6. Favorite death: OH boy, that’d have to be my first player death as a DM. Spoilers for Rime of the Frostmaiden below. I’m running the module for some good friends of mine. I really liked the “doppleganger” secret included in the module but I felt it’d work better if the player didn’t know they were a doppleganger, so I secretly assigned it to the party fighter—the idea being the doppleganger had absorbed his memories during an avalanche before the campaign started and now believed itself to be the original. I was hoping for it to be a slow reveal, but things didn’t turn out that way. The party was out on a lake fighting a water weird, and the fighter had tied his wrist to the rogue in the other boat with a long piece of rope so the boats wouldn’t lose each other. At one point during the encounter the fighter dove into the water and got hit hard enough to kill him instantly, much to my horror. I was so bummed out that my fun reveal was sinking to the bottom of the lake, and wasn’t until one of the players reminded me that I remembered the rope! After the fight, they hoisted the body out of the lake to find that it had changed into something alien as the doppleganger reverted to its true form upon death, still tied at the wrist to the rogue. It was a delightfully creepy moment that fit the horror vibe of the module so well, and everyone lost their minds; that scene was SO much fun and definitely my “breakout moment” as a DM lol.
9. Your favorite thing about D&D: That’s seriously tough. Nothing about DnD beats actually sitting down and playing with some good pals, and the absolute best feeling in the universe is finishing a session and having your players thank you for a good time. Outside of that though I’m one of those people that just really loves character creation and has a million character concepts floating around that I want to play someday. Coming up with all these different cool builds possible in 5e really appeals to my mechanics-crunchy gamedev brain, yknow??
12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from: I recently started playing in a Discord game where the party Barbarian is a six-foot kuo-toa sweetheart named Bibple and in a moment of idiocy I joked that the new party name was “Bibple and the Short Kings” and now that’s what the roleplay channel is called. It’s an objectively wrong name because of the three other party members, one is honorarily short and the other is honorarily a king and there’s really only one true short king among them, but we all love Bibple and the Short Kings so much that it doesn’t really matter :’)
thanks so much, these were really fun to answer!! <3
