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[wayward-wendy]

Voyage to the Moon Part II!

Willow @tantum-tenebris Wigfrid @marycherryboop WX-78 @inhumanrobot / @quackadero

[kaaramel]

I've got a relatable one that you can relate to: DND AUUUUU (any edition, give me those Advanced Dnd Planar AUs)

i’ve got PS:T on the brain so sure i guess you get Sigil

No gods are permitted to set foot, tentacle, or claw in Sigil, by the rigid laws of the Lady of Pain, enforced by her razored caress. Certainly, then, there are none here! Certainly the gentle and pacifist snake-god of a strange, short-lived, subversive yuan-ti cult would not be so bold to hide from the fangs of Merrshaulk and the rest of the cruel, savage yuan-ti pantheon in as dangerous a place as this. But then again, odder things have happened in the Planes.

Belief shapes the Planes, as every god has excellent cause to know, and when a lonely god-in-exile drops casual references to “ah, yes, my friend who accompanied me here” and “my good friend always says..” in thrice-a-dozen scattered, chance conversations with Sigil’s locals, he is soon possessed in truth of as good a friend as any he could wish for.

The prohibition is against gods, full gods, so the demigoddess child of a personified sun is safe when she flees the destruction of her mother’s court and stumbles into a portal, or at least safe from the shadow of the Lady. She is on her own when it comes to navigating mortal etiquette, mortal thugs, and the acute, aching pangs of homesickness.

Angels who fall - who cling to the letter of the law and lack the compassion to temper it, their ideals worn down by gritty compromises with the mortal world - may be corrupted into erinyes, pleasure devils, a form of baatezu, retaining their feathered wings and turning their holy beauty to wicked ends. There’s no words yet, maybe, for an erinyes who’s become jaded to wickedness and cruelty. Is there somewhere further to fall from here? He’ll find out, he supposes, and takes refuge in Sigil in the meantime, out of immediate reach of the Blood War, where he can freely tinker with Mechanus-wrought clockwork and strange alchemy, answering to no one. 

The bitter erinyes wants nothing to do with the gods and demigoddesses and other flotsam from across the Planes that seems to keep winding up on his doorstep, he insists. He’s a law-abiding creature and can’t keep sheltering runaways. It’s less convincing every time.

[milo-made-this]

THANK YOU FLANN <3333

YOU’RE WELCOME I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE IF YOU GET IN !!

[itstheblob]

it’s @quackadero ‘s birthday, flood them with happy birthday asks

[cameoappearance]

happy slightly belated birthday @inhumanrobot! (sorry I couldn’t get this to you on the day of, I was busy all day)

[ace-murdock]

I wanna know more about your DM process! Specifically, how do you go about building encounters? More specifically, how do you decide to use which monsters or npcs? Also, any additional advice on how you organize your notes about characters, npcs, events, is really interesting to me! Thanks!

Oh hey sorry I didn’t have my computer/internet all weekend till yesterday and didn’t get around to this! I don’t know if I have anything really profound to say about this but I’ll gladly blab about it! 

 Building encounters. I’m going to talk mostly about DnD 5e because I don’t have a ton of practice with call of cthulhu encounters (and it’s a different game, you don’t really WANT encounters).  For DnD there’s a really nifty chart in the beginning of the DM handbook that assigns a certain amount of XP per day for each character, and you add that up and “buy” monsters with it for fighting encounters. I really like that system and I use that most of the time.   Of course, you can always mix it up too. I’ll go in and edit monsters or scale down a cool enemy I want to use by just ballparking what range I think it should be in. This goes a lot better when you’ve been playing with the same group a while.   For fighting also, you can think about the area it’s in. Using terrain like trees, rocks, flying creatures etc. are ways to make a standard goblin fight more interesting.   As for choosing them... I first see how they could fit in the theme of my world (i used myconids in an abandoned mine one time and they were so fun) and then look at their abilities. If you know your players, you can mess with them by choosing abilities that don’t allow them to use their go-to mechanics >:) (like losing their voice or hearing so they can’t cast spells with a verbal component).  I don’t do puzzles too often. I never enjoy them much as a player, because I always feel like it’s too much pressure if I don’t solve it quickly. I did try out a skill challenge last session though which was fun!  I hope I kinda answered what you were asking? I feel like I’ve typed enough for one answer, anyway. I’m still very much learning :B 

[evillilrobort]

THANK U, DESTROYER OF TRASHCANS

[sameboot]

royal WX!

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