Poems And More

This used to be where I wrote poetry but now I reblog things I like, perhaps I’ll write more poetry.

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[startripperhq]

COOL.

[petitprincess1]

I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE AND I WILL REBLOG IT 20 TIMES MORE

[anonymousstinkkat001-deactivate]

Cool idea and amazing help to create Ocs for stories

[r-n-w]

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[thebootydiaries]

Hey girl. Don’t be insecure…You’r cute:)

(Please reblog this my future girl might be on your dashboard)

[filibusterfrog]

ho hum

[probablygoodrpgideas]

Make sure the system you use matches the kind of players you have, for an optimal experience

Admin Note: This is part of the ongoing series called “D&D isn’t the only TTRPG if you don’t want fantasy play another goddamn game!”

[thydungeongal]

I already reblogged this once but this is important:

Like I run a D&D blog. I understand that D&D is the most well-known and popular RPG in the world. But a lot of the time I see people going like “Hey I want to run a D&D campaign and throw out all the D&Disms and here’s all the notes I have for running a campaign about courtly romance and chivalry in a historical setting” and I’m just like STOP YOU DON’T NEED TO RUN THIS USING D&D

There’s a sort of a mistaken assumption that because D&D is the biggest game on the market and that it’s fantasy that it should be the go-to fantasy game but look it’s not D&D isn’t a generic fantasy game it’s a very specific kind of fantasy all of its own, one that steals liberally from swords & sorcery and high fantasy and adds fucking extradimensional cube robots for good measure

So next time you’re thinking about a fantasy campaign in a decidedly non-D&Dish setting consider instead of jamming the square peg that is D&D into a round hole trying to find a system that actually supports what you’re trying to do

And this is not to say that you shouldn’t play D&D: D&D is hella fun. But there’s a lot of genres and styles that D&D does a piss-poor job of doing, and because of that it’s so good we’ve got other games

[dragons-bookshelf]

*cracks knuckles*

All right then. I’ve been meaning to dust off my own D&D sideblog for a while, so here we go with providing some examples. I’m limiting this specifically to other types of fantasy outside of the standard high fantasy and sword & sorcery millieu.

Courtly Romance and Chivalry

There are a number of options for this, and they range from standard secondary world fantasy to more historical and mythological settings. My list here shouldn’t be treated as fully extensive.

Blue Rose - based on the romantic fantasy subgenre, specifically as seen in the works of Tamora Pierce and Mercedes Lackey. A lot of courtly drama and intrigue and swashbuckling, based in a fictional world.

Pendragon - naturally based off of Arthurian mythology, and having a lot of stuff given over to the court of Camelot and the chivalric adventures of the various knights. The same company also has a kickstarter for a spin-off called Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne that might be worth checking out.

Historical Fantasy

This one’s a bit more prominent as historical settings serve as an inspiration for a variety of fantasy worlds and games, and this of course invariably extends to settings that actually use historical settings with a degree of fantasy elements thrown in. Note that I’m going to emphasise Europe here simply due to greater familiarity with games in that millieu, and as a European myself I’m ill-equipped to judge how accurate or respectful games using other settings actually are.

Because of this, feel free to add other examples in reblogs

Chivalry & Sorcery - one of the early tabletop games inspired by D&D, taking a more pseudo-historical approach. It’s based on 12th century France and strives for a degree of historical accuracy and medieval politics.

World of Darkness, Dark Ages (including Vampire and Mage) - while the World of Darkness has earned some negative attention lately (and for good reason), the dark ages RPGs are still an old favourite of mine. Also worth checking out is Mage: The Sorcerer’s Crusade, set during the Renaissance. The Mage stuff has a really cool open-ended magic system worth checking out.

Ars Magica - this exists along very similar lines to the dark age material above, based around mages and magic-users in a ‘Mythic Europe’ setting. It also has a really cool open-ended magic system, and one of my personal favourites.

[thydungeongal]

Awwww shit heck yes I might want to add to this list but this is a really good starting point

[neddietrix-deactivated20220618]

ALWAYS MAKE SURE TO FIND THE SYSTEM FOR YOU

13th Age RPG

A Song of Ice and Fire RPG

AEG (A Legend of the Five Rings)

Anima; Beyond Fantasy 

Apocalypse World 

Basic Fantasy System

Blades in the Dark

Burn Bryte

Burning Wheel  

Call of Cthulhu

Castles & Crusaders 

Chroniques Oubliées

City of Mist

Cortex 

Cyberpunk 2020

Cypher System

D&D (All Editions)

Das Schwarze Auge

Dragon Age RPG 

Dungeon Crawl Classics 

Dungeon World 

Exalted

FATE System

Fallout

Fantasy AGE 

Fiasco 

GUMSHOE

GURPS 

Gamma World

Hero Games (Champions) 

Hackmaster 

Hârn

Iron Kingdoms 

King Arthur Pendragon

Labyrinth Lord 

Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk

Maid RPG 

Marvel Heroic RPG

Mouse Guard RPG

Munchkin

Mutants and Masterminds

Open Legend

Palladium Games 

Paranoia 

Pathfinder

Pokemon Tabletop

Rolemaster

Runequest

Savage Worlds

Shadowrun 

Star Trek Adventures 

Star Wars 

Starfinder 

Stars Without Number

Swords and Wizardry 

Tavern Tales

The One Ring

The Quiet Year

Tormenta

Traveller RPG

Unisystem

Warhammer

World of Darkness

COMPLETE TABLETOP RPG ARCHIVE

[7theseventhsage7]

Reblogging in case I need this

[dare-to-dm]

Ideas for non-combat encounters/events

For when you want some variety for your tabletop RPG.  These events will also give your players a chance to use character skills they don’t often have opportunities for.

Natural Disaster - Have the town the PCs are in catch on fire and see what they do!  Do they cut their losses and run?  Do they heroically try to save trapped townspeople?  What do they do about the aftermath?  Natural disasters are an interesting challenge because there can be lots of danger and drama without necessarily having a villain.  It may also get your PCs to use skills they don’t commonly have a chance to.  You could also try floods, earthquakes, raging storms while at sea, etc.

Powerful Fortress - Put one of your party’s goals in a location where they won’t be able to prevail through combat alone (Example: a fortress where they are vastly outnumbered).  Your players will have to rely on either stealth or guile (or both) to accomplish their goal.  The pacing of such events can be frustrating to some players, but few sessions are as rewarding as a creatively executed heist or infiltration.

Dangerous Crossing - Give them a dangerous physical obstacle to overcome.  A canyon, or a raging river, or quicksand or an old battleground littered with traps and mines.

Festival - Have the PCs encounter a festival or tournament!  With lots of contests! This could be a good opportunity for them to build their fame and fortune (especially if you allow gambling).  Some of my favorite sessions have involved festivals.

Entertainment - Put the PCs in a situation where they have to entertain someone.  What do they come up with?

Letter - Have one of the PCs receive a letter, either from an NPC they’ve dealt with before or from someone involved with their backstory.  This is a good way to make the consequences of their actions seem more real.  You can also use it to introduce new plotlines/sidequests.

Crafting Challenge - Put the PCs in a situation where they need to craft something in order to accomplish their goal.  Maybe they need to make something in order to fix a mechanism?  Or in order to satisfy some local gift-giving custom?  Or they need a forgery?  Maybe as part of an exchange for something else they need?

Lost and Found - Have your PCs discover someone or something that is clearly lost.  Maybe they find an infant in the wilderness.  Or a key with a strange inscription, or some kind of talisman.  Throw in a clue or two to present your players with a tantalizing mystery.  

Inhospitable Wilderness - Have the PCs go somewhere it’s an effort just to survive.  A barren desert, a treacherous swamp with poison gasses, a forest so dense the ground never sees the sun, or even the bottom of the ocean.  Test their endurance and survival skills!

Dinner Party - Have the PCs be summoned to a formal event!  Test them on the battlegrounds of social grace and etiquette!  Even better if it’s in a dangerous environment or an alien culture.

Thief - Have something important stolen from the PCs.  See how they handle it.

Needle in a Haystack - Give the PCs something very difficult to find.  Like a single specific housecat in a sprawling metropolis, or a legendary weapon of which there are many fakes/copies.  

Really, if you need any more inspiration, look at your player’s character sheets and see if they’ve invested any points in a skill they haven’t gotten to use much.  Then invent a challenge they could feasibly use that skill for.  If you can’t think of a situation that could be helped by an Appraise, Craft: Calligraphy or Handle Animal check, you need to practice your own creative problem solving skills!

[oathofwhimsy]

I’m already super hyped for the day that Caleb manages to cast Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion because I’m curious to see how he decorates each room. I’d love it if–with Caleb’s eye for detail–he makes each room with the person staying in it in mind.

I feel like Beau’s room would have at least one training-dummie–something she can hit when she’s frustrated as well as other training equipment. The room’s interior matches Beau’s favorite color-palette, it’s mostly greys and blues with clean lines and a hammock instead of a bed.

Jester’s room would overflow with pillows and blankets in multiple different colors, drawing utensils, an easel with various canvases and plate full of pastries that never gets empty. The curtains are pink, of course, and there’s a fluffy carpet that has tiny colorful donuts on it.

Fjord’s room is marine-inspired. Caleb is unsure about the design since Fjord suffered from a boat accident, but Fjord loves the small aquarium in one of the corners. He has a similar hammock to Beau’s and while there is a glass ceiling Caleb made sure that it depicts the nightsky and not an underwater view.

Nott’s room is the way Caleb knows she likes–it’s rather small with a low ceiling and dimmed light, big, soft pillows and small hiding places for all her shiny things. It’s like a cozy blanket-fort and even though the light is dimmed, the colors are friendly–pastel pinks, greens and sunny yellow.

Yasha’s room is mostly empty. Caleb feels embarrassed about it but he has no idea what she likes and he’s not even sure if she’ll come back to them. The ceiling is open much like Fjord’s, depicting a stormy sky. There is a place to put her sword on the wall and a big bed in one of the corners. When Yasha comes back she paints the walls–with Jester’s help–full of flowers. Otherwise she leaves it exactly as Caleb made it.

Caduceus’ room is made in the image of the graveyard Caleb found him in–minus the graves. There’s plants and flowers everywhere, so much that you can’t even see the walls and Caduceus makes a point of telling Caleb the name of every single plant that grows in his room. Caduceus may or may not eat some of them over the time, but they always grow back. In one of the corners is a small fireplace to make tea on.

Caleb’s own room is stacked with books, a small bed and a sleeping place for Frumpkin–which Frumpkin never uses because he is a cat. The others come in to leave their mark on his room over the time. Jester leaves pastries everwhere and throws pillows on Caleb’s bed with Nott’s help to make it more cozy. Yasha leaves a pressed four-leaf-clover on the nightstand. Fjord adds a few books to Caleb’s collection. Beau forces Caleb to put another hammock in his room so she can hang out there while he reads.

There is a kitchen and a big communal area as well as a small-scale bathhouse that smells faintly of lavender. Jester insists there be more pillows in the communal area so Caleb basically turns it into a huge blanket-fort after he cast the mansion for the first time.

There is a room between Beau’s and Yasha’s room and the door is always locked. Inside is a huge bed with purple covers, fairylights hanging from the ceiling and a big tapestry of The Platinum Dragon on the walls. It stays there in case an old friend decides to visit again.

[7theseventhsage7]

I was having a good time and then I read the last one.

[mukuharakazui]

my friend just asked me for fashion advice and i sent her 3 links to “things women love to wear that men hate” articles. i hope i’ve done my service well.

[mukuharakazui]

for the lesbians out there who don’t want men hitting on them but still want to attract girls, here are things women like that men hate. almost all of these are featured on multiple articles.

•wedge sneakers

•open-side shirts

•bright lipstick

•high waisted pants or skirts

•pantsuits

•hair bows

•oversized sweaters

•uneven dresses

•peplums

•big sunglasses

•rompers

•overalls

•bangles

•leather pants

•flip flops

•crop tops

•baggy pants

•chokers

•lace-up tops

•strapless shirts or dresses

•bold floral prints

•clothes with ruffles

[daisys-typewriter]

!!!!

[pryzzm]

why do men hate literally all articles of clothing lmfao im fucking dying

[mukuharakazui]

some people just hate comfort and fun

[7theseventhsage7]

All of these are really good clothing items

[ladyshinga]

May all your friends’ schedules sync up when you want to play D&D

[7theseventhsage7]

This is the kind of blessing I need

[captainlordauditor]

some iconic dialogue that sounds like its from the great canon of literature but are actually from memes

I will face God and walk backwards into Hell

“I’ll do whatever you want” “then perish”

I have been through hell and come out singing

feel free to add more!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There are no gods here

Do I look like the kind of man who dies

God’s dead and soon we will be too

I thought there were no heroes left in this world 

[helloitstrash]

• you kneel before my throne unaware that it was built on lies

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Impudent of you to assume I will meet a mortal end

This is hell’s territory and I am beholden to no gods

Bury me shallow, I’ll be back

[hubriscomplex]

- take this gift, for the gods surely won’t

[unheavenlycreatures]

God wishes he were me

One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

Violence for Violence is the Rule of Beasts

[catpanflowers]

@whishper

[the-weaver-of-worlds]

Bury me shallow I’ll be back sounds like something Molly would say and now I need to write something

[7theseventhsage7]

I like the ominous vibe I get from these

[sheshitsinsilence]

Visit Original Link

Gregorian monks singing “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”

[mrjackleshasmoved-blog]

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW

[reichenballs-moved]

Why is this a thing that exists?

[inactive1346597623595641352]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

[pleasecommunicate-deactivated20]

“on the boooooolovarrrd of brooookennnn dreeeemmsss”

[theoriginaldorklord-blog]

I turned this on and at that moment my roommate opened the curtains, and I immediately had this epic video in my head of us cleaning our apartment, and raising a castle around it with hammers and magic.

[elodieunderglass]

I’ve introduced so many people to Gregorian: the best way to do it is to slip it into a normal playlist.

[geobrarian]

This is the soundtrack of an angel that was thrown out of heaven unjustly and is existing on earth, and being tracked by an adversary, while an angel friend is preparing to come rescue him.

[kickingshoes]

I. LOVE. THIS.

[localstarboy]

[majorshippingtrash]

Guys I made my dad a promise so please reblog this so I can show him a post with lots of notes and he’ll be very proud of himself.

[basalt-dnd]

“Monster Hoards”, a few loot tables to reward brave adventurers. Because, y’know, why would a griffon have gold coins?

Inspired by this old reddit thread.

The barrels are stock art created by Fumar Porros.

The art on the second page is a premade background by Rowye.

[atepa09]

oh god no… please no… the last time I got “Hoard Monsters” against me and my party it was 10 undead beholders, and I got disintegrated… 

[basalt-dnd]

Have no fear! This table isn’t for hordes of monsters, it’s for items monsters might hoard. Like finding some odd trinkets in an manticore’s nest, either from past adventurers or because it collects things.

[probablygoodrpgideas]

Experiment with political systems

Sure, having a king/queen is simple, but have you ever tried:

Democracy

Multiple nobles and they all have the same amount of power (lot of conflict potential)

You can become ruler by defeating the current ruler in a fight

The merchants run everything

A noble and a parliament rule

The most intelligent people rule

…

There are thousands of possibilities, be creative!

[probablygoodrpgideas]

Older post, but I highly encourage it! Try out the weirdest stuff! Try things you think would never work in the real world because this is your world and if you say (insert political system believed to not work) works then it does

[probablybanerpgideas]

Here’s a list of Society and Government types I’ve stolen directly from the worldbuilding section of some rulebooks:

Anarchy: the social conscience maintains order, but there are no laws

Athenian Democracy: Every citizen can vote on every new law

Representative Democracy: Elected representatives form a congress or government

Clan: Pretty much whoever is older is in charge, traditions are strongly adhered to, and society as a whole is split cross many tribes that are generally similar (and usually allied) but with their own quirks and traditions

Caste: A lot like a Clan structure, but each clan has a set role in society that usually renders them co-dependent. These Castes usually follow a social heirarchy

Dictatorship: One person controls everything, and they will later pass the right to rule to someone else, whether by inheritance, election, duelling, or some other method. Not all dictatorships are bad, especially if they are formed in times of crisis or rebellion, but even those started with the best intentions may quickly corrupt.

Plutocracy: Whoever has money is in charge.

Technocracy: A group of scientists and engineers have complete control and do everything they can to run the country at maximum efficiency. The more competent they are, the more likely this is to be viewed as a good thing.

Thaumocracy: Like a technocracy, but run by a science-like form of magic (like wizards and arcanists rather than shamans and witches)

Theocracy: The Church controls everything, and their religious law is civil law. Whether this religion is real, is fake but knows it, or believes its own lies is up to you.

Corporate State: Powerful mercantile organisations have taken control of entire regions. This is a lot like a Technocracy, but with a corporate structure and a focus on maximum profitability (and no-one else is going to set them a minimum wage)

Feudal: A lot like a dictatorship, but subsidiary lords are assigned their own local power and can enforce their own law without notifying the larger state.

***VARIATIONS***

Bureaucracy: Government runs very slowly and the public has effectively no control. There is a lot of red tape and taxation is high.

Colony: Government is dependent on a mother society

Cybercracy: A computer system is the state administrator. Hopefully the programmers did a good job…

Matriarchy: Positions of authority are female-exclusive.

Meritocracy: Positions of authority require rigorous testing to qualify for.

Military Government: The Military control everything, usually but not always totalitarian

Monarchy: The person in charge may call themselves king or queen, but fundamentally this is either a dictatorship or a feudal society.

Oligarchy: A small organisation is in control, and it elects its own members.

Patriarchy: like a matriarchy, but for guys. what a novel idea

Sanctuary: A society that protects the people other societies hunt (that may be considered criminals or terrorists by other nations)

Socialist: The government directly manages the economy, education is easy to get, the government intervenes to get everyone possible a job. This is likely to collapse quickly without good technology or magic to assist it.

Subjugated: The society as a whole is completely controlled by an outside force.

Utopia: A perfect society where everyone is satisfied and nothing sinister is happening behind the scenes we swear.

[probablyromanrpgideas]

Use literally any of these EXCEPT monarchy, the most abhorrent of all systems of government. Do not let yourself be subject to kings!

[7theseventhsage7]

I like this

[cartooncoyote]

A sword that screams whenever you swing it, and the volume is directly tied with how fast its swung

[goobus-deactivated20171001]

Finally, a good post

[7theseventhsage7]

Ooh and if you get a nat 20 everyone besides you within 10 feet has to make a wisdom save or be deaf or frightened until they make the save.

[sami-ee-deactivated20170730]