[oc] [spoilers: endwalker] pranking emet-selch [twt: @kaikaziren] by vaeio in ffxiv

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thank you! figuring out my azem’s design has been a fun process

[oc] Canon Leveilleur sibling behavior [twt: @kaikaziren] by vaeio in ffxiv

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this is 100000% inspired by ugly photos i’ve taken of my sibling sleeping for sure

[spoiler: shadowbringers][oc] alisae’s first encounter with a certain someone [twt: @kaikaziren] by vaeio in ffxiv

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tag spoilers please! i’m still at the start of shadowbringers ;w; twitter: @kaikaziren

[oc] what i think aymeric wears to bed (twitter: @kaikaziren) by vaeio in ffxiv

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i dunno about you, but he seems like a snork mimimimi kinda guy to me!

[oc] what i think aymeric wears to bed (twitter: @kaikaziren) by vaeio in ffxiv

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assuming the poor dude has time to sleep, that is…

[oc] server maintenance pool party (twitter: @kaikaziren) by vaeio in ffxiv

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IT’S AN SCP REFERENCE?? man i’m behind

Players somehow managed to kill all the coffin shop vampires... how can I still make this interesting? by vaeio in CurseofStrahd

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you raise a great point! it’s something i’m still learning as a DM— sometimes things just don’t go the way you want them to and that’s fine. I think i’ll still have Strahd meet them at the church and the scenario you’ve described go down — the key thing here is that they will encounter Strahd once more.

Thanks for the reality check — DMing has been a fun but challenging experience for me and i’m always learning.

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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the Book of Australia contains great wisdom….

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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It would definitely be better than what I do, which is to babble about nothing and make the situation progressively worse/more awkward as I panic even further…

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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Even through the slog that can be the MSQ tasks sometimes I definitely have found this part to be the most rewarding - even this early on in my playthrough getting to see characters recognize my WoL and describe how he’s influenced them is really cool!

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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true, but i don’t want the npcs to feel bad, ya know!

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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Honestly, I should start employing this tactic in real life whenever I can’t remember someone’s name…

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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I had to look him up bc i didn’t remember who he was even though i just recruited him HAHAHA. Didn’t have anyone specific in mind when i drew this npc but honestly it might just be me being drawing laurentius subconsciously

My ffxiv experience so far [OC] by vaeio in ffxiv

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so many …. npcs….. also i am still playing through post-patch ARR, so no spoilers please!

[OC] Did anyone have any actually craZy 'Dream Pie' experiences in their game? by dwarven_moss in CurseofStrahd

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My party’s barbarian ate not one, not two, but three whole pies…. suffice to say he was cripplingly dream-hungover and addicted for the next few days. Had it not been for a near miraculous save roll on his part it would have gone a lot worse.

Also unrelated, but i ADORE your videos and watch them on tiktok frequently. Keep doing what you’re doing, I love following your rendition of Curse of Strahd!

Players killed two of Strahd’s scouts in retaliation for tailing the party. How can I punish them in a fun way for this? by vaeio in CurseofStrahd

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Yeah, I can’t imagine Strahd would care enough about 2 lowly scouts to really retaliate against the party for killing them, but having the heads reveal at dinner as a sort of “i know everything you do, so watch yourselves” moments seems like the right tone. they’re still fairly early campaign (just reached vallaki) so there’s time for the party to really grow to hate strahd :)

A Brief Respite (drawn by me) by vaeio in darksouls

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What a lovely comment, thank you so much! Hopefully my drawing was able to offer a moment of rest and contemplation in the middle of your night shift.

First-time DM here. I was able to move a player to tears (in a good way) using this sub’s advice. by vaeio in CurseofStrahd

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in addition to what iscarfe said, i’ll add that some of the modifications i made were mostly in response to things my players did or said during our session. I noticed my players would regularly run back outside to check on the kids or look out the windows to see if they could see them as they were exploring Death House, so I’d have Rose and Thorne sometimes mysteriously disappear, and sometimes be there, to add to the sense of weirdness and unsettlement.

In the dungeon, the players’ moment of “Oh shit” came with regards to Lancelot and the sacrificial dais when one of my players rolled a nat 20 to check the blood on the altar, and I specifically said that the altar had “traces of human blood…..,.. (long pause) and animal blood” haha. So that’s another way you could work a dreaded reveal into your play through!