Concept: A Low-level Dungeons & Dragons Adventure That’s Initially Presented As A Standard “retrieve

Concept: a low-level Dungeons & Dragons adventure that’s initially presented as a standard “retrieve valuable treasure from bottom of dungeon at behest of wealthy patron” scenario.

As they enter the dungeon, the first thing the player characters encounter is a trap, clearly already triggered, with the long-dead bones of a previous adventurer caught inside. They can loot the corpse or not, as they prefer; it’s not a trick, and the trap is no longer dangerous.

As they delve deeper into the dungeon, they encounter further already-triggered traps, in a wide variety of increasingly imaginative forms, some with dead adventurers in them, some with dead monsters. What they do not, however, encounter are any living monsters or untriggered traps.

Finally, they reach the bottom of the dungeon, where they find the treasure: the Under-King’s personal living quarters, full of magically preserved Fifth Dynasty furniture, priceless to the right sort of collector, and untouched by looters due to the aforementioned traps. Bringing it out of the dungeon intact will be a slow and awkward proposition, of course, but the path is conveniently clear.

… that is, until the party ventures beyond the chamber’s threshhold, and the air is immediately filled with the telltale creaks and clicks of all the traps they just walked past automatically resetting.

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50-percent-wizards

2 years ago

thinking about werewolves and the concept of becoming a monster and discovering that something savage and uncontrollable exists within you and the potential that has to be a liberating narrative about growth and change and courage rather than a story about controlling and concealing it

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50-percent-wizards

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50-percent-wizards

3 years ago

I am almost certain somebody’s made this note before, but. Man. The way memes on most platforms nowadays have a shelf-life so short that by the time you’re done making one, it’s out of style… compared with how ones on Old Internet could go a couple years and still be OK.

But Tumblr? Tumblr has always been the same. It’s kind of like a reminder of the ways of old. You introduce a meme to these people? It is NEVER going away. In 2022, Spiders Georg lives in harmony with Blorbo From My Shows; Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way follows the little German boy into the cave of Bluntsmoken; Sans Undertale thrashes Plinkos Plonko, the Plinko Horse. Maybe it’s that we’re not like other sites (true), or that we’re less susceptible to cringe culture, but there’s something about the lifespan of our memes that warms my heart.

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50-percent-wizards

2 years ago

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spawn is pretty neat. right close by you have this little lake which is just. ough.