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what the dnd episode was missing...
Personal project sneak peak, Signalis Starfinder Character sheet! Gonna be awesome! Why I was learning to draw Elster!
My friend, he draw me character sheets, I think he good -v-
The thing is, D&D is not a game.
I know that sounds insane, but hear me out: D&D is not a game, it is a games console. You don't actually "play D&D." You play "Dragon Heist" or "Tomb of Annihilation" or "Ghosts of Saltmarsh" or "your GM's homebrew campaign" or "the plot of Critical Role Season 1 reconstructed from memory" on D&D.
For quite a long while now - possibly literal decades - D&D hasn't even been the best games console, but it's been "the one everyone knows about" and "the one my friends have" and in fact it's "the one whose name is almost synonymous with the entire medium of TTRPGs," like how "Nintendo" or "Playstation" could just mean "games console" to people who didn't understand games consoles. They might not have heard of a "tabletop roleplaying game," but most people have heard of "Dungeons & Dragons."
For this extended metaphor, D&D is Nintendo back in the 90s, or Playstation in the 2000s. Sometimes you say "oh let's go to my house and play Nintendo" or "c'mon dude I wanna play Playstation" but you're not actually playing Nintendo or Playstation, you're playing Resident Evil or Super Mario Bros or Jurassic Park or Metal Gear Solid or whatever on a Nintendo or a Playstation.
Now, this metaphor is going to get even more tortured, but remember how when the PS2 and the original X-Box came out, they used a standardised DVD format, but the Nintendo console in that generation, the Gamecube, used discs but they were this proprietary tiny little disc format that they had control over? That essentially meant that it was really difficult to make third party titles for the Gamecube that did literally anything that Nintendo didn't want them to do, and also essentially gave Nintendo an even greater ability to skim money off the top of any sales?
So that must've seemed like a smart business decision in their heads. But the PS2 and the X-Box used DVDs. This was a standardized format which gave Microsoft and Sony way less control over who made games for their consoles, but that actually turned out to be a good thing for gaming, because it meant that the breadth of games that you could play on their consoles was massively increased even if some of them were games Microsoft and Sony didn't really approve of. (Also it's worth nothing that the PS2 and the X-Box could just play DVDs, which meant if your household was on a budget, you didn't need a separate DVD player - your games console could do it for you! This was actually a huge selling point!)
What Wizards are currently trying to do now is kinda-sorta the equivalent of Sony suddenly announcing that the PS5 will only accept a proprietary cartridge format they hold the patent on, will control the content of and charge money for the construction of. This possibly seems like it could be a moneymaker in your head because you hold market dominance (apparently the PS5 has 30 million units shipped compared to X-Box Series X 20 million units) and so many people make games for your console, but what it actually means is game devs and publishers will abandon your product. If it takes so much more work, the scope of what they're allowed to do is so much more limited and they're going to make less money off of it, they just won't bother. They'll go make games for the X-Box or PC instead.
To use another computer metaphor, D&D is Windows - it might not be the best system but it's the system most people are familiar with and so it gets the most stuff made for it, but there's is an upper limit on the bullshit people will take before they decide fuck it and get an Apple or learn how Linux works.
TTRPG systems are a weird product because you're not selling people a game, you're selling people a method to play a game. All the actual games are created by the community - even prewritten campaigns needs to be executed via a game master. Trying to skim money off the community will mean they'll eventually give up on you.
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Advice for Players Changing Character
Salutations! I have emerged from my den with some new advice! Sometimes as a player you're simply bored/dissatisfied with your current character, this can happen especially when you're new to the game and haven't played many classes yet. This is completely normal, you can just ask your dungeon master that you'd like to try something new, and can do a few different things. Change class but not character, In this the backstory, personality, and relationships stay the same but your class changes. This is my favorite as it's the least disruptive to the flow of the game and all you have to do is roll up a new character, if you want to try them all but are invested with your characters story this is perfect for you! Unfortunately this doesn't work in one shots (obviously lol) and shorter campaigns more focused on combat.
Playing an NPC, if you have a favorite NPC you like you could simply swap to playing it for a session to try out the class, having your character poisoned/sick for a session and the goal is to find the cure or maybe if you want a longer test run your character is more permanently incapacitated and a sibling/friend from their backstory is called upon to join the party, in this option there are no unnecessary character deaths and you can grow the coolness of both characters if you feel like changing back. Thirdly you could simply ask the DM to kill your character so you could make a new one, just make sure your party understands and you could use it as a surprising moment that sets tension for a boss fight or maybe it sets a grimdark setting. Anyhoo you're smart I'm sure you'll work it out. That is all for now I must return to the Kobald Kave™ Good luck with your characters and remember it's just a game and you can change your character at anytime!
(just don't bring in a new character and bring magic items to the table that were homebrewed from another campaign especially if it has rolled stats and the stat average is closer to an ancient evil than lv 3 adventurer it really throws your DM off and everyone knows you didn't actually roll 3 20's and yes your one 8 in charisma doesn't make your multiclass Echoknight, Mystic hybrid cool KEVIN!)
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Dungeon Master Advice!
When making a Huge City there are 2 ways to do so. Way 1 is to map out the city in it's entirety and then to decide which buildings are important and you can accurately give players directions to their location. This works best for games that take place in massive cities where traveling the city is the majority of the travel the players do. However if you're new or you want the players to go to multiple cities then there is a much more simple option! Simply list out the important locations of the city I.E. large churches, taverns, important characters homes, shops, and other special locations. Then simply think/write up a description of traveling the streets such as whether they are bustling and mercantile, dull and shifty, full of streamers or quiet and lit by street lamps! this will allow players to fill in the blanks with their imagination and allows you to pick your city with a lot more interesting location with a lot less work! This is allows you to get to playing quicker and simplifies travel around the city. (sometimes players don't write notes so they don't remember all the street names you came up with.) That is this Kobolds Dungeon master tip for today! Talk to you later!
That’s it. You fucking flipped my table. I’m done fucking around with you. I’m gonna piss your boots buddy.I’m gonna absolutely chew your fucking car bud. Your Gonna regret the day you messed with slobslurper.
Alright, your very funny, got like 4 goblin images outa me lol, I never imagined this would happen, and since Idk what to do here is another! You might even find it familiar!
I tried to replicate your PFP here lol
Don’t use those big words with me.you can’t confuse me with those demonic words. I’ll fucking smite you down you stupid lizard.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Please leave me alone big man! I am but a little Kobold I have 4 hp I would nto give Xperience points NOOOOOOOOO! I am only lv1 Kobold SPARE MEEE!!
That’s so problematic. The O.O face is for furrys only. Take that down IMMEDIATELY.
My friend I am just a kobold! I have joined this interconnected arcane web a mere 300 seconds ago. You have already invoke the great clause of the problematic and thus I must acquiesce.
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