Stuck Keys For A DM

DM for a short term horror campaign that was meant to take place over 31 days (in game time) and 5 years later here we are. (He/Him)

[stuck-keys]

Is your DND group getting tired of playing the same characters every week? Using the same skills and features every session? TPKing the group would be too devastating?

Try trapping all sense of empathy and inhibition in a cursed object! With the PCs no longer having any emotional attachment and being their worst selves you can bring in a new group to stop them!

Barbarian who lost his sense of identity to save a friend now tries a ritual to bring it back high off hallucinogenics.

Artificer who wished to push the boundaries of science and magic now tries to vivisect a teen to make werewolf Frankenstein hybrid with an RTG in its chest.

The humble bard capturing the entire town to force them to witness their performance with a whole slew of magical items stolen from the shop.

And if that’s not enough for you, make the new party consist of entirely parental figures of the original group.

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Monologuing to a DnD group is so cathartic, like “I’ve been fair, even kind to you all but perhaps I have spoiled the child and spared the rod. So I will show you what this world is really like, without the favour of a god.” Kind of upsetting though that this wasn’t in-game.

[mel-155-a]

[stuck-keys]

This is literally my vampires backstory!

[srune]

only thing that comes to mind today.

[dungeonsandkobolds]

In VtM yesterday an epic play just like, fell into my Ravnos characters lap.

Order of events:

Session starts, bunch of players will turn up later but that's okay we're all kinda doing our own thing

Im a hacker and a few people in my coterie have just pissed of the Nosferatu. I figure its best to hang out in Nosferatu territory and if I encounter them make sure they know I'd rather stay on their good side

Encounter Nosferatu primogen, he offers me access to ShreckNet if I let him know when my coterie friend is next in their territory so he can have a chat with him (I intended to offer this anyway but didn't need to)

Other players arrive (including coterie friend who pissed off the Nosferatu)

Nosferatu launch full scale assault on the house of the guy who pissed them off (with more vamps then they're meant to have)

But he's Hella prepared, Home Alone's and kills a bunch of them, blows up his own house and escapes

Goes to other coterie friend's house to lie low

Other coterie friend wants info from Nosferatu, so is like can we fake hand you in for this info. He realizes he doesn't have the Nosferatu primogen's number

Calls my character cause I am a hacker and my thing is getting info. Im like "ooof you'll owe me a favour"

Puts down that call - i say "so i call the Nosferatu primogen"

Shocked Pikachu expression from players who weren't there including both of the above players

Nosferatu primogen is like, yep ill meet with him. Make sure the guy who pissed me off is there - i relay this info

I wipe the phone i called the primogen on and ditch it just out of safety. But I get access to ShreckNet

The two other players call the sheriff to come with them cause the Nosferatu attacked the guy who pissed them off after being told not to by the prince and also have more vamps than they're meant to

They kill the Nosferatu primogen

So my Ravnos got what she wanted from the original deal, but as far as anyone else knows she just did her coterie friend a favour by setting up a meeting with the Nosferatu primogen. The only other person who knows of the original deal is dead. Also there are only two Nosferatu (one's an unauthorized thinblood) left in out city, which means her role as information and item acquire-er just got more lucrative.

I get a bunch of willpower and Path of Paradox points :)

[stuck-keys]

Love session prepping for DnD because I can literally write down a single session worth of prep and it last for like eight. All you need is like one or two out of pocket things and it will take up the rest of the time. “Trying to have them solve a murder? Why not give a suspect an insane accent?” They will obsess over it.

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Have been feeling like I can never properly balance a fight in DnD for the past few combats. Just learnt that throwing Cr 18 monster at a 5x Lv8 party does the trick. What was especially great was that it was one of their friends they thought they could simply incapacitate.