SloTurtle's Misc

second account of SloTurtle. this is just my random ass posts that I dont want to clog up my dbh blog.

[fangirlwithasweettooth]

Rules: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better. I was tagged by @moonstruckholland thanks, hon 💕

Favorite color (s): pink, silver, rose gold

Top 3 favorite ships: Kaz and Inej, Jesper and Wylan, Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky

Chapstick or Lipstick: both

Last Song: Knockin’ Boots by Luke Bryan

Last movie: A Dog’s Purpose

Currently reading: King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo and One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus (I’m always down for recommendations though!)

Tagging: @icantthink-ofagoodname @timeandspacelord @lushparker @anxieteandbiscuits @spideypeach @spilledkauffie @naturallytom @depressedcoffeebean @jaredkleinmeme (and everyone else that wants to join, tag me in it! 💕)

[timeandspacelord]

Favourite color (s): Very specific shades of red, black, very specific shades of purple (gotta have those blue tones), most shades of blue, probably anything that has glitter

Top 3 favourite ships: (This is super hard, and in no particular order) Kai and Cinder, Alex and Magnus, FitzSimmons (and my favourite non-canon, but would be super cute ship: Nina and Inej)

Chapstick or lipstick: Chapstick because I’m so susceptible to the dryness all the time (but esp. in winter sjksal)

Last song: Listened to- Notes? (From TPotO soundtrack) Sung- the song about Coraline by They Might Be Giants from Coraline

Last movie: Mary Poppins Returns (two weeks ago, I’ve been mostly watching TV shows since)

Currently reading: Technically, Emma by Jane Austen for AP Lit, but I haven’t read much whoops, and I do have two audiobooks from the Bloody Jack series checked out (I’m in the middle of the series), plus I really, really need to read KoS (it’s sitting in my room, waiting)

Tagging: @royalrampionengineer @mermistamagic @thebandageman @velociheroviridi @sort-of-kyle @awkwardfangirl6 (mutuals ❤) @supersciencegeek @milkshakethouart @lazydreamlandblaze (very active followers, I see you ❤)

And anyone else, if you wanna :)

[royalrampionengineer]

Thanks so much for tagging me, @timeandspacelord !!

Favorite color (s): orange and lavender (but not together)

Top 3 favorite ships: Cresswell (my loves), Olicity (shh I know I’m super late to the fandom, but I just started watching Arrow), and Adrinette (really, all of the love square)

Chapstick or Lipstick: chapstick

Last Song: Ocean’s Deep by Born Ruffians

Last movie: hmmm, it’s been a while, but I believe Dr. Strange

Currently reading: Unwind by Neal Shusterman. A reread, but still amazing. 

Tagging: @prokaryotic-cell @lesslinette @chatnoirsladyprincessbugaboo @colortheworld15 @instantwaffles @therogueofblood @lovelunarchron @khaleisey @awkwardedgygirl

[colortheworld15]

Hey!! thanks for tagging me!

Favorite color (s): burgundy, pale yellow, and dark purple (not together though)

Top 3 favorite ships: Fremione! um. 

Chapstick or Lipstick: chapstick 

Last Song: listening to the radio currently and Change by The Revivalists is playing.

Last movie: Yesterday I watched Solo and Pitch Perfect 1 & 2 with my siblings.

Currently reading: Sadly, I’m not actually reading anything right now :(

Tagging: @whitebear-ofthe-watertribe @probably-voldemort @amynchan @pandlita @trishycupcake @jewel5623 @marvel-lous-things @iputmineinhermione and whoever else wants to do it!

[amynchan]

lol hi!  Thanks for the tag!  *^_^*

Favorite color (s): I like black, purple, and green.  Black is classy and purple and green basically look good in almost any shade.  Blue is very close behind, tbh.

Top 3 favorite ships: Shakarian, Marichat, Soma?  Those are the 3 that came to mind first, at least.  X’D

Chapstick or Lipstick: Chapstick?  I think??  Lipstick can be fun, but only on very, very, very rare occasions.  XD

Last Song: …The Laednler from Sound of Music, but that was more bg music.  I listened to Hurt Me Once by Ben Platt earlier for the first time, but I’ve already forgotten the lyrics.  X’D  (I’mahorriblepersonok?)

Last movie: I believe it was Mamma Mia.  I was having a Fun And Relaxing Day.

Currently reading: Son of Palaven; Daughter of Earth.  I am Shakarian trash, fite me.

Tagging:  @mrevaunit42, @oh-my-mavis, @sandwichwalls, @radiowrites, @tomb-for-a-bat, @fairyofthefriz, and anyone who feels up to sharing these random things about themselves!  *^_^*

[mrevaunit42]

I’m not forgetting this time! Thanks for the tag amy!

Favorite color(s): Blue, black and red.

Top 3 favorite ships: starco (star and Marco) , soma (soul and maka) and shinji and ran from detective conan. I have too many tbh.

Chapstick or lipstick: neither though I really should use chapstick more to prevent chapped lips and I really don’t have a use for lipstick.

Last song: the wight to remain from crypt of the necrodancer ost (it’s a great video game soundtrack I highly recommend).

Last movie: Instant Family. Which almost killed me because I was laughing so hard.

Currently reading: do my own wips count? Probably not. Magnus chase and the ship of the dead.

Who do i want to torment today? I’m kidding you don’t have to but I’m tagging @hipster-rapunzel @artgirllullaby @hains-mae @axis2800 @ladyxgilex @cartooniste2z and for fun @spatziline and @moringmark and anyone who wants to answer.

[cartooniste2z]

Oh yeah? I’ll get tagged in posts all I want! LOOK AT ME GOOO! Thanks, E!

Favorite color: Silver. That’s a color, I think.

My top 3 favorite ships: Obviously Starco from SVTFOE, I still love FlameFinn from AT, and… Oh! How about Bee × Deckard from Bee & Puppycat? (*cough, cough* Ladyniste, too)

Chapstick or lipstick? Ummm… Chapstick. The world isn’t ready to see me in lipstick >:3

Last song: Sickest Mario Party Rap from the new Starbomb album, The Tryforce! Funniest song ever!

Last movie: I rewatched some Marvel movies like Spider-Man Homecoming and Ant-Man and The Wasp

Currently reading: Kingdom Hearts of Harmony again and rereading Lullaby’s Ever After again for nostalgia’s sake. ^///^

Tagging… Never good at these. How about @theodora14pines @braviared @artgirllullaby and @thebatkid-12

The choice is yours, mates! Have fun :D

[notsodaquilt]

Hey, Z! Thanks for tagging me! It’s been a while since I’ve been tagged in these. So let’s do it.

Favorite color: I like green, maroon, Prussian and navy blue.

My top 3 favorite ships : More like, just most liked: Connverse, Phinbella, and Starco (Irony, huh? Starco’s my last fave.) I have no faves, really. 😅

Chapstick or Lipstick? Honestly, I’ve never used any (except for the lipstick because of special occasions.)

Last Song: Jenny by Studio Killers. Not a bad song.

Last Movie: I’ve never watched any movies recently.

Currently reading: Nothing. I have no good books to read.

I tag @cid331 @thedoodlingnoodle @thronestorm690 and @diaangmindbender

Have fun, yep 😃

[lanimdawg]

Thanks for the tag, Gale! Kind of really excited to do this

Favorite color: blue and purple

My top 3 favorite ships (just 3???): starco, frazel, and kataang

Chapstick or lipstick: chapstick. When I’m really concentrated (like when I’m drawing) I lick and suck in my lips a lot so they get chapped a lot😂

Last song: well I last listened to Teen Beach Movie so whatever the finale is called

Last movie: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Current books: Percy Jackson: The Titans Curse, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

I tag @hallucxnatingblog @sakicakesart @starryeyedbfly @hellybiartist @rooafterdark @malthuswibble

[tiffdrawsart]

Thanks for the tag doodle!!

Favorite color: I heccin love all shades of blue but if I could pick 3 it would literally be the bisexual flag lol

My top 3 ships: oh boii okay uh, Lapidot, Starco, and uhhhh JennyXSheldon (Fromy life as a teenage robot)

Chapstick or lipstick: Gimme that black lipstick all the wayyyy!!

Last Song: lol the last song I listened to is called Slowdancing in the Dark by Joji. When ever I draw something and I hear a song that sparks an idea I need to put it on repeat or I’ll lose the idea lol

Last Movie: i….um I uh dont really watch movies much haha but I think it was on netflix…. I believe I watched Mary and the witches flower! If it’s not on Netflix i probably wont see it xD

Current books: She’s come undone by Wally Lamb, Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman, Alex & Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa De La Cruz. I know there is more so for the sake of listing more and feel ashamed I havent finished them yet I’m only listing 3 lol

I tag: @rei-catlang @gears-and-magic @chibicmps @zembiotic @sloturtle @neosparx-su @ausfallen @swervestarbreak @sunbeamstone

[sloturtleurtle]

Aaaa thank

Favorite Color: I like so many!!! Uh, I'm really into earthy tones right now, so greens and beiges.

Top 3 ships: Kevamie, Cool Kids, Rick×Evie (The Mummy)

Chapstick or Lipstick: lipstick? Just because chapstick makes me feel gross.

Last Song: What's up Danger from Into The Spiderverse?? I think?

Last Movie: I just got outta the theater from watching The Intruder, wasnt great btw.

Current Books: The Adventure Zone The Graphic Novel: Volume 1 - Here There Be Gerblins, and Stephen King's Tommyknockers

I tag: @cryptidw00rm @glowbat @mulaney and anyone else who wants to

[sloturtleurtle]

@reddit

I see y'all

[cryptidanthropologist]

taz Amnesty AU: Barry Bluejeans convinces Taako, Merle, and Magnus to play an RPG based on a world they visited in their 100 year journey about fighting monsters (davenport polity refuses it’s not his cup of tea, lucretia is busy chronicling and doesn’t think she’ll be very good and Lup wanted to helped him write the campaign) So when Barry asks who everyone’s playing as ofc taako decides to be the hesitant and lackadaisical hero, merle, the old cantankerous con-man. And when Barry asks Magnus who he’s going to play as he looks Barry and Taako dead in the eyes and says “Lup”.

[voidfizh-archive]

barry: ok but why the rabbit?

magnus, still staring directly @ barry: that’s you

[sloturtleurtle]

Y E S 🅱️LEASE

[noblecrumpet-dorkvision]

D&D Class Cocktails

I originally just wanted to make cocktails for my players based on their character classes, but then I got a little too much into it and made ones for each of the twelve D&D classes! Two of them are from a Youtube channel that does this all the time (part of what inspired me to do so) and you can find links to them for the Vicious Mockery and Eldritch Patron drinks. The ones that I ended up spending time (and money) making I was able to take Insta-worthy pics of for the post. Either way, enjoy!

Barbarian Rage

½ oz Lime Juice

1 oz Tequila

1 can Stout

Lime Wedge

I feel like anything that has a head on it counts as a barbarian’s drink, but this one also has tequila to fuel the rage. Pour the stout into a tankard, crush the can against your head. Pour the tequila and lime juice into a 1.5 oz shot glass. Dunk the shot into the tankard, then crush the lime with your bare hands over the drink, ignoring the pain from any cuts sustained through combat, and drop it in. Enjoy.

Vicious Mockery

¼ Orange, Muddled

1 ½ oz. Spiced Rum

1 oz. Jaegermeister

Several dashes Peychaud’s Bitters, to taste

Orange Twist for garnish

From the lovely people over at Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. I mean if it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Muddle the orange quarter, add the spiced rum, Jaeger, bitters, and ice, then mix and garnish with the orange twist. Bound to deal d4s of psychic damage.

Turn Undead

½ oz Elderflower Liqueur

2 oz White Rum

2 oz White Cranberry Juice

¼ oz Lime Juice

4 Basil Leaves

Club Soda

This is meant to look clear (or close to it) as if it’s pure enough to turn undead itself. Kinda like boozy holy water. Muddle two of the basil leaves. Shake the muddled basil, rum, cranberry juice, elderflower liqueur, and lime juice with ice. Then strain into a glass and top with the club soda and garnish with remaining basil.

Druidcraft

1½ oz Gin

1 oz Elderflower liqueur

½ oz Honey

¾ oz Lemon Juice

2 oz Club Soda

1 tsp Culinary Lavender

3 Sage Leaves

I actually make this one a lot… I just named it for this post. It’s very floral and light, like you would expect from a druid. Shake together the gin, elderflower liqueur, honey, lemon juice, lavender, and two muddled sage leaves with ice, then strain into a glass. Garnish with the remaining sage leaf. Little bits of the lavender getting in the drink is fine. If you don’t want to slurp them up you can easily use a straw too.

Action Surge

1 ¾ oz Vodka

¼ oz Triple Sec

4 oz Surge Soda

Splash Cranberry Juice

2 lime slices

2 maraschino cherries

This one was very tasty. Prepare a highball glass with lime slices and some maraschino cherries and half-fill with ice. Mix the vodka, triple sec, and Surge together (don’t shake, it’s soda). Pour into the prepared glass and top with a splash of the cranberry juice. Besides the Surge pun, the red slowly combining with the green almost seems like it’s the blood pumping through the fighter as they proceed to literally take an entire extra turn.

Flurry of Blows

1 oz Gin

½ oz Triple Sec

½  oz Peach Schnapps

½  oz Lemon Juice

1 oz Ginger Ale or Ginger Beer

1-2 Leaves Basil

A series of three shots to take. Careful, one is a Stunning Strike and hits much harder than the other two! Muddle your basil leaves and stir with the lemon juice and ginger ale/beer. Put the peach schnapps into one 1.5 oz shot glass, the triple sec into another, and the gin into the third. Top off each shot glass with the lemon-ginger-basil mixture. Ideally, only the one with the gin will really do anything.

Divine Smite

½ c. Apple Cider

½ tbsp Maple Syrup

1 oz Whiskey

Fresh Rosemary

2 Dried Rosemary Sprigs

This one was very good. Burn some dried rosemary and place the glass upside-down over it to let the smoke coat the inside of the glass. Shake fresh rosemary, cider, maple syrup, and whiskey with ice and strain into the smoked glass. For garnish, burn another rosemary twig, blow it out, and drop into the drink so it lets off smoky wisps. The theory for this one is the smoke is the aftermath of the paladin’s smite. I used a martini glass because I have a limited variety of glasses but I feel like the garnish floats too much. If I did it again I might use a lowball glass with rocks to keep the rosemary in place.

Hunter’s Mark

2 oz Maker’s Mark Bourbon

1 oz Lemon Juice

1 tsp Cane Sugar

Club Soda

Lemon Round

Hopefully the pun resonates. Shake the bourbon, lemon juice, and sugar with ice and strain into a lowball glass. Top with a bit of club soda and garnish with a lemon round pierced with a toothpick right through the bullseye. I did a hack job turning the toothpick into an arrow. You could probably get away with those hors d'oeuvres toothpicks that have the colorful frilled tips for the arrow’s fletching.

Sneak Attack

5-6 oz Orange Juice

1 oz Peach Schnapps

2 oz Vodka

Cream Soda

Orange Twist

Red Syrup (I just made 2:1, sugar:water ratio of simple syrup with red food coloring; grenadine was too runny when I tried it)

Named because the alcohol is completely hidden by the sugary drink. It will indeed sneak up on you. Dip the rim of the glass in the red syrup, then turn over so it drips down the glass. Stir the orange juice and vodka and pour into the glass without touching the sides (I don’t own a highball glass but that would probably look nicer). Top the drink with cream soda. Garnish with an orange twist (use those little plastic swords if you have em!)

Maximized Fireball

2 oz Fireball Shiskey

1 oz Dry Vermouth

1 Dash of Bitters

Orange Twist

Cinnamon Stick Soaked in Bacardi 151

Stir the ingredients together with ice then strain into a lowball glass. Garnish with a “flamed” orange twist (squeezed over a lit match into the glass). Light the cinnamon stick on fire, then drop into the drink. I know Fireball gets a lot of flack but I mean, come on, it’s the name of the spell. You could try that Tabasco whiskey instead if you hate Fireball. 

Eldritch Patron

2 oz Gin

½ oz Vermouth

¼ oz Black Sambuca

3 Dashes Black Walnut Bitters

Green Maraschino Cherries

Another one from Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. Stir the gin, vermouth, Sambuca and bitters with ice then strain into a martini glass. Garnish with the green cherries. Looks like alien eyeballs in an inky darkness, as it should.

The Spellbook

12 oz Pinot Grigio

2 oz Blue Curacao

2 oz Lemonade

2 oz Simple Syrup

Blue Petal Dust (optional)

Orange Juice

Lemon-Lime soda

Fruits like oranges, cherries, and starfruit, cut into slices

Mix all the ingredients into a punch bowl, then add equal parts orange juice and the soda to fill it out. Add the fruit slices. I used starfruit because it looks wizardy, but you can always add whatever you want to your Spellbook, as long as you spend gold and time based on the spell's level. The blue petal dust can be used to make the drink opalescent, though I imagine it will be less apparent in a big bowl. Try mixing it individual glasses.

[royvmustang-deactivated20221127]

i just took a dark core personality test tag yourself im my 97% spitefulness 

[royvmustang-deactivated20221127]

this is the test 

[brainscrewz]

[indic0lite]

[marinecosystem]

🤔🤔🤔

[reblog-house]

[bunworks]

I got really concerned there for a minute seeing everyone up in the 80s and 90s lmao then I saw @reblog-house and was like “oh thank god someone who won’t shank me in my sleep and blame it on the energy drinks”

[sloturtleurtle]

Ok egoism I see you :,)

[a-dms-side-quest-deactivated202]

Out of curiosity, how do my fellow DMs prepare their campaigns? 

Do you open up a word doc at type out your story hook and make little bullet points from there? 

Do you wing it completely? 

What’s your notes system like? 

I’m simply looking for new ways to plan for my d&d games! 

[r-n-w]

The Over-Prepared GM

I can’t help myself. I love all the work that goes into prepping for a campaign, and I keep all of my crazy notes and papers, so today I’m gonna try and share with you my process for the latest DnD session I prepped for/ran! 

Rough Notes

I always start by hand writing a full page or two of just random thoughts/story bits. I’m gonna give examples from the latest session I ran (BACKSTORY - this setting has frequent time travel moments and so every location I make also needs a past version and present version)

Writing Stonevale began with me rambling on about any vague ideas I had for the scene setting. I also find it’s useful to get the secrets and mysteries all clear and laid out straight away, and work backwards from them to slot in clues for players. “Stonevale Past” begins with me deciding that the ancestors of an important NPC live here - maybe the players never get far enough to discover that, but having the secrets and info at the heart of my process helps me keep things focussed, and it’s easy/fun to build walls around the secrets this way :)

I also generally get a feel for any creatures/NPCs that populate the area, and give them vague roles. And I try to note down key details/props/locations/events that will help the players navigate and investigate.

Session Summary

Now’s the time to check what happened last session just to make sure you know how the party characters will likely be feeling/acting at the start of the session, and to remind yourself of any items they picked up, or active statuses going on. Also a good moment to check what the party planned to do next, what their expectations could be and so on.

It’s hard to make myself fill this in at the end of every session, but the session summary page in this kit really helps me note down what’s most important.

Maps

Making a map is always an exciting prospect for me! I thought this time I wanted to give a more illustrative style of map, as I’ve been super inspired by the very cool maps made by @anywhichwayatlas ! I got onto pinterest and collected some ideas of the type of map style I was going for:

Above are the images I used to inspire me, and below is the finished Stonevale map! It’s come out a bit rough/childlike but was definitely a fun way to explore more ways of making maps!

Later on, I realised I’d got too into making this and forgotten about some sort of depiction of the INSIDE of the manor… Since I didn’t have any time to make more maps by this point, I went to where I always go when I need a DnD map in a pinch - @2minutetabletop ! I picked up Castle Keep, which is free (like so many of his maps are!) and faffed with some colours and levels in photoshop until I was happy. Printed them out on A3 card and they were good to go! I can’t recommend this resource enough, it’s saved my GM butt a lot when I run out of time to make a map of my own!

Adding in Detail

So next I need to flesh out those vague ideas to make sure I’ve covered what’s likely to be important for the party. I love using the town builder here as it gives me a bit of mental breathing room and asks the questions for me. I find having questions ready means the answers come a lot easier than if I was trying to pluck this out of my head, if that makes sense? 

It was at this point I realised I’d likely need a family tree, even just so I could keep track of the time travel/ancestral stuff. I roughed one out, then made a slightly bigger, still very rough, version that I thought might be a handy clue for players. If they make it inside the castle, they’ll notice a framed family tree on the wall, and this will be it!

NPCS

Our story involved one of the players having worked at Stonevale before the adventure, so I made a staff list for that player’s reference. This way they had some basic information on their old co-workers and the residents of the manor. I also filled in an NPC list from the people & society kit to make sure I had enough NPCs to generate about the property.

Then I used the map to mark some likely locations of the important NPCs. I made sure to spread them out so that no matter how the party approached the grounds, they’d likely hit a plot hook somehow.

Quest Hooks

Time to shove as many clues as possible in here! My experience has been that players need a lot more help picking up clues and reaching conclusions than you expect (myself included!) so I make a point of writing a bunch of quest hooks to inspire both the players and myself during play. I use the quest hooks page from the session kit to note down basically little story bites and clues that I can drop in as and when I need to. It’s a useful sheet to glance at real quick during the game!

Loot

Gotta make sure there’s some loot somewhere! There’s always at least one player who ransacks every location they visit :) I hadn’t set up Stonevale to be a particularly loot-filled place but knew the manor in the centre could do with holding some of the resident’s belongings that could be steal-able. Again, I realised this quite late in my planning, and so dashed off to the @rpgtoons Patreon to grab all the free item cards I could find! Then I picked out which ones could be appropriate for certain family members and residents, and stashed ‘em in the pile ready to hand out.

Ambience

This is one of the last things I come to, as it’s fairly easy to set up, but so important if you want your players to be focussed and engaged. Every time I use music or scents its palpable how much more invested in events players are. For ambient backgrounds, youtube is a gold mine. I like to have two playing simultaneously - one for music and one for background noise. For example:

Fantasy Adventure Music + Forest Sounds Peaceful Travelling Music + Winter Storm Horror Music + Swamp Sounds

Check out Sword Coast Soundscapes or Guild of Ambience for some very cool RPG ambient soundtracks too!

As for scents, I use these a little more sparingly, but @cantripcandles does some exceptionally convincing aromas that really work for setting the mood, and taking your prep that lil extra step. My favourite is Goldwheat Bakery - the only way to get a more accurate smell would be to visit a bakery!

Finishing Up

At this point I’m almost good to go. I take one last look over everything I’ve prepped to see if there are any gaping plot holes or parts I’ve missed. For this particular session, it occurred to me there could be an opportunity for eavesdropping on an important conversation, so I wrote out a one page script for what the players might overhear should they choose to snoop. 

Play!

I guess you wanna know how the session went down after all this prep? Did the players enjoy it, did they find what I’d laid out for them? 

OF COURSE NOT! They made their very best effort to skirt the entire property, clinging to the edges of the map and hiding any time an NPC interaction looked likely. Predictably, I didn’t anticipate that they would attempt to avoid everything, but the Quest Hooks page kept things flexible. That, and the fact that one player’s rat companion decided to jump down a hole and became “irretrievable until further notice”…. ahem.

Hope you find this useful, I’ve tried to link to as many resources as possible because there are just so many good ones out there right now! Thanks to all DnD creators! I think it’s really cool everyone’s helping each others’ games become even more fun to play! :)

Beautiful world maps by @anywhichwayatlas​ 

Location maps by @2minutetabletop​

Item cards from @rpgtoons​ Patreon

Background Music - Sword Coast Soundscapes

Background Music - Guild of Ambience

Ambient scented candles by @cantripcandles​

Session Kit (includes session summary page, campaign brief, encounter manager, quest hooks, world overview page)

World Building Packs (npc makers/lists, land builders, society/org creators, history packs, etc)

Game Master Kits (fillable rolling tables, cheat sheets, loot makers, paper minis, etc)

[tondo-ule]

Okay, this is way beyond what I’ve ever done, even at my most prepared.  Kudos!

[sloturtleurtle]

The "Fluid" DM

I usually have a vague idea that I dont go into too much detail about before knowing what characters and players I'm working with, from there I'll flesh out the story more and if I want anything specific, I'll write in my outline where I have sections with their own bullet points.

I always always always leave room for my adventurers to do what they want and I try to make all their choices matter, even if they go off my planned path, because they always do I also make sure I'm ready to herd them in the right direction to the destination or conclusion im trying to get them to. From time to time this calls for a little deus ex machina but I have specific characters built in to help in those situations.

I have the settings, quest npc's, and end games in mind in all of my campaigns and usually by the third session I have enough of a connection with my players that I'll add things in on the fly to spice things up a bit. And considering the players I work with, I have to wing it a lot. They explored an entire area I hadn't even considered them going into and in them doing this, I put a dragon egg in the cave because it was a dragon centered campaign.

Another time, our monk feinted due to over exertion and she is a goliath with two much smaller and weaker races, so I added in an old goliath character I'd used in a campaign previously and this set off an entirely unplanned set of events that turned the game into a dating simulator. It was very uncomfortable for me because I had no sense of where anything was going, but my adventurers really seem to enjoy what I give them off the top of my head.

[zawa-ro-deactivated20181218]

Did Holly and Andy fight over the photo of Blue Diamond in the hallway?

No. Andy respects his wife’s religious beliefs.

[tricornking]

I would think it’s less “Blue Diamond is Holly’s god” and more a case of “Blue Diamond is basically Holly’s mom and thus his mother-in-law”?

[zawa-ro-deactivated20181218]

Oh snap!

[sloturtleurtle]

I always thought about it as Blue being the head of that branch of the company(homeworld) and Holly is just... a kiss up? Like is always asking blue if she wants a coffee or something even though that's not her job. Lol 9 to 5 au finna happen.

[glowbat]

“Sir, I don’t understand- what’s the point of this?” 

“ To catch lunch, dummy”

 I headcanon that taako drags Ango along on fishing trips with the excuse that it’s wizard training.

[sloturtleurtle]

Ggggggggood shit

[glowbat]

hey so i just saw your thing about the pup playlist, and then i went to check out your other playlists! I saw one titled 'Good times and said to myself "oh man i really need some new good upbeat music! This'll be fun!" So I click shuffle play. All of a sudden, bursting out of my speakers at 7:27 am, is EVERYBODY GET UP ITS TIME TO SLAM NOW So I guess my question is, why the /fuck/ is space jam on your good times playlist?

i-i listen,

 i didn’t wake up today to have my idea of a good time be judged 

[sloturtleurtle]

I heavily respect and love this hooman

[bunworks]

ᴜɴᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ

[sloturtleurtle]

Me @ my parents

[sloturtleurtle]

This is How I Feel I Look Like When I Try To Make Friends On This Site

This totally isnt in reference to my social awkwardness towards @frankiehhh hahahahahahahahah what are you talking about

[succulent-asks]

Ralph is giving y’all some thumbs up!

[bunworks]

I can show you the world

Anxiety, agoraphobia and panic attacks

Tell me, Kara, now when did

You last let your heart deciiiide?

[sloturtleurtle]

Ralph: a whole new woooooorld, a dazzling face I never knew- *holds up mirror to Kara*

[aesopquarriman]

[bunworks]

Young Ralph’s Unrequited Love

[sloturtleurtle]

I'm not proud of it but,

Young Mom Cleaning My Room

[howlpendraig]

sword lesbian this, sword lesbian that, will anyone spare a thought for bow and arrow lesbians in these melee fighting times

[howlpendraig]

me (a lesbian) pulls out my bow, notches an arrow, winks at my lady love and says “the only thing straight about me is my shooting” before skewering the sheriff of nottingham 

[valtsv]

#a banner unfurls from the shaft that just says: gay rights!

[sloturtleurtle]

I'm deceased

[sloturtleurtle]

Meanwhile at 2 am-

Im writing music with my uke and half the song is me quoting Lin Manuel

[sloturtle]

My dnd group likes memes so-

[gemkids]

ceramic pearl (she/her), fusion of scallop and white pearl

not.. not much to say about this one except that i have no mouth and i must scream

[sloturtleurtle]

I couldn't resist, @gemkids made it too easy.

Shes just so scary and cute.

Original artwork belongs to @gemkids !!!! You should check out their art cause its hella stellar.