I enjoy helping others experience the first time wonder of discovery, even after years of playing. It’s why I play in a custom setting and regularly create new monsters, spells, subclasses, and magic items. So many people crave that moment of first contact, and I love to help them find it.
On the DM side of that, when there are new things for the players to find, I get to stretch the creative muscles that I thought I had lost for years. I get to challenge myself to create new, interesting, and balanced experience to offer up for my table.
DM here, mine is a bit vague and cheesy but whatever. Favourite part is seeing how excited my friends get when something cool happens! Whether it's pulling out a spicy combat encounter, or they connect the clues of some big plot point, or they pull off something heroic and/or disastrous in game and we all know it's unforgettable.
Being a DM feels a bit like hosting a party (except less overwhelming). It feels like giving gifts to my friends in the form of a fantasy world. It's highly fulfilling, and we end up weaving many joyful memories together.
Have you used any supplementals? I’ve dug through most of Mandymods stuff (shout-out to her) but haven’t looked at Dragnacarta or the interactive Tome yet.
We're at the start of our campaign (they've just gone though Death House) so I've yet to dig deep into it but I have been taking a close look at both MandyMod and DragnaCarta.
At first I was preparing to follow MandyMod closely with the Fanes and stuff but it ended up getting a bit overwhelming for me and I realised I didn't actually need or want all of it. So I've dialled back a bit and am just taking bits and pieces of inspiration wherever fits. I've liked stuff from both supplements so I'll probably continue to do so, although I have to be careful with MandyMod because there's so much homebrew lore in it that I need to remind myself what is module lore and what is fan lore. Nevertheless, there's a treasure trove of stuff to add which is a really nice change for running a module.
I haven't actually heard of the interactive tome, marvel missed that but I'll have to check it out!
I’m like you, I love making homebrew items and monsters to throw at my party in equal measurements I also really enjoy creating lore and reasons why things are happening in the setting. I’ve been meaning to try a module so I can practice working within an existing story framework more.
I’m much better at tweaking preexisting things than coming up with my own off the bat, so I havent tried a fully homebrewed setting, but I’ve played in two now with another group. Taking the bones of a module and fleshing it out is pretty satisfying though, have you looked into any to run?
I looked into Descent into Avernus, but honestly, I wanted to make so many changes to that module it wasnt worth it. I also toyed with Strahd but horror and being scary isn’t my thing either. I kinda stopped looking since my group is taking a break for a good while, but if I end up dming again it will almost certainly be with a premade module.
Would things like watermarks be considered as “usable and not excessively downgraded state”? I don’t create any OC and am new to the hobby, but that at least seems like a half-decent way for artists to have their stuff available but not in “perfect” condition.
Seems perfectly allowable to me, what we mean by downgraded is someone posting a battlemap in absolute dog shit resolution, just to be able to post a link to their paid version at full quality. To me that would just be a trash post and shouldn’t be here.
Realistically, the real power from conjure animals comes from the "summon a horde of beasts" aspect of it. Without that, most choices are going to be pretty underwhelming. If you're looking to avoid the "swarm" aspect of it, I'd probably just go with single cr2 creatures, like giant crayfish, polar bear, or giant elk
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First off I mean this in a good way. I thought it felt a lot more like a movie of how real life players would play the campaign, rather than an attempt at a movie adaptation of a book. And having played D&D, I think it made the movie more relatable to the core audience.
It's something we haven't seen at the the movies for a while. A nice fun action romp. Think what Marvel films used to be at the start when they were self contained stories and not just set up for the next movie. It somehow manages to be exactly like a D&D game while also being completely enjoyable even if you don't know what D&D is.
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