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  • “But I don’t have a cloaca.”

    Context, if you want it:

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    I was playing a frost giant fighter, and I found a dragon egg. I asked the town vet (who the DM made up on the spot) how I could hatch the egg and raise the dragon as my own. The vet told me that dragons cannot be tamed, and that dragons bond with their mothers in the womb, and then, the egg must be laid. My line, “But I don’t have a cloaca”, and the vet shrugs. Queue Always Sunny theme music, “The Gang Kidnaps a Druid”. In the end, I gave birth to my dragon buddy, and I named him Pellinore, and we had many great adventures until I found a bell that reversed aging, and Pellinore turned back into an egg, and the campaign ended before he hatched, again. I’m GMing the new campaign that is all homebrew, and Pellinore is making a comeback, though.










  • The first time was when they gave a piece of their culture to a wandering orphan minstrel girl who didn’t have a family. The second was when he “accidentally” killed a young man in the arena, and the man’s father challenged him to a duel for the honor of his son. The old man took some magical PCP which is my homebrew one-way ticket to Pharasma. It was a short fight, and it may have been a bit heavy handed, but I needed to punish the bloodlust murder hobo antics the group was devolving into. It worked.



  • This is about to happen in the next session we play. They are 100% gonna have a run in with the authorities when they sail into port, and it’s gonna be up to them on how to deal with it. I would love for them to befriend the knights, but I know at best they’ll spend a night in jail, and at worst they’ll be hunted down like stray dogs by every Knight in the city. They’re learning, though. A month ago I wouldn’t even bother brainstorming alternatives, because they’d just fight everyone without thinking and wind up sleeping outside the city, again.


  • I have the opposite problem, my players love to infight about everything. It’s all roleplay, we are great friends and we laugh the entire time, but one of them has assumed the role of Captain of their ship, and barks orders at the other player’s PCs and it just devolves into chaos as the Orc Barbarian and Human Wizard try to interpret the wild and dangerous orders of their Goblin Captain. I haven’t tried it, but I think if I didn’t reign them in, they may go at it all night.






  • When the new version of Spelljammers was announced, my group decided we would do a 1-20 campaign in space. Then Spelljammers came out… So we played Rime of the Frostmaiden instead. All of the OGL bullshit started, and along with more and more lackluster releases, I told the group I’d DM the next campaign, but I’d homebrew it for Pathfinder 2e. So, here we are 6 months later, knuckle deep in my homebrew Spelljammers for pf2e campaign, and it’s been such a great change. Fuck WOTC. I’m not a whale, but they lost a 30 year player and his table, and paizo has been more than generous.