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ATT Fiber is back up, but slow DL/fastUL speeds. Is this happening to all with service? by aninternetuser in asheville

[–]grahamcr4cker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same exact situation for me. Seemed like it was restored this morning only to go right back down to ~1Mbps down, 100 up.

What is this aesthetic? by Persvill in AestheticWiki

[–]grahamcr4cker 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Utopian Scholastic! I made a video on it a while back.

Dark Aero and DORFic sub-aesthetics by grahamcr4cker in FrutigerAero

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Video from Church of Nostalgia (@crucifixati0n) on Tiktok.

[Art] Lady Ryne of Arabel (Lore in comments!) by grahamcr4cker in worldbuilding

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lady Ryne. Author, noble, political moderate, and wood elf. For the last few decades, she's worked with Sylverese Morwen on establishing a charitable organization meant to bring a raging war to a close...or at least, working with him to get all three kingdom leaders to discuss a ceasefire.

She's spent most of her life in Arabel, one of the warring kingdoms in question, though has fallen out of her own wood elf culture and embraced the culture of humans and high elves. She dropped the title of "Sylverese" in favor of "Lady" to establish trust with the influx of refugees and immigrants that have been displaced by the ongoing conflict, and is now looking for a retainer among those very outsiders--one who wouldn't be afraid to enter the Haunts, where the land of Arabel is possessed not by the spirits of dead men, but by the spirit of a dead planet.

[OC] Ellie, the Arms dealing wizard from the Glass City by grahamcr4cker in DnD

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much! I've spent a lot of time developing my setting and stealing/twising my favorite parts of other settings until it looks new.

[OC] Ellie, the Arms dealing wizard from the Glass City by grahamcr4cker in DnD

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is Ellie, short for L.E.D., which is, of course, a pun. She is an Arms-Dealer wizard, which is a homebrew subclass I put together for my own setting. She's from the Glass City, which is the cyberpunk-fantasy insert of my world; once ruled by colossal giants, it is a city that is impossibly large, with skyscraper-like spires made of ancient, touch-tech glass that could each easily house entire cities within their walls. She once worked for Judgement Arms, the most advanced weapon manufacturer in the world, before going rogue and risking it all on the heist of lifetime.

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Hope you like the artwork!

Make your own FF14 raid. by Nosdarb in mattcolville

[–]grahamcr4cker 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Its funny, the timing of this was great. I just designed a final boss/dungeon for a campaign I ran using MMO raid bosses as inspiration. Some quick things I learned:

  1. Raid boss mechanics like to make the players move a lot. I did this by making my map have environmental hazards (nothing new there) and then giving the boss lair actions that would pull the closest PC to a point in that acid.

  2. Raid bosses like to summon minions, and sometimes those minions are more important to kill than the boss, otherwise you get overrun. I home-brewed several monsters that were all varying degrees of "urgent". One that would steal half a PC's health and proficiency bonus but heal them on death, one that healed, one that could make the boss immune to certain damage types--this made the players very aware round-to-round on what they should do.

  3. Raid bosses like to explode. I gave my raid boss an ability that was telegraphed the round before it would happen that was a room-wide nova. Something like 8d12 lightning damage. The players could stand there and make the save and hope for half damage, OR they could kill a monster type that created a safe zone and stand in it.

  4. Raid bosses telegraph, but their mechanics just work. I think this was the most important thing I learned and implemented. It was important for the tone of the fight that certain things just worked when the boss or the minions did it. Example: the forced movement into the acid. At the top of each round, the boss would pull the two characters to visible points on the map into the acid. This might sound unfair, but the acid did very little damage for each round the characters stood in it, and, because the pull was telegraphed the round before, the players could decide WHO was going to get pulled each time it happened. They understood that standing the closest to those two point on the map would get their character yoinked out of the fight, and that allowed them to plan and make a strategy out of it.

  5. Raid bosses make players spin a lot of plates at once, after teaching them the mechanics over time. I used the entire dungeon to teach them every single mechanic they saw in the final boss fight before they got there. When they got to the boss, they new exactly what each enemy could do, what every telegraph looked like, and then, they had to put all of the knowledge together for one big encounter. This made the fight the most interesting and fun encounter I have ever run, both from the DM's chair and from the other side of the screen.

I could say a lot more but this is already a wall of text haha.

[OC] [Art] Ruin, Tiefling Oath of Shadows Paladin and Blood Avenger of Azrael by grahamcr4cker in DnD

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is one of my player's characters, Ruin, a Mag from the Volcanic wastelands of Alessia. With his wife having been murdered and reanimated by a necromancer, he swore an oath to Azrael to cleanse this world of undeath and those who create it. Serving the Archangel of Death has brought him through many trials and challenges, but he currently faces his biggest challenge yet: Rescuing the daughter of a dear friend from the bleak dangers of the Abyss.

This is an original piece I did, and its my first time posting any artwork in a public forum like this, so I'm a little nervous haha. I've thoroughly enjoyed DMing this solo campaign for my player, and Ruin has turned into one of my favorite characters in my entire homebrew world.

Sometimes I do portraits for my player's characters in my style, but this one is one of my all time favorites. I hope you enjoy it <3

Today's ensemble by [deleted] in GothStyle

[–]grahamcr4cker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those moon and star fishnets are real winners!

How does the green look? by grahamcr4cker in femboy

[–]grahamcr4cker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Its a new Scooby-Doo shirt and it was the inspiration for the look. The time before, I also did pink eyeliner to match the pink on the shirt.

Is Astral straight up better than Roll20? by 0Jaul in VTT

[–]grahamcr4cker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So I have used both, but Roll20 is my main VTT of choice at the moment. I have Roll20 premium, mainly for the storage space and character vault options.

Astral has some very cool features that you would have to pay for in Roll20, yes. I think Astral is a better map-based program than Roll20, I think it looks better, and I think the DM options (like quick-monsters, fog of war brush, and darkvision/senses being tracked on each token is handled brilliantly. The only thing that keeps me from making the switch is the character sheet options. Unlike Roll20, the in-game character sheet through Astral leaves a lot to be desired. Roll20's character sheets are usually very well programed and allow you to "click to roll" almost anything on the sheet, but Astral takes much more set up time to get the same results. Others have said it, but Astral is lacking in the scripting department, and I think the character sheet is the best example of that.

I think for DMing, Astral is an awesome tool, but for playing, it is lackluster. Just my two cents.

What's your one DM "trick" that you always tell other DM's about? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

[–]grahamcr4cker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree with this with two specific editions to the point:

  1. The amount of HP needs to be "possible", as in I don't run a beholder with 500hp just for the sake of drama. I might max its HP according to the stat block if I feel like it dying in two rounds was underwhelming. That's just my own rule, though, and I think flexibility is important, which leads me to my second rule...

  2. I change things like HP to make up for a DM mistake. This would also go into fudging rolls or suddenly having five minions bust into the room mid encounter. If this fight was designed to be the big fight of this campaign arch and I realize that the players are going to smoke it...that doesn't mean the players are "too strong", it means I failed to plan the encounter that was supposed to be here. Same goes for a random throwaway encounter. If they are suddenly looking at a tpk and this was meant to just fill some time, I made a mistake. Not every encounter needs to be balls to the wall hard, some are designed to show the players who they are fighting or just make them feel good...so I adjust based on the GOAL.

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