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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town
academy
adventurer's guild
alchemist
apiary
apothecary
aquarium
armory
art gallery
bakery
bank
barber
barracks
bathhouse
blacksmith
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book store
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cobbler
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council chamber
court house
crypt for the noble family
Town fillers
Want to find some people to play dnd with but also don't want to be DM because I wanna play but asking about that feels like inviting yourself over to someone's house which makes me feel anxious and wrong
But like if someone DID have a dnd 5e campaign idea they needed players for my dms are open đ
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Next time I run a table top game, I'm giving any killed enemy, NPC, or otherwise a 10% chance of swearing revenge and coming after the player characters, followed by percentile ranks of how successful they are ranging from "never finds them" up to "merges with a malevolent demigod which threatens to annihilate a large portion of the population in their bid for revenge."
Turns out the bandit you killed had a wife and child, and after her mom died of starvation the kiddo found a dark wolf in the force and learned to become one with all the forces of red tooth and bloody claw. Anyway, she's pissed, roll initiative.
Yes, you and the other player characters are the protagonists in your own stories. Unfortunately sometimes you make someone else a protagonist in their story.
Alternatively, your campaign begins when a high level group destroys your home turf, city, village, whatever. The people who cared for you and kept you safe are dead and your group sets after them.
And if I'm running it, as the players progress, they slowly have to come to terms with understanding they were raised by an isolated group, cult or mad scientists or whatever, whose ultimate aim would have resulted in mass death and global devastation. Will they still try and find the people who ruined their happy life? What happens when they confront the protagonist who saved the world, but deeply traumatized the player characters?
I really like this idea. Like, the PCs just think this is your standard lawful neutral to lawful evil order of zealous knights, who, at best, slaughter everyone they knew for their heretical beliefs.
Nope. They really are a group of dedicated paladins who were attacking a cult stronghold.
Or, Iâd we wanna get really morally complex, the characters parents were trying to summon KingEvilBad to destroy the world, but the rest of the village was normal. The order was given bad information that led them to believe the whole village was a cultist stronghold and they are tearing themselves up over wiping out the whole town. The Knight who killed your childhood babysitter in front of you wants to know how she can be redeemed.
This is the stuff. I like making up open ended idea because this exactly, it's a broad concept to go so many ways depending on the players and DM and I'm so interested in all those possibilities, I love to hear them.
combat additions to make it actually take more than a round for your players to kill your cool boss
difficult terrain. flood that cavern! oops the floor is lava! make the walls attack and grapple!
environmental effects in general. make an avalanche happen as soon as combat starts. combat during a storm is a great opportunity for lightning to strike. rain, snow, darkness, distance, fog, anything that'll impose disadvantage on their hits.
charm and fear effects. charm/fear conditions on a PC or two can totally turn the tide of an encounter.
straight up just swallow a PC or two. sometimes ingestion is the answer.
official statblock be damned, your boss should ALWAYS have additional legendary actions and/or resistances, condition and damage resistances/immunities, multiple attacks (probably more than the statblock says) and a motherfucking escape plan!
portals. seriously, just chuck some portals in there. I've never run a combat that couldn't be improved by the addition of a portal or two.
time constraints, mid-combat puzzles, a non-combat goal, anything the PCs have to do during the fight that isn't actually fighting.
in general, just get weird with it! wizards of the coast doesn't own you! no gods no masters! hit harder and have more fun!
I love homebrewing a world for my dnd campaign and writing some bullshit about an electric-magic energy grid or w/e bc I wanted to make it more modern but then ACTUALLY having to create something bc one of my players decided to be an electrician
He made this decision in like Jan/Feb and I am just now getting to actually flesh it out bc I need to introduce some shit I to the plot but it's fun and I'm actually super happy with what I came up with
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You know what fantasy writing needs? Working class wizards.
A crew of enchanters maintaining the perpetual flames that run the turbines that generate electricity, covered in ash and grime and stinking of hot chilies and rare mushrooms used for the enchantments
A wizard specializing in construction, casting feather fall on every worker, and enchanting every hammer to drive nails in straight, animating the living clay that makes up the core of the crane
An elderly wizard and her apprentice who transmute fragile broken objects. From furniture, to rotten wood beams, to delicate jewelry
A battle magician, trained with only a few rudimentary spells to solve a shortage of trained wizards on the front who uses his healing spells to help folks around town
Wizarding shops where cheery little mages enchant wooden blocks to be hammered into the sides of homes. Hammer this into the attic and it will scare off termites, toss this in the fire and clean your chimney, throw this in the air and all dust in the room gets sucked up
Wizard loggers who transmute cut trees into solid, square beams, reducing waste, and casting spells to speed up regrowth. The forest, they know, will not be too harsh on them if the lost treeâs children may grow in its place
Wizard farmers who grow their crops in arcane sigils to increase yield, or produce healthier fruit
Factory wizards who control a dozen little constructs that keep machines cleaned and operational, who cast armor to protect the hands of workers, and who, when the factory strikes for better wages, freeze the machines in place to ensure their bosses canât bring anyone new in.
Anyway, think about it.
Construction wizards to turn back time to root out wood worm and strengthen old buildings.
A wizard tailors who transmutes cloth into fully made clothes without seems and leaving behind no scraps
A wizard who works in public transit, timing out teleports with detailed schedules, time magic, and enchanted communications, sending dozens of people to far away cities for a day or work or leisure
A team of wizard gardeners tend to trees grown far outside their native range, and ideal climate, encircled with runes and fed potions to grow none the less
A wizard sits in their office in the aqueduct, re-casting the spells that allow its precious water to flow to the city uphill
A wizard fisher casts water repelling spells on the sailors and the stairs, keeps the hoist on the anchor from rusting, casts balls of heat that keep everyone warm below decks. Their real job is to herd fish together so they can be caught in single huge nets, and keep them cold as the boat returns to land.
There are so many possibilities outside of âstodgy academic who wears ugly robesâ and âVery good holy man who helps everyone and the fact theyâve never had a job is never brought upâ and âevil wizard toiling away on great evils in his evil tower in the evil country.â
Wizards who come out and ward your home for you, like the magical equivalent of a home security system.
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The âNecromancy is evilâ we see in most fantasy worlds stems from a christian view of having to honor the body after death in a certain way to ensure the soulâs safety in the afterlife. And while I encourage you to explore societies that donât see necromancy as evil, I also encourage you to explore societies that see necromancy as evil for different reasons.
Drow might believe that after death, your body belongs to Lolth and must be fed to spiders. Reanimating a body means stealing from Lolth and must therefore be punished.
A Zoroastrian inspired society might believe that with death, evil starts infesting the body, so dead bodies must be kept away from the community, and reanimating them keeps them in the community and is therefore bad.
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@135weirdos:
A society of druids that uses the dead to grow sacred gardens, and reanimation deprives the dead of their part in the cycle
A society where each plot in the cemetery is used to grow vegetables/herbs for community use, to ensure that everyone is fed and the dead are visited/remembered. Necromancy deprives the community of the food that person would have grown and disconnects the dead person from their community
A society obsessed with history/recordskeeping/memory, and necromancy prevents the dead from being properly catalogued
A totalitarian society wherein the citizens are property of the state and necromancy is stealing
Death is nirvana and reanimation deprives the dead of this experience
The dead are ritually eaten by friends/family to allow them to live on, and reanimation ends their time prematurely
The finest jewelry is made of the bones of the dead, so thereâs a lucrative trade in grave robbing, and the bone jewelry lobby has convinced the public that necromancy is worse than the expensive jewelry made from the bones
The current regime used necromancy to take power, so now itâs forbidden for everyone outside the very small circle of favored state necromancers
The corpses of dead kings/honored warriors are laid to rest in the palace catacombs, so necromancy is heavily regulated as a matter of national security
@absolxguardian:
in the afterlife, theyâre still using the body. With an empty grave, their soul wonât be tethered to a point in the afterlife nor can they receive offerings
@datasoong47:
My conculture believes that the dead must be cremated quickly after death, in order to free the souls for reincarnation - if the body is not cremated but allowed to rot, the souls risk being trapped in the body and dying. Â For that reason, the most heinous crimes are punished with not just execution, but the denial of cremation - death of both body and soul. Â So, necromancy would be seen as risking the destruction of the souls - or, alternately, of imprisoning the souls, since an undead body may be able to preserve the soulsâ existence, but they cannot control the body, and thus would be effectively imprisoned
@eclipseyeger:
a culture that recognizes the effort and emotional strain their people go through in life, and when someone dies they throw a huge wake and celebrate their break from life before joining their god/reincarnating/guarding something/etc. Â Reanimating someone or trying to bring them back to life is seen as a huge taboo because itâs like asking someone who constantly works and finally gets a time of rest to go straight back to work before theyâve recovered. Â Except itâs the hardest job/adventure ever. Â For the same reason, motherhood, illness, leadership, recreation, personal growth, and winter are all highly venerated concepts/times in the culture, as times of rest or things in need of a period of rest eventually. Â To honor these times as sabbats is commanded by one of their gods after a great catastrophe. The whole community is involved with these things, and so too are is the whole community involved with death and picking up the physical or emotional slack of the person who died. Â If permission is given from the person who is being reanimated, then maybe maaaaaybe itâs ok, but thatâs only happened once when a guardian was once needed, and itâs pretty hard to verify if it really was the person. Â
The dead just turn into pillars of salt if theyâre seen by the living once theyâre reanimated, and it just gets annoying trying to clean up all that shit. Not to mention it screws over the crop field rotation. Thanks carl.
the dead like the afterlife and itâs just plain freakin rude to rip them from that, jerk
the spell to reanimate the dead is incomplete/glitchy, and it just spreads from corpse to person to person and creates a zombie plague
@esoanem:
A Confucian society would be interesting here. Part of oneâs duty of filial piety is to return the body your ancestors gave you to them (which is why China has historically been so against cremation, body modification, and even hair cutting, all of which damage the body your ancestors gave you), necromancy would be seen as robbing that body from the personâs ancestors and so would be highly taboo
@imsopopfly:
thereâs no stigma against reanimating bodies specifically, but there is a preference among necromancers in these parts for uhâŠ.fresher materials to work with, so theyâve developed a reputation for, you know, making their own dead. By murdering people. Not ALL of them do it but itâs happened often enough that most practitioners of necromancy are looked upon with suspicion at best
@mollymauksandtealeafs:
#if your fictional society has beef with necromancy there!must!be!a!reason
#also societies can think necromancy is bad unless relatives are doing it
#or they can think itâs good bc theyâre a warrior society and itâs a way for your body to keep fighting after death
#or they can think itâs bad bc itâs a type of punishment for criminals/outcasts/whatever bc itâs basically saying âthis person was only useful after they died"
@plotbunny-hutch:
In a community with a high rate of child mortality, dead adults are thought to be the caretakers of dead children; resurrecting an adult is seen as robbing a dead child of their parent.
Thereâs nothing wrong with reanimating the dead to live an unlife of leisure, as companionship to a living person, but any labor done by a dead person is viewed with disdain or stigmaâbasically, classism against working-class necromancers, while wealthy necromancers get a pass.
A dead person is buried with a highly personal artifact which tells their entire life story and holds their secrets, such as a tapestry-shroud or scroll, which only the dead person and their nearest relative has ever seen; reanimating the dead is seen as a HUGE invasion of privacy because a) You SAW their SECRET THING and b) Where exactly is their secret thing kept while they do undead things????
The culture believes that the dead come back in dreams to deliver prophetic warnings to their descendants; the voices of the dead are therefore considered inherently prophetic, which is awkward when youâre undead and trying to go about your day.
Death is an integral function of time in this culture and/or magical system; reversing the natural course of death risks reversing the natural course of time, halting the round of seasons or freezing the growth of crops in the fields.
This culture is highly informed/stratified by gender and the dead are considered to be genderless, therefore they have no place/role in the community and nobody knows how to treat them or speak to them.
Itâs not that reanimating the dead in itself is an issueâbut it *is* proof that the necromancer has done some other taboo act as part of the reanimation process (like animal sacrifice or sth). Nobody can look at the reanimated person without remembering that, oh shit, somebody did that gross thing. So having a reanimated corpse around is not so much taboo as really, REALLY awkward.
@pomrania:
necromancy is associated with the cultureâs traditional enemies, and is the same level of frowned-upon as using certain symbology or weapons or languages etc which are also linked to those enemies
once someone has died, it is severely disrespectful to look upon their corpse, so anything which is VISIBLE as being an undead is Very Bad, because it means you can see that personâs dead body
the reanimated dead have historically been used to spread plague and do other biological warfare type stuff; if you create something like that, a) gross b) unsanitary c) this is interpreted as the intent to commit war crimes
when someone dies, their death is considered a âsacrificeâ to the deity who presides over their cause of death; how exactly you deal with the body, that doesnât matter so much, but USING the body to your OWN benefit, thatâs an insult to the god of warfare / disease / ocean / etc. Like stealing the offerings from a shrine.
reanimation is seen as asserting âownershipâ over that being; so while itâs okay to have an undead animal (so long as it wasnât someone ELSEâS animal, as that would be theft), reanimating a HUMAN counts as âslaveryâ
necromancy is considered âlazyâ; like, dude, do the work yourself, or pay/convince someone else to do it, what kind of loser has to resort to CORPSES
only the divine can raise the dead; reanimating the dead is a poor mockery of the godsâ ability, and you are liable to be punished for your hubris, and that kind of punishment tends to have a lot of collateral damage so itâs best for mortals to solve the problem before the gods take notice
âanimated corpsesâ attract carrion birds who then poop on everything
a decent chunk of the populace is secretly undead, and âability to use necromancyâ is strongly correlated with âknowledge of necromancyâ is strongly correlated with âability to tell that someone is secretly undead, and perhaps control themâ
reanimating the dead involves borrowing the âpropertyâ (ie, the dead) from the god of death, who keeps a close eye on their belongings, and might take a shine to anything/anyone else they see while monitoring that; so not only is it potentially dangerous to CAUSE undead, itâs risky just being NEAR them
@syntax-forest:
There was a huge necromancy fad a while back and now itâs just kind of tacky? Like if youâre gonna animate things with magic to do your bidding try to be a little creative at least.
You can reanimate a personâs body if you have their consent, but itâs difficult to reliably get in contact with the deceased so proving consent is difficult after the fact. You can get written consent but there needs to be a certain number of witnesses and a lawyer needs to write up the contract and itâs really more trouble than itâs worth. People start to wonder why youâre so set on animate corpses that youâre going through all that legal trouble.
The town used to let people raise the dead willy-nilly but something went catastrophically awry. Youâll also get the side-eye if you cast fireball.
@thedupshadove:
If you could truly raise the dead, put body and soul back together in good health, it would be a Mitzvah. But most Necromancy does not do that; it merely raises the corpse into a puppet of the mageâs will. This is no slight on the deadâeither they are safely in the afterlife, or else they are goneâbut seeing the shell of their loved one will pain the mourners, and so it should not be done. Weep not for the dead, for they rest, and we moan. We would moan all the more to see their husks walking about. Â #now that I think about it #this means it might *not* be evil to animate skeletons #since all of their loved ones are probably also dead
@when-are-we-gonna-play-squash:
#i actually have a necromancer oc and as far as the magic system goes itâs not forbidden but is just an unpopular form of magic #because it causes the user physical pain #and she has chronic pain as a result of practicing necromancy
#also worth noting is she brings back extinct animals #so maybe think about the ethical implications of Ghost Jurassic Park
@woefully-undercaffeinated:
The dead are able to remember their past lives, and wars have been started by revelations from beyond the grave. The taboo arose after a particularly bloody set of clashes several thousand years ago.
The dead tend to be extremely⊠libidinous, and as most of the living are Very Much Not Into That, it was agreed that necromancy was a bad idea.
Necromancy can raise the dead, but it canât control them. The reanimated will usually just lumber back to whatever home they had in life, and will expect to be able to return to their previous existences in every detail. Unfortunately, most beds were not made to accommodate multiple generations of dead relatives in addition to the living family, and necromancy was banned after the kingdom could no longer afford all of the additional mattresses needed.
Estate lawyers have formed a highly effective lobbying group and successfully convinced the king to outlaw necromancy so that they would no longer have to put all those extra terms into their clientsâ wills or deal with having to reverse inheritances.
The undead all clearly know about the afterlife in detail, but none of them will give up any information about it. Clerics got tired of having their sermons interrupted by yet another dead asshole making sarcastic remarks about their godâs paradise and refusing to elaborate when asked to explain.Â
Here have a d&d item I came up with based on a tumblr post I saw yesterday
Veth: I wrote you a poem. I thought youâve just been so distant from us, I just want to make sure you know that youâre part of the team, and part of the family.
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