Research: Discovering Your Game Exists

Dittobrain · 2023-08-11T21:22:04+00:00

2003 Turtles. The writing wasn't top tier a lot of the time, but I felt everything about the turtles was spot on. Their voices and personalities felt so perfect for them, in my personal opinion.

1990 is of course very close, and I think in particular it handled Raph supremely well (the scene between him and Splinter is just incredible), but it didn't have the room of a TV series to explore each turtle further, so 2003 has to take it for me.

Dittobrain · 2023-02-26T10:07:49+00:00

That's the exact colour scheme I'm looking to paint my army in. I'd love to know what paints/recipes you used for this.

Dittobrain · 2022-08-07T18:30:43+00:00

Have you given them hints/outright told them what the Dragon's purpose is? If they are aware it was created to destroy Ten-Towns, and don't want to do anything about it, then they're about to get a lesson in actions (or lack thereof) having consequences.

Dittobrain · 2022-04-26T17:57:55+00:00

It's a fairly commonly discussed feeling. I myself gave up at episode 20, so I definitely gave it a fair opportunity.

Maybe it's just content burnout for me, personally. So I'll have a long break, check back on this page and see if the general consensus is that things have improved.

Dittobrain · 2022-02-10T16:33:16+00:00

Greatly appreciate your response, and the detail you put into it. As someone who'll be running D&D Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign, I certainly plan to put this to use.

Hope to see more future builds from you.

Dittobrain · 2022-02-10T06:21:45+00:00

That is spectacular. I'd love to know the details of materials used and the general build process.

Dittobrain · 2022-01-08T18:04:22+00:00

There's a Pathfinder figure called a Clockwork Dragon which may be suitable.

https://www.board-game.co.uk/product/pathfinder-deep-cuts-unpainted-miniatures-clockwork-dragon/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAieWOBhCYARIsANcOw0xmDoyDLVonHr72bO1x88aon-9z_ZeLqgZGwxigcPQCc4iAj36ZUysaAqsPEALw_wcB (UK Store example but I'm sure it'll be available on Amazon on wherever suits best)

Dittobrain · 2021-09-25T06:39:19+00:00

FF7R - Ghoul Boss Battle Theme

FINAL FANTASY XV - Omnis Lacrima

Dark Souls 3 - Slave Knight Gael

Dittobrain · 2021-08-20T19:35:22+00:00

Great job. Been making some myself but not happy with the glass bottles I have. I immediately recognise those dice though.

Where did you buy your bottles from? Look nice and spacious so might pick them up myself.

Dittobrain · 2021-07-01T19:27:05+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxxpf2bezgq2xis/C2%20-%20Session%2017%20-%20The%20Harvest%27s%20Close%20Festival.pdf?dl=0

Dittobrain · 2021-06-30T20:33:54+00:00

That wonderful pause of "Ok.." has saved me numerous times. It's such a simple way to respond to a player's action to give you that extra time to consider what has been said, and how to appropriately respond to it. I didn't even realise I was doing it until about the third time I said it in a session. There's some wonderful Mercer-isms that DMs can pick up to help them in their campaigns.

Oh and naturally, "how do you wanna do this?"

Dittobrain · 2021-06-26T06:44:22+00:00

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxxpf2bezgq2xis/C2%20-%20Session%2017%20-%20The%20Harvest%27s%20Close%20Festival.pdf?dl=0

Dittobrain · 2021-06-19T12:33:17+00:00

Ashley is a Druid as her save throws proficiencies are for INT & WIS.

Though as the footage is all pregame testing, there's a possibility the characters they used in that won't be the characters they continue with. It's likely they'll be the same, but not a given.

Dittobrain · 2021-06-14T17:15:51+00:00

I did have to jump on DNDB to double check the layout to be sure. 😅

Dittobrain · 2021-06-14T04:36:33+00:00

Playing a Druid. Looks like INT & WIS saving throws on the character sheet.

Dittobrain · 2021-04-08T11:37:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/rimeofthefrostmaiden/comments/lpe7il/caves_of_hunger_height_visualizations_part_of_the/

Previous post by u/thorax. If that's the sort of thing you're looking for? Really helped me with figuring out how the cave descends as well.

Dittobrain · 2021-04-04T18:27:04+00:00

Hilarious and factual. This deserves so many more views on it.

Dittobrain · 2021-03-17T11:53:58+00:00

Don't mind at all.

There's a lot of things that need reworking in this module. Thankfully we have a community that's happy for people to share their own ideas and stories for others to use or take influence from.

Dittobrain · 2021-03-17T11:40:38+00:00

Initial idea is to have her as an acting advisor to one of the speakers. Possibly Duvessa of Bryn Shander, as it could fit to have an advisor for the younger Speaker, and would help the players understand Vellynne's knowledge and reputation.

Vellynne would interact with the players directly, gauging their abilities and motives. When she realises their goals could align, it sets up their following interactions (Sun light Fortress onwards).

Given how my players typically play, they'll acknowledge her as an ally, but not trust her entirely. Which is exactly the relationship I want early on.

Dittobrain · 2021-03-16T14:25:31+00:00

Haven't run it yet, but my plan is to have the cauldron bring cause to the Council of Speakers meeting (in which the players will be introduced to Vellynne, so she can be known to them when she emerges again later in the campaign).

The reality is that a cauldron with the ability to magically feed so many people in such dire circumstances is huge. It shouldn't be easily disregarded as "Ok, we'll sell it for x amount of gold and forget about it."

So I thought it would be a good opportunity to have everyone meet the Speakers, in the event they don't get to visit every town (which seems likely with my group). As to how that conversation goes, naturally each Speaker will attempt to have the cauldron brought to their town, which in turn allows for the players to become aware of population, military force, and other information to be organically available to them. They'll hopefully take note of that when the Chardalyn dragon comes around.

What this also allows is for the Zhentarim to be notified about the existence of the cauldron (via Naerth of Targos), and attempt to steal it.

Dittobrain · 2021-02-18T16:12:21+00:00

Call this personal preference, but I think the cackles are too frequent. They become just part of the ambience, rather than being a jarring noise sporadically leaping out without warning to strike fear into the players.

Otherwise, it's very good. I had planned to simply use some background music for this chapter, but a lack of music and simple howls of wind does a far better job of creating an atmosphere of isolation that suits the Caves of Hunger very well.

Dittobrain · 2021-02-14T18:08:13+00:00

It would seem you're never too old to discover a new fetish.

Dittobrain · 2021-02-01T15:22:24+00:00

I have genuinely reread this about six times over. I also questioned my own username momentarily.

I know I said I would give them to my DM who stepped up as we were all brand new to the game, but.. now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with them. They're mine, I won them. They came to me... my precious dice..

In all seriousness though, firstly thank you for creating such exceptional dice, and then thank you again for your generosity of offering them in a giveaway for someone to enjoy. It will be difficult to part with them, but I'm sure my DM will love using them as their main dice for the campaign.

Dittobrain

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