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SwiggitySwole

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  • Do it

  • Somethin' stupid in my ass

  • What happens to the dead if they die after they die?

  • It's not up to me, as the GM it's my job to interpret the players actions and ideas through the lenses of both the rules and the world.

    Also we discussed it after it happened and everyone including the player who sacrificed themself wanted the plot to go forward that way.

  • What happens to the dead if they die after they die?

  • Why is true resurrection out of range but plane hopping isn't? This seems like a great opportunity to have them complete a quest for some high level NPC who does have access to true resurrection

    There are a few reasons for this that I left out of the post because the context required would have bloated the post, the first is simply that I try to avoid high level spellcaster NPCs because players tend to see them as the solution to everything, the closest thing they have is a wizard friend who studies magic but doesn't like to use it aside from things like identify.

    Secondly the deceased character is from our previous campaign, which soft-ended when that character died because around the same time one of the other players had to leave the group but we got a new player who had never played before who wanted to join, we didn't want to slap them with an 8th level character sheet though so we started a new campaign with the understanding that around 8th level the two campaigns would converge and the new players character would join the old party. The player with the dead character is fulfilling the role of character who can enable the plane shifting, giving me a convenient way to write the character out when the time comes. The other 2 players will get to choose if they want to continue as their new or old characters. (This was all discussed with the players before starting the new campaign in very big picture terms)

    Thirdly, plane hopping just feels more fun to me than standard resurrection and it adds to the weight of the moment. That character died by sacrificing themself. If you've played the 5e spelljammer adventure you'd be able to guess exactly how it happened. A running gag of the previous campaign is that no matter what misfortune befell them they'd always weasel their way out of serious consequences (despite my best efforts) and this would be the ultimate no consequences moment.

  • What happens to the dead if they die after they die?

  • The backup plan is always just to make it up, but I prefer to stick to established lore with the hopes that 50 years of ironing out (or retconning) has made it internally consistent enough to get by.

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    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    What happens to the dead if they die after they die?

  • Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away...

  • What did he mean by this?

  • I love my players

  • We were playing blades in the dark, they were sneaking into the back of a warehouse to steal some blood while the rest of the party made a distraction out front, the dog was right there and he didn't think he'd be able to sneak past it. He could have stabbed it but chose not to I guess. Maybe he thought that would be more cruel?

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    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    I love my players

  • My players want a sending stone each, what do?

  • My players aren't murder hobos, but the tavern is in a bad part of town and suddenly has a bunch of magic items

  • DM Academy @lemmy.world
    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    My players want a sending stone each, what do?

  • Peak D&D 6e

  • That was how it worked in the playtest. The sidebar saying "pick a race you really are and pretend to be half the other race" is gone from the 2024 PHB. Rules as written, you can only be fully one race, this of course doesn't actually matter as the whole thing is imaginary bullshit but in organised play it'll sometimes come up.

  • GTA Online adds a quality-of-life feature players have wanted for years then upsets everyone by paywalling it: 'One of the slimiest things they've done in a while'

  • One time I was just trying to do my money laundering restocking in GTA:O (iirc it was money laundering, it was whatever business you got when the game went free on epic games) and a guy on the flying motorbike killed me for no reason and it wasted a ton of time, eventually I killed him back and he spawned in the desert in front of me so I spawn killed him until he apologized.

    I'm not saying what I did was right, I did it in the heat of the moment. But man, that game is really good at making you mad at people.

  • In the Halls of the Short Mountain King

  • Also be careful of the shield spike, the dwarf in the diagram would have just stabbed himself

  • Roll20 Announces Purchase of Demiplane | Comicbook.com

  • Demiplane is dndbeyond for RPGs other than dnd*, currently pathfinder 2e, alien RPG, avatar legends, the 2 critical role RPGs, and some others.

    *They're also adding 5th edition soon, but it's currently just the dnd 5e SRD and kobold presses Tales of the Valiant, not the full dnd 5e

  • Roll20 Announces Purchase of Demiplane | Comicbook.com

  • Even worse, Roll20 development is not only slow, player made solutions to issues are locked behind a paywall.

    Making your customers pay you a monthly subscription to fix your product for you and then charging other customers a monthly subscription to access the fixes you didn't make is a grift so insane it's bordering genius.

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    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    Roll20 Announces Purchase of Demiplane | Comicbook.com

    comicbook.com /gaming/news/roll20-announces-purchase-of-demiplane/

  • Warnings meant to last 10,000 years

  • In addition to what others have said about Loss, the text of the tweet is referring to the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning message from the early 90s

    This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!

    Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be powerful culture.

    This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.

    What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

    The danger is in a particular location…it increases towards a center…the center of danger is here…of a particular size and shape, and below us.

    The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

    The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

    The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

    The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited

  • Help me come up with some doctrine for a small society in my game.

  • On the off chance that happens I'd probably give them one of the beast traits, probably one of the ones that's less useful like keen smell or web sense

  • Help me come up with some doctrine for a small society in my game.

  • This is a really good idea, I might make their laws very simplistic. I might even steal the ones from Animal Farm.

    In my mind the mongrelfolk definitely won't be inherently evil. Paranoid or scared of outsiders, definitely. But they should have near-human intelligence, but slightly diminished.

    Professor Moreau to me is the evil one but purely because he doesn't hold much regard for the lives of the people he has experimented on, especially in a world with polymorph magic and Druidic wildshape. Though Moreau will be helpful to the players and give them no good reason to kill him, since they're his chance to regain control of his lab.

    I've been going back and forth on if Moreau will want the mongrelfolk dead, since they'd hold more scientific value to him kept alive.

  • Help me come up with some doctrine for a small society in my game.

  • I've not seen either of those but a quick search shows me that's 51 episodes of one series, 64 of another and a movie. That might be a little bit too much for the amount of prep time I have

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    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    Help me come up with some doctrine for a small society in my game.

  • When the DM tries to make it as obvious as possible

  • That's almost 100 whole sessions. It's honestly too long of you ask me.

  • What do you enjoy in "actual plays" ?

  • The only actual play I've ever actually found myself enjoying is oxventure, they're not the best example of a proper actual play though since they usually don't follow the rules too closely and are more of a fantasy improv group vaguely using 5e rules, sometimes blades in the dark or SWADE Deadlands.

    Although I've only started listening fairly recently and haven't gotten up to the Deadlands stuff yet.

  • MCDM's Flee, Mortals! & Where Evil Lives is on Dndbeyond

  • I'm using flee mortals for my current campaign wherever possible, I have a werewolf quest planned, which isn't in FM. Though I might pivot to a basilisk hunt.

  • DM Academy @lemmy.world
    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee
    update

    help me figure out a way help my players get out of the mess they're in without ruining their fun.

  • DM Academy @lemmy.world
    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    help me figure out a way help my players get out of the mess they're in without ruining their fun.

  • DM Academy @lemmy.world
    SwiggitySwole @lemm.ee

    looking for tips for running exploration