#DMing is hard

[phantom-scrybe]

it’s so funny the difference between how Matthew Mercer handles crosstalk and how Brennan does

Brennan jumps in the weeds with whatever nonsensical bullshit Emily and Lou are throwing at him that moment and then pivots it on a dime back to the actual game

matthew’s running a Story. there’s a time and place and he delineates that very clearly and the players still have fun bc he lets there be space for it without having to then wrench it back to the task at hand

personally i think this is brennan’s improv background contrasted with Matthew’s more traditional VA work background and it’s real interesting

both ways of doing things are great it’s just cool seeing the differences

#Matthew Mercer #critical role #brennan lee mulligan #dimension 20 #the ravening war #dnd #dming is hard

[aqours]

there is nothing more painful than the overwhelming urge to share all your campaign ideas with a friend both to infodump and also because you want critical feedback but also you really want to dm it one day and you want to invite that specific person to the campaign

#starposts #ttrpg #tabletop roleplaying #d&d #dnd #dungeons & dragons #dungeons and dragons #dungeon master #call of cthulhu #< it's specifically all for CoC campaign ideas right now #dming is hard #dming

[crowneprince]

True stories about homebrew campaigns.

#dming is hard #dungeon master #game master #dnd comic #homebrew

[interdimensional-bitch]

teachers make the best dungeon masters because they have lots of experience spending hours planning something only to have it go wildly off the rails

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dming is hard #education #teacher #teaching

[colin-robinsons-cardigan]

#dnd #dnd memes #dming #dming is hard #dungeon master #good evening to all the dms who cant voice act for shit #doesnt help that I love having like massive battle hardened warriors characters #and then have voice of 12 year old emma watson

[cristalthenarwhalpotato]

A DND npc for the campaign I'm currently planning for my friends.

Her name's Melissa and she's essentially gonna be the one employing my players to help in a number of quests <3

She also talks to ghosts.

#cris talks #cristal art #art #i see dead people #drawing #oc art #character art #traditional art #character design #dnd character #dnd art #dnd5e #dnd ocs #dnd #dnd oc #dnd campaign #dnd stuff #dnd dm #dming is hard #my players are amazing

[madamequackers]

Making Riccity for a character design class! Really love how he's come along and hoping to create the rest of my player characters.

#bby girl #dming is hard #curse of strahd #dungeons and dragons #d&d 5e #original art #d&d #oc #d&d character #character design #art #gnoll #gnolls #cleric #dnd cleric #animation #2d animation #digital art #original character #artists on tumblr

[thatonenewdungeonmaster]

What song or ambience music would you put to an encounter in a magical western themed campaign where the party is fighting a bunch of little dinosaurs in a house? I'm asking for me.

#dungeons and dragons #dnd #dungeon master #ttrpg #dungeons and memes #funny dnd #ttrpg memes #d&d #ttrpg meme #d&d memes #music recommendation #dnd help #dming is hard #ambience music #encounter

[sparks-chaotic-cove]

For those of you who have experience with DnD and have read Wings of Fire-

What would be a good way to incorporate animus magic?

One of my players in my underwater campaign wants to have animus magic, and I just think it's a bit OP without actually drastic consequences.

Currently my idea is a list of 10-20 consequences that happen when it is used, and it may only be used once upon leveling up between levels 2-5, twice 6-10, and three times 11+

(Consequences would be per usage but only more extreme towards the higher levels (7+) ) (Also dictated on what it is used for)

(examples of the consequences:

Perpetual disadvantage on insight checks (or other checks)

lose 2-5 permanent hit points (so a person who has 14 permanent hit points could get knocked down to 9-12)

sudden loss of digits (such as fingers, toes, etc)

docking a stat down (so a +1 becomes +0, a -1 becomes -2, etc)

Temporary blindness

Even if they roll high on perception or insight checks, there will always be one wrong detail. Whether that is the color of the rock or the lack or existence of an item. More minute details preferably.

losing a damage point on a certain attack (so like, a dragonborn with their breath weapon, one that would be 2d4 damage would be 2d4 - 1 , etc )

suddenly a certain type of creature is always hostile. Could be birds, could be snakes, could be a species of fish.

Do you think this is a good idea-? or should I just kinda nix it entirely?

#DnD #DMing is hard #dungeon master #dungeon and dragons #D&D #d&d 5e homebrew #d&d 5e #dnd 5e #dnd 5e homebrew #dnd help

[mischief2]

i hate dming for my gayass homosexual friends. they are roleplaying sex right now. i am making them roll for things. what is my life.

#dnd #dming is hard #literally

[nervousinternetobject]

#dnd #dnd memes #dming is hard #iykyk #dungeons and dragons

[sarahcarapace]

Got any tips for running a game in Detroit??

Well, my co-storyteller is from the Midwest and has actually been there, so he helped me a lot with history and writing an essay for myself and the players from his point of view to help set a tone. If you don't have a best friend from the Midwest, I'd suggest you do some research! Start with the Wiki and if you can, expand from there (for example, I watched some videos of people walking around the city to get a feel, listened to an audiobook and a few other things) On my side of things, I like to get a feel of the subculture of a region as I tend to have more punk rather than mainstream stories so I learned about the music and venues from Detroit at the time which was fascinating, from punk, to rap to techno (and now I know way too much about ICP ) I also rewatched the Crow which was set in a very stylized version of Detroit which helped inspire me to craft a visual for our setting (I always set my games in somewhat distinct AU's of places as allows for some discrepeinces without breaking immersion too much) Detroit is a super interesting and incredibly misunderstood city and could use more and better explorations in fiction and beyond :3 Ur, anyhow. Hope that Helps!?

#werewolf the apocalypse #dm tips #dming is hard #seriously tho I know so much about Violent J that I wish I didn't #Twitzid are pretty good

[commanderohdear]

I have recently started Dming, and this is what happened in one of the one shots I made the gods Hírtae and Rayta are made up, their names being backwards and somewhat switched around,

With the one shot two players showed up, so I introduced an NPC named Zymoria—a dark elf Warlock with Hírtae as his earthy patron, the very god the party seeks to prevent cultists from raising. Heading to the nearest cult hideout, they encountered a bridge by a lake, wisely opting for the bridge (I added a twist with a lurking Leviathan in the lake). As they reached the bridge's midpoint, a shocking revelation unfolded—the entire structure was a mimic, prompting them to battle and overcome it.

Continuing their quest, they reached the cultists' meeting spot, patiently waiting until nighttime. As darkness fell, Zymoria, propelled out of a tree by magical forces, disclosed his rejection by his patron and revealed his new identity as a Warlock Cleric multiclass. When the cultists finally convened, the party was ambushed, uncovering Zymoria's betrayal. Despite the odds, they emerged victorious, aided by the timely intervention of Rayta, the water goddess, who healed their wounds.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dming #dming is hard #adventures in dming

[shesjustasillygoose]

Love spending ten minutes staring at my planning page for next session and trying and failing to predict what these fucks will do. send help

#dming is hard #no clue what im doing #curse of strahd #the swordfish #who wants to tell me what fuckery will happen next session #It’s session 13 isn’t that an unlucky number #Should I make them fight stuff #Dnd

[thebathtubkeeper]

Here’s the spooky creature, still don’t have a great name for it but yeah!

Also silly in universe character post

Detail of Freak horse below

Warnings: Gore(?), no skin, horse, horror

I also made Like the full body one with like a shitty forest background, but y’all probs wanna see them horse details

I was inspired by many things!

I saw a really cool piece by hannahorca on Twitter and I was also quite inspired by the Bear from Annihilation(2018)

As my fucked up horse thing is like a very basic mimic, where sound is concerned anyway.

#monster of the week #motw ttrpg #ttrpg #ttrpg community #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg art #my stuff #motw art #motw rpg #creature design #lowkey posting this stuff here because my players were not as excited about my teaser as I was #the teaser is the in character post #I thought it was fun #it sucks sometimes as a dm/keeper when you put a bunch of effort into your campaign stuff and your players are like oh cool :/ #dming #dming is hard

[shadowthegenderhog]

I kinda want to make a ttrpg setting with no bbeg in the style of something like Outer Wilds, where there’s some large looming mystery that the players have to gradually gather evidence to solve rather than a villain to beat, but I feel like I’m struggling to make it engaging without some kind of antagonist

Like my initial idea was to have a setting where the party would be investigating an ancient magical disaster with repercussions causing problems in the present, but then what do I do with that cause stringing along my players for several sessions and feeding them tiny bites of information about the disaster along the way would get really boring really fast

I see two ways I could address this, I could sprinkle in enough large revelations to keep the party interested, but that still makes the pace more repetitive than I’d like. Alternatively I could keep things interesting with minor villain B-plots, but then I have to balance those against the main story, and if the main story is progressing in a slow and fragmented way then Bilgof the Bandit who wants to get revenge on the town that exiled him becomes way more interesting than the actual story

Alas an Outer Wilds style campaign may just not be practical :/

#dnd #ttrpgs #ttrpg #worldbuilding #dming #dming is hard #outer wilds #d&d