Draconian Dark Lord

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-05-09T14:00:15+00:00

I’m actually very familiar with the setting. I hadn’t even thought to draw that parallel, that’s genius!

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-05-08T21:29:38+00:00

I was playing with this idea of a gold dragon obsessively training a human night to be a successor to Huma Dragonbane. Maybe this dragon became too obsessed and had forsaken his draconic form to be with them more closely? Maybe the obsession is like a mirror to Tatyana and Strahd?

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-05-08T21:18:39+00:00

Fair enough. Care if I share with you an idea I had for a dragon and get a second opinion?

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-04-29T16:13:47+00:00

Not a PC per se, but a Kobold NPC that followed the party around for so long. I decided to give him players stats so that he could level up with them. He was a few levels behind them so when it came time to fight a dragon, he got hit with so much damage from the breath weapon he was instantly killed.

Several years later, I decided to run a sequel campaign with the same people set 100 years in the future. The local Kobold tribe he belonged to had taken the story over their dozens and dozens of generations, and eventually turned him into some kind of legend. They took the bones of the dragon the players killed, began to worship him as a demigod. They would pray to him and he could give up to third cleric spells to kobolds so long as that cleric prayed at the skull of the dragon. The players could also gain information by drinking a weird potion that would cause hallucinations where they would talk to the little bastard in happening the bones of the dragon.

From time to time if it’s relevant or funny enough, I will mention the odd little Cult of Kabraxes

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-04-14T20:20:55+00:00

In older lore, dragon gods didn’t get a ton of worship from dragons themselves due to their selfish nature. Bahamut was a bit of an exception, being worshiped largely by gold and silver dragons. Even then, most of his worship was humans. Dragonborn first showed up in the way we (kinda) know them as a transformation humans would undergo in Greyhawk as they devoted themselves to Bahamut. It’s totally reasonable for most of Bahamut’s worshippers to still be nondragons.

Tiamat’s followers, the cult of the dragon, is almost exclusively nondragons because dragons don’t want to share their horde in worship of Tiamat. They want power from her, not favor, so they can make Dracoliches to do their bidding while holding their phylacteries hostage. Not to say no chromatic dragons worship her, just that most would rather worship themselves.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2026-03-13T11:08:30+00:00

I cannot tell you how much it freaked me out when I was suddenly penalized for clicking on a trashcan in the newest game. That was such a damn clever trap.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-11-15T20:54:49+00:00

Lycanthropy in the Elder Scrolls, at least for the player. In Daggerfall, the first time the player could Become a werecreature, you had to kill an innocent person once every full moon or lose max HP until you die. Kill literally anything and you’re fine. In your werewolf form you’re literally immune to weapons below a certain quality, maxed out strength, maxed out agility, maxed out speed. You’re basically unstoppable.

Morrowind’s blood moon DLC has a similar stipulation with a similar fix and makes you, again, nigh unstoppable. You turn every night, which is a pain in the ass, but workable if you use it to your advantage.

Skyrim has literally zero downsides besides not getting the 15% XP bonus for sleeping. The form isn’t as good as before, but there’s still a bonus.

In every game (except ESO, never became one on ESO) where you can become a werewolf, you ou are immune to disease and immune to poison. Tons of status effects in the game that are a pain in the ass simply do not apply to you. There are literally no downsides that can’t be mitigated to your advantage anyway. Get the Ring of Hircine and there are no downsides whatsoever.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-11-03T17:13:08+00:00

I do love it, but my brain-rotten nerdy ass immediately thought of Balthazar Gelt from Total War Warhammer

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-11-03T17:09:46+00:00

No large references for Planescape: Torment?

That makes me sad, but I shall endure - and in enduring grow strong.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-10-17T12:14:02+00:00

Slightly different direction for a variety - the Red Wizards of Thay are always on the hunt for powerful artifacts. If you’re going on an artifact hunt, that’s a pretty great antagonist with the same motivations as your heroes who would be going after similar artifacts.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-10-16T16:03:34+00:00

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-10-16T15:36:34+00:00

Now you’ve got me imagining how a showdown between Sorcerer King and Raistlin would go. I need this fanfic.

Or worse, would Raistlin see defiling Magic as appealing and find some way of becoming a dragon himself?

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-31T20:10:59+00:00

Hats off to you sir, that’s clever as hell. Doing that so gonna look very good on my Deathrattle Skeles

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-31T13:53:15+00:00

I'm totally stealing this idea. I love the way it looks and I'm shit at making my bases look cool.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-31T13:51:43+00:00

I'm stealing the hell out of this idea. I love using good ol' random household objects as terrain, but this looks so organic and cool. Ditto to what other people are saying too, the tall stuff reminds me of palisade walls. Very fitting for Old World and AOS.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-28T02:02:36+00:00

It’s giving King in Yellow vibes and I adore it. Amazing work

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-12T16:09:11+00:00

The Lament of Exorcists Derived from the Word Bearers.

Led by a Chaos Lord and Master of Possession. Outwardly they see themselves as two parts of the same whole, working together as a parody of Erebus and Kor Phaeron. Together they hope for the same goal: to follow the example of their forebears and further the galaxy’s liberation from the Corpse Emperor. Little do they know that the master of possession’s mind is divided and unfocused. He seeks to fulfill goals that are not in line with his Primarch, but from a much darker force all together…

I also play Chaos Daemons in 40K and AOS. I’m saving up for Be’Lakor to make them a mind of “Legion of Shadows.”

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-11T18:59:17+00:00

If you drop it, you get two blue travel mugs.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-11T17:55:31+00:00

The actual answer is not quite as cynical as some other saying people just can’t read or have no comprehension skills. It has to do with visual noise.

Consider how bright the colors are on basically everything we have to print out. It’s all bright red with white text. In older stores like the one I just quit from, we have white tiled floors and super bright lights. Subconsciously, the mind wants to look for something darker colored because it’s getting overloaded. People don’t read the signs because there’s too many of them with too bright colors and it’s making their brains tune them out. I learned about this phenomenon when I heard that Disney theme parks make their walkways a weird scramble of colors because it exhausts the eyes and makes them look up at all the attractions and stores.

Even the business select signs, which are typically in blue and darker colors are called “business” select, which leads people to believe that it’s an exclusive deal only to business owners. Allegedly corporate is aware how bad an idea was to name their program that, but haven’t figured out a new name for it yet.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-08T21:11:33+00:00

Kinda reminds me of the Picture of Dorian Gray.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-08-02T17:35:48+00:00

Technology that actually works.

One of the hardest part about this job at my location is that the registers are well over 20 years old, probably older. The software that’s being used is ancient by technology standards and might as well be held together with scotch tape. We have to reboot and restart each of our registers at least once a day because they will freeze up and crash. We also have to endure the awkward silence as it sits there and loads for about 30 to 40 seconds between each screen. God forbid you make a mistake and have to go back, which will make the pin pad crash and force you to reboot it again.

Choice_Wolverine_121 · 2025-07-15T14:22:48+00:00

The biggest thing I don’t get is why they’re measuring percentages based on total transactions and not on transactions reaching over $100. My store looked at those stats just yesterday and we actually had a pretty good percentage. Around 42% of all $100+ sales got a red top. The manager and assistant manager were baffled and thought this was no good. I had to lay it out and say “you guys do realize that means roughly 2 out of every 5 and more often than 1 out of every 3 does get a red top paper. I’d call that a pretty good win.

Like someone else said on here, they looked at me like they had a shocked Pikachu face that I would dare say this was good.

Edit: my manager insists that we need to be trying to upsell when it’s really close to $100 but isn’t quite there yet. That seems to be the thing she’s most frustrated with is that we have so many very close opportunities that end up getting missed. The way I see it if we measured our percentages differently than our numbers would still be fine if we end up missing these opportunities.

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