#starcrossers

Ok I’ve been DMing for about 2 years now, and the #1 best trick I am only just getting the hang of is buckwild NPCs. Your players are here to have fun. Lore is good, well-crafted mysteries are great. But nothing is as FUN as a loony rich little old lady who befriends you and gets you into secret events through her personal assistant Roderigo, or a dog-sized purple dragon magic shop owner the hoards heartfelt trinkets, or a hag who’s very creepy but also just a little bit of a smug know-it-all gossip. Lean in. The crazier the better.

Excited about my concept for the head of my Astronomer’s Guild/Renegade Transmutation Wizard faction leader: Zandir Blathe, and older half-elven man who has clearly enthusiastically pursued experimental magic, and lost an eye and a hand in the process. Undeterred, he now has an enchanted glass eye (it can’t see but it can cast either Detect Magic or Identify.) He also has a homunculus familiar: a mechanical hand named Sparkles (his niece named it, and it’s a very accurate name after all so he likes it) that helps him with somatic components and the like. He is a bit of a coot but kind in a serious sort of way. Can’t wait for him to meet my party!

Needed something quick and fun for a speed bump in the home dnd game tonight. So obviously the solution was space ship combat

ok choosing to do an urban noir setting for my new dnd campaign was the Correct choice, if only because I can name sections of my notes things like “Case 1: Where are you, Miss Twinkletoes?”