MoonshineDM

A D&D nerd who likes to share all the things she makes with people.

[moonshinedm]

I hear there’s some kind of celebration for trolls today! I’ve had this “Trollkin” race in my pocket for a while and got around to finishing it. Pure dnd fans, homestuck fans, and more will enjoy!

[blacksalander]

Cowboy/Western Mage

[orcishbard]

on the topic of rewriting racist d&d narratives

it takes work, yes!

it’s worth it. for both you and your players, but especially for new players who can see the game in different ways than you

examples I’ve written that you should feel free to use:

-orcs: rather than give in to the weird “tribal savages who fight all the time,” consider connecting orcs and their inate strength/constitution to the earth. in my most recent campaign setting, orcs are descended from a human champion who bested an earth primordial; the primordial, impressed with their strength, blessed them and their descendents with powerful tusks and a greater constitution.

-drow: instead of the entire drow narrative being “they’re dark skinned and bad because they betrayed the fair skinned elves and their gods,” consider playing up their connection to spiders. perhaps they worshiped a spider God who gave them the ability to blend into their darkened surroundings. if you’re married to their current aesthetic appearance, take care to present multiple drow societies that have different outlooks; not a homogenous race of black skinned slavers. consider pigmentless drow, who’ve lost all skin color because they never see the light of day. drow who use echolocation? distancing your drow from the bad connotations carried by the current zeitgeist is a useful endeavor

-include. colored. elves. in. your. game

-drop the ‘tribal’ aesthetic and the connotations that goblins and other monstrous races have. it’s lazy

-focus less on race and more on societies; a society can be evil or good, but a race cannot

-consider that fantasy races have no reason to conform to any gendered structures (especially our current human binary). dwarvish societies who express their varied and fluid genders through beard braiding. elvish societies who reproduce asexually. don’t limit yourself to what you can relate to from a 21st century human perspective

it takes a bit of elbow grease to decolonize your d&d, and the process is never done, but in my own experience, it’s only ever lead to more innovative and engaging experiences!

[moonshinedm]

I love the earth-orcs thing and that’s *way* better than some of the attempts at re-done orcs I’ve seen before. Kudos!

[dingdongyouarewrong]

one misunderstanding that bugs me about alignment charts is how people think chaotic good is somehow less good than lawful/neutral good, or how lawful evil is less evil and chaotic evil is more evil or w/e

[dingdongyouarewrong]

if anyone tells you lawful evil is Evil Lite or something just show them this picture

[hp-does-dnd]

REBLOG THIS IF you love your DnD character, are making a DnD character OR you have eaten approximately 12 D20s

[questions-within-questions]

Bugs Bunny isn’t your conventional trickster god - he doesn’t steal or lie; rather he inflicts on us a societal hubris. He traps us in the rules, conventions and expectations we’ve made. Forcing us to go through the niceties of the barbershop or DMV at the times most inconvenient to us. If we didn’t have these rules - if it was twelve thousand years ago and all we had was a snare and a knife, Bugs would be nothing more than a mortal rabbit. But now we have built so much and he has become a god.  

[wackd-archive]

bugs bunny would absolutely find SOMETHING about caveman society to exploit

[marauders4evr]

Yeah there was a cartoon from 1959 about this exact topic. Bugs taught Elmer how to make a gun just so that Elmer could shoot himself:

Awfully bold of OP to assume Bugs Bunny was ever mortal.

[zanmor]

use bugs bunny as the trickster god in your dnd setting

[moonshinedm]

Older edition stats for Bugs Bunny. Definitely need an update but still worth a look.

[the-homebrewists]

The last set of spells was well received so i stayed up all night making another one. Nix and i also almost killed each other trying to decide on the damage type for the railguns, but oh well, enjoy. ^u^

~Mod Luci

[moonshinedm]

Dungeons and Dragons Blogging

I decided to make a tumblr for my Dungeons and Dragons posting because there is... a HUGE dnd fandom on here and I need to become a more active part of it.

I will be posting homebrews of every kind of my own design, and also reblogging homebrews that other people make.

I need to follow a bunch of D&D Blogs! If you want me to follow you so I can see your content, reblog this and say so in the tags or send me an ask!

I am also @Moonshinedm on twitter if you want to see some of my stuff before I finish posting it all here!

[moonshinedm]

If you’re the type of person who likes using your enemy’s magic against them, then the School of Mimicry might be for you! This Wizard subclass works great in mage-to-mage combat!

[moonshinedm]

Want a more beastly Patron for your Warlock? Try an Animal Lord! Use their power to curse your enemies, summon an animal to ride, and turn into one yourself!