bigfoot is a druid y'all

i like cryptids and dnd. please send asks, suggestions, and anything else mod uses they pronouns and is in a relationship with @dragoonsflight

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not really cryptids but i have a concept

party of druids who do the usual quest taking but instead of slaying the monsters their goal is to capture and relocate them to more suitable habitats out of the way of humanoids :)

- negotiating with more intelligent creatures and helping them move

- telling local villages how to dispose of things so as not to encourage wild and wilder life to get too close to the village

- educating people on what species may LOOK scary but are actually harmless

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dumb lil dnd campaign idea i had while i was walking my dog im sure someone else has already had it lol

ok so make it a house rule not to specify what class you are in or out of character because you feel like it breaks immersion and you want to try having players not know what their teammates are, players can drop hints if they want but it has to be in character and blend in as something someone would say i.e "i am a follower of pan" "i kill people for money, dummy" etc

before your players make their characters get each player alone in an unobtrusive way and tell them you want them to secretly pick a subversive class to their character (so like have a religious rogue who preaches about their god a lot, or a particularly rageful paladin) and to try and mislead the other players for a big reveal later in the game, as i said do this for all your players so they all think theyre the only one tricking the rest

play the game as normal

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this myth is seen as a prime example to those who want to understand the dwarven mentality; while dwarves have many gods with many domains, the two most important by most counts are the god husbands, Vergadain (the god of fair trade) and Moradin (the creation god mentioned in the myth, uses they/them and masculine descriptors) (im using canon names from dnd for ease and cause im not great at coming up with names)

Moradin spends most of their time in their workshop crafting magnificent tools, weapons, armour, and other such things and is said to have hand crafted the dwarven race. they tend to be portrayed as a great thinker who, like many dwarves, is in love with the process of creating with the end result being secondary, almost irrelevant to the journey. they captures the more "human" (excuse the choice of words) side of dwarves and is often shown to be quite sensitive, even being brought to tears when viewing art.

their husband, Vergadain is the god of a fair and honest trade and is said to preside over all trades a dwarf (or anyone else who follows him) make, ensuring that parties make the trade in good faith without attempting to rip each other off. he is more of a cautionary god, said to bring misfortune to those who try and make a bad trade to benefit themselves. he is often depicted as a smiling, good tempered man with open arms, ready to embrace outsiders who come in good faith and with good intentions, though his temper flares at those who seek to cheat honest traders. outside of dwarf culture he is often taken up as something of an anticapitalist and pro-union figure due to the fact that there are several myths where he smites bosses who underpay their employees (these myths are quite a bit newer by dwarven standards but still old as fuck, dating back to when dwarves and humans first started really mingling and dwarves first became familiar with the concept and conditions of capitalism about 400 years ago)

dwarves dont have a standard currency and tend to prefer trading in favours and physical items such as tools, food, etc.

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ok, ill start with an old dwarven myth

ill only do a very basic outline, this myth is roughly one part wishful thinking and one part cautionary tale that ultimately captures the dwarf perspective quite well

the myth goes that the dwarf god of creation after many eons of hard work managed to create the perfect machine.

it was so beautiful that anyone who even caught a glimpse of it would be so entranced by the details that they could spend centuries examining even the smallest corner, eternally finding new beauty and details within details within details, it was so useful that it served every possible need at once in an instant, it could complete any conceivable task before the task had even been thought of. it was completely and utterly perfect, without a single flaw.

when they were done, the god took some time to examine their creation, to view it in the context of being completed rather than in progress, as is the custom for any dwarf after finishing a project. it took many more eons for them to complete this, too, but finally they sat back in satisfaction that it was Perfect.

the god was satisfied for many years to simply watch their machine work, since there was nothing else that needed doing, there was no need to ever create anything new because there was no more need for anything else but the Perfect Machine.

eventually however, the god grew uncomfortable, their need to create remained but there was nothing to create. restless, the god decided to go to their workshop for a moment to reminisce about a time when there were still things to create.

when they entered their workshop they realised with some discomfort that it was dusty. they brushed the thought aside and walked over to their workbench and thoughtlessly picked up their favourite tool only to drop it in horror when they found it had become rusty.

it was then that the god realised that without the drive to create, without the possibility and the need, that life was pointless, that the desire to create could never be truly quenched. the god looked to all their other projects, and the projects of all living creatures from the ants to the dwarves to the fae to the lesser gods and wept at the beauty of each and every one, every crack where metal wasnt worked properly, every thumbprint and small smudge that marked the object as the result of a living being's hardwork, the breath of the creator

after a few minutes, when they had dried their tears, the god calmly took their perfect machine apart each piece and melted it down to return to his supply storage, destroying their notes on how to build their perfect machine until there was nothing left of it.

when the last blueprint was burned, all the worlds creatures awoke and began to create again. the god watched for a moment, then returned to their workshop, first to repair their tools and clean, and then to begin trying once more to create the perfect machine.

(NOTE: the story varies hugely depending on who tells it as it is an extremely old myth, but thats the basics of it. depending on the sect, the god either never managed to make the perfect machine again, or managed it many more times but would always destroy it whenever they did)

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ok, so. dwarves, theyre maybe my second or third or so favourite common race coming in above humans and elves but well below half orcs and idk im just not a huge fan of the whole greed thing that seems so prominent

so heres a rough draft of

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heyo! guess whos medicated and full of energy! it me beech! so im going to try and start posting again, cant promise much but i do want to post about my world building ideas for dnd and how i would change a few things, mainly about the races, so yeah hopefully you can look forward to that dwarves are on my mind so ill try and do up a lil post about that

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Obligatory introduction post

G’day! It’s a brand new RPG ideas blog from down under! 

I know, I’m late to this bandwagon and there’s already been so much drama and different ideas, what could I possibly add? Honestly, I have no clue, we’ll see where this goes!

Anyway, this post was just to get this thing started and to introduce myself! Guess I should say hi to the neighbours, in no particular order:

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Hoo dear that’s a lot of G’days… Sorry for the long post! Guess that’s got it goin then. 

[probablywriterrpgideas]

G'day my dear new friend, welcome. Hope you don’t mind this Brit picking it brain for research prose at some point

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

oh sweet, a fellow stra'ya'n

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

make a character that refers to every monster as "_ pupper!" (owlbear = big birbpupper beholder = eye pupper etc)

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cryptids of dnd

anything non dnd that made its way onto the map (a bag of crisps the size of a mountain, a lake of spilled soft drink, dice)

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cryptids of dnd

a regular ass car that got dumped through a wormhole

[joey-wheeler-official]

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

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like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

[joey-wheeler-official]

THE BOY

[vr-trakowski]

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

folks...

[nonbinaryspacegoo]

ningen as a playable race

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

cryptids of dnd

2. a dragon but it has human hands

[hxlf-savage]

human-sized human hands or dragon-sized human hands?

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

there are two kinds

[the-weaver-of-worlds]

What about hands that are themselves humans?

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

holy shit

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

cryptids of dnd

2. a dragon but it has human hands

[hxlf-savage]

human-sized human hands or dragon-sized human hands?

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

there are two kinds

[probablycryptidrpgideas]

cryptids of dnd

2. a dragon but it has human hands

[nonbinaryspacegoo]

if you’re trans (this also applies to nb people) reblog this with your desired aesthetic evolution

me and @clefairy-girl were talking about how we want to look transition-wise and how that’s changed, that combined with a post i saw describing how a trans guy went from wanting to be a pretty hairless twink to a hairy bbq dad-looking dude made me want to make this post

ive pretty much always wanted to look like a nerdy dude who Definitely larps and plays dnd, ive just refined that over the years, starting with wanting to still have tits, patchy facial hair and a ponytail, now leaning more into a punk phase look with a mowhawk, dyed hair, piercings and tattoos and WAY more pride shit.

@trans-mom @thattransfeelwhen

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@probablyqueerrpgideas @definitelytransrpgideas

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cryptids of dnd

1. dragons with just a human face. not shape shifting, no magic. that's just how they look