#npc tips

[unnerd]

SOMEONE CALL THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS!

Are you tired of your players always taking too long to solve a mystery? Or have they never touched a book and don't even know how to do it in a fantasy setting?

Well, your problems are over! I present to you the DMing asset that I like to call "Someone call the university students!"

Based off a popular idiom in my country, all you need for this asset is to introduce an experienced NPC before your playes go on a little treasure hunt. Ranging from a detective to an archmage, they can be anyone!

Mainly they are just there so your players don't get extremely stuck and eventually get bored! So, put that quirky librarian that just knows a little too much about dragons because they decided to major in Draconic Ages in University and just so happens to be nice enough to help the party!

And you wanna know the best part?

They don't need to tell them everything or be entirely correct (C'mon, they are undergraduates, they don't know their own class schedule). So, use it as your heart desires!

As a bonus I will present to you my top 3:

Wizard student that is paid minimun wage at the local library and absolutely loves to read the monster section, fictional and factual, and occasionally mixes up the two (Use it when you are mad at your players)

Old fella that lives close to the crime scene, and has seen some shit, but doesn't like cops so they only talk to the party about it (Use it when they are about to incriminate the wrong person and you don't want them to wreck the game by accidently sending the Grand Minister to prison)

Shop worker that has literally nothing else to do other than listen to tales from travelers, as a hobby she keeps tabs of all the ruins on the area and, for the right price, might help the party (Use it in any circumstance).

#dnd #ttrpg #dungeon master #dming tips #dungeon master guide #dungeons and dragons #roleplaying game #game master tips #game master assets #gming #npc ideas #by me #npc tips #player tips #writing #fantasy writing

[vpwiki]

NPC TIPS

(Still being edited/added on to)

Seedos

Will give you 3-4 seeds if you spam him to talk

If you smack him until his mask breaks you get around 5-6 seeds however seedos will come by when his mask is fixed and fill your garden with weeds that can poison your piñata.

Leafos

If you keep her trapped in your garden too long she will break through your fences (though usually she only breaks one and if you're quick enough you can rebuild it) [longest time trapped: 9 in game days]

She will take away your shovel and/or watering can if you smack/spray her too many times (She will give it back eventually)

Willy builder

There is sometimes a glitch where Willy will not go to the building he's been hired to build, simply click on him again and direct him to the unfinished building.

If you smack him enough times with your shovel Willy will also not go to the unfinished building, follow the advice above if that happens.

Petunia (Paper Pets)

You can unlock secret accessories/clothes for your piñata at paper pets by going into the main menu, clicking the 'New Garden' button and typing in codes for as the garden name (Note: this will not actually create a garden, you will instead get a pop-up telling you you've put in a code and to go to Paper Pets to see)

CODES:

chewnicorn

Kittyfloss

Bullseye

goobaa

#viva piñata #viva pinata #npc tips #leafos #seedos #willy builder

[heybiji]

hi!!! i just wanted to say i really love all of your MASKS stuff. i'm something of a newbie when it comes to the TTRPG community, but MASKS seems to be not very well-known and i think that's a real shame. i'm a huge fan of old-school superhero-adjacent stuff, especially the silver- and bronze-age ones!

by the way, i was wondering if you'd be willing to share some tips for a first-time GM? you don't have to if you'd rather not! i just figured i'd try asking since i was planning on GMing a MASKS campaign for some of my friends later, but despite my decade's worth of roleplaying experience i've never been in a TTRPG campaign nor a GM (or similar) role before

Thank you so much!! I was just lamenting about how I felt bad for the MASKS tag because it is now flooded with all my npc nonsense hahah so this is really nice to hear.

It's awesome you're planning on running a MASKS game for your friends!! There is an indispensable post on twitter I saw that has a LOT of great tips for running MASKS that I recommend checking out. But for my own personal tips that are just me things, here's what I got. Sorry it's gonna be extremely long-winded, it may take a few months to read through it.

(Note: I am also hugely into RP and probably put more into it than what is necessary, especially with MASKS which is meant to be able to be played out of the box. It was definitely not played out of the box in our case because I require a lot out of myself and everyone else to feel good about running something. if anyone else wants to continue seeing me as a normal human being please don't click the Keep Reading)

Since you're running it, make the world interesting to you. If the world runs around themes you're personally interested in then you'll have a much easier time coming up with answers on the fly. For me, themes I'm interested in that lend themselves well to a superhero world: money, power, family, celebrity, media, the 24 hour news cycle and the desensitization of violence. Because I'm interested in this stuff anyway, wrapping a world around them makes it much simpler for me to figure out how the world ticks and thus how the characters fit into it and how the world reacts to them, and I am DESPERATE to find out how the characters react to all the questions and expectations the world is imposing upon them.

Make sure your players have a good grasp of the tone of story so they can make characters that gel well within it. For me the tone is a lil more adult because I'm not personally into younger morality tale stories in tone, it's pretty grounded, and I think comedy and tragedy work hand in hand so I lean into them.

Talk. A lot. Talk about the characters, talk about the world. MASKS is fun because it's a LOT of talking and figuring out the narrative together. It's not a lot of crunchy mechanics, it's all around seeing how the characters react to the world narratively, all hurt and comfort and emotions which (for me) requires people to have a good grasp on their characters and the world. I like to give my players "homework" where I ask them a question involving their characters in some way like "what hero did your character look up to as a child?" so they get to come up with past heroes, or "How does your character feel about _____?" etc etc. The only fans are gonna be your table and fans love to talk so be the biggest fans of the PCs!!

Figure out your framing. I know in MASKS they suggest framing it like a comic book, and basically talking about the frames on screen. For me, because I'm more into movies and tv than comics, I frame it like that. So I have an active "camera" in play during sessions and will ask things like "would anyone like to grab the camera?" to encourage the players to put the character into a scene or "what does the audience see as the camera focuses in on your character in this emotional moment?" There is a LOT of playing up to the camera and framing the sessions as episodes of a show, so it's like, okay, you have several options but what is going to be interesting for the audience to see? I find this encourages the players to have their characters take bigger swings and feel comfortable letting us into how their character is feeling because it all looks GREAT on camera. The camera loves it. The PCs are the story after all.

Because I frame it a show, I also like to play individual ending songs over the "credits" at the end of each episode. So I asked my players to make playlists for their characters so if I feel an episode had a lot of emotional focus on one character in particular, I can play one of their songs at the end of the episode! I also made a general MASKS playlist with a bunch of songs from the era we set it in (2004) to pull from. It's a fun little addition that I really enjoy and that I hope makes it all feel more special.

The Dino Donut Effect: create landmarks in your world. (OK THIS IS GONNA BE LONG BUT WORK WITH ME HERE) They don't have to be locations, more solid landmarks of the story that the characters can refer back to and lean on to make the world feel more "real." I call it the Dino Donut Effect because in our world the thing that made everything click into place was talking out the backstory of one of the PC's figuring out they had the power negation ability. We were talking one night trying to figure it out; we wanted the character to fall out of a building and be caught by a flying superhero and accidentally turn off their powers, so they toss the kid to another flying supe whose powers also get turned off. But we were like... holy shit what is the height of a building needed that can handle this much action in the air without them hitting the ground in 3 seconds. So after a long night of talking about terminal velocity and looking at Splat Calculators we figured out the height of the building, and we needed them to crash into something that wouldn't fuckin kill them. The first suggestion was a truck full of bananas. Nah. We landed on a giant balloon that could take the impact. And the balloon became a giant T-Rex holding a donut that was the mascot of the city's beloved decades old donut shop Dino Donut. And so we decided that one of the two flying supes grabbed onto the kid and the other and flew into the giant balloon to try and keep them all alive, which destroyed the balloon, which was a city institution, and there was a crowd of children there that day that saw their friend Dino Donut die. Killed by a superhero. The balloon deflated loudly so it sounded like Dino Donut was screaming in agony. All the kids were traumatized (screaming crying throwing up), the city was furious because everyone loved Dino Donut, it was constantly in the news cycle, and it ruined the career of the supe that "killed Dino Donut." AND THEN THEY REPLACED THE DINO DONUT BALLOON WITH A LAME "UPDATED DESIGN" DINO DONUT STATUE which everyone hates and people consider to be a memorial to the old Dino Donut. ANYWAY, the Dino Donut effect is that now all the PCs have one single incident to refer back to that they all have feelings about. A couple of them were there that day and heard Dino Donut scream, one is now the protege of the disgraced superhero that killed Dino Donut so she feels uncomfortable talking about it, there's the kid that was saved that day but was sworn to secrecy by the supe so no one would find out about his power negation ability, and then there's the kid that wasn't there because she's an alien that just arrived to earth and now the kids have to explain the incident to her with all their varying opinions. Now the PCs' meeting spot is at a Dino Donut. Having this one solid incident that is both funny and kind of goes into the themes of the world has been an absolute treat. Creating "landmarks" like that in the world has done so much and now I'm like okay I'm gonna try to do this moving forward with any other thing I run.

anyway these are my extremely specific to me tips. my RP standards are kind of high which makes me a bit of a terror but also when the flowers bloom from it it feels GREAT. i'm not sure if this will help but hopefully there is something there that can be useful!

MASKS is fun and simple once you get the hang of it, though, so I'm sure whatever you do you and your players will have a lot of fun! especially if you're someone who is into RP which is the background I'm coming from too; MASKS is extremely narrative! i'll be looking in the tag for your game hehe

(The Day Dino Donut Died art by JD)

#masks: a new generation #ttrpg #text post #biji text #i am so sorry this is incredibly long but i just really really really like RP SLKDGM #also another tip: make the npcs hot #hot npcs are great okay #this is the advice from someone who has run checks notes 2 episodes of MASKS #2 episodes but like 7 sessions in total because what it is time management #i've also known my players for a many years and we met in an RP group so i felt more comfortable being this level of intense with them #otherwise i would have tried to be a lil more laid back and normal........... #but also as the GM you're going to be doing a LOT of work so it's fair to ask your players to do some work too to help lighten the load! #have fun!!!! MASKS is a lot of fun!!!

[ar0rin]

How do your agents skills compare to each other

In general, the ranking goes:

1- Captain 3 (Shio)

2- Agent 4 (Kanava)

3- Agent 8 (Ikizu)

4- Agent 3 (Veronika)

Veronika is more dexterous than the other agents. They tend to try to confuse their opponents and attack weak spots. They work in tandem with Smallfry, which evens the playing field when compared to the other agents.

Shio relies on mostly strength as opposed to strategy. This may make it seem like she's an easy opponent, but she knows the very basics and also hits the gym nearly every day. She can also apparently use any special weapon she wants at any given time, so watch out for that.

Kanava leans toward strategy, but she's still pretty strong. Her awareness, critical thinking and reaction time is superb, which makes her one of the squidbeak splatoon's best agents and a valuable teammate in x rank.

Ikizu went through the standard Octarian military training program, but that's as far as strategy goes for her. She didn't bother learning any more fighting tactics after she reached the surface, but she stays fit.

#Me after giving you tips to take on each of my characters like an npc placed conveniently right before a boss fight #splatoon 3 #asks #captain 3 #agent 3 #agent 8 #neo agent 3 #agent 4

[evangelifloss]

I had a dream bloodborne 2 was announced except it was a brightly lit farming simulator and you had to protect your ranch from beasts

#that was it #tho id like to imagine that gherman is your introductory npc and doll gives you tips #bloodborne 2 #bloodborne #doll bloodborne #gherman the first hunter

[ghostoffuturespast]

Glitching The Matrix: Portrait Photos and Getting Up-close And Personal With NPCs In Cyberpunk 2077 Vanilla Photomode

Howdy, folks! Ghost here, back with some more tips and tricks for vanilla photomode. Some of you may have read my previous tips and tricks guide (laundry list?) a few months back, but I’ve learned some more fun things since then that I thought I’d share with you all. Specifically, in terms of taking portrait style photos and getting intimate with your favorite NPCs. (Well, as intimate as vanilla will allow.)

With the 2.0 update and the release of the PL expansion, I imagine a lot of people might be going minimal with the mods until they get up to speed, or maybe you just want to take some bomb photos if you’re running on a console, or you don’t have access to mods. Whatever the case, just know that with the right application of cheese whiz, you too can get dope photos.

I don’t claim to be the world’s best anything, but I’m always happy to share what I know and what I've learned.

Portraits

I have yet to actually play any of the expansion, but I’ve seen that there are some sweet new outfits and some hella cool new backdrops, and who doesn’t want to show off their Vs & OCs?

Now, there is nothing wrong with pulling out photomode and snapping a photo with the standard settings and not touching any of the sliders. I'm not here to ruin anyone's good time or dictate style. However, if you're looking for techniques to add a bit more panache to your photos, I’m going to do a quick rundown of some key things that I keep in mind when I'm taking portrait-style photos.

If you've been taking VP for a while, you may already know these things. But, hey, never hurts to review the basics.

Field Of View

The Field of View (FOV) slider is one of the most important tools in your toolbox and is basically the zoom on your camera. (Okay, it's a bit more complicated than that but I'm not that technical) It’s located on the far left tab. I utilize the shit out of it, and, if you aren't already acquainted, I’d recommend you become friends with it.

Rather than simply moving the camera closer to your subject, which, if you leave it at the standard 60 setting produces a lot of distortion and doesn’t give you much detail of your subject, slide that setting all the way to 15 to zoom in and then adjust the position of the camera to frame your shot how you want. At this point if you want to you can pull the Field Of View out to a higher setting or play around with where exactly you want the camera, for instance if you want to include more of the background or if there’s additional characters. 

By using FOV in conjunction with the camera position, it’s possible to get crisper detailed shots of your subject with less visual distortion. And if you have decent lighting and play around with some of the other settings (exposure, contrast, highlights) you can get some stellar shots with minimal editing. 

Just for reference, I usually don’t do any post-production on my photos. They’re all straight off my PS5. Photo editing is a bit of a time sink so it's personal preference that I don't do it. I barely have enough time for most of my other hobbies, so it's one less thing for me to do. If you want to do photo editing after the fact, more power to you.

Play with poses, look at camera, rotate poses, and camera location

I know that heading is a long list, but seriously, play with the angles! Since we’re working in vanilla photomode, all the poses are canned, everyone’s got the same stock poses and unfortunately some of them are just downright goofy. Which is fun on occasion, but maybe you're looking for something a bit more natural. So, in order to jazz things up and give yourself as much variety as possible, you’re going to want to keep angles in mind.

A lot of times I’ll cycle through all of the poses to find one that gels with the photo I’m trying to take, and at times I’m surprised at which ones those end up being. You zoom in close enough, you can barely tell you're using the JoJo poses. And rotating your character, rather than having them face straight on, can also help spice up the stock poses.

Swinging the camera around wildly in a circle also helps me scout out interesting compositions and backgrounds. I'll pan the camera around 360 so I can find the spots with the most visual interest. And I typically will make attempts to jam the camera in the weirdest places possible. (Through door ways, behind furniture, along walls, in between people and other objects etc.) I often think I know what I want when I go into grab photos, but often times a change of perspective helps me find something even cooler.

Not every pose has a look at camera option, but some of them do. Rotating your V/OC or changing camera position while using this feature will allow you to add some extra variety to your poses and expressions. You can get your character to look straight at the camera (which can be very striking), get some side-eye action, gaze off into the distance, and my personal fave, over the shoulder shots.

You can also add some additional flair by doing low-angle or high-angle shots too. And if you want a portrait orientation instead of landscape? Rotate the camera 180 degrees. It’s a bit disorienting at first, and try not to crik your neck, but now you can get full body shots. The only editing you'll have to do after exporting is rotating the photo to the intended viewing orientation, which you should be able to do in most photo viewers. No editing software required.

NPCs

If you’re taking photos of an NPC, you don’t have the option of posing these characters in vanilla, but if you time it right you can grab some awesome shots! The easiest time to snag photos of NPCs is usually right before you select dialogue options. They’re static, will cycle through a handful of actions, and main NPCs also eye-track V, so you can use this to your advantage if you need them to turn or want them to look in a specific direction.

It’s possible to grab action shots as well! They’re a bit trickier as it requires a lot of timing and you may need to hop in and out of photomode or even reload a previous save if you miss the monent, but totally doable. It also helps to be familiar with the flow of action for the quest by having done it at least once, that way you know when to bust out the camera. (I've lost count how many times I've played this game... Too many.)

Unfortunately, lighting is going to be very hit or miss during missions. If you keep your eyes peeled for good lighting opportunities it's possible to find them, and sometimes you can even kite NPCs over to it if they're following you. (Turning the muzzle flash on when your character is in a gun pose also works in a pinch, but might look a little silly depending on the context and if you're also trying to get your character in the frame.) When you're out and about free roaming though, it's much easier to come across good lighting sources as you can adjust the time of day or utilize the lighting you do come across.

But remember field of view, camera angles, playing with the poses, and adjusting the effects sliders can all help enhance a portrait shot.

Glitching The Matrix

Sooooo, I may have mentioned previously that I couldn’t do anything to help you all take shippy/otp pics… I’m more than happy to have proven myself wrong. Obviously, there are limits to this (you're not going to be able to get anywhere close to posed pics like you can with mods), but it’s a hell of a lot more feasible than I thought it was.

With help from this post (Thanks again, Heather!) and applications of sheer stubbornness on my part, I did in fact manage to glitch the matrix. It is entirely possible to bypass the collision physics around characters and certain objects with a little ingenuity.

Grandpa V & Old Man River are my otp, but I went ahead and took some additional photos for the sake of science. They aren’t cannon to my V’s timeline, but I just wanted to show you all the realms of possibility. And for all you SilverV shippers out there running vanilla, yeah, you can finally kiss your own brain worm.

This is as close as I'm gonna get to kissing Keanu Reeves lol.

(SilverDyne shippers… I’m sorry, I have no control of either rockerboy. It’s out of my hands, they’re just too spicy for vanilla. Or if you got a multi-ship or rare pair outside of the player character, can't help you there. Ask your local modder for assistance.)

Be advised, in order to take these kinds of photos, there are specific environmental parameters that need to be met and getting your V/OC posed correctly is going to test your patience the first couple tries. It's a finicky technique but once you get a feel for how to do it, it gets much easier and you'll know what to look for in order to setup this kind of photo.

Steps:

Find a time when your NPC is static (i.e. not moving from a particular spot. Doesn’t matter if they’re standing or seated. I don't want to say it's impossible to attempt from moving, but getting everything timed right is mega tricky and I haven't had much luck with the times I've tried so far.)

Make sure you have plenty of overhead clearance and that you have some room to pan the camera around. (If there’s an overhead barrier like a ceiling, cabinets, umbrellas, awning etc. it’ll impede your ability to move your character into position. For those of you that know me, I tried on the water tower and in the kitchen with River. I really did, but no dice. Dumb cabinets, and there weren't any objects at the right height that were close enough to use on the actual water tower.)

Get some height in proximity to your destination. You want something relatively close and around shoulder/head height of the NPC. (Can be anything really so long as it's the right height and close enough. If it's too high up, or too far away, you won’t be able to get your character in range. Too low, you won’t be able to circumvent the collision physics.)

Open photomode and hope you have access to all the action poses.

Find an action pose that has the up/down slider (Off to the Races is a good one to start with) and move your character all the way up. Then position character above NPC, lower them down into the NPC, and pray they clip through.

Mess with all the poses and pose sliders until desired results are achieved.

*If you cannot complete 4 or 5, exit out of photomode, adjust position, and repeat until you can clip through the NPC. If you can't get any kind of clipping to occur or you keep sliding around the NPC when you're positioning, you may not have the right environmental settings and may need to try in a different spot. It happens.

(Trust me, the horror face sucking is a good sign.)

Panning around so it looks less awkward, make some camera adjustments, and voila! (Good thing Judy's rocking that asymmetrical haircut.)

Your object also does not have to be right next to the NPC, like with Judy and the van. I used the white box thingy that Grandpa's hovering over in the photo above. The roof did get in my way on a couple of my attempts, but I did get it to work.

If you can get the full catalog of action poses to populate and you can get your V/OC to fully clip through your desired character/object without suddenly rubberbanding or deflecting when you move them around, know that you made it. 

Getting to this point though, may take several attempts. It’s also important that you use the action poses to move your character around as most of those have the up/down slider positioning, which is not available on the idle poses with a few exceptions. I’ve had the best luck with Roundhouse Shot to the Face, Just a Peek, Take Cover (left or right), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Off to the Races.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any solid advice on best practice for getting them into position however. You’re just gonna have to feel it out as the position sliders have a tendency to behave very erratically since you’re doing shit you’re not supposed to.

Do your best to not accidentally exit out of photo mode, be patient, and if you get a half-way decent shot or even kinda close, snap pictures for posterity in case something goes awry and you have to start over. If nothing else, you can have a good laugh about it later.

Utilize the tips from the portrait section above as well. You can’t change the NPCs expression or make your characters close their eyes (unless you get really lucky with your timing), so you’ll have to pull out all the camera tricks in your arsenal to make the setup look sort of natural.

Behind the scenes is pretty hilarious though.

And you can use this technique for objects and certainly for non-ship pics too. I demoed kissy pics because those are the hardest to set up. Maybe you just wanna hang with the chooms instead, y’know? S'all cool.

Grandpa gets tired and sometimes she needs to sit down. There's no pose to get your character to sit, but with some creative camera angles and poses, it sure does look like she's sitting.

Or you can finally just annoy the crap out of Johnny.

Anyway, hope this was helpful, and feel free to hit up my inbox if you’ve got questions!

May all your cheese be fine and remember the most important thing:

Have fun!

Grandpa's got the best seat in the house as far as I'm concerned.

#yes you can kiss your fave npcs #i made grandpa kiss johnny for science lol #and now you can too #cyberpunk 2077 #virtual photography #vanilla photomode #vanilla photomode tutorial #vp tutorial #tips and tricks #cp2077 photomode #long post #reference #night city streets #return of the cheese #the cheese strikes back #a new cheese #tyromancer #from the top #console shots

[gasstationclown]

finally able to share art i did for my dnd multishot because ive showed my players so here it is

#sorry if the quality is absolutely dogshit ibis paint likes to make it look normal while im drawing and when i download it #or put it where. it just nerfs the quality #any tips for that would be greatly appreciated 🙏🙏 #love me some drow #heres a cult of lolth. theyre silly #second is. another elf #hes a shadar kai though. seth/laura/moss if you see this that isnt a spoiler #not really anyway #hes a doctor! #anywho #art #my art #drawing #digital art #d&d #d&d 5e #dnd #oc #dnd npc #dnd art #dnd character #dungeons and dragons #dungeons and dragons art #dnd drow #dnd shadar kai #also placing all those spiders WAS a bitch. evern though i copy and pasted

[focsle]

The decision of dressing for Aesthetic vs dressing for Not Sweating My Ass Off.

#i don’t get tipped as well when I look like a Generic NPC #but it’s gonna be 85 degrees with the sun down….I think I have to be a generic NPC… #summer weather I h8 u

[melonisopod]

I want him playable in FGO. Come on, let me romance the fish man!

#he’s a fish man angsty about being a fish man? nice. #i know his NPC is berserker but what class would he be summonable? #i want to say pretender since it’s oddly similar to what happened with Oberon #humanity (well lovecraft) imposed the ‘fish guy’ thing on him #but he’s actually pretty well aware he’s NOT a fish guy #not ‘convinced that he is so much a fish guy that it’s become part of him’ #he’d be more like. alter ego with high innocent monster? #he’d be really fun to have in Chaldea #imagining him giving tips on gardening and farming #probably get along really well with goghie

[tceesgamingworld]

Surprise! You Can Replace Key NPC's in the Sims 4

Greetings fellow simmers! In today's video, I'll be demonstrating a quick tutorial on substituting key NPCs with customized versions from the gallery. I successfully replaced the sages from Realm of Magic, the TrifTea owner from High School Years, as well as the Mayor and her son, along with the store owner, the pub owner, and the creature keeper from Henford-on-Bagley, all while retaining their crucial roles in the game!

#tcee's world #sims #tceesworld #sims 4 #sims4 #youtube #NPC #Sims 4 Tips #Youtube

[posthumanwanderings]

Custom Robo: Battle Revolution (Noise / Nintendo - GameCube - 2004)  

#Harry's Pro-Tips #Custom Robo #Battle Revolution #Noise #GameCube #gif #NPC #Custom Robo Battle Revolution

[h0neyfreak]

ok yeah therapy speak escaping into the world is bad BUT second-order self aware therapy speak delivered in an absolute deadpan has been so good to me. I no longer have to sheepishly tell my s/o that I can’t do something because of my adhd and feel like a little kid asking a parent for help/forgiveness I just go “oh no! The cluster of symptoms I experience is impacting my life and relationships in a negative way! Would you like to collaborate on a mutually beneficial solution that protects our combined wellness in this space?” And suddenly we are giggling and roleplaying condescending TikTok armchair psychologists and not arguing about my objectively unreasonable habit of leaving scissors on the couch (I keep a jar on the side table that holds scissors only used for couch crafting now thanks to his wise suggestion that I “give the problematic item a designated space in our home where we can both choose whether or not to engage with its themes and have immediate awareness of it’s location relative to our embodied selves”)

#this also works with video game npc dialogue or literally any other thing where you both snap into the bit #because now we are committed to the bit and the bit only works if we’re chill #mine #text post #adhd #adhd tips #also before any of you say that this sounds exhausting or juvenile etc etc #I’m really sorry you’ve never had fun ever once in your whole life

[gortrash]

hm. Something’s wrong with my Drider I fear

#whole kar’nussy in my face. what the hell #his model stays like that for so much dialogue on companion models LMFAO #so I’m assuming that his spider body is rigged to humanoid bodies??? #but he’ll still gesture while he’s tipped over #I’m really curious what happens if you put him on a model in love scenes #god bless npc tools my fav toy #kar’niss

[mysticpagwen]

Welcome to an inner look at the machinations of my world building and some tips for dms

Hags

They are fucking fantastic

Easy to tease with disappearing children or a strange (polymorphed) kid or hag

If the party kill one, other members of the dead ones coven might try to avenge their brethren and hunt the party

A good intro to enemy spellcasters and craftier tactics

Show players the value of potions

Now this is assuming that the hags are enemies. They make fantastic friendly npcs whether as an eccentric shopkeeper or a quirky patron. They also have the fantastic utility of a hag eye. It’s a old withered eye they can see out of no matter where it is. This opens the door for espionage or finding who is watching you

In my world

I have 3 npc hags in the city where the pcs are. Kaithretoo the recluse, Molingret the onlooker, and Zaquatious the emboldened. They all work one way or another for a criminal organization called the crossroads

Molly runs store that attracts would be recruits for the crossroads. She sells various nefarious tools like poison and lock picks and keeps tabs on the buyers to see if they are worth it to recruit.

Kait is known as the queen of the underground and directs the crossroads members assignments when she’s not transforming political enemies into spiders

Zaq has managed to infiltrate the upper echelon of nobles after being recognized for her arcane prowess and becoming the reining leader of the crescent spire (an arcane research facility) when her superior went missing.

The amount of plot threads or missions just these three could lead to are incredible. Feel free to take them for your own world or just use them for inspiration

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My #1 Tip For New Dungeon Masters

Focus on the basics. Describe the situation, and have the players describe what they want to do. Focus on the fun. Roll some dice and celebrate the awesome moments and the big whiffs. Focus on the characters. What connects them to the adventure and the other PCs? Give them something to explore and learn about. Provide a fantastic location for the players to engage with. Give them someone…

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Decided to have a duet with Alfira up on the roof of the Elfsong for old time's sake, and some NPCs from the street literally climbed up onto the roof to come listen.

#and no #they did not tip #and then once ari stopped playing they climbed over the bannister #to walk down the stairs like civilized people #grey's bg3 tag #bg3 posting #okay i should probably stop putting it off #and go finally do the scene with orin #i do find it kind of hilarious #exactly HOW FAR the npcs will run #and what obstacles they'll scramble over #to hear ari play #it's like she's taylor and the entirety of baldur's gate are swifties #when i did the whistling test #one of the newspaper hawkers sprinted like several city blocks to come listen #HOW DID HE HEAR? #I DON'T KNOW #and at some point he started trying to sell papers #while also listening to her whistling #like seriously the performance feature in this game is wild #(and hilarious) #oc: aravyn #ari's og campaign