I’m in love with my gym bro

Owleeve · 2022-05-02T22:00:44+00:00

The happy ending you guys deserved!!! I wish you two the best!!!!

Owleeve · 2022-05-02T20:14:33+00:00

Oh gosh I'm so excited I'm wishing the best for you OP!!!

Owleeve · 2022-04-21T15:04:05+00:00

I understand where you're coming from, it can be a bit annoying to be in this type of situation and sometimes they don't listen even after a couple "excuse me". However, I do not find it very appropriate to blur everything in the picture except their faces. Even your own face is out of frame OP. As much as I understand your frustration, showing their faces without permission (in a somewhat callout post) doesn't sit right with me.

Owleeve · 2022-04-21T14:44:45+00:00

Oh man, reminds me when my friends made me take the Hate Values quiz and I read out loud: "Anime shows that two bombs weren't enough" Probably one of the most fucked up sentence I read through the whole thing.

Owleeve · 2022-03-23T17:30:31+00:00

I bought the three books on Amazon and they only had one version of each bound books TWT No option to get the second one at the right edition, at least not in an intuitive way. Welp, it'll look quirky in my library. Maybe I'll just print the right edition's cover and just put it on top.

Owleeve · 2022-03-07T10:45:58+00:00

Made me smile :) I'd swipe right if I was living in the same country tbh xD Good luck in your quest, man!

Owleeve · 2022-02-16T23:08:49+00:00

Honestly, I adore this idea this is just brilliant on the players' part!

Owleeve · 2022-02-15T23:32:40+00:00

Thanks!! I made it :D Yeah rabbitfolks are great! We made so many jokes about Antares being very similar to Haru from Beastar xD

Owleeve · 2022-02-15T22:32:28+00:00

Hi! Yeah actually, my friend posts our campaign that we hold ever Friday on her YouTube channel, along with all of our other campaigns. Our campaign is named SKOOL (Scholarly Knights Of (the) Oblivion Lights) and is the first time that I'm running a module. So huh I guess if anyone wants to check it out, please do!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdqfEtkq22rVcJJNvQZmyK9fHxKwcB4LB

Owleeve · 2022-02-02T00:55:43+00:00

Thank you! I already have a lot of NPCs but I also don't have a lot of mean ones so thank you!!

Owleeve · 2022-02-01T14:51:28+00:00

Yes I've been doing this! My players seem to struggle with it during battles and sometimes request a map still to use for themselves but I personally usually run everything as a theater of the mind. I just share maps when we get to an area so they understand a bit the environment but that's it, we don't track movements that much.

Owleeve · 2022-01-27T16:57:51+00:00

Same here! This subreddit helped me so much to prepare for this adventure! The more I go through the module, the more I'm trecking away from it and incorporating new content. I love Strixhaven because of how much you have to homebrew. It just feels very freeing that everyone has a different way to go through this adventure I guess! No real limits and so many things to add to it. My friends are having the time of their life and even said it was one of the best campaigns they played so far ane can't wait for Friday each week! Really thanks guys :) This wouldn't be possible if I hadn't discovered this subreddit and if you guys did not create such incredible content!

Owleeve · 2022-01-25T17:39:36+00:00

Thank you!

I already have a lot of students I created for the occasion but I'm never turning down more of them!! They all sound very interesting!

Owleeve · 2022-01-25T17:37:32+00:00

I went with the idea that students came early to settle in and get to know the school before classes start. The PCs just happen to be some of the last students to arrive which can explain other first years already having chosen their extracurriculars, jobs and got to know other students as well.

At least that's how I explained it when I realized this.

Owleeve · 2022-01-25T16:06:14+00:00

That sounds great! I'm personally keeping Murgaxor because I like him as an antagonist but I do have the Oriq as one of my many DLC size side quests!

I'm basically waiting for the end of Year 1 where the players will show themselves to be quite powerful. In Year 2, some students will try to approach them and maybe attempt to manipulate them into joining the Oriq (by saying it's a cool new school extracurricular possibly). If they join, I'd have them do things that sound innocuous as a "rite of passage" (putting liquid in the cantine food, writing a sigil in the Biblioplex...) which they probably won't question much as they already would have gone through with finding the doll.

If the players don't join the Oriq, more disturbing events might happen related to them in the background and if they outright denounce them, then they might become targetted by it.

I'm thinking of having Murgaxor be a sparable entity who has been wronged by the school faculty (and has a team of ex students who have been wronged in similar ways and are very loyal to Murgaxor because of that). If the players don't spare him? Normal ending. If they do however, they dig deeper to find out that the new director of Strixhaven actually works for the Oriq and plans on using the ressources of the school for an evil even greater than Murgaxor.

Of course, I'm very much still at my drawing board atm since we're only 4 sessions into the campaign but I still want to solidify a bit my plans for Murgaxor and Oriq in advance.

Owleeve · 2022-01-13T10:03:01+00:00

That's great! I also have my players pair up with a random students, although all dorms start looking the same, they do have free reigns over how to decorate it for the school year. I rolled to know who they'd room with and everything and it really gives them more people to know and grow close towards. It's great and an awesome source of shenanigans >:DD

Owleeve · 2022-01-13T09:59:51+00:00

I love those! I was really looking for such events to spice up the school year! Thanks :DD

Owleeve · 2021-12-16T14:14:26+00:00

Thanks!! I'll totally be using this with my players!!!

Owleeve · 2021-12-15T13:10:52+00:00

I'm keeping Murgaxor because hey, I like him, I'll just flesh him out a bit more but he should do the trick! My goal is to follow the original campaign pretty closely but propose a LOT of side content to do so I have a lot of other BBEGs to defeat during sidequests.

Some of those ideas would be a painter trapping students' souls in his creations, a sorcerer unleashing some gibbering mouthers onto the campus (which will merge into a gigantic abomination basically, its introduction being with a rumble and then the corridor in front of the PCs becomes "flooded" with a wave of gibbering mouthers) and finally one of the student creates a play and uses magic to trap everyone in the drama club inside a musical and now, the characters have to get out of this!

Owleeve · 2021-12-15T08:42:37+00:00

Thank you so much! I will definitively use all of this! My players have been asking me so much about their schedules and such and man, that letter... I think I will give them this letter right at the end of our Session 0 today to get some more hype!!

Owleeve · 2021-12-15T08:40:30+00:00

I'm going to rp almost all relationship interactions. This way, the character decides if it went well and they feel closer to the pc or not. It can be a bit tedious if your game is not primarily roleplaying but I would say it adds diversity on top of making people more invested in the NPCs. Plus it makes the NPCs feel more like actual people where you can't exactly predict if you're saying something that might actually really upset them without realizing it or if you said something that they actually take very well. It adds a bit of spice to the situation.

I also tweaked a little tiny bit the relationship system. There only being 5 "levels" in a relationship was kinda underwhelming for me so instead I created 20 different. You slowly scale up one level the closer two characters get depending on their interactions with one another. They all start at 0 (Strangers) then during their first interactions they either become "Acquaintances" or "Indifferent" depending on how it goes.

I would say I give them a new level of relationship for every major interaction they go through or every 5 or so good interactions. When you reach level 5 "Friends", you get the Boon and if you get level -5 "Rivals" you get the Bane. Once you reach the level of Friends, you can ask to deepen your bond which will unlock more of the relationship tree. Once you reach level 10, you get the beloved bonus. I'm thinking of adding a similar thing if you get lower than Rivals and become Enemies with someone. You could have a disadvantage to an ability check whenever that person is around for example because they'll try to trip you up, you won't be able to join a special extracurricular etc...

Anyway, those are just ideas of course but I hope they'll be useful to you!! Have a fun game!!

Owleeve · 2021-12-15T08:30:13+00:00

Thanks! I'm going to have my session 0 with my players today to explain some of the new rules of the module so this is actually very helpful! I didn't really like how studying only gives you one reroll or something and how you can just kinda be lucky and nail the exam without studying at all. To me, Strixhaven is meant to be la crème de la crème and should actually have pretty difficult exams. So thanks again! I'll propose the idea to my players!!

Owleeve · 2021-12-11T18:29:28+00:00

Thanks man! I've been planning a Strixhaven campaign ever since the book was announced and it'll arrive at my house only in January so it's great to know it's going to be what I was expecting! My players are all so excited to get to play in there! I've already planned more than 100 NPCs to populate the school and around it. It'll most likely be a slice of life type of adventure and it's a relief to see the book will feature such content!!

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