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I've been really into d&d lately and i was wondering how many people on TBT play it or know of it!
Do you listen to any d&d podcasts? have you ever DMed? do you have any cool or funny experiences/situations with the game?
I've currently been playing in a game with my warlock halfling called Mint! His patron, a god of trickery, approached him after his town got invaded and because he was desperate he accepted the pact. I joined the campaign while it had already started and so Mint met everyone later on, they've been sceptical of him (especially when one of the pcs found out his patron was an evil god and is his deities enemy LOL oops). It's been super fun playing with him and ive put a lot of my own emotions and experiences into his character!
Also for dnd podcasts im SUPER into Just Roll With It, its what got me into dnd as a whole! I want to get into The Adventure Zone as well as ive heard that's good
I don't know how well this post will do since i dont know how many people know of d&d but its worth a shot i guess!
Mint sounds like a cool character! I also like your profile pic!
My husband and I do a couple of TTRPG podcasts. I DM'd my own homebrew underwater D&D 5E campaign for one of the podcasts, but it's been on hiatus for a year and may not continue. DMing is haarrrd. THe other podcast is DM'd by my husband, it's a sci-fi horror campaign using the Call of Cthulhu 7E system!
Other than that I haven't played much D&D, I kinda miss it. I don't have much attention span when it comes to listening to podcasts in general; but I listened to a few episodes of the adventure zone (the murder mystery on the train bit), and enjoyed that! My husband loves Drunks & Dragons, Brute Force, and Pretend Wizards.
also I have been getting in to making dice bags, dunno if I will ever get around to making a shop tho. I'm surprised more people haven't commented on this, D&D is quite big. There's a great D&D community on twitter and reddit!
not exactly dnd but i played 13th age with my brother and some friends last year! we all got pretty busy though so we can't play much anymore bc one of our members is a med student huhu i miss it
i had a half orc paladin who used to be one of the body guards of The Chosen One except she fell off of a cliff during an ambush and was miraculously the only one who survived. she's trying to do her best to atone for failing in her duty to protect. also none of her party members know about her massive amounts of guilt that lead her into shielding them without any regard for her own injuries oof poor girl
it was so fun figuring it all out with my dm even though originally i wanted her to have a more romantic backstory. but also after typing all that out i think i should feel bad for having fun making her suffer whoops. aww now i miss her :') her name's tevletta and she likes gardening. i once got her to suplex a sand demon into a lake
haven't really listened to any dnd podcasts but i've heard of..... uhhh TAZ? but all i know about it is that there are elf(?) twins (??) and also a huge buff dude.
but aww that made me nostalgic, thanks for making this post yo!
I love d&d but don't get to play a lot sadly. So I listen to podcasts. My favorite of all time is Not Another D&D Podcast, and I like Dungeons and Daddies too. No other podcasts have really done it for me. Really not a fan of the Adventure Zone because it's painfully obvious they fudge their rolls, especially in the second season. Which is fine if you're just listening for the story, but I like the story the dice tell more. I've listened to a few okay ones otherwise, but Not Another D&D Podcast and Dungeons and Daddies are by far my favorites.
I'm hoping that once my partner and I move in together we can play a bunch. It's hard right now since we're long-distance, but when we have played together it's so fun. I've been trying to set up a campaign with my friends, but after a bad experience with someone we invited for a few sessions we haven't played again.
Mint sounds like a cool character! I also like your profile pic!
My husband and I do a couple of TTRPG podcasts. I DM'd my own homebrew underwater D&D 5E campaign for one of the podcasts, but it's been on hiatus for a year and may not continue. DMing is haarrrd. THe other podcast is DM'd by my husband, it's a sci-fi horror campaign using the Call of Cthulhu 7E system!
Other than that I haven't played much D&D, I kinda miss it. I don't have much attention span when it comes to listening to podcasts in general; but I listened to a few episodes of the adventure zone (the murder mystery on the train bit), and enjoyed that! My husband loves Drunks & Dragons, Brute Force, and Pretend Wizards.
also I have been getting in to making dice bags, dunno if I will ever get around to making a shop tho. I'm surprised more people haven't commented on this, D&D is quite big. There's a great D&D community on twitter and reddit!
oh man DMing does seem super hard. Im trying to write my own oneshot as well as my dad wants me to DM for him and his girlfriend and its a lot to think about all at once, I might not have the memory for it lol
as well as making things immersive and making everything flow smoothly is difficult on its own im excited to try it out though!
not exactly dnd but i played 13th age with my brother and some friends last year! we all got pretty busy though so we can't play much anymore bc one of our members is a med student huhu i miss it
i had a half orc paladin who used to be one of the body guards of The Chosen One except she fell off of a cliff during an ambush and was miraculously the only one who survived. she's trying to do her best to atone for failing in her duty to protect. also none of her party members know about her massive amounts of guilt that lead her into shielding them without any regard for her own injuries oof poor girl
it was so fun figuring it all out with my dm even though originally i wanted her to have a more romantic backstory. but also after typing all that out i think i should feel bad for having fun making her suffer whoops. aww now i miss her :') her name's tevletta and she likes gardening. i once got her to suplex a sand demon into a lake
haven't really listened to any dnd podcasts but i've heard of..... uhhh TAZ? but all i know about it is that there are elf(?) twins (??) and also a huge buff dude.
but aww that made me nostalgic, thanks for making this post yo!
she seems like a really cool character!! i love buff girls hell yeah
I had a similar situation with Mint where i wanted his backstory to be a certain way and then things just didnt go that way lol. I wanted him to be a bit more on the evil side but he ended up being the opposite, which does actually make for a cool dynamic with his evil patron
I know little to nothing about TAZ right now but i do know that Just Roll With It has two half-elf brothers called Br'aad and Sylnan (Br'aad is the one in my signature!!) maybe you mean that? there is an elf in TAZ though i see a friend of mine talk about him a lot but i've forgotten his name
I love d&d but don't get to play a lot sadly. So I listen to podcasts. My favorite of all time is Not Another D&D Podcast, and I like Dungeons and Daddies too. No other podcasts have really done it for me. Really not a fan of the Adventure Zone because it's painfully obvious they fudge their rolls, especially in the second season. Which is fine if you're just listening for the story, but I like the story the dice tell more. I've listened to a few okay ones otherwise, but Not Another D&D Podcast and Dungeons and Daddies are by far my favorites.
I'm hoping that once my partner and I move in together we can play a bunch. It's hard right now since we're long-distance, but when we have played together it's so fun. I've been trying to set up a campaign with my friends, but after a bad experience with someone we invited for a few sessions we haven't played again.
I havent actually heard of any of those :O i do agree though it gets really boring if you just fudge rolls all the time. I've only listened to Just Roll With It so i cant really say much but i think my favourite aspect of that is how a lot of the players often try and find the wackiest solutions to problems, theres a lot of comedy in it! I wont spoil too much just in case but there was a time that the warlock knocked a guy out, dressed him as a clown and then tried to sneak him into the castle by moving him as if he was alive LOL thats the first i can think of off the top of my head.
Ive only ever played D&D online but im hoping to find someone to play with in person once lockdown eases a bit! it might be super fun c:
I havent actually heard of any of those :O i do agree though it gets really boring if you just fudge rolls all the time. I've only listened to Just Roll With It so i cant really say much but i think my favourite aspect of that is how a lot of the players often try and find the wackiest solutions to problems, theres a lot of comedy in it! I wont spoil too much just in case but there was a time that the warlock knocked a guy out, dressed him as a clown and then tried to sneak him into the castle by moving him as if he was alive LOL thats the first i can think of off the top of my head.
Ive only ever played D&D online but im hoping to find someone to play with in person once lockdown eases a bit! it might be super fun c:
If you love wacky solutions I think you'd really enjoy Not Another D&D Podcast (NADDPOD) and Dungeons and Daddies both then! NADDPOD has a good mix of goofy, funny play and then more serious and emotional moments. I'm not actually all the way caught up on Dungeons and Daddies either but they're less serious and more full-blown wacky. They're both for mature audiences only though, if that matters to you.
I'll have to check out Just Roll With It, I love listening to chaotic players lol
If you love wacky solutions I think you'd really enjoy Not Another D&D Podcast (NADDPOD) and Dungeons and Daddies both then! NADDPOD has a good mix of goofy, funny play and then more serious and emotional moments. I'm not actually all the way caught up on Dungeons and Daddies either but they're less serious and more full-blown wacky. They're both for mature audiences only though, if that matters to you.
I'll have to check out Just Roll With It, I love listening to chaotic players lol
I might have to check them out!! i have been wanting to listen to more d&d podcasts
You'll probably like Br'aad then, him and the person who plays him are definitely the most chaotic/wacky. The first few episodes are a bit wonky since they're all new to the game but theyre still good i think!
They restarted their main campaign because of some issues with the old DM so sadly the older campaign isnt gonna be continued past arc2 but its still pretty long and definitely worth watching imo
Well. My friends ALWAYS make me DM. I get revenge by making the entire story riddled with enemies, and if you get a single roll wrong I'll stub a character's toe. Or give them a concussion. Or make a dragon out of nowhere. Moral of the story: don't let me DM.
Agh I had a bad experience with dungeons and dragons from when I was dating my ex lol. I went to one of his games with him once at his friend's house and got a little drunk (I was just over 18). My experience wasn't really pleasant because his much older friend kept hitting on me. I just don't like the memory of my ex in general. I don't really know why I ever dated him -- I was scared of being alone and going through some sort of weird crisis because of just having graduated high school/having to start my life as "an adult" or whatever.
The sucky thing is that my high school best friend (who I was best friends with from 6th grade until graduation) got really into D&D around the time I broke up with my ex, and she actually started going to their games with him. She apparently befriended him. Whatever he said about me soured what she thought of me or whatever. I don't know what it was. But she won't talk to me anymore and she will never tell me why, so I always sort of associated that with the reason. I guess I'm okay with it. I'm very different now than I was when we were close after all so I don't know if we'd still even get along. But it's still frustrating.
I liked playing it though. Not being able to see people in person makes it hard but I'm sure there's online variants of it. It reminds me a lot of literary / prose role-playing, which I actually do a lot! Not in the fantasy genre per say (moreso historical fiction), but I remember it clicking really easily for me when I did go to that one session because I already like to do similar things!
I played 5e with my friend group weekly for nigh on 3-4 years and for all of us it was our first campaign. Homebrew, we all joined at different times (I have the honour of being one of the original 2 PC's) and it's how I became close friends with all but 1 guy there (already best friends with him).
My favorite character is from there too. Named Tao, started basically as a self insert as I got to understand the game, by the end of it became an impulsive, aggressive idiot that got the ball rolling on the majority of big events due to the mantra of "shoot first, maybe ask some questions later if I have to" (surprisingly not a murder hobo). Human, used a homebrew Machinist class (based on the FF:XIV class), duel wielding guns and often taking on the persona of rootin' tootin' cowboy Jessie Mcree (yes, Overwatch) because his, erm, 'commonly used strategy' meant needing an alter ego in more 'hostile' places...
It's also how I got into miniature painting. At first we kind of just 'imagined what was happening' because we didn't know the rules and we didn't know how to really 'show' where everybody was etc, and I absolutely hated it. It just boiled down to "I just hit the dude I guess" *sigh*, but I took an interest in the combat mechanics and started painting the minis so that combat sections were more fun for everybody. Painting miniatures has become an interest in itself for me, but it started because of D&D.
I've only really ever played one campaign in full and it was a homebrew. Most of everything I've played has been homebrew, with most of my other characters being from one shots or short lived characters that either got killed or I wasn't 'gelling' with so I got them killed. We were about 6 or 7 sessions into the Rise of Tiamat when we last played and I was honestly rather hating it...Then found out it's regarded as one of the worst campaigns so, yea, probably didn't help.
- My last fond memory was from my latest character, an old aged Artificer named Armin Copperpot who, as a special occasion/personal skill thing the DM allowed, I could drink a potion to become his younger self, Ace Copperpot. Basically Ace Rimmer from Red Dwarf. Whenever he was Ace and did something cool, the other players had to succeed on a DC19 and upon failure had to say out loud "what a guy!".
Somebody robbed his shop in the first session (I rerolled and got introduced as a shop owner the next session). The session later the guy was in the stocks being pelted with tomatoes. I used a spell (forgot its name) to launch a tomato at him, which basically made the tomato lethal and knocked the guys head off. I just told the party (who I wasn't getting along with yet) "I killed a man with a tomato. Bear that in mind".
- On one of my first ever sessions as my first character Tao, the DM had a dragon attacking a fort that we were supposed to hide from. Well, I had a 'magic book' I took from a previous session that melted the brain of the 3 people I previously forced/tricked into reading it. I therefore thought it was a good idea to approach the dragon, climb the dragon and force the dragon to read it...I ended up falling from the dragon, getting my hand caught on the dragon, cutting my hand off to free myself from the dragon and then fall from the sky hundreds of feet to the floor and dying. It's how I became a demon, gained a robot hand and set off on a quest to not do the thing that I promised the demon lord guy I would do.
- On my friends first session he was a barbarian. He didn't like how a priest was talking to him and punched him. He killed the priest. He said it was the priests own fault for "having such a soft face".
- We all went to the underworld in search of info from a guy who died. Instead of doing what the DM wanted, me and the Rogue (most stupid stories were us two) decided we were getting our Warlock buddy a barbarian ghost girlfriend because he seemed lonely. This involved bigging him up, letting him beat me in a shootout telling the ghost barbarian all our cool stories but replacing us with the Warlock (which lead to a lot of stories of a Warlock saving the day by not using any Warlock spells). Ultimately, he got a ghost girlfriend because our dice rolls were better than what the DM wanted.
- I assumed a guy called the "Storm King" and his pet dragon was evil and made it my mission to confront him (this was an example of me doing the exact opposite of what the DM had planned...). Snuck into his castle and up to his chamber dressed as guards and when we got there I decided the best course of action was to tell him I brought a gift and when asked what the gift was, proclaiming "DOOOOOM!!!" and tossing a big homebrew bomb I had held onto for about 20 sessions and cost about 30 sessions of time and near all my money to make, exploding half the castle and killing his pet dragon...(turned out that this was supposed to be a good guy and a main plot hook...That I just tried to blow up and angered)
- The Main Event.
We eventually fought the Storm King in a giant battle where we got two nations to help fight him (involved a lot of favours and errands...I screwed up pretty bad). A mass battle was happening as our party split up to defend the city we were in and take on various different commanders of the Storm Lord.
We had extra players on that day, out DM getting a few people who had only played one session before to come back to make it a big event. We had mostly finished our personal quests which involved a few of us having extra characters to control (tied to our personal quests). It was an extravaganza and was going to be a huge send off for our campaign seeing as this was obviously the end game.
It wasn't going well, we were losing the city, we were getting battered, our Barbarian (our BIG DPS) was basically on life support being in a constant cycle of being downed and revived across the city where only 2 of us could get to him. It was a disaster.
That's when I thought "the Storm King just wants me, so I'm going to give him what he wants and get it over and done with. I'll just have to reroll or play as my son (my personal quest)". There was a lot of bickering but eventually, I got my way, our party let me sacrifice myself.
I wandered out into the battle to confront the Storm Lord. I tried to fight him to see how it would go...Turns out not very well.
That's when I unleashed my super secret ACTUAL plan (because at no point did I actually think I was sacrificing myself, I just wanted to be dramatic).
Quick flashback towards the start of the campaign: we robbed a museum. Only two of us from then were still playing now, so only we knew where the box was from. We stole a box for some people and I decided I wasn't going to give it to them, that I was going to keep it and nobody else was allowed to touch it. It was my box and as (self proclaimed) leader of the group (because I argue longer than they do), it was best I hold on to it. All I knew was that when I open the box, something will happen and it will probably kill me. For around 3 years I held on to the box and refused to open it until a special day where I'm almost guaranteed to die anyway. For 2 years I assumed this box was a bomb and it would just explode or something. I basically thought it was one of those "get out of jail free" cards where I could essentially kill a thing instantly.
Anyway, I opened the box. Everybody around the table suddenly remembered about the box. They all sat on the edge of their seats waiting to see what the box did because all they knew is I had a box that did something and even I didn't know what...The DM sighed, put his head in his hands and said "I forgot you had that box...".
He routed through his notes trying to find where he wrote down what the box did (again, homebrew). He found it, he put the most ominous music we had heard on.
"The box opens as waves upon waves of horrendous black mist spews out from within and across the lands. Soldiers start to clench their throats and fall to the floor as their skin begins to melt and deform. The Storm King recoils in terror as he orders his men to abandon the field. Demonic creatures begin to crawl out of the ground as the dead soldiers begin to rise again"
We had to make constant constitution saves as we fled from the area. Luckily none of us died, though 3 of us had some 'side effects'.
Basically, I single handedly accidentally caused the apocalypse and the campaign continued for another 2 years whilst we tried to sort it out because I thought the box was for some reason a magic bomb.
But the main part is, I survived.
Unfortunately I feel that friend/D&D group has dissolved though. Partially because due to basically a 12+ month lockdown we haven't been able to play and somewhat drifted (our old DM has basically moved onto online sessions. None of us like online play), we've all moved house since then making it geographically difficult to get together regularly and there's some personal bad blood between two members that basically won't get resolved.
Currently I'm trying to put together a small solo campaign for my partner and work on becoming a DM myself. I only really see it being me and her as of now, but we'll see how that goes because originally my first campaign was a couple of solo sessions with me and my best friend and turned out to be a 4 year long epic where I met the rest of my closest friends.
