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Tarak's Garden Groove by @teawrecks | Suno
bass-heavy gritty hip-hop song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
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Thunderous Roar by @teawrecks | Suno
heavy trap beat gritty song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
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Those were all prompted, not hand adjusted. It just did a great job by itself.
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I couldn't not.
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🎵 Listen to Butterfly and Dragon on Suno
remorseful, melancholy, rhythmic, ballad, gypsy punk, lute song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
((Legend!!))I couldn't not.
@Smacktard
🎵 Listen to Butterfly and Dragon on Suno
remorseful, melancholy, rhythmic, ballad, gypsy punk, lute song. Listen and make your own with Suno.suno.com
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Took me a bit to get one with a male vocalist sounding melancholy enough to fit the scene, but I think it worked as a maybe sung by Moonsprout song.
I think I have unintentionally made an entire concept album for this campaign.
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I'd had the same idea but Moonsprout's been so generally anti-preforming throughout the campaign I didn't want to like obligate you, man.
I still want to make songs that're more specific for each character though, including things they've gone through. If you want to make Moonsprout write their ballad songs, I would be very down with that.
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You're lucky I had a plot thing to facilitate.
Although I'll admit hitting you all immediately was never the plan, even if I taunted. Gotta give you at least some marginal chance.
Edit: but you are now at the mercy of how well I roll on his recharge check...
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Uh oh... had to say that, huh?
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So, I got the kick in the pants to actually move you guys again because my son got himself grounded and so this weekend had to find non-screen things to do. That meant we made him and his sister D&D characters, and I threw together a super simple encounter where they fought a Minecraft Wolf.
My 12 year old son made a Dragonborn (Red) Paladin. My 5 year old daughter wanted to be Elsa, so I made her a Human Sorcerer with the Druid Magic Initiate trait. I gave her Ice Knife.
I swear, the wolf got a good bite on my son taking him to 5hp. The wolf had 4hp. My daughter told me to use Ice Knife on the wolf and I warned her that it'd cause an explosion and could damage her brother too. She just said "Do it". My son was fine with the chance and actually DEX saved to avoid all the splash damage, so it worked out.
They then went to explore these houses on the map I'd had 0 time to put anything in, so while they were in there I made the Ender Dragon land outside. My daughter chose to run and hide, my son wanted to fight it. Hit it for 10 damage, putting it at 340/350. It then used "beating wings" and hit him for like, 11 damage and knocked him back 10 feet dying...
The dragon flew away. I asked his sister if she was going to go help him. She just tells me "No."
I know she's playing an ice queen sorceress, but damn that girl is cold...
He'd failed 2 death saves and made 2 successful ones, and on his last attempt rolled a nat 20 so stabilized and regained consciousness, and I told him he's got a badass scar from the Ender Dragon attacking him now.
My 12 year old son made a Dragonborn (Red) Paladin. My 5 year old daughter wanted to be Elsa, so I made her a Human Sorcerer with the Druid Magic Initiate trait. I gave her Ice Knife.
I swear, the wolf got a good bite on my son taking him to 5hp. The wolf had 4hp. My daughter told me to use Ice Knife on the wolf and I warned her that it'd cause an explosion and could damage her brother too. She just said "Do it". My son was fine with the chance and actually DEX saved to avoid all the splash damage, so it worked out.
They then went to explore these houses on the map I'd had 0 time to put anything in, so while they were in there I made the Ender Dragon land outside. My daughter chose to run and hide, my son wanted to fight it. Hit it for 10 damage, putting it at 340/350. It then used "beating wings" and hit him for like, 11 damage and knocked him back 10 feet dying...
The dragon flew away. I asked his sister if she was going to go help him. She just tells me "No."
I know she's playing an ice queen sorceress, but damn that girl is cold...
He'd failed 2 death saves and made 2 successful ones, and on his last attempt rolled a nat 20 so stabilized and regained consciousness, and I told him he's got a badass scar from the Ender Dragon attacking him now.
I think that kinda cinched(is that the correct word?) it. It let us hit him properly!
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Jon wanted to pet a werewolf I think.
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My thoughts for future adventures for you and Kutshort are very similar. I don't actually know if the tavern @VashTheStampede had them in was in Phandalin or outside, but I have a different adventure that starts out of there.
I do have a long term idea for Aims.
Nac... Kinda have an idea, but this is the one I've got to think on most.
I'm guessing you guys would rather go talk to npcs and get information organically, but I could also just tell you my ideas. Might help decide where to actually go.
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... I also have a marvelous idea for Moonsprout, but the source book with the necessary races is $49.99 for D&D Beyond. Which is dumb, because HitPoint Press has it as "pay what you want" on their actual website...
Maybe if I can motivate myself to really get back on this, I'll buy it for my birthday in April.
Gonna make him trip so hard on mushrooms you all turn into woodland creatures and have to pick from species like Strig (owls), Vulpin (foxes) or Hedge (hedgehogs).
Maybe if I can motivate myself to really get back on this, I'll buy it for my birthday in April.
Gonna make him trip so hard on mushrooms you all turn into woodland creatures and have to pick from species like Strig (owls), Vulpin (foxes) or Hedge (hedgehogs).
I want to pay $0
For Magni, my main idea was just that he'd have this little back and forth with his patron manipulating him into doing shit for them. I think Magni's dream is to become a dragon so he'll just do whatever if he thinks it's possible. And then maybe down the line he'd learn that his patron isn't some dragon god or something and become more of his own person. But I don't have any solid ideas of where to go with him otherwise. Kinda just making him a little Gollum freak that people would be suspicious of.
Still trying to decide what pact to give him. Was either gonna go Blade for stronger melee or Chain and give him a little pseudodragon familiar that he'd treat as like a physical extension of his patron because that might be funny. There's so many cool invocations but they all require like level 7+.
Still trying to decide what pact to give him. Was either gonna go Blade for stronger melee or Chain and give him a little pseudodragon familiar that he'd treat as like a physical extension of his patron because that might be funny. There's so many cool invocations but they all require like level 7+.
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This.
If there was some easy way to buy it directly from the third party publisher, but also get it unlocked in D&D Beyond, I'd even pay the publisher retail value for it. I'm just so over giving WOTC more of my money.
I guess that's where the whole "real people" and physical mediums wins out. But ugh, people.
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Anyway, my other plan was to just make Moonsprout go the Feywild and try to catch Pokemon.
Still something I'd have to pick up as I don't have it yet, but there's one adventure that's all "magic carnival" vibe and there should be non-combat solutions to absolutely every encounter in it, so it seems kind of perfect for @Smacktard .
Still something I'd have to pick up as I don't have it yet, but there's one adventure that's all "magic carnival" vibe and there should be non-combat solutions to absolutely every encounter in it, so it seems kind of perfect for @Smacktard .
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I suppose there's always other sites. I've been doing D&D prep stuff with some of my friends for a couple different games, and D&D Beyond gets dismissed pretty quickly because of the paywall. Not sure how much it benefits you for DMing, but for players the only real benefit to other sites is that it looks pretty since we have the dice roller here. Just wish roll20 had a better character builder because people always want to use that.
If anyone's interested, there's a really nice builder I downloaded called Aurora where you can import pretty much every existing source book and make as many characters as you want. Takes a bit to setup, but it lets you export your character sheets as editable PDFs too. The main Aurora isn't being worked on anymore, but there's a discord community that has an updated version called Aurora Legacy if you want the more recent books.
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Trying to go hard on using non DNDB things didn't work last time... I subbed to World Anvil and Roll20 premium last year and barely used it.
Tracking placement and conveying that over the forum is generally the issue I've had. Mostly from a "how to hide any DM stuff" from you guys when I take screenshots. It's often annoying to run a player view of the VTT as well, myself.
It's like it would be easier if we did it real time playing together or something.
Tracking placement and conveying that over the forum is generally the issue I've had. Mostly from a "how to hide any DM stuff" from you guys when I take screenshots. It's often annoying to run a player view of the VTT as well, myself.
It's like it would be easier if we did it real time playing together or something.
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Hmm. I know Roll20 lets you hide stuff on the map pretty easily. But if for some reason you need the map to be connected to the character sheets in some way and not be just a visual thing, I suppose that would be an issue. I think the character stuff on there is the only thing that's not free. And my group just copies and pastes all the homebrew/premium info they need onto their character sheets manually so we don't have to pay for anything.
Fwiw, in short-ish sessions, I wouldn't be opposed to this.
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