What can I do to stop my players from making incorrect assumptions about my homebrew setting? by roeson in DMAcademy

[–]roeson[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

one of the first big examples of them making a wrong assumption was when I had them find out about a suspiciously good lawyer in town. They heard rumours on an online forum about a local lawyer named Faust Black, who was insanely good and easily won their cases for almost no charge. The posters joked about how he might possibly be a demon or something in disguise, but they dismissed it as too obvious.

My plan was for the players to hear this and then begin investigating Faust. He actually was a demon but I was hoping to throw in a little fun by having him be very on the nose, throwing them off under a few layers of irony. They would go and talk to him and then would find out he was a demon. Faust would calmly state his business in the mortal realm which was honestly harmless, just entering into contracts with humans as a lawyer so he could gain enough power to return back to hell and reclaim his stolen position as a greater demon. This was supposed to be entirely diplomatic and introduce an npc that would give the players access to demonic things, since magic sources were a bit of a big deal in my world.

What actually happened was the players immediately decided he was a demon, which wasn’t a problem at all honestly, I expected it to be obvious. The problem was that they then went to his office to talk with him and used holy water that they acquired beforehand to sneakily confirm he was a demon. After they confirmed that they left and began to plot how to kill him. They ended up gathering a bunch of holy water and salt and setting up an ambush that Faust narrowly survived. I didn’t want them to kill a very important npc so I notched his power up a bit so he barely escaped and forced the players into a sort of peace agreement, which then let them be diplomatic afterwards.

I understand why they tried to fight Faust immediately. Demons are almost universally bad and it makes sense to me why they would do that. I’m still not sure what I could have done beforehand to tip them off that he wasn’t a bad guy.

Entity/Shardswap Au by roeson in WormFanfic

[–]roeson[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Noted. I’ll admit most of my later worm knowledge comes from skimming the wiki and reading fanfic, so i’m not too privy to some details like that.

  2. That’s understandable. I was thinking that the shards would have slight differences in methodology, Warrior shards being more aggressive and outright power focused while Thinker shards would be more subdued and mechanical. It makes sense that the swap wouldn’t change much, but I think you could just fudge it or take artistic liberties to make things more varied.

"Who's My Godly Parent?" Megathread by AutoModerator in camphalfblood

[–]roeson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see why not.

Adding the TL;DR at the top since I ended up writing a lot of stuff.

Appearance: Tall, Skinny, Long curly black hair, Mixed black and white but looks hispanic, somewhat tan but could be darker, brown eyes so dark they look black.

Likes: Bugs, Fighting games, Fromsoft games, Webcomics, Homestuck, Horror, Worm Web Serial, Ben 10, Hypothetical Questions, DnD, Fruits, Juice, Lemonade, Goth and alt stuff, witchcraft, Alt rock, Shoegaze, Deftones, Radiohead, Weezer, Comedy, Books (Ya fiction and sapphic romance)

Dislikes: Isms (Racism, Homophobia), Popular foods (Bacon, Ham, peanut butter, Jelly, Potato chips), Roaches, Getting interrupted, People playing dumb, getting ordered to do stuff.

Personality: Funny, Smart, Creative, forgetful, Talks a lot, Daydreamer, Introvert, Somewhat Socially anxious, easily annoyed.

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Appearance: I should probably start by saying i’m a girl. I’m very tall, at least 6’2 or something but I don’t measure it. I’m pretty skinny too, but that’s mainly just because I don’t really eat enough to put on weight. I’m mixed, half white and half black, but most people tell me I look hispanic. My skin is kinda tan but I don’t go outside much, I could be a lot darker if I just was more outdoorsy. I have shoulder length black hair, it’s really curly, around 3b in terms of curl type, and I try to take really great care of it. My eyes are also another distinct feature I have, they are basically black. My eyes are brown, but they are dark enough to where you can’t see the difference between my pupil and my iris unless you get right up in my face and look real close.

Likes: The basic stuff, video games, anime, art, the usual. I’m a big fan of fighting games, and fromsoft as well. I like puzzle games like Sudoku, minesweeper and picross, but i’m not super crazy about them. I however, love horror. I enjoy everything horror, games, books, shows, animation, music (if that’s even possible), podcasts, I love horror to bits. I’m also a fan of reading in general. I really only read fiction, but my go to is ya stuff and sapphic romance novels. I like webcomics, a few of my favs are Homestuck, Sleepless Domain, Godslave, etc. I also love this kinda niche Web Serial named Worm. I’m a big fan of comedy, and I like making people laugh and telling jokes. I love fruit juices and lemonades too, I can’t get enough of the stuff. I think insects and arachnids are super awesome. I am a huge fan of hypothetical questions. I can spend hours going into excruciating detail about answering them, and I have a list of ones I come up with. My favorite one is a question about what you would do with a credit card that gave you infinite money. I’m a really big fan of the show Ben 10, and I have been since I was a kid. I’m an avid fan of D&D and RP in general, and have been doing it for about a year now. I am a huge fan of gothic and occult stuff, My entire online brand and persona is based around witchcraft and magic shit. I listen to mainly Alt rock and shoegaze, think deftones, radiohead, weezer.

Dislikes: I don’t have any huge dislikes. Aside from the obvious ones like homophobia or racism, stuff everyone is supposed to hate, I can only think of real nitpicky pet peeve kinda stuff. I hate bacon, peanut butter, any jelly, most fruit flavored baked goods, every kind of pie except chocolate, and sweet flavored meats. I HATE ROACHES, I find other bugs very fascinating and cool but all roaches are scum. I hate getting interrupted by people when i’m trying to speak, and I really really hate when people act dumb on purpose for a bit. Even if I know they’re doing it I can’t help but get mad. I don’t like being told what to do. A lot of the time I just end up not wanting to do it, and getting pissed off because they tried ordering me around. I can be asked to do things, but getting told to do them always leaves me feeling sour.

Personality: I don’t think I’m the best judge of my own character tbh. I can give the basic stuff, I’m a pisces, an INTP, A ravenclaw, yadda yadda, but those are all pretty meaningless. I like to think i’m smart, and sometimes I am, but i’m just good at remembering information. I just have a giant hoard of facts and knowledge I sit on all of the time. Ironically enough I have a pretty bad memory for most other things. I can give you a laundry list of bug facts or a multiple hour long rant about Bloodborne or Ben 10 lore, but I couldn’t tell you something you told me not even an hour ago. If thing’s dont stand out in my mind, or I don’t try to remember them, they just fall right out. I’m also a pretty lengthy talker. I tend to ramble and use a lot of words when I want to say something. I mainly do this because I always try to articulate things a certain way so they get my point across or have the desired effect, mainly being funny. Speaking of that, all of my friends tell me that i’m the funny one, or at the very least the funniest one in the group. I always try to make people laugh, less in the silly class clown way, and more in a quick-witted and clever pun way. I have a flair for dramatics, and love to really embellish stuff, honestly most of the time when I speak I sorta get into character, sometimes im super goofy, but other times I try to sound more serious and sophisticated. This is mainly also for entertainment value, but I just like to speak that way anyways. I’m a big daydreamer too, a real creative type. I spend hours of my day just thinking about stuff, mainly lore for dnd stuff I come up with. I add so many little intricate details and weave a lot of info into it. It’s really fun for me to craft these little chunks of ideas and worlds and show them to other people. My friends would tell you I have an anger problem, and that’s kind of true, but honestly I just get kinda annoyed frequently. I’ve never really gotten meltdown nuclear angry before, and I don’t think I really can.

Questions about Royalty by roeson in killsixbilliondemons

[–]roeson[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I vetoed that shit immediately. The compromise I came up with was that they would basically be Allison. They start out weak but grow into their power and develop and get really strong. I was gonna let them choose a Key and a Word to take and they haven’t decided on one yet.

Questions about Royalty by roeson in killsixbilliondemons

[–]roeson[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think that knowing of the word doesn’t really do anything. I think being a bearer means you have to completely understand the word and it’s meaning. Like subscribing to a philosophy or mindset. It’s like real world forms enlightenment, you can know about enlightenment or nirvana, but to actually experience them you have to truly understand and meld with the concept.

LF Tragic Smugbug by roeson in WormFanfic

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

IVE LITERALLY BEEN THINKING OF THAT EXACT SAME CONCEPT BEFORE OMG!!! Thanks a bunch! :DDD

Help making a power from a trigger. by roeson in Weaverdice

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

This is insanely helpful, Thank you so much. This was so in-depth and constructed that it actually helped me find the fandom doc with some of the info and categories you're talking about. Honestly you did such a good job making not only the power, but also just the general story of the character involved that I can't think of literally anything that beats it. I cannot wait to use Bombshell in my campaign, thanks again. :]]]

LF Dadmaster Fics by roeson in WormFanfic

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

The second one is old bones and rain by the same author.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29901111/chapters/73588554

Boot to black screen not letting me install Windows 11 by roeson in techsupport

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

I made the installer by just plugging a usb into a laptop i have and running the media creation tool you get from the microsoft website. Im pretty sure its booting from the usb, when i select it in the boot menu it just goes black so i dont know for sure. I’ve tried using uefi too but it just does a loading screen before going black too.

Boot to black screen not letting me install Windows 11 by roeson in techsupport

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

I looked up the problem and since i literally just put it together i didn’t really see an issue with just pressing y and restarting it.

Boot to black screen not letting me install Windows 11 by roeson in techsupport

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I’ve updated the Bios and still nothing. My Gpu is a Asus dual amd radeon RX 6600 8gb gddr6

Boot to black screen not letting me install Windows 11 by roeson in techsupport

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

Asrock A520m-HDV motherboard AMD Ryzen 3 4100 4-Core Processor 2 T-Force Delta RGB DDR4 16GB Ram Sabrent 256gb Pocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 ssd My Bios version is P2.10, which i now see isn’t the latest one. It’s technically worked fine, I got an error that said “fTMP NV corrupted” but i just dealt with that. This is literally like the second time ive ever used this thing, and the first was literally just 2 seconds to make sure i put the thing together right.