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ghostzvne

a few years ago, i made a flowchart for my partner in order to convince them to leave a pathfinder group that was actively making their life worse. today i revised my original chart to convince a friend to leave her d&d group that is actively making her life worse.

here is the chart. i promise its utility is not only with tabletop RPGs but it does have a high hit rate for those

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rosewind2007

I feel this has wider application

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pointnclick

There's a gap in my resume because for two years I was serving ruinous powers

IDEA: WRITE YOUR CHARACTER'S RESUME

Whether your PC is a responsible and skilled individual who very well might have letters of recommendation or a silly madcap creature, it could be an entertaining exercise to look into their backstory and make a list of accomplishments. You could include more recent things that happened in the game as well!

Cosmo Norwood Currently: Lore-Speaker of the Magaambya Academy 4720-4724: Initiate, Attendant, and Conversant at same 4717-4719: Barista at !Haku'a's Cafe in Kibwe 4713-4717: Art Dealer in Katapesh 4713-4713: Legitimate Magic Items Dealer in Katapesh 4705-4710: Dancer and Maitre d' of the Green Rose in Sothis 4695ish-4704: Guide and Procurer of Necessities in Absalom 4690-4690: Mercenary in Andoran. Please do not inquire. 4680-4682: Student of the Acadamae's prestigious ten-year wizardry program (did not graduate)

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This is I think, my best prep tip as a DM:

When the players are about to visit a new town, pre-generate several NPCs who fit the demographics of the town, but don't give them jobs. Your town is Mostly human, with a number of halflings and gnomes? Make a list that's mostly humans with some halflings and gnomes mixed in, with names that match the vibe you're going for and maybe the barest description + a quirk of some sort.

So the list would look something like this:

  1. Ophelia Bracegurdle, older Halfling woman who laughs a lot
  2. Norabecka Johnson, a young human woman who seems tired
  3. Geraldofinio Babblecock Nimsy, gnome gentleman who takes pains to maintain a fabulous mustache
  4. Etc.

Then, when the players are like, "Can I go to the blacksmith?" You look at your list of NPCs and the one at the top is Ophelia Bracegurdle. She's your blacksmith now. Then they want to go to the tavern, where Norabecka is the innkeeper and Geraldofinio is a patron having a drink at the bar. He's using a straw so he doesn't mess up his mustache.

If they had gone to the inn first, Ophelia would have been the innkeeper with Norabecka as the patron, and then Geraldofinio should have been a blacksmith with some sort of mustache guard to keep the sparks off.

Making the list ahead of time doesn't take much time, and you can often re-use the people you never got to at the next town.

Your world will seem vibrant and interesting and like you have everything planned out.

Have fun!

Since this post has been getting a lot of notes, I would like to clarify a couple of points. This method has a few different benefits I would like people to note:

  1. This prep is fairly simple and easy. You could use a random name generator and find lists of character quirks online or you could just make your own shit up. Because no one has any jobs or stats, you have very little you have to decide ahead of time.
  2. It removes in-the-moment decision making from your game. Because you assign NPCs to roles as the players meet them, you don't have to pick who is gonna be the blacksmith or make up a blacksmith ahead of time.
  3. This third point is the heart of this method for me: Randomization thwarts stereotyping. Some DMs struggle with this more than others, but I know I have made my fair share of gruff burly man blacksmiths! How many of us would really pick Ophelia Bracegurdle, older halfling woman who likes to laugh, to be the blacksmith? Honestly I probably wouldn't. But since in the example the players wanted to go to the blacksmith first, there she is. And now we have the option but not the requirement to think about why and how old Ophelia got her job. Maybe she's a widow who took over for her dead husband. Maybe she just always wanted to be a blacksmith or this town just has always had halfling ladies be their blacksmiths. Or maybe you don't think about it at all, and she's just the blacksmith because she is.

I've been in games where literally every NPC except the pretty barmaid is a man, and pretty much everyone is a light skinned dwarf, elf, or human. I've also been in games with awesome diverse characters who bring the game to life. I know I want to be a DM who creates the latter, and this system helps push back against our unconscious biases. When you have the list of everyone in the town, you can see ahead of time if you have a good gender ratio, whether your descriptions include any people with disabilities or people from different points of view.

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reminder to all lesbians that just because she is a lesbian and attracted to you does not mean she is the one. there are other lesbians out there. I promise. at least 5 of them

should I text her

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