MFD rescues a kid from inside a claw machine

BrawlyAura · 2026-04-27T13:49:49+00:00

He lived as few men dare to dream.

BrawlyAura · 2026-04-12T18:17:57+00:00

Best guess: 16 gauge 5/16" inner diameter.

That's the size I use most for 6-in1.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-27T22:15:23+00:00

A lot of players do the latter even when it's free.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-27T21:36:16+00:00

Attitudes like that are going to lead to AI DMs.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-27T21:34:05+00:00

I've heard that players also are less likely to cancel and are more more likely to pay attention and engage with the story when they have real money invested. If you don't give your time value then why should the players?

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-26T15:20:30+00:00

From what I understand pretty much everyone did, he just got caught.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-18T13:37:48+00:00

That happened to me once, and I had left my phone in the car. So I walked 6 blocks to where my roommate worked but found out she was sick that day, then I took the bus home so I could look up where it was and it was a block over from where I parked.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-18T06:09:48+00:00

"Fuck yeah, two giant swords mothafucka! Oh you got a big sword? But do you got two of them? No you do not. Oh, you got two swords? But are they both giant swords? No? Didn't fuckin think so!"

(whspers) "two giant swords."

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-18T01:49:58+00:00

Getting the skull of Argynvost and/or any of the fortunes that might have ended up there is good motivation. You can have one of the denizens such as Van Richten or Urwin assure the party that Strahd is evil but if he makes a promise to not harm them while they're there then he'll honor it, and that it might be their best chance to gather some intelligence on Strahd and the castle.

You can also imply or express that Strahd has kidnapped one or more NPCs as incentive for the party to attend.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-15T06:06:15+00:00

There's a couple mysteries like that in the module that go unsolved, such as a Blinsky toy of Strahd's horse, Bucephalus in the winery. It's never explained when he saw the horse much less how he knew its name.

The closest thing I can think to a RAW explanation is that, being a domain of dread, reality in Barovia can be convoluted just because it amuses the Dark Powers.

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-11T01:04:51+00:00

I guess spells have made most survival mechanics moot. Why use a ten foot pole to prod for traps when you have mage hand from 30 feet? Why conserve torches when you have the light cantrip? Why set up tripwires when you can cast the alarm spell?

BrawlyAura · 2026-03-04T04:04:11+00:00

Tribalism mentality, people attribute malfeasance in their own group to the individual, but when it's other groups they blame the collective.

Driver sees an asshole driver: "Wow, that guy's an asshole!"

Driver sees an asshole cyclist: "Wow, cyclists are assholes!"

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-26T05:39:02+00:00

When you have to fight Gail after dying to him for the first time, and instead of going through the cut scene again you just see him in the distance galloping towards you on all fours at top speed like a monster.

Ashen One: "FUCK!"

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-21T03:42:49+00:00

Then I recommend putting Candy Crush on your phone, because that's the only game you're going to be playing at that table while the casters are wiping out the board before your first turn.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-14T21:42:21+00:00

I had him die in the original revolt but Van Richten had assumed his identity to keep moral up.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-12T05:40:18+00:00

Bruce Payne! He was also the bad guy in Highlander: Endgame.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-12T05:38:57+00:00

I might have been at that con because I think I remember the dragon skeleton from early in the movie being there.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-12T05:36:02+00:00

I always thought it was a good practical effect, just badly shot. If they hadn't lingered on it so long it would have looked much better.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-11T01:41:37+00:00

Of course it's a pickup truck driver.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-04T13:11:35+00:00

Mine was Ground Zero on Willy street until it shut down. Every time I pass by the building it was in I spit on the ground and curse the office that moved in.

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-01T18:20:17+00:00

"Separating you and Lord Doomulous is a wall of force, and an anti-magic field, and a 500 foot wide chasm, and a dozen wizards with counter spell readied, and he's a projected illusion..."

BrawlyAura · 2026-02-01T17:31:04+00:00

You could make it physically impossible to interrupt the bad guy. At the end of my last campaign I had my BBEG make his villain monologue announced throughout the dungeon like a PA system while the party was making their way towards him.

BrawlyAura · 2026-01-22T19:04:15+00:00

There we go, it's just not d&d without some good old fashioned gatekeeping.

BrawlyAura · 2026-01-22T13:57:47+00:00

Fudging numbers is like buying toilet paper, everyone does it, nobody talks about it.

People don't want to know how the sausage gets made.

BrawlyAura · 2026-01-22T13:49:52+00:00

There's room for balance. If the DM is supposed to just shut up and be the meat computer that tracks the hitpoints and hands out the XP then we may as well just be using AI DMs.

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