So my players are saying "we are going to break your game with OP builds". I say good it will let me throw some of the more broken shit in the DnD world at you and not feel bad lol!
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You know its a good session when you wake to numerous notifications from your players, each one a new meme! Honestly nothing better than a D&D session that just HITS THAT SPOT!
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Me and my colleague talking about D&D and her favourite NPC
Me the DM: *suddenly turns around so my face doesn't give away any of my plans*
She: *loses it* 🤣
#ramblings #dnd #dmthings
I never plan beyond the first story arc of my campaigns until players lock down their backstories. Only then do I plan long term, every plot point and NPC? From their backstory.
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So, when a character transports to another place or plane, they have to roll dice to see if the go to the right place, or end up in somewhere completely wrong
Could you roll a dice for when a soul is transported back to the mortal plane by a revival spell?
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Gearing up for the session today! It's the first in a few months, and the crew of adventurers left off... At the start of a dungeon, having just hit level 3.
Hopefully, none of them will die. 😅
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Gotta get back into my writing flow today. I'm taking these players to WAR in a cultists' nest, this weekend.
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You want coffee? Sorry, let me finish writing this magical city with a goblin infestation real quick.
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QUICK... the party must make a Dexterity saving throw! Rolling... and ooof... all failed....
The dice are not always so kind.
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What is a crucial save that you and your party failed, and how did it end?
Some fun die i own! #dice #die #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #green #dm #dmofbluesky #dmthings #dungeonmaster #gamemaster
So I have a villain plummeting at the top of a round. Tell me why all the calculations for falling speed in #dnd don't take into account air drag & friction?! I know it's fantasy but air exists!
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One of my least favourite things to do is look for character art on pinterest. Never any artists mentions, so much stolen art work, or its AI slop. Can't even find landscape inspo without being flooded with immeasurable amounts of #AI. Its gross. I hate it. Fuck you Pinterest.
#fuckai #DMthings
Converting an older ttrpg module to a modern system and there is a name spelling that ends with “gger”. Going to go ahead change that name even if the start if the name seems fine. #trrpg #dmthings
Whelp, today's the day when my D&D group got to say the immortal words, "but we did solve your puzzle, with magic".
The magic in question, of course, being the disintegration spell.
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When I built her as a player character, I didn't elaborate beyond telling the DM that the spirit of her dead mom is haunting her; that she died in a hit orchestrated by the thieves guild she abandoned for True Love. Think The Bride from Kill Bill. I wanted a happy well adjusted Rogue with the potential to turn grimdark. So an inverse of the trope Nothing really panned out in that campaign because that DM was very combat focused. Didn't encourage RP at all. Which is a lesson learned in making sure you have a session zero so your players understand what kind of campaign you're going to run. But I digress
So now I'm a DM with this NPC, and building out what's actually going on with her story. l'm trying to keep it focused on the things the players can solve. There's four murderers, three in each major city on The Sword Coast and one pirate They've been hinting to me that this task is a little overwhelming for them They don't know how to attack the pirate, they don't know how to assault thieves guilds.. and now they potentialy have a reward that gives them a Wish from a side quest. And some of the party's immediate thought was "let's wish the ghost away!" For a lot of reasons way too in the weeds to explain here, If you wish the ghost away, you will drag the Halfling's soul along with it. They're bound together by strong magic. Both get to go on to the afterlife, but the party has to endure watching the Halfling's body starve to death without a soul inside Feels bad, when really all they're doing is trying to help her. (And sacrificing a great reward to do it.)
I'm a big fan of giving my players as much warning as I can that an action might not have the reaction or consequences that they expect. I think that makes a better story, and I also think it's only fair to allow the players to adjust their choices. So I had the Halfling God of Death show up to the party on their way to do the side quest, and explain the metaphysical aspects of what's going on with the Halfling. Plus how they might sever the bond without killing the thieves. It involves traveling to another plane undergoing an equally dangerous mission,. Part of the party is on board with that but the Bard isn't. He thinks that tackling the thieves guilds is dangerous, but ultimately the better option than extraplanar travel in a deadly mission. He has not been shy expressing how deadly all these options are to the Halfling sidekick
Part II and the current situation for my players. #TTRPG #DMThings
Finishing a map for your dnd session is such a cool feeling!!! It is quite the work to build it from scratch - but also super rewarding <3
Cross your fingers, that my players will like it 👀
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The maniacal giggles that happen when you come up with a really good hook for Session 1 of a new campaign 😈
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New setting is coming along decently, ten playable races now with one having subtypes for the four elements I just need to figure out proper feats for them all without any of them being too strong in comparison.
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Who is more terrifying to face? A boss who is supremely confident and smug? Or a boss on the verge of a mental breakdown?
Sure, the former probably planned ahead for your every move, but the latter is capable of anything if they've got nothing else to lose.
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Finally got to run Tuesday dnd after three weeks. Killed the king of a country in a dramatic plot moment. It's good when you get your table to really hate the bbeg. #dnd #d&d #dmthings
The image shows a screenshot from the Dungeons & Dragons subreddit with a post asking users to share their "worst" advice for D&D. The top comment humorously suggests overthinking every session by convincing yourself that it went terribly, scrutinizing every detail, and expecting players to quit—only to be surprised when they return. Replies include one user empathizing with "Oof, I feel this," while another amusingly adds, "I'm in this picture and I don’t like it. How do I get out, I failed all my sanity checks." This captures the humorous self-criticism that Dungeon Masters often feel, as well as the community’s lighthearted approach to D&D anxieties.
RAWR. I'm going to have to write this adventure, that isn't even remotely possible for another three game sessions, just to get it out of my head so I can focus on tomorrow's game. My brain keeps chewing on it over and over since Tuesday. #dndcampaign #dmthings
