I use this for town and city names lol

This is how you do it - if at least one person shows up -> we have a game.

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I've been playing an android operative. So. Many. Skills. 😅

Is not... Is a really really bad ttrpg...

any suggestions for things to help out intelligence checks lol

I ran Wild Sheep Chase for my regular group last week! It was beautiful, they didn't trust the sheep at all, but went along with it looking for a pay day. Tense negotiations ended with them cutting down all of the Apprentice's guards and then him, and proceeded to turn the place over looking for treasure. Eventually tried to turn the sheep back into wizard, but the spell went wrong and he turned into slime. They burnt down the wizard's house to cover their tracks, and vowed never to speak of the horrors again.

At first hearing about the sheep with speak with animals made me think Slimecicle

Sheep & Suburbs... I like your 'I'll play tonight and if it's the last thing I do' attitude ;)

There was a discussion about alignments on Facebook. One bloke said alignments are racist that a whole culture isn’t evil. He said in his games everyone is an individual with their own ideas of right and wrong and back stories and stuff. That sounds like a lot of work. Imagine a drow raiding party of 25 attacking an elven village of 340? How many players will die of old age before the DM has finished writing the back stories? Just so they can go off in 25 different directions due to their individual wants. I have trouble keeping up with the players and the handful of primary NPCs they meet, normally.

Great ideas, will try them. Not a big deal, but my ADS isn't a big fan of that always-on subtitles. ;)

Shorts, as funny or informative they can be, are making us dumber in total I think. If 5 minutes are considered a long format now and people struggle to keep up concentration so long, good lord... were heading right for Idiocracy.

I did that initially for my group but one of them didn't like it so I dropped it. He's gone now and think I might bring it back

"If youre gonna be racist it has to be true"

"You cannot just be racist to be racist." Watch me.

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This is so Genius. Thanks so much

It works sometimes.

I will stop using racist stereotypes of elves and orcs the second that the first elf or orc is complaining about it to me... in the first case due to consideration in the later because my skull has been bashed in.

Alright so I just stumbled on you but im gonna throw in my few coins. My newest character is by all means evil. He is a duregar and former powerful figure among his community. He did a lot of evil, slavery, exploitation, deception...etc. But he was betrayed, got his hands made unusable (he was a blacksmith) and exiled. He found a new path by becoming a cleric of a powerful entity who repaired his hands and gave him purpose. The character is still very much evil, having distaste for weakness, treating others with lack of respect. However he is on a path of redemption, doing little acts of good. He will call you weak for getting injured but he will then stand and protect you while healing your wounds.

More important here is player boundaries... If what their character does is so fucked up you can't say in a YT question, then a LOT of players aren't going to be comfortable with the topic... Odds are the player isn't gonna be super respectful with it either

As long as everyone at the table is having a good time (this includes the DM!!!) everything's fine

Honestly it’s up to the dm to make sure the game is appropriate for all party members, reasoning most likely the dms creating the group and probably know them enough to be able to keep planning and plans appropriate for all members

The most important thing here: talking with your whole table and making sure they are comfortable with those topics existing in game and that including them won’t cross anyone’s boundaries. Make sure everyone feels comfortable and is having fun at your table!

i like racism too

Racism is awesome. It’s a fantastic world building tool that’s basically always an option to use for a cause of a huge significant event.

Right now im playig an owlin thats racist toward kenku as they are "lesser avians" whos flight was stripped from them by the god for their ancestors crimes

You can use racism as a really good world builder. A tiefling is in long robes going through a market full of elves, trying to blend in. They pick up an apple and immediately are asked "are you going to pay for that?" While getting glares around them. You, the player, are new and have 0 clue how or why they are treated that way, and it adds depth to a different world

I mean the elves and dwarves eternal blood feud will always remain funny

I did whatever was funny and in good taste at the time, gotta get your yuks where you can and I play DnD to get away from the dumb expectations of irl, especially as it relates to racism, politics and the like.

Unfortunately everything is racist.

Actual "Race"-ism can be justified. Orc, Elves, Gnomes, whatever are actually different races. In the real world it doesn't matter if you're black, white, hispanic or whatever, we're all members of the Human Race.

D&D "racism" isn't the same as ours. Our racism is bourne from ignorant and often incorrect understanding of one another, thus resulting in stereotypical ideology being our basis of knowledge and, ultimately, our bias against each other. D&D racism is the result of thousands of years of war, and very vast differences in ideology and tradition. Dwarves don't like Elves because Dwarves hate how Elves seem to take nothing seriously, don't apply themselves in any situation they don't care about, and if the mood strikes them, they abandon their loyalties on a whim. Elves don't like Orcs because they are a bunch of war hungry rapists that destroy everything they touch, and they are objectively ugly as sin. These things aren't misunderstandings, but are documented facts about the races, and the "Racism" experienced by the races is just groups of people who have little respect for other groups of people who differ from them on every fundamental level.

I made a racist Goliath Paladin. He thought everyone short was weak. Everyone tall and muscular was strong. He wanted to dedicate his life to saving the weaker races. Good guy, hearts in the right place. Bad upbringing.

No. Games don't have to do anything. That's up to the table. If they want to institute aparthelf, that's their prerogative. Neither me nor you have any say in how others play. It's their game.

That’s not actually racism, that would be specism

There is a PoV issue here. IRL racism is among the same race, human beings. In fucking fantasy they are actually different races. Stop mixing two completely different things. Elves and Orcs had actual patron gods fighting each other in ded lore for fuck sake

I like his point. There is a speration between prejudice and racism.

I dont think its that deep lol

Who is asking this question? Seriously. Imagine self censoring and being concerned about a omnipresent neutral observer while amongst your friends. Just play the dang game, dude 😂

i read the title bleary eyed at 5am and thought it said “how to start ruining dnd campaigns” i clicked so fast lmao

A setting ✅ Adventure ✅ Friends to game with- oh... nevermind.

Imo, creating your own campaign by scartch or at least by getting inspiration from pre made campaigns is the way to go for someone who starts. That way the person won't get used to read too much and start feeling the ambience (easier if you created it) so that you passively learn the most important things to tell. Most pre made campaign in manuals is full of useless information. You can get the same feeling with a smaller description. That way, you also need less time for prep. Anyway, I agree with the session 0 suggestion, if only I knew it was not only about creating characters together XD

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Thank you for the help

So Yosuki are Halflings, but rat.

Nobody cares

The crown now belongs to new item: Rogue's Mantle. Ever since I got it, my life has not been the same. xD

I mean, not including the hammer of thunderbolts on a heavy melee character item list is just missing the obvious