight crazed lunatic and kept blocking my punches with her school bag, which contained a large side of ham

And at the end, my wife ruled that the bag had been punched so much, the ham liquified. This resulted in the two PCs sitting down to bond over what an awesome duel it was while drinking a "ham smoothie" directly out of the bookbag

[maiden escarp]

Ned Chicane was wonderful

I am gonna take a break from amnesty because episode 28 was too much

“You see the stars, and they are beautiful. And then they’re gone.”

[silk lion]

I think, while I like Amnesty, it and Graduation suffer the same flaw. Balance worked because it started out a little goofy and then builds into this massive story and you grow to love the characters over a long time. The other two try to hit that same note out of the gate which leaves them feeling...I dunno. Again, I like the content so that's not meant to be nasty or anything, just kind of a criticism.

I think they'd be better if the characters were given a bit more time to breathe or something. I would still 100% recommend them to people though cuz the family has such a great dynamic and I love listening to their shenanigans

[maiden escarp]

Nah grads problem was railroading

[burnt flare]

@coarse cobalt once a week or eveey other week ideally

[silk lion]

Also I wish they'd have used the superhero one off their dad ran cuz the twist at the end was fantastic. Though I understand that FATE is not a very...engaging system for listeners since there isn't much mechanically going on which can turn it more into an audio drama rather than real play

[maiden escarp]

I hated it

I wish they used dust

[silk lion]

Dust was also excellent

[maiden escarp]

I’m a sucker for cowboys

My partner draws em a lot

[silk lion]

The bit with Griffin ringing the bell then all the NPCs giving him a hard time about it had me laughing so hard I thought I was gonna wreck my car

[maiden escarp]

That’s why I don’t listen while driving

The darker atmosphere still allowed for good humor

[cinder spindle]

If you're looking for a superhero TTRPG podcast, I highly recommend Protean City Comics

[maiden escarp]

I have a horror story from a hero themed game so I tend to avoid em

[silk lion]

I...don't think I've played a hero themed game but I have used a system for superhero games. That was the worst game I've ever played in cuz the GM just...wouldn't wrangle people and we spent literal weeks of sessions just aimlessly wandering a large space cruiser talking to people with no story advancement lol

[maiden escarp]

I had a gm who sent me a tin of abusive chat when the campaign didn't go their way.

[silk lion]

That's lame

I don't think any campaign ever goes the way the DM "wants" it to go but that's why they shouldn't block out more than sorta like...the gist of what's going to happen

I always ran bits of a game as "they start here, their goal is to get there, here's a few things they might bump into along the way, and the rest of it is for them to fill in"

[maiden escarp]

One example is my character is a reformed villain who was brainwashed into working for the hero's. They know what situation they're in but can't break out because any plans of turning against the hero's are erased from their mind. The GM wanted them to have an arc where they developed a dad kid relationship with hero that captured them but they very hostile and terrified of him.

When they pushed back I got chewed out about how in previous campaigns I've allowed people's PC's to become my characters' found family so why was this different.

[burnt flare]

trying again since conversations dipped if anyones interested in a fantasy space dnd campaign let me know you can @ me or message me, its once a week/every other week and it happens on the weekend

[hoary timber]

Is it a text based, voice based or video based game? What's the starting level? Any restricted race or classes? Any character creation rules?

[burnt flare]

voice based, level 3, homebrew classes would have to be run by the dm the races are standard dnd races but itd be better to figure that out joining the server same with character creation rules

are you interested?

[hoary timber]

What day and time?

[burnt flare]

said its over the weekends fridays saturday and Sundays are all possible days 6 pm est time

[hoary timber]

Ahh that's 3pm pacific for me. Monday through Friday I work 7am to 6pm pacific Saturdays I'm mostly free except tomorrow I'm working at a carwash event for the homeless from 8am to 2:30pm office
Sundays I'm also mostly free unless on the rare occasion I'm asked to work with the homeless outreach team from 12pm to 5pm.

[hoary timber]

In short Saturdays and Sundays are best unless I'm asked to work. Fridays not so much lol.

[burnt flare]

Ok cool we can do saturdays or sundays ill let the dm know and well invite you to the server if your still interested once she gets stuff together

[hoary timber]

Sounds like a plan.

[oblique canopy]

I found a humble bundle of ttrpgs for trans rights organizations that I want to share

https://itch.io/b/900/ttrpg-charity-bundle-for-trans-support

[silk lion]

hm this will be the first time in 6 weeks that our D&D group is getting together. wonder if tonight I can finally convince the DM to let my paladin have Adamantine Plate lol

[maiden escarp]

My MOTW character fights a Heron ASMR

[maiden escarp]

I had a great time at yesterdays session but man not talking for an hour while the team does all the work is exhausting
Sounds sarcastic but it isn't

[silk lion]

I spent most of the RP parts being quiet cuz my paladin is not stealthy nor is she exactly the face and that was most of it. Then in the combat part I was sweating a bit cuz I was getting absolutely clobbered.

Which is fine, I'm the tank but boy you start to feel nervous when the first encounter of the dungeon has you eat like 70 damage

[hoary timber]

Very much a this is fine moment
https://c.tenor.com/-kZOB16tELEAAAAM/this-is-fine-fire.gif

[silk lion]

I'd have been at negative HP if the mini-boss had another turn cuz I was sitting at 10HP but fortunately, party DPS got a lucky critical and high damage rolls on a spell so they dealt like 61 damage in their turns

[silk lion]

I just remembered how much of a huge headache it was to format my old game using Homebrewery and I want to cry at the thought of spending another several nights fighting its weird CSS commands to make everything look right despite how fantastic it is at the end

[heavy granite]

the queerest dice

not pictured
my first set of rainbow dice or my lesbian dice
this is just today's haul

[zenith kernel]

Mm jealous, I want some lgbt dice™️

[buoyant sinew]

same

[heavy granite]

got them from Roll With Advantage
not sure if they ship outside Australia

if anyone does shop on RWA tho, for the month you can use the checkout code PRIDE21 to get a discount on pride dice

they have a bit more of a selection, I just got the ones that apply to me

[somber valve]

https://rollwithadvantage.com.au/ is this the correct shop link?

[heavy granite]

yes!

[nimble hawk]

Oh those on the left look super nice

[somber valve]

and you got the trans, nb, rainbow and ace(?) dice from their pride collection right here or are those different one among? :o

[heavy granite]

yeah those are all from their pride collection

[somber valve]

they look very lovely ;w;

[heavy granite]

I also have their lesbian dice and their first run of rainbow dice, but I got those ages ago and they were already mixed in with my dice bag so I wasn't gonna get them out for the picture

honestly it was probably last pride month I got the lesbian and first edition rainbow dice lmao

[somber valve]

do they look very differently to their current ones? :o

[heavy granite]

oh sorry didn't see this

not particularly, the colours are just a bit less clearly defined

[hoary timber]

👀

[sly shuttle]

oh goodness those are adorable

[vernal snow]

Just bought Griftlands! Idk if anybody's familiar with it?

[hoary timber]

The card game?

I was curious about it, haven't had a chance to play it though.

[maiden escarp]

Any of y'all play Monster of the Week?

[vernal snow]

Oops I meant to send that to the games chat channel but yes

[maiden escarp]

I love MOTW it's my favorite ttrpg

[warm girder]

https://tenor.com/view/tales-from-the-borderland-dnd-athena-nat1-dice-gif-18156068

[hoary timber]

Gameception

[warm girder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6yWcvyyBU

this show is great if you have not seen it

[spice cypress]

Hello, painting my own boxes and dice trays is a hobby of mine, this is for a Twilight Cleric~

[frank wren]

Oh wow that looks really cool

For a second I thought the glitter spots were dents made from rolling dice LOL

[spice cypress]

LOL itll probably happen too, those sharp edged dice are no joke

[graceful cove]

I made a terrain piece for my group! The first in-person session in over a year, so I wanted to celebrate! Behold the Mushroom Grove ~

[idle hatch]

happy, that's so friggin' cool

[frank wren]

Wowww!! That looks so good! I'd love to play on that!

[safe sequoia]

Mushroom Grove looks super awesome! 🍄

[graceful cove]

Eeeeee thank you all!!! 😊

[proven vale]

Duuuuuude

[silk lion]

Yeesh and I'm over here barely able to draw straight lines over my square grid whiteboard lmao

[burnt gull]

Guys look what I found

https://magpiegames.com/avatarrpg/?fbclid=IwAR2qYgLfQzjZMc8sUZ--toHhiFc2cnOH3m4nXus7bRmioCEgHwUwN4xFexE_aem_Ac58vpGwrrd3b3jPMb6Vs51HQnlfuKZhx7UJ9YM5XaLsNunnfl8OlRbk15wGLnuZtC03qXj2t-NdF3Km_r5P-NCgI62rRDrl8JGbQyh66TF7IMqb6Yjvgc-QmdPzXtRxUyY

[agile grove]

IMO looks suspicious, but also promising

But the idea wasn't new, have looked into that myself
https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-M8pcXXVxdQCCjvXZttO

[cursive raptor]

Almost done. Then we go get that Gold.

[safe sequoia]

That's so cool! ✨

[deft finch]

Ohhhh wow, it looks amazing 🤩

[frank wren]

Waooowww that's amazing

[dry cave]

Wow there's some incredible work in here!

[barren patio]

that's really cool 😎

[cursive raptor]

Thanks so much guys

[primal perch]

not sure if this should go in tabletop or games chat

but my friend decided to run a roguelite dnd campaign

the basic rule for character creation is anything that has legs apearantly ( he made an adamant point of legs)

basically tho

we decided to all play characters from enter the gungeon

im playing these 2 bois (battlesmith)

my friend is playing goopton (alchemist)

and my other friend is playing blockner (Armorer)

i just realized we are all playing artificers, the campaigns meant to have us be reliant on the dice for what magic items we get

we basically without thinking decided to say no to that and i find it kinda funny

[frank wren]

That's cool!!

Are you guys playing these in person?

Or more like roll20 style gameplay?

[primal perch]

in person since we're all vaccinated and he has a big picnic table in his backyard

[frank wren]

Ahhh that's awesome!

Looks like a fun campaign!

[primal perch]

hopefully it will be!

[silk lion]

I got to go to a game night last weekend for the first time in a year and a half. Everyone is vaccinated except my friend who hosts because she's pregnant and doctors told her she might be better off waiting til after the birth to get the shot

[primal perch]

uh random question,

one of my friends is saying they reason wizards just makes races that should be large eg minotuar loxodon or goliath for example, the youre not large youre just strong trait is because large creatures get a damage bonus with weapons, except he cant say where he found it other then monster manual, but all monster manual says is check phb and phb is just like o heres what size they take up.

so is he just saying bs or is it somewhere and i cant find it

[frank wren]

I'm not a DnD expert, but maybe that trait is a homebrew....? I haven't heard anything like that

I could be wrong tho. I'm still a DnD newb

[graceful cove]

(I'm referring to 5e only, not sure about other systems)
Iirc it's just simply that larger creatures typically do more damage in comparison to smaller creatures. But I dont believe there's a rule that explicitly states that Large creatures flat out do more damage? 🤔

That being said if you look at the Enlarge Reduce spell, while you are enlarged in that way, you do an additional 1d4 of damage (or something like that). That could be where they got that impression??

But I don't believe (i could be wrong) there's an explicit rule that says large creatures get damage bonuses outside of that spell

Oops @primal perch sorry meant to reply to you so you were tagged 😅

[primal perch]

its fine

but uh @frank wren @graceful cove it is in 5e i did some google searches a bit ago (its also in 3.5 which he grew up on and pathfinder) but in 5e it is in the dmg, in the monster creation section page 278 if a huge creature used a greataxe for example its 3d12

[graceful cove]

Ohhhhhhh interesting I didn't think to look there haha

[primal perch]

yeah me neither

though this does mean

enlarge reduce as well as giants might

double your damage dice from your weapons

[graceful cove]

OH

[primal perch]

if they make you large

which is uh

[graceful cove]

That's disgusting I'm using that spell all the time if that stacks 🤣 😂

[primal perch]

"balanced"

[primal perch]

it sorta does, get a rune knight in your party have them do giants might, then every caster do enlarge (eg with 2 casters 4 times damage dice)

on a fighter that hits 4 times a round

[graceful cove]

Gross

This is how we become the villains in our stories hahaa

[primal perch]

may or may not be playing a rune knight in my friends campaign now

i should note tho he already agreed to this charater being 8 foot tall

[graceful cove]

so much powerrrrrrrr

[primal perch]

i just have to get a good role on the later on height increase

and then constant double damage dice

my friend in an attempt to tell me not to break dnd

allowed me to break dnd even more then ever before.

[graceful cove]

I wouldn't blame the DM if they said that rule doesn't stack but like... oh my god... the possibilities

[primal perch]

true but also to get to gargauntuan you need at least 2 casters to use their consentration

an average of 3 casters tho

[graceful cove]

And this is how the DM ordered a miniature for mecha-tiamat XD

[primal perch]

Fun fact I just learnt upon rereading it, if you desire you can have 5 times the dice but disadvantage

[silk lion]

You can do some super goofy munchkin junk in 5e but it typically requires meta-gaming either perfectly optimal race/class/feat combos OR using sub-optimal options that chain together weird bonuses for maximum hilarity

[graceful cove]

IM HERE FOR THIS TYPE OF CHAOS YES PLEASE

I've always wanted to run a meta-gamey short campaign where everyone just breaks everything the whole time, it sounds so fun and chaotic. I just need the right group that will keep it fun and not too rules-lawyerly hahaha

[primal perch]

Ok how you do it is very simple you first need to be gargantuan then you need a weapon 1 size higher then that you could wield, a purely hypothetical size, sounds hard to pull of but, if you carry a large weapon normally it will be huge when you’re large, gargantuan when you’re huge and idfk when you’re gargantuan which does give you disadvantage but the size.

[silk lion]

imo, playing that way is less fun because TTRPGs are about making your character the best you can, and not making the best character you can. but some people enjoy breaking games, and one of my gaming buddies is like this so typically if he plays in a game, I just build in things to mess with him specifically lol

[primal perch]

I just enjoy breaking em on paper

Finding op combos

Like uh little fun fact mobile +10 speed right?

[silk lion]

my current paladin would 100% be better if I'd made her a half-elf but I completely forgot half elves exist when writing her up lol

[primal perch]

Wrong let’s say you have a climbing speed equal to your walking then it’s +20 because it applies twice

[graceful cove]

I just want to actually do it for like 2 sessions worth and then go back to normal programming hahaha I am a roleplayer at heart that does the opposite of min-maxing but i wanna peak at the other side hahah

[primal perch]

Same

Also artificer can get kinda op

Kinda very op

Especially with the right party combos

[graceful cove]

I'm DMing an artificer and it's bananas

[primal perch]

Since it can make magic items basically

I mean for example why not give your party members who as we’ve calculated has 5x dmg dice extra buffs

Alchemist is fun

[graceful cove]

Yuuup survival campaign who, they've had a bag of holding because of him this whole time lmao

[primal perch]

OH GOD

A ARTIFICER COUDL MAKE THEIR ARTILLERY OR ROBOT BIGGER ( if I recall right they get enlarge reduce)

[graceful cove]

I just wanna be an artificer for the robot pets XD

[primal perch]

Lol

I have a ongoing artificer I play in one shots

[graceful cove]

Multiclass with ranger for real pet. Multiclass again druid to talk to them. perfect. I am my own party now hahaha

[primal perch]

Fusie mishmash, bureaucratic capitalist wunderkind

[graceful cove]

Love. That.

[primal perch]

She made her riches selling poison to 2 rivial assassins guilds

[graceful cove]

YES

[primal perch]

Since uh poison production is actually incredibly profitable

With a small vial of poison going for 100 gold

Low level artificers have an infusion

That can basically print poison btw

From an economic standpoint alone artificer breaks the game

[graceful cove]

Wowwwww now I wanna be an artificet so I can save up and buy a business lol

[primal perch]

She ended up buying a large plot of land in my friends campaign world in a area basically filled with what I can’t remember the name for so I’m just gonna call uh

Magic oil

Incredibly profitable

Like

[graceful cove]

That's so fun!!

[primal perch]

It’s literal magic oil

And then She did a little what’s the game

O gtg cya

[silk lion]

my buddy played in a Shadowrun game I ran, and his character was a caffeine-addicted elf who spent all the money he earned doing runs on buying a warehouse and lab equipment so he could reverse-engineer Buzz!Blitz, a gigantic energy drink made for trolls that was taken off the market because non-trolls would basically have their nervous system explode if they drank it lol

[graceful cove]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha WHAT hahaaha thats incredible!

I've never played Shadowrun but whenever I hear about it, ir sounds like a good time. Yours is absolutely no exception 😂😂

[silk lion]

yeah he'd always get into whatever transportation the gang was using with like a 100z mug of coffee and a dozen 5 hour energy shots

and he would just slam every single drop on the way to whatever was going on

[graceful cove]

I relate to that you know lol

[silk lion]

the rest of the group would just stare at him and he'd be like "what's wrong" while vibrating in place

[graceful cove]

😭 "whats wrong" thats so funny

[silk lion]

also he was bad with technology and complained to the party hacker that his commlink (smartphone, more or less) was acting up so the hacker was like "ok lemme see it"

and my buddy says, "Z-r0 hands over his commlink to Julie, and this is what Julie sees:" then linked a picture of a browser with like 70 toolbar links in it

and the hacker is just like "I'm gonna have an aneurysm"

[graceful cove]

Your character sounds so fun oh no, I love it

[silk lion]

My wife's character was a sniper/infiltrator elf who was born in the Vatican, and in the Shadowrun timeline, the Vatican is a super hotspot of magical energy so it produces tons and tons of mages and the Church is full of high-level wizards, more or less. her family was embroiled in lots of political shenanigans within the church

but the hangup was her character was the only one in the family who wasn't Awakened so she had no magic powers. instead they trained her to be a wetworks operative with physical weaponry since none of the targets typically expected to get sniped or stabbed as their defenses were focused on magic. also the rumors were that the pope was her grandfather lol

[graceful cove]

That sounds super cool!!!

[silk lion]

anyway, her character had a falling out with her family, took all her stuff and moved to Seattle, where she started getting into shady back alley gigs just to spite her rich, influential mom and spent all her money buying exotic animals to keep in her penthouse suite

[graceful cove]

I should look more into that system it seems so cool

[graceful cove]

That's a way to do it 😂 respect

[silk lion]

I...love Shadowrun but the core system is unbelievably crunchy and kind of a headache to manage if you're not willing to basically houserule a ton of stuff

[graceful cove]

Ahh gotcha. Not too worried about houseruling things but my group is very wary on learning new systems 😩

[silk lion]

Every single firearm in the game has different damage values and like a half dozen different modifications that will affect the gun's different variables such as recoil, distance, ammo capacity, etc, for example

It's incredible with regards to how in-depth it is at managing certain things

also, the game has different rules for how things work in meatspace versus the Astral (mage dimension) versus the Matrix (hacker dimension) and only mages can get into the Astral while only deckers can truly dive into the Matrix so if your decker decides to jack in, well, the rest of your party is twiddling their thumbs while the decker is doing their thing

that said

[graceful cove]

Wowww that sounds like class decisions can be very meaningful though. Makes players feel special i bet which is nice

[silk lion]

Shadowrun is legitimately one of my favorite settings (the future US elects a dragon to be president), and if a group thinks it's neat, I'd recommend trying to find some sourcebooks for Shadowrun Anarchy. It's a significantly stripped down version of the rules and plays more like the FATE system so it runs much smoother and much faster with a lot of the clunky stuff pulled out

Shadowrun doesn't do classes, exactly.

[graceful cove]

Oh awesome thank you I'll see if I can look into that

Oh is it... professions?? Maybe?

[silk lion]

There's archetypes (like street samurai who can be either huge beefy chromed out tanks or agile ninja wallrunning assassins) but you'll typically say "I want to do tech and computer stuff" and you'll take skills to reflect that

[graceful cove]

Ohhhh neat!!!

[silk lion]

Archetypes are street samurai or decker (a hacker-type) or mage (caster) or rigger (drone specialist) but it's not like, say, D&D where if you pick Street Samurai then you're locked into a class-specific advancement tree

[graceful cove]

I really like that, sounds flexible

[silk lion]

It does have some exclusivity that'll lock you out of certain options based on character customization

[graceful cove]

Makes sense!

[silk lion]

the game defines people as having a spirit or soul, and if you start replacing your body with cyberware, then you also sacrifice part of your spirit

so if you're decked out in chrome, you can't really be a mage because you simply won't have enough of a spirit to conjure up the astral power necessary to cast spells

[graceful cove]

I like that

[silk lion]

also

Shadowrun is fun because there's you're just...not playing a good person

[graceful cove]

Oh really?? Like an antihero or are you usually the baddies?

[silk lion]

Runners are, categorically, broken somehow because otherwise you would not be doing shadow work for cash. Maybe it's a drug addiction, maybe you got on the wrong side of some gangers, maybe you gotta pay off a debt, or maybe you just really like violence

I'd say typically falls more on the anti-hero side because one major part of your character/group progression is called Street Cred, and doing outright villainous things can actually decrease your cred

Assassination or murder jobs, for example, are turned down almost universally by runners

There are certain things that will also straight up just turn your character into an NPC (delving in to blood magic, for example) because the narrative structure just declares, "there's simply no way you could even try to justify yourself as an anti-hero or that you're crusading against corporate tyranny when you start torturing people to gain power"

[graceful cove]

Wowow this setting sounds SO fun! Ok I'm won over I want to look into it more for sure!! Maybe if I grab what you recommended and get a good grip on it I can convince my friends to try it!!

Ahhh it just sounds so coooool

[silk lion]

Like all RPGs, there's combat and sometimes in combat, people die, but runners also recognize those people are just trapped as cogs in the corporate machine like everyone else so killing John Smith the night shift guard at the local Ares office isn't gonna do anything

so they'd rather set it up so they can just avoid John Smith altogether

[lyric yoke]

You could try out the Shadowrun games to get a better sense of the setting! I've never actually played it as a TTRPG but the video games are fun =w=

[silk lion]

yeah Shadowrun Returns are three incredible games

I threw money into the kickstarters for both Dragonfall and Hong Kong

[lyric yoke]

they're on sale rn too!

[silk lion]

I wish they'd make more but Paradox just has them churning out DLC for Battletech now

anyway...let me see if they've done anything more with Anarchy since I bought the original book at Gen Con back in like 2017

[graceful cove]

Oooo ok I'll check those out thank you!!

[silk lion]

so all I can find is that some of the SR5e splatbooks added extra Anarchy content but I don't see like a...Anarchy 2E or anything. I'd still recommend Anarchy, but the book editing is very splotchy so you'll have to re-read things a couple times or just kinda...make it up lol

As an example, one of the items you can purchase is a medkit but there exactly zero rules in the book which define how much damage medkits will heal so I wound up just basing medkit values off the healing spell mages have access to. I think I said normal medkits do 1 die less than the healing spell while the larger medkits did the same as a heal spell so there was some incentive for the heal spell to be picked occasionally

also I think the premade characters are busted in that they actually used more Build Points than you have access to at the level they were created but they're good guidelines and frankly would probably work if you're just trying to feel out the system/setting

there's a wiki too where you can just read the setting timeline and it's incredible because you have moments where, like, a German company is struggling as their stocks are slowly being eaten up until some mysterious entity gets 51% of shares, walks in the board room and goes "I'm the new boss now"

and when someone objects, the guy reveals his true nature by transforming into a dragon, eating the objector and then again says "i'm the new boss now"

[graceful cove]

Ah thank you thank you I'm noting all of this for later!! I have to skitter back to work but ty for sharing and all the info

[primal perch]

yo

does anyone here know about tales from the loop?

[dry cave]

I've heard of it but that's all really

[primal perch]

oh its really cool, basically scifi 80s movies the ttrpg

plus no combat system

[dry cave]

Okay yes that is something I am definitely in to lol

[primal perch]

ye you also play pre teens which justmakes it more 80s vibes

[dry cave]

Are we talking more ET, Paper Girls, or Stranger Things kinda vibe?

[primal perch]

stranger things but less dark and so ig et, havent seen paper girls

[dry cave]

The show isn't out yet but the comic is excellent. I'll have to check out this game though!

[primal perch]

also well it is called a stranger things clone by some people

the idea was actaully made before stranger things trailers even existed

[dry cave]

Meh everything takes inspiration from other things i won't hold that against it. More for it tbh lol I love that entire 80s sci fi shtick

[primal perch]

@graceful cove crying rn just found out page 205 of the phb basically says enlarge reduce doesnt stack

[graceful cove]

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!! 😭

[tawny root]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dizzyroseblade/the-bard-chronicles-a-dungeons-and-dragons-rap-album

[primal perch]

certian monk subclasses can cast 9th level spells

sure theyre just 1st or 2nd level spells at 9th level slots

but still

i site the searing arc strike of the sun soul

its not op or anything

its just fun to know imo

[silk lion]

hey @graceful cove I know we were talkin about checking out Shadowrun stuff the other day and mentioned the video games. You can currently get the entire Shadowrun Returns trilogy for like $8 on Steam

oh it's also completely free on GOG right now too

[graceful cove]

Whaaaat!! Oh my gosh thank you so much for thinking to tell me ahhh ty ty!!

[silk lion]

if you do get them, I'd start with Shadowrun: Returns. If you feel like the mechanics of the game aren't...great, then I'd move to Dragonfall. The games aren't sequential and nothing in them is related other than the setting, but Harebrained really started polishing the game functions with Dragonfall and really nailed them perfectly in Hong Kong

[graceful cove]

Ohhh very good to know!! Thank you again for being so informative I appreciate it!

[primal perch]

whend it come out (for a general guess of the era it feels from)

[silk lion]

ummm I think Shadowrun Returns was...2013?

They mostly made some streamlining improvements to how you use items in your inventory and, specifically, to how the Matrix sections of the game work. The meatspace sections don't change too drastically between any of the games other than the UI getting more intuitive, but the difference between the first and third games' Matrix is pretty huge.

actually I think I said the games aren't sequential but the ending of Shadowrun: Returns sorta strongly implies your character is recruited to do some stuff in Germany, which ends up being the events of Dragonfall. but there's no continuity between the plots

[primal perch]

h damn i was excited you meant like 90s old

[silk lion]

weeeellllll

the original Shadowrun: Returns game was on the Sega in the mid 90s lol

but the PC reboots are from the last decade

[primal perch]

ah ok

[primal perch]

is fluxx a good game for kids?

like 2nd graders (getting a gift for a cousin)

[silk lion]

hmmm maybe? Fluxx can be...hectic sometimes and can have a lot going on. Depending on their attention span, I know some rounds of it can go on for a LONG time too while others wind up with you getting eliminated very rapidly.

[primal perch]

anyone ever feel the need to run 2 campaigns

purely cause ideas

[pliant stirrup]

Yes, but also it's a bad idea to do so unless you're 100% confident you could manage it

[honest anvil]

Out of context I play dnd. So when I found out I could do this with a simple paper towel roll I am happy.SOUND WARNING

[pliant stirrup]

ooh

what's it supposed to be?

[burnt gull]

Guys I actually accidentally made a tank of a player for d&d

And I’ve never been more proud

Doxia the destroyer True chief of the Embereye tribe (inspired by the lion king) a leonin barbarian lady who was kicked out of the tribe by her twin brother because he wanted to be chief and he knew as powerful as she was he wouldn’t have a chance with her around so he framed her for a crime she didn’t commit

[primal perch]

oh ik its a horrible idea but i want too yknow

2 epic ideas

[primal perch]

can i ask a dnd question

kinda lore based but also gameplay based

in summary

why do sorcerers need an arcane focus

arent they already the focus

theyre quite literally a conduit for the weave afterall

[lime harness]

you know that's actually a really goods question, I've never thought about that

hey @primal perch found something
Only innate casters don't require a focus or components. Sorcerers' spellcasting is not innate, even though their raw magic is. Spellcasting is learned and can be further developed.

[primal perch]

how the hell is it not innate

[lime harness]

so essentially they still require a focus and components to warp the weave

even though they are conduits

but there are lore examples, like Cloud Giants that can just innately use the weave

it's really weird

[primal perch]

ye its innate to the cloud giants but its not to a storm sorcerer for example literal cloud giant kin

[lime harness]

wtf, I don't know it's really weird that it's not innate, obviously in game it's because of balancing, but in lore it just doesn't make sense

[primal perch]

ye but

theres a simple way of balancing it in my eyes

they still need components because they arent purely innate casters

just not the focus

[lime knot]

We simply ✨don’t track that stuff✨ at my table lol

[primal perch]

its kinda the same for mine but my table cares about the focus a lot for some reason i dont quite get

by we i mean

one of us will get really mad about focuses

[burnt gull]

I don’t get why the fairy unearthed arcana doesn’t have the traits of the fey wanderer ranger? The traits would come from the feywild which fairies are a part of???

Like I like the idea of a fairy but I feel like it’s... underwhelming

The feywild ranger quirks would fit them perfectly

[pliant stirrup]

You know how you can divert lightning with a lightning rod?

[primal perch]

yeah

[pliant stirrup]

And how you need to turn on the ‘switch’ to turn on the light bulb, or else the circuit isn’t complete?

I imagine it’s sort of like that

Besides, the focus only applies for spells that require material components

[primal perch]

every other innate caster doesnt need a focus though

i get what youre saying though

[pliant stirrup]

Sorcerers are the battery for the lightbulb ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hidden gulch]

Bards use their instruments as a focus tho I'm fairly certain

[pliant stirrup]

Not quite relevant to the 'topic'

The question is why sorcerers require an arcane focus, when their whole thing is possessing the very essence of magic.

Alexed-cola is presenting them as 'innate casters'

[silk lion]

My wife ran a game that was basically Harry Potter but in a crazy multiverse where we played as kids going through magic classes. My character was this manticore-type race of cat people with heavy viking flavors and he punched Really Good. He came back in the 2nd year with a nasty facial scar from challenging his father on tribal law and getting wrecked

[burnt gull]

Ooooh

I wanna play that!!!

[burnt gull]

What up

[burnt gull]

Hiii

[burnt gull]

can't decide whether to make my wood elf a ranger or druid?

[frank wren]

Sometimes I make wood elves and half wood elves just for the movement speed

I like the druid~

But go with whatever playstyle you wanna do

[burnt gull]

idk thats the problem- both have some really good subclasses

okay where should the high scores on a druid go? and do you add the +s to the overall rolls and then out them in with the + underneath? I'm newer so it's hard to remember

[silk lion]

My paladin is a wood elf but only because I forgot half elves were a thing when making her lol

We used a stat array though so it let me dump Dex and use her racial bonus to avoid having any negative modifiers though

[pliant dagger]

question: if you have an aarakocra player in your party do you nerf their fly ability or nah (as the dm)

just curious what your opinions are

[hard raven]

I mean, it depends on the campaign and where you're going to have them

If you take it into account and make the flying speed part of solutions (ie aarakocra flies something before a bunch of vampires descend on a chapel in Curse of Strahd)

Or you could make flying not a benefit in all situations by setting up low ceilinged dungeons

Basically most of the time if the player isn't trying to win at D&D and being an asshole you should be fine.

[pliant stirrup]

Wisdom first, then Dex or Con

[pliant dagger]

Fair enough lmao. I was just curious because I am potentially DMing a group of my irl friends (who happen to be newbies) and may be taking the game as "I need to win" ykyk

[hard raven]

Talking to your players about like the vibe, and also not necessarily mentioning the benefits of flight might be enough that you don't need to nerf it

[proven vale]

Just finished running a game where I'm Co-DMing and it is so great. The other DM and I share a character that is basically possessed by an old adventurer who pissed off an old now dead druid. So there are two personalities in one body basically and its freaking the other party members out cause they don't know why the character's personality changed, so much fun hahaha

[pliant dagger]

Dude thats amazing

thats like probably one of my favorite character ideas ive ever heard 😂

[proven vale]

Highly recommend for anyone thinkingnof Co-DMing lol we are using a module adventure (lost mines) so there hopefully wont be any contradictions

[primal perch]

my friend just

tamed a t rex

well being wounded and frighten

so two less dice

and got 3 successes

on 3 dice

[unique pond]

may or may not have found this just searching warhammer in the search bar... but yes! 40k, or heresy?

[old swan]

sooo

i just did my first D&D session. It was so much fun!

[zenith kernel]

ooooo nice! any shenanigans or was it fairly standard?

[old swan]

It was fairly standard, just to familiarize ourselves about how things go, but still, so fun!

[zenith kernel]

yee nice!

[old swan]

I mainly felt overwhelmed during the first hours but after that i felt ecstatic! Hehe

[proven vale]

Thats so exciting!!

[silk lion]

the secret to running D&D is to just steal all your players' ideas about the plot and pretend they were yours all along. the secret to playing is not playing the best character you can but playing your character the best you can.

[old swan]

so true!

i had fun playing with my somehow more charismatic than needed simpleton cleric lol

[silk lion]

i play a paladin who is a big dumb hero and she's fun as heck

very much an All Might rip off

[old swan]

yeah, i had a low arcana and religion roll so whenevr my party encounter one that might benefit from that ability and they look at me mine were just like,

"Don't look at me, even my deity hates me."

[silk lion]

my paladin slammed a town guard through a table for talking gross about a lady lol

[gusty cargo]

I'm in D&D right now, playing a changeling, the rest of the party doesn't know about her abilities 👀

[old swan]

have fun! a long or short campaign?

[silk lion]

i think that was my dm's first test of if i was committed to being a nosy hero

[gusty cargo]

Long I think, it just started we're at level 3 right now it's an Ice Wind Dale campaign

[old swan]

oooo that sounds fun!

what'd be the endgame level for that

[gusty cargo]

I don't actually know, this is only my 2nd session with them xD

I'm super excited about my character though, she was raised by the Drow in the underdark, and trained to be an assassin. She escaped, and she's trying to be good, but she doesn't always understand what "good" is xD

[old swan]

ah, at least she has the spirit.

[gusty cargo]

She'll figure it out eventually xDD

[proven vale]

Had a session last night where my High INT character had a curiosity killed the cat moment while dealing with a Lolth artifact and now is "feeble minded" 😭 🤣

[old swan]

My last seesion had the lowest INT character in the party nailing ALL of the INT checks and at the end of the mission we asked him

"Did you just happen to be enlightened at this time of day?"

[proven vale]

I love when the dice work against your stats hahaha

[lime knot]

My datemate wants me to do a puzzle crawl style one shot for them and some friends. I have some puzzle ideas of different difficulties, but I was wondering if anyone here might have some places I could look for more

[silk lion]

ok, so I think I've mentioned it before but my wife ran a game years ago that was turbo-fantasy Harry Potter. basically we played as kids who came from all over a multiverse and were in a special school for teaching the kids various magic techniques, complete with different "houses" where the kids were sorted to based on abilities. my character was specifically non-magical; he was just a stupid viking-esque brawler meathead. except...I constantly rolled well on the magic spell stuff so he was just like this idiot savant at magic

a friend in the game played this very noble princely type character who had been tutored for years in magic so his parents could get him married into a wealthy, elite family when he was old enough.....and he constantly bombed magic rolls despite supposedly having been taught basic stuff his entire life lol

[proven vale]

LOL see!! so great!

[silk lion]

I dunno what system you're playing in, but I think the new "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything" had a big puzzle section. obviously they're made for D&D but they could be hacked into anything

[tardy tiger]

Played Clank Legacy last night and my sweet Duchess couldn’t handle all the action! 🤣🥰

[burnt gull]

My d&d friend drew this picture of my genasi bard inspired by the genie from aladdin a la Robin Williams

[visual geyser]

Oh boy, im hella hype to see a tabletop/boardgame section here ahh,,, let me yell into the void how much I love dnd and ttrpgs in general cjdjdn im playin every sunday n tuesday and I love drawing my characters hngg

My current obsession is my wizard Zen,,, also love that the dm allowed me to have an owl griffin bc they're so cute

[primal perch]

My dm decided he wanted to make elfs more then just pointy eared humans in appearance in my campaign world

And we got nightvaley in what we did (he talked to me to help him decide since I’m playing a elf)

elfs (doesn’t apply to half elfs they’re still standard) have long skinny fingers and limbs with a skin that’s not bark like, or scale like, or skin like, it’s something else... there’s gonna be an elvish word for it but he said he’d come up with that later, as well as having no hair (he decided to turn the elfs can’t grow beards up to 11 and I’m a fan of it) as well as making it so that non elf humanoids can’t remember what a elfs face looks like, they can recognize them though

I really like all of them since it gives them a very alien feel compared to their original designs

[burnt gull]

Guyyyys LOOK WHAT JUST CAME TODAY!

[primal perch]

nice!

[burnt gull]

She’s inspired by Robin Williams Genie and Annapantsu

Cuz she’s a girl genie

Obviously she’s a bard

[primal perch]

not a genie warlock?

[burnt gull]

Nah

[primal perch]

i have a very similiar character design on my genie warlock

[burnt gull]

That’d be aladdin lol

[primal perch]

though a very different character skin tone

[burnt gull]

Aladdin would make more sense for that

[primal perch]

true

ironically though

[burnt gull]

I thought about it

[primal perch]

the subclass works for making a thor type character

[burnt gull]

I really did think about making a genie warlock inspired by aladdin himself

But like it’s if jasmine found the lamp- like Jafar somehow got the lamp without help and she finds it lying around (before jafar has a chance to use it to make himself sultan) and she has no idea what it is and is curious and accidentally summons it herself

Like if the roles were reversed kinda thing

Kinda like the twisted tale disney book series but not as dark

[river pulsar]

Thought this would be appreciated here

[ancient jungle]

I relate to that on a spiritual level, that happens to too many of my characters 🤣

[river pulsar]

Being fundamentally the same, or losing the shirt dramatically?

[primal perch]

would anyone be down to look over a homebrew subclass and balance check it

[maiden escarp]

IDK if this is for this channel or podcasts but when I'm caught up on dimension 20 should I start listening to Not Another DnD Podcast or Critical Role?

[compact flume]

I absolutely love NADD pod!!! I laugh so much while listening to their gaming sessions and find it to be super relatable and reminiscent of how my gaming sessions go with my friends - no one takes themselves too seriously, there's a ton of laughter and shenanigans from crazy decisions! Don't get me wrong, Critical Role is amazing and their production value is top tier. I just find NADD pod to be more relatable and similar to my play style. #2crew

[light vine]

Orks learned Battlefield Surgery now

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/glD1p7lbPznBt724.jpg

[barren patio]

this is so cool 👍

[old swan]

Oh gosh much excite

First time watching Critical Role and they're launching the third campaign in a few weeks XD

[idle hatch]

https://c.tenor.com/M0Ey9MBz-WMAAAAM/critical-role-crit-role.gif

[old swan]

I wonder what homebrew class will Taliesin play this time around xD

[idle hatch]

I can only bet about it and I'll lose 100%

[light vine]

Pathfinder Beast GUNS!

Now I can legally shoot someone's face off!

[primal perch]

Dnd is beautiful

A party with a totally human wizard

An aasimar watcher paladin

And of course

A British goblin with the Wallace and grommet trousers

https://tenor.com/view/wallace-wrong-trousers-out-of-control-panic-wallace-and-gromit-gif-11667955

His characters reason for it is so he can be taller then everyone

And I love that

[zenith kernel]

love that

dnd is at its best when you have fun things like that

[primal perch]

I don't even care to mention his class since

Aside from when he had to tell me during character creation

He just says he has 3 trouser levels

[zenith kernel]

ah, very proficient in trouser usage

[pliant stirrup]

Okay, so.

I would like to preface this by saying that yes, I know that dream sequences are a cliché, and sometimes a little bit lazy. But also, I like them, because I already have some other stuff I need to figure out.

Basically, I've just shown one of my players the 'face' of her personal villain. Everyone in the party essentially has one of these - it's something I wanted to do from the outside. For another of my player's, it's her childhood friend. This one is a bit more low-effort, because I'm running a module, and that character already exists.

But this other character is, well. My own design. And a lot scarier. And I'm really excited about him, because. There's no escape from him. He kind of sort of can't die, to an extent. Rather, he has a cat's nine lives. And so far, he has only spoken to her from a distance, because she was given an Amulet of Proof against Protection and Location. And he didn't know where she was until an NPC stole it from her, briefly, which meant he could catch the scent. And now, gradually, he's breaking the amulet's gemstone (it's a plot thing). Which means he can start to invade her dreams.

Basically, she's a Good-aligned tiefling, and he's an Evil-aligned aasimar, and to a point, they're twins. They were born on the same day and are the same age, both have something called a Spellscar - which means, sort of like a Wild Magic Sorcerer, they've been marked by powerful, raw magic. And these spellscars grant them powers that I'm still working out and she can't access them yet nor does the player know about them.

And I am getting way too excited about this, way too early, because basically if they fight him, it's going to essentially just be a bunch of shadow clones but one's a fighter, one's a bard, one's a wizard, and so on.

I'm not making much sense because I don't have it all pinned down yet and y'all are missing context but he's just real spoopy and I like the player's character and her story so much and I want it to go faster because the module has the party be on the road for two whole months where nothing really happens

[maiden escarp]

Have you ever tried to fail but succeeded anyway?

One of my OC’s was modified for DnD and it’s a long running joke between friends that their HP and AC are garbage

Due to me accidentally rolling well they have the highest HP in the party and the second highest AC

WHYYYYY

[primal perch]

this is late ik but one of my players in a past campaign kept rolling insanely good when trying to do stupid ideas but poorly in other contexts, by the end of one session he had convinced a group of kobolds he was the only god purely by rolling i think it was 3 nat 20s in the process (also ik that it wasnt weighted cause that die is literally all over the place)

[primal perch]

So uh

It's possible to cast 8 cantrips in 1 turn

They have to be from the sorcerer or cleric spell list tho

[primal perch]

I demand an opinion

So running a campaign soonish

But basically one of the players is upset I won't let him play custom lineage

And said it was al legal (it's literally not)

[primal perch]

But it wasn't that I wouldn't it's that I wouldn't for races that are already basically in the game

Like half Goliath which

What does that mean

Do you wanna be humanish then do vatiant human if you wanna be a mix maybe half orc if you wanna be a half Goliath tho

You just wanna be a Goliath

They're literally magically fused giant humans

He also previously told me I couldn't play a duergr cause it didn't fit (in faerun)

[pliant stirrup]

I mean, Goliaths aren't actually humans, but that's not the point you're making here.

I mean, with Custom Lineage, I admittedly don't really see a major issue, unless you're playing for AL? It's a feat, a language, and a skill proficiency (he cannot take darkvision, because neither humans nor goliaths have it, and if he tries to argue that, well, that's another issue). However, as a DM that is your right to say no to, and I think I would say no to that, too, just based on my own comfort level in the mechanics.

[primal perch]

Actually according to past books their creation had the owlbear treatment according to what I could find. Some wizard combined humans with giants. That might be wrong though as I cannot check that book due to not owning it

Plus I think that it trivializes picking human

Since at least the way I see it it's better variant

And who picks base

[pliant stirrup]

Some other books also claim they're related to earth elementals or stone giants.

It's unclear

But! I do get what you're saying there.

[primal perch]

Ye those are the giants I meant and even if it is elementals they'd still be more like a half and half then their own species

[pliant stirrup]

Eh, it's an unanswered story.

[primal perch]

True for faerun

Not as true for Greyhawk (3e said the wizard thing)

[pliant stirrup]

Of course, of course (much like duergar)

[primal perch]

Is that

A joke I don't get or a nod to how he wouldn't let me play one for descent

[pliant stirrup]

A nod to how he wouldn't let you play one, in that they are true to faerun

[primal perch]

Okay

Oh btw I should not he switched his argument a yesterday (its been months since the campaign he brought the duergr up actually as comparison for why I should let him?

And his argument switched to j didn't wanna rp racists

Which

There was a tiefling in the party

And he frequently told him I could do drow instead

Which if anything I'd say there'd be more racism too due to their economy being built on slavery

[pliant stirrup]

I mean, duergar are based on slavery too

[primal perch]

True but

[pliant stirrup]

Yeah

[primal perch]

When you think of underdark slavery

[pliant stirrup]

Same difference

[primal perch]

What pops in your head

[pliant stirrup]

All of the above

[primal perch]

What pops in the head of the commoners who've only heard stories of a word dark below where strange elves take slaves

[pliant stirrup]

Well if they've heard of drow, they've heard of duergar

[primal perch]

I say that cause there's as far as ik more knowledge drow exist

[pliant stirrup]

Eh, I can't speak for or against that, so I'll trust you there for now

[primal perch]

There's more stories of drow going to the surface

Plus the least racist tm underdark town is I think owned by duergr

[pliant stirrup]

Anyway, the best thing you can really do is lay down his options, and even though he seems to be argumentative, you'll have to be willing to compromise;

He can play a human, or goliath, or if he's set on playing a half-goliath, maybe use half-orc as a base. Or, for example, you tell him he can play a goliath who is much smaller than their kin due to having a human a long way back in their ancestry.

[pliant stirrup]

Well, that won't be true anymore, for the most part, since drow lore got a rework.

[primal perch]

Oh?

[pliant stirrup]

Yeah, basically the Lolth-worshippers are now the exception to the rule

[primal perch]

Okay

[primal perch]

That was literally the first thing I offered

His response was and I qoute

So you wouldn't let someone play a mouse race since the dmg says half lings work for that

[pliant stirrup]

Not quite what you said, though, right?

[primal perch]

Yeay

[pliant stirrup]

Is he typically a problem player, or is this the only thing he really gets really hung up on?

[primal perch]

Happens with every character basically

I cite call of cthulhu

In which I both told him I didn't want him to play an aviator or a ww1 vet and he proceeded to do both in 1 character

You're gonna suggest cutting him I'm sure

And we'll that's a great idea

[pliant stirrup]

Nah

[primal perch]

We've played together since 5th grade

I've known him to long to do that

[pliant stirrup]

Cutting someone from a game should be a last resort, and this doesn't sound like someone who needs that kind of semi-drastic action.

[primal perch]

He does a lot

I'm gonna be honest

It's fitting but

I couldn't do it too him

[pliant stirrup]

Well, then, my advice is to reiterate that he can play a human, half-orc or goliath, or he will need to think of some other character. And that while you appreciate his character idea, D&D requires compromise and comfort - the first of which you are offering by presenting alternative options, and the second of which you are trying to maintain, by not allowing something in the game that you do not feel confident you can run.

But, I will be honest with you - if this guy genuinely is a problem player, you probably should talk to him about some of these problematic behaviours, and hope he responds to that in a positive way. If he starts to change, that's good. If not, well. That's the big question of if it would be healthier for your friendship to not play together anymore, or if you can manage him despite the difficulty.

[primal perch]

His response to my bit was literally stated that that argument already ended and that he's tired of it . Which apparently it ended with him saying he'd make a honebrew half Goliath which I thought was a joke

Also that he's tired of me bringing the same argument up

Same old*

Because well yes

We have had similar before it's not the same

Again he wanted to play a pilot ww1 vet in coc which I said no to and finally said yes too after like 1 month of him not accepting it

This is becoming more and more ventish

[pliant stirrup]

Then maybe, if he tries it with this character, you just... refuse to let him play? Which I know can be exhausting and very difficult to say and do, but that's just the problem.

Better to play with him and maybe feel uncomfortable because you guys have been friends for years? Or to remove him from the game to avoid that?

Either way, it might not be a bad thing. And while I know what I would do if I were in that situation, I can't put myself in your situation, with your experience and your thoughts and the context that you have; so only you can make the informed decision here. That's really all I can offer, tbh. So... yeah.

[light vine]

WOTC is ALL ABOUT THE COCK right now

https://www.thegamer.com/hasbro-names-wizards-of-the-coast-president-chris-cocks-as-new-ceo/

[light vine]

https://preview.redd.it/ie761u4ujde81.png?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=eab5ec9b44e6a49d88a49fbcc7a563dd5770e680

[light vine]

https://scontent.fmnl6-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/273014887_10159910794647422_2791763620224354626_n.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_eui2=AeHUZo70YzXvgBBw7cJ-9a43IHV74GUagCsgdXvgZRqAK6EO8KD6xGqPt0TpBAU1-sARaqgL4QOiNQIuzg33sdOw&_nc_ohc=fS3qMZmkqNoAX8c-hL1&_nc_ht=scontent.fmnl6-1.fna&oh=00_AT8HvCUZs1v7eQa4x4ljuBnErTpnaE0CaEyMnAYE85UQQA&oe=61F90368

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Card!

😮

[light vine]

https://i.redd.it/qu4johvdw5f81.png

[maiden escarp]

I just got my whole DnD party into Critical role

[light vine]

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/siqheu/neo_a_partnership_with_hatsune_miku/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[maiden escarp]

So I'm living a minor rpg horror story of my own creation right now.
So it all started when my girlfriend invited me to her DnD table because a player left. Problem was I had JUST joined a table and none of the people at her table were american.
Worst than that, I knew all of the players. They were from a SUPER clingy discord server, where the head mods are tripping over their little bits of power, and I STILL get messages from the server members asking why I left when I left IN SEPTEMBER.
Also because none of the players were American the timezones were AWFUL.
To make a long story short we are now playing the game at 4 AM EST.
I didn't want to play at that time, but my gf and I were one disagreement away from a breakup and I was so desperate to save what was left of the relationship.
Well, shortly before the session she dumped me.
So now I'm stuck in a 4 AM DnD game with my ex girlfriend, and a bunch of people I don't like.
I am NOT looking forward to the session tomorrow

[maiden escarp]

No context DnD quotes "Everyone call me Poppy, that's my prison name." - Marigold "Poppy" Azalea

[bright igloo]

I am patiently waiting on a table top version of Monster Hunter to be finished up production wise! I backed it on Kickstarter last year they are now making the 3D printed monsters and hunters. Can't wait to play it!

[maiden escarp]

YEAH! I LOVE MONSTER HUNTER

[maiden escarp]

TTRPG stories from Saturday
"So next thing you know, Marigold is climbing into the window and standing directly over David's bed."
(David, our Bard) "What the fuck are you doing Marigold it's midnight, HOW DID YOU FIND MY HOUSE!"
Marigold: "I kid you not David, the alchemist turned himself into a PICKLE, it was the funniest shit I had ever seen."

[light vine]

Who wants to play DnD 5.5e? 😄

[bright igloo]

I am not sure when or if the boardgame I backed on Kickstarter will hit stores. Covid affected a lot of productions and people.

[maiden escarp]

My DnD PC already has the most comically long name, and we're only a few sessions in
Azalea "Marigold Poppy Chrysanthemum" Ravenridge

Basically, my Rogue is very secretive about her real name (Azalea Ravenridge) so they keep giving the party fake names.

Which have been slimmed down to one name

[carmine dragon]

I had one campaign I backed arrive the other day, it was Tiny epic dungeons. I'm curious to play it

I've been amassing games without people to play them with

[maiden escarp]

I'd be happy to join one!

[harsh nimbus]

Even if I don't play any of the ttrpgs on here, it'll be worth it to help and support vulnerable children that this shit head is gunning for: https://itch.io/b/1308/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-texas

[agile grove]

currently studying this rulebook. If any interest comes up, I might want to lead a game in the next months

[fleet void]

I sign in

[light vine]

https://2e.aonprd.com/Spells.aspx?ID=1099

I HAVE A LEGIT GAME LEGAL DINO FORTRESSS

Every Tabletop Game is now INVALID

https://c.tenor.com/jY16UpxupFgAAAAM/warhammer-lizardmen.gif

[pliant stirrup]

I've been feeling nostalgic, so I went back and found some art a friend of mine did a couple of years ago. I miss that campaign, but this stuff was very pretty

[light vine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sVyQhyH458

[light vine]

Bought a new book 2day

its the BOOK OF THE DED

[burnt gull]

GUYS PEOPLE REBLOGGED MY POST ABOUT THE NEW THRI-KEEN RACE AND THEY ADDED COOL FACTS CHECK IT OUT!!!!
https://autistic-adventures-in-nerdom.tumblr.com/post/682831433247653888/okay-i-mainly-posted-the-original-because-of-my

NOBODY EVER REBLOGGED MY STUFF BEFORE MUCH LESS ADDED INTERESTING FACTS TO GO WITH IT YAAAAS

[light vine]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nonat1s/sinclairs-library-pf2-5e-npc-codex-and-player-guide

New Book!

Kickstarter

[light vine]

https://www.twitch.tv/warhammer

Warhammer 2022 Fest! Day 1

[light vine]

@fair jay Chaos Accursed and Possessed are now properly UGLY AF now

[west phoenix]

Hello! I’m going to be trying my hand at DMing for the first time pretty soon! If anyone is interested in learning about my DND campaign let me know!

[maiden escarp]

I am!

[west phoenix]

Wonderful! I’ll go over more in dm

[vestal magnet]

Ohh a dnd campaign,id like to join but i have no experience as a player

[old swan]

Oo homebrew?

[west phoenix]

Yes indeed. Making it up as I go

[old swan]

Ooo good luck!

[west phoenix]

Thank you!

[light vine]

https://i.redd.it/djnz7pfn64z81.png

KILL MAIM BURN!!!!!!!

[pliant stirrup]

Y'all ever wish roll20 was easier to use? And that Chris Perkins or whoever it is that decides map scales went with 5ft squares instead of 20ft squares?

Because right now, I'm trying to work my way up to running the 'Castle Naerytar' stage of Hoard of the Dragon Queen. And I've got a few ideas on how to handle a siege (the coloured dots represent how many hits a creature can take, as opposed to tracking damage).

But because you can't easily manage map sizes in roll20, and the squares are 20ft, my brain needs a little bit of a break. For clarification - at the moment, the humanoid creatures (lizardfolk, bullywugs/frogmen, and cultists) are four to a square. AKA, they each get a 10ft space. Technically, I should be able to fit up to 16 in a square - 5ft space each, and all.

[pliant stirrup]

Hmmm... one of these things is not like the other.

[burnt gull]

Look what came todaaaaay

[light vine]

Fungus Leshy of Gorum for my Pathfinder Fic

since we need some TESTOERONE after all that sugar from Wholesome Stream

[light vine]

ANGRON IS BACK! 😄

[brisk zinc]

Board game recommendation! One of my all-time favorites:
https://derekbruff.org/blogs/firstplayertoken/episode-27-takenoko/?fbclid=IwAR23ocKAO2KnF8q-BJM4m1xIkFS-G2DaU9Cqp-t3AYSaMPiVPfAsfM9skgw