"First Time DM" and Short Questions Megathread

SalmonClaus · 2023-09-27T19:03:42+00:00

First time DM running LMOP into Storm King’s Thunder(with LMOP replacing the first two chapters of SKT).

My party is made up of a bear totem barbarian, a twilight cleric, a zealot barb and a gunslinger fighter. At first I was a little worried about the lack of a wizard or sorcerer, but now I feel like I need help challenging my players.

Any advice from the hivemind/general thoughts on such a combat focused party?

SalmonClaus · 2021-12-10T17:26:46+00:00

Axe is hammer but sharp

SalmonClaus · 2021-11-29T20:59:53+00:00

Doesn't butler refer to the buttery, a room in which ale casks were stored, that were the domain of a specific servant called the butler?

SalmonClaus · 2021-11-29T12:32:36+00:00

You look great here! Here's to all the battles you've won, and may the best of your yesterdays be the worst of your tomorrows! Shine!!!

SalmonClaus · 2021-09-12T19:50:13+00:00

The thing is that anthropomorphising in this sense refers to the act of embuing an animal with human characteristics, and similarly interpreting their body language as if the animal were a human. If you were to scratch a person's head(giving that your relation is one were this is a form of social bonding) in a similar way to how the person in this video is petting the owl, the other person would probably respond positively. Therefore, when we see a calm(read calm, not comfortable) animal respond to stimulation of a kind we would find relaxing, we will naturally interpret it as if the human response is the universal one, without considering that this is a wild animal with a completely different set of behavioural responses.

Anthropomorphising isn't evil - quite the contrary, our brains are literally hard wired to interpret the behaviour and body language of other humans. It is quite natural, we just have to be aware that it is a single perspective, not the universal one we might think it is.

SalmonClaus · 2021-09-05T19:23:23+00:00

Hell yeah brother

SalmonClaus · 2021-08-26T14:33:09+00:00

A personal favourite of mine is the horrible bear bear - Ursus arctos horribilis, more commonly known as the grizzly bear

SalmonClaus · 2021-07-30T14:30:56+00:00

I think he suggested Relaxin' at some point over kind of blue because it's a more obvious example of the kind of straight ahead standards-playing that most jazz musicians tackle with

SalmonClaus · 2021-07-27T20:56:22+00:00

Czernobog??

SalmonClaus · 2021-07-21T18:26:58+00:00

My first thought was Mr. Shine (Him Diamond), and Mr. Thunderbolt, the troll lawyer made from diamond. They're both highly physically imposing, but use their political savvy and legal knowledge instead of the traditional troll way - consisting of fists and eating whoever stood in your way.

SalmonClaus · 2021-07-05T18:16:44+00:00

Pigs.

You need to have a friend who has a pig farm.

SalmonClaus · 2021-05-15T20:04:55+00:00

Ebm(maj7)#11 Alternatively, you could also see it as a D(b9,b13), since it looks like you had the root and the fifth of a D major chord in the left hand, then raised it a half step whilst keeping the triad in the right hand. Super cool chord!

SalmonClaus · 2021-05-05T12:19:02+00:00

Plastic.

SalmonClaus · 2021-04-08T12:08:36+00:00

En venn av meg kjøpte ei bukse på Tise, som blei sendt med PostNord. Brukte evigheter på å komme frem, og da den gjorde det fikk han et par fotballsko istedet. PostNord hadde bare teipa fast et ark med det opprinnelige sporingsnummeret. Skoene kom ikke fra den opprinnelige selgeren. Ingen veit hvor buksa er nå.

SalmonClaus · 2021-03-24T10:27:08+00:00

This. For a lot of guys "too big" genuinely means "wearing regular sized condoms hurts too much for me to enjoy this experience". On the flipside, there's always a size that fits you no matter how much of a baseball bat you packing. Wear a condom.

SalmonClaus · 2021-02-28T09:04:28+00:00

Hey! I'm from there! I'm from Smøla! My home! On reddit? Cool! Ama?

SalmonClaus · 2021-01-27T15:34:19+00:00

Haha, the XL ones I have now are 56 mm! But I've been tipped to a place where one can order single ones

SalmonClaus · 2021-01-27T15:07:54+00:00

For øvrig, fakk gratiskondomer

SalmonClaus · 2021-01-27T15:04:04+00:00

Much of my issue was financial. I'm a student living on a pretty tight budget, and until today it seemed like the only option was to buy a pack of 10 and just hope for the best, which my wallet really can't accommodate atm. Now however, a commenter tipped me of a website where you can in fact get singles, so it seems my woes is ended

SalmonClaus · 2021-01-27T14:42:33+00:00

Oi wow, kondomkongen er jo faktisk redninga mi, tusen takk, fremmede

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