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Just a friendly Dungeon Master, Giving tips and tricks

[thefriendlydungeonmaster]

Some maps I made this week, they’re not much but I’m proud of them.

[weaver-z]

Every DnD game that starts out with a serious “Lord of the Rings” type of tone turns into a Monty Python sketch and every DnD game that starts out like a Monty Python sketch turns into Lord of the Rings

[weaver-z]

DnD game with characters named Kua the Brave, Enoch Bluehelm, and Hallow Greaves: Our current mission is to save the kingdom from the Dark Queen Ravenbone but we fucked up a charisma roll and now Kua and Ravenbone are dating and the king of Fendale was turned into a frog

DnD game with characters named Bunny Wabbit, Ford Trukk, and Dildo Baggins: Our current mission is to find a birthday present for a spoiled prince but in the process we found a lich planning to devour the life force of everyone in the land and Dildo gave his life to stop him in a scene so moving it won the Newberry Medal

[theaustinstollhaus]

If you give your players room to do whatever they want, including be silly, they will most often choose to express themselves. And you'd be amazed how much you'll start to care about characters once people have attached little pieces if their soul to them.

If you try to enforce a "serious" tone, it just makes the gags funnier, and your players will treat you with the same casual blasphemy orangutans show to God.

[a-humble-waffle]

"the same casual blasphemy orangutans show to God" WHAT THE FUCK I'M DECEASED

[someemochick]

[renthony]

I hate how much D&D humor and memes are centered around “pissing off the DM” because, like, as a DM? If y’all intentionally derail my shit and disrespect my time, I’m out. Find a new DM.

More players need to realize that DMs are players, too, and deserve to have their hard work respected instead of instantly ripped apart for laughs. At some point “lol go write a book then” became the default response to DMs who are frustrated with how much they have to fight against their players’ chaos, and I’m not a fan.

It’s not unreasonable to expect players to play along with the story, engage with the world, and work together. Players who get their kicks by immediately murdering or seducing or otherwise harassing every single NPC they meet, or complain loudly about exposition and storytelling, or go out of their way to make sure the DM thinks the plot is stupid and they’re just there to wreck shit, are the fucking worst.

[dndaddyissues]

[thefriendlydungeonmaster]

[thefriendlydungeonmaster]

This session has had some revalations on the Crow love life, And i wanted to make more memes

[feebledungeons]

The DM can be a little bit evil, as a treat

[feebledungeons]

[superdillin]

The two players that are, without question, present at every one of my tables.

[doctorslippery]

[thefriendlydungeonmaster]

Me and my friends started playing Vampire the Masquerade a month or so ago. And as the DM i took it upon myself to make memes about each session

[dnd-homebrew5e]

[dndaddyissues]

[pwbi]

The best part of this is how completely accurate it is

Most DMs take one look at encumbrance and Rations and go ‘wtf is this shit? shoo, shoo, get outta here’

[totorox]

Status Descriptions for when my players ask how the monster looks

[pwbi]

Yo this is actually a really awesome idea

cant believe I havent though up something like it before tbh

[probablygoodrpgideas]

Plot twist: the kittens are all young dragons who've learned how to take one other shape, and they chose one that would allow them to be adorable and thus able to easily manipulate humanoids (and also to curl up comfortably in smaller areas than a dragon can manage).

Very good. Very good indeed

[plusthreeshortsword]

A quick little something I knocked together, the patented tragic backstory generator ™ is the easiest way to give your character a mythically horrible origin. 

(actual tragedy may vary, results are final and non-negotiable, i am not responsible for any tears you may shed while imagining the sad life your character must have led up to this point)

[probablybadrpgideas]

Roll this for every single character in your campaign

[ghostwith]

D&D one shot idea: Pub crawl brawl.

Having to fight an increasing amount of patrons while the PC’s progressively more drunk at each pub.