#d&d asks

Hi there friends! Do you like Dungeons & Dragons (specifically 3e/3.5 edition)? Do you like to read or use homebrew in your own campaigns?

Well, Aboleth Eye is happily taking requests for new homebrew ideas! They already have such a huge amount of ideas ready and free to be used! Check them out here!

Have a character option in mind you'd love to see written out with lore and abilities? A fantasy race and culture of lore? A unique class option for your players?

What about a magic item you'd love to integrate into your own campaigns?

Or, perhaps you'd love to see something fresh in the Aboleth Eye Bestiary? From behemoths to tiny little friends, all ideas welcome!

Maybe you are a Dungeon Master that wants a hook or seed for your own campaign? Something to bridge together two great ideas you already have, or a plot to introduce something new for your players?

Ideas are all welcome (within reason)! Send your requests to either @aboleth-workshop or @aboleth-eye! And let's get November rolling with new ttrpg stories!

And feel free to read all about the wondrous creatures, classes and races we've done already!

Thanks,

Hoo boy, strap yourself in for a hell of a ride.

So my very first character was in a campaign my now ex-boyfriend ran. I was very green and very new, and didn't know yet how to genie-wish protect my statements against being used as my character touching cursed objects. Likewise, I was initially unaware *of* cursed objects and wound up bound to two of them.

One of them was a sentient suit of scale mail that was basically Leeroy Jenkins as armor and got all of his former wearers killed because of his arrogance and dumbassery. My character managed to be rid of him.

The other had a heavier curse. It was a sentient shortsword with the spirit of a little elven boy trapped inside. Said boy was murdered by his father to obtain the sword, and now this child had the most hellacious case of separation anxiety which courtesy of the curse controlling him a bit, manifested as being unable to be parted from the bonded wielder or else his spirit/the curse would tell the next passerby to kill the former wielder. Likewise, if my character had died with him on their body, they would have switched places with him.

Or even a necromancer who just raises the dead to throw the best spooky halloween party ever

Do you ever do silly/dumb stuff just cause why not?

Haha I love that. One of my d&d players loves necromancers, so these are right up their alley. One time in a dark campaign I was hosting the group faced a razor boar that had taken over an abandoned apple orchard. They defeated it and left it for about a week in-game. During that time their elf necromancer leveled up and decided they could skeletonize the razor boar carcass. Tuskzor was a wonderful skeletal beast used not only for carrying stuff, but also intimidating every npc it encountered.

I personally don't like to play evil characters, let alone ridiculous ones. I've only ever been in one evil campaign one-shot and I just couldn't connect with the character I made. I also haven't hosted any settings that have more freedom to do ridiculous happenings like that. I leave the shenanigans to my players usually.

Hmmm! Anime Campaign? Unfortunately I have not heard of it but it sounds interesting.

Usually I try to stay away from anime related things in my D&D/ttrpg games because of some poor experiences I've had with another player I used to play with. (That was a whole problem :( but its since been fixed and let me meet some of my best friends so not a loss)

The thing you have to remember when writing a champaign (in my personal experience) is that you're forming a story for your players. Try to focus less on concrete plot points and focus more on the world around the players.

I say this because the story, though you make the foundation, is largely determined by what your players do. So instead of planning out a story like you're writing a novel, try to build up to decisions your players have to make then go from there.

But firstly, before you start making a plot, you need to have a concrete world around the players. And in this part, just go wild. You want to make a cult that worships cucumbers? Go for it! You want to make part of the world a wasteland? Do it! As DM, you have full liberty when it comes to making the history and mechanics of the world. Not only will a good world foundation help make your players feel more immersed, it also makes your world feel more real. I mean, out world is extremely complicated, why wouldn't yours be? That being said, you don't have to have every single bit of history planned our before you start a champaign, don't be afraid to make stuff up as you go. (Just make sure it makes sense with what you've already established.)

Worldbuilding is a complex thing and there's no way I'd be able to cover everything so I recommend looking up youtube videos/articles on it.

These are all, of course, out of my own personal experience and I'm sure others have more tips but these are what I stick to when writing.