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I find it important for DMs to note that an Insight check is not a lie detector test where you get automatically yes or no. If a player successfully meets the DC requirement when detecting if someone is lying, there are better ways to word it. "What they're saying sounds overly rehearsed," "Their body language does not match what they're expressing," or "You notice they can't seem to make eye contact as they speak."
Hope this helps anyone that struggles with this!
Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
Bookmarking thisā¦
This inspired me to see if Patricia C. Wredeās Worldbuilding Questions are still online, and not only are they, theyāre on the exact same page I saw them on in 1998. Somewhere thereās a binder of the Word doc I made of all of them and the answers I filled in for Babyās First Fantasy World
I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".
fun fictional fruit that can heal or hurt you
Hey is the build a bear employee supposed to force us to jump up and down or are we getting hazed
as a build-a-bear employee it is my honor to happily inform you that we get to make everyone do whatever the fuck we want during a heart ceremony. jump to get that heart beating. rub that heart to your knees so your furry friend always needs you. rub it to your toes so itās totally awesome! shake it up so itās got enough energy to hang out with you all day! close your eyes, make a wish, and give it a kiss you helpless motherfucker
Look, reanimation is a Process, okay
āReanimation is a processā is a sentence that just makes me want to play a Necromancer as a very deadpan Build-A-Bear employee.
Hey is the build a bear employee supposed to force us to jump up and down or are we getting hazed
as a build-a-bear employee it is my honor to happily inform you that we get to make everyone do whatever the fuck we want during a heart ceremony. jump to get that heart beating. rub that heart to your knees so your furry friend always needs you. rub it to your toes so itās totally awesome! shake it up so itās got enough energy to hang out with you all day! close your eyes, make a wish, and give it a kiss you helpless motherfucker
Look, reanimation is a Process, okay
āReanimation is a processā is a sentence that just makes me want to play a Necromancer as a very deadpan Build-A-Bear employee.
i have a devious idea
an impossible fix
All the corgis!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL OF THEM! Iād also make the corgis immune to all forms of damage. Just to keep the murderhobos from fireballing the area.
Over powered boss that throws healing potions at the party when they're near death to prolong the fighting
Rapunzel type tower situation but the tower is a giant mimic and hunts in the way a pitcher plant does. Yes, fair knight. Climb up this conveniently long hair, follow the sweet smell, pull yourself up and over the window sill and fall in to the far below.
doing some light research
curiosity is definitely going to kill this cat
@randomitemdrop what has it made
Item: roll d2
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explosion
I have seen a new Hazard Sign. Itāsā¦ very specific:
[enhance!]
a warning against a bird party?
Worm time!
Box of bird summoning
@randomitemdrop
Item: Box of Bird Summoning
Some people have asked me if I can publish my mapmaking tools. So I developed a software. š
Here is the result:
Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive pa
Concept idea:
"black market" or "bad guy market" the players have to pretend to be bad guys while shopping through the evil district of bad wares.
Products being sold:
Mimics, spikes + traps, etc
Random mansion generator
The Procgen Mansion Generator produces large three-dee dwellings to toy with your imagination, offering various architectural styles and other options. Each mansion even comes with floorplans:
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html
Oooooh! Saving this
Thatās fun
Hey, but donāt fall asleep on this Medieval Fantasy City GeneratorĀ Ā
Thereās also a very helpful Village Generator.
