#character building

Can you solve today’s Mealhey Brain Challenge? 🧠 A farmer needs to cross a river with: 🦊 A fox 🐔 A chicken 🌾 A bag of grain The boat can carry only the farmer and one item at a time. But there’s a problem:The fox cannot be left alone with the chicken, and the chicken cannot be left alone with the grain. How can the farmer get all three safely across the river? Think carefully before…

Mara, Gideon and Kai

Mara is a slender build long haired brunette, with soft green eyes. She walks with purpose. She carries herself confidently and yearns to be understood. She wears clothing that is modern and casual, jeans, slacks, loose shirts, she also wears dresses when it is hot or deemed appropriate. She wears dresses in the woods and wraps them high when hiking.

Gideon appears to be in his 50s to 60s, an attractive older man, with gray and brown hair that goes pass his ears slightly. Gray blue eyes that are tired but soft for Mara. He carries himself like a leader, or a captain. He dresses very formal in the first book, but more casual in other appearances. His out of time apparel is what makes Mara so curious about him in the first place.

"bad cringe ugly dms: nooooooo you can't homebrew an axe, it breaks immersion! Also, no extra races!"

"cool based totally rad dms: a flamethrower? Nice. A half werewolf half aaracocra? Sure."

I don't like this mentality. Sure, infringing on the players' creativity can ruin the game for them, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have your own boundaries. Sometimes you're not experienced enough to confidently dm something, or you just don't want to deviate from your setting. The DM is , among other things, a storyteller, and they have to keep things together in such a way that the story is cohesive. If your players can't make creative characters that they enjoy while working within the limitations of your game, well that's really a skill issue, isn't it? You should encourage them to research more, or find ways to make interesting builds that fit your setting.

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Elijah was an actor with a commanding stage presence — the kind whose presence filled a room before he said a word — and had built a small fortune doing what he loved.

Acting wasn't enough to satisfy his love of storytelling, so he expanded his repertoire beyond the stage and into the page, enrolling in a creative writing class, which is how he met Simone.