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Cal Rae

@graphpaperwiz

Level 38 writer & nerd. He/Him.

 London, England
Joined October 2017
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Player: Yeah, you really dodged a bullet there. Me: What's a bullet? There's no blackpowder in this setting. Player: You really dodged a bulette there. #DnD
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This is now a 100% canon phrase in my #DnD world. 😁
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Me: Lots of work to do today, better crack on. Also Me: What if I made my own cosmological model for the D&D multiverse from scratch? 🤔 #dnd
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Me, unable to sleep at 5am, reading old 2e Planescape modules and losing my grip on reality. #dnd
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Putting your player's on trial! My Dragon Heist players got arrested for murder, so I came up with some homebrew rules for running a trial, feel free to use! 1/2 #DnD #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonmaster #dmtips #dndhomebrew #criticalrole
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I like to troll my #DragonHeist players by writing editions of the Waterdeep Wazoo newspaper, recounting events they were heroically involved in but get none of the credit. #dnd
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My friends and I decided to represent #Warhammer armies as emojis, because reasons: Empire ⚔💣 Bretonnia ⚜🐎 Dwarfs 🍺🛡 High Elves 🦄🧝‍♂️ Wood Elves 🌳🧝‍♀️ Dark Elves 🗡🧝‍♀️ Vampire Counts 🦇🧛‍♂️ Tomb Kings ☠☀️ Skaven ☢🐀 Lizardmen 🐸🦖 Night Goblins 🌛🍄 Chaos 👹😈🤢🧙‍♂️
Playing 2 campaigns with the same #dnd group. C1: Deadly jungle, brutal combat, dungeon crawls. Players: Investigate everything, roleplay every night on watch. C2: City-based intrigue, political chess, the art of spycraft. Players: Charge in, kill everyone, ask questions never!
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Zoom work calls: constant interruptions, people only care about their own voice 👎 My D&D players online: leave pauses before speaking, actively want to hear each other roleplaying 👍 Honestly the difference is staggering. #DnD #zoom #lockdown
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Me, new to playing a Rogue: I'll handle the wizard, I'm sure I have some amazing Rogue shit to deal with her spells. DM: Only for Dex saves... Me: Not if I use... Uncanny Halfling! DM: ... Me: Or... Cunning Dodge? Sneak's Cant? DM: ... Me: Don't hurt me because I'm pretty? #DnD
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Asked my 2 wizards what magic school colours they want to see with Detect Magic. Their responses were: Abjuration = green Conjuration = orange Divination = white Enchantment = silver Evocation = red Illusion = colourless blur Necromancy = black Transmutation = purple #DnD
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What do you think? Personally I don't agree with most of these but if my players are happy, I'm happy. Adding another postit to the back of my DM screen...
When your party's cleric is experiencing "technical difficulties'. #dnd
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Food banks have become so normal in Tory Britain that there are now kids books explaining what they are. I'm close to crying at work while also immediately ordering one for my niece. Food banks should be exceptional, not the norm! #austerity #ToryBritain barringtonstoke.co.uk/books/…
Creating a stat block for my player's bard who has been bodysnatched by an Intellect Devourer. It's fun working out which traits change and which stay the same. For instance is fey ancestry intrinsic to the Elvish brain (in which case its gone) or their whole physiology? #DnD
Added @mattcolville style villain actions to my Intellect Devourer boss fight. So here's a quick #DnD thread. In Round 1, the ID plants "the seed of an idea" in a PC. Nothing seems to happen, except the PC is compelled to say "3".
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Round 2 is "Time to forget." The ID unleashes tendrils of purple energy that steals the PCs memories. They resist with a succesful Int save, otherwise their Int is reduced and they forget the last few weeks. Also in Round 2, the seeded PC is compelled to say "2".
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I have killed my first player character as a DM. Their fragile level 1 brain was eaten by an Intellect Devourer. I feel a mixture of guilt and amusement. Guiltmusement? #dnd
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Swear my DM bag is twice as heavy as any bag I would take on a week-long trip. #dnd
First aid training at work. Trainer running the session opens with "Good morming ladies and gentleman. Well I SUPPOSE we're not allowed to say 'ladies and gentlemen' anymore are we?" It's going to be a long fucking day.
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Designing magical arrows for #dnd based on the Thief games. We've got rope arrows for climbing, water arrows for extinguishing torches, moss arrows for sneaking through noisy areas, noisemaker arrows for distractions, gas arrows to knock people out, and fire arrows to... well...
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Bonus: Quick rule for clerics and pallys to upgrade the water arrows to holy water so that they hurt fiends and undead.
Last night's first session of Shadows of Waterdeep (Dragon Heist) was beautifully chaotic. PCs thwarted a monster attack on their favourite bar with a sleep spell that also knocked half of them out. Then did some investigating by splitting the party 5 ways! 😅 #dnd #dragonheist
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Tonight's the first session of my Shadows of Waterdeep #DnD campaign. Been prepping all week and still all I can hear in my head is Illidan Stormrage bellowing "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!"
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