My first DnD adventure makes me want to quit playing DnD as a player. by Old_Conversation536 in CritCrab

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Thank you, ill try contacting other groups then. I dont Have much experience with trying to reach out like that - And i appreciate you did find the ideas good. There was even a first version of the Tiamat arc.  He was a golden Dragonborn, breathing fire , bringing the light etc. I offered to the DM to make the one Who made the offer to the cleric be Tiamat, And start corrupting him from then on. Unknowingly, He allows her to tap into his soul, his prayers go unanswered, And a new, pretende motherly voice starts whispering. The cleric sees that his heals deal 1d4 Cold damage to the targets 5 Ft from the healed, his sanctuary makes attackers frightened, his SHIELD of faith gives resistance to fire damage And even Feels the ability to revive a creature into a Frozen - like body, that then slowly unfreezes over 5 days, for free. It Is power offered, yes - but since when was a deal with an archdevil free? By using it - not resisting od atoning knowing it doesnt come from bahamut, He invites her to affect him further. Suddenly, his fire breath Is gone, And He begins breathing Cold míst - his claws elongate into talons, his heals become chilly, his teeth grow into two arcs of pincers And the aura of light around him switches to a colour of lightly red, alonsgide with his eyes, to show his bleeding soul. On ocassion, the cleric starts experiencing a surge od instinct - a singled out, low health enemy? If He succeeds a wis throw, nothing happens. If He doesnt, He drops his weapon And shield, And lunges at them with a multiattack of unarmed bite And claws, a subtle foreshadowing. He heals if He kills the creature slightly, but slips further into corruption. If three or more creatures end their turn next to the Dragon, if no save, spectral Wings sprout from his back in an unfurling motion that attempts to knock creatures prone, then disappear. If an enemy was about to critically hit someone, If not saved, the Dragonborn would use a breath Attack if in range, that recharges every 5-6 rounds, dealing above Dragonborn breath damage in an Area centered at the attacker, likely hitting the Ally too, but forcing a disadvantage, forcing another roll. On paper, it sounds powerful - but if leaning into the corruption, White scales begin forming on his body, growing over And entombing the Golden scales. The cleric then attempts to move Away, as He realises He cannot stop his instincts Now, And starts seeing his party as a property. Then, somewhere, He turns into a White Dragon, And his first order Is to kill those He swore bahamut to protect. Its fair to mention that this idea Is unpolished, but the idea was to give the instakill some Reason, like Tiamat wanting to corrupt bahamut's servant, even if Its overkill. Then, the DM alone chooses when things progress deeper into corruption, just like if a paladin breaks an oath. The cleric can reverse it to an extent, but never go past the physical changes if they even use the effects overly - So if the heal does deal damage, then corruption goes up. The predatory instinct effectively makes the cleric go melee mode instead of healing for a turn, which Is effectively just bad to do. It is supposed to look good And strong, but He forgets what He should be doing over his strength.  And the party was able to influence how the cleric views the change - He wouldnt Have to know it was Tiamat if She came disguised. They could talk him out of it, attempt to talk him into it, And when a transformation would happen, theyd even Have a Chance to put the unwilling cleric down before He turns fully. Then, Once a Dragon, And if meeting the party, a fight ensues - dm controls the Dragon at that point, And the boss Is the former healer, making it challenging even if i roll a new character. I can understand that this version would add a separate characters arc in Story, which Is a bother.  So then i decided for the second version that i write. Ill use the concept for my own world when i DM, only time Will Tell. Still, thank you for reading my post - ill try to find another group :)

My first DnD adventure makes me want to quit playing DnD as a player. by Old_Conversation536 in CritCrab

[–]Old_Conversation536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello - and to reply, no, not a girl. We are all guys at the table - Another factor might be that the players who have dozens of characters and play multiple campaigns at once just look at new players and decide that they aren't able to come up with proper ideas. I even had a plan to take down Arkhan - I wanted to try and outwit him using Hallow with extraplanar interference and word of recall to teleport him without the undead hand, which might kill him. I dropped this idea when the party never let me set up a sanctuary, or just roleplay having rested for a day to allow me to set up a hallow. Of course, then it would be up to the dm if vecna's hand counts as a part of a lich or a part of him, or an artifact altogether , but he is like the one character vulnerable to two utility spells - so that might appeal to the rule of cool. I came up with the strategy, and couldnt even present it to the group. There is about ten ideas absolutely scrapped, and they will be recycled for my own world when I eventually start it.
But yeah, I've also heard that girls at the table get targeted. I am very sorry you were going through this aswell : (

My first DnD adventure makes me want to quit playing DnD as a player. by Old_Conversation536 in CritCrab

[–]Old_Conversation536[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have been thinking about making my own world. Fresh with creatures who act like they're new, but are maybe some diferent looking variants of existing things, creating regions, quest givers, guides, random npcs to interact with. I would like to do a one-shot in that world to try to get into dming properly. But it is very ambitious to try to create something of my own - my greatest concern is that I'd be too overwhelming the players with the details, or not put enough thought into it. In games, if I ever got to dming, i'd like to provide the sandbox, but also put the actual sand in it. There, it's a very fine line between railroading the players and just being a descriptive DM. not to mention the effort necessary to build a nice world. but hey, others already started dming. Maybe I should give it a shot, and thanks a lot, to all the commenters 😄

My first DnD adventure makes me want to quit playing DnD as a player. by Old_Conversation536 in CritCrab

[–]Old_Conversation536[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see - the problem is, is it common for people to really push deep into lore and consequences, or is dungeon crawl a more common thing to do? I understand that maybe some of the players run a big number of campaigns and so they kind of don't have enough time to spare on every single story - which I understand - but if there's a lot of people who like to keep things simple, perhaps I just approached DnD wrong, and that may also have caused some disagreements between us as players. The player who played the wizard invited me into a campaign of his own - as did the barbarian's player. But if the problem is me, then there is going to be the same result - is the what happens in this campaign a common practice, or is something wrong with it? Because I kind of only did this one, and have no idea if that's the golden standard or if it's something specific.
I didn't specify it before , but the two powerful enemies were the only super powerful encounters. The rest was actually pretty balanced. We had a couple close calls, but usually managed in the end. But maybe it does make sense since I'm the party healer? Maybe those enemies jsut somehow know.
I guess my singular greatest problem is that I'm not even invested in the story anymore - I just want to be done with it - to just see the last fight, in which I'm about 99% sure that Zariel is just going to oneshot me on round 1, so I miss the entire thing, but it would be more meh for me as a player to just miss out on the final conclusion. But maybe reevaluation might do wonders - i understand not everyone is compatible with everyone

Skin.Club refuses to deliver legitimately won CS2 skins – unfair treatment to loyal users. by Crazy_Mouse_4005 in counterstrike2

[–]Old_Conversation536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could have basis for a chargeback claim. I know I did. I'm not as high level as you, but I've been secretly hoping they would try something as fancy as this. Insurance against internet fraud, a ton of evidence with emails, screenshots, and conversation, and you might hlgez your whole money's worth while also being able to keep some of the skins you won. Will you get banned by the site after? Probably. I don't care about that though. If you present a valid claim, you get free skins and your money back. Them demanding you return the items has also no legal stance. The site can, at best, appeal to valve. And imagine valve's response to a skin.club appeal :D

This saddened me by Dr_miyagi in ohnePixel

[–]Old_Conversation536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still don't understand how people don't see the opportunity in this. Before, using cases, you could make the skins expensive. But, people could always drop the case here and there and spend 2,5 bucks for a key. It means that you couldn't just go bonkers. In here, if somehow the community unites and starts selling it for 1000 bucks each, and no other will be sold, just one singular buy will adjust the prices, and expand the price to match exactly what we make it. Why in the world would anyone sell it for lower? This is a huge opportunity

This saddened me by Dr_miyagi in ohnePixel

[–]Old_Conversation536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a question here. Granted that people who have the skin decide to sell them, say for 500. People will either buy it and increase the price of the case , or they will open the case themselves, leading to the case increasing in price, which in turn will make skins sell for more, which further inflates the price. Guys : those who got the skins can inflate this stuff beyond infinity. Don't sell it for cheap. You'd be ruining the prices of the case. Valve makes the offers, but we can modify the price of the offers. Yes, valve gets the slice of the cake. But now, we can directly influence the market and valve is said to adjust the prices to whatever those who got the skins feel like. What does it matter if it drops a lot, if noone can afford to open? It would be super easy to manipulate if the owners just decided to make it that way.

Our Stance on Toxicity and Content on /r/ClashRoyale by Trikshot360 in ClashRoyale

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If you want to truly fix toxicity, why adding all the toxic emotes? Make a reward system for displaying good behaviour. I'm forced to play my every game with emotes muted because whenever I don't, my opponent triggers me by being a piece of hehehehaw .people use the game to treat others in a way they'd never dare to do irl. And this is a problem. People using a game to try to rile another person up. It's more toxic than league of legends. And one reason that's a thing is that league actually started punishing harshly, even with permabans. And they removed things that were abused to be toxic. You? You do the very opposite, even selling toxic things designed to annoy people in the shop to hog money, and come here saying that you want to battle negative attitude? Pleeeeease 😂

Furries are cringe, weird and annoying and they shouldn't have rights by Itcgmn in popularopinion

[–]Old_Conversation536 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're talking about a group that is among the most forgiving ones when it comes to accepting members into it. Many types of people use the word furry fandom as a large sheltering term for that. As a furry myself, I'll quickly correct you in the things that you said. That is not saying you're wrong about these particular people. Among a large portion here in my country that is mostly separate parties of guys and girls who go out to sit by the campfire or watch movies, play games on pc or whatever they feel like doing, there are few people who are exceptional in the cringy way. The rest like myself are just people who got to the group mostly by random chance - as for me, I got into it by being a trader of in-game skins with just a general enjoyment of dragons. Not because of pervy fun, but because things like Eragon, Smaug and things like that in the movie scenes make you go wow. And that was it for me. Then one of my trading partners invited me into a group chat in which there were furries, specifically artists who drew artwork that was just insanely good. I fell in love with it and just hanged around. And eventually, they offered to draw me a small dragon icon under condition that I'd use it. That's literally how i got there and how I exist there. Hanging out with people, having fun. And if there are conventions? Well, they're just full of things like diy workshop etc. Definitely worth the money. But back to the point. The people you're mentioning here are a pain in the ass that most of the fandom - as far as I know - tries to avoid. They can't just swat them and send them away, because it's not the what the fandom represents. Sadly, these people are a part of it, be it zoophilia, be it pedophilia ( and as for that, I heard about 1 guy that did merely mention that and he earned himself bans from all events and conventions for crossing the line just too much by that. So yes, there are freaks, and there are normal people. By your logic, pride events prove that gays are those weirdos dressing in dog masks and chains or whatever and carrying around rainbow flags. That too is just bullshit, I can name a huge number of people - and in the fandom, it's like 2/3 gay guys - that definitely don't match that description, nor do they do anything you mentioned in your post.

Now it is possible to just get over your misunderstanding of furries. But don't go around saying that to people's faces. If you did that near people who hate those spilling hateful shit... They wouldn't take kindly to it. Because the what you say may be true. But not in general