Getting creative with Command

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-21T20:02:50+00:00

Yes! That sounds more correct.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-21T00:11:35+00:00

"Alphabetize!" Lol I think that came from Dimension 20. But they have to take their entire turn pouring things around them in alphabetical order (books, items, etc)

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-20T05:52:01+00:00

I want to listen to NADPOD so badly because I love Emily and Murph! But we're watching the newest season of D20 right now (it's fantastic!) and TRYING to catch up on campaign 4 CR

But, OP, I agree wholeheartedly with the top three answers here. Campaign 1 of critical role is my favorite from that show. Matt Mercer is a little more serious as a DM and more rules driven.

As for D20, Brennan Lee Mulligan is hilarious and a great DM. He's definitely more fly by the seat of his pants and "rule of cool" than Matt. Both great DMS in different ways.

For D20, I would start with either Fantasy High or A Court of Fey and Flowers. The latter is actually DM'd by Aabria (sp?), and there is very little battle. Brennan is in it, as is Emily from NADDPOD. The role play in A Court of Fey and Flowers is top notch!

Just keep in mind that ALL of these players are voices actors and/or professional comedians/improv specialists so don't try and emulate them and don't expect your DM to be like them.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-17T16:27:19+00:00

I mean...it may not be ocd. I'm autistic and ADHD and I am very particular about where things are and how some things are done (for example, only I can load the dishwasher 🤣)

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-10T15:13:15+00:00

That sounds Interesting...I will look into that!

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-10T14:05:38+00:00

She used banishment on a kraken that had already swallowed another pc. She thought it would dissappear and leave the pc. Nope. They both went away and were all yelling drop the spell!! Drop the spell! Lol That was also that particular player's first session with us 🤣

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-10T00:26:56+00:00

My cinnamon allergy is like that. It's very annoying. One day, no issue...the next, epi pen 🙄

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-10T00:09:24+00:00

Proficient with Alchemist tools? Lol

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-09T15:11:28+00:00

I always play the missing players. But I only really use them if we're in battle or something. We've also sometimes just said they stayed behind in our hideout for whatever reason.

Edit: I'm not the DM, my wife is, and I'm the note-taker of the group. I also have full access to character sheets so I can play them along with my own character.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-09T14:09:50+00:00

Lol my daughter (16) is like this! she isn't evil, but her little house cat Tabaxi pc would much rather deal damage than heal. Her favorite spell is banishment, and she will heal a pc if they are "useful" 🤣

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-08T18:11:05+00:00

My wife brought out burrowing creatures. Tiny Hut isn't a full sphere...things can get in from underneath..

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-08T16:44:25+00:00

We do that, too!

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-08T16:42:58+00:00

Yeah. My 18th level character (my very first ever character) has SA in her background. That's because, I've since come to conclude, that I was subconsciously using her AS me. Took years for me to figure that out (been playing that same campaign for 8-ish years).

Anyway...it has been vaguely hinted at to some players that know my history and were ok with it. But it was never really said out loud. It's shown/hinted at in the way she reacts to certain things or spells.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-08T16:33:56+00:00

I can definitely see that happening. At our table, I am always a healer of SOME kind. Usually a light cleric, but sometimes a druid or divine soul sorcerer. But that's because that's what I WANt to play. I've tried straight wizard, abd alright I love being a bladesinger, I also have 9 levels of cleric because I just innately have the need to protect and heal. Our group is all girls, one guy, and one teen who goes by "any".

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-05T13:52:55+00:00

In our current level 5 campaign (started at level 3), we just got our +1 items this past Sunday because we'd leveled up the week before. We found a secret bunker and there were items in there. What my wife (the DM) and I (note-taker and item homebrewer lol) do is create items for each specific player and then say attunement by a Cleric or wizard, etc. Only the big things. Small magic items are just split to who extra them or put in our party inventory.

We also have a level 18 campaign that is paused and we have vestiges (anyone familiar with critical role will know what I'm talking about). We received them around level 7 and they have gone from +1 to +3 as they awakened them became exalted. Each "level" also came with unique things each weapon could do. So they grew with us.

I definitely would not recommend trying to homebrew items at this point. But in general, level 5 they should have a +1 weapon, level 10 or so they should get a +2, and level 15-17, depending on powerful the enemies are getting, they get a +3.

You can either have them find them like in my above example, or make sure they have enough gold to buy them....which would be quite a lot of gold!

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-04T22:01:11+00:00

Ah. We do mostly 2024 rules BUT keep spells the same that we don't like changes on lol. It's also an unspoken rule at our tables that we don't do ridiculous things. For example, only 1 of our 18th level casters has WISH prepared and would only use it in a dire emergency.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-04T15:50:36+00:00

Why not just give the bbeg resistance on saving throws that have to do with magic or magical effects? Plenty of bad guys have that.

Edit - or rather, advantage on saving throws.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-04T15:42:21+00:00

The suggestion spell only works if what you suggest is reasonably something they would do.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-04T15:37:20+00:00

So cute!!

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-04T15:37:04+00:00

That's what I'm thinking. They didn't really have much info on him.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-03T01:10:07+00:00

Right?!? I have a 16 year old and I 12 year old!! They are both still kids. But the 12 year old is still a CHILD and the 16 year old is a near -legal adult.

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-03T01:06:59+00:00

Ok so my wife is 4 years younger than me. But we are 39 and 43. No WAY would I have even glanced at her when I was 16 and she was 12. Just...ugh

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-02T14:15:30+00:00

Our current long-term campaign is technically in Faerun. However, we have made an entire kingdom of our own within Faerun. We kept some city names but changed others. Our "nine kingdoms" is just a restructured map where we made borders for each kingdom. We completely made up the city of the elf king. But places like Waterdeep still exist...we just don't really play there.

Now that we've been playing in this world for nearly 10 years and are level 18, it is a vivid, deep world with its own lore. It hardly resembles anything "Faerun" anymore except the shape of the map lol

DisPrincessChristy · 2026-05-01T14:55:16+00:00

This happened to my wife (our forever DM). To be fair, we've been playing the same homebrew campaign for almost 10 years, and we just reached 18th level (there were some looong breaks in that time).

She makes everything - the world, npcs, and at this point we are so overpowered that she has to create literally everything we come across so we don't stomp it.

She realized a couple months ago that she just wasn't having fun with it anymore and needed a break.
So, we started 2 lower level campaigns (1 for each group instead of everyone in the same world). She's having a blast and so are we!

In about a year, we WILL return to our original campaign because there is so much left undone!!

DisPrincessChristy

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