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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terwox" data-source="post: 1792619" data-attributes="member: 1044">...pah, all you people just using these outdated methods! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />First time I ever DM'd I used a database during the game to reference NPCs....and that sucked.  I've used a laptop and mspaint to do combat once... that was ok, but it wasn't worth repeating, and having the laptop around was temporary.I've used campaign specific music before -- I've had a DM who did it VERY well, and my attempts and using music were generally ignored, except for a specific instance during a vampire game where it worked incredibly well, but it was dumb luck.I'd be MUCH slower at making NPCs without the character traits generator, or at least the sheet to do it with the dice -- it gives me many ideas for little personality quirks to make characters three dimensional.  I'm not sure where a link to that can be found, I can post/host it if need be.Gonna try this heroforge thing.  I use Jamis Buck's stuff for virtually any NPC I want statted, although I wish there was something that would just automatically outfit people with NPC appropriate amounts of loot.I guess the main thing I need is the (sadly limited) amount of fantasy fiction I've read and consistently ripped off time and time again.  Ahh, Sabriel, so many ideas have I lovingly taken from you... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (Not that they're unique to Sabriel, it's just where I encountered them.  Necromancy using bells, tongues being bound except on sea... whee.)</blockquote>

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