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Places you should add to your little town/city in your fantasy world!!
Post offices. Wild, I know. But give me the unhinged kind. Pingeons and little postal dragons all over the place. You enter. The most disgusting smell fucking assaults your nostrils. You know what it is. Letter in hand, you go up to the counter. The postal worker is just a slightly bigger pigeon. You shed a tear.
PLAYGROUNDS!! Create the most dangerous kinds of playgrounds, the ones suburban moms would TRIP if they ever saw one. Monkey bars that are way too tall, swings that go full circle... The metal slide stays the same, it's already painful enough.
PARKS!! MAKE IT ALIVE!! Show people going on walks, reading beneath trees. C'mon most of them are already hundred years old (And are going to die after that CR 15 creature wrecks the town) anyways!! Show couples and picnics, show a family enjoying the sunday, give me someone picking flowers for their loved ones.
A bakery! Do you know how much these places are underrated? And do you know how much plot potential they have? Every good story starts with food poisoning or granny's recipe! Give me a place your players/readers are going to treat like home and, for once, it's not a tavern or a guild.
Government buildings! Give me a town hall that has a kilometric line in front of it. Give me a registry that is as old as this town. Give me police stations! Give me courtrooms! Make one of your players get arrested and now all of the party has to go through burocracy like a bunch of normal people!
(Who am I kidding? You don't need to make them get arrested. They are going to do that for you.)
Touristic attractions! Give me a full-on statue of the country's leader! Give me museums! Give me streets, ruins and whatnot that attract thousands of tourists everyday! Give me an annoying city guide that tries to get the party's attention everytime!
Magazine stands! Magazines don't exist? Newspaper stands! From the Queen's Journal to the most questionable new piece of Fox's Tailtracker, you have it all! Make your players doubt what's actually happening, sprinkle a little fake news... Or is it fake at all?
...Toy stores. OK HEAR ME OUT. Make magic toys; miniature skyships that actually fly, metal toy dragons that expel fire, little wands that make little light spells, wooden creatures that can move and make noises... Make children happy! And your players too because they will waste their money on these stuff.
Instrument store!! Make your bards happy with special instruments or just weird ones! Give me a battle in one of those that is just filled with funny noises and the worst battle soundtrack ever!!
Not exactly a place but... Cleaning carts!!! Show me people cleaning the streets, picking up the trash, cutting trees!! Make the town look clean!! Give me an old man that is really proud of his work!!!
(or ways to make your players feel even worse when the villain destroys the town later on :) )
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 months
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Betye Saar, Rojo Toro, 1964
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Betye Saar, The Beast that Pounds the Devil's Dust, 1964
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 months
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sparkdew-dnd · 3 months
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three of swords ✶
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sparkdew-dnd · 3 months
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Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it
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If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:
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Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.
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As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.
I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.
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sparkdew-dnd · 1 year
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I have a very rough idea in my head that I don't think I can clearly articulate beyond "And that concludes tonight's reports on German air forc—WHAT'S THIS? IT'S KING ARTHUR WITH A STEEL CHAIR"
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sparkdew-dnd · 1 year
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Advice for DND 5E Beginners
So as a long time enjoyer of 5th edition dungeons and dragons Ive got some tricks and tips for newbies to the scene!
-Pirate all of the official books
-literally dont give wotc ANY of your money
-Dungeons and Dragons is not the pinnacle of tabletop gaming there's plenty of other games that you should try out too
-advantage is roll twice drop lower disadvantage is roll twice drop higher
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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The Red Book of Animal Stories. Selected and edited by Andrew Lang. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. 1899.
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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me getting mildly upset that my players never discover what went down during the 23rd Eshrovelian Civil War, an event that happened 300 years before the campaign starts (I have provided no means to discover this information whatsoever)
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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Craft a Post as part of the Blogger's Guild.
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Walter J. Wilwerding (1891-1966)
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Behold! A roll table to flavour up your town blacksmith! (at least before the murder hobos perform their favourite pastime)
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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Dragon 60 (April, 1982). Dean Morrissey, back so soon! Another older (signed ‘79) canvas, it definitely feels like part of a narrative with the cover of Issue 45. I’m pretty neutral on it, though it has weird charms. That’s a pretty ornate chandelier for a shed, for one. I do think everyone needs to get shoes on, though, come on, you’ll get splinters!
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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‘The Druids’ Artist: JuliaTar
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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Introducing Woodsman's Wrath, a sweet mini-quest that'll slide into your game nicely :)
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sparkdew-dnd · 2 years
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Open invitation to infodump about your homebrew world
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