I gotta start bg3 multiclassing there is so much plot potential for new tavs/durges

Alright it’s time Critical Role Campaign 3 Episode 1 Thoughts:

-Oh God it makes me so happy to see them back at the table together

-that ad was surprisingly normal... is sam okay?

-ah there it is

-not gonna lie... that was actually kinda catchy

-sorry matt it’s a thing now

-european store? great news for us... not so great news for our wallets...

-starting at level 3... so everyone should have their subclass already... cool

-imogen, human, sorcerer for laura

-laudna, warlock/sorcerer, for marisha ...looks like a vampire?

-security camera birds... that’s cool

-ahh bureaucracy... good thing beau isn’t here. she would have punched that woman in the face already... and she would have deserved it

-read thoughts? abberant mind sorcerer maybe?

-okay laudna is great

-ashton, earth-genasi, barbarian for taliesin

-ashton is a mood

-Fresh Cut Grass, Warforged? cleric for sam...

-robbie?!?

-oh my gods it’s the Ash Holes!!!!! yes i know they decided on crown keepers but i like ash holes more

-i’m kinda sad that opal isn’t with them... she was my favourite

-dorian is clapping for the pilot... that immediately makes him my least favourite character in all of critical role... WHY DO PEOPLE DO THAT?!?

-wait didn’t aabria give them like a billion platinum? and several super strong magic items? that seems like a real problem for balancing

-wasn’t he still wearing the earring? how did fearne do that?!? i had someone rip off an earring once and belive me you would notice that... it hurts... and bleeds... like a lot!!!

-okay they’re fighting furniture now... BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PROTOCOL EVERYONE!!! yes that’s a Oxventure reference

-channel divinity: sympathetic binding? so F.C.G. is a homebrew subclass?

-WHAT THE FUCK MARISHA?!?

-feels wierd to have someone rage without travis cheering them on

-gravity build? ashton is homebrew too?

-travis is here!!!!

-so travis is... just some old dude?... he didn’t even get a character portrait

-a spiritual tomato... never change sam... never change

-”I’m gonna fuck the rug” - marisha ray 2021

-F.C.G. can take the damage for his teammates? that reminds me of my Oath of Matyrdom Paladin

-bertrand is level 5? So he’s probably just temporary right?

-okay lisa just told me that Bertrand is from some one-shot from Campaign 1 but apparently he was level 18 in that... confusing

-SAM!!!! just... why?

-INSIGHT CHECK!!!! Oh i’ve missed that

-and he stole the fucking earring! AND GOT PAID FOR IT!!!

-We’re only at the break now?!?

-i just love these first party meetings everyone is always so awkward and mistrusting at first

-lisa just cheered when marisha said that Laudna is from whitestone

-wow travis is really trying to make this guy every stereotypical old person ever huh?

-orym seems like he’s already regretting everything

-so dorian basically just went: “anyway here’s wonderwall”

-this is already so much chaos! and we’re only in episode 1

-you know i never thought about if warforged need to take a shit

-okay apparently they don’t... they just vomit out what they can’t process

-what a fucking cliffhanger

Final Thoughts: What the Fuck! i was not ready for any of that. these characters are great. I do feel like bertrand and maybe the Ash Holes aren’t going to be permanent members of the party though... Imogen seems genuinly nice which is rare for DnD characters, F.C.G. is... well... sam..., Ashton is really cool and i really wanna know what laudnas whole deal is she’s my favourite so far. anyway i already can’t wait for the next episode

DND Story time. Goes on for a bit, sorry.

So I'm playing a Dragonborn Oath of Crown Paladin, playing with a party of a evocation wizard, Eldritch Fighter, Whispers Bard, and a Vanilla Barbarian, all at level 8.

We're in a dungeon, custom made by our dm for a side quest to our main quest. It's based on the yawning portal tavern. Every room has a new encounter. And a chance to have an encounter in a room we already cleared.

I had bought this book, cost me 100 gold pieces, but it would tell us about the multiple creatures in the dungeon and give us insight into these encounters. Later, I would find out it was to a dungeon on the other side of the planet and not THIS one. More on this gnome con man later.

So we're halfway into the dungeon, we have to break through the barricade of the goblin room to continue the dungeon. We break through and I subdue one of the goblins for interrogation. He happens to be under a spell, so I use 5 points of my healing to cure him of it.

He says he and his buddies were kidnapped from their cave and put in this room for weeks, trying to keep the creatures in the next and previous rooms from eating them. As a paladin of the land, it's my duty to protect him, so I give him a few arrows for his bow, tell him to stay behind me as we proceed and kill these creatures who tormented his friends for weeks.

We go in, and amazingly, even tho the creatures were 6 Griks (these big worm things with 4 big jaws), Harry the Goblin, managed to get the kill on 2. He's very satisfied in his revenge.

Turns out there's a gnome rouge in the room, hiding in the crack in the floor, too small for the griks to fit through. He tells us he needs help to get out of the dungeon, as he's pretty banged up.

Now, at this point, my party was exhausted. The fighters taken a few good hits, the bard and wizard are almost out of big spells, and the barbarian is running on whatever health I've given him. I was the only one who's looking healthy. We need to hit the boss, but I need to get Harry and Barry the gnome to the surface before they get hurt, and couldn't let them go alone.

I decide to take them to the surface while everyone else waits for me to come back. I heal the fighter and barbarian with whatever health points I can give, except for 5, just in case. The 2 little guys and I go. Out of character, I see my party deciding not to short rest and proceed to the boss room.

My group is near the first room. No trouble so far. Then we run into an Automaton, with a flamethrower. Harry and Barry yell in fright at the sight of it. Initiative, I go first, Automaton second. Charge the metal guardian and hit him with the biggest smite I have. He goes down in one hit.

I drop off the 2 little guys in the tavern and they thank me. I head back down.

Anyway, I get back to the party, after I knock an angry bugbear down a chasm, and my party's started without me. Wanna guess how they're doing?

...

The fighters down, the barbarian too, and the wizards trying to shield the bard healing them.

...

...

It's a very big Grik. The size of a house guarding a throne with a crown on it.

I'm charging in there, jumping on the Grik, riding it like a horse, smiting it as I go, as the wizard starts hitting it with every spell in that book of his. The beast goes down, and I land on the ground on my feet, slightly singed from a fireball by the wizard.

We grab the crown, the objective of the quest we're on. Unfortunately, it springs a trap that seals the entrance to the room. We gotta go around. But we were exhausted. We rest for the night next to the dead grik. In the morning, we forge on.

Onto the last room before we reach the entrance room. A room full of statues. We have to figure out the puzzle to open the door. I touch one of the statues, but it melts into 2 Black puddings.

After a few rooms, we come across a skeleton with a magic sword. The Fighter looks at it asks the DM for an inspection check. Rolls an 8. The DM tells him it's a +2 magic sword. The fighter decides to replace his old +1 sword for this +2 sword. He grabs it and sheaths the sword, but can't let go of it. Turns out it's cursed, and he can't let go.

This is why you check magic items with magic detect, which he had.

We're hitting them with spells and ranged attacks, but the fighter's attacking with his sword (because can't shoot his crossbow at the moment), cutting it and making blobletts. The blobletts attack me and him, melting our armors. Geeat. We clear the room and exit the dungeon.

We leave the tavern and Harry comes up to me and offers to be my squire. I accept. Good times ahead. But first some things.

We turn in the crown to the quest giver, and he adds a payment for the fighter to remove the cursed sword. We're at the cleric shop who's just gotten the sword off, when I ask for it, in a sheath. Okay he says, and I take care not to grab the hilt.

We buy some new armor and I head over to the tavern. I speak to the gnome, tell him that his book was useless. He says no refunds. I understand and offer something else. This magic +2 sword for 150 gold. He hastily accepts, and grabs the sword hilt.

After collecting my money, I leave. He's admiring the sword, loudly saying I'm a fool for selling it so cheap. Harry's chuckling right beside me. The gnome puts it on the table, but can't let go of it.

Tldr- We go in a dungeon, I get scammed, save a goblin, get a crown, cursed sword, and I get a goblin squire.

MoDaoDnD

so here it is, my crack fic for The Untamed/cql/mdzs. This was inspired by @wifiwuxians (who’s an amazing artist so go check them out!). I hope this fic brings people some entertainment! warning a dog gets hurt but its not a real dog. it’s a dog in the campaign. 

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“You’re hosting a D&D campaign?”

Wen Qing blinks at her girlfriend. When she had agreed to come around for dinner with MianMian, Wen Ning was out with Wen Chao, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng; Lan Wangji would most likely join them as well, so she didn’t have to worry about him tonight.

“Yup,” MianMian shares out their food between them onto their plates while Wen Qing pours them out some drinks. “want to join in? I can help you make your character if you want? A-Xian is asking your brother and Lan Wangji if they want to join in as well. Apparently, Jiang Wanyin outright refused”

Wen Qing raises an eyebrow, taking a bite of her chicken as she contemplates the offer, with Lan Wangji there and her brother, surely it won’t be that bad right? Besides, her brother is always trying to encourage her to join in group activities more and not just occasionally throw needles at them. By then, it’s mostly Wei Wuxian that she throws the needles at.

Huffing a breath to blow a strand of hair out of her face, Wen Qing nods at her girlfriend, and is immediately rewarded with the happiest smile ever.

Wen Qing had no idea just what she had signed up for.

~~~~~~

First things first, MianMian had to go through each person and help make sure their characters were prepared correctly while also planning the campaign. First person she decided to work with was of course Wen Qing.

It was painfully obvious that this was Wen Qing’s first time playing this game, she’d had no idea of the many races there were, then having to decide the class, skills and routes she wanted her character to take. This was fine, MianMian could use this to show off her skills and knowledge on the game!

With an optimistic mind, MianMian starts to help Wen Qing plan her character.

“Can I have poisoned needles as a weapon?”

“No…you can’t unless you get them specially forged once someone has a proficiency in the required skill to make it…”

“Well that’s just ridiculous…fine I’ll have the crossbow with poisoned darts,”

“You are a CLERIC!!”

The next person she worked with was Lan Wangji, while Mo Xuanyu quietly painted the figures for her campaign at the table. When Mo Xuanyu and Nie Huaisang had caught wind of this campaign, both had volunteered their help, though they didn’t want to actually join in as players, Huaisang was helping her plan encounters and how to keep her group on track.

“So, what race do you want to be?”

“What races are there?” Lan Wangji looks over his character sheet and then at the book in front of him, his usually expressionless face pulled into a slight frown as he reads whatever is on the page. “Ah, I want be an elf”

Nodding as they both jot it down, MianMian so that she can incorporate it into her plans and Wangji for his character.

“What class were you thinking then? Archer, rogue, wizard-“

“-Paladin.”

Blinking at surprise at the sudden reply, she looks up and sees Lan Wangji already scribbling away, his book opened to the Paladin page as he writes out his stats and rolls his dice for the others.

“Oh, I guess you got it then…?”

“Mn”

MianMian had never seen such a well planned out first level character before.

Not long after Lan Wangji left, Wen Chao finally rolled up in roller-skates, sipping an ice coffee, from Starbucks it seems. In his other hand he holds his backpack, the straps dangerously close to the wheels of his skates. Despite him and Wei Ying both living in the same apartment block as MianMian; it was how they met and made their book club to start with after all, MianMian had kicked them out so that they couldn’t get in the way and distract others while she worked with them. She loves her friends, but they can be royal pains in the ass.

“What up!”

MianMian sighs, she’s sure that by the time this next 2 hours are over, she will be sporting a few grey hairs.

“Get your hoe ass in here so we can start…”

Simpering, Wen Chao pretends to flip back long hair after taking off his skates, “I’m a thot, not simply a hoe”

Grinning cheekily, MianMian steals his iced coffee to take a few sips as she walks to the living room, “My mistake!”

Grumbling playfully behind as he follows, Wen Chao tries; and unsuccessfully; to get his drink back from his friend.

“So, what character do you want to make?” Finally, MianMian takes pity as she hands back the drink, settling onto the sofa heavily as she grabs her laptop, ready to take notes and search for any home-made classes.

“I want to be someone or something that uses fire!”

“Just fire? There’s lot of different types of magic-”

“I wanna burn everything, I want to be the one to cause chaos, beat Wei Ying to it!”

“You do know that you will be level 1 right? You won’t be able to do much…”

“Whichever is most destructive then”

MianMian was really starting to regret her decision to run this campaign now. Heaving a sigh, she looks up any and all things he could be that use fire of some sort in their attacks. Looks like Huaisang was right, she may have to use her DM powers to make rocks fall and everyone dies.

Two stressful hours later, MianMian gleefully kicks Wen Chao back out as a timid looking Wen Ning quickly ducks inside. Slamming the door shut and bolting it just for extra measure, MianMian leads Wen Ning to the living room, a friendly smile on her face.

“Have you played D&D before Wen Ning?”

Wen Ning thanks Mo Xuanyu who comes out of the kitchen carrying freshly baked cookies and some tea for them; he had taken refuge in the kitchen when MianMian had snapped the first pencil when dealing with Wen Chao.

“Ah, I’ve played a few online campaigns” Wen Ning offers a small shy smile as he sips at his tea, while bringing out his Pusheen pencil case. Heaving a sigh of relief that Wen Ning’s character creation should at least go smoothly, MianMian picks up her laptop. The tea that Mo Xuanyu made doing wonders for her murder impulse.

“Ok, so what characters have you played before? Any new ones you want to try?”

Nodding enthusiastically, Wen Ning starts to list off all the roles he’s played before. Which ones he enjoyed and such, his favourite being a monk that could punch his way out any situation. Though nothing could have prepared her for Wen Ning wanting to play a Goliath Barbarian.

“Ah, Senior Wen , I have a Goliath figure I can paint for you! What colours do you want everything to be?” Mo Xuanyu shyly speaks up, having spent most the day quietly working while MianMian had been dealing with everyone.

Brightening up a bit more, Wen Ning gets the appearance down for his character with Mo Xuanyu, both happily getting engrossed with each other while MianMian takes selfies with the cookies. The next couple hours go smoothly, with Wen Ning only asking the occasional question to clarify details. By the time Wei Wuxian’s turn came in the late evening, Wen Ning and Mo Xuanyu went out to get dinner with the rest of the group at Lan Xichen’s, MianMian was sad to see the calm duo leave.

“Ah! A-Ning, A-Yu! you guy’s off to Lan Zhan’s?” Wei Wuxian grins at the two leaving, dragging them both into a hug. Giggling at the affectionate gestures, Mo Xuanyu shoves Wei Wuxian away, deftly escaping the death grip that Wen Ning failed to.

“We are, you guys are coming by later after, yeah?”

“We can ask for some food to be put back for you both?” Wen Ning manages to get out once Wei Wuxian loosens his grip finally. Beaming, Wei Wuxian nods eagerly at that.

“If they are able to, hopefully we won’t be too long! Say hi to Lan Zhan for me?”

Nodding in unison, Mo Xuanyu and Wen Ning wave goodbye as they head off, MianMian and Wei Wuxian head inside to get started finally. The last character to be made.

“So YingYing, you got a basic idea on what kind of character you wanna make?”

“I wanna make an elven Bard and shadow dancer! The shadow dancer is a home-made class I found online~”

“…what exactly does a shadow dancer…do?” MianMian tentatively asks as she slowly turns to Wei Wuxian, putting down her laptop as she has a feeling, she may yeet it at his head.

“Oh, it allows me to attack people from the shadows and sneak up on people!”

“…”

MianMian stares at him as she comprehends what he just said.

“You…you are going to…to be a bard..who sings and plays music to buff up your team and de-buff your enemy…and then try and sneak attack from the shadows?”

Grinning at her earnestly, Wei Wuxian nods eagerly, clearly excited and proud with his idea.

Blinking in deliberate slowness, MianMian turns away and goes to a footstool that’s kept to the side, opening it MianMian pulls out a large bottle of red wine, uncaps it and takes a sip straight from the bottle before joining him back on the sofa.

“Let’s fucking do this…”

-_-_-_-

Today was the day. MianMian, Nie Huaisang and Mo Xuanyu had worked hard for a few days after helping the others make their Hellish characters. Huaisang had opted to help play as NPCs for MianMian, Huaisang is surprisingly good at playing different characters and doing voices. Mo Xuanyu was to move the pieces on the table about on the map so that no one gets confused where each of them are.

Everyone is sitting around the front room in a loose circle, Wen Ning is on the floor beside Mo Xuanyu while Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji share the sofa, and Wen Chao is slumped in a fluffy beanbag atop a long suffering Jiang Cheng who had been dragged to this. MianMian sits at her desk table, Huaisang is in an armchair while Wen Qing bounces lightly on an exercise ball.

“Everyone ready to get started?” MianMian calls as she gets all the stuff she will need loaded, nodding to Huaisang when he shows her that he’s ready as well. A chorus of ready comes from the group, MianMian grins as she sits back in her chair sipping her drink. “OK! So, everyone let’s start...”

The group quiets down as MianMian starts to tell the backstory that she’s set up, setting the scene for the beginning of their campaign.

“You all wake up naked-“

“What size junk does everyone have?” Wei Wuxian interrupts nearly immediately, only to be silenced by Lan Wangji clapping a hand over his mouth.

“-and notice that you are all wrapped in a layer of cloth…” MianMian carries on, ignoring Wei Wuxian’s question, as well as the throb on her forehead where she can feel a headache already forming.

-

“You come across the group of bandits, which you have been tracking for the past week. The leader who is a goliath, steps forward and-“

“I roll to seduce” Wei Wuxian is already rolling as he says that, this making it the 15th time he’s tried to seduce something that’s in their way.

“NO DAMMIT! I WANTED TO DO THAT!” Wen Chao yells out, enraged that Wei Wuxian had yet again beat him to the seduction of something. Jiang Cheng groans from his spot, slowly still being crushed by his boyfriend who had taken off his hoodie (Jiang Cheng’s hoody actually) and is now in only a hot pink crop top.

“I’m a bard, seduction is practically in my job description!”

“Well my character would like to get laid as well!!”

Wen Ning notices the annoyed tick to Lan Wangji’s cheek and softly calls to him while Wei Wuxian and Wen Chao argue loudly about who gets to seduce the enemy.

“Lan Wangji…? Are you ok?”

“…yes” Lan Wangji mutters as he tries to pull Wei Wuxian away from the table before he ruins Mo Xuanyu’s figures. Despite the positive answer, Wen Ning’s pretty sure he could smell vinegar just then.

“A-Chao, shut it and for god sake, is that my underwear?” Jiang Cheng finally exclaims, much to the horror of the group, though Wen Chao only seems to gain a stupidly smug look as he looks over his shoulder.

“Yup!”

-

MianMian is finally starting to have fun as she sends the group on a merry chase in a town, watching them thumble through rolls and just completely going the wrong way. 

When, at long last, Wen Ning manages to herd his chaotic team towards the peasent they need to question to get an item. 

“No! You’re group is scary, i am not opening this door!” Nie Huaisang speaks in a sqeaky voice, playing the npc for MianMian. 

“After hearing this, you can hear a few locks being done on the other side. The old merchant had bolted his door to keep you all out. What do you guys do?” MianMian grins while the party groan. Finally, she can make them suffer the frustration that they had caused her to feel up to now. 

Hesitantly, Wen Ning speaks up from his seat, “I will politely knock again and ask in my softest voice if the man would be willing to speak with just one of us?”

Eyes lightening up in mischief, MianMian leans forward in her seat at that. 

“Do a strength check as this door is pretty weak looking and you are the Goliath barbarian” 

Nodding in acquiescence, Wen Ning rolls his dice and immediately groans as he drops his head into his hands. Curiously, Wei Wuxian leans over to see what the roll is and immediately starts to cackle. 

Voice filled to the brim with glee, MianMian continues once she sees the roll, “critical fail, Wen Ning’s character goes to know on the door but forgets to hold back his strength and the door goes flying off it’s hinges. You all hear a scream and a dog Yelping in pain. Congratulations you just crushed the leg of the man’s pet.” 

Wailing in distraught, Wen Ning starts to apoligise to Nie Huaisang profusely. 

-

“Ok, Lan Wangji’s character Shi Xuan, can determine from previous encounters, that this creature is weak to fire damage”

Wen Chao grins gleefully as he leans forward, “I set it on fire!”

Sighing, MianMian rubs at her forehead again.

“You’ve run out of those spells for today remember?”

“What?! That sucks, why are my spells limited!?”

“I told you this in the beginning!”

Wen Qing throws her empty box of chocolates at Wen Chao’s head as she glares at him, “Use the oil spill spell so that we can beat it to death while it can’t attack us back easily”

Wen Chao yelps when the box hits its mark, rubbing at the spot that’s turning a bit red from the sheer force of the throw.

“Stop throwing things at me!”

MianMian groans quietly, casting a forlorn glance at the footstool that she stashed her wine in, it’s not too early to open a bottle…right?

-

Despite not having a character, Jiang Cheng had steadily become more invested in the campaign, giving Wen Chao pointers on how to tackle problems and giving suggestions. After rolling a few times and seemingly having amazing luck, Wen Chao had pretty much forced his boyfriend to be the dice roller for him.

“Ok Wen Chao, what does your character do? Remember you have very few spells left, and this is the big bad.”

Humming in thought, his options bleak, Wen Chao glances at the dungeon map that had been drawn out by Mo Xuanyu. Feeling desperate as the last remaining spells would be no good here, Wen Chao hesitantly speaks up.

“Roll to seduce?”

MianMian groans, at the same time as Wei Wuxian complains from his spot now on Lan Zhan’s lap.

“Fine Fine; roll then”

Wen Chao shifts to look at Jiang Cheng and nods at him to make the roll. Face completely serious, Jiang Cheng nods back as he shakes the required dice before releasing them onto the table. Everyone seems to be holding their breath as they watch the dice roll across the table-top, and finally coming to a stop.

A natural 20.

MianMian stares at the die in complete shock that they finally have a successful seduction roll…and it wasn’t even the bard who rolled it.  

Shocked shouts of joy and disbelief fill the air all at once, Wei Wuxian being the one in the most disbelief and anger at being out-thoted by the sorcerer. Almost in tandem, Wen Chao and Jiang Cheng pull out pixelated gag glasses and put them on with smirks on their faces, as MianMian stutters.

“You…you…oh for fuck sake!! I worked hard on this boss!!”

hope you enjoyed!! if you did please share and comment! i take requests through kofi if you want a request or just wanna support me. i also occasionally do prompts on here. 

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So i wanna do homebrew content but i fundamentally don't understand how to hand make a character sheet??? Like how do i make it w/o using dnd beyond???

So I figure i’ll use this opportunity to explain character making/character sheets in general.This will be more in depth than you need but i’ll call it a resource and add it to my blog in a link. 

Buckle up guys this is going to be a LONG one we’ll call this

DUNGEONS AND KOBOLDS’S LONG GUIDE TO MAKING CHARACTER SHEETS

1.     Character Sheet

First step is getting the character sheet itself. Below is a link to where you can download them on Wizards of the Coast’s website:

https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets

This should download a file – the sheet that people use most often is called CharacterSheet_3Pgs_Complete.pdf

It’s well laid out and easily editable on your computer.

2.     Class/Race/Background Combination

Second, choose your class/race/background combination. It’s also important to understand a basic idea of where these appear/what they effect

Race: Ability Scores, Skills, Proficiencies, Features & Traits

Background: Skills, Proficiencies, Features & Traits, Equipment

Class: Basically everything but Ability Scores – although it does determine how you’ll want to arrange your Scores.

3.     Ability Scores

Ability Scores are on the far left hand side of the sheet. These determine your base Strength, Dexterity, etc. bonuses (ie. What you add to your rolls).

There are 3 basic ways of determining these scores: rolling, point buy, and standard array.

https://thekindgm.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/determining-ability-scores/

Above is a link to a post that explains these better than I could which I refer to often. (consult your DM as to which way you are using for your campaign)

For every 2 points your Ability Score goes up/down by, your bonus will go/down by 1. Ie. A Strength of 10 will give me 0 or no bonus a 12 +1, a 14 +2, etc. Whereas an 8 will give me -1, a 6 -2.

Arrange these scores as you wish – a good rule of thumb is you want your primary attacking ability to be your highest (normally the Quick Build section of your class will have good suggestions on how to arrange these statistics). I’ll go through what each of these scores effects in my explanation which should give you some options on how to arrange them.

To these base scores you’ve figured out, you then add the bonuses given to you by your Race.

For example, if I have a 14 Dexterity (+2) but I’m playing a Kobold (which has an increase of 2 for Dexterity as one of its traits) my Dexterity is then brought up to 16 (+3)

4.     Proficiency Bonus/Saving Throws

Proficiency bonus has a separate column in the levelling table of your class. At level 1 it is generally +2. This means that if you are proficient in a Saving Throw, Skill, Attack, or Tool you add your Proficiency Bonus and the bonus from your associated Ability Score to the Roll.

For example, if my Kobold is a barbarian, they have proficiency in Strength and Constitution Saving Throws. This means if my Kobold has a Strength of 14 (+2) and I am rolling a Saving Throw, I add another +2 to the roll (bringing it up to a total of +4). On the left hand side of the Saving Throws (and skills) there are little circles, fill in the circles of the Saving Throws you are proficient in to remind yourself why you have that score (but write next to them what you’ll actually be adding, ie. +4 Strength Saving Throw for my Kobold).

5.     Skills

This sheet actually makes skills relatively easy to fill out. Again fill in the circles of the skills you are proficient in (these can come from your class, race, and background so be sure to check all three). On the right hand side of each skill is the associated Ability – if you are not proficient you write down your base Ability Score bonus. If you are proficient be sure to add the +2 (at first level)

6.     Other Proficiencies

In Other Proficiencies and Languages write down the languages, tools, weapons, and armour you are proficient in – this is more to remind yourself of what you can and can’t easily use.

7.     Armour

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Armor#content

Here is a link to all of the armour scores you’ll need. Generally, armour is a base score (say 11 for leather armour) plus your Dexterity (just the base Ability Score bonus). Some armour gives you just a base score that you don’t add anything to. Some will have a strength requirement for you to be able to use it. The link divides the amour into light, medium and heavy amour – whether or not you can use them is determined by your proficiencies (found in your other proficiencies section)

If you’re wielding a shield you add another 2 to your armour score.

Unlike weapons your generally can’t use armour that you are not proficient in.

 8.     Initiative

Unless you have a Feat or a special class based bonus your Initiative is your Dexterity Ability Score Bonus

9.     Weapon Attacks

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Weapons#content

This link again divides the weapon up neatly into the proficiencies (simple and martial weapons).

There are 2 main scores to worry about with weapon attacks – Dexterity and Strength.

Dexterity based weapons are Ranged or Finesse weapons. Strength is everything else. Your attack bonus will be either your Strength or Dexterity Score (depending on the weapon) plus your proficiency bonus (although you can use weapons you are not proficient in, you just lose this bonus).

Your damage is the listed damage (see link above) plus either your Strength or Dexterity (again depending on the associated score).

(I’m not going to go into dual wielding here but feel free to ask if interested)

10. Equipment

Equipment will be listed in class and background – all you have to do is write it down in this section.

11. Gold

Gold normally appears in your background and class, but have a chat to your DM to see if they have a preference for staring gold.

12. Features/Traits

In the Features/Traits column you write down basically the things you can do (though people will use this column differently).

This includes things such as Darkvision, the ability you gain from your background and general abilities granted by your class (that are not spells or attacks). For instance a Cleric’s Channel Divinity might be written in this column.

 13. Spell Casting Ability

Your spell casting ability will be listed in your class – either Charisma, Intelligence or Wisdom. 

14. Spell Save DC

Your Spell Save DC will be your Spell Casting Ability Score’s bonus + your proficiency + 8. Ie. If my kobold is now a bard with a Charisma of 18 (+4) and is 1st level their Spell Save DC will be 4+2+8 for a total of 14.

 15. Spell Attack Bonus

Your spell attack bonus is your Spell Casting Ability Score’s bonus + your proficiency – for my previously mentioned kobold this would be 4+2 for a total of +6

16. Choosing Spells

There are 2 main ways classes determine what spells you have. The first method is, you choose new spells as you level up and those are the only spells you have (for example a Bard uses this method). The number of spells you have for classes such as this will be determined by the Spells Known column in your levelling up table. The second method is preparing spells. This means you can potentially cast any of the spells for your class, but each morning you choose certain ones for the day. The number of spells you can prepare will most likely be your Spell Casting Ability Score Bonus + your level (unless you’re a paladin).

17. The Other Stuff (alignment/personality)

The other stuff you can write or not write as your wish – this stuff is more for RP. Personally I will write my alignment and that is it – but you can plan as much or as little as you want! 

As usual feel free to ask for any clarifications/more information.

Hope this was helpful! (sorry of the length)

well. that was it.

**spoilers for prompocalypse  part 2**

Y'all this is it. The end-end. The last recap, at least for Fantasy High.

I honestly could have gotten this up yesterday but I wanted to give myself a hot sec before it was really over. 

But, no way out but through. Let’s get to it. 

We start back up right where we left off with no break in between. Cast still freaking, Brennan still gaping. 

“What the Fuck.” –Brennan 2019

Anyway, Kristen once again appears in corn heaven and she’s very not chill about it. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. On the plus side, she runs into Doreen in heaven who is young and hot again (which I’m sure Fig would appreciate knowing) and also apologizes for her traumatizing speech to Adaine during her death.

Helio playing beer pong. I wonder if that was always a facet of his personality or if Brennan just decided to yes-and all of Ally’s suggestions of him being a frat bro.

The angels being like, “Please be nice to God. He’s our dad,” was kinda adorable. 

“Why are you dressed like a weird stripper?”/“It’s too hot in here. He’s the sun!”

So while the gang has been living out Breakfast Club + Stranger Things, Aguefort has been Weekend and Bernie’s-ing Heaven apparently. I want to say wild, but tbh that’s pretty on brand for him. The wild part is that he was able to knock out GOD. Like, how even?

Aguefort tells Kristen that Sol is one god of many and she says, “Cool, I always thought that,” as if this is new information but, living in a D&D world, shouldn’t she definitively know that already? Like, the gods in fantasy worlds are pretty blatant about letting their presence be known and there are clerics/paladins who aren’t Heleoic but still have powers. 

OK I have a bone to pick with Ms. Kristen Applebees. You get a chance to talk to the primordial source of all divine power and magic and you (1) ask who you’re allowed to bone and (2) create a TERRIBLE god. Just truly TRASH. She created a reaction gif god. It’s not even a physical representation of the concept. Like, I thought she meant something like Yass from Wreck it Ralph 2 but no. Just a literal Yes! Like, you can trash talk Helio when you come up with something better, girl. Also, wild that you can just…walk into a room and do that. Like you have to knock out Sol first but still. Wild.

“You’ve created a new deity and already you’re fed up with it. I would say that’s par for the course.”

I low key thought Kristen was going to get the option to deify herself. I think because I had just rewatched The Gamers: Dorkness Rising and that figures in to the plot. But, thinking about it, she wouldn’t have gone for that I don’t think.

Aguefort flipping out at Kristen saying that friendship is the greatest magic of all, and rightfully so. That’s BS.

Since when does Kristen have dog tags?

Anyway, as we all suspected, the chronomancy line from episode 1 wasn’t a random line of dialogue, it was a chekhov’s gun. 

I mentioned this in an earlier post. Brennan didn’t seem too concerned that the party was wiping and I think this is why. I think he had two paths for this fight to take. In one, Riz successfully rolled for police and like 6 helpful NPCs plus his mom show up. That’s enough to beat the dragon without dying and Aguefort shows up having Die Hard-ed his way out of heaven. In the other, Kristen dies, goes to heaven, and basically that same series of events happens. Chronomancy saves the day. I think he was shocked because the roll dovetailed so perfectly with the story beat. 

“Is Arthur Aguefort black? Hell yes. My brotha.” Gonna be honest, I basically had that same reaction when they showed his character portrait in ep 1.

Kristen and Arthur jump back into the battle and Arthur gets possessed by Mr. Gibbons. I guess he’s just been hanging around as a ghost this whole time? Because this seems to lend credence to the theory that that’s who possessed Fig in the arcade but didn’t we see him go to the afterlife (which, I have a question about that too later). But I feel like that must have been Brennan’s way of sidelining him for the fight so they didn’t have like a level 20 wizard making it too easy.

“Oh, and Jawbone!” Murph loses it. 

Jawbone stuck in Goldenhoard’s mouth like that meme of the dog smiling, stuck in a fence.

Gorthalax is like, “I don’t feel great sleeping next to this dude.” Fig meanwhile is all, “I wanna sleep between his legs.” She says this at least twice. 

So everyone just have a freaking picnic and takes a nap in the middle of this fight. Can’t say I saw that coming exactly.

Fabian tries to stab Dayne, who is already dead, during the time stop.

“What the fuck do they teach you at this school?”

“Are you talking about the time thing or–”/“Yeah Gorgug! The time thing!.”

“We’re gonna kill this motherfucker, sweetie.”

I love Sklonda so much.

Jawbone is a salad guy.

OK so I know people were shipping Sklonda and Gilear and it was like, “But how would that work with the height difference?” so Brennan, the absolute madman, decides to pair her with the GIANT DEMON???

Adaine about Gilear: Cucked again.

Everyone treating the DRAGON like a JUNGLE GYM.

“It’s basically Jeb Bush’s Campaign.” Ally, with the fury of 1000 suns: EXCUSE ME?

“I bless, [Riz], your mom, and [Fabian.] Are you the only ones with vendettas?”

“I think we’re all pretty blessed.” Gorgug/Zac is so good.

Adaine, who has all the wisdom and intelligence points of the entire party at the moment: You need to stay safe because the reason that we died is that you died. 

The shot that shows everyone on the giant dragon and then the foreground fuzzes out and shows Adaine a safe distance away in the background is hilarious. 

Ice guitar pick. Sweet.

Yeah, Siobhan really shoulda got healing potions out of her jacket, not the freaking wand. Hilarious. The only thing helpful about that was it hinted he was vulnerable to frost damage which they could have guessed. 

I wonder what Brennan had in his notes about the freaking city in Adaine’s jacket. It’s wild they weren’t more curious about that.

I low key loved Emily buffing Murph the whole fight.

“Hell yes Sklonda!”

Ragh: Giving a gay pride speech./Adaine, who doesn’t want to get knocked out again: STAB HIM IN THE DICK DUDE.

And, speaking of, OWWW.

Fig shapeshifting to Dayne. The hell Emily!

And another eye gouging.

Fabian is incapable of doing a single thing without doing some ridiculous parkour stunt first. 

Kristen,not twenty minutes after Riz said it would be crazy to go inside the dragon: Can I climb inside the dragon’s mouth? (Adaine: KRISTEN!)

Gorgug saving Skonda and Riz going, “Thanks for saving my mom!” from across the room.

Brennan is narrating the epic final battle and what cool thing everyone is doing and Kristen is just being digested. 

Riz was my second choice for the coup de grace until it turned out that Kal ate his dad and then he was my first choice. Riz!!!!

What a badass moment for him. The image of him casting a shadow on the wall is super dope.

Everyone flipping off Kal as he dies.

Riz and Sklonda are making dragon casserole bay-bee! 

MURPH FAILS WITH BARDIC INSPIRATION AND BLESS AT A 12 DC.

Aguefort. What a chaos monster.

“I fucked that bird! It is my paramour!”

Hold up, hold up, hold up. Did Kristen’s freaking Yes god kick Sol out of his own freaking heaven? WHAT?

I love that what Adaine got out of this experience was, “Wait, so my powers are bullshit?”

“Everything in this world is bullshit, Ms. Abernant.” Preach.

“So is the sun just a yes now?”/“Maybe.”

Literally 6 cop NPCs. Like they all seem like they’re morons but I’m sure it would have helped!

“Fuck it dude, it’s worth asking.”

“Are you my dad?”/“I was about to ask you the very same thing.”/“What?”

“TAKE HIS EYE. CUT OUT HIS EYE. YOU WANT ME TO BITE IT OUT FOR YOU?”

Brennan really likes the word bud.

Freak the fuck out all the time and just fuck things up. 

They got their ice cream later! And Adaine says thank you to Basrar, even though he’s not even there.

Adaine as the 7 freed maidens (way to go Sandra-Lynn) are re-killing Goldenhoard: Us and them are the only good students.

Gorgug’s nat20! What a WILD time for the dice to give that to him.

“You gotta ask. I ask everyone if they’re my dad.”

Gorgug’s dad (Gorbag) has just as low an intelligence score as his son. It’s hilarious but also sweet.

THE VULTURE

I thought that Digby and WIlma just found Gorgug in the woods? Maybe I’m not remembering right. I would guess that was their version of the stork story but they straight up told him what docking was so…

“Do any other federal agents want to step to Arthur Aguefort on the grounds of his school?”

The Aguefort way!

I wonder what Sam has to say about her former BFF selling her out like that and also getting murdered.

It seems like Gorgug was put on the guest list for hell by accident (his relieved reaction was adorable) but I thought that was orc heaven?

Interesting Gorthalax still has pull in hell when he’s a high school coach now.

BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL

How did he watch the fight? Do they have pay per view in hell?

“I doubt Cathilda will end up here.”

Bill is just such a maniac. I love him so much. I wanna say I can’t believe that killing the devil dril tweet was serious but I can. It’s Bill.

Bill and Fabian having a casual convo in HELL.

Oh my God, Fabian’s mom stabbed Bill’s eye out and he proposed on the spot. No wonder Fabian is so into Aelwen. It’s in his DNA.

What a dope ship.

I can’t believe Emily tricked me into thinking that her end speech wasn’t in service to some nonsense. She held it together for so long but I should have known bc it’s EMILY.

“Young lady, I have no idea who that is and I’m telling you right now yes. I will make whoever that person is vice principal.”

Adaine: Uhhhh….we should find Zayn.

Aww, Zayn’s parents were also terrible elves. 

Unwanted Wingwoman Kristen Applebees

lol at Adaine casting Ray of Sickness on everyone suggesting she date ghost Zayne. Great callbacks to the early eps all around. 

Don’t @ me, but Adaine w/ a ghost boyfriend who also had terrible elf parents might be kinda sick.

“Tomorrow, we’re gonna start training you on how to actually swordfight.” Uhhh, I kinda love Fabian’s mom now?

She literally hasn’t been sober in 15 years. Icon.

“I didn’t know you spoke Tornado.”

Siobhan’s late season tendency to just flip things/people off is hilarious.

Wild that Adaine’s parents just legit DITCHED her that hard and she was like, f ‘em. Clean break.

“She’s helping me spread something.”

Gorgug has so many friends now!!!!!

Lol, Fabian’s whole journey has just been about becoming captain of the Owlbears.

Riz got his PI License. 

Lou and Fabian immediately being so mad at the idea of his mom (Hallariel?) getting with Gilear. Emily/Fig having an equal but opposite reaction. 

“Mama, I will kill this man.”/“I’ll kill you first, it’s not up to you.”

Sandra-Lynn gets with Jawbone. Did Brennan just roll to pair up everyone?

Also, the group is almost all related or quasi-related now. Gorthalax got with Sklonda which makes Fig and Riz sorta siblings. Gilear got with Hallariel making Fig and Fabian sorta siblings. Jawbone sorta adopted Adaine and he got with Sandra-Lynn, again making Adaine kinda siblings with Fig. Plus Fig claimed Gorgug as a sibling a lot of eps ago and if Kristen sticks with Tracker then she’ll marry into this mess. Crazy!

Fabian totally dipping on the sequel hook because he’s gonna be busy trying to break Aelwen out of jail.

I’ve been keeping up with the fanart but there was some in here I hadn’t seen and it was super dope!

I’m so glad we had the after epilogue-epilogue. It was a very nice send-off.

Adaine using her oracle authority to get Zayn back into school! She’s so good. 

Lol and she helped Basrar so he can grant other wishes. I love that this is the NPC that she decided she was going all in for.

Riz and Adaine join AV club! Idk why I love that detail.

Riz cutting off Adaine’s very good question about her jacket w/ his PI talk.

“They’re our rivals.”/“Into it.”

“Is ‘The Ball’ not your real name?” I love Fabian so much.

Zac doing Gorgug’s excited crack-y teenage voice when he’s just concentrating on that and not playing the game is so adorable. He’s just so sweet and enthusiastic and a good kid.

“Guess that tin flower worked, huh?” I cry.

I love that Gorgug’s happy ending is basically just that he has friends now. And that’s literally all he wanted starting out. 

“FIG! GO TO BARD CLASS!”

Aww, Ragh and Gorgug are friends now.

I knew it! I at some point pitched the idea of Ragh ending up with one of the AV guys so he would be w/ someone who had enough intelligence to keep him from dying and I’m 90% sure it’s somewhere on my blog but I can’t be bothered to find it right now. But anyway, he’s in the lgbt club w/ Ragh and Kristen so it’s def a possibility! 

“My bitch sister? Don’t you fucking dare.” (lol, if that happens then the group will be even more related)

Fabian considering recruiting the Cubbys for his rescue attempt of Aelwen.

“Gilear!” I love that Fig loves Gilear now but still calls him by his first name.

And that was Fantasy High! 

I have at least two more posts in the hopper: And epilogue retrospective type deal and also the official JQ37 ranking of all the adults in Fantasy High.

Thanks for sticking with me this far you guys. I can’t draw to save my life and I don’t really do fic so this is the one little way I can contribute to this thing I love so much. 

It’s been real and I’ll see you all soon for an epilogue because, no surprise, I have more things to say. 

D&D Ask Meme

@wisdom-fangs​ asked me to do all the questions of this D&D ask post. So I did. 1. A favorite character you have played. I really like playing monstrous characters. Currently in Adventurers League, I play Frattek Venvaris, bugbear rogue/barbarian, who is a delightfully goofy character. But I also miss playing Bajur Mashoir, a very charismatic lizardfolk "voodoo" shaman, whose catchphrase was: "As you can see, I am an alligator, sir..." spoken in a thick southern brawl. 2. Your favorite character that someone else has played. During a one shot the guy that played an evil halfling warlock sacrificed himself to blow up the big bad with a block of dynamite. The true MVP. 3. Your favorite side quest. Idk. 4. Your current campaign. I DM a homebrew campaign, in which the party is stuck between sides in a war between the local Jarl and a fey duchess who has taken over a part of the woods. I also participate as a player in a slight homebrewed Salt Marsh campaign, in which I play a tiefling cleric of Pelor. She's got a Sad Backstory. 5. Favorite NPC. The Loathesome Gribble, an NPC in the game I DM, who is a very small tiefling sorcerer with an immense knife collection and a four-armed aasimar monk girlfriend. He is found in the most of unlikely places and his signature spell is "Gribble's Hand of Sand", which may or may be not magical, as it blinds a creature with sand, but the material component is just a handfull of coarse sand. 6. Favorite death (monster, player character, NPC, etc). The druid in our home game charged into giant stag form at a huge burning construct (The Burning Man from Burning Man, but moving), missed his attack, upon which the Burning Man rolled nat 20's on BOTH ITS ATTACKS. No advantage, no nothing, just two straight 20's. He grabbed the stag by its antlers, turned its head 360 degrees, and dropped a flaming, mutilated dwarf to the ground. 7. Your favorite downtime activity. I always like to do something that tells a little bit about the culture of the creature I play. When I was on haitus because of school, I described how Frattek had spend some time with his little bugbear niece, and had just returned from a fun little war (seeing as bugbears love to fight). 8. Your favorite fight/encounter. We had to fight a vampire spawn in a dank, dark basement, but it was light outside, and Frattek is incredibly good at grappling creatures, so we dragged the vampire out from his basement into the sunlit street, and then made a run for it as we had broken into a house. 9. Your favorite thing about D&D. Coming together with friends and not drinking (a lot) or smoking weed. I like doing those things too, but it is also fun to just hang out and play games where heavy drinking is not really handy. 10. Your favorite enemy and the enemy you hate the most. Dragons are the best, spellcasters are the worst. Spellcasting Dragons are the bees knees. My players, however, are going to hate a certain spellcaster very much. Once they find out... 11. How often do you play and how often would you ideally like to play? Usually once a week, but I'd love to be able to balance twice a week. One day as player, one day as DM. 12. Your in game inside jokes/memes/catchphrases and where they came from. "Name and occupation, please" comes from when we played Pathfinder, and one of the characters died, but I didn't want to get rid of him yet or he was set up to be reincarnated or some shit idk. Anyway, his soul arrives in purgatory, which turns out to be this bureaucratic office, where he has to stand in line for a long, long time, before arriving at a booth/desk type situation, in which an Ophanim angel (one of them burning wheels full of eyes) floats that asks with a bored sigh "Name and occupation, please". The player answered, and was set up for reincarnation, which involved shooting his soul from a cannon/drop tube into the unborn baby of a local woman. The child grows up unnaturally quickly, and because it has the soul of a mature orc barbarian, it is more than a little trouble. Nephertheless, the "Name and occupation, please" gag remained forever. 13. Introduce your current party. My Homeboys, the Lords of Okab Volal, are Nazreen, a wood elf ranger who missed her wolf, played by @tabula-wasa​, Tophr Thanestone, the previously mentioned dwarf druid who was murdered by a giant flaming effigy and subsequently reincarnated/put into the body of a frost elf woman (something he hasn't come to terms with) played by our bearded friend Glenn, and Adelon Vrena, half-elf bard/cleric/divine soul sorcerer a.k.a. Healer Supreme, who is really righteous but not above torturing a captive githyanki, and played by Arnaud. The Schadestenen (meaning "Damage Stones", as in dice), which is the OG Adventurers League group in the Spellenhoorn in Hoorn, consist of Aiden Rainbowscale (Albino orphan wood-elf monk/barbarian), Fjorgyn (dwarven cleric of Moradin, who died last week and still suffered from the Death Curse. RIP.), Frattek Venvaris (Bugbear barbarian/arcane trickster and gladiator/luchador, played by me), Gideon Thornton (cowardly Half-Orc Hexblade), Grommash Hellscream (Stereotypical Half-Orc Barbarian. Great guy.), Ruldra (disgraced Hobgoblin undead-hunting Ranger), Cadence (Powerful but stupid Half-elf Grave Cleric/Divine Soul Sorcerer who never learned how to read), Ullr (Arnaud's Gloom Stalker and Human Machine Gun), and Darin (half-elf ranger and Master Of Backflip). The Peeps from Salt Marsh, DMed by the guy that plays Darin, in which Arnaud plays William Wisenose, The Awfully Lucky Halfling Build (halfling wizard/bard/whatever), Cadence's player plays Sylver Ravenstar (half-elf bard/hexblade/run away princess), her friend plays Samm Enoch (Aasimar Bard and Very Handsome Man), Aiden's player plays Ankis (Aasimar Celestial Warlock and very secretive about both these facts because Back Story), and his friend plays Vena Malum (Human Bloodhunter, who is really buff and does that swirly thing with her falchions, and oh my...), Grommash's player plays Morgain of Astora (human paladin of Pelor, and companion/boyfriend/substitute son to my character), and I play Paytsarra Avèry (winged tiefling cleric of Pelor). Praise the sun. 14. Introduce any other parties you have played in or DM-ed. We had one party consisting of a drider, a very evil dwarf, a fire genasi, a gnome psychic, and a kenku ninja at one point. When the evil dwarf died, and I introduced the guy's new drow "medic", I knew I lost all cohesion of the group. 15. Do you have snacks during game times? My players do. I don't like snacks that much. 16. Do you play online or in person? Which do you prefer? In person. I tried playing online, and I think I would do again, but only if I'd have a really good headset. 17. What are some house rules that your group has? In the Salt Marsh campaign you double the value of the dice on a crit, which I think is disappointing. I just wanna roll a lot of dice :( 18. Does your party keep any pets? @tabula-wasa​'s ranger has a dire wolf...somewhere...

19. Do you or your party have any dice superstitions? Not that I know of. I do know some of my dice seem to roll better than others. 20. How did you get into D&D? How long have you been playing? I found a d&d character creation app on the web ages ago, and that sparked my interest. Later I joined a warhammer fantasy role play group with a friend I had been rp-ing online with a lot, but this was the real deal, at Arnaud's house. He dmed number of campaigns for us, and later he joined my pathfinder group which turned into a D&D 5th edition group. 21. Have you ever regretted something your character has done? Yeah. Frattek decided to be a hero and tried to assassinate an ogre torturer. He failed his shot. We had to fucking run. 22. What color was your first dragon? The first dragon I fought as a character was a young Red Dragon. Even at 5th level, we whooped its ass. He found himself in a cave, surrounded by fools, and we beat him to pulp. The first dragon I put in front of my players was a young White Dragon. It kicked their asses. 23. Do you use premade modules or original campaigns? I usually homebrew my own campaigns, but I have dmed some AL sessions. 24. How much planning/preparation do you do for a game? Not an incredible amount, but for my home game I prepare ideas months, even years, in advance. For DMs 25. What have your players done that you never could have planned for? A lot. The most notable was casting Dispel Magic on the demiplane-item the cultists were in... and then opening the demiplane underwater. 26. What was your favorite scene to write and show your characters. I had these zombies that always repeated the last thing they said before they died, which was cool and creepy. But the thing I really wrote out was the description of how an Astral Ship warps space around itself, and what that looks like from the people on the deck of the ship. 27. Do you allow homebrew content? If it's well written, absolutely, but there is a lot of shit out there. 28. How often do you use NPCs in a party? When it makes sense, but I try not to do that too often. 29. Do you prefer RP heavy sessions or combat sessions? I prefer RP sessions, but I am leaning more toward combat. On the other hand, I don't think it completely excludes each other nor should it. I am of the opinion that 30. Are your players diplomatic or murder hobos? Rather diplomatic, but they can definitely kick ass. For Players 31. What is your favorite class? Favorite race? I like casters, and I will always have an affinity for wizards, but arcane tricksters and eldritch knights are cool too. I like elves, and I like monstrous races; goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears. I like things that are pretty and scary, or creepy and goofy. 32. What role do you like to play the most? (Tank/healer/etc?) I usually mix a bit of tank and dps. I don't like being very frail, but I do enjoy doing a lot of damage in one shot. 33. How do you write your backstory, or do you even write a backstory? I tend to write a character from a concept, and then build out the backstory. How did this person become the person they are today? Even if you have something of a bugbear, or a hobgoblin, or a yuan-ti. They have had a childhood, they have role models, they have culture. But what is that? What defines a character? What makes them they way they are? I don't like playing monstrous races that have been adopted by a "better, nobler race" like humans and elves and dwarves. I get the appeal, but I also think it is a little trite, and a little condenscending, almost. I think a lot about what defines a monstrous identity, and being a Cultural Anthropologist, I think a lot about the way culture shapes the values and morality and thus also behaviour of a creature. Do hobgoblins tell their children bedtime stories? What are they about? How will a bugbear struggle in regular humanoid society, where his violent urges -natural to him- are equally, or even more excessively violently repressed and punished? Is this just for bugbears? Will they then look for each other, and find each other in their shared cultural/natural tendencies? Are there goblinoid lawyers or activist groups, that seek to protect other goblinoids from unjust treatment under laws that aren't theirs? How will your life be if you are a second or third or even fourth generation inhuman creature in a human society? Do they dream of returning to a society that is 'theirs'? And is there even such a thing? And if there is, will they actually fit in, or forever be an outcast, neither hob nor man? I tend to poke at such questions with my character backstories. 34. Do you tend pick weapons/spells for being useful or for flavor? Everything is useful, since everything is always situational. If you plan only for situations in which you are going to kill every living thing, then you shouldn't pick something like Rope Trick, or Magic Circle. But you do you. I very much dislike decoupling "flavour" from functionality. This is a game of make-belief, so everything you do is flavour. The mechanics are an abstraction of a fantastic reality, and though inherently important to the working of the game (without rules, it would merely be improvisation, which is also a kind of game, but schwa), it is all flavour. People that brag about how much average damage they can do with this or that specific build tire me. 35. How much roleplay do you like to do? All of the roleplay! But please let me punt goblins into the garbage sometimes!