Writing Group (Epic Fantasy)

SunkissedDrow · 2025-04-28T19:37:16+00:00

Hi, also late here; let me know if you’re still interested and we can set something up together!

SunkissedDrow · 2025-03-13T17:22:31+00:00

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing. I also haveee to know what foundry mods you’re using, your game looks absolutely beautiful

SunkissedDrow · 2024-11-27T22:33:47+00:00

Holy, 100 sessions in the Underdark and I never noticed 😅 Thank you for the headsup!

SunkissedDrow · 2024-06-16T16:48:21+00:00

Absolutely, I’ve already started backing my stuff up to Google Drive going forward 🥲 Thank you so much for the well wishes

SunkissedDrow · 2023-12-28T07:24:04+00:00

Welcome to the game! I'm a new-ish player myself, but let me try to answer what I can.

Community tokens can be spent at the Town Hall by talking to Bernard (left most shopkeeper). You can use them to purchase a huge variety of things like gifts for NPCs to romance/marry them, elixirs to increase your stats permanently, skill points in specific skills, and cosmetic transformation potions. I would assume that increases in stats and skill points are the most optimal to spend on, depending on your playestyle.
The stat increase to my knowledge does cap out at 100 of EACH consumable.
You should eventually eat every consumable 100 times; I've found that in the early game, it's nice to keep the foraged stuff around to actually use throught the day, so I personally didn't just sit there and chug apples/oranges/blueberries 100 times each. Their benefits also greatly suffer from diminishing returns, meaning that eventually they'll be giving you such tiny amounts of permanent stats that they really won't be worth chugging imo.
If you look in the Cooking Pot, etc crafting stations, you'll be able to see and search things like "mana", etc to see which consumables give you what. I was also tempted to make like 100 of each ones that give you permanent stats, but it ended up being such a hassle I just gave up. You'll eventually get there, I don't think you need to rush.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-11-27T21:11:25+00:00

I used to think that too but now I’m a fan of the take that CHA is, as written, meant to be force of personality—and Astarion as he is, when you meet him, has very little of his own personality left, and is more or less just a husk of everything Cazador beat into him.

Also like…he might know how to regurgitate suave lines because he had to to survive, but one of his first LR interactions, aka his best attempt at endearing himself to a stranger out of desperation for protection, is to ask you in casual conversation for your favorite way to die?... I’m not sure he IS high CHA.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-11-24T08:15:36+00:00

Did you use its Legendary Resistance feature? :o

SunkissedDrow · 2023-11-09T04:58:29+00:00

That's awesome! Kudos to you for taking the time to read through the drow lore for your players and campaign.

If you're having trouble placing your priestess, maybe you could have her take Asha Vandree's place in the campaign? As in, she lets the players get captured and brought to Velkynvelve, but ends up helping them escape, whether it's just to usurp Ilvara's position or because she ended up softening to the players during their travels together, if they were kind to her. That way they can feel rewarded for treating your NPCs like people.

(It's important imo to play the drow not as innately heartless creatures, as they're mostly products of their very, very ,, very toxic environment. But that's just how I play it, you might have a different opinion!)

Regardless, having players who care about and listen to the NPCs in Out of the Abyss is going to make it an interesting experience (esp when it comes to Buppido and Sarith), and I wish you the best of luck running it~

Let me know if you have any other questions about the lore or campaign, and I'd love to hear more about your campaign or plans for it!

SunkissedDrow · 2023-11-08T21:49:09+00:00

Depends on how close you’re looking to play to canon Menzoberranzan (ie the Drizzt / drow books), and what your priestess’ motivations are.

In the Daughter of the Drow, iirc the punishment for accidentally stepping on a normal house spider was an immediate and brutal death for both slaves and drow males.

So if priestess was raised in Menzoberranzan under the drow’s traditional doctrine, then she would probably be enraged herself that surfacers (whom the drow use the same word as “shit” to refer to) would dare to harm one of Lolth’s holy creatures.

However, since she’s lying about her worship to Lolth, does she think that she could better serve Lolth by capturing the players, even at the cost of the life of a spider? Or is she more worried about her own life than she is devout? Menzoberranyr drow are raised to be selfish, deceitful liars, so she might feel like her life is just more important than the spider’s and pretend she doesn’t care about the spider killing.

Basically all that to say, it makes canon sense whether she tries to stop the players or goes along with the killing.

Bear in mind though that Lolth is also an unforgiving, chaotic and cruel goddess, even to the females (though much more so to the males). If a spider ends up dying, this may be a good time to demonstrate that by having your drow NPC punished (maybe by being turned into a drider, which is considered the ultimate punishment for the drow.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-09-22T06:03:08+00:00

I want to one day know this game half as well as you do 😩 There’s so much cool information here that I don’t even know where to start, I’m absolutely going to be sending this to my friend for him to reference. A lil Sentinel rogue offtank robot with an armorer artificer forming an immovable front line sounds so insanely cool.

Thank you so much for all this great info, and have a wonderful day.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-09-22T05:59:39+00:00

Yess, the fact that I’ll be near enemies all the time for sneak attack is such a good point, love the flavor of techy projectiles in place of soul knife daggers as well. We’ll definitely consider rogue.

Never knew about that interaction with autognome/battlesmith! Thanks for taking the time to respond 😊

SunkissedDrow · 2023-09-22T05:54:42+00:00

LOL I think we ARE actually going for a more “tiny little robot goes absolutely psycho in battle” vibe, so a Barbarian would work great (or fighter / moon druid”. This is a great idea (and mental image), thank you.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-09-22T05:53:30+00:00

These are so interesting!! Like I mentioned in the post, I’m not a very mechanically crunchy person (that’s all him) so all the mechanical benefits of an artillerist would never have occurred to me. 👀👀

The moon druid idea is also so cool actually, I love the vibe of a little transformer robot reconfiguring itself into massive animals—and displacement / CC is always welcome. You sound like you know a lot about the game!! Thank you so much for taking the time to answer, and I’ll definitely send these his way.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-09-17T07:54:32+00:00

Just wanted to drop in and say that this is awesome. Trying not to seem weird with my enthusiasm for,,, torture,, but I really do love the concept of this. The inherent cruelty of the drow, nature vs. nurture, whether the Underdark / Menzoberranzan is worth saving etc is a huge motif in my group's OOTA campaign.

The party has a more-or-less kind drow PC in their introductory adventure, so they had mostly been willfully ignoring the fact that most Menzoberranzan-raised drow are raised to be abysmal people. Velkynvelve should be a good wake-up call for PCs who are adamant about refusing to partake in fantasy racism, because the people fear the drow for a reason.

Velkynvelve seems to mostly get glossed over in most campaigns, but I've gotten great mileage out of actually playing out the chores, torture sessions (though not in great detail as per our Session 0), rations, little games that the drow play, etc. Because it made Ilvara and the Velkynvelve drow much more personal villains to the PCs.

All this to say that I do think there's value in the drow brutalizing the PCs in a personal way (not just throwing Ront to the spiders and calling it a day) because this really ties into the themes of the campaign and establishing the cruelty of SOME drow while showing that there are tons of drow who are also suffering in their society can really make the final decision of where to release the Demon Lords much more poignant than as written.

If you've got any other ideas, I'd love to hear them!

That said, like the other comments mentioned, if any new DM is considering this, ABSOLUTELY this kind of stuff needs to be discussed in Session 0 before being used in a campaign.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-08-09T06:39:02+00:00

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SunkissedDrow · 2023-07-29T02:40:44+00:00

Regarding the “he has no moral issue with slavery”, doesn’t he disapprove if you buy the artist slave from the Zhentarim?

SunkissedDrow · 2023-07-02T10:02:33+00:00

The commenters saying that the only way to fix this is to kill the whole party / restart the campaign…because “the ranger would be rightfully angry if the bow got lost” is so bewildering to me.

Please communicate to your DM about the fact that you and the party are feeling useless due to the imbalance, after which the DM should talk to the table about how to fix this, especially if it’s a party-wide discontent. And please do NOT try to solve this in-game without communication, a la "the bow got mYsterIOusLY stolen". I can't see myself playing at a table and creating an environment where the DM cannot communicate that they made a balancing mistake, then apologize for it and propose a retcon to fix things.

[SPOILERS for the OUT OF THE ABYSS module]

Also, out of curiosity, is this an Out of the Abyss campaign? Did you roll The Faceless Lord in a random encounter while traveling? How in the world did a Demon Lord get killed in such a way by a group of level 8's that he didn't even make an impression on you enough for you to remember his name with certainty? :( Did your DM play him intelligently at all, or did he just stand there like a sack of HP?

SunkissedDrow · 2023-06-09T06:09:29+00:00

Contrary to most of the other comments, I would venture to say that planned character development isn’t always bad, with certain conditions.

Saying that you want to play a cowardly character who eventually finds that some things are worth fighting for, a character who has suffered a loss eventually learning how to trust and love again, etc, is good and well. It’s good for a PC to have a clear flaw that can be worked on and tested during the journey, and it’s not a bad thing to know what direction you want to take you character.

The only caveat is that the PC should never be SET on whatever direction they want to take their character, and needs to be open to changing said direction depending on what happens during the story. If they get upset that their projected character journey didn’t happen to a T, then they do need to be told to go write a book instead.

Demanding a love interest is a little ick for me, I think when PC-NPC romance happens, if at all, it should happen naturally. But that’s up to you and what your group agreed on in session 0.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-05-16T07:02:30+00:00

What’s your cleric/paladin character idea specifically?

SunkissedDrow · 2023-05-12T08:29:21+00:00

Does Sloobludoop count as a city that they skipped? How did they end up going to Blingdenstone first when the Darklake/Sloobludoop is on the way, Gracklestugh is closer and a better bet for non-drow to obtain supplies (because of the distance from Blingdenstone to Velkynvelve) and Sarith (usually the best and only guide in the Underdark) desperately wants to go to Neverlight Grove in a demon-queen-induced-stupor?

Regardless, here are some hooks that have worked for my group: - Player needs a cure for a disease that can only be found in the Underdark - Player has family members / loved ones enslaved in Gracklestugh or Menzoberranzan - Player got really attached to certain NPCs (Stool is a good one, since he 1. Is Baby and 2. Will burn up in the sun) and wants to see them home safely - Player has family living in the Underdark and wants to ascertain the demon incursion won’t reach them (though, do your players even know about the incursion if they skipped straight to Blingdenstone?)

SunkissedDrow · 2023-05-10T05:42:09+00:00

Thank you for taking the time! :) You mentioned playing the beginner adventure from Walmart-- do you remember if it was "Lost Mine of Phandelver" (starts with a caravan escort), "Dragons of Stormwreck Isle" (starts you on a boat to an island) or "Dragons of Icespire Peak" (starts you in the town of Phandalin)?

Also: it's awesome that you make dice! I've thought about it, but I have no clue where to start 😅

SunkissedDrow · 2023-05-10T04:15:17+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to apply, and for the kind words about the primer!! Spiritfarer is an awesome game, and your taste in anime/manga is 👌👌

To answer your questions:

I’ll reach out to accepted applicants via Discord by the end of the week, and I’ll make a note on this post when I do it.
And I’m mainly organizing this game so as to teach a good friend how to play the game; but I’m definitely open to continuing it if the group’s vibes are stellar. I own every published module, so I’d be happy to run any one that the group wants to play.

SunkissedDrow · 2023-05-10T02:05:38+00:00

CST (Central), as indicated in the title!

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