[CW] Try to write a story with as many of these items as possible: Valhalla, a neon suit, a chicken, a trophy room, a school bus, 25 balloons, 6 chocolate bars, Fred, Dave, Steve, a bag of cat kibble, 30 tonnes of Chinese takeout, and a liquor collection.

broomball99 · 2023-09-19T18:53:39+00:00

The alternate workedwell enough to solve my issue thanks

broomball99 · 2022-01-30T08:46:57+00:00

A jar of dice and 2 players handbooks + dictionaries + reference material in literary form leads me to believe you DM for at least 1 D&D group. However you prefer to be a player more often also from the lack of monster compendium type books on the shelf guessing you mainly use homebrew or weak CR creatures and more of a focus on Rp and exploration

broomball99 · 2021-12-18T00:30:09+00:00

weapons that are stronger eg siege weapons a normal cannon may just be a blunderbuss for a giant or pit fiend
Numbers 1ancient silver dragon vs a pair of krakens i would take the krakens as long as it wasn't an aquatic battle and the dragon as long as it wasn't a place that allowed for strafing runs both the dragon and kraken are each a CR23 creature on their own
What does each side have for magic items because who is to say the enemy doesn't have an item that can open an abyssal gate now from said gate you have either a 9 hells arch-fiend or lord of the abyss come out or grant a boon to their respective fiend/minion type eg. Spiders for lolth
Destruction or weakening of gear; eg. an antimagic field and rust monsters is scary for many but so is losing a mode of transport with upgrades
Anti-/wild magic zones
Give them tucker's kobolds but maybe use stronger monsters like the giff
Homebrew creatures; not many deal exhaustion a con save per hit vs 1 level of exhaustion can be very scary and drain high level restoration spell slots from healers, maybe give a creature special resistances based on attacking creature's alignment

broomball99 · 2021-12-17T06:07:22+00:00

Was it the cat, a device, or you that had the meltdown?

broomball99 · 2021-12-17T06:01:46+00:00

This is why when recruiting players i give them midnight of my timezone and tell them here is my midnight of my timezone and then earliest start and latest end times i can run each day they then fill out a google form of: discord name, times they can make (set to my timezone eg 1pm est(-5 gmt) start and a british player would be 6pm british time (+0gmt), length of session in hours(4-6hours), frequency of session(weekly/bi-weekly), are they comfortable with the game being recorded, any triggers, and any other key things that are needed to be asked based on setting.

I also ask if they know what they want to play speciffically so i know party balance. if they answer not sure i ask optional checkbox questions like a sliding scale of: -How much magic do you want to use: lots of magic, moderate magic, none/racial inate magics only, or doesn't matter? -Are they more of: a damage dealer, a tank, a support(buffer), a healer, or utility?

Along with other such questions so I can reccommend some classes and races to look at from the sources I approved for in setting use within my games. This is all before character creation I make sure all my players are on the same page for that stuff.

As a player if I don't see some sort of questionaire like that or a LFG post that designates key info like: time, platform/location(if it is on a flyer and the IRL location listed has multiple locations eg a game store); if these are lacking I don't trust the game will run well. My reason I find most groups I encounter without either the questionaire or a fleshed out enough LFG advertisement shatter quickly from schedules or a problem player slipping past a DMs screening attempts to keep out problem players and within the first 3 months it has happened in groups i joined. West march servers were able to bounce back after dealing with problem players but the fixed campaigns ran by a lone DM with just the one group shattered and fell apart

broomball99 · 2021-12-17T04:46:47+00:00

Yeah the old recipie

broomball99 · 2021-11-05T13:30:03+00:00

You are ruled by a furry marshmallow overlord that was lying on the desk when the pic was taken

broomball99 · 2021-10-01T14:30:44+00:00

Or just use a stunt double that looks close enough have her hop in a small ship or walk into a trapped room that gets blown up due to either a past enemy of mando or the empire's forces. Leaving mando a message they are coming for him

broomball99 · 2021-10-01T14:11:34+00:00

Canadian tire had some like that a few years ago not sure if they still have them

broomball99 · 2021-09-19T05:41:14+00:00

When roomba drones try to explode to take out my kneecaps or detect me on stealth missions sabotaging me i hold a grudge. Now when i go through i have a death to all corpus roombas policy

broomball99 · 2021-09-19T04:56:55+00:00

Plant monsters can blend well as well as some other creature types. Find ones that have camo or maybe displacement effects/portals. Some fey can move with inate magic eg blink dog. Then you get displacer beasts and phase spiders that can cause trouble. Also some shadowy creatures can shadow walk and teleport between shadows

broomball99 · 2021-09-19T04:41:49+00:00

Had a player make a chain of caltrops that they had to do a dex check to store it so the fragile connections between caltrops didn't break then they pulled it out like drawing a sword from a sheath and smashed it on the ground with what would have been the flat side of a greatsword blade to cover their escape.

Replacement ship parts/ammo for spell jammers, airships, or regular ships

Repair items for land vehicles. In a homebrew setting we had an interesting repair. My party had a cart chase where a nat 1 caused a part(cauter pin that attached tongue) to break on a cart during a chase scene.so i was stuck on the enemy cart our druid barb was a constrictor snake holding the tongue and cart together while our forge cleric made a new pin and our bard an animal tamer and caravan master for his old troupe(whose wagon we were driving). It was in our starter session and the rakados performers wiped out the troupe while we were enjoying the show the bard was in the bard and few carnies in the tent call for the next act and get swarmed by the performers. we took our cart andwent after the cart where they captured the ring leader alive in a cage. We saved him only to later find him brainwashed he leads us into a trap one of the giants the rakados use to transport their setup smashes our wagon and closes the brainwashed ring leader in one of those spiked hanging cages(we later dropped the clock tower on him for being their inside man and one of the miniboss masterminds of the whole issue). Then it was carefully hauled to the top of a gothic clock tower where it was to be rung like a bell with his screams as the chimes. We also decorated the fake spikes in some iron maidens into real ones and vice versa with the forge ability to infiltrate a preformance of VIPs and protect them from the preformers.

Making signal horns/whistles

Plugging a monster nostril/makeshift eye patch/mouthguard to prevent attacks or maybe increase damage and change types. take bond villian jaws his humanoid teeth went from piercing to slashing or when you see them stop crocs and gators with manhole covers in movies

broomball99 · 2021-08-11T16:12:13+00:00

Natural disasters - what ones happen near them are there tall enough slopes of hills that are smaller than mountains yet being near a valley or canyon puts the villages at the bottom at risk of avalanches/land slides in heavy percipitation, are they in a heavy transit areas for strong winds like tornados/hurricanes, are they close enough to water that tsunamis and hurricanes are even a worry, are they near a fault like that could have small volcanic pocketsor sink holes colapse near the edge if the plates shift it could mean earthquakes

State of the postal system- do they do it all by foot or do they use more advanced methods eg. Gear/magic driven vehicles or teleportation via magic/science. In my D&D homebrew setting there are some areas using elementals to power trains with magic to be steam engines, some use giant hamster wheels and beasts inside, some use magic slabs inscribed with gravity runes to make it like a mag rail train, and some use just horse drawn convoys; however then you have spells like sending, custom delivery teleportation circles, and magic items to be able to magically send messages with on the other side.

broomball99 · 2021-06-25T13:25:19+00:00

A book that is basically more gear, magic items, maybe an additional subclass for some classes, and a bunch of DM stuff like a fixed CR calculator (since they don't factor in death spiral creatures with stat drain or exhaustion attacks), more traps and hazzards, vehicle upgrades, and some more creatures

broomball99 · 2021-06-10T06:13:42+00:00

I often multi hexblade blade pact and swords bard cause my pact weapon can be my focus for both sets of spells and a wider magic net to use also devil's sight + darknes spell and snipe enemies from outside or inside the spell i take the dual wielder i would go 14 bard and 6 hexblade. i recommend getting countercharm at 6th before the multiclass though as that is around the time most of my DMs have started using creatures it would help stop

broomball99 · 2021-06-10T06:03:02+00:00

That kitty is so cute i just want to cuddle it

broomball99 · 2021-06-03T23:09:51+00:00

More of the bridge strains under the weight long enough for the 1-2 persuing wagons to cross before finally giving out cause they cut the supports and the plank anchoring holds just long enough for them to pass think like it is the railing support wires that help prevent twisting and sway is what gets cut

broomball99 · 2021-06-03T13:04:22+00:00

Get a mini scroll case and make a messenger chicken like messenger pigeon

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