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thecreaturecodex · 2 months

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One specific question, one general one.

The specific - What's a good monster, related to plants, undead, or both, to use when representing something that, let's say, fell from the sky, crashed in a lumber yard, and when a usually cold-hearted, fearless boss comes to investigate, it scares him so much for the rest of his life that he tells nobody and immediately abandons the camp? Something that's terrifying, but something that wouldn't just kill him outright. I wanna introduce a bit of terror to my party since in-game, it's coming close to the equivalent of the Halloween season.

The more general (and maybe more important one) - How do you manage your own disparate ideas into a more cohesive homebrew storyline? I've got a lot of ideas and themes but I'm realizing my choice paralysis and desire to do something cool for my players is hindering me in tying together themes to make something that will actually be in service to the players fun.

Big fan for actual years, btw. You're one of the best homebrew writers and a vital part of our group's games in Red Hand, Shackled City, and eventually Age of Worms. Thank you for your work.

Thank you so much for your kind words!

Now, for your first question, I do have a fair amount of plants from space in the Codex, since it's a popular SF trope. The hyphal brain, vegalpree or beula could all serve the role you have in mind.

For the second, well, I'd say don't be afraid to be self-indulgent. Not every idea needs to tie into a Big Theme, and the players, if they're bought in, might end up supplying some of the linkages for you. Probably the best homebrew game I've ever run was Sharn Freelance Police, which was a D&D 3.5 game set in Eberron, where the PCs were detectives. It was intended to be a case of the week investigative game, and by the end of it had all sorts of recurring plots, villains and an overarching theme. By the end, it was about the arms dealing House Cannith working with the Order of the Emerald Claw in order to cause a civil war in Kaarnath, ending with Vol coming out of the shadows to claim the throne and start openly engaging in eugenics. But that plot wasn't in every session, and a lot of the cases they took were random one-offs that tied into stuff I had on hand or things I was into. There was a session that was a parody of Sweeney Todd, but it turned out it was dire rats being baked into pies when they thought it was people. There was a scientist interested in monsters who consulted on cases about aberrations and symbionts, who ended up using what he got from the Freelance Police to mutate himself and try his hand at supervillainy. There was even an arc where one of the characters died, came back as the undead, and didn't tell anyone for a couple of weeks. And despite the big mishmash of tones and themes, everyone had a great time, and that game and its characters are still remembered fondly almost 20 years later.

And looking at those APs you mentioned, they also kind of go all over the place. Age of Worms, for example. Telling the story of discovering and fighting against the cult of a undead-themed demigod doesn't need to have a tournament arc, or a fancy dinner party in a palace full of sideshow performers, or a canyon where giants breed carrion crawlers to make siege weapon ammo... but all of that makes the game a lot of fun.

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daitranscripts · 2 months

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What Pride had Wrought Pt. 11

Petitioner's Chambers

What Pride had Wrought Masterpost Previous: The Ancient Crypts Previous: Hall of Shrines

The party enters a large room that looks empty. Morrigan turns as they walk.

Morrigan: ‘Tis not what I expected. What was this chamber used for… Hmm.

A number of Sentinel appear behind them in a flash of smoke.

PC: We’re being watched.

As they continue into the chamber, an elf walks out on the dias.

Abelas: Venavis. You… are unlike the other invaders.

Abelas (Solas in party): You stumble down our paths at the side of one of our own. Abelas (Sera in party): You stumble down our paths alongside elvhen, or at least those having our features. Abelas (Dalish PC): You have the features of those who call themselves elvhen.

Abelas: You bear the mark of magic which is… familiar. How has this come to pass? What is your connection to those who first disturbed our slumber?

Dialogue options:

General: They are my enemies. PC: They are my enemies, as well as yours. ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ

General: “Our slumber”? PC: I don’t understand the “slumber” bit. Who are you? ㅤㅤ ㅤ ㅤ

General: First tell me who you are. PC: I won’t be interrogated at sword point. Declare yourself.

Abelas: I am called Abelas. We are Sentinels, tasked with standing against those who trespass on sacred ground. We wake only to fight, to preserve this place. Our numbers diminish with each invasion. I know what you seek. Like all who have come before, you wish to drink from the vir’abelasan.

Morrigan: “The Place of the Way of Sorrows.” He speaks of the Well!

Abelas: It is not for you. It is not for any of you.

1 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: You’re actual ancient elves? [2]

Investigate: What is the Well? [3]

Special: Solas, talk to him. [4]

Special (Dalish PC): The elves need you! [5]

General: We mean you no harm. [6]

General: That Well could be useful. [7]

General: We came to stop Corypheus. [8]

2 - Investigate: You’re actual ancient elves? PC: So… you’re elves from ancient times? Before the Tevinter Imperium destroyed Arlathan?

Abelas (Dorian not in party): The shemlen did not destroy Arlathan. We elvhen warred upon ourselves. By the time the doors to this sanctuary closed, our time was over. We awaken only when called, and each time find the world more foreign than before. It is meaningless. We endure. The vir’abelasan must be preserved. [back to 1]

Abelas (Dorian in party): The shemlen did not destroy Arlathan. We elven warred upon ourselves. By the time the doors to this sanctuary closed, our time was over. Dorian: Wait… that’s not right. What are you saying? Abelas: You would not know truth. Shemlen history is as short as the pool of your years. Dorian: What did the Imperium do, then? Are you saying it wasn’t a war? Abelas: The “war” of carrion feasting upon a corpse, yes. We awaken only when called, and each time find the world more foreign than before. It is meaningless. We endure. The vir’abelasan must be preserved. [back to 1]

3 - Investigate: What is the Well? PC: What is this vir’abelasan, exactly? Abelas: It is a path, one walked only by those who toiled in Mythal’s favor. Morrigan: He speaks of priests, perhaps? Abelas: More than that you need not know. [back to 1]

4 - Special: Solas, talk to him. PC: Solas, perhaps he’ll listen to you. Solas: What shall I say, Inquisitor? Shall I sway him from a millennia of service by virtue of our shared blood? He clings to all that remains of his world, because he lacks the power to restore it. [back to 1]

5 - Special: The elves need you! PC: Our people have lost everything. They need you. They could learn from you! Abelas: “Our” people? The ones we see in the forest, shadows wearing vallaslin? You are not my people. And you have invaded our sanctum as readily as the shemlen. PC (completed rituals): We knew this place was sacred. We’ve respected it as best we could. Abelas: I believe you. PC (did not complete rituals): We came to stop them. Abelas: I do not believe you.

6 - General: We mean you no harm. PC: We did not come here to fight you, nor to steal from your temple. Abelas (completed rituals): I believe you. Abelas (did not complete rituals): I do not believe you.

7 - General: That Well could be useful. PC: If the Well of Sorrows is a source of power, now is when it’s needed. Abelas: It is not power. Not such as you could use, even if I permitted it. PC: Yet Corypheus’s minions are here to claim it. Unless you’ve defeated them already. Abelas (completed rituals): We have not. Abelas (did not complete rituals): We shall fight them as we shall fight you.

8 - General: We came to stop Corypheus. PC: We came to stop Corypheus. He’s here to take your well, not I. Abelas (completed rituals): I believe you. Abelas (did not complete rituals): I do not believe you.

9 - Scene continues.

Choice dependent dialogue:

Completed rituals [10]

Did not complete rituals [11]

10 - Completed rituals

Abelas: Trespassers you are, but you have followed rites of petition. You have shown respect to Mythal. If these others are enemies of yours, we will aid you in destroying them. When this is done, you shall be permitted to depart… and never return.

Party comments:

Solas: This is our goal, is it not? There is no reason to fight these Sentinels.

Sera: So they can stab us in the back afterwards? Stuff that.

Dorian: I’ll admit, the idea of fighting the last of their kind… does not thrill me.

Cassandra: I do not trust them. We know not what they’ll do once the battle is over.

Morrigan: Consider carefully. You must stop Corypheus, yes, but you may also need the Well for your own.

Dialogue options:

We will ally. (Accept the Sentinel elves’ bargain.) [12] + Solas Greatly Approves + Cole Greatly Approves - Sera Disapproves

I don’t trust them. (Refuse the Sentinel’s offer) [13]

We may need that well. (Refuse the Sentinel’s offer) [14]

12 - We will ally. PC: I accept your offer. Abelas: You will be guided to those you seek. As for the vir’abelasan… it shall not be despoiled, even if I must destroy it myself. [15]

13 - I don’t trust them. PC: I refuse. Abelas: As you wish. Our duty is clear. [11]

14 - We may need that well. PC: I refuse. Abelas: As you wish. Our duty is clear. [11]

15 - Scene continues.

Abelas leaves.

Morrigan: No!

Morrigan turns into a raven and gives chase to Abelas.

PC: Morrigan!

Party comments:

Dorian (if in party and asked about ancient elves): He said the elves destroyed themselves, before my countrymen came along. Could that be true? I can hardly believe it.

Dorian (if in party and didn’t ask about ancient elves): One stayed behind. Our guide, I suppose?

Varric: They left someone behind. A handy guide, maybe?

PC: This would be our guide?

Sentinel: Mythal’enaste.

PC: That’s helpful, since Morrigan chased off on her own.

Party comments:

Vivienne: Dear Morrigan left to use the Well herself, undoubtedly.

Solas: She seeks to protect the Well of Sorrows.

Cassandra: She’s worried about this Well, not Corypheus.

Cole: She turned into a bird!

They follow the guide down a twisting hallway into the vaults.

PC: This place looks untouched.

Party comments:

Iron Bull: You have any idea how much this place is worth? Solas: We did not come to cart off the last of elvhen glory. Iron Bull: I’m just saying! PC: Don’t let Solas hear you say that. Iron Bull: Admit it. You were wondering.

Cassandra: The entire temple must have looked like this long ago. How could the elves pour such devotion into this… nonsense? Solas: We can always ask our hosts. Cassandra: I will leave that to you.

Blackwall: I’ve seen Orlesian palaces with less gold. What did the ancient elves do here? Solas: Perhaps it was meant to kindle a sense of awe in visitors.

They continue through the halls.

Sentinel: Penshra! Ghilas vellathan!

Party comments:

Solas: I believe she would prefer that we remain close.

Varric: I think she wants us to go back?

Cassandra: She wants us to stay close.

PC: Just a quick look around.

They hear the sentinels fighting Venatori/red templars.

PC (sided templars): The Sentinels are holding against the Venatori. PC (sided mages): The Sentinels are holding off the red templars.

Party comments:

Solas: We should hurry. Their numbers are not endless.

Dorian: Count your blessings we’re not still fighting both at the same time.

Vivienne: How tragic. Our elven friends might exhaust themselves here.

Varric: Glad we’re not between them.

Sera: Good for something, I guess. If they keep it up.

Solas: Abelas gave us his word. Sera: Well, good for Dusty-Butt.

Cole: They’re dying. Faster than they wanted to.

The sentinel continues to guide them down hallways and up stairs.

Sentinel: Vir sumeil.

PC (Dalish): I’ve never heard that phrase. Can anyone translate? PC (non-Dalish): Can anyone translate?

Solas: “We are close.” Ma serannas, ghilan.

Sera (Solas not in party): I’ll try. (Clears her throat.) Can. You. Talk. Like. Us! Sentinel: Delltash! PC: Never mind.

The PC exits the vaults. Scene ends.

11 - Did not complete rituals: - Solas Greatly Disapproves - Cole Greatly Disapproves - Dorian Greatly Disapproves - Blackwall Disapproves - Sera Approves - Iron Bull Approves

Abelas: Our duty is clear. The vir’abelasan shall not be usurped… even if I must destroy it. Masal din’an.

Abelas leaves.

Morrigan: No!

Morrigan turns into a raven and gives chase to Abelas.

PC: Morrigan!

The Sentinels attack, and the party fights.

Party Comments:

Vivienne: Stop their mages!

Dorian: Watch out for the mages!

Solas: They have mages!

Cassandra: Careful! Their assassins disappear!

Iron Bull: Watch the assassins!

Blackwall: Careful! The have assassins!

Varric: Watch the archers!

Sera: Archers, yeah! Pointy shits!

Cole: Archers! Be careful!

Party comments:

Solas (if in party): That was unnecessary. A pointless waste of life.

Dialogue options:

General: I agree. [16]

General (completed rituals but did not ally): What else could we do? [17]

General: What else could we do? [18]

General: This was their fault. [19]

Don’t respond. [20]

16 - General: I agree. PC: Such a waste. To live through eternity, only to end up like that… Solas: Then perhaps you should have agreed to his deal. Solas: Then perhaps you should have done the rituals, instead of blundering after the magisters.

17 - General: What else could we do? PC: I should have trusted his so-called deal? Solas: Why not? Did he not seem honorable? PC: He’s a guardian, trying to eliminate one group of invaders before the next. Solas: You don’t know that. [21]

18 - General: What else could we do? PC: Were we supposed to lie down and die for those elves? Solas: If we’d completed the rituals, perhaps the Sentinels would have been open to discussion. PC: Would you risk our lives on it? Solas: (Sighs.) No. I would not. [21]

19 - General: This was their fault. PC: I didn’t make them attack, Solas. They’re the ones clinging to their pointless duty. Solas: Pointless, is it? This is their land, not yours. PC: We had to come to stop Corypheus. You followed me here! Solas: (Sighs.) Yes. So I did. [21]

20 - Don’t respond Solas: (Sighs.) I should have known. [21]

21 - Scene continues.

Party comments:

Dorian (if in party and asked about ancient elves): He said the elves destroyed themselves, before my countrymen came along. Could that be true? I can hardly believe it.

Dorian (if in party and didn’t ask about ancient elves): How many centuries have they guarded this place? Only to be gutted for no good reason.

Blackwall: I thought ancient beings were supposed to be wise.

Cole: Sleep, protect, serve. So little of them left, but still they were afraid to lose it.

Iron Bull: Apparently humans aren’t the only stubborn fools on this continent.

Sera: Pfft! How old could they be if they died so stupid? Right?

The party heads through the vaults, fighting sentinels and Venatori/red templars as they go.

PC: This place is like a maze.

Party comments:

Sera: Elfy-elves didn’t want normal people near their precious Well. Vivienne: Is is a maze. This Well of Sorrows was clearly not for the common man.

Varric: You surprised? This temple doesn’t exactly roll out welcome mats.

Cassandra: Be ready. These elven Sentinels will know every turn.

Iron Bull: There better be something good at the end of this.

Cole: Can you hear that ahead? People whispering?

Dorian: Let’s follow the sound of the fighting. That usually works for us.

The party exits the door at the end of the vault.

Next: Confronting Calpernia Next: Confronting Samson

#dragon age inquisition #dai transcripts #dragon age #dragon age transcripts #dragon age dialogue #dai #long post #what pride had wrought #wphw #holy moly #this part was a doozy

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dmsden · 2 years

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Monster of the Month - Otyugh

Hullo, Gentle Readers. September is here, the heat seems to finally be dropping a bit, and we have a new Monster of the Month. This month, we're looking at that delightfully disgusting garbage-dweller - the Otyugh. As always, big thanks to Scott Fabianek for providing the wonderfully gross original art.

Otyughs are one of those monsters that're pure D&D. They aren't based on mythology or a story; one must assume they came out of Gary Gygax's imagination. appearing first in 1977's Monster Manual. I've seen speculation that they may be based on the trash-compactor monster from Star Wars (the dianoga if you're as geeky as me), but the Monster Manual came out only about seven months later, so that doesn't seem super-likely.

Otyughs inhabit an important place in a dungeon's ecosystem; they get rid of carrion, offal, and other nasty waste. It's not hard to imagine dungeon dwellers learning to take advantage of an otyugh's presence, throwing their leavings down a pit to be dealt with the nasty thing. "Dump that bucket down the well, but if you hear or see anything funny, move away quick. Old Slargbargh's down there, and he'll eat fresh as soon as rotten."

Looking at an otyugh's stat block, we see a lot of interesting stuff. They're aberrations, which suggests that they originally hail from the Far Realm. This makes sense, given their monstrous appearance, their tentacles, and their touch of psionic power in the form of their limited telepathy (more on that later). Their abilities are decent, but their high Constitution save makes them extremely hearty creature...makes sense that a beast that wallows in filth is unlikely to succumb to poison, disease, and the like.

It has a nice, solid multi-attack of a bite and two tentacles. Given that the tentacles have a 10 foot reach, and they enforce both the Grappled and Restrained conditions on their targets, this is clearly its primary mode of attack. The bite, although shorter in reach, does more damage and carries a very nasty disease. Not only does that impose the Poisoned condition, but it carries a wasting sickness as well that slowly drains the sick person's maximum hit points. While this sounds scary, characters able to take on the otyugh (with its challenge rating of 5) are likely to have access to the lesser restoration spell.

The really fun sounding ability an otyugh has is its power to tentacle slam creatures. The image of this bloated, monstrous creature either slamming grappled opponents into each other, the ground ,a wall, the ceiling, etc is very cinematic. And not only do they take a decent amount of damage (more than the original tentacle damage, actually), but they can be Stunned as well. Very dangerous situation for the PCs.

By far the most unique element of an otyugh encounter is the creature's limited telepathy. Otyughs only speak their own language, but they can transmit simple messages and images to creatures. Since they're not particularly stealthy, this seems like a good way for an otyugh to lure its prey in. As you get closer to the pit, you hear a cry, like a child, from within. You can't make out the words, but they sound so pathetic. Surely you can't abandon the tyke!

As I mentioned before, an otyugh seems like a really likely creature for other dungeon denizens to know about and to use. The bullywugs might pretend they have treasure hidden in the midden pit, or they might tell the PCs that's here they've got the prisoners stashed. When the PCs seem to hear a call for help, that'll add to the scene the bullyugs are laying. But what emerges as they approach, or lashes tentacles out at them, certainly isn't the prisoners. Let's hope the prisoners are elsewhere, because, otherwise, they're likely in the belly of the beast!

This is a monster I would be sure to describe in lavish detail, especially when describing the nauseating smell of it, the sucking, smacking sounds of its huge mouth, the pain of the piercing tentacle barbs, and the foul breath and rotten teeth as someone gets dragged into a bite. I would 100% play up the scene for complete grossness.

I hope this article has you drooling to add an otyugh to your adventure. Next month is October, so we're bringing a creepy creature of darkness from Japanese mythology into the light. Until then, may you spot the otyugh in the garbage before it spots you!

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femboyhunting · 10 months

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The more I think sort of offhandedly about the dynamic Bailey and my pc have the more weirdly attached I get to it. Like Mikie is very adamant of proving himself to be an asset to Bailey in a way that still cements his independence and competence. He started off hating Bailey, thinking of him as the ultimate antagonist in his life. The human embodiment of everything Mikie hates about this whole putrid world and his whole pathetic life.

He's incredibly goal driven, he needs to have something to work towards or else he falls apart. So he pinned up a picture of Bailey to the dart board in his room and declared that one day he's going to beat the absolute bloody shit out of him, empty his safe, and run away with Robin in tow. But then the world started opening up to him like carrion cracking and expanding from bloat as it rots and Mikie learned two things at once. Firstly, that there are a lot more threats out there than just Bailey, things more ancient and powerful than he could really comprehend, as well as those more mundane threats that somehow managed to rival Bailey in sinister intent. And secondly, that Bailey is far far more powerful and with influence much father reaching than he'd thought. In fact, Bailey must be one of the kingpins of Doltown's criminal underbelly. Mikie had been naive to think he could take him down that easy.

So. Change of plan. Mikie's going to have to be smart about this. Bailey's a piece of money hungry orphan farming shit but he also represents a degree of protection that Mikie knows he needs to survive. It's not lost on him how people react to the B word. How many times has he seen someone tremble at the mention of Bailey's name? How many times now has Bailey removed him from a new fresh hell he was sure was inescapable? Being on Bailey's side? That's safety Mikie can't secure on his own. What does his own name evoke? An image of the towns unwilling bicycle? The fact of the matter is that he needs Bailey. And he wants Bailey to know that he needs him right back.

Mikie doesn't fawn and beg for Bailey to need him. Even if he thought that would actually work, he doesn't think he'd even physically be capable of it. No he tries to prove he's strong. A valuable asset not just as pretty body or an object you can pawn off. But because he's smart, driven, and capable. And irreplaceable. He doesn't stop rebelling. He makes calculated moves to get under Baileys skin. He rallies the orphans. Bailey fetches him from yet another misadventure and later Mikie showes up in his office with a stack of bills that he drops on his desk. Mikie answers his incredulous scowl with the explanation that he wanted to show he was grateful to him for the rescue, the money is a thank you. But his tone doesn't really sound "grateful" and his eyes are intense. He wants to say "I'm valuable, you want to keep me safe". He wants to say "You want me as an ally because I'm enough of a fucking problem that you don't want me as an enemy".

He needs Bailey to trust him, to need him. Because that's when he'll be most vulnerable. That's the only possible way Mikie could even dream of taking him down.

So they do their little power play dance. Mikie tries to prove himself both useful (and low-key a threat) to Bailey. He doesn't think of him as The big bad of his life, he's met a lot of bigger eviler bads. In fact, he's almost a protective force. Their back and forth and banter almost feels playful sometimes. Bailey tears down posters of his caricature that say "why are you Breathing when you could be making me money" off the walls of the orphanage and he immediately knows that somehow someway this is Mikie's doing. Mikie calls him an orphan farmer Bailey calls him a parasite. Mike tells him he should think about getting a pet dog for the kids. Bailey says Mikie's already the pet dog and Mikie says he's really more of a cat. Something has changed. Not drastically. But Mikie thinks of Bailey a bit differently, and he hasn't even realized it himself.

#mikies like hold on that's my emotional support abusive parental figure who I hate and plan to kill one day #dol #dol pc #mikieposting #it's ok mikie I also have emotional support abusive parental figures #seems like it should be an oxymoron but it's not that what having a shitty childhood will do to you

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negentropies · 5 months

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im back 9 under romance, and 10 under story specific <3

the way i forgor about these . anyway

How do they react if the PC has sex with Mizora? The Emperor? Haarlep?

for griseis, having sex with mizora will have different outcomes depending on whether she's faced orin and on the results of that duel. while she's still stricken with her urges, she won't necessarily break up with you yet—she limits physical intimacy with you for fear that she'll do what she's always done to those she's loved: kill you. so, if you tell her that it was purely for physical satisfaction, she won't be happy, but she won't immediately leave you. however, if you try to convince her it was all mizora's fault and you were being manipulated, she'll sniff out the lie and break up with you on the spot. if you sleep with mizora after confronting orin, a griseis who didn't accept bhaal will leave you no matter your justification, while the chosen of bhaal will break up with you AND kill you in your sleep, so you'll need someone in your party with revivify in the morning. if you sleep with the emperor, she will pretend it never happened. it's a bit hard to confront your lover if you dreamt that they had sex with a squid, even if it DID kind of happen? it's weird and she has 8 intelligence and her head hurts trying to think about how any of this works, so it's better if she just didn't think about it at all. she'll disapprove if you sleep with haarlep. you should have just let her kill them, you know? but if you follow through and start experiencing the side effects of your incubus contract, she will anger on your behalf, and she'll sympathize with your plight. she knows perfectly well what it's like to lose control over your body—what it's like to be subjected to the will of one who claims ownership over your very being. it's violating. she'll tell you you cannot give in. she won't let you. your mind must remain yours. and regardless, it's never too late for a bit of incubus hunting through the hells. (the chosen of bhaal will tell you that you knew what you were in for, and that you brought this upon yourself. still, it wouldn't do for her partner to know the touch of devils. after the absolute is yours, she shall make sure to end haarlep personally.)

hymn will break up with you for mizora, flat out. they'll ask if you had fun, and they'll spend the rest of the campaign making snide comments and passive aggressive jokes at your expense. kind of like bugged gale, they don't consider the two of you particularly close unless you uncover their history at the bhaal temple. you're a nice-to-have, not a necessity. sleeping with mizora is less about breaking their trust and more about them losing respect for you, so they won't be too down about leaving you. hymn will also pretend they didn't walk in on you and the emperor, but that won't stop them asking you several odd questions afterward, including waiting to know your opinion on calamari, and whether you think illithid flesh would be textured more like fish or jelly. hymn will disapprove of sleeping with haarlep, but will understand it from the perspective of self-preservation. if a contract with an incubus had spared them their original death, then they can't say they wouldn't have taken it. you can endure it, they'll promise. by ilmater's grace, you can endure it. and they don't know how effective they'd be at chasing down an incubus, but surely there are other ways of breaking these kinds of contracts?

How do they react if the PC licks the dead spider in the Gauntlet of Shar?

[Give it a lick.] « Griseis disapproves. » "I am not one to sneer at carrion, but this is rather on the... stale side, isn't it?" [Lick it again.] « Griseis disapproves. » "If you like licking dead spiders so much, I'll find you a fresh one. This is an embarrassment."

[Give it a lick.] « Hymn disapproves. » "Are you...? Well. I knew your tastes ran exotic, but—a dead spider? Really?" [Lick it again.] « Hymn disapproves. » "I'm not healing you after this. Poison yourself to death; see if I care."

#bg3 #oc tag

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c-rowlesdraws · 2 years

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time to answer a bunch more asks about Sweet Pea, Nettle, and DnD! Jesus christ, you guys (gender-neutral, affectionate). Leading with a couple asks about food, because now it’s on my mind...

@demnted-dwarf-wizard An average human would be a lot— I think it would take a few gnolls to finish one of those. (j/k j/k)

I think they generally do eat a bit more than an average human, because they’re generally larger creatures than an average human. A terrible, insatiable appetite is part of their monstrous reputation, and there’s some truth to it; they’re built to survive harsh conditions, so they can eat a lot at once if they want to. Ask Nettle about the time Sweet Pea discovered pasta. (Or don’t.) But many clans, like Sweet Pea’s, live in balance with the ecosystem around them, not hunting more than what animal populations can replenish. And every part of what they hunt is eaten or used in some way, like in making tools or clothes-- absolutely nothing is wasted.

They’re hunters first and scavengers second, just like real spotted hyenas, but they don’t mind scavenging. If other people think that’s “gross” because they can’t appreciate the flavors and smells of carrion and aren’t constitutionally strong enough to eat it, that’s on them.

I can see gnolls living in towns and cities being very into dumpster-diving. It’s amazing, what some places just throw out. 😔🍕🌯🍰🥐

@kinsey3furry300 this whole thing is so cute and interesting that I’ve been hoarding it. I never knew you could gather ant larvae that way! SP is really the one who’s more knowledgeable about outdoorsy survival stuff, although Nettle knows things, too. She’s very good at identifying mushrooms.

nettle. ✅

she’s a little over 6 feet tall! Most of that is neck. My gnolls have long necks and torsos, and proportionally short legs.

a little guy! My first impulse was to be like, “wait, aren’t kitsune a thing?” but kitsune are different and special and they’re their own thing. I hope you can convince your DM to let you be a little tiny big-eared fox guy.

@kittysune2000 I love all the different kinds of furries and monsters you can be in DnD and Pathfinder (and beyond). Letting people just be creatures is so great. I love ratfolk, they sound adorable-- and I also love kobolds! A oneshot I played recently with some work friends actually went off the rails when our party got ambushed by a couple kobolds and, instead of killing them like the DM expected us to, we took them prisoner to act as our guides through a gem mine, asked them their life stories, and encouraged their fellow kobold minions to revolt against their mean manager. Afterwards, we set them free with a gem each and encouraged them to look for better jobs. Godspeed, little guys.

I’ve also seen a couple examples of people making mimics into PCs, and that’s delightful. Any little minor enemy monster getting to be a main character is my jam.

I don’t own any 5e books (yet)! My secret is having friends who do own books who will loan them to me, and a DM who sends his players PDFs of books he wants us to read.

@half-blood-goods I wrote about SP’s family over here!

#ask #catie talks #dnd #sweet pea the gnoll #nettle the goblin #food #bugs #kobolds

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pursuedbyamemoryy · 6 months

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HI DAWN !! coming into ur inbox (for the first time?! 🙀✨) just to greet ya hehe >:)) i hope u r doing well !!! OKAY just to talk a bit. i've never rlly been into fnaf aside from being rlly invested in lore (i just wasn't an fnaf kid if that makes sense 🥺) BUT AAA MY FRIENDS WHO R INTO IT want to drag me to watch and ofc i will BUT just wondering for fun. did u enjoy!! wld u recommend!! (HEHE HAVE A GOOD DAY) <33 (also i never said yet but u are so based for spiderverse cod rdr. love them all sm. AND HOZIER the best ever. i barely know dead poets society but wld u recommend it !! ;O heehee)

OMG HIIIII!!! i’ve been good, i hope you’re doing well too <33 thank you for checking in 😇😇!!

honestly not being super into fnaf is so valid, i played a couple of games here and only learned the lore like last year because THERES SO MUCH??? and it’s so confusing like wtf? but omg i hope you have fun when you see the movie!!! i def recommend it! they didn’t follow the lore completely but that definitely doesn’t mean it was bad, it was a fun movie, i liked it!! ( except for the other people in the theater because they were so loud and disrespectful the entire movie like it was SO BAD but aside from that i enjoyed it ) josh hutcherson is also so hot in the movie and no i will not shut up about it!!

ALSO AHHHH i miss my spiderverse era omg i was SOOO into it i think i need to rewatch the movies again. and rdr2 is like my favorite game ever i could talk about it for hours genuinely. i’m currently on my second play through and i’m almost done w the game again and i’m going for low honor this time UGHHH IM NOT READY FOR THE ENDING 😭😭 i cried so hard my first play through. i also need to play rdr1 and i even borrowed my friends xbox for it but i’ve always been a pc player so i CANNOT play on a controller like i struggle so bad for no reason LMAOO

HOZIER. DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED UGHHHH i love him so so much his music means everything to me. and i will never shut up about how i saw him live!!! current fav song has to be either i carrion or abstract. or maybe dinner & diatribes. or like his whole discography yk???

as for dps it’s such a good movie!! this sounds so dramatic but tbh it changed the way i view poetry and literature overall ( i was never super into poetry but after watching i’ve taken an interest to it ) as well as just like… life?? and taking different opportunities and doing things you love and such. definitely definitely recommend it <33 - tw for suicide towards the end but everyone just kind of pretends that part never happens LMAO. it’s also like not graphic there’s no blood or anything ( he’s not dead your honor!!! he’s alive and happy and in love!!! )

i rambled a bit but omg y’all!!! talk to me in my inbox more i had sm fun w this HEHE

#pursuedbyamemory talks #get me started and i talk for so long LMFAOO especially if i like something

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dainesanddaffodils · 6 months

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tagged, in essence, by @gavotteangel Thank you ;)

last song: I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier

favorite color: teal

currently watching: Only Murders in the Building

last movie: Bottoms, movie of the year

sweet, spicy, or savory? all of the above? if I had to choose, savory, but it's close

relationship status: in a relationship :3

current obsession: my own fucking novel WIP honestly... and also callowmoore

last thing i googled: Dealing with Dragons, because I wanted to show my love the character I named my ffxvi pc after lol

tagging... the girl (gender neutral) reading this lmao

#me #gavotteangel

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vvanessaives · 6 months

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7 and 9 from the general asks!

companion!tav ask game.

thank you for the ask!! sorry it took me a few weeks to reply fjsdhfkj <3 question 7 got a bit too long i'm afraid

7. Do they have their own personal quest that spans the course of the game? Can it take different branching paths depending on the choices the Player Character makes?

OHH i've Thought of this...capital T. Violante's quest would revolve around letting go of the past/breaking the cycle vs falling right back into the same toxic dynamics. she asks to the PC to help her free herself of a "soul" that torments her, she'd tell that her patron demanded a sacrifice to form the pact so she did as asked. unlucky twist of fate, her victim's soul seems to have tied itself with hers. her mind is filled with whispers and it's slowly breaking her psyche. she wants to get rid of it. ofc she's NOT saying the whole truth, how the person she killed was her best friend Ruven and the exact details of his death (like the fact he was the one to try to sacrifice her for power). her quest is filled with unsaid truths i'm afraid because she's not ready to disclose the full story of what went on that day or of the state of her mind. by the end of act 2 she will reveal the full story. she'd ask to find the necromancy of thay to learn a way to finally separate them in act 1 > requires to speak with Balthazar in act 2 > meeting with Mystic Carrion in act 3.

thanks to the necromancy of thay Violante learns that she can indeed get rid of Ruven BUT she can also bring him back to life. she doesn't reveal this detail until end act 2, when the idea of finally reuniting with her best friend, lover, executioner starts to posses her thoughts. the PC will have 2 options when meeting Mystic Carrion: finally separate Violante's psyche from the ghost of the past or indulge in her desire to bring him back at the price of an eternal servitude to Carrion. the thing is..for the whole quest Violante will convince the PC that this IS what she actually wants. it's grief that speaks here, nothing good will come from bringing back someone that did more bad than good to her. she misses companionship, "a piece of myself", so bad that she literally doesn't care of selling herself to yet another form of servitude.

if you allow her to resurrect Ruven (which can also have interesting outcomes) she will be pleased but basically doomed to an eternity of false fulfillment, trapping her back into the same toxic dynamics with Ruven. if you convince her to give it up and be free she will...see reason. understand that she was being foolish and that it's better to leave the past in the past and deads to their own rest. Violante's mind will be finally her own (well, beside the tadpole) for the first time in more than 10 years. she can have two more outcomes: either learns to live her life as it should be, her own, or later finds a way to end it, unable to sustain a future that has no meaning, she succumbs to the void that splits open her chest. to prevent that it's very important to help and support her through a journey of healing throughout the story, show her that life can and will go on. MUCH patience is recommended with Violante. so much more delicious drama could be added if she ends up being the RO companion as well hehe

9. Does your Tav have any escalating conflicts with one of the other companions, like Lae’zel and Shadowheart’s knife-fight?

Violante is mean and off-putting so i'm sure she'd fight half the people in camp at least once if provoked but i wouldn't say she has any big rivalry. i think her and Karlach would have the most difficult time since they are basically one the opposite of the other, plus they share past involvement with a certain lord and while both would gladly skin him alive they have completely different reasons for it (rightful payback for selling her off to an archdevil vs psychosexual obsession). i also see her having some "rivalry" with Minthara but like homosexual type of rivalry, they would end up in a knife-fight but it would be sexual. fun girls activities!!

#ask #ask games #oc: violante #vio as a companion would be the goth and extremely dramatic option for all who love these two things akfjskfkd #again thank you for the ask mwah!! <3

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tiny-souless-thing · 10 months

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All the DnD/Pathfinder pcs I’ve played over the years (save M.V. and another one shot character I forgot about) These are ones who’ve gotten actual sessions- except the last who was in concept stage for an upcoming game when I made this.

Excited to keep adding to them:

Calligula | Human | Fighter

Coast | Water Genasi | Rogue

Ferris | Centaur | Fighter

Caeldrim | Half-Elf |Whisper Bard

Quora | Aasimar | Paladin (D&D: Curse of Strahd)

Quest | Tielfing | Bard

Euros | Sylph | Fighter (PF: Rise of the Runelords)

Valentin | Half-Elf | Grave Cleric of the Raven Queen

Jett | Human | Carnivalist Rogue (PF: Curse of the Crimson Throne)

Atticus | Human-Passing Tiefling | Investigator (PF: Carrion Crown)

JuLai | Undine | Sea Witch (PF: Skulls and Shackles) (upcoming)

#dungeons and dragons #Euros and Val were my first long campaigns that started a week apart with the same group #Quora's never finished so I'd love to still play Strahd someday #pathfinder #ocs #dnd #OC: Calligula #OC: Coast #OC:Ferris #OC: Caeldrim #OC:Quora #OC: Quest #OC: Euros #OC: Valentin #OC: Jett #OC: Atticus #OC: JuLai

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tabletoptrinketsbyjj · 2 years

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Trinkets, 57: Interesting baubles, semi magical objects and items touched by mystery.

A model hypercube carved from green crystal, showcasing the fourth dimension.

A polished, spherical chunk of crystal and stone aligned to the plane of existence associated with the divine concept of Random Godly Domain.

A glass phial of a cologne that smells like summer in the forest.

A stone shaped like a mushroom. At night, an illusory, tiny gnome dances on it.

A sealable scroll tube that consumes a complete set of architectural plans for a large cathedral with a network of caverns and underground chambers indicated. Knowledgeable PC’s will discover that there appears to be a way into the cathedral through the underground chambers. The route appears to only contain one locked door.

A bird call made from gold-colored wood that sounds like someone with laryngitis calling out the name “Frank”.

The shed carapace of a scorpion, glittering golden green and trimmed by dipping in molten gold.

A human skull overgrown with mushrooms. By some means of barely perceivable locomotion, it creeps towards nearby sources of carrion and when the skull somehow gets meat into its bony mouth, the mushrooms to grow noticeably larger.

An unsettling effigy assembled in service to a mysterious deity.

A cloak pin made of iron in the shape of two hammers joined by a semicircular haft.

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