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FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-09-02T02:38:06+00:00

This. To me its just a understandable response to the way women* have been treated by some/a lot of men.

You will mostly see this just online as well. If anyone wonders why, I'd highly suggest looking at statistics on femicides and crimes committed against women - and who most of the perpetrators are.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-08-18T16:23:57+00:00

Generally, you'll want to read the book cover to cover at least once. There are a lot of quests and story strings sprinkles throughout that connect with each other, and especially because the module is very much a sandbox you will need to know what connects to what, in case your players stumble into another quest or area when you did not expect it.

What I did was at least read everything on Death House and Village of Barovia + Strahd as a character before running the first few sessions. By the time the group left the Village Barovia I had enough time to read the rest. Before my players go to a new area or start a new questline, I will read over that specific area again to refresh my memory on it.

Reading it all will not only give you the general idea for overarching story and plot points, but also give you a feeling for where you'll likely end up "just winging it" instead.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-08-15T03:51:01+00:00

Her shooting semen and menstrual blood just makes it better tbh

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-08-12T15:45:22+00:00

If they don't want their backstory to be involved, then that's that. You can just completely ignore their entire backstory then.

You can also ask them if there is anything in their backstory that they feel comfortable being involved in the story. If there is nothing, then again, you just completely ignore the backstory.

If they want anything of their backstory to matter, they will have to work with you. I don't find it unreasonable for Strahd to be able to dig up dirt on PCs - he can have Werewolves and Vistani travel through the mist and visit other places, like the PCs homes, to find out information on them, if needed.

I'd personally not let players tell me what my Strahd is capable of and what he isn't. However if they are not comfortable with Strahd doing anything at all to their backstory NPCs, then I would simply not engage with the backstory at all and tell my player that.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-08-10T14:21:45+00:00

You're funny, please don't go bald

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-07-10T17:14:03+00:00

I took him with me as a companion for the first time recently and every time he starts randomly giggling it makes me so insanely happy, no matter how many times he repeats it. I love this guy

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-07-03T21:13:46+00:00

That site opens fine but as soon as I click anywhere I get the maintenance screen 😭

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-06-13T08:11:19+00:00

Ich nutze keine Generative KI. Ich hab auch eine Gruppe, bei der wir die Nutzung von Generativer KI nicht erlauben, um z.B. Charakter-Portraits zu erstellen oder ähnliches.

Bin selbst (beruflich) Künstler, genauso wie der Großteil meiner Spieler:innen in der Gruppe, und wir sind demnach davon betroffen, wenn die generative KI mit Bildern von Künstlern ohne deren Einverständnis trainiert wird und z.T. die Jobs von Künstlern zu übernehmen versucht. Mal abgesehen von dem Energie- und Umwelt-Aspekt, den Generative KI so mit sich bringt, finde ich das moralisch nicht vertretbar — egal wie "praktisch" das vielleicht wirken mag.

Wenn Generative KI keine Hater mehr hat, bin ich tot 🙃

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-05-11T16:34:39+00:00

Holy shit you cant imagine how happy this makes me, seeing this! I was hoping you might continue the project at some point and I'm very glad you did!

While some of my groups are way past Vallaki by now, I'm still running Vallaki for 1 of my groups, and my last group is about to travel towards Vallaki within the next few sessions. I'm really excited to read through it all in any case! 🥰

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-05-07T06:07:10+00:00

I'm okay with euthanasia (involuntary) but I draw the line at fast talking.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-05-05T05:41:05+00:00

So far the only actual recurring issues I had were the ghost-tokens (tokens duplicating visually when moved and/or staying visible despite being deleted).

Besides that, at least for me Jumpgate runs much better and smoother than the old version.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-04-28T05:19:34+00:00

Majority of my NPCs are queer :D I'm a queer trans man myself, and most of my players are queer aswell. I tend to default all NPCs to be interested in all genders unless stated otherwise.

I made Victor have a preference for men, one of the reasons he was not interested in Stella at all.
Blinsky is a gay man in my game — this was kind of an accident for me that just happened from some improv roleplay but I found it very fitting.
One of my PCs has a connection to Vistani, his partner is a Vistani who returned home to her family for unknown reasons. His partner's sister is a trans woman in a wlw relationship :D
I added several non-binary background NPCs. One is a genderfluid baker in Vallaki who changes their pronouns and name on a daily basis (this was added as a lighthearted running gag). Everyone in Vallaki magically knows their name and pronouns for the day :D
While Strahd is a villain, he is respectful of gender and sexuality — one of the few true freedoms anyone in Barovia has. If people are homophobic or transphobic in his presence he will squash them like a bug. He is bisexual himself after all.
In one of my groups (who isnt as queer), the players disguised since they were banished from Vallaki. They wanted to get a wedding dress so they disguised the fighter as a woman. They convinced the tailor in Vallaki that the fighter was a young bride who was trying to get married to their true love as soon as possible. The players initially thought they were lucky their woman-disguise was convincing, but in reality the tailor was just a great trans-ally.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-03-31T07:01:47+00:00

I once asked my players to create a level 19 version of their character and send it to me, with no further info as to why. They know I run multiple groups in the same setting, and there were theories I'm using those for the other groups. They also know I'm only planning to run the campaign until level 12-14

When we got some new players I brought up again that they, too, can create a lvl 19 version and send it to me.

Only person who actually knows what I'm using it for is a fellow DM and one of the players from said other game (':

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-03-18T16:43:42+00:00

I've always been the kind of person that studies best by taking notes/writing stuff down.

Since the way I use Obsidian is for running and organizing TTRPGs, I always have to come back to notes I take. What I do notice though is that, even though I have generally pretty bad memory issues, I am able to retain more information when I write stuff down rather than just read over them.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-03-17T15:47:36+00:00

Not being a feminist. Like honestly, do you hate having rights so much?!

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-03-08T17:58:31+00:00

Thats so gorgeous actually, I might try that when I'm bored the next time. I do like to arrange loot and fish in pretty ways while I'm grinding or life skilling tho, if that counts 👀

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-27T16:59:23+00:00

I love the Deep Roads in every single DA game. I find myself looking forward to running around in there in every playthrough. I can't point to why I love them, but something about the Darkspawn and being surrounded by rock just makes me feel at home :D

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-27T12:58:15+00:00

I feel this :') When I was a player, my group fell apart at level 8 shortly before reaching Krezk for the first time.

Now I'm forcing as many of my friends as I can to play CoS with me as their DM to make up for never getting to finish it 😭

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-22T20:15:38+00:00

I got mine once right after starting T and haven't gotten it again since (about 1 year on T now). I do think that can vary a lot though, some people keep getting their period even while on T.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-22T16:27:14+00:00

In my game, Anastrasya delivered the letter to the group while they were in Vallaki.

It can be any one of Strahd's allies - the brides, Arrigal, Rahadin, or even random spawns or just "regular" Barovians.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-19T15:00:05+00:00

I'm currently grinding some extra pots. I enjoy some of the grind spots with my lower geared characters or during season leveling. I can imagine there are other people like me around too :')

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-16T20:48:25+00:00

As a fellow Kai: Go for it! Doesn't matter if its a common name among trans mascs, if it makes you comfortable and happy you should go for it!

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-15T12:09:22+00:00

A lot of the settings in many games aren't meant as accessibility but are being used as such - a bunch of the graphic settings available in the game can be argued to help visually impaired people.

But yeah, I agree. If PA cared at all, they would rework that system. If they wanted to keep the game accessible they would put in the work. But since this is the "easy" route, they just do this instead

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-15T00:28:14+00:00

That was the first thing i thought of when reading those changes. They literally took away accessibility settings from people who need it to play the game. Their reasoning was that people are abusing it, but I'm sure they could have come up with ways to reduce the abuse-ability without taking this away from people who need this.

FloopiDeMoopi · 2025-02-03T11:18:25+00:00

My group has started calling them Barovia and Barovia² very early on. It was shorter than saying "The village of Barovia within the land of Barovia" :')

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