Nifty DnD blurbs

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[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[craicisirish]

reminds me of how artists flip the canvas to make sure their art looks good

Just flip the genders real quick and check if you accidentally made a cult

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[an0rpm]

i am my father's son

[alltears]

cooking up something powerful.

[dramaqueer-commie]

LET OP COOK

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

[disinheritoad]

The full set!!!

then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.

[fanonical]

i am looking at you, new ttrpg players. i am looking you in the eyes. you do not need to be like the professional players. it's okay if you can't do voices or stutter or need to pause to think about what you're going to say or how your character would act. we are doing this for fun. gaming should never stop being fun

[oathofwhimsy]

druids attuning to the landscape they're in and their spells changing accordingly is the coolest fucking druid shit i've ever heard

[charlesoberonn]

Servant: Your highness, a party of adventurers has answered your call for help.

King: Excellent. What are they like?

Servant: One of them is a dragon-lady.

King: Interesting. Those are rare around these parts.

Servant: Another is a goblin paladin.

King: Not a role you usually see goblins in.

Servant: A third is a purple-skinned tiefling.

King: I didn't even know they come in that color.

Servant: The last one is a sapient gelatinous cube.

King: What. How did these four even meet?

Servant: They met in a tavern two hours ago, apparently.

[charlesoberonn]

Queen: My love, please return to bed.

King: *pacing* Why would a gelatinous cube come to a tavern? Can it even get drunk? How did it fit through the doors?

[prokopetz]

BRB, writing an essay arguing that, since the number of people doing character build theorycrafting is anecdotally much greater than the number of people engaged in active group-based play at any given time, Dungeons & Dragons in its modern form should properly be classified as a solo journalling game.

[prokopetz]

Writing a followup essay arguing that the set of activities which have become institutionalised in D&D's contemporary culture of play as "GM prep" actually constitute a distinct solo game which is only peripherally related to the group-based game it's ostensibly preparing for.

[prokopetz]

Going on a tangent about how the deficiencies of 5E's GM tools can only fully be understood by recognising that, while previous iterations of the game at least dimly understand GM prep as a form of play, 5E as a text conceives of the GM not as a fellow-player, but as an unpaid employee whose job is to maximise the number of people playing D&D.

[prokopetz]

@nightmare-chaser replied:

Unironically made me reconsider how i was writing the gm side of things for my ttrpg

Yeah, "the GM is a fellow player, so if your game expects the GM to do prep, that prep must be understood as a form of play" isn't, like, rocket science – a great many RPGs manage to figure it out it intuitively – but laying it out explicitly like that can be a good reality check.

[oh-mother-of-darkness]

G… gender roles? [I open my hand, confused, and reveal a fistful of dnd dice] Which one do I…?

[oh-mother-of-darkness]

You get it

[tatters-the-bat]

Are they like..... Yknow.... [Goes to do a hand gesture but forgets I'm a wizard and I accidentally cast Lv50 lightning bolt]

[wizard-loving-wizard]

gertrude and troyann facetime brennan x

[charlesoberonn]

Servant: Your highness, a party of adventurers has answered your call for help.

King: Excellent. What are they like?

Servant: One of them is a dragon-lady.

King: Interesting. Those are rare around these parts.

Servant: Another is a goblin paladin.

King: Not a role you usually see goblins in.

Servant: A third is a purple-skinned tiefling.

King: I didn't even know they come in that color.

Servant: The last one is a sapient gelatinous cube.

King: What. How did these four even meet?

Servant: They met in a tavern two hours ago, apparently.

[charlesoberonn]

Queen: My love, please return to bed.

King: *pacing* Why would a gelatinous cube come to a tavern? Can it even get drunk? How did it fit through the doors?

[charlesoberonn]

All-cubes party

[charlesoberonn]

Which character would you play?

Dragon-lady

Goblin paladin

Purple-skinned tiefling

Sapient gelatinous cube

Voting ended onJan 22

[jupiterhead]

[nifty-dnd]

Listening to the football game my father-in-law has on while I eat my lunch.

Announcer: "-aaaaand the Ball is at the 30 yard line-'

my brain: *Riz Gukgak is sprinting across this human-filled real life football field*

[ewwww-what]

I think it’s so funny that in the mythical world of Fantasy High there are still STD’s that can be transferred to people through blood. This is a thing you never thought you had to worry about before, and now you have to get tested once a month in order to use healing magic at work because one time you gave your in-law the Shadow Cat’s curse during a blood transfusion ritual and it almost ended the world.