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I really wanted a cool RPG group to play with, one who shows up consistently and has a sense of joy for my tables other than combat, who make cool characters and all, but it seems everytime I assemble a team they either: don't show up for the table, or show up and drag their character's roleplay, no passion whatsoever. As a DM it's increasingly difficult to push forward a story when these kinds of problems surface, and over the years, I learned that no matter the work I put in (custom maps built from scratch, select soundtracks, hand-drawn portraits, etc) it is ultimately up to the players to engage and to make it enjoyable, so the only options you have are:

Find new guys

Lower your expectations

Stop playing altogether

thefruitypebblescastleoftorment

There's a homebrew table of travel encounters for CoS (not necessarily combat ones) that has the option of your players just passing by Rahadin on the road while he's on his way somewhere else. This is something you do if they've never seen Rahadin before, and if they try and talk to him he's just like "be glad I have no business with you today."

I'm 100% doing this, it's too fucking funny. Imagine you're new to Barovia, you see some guy coming down the road. Its day and he's alone so you're not especially wary, then you notice oh he's a dusk elf you haven't seen many of those. You wave and say hi. He ignores you. Then you pass within 10 feet of him and are KNOCKED BACK BY A WAVE OF HORRIFIC UNEARTHLY SCREAMS AND WAILS, and he just looks you in the eye like "keep scrolling motherfucker."

pupspuppet

I don’t think I posted this here??

web-spinning

Thought I'd share this here for you guys

So you’d like to run Curse of Strahd, but you’d like to be less racist about it? Here’s some compiled basic resources from a Rromani person

stuckinapril

I’m fine

stuckinapril

I need divine intervention

cultofthepigeon

vestal doesnt heal with the power of the light thats pure unadultered fujoshi essence shes calling down

dog-teeth

Bro, We Are Homies . Its Ok To Infodump To Me . Im Ur Friend . I Love You . And Your OCs. … Bro, We Are Drawing Eachother Fanart Now . . No Dont Stop Randomly Messaging Me Bro .. Bro …

kayssweetdreams

Ask me anything about my brain babies!!!

pandagobrr

Ooooh what are your brain babies?!

kayssweetdreams

My various OCs.

Main: Kaylo Crescendo, and the Inhabitants of Rhythm Heaven and the Multiverse

Welcome Home: The Music Twins: Harmony Hums and Mary Melodies, Agent Dandelion and Specs, and the Yokai Family

Pizza Tower: Cannoli and Gelato Spaghetti

Billie Bust Up: Cotton the Sheep, Midnight the Lion and Beatrice the Human

Balan Wonderworld:…Too many to LIST.

pandagobrr

I’ve seen a lot on balan wonderland but never played the game. Although the lore and character relationship look extremely intriguing, what’s the run down on that?

Also I know a little bit about your main, but I’d love to hear more!!

kayssweetdreams

Oh. The lore is INCREDIBLE.

The basic Story: Two kids named Leo and Emma are currently going through some problems. Leo had a falling out and believes he’s better off alone, while Emma feels that she can’t trust anyone due to whispers behind her back. One day, at the same time, the two of them stumble upon this theater at the end of an alley, of which they are then greeted by its magical, and flamboyant Maestro: Balan!

He states that there is a piece missing from both of their hearts, making them imbalanced, and takes them into Wonderworld. Where everyone’s passions, and their fears transform into beautiful and puzzle-like stages.

Unfortunately, They can’t exactly LEAVE Wonderworld, until they find that missing piece of their heart, and they’re not alone, there are 12 other people trapped in Wonderworld, thanks to the Negative Maestro: Lance, The King of The Negati.

So the Player (Leo or Emma) has to travel through these 12 worlds, help these other people, and defeat Lance in order to leave Wonderworld and return to the real world

The 12 human inhabitants all have short, but actually kind of relatable stories, and some even dip into some heavy topics (2 stages and their inhabitants bring up the idea of Death).

But it is a beautiful game with a very interesting story, and a amazing soundtrack. There is also a book, that taps even deeper into the lore

pandagobrr

Oooooh, sounds like something I’d actually really enjoy, I’ll have the game see if I can get the game on steam or something.

What about Kaylo and the inhabitants of Rhythm Heaven?

kayssweetdreams

Yay!! Just remember to keep an open mind on it

Keep reading

pandagobrr

Woahhhhh that’s so cool!! Have you written anything on it?

dayquil-driver

so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

dayquil-driver

reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it's my dash)

swagforbirds

stop calling me "my fragile little flower" or "my beautiful delicate pet" im literally going for a glass cannon build. i can one shot most adults

swagforbirds

no . wait . come back im sorry. im your fragile little flower and there is a scary man charging up a beam to turn my beautiful fragile petals into ash

achivement-unlocked

Achievement unlocked!

Flying too far from the sun

Whether it’s you or them- someone’s getting turned to sand

gentrigger

Wanting to do a check on who does TTRPG design in notebooks.

Right now I've mainly just been using it as a way to focus on brainstorming and writing down thoughts. I'm trying to also work in ways to also do commonplace book stuff to write down interesting ideas from articles and posts from others as well as write down my favorite mechanics from my research.

Any insights from others about ways to utilize physical note taking into their design, or need a reason to show off their own notebook?

valtsv

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

valtsv

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

valtsv

marine scientist: what’s your gender?

merperson: what’s a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i’m merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what’s in your pants?

merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?

9lunarseas6-deactivated20240914

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

witchcraft-in-wonderland

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

anonymous-lizard

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

sexy-necromancing-bird

OH MY GOD

kingfisher-colours

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

ace-aussie-asshole

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

im-jesus

This is exquisite

kirkland-brand-witch-deactivate

God damn right

Wait sorry

syrips

you know what? fuck you

-uncurses your strahd-

arcane-vagabond

Reblog this if you would not only accept, but welcome fan art, moodboards, etc. of your fics

All of these used to be so common for people to show their appreciation of different fics and authors, and I think it’s a shame people don’t do it anymore. I love seeing fan work for my fics!!