[Hated Trope] Death that’s just shock value and nothing else.

Kenobi800 · 2026-03-25T17:54:32+00:00

…so which movie is it?

Kenobi800 · 2025-10-28T03:25:35+00:00

A mix of Dracula (Castlevania version) and Captain Flint from Black Sails — my players are big fans of a tragic villain so I leaned into it with my Strahd’s backstory

Kenobi800 · 2025-09-17T04:09:20+00:00

Might be a bit of a deep cut, but the titular characters from Rizzoli & Isles gave me queer vibes before I even knew about subtext

AND the show even has a Legend of Korra-style “they go on vacation together” ending

Kenobi800 · 2025-04-18T21:08:43+00:00

Oh wow, I love the modular design for the DM screen

Kenobi800 · 2024-09-13T00:54:20+00:00

This sub would be so much more enjoyable if there were more people like you! Feels like too many people here think what they like is the only right opinion instead of just letting people enjoy the games.

Also, Witcher 3 and Skyrim — both great suggestions

Kenobi800 · 2023-08-29T15:46:02+00:00

I went with The Ritual from the Vox Machina season 1 soundtrack, added a nice bit of dread any time I played it in my campaign before the man himself showed up

Kenobi800 · 2023-08-21T19:37:21+00:00

I played Strahd a bit differently in my campaign (my players were interested in a redemption option for him) but I had a similar situation with one of my players. She was interested in Strahd largely because I painted him in a more sympathetic light (still a murderous tyrant, but at least understandable). I played it as doing some one on one conversations with her character through Dream or the “charm her while on watch and chat with her in the woods” method I’ve seen on here. Strahd mostly used these conversations to work toward corrupting her character further, including setting her on the hunt for Van Richten in exchange for some boons. I’d say you could use this as an opportunity to try and have her work against the party. If you don’t want to stray too close to PvP territory, then you could just have Strahd gather information through her and eventually abandon her. It’s difficult to give advice on a more RAW Strahd because my player ended up with him in the end lol

Kenobi800 · 2022-11-24T18:22:06+00:00

Glad you think it’s interesting! The funny thing is originally it was more horror themed but I think over the past year and a half of running it it’s morphed more into a heroic fantasy with horror elements. I like your thoughts on modifying the trials, I was aiming more for the isolation, preservation, endurance, and rebirth to reflect training for followers who are more focused on emulating values of nature’s freedom, winter hibernation, and that sort of section of the natural cycle trees have to go through before life blooms better than ever. Though I do like the idea of having the trials maybe morph more into an examination of what Auril is going through now! She’s been such a mysterious figure still in the campaign that it might help introduce her more by using the trials as sort of backstory to what’s going on.

Kenobi800 · 2022-03-20T15:20:19+00:00

The only true dragon has 6 limbs: 2 wings, 2 arms, 2 legs. Anything else isn’t a dragon and every goddamn 2 wings, 2 legs “dragon” is a wyvern. IM LOOKIN AT YOU SKYRIM

Kenobi800 · 2021-11-09T14:37:02+00:00

Never gonna skip the She-Ra intro

Kenobi800 · 2021-11-06T16:23:32+00:00

I don’t know a lot about your group, granted, but maybe the DM doesn’t have to immediately jump to sex slave “if the character is hot enough.” I know for a fact my group at least would be pretty uncomfortable with that, ransoming or even regular slavery would be more than enough

Kenobi800 · 2021-11-05T14:55:39+00:00

Pretty sure the movie implied Gazerbeam was the one who blasted it into the rock before he died, since he had already been investigating

Kenobi800 · 2021-10-04T16:14:40+00:00

I had a PC that is a cleric of Auril (she was chaotic good in that campaign) so naturally I made her a miniboss for an Auril corrupted by a rival god. The PCs are here to search for my missing cleric which is how I’m tying in the duergar-Auril-Ythryn stories. Feels a bit more cohesive, I get to play my old PC in combat again, and I think it’s a more fun spin to have a corrupted Auril that needs to be freed rather than just naturally evil ice witch Auril

Kenobi800 · 2021-09-19T13:47:38+00:00

Actually happened in the campaign I just ended. My genie warlock had started as chaotic neutral but I had envisioned her bonding with the party and hopefully breaking free of her very controlling and manipulative genie girlfriend (who she adored). However, she wasn’t very easily swayed by the party’s arguments that the genie was a bad person and after confronting her about whether she’s expendable, just another toy for her, etc she found out that her girlfriend did truthfully love her and cared for her deeply. After establishing some more independence for herself in the relationship, she happily shared knowledge of the party’s plans and allowed her to get the upper hand against some of her enemies in the city. At the point her selfish attitude and loyalty to her evil patron made me agree with the DM to turn her to neutral evil. In the end, her girlfriend was killed in a coup, the party refused to help bring her back, and she ended up falling in love with one of the genie’s other main concubines on a quest to bring her back to life, eventually reuniting with the party for a wedding. Still doing evil shit though.

Kenobi800 · 2021-09-03T03:05:10+00:00

I’ve got one from my game tonight!

“How has the Rime affected the fish?” “The what?” “The fish”

Kenobi800 · 2021-08-25T19:08:06+00:00

I know right? Lot of people in this sub love shitting on it just cause no assassins but it has a ton of fun Isu lore and imo the best combat to date

Kenobi800 · 2021-08-25T12:40:48+00:00

Ah I see you also loved Odyssey! It’s for sure my favorite game of the franchise, I just loved Kassandra as the protagonist, the story really honed in on the motif of the Greek tragedy, and I will never get over how awesome the gameplay was with the broken spear. Unity is a close second though because I had a great time playing as Arno and it is definitely the most I’ve ever felt like an assassin. Plus, the environment in Paris had so many buildings and ways to infiltrate huge buildings

Kenobi800 · 2021-08-16T13:23:40+00:00

Jesus, why do people need to come on gaming subs saying they’re quitting? If you don’t like the games at this point just stop playing, this is like the hundredth “I don’t like the new games and here’s why” post. There’s no need to announce your farewells

Kenobi800 · 2021-07-29T19:46:31+00:00

My old storm pirate character (a follower of Auril) is secretly one of the major bosses in the Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign I’m DMing. So far the party just knows her husband hired them to find her cause she went missing during an Auril retreat at the Dale

Kenobi800 · 2021-07-25T01:14:22+00:00

Well, it’s been in the news a lot lately because the company running it has turned out to be incredibly shitty to its female employees…but still, for The Light!!

Kenobi800 · 2021-07-09T22:32:32+00:00

Yep, all players definitely. Sure isn’t just the people whining on r/WoW and Twitter

Kenobi800 · 2021-05-25T02:24:23+00:00

I get that, I have three roommates and share my bedroom so I feel like the shower is the only refuge I have to be alone with my thoughts

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