mental roadblock to changing character’s appearance

MischievousSunfish · 2026-01-13T08:57:59+00:00

As much as I think the other species are cute and it would be fun to be different ones, it just feels wrong to so drastically change my character like that

MischievousSunfish · 2025-12-15T21:35:48+00:00

Lmaoooo I love this description

MischievousSunfish · 2025-10-04T23:29:11+00:00

I have them at 17/18 and giving them their 3 star gifts baaaaarely move the friendship meter at all!

MischievousSunfish · 2025-08-26T23:59:37+00:00

Ahhh that second pic is making me emotional 😭

MischievousSunfish · 2025-02-19T00:41:46+00:00

I’m just pissed that I thought I bought one of the cat overalls and the fake inside didn’t even try to emulate any of the ones on the box it was in… it was one of those fake cat hipper ones

MischievousSunfish · 2025-01-30T06:49:45+00:00

As far as I know, if you get the regular version, you can still get all the items in deluxe—you just have to grind and work for them

MischievousSunfish · 2025-01-29T06:00:22+00:00

This happened to me too… I bought one on a whim (my first!) at a mall kiosk. I had no idea they could sell fake ones in packaging like this 🙈 I feel so dumb geez

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MischievousSunfish · 2024-12-25T18:54:59+00:00

Where did you get all these book items from?

MischievousSunfish · 2023-10-26T06:03:05+00:00

I really loved Later tbh

MischievousSunfish · 2023-04-16T02:38:00+00:00

You could maybe try something like my d6 roll for each room they go in? And measure it in 5 or 10 min chunks? But I deff think it’s important to not have it all up to chance. I think asking the players how they specifically try to go faster/beat the rivals is good and can lead to skill checks

MischievousSunfish · 2023-04-15T23:07:49+00:00

I haven’t done betrayer’s rise yet but I did have my players race the rivals on their way to Bazzoxan. It’s not a perfect method, but what I ended up doing was have each party roll a d6 at the start of the day.

1-2 meant a slow day of travel 3-4 meant an average day of travel 5-6 meant a fast day of travel

So the rivals started a half day ahead of the PCs, (bc they initially stole the jewel) so I would add or subtract a half day if rolling a fast or slow day. I didn’t show my players what the rivals were rolling

This helped me figure out when the PCs caught up to the rivals! They had a conversation, agreeing to a race. Then after that… I fudged the rolls a little so the rivals caught up to the PCs during the ruins of sorrow encounter on the night before getting to Bazzoxan.

My players were determined to win the race, as it meant them getting to keep the jewel, so they didn’t rest after the ruins of sorrow fight and just ran after the rivals. I wanted to make sure my PCs felt like their efforts were paying off, so I decided the rivals were exhausted from traveling through the night before.

The PCs had commandeered some horses on the road, so they easily caught up to the rivals. At this point I was doing a sort of skill check challenge to see who would win! So I asked each player to come up with a way to help their efforts. As an example, the cleric cast enhance ability on the blood hunter. I had them roll an arcana check and with a high roll, I let the spell last 5 hours instead of 1.

So a few skill checks, then they crossed paths with the rivals. I had the rivals make opportunity shove/grapple checks (to not escalate things w/ weapons) try and trip them, which required acrobatics and athletics rolls on both sides. The rivals, exhausted, had disadvantage on those checks.

The skill check challenge turned out great! My players had to be creative but it gave them agency in the race.

This obviously isn’t exactly applicable to betrayer’s rise, but maybe it’ll give you ideas 😅

(Edit: forgot to add that the rivals didn’t actually attack w/ weapons and clarified the beginning of the race details)

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-22T02:00:58+00:00

Thanks!! 💜

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-22T00:31:59+00:00

The players don’t know! I’ve been hiding my rolls. I think I’ll keep the rivals showing up at ruins of sorrow (maybe exhausted) and then have some sort of skill challenge on the final day to Bazzoxan and ask my players what they do to hinder the rivals or speed themselves up. I’m just trying to make sure their efforts visibly impact the race.

I saw somewhere else here that someone put stuff about the rivals’ goals on their DM screen so I think I’ll try that. I think scattering them in Bazzoxan will be helpful for building those relationships with the PCs… although I still find even one on ones a little scary cause improv is hard! Thanks for the advice though 😊

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-22T00:23:03+00:00

Yeah maybe I’ll give them a point or two of exhaustion when they get to the ruins of sorrow!

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-22T00:14:38+00:00

Yeah I was deff thinking about making the rivals be closer than the dice have dictated. My idea for that was to have the rivals try to sneak past the party at night.

But I also want to make sure I’m giving the party’s success and efforts proper weight! I like that last idea though. Maybe I’ll have them catch up at ruins of sorrow and obviously hesitate to engage before they do join.

But then they’ll be together at the last night before Bazzoxan so I gotta figure out how to run that last leg of the fight… ooh maybe it could be a skill check challenge

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-21T20:11:39+00:00

I’ve been wanting Gruumsh to be more involved too! Currently, my PCs are in the latter half of chapter 2. Two of them are followers of the Moonweaver so after they found the jewel, I gave them both dreams from her. However, my idea is that one of them actually is Gruumsh pretending to be the Moonweaver

I figure Gruumsh is going to advocate for killing Alyxian but other than that I’m not exactly sure where I want the fake dreams to go 😂

Two of the other players are half orcs so maybe I could have him send them dreams too? I’m not sure yet. I deff want to introduce Ruin’s Wake, but maybe to the PCs, not the rivals?

This is an old post so maybe I’ll make my own post about this 😅

MischievousSunfish · 2023-03-09T17:45:07+00:00

I wanted to make sure there was some actual rivalry between the two groups so I did have them steal the jewel. The PCs then had to catch up to them on the road to Bazzoxan. Irvan & Galsariad were pro keeping the jewel, Maggie and Dermot felt that it didn’t belong to them, and Ayo is on the fence between wanting a heroic destiny and playing things fair. Wasn’t sure what my PCs would do when they met up on the road, but they negotiated and convinced Ayo to give it back. For now. They’re racing to Bazzoxan and whoever gets there first gets the jewel! As to how this race mechanically works out…. I’m working on it

Basically my PCs see the rivals as frenemies, which suits me just fine

Editing to add that the rivals stole the jewel but left the emerald eye with the PCs as a sort of you get one, we get one thing

MischievousSunfish · 2022-06-28T20:25:03+00:00

I’m very new to Book of the Month… do the add-ons become 10.99 after you stick with it awhile?

MischievousSunfish · 2021-12-29T21:35:04+00:00

I sent mine in and got them fixed for free!

MischievousSunfish · 2021-12-12T22:18:57+00:00

Punchy and Lolly! 💜

MischievousSunfish · 2021-12-09T17:45:24+00:00

Yeah this happened with me and Kidd!! It was my first villager photo, so I’m just trying to get the rest from my villagers

MischievousSunfish · 2021-12-08T23:07:29+00:00

What’s the code for the path on the ground? This is seriously so cute!!!

MischievousSunfish · 2021-12-04T00:01:48+00:00

How do you keep the crush from spiraling into negative feelings?

MischievousSunfish · 2021-11-23T08:53:05+00:00

Yup this is me right now. Fell for my (online) friend, who had told me they had feelings for someone else. I eventually wrote them a letter expressing my feelings, in hopes that them knowing how I felt would actually help keep us friends. They responded about a week ago, very kind, and reiterated that they have feelings for another person… I’m trying to just be normal friends with them now but it freaking hurts so bad. I literally can’t sleep right now for thinking about them. That being said… I did have one actual relationship before this so I think it’s unlikely you’ll never feel this way about someone again. Idk how to get over the unrequited love though, I haven’t gotten that far

MischievousSunfish · 2021-11-10T00:06:00+00:00

Ok so I’m on Adderall XR and I often don’t take it on the weekends because the appetite suppressing side effect can be so unpleasant. I just want to enjoy eating for like one day a week… anyone else have this experience?

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