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im glad this exists
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i just made a map for a planet in a homebrew sci fi campaign im planning to start
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Skullmaggot 9/23/2022 4:44 PM
Sci fi though? Dnd or something else?
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Sci fi though? Dnd or something else?
its dnd, but with alot of homebrew rules.
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and original species
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Skullmaggot 9/25/2022 12:09 AM
@zim 5e? I'm listening to Acquisitions Incorporated for the first time, and I guess it's 4e, so I'm learning a new system. I've only ever played, like, 4 games. (edited)
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@zim 5e? I'm listening to Acquisitions Incorporated for the first time, and I guess it's 4e, so I'm learning a new system. I've only ever played, like, 4 games. (edited)
yeah
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Skullmaggot 9/25/2022 2:32 AM
You the dm then?
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Skullmaggot
You the dm then?
yes
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This bot looks like it might be cool for facilitating games in this channel. I haven't played DND since 3rd grade but it sure kicked ass back then! https://avrae.io/ (edited)
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I mean to be fair...actually rl mythology tends to follow the same logic
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though its not the best logic
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i prefer to make original species
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but tbat might be me being to science fiction centric
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suspiciously_suspicious 10/1/2022 9:26 AM
any other grognards out there that still play 3.5?
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any other grognards out there that still play 3.5?
i do
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any other grognards out there that still play 3.5?
Raps [PDX,OR] 10/4/2022 9:11 AM
Not since I found out about Pathfinder.
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Though looking back my group usually modified the rules to something similar to Pathfinder so I guess I should say never.
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suspiciously_suspicious 10/4/2022 12:05 PM
Yeah, I liked the idea of Pathfinder, but what I ended up doing is just taking the parts I liked from Pathfinder and slapping them into my 3.5 game as house rules.
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It is nice to know I'm not the only one out there. Just started doing a 3.5 group a few weeks back again. Feels good to get back into it.
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Raps [PDX,OR] 10/5/2022 12:41 AM
3.5 is a beautiful system for those that are methodical and enjoy granular nuance. I feel like 5e is good for beginners but also leaves out so much of the things that made DnD over the top fun.
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suspiciously_suspicious 10/9/2022 10:29 AM
I took a perusal through 5e, and it is a solid system that is easy to understand. But, I also think that 3.5 is solid and easy to understand. Beyond that, I think the concept of bounded accuracy is antithetical to the type of high stakes scenarios I like to play in. Particularly, the campaign that I am running now is going to have the end goal of killing a deity in his own demiplane.
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Raps [PDX,OR] 10/12/2022 1:42 AM
5e succeeds in being accessible to new players but I feel it strips the game of character. Overall it's just too easy and doesn't lend itself to tactics and strategy.
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Scaling cantrips doesn't exactly encourage character diversification either.
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5e is just the gateway drug for tabletop gaming
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get rekt noob
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Dr_Diskette 11/9/2022 7:10 PM
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3D printed my first character
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What printer do you have?
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What printer do you have?
Dr_Diskette 11/9/2022 7:22 PM
ender 3
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Rose Liberty 12/9/2022 9:42 PM
Hey would this also be the channel to float ideas about organizing and running a D&D campaign for the server? (edited)
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Been wanting to get more involved in the front generally but my sector's pretty quiet and I don't have a car to get to others; D&D I can do!
9:48 PM
I play 5E homebrew with added Honor (Strength of Character, confidence in one's deeds) and Sanity (Mental Health-Bar) scores. I've got a bunch of different regions in my world setting with different levels fantasy-removedness from "this region is experiencing a real-world problem like a rise in fascism, systemic inequality, or ecological collapse" to "the lizardfolk are being mean, go beat them up" and could probably put together a small list of sample quests with setting primers and proper, specific content warnings if that was something people expressed interest in! (edited)
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Setting would be a homebrew world using the 5E system, and I tend to at least start campaigns in the level 1-5 range to help people get acclimated to the setting and to onboard new players, any given story would probably be either a 1-3 shot or a Westmarch (rotating cast) campaign (edited)
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Rose Liberty
Hey would this also be the channel to float ideas about organizing and running a D&D campaign for the server? (edited)
Hi, mods would for sure be totally on board if you want to start this up as a project!
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I'd be down to play. Haven't played 5E yet, most used to 3.5, but been playing since AD&D... even though it's not my preferred system/universe.
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Rose Liberty 12/13/2022 1:21 PM
There's a lot of ways a D&D game could go, I might need like a form or something to coordinate with prospective players and help narrow down where and when to have the game. People's availability and level of comfort with different D&D-isms (violence, sexual themes, endangerment of minors & minor-coded characters, analogy to real-world politics, etc.) would also probably be good to know going in
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Rose Liberty
There's a lot of ways a D&D game could go, I might need like a form or something to coordinate with prospective players and help narrow down where and when to have the game. People's availability and level of comfort with different D&D-isms (violence, sexual themes, endangerment of minors & minor-coded characters, analogy to real-world politics, etc.) would also probably be good to know going in
What I want to see from a TTRPG game. A storyline which has an overall plot tied to central themes of the player characters. Individual character arcs that link at least loosely to the overall plot and can incorporate other PCs as allies to the individual character. I'm pretty relaxed about triggering themes, but rape or sexual coercion themes are undesired and still triggering both with male antagonists and female antagonists as the rapists. I prefer low magic to high, sci-fi/cyberpunk to fantasy, but can work with all.
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Rose Liberty 12/13/2022 3:06 PM
Yeah, the homebrew setting I'm most comfortable working from is kind of already established as both quite fantastical and quite high fantasy, the more specific per-adventure regions of that setting vary pretty wildly in level of magic and subgenre/tone, though!
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The preference for longer & more thematically-cohesive narratives and arcs for characters is noted, though! As is the trigger/preference away from themes of sexual coercion.
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Rose Liberty
There's a lot of ways a D&D game could go, I might need like a form or something to coordinate with prospective players and help narrow down where and when to have the game. People's availability and level of comfort with different D&D-isms (violence, sexual themes, endangerment of minors & minor-coded characters, analogy to real-world politics, etc.) would also probably be good to know going in
Rose Liberty 12/13/2022 3:12 PM
People are welcome to either share in the channel or I suppose in my DMs personally a quick break-down of tonal or subgenre preferences, themes they'd like to include or like to avoid (including potential triggers) and the level of "seriousness" they'd be up for.
3:16 PM
like 3-5 people would need to come forward with compatible preferences and time availabilities for this to be a viable project. I'm also beginner-friendly for anyone who thinks they might be interested but doesn't know how to play D&D 5E, I've introduced so many players and parties to it at this point that I basically specialize in tutorials. (And if any mods would like to contact me about how to keep everything organized, on-topic, and in-line with the rest of the server as far as sustainability, mission, and safety, I'd appreciate some help and some guidance!)
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Rose Liberty
There's a lot of ways a D&D game could go, I might need like a form or something to coordinate with prospective players and help narrow down where and when to have the game. People's availability and level of comfort with different D&D-isms (violence, sexual themes, endangerment of minors & minor-coded characters, analogy to real-world politics, etc.) would also probably be good to know going in
There's a useful little website called when to meet you could use
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Braakinthesaddle 1/27/2023 7:10 PM
Idk how much y'all have been following the OGL drama with WOTC/Hasbro, but earlier this morning, they admitted defeat. They have announced that the OGL 1.0 will remain as is, untouched, irrevocably, forever. The DnD fandom community used the power of its collective voice and forced the billion dollar corporation to back down! Power to the people! ✊️
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Idk how much y'all have been following the OGL drama with WOTC/Hasbro, but earlier this morning, they admitted defeat. They have announced that the OGL 1.0 will remain as is, untouched, irrevocably, forever. The DnD fandom community used the power of its collective voice and forced the billion dollar corporation to back down! Power to the people! ✊️
Rose Liberty 2/14/2023 10:33 AM
HELL yes!!
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/4/2023 1:03 PM
So I thought of something
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It’s not strictly D&D, but i think it would work
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So an artificer, flavored as a crazy old wizard who just make’s ridiculous over the top magic, and who always has a staff, but only seems to ever cast 1 spell with it
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This is what his staff looks like
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Hence an artificer
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/10/2023 9:11 PM
So I thought of an idea for a DND one shot
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/10/2023 9:30 PM
It’s about a group adventurers who are part of a confederation that rose up in the wake of the collapse of a much larger and more powerful empire, and they are at war with another group who is winning this war, and they have heard legends of an arcane super weapon of the previous superpower and they climb into a dungeon to recover this weapon
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They delve the dungeon, clashing with creatures mutated by the Elderich energy of the place, and slowly, they become weaker and weaker as their healing options are no longer capable of recovering injuries, as the place is slowly killing them, and they begin to die one by one, until the last person finally manages to breach the containment of the weapons controls, unleashing it’s power, destroying their foe before dying to the place’s poisonous energy, and in the process, destroyed their own society with the weapon
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....a nuclear storage pile?
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/11/2023 8:39 AM
A nuclear missile silo, with one or two of the weapons damaged and leaking radiation
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/15/2023 4:38 PM
Thought of an idea for a D&D character
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Ping me in like 3-4 hours to explain him
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@Eazy8 Antifa Viking yo, been way more than 3-4 hours. 😉
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 12:52 AM
Ok, so the character is basically just like a urban commoner doing whatever odd jobs seems convenient to make ends meet, and in particular he tends to run errands, delivering letters and what not for merchants and lords; well, eventually, he and a number of other commoners become informants for the various noble houses, and overtime coming to do minor spy work for them, listening in on gatherings of their rivals and sneaking peaks at mail, or snagging things they want stolen; eventually, he gets a job to murder some guy a group of the houses want dead, and they offer him a good bit of cash for it, so he figures “Eh, sure why not” and shanks the guy, steals some valuables (because he’s basically a peasent and the extra cash is handy) and dips, and gets paid, only for the people who hired him to reveal “yeah, we won’t go after you, but we can’t protect you, lest we seem like we’re involved, so yeah, you’re on your own” and he has to book it out of town, and decides to try his hand at the whole rogue thing
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He dresses like a medieval commoner, with the tights and goofy hood, and he’s basically winging all the rogue stuff; they need someone to pick a lock? “Well, a guy showed me how to this once, so I’ll give it a go” Need to defuse a trap? “I think I made something similar to catch rats once” (edited)
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The idea came from an essay I read recently about Ninja in feudal Japan, how most of the early ninja were basically just Peasents who took up assassinations and spy work because they realized it paid well and they could do it and easily hide, and it wouldn’t be too difficult for them
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So an assassin rogue who dresses like this (edited)
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The idea came from an essay I read recently about Ninja in feudal Japan, how most of the early ninja were basically just Peasents who took up assassinations and spy work because they realized it paid well and they could do it and easily hide, and it wouldn’t be too difficult for them
I'd like to see that essay.
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 1:39 AM
It was a while ago in my one of uni classes
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@Eazy8 Antifa Viking That's a pretty good concept. I've done something similar with fighter... a laborer who was pretty physically, but couldn't keep his mouth shut... so from boyhood he was in so many fights that he just wasn't a normal peasant anymore.
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I'd like to see that essay.
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 1:40 AM
I’ll see if I can find it in blackboard, and If not, I’ll email my professor to see if I can get it
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@Eazy8 Antifa Viking That's a pretty good concept. I've done something similar with fighter... a laborer who was pretty physically, but couldn't keep his mouth shut... so from boyhood he was in so many fights that he just wasn't a normal peasant anymore.
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 1:41 AM
Peasents are always enjoyable as DND characters
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You can make them into almost any class, and the potential for RP options is amazing
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Peasents are always enjoyable as DND characters
So are 3rd son nobles. I had one who was a full fledged knight, but zero chance at holding power, and his elder brothers treated him like shit from basically birth... so he became a champion of the peasantry and pissed off ALL the nobility. But because he was so well loved... they couldn't really do anything to him. (edited)
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So are 3rd son nobles. I had one who was a full fledged knight, but zero chance at holding power, and his elder brothers treated him like shit from basically birth... so he became a champion of the peasantry and pissed off ALL the nobility. But because he was so well loved... they couldn't really do anything to him. (edited)
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 1:54 AM
I had a similar character; his culture was divided the land up between the sons, but he got the smallest of the three, but it had the most developed part, so he had a pretty capable bit of land, and a very skilled and loyal martial to back him up, because he was a young and as such rather dumb; there was also a local countess, who being the only surviving child of her family, realized people would try to take her holdings, but she had found a law that allowed polygamy, so long as the main spouse was of hirer status than their partners, and so she started courting all these local minor lords who are all like 3rd and fourth sons, plotting out this whole scheme, so that if someone attacks her holdings, a dozen minor lords and their armies join into to kick their ass, and one of the suitors was this character, who had a thing for her, and was quite excited about it, but was jealous of this other lord in a similar Position, and the two go to war, much to the lady’s annoyance, and he loses, and he gets pissy and storms off to go adventuring to cool his heels; the lordess is rather peeved at this, and keeps giving the party missions, trying to win their favor and get this guys attention, and keeps dropping hints, because all the other suitors got the memo, but he’s completely oblivious , and she’s just getting more and more annoyed at him
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That guy never really got off the ground as a DND character, but I might right a story around him
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I never played DND, but I do have a named fantasy character, if you 2 don't mind
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 2:00 AM
Hit us with it
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Her name is Mary Winters, a mage from the city of Hagthorn of the Empire of Unity. Or at least, before its collapse. Mary wasn't born a noble, she was born a commoner, but from a young age she was adept in the art of magic and quickly aspired to be a full blown mage. Being a commoner though, she had to use her talents to help support herself and her family till she could afford to go to the academy. If you're wondering; she wanted to help others, not harm or exploit people. Of course, this was all before Unity collapsed.
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Unity itself was, key word was, a continental superpower. They were masters of Magitech and even had some genuine industry to produce their machines. The Royal Academy was to thank for this technological boom; the intellectuals it produced would be some of the finest the empire had made.
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Unity itself was, key word was, a continental superpower. They were masters of Magitech and even had some genuine industry to produce their machines. The Royal Academy was to thank for this technological boom; the intellectuals it produced would be some of the finest the empire had made.
I'm getting real Forced Unity vibes. But I like the concept for the character.
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The Imperial mage academy was the other intellectual arm of this golden age, and unfortunately for everyone, the source of the empire's downfall
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I'm getting real Forced Unity vibes. But I like the concept for the character.
Never heard of forced Unity
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Never heard of forced Unity
Play on words... Unity as a name, vs concept... forced unity as in, you will be one of us or else... you will obey or else.
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The Imperial mage academy was the other intellectual arm of this golden age, and unfortunately for everyone, the source of the empire's downfall
Enter Sanatos, headmaster of the imperial mage academy and also your closeted supremacist looking to take over the empire from its "rotten nobility" and monarchy, and replace it with a theocratic dictatorship
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I'd so be a third faction in that universe... death to kings and dictators alike. 😉
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Haha, no doubt
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Sanatos manipulated his students and subordinate teachers into doing his bidding, secretly recruiting 2 more to his cause: General Titus, commander of the defence forces around the capital, and the Playright Auguste, a powerful public speaker who could sway noble and commoner alike with his plays. It must be noted though, it took years of gaslighting, manipulation, and lies to get the 2 on board. Especially Titus, who had sworn an oath to defend the empire and the imperial family.
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Mary was one of those manipulated by him, without knowing it too. One of her tasks was to collect an artifact for an "exam", an artifact that gave precondition to whoever held it
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She failed. The artifact was shattered after she got a violent vision of what was to come. Mary told not a soul of the incident, deeply troubled as she was. (edited)
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When the collapse finally came, it was swift. The Emperor was slain by hitmen hired by Sanatos and his 3 Children were supposed to be 'delt with' by Sofia, a Friend of Mary's. Realizing what was happening however, she disobeyed his orders and spirited the 3 away to the farthest reaches of the collapsing empire. Before he could seek them and Sofia out, he was confronted by a pissed Mary and the 2 entered into a duel. Mary won, but barely
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Sanatos, before he had a bell dropped on his head and his skull (and practically 3/4ths of his bones) crushed, placed a curse on her. This curse took the form of 2 parts; 1st, inability to die. 2nd; corruption in the physical manifestation of black veins on her body. The longer the curse lasted, the progressively more unbearable and painful it became.
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@Eazy8 Antifa Viking
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Ok I've been talking for a while so I'll try to wrap this up. All Mary could do at that point was save as many people as she could in the face of government collapse. The neighboring kingdom of Arowind, far weaker in every respect to Unity and fearing the resulting chaos, casted a spell across the entire continent, wiping out and covering up all memory of the kingdom even existing. The poor girl was one of the few to not be effected by this. And that's the tale of Mary. Sorry for this being so convoluted and long
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@Eazy8 Antifa Viking
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 9:19 AM
Sorry, it was very late my time and o fell asleep
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Cool story and neat characters
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I just woke up
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Oh, I'm sorry!
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 4/16/2023 2:32 PM
No worries, I was just explaining why I didn’t respond quickly
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Thanks; but yea, that's the story of Mary
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 12:19 AM
I have found Heroforge, and I very much like it
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They have come a long way from their kickstarter to be sure.
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joe hill’s revenge 5/10/2023 10:09 AM
Janissaries weren’t snakes (edited)
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 10:18 AM
Shush
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Janissaries weren’t snakes (edited)
AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 10:19 AM
admirals weren't cannon wielding elephants either
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
admirals weren't cannon wielding elephants either
But that would be cool as hell.
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"Remember that time you boarded my message packet and killed the crew? I motherfucking do."
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Boom
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 11:01 AM
XD
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 1:34 PM
I have a little idea for a campaign
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i will do the rest
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give me some time to do it
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 3:22 PM
things got out of hand, rather quick
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 8:14 PM
the map is ready, now I gotta come up with a plot
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
the map is ready, now I gotta come up with a plot
Hear me out. A small group of anti-state revolutionaries, aiding local anti-state communities fight their imperialist overlords. From your map, looks like it could take place literally everywhere/anywhere.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 8:47 PM
eh
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not my type of storyline
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/10/2023 11:37 PM
More stuff!
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/11/2023 8:34 PM
@Spinner @floppunism [BOI, ID] I present to you, the Anarchist Shock trooper from Saxony, yes Saxony is pretty much the only anarchist nation here, hope you guys like it
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yes that is a massive club
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 5/11/2023 8:34 PM
blunderbuss and a spiked mace
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optimal loadout
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/11/2023 8:34 PM
yes
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rate
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clothes vary but its usually the red shirt and the black cloth
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blunderbuss and a spiked mace
AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/11/2023 8:39 PM
oh yeah, its not visible, but he has a stick of dynamite
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floppunism [BOI, ID] 5/11/2023 8:54 PM
apt
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@Spinner @floppunism [BOI, ID] I present to you, the Anarchist Shock trooper from Saxony, yes Saxony is pretty much the only anarchist nation here, hope you guys like it
Well, I highly doubt you will find many of the egalitarian oriented folks here who would think this is a poor choice in loadout for a Victorian technological age.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/13/2023 9:31 AM
P r o g r e s s
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might i get in on the DnD
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might i get in on the DnD
Frederick Piratin 5/18/2023 6:29 PM
All you need is a group and yes.
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lets make one
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Frederick Piratin
All you need is a group and yes.
i was under the impression there was a group already
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i was under the impression there was a group already
Frederick Piratin 5/18/2023 6:34 PM
I assumed they were simply sharing from their groups, but I may be mistaken.
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There isn't an active group yet of just AIF folks. No one has decided they are gonna run a game... or even what game to run. I'm willing to play however. I'd prefer not D&D or Pathfinder, but if that's the game chosen I'll still play.
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AvoidOblivion 5/19/2023 11:10 PM
Most of my knowledge on D&D comes from memes and Futurama. I would be up for playing, would probably love it, but would become overwhelmed and stressed out too much over making sure I’m “doing it right.”
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Most of my knowledge on D&D comes from memes and Futurama. I would be up for playing, would probably love it, but would become overwhelmed and stressed out too much over making sure I’m “doing it right.”
Don't know about 5th Edition... heard it's too simplified. But 3.5/Pathfinder is pretty simple at low levels. Start at level 1 and by the time you figure out everything you can do and it's value, you'll be itching for it to get more complicated (via new feats and spells).
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I’m feeling Fable has some influence here.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/23/2023 8:50 PM
not really
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biggest influence has been empire total war lol
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I'd like to play as well if we end up doing this
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 5/31/2023 10:56 PM
i have a lot of worldbuilding to do
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but if i end up doing it
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you are invited!
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 6/8/2023 4:53 PM
I thought of a terrible idea for a D&D character
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Florida Man
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That’s it
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Stolas_of_the_Stars 6/8/2023 9:23 PM
Terrible idea or genius?
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Have you all heard of Mork Borg, the doom metal influenced fantasy RPG?
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Florida Man
I made a character named fluer da man and basically his backstory was that he came from a swamp, hunts frogs, has a pet alligator, and rarely says no to an idea. Hea a firbolg, has basically a fantasy mullet, and always has a ridiculous idea for every encounter.
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I made a character named fluer da man and basically his backstory was that he came from a swamp, hunts frogs, has a pet alligator, and rarely says no to an idea. Hea a firbolg, has basically a fantasy mullet, and always has a ridiculous idea for every encounter.
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 6/16/2023 5:01 PM
I love it
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/7/2023 4:11 PM
I thought of another bad character idea
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Flamboyantly Gay Landsknecht inspired Fighter, but no one realizes he’s gay because he’s a Landsknecht, and they’re all just kinda like that
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Tell me you’d assume any of these men are straight
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The jokes isn’t on him being gay, but on everyone else not realizing because even though he’s very much out, people just assume it’s part of the whole mercenary thing
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/21/2023 1:52 AM
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Frederick Piratin 7/21/2023 2:24 AM
You know what, that's perfect!
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Frederick Piratin
You know what, that's perfect!
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/21/2023 11:50 AM
“I’ll tell you Hwat!” drops a level 9 divine smite on you (edited)
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 7/21/2023 11:50 AM
experts in propane and propane accessories
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 7/21/2023 12:07 PM
Pro-pain
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 8/13/2023 6:34 PM
I got an idea The Introduction of gunpowder begins an extremely slow process of magic just not being needed in that wide of a scale, while magic is still used heavily in warfare it slowly starts fading away from warfare because logistics and training times ETC. This slowly leaks to other parts of life, medicine, transportation among other things. I think a campaign would be interesting to be set right in the middle of this period, this can show the wizzards and such always playing catchup and or lobbying governments to keep magic around, and lobbying is just an extremely broad term for corruption, legal lobbying(fancy corruption), Mind control(if the wizzard is capable of that) murder, Blackmail and other acts of desperation they feel are needed to stop their craft from being used in warfare because you know......profits
6:36 PM
because like the archer, if you want to train one, start with his grandfather if you want a musketeer, start on tuesday
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 8/14/2023 12:58 PM
ok, i'm gonna be starting a dnd server based on this, anyone wanna join and help me? because I am one clueless dumbass
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do you have any of the books or PDFs of them?
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 8/14/2023 5:35 PM
Nope
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
Nope
Everything a Dungeon Master needs to weave legendary stories for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.The Dungeon Master’s Guide provides the inspiration...
5:55 PM
theres the important three
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 8/14/2023 5:56 PM
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even if you aren't ready to play its always fun to flip through the Monster Manual and see the stuff in there
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 8/14/2023 5:58 PM
Oki
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also if you dont have a campaign heres a PDF of the one that comes with the dnd essentials kit https://anyflip.com/gojcz/dzuh/
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also if you dont have a campaign heres a PDF of the one that comes with the dnd essentials kit https://anyflip.com/gojcz/dzuh/
joe hill’s revenge 8/14/2023 6:57 PM
I’m running that campaign rn irl
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nice
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
ok, i'm gonna be starting a dnd server based on this, anyone wanna join and help me? because I am one clueless dumbass
Eazy8 Antifa Viking 8/14/2023 7:21 PM
I’d be interested in being a player. No experience with 5E though, and it’s been years since I played, so I’ll stick to being a player for a while
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 9:44 PM
You know what, I’m gonna say it
9:44 PM
We need more multicultural fantasy stories.
9:44 PM
Like, if you set your fantasy story in the capital city of a major empire, show us all the different peoples who live there and travel to and from this city for whatever reason, and all the peoples on your world, and what people think of them
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 9:53 PM
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also, I know I say it all the time
9:53 PM
different time periods
9:54 PM
maybe a story based on how wizards are slowly loosing power to an industrializing world that has acquired gunpowder technologies and the such
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 9:54 PM
That’s a major thing in my main story
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 9:54 PM
why get a fire wizard when you can just get a howitzer
9:54 PM
add a lil carcass shot
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking
That’s a major thing in my main story
AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 9:55 PM
my man
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 9:59 PM
That wizards once were super powerful and revered, but now like fire wizards are mostly obsolete, and magic is largely relegated to specific niche things, like super elite duelists using fire magic or electric magic in combat, craftsmen using magic to help make super precise work and like, super niche crafts, and for like, doctors and stuff, but, then like, a lot of that is becoming obsolete, as new tools and methods allow less magically skilled but more dexterous craftsman to compete, and new medical advances are leading to a decrease in the importance of magic
10:00 PM
But like, if you want the SUPER high end stuff, a magically skill craftsman is the way to go, but it’s definitely a case of Diminishing returns
10:03 PM
And who cares how good you are as a Druid or a spell singer when you have professional armies with gun and spear formations and cannons
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:03 PM
yeah, you seriously tell me that a group of Gray haired jeriatrich assholes is gonna stop a fucking musket volley?
10:05 PM
the ONLY use for a mague i can see in pre-industrial combat is in naval battles
10:05 PM
because you rarely sunk an enemy ship even with those walls of cannons
10:05 PM
cast an explosion spell and kaboom, the ship is gone
10:06 PM
sieges are a maybe
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:11 PM
Honestly, my approach is that magic is more like a mix of appatropiac magic and enchanting, and borderline science, like alchemy and shit. The bigger and flashier and more explicitly powerful forms of magic no longer really work well in things like combat, and even pre-gunpowder, bows and crossbows and slings, and cavalry proved very dangerous to mages on the battlefield, but things like crafts based magic, nature spirit type rituals, fertility magic, enchanting, medical rituals, and alchemy still remain useful
10:11 PM
Albeit more niche
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:12 PM
and god knows once the victorian era comes that shit is not surviving for long, at least in industrialized countries
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:14 PM
Nah
10:16 PM
If you want REALLY powerful magic, you better start sucking up to a god, and most of the gods are like, really region/people specific, and don’t really do anything beyond “yeah here’s some rain for ya, you’re crops can grow better this year” or “Yeah, that offering was neat, you’re gonna murder these other guys extra hard”
10:17 PM
And most of them are just different aspects of the same gods (edited)
10:18 PM
The theology is weird and dumb, and I don’t think I understand it in my own world
10:19 PM
But yeah most of them will have more than one of themselves working both sides, and they don’t do anything big
10:20 PM
But there is one god(ess), who does do big(ish) stuff for you, and is very active
10:21 PM
But, most everyone else considers them to be the most evil fuckers on earth, and they will kill you for following her, and those that don’t will tolerate you while watching you suspiciously, and do have a habit of campaigning in your lands
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:22 PM
for the sake of absolute simplicity i decided to just go "Yeah the Protestant reform happened, catholics are being catholics, the islams are doing their stuff and the muslims are being muslims you know the deal"
10:22 PM
i am not shooting myself with a shotgun in the shin by making gods that exist
10:22 PM
i already complicated myself
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:23 PM
I’m thinking of a way to slightly rework the theology and explain it, but I’m not entirely sure
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:24 PM
I straight up am not bothering, i went, here you go, have this map, you can guess who is who with theology
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:25 PM
Mine is its own world, and this probably should be in #books because it’s a story rather than D&D, but it’s an original world, so its an original type theology
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:25 PM
oooh
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cool
10:27 PM
@Eazy8 Antifa Viking you mind rating the map?
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:29 PM
Who owns what is confusing because of the color scheme, but it looks like a nice alt history setting in an actually interesting and unique period
10:30 PM
Rather than just “wHaT iF gErMaNy wOn wWiI” again
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:32 PM
XD
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:32 PM
So like 8/10
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:32 PM
thank you
10:33 PM
fun fact, i wanted to contain it to the mediterranean as a 'Venice vs the Ottoman Empire' thing
10:33 PM
it got out of hand extremely quickly
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:34 PM
Based
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:34 PM
the venice vs ottoman empire is very much a major plot point
10:34 PM
but i haven't gotten the story ready
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking 9/8/2023 10:36 PM
I’ve kinda got the major overarching plot of mine done, but it is told via anthology, so I’m still doing all that
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/8/2023 10:53 PM
Nice
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Eazy8 Antifa Viking
If you want REALLY powerful magic, you better start sucking up to a god, and most of the gods are like, really region/people specific, and don’t really do anything beyond “yeah here’s some rain for ya, you’re crops can grow better this year” or “Yeah, that offering was neat, you’re gonna murder these other guys extra hard”
Counterpoint to this, as someone who's worldbuilding my own fictional setting (abet not for DnD, more of a potential webcomic atm?) while magic might be relatively limited on a individual scale, it COULD be incorporated into the progress. For example, a army with guns might be more effective vs a wizard, but if the wizard could, say, have his own army with magic enchanted guns, it even the field. Hell, in DnD, isn't one of the spells literally insulting your opponents? Put that shit in wartime propaganda, and I imagine it be far more effective due to the spread of it.
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:32 AM
What are the logistics of this
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well like what's your scale for ref
1:32 AM
I imagine wizards in a support role could help, a lot
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:33 AM
18th century warfare with a dash of Napoleonic at the tail end of it all
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hmmm
1:34 AM
one example I could quickly think of is magic used to amplify a army's luck in hitting their target
1:34 AM
or a higher crit rate
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Or shot accuracy. It IS muskets after all
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YES
1:34 AM
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:34 AM
The musket innacuracy thing is overexagerated but yes, this can help
1:35 AM
the point of line warfare was also Shoot many volleys and chsrge with bayonets
1:36 AM
artillery could easily just rock a regiment if at a good enough range
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hell, enchant the friggin cannon would could some havoc
1:36 AM
also, create food
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:36 AM
cavalry was meant to either support a charge or chasr fleeing enemies
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that's a spell in DnD and do you know how much money in the military is dependent on food?
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Aces high
also, create food
AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:36 AM
ok that is a good one
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you got me there
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i kneel
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My question is
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how many magues would it take to enchant a whole army
1:37 AM
do remember a singular army is made up of many infantry regiments, cavalry and artillery
1:38 AM
a single regiment could hold up to 200 men
1:38 AM
and thats an average
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depends on rates and type of magic
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:38 AM
depending on the nation of course
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remember, warlocks exist (edited)
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:38 AM
pls b patient i'm new to dnd
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AIF Cuirassier regiment
ok that is a good one
another one to consider: Wish
1:38 AM
its one use only
1:39 AM
but if you phrase it right you can pull some shit
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:39 AM
interesting
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like
1:39 AM
let me get one
1:41 AM
here's a good one
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:43 AM
ayy this guy
1:43 AM
been seeing him recently
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Ye
1:44 AM
God the stories he picks are hilarious Dude's also a DM so his laugh is probably pretty genuine
1:44 AM
You know he knows someone who did something similar
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 1:48 AM
nice
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AIF Cuirassier regiment 9/9/2023 10:53 AM
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