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5e. The party is 4th level. The magic system for the players is the same, but the setting has a sort of technology of stone tablets that create magical effects within 12 cubits, which the temple uses as gifts or threats to keep other communities allied. The party's first gig was stealing a sort...

I have really awesome players who appreciate the effort I put into world building and pacing exposition. (The game is in 8 hours.) Chee-tor's player made a whole suite of thundercats-esque Tabaxi NPCs, including the power hungry sorceress Tigrexa, the mistrustful shadow warrior Dark Panthra...

Can I tap into your genius? Tonight my players will be rescuing a priestess (Nita) being held hostage by a rival religion. The setting is broadly bronze age Mesopotamia, with the main action being in a Babylon analog (No-Ostalin) along one river, complete with a big ziggurat where the high...

Expecto patronum. Expectare, expectavi, expectatus.

Beware! Beware! The hills: the have come alive! You can hear them, shuddering, lurching, SINGING!!!! With the sound of music!

Godhand. In the ZEITGEIST setting, the Clergy has some members who are not only supremely pious, but also acknowledged by the community of the faithful as standing for their highest ideals, so they can undergo a ritual investiture that allegedly trans-substantiates their flesh into something...

Do what you want, but just be narratively consistent with what you've previously established. I'm doing a bronze age game where I had the party fight a Hellcat (which I'm not even sure is in 5e - the invisible but glowing devil lion), which I flavored as being an angelic servitor of the god of...

Dude, if they got Jake Lloyd or Hayden Christensen to voice young Mufasa, I'd buy a ticket just for the lulz. I await answers to such critical questions as, "How did Scar get scarred?" and "How come all those elephants died in one place?" and "Where did Rafiki learn kung-fu?" and "How many...

Wait, the cleric in your party is named Nico? Did you changed Nicodemus the Gnostic's name?

What did they say? I only have one person reading my current novel. Well, one friend, and a handful of folks on the internet have checked out the first couple chapters, but nobody asked me to share the rest.

This thread got me to work on my novel query pitch. Which helped me clarify a bit of where I need to land the ending of the book. So now it's 3am and I've been writing for a while. Thank you, Reynard.

I finished a novel in 2005, tried to get it picked up by an agent for a year, and nada. In hindsight, that was good. It wasn't a great story. Basically just some folks do some stuff. No real theme. Nothing stand-out. I finished a different novel in 2009, tried to get it picked up by an agent...

Not quite the same vibe, but Carpenter Brut did the soundtrack for a movie called Blood Machines, which is sort of symphonic synths, which slides into metal at some parts.

Sorry, lol. I assumed it would censor all that. Obviously I'm just playing around.

naughty word if I know, you naughty word eating ass hole bitch.

That was an issue in Game of Thrones too, because a) the world has atypical seasonal changes, and b) they had young actors so I guess they didn't want to highlight that Arya grew up a lot in what canonically was something like 18 months over 8 seasons.

A key conceit of ZEITGEIST is that, unlike your typical D&D setting, you can't just pop over to the afterlife for a spot of tea to assemble a catalog of angels and such. People have theories about the rest of the universe, but it's unreachable, except for very brief manifestations. Some...

I think he was there for like a couple months. And I think the big turn happened when he finally gets his army . . . but only because a teenager outplayed him politically. He realized that he's BAD at being a leader. Like, it's character growth, and the supernatural stuff just highlights his...

Rocky gets knocked down. He's at 0 HP. His trainer yells at him, using Healing Word. Rocky gets up and keeps fighting. Call it a knockout save or something. At 0 HP, you're incapacitated but conscious, and you're struggling to rally the energy to get back into the fight. If you fail three...

I like the show. I'm sad Zaslav or someone else at HBO forced them to shorten it to 8 episodes instead of 10, because yeah, there's probably two more eps worth of stuff to really land a great ending. But as is? Solid season, if not as great as the first.