Your players actually like the character you wanted them to‽
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Nice use of the interrobang! You don't see those often enough.
I love the interrobang! It's a shame that the default font of the Lemmy web client, Lato, has an absolutely awful glyph for it.
Me too! And yeah, I had to study it a bit to recognize it heh
My party doesn't use lemmy so I can drop some setting spoilers
They don't know that the adorable orphan they adopted in their time travel adventure is actually the evil lich queen in the modern day, and I'm looking forward to dropping that bomb on them
That can't possibly get away from you in the meantime, nope.
You think you're going to drop a bomb on them but you just introduced time travel to your plot. That bomb says acme my friend.
Username oddly checks out
I kept the hazards in mind, "Time travelling adventure" is short for "Yanked into the past due to an apocalyptic event that cannot be replicated" and the time travel is a problem to be solved, not a solution
And is the only way to stop the evil lich queen, to kill the kid with kindness and raise it to be a loving and responsible adult?
Because if so, your world is fucked. No DnD party is able to properly raise anything but hell and chaos.
They're teaching a kid through example the benefits of powerful people affecting change faster than all that nonsense about "consent of the governed"
That's effecting change
Effecting in this case means making
If you affect something you change it, you can affect the trajectory of a ball
It's the odd one in the affect/effect series
Sometimes it isn't the one you expect, either. My group fell in love with the magic shopkeeper I improv'd on the fly. He was just a super ancient wizened dude named Mortimer who was always polishing a skull or dusting a stuffed rat or something when they came in.
Not enough coffee yet, and I first read that as "polishing a skull or stuffing a rat". 😅
"No thanks, I couldn't at another bite!" said the rat.
Made a 4ft tall tabaxi who the party found sealed into a cavity in the wall of a museum behind a painting after they heard scratching, on the verge of having starved to death in there.
Anyways she only had 4sp on her, and she used 2sp to buy the party some flowers after they took her back to the inn to help her recover. Also she looks up to the artificer as a father figure.
(She also has a Highly Extensive tragic backstory that the players are in the process of discovering, but basically the BBEG previously kidnapped her and attempted to brainwash her into unconditionally loving him and only him, because she used to hand out flowers to everyone and he thought that meant she was propositioning him. Incel Wizard moment.)
If anything happens to college rat I'm killing everyone in this room
Googles rat lifespan
Uh oh
An awakened shrub they found standing under a sewer grate, moving around in the sewer as the beam of sunlight shifted about. Discarded by a wizard as trash, it literally grew up with his roots digesting the town's shit. It grew good berries, and offered the party some when they encountered it in a session one "rats in the sewers" scenario. They immediately adopted it, and it became their mascot of sorts, named "Stem". I had a great time RPing Stem, with this child-like wide eyed wonder as the party took it out to explore the world with them.
I made a dog, human intellect, dog voice box. Not fantasy, so no actual speaking with him, but he texts. (Never on screen, so no one knows how)
Good thing there's no internet in the campaign, otherwise they wouldn't know they're a dog
I played this character in Eclipse Phase, LMAO. Except everyone knew how he texted: with his brain implants, which he also used for hacking.
Rat: I got a FRAT!
Party: You mean you joined a Frat?
Rat: No, I got a Full Ride Animal Tuition!
I thought it stood for fat rat. Woops.
I thought female rat, and he was about to tell them his college hookup story and see if they could get his girlfriend awakened, too.
Ah yes, Petyr, the retired barbarian who takes care of the various animals the PC's adopt. I think right now he's caring for a couple horses, a fluffy cow, and a dinosaur.
I was running a D&D campaign for my son before and the two most liked NPCs were two goblins. One was a snivveling little companion who was actually a decent, though stupid goblin. The other goblin was a conniving, manipulative little shit that would backstab the group at any opportunity, yet they couldn’t ever bring themselves to kill him. Voiced them pretty differently with almost opposite personalities. It’s so great having characters that get that kind of reaction.
More like a DA(ND)D campaign.
We adopted a crazy guy who lived in the sewers. We'd check up on him whenever we were back in town. Ended up giving him a neat magical item that let him cast prestidigitation a few times a day or something, and some other amenities hoping he'd clean up his act. We never finished the campaign, but I like to think he got it together.
My NPC was the insane BBEG at the beginning that took a liking to the party and changed his ways because of them. He became something of a patron to them.
Damn, played them like a fiddle. These suckers did not even realize this was your dastardly yet wholesome plan from the beginning.
My players have not yet found this creature. Buuut. In the process of 3D printing a mimic mini, there was an error in scale and I accidentally made a really teenie mimic. And I can't wait for them to encounter it.
28mm hero fig and actual mimic on the left. Mini mimic on the right. (Painting was still in progress as of this pic)
