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There really is no rhyme or reason to what I post. I'm a little all over the place. I'm a lady, somewhere in her twenties, and living somewhere in the United States. I might post about podcasts, nerdy things, books, fitness or what ever else catches my fancy. And always open to making new friends!!

[muffyblogs]

Do you ever cycle through the same 4 apps on your phone over and over again and feel like a tiger pacing its cage at the zoo

[teratomarty]

If you’re doing this, it is because you, like the tiger, need enrichment and variety in your life. May I suggest cramming just a whole bunch of raw hamburger into a pumpkin and rolling it around your enclosure?

[keymintt]

with wings of lace

[daliasdarlin]

Average height, medium rage.

[hopefullygoodrpgideas]

Some monsters don’t have to be conventionally fightable.

There can be win conditions like Don’t Die, Turn it Off or Avoid It. It might have a way to be killed but stabbing it until it works isn’t one of them. So here’s some examples, going from typical to more abstract.

1: Things like hydras, trolls or some such, which can be killed with one specific source of damage. A good thing to try is a troll type deal which the players and probably characters can go “that’s a troll, fire and acid it is” and then have neither fire or acid be the answer. So now you gotta work that out but once you do, as long as you can survive long enough to kill it, you can kill it pretty easily.

2: There’s a thing that disables the thing. It is nowhere near the monster. Classic non-D&D liches, which are utterly unkillable unless you destroy their fingerbone, do this well. A robotic creature that can’t be taken down with weapons accessible to the PCs, where killing the remote operator fixes the problem right up, but nothing else short of an antitank missile will.

3: Things which don’t exist enough to be killable. The Color Out Of Space is a great example of this, a non-corporeal and non-visible entity which blights the land, robbing plants and animals of vitality, colour and nutritional value until they disintegrate and the land is left as nothing but grey dust. Find a way to get it to fuck off, that’s gonna probably work, but actually punching it? No way.

[pwbi]

Some other ideas for combat encounters with unique objectives:

Capture a Target

Deep within the Sylvan woods is a legendary Unicorn. The party have been tasked with capturing it and bringing it back- alive.

While the PCs can do nonlethal and still have straight forward combat as an option, there is a lot more room for setting traps, grappling, etc. 

Defend an Area

The outlook of the war is grim, and the PCs have been tasked with defending a supply base until reinforcements can arrive, bolstering the forts defenses against the onslaught of the Lich King

This can be a great way to fill a session with waves of combat and show off some shiny monsters you have been wanting to try. If you want some fully non-combat challenges, give the PCs a set amount of time to prepare and see what they come up with

Raid

When the sun faded and shadows took hold the Ranger eyed the convoy of wagons through a spyglass. Seeing a light guard they smiled and made a signal in the air with their hand. Simultaneously the dark shapes of several humanoids crept towards the caravan, each figure holding flasks of oil to light the wagons ablaze

In a living world, despite the PCs level of power relative to a commoner, the bulk of work in a wide-scale conflict is going to be done by NPCs. But there are a lot of things in war- factories, farms, machinery, trade routes, etc. that PCs can potentially destroy, and those have a lot larger impact in a living world than killing a few dozen monsters, soldiers, bandits, etc. would have.

[ooevilynoo]

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Like frozen flame 🔥🔥🔥

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[bunnyfood]

PEEKABOO!

[mybigfatgaylife]

This added three years to my life.

[angelsxinxhell]

@themaskedventriloquist @lookitsbee

[juzailajumari]

#polefitness #poledance #splitschallenge

[dare-to-dm]

When a player rolls low on their Perception check and you tell them “It seems safe”

When a player rolls high on their check but they’re still suspicious

[thepersonalquotes]

[catboybruno-moved-deactivated20]

i’ve been on this site for 7 years i know damn well it’s not gonna get deleted. i’m not even a little nervous. not even god could kill this site

[yourplayersaidwhat]

"Well, I guess you could say that roll was garbage."

My reaction to rolling for perception, and the D20 ending up in the bin.

[cheese24k]

[markdoesstuff-deactivated202210]

worth every second

[sephiramy]

Oh… my… God… I’m not even putting this onto the personal blog… I need this on my main. Right now.

[windcave]

i was expecting this video to be 4 seconds like, i can barely even hold my own attention for that long let alone two kittens

[succubarbie-deactivated20190205]

no offense but money would solve literally every single one of my problems. like all of them. i dont have a single problem that money wouldnt immediately solve

[susannavesna]

Yay for street poling!

[misterslunchy]

I’m here for women who do what they want

[cloudybakery]

Am I funny yet