“You wouldn’t know”: If you ask to roll, say, history, and your DM responds with this, it usually means, “This is a vital plot point that you aren’t supposed to find out until later, so I won’t tell you regardless of what you roll”
“I mean, you could”: The DM is strongly suggesting you don’t do the thing you were just about to do. But it is your choice… if you reeeeeally want to.
“Oh, fuck”/“Oh, shit”/et cetera: “I DID NOT EXPECT YOU TO MAKE THAT DECISION AND I DID NOT PREPARE AN OUTCOME”
“Oh, fuck”/“Oh, shit”/et cetera: “I JUST REALIZED I DID NOT BALANCE THIS COMBAT CORRECTLY”
“Hang on…”: “Where the FUCK did I put this in my notes?”
“Oh boy”/“Oh god”/“Oh no”/et cetera: I either just rolled REALLY well or REALLY badly. You’ll find out soon enough.
“It seems like…”/“As far as you can tell…”: What I’m about to say your character notices, is nowhere CLOSE to what’s actually going on.
“Make a [skill] check”/“Make a [skill] saving throw”: I’m having you make this roll, but I’m not going to tell you what it means until later, when you’re going to regret it.
A hard, firm, “No”: “Please for the love of GOD and ALL that is holy I am BEGGING you not to put me through whatever BULLSHIT you’re planning.”
– What you know in character though: Please stop fucking metagaming at my table
– I’ll give you that: Contrary to your mistaken belief, you are not correct about this particular rule, but I have a story to tell and will let you have something unimportant yet cheaty if it shuts you up for six goddamn seconds
– Yeah okay: That’s absolutely not allowed for in the rules but I wanna see where it goes
– I guess so?: Please gods no I didn’t plan for this
[Here it is in all it’s glory, the first draft of the world map of my campaign world, split—pun intended—into four continents, each of which houses a gateway to one of the elemental planes.]
[The frozen, northwestern continent houses a massive volcano that acts as the gateway to the Plane of Elemental Fire.]
[The arid, southwestern continent is a massive desert bisected by a massive crevasse that acts as the gateway to the Plane of Elemental Earth.]
[The two pieces of the marshy southeastern continent (connected to the northeastern continent Americas-style) surrounds a reverse whirlpool gateway to the Plane of Elemental Water.]
[Lastly, the massive northeastern continent is home to the largest (both in length and height) mountain range in Kaer’torin whose snow-capped peaks break the clouds, and those who seek its peaks find themselves in the Plane of Elemental Air.]
[A large—borderline continent-qualifying—island that sits at the very center of the ocean the continents surround, the remains of the massive meteor that ripped the once unified continent asunder. What purpose that impact served is unknown… for now.]
[Eventually there will be a bunch of barrier islands within the large ocean.]
concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually die, and when you’re an immortal god of death, you know there’s no need to rush. you’ll get them all in the end
i like how the responses on this post are cleanly split between “hey this is a great story idea i love it” and “this is absolutely terrifying”
I love this more than the Neutral Death God thing that exists in DnD and Pathfinder
Also I know halflings can’t in canon have babies w/ like any race that won’t just produce a halfling (Dragons/dryads/celestials/fiends can, but that’s just making aasimar/tieflings/sorcerers)
But consider: Halflings are like the CORGIS of fantasy races, so if another race has a kid with a halfling, they just look like a half sized version of the other parent
GIVE ME VISUALS YOU COWARDS.
G*d you’re so right
I’m so running with this. Imagine… Tabaxi Halflings trying to pass themselves off as a large cat.
“What do you mean ‘too big’? I’m a Maine Coon, clearly”
lmao my current character is half halfing and half orc. She’s two and a half feet of rage and is always ready to throw down. Her last name is Kneecrusher, bc that’s all she can reach.
Creator's Archive 