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@numbdnd
I love dungeons and dragons!
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Put this together for my local gamestore and wanted to share the wealth
Planning a DnD campaign for several months is so fucking funny bc you find gems like this in your notes app
Girl who the FUCK is Lengus Prengelson
Finished! I think.
A book, scribble and dice based D&D session.
I’ll be exploring the possibility of getting some notebooks printed with this as a wraparound cover, but in the meantime it’s just a fun drawing!
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People don't talk about the best part about being a dm.
It's not the cool monsters or vibrant worlds.
It's not the poignant storytelling and heart wrenching character dynamics.
It's hiding stuff from your players and being able to send a vague and threatening text to a group chat and watching them all freak out
op didn’t add a link so here’s a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can
I would absolutely download a dragon, and I’ve already shared this with my D&D group. We’re gonna have some adventures! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
100 Warm Up DnD Character Questions
If your character wasn’t an adventurer, what livelihood would they lead?
Who in the party would your character trust the most with their life?
What are your character’s core moral beliefs?
What relationship does your character have with their parents and siblings?
Does your character have any biases for or against certain races?
What is your character’s opinion on nobility? On authority?
Describe your character’s current appearance: clothes, armor, scars they’ve picked up along the journey, etc.
What location encountered in the campaign has your character felt the most “at home” in, or just generally liked the most?
What deity, if any, does your character worship? What’s their opinion on other people’s worship?
If your character had time to pick up any artisan’s tools, game set, instrument, etc., what would it be?
Describe your character’s current relationship with the player character sitting to your right.
What is your character’s current goal, summed up in one sentence?
Does your character ever want to “settle down” with a spouse, children, house, etc.?
Has your character ever been in love?
What battle in the campaign has been most memorable to your character?
If your character wasn’t whatever class they are, what would they be instead?
What is your character’s favorite season?
What would your character’s Zodiac sign be, following stereotypical astrology?
Where in the world does your character most want to visit?
What is the biggest mistake your character has ever made?
Does your character have any noticeable scars? If so, what are their stories?
What animal best represents your character?
If your character could go back in time and change one thing about their life, what would it be?
Which other player character does your character find themselves having the most in common with?
Does your character regret any particular choice the party has made?
What would your character say their best trait would be?
What is your character’s greatest fear? Deep, irrational?
What is currently motivating your character to stay with the party?
What are your character’s hobbies and interests outside of their class?
What would most people think when they first see your character?
What stereotypical group role does your character play in the party? (The Mom, the Mess, the Comic Relief, etc. Optionally: What role would your character play in the “Five Man Band” structure?)
What is your character the most insecure about?
What person does your character admire most?
What does your character admire and dislike the most about the player character sitting to your left?
Why is your character’s lowest stat their lowest (the in-character reason, not “because there’s no reason for a wizard to have 16 strength, duh”)?
What would be your character’s theme song/favorite band/favorite genre of music?
What stereotypical role would your character play in a high school AU/if they attended a normal high school? (Nerd, jock, bully, goth, etc.)
What treasure/item/artifact that your character has collected during the adventure is the most important to them?
Is there any particular weapon, item, etc. that your character longs to find?
Where does your character feel the most at home?
Does your character care about how they’re perceived by others? How do they change themselves to fit in with other people?
What does your character think is the true meaning of life?
What is your character’s scent? (Bonus points for a description that sounds like it could be from a bad [or awesome] fanfic.)
Does your character think more with their heart or their brain?
What is your character’s most recent or frequent nightmare?
What opinion does your character have on [CERTAIN ESTABLISHED GROUPS/AUTHORITIES IN THE GAME WORLD]? (Dragonmarked Houses, royal crown, etc.)
How did your character spend their childhood? Where did they grow up/who were their childhood friends?
What aspect of your character’s future are they most curious about? (If they could know one thing about the future, what would it be?)
What colors are associated with your character?
Who in the party would your character prioritize rescuing, in dire circumstances?
Is your character the most swayed by ethos, pathos, or logos?
If your character was granted a single use of Wish, what would they use it for?
What is your character’s favorite spell? If they don’t use spells: what is their favorite personal weapon/combat maneuver/skill/etc.?
How does your character feel about keeping secrets from the rest of the party?
What type of creature in the world is your character the most intrigued by?
When they were a child, what did your character want to be, or think they were going to be, when they grew up?
The player character to your left admits that they’re passionately in love with your character. How would your character respond?
If somebody (an NPC, someone from their backstory, etc.) your character trusts/loves asked your character to do something against the party’s best interest, who would they side with?
Does your character value their own best interest more than the party’s?
What decision would the party have to make in order for your character to consider splitting off from the group?
How does your character imagine the way they will die?
What is your character’s greatest achievement?
Is your character willing to risk the well-being of others in order to achieve their goal?
What is your character’s opinion on killing others?
What is your character’s favorite food? Beverage?
How generous is your character? Especially to those they don’t know?
What is your character the most envious about, regarding anyone in the party?
The player character to your left and the player character to your right are both telling your character two different versions of the truth. Who does your character believe?
What is your character’s sexuality/relationship with sex?
What is your character’s biggest pet peeve?
Describe how your character feels about the party’s current situation/objective/etc.
Who in the party would your character trust the most to keep an important secret?
If your character knew that they were going to die in a month, how would they spend the rest of their life?
What makes your character feel safe?
If your character had the chance to rename the party/give the party a name, no questions asked, what would it be?
What memory does your character want to forget the most?
If your character had to multiclass into a class they currently aren’t the next time they level up, what would it be and what reason would they have for doing so?
What television/book/video game/etc. character would your character be best friends with? (Or: what media character is your character the most influenced by/similar to?
What unusual talents does your character possess?
How does your character feel about receiving/giving orders? Are they more of a leader, or a follower?
What does your character’s name represent to them? (Or: why as a player did you choose your character’s name?)
Is your character more of an introvert, or an extrovert?
How far is your character willing to go to pursue the “greater good”? Do they believe in a greater good at all?
What does your character want to be remembered by?
What would be your character’s major in college?
Does your character consider themselves a hero, villain, or something else?
What major arcana tarot card best represents your character?
Where does your character see themselves in 20 years?
What is your character’s relationship with magic? Are they scared of it, wish to know more about it, indifferent to it?
Who is your character’s biggest rival?
What is your character’s guiltiest pleasure?
What does your character hope for the afterlife?
Who in the party does your character trust the least?
What is your character’s biggest flaw?
How did your character learn the languages that they speak?
What is your character’s favorite school of magic/type of weaponry?
What is most important to your character: health, wealth, or happiness?
What advice would your character give to a younger version of themselves?
Are there any social or political issues your character feels strongly about?
What, currently, is your character the most curious about?
taken from here courtesy of @greyjediluke
@softbutchtaako you ask and I deliver…. the most recent one I reblogged because I’m lazy and didn’t go hunting for another one XD
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Please do! It’s too hot to go to sleep, Mr Accretionist is out with friends and he wants to watch the rest of Good Omens with me and I’ve mostly caught up on my Tumblr for the day, so like… as many as you want I’ll do XD
I should really start posting more on here lol. I spent like 3 hours prepping last night, I have a 5 hour session later today!!! (Usually mine are 3-4 hours but we’re doing combat so it’ll run a little longer)
'Devils Horn' sunrise during a partial eclipse seen in Al Wakrah, Qatar. (2019) photos: Elias Chasiotis
i'll draw a woman and say is anyone gonna bark at her. and not wait for an answer
anyway Rhodie I love you (another dnd npc. she's very boring but aaaaa)
Another DnD NPC, meet Silk Upon Spider String! She's a kenku who's a bit awkward and overwhelmed <3
Imazael Racket, my harengon bard npc for my Feywild campaign. He's an asshole and immediately after being introduced, one of my players pretended to be him to steal from another player.
Putting all tabletop players into a college level ethics class and forcing them to turn in a paper on moral philosophy before buying a new book
This is…. An interesting thing to say… on this post in particular….
I think a lot of people reblogging this from @probablybadrpgideas are interpreting this as “this would be such a funny wacky way to make the table soooo complicated” but I mean this as a complaint about the way that so many tabletop players seem to just. completely lack an understanding of ethics. what it actually means to behave ethically and treat others ethically. and i dont mean this as "why do people want to be mean and play as villains? :(" i mean "why are there so many tabletop players that sympathize with outright fascist factions to the point of wondering why theyre listed as 'Lawful Evil' in the book"
can you talk me through why this was a particularly bad or challenging thing for your party to have done
Goblins were in fact, for me, a turning point on this concept. I had a player who wanted to be a goblin, and I forgot about this fact up to the point that the party got a quest to kill goblins. As soon as I was announcing the quest I realized it would be a problem, though I didn't have anything else ready so I went with it. And it was! The players immediately questioned why the mayor was paying mercenaries to kill goblins, and then further questioned his justifications, at which point I realized it would be a better story if the goblins were a scapegoat and not an actual villain. This turned into a terse interrogation where the mayor threatened to put them in jail once their questions got pointed enough that he would have to either field accusations or lie; they then went CSI on the situation and drilled through his political cabinet to get answers. I had to improv pretty much all of it and I don't remember the actual ending (I know they sided with the goblins and the mayor was guilty), but this helped me realize that the Gary Gygax writing style of "certain races are just BAD and that's why they hang out in dungeons" was very short-sighted.
D&D writing, by and large, encourages a lack of questions. The surface runs deep. "Go into a cave and chop up goblins." Why are we doing this? "Goblins are bad." All goblins? "Yes."
I think the question of "why are there players comfortable siding with fascist factions and wondering why they're called 'lawful evil'" is pretty easily answered with... because D&D itself is inherently kind of fascist. And it's the most insidious kind of fascist, too- its villains are fascists, so how could you point fingers at the book?
Fire Giants are dwarf slavers. Drow are a megalomaniacal theocracy who hate men. Orcs are violent tribes of marauding killers. Illithids want to destroy all life and keep an entire civilization to scrub their floors. But these narratives still push the idea that "evil" is a racial trait. The players are not only justified in their campaign to destroy these cultures, they're encouraged to do it.
They let the cat out of the bag by making these playable races; because now, they're not cut-and-dry villanous societies. They're people. There are Drow accountants whose lives are about balancing taxes, not worshipping Lolth. There are Yuan-Ti who don't sacrifice babies on altars, and much prefer playing the lute or sewing blankets. Yet we're still expected to read "Chaotic Evil" under the Monster Manual entry for a bugbear and take it seriously.
Reblogging again to add a quick take: as a DM introducing ethics makes your game so much better.
I had an intro to my campaign that involved a mad scientist kidnapping someone and turning them into a wererat. I didn't think much of it and I spent way more time fleshing out the other NPCs, I just wanted to use that wererat as a boss fight.
Once the party encountered him though they immediately saw what I totally missed: the guy who became the wererat was absolutely the victim of this story. I did my best at thinking on my feet and made the wererat this defeated guy who only followed the mad scientist because he felt like his life was ruined. So they, through good rolls, convinced him to help them fight the mad scientist and it made for such a better story.
The moral I'm trying to convey is that you need to treat every NPC in your game as a world within themselves. And I mean EVERY NPC. Why are the wolves attacking people? Are they desperately hungry? Mind controlled? Territorial due to poachers? Why are the goblins working for the wizard? Extortion? Promise of riches? If the bandits see that everyone is in armor, why wouldn't they just let the party pass and wait for easier prey? If one of the bandits die, why wouldn't the rest of them run for the hills?
here’s a couple of articles on the history of racism + xenophobia in tolkien & how that influenced dnd
This is the first installment of a two-article series about the racist origins, nature, and ramifications of orcs, a malevolent humanoid spe
This is the complement to my previous article , “Orcs, Britons, and the Martial Race Myth, Part I: A Species Built for Racial Terror.” In t
anyone interested in the subject should definitely also check out the whole Three Black Halflings podcast, which talks about being black in nerdy spaces. a lot of times they’ll have on guests talking about their intersections and experiences in nerdy spaces. they have an episode with the author of the articles above.
they’ve also played a ttrpg based on african mythologies rather than mostly european ones like most mainstream fantasy.
highly recommend!!
DND character who accidentally becomes a paladin at their wedding bc they meant their wedding vows a little too hard and invents the Oath of Love subclass. Is this anything
People reblogging this with "this is just oath of devotion" no. Wrong. Oath of Devotion is an inherently lawful good oath devoted to the ideals of classical chivalry. It is an oath to serve all of the weak and defenseless in need of protection.
This is an idea I came up with after reading abt Oath of the Crown and realizing paladins don't have to be dedicated to ideals and ideals alone. That you can swear fealty to a mortal individual and still receive paladin powers from the strength of your conviction alone. This is about loving someone so much that the universe is forced to bend to the sheer force of your love, the fierceness of your vows as you speak them at a ceremony that you did not expect to gain anything from except the lawful right to remain at your beloved's side.
Some genuine "true love" bs that blurs the line between a paladin oath and a warlock pact. No alignment required you can be as evil or deceitful as you want to everyone else so long as all of your actions are out of pure, faithful, and honest love to your one person and that person only. Wifeguy hours taken to the farthest possible extreme of the new 5e paladin lore rules to result in accidental powers.
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