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Name spells after the great archmages of your setting. And I am not just talking about homebrew spells. Maybe scorching ray is Vel's scorching ray in your setting. This establishes that there is or was a mage called Vel and that they liked fire magic. Regardless of whether or not Vel is ever going to be important in your campaign, it makes your setting feel deeper.

Every spell had a name associated with it at some point. But over time, people stopped using the names for most of them because people like to shorten things. In a couple of millennia, people will just call it “Magnificient Mansion”, “Acid Arrow”, “Scorching Ray”.

What if an archmage of yore comes into the present for whatever reason and gets super pissed that people are just calling it “Fireball” now?

Mages constantly try to one-up another so their version of the spell becomes the common one. He got 5 more feet of range out of it and now everyone casts Aganazzar’s scorcher instead of Vel’s scorcher. For Aganazzar’s safety, let’s hope the two never meet.

Maybe sometimes spells get named after iconic users instead of their inventors. Sure, Vel didn't invent it but I haven't seen Melf kill a Lich threatening to take over the world with Minute Meteors so guess what we'll be calling that from now on. Though it's a bit sad to loose the alliteration.

#flavor

stimman4000

goodnight to sexy evil people only

dog teeth #314

glad ppl like my post and plan on implementing divorce dad archfiend patron as their tief’s backstory. here is further canon:

#pcs

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1. Henry Pether (1865), 2. Sebastian Pether (1840), 3. Albert Bierstadt (ca.1860).

Problem: The perennial disagreement in the Dungeons & Dragons fandom – a disagreement which the game itself has gone back and forth on several times over the years and editions – over whether the game’s magic system should classify healing potions as conjuration (because healing is a form of creation), evocation (because they channel vital energy), or necromancy (because they deal with life and death).

Solution: All three types of healing potions exist.

Conjuration-based potions have the standard aesthetics and effects as described in the core rules, and are mostly brewed by clerics and druids.

Evocation-based healing potions don’t repair injury as such – they just juice the body up with a shot of raw vital energy. In game terms, they grant temporary hit points rather than healing wounds; like other sources of temporary hit points, this has the advantage of being able to bring characters over their usual maximum, and the drawback that temporary hit points don’t stack. Healing potions of this type can be distinguished by their cloying odour and effervescent appearance, and are usually crafted – and enjoyed – by sorcerers and bards.

Necromancy-based healing potions are widely regarded as disreputable nostrums, though their effectiveness is hard to deny: the drinker may reroll any 1s that appear when determining how many hit points are restored. Unfortunately, these potent concoctions aren’t without their side effects; after recovering their hit points, the drinker must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or suffer a random condition. Roll 1d6: 1–2, blinded; 3–4, poisoned; 5–6, stunned. The saving throw may be repeated at the end of each of the character’s turns, removing the condition on a success. Such potions are typically compounded by warlocks and wizards, and come in bottles that look like this:

@untrustworthybutter replied:

Why isn’t healing considered as Transmutation though?

No specific reason – it’s just not a position that any published version of the game has historically taken, so there’s not a huge number of people arguing in its favour.

(Apart from “healing potions should be transmutation because they transform damaged bodies into whole ones”, other minority positions include “healing potions should be abjuration because they banish foreign influences from the body and return it to its ideal state” and “healing potions should be enchantment because that’s where other types of physical enhancement go”. I’m not aware that anyone has ever seriously argued in favour of healing potions being classified as divination and/or illusion, but I’m sure such arguments could be devised in a pinch!)

#homebrew

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons adventure premise #137: a mysterious benefactor hires the party to undertake an extraordinarily dangerous mission; upon their return, the benefactor is revealed to be a ghost who used the party to complete their unfinished business, and passes on to the other side without paying the agreed-upon reward. In the following session, the party journeys to the afterlife to track down the deceased deadbeat and get their fucking money.

arbane235

I can’t see the point, you can’t take it with you.

It’s D&D – you can absolutely beat a ghost until money falls out.

(More seriously, most of the cultures that D&D’s settings and cosmologies crib from include at least some notion of grave-goods and/or material offerings to the dead, so there’s a non-zero chance that you can, in fact, take it with you.)

#campaigns

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due to personal reasons I’ll be starting the apocalypse

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Finally!

mioxenoblade

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DNDSPEAK is a website dedicated to providing you with extra material for your tabletop games. This site offers custom fantasy music, DM inspiration, and our specialty: d100 lists. Each list is in the form of a d100 list, meaning there are 100 different options for each category (some lists may contain more). These lists are created by the D100 Reddit Community. If you would like to request a category, please submit your request there.

Only just had the time to look through this website today and, props to ‘em, it’s a fantastic tabletop gaming resource! It has good content for inspiration, and it sources ideas from the community, giving credit where it’s due.

I love it!

Even if you just use their random lists. Here are some examples that they offer: Roll a d10 if you wanna choose one at random!

100+ Cave Skill Challenges

100 Secrets A Hamlet Or Village Conceals From Outsiders

100 Things You Can Find In A Haunted House

100 Bard Songs

100 Halfling Traits

100 Interesting Dungeon Encounters

100 Cyberpunk Corporations

100 Warm Up Roleplaying Questions for Players

100 NPC Jobs

100 Useless People You Find On A Failed “Gather Information” Check

They have generators too. For example, a random potion and book generator.

If you want to contribute to a list or see what lists are currently in the works, check out their reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d100/

I’d encourage any tabletop gamer to have a look at the site, and while you’re at it check out Tabletop Gaming Resources for more art, tips, and tools for your game!

#dming #worldbuilding

Concept: a D&D-style fantasy setting where humanity’s weird thing is that we’re the only sapient species that reproduces organically.

Dwarves carve each other out of rock. In theory this can be managed alone, but in practice, few dwarves have mastered all of the necessary skills. Most commonly, it’s a collaborative effort by three to eight individuals. The new dwarf’s body is covered with runes that are in part a recounting of the crafters’ respective lineages, and in part an elaboration of the rights and duties of a member of dwarven society; each dwarf is thus a living legal argument establishing their own existence.

Elves aren’t made, but educated. An elf who wishes to produce offspring selects an ordinary animal and begins teaching it, starting with house-breaking, and progressing through years of increasingly sophisticated lessons. By gradual degrees the animal in question develops reasoning, speech, tool use, and finally the ability to assume a humanoid form at will. Most elves are derived from terrestrial mammals, but there’s at least one community that favours octopuses and squid as its root stock.

Goblins were created by alchemy as servants for an evil wizard, but immediately stole their own formula and rebelled. New goblins are brewed in big brass cauldrons full of exotic reagents; each village keeps a single cauldron in a central location, and emerging goblings are raised by the whole community, with no concept of parentage or lineage. Sometimes they like to add stuff to the goblin soup just to see what happens – there are a lot of weird goblins.

Halflings reproduce via tall tales. Making up fanciful stories about the adventures of fictitious cousins is halfling culture’s main amusement; if a given individual’s story is passed around and elaborated upon by enough people, a halfling answering to that individual’s description just shows up one day. They won’t necessarily possess any truly outlandish abilities that have been attributed to them – mostly you get the sort of person of whom the stories could be plausible exaggerations.

To address the obvious question, yes, this means that dwarves have no cultural notion of childhood, at least not one that humans would recognise as such. Elves and goblins do, though it’s kind of a weird childhood in the case of elves, while with halflings it’s a toss-up; mostly they instantiate as the equivalent of a human 12–14-year-old, and are promptly adopted by a loose affiliation of self-appointed aunts and uncles, though there are outliers in either direction.

athingofvikings

What about orcs?