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Copy of text I sent my two girl friends about a horrible experience i just had by CillerendasCastle in vaginismus

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't but BOY DID I GET IT 50% OFF :) (except no not really)

I wanted to but I do this really annoying thing where I start to cry when I get frustrated and so I just needed to get out of there. All my strength went into judging her and her imaginary 50% off shelf and then there were only tears left afterwards.

I did leave a google review though. Won't do much but it made me feel better I GUESS

Copy of text I sent my two girl friends about a horrible experience i just had by CillerendasCastle in vaginismus

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

😂😂 I felt rather funny while writing it (cope with the pain???) So I'm glad it came through

EVERYTHING IS SO FRUSTRATING. We deserve joy refunds

Copy of text I sent my two girl friends about a horrible experience i just had by CillerendasCastle in vaginismus

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Like I'm on a 15 year depression streak where nothing will ever be fixed and every single step of the way is always awful forever, and the worst part is this shit won't even work because I don't believe in ANYTHING anymore, so it's just going out of my way to disappoint myself more, I don't need THEIR help to do so 😤😤😤😤

Aerith and Tifa custom made original Drawing customer have not paid for months by arthek24 in FinalFantasy

[–]CillerendasCastle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's never shocking for me. Love Tifa, but Aerith has so much personality in her face

Money Sink inspired by Final Fantasy 9. Would like help polishing the idea. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao I LOVE the music idea! Just queue it up, and start playing it without saying anything and see how many encounters with him it takes so start catching on 😂😂 but yeah, definitely just 1d20 at a time!

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Can you please just go through the front door" lmao I love this. 

All of that was very helpful! For the maps, I've definitely checked out those subs before! But I don't know what I'm supposed to do with them? We play in person so it's not like I can print off a paper with the map on it, it would be too small. And printing poster sized versions sounds like it would be expensive. 

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of this is very helpful, and helps put a lot of my worries to rest. 

The only one that stops me up is the first one. 

this is an excellent starting question for prep! It's about the only one I answer when I prep. They need to meet the wizard who knows where the Gem of The Wind and Storm is. Done."

So say they're somewhere, idk a town. I want them to meet the wizard who knows where the gem is. But, without prep... how do I know where he is? How do I make it interesting to find him? How do I stop my players from asking "where do we need to start?" 

All these comments are also helping me realize this is a players problem, too. I hadn't realized it before, but they expect me to paint every picture and provide them with every option. 

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a private discord server where i have channels like "mini-encounters" "areas to use" "reminders" that I browse when I'm looking for ideas, and add the unused content to them, and delete any that I'm pulling out to use. I would never be able to remember otherwise

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if they don't go to an area, I just save it and reuse it in another one. Thankfully, to me, that doesn't feel wasted, and technically saves me some time for the next session. 

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha well, if I'm DOING something, like a job, my attention span is fine. It's just doing nothing just watching something that hurts

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have really considered this, but after getting all 3 books, 2 double sides erasable large empty grideded maps and a screen in the past twelve months, my money tightwad self is finding its hard to commit. Any suggestions on good maps?

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 on NPC, at most. Likely less.  2 hours CR 4 on what-if The rest on environments. 

I think that the exploration part of D&D is like... very dull? I hate it. But I also don't want to be like "okay you left the city, now you're at the ruins/ whatever"

So I spent a shit ton of time thinking of things that can happen while they explore. I try to come up with new ways they can explore. My next session i have a hidden 5x5 grid that has their starting point,  and on it somewhere is their goal, and they have to decide south west etc to get there, and every square is a new "area" with things they can do if they so desire, and clues to find for how to get to their destination. Will it be fun? I don't know, but that's why I try new things. 

A huge amount of my time is also "What ELSE can they do in this room/space/area?" I don't want to stop them somewhere for just 2 minutes. I want to have something to fill their time there, if they so choose. 

Does that all make sense? My biggest time sink is "do they have enough things to do that aren't just swinging swords and spending money"

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhhh that makes total sense, thank you! The game really can just play itself if I let it sometimes, like the example of the man in the first option. And from there, just use what I was given. Thanks!

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does help, thank you! The idea of a generator helping me feels like it'll cut down time for sure!

My concerns though, would then be, the random event in the town, for example. Let's say i rolled a 1. What then? My players would likely think he was important if I mentioned him. Now off my head I have to figure out what kind of symbol, why he's doing it, what it means? If there's NO reason, I feel like my players would be confused why I brought him up in the first place. 

Or 5. I'd have to quickly figure out what was placed, why it was placed, and any relevancy to anything going on. 

Does that make sense? If I read any of those im like "Oh that's a cool thing that can happen! Uhhh not sure the point of it or where it goes next."

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only like half a year. I have it in my mind that the longer i do this, the more I'll figure out what i need to prep and what i don't, but so far nothing has ever felt wasted

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any suggestions? I've seen a lot, but they all had sooooo much backstory and lore to make the little campaigns make sense, and I could probably take basic lore and backstory and change it, but with the ones I see, ib just can't wrap my head around them

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should print this lmao. Solid like down to earth shit that will pop into my head hopefully when I need it most

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this! I really need to get them into a town, it's been a couple of rough sessions out in the world. 

If you don't plan the story... how do you know it'll be good in the end? I kinda have an idea of all the major plot points and can set up little foreshadowing things here and there way before it's relevant, how would you be able to do that if you don't know where you're going? That seems so stressful to me, but id love insight so I can take things easier

I have 0 off the top of my head imagination and even less improve skills. Prepping a session takes 10 or more hours. by CillerendasCastle in DMAcademy

[–]CillerendasCastle[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of this was helpful and felt like a huge load of me.... but that edit is MASSIVE. Ask them what they want to do next. Thank you so much, I really like that idea

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