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So we’re only two sessions into a new campaign.
Session 1 I prepped my ass off — went fine.
Session 2 I forgot to prep at all — went way better.
Apparently I’m a wizard when I panic.

One player has a backstory where he’s wanted by a faction that owns the starting town. They check the guild for wanted posters to see if they are looking for him, so I pretend to check my notes (there are no notes) and make some up. I mention a halfling thief with a small bounty.

Later they go shopping. It’s been too quiet so I roll a d20 on my nonexistent encounter table and say the party’s gold holder needs to roll Perception. He fails. Another player rolls and succeeds.

Boom: chase scene. Dex saves, parkour, the whole thing.

They ask who they’re chasing. First thing that pops into my head: halfling. The table immediately assumes it’s the halfling from the wanted posters.

I say it isn’t. They decide she must WORK for the halfling on the poster.
Sure. Yes-and. Let’s go.

They interrogate her, follow leads, and suddenly we’re in the headquarters of a previously non-existent halfling crime organization having an awesome fight. One of four players gets absolutely ganked by thugs with pack tactics and goes down. The rest end the fight on fumes and barely pull it off.

They loot, heal, and find a door. Rogue asks if it’s trapped.

It wasn’t.
But now it is.

He rolls Investigation. Success.
He rolls to disarm. Success.
The table erupts. I pretend to be annoyed they “saw through my clever trap.” They feel like geniuses.

Session ends. Everyone tells me they loved it.

They will never know I bullshitted my way through a 6-hour session on zero prep. I am the king of bullshit sitting on my throne of turds.

Anyone else accidentally build entire plot arcs from a single failed perception check?

I need some name suggestions for this vampire lady. She’s supposed to be a minor antagonist in the beginning of my campaign that later turns into a semi ally. I say semi bc she will always serve her own needs and purpose first.

Personality: she’s a free spirit - can be very chaotic when in the mood for it. She has no issues harming humans, but has a soft spot for insects. She loves music and dancing, and gets particularly sour when people decline her invitation to dance.

Shes a relatively young vampire. Once a noble that was turned as a result of a failed assassination. She’s been roaming the world in search of entertainment ever since.

I had never thought about it before but people really like Hex it seems like, I know that I do quite a lot. And it gives a lot of feeling of marking a target for dead. But it got me thinking, outside of the disadvantage on a particular save, it isn’t all that different from Hunter’s Mark. However, the largest criticism of 2024 ranger is the reliance on Hunter’s mark. So I am wondering, what makes hex fun and hunter’s mark so unfun if they are both trying to fulfill the role of “mark a target to die”.

Functionally the ranger should really enjoy the fantasy of “picking a target to hunt” but instead it just receives nothing but flack. I am really trying to look at this to understand this little bit of game design because these have ended up on such different parts of the spectrum

I created a smallish dungeon for my party. They were after a group of raiders who massacred a small village and stole a mcguffin. I decided that there wouldn't be a ton of enemies; a handful of minions, a rock-head Oni, an admittedly powerful cleric, and instead of a third mini boss the last leader would be weak, but very intelligent.

So I hyped myself up, littered all kinds of creative traps; a weapon rack with one spear tied to some explosives, a tile that dumps excrement on the triggering creature, a magic mouth that just screams insults, etc. One trap was the only one I was sure would go to waste. A pitfall with a fake floor being held in place by an immovable rod.

it ended up being the only trap that went off correctly. The party beat the Oni and drove the smarty into retreat, but instead of looking around and finding the illusory wall the mage was standing behind or going through the courtyard they chased smarty down a hall until he stopped.

Every single one of them placed their characters onto the false floor and they began their threats and negotiations while the bandit is just standing there like.... no way??

One rolled high enough to see the floor had two slightly different heights and that he was suddenly feeling confident once he got into the spot where the floor drops about an inch... and then nobody checked. the bandit just held out and kept talking as one by one the players all moved into the hallway, including their npc recruit.

He pressed the button. The immovable rod fell, and the floor it was supporting swung down with them. Everyone got a dex based on how close they were to the ledge and only the bard escaped. The bard looked at the bandits and ran, realizing he was surrounded.

That's how tonight's session is opening, with everyone but the bard captured and trapped. i cannot wait.

What is your favorite trap you've ever made?

Made in collaboration with The Mad Cartographer - "The Ogre Hovel is a small stockyard within the village boundaries, which has been hurriedly repurposed to try and provide a living space for the friendly but clumsy young Ogre orphan who recently came into contact with the village, named Lunk. The guards have set up a wary watch post, but children from the village spend most of their time climbing up instead to watch the Ogre."

I loved drawing this young ogre, who's just trying to do his best with the help of local kids. I can imagine any number of fun ways to incorporate this art into your campaign, even if you just need a derpy-looking ogre.

I’m considered low vision and often have a hard time seeing the numbers on my rolls. High contrast colored dice help to an extent, but only so much. Wasn’t finding any good options online to purchase, but my awesome DM found and gifted me a Vortex Mega-hedral Bright Green/black 7-Die Set and they’re awesome! Large with great color contrast. I wanted to share in case anyone out there is in the same boat! Happy gaming, everyone! (Photo of my old dice vs new dice for comparison)

Sorry, guys, gals, and tieflings. This one isn't a happy one.

I've been playing DnD for 10 years, and DMing our group's current campaign for 3 years now, this campaign being almost exclusively on discord due to distance. 2 years ago, one of our newest members joined the campaign through me telling her about DnD while we worked together. She became a beloved member of the party, being the punk purple half-orc fighter with blonde hair, who carried too many daggers and made bad dad jokes, who just loved getting into enemies's faces as she axed them questions (see what I mean? Dad jokes)

Today, I found out that she passed away last week in her sleep. She was in her 30s and it was alcohol related.

I would...like to hear your stories about how you carry on after having lost a player, and how you honored them in your campaigns.

Greetings!

I try to assemble my ideas into cheat sheets and checklists that are easy to use and help me remember things that I otherwise might forget. One of the sheets I recently made is a checklist for prepping your sessions. This one is made with D&D in mind, but can of course be used for many different TTRPGs!

Prepping sessions is something that a lot of people see as chores so I wanted to make something that makes it a bit more effective if you just want to get it done but still want to do a good job and be able to use it during play.

Feel free to comment on it and give me feedback. Perhaps I am missing something or you prep your sessions in a different way.

I also post my content on Pinterest and Instagram if you want to check it out!
I often try to alternate the written content with some easy and cheap DIY terrain for TTRPGs. You can find the links down below if anyone is interested.

https://www.instagram.com/flonkeztheweird/

https://se.pinterest.com/FlonkezTheWeird/

How do you prep your sessions?