Kdot the DM (David)

Wherein I make a good effort at briefly summarizing my campaign setting of Axiom! #dnd #ttrpg youtu.be/gS8qoqDzD3w via @YouTube

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It's about to begin... coming to Kickstarter next month; AETHERIAL EXPANSE☄️⭐🏴‍☠️ we heard the love for this world in our second Fable, so we've taken it to the next level with this brand new setting guide. More to come soon but for now, get excited🌌#dnd kickstarter.com/projects/97727…

I just backed Aetherial Expanse: Setting Guide on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/97727…

Why, oh why, do battlemaps for sailing vessels in 5e not scale well? I look up "man o' war battlemap" and everything is absolutely tiny. I have found exactly 1 accurately sized ship that was also accurately labeled. Have others run into this same problem? #DnD #ttrpg

This, absolutely this. Discworld for life!

@kangaroo5383 Later preferably being "immediately after" so that I don't lose what I've gained from said nearest human.

@kangaroo5383 Other: While I am normally a "poke the problem with a stick till I understand what it is and how to solve it." sometimes (particularly when time is of the essence) its faster to have the nearest human tell me what to do so I can solve this now and then poke with stick later.

An interesting discussion came up recently about "optimal learning method for engineers". I'm a huge proponent of "just figure it out yourself" 99% of the time as I believe the journey teaches you more than just asking for answers... so curious.. Do you believe it's better to:

@zeltre_ffxiv And like. Not 100 or 1000 portals. But like, millions or billions or more. I am the kind of crazy that thought about the very beginning and the very end of my cosmology. This is it 😁

@Kdotjack9 Fuck you nearly hit the nail on the head with my exact plans lol

What's a really fun way to risk the destruction of your entire homebrew world? #dnd

@FNDungeonMom Aspects of reality being akin to The Endless from The Sandman but there are lots more than just 7 of them.

@FNDungeonMom I have a whole species in my world of psychic cat people who have a limited form of collective consciousness. They do not worship gods. They know that when they pass on that their essence joins with that of their ancestors. They instead revere aspects of reality.

@LucyDnDPrincess They have since been hopping across worlds hunting for the individual kidnappers and the individual in charge while trying to figure out why they were targeted specifically.

@LucyDnDPrincess The current campaign I am running is one where in session 1 each player was kidnapped from their world by a powerful spell caster or entity to a giant fantasy city dimension of mine called Axiom into a giant ambush. No 2 players were from the same place.

Campaign idea I eventually want to run: A Save the Multiverse game where the players planehop (Forgotten Realms to Ebberon to Darksun, etc), and save each world from an evil that won, cleaning up the universe, kinda like Green Lanterns. #Dnd #dungeonsanddragons

Today's exciting installment in "completely innocuous videos that current events forced me to edit" -R LINK: youtube.com/watch?v=ae6Z39…

Also! By popular demand from TikTok, I have done a full version of Woe to the People of Order, a @Technothepig ballad! Please enjoy m.youtube.com/watch?v=yaxRl3…

@LucyDnDPrincess @CounterspellCo I love those too! I also like the all of the various kinds of draconic creatures from 3.5 and pathfinder. So much variety to draw on!

@Kdotjack9 @CounterspellCo I'm personally a huge fan of the Catastrophic Dragons from 4e. They were a cool addition to Dragon Kind.

Fellow DMs, don't be afraid to look through monster manuals and bestiaries from previous editions for monster ideas to throw at your players. Seriously, I have a whole list of stuff that I am about to convert into 5e just for the next few adventures I'm planning. #DnD

@BigBrother_DM 4e is great for ideas for monster abilities as well!

@Kdotjack9 I actually even converted some old 4e adventures too, all resources are useful resources.

@LucyDnDPrincess @CounterspellCo One of my players is a dragon sorcerer trying to understand where this power comes from. I have had him meet all kinds of dragons, not just the “normal D&D” variety! It’s been amazing!

@Kdotjack9 @CounterspellCo I've done this with the other colours of Chromatic Dragons for a campaign not that long ago.

@sunnyseeley The downside being, that he does not use some of the features of the necromancer subclass since he is doing damage directly rather than summoning a horde of minions to flood the battlefield.

@sunnyseeley Many of these spells are re-skins or close to it. He also has several other homebrew spells that I didn't come up with, like Dessicate, among others. We've been pretty happy with him being able to use these plus some additional cool stuff from some custom magic items.