Guidance Gaming

Zelda. D&D. MKWii? KSP? Splatoon? Yeah, I have no clue what you'll find here, but I'll try to keep it quality. Header by @shoot-and-swim-ab.

[guidancegaming]

((saves your salmon run on an inkjet)) RIIIIDIIIN INTO THE DANGER ZONE

[pesticidefr]

Heya guys. I’m raffling off three copies of Three Suns. Just reblog with your UN and #. Good luck! It will end on 1/25. I will update this post with the winners.

[sassapphire]

Sassapphire #232295 thanks!

[guidancegaming]

GuidanceOfficer#292462, thanks!

[squiffer-propaganda]

someone had a wonderful idea in the splatoon hc server so of course i drew it

[guidancegaming]

I’m calling it now

Playable salmon characters in Splatoon 3 DLC

[someemochick]

Stop calling the DM a God

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

theres something very funny about people writing these rich and detailed backstories for dnd characters as if the characters aren’t gonna still be level 1 when they start 

“my elf has been alive for a thousand years and has won ten thousand battles!!!” you’re still level 1 aint ya i guess you those ten thousand battles you won werent all that hard to win 

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i know this sounds all grumpy but i legit mean it when i say it is hilarious when someone writes it in to their backstory that they were the Smartest Mage on the Planet that has researched magic for A Thousand Centuries and then the game starts and they’re like “yeah i know fireball whats up” 

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

the more detailed your character’s backstory is and the more you boast about the character’s competence and abilities, the funnier it becomes when you roll a 1 and your character just drops their sword and shits themselves. president of the dwarves for six centuries and you just shit yourself in a bar you were trying to find work in.  

[drtanner]

Like I know that this is a Goof Post™ and that you’re generally not supposed to try to offer any explanations for stuff like this for fear of Ruining The Joke™ but I feel like people do this because they fundamentally misunderstand what their character’s backstory is actually for.

The most interesting and compelling part of a character’s life is supposed to be the story you’re going to tell; you’re defeating the object by shoving all of the cool shit into their backstory. The actual purpose of the backstory is to inform your character’s behaviour and choices and the way they react to things so you can play/write them consistently! A solid backstory is a great way to make your character a whole person with a personality that makes sense.

tl;dr - A “cool” backstory doesn’t necessarily make for a cool character. It’s less about who they’ve been and what they’ve already done than it is about who they might become over the course of the story you’re going to tell with them.

[dndaddyissues]

hey! this! this is really really good advice for players!

[tyrantosaurus]

Though also if you’re playing a long lived species, it is entertaining as hell to explain why they haven’t done anything in their life worthwhile. It’s also funny to explain how they did all these incredible things and still can barely hold a sword.

My paladin was a folk hero. Fought off bandits and saved a town. One of the first campaign battles, she rolled a one and yeeted her sword across the room.

Cue her going very red and stammering about how she was usually more proficient than this but you know. She had hurt her arm. And slept weird last night. You know. Perfectly reasonable explanations for not knowing how to swing a sword.

So I guess my advice for new players is to make whatever backstory you want. If you were epic beforehand and want to grow as a character still? Lean into it. Explain why they’re at level one. Did they land in a coma for a year, and their muscles atrophied? Did a wizard cast a spell on them? Did they just fall off their horse and hit their head really hard?

Anything is possible. And there are ways to do it serious and gritty if you want- say they took a serious blow protecting a loved one or even just an ally, but corrupt energy in the wound prevented magical healing and it didn’t heal right. They have to relearn everything left handed because they lost their right. The whack on the head was by an enemy attacking their group and they only survived because they passed out and the enemy thought they were dead. They have constant splitting migraines that make it hard to focus. There are so many ways to explain why they’re back down to level one.

And any answer is fun. Even if that answer is just “things are easier where I’m from.”

Play with it. Make a character you want to play. No matter who that is.

(My paladin, for reference, got arrested for stealing food when she was starving and lost her skills while she was in solitary confinement for 60 years.)

[dndaddyissues]

[probablydidrpgideas]

The DM can also help with this! Mine provided a good memory-loss thing for my first character

[guidancegaming]

honestly personally I like to compromise and say my character has lots of experience with things that are not their class

my current warlock knows a lot about the physics of magic. studied it theoretically without being a magic caster and taught it for almost twenty years! can’t cast a spell more powerful than a cantrip without breaking a sweat, though.

[normal-horoscopes]

DEAR READERS WHEN THE WORLD IS HEAVY AND GRAY KNOW THAT I WILL BE THERE TO REMIND YOU TO PRESS ZL TO TURN INTO A SQUID

[guidancegaming]

STOP reblogging that gay scientist post with marina. marina was NOT a gay scientist, she was a GAY ENGINEER. get it RIGHT

[emily-e-draws]

hey nintendo.. have u considered…. Give Zelda A Sword

[dominodamsel]

This is Envy. She’s a Tiefling who used to be a thief until she tried to steal a beautiful ivory dagger embedded with rubies that happened to be a link to a powerful demon with a lust for blood. Now she’s a warlock.

I made this character before I remembered that I don’t have anyone to play DnD with :,^)

[guidancegaming]

Ok (cancels your special with the rainmaker)

[splatoon-names]

[guidancegaming]

honestly something that still haunts me is this time I bought a 250g sword (not much for some people but for me a lot) and i realized it didnt fit my dragon as well as another sword, so i found someone on the AH and sent them a message like “hey would you accept a valkyrie blade as payment for your ancient broadsword? you can see i’ve got it because its equipped on this dragon rn” (another 250g sword)

and instead of using the crossroads, yknow, the system the game has set up so that trades are safe, they just reply to my message with THEIR SWORD ATTACHED, and TRUST me to send mine back

like, on a site thats rly rife with scammers... why? i didnt scam them and sent my sword asap but. jesus.

[slicksquid]

stress.mp4

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[scarecranefr]

Flight Rising egg giveaway

Hello!! scarecrane here with a HOT and COOL giveaway! I hit 100 followers and just felt like doing a cool giveaway in return as well as just for fun!

Rules:

You don’t need to be following me, but a follow is appreciated! (I follow back FR only blogs- but you don’t need to be an FR only blog to reblog this!)

Reblog with your username and ID number (ex. scarecrane #371448)

Likes do not count, only reblogs, and only reblog once, please!

Please don’t tag as a giveaway (even if it is one, tumblr likes to be mean)

Giveaway ends on 12/31! Will gather winners around 10pm PST

There will be 6 whole winners! Those 6 winners get to pick 2 eggs of their choosing!  I have for offer: 11 elemental eggs, and a Nocturne egg to make it even to do 6 winners! Winners will get their rewards slowly as I will message each user one by one so they pick their eggs! Whoever gets picked first in randomizer is the first chooser and so on!

Good luck everyone! 

(^by my good friend @zerkjo-fr​, the post feels empty so I wanted to add something)

[sassapphire]

Sassapphire #232295 thank you!

[guidancegaming]

GuidanceOfficer #292462, thanks for hosting!

[slavery]

[janeplease]

chivalry is not dead