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  1. Maelstrom556

    What has been your WORST D&D/AD&D fail roll of all time?

    I can see it working for a chaotic one-shot where everyone agrees from the start. Maybe a group of paladins, clerics, and warlocks who all have multiple gods/patrons fighting over them, so the party keeps getting boons/curses as a result and alignment changes are in-line with whichever one has...
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    Haikus

    Let's mix some cultures here: Four legs at the dawn Followed by two, three at dusk What the hell am I?
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    If you could bring any anime to real life, which one would you chose?

    Just give me some Little Witch Academia. Luna Nova seems like a much safer magic academy to go to than Hogwarts, in terms of both dangerous goings-on and acceptance (seemingly, idk).
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    Without spoiling anything, post one joke thats in your story today

    "I would never harm my Baba Yaga." "You shot me just last month!" This could easily continue into a joke from Borderlands 3. "I was born with guns in my hands!" "Yer poor mother..."
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    Are You Plotter or Panther?

    I'd have to say I'm somewhere in the middle between plotter and panther(sic). I do end up with general ideas of where to go, but I'm not gonna meticulously plot out that journey. If we're going with some alliteration, I'd say I'm a punt gun. Point it in the right direction and watch it scatter...
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    What has been your WORST D&D/AD&D fail roll of all time?

    The vanilla DoMT that serves as a magic item in the game just wasn't interesting enough, especially since we had a slightly larger group of players than normal. So our DM had a table of 52 cards with their own effects for our Deck instead. We were playing on Roll20, so we would have the system...
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    I must've missed that part in the new users post. Good to know!

    I must've missed that part in the new users post. Good to know!
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    What has been your WORST D&D/AD&D fail roll of all time?

    In the last campaign I was in, the DM's dice actually loved me. Until it came down to drawing anything from the custom Deck of Many Things. Sure, one of them gave me a permanent +1 in Strength. Almost every other time, it didn't go so well. I pulled a card that summoned a demon and also pulled a...
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    I wonder when/how one gains access to those custom titles underneath their pfp. Gotta cement...

    I wonder when/how one gains access to those custom titles underneath their pfp. Gotta cement myself as the resident Soda Jerk.
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    Secrets of the one above game

    Clearly, the one above me stole the last cookie from the cookie jar and fed it to the nearest group of 'possum in exchange for tearing down their wanted posters. They are wanted for stealing cookies.
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    Bizarre Memes Thread

    Just a typical Thursday afternoon.
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    Writing Envy Lesson: Use Stronger Verbs Instead of Adverbs

    I really need to remember this. It's so hard to think about not using adverbs and such modifiers when in the flow state sometimes. I guess that's where the "editing" phase comes in, but even then I end up distracted by more immediate errors.
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    Male protagonists or female protagonists: which one do you prefer?

    I definitely have a preference for female protags. Likely something to do with more recent realizations about who I am inside, if you catch my cold.
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    Cat Supremacy Thread

    Did ya'll know that there's a website where you can just refresh the page for a random cat photo? Like, that's all it is. Random cat photo every time you refresh the page. Not sure if I'm allowed to link such things, though.
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    Not entirely sure how to go about publishing my writing style

    Ayyy, got it done. I'm not sure if I did okay with the introduction thing, so let me know if it's good enough. I don't know if there's something specific I should've included that I didn't. It'll probably evolve over time.
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    Scammers

    I'd say also be careful of comments that seem off but still reference things in your story, especially if you don't have a whole lot there, ,like just a first chapter or a short story. I've definitely encountered scammers who sent a short story I wrote though some AI for "literary analysis" so...
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    Why Isekai?

    I can understand getting tired of the trope. It's understandable to put a more directly relatable character from the "real world" into such a fantasy setting because the readers can sorta put themselves in the MC's place. Personally, I'd love to see more stuff where the person going into the...
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    As an author, how do you feel when writing villains who commit crimes or immoral acts?

    As a chronic goody-two-shoes when it comes to evil in media, I absolutely have problems getting into the headspace to write a villain. I'm much more comfortable writing what amounts to cartoon villains than anything with depth or describing truly villainous things. Which makes things all the...
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    Authors, please read this... *^^*

    This is what I like to call "collateral enjoyment". If you enjoy writing and enjoy what you write, that's the main thing. If others like it, too, that's collateral.
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    Reverse, Reverse!

    A character gets woken up by a smelly rag, talks to her boss, then arrives at a cabin in the wilderness in the middle of the night. She climbs into bed with the sole occupant, has a nice nap, then they wake up and have a chat. The occupant goes outside to turn the generator off, then they both...
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