#dm things

[tofu-bento-box]

power went down yesterday at about 3:30pm, and has now been out for over 12 hours. i think we’ve lost all the food in our fridge and freezer at this point. however this has and will not stop me from running d&d tonight. welcome to the Car of Strahd everyone i’m coming to you live from the mcdonald’s parking lot

[diagoose]

the dm experience of getting messages from your player's saying, "what if we did this fucked up thing to my guy?" and my immediate reaction being, "babes I would LOVE to inflict the fucked up thing on your guy."

[thegoblinwizard]

The party encountered singing Campestri's in Thither and decided they definitely would make an amazing soup.

[my-deer-dreamer]

Midnight dm thoughts

My party loves Rahadin. Help.

Strahd sent the party to do a big favour for him (Defeat Baba Lysaga, they don't know it is because she killed someone close to him) and as a reward for their excellent behavior at dinner he offered Rahadin's help. The party accepted and is already starting to tease him and treat him as one of the party and I am dying! He is not being friendly but they still love him.

He has been offered head pats when in cat form (he is a druid multiclass in my game) which is absolutely displeased with.

He is not happy but Strahd is enjoying himself.

I know it is silly but don't worry I will balance things and find ways for things to still be challenging. My Baba fight was planned to be very difficult so I absolutely will be bringing the heat.

[ant-is-living]

The thing they don’t tell you about DMing is how emotionally exhausting you feel afterwards. Like don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade it for the world, but always wake up super drained the next morning. which felt weird at first and then i realized that within the span of four hours i embodied

- Myself, running a game for my friends

- A woman being pursued by a vampire as she’s trying to counsel her friends about their romantic endeavors

- a piece of shit sixteen years old learning how to exist in a group environment

- two bear cubs discovering that their mom is dead and that they’re going to have to be on their own from now on

- a young prince desperate to restore his honor and subsequently horrified at accidentally killing his opponent in a duel

- a father who is realizing how terrible of a dad he’s been to his son, and then having to save his son from falling out of a fifty foot tree, thinking his son that he just reunited with after several hundred years is dead, then discovering his son isn’t actually dead but was under the effects of a feign death spell

- a soldier who thought for a moment that he just watched his best friend be murdered, and in that horror realized that what he feels isn’t just platonic friendship but doesn’t have the words to understand his own feelings

And then I go, huh. Yeah, I guess it makes sense I’m a little drained.

[looseleafteeaves]

Messing with my players is one of Life’s Great Joys.

[moonknight-ep5]

made a playlist for my upcoming dnd campaign and IM ACTUALLY SCREAMING AND FROTHING AT THE MOUTH EVERY SONG IS SUCH A BANGER THIS CAMPAIGN IS GONNA BE GREAT

HERE IT IS

YES WE CALLED THE CAMPAIGN BETWIXT DUSK, DAWN, AND DREAM

betwixt dusk, dawn, and dream

inspiration for our dnd campaign :)