Tell me about your character, monsters, villains or NPC’s?
Mind reblogging or messaging me with a blurb? I need some notable adventurers and villains to pepper into some bard tales I forgot to prep. Name, Race, Class, Notable deed, battle or accomplishment and whether they came to a good or bad end? Please?
Thanks anyone who helps. Any will do and if you don’t want me to post it I won’t :D
@incognito-insomniac either is fine but I know some people are shy about posting things publicly. My asks are turned on but I’m not sure if they are difficult to find so here is a link
One I include in all campaigns because I can and every dm has that oc right? is my tiefling bard named Apollo Giomorae. During his adventures in the underdark, one of his companions died at the hands of a wight. The underdark in their world is one abandoned by all gods except Lloth- who the party convinced Apollo not to make a pact with. Instead the party’s cleric- who was away from the party- had her god send Apollo to other universes in order to collect the parts of the departed companion’s soul that moved on. Apollo woke up in the body of someone else in each universe that was close to the person Adebowale’s soul empowered, and sought that person out to ‘wake her up’ by reminding her of who she was- a troublesome, passionate, fast as hell rogue who was raised by her father and a terrible gang in a fishing port, and that she died protecting him.
Adebowale DID eventually get enough pieces of herself woken up in order to be resurrected in their world.
people bitching about the usage of "too modern" words in fantasy or historical fiction is sometimes justified, but ultimately I think it's a waste of time because
all words exist within a specific time frame and it's pointless to avoid the fact that you're writing with the language of your own time
which words are actually "newer" than other words is sometimes wildly unintuitive
according to the dates given in the Oxford English Dictionary, if you wrote a book set in 1897, you could have your characters say "fuckable," (1889) "sexy" (1896) "uncomfy" (1868) "hellacious" (1847) "dude" (1877) "all righty" (1877) and "heck" (1887), but not "wiggly" (1932) "moronic" (1910) "uptight" (1934) "lowbrow" (1901) "fifty-fifty" (1913) "burp" (1932) "bagel" (1898) or use the word "rewrite" as a noun (1901)
Some more words where the date of their first known usage just Doesn't Sound Right:
hangry, as in the portmanteau of 'hungry' and 'angry' (1912)
dildo (1590)
yucky (1970)
grungy (1965)
freebie (1925)
shitty (1768)
boost (1815)
boss (1856)
TGIF, as in Thank God It's Friday (1941)
yay (1963)
Fucked up (1863) is much older than fuck you (1943) but older still is the now-obscure fucked out (1862) which means what it sounds like—exhausted from too much sex.
Do you have a party of players who want to befriend every critter and monster they come across?
Do you have a party of players who want to befriend every critter and monster they come across? Then this collection is for you!
This 5E supplement includes:
Rules to allow player characters of all classes to adopt nearly 50 different pets from weasels to warhorses, and from frogs to giant crabs.
5 new tameable pets from the Elemental Planes–the bubble puppy, dust bunny, lightning sparrow, mud cat, and root.
Yes, we said bubble puppy.
New mechanics to help manage pets, including morale and maintenance.
Motivated encounters to spice up random encounters with creatures
A mini-adventure featuring the eccentric Lady Philomina—who keeps rust monsters as pets!
Here’s a look at the contents of this 30-page softcover book.
Gamemaster Characters: Recruiting Followers & Pets. After finding an orphaned baby displacer beast, enlightening the misguided apprentice to a mad wizard, or helping a lonely dire lion heal an injury making it aggressive there are many adventuring groups that won’t want to abandon a wayward NPC or monster—instead they’ll plead to include it in the party. Let them and use this section to guide the process, utilizing the mechanics for Morale, Goals, and Recruitment to determine how long a GMC (gamemaster character, one shared between the GM and the PCs) sticks around, how loyal they are, and when it’s time for them to go. Designed by Tyler Omichinski, illustrated by Rafael Benjamin.
Player Pets: Rearing Wild Animals and Training Domesticated Animals. Rules for adopting, purchasing, and training pets, from dogs to wolves to giant fire beatles and constrictor snakes. How to gain their loyalty and teach them tricks or tasks, while ensuring that the Ranger’s animal companion or spellcaster’s familiar remains the more potent option. By Jensen Toperzer.
Monstrous Menagerie: Elemental Pets. While elementals are fun creatures to include in a combat due to their primal powers, 5th Edition is sorely lacking in variety for them among the lower challenge ratings. This section introduces some new monsters to fill that gap: lightning sparrows, dust bunnies, bubble puppies, mud cats, and roots! These are somewhat whimsically-named creatures with cantrip level attacks, glass jaws, and unique death effects similar to mephits, allowing for them all to more flexibly fit into multi-creature encounters at even the lowest of levels. This supplement includes statistics for all 5 creatures, as well as a brief description of their habitats and behaviors. Written by Jacob Gobhar; illustrated by Herman Lau.
Motivated Encounters. Add spice and variety to your random encounters! This article helps you to randomly determine the aims and actions of encountered creatures with a table which covers 40 encounter motivations including merrymaking, suffering, wounded, escaped, and many more. Running into orcs is one thing; running into orcs busy constructing a shrine is another! By Connors; illustrated by Cat Lu.
Mini-Adventure: The Lady of Rust. There’s always that weird noble, right? The one that insists on wearing some obscure scent, or only eats pastries, or refuses to travel without their own carriage, or keeps rust monsters as pets. Eccentric people like Lady Philomina—who keeps rust monsters as pets. This peculiar woman’s strange quirk has more motive than simply being unique and rich however, and the adventurers will gradually uncover it as they investigate the situation with local silver mines that has sent the local economy off-kilter. Designed by the lupine Will Gawned, illustrated by Guilherme Sommermeyer, with cartography by Dyson Logos.
Let’s take a quick peek inside!
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