Since discussions of it are cropping up out of Tabletop Games, here's an all-purpose thread for players and GM's.
Bagel Lord
Do we really know that *Honor Among Thieves* was a flop at the box office?
(edit) Okay, research suggests that splitting the take with the theaters and having distribution costs and so on means the $200 million take with a $150 million budget wasn't a financial success.
Oddly, quite a few people suggest that it would have done better if they hadn't delayed it for a year...
Edited by Melendwyr on Mar 26th 2024 at 2:50:47 PM
It would've done better if it hadn't had the tragic misfortune of being in a family movie competition with fucking Mario
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Hate to do this in the main thread, but I'm not getting any response on the relevant Discussion pages, so - there are several developments
on the D&D Creatures character pages I'd like feedback on, most immediately how to split up the "I to L" page, what to do about the Undead page now that it's reached a size warning, and whether the golems should have their own subpage. If anyone has feedback for how to resolve those issues, please comment on that page. I don't really want to get in an edit war with someone who emphatically disagrees with my desire to migrate the entries off the Undead creature page onto the main index but didn't notice me planning to do so until it was too late.
Also, for everyone's consideration:
Russell "Rusty" Cuyler, a character from Squidbillies, debut 2006.
Coincidence? I hope not. That would mean that more than one person has imagined a tentacle monster with bad hair.
Current earworm: "Mother ~ Outro"
Bird mom
My Spelljammer Campaign has just entered a "Groundhog Day" Loop. This Loop was demonstrated by vaporizing my Warlock due to a trap and having her come back when the loop reset.
I am hype for this.
Edited by RhymeBeat on Apr 9th 2024 at 2:21:20 PM
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
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Your party didn't happen to encounter a statue of a three-eyed goatman, did they? (If you haven't played Outer Wilds yet and have any interest in a space exploration mystery game, do yourself a favor and play it blind, without even visiting our wiki page for it. Even hinting that there's a time loop in it feels like a spoiler.)
That would make for a pretty interesting story arc. Your physical stats and equipment would be "stuck" at what they were when the loop started, but you could still gain experience and character levels since you're mentally developing your skills and abilities. Treasure wouldn't be much of a concern since you can't take it with you into the next loop, which could lead to the party doing stunts like dumping huge sums of money to bribe people or blowing all their consumables in a battle, confident that it will all be back in their bag of holding eventually. And a DM could have fun giving players access to endgame magic items, since they'd only be unbalancing the game for the duration of the current loop.
And oh, the gameplay possibilities. Does the party go to where they know that +5 vorpal sword is hidden so they can get the most use out of it during this loop, or prioritize breaking into the thieves' hideout so they can read the incriminating documents before they're moved? Do the NPCs start noticing that the PCs have access to information they shouldn't? Do characters develop combat bonuses after going through the same fight over and over again? And most importantly, is anyone else looping, and using that against the party?
Current earworm: "Mother ~ Outro"
Bird mom
We actually are the criminals in this case. This was the Heist the DM had been building up for years. We're trying to steal a bunch of important items from the vault of the de-facto lord of the Wretched Hive we're in. The idea was that the crew's captain was supposed to be our Mission Control and make sure that none of the most deadly traps were active. That worked on our way in, but it failed on the way out due to currently unknown reasons. A mysterious NPC told us that ALSO the city will be lit on fire half hour after we get back, even if we succeed, but not why the fire starts. The loop in total is 90 minutes.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.
I recently started playing in a new campaign and since the last campaign was made specificly because i had a backstory-idea i wanted to try, this time i decided to make a fish out of water type character. He´s sailor and devoted follower of a sea goddess, who explicitly forbids the manipulation of the weather. He used to be high in her favor, but then managed to piss her off extremely (caused by miscommunication between him, the goddess, and his Aasimar wife, who he didn´t know is the goddess daughter). So he has to leave the sea and is now in the desert because a) it´s far away from the goddess domain and b) he might find some artefacts there she hasn´t known before to win back her favor.
I thought it would be funny how useless the skills and knowledge he got from his backstory would be, but last session (2nd overall) we got the big plot-hook for the campaign. The desert used to be an ocean centuries or milenia ago and his goddess used to rule there. Someone did this with an incredibly powerful artefact to manipulate the climate and she wants things restored to how they used to be.
Funny thing is that according to my DM that plotline was completely planned out before he even asked for our backstories. The only parts he changed were the name and gender of the god to fit my backstory. So obviously i should have played a Divination Wizard
Edited by Samaldin on Apr 9th 2024 at 8:06:25 PM
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D&D Beyond has the monsters from the upcoming Vecna: Eye of Ruin adventure listed now, if you want to check the art and basic info about the "over 30 menacing new monsters" (I count more like 23, ignoring individuals and faction flunkies) and don't mind spoilers about which NPCs appear in the adventure.
Not terribly impressed with what we can see so far (one monster looks to be nothing more than a Huge wolf with legendary actions), but at least the spyder-fiends are back, and maybe the other fiends have abilities and fluff to make them more interesting than they look. We've also got a new Mirror Monster to play with, and a space anglerfish that'll give Outer Wilds veterans a moment of PTSD until they realize how small it is.
Kind of surprised that the wolf-spiders look to be the only old monsters returning for the adventure. I thought 4E had an array of Vecna-affiliated bestiary entries that ought to be perfect for this. Heck, even 3E had the vitreous drinker.
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Transmutation does seem likely. I've long had an idea for a story where most Mix-and-Match Critters are the result of an ancient Sorcerous Overlord playing with nature, being an Evilutionary Biologist Mad Scientist, except with magic. The gist is that the magician himself was an accidental fusion of an elf and a dragon, created through a careless magical experiment when both were children, which resulted in a life-long obsession to understand Nature vs. Nurture. Long story short, he became a Dark Lord and created an army of hybrids, where he'd fuse the genetics of two different creatures, in a way where he'd get two beings that were the halfway-point of each original species. This detail I got from a story by Rudyard Kipling, where the origin of the armadillo is explained as a turtle and a hedgehog teaming up to become even better at surviving dangers in the jungle, until the two animals become an entirely new species with traits of each.