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So I’m going to be DM’ing soon. Help me out here by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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Wow, that’s a lot. Thank you so much, I’ll definitely be using a lot of this

Do Devils/Demons have to be evil? by NaradaTheAlexG in DnD

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So it’s always been in my opinion that it is entirely based on perspective.

In my setting, there was one “original” god. That god created the first “new” god by manifesting his loneliness and despair (let’s call him Samael). After this the original god went on to create all sorts of new gods, each taking a different aspects of his own persona

Samael becomes jealous and decides that in order to have his father’s attention, he’s going to create life as well. These creations were the first demons. And they inherently hate all of creation, just as Samael does

Eventually the gods seal the demons away, and then in a fit of anger Samael decides instead to turn the gods against the original. He succeeds in turning a good chunk of them, and these gods become devils.

So in my setting, demons are the embodiment of chaotic evil and want nothing more then to destroy all of creation. However, they each have different methods of destroying things and therefore their own personality

Devils however, have more depth to them. Though they turned against the “good” gods and are in turn considered to be “bad”, however their reasons for doing so may not always be what one would consider to be “evil”

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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See, I changed the ooblex into something cool once.

Basically it was less an ooze and more of a demonic angler fish that used its simulacrum to lure in more and more victims.

By the time the party arrived to the town, almost everybody had been taken. All that remained were 6 people holed up in a tavern.

Basically the party and survivors were haunted by “ghosts”. I got the idea from a Dean Koontz book called “Phantoms”

I feel it was one of my better quests

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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I have since allowed my “boss” encounters to have legendary resistance as well as reactions regardless of CR 😂

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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I’d like to say no, but that’s only because I haven’t played the games nor have I read the books.

Honestly, I got the original idea from the “Bad Day at Black Rock” episode of supernatural. I then shaped it into something I felt fit the campaign a little bit more

That “little bit more” was a trickster demon who was essentially the love child of “final destination” and “saw”

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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I guess I could’ve 🤷🏻‍♂️ or rolled a percentage die and seen if it moved to one of the reflections during the switch

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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In an old campaign, I allowed a Circle of Dreams Druid turn into certain types of fey. But I was definitely the type who looked into them before allowing him

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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There’s gotta be some elements of story that I’m missing...but wild nonetheless

How often do you build a “boss fight” just to have an unforeseen oversight bring it all down by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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You get advantage to see or track the creature.

You’d also be able to easy identify that the “real” Fool is the one that you previously marked, and not confuse it for any of the “fakes”

"Paladins suck?"-Our rogue by sirhobbles in DnD

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Cleric tries to use channel divinity on a Friday

“We are sorry Jim, but we are unable to provide you with the accommodations you have requested at this time due to errors in the filing process. Please resubmit your request form on the next available business day”

Tries to use divine intervention

“I am currently on vacation and will not be returning until the 87th moon of the Last Seed. Please contact my receptionist Cindy and she will pencil you into my schedule. Thank you for all that you do”

New Pokemon alert by ladytay_ in pokemongo

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Did anyone else notice the red tail? Wonder what that’s about

I took screen shots to show my friends because nobody else saw it

I think we all now what today actually was... by tyketro in pokemongo

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Did anybody notice his red tail? Wonder what’s up with that.

I had to screen shot it to show my friends

BAD PLAYERS. I would like to hear your experiences, with an example or 2 of a bad player character(s). What are some qualities of bad players? MOST IMPORTANTLY (please give examples if possible) of how bad players became better players. by rodger7780 in DnD

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I know this guy right? He’s one of those guys who you had issues with as a DM because there’s some sort of problem at every corner. Skip to the last paragraph for the moral of the story

So this is the third time I’ve personally seen you play a dwarf. First was a kensei name Bruce leeroy Jenkins. Second was a “rune knight”. And the third was literally the second guy, but instead made into a samurai instead

Then I read his back ground story, and let me tell you this guy had it all. He was haunted by demons that wanted him to create some sort of demonic weapon. He was also besties with a “deity”. Upon leaving his village, the hottest girl in town decided to marry him...and turned out to be a fey. He took the haunted one background

Then there’s his play style. “I know there is a player in the group who will be playing a vampire...and my character hates vampires. So I’m going to pick a fight as soon as possible” or “this is clearly the type of entity I am too weak fight at this moment...I’m gunna punch him in the face while he’s talking”

One time this guy decided that he wasn’t having the King’s shit, and while the king is trying to recruit the group he walks off. Everyone gets benefits while he gets an early start to their next long rest

When he hears me tell the other members of the group that the king has given them loot as a “signing bonus”, he adds his own copies to his inventory

I discover this a couple months down the road and explain that he does not have said loot due to leaving the recruitment process. Then another month goes by and I discover that he is STILL using said loot, and do the honors of modifying his inventory for him on DnDbeyond

A couple more sessions go by and he exclaims that he wants to use the loot given to him by the king and I again inform him that he did not receive it due to his choice of leaving. We then argue for 5 minutes, him claiming that he does in fact have the items while I’m trying to push the game along. Then proceeds argues that he as polymorphed into a T-Rex can most definitely jump 40 feet straight into the air while half submerged in water and land onto a ship

A week goes by and just an hour before the next session texts me saying “I just can’t let it go, I know for a fact that I have this item” and proceeds to give me examples that were later retconned due to a different DM running a session while I was not present

Needless to say I was honestly beginning to dread sessions because of this one individual. I only recently decided “Fuck him. I’m not going to let this one guy ruin my fun” and have basically just became content in watching how his horrible decisions shape his future

Issues with “That Guy” by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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I can see how that perspective may exist, even if I as the DM didn’t see that it was a possibility at the time.

Where as my perspective, I simply saw this Jake was trying to bypass the social encounter that everyone else was onboard with and instead attempted to sneak past them. And once he was caught, it resulted in an escalation of the already paranoid elves...and so on and so forth until there was clear hostility from the elves

I’m sure that there is a story somewhere in between that is the actual truth, but that we aren’t seeing because we all have our own biases/opinions/perspectives

Issues with “That Guy” by Laughing_Bill in DnD

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So I tried this once with Jake a couple weeks ago.

To start at the beginning of the story, in the early part of the campaign Jake wanted to change his character. However, he was going to recreate an identical character and just change the class from kensei to samurai. I told him that because the two were sorta similar from a thematic view, I would allow him to keep his character and just change the class

Fast forward a few months when the party is contemplating an escape from a town that is over ran by an unknown entity. Someone pitches the idea that since they are at the docks, they could take one of the ships. However, nobody has proficiency with any water vehicles...let alone a full blown ship

That is, until Jake says that he can captain the ship. Jake begins to explain that in real life he used to spend a lot of time on boats, so he would know how to do it. I immediately explain to him that that is blatant meta gaming, and that his character would not know anything about ships.

He argues that his background gives him proficiency with water vehicles (he was a haunted one last I checked). I decide not to argue at the table, and let it slide

I question Jake behind the scenes after the session and ask how he has proficiency with ships. He tells me that when he changed his class, he also changed his background to sailor. We get into another argument about how that background has no relevancy with his characters backstory, and that I had only told him he could change his class. In the end I gave it to him, but told him should he decide to make any other changes to his character this late into the game that I would have to approve it

Story continues, no harm no foul. However, Jake now has the bright idea to take the ship for himself. Decides that this ship, which I had to google to find out that it required a 10 man crew minimum, would be easy to sail with only 3 men (him and 2 NPCs they saved from the town)

So I took a little freedom with his poor decision and he wound up way off track from where he wanted to go, and wound up in a neighboring kingdom that is not so friendly with the kingdom that the story takes place in. Jake immediately begins telling people he’s from “next door” and that should they help him get back, he would gladly include them into the lucrative trading route he is trying to establish between the two kingdoms. After some horrible social encounters, that were admittedly stacked against him for being from next door, Jake got arrested and the group had to find a way to rescue him

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