Tag: dnd

things to do while you wait for your dnd groups to meet again:

critical-failqueer:

  • create a family tree for a character you’ll never get the chance to play
  • make yet another tiefling
  • find race and class combos you haven’t had the chance to play yet
  • dig up an old character and revamp them
  • make playlists for your characters. get emotional when you listen to them
  • start writing backstory for your backup character
  • come up with elf names by mispronouncing common words
  • check your groupchat for updates you know won’t be there
  • speculate on how you’re all going to die next session
  • listen to dnd podcasts to both ease and worsen the void in your soul
  • buy another dice set

batneko:

raisel-the-riveter:

so I’ve been meaning to put this on tumblr and keep forgetting but, in the campaign I’m running my sister is playing an orc fighter, and one of the options you can pick for a fighter’s signature weapon is that it “glows in the presence of [fill in the blank].”

I was like, “oh, that’s funny because it’s a reference to that sword in The Hobbit that glows in the presence of orcs. Your weapon probably doesn’t glow in the presence of orcs.”

to which she responded, “FUCK YEAH it does.”

So now we have in the party an orc fighter with a club that glows in the presence of orcs. Or, as far as the character is concerned, a club that glows. It’s been in her family for generations since some ancestor won it in a battle, and it’s just always glowed. She has a sack to put it in when she’s trying to be stealthy.

#orcs in LotR don’t know that Sting doesn’t glow#that is crazy#they think elves and hobbits just carry glowing swords#for the Aesthetic#and if you know enough elves that probably makes sense to you!#sparkly drama queens would probably make their hair glow if they could

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Something I think is often unappreciated about D&D is the sheer lengths it’s willing to go to in order to make sure every kind of dragon – and it has rather a lot! – has a unique breath weapon. Anybody who’s played a D&D-inspired JRPG will be familiar with the standard options: some dragons breathe fire, others breathe ice, other shoot lightning out of their mouths, and so forth. Then we get to these guys:

  • Amethyst dragons hork up an enormous gemstone that can be spit with pinpoint accuracy up to 75 feet, and explodes on impact with a sixty-foot blast radius
  • Black dragons just fire-hose a sixty-foot-long stream powerful acid out of their mouths, like HWAAARRRF
  • Brass dragons exhale either a stream of blisteringly hot air, or a jet of narcotic gas that puts living targets to sleep
  • Bronze dragons can spit lightning bolts, or alternatively exhale a mind-altering gas that compels people to run away
  • Copper dragons also have the acid-barf option, or they can exhale a gas that slows down time in the affected area
  • Crystal dragons exhale a spray of razor-sharp shards, which is expected, but the shards also glow brightly, forcing anyone in the area to save versus blindness
  • Emerald dragons just scream really loudly
  • Fairy dragons burp up a cloud of euphoria gas that inflicts no damage, but makes everyone in the targeted area high
  • Green dragons huff deadly clouds of chlorine gas
  • Mercury dragons shoot giant lasers
  • Sapphire dragons have a sound-based breath weapon, like their emerald counterparts, but theirs is an ultrasonic “brown note” that causes psychological as well as physical damage
  • Steel dragons exhale a deadly poison, with the twist that the vapour always fills a perfectly cube-shaped volume, regardless of surrounding barriers; the dragon can exercise perfect control over the cube’s dimensions
  • Topaz dragons have a reverse breath weapon that sucks water out of anything in the targeted area, inducing dehydration in living victims
  • Yellow dragons sandblast their victims

#What the fuck is up with Emerald Dragons

(via @skamortuus)

List of resources for dnd

dnd-maps-n-stuff:

hawkeabelas:

meonlyred:

corseque:

deweydecimalchickens:

breadofthewild:

mushroomancy:

occams-lazer:

mushroomancy:

mushroomancy:

roll20: Make an account to play the game

Orcpub: For hosting and editing your character sheet

DND Wiki: Homebrew things, races, classes, misc

Players Handbook: Rules how to play how to make a character, all basic information for playing a game

Discord: to talk during and about the game

Mythweavers: another character sheet editor

Homebrewery: homebrew creation tool. Uses basic coding language to great effect.

If anyone wants to join just join the discord server and post your character

http://autorolltables.github.io/#

can randomly generate just about ANYTHING. awesome for dms

Tabletop Audio: background music and sound effects for the ambience.

PCGen – a character creation program that handles all the tricky and tedious parts of building characters, including NPCs.

d20pfsrd.com – all the free information you would ever need to play Pathfinder, an alternative to D&D

DiceCloud: Interactive character sheet that can be edit and shared with yourself or others easily. Pulled up anywhere with internet connection on PC, Mac, or mobile device. Use it to also mark down health, death saving throws, spell slots, experience, and more on the fly. 

DnDMagic: List all spells currently available from Player’s Handbook and Elemental Evil. 

5th Edition Spellbook app: Make spellbooks for all your characters, manage spells, prepare spells. Keep track of Spell Save DC, and Spell Attack bonus on your mobile device. 

Squire – Another character creation and management app. Contains most of the basic info and spells already, with options to create spells, items, classes/subclasses, etc. This is the free version, but pro has more options for DMs, including initiative order control.

RPG Generator – An app that randomly generates things from NPC appearances to criminal gangs. It’s free and a great on the fly DM tool.