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ME1 Garrus: Yes ma'am, whatever you say ma'am, tell me what to do and I'll do it ma'am! Want me to kill that guy? Because I'll do it, ma'am!
ME2 Garrus: If I don't snark about something in the next 10 seconds I might die. I might also not but I can't take that risk.
ME3 Garrus: My snark is a weapon...to make my girlfriend smile cuz she deserves the world and the world doesn't deserve her!
voice breaking galore :’)
WHAT IF
Garrus is keyed into whatever frequency the ground team used from the SR2, so he finds out Shepard is on Menae because his coms kick on on that long dead channel and “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen is suddenly blasting through his helmet speakers with Shepard cursing in the background and James asking what the holy fuck this old music is.
“SHES HERE” He breathes to himself and runs off to find her using the signal.
That’s the real reason he just magically shows up when she’s talking to Corinthus.
From facebook; mic drop.
Pike: “I feel like we need a book of what the de Rolo siblings actually did because at this point I'm not buying the idea that they were all being prim and proper."
Out of curiosity, how do my fellow DMs prepare their campaigns?
Do you open up a word doc at type out your story hook and make little bullet points from there?
Do you wing it completely?
What’s your notes system like?
I’m simply looking for new ways to plan for my d&d games!
The Over-Prepared GM
I can’t help myself. I love all the work that goes into prepping for a campaign, and I keep all of my crazy notes and papers, so today I’m gonna try and share with you my process for the latest DnD session I prepped for/ran!
Rough Notes
I always start by hand writing a full page or two of just random thoughts/story bits. I’m gonna give examples from the latest session I ran (BACKSTORY - this setting has frequent time travel moments and so every location I make also needs a past version and present version)
Writing Stonevale began with me rambling on about any vague ideas I had for the scene setting. I also find it’s useful to get the secrets and mysteries all clear and laid out straight away, and work backwards from them to slot in clues for players. “Stonevale Past” begins with me deciding that the ancestors of an important NPC live here - maybe the players never get far enough to discover that, but having the secrets and info at the heart of my process helps me keep things focussed, and it’s easy/fun to build walls around the secrets this way :)
I also generally get a feel for any creatures/NPCs that populate the area, and give them vague roles. And I try to note down key details/props/locations/events that will help the players navigate and investigate.
Session Summary
Now’s the time to check what happened last session just to make sure you know how the party characters will likely be feeling/acting at the start of the session, and to remind yourself of any items they picked up, or active statuses going on. Also a good moment to check what the party planned to do next, what their expectations could be and so on.
It’s hard to make myself fill this in at the end of every session, but the session summary page in this kit really helps me note down what’s most important.
Maps
Making a map is always an exciting prospect for me! I thought this time I wanted to give a more illustrative style of map, as I’ve been super inspired by the very cool maps made by @anywhichwayatlas ! I got onto pinterest and collected some ideas of the type of map style I was going for:
Above are the images I used to inspire me, and below is the finished Stonevale map! It’s come out a bit rough/childlike but was definitely a fun way to explore more ways of making maps!
Later on, I realised I’d got too into making this and forgotten about some sort of depiction of the INSIDE of the manor… Since I didn’t have any time to make more maps by this point, I went to where I always go when I need a DnD map in a pinch - @2minutetabletop ! I picked up Castle Keep, which is free (like so many of his maps are!) and faffed with some colours and levels in photoshop until I was happy. Printed them out on A3 card and they were good to go! I can’t recommend this resource enough, it’s saved my GM butt a lot when I run out of time to make a map of my own!
Adding in Detail
So next I need to flesh out those vague ideas to make sure I’ve covered what’s likely to be important for the party. I love using the town builder here as it gives me a bit of mental breathing room and asks the questions for me. I find having questions ready means the answers come a lot easier than if I was trying to pluck this out of my head, if that makes sense?
It was at this point I realised I’d likely need a family tree, even just so I could keep track of the time travel/ancestral stuff. I roughed one out, then made a slightly bigger, still very rough, version that I thought might be a handy clue for players. If they make it inside the castle, they’ll notice a framed family tree on the wall, and this will be it!
NPCS
Our story involved one of the players having worked at Stonevale before the adventure, so I made a staff list for that player’s reference. This way they had some basic information on their old co-workers and the residents of the manor. I also filled in an NPC list from the people & society kit to make sure I had enough NPCs to generate about the property.
Then I used the map to mark some likely locations of the important NPCs. I made sure to spread them out so that no matter how the party approached the grounds, they’d likely hit a plot hook somehow.
Quest Hooks
Time to shove as many clues as possible in here! My experience has been that players need a lot more help picking up clues and reaching conclusions than you expect (myself included!) so I make a point of writing a bunch of quest hooks to inspire both the players and myself during play. I use the quest hooks page from the session kit to note down basically little story bites and clues that I can drop in as and when I need to. It’s a useful sheet to glance at real quick during the game!
Loot
Gotta make sure there’s some loot somewhere! There’s always at least one player who ransacks every location they visit :) I hadn’t set up Stonevale to be a particularly loot-filled place but knew the manor in the centre could do with holding some of the resident’s belongings that could be steal-able. Again, I realised this quite late in my planning, and so dashed off to the @rpgtoons Patreon to grab all the free item cards I could find! Then I picked out which ones could be appropriate for certain family members and residents, and stashed ‘em in the pile ready to hand out.
Ambience
This is one of the last things I come to, as it’s fairly easy to set up, but so important if you want your players to be focussed and engaged. Every time I use music or scents its palpable how much more invested in events players are. For ambient backgrounds, youtube is a gold mine. I like to have two playing simultaneously - one for music and one for background noise. For example:
Fantasy Adventure Music + Forest Sounds Peaceful Travelling Music + Winter Storm Horror Music + Swamp Sounds
Check out Sword Coast Soundscapes or Guild of Ambience for some very cool RPG ambient soundtracks too!
As for scents, I use these a little more sparingly, but @cantripcandles does some exceptionally convincing aromas that really work for setting the mood, and taking your prep that lil extra step. My favourite is Goldwheat Bakery - the only way to get a more accurate smell would be to visit a bakery!
Finishing Up
At this point I’m almost good to go. I take one last look over everything I’ve prepped to see if there are any gaping plot holes or parts I’ve missed. For this particular session, it occurred to me there could be an opportunity for eavesdropping on an important conversation, so I wrote out a one page script for what the players might overhear should they choose to snoop.
Play!
I guess you wanna know how the session went down after all this prep? Did the players enjoy it, did they find what I’d laid out for them?
OF COURSE NOT! They made their very best effort to skirt the entire property, clinging to the edges of the map and hiding any time an NPC interaction looked likely. Predictably, I didn’t anticipate that they would attempt to avoid everything, but the Quest Hooks page kept things flexible. That, and the fact that one player’s rat companion decided to jump down a hole and became “irretrievable until further notice”…. ahem.
Hope you find this useful, I’ve tried to link to as many resources as possible because there are just so many good ones out there right now! Thanks to all DnD creators! I think it’s really cool everyone’s helping each others’ games become even more fun to play! :)
Beautiful world maps by @anywhichwayatlas
Location maps by @2minutetabletop
Item cards from @rpgtoons Patreon
Background Music - Sword Coast Soundscapes
Background Music - Guild of Ambience
Ambient scented candles by @cantripcandles
Session Kit (includes session summary page, campaign brief, encounter manager, quest hooks, world overview page)
World Building Packs (npc makers/lists, land builders, society/org creators, history packs, etc)
Game Master Kits (fillable rolling tables, cheat sheets, loot makers, paper minis, etc)
(WELP I spent all day writing this, Campaign 1 Soulmate AU, where your soulmate’s last words to you are written on your arm, I’m sorry in advance for any sadness or emotions, MAJOR C1 spoilers below, read on AO3, enjoy!)
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Their Last Words Are With Us
“They’re your soulmarks, dears,” their mother explained, kneeling by the side of the clear-running stream and running water over their tiny arms. “They’re special words that your soulmate will say to you, one day.”
“Soulmate?” Vax echoed as his sister inspected the faint scrawling on her arm. “What’s that?”
“Somebody very important to you,” Elaina said. “Someone who was meant to be by your side, always. As a friend, or as a wife or husband, who will always be there for you.”
“Like Vax?” Vex asked. “Is he mine?”
“Perhaps, dearest.”
“Who’s yours?” Vax asked. “Is it dad? Do you have his words?”
Elaina only hesitated slightly before smiling and saying, “It’s possible, dear. You never really know who the words belong to, until you do.”
Vax frowned slightly at that. “Huh?”
Vex held her arm out for her mother. “What do mine say, Mum?”
Elaina did not answer, instead grinned and poured water over both of the twins’ heads, distracting them and sending them into a fit of giggles and splashing.
Then she finished their baths, wrapped them up in the same old fabrics she always used, and led them back, one holding each hand, to their small home in Byroden.
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Something about Percy maybe? 🤔 I don't know that much about c1 yet so maybe something about your favourite quote of his? ^_^
“I do not want to die who I am. I would like to live long enough to be someone else.” -Percy de Rolo III, Episode 64
The day his first child is born, Percy puts his guns away.
He locks all three of them in a chest and hides it in the back of his workshop. His worst nightmares have a dark-haired toddler with Retort in hand and the ear-splitting crack of a fatal gunshot. He should destroy them, he knows he should, but he can’t. Ripley released others into the world, and now he has to keep them.
Damn that bitch, he thinks, and a chill runs down his spine. It’s been years since they killed her, and still Ripley haunts him. She always will. She won’t win, though. The only winners in this game are Vox Machina, and even then, it’s bittersweet.
But there’s something powerful about being able to put the guns away at all.
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in another lifetime
When she enters their bedroom, the first thing Keyleth notices is the smell of the firewood burning in hearth mixed with the faint smell of vanilla wafting through the room. She then sees Pike look up from where she was putting some things away into a rucksack and smile at the parade of people walking in; Scanlan, Grog, Cassandra, and herself.
Upon meeting the first de Rolo baby, Keyleth can’t help but think about what could have been
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Iconic seafarer beards became a trend to scare away pesky mermaids.
Mermaid, seeing a bald pirate: Zero threat…! Mermaid, seeing a hairy, bearded pirate: If I get too close their face tentacles will eat me…!
Most mermaids only grow short beards as not to scare baby mermaids (longer beards look like the tentacled mouths of hungry squids and octopuses).
Pirates use this innate fear to their advantage to protect themselves from mermaids, hence the iconic beards and hat:
I like how this is presented as factual information
because it is
One of the most important things you can teach your kids is when and how to say no to authority figures.
Imagine being that much of a bitch because a kid who had no family was thankful to finally have one.
I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr
11 FUCKING THOUSAND NOTES ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WHERE ARE YOU ALL COME DATE ME
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update: we are dating
update: we are married
update: we knocked up
This is the cutest story on the entirety of Tumblr, I swear to god!!!!!
Update: had a baby together
aww, i’m crying thats so cute
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King Shit
I just absolutely need y’all to read his reasons for this decision, which he posted over two Instagram posts. It is golden!
I say, without the slightest bit of irony, I stan this gay icon!!
there are many young merfolk out there, so i felt the desire to create a badass elder for mermay :) she’s as much derived from as she is dedicated to the vuvalini of MMFR– i also sincerely hope she brings joy to my mutuals older than me who always delight and inspire me, and to all older women in fandom, really, who i continuously thought of while working on her
i hope it’s obvious but just in case: she’s beluga / inuit. and yes, a name and backstory eventually developed! haha
oh y’all this is my first non-fanart piece to break 1k notes and i’m SO excited it’s enthusiasm for this design in particular! thank you; i’m so relieved and encouraged by the warm responses 🙏🏻💙
i ADORE this merfolk lady. Because she has a beluga tail, she is of my people. I come from the frigid waters of the Saguenay river, where the Belugas live. I am of her tribe. She is my Elder. My great grandmother many times removed.
this is making some rounds again so i need to reiterate: thank you so much to every first nations commenter. your feedback of feeling respectfully represented and excited is my measure of genuine success for this piece.
