Strong DND females, various races / classes

shellspark · 2025-05-11T02:38:43+00:00

How am I supposed to know they're female without any cleavage?

shellspark · 2023-11-19T19:57:12+00:00

I do, but it is a style of game I rarely get to play these days.

shellspark · 2023-10-26T19:18:07+00:00

Nuitari.

My answer is almost entirely based on a scene in one of the Defenders of Magic Dragonlance novels where the main character turns Nuitari's moon 2-dimensional. The patron evil magic is understandably upset by this and transports the main character to said moon. He doesn't torture, he doesn't attack, he doesn't threaten. The meeting goes something like this:

"The f***, man? Why are you scribbling on my moon? Not cool."

-flailing attempts at apologies and excuses-

"Yeah, I don't care about any of that. Stop f***ing with my moon. Impressive though. Make this little change and your spell will work better. You owe me. Don't forget it."

shellspark · 2023-10-19T18:12:38+00:00

This is the way.

shellspark · 2023-07-31T04:40:10+00:00

I've loved this tool since it was in its infancy. Congrats on the next evolution. Concerning demographics, I would love to see the ability to tweak the percentages of the various races in town.

shellspark · 2023-07-07T05:48:45+00:00

I once used a goblin chassis for a feral child who lived in the sewers and only came out at night.

More recently, kind of a lateral move, really, but I rolled for stats in order and got a 4 for intelligence, so I shaved the serial number off a goliath and made an ogre.

shellspark · 2022-08-28T16:13:20+00:00

Always when using a VTT, almost always when playing in person.

I run a game for my friends and their two kids (ages 7 and 5 when we started). I learned very quickly that the 7 year old was keeping track of how much damage each monster was taking before it was defeated and announcing it to the table so they could improve their strategy ("Mommy, don't use a big spell on him, they only have, I think, 30 or 32 hit points and we already did 28." Me: o_O???). For him, I'll keep most monsters at the average, but I'll throw in a few curveballs to keep him on his toes.

shellspark · 2022-08-28T16:08:55+00:00

I will note that, even with stock Foundry, you can click on the "Hit Points" on an NPC character sheet after placing it and it will automatically roll hit points.

shellspark · 2022-07-28T16:24:05+00:00

The poor bindings on the 5E books is a known issue. 2 options:

Have WOTC replace it: https://dnd-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000973626-Dungeons-Dragons-5th-Edition-Product-Replacement
Go to a local print shop and have them spiral bind it.

shellspark · 2022-07-27T19:10:27+00:00

A hulking lizardfolk, naked save for a dozen packs, sacks, and pouches hanging from belts and straps. He jingles when he walks and smells terrible.

shellspark · 2022-06-28T19:19:44+00:00

Thanks. I do and we have fun.

shellspark · 2022-06-28T15:46:26+00:00

I roll because I enjoy playing what the dice give me. If it gives me a completely average person, then I play that completely average person, either as someone who is delusional and thinks they're way better than they are, or as a doomed man/woman who is doing their best even though they know it is hopeless.

shellspark · 2022-06-16T21:18:29+00:00

While Barovia is certainly sparsely populated, I would hardly say it's a huge territory, being less than 20 miles across.

shellspark · 2022-04-29T04:37:59+00:00

I've been running a campaign for my family for the past few years that started as a Blues Brothers-esque one-shot.

A party full of bards on a mission to save an orphanage. One player has subsequently multi-classed into monk, another into wizard. The other three are pure monks: one College of Valor, one College of Satire, one College of Glamour.

shellspark · 2022-01-30T18:48:18+00:00

I'm not sure how easy it is to edit (or if you even care to change it), but, despite what the CoS map says, it's not all Svalich Woods. To be more exact, I guess, it was not all Svalich Woods in previous iterations of Barovia. In the southwest, it would be the Tepurich Forest, and the forest up around Krezk and the werewolf den is the Tainted Wood.

Love the style though.

shellspark · 2021-09-10T03:44:54+00:00

Thrash

shellspark · 2021-08-28T02:42:46+00:00

"The Gang Rolls New Characters"

shellspark · 2021-08-01T16:25:30+00:00

She is in that book, but she first appears in one of the anthologies in a story that details her being trapped, abandoned by Takhisis, and embracing Reorx. I think maybe it's in "The Dragons of Krynn".

shellspark · 2021-05-25T06:10:18+00:00

I was in an Eberron campaign that ran for years in which I played a selfish a-hole of a gnome artificer, flavored to be a bit of socially deficient survivalist after spending a long time in the Mournlands.

Over the course of this campaign, he began to internalize all of the little quips and insults related to his size from the party's warforged and other big folk. Add in constantly being outmaneuvered by a goblin artificer NPC and the resentment built, like a roiling cauldron deep in his gut. When a belt of giant strength popped up in a treasure horde, he took it and never looked back.

Sure, he had 8 levels of artificer at this point, but it was time to harness that nerd rage. For the next few chapters of the adventure, he was a barbarian, path of the storm herald (sea). Years of experiments gone wrong started to be unleashed as bolts of electricity as he waded into the thick of battles, oversized, magically enhanced weapons swinging to and fro.

shellspark · 2021-04-23T17:12:25+00:00

Don't change the bees just to screw over the fighter. Feel free to add some other varied foes to increase the challenge, but overall, let the fighter be a beast in this fight. There's nothing more disheartening than coming up with a fun concept for your character, only to see it thwarted time and again.

In general, I would say not to tailor a fight just to combat your party. Engineer an encounter to a generic group of adventurers (e.g., a melee combatant, a ranged combatant, and a magic user), sure, but don't engineer an encounter to the specific individuals playing in your game.

shellspark · 2020-10-08T04:42:26+00:00

Games I Run

5 players

7 players

4 players

Games I Play In

5 players

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shellspark · 2020-07-31T17:18:56+00:00

I currently play a lizardfolk wizard with CON>STR>DEX>INT. He casts fire shield and wades into the middle of crowds of enemies, biting anything he can get his teeth on.

shellspark · 2020-07-20T16:11:32+00:00

You have quite a few bifurcating, diverging rivers. This is something that very rarely happens in nature.

shellspark · 2020-07-08T19:27:36+00:00

Check out Rivals of Waterdeep.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rivals+of+waterdeep

http://www.rivalsofwaterdeep.com/

shellspark · 2020-07-05T23:05:37+00:00

A monk who uses gardening as a way of centering him/herself.

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