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Dungeon Master Essentials

xanth-the-wizard

I decided to make a list of DM stuff that I personally use or think are important to know when it comes to being a DM. So here’s my list:

Medieval Fantasy City Generator: This generator is now my LIFE. It generates incredibly complex cities with good customization. (Thanks to plantkat for sharing this site in their post here)

Naming Your Towns/Cities: Now that you’ve made your city, time to name it and give it some character! This post contains lots of great information.

Index Cards Rule: Fuckyeahdnd shared a SUPER convenient way of keeping track of turns and HP in combat. I use this system now for every single session I run.

Tricks & Traps: I am AWFUL at coming up with good Dungeon traps and challenges, this PDF includes some incredible ideas. The original poster, Courtney C. Campbell also runs a blog where she shares tons of great stuff. (Thanks to we-are-rogue for sharing the PDF in their post here)

Playing Different Types of Characters: Writeinspiration has a masterpost on how to write/play lots of different types of characters.

Unique NPC Jobs: Lauraharrisbooks wrote a list of different Fantasy Jobs which can help populate your world with some unique characters! Another similar post by Thewritershandbook also covers Common Occupations in the Middle Ages. 

Developing Characters by Threes: Monticusrex’s method of creating characters help you really flesh out who they are. Useful for Players and DM’s.

Troublesome Players? Speak Up: Dicebound brings up an incredibly great point. If someone is being a jerk, speak up and call them out. This is especially important and relevant now to crush awful behavior before it even has a chance to show it’s ugly face.

List of D&D Resources: And finally, pretty much anything you might need for D&D.  (Character stuff, spells, online communities/ways to play, etc..) A lot of people contributed to this post but thank you Mushroomancy for posting the original list.

Donjon: And finally, this site is a great resource for looking up Spells and Monsters along with tons of other generators. Not every single Spell or Monster is on here, but most are listed.

(I tried to give credit to the original posters or the actual URL for websites, unless those sites or URLs were no longer active)

rpgtoons

Incredible list!

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raychleadele

Donjon is great. I use the loot and dungeon generators there regularly. Gonna have to look into some of the other resources!

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marius-pont-de-bercy

New and Updated Career Options for 2019:

  • Rakish dandy who spends three hours on his cravat every morning
  • Romantic poet (who dies of consumption)
  • Whaler c. 1850, in love with a harpooneer
  • Late Victorian occultist
  • Ambiguously gay Victorian/Edwardian groundskeeper
  • Oxford student with a dark secret, c. 1910
  • Bertie Wooster
  • The subject of a J.C. Leyendecker illustration
  • Climber in the Lake District during the Golden Age of Mountaineering
  • Teddy boy
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ssundog

Anonymous asked:

what is the monster narrative?

sharkodactyl answered:

can you believe this is pretty much the first time i’ve ever been asked this?

i summarize the monster narrative on my about page: what is the monster? why is it a monster? does it regret being a monster? does it love being a monster? 

and so to me the monster narrative is any story that revolves around monstrosity, often falling under one of those questions and using at least one of them to build a more specific story off of that.

  • what is the monster?

does something Happen to someone that makes them a monster? are monsters born? are they made? do we need an explanation? is your story about finding an explanation for the monster, or is it about discovering the monster in the first place? is this alien – is the monster always in the shadows, lurking through the whole movie, are you holding your breath and watching the flick of tail and the shine of teeth? is one of your characters the monster? does someone have to be the monster? is there always a monster?

and what is the monster? is the monster a literal beast, teeth and claws and the growl in the pit of the throat? is the monster just the Other, the thing that Is Not You? is the monster a villain, and why is that villain a monster, and is there a difference between villains and monsters? are you the monster? is the monster every part of yourself that you do not want to be?

  • why is it a monster?

what makes characters monsters? this ties into the initial point: does something have to Happen, in order to make a monster? are you seeking an explanation? why are you doing that? why are we so eager to find our monsters? did you make your own monster? are you desperate to find a monster that makes you into the Not Monster? why is that?

is your story going back into the monster-past and unraveling the monster? is your story confronting prior assumptions? is your story exploring the monstrosity that is a part of all of us? is this the 100 – do we all have a monster inside of us, and are we all responsible for what it does when we let it out? why, why is it a monster?

  • does it regret being a monster?

is the story about a monster trying to change – because of love, because of self-love, because of remorse? does it keep hurting anyways? can it not change? why? can it change? why? what caused the regret in the first place? was it a person? what makes this person different, really?

can monsters change? are they always doomed to be the things they were? let’s step back: what is the monster? why is it that once you call something a monster, it can never be anything else? why are we not allowed to be anything but the people we were? are we giving the monster another chance? why are we doing that?

if it regrets, if it changes, if it grows: what now? does it have nightmares? does it wake up in the mornings with aching teeth? is change easy, one step, or every time it sees a knife does it ache? what is it, now that it is Not A Monster? or is it a monster still? are you always a monster? are you just a better one, now? or is this beauty and the beast – once loved, do your fur and claws and teeth melt away like they were never there?

is it enough? is it enough? is it enough?

  • does it love being a monster?

why choose monstrosity over other things? does love hurt too much? does love not hurt enough? is this what the monster thinks will get it love? has it never wanted love? why? why do we build our monster-stories around love, anyways?

what makes monstrosity feel good? what problem does it solve? why does it love being a monster? why does it love being a monster?


or, in short: the monster narrative is a story about a monster. here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. monster stories are necessary stories. monster stories tell us things about ourselves, and our monsters, and we who are our monsters. and i love every single permutation of them, teeth and all.

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ssundog
battlecrazed-axe-mage

Are you sure?

ancient DM proverb

theemotionaldm

Other often used DM proverbs that are actually thinly layered warnings;

“You can certainly try.”
“Do you say that in character?”
“Do you say that out loud?”
“You can try to touch it.”
“Where are you looking?”
“Are you paying attention to what’s going on over there?”
“That’s going to be hard, but I’d love to see you pull it off.”
“It’s your choice.”
“Do you really want my opinion?”

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olipolygon

Eat, Garfield, eat,

Eat with all your might,

Eat that pasta,

Eat it fasta,

Till it’s out of sight,

Till it’s out of sight.

Munch, Garfield, munch,

Come on, let’s do lunch,

Make your belly mozzarelly,

Crunch, crunch, crunch,

Crunch, crunch, crunch.

Cheese, salami, ham and swiss,

Whole wheat, rye and white,

Sliced tomatoes, tons of mayo,

Love at first bite.

Garfield, you’re an awesome eater,

Yes, you are the top,

Butter betters, bitter batter,

You don’t have to stop.

Double stack it,

You can hack it,

Yum, Garfield, yum,

Don’t you miss a crumb,

Add a dinner,

you’re the winner,

Don’t you pause,

or you’ll get thinner,

More, Garfield, more,

‘Till you can’t fit through the door,

Eat, Garfield, eat,

Chow, chow, chow!

daily-garfield

this plays in my head whenever i have an anxiety attack

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