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Inspo blog for tabletop gaming

[basalt-dnd]

Do you know of any resources that generate a dungeon? Not as in the layout, but what would be in it? like monsters/traps/loot/ whatever else

Yep! Here are some resources that might help out. The back of the Dungeon Master’s Guide also had plenty of tools for dungeon building.

-Chaotic Shiny’s generators for monsters (only descriptions), poisons, and fantasy traps

-Donjon’s Random Dungeons (mostly for layout), Encounters (monsters based on location and party strength), Treasure (based on level/cr of monster slain)

-Auto Roll Tables for pretty much everything, including monsters and treasure

-Chartopia rolling tables (just search for what you need)

-Common magic item generator 

-Kassoon’s encounter builder and loot calculator 

-Money Splitter (divides treasure between party members equally, takes into account different types of coins)

-Riddles spreadsheet, if those are your thing

-Riddles. Oh, and more riddles. 

[prokopetz]

Concept: a D&D campaign that takes the game’s “most monsters are intelligent and capable of speech so that high-Charisma PCs can fast-talk them” conceit to its logical conclusion and turns every quest into a courtroom drama. Like, the local innkeeper wants those giant spiders chased out of her basement, but the spiders are claiming adverse possession on the basis that she hasn’t cleaned the place in literal decades, and now you’ve got to figure out how squatter’s rights apply to cave-dwelling arthropods.

[prokopetz]

Later, those same spiders and the animated skeletons from the town graveyard become embroiled in an acrimonious mineral rights dispute after an expansion to the local catacombs uncovers a vein of mythril. They’re very litigious spiders!

[bigfatsocialist]

My friend runs a Warhammer Fantasy Homebrew with a heavily modified system borrowing from a lot of stuff like Ars Magicka. One of my most powerful characters is a near incorruptible lawyer/sorcerer named Konrad Schreiner, who was granted titles as a Judge for saving one of the many sons of the current Emperor, is the current Procurator Secular for the Church of Sigmar’s Holy Inquisition, and was recently made a member of the Imperial Council (basically the Privy Council).

My magic is incredibly specialised and restricted, basically I can only cast magic for and with legal precedent and produce effects appropriate to what the law demands, like writing search warrants that magically open doors and locks, using mental influencing magic to command people to speak truthfully, write arrest warrants that become handcuffs, or use telekinesis seize weapons out of the hands of people committing assault.

Some of Herr Schreiner’s highlights include the following.

He managed to hep stop the robbery of a Dwarfen tomb by commanding the horses to stop upon recalling an obscure law meaning horses can technically be witnesses/participants in crimes. I got an honorary doctorate in Dwarfen law and a ceremonial mace for my efforts.

He once successfully defended himself from prosecution by a Daemon Prince after being sucked into a daemonic mirror world after being charged with the ‘crime’ of invoking the name of Verena, God of Law.

While investigating possible conspiracies against the Emperor, he placed a werewolf under house arrest after it tried to kill him thus preventing it from coming out of its cavern, and allowing my party to corner and slaughter it.

He acted as the legal representation for the avatar of a Snake god who was hunting down an explorer that stole one of its ancient sheddings, offering to serve writs on the explorer to recover said Snake god’s property. He did this after I passed a check to resist the snake’s magical influence.

In summary, I would love a game involving beasties and legal shenanigans and would represent the fuck out of those spiders and skeletons.

[kouha]

Prestidigitation was created so that you can piss someone else’s pants

[kouha]

[chongoblog]

And its a cantrip so you can just. Keep doing it

[sanctferum]

I pointed this out to my DM and he just fucking left the voice call without a word

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[oldearthaccretionist]

@dnd-apothecary

[sir-buh]

The gnome said nothing. Just gave me a glance…

Just gave me a very sad, sad backwards glace…

As he lifted himself by the seat of his pants.

And I’ll never forget the grim look on his face

When he heisted himself and took leave of this place,

Through a hole in the rules, without leaving a trace.

[roach-works]

concept: elves are supernaturally good at everything ONLY because they live to be bonkers old and if you were hot and sexy for thousands of years you’d be kickass at archery and treeclimbing and horseback riding too. but like there’s 20 year old elves out there that are just straight dumbasses who can’t do shit.

concept: non-elves can’t tell the 20 year old elves apart from the 2000 year old elves

concept: there’s a 20 year old elf in your tavern and he’s counting on this 

[1000ballbearings]

In dnd, resurrecting PCs becomes so easy at higher levels, and though I think that’s a positive, I really like the idea that dying has lasting consequences or triggers events in a PC. Here’s a simple table of interesting but hopefully not game breaking or character destroying ideas. Thoughts? Improvements?

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons adventure premise #137: a mysterious benefactor hires the party to undertake an extraordinarily dangerous mission; upon their return, the benefactor is revealed to be a ghost who used the party to complete their unfinished business, and passes on to the other side without paying the agreed-upon reward. In the following session, the party journeys to the afterlife to track down the deceased deadbeat and get their fucking money.

[allthatisfantasy]

Whether calling on the elemental forces of nature or emulating the creatures of the animal world, Druids are an embodiment of nature’s resilience, cunning, and fury. They claim no mastery over nature. Instead, they see themselves as extensions of nature’s indomitable will.

Artist: Jane Katsubo

[doctorslippery]

127551 views and 2809 votes on Imgur

So this is a cheat-sheet I’ve made for personal use to just have an overview over all the basic D&D rules. The first page covers most of the text rules. The color divides the sections more or less from one another.

The second page covers most of the important tables and stats, that you’ll probably need through the game. Hope you like it and find some use for this! Cheers.

[bardicknowledgeblogger]

SUPER handy! I might use this for the kiddos in my beginner d&d camp this summer!

[monstrous-ideas]

I should print those out for players

[willowwickertop]

Fuck my players I need this

[azazelschick-blog]

[dnd-inspiration]

A great stone ruins that repairs itself over time. The locals believe that something catastrophic might happen if it ever finishes itself, and work tirelessly to destroy and deface it. Prophetic carvings show horrifying monsters defending the ruins, and people are disappearing, but nobody has ever seen the monsters.

[xanth-the-wizard]

Map of Misdirection (Common)

One of my personal favorite magic items, these enchanted maps are often produced and sold by con artist magicians for cheap. Anyone who attempts to use these maps for navigation will end up inexplicably lost. And honestly, it’s kind of hilarious. Any back alley magic shop will have at least one of these trick maps in stock. -Xanth

[thewatchercleric]

DM: Do you push or pull on the door?

Barbarian: *rolls a 23 strength check* I guess… push?

DM: …It was a pull but it doesn’t really matter now.

[rpgtoons]

The six most popular items we made in 2017! ~ Posting a new one every Sunday. Item cards made in collaboration with @r-n-w​ More of our stuff here.

[otherwindow]

Concept: the secret boss of a video game is the merchant you’ve traded with this whole time, and their combat capabilities are based entirely on what you sold them. 

For example, did you sell them Necromancy skill books? Well shit they can summon a skeleton army.

[sorcereropinions]

I could never play a wizard because i'm way too attached to the concept of charisma-based spellcasters who are just stupid as all fuck. Last session my warlock tried to make an arcana check about his own magic, rolled a 0, and got a nosebleed. i kin him now.

[sorcereropinions]

If your spellcaster's stats dont look like this get the hell out of my sight

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

true but also have you considered- intelligence of 20, wisdom of 8 can harness the arcane energies flowing through the earth to create massive explosive power, but doesn't quite get in the moment why it's a bad idea to use this to speed up baking a potato

[prokopetz]

The Xanathar’s Guide material is a mixed bag, to say the least, but I’ve gotta say I absolutely love the background where basically you’re a former high-level adventurer who retired and pissed away all of your treasure on a years or decades long carousing binge, and now you’re so out of practice at dungeon-crawling that you’ve regressed to a first-level character. The background’s feature is that you keep running into fans of your past exploits who will give you free stuff in exchange for autographs. It’s fantastic.

EDIT: Okay, apparently I slightly misremembed the source – that particular background is actually in Xanathar’s Lost Notes, not Xanathar’s Guide, the former being a third-party supplement that received permission from WotC to use the name and character of Xanathar as an unofficial tie-in. Probably not worth checking out just for that, but if you were set on finding it, that’s where!