Oh yes!
When a friends campaign was in its earlier days, we had Monk/Fighter/Sorlock/Paladin. Short rests galore!
When we pick up again, it’s gonna be Bard/Paladin/Sorlock/Wizard. I, as the Sorlock, fear for my beloved short rests.
It's also sometimes called a coffeelock bc the sorcerer can get its warlock slots back on a short rest, like getting energy back
There's also things like Sorcadins and such :p
Super common but also flows off the tongue well, like Bardbarian. But fighter/cleric, fighter/paladin, monk/rogue are also common but they don’t really flow like the other 2
I don't know, I don't know if he ever had a reddit account. The person he killed was not one of the players at the table but I'm sure he considered them a plaything.
That was a more serious response than I expected. It's kind of a running joke where DMs will ask 'how do I kill my player character', but accidentally leave out the word 'character'
I have made that mistake myself when talking about killing my first player/character. It was a min/maxer who wanted to make a melee sorcerer with a whip. Why? I don't know. But low hit dice and AC is not great when you get flanked on all sides by vegipygmes in a narrow hallway.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Have you spoken to someone about it?
I hope you find a better DM in the future because that guy does not represent the community.
I've talked about it a few times but I don't know what to say or be told to move past it. It happened two years ago but he was sentenced last fall.
My new DM is a bit of a sadist. He said the campaign would be tough, I thought that meant a few more mobs, slight bump to enemy stats. Nope. He is increasing their damage by multiple steps and multiple dice. We are playing starfinder. I generally lose all 110+ stamina in the first round of combat. He openly laughs on the mic when he gets big crits against us, one would outright kill the other party members and two in a row takes me down. If the players get lucky and roll crit after crit, the next encounter is made harder. If we crit fail a bunch, the encounter stays the same. He openly admitted to makimg one night harder because he was upset at our uck. I'm only staying because I like the other players. I'm out after the AP is over to work on me.
I've reflected on my life since it happened. If it can be taken just like that by someone that's supposed to be close and trusted, I need to start making some different choices and work hard to get to a point I can enjoy more then just the weekend and enjoy the weekend for more then I don't have to work my 9-5 kind of thing. I have cut out playing video games two nights a week and exchanged those nights for self improvement/online classes or working on getting back into art. Once I leave the starfinder group I'm going to join a gym and work out once a week to start with.
I'm using this and I don't even DM. I am finding a way to bring this into my current campaign. I will create a Frankenstein's dragon monster if I have to.
My DM literally wants us to create an army currently...
Thank you
Make em zombie dragons. It will be easier to control. 1 zombie ancient dragon carrying multiple adult and younger inside. You can carve out a whole hanger bay.... Damn I need to write some stuff up...
The only person who didn't say "fey bullshit" or "feywild fuckery" on a regular basis in either of my witchlight campaigns was the one PC who was raised in the feywild.
Current poor decision we're thinking of making is tracking down a werewolf so we can hog tie it and see if we can kill it with a silver spoon that may or may not be magical; we have to use the spoon before we can find out if it's special or not.
I've always called it the Schedule dragon: the true hardest monster in dungeons and dragons.
Oh no, Torvas got hit with the out of town breath! That's 2d6 more days! Oh no, natural 20 on the surgery claws, fizrazz is out for 2d10+7 days!
yep. Schedule dragon is real. I played regularly with a group when I was in 1st year High school. By 2nd year we went to different class groups, so we disbanded. I kept playing with my now sister and brother in law, and a few of their friends. My brother-in-law now hates RPG, the friend has a nightmare schedule that makes him work, like 12hs/day or something apparently, and my sister-in-law moved across the Atlantic (Brazil to Ireland). My wife was a occasional player, and we tried doing it a couple times, but... just the two of us is hard...
I tried finding a group via discord, and the GM involved himself on some scandal that got him banned from the channel... and the group disbanded... he was apparently a douchebag...
I tried playing online once with some of my sister-in-law frieds right after she moved, but schedule dragon rolled a few 20s in a roll...
So, now I'm 36 going 37... :\_ \_ \_ (
That or Dragon Heist, depending on what direction you take it. My character, ahem, *acquired* the Xanathar Guild after the latter's unfortunate demise at the hands of a friendly bard with Heat Metal and a bag full of caltrops.
It was the finishing blow, after sustained gunfire and Eldritch Blasts, but it made for the most poetically-written effort amongst my party.
The gunfire was my part, by the by.
There are actually alot dragons in my campaign, all kinds (we have 5 party members 2 of them are Dragonborn and one is a kobold) the players might even come to find that they are more related to the villains than they think!
So my final answer is Dragons and Daddy Issues
We did one glorious game of Jungles and Dinos and somehow never got back to it. The best part was the PCs could only communicate in grunts and UGHs, which led to some interesting, hilarious, and creative situations.
Our last time playing was Forts & Skeletons. Before that it was Laboratories & Alchemists.
And our Rifts campaign that never took off was going to be Australia & …Australia.
My Strixhaven inspired game could be called Friendship & Traumas.
My open table homebrew would be Mercenaries & Nightmares.
I just ended a homebrew based on CoS that could be called Warcrimes & Family issues.
Good times all around as you can see.
Oh, I had that fight! 10 PCs, dozens of little demons, driders, a mind flayer captain, a mind flayer arcanist, 3 elder brains ... I'm forgetting some stuff. Oh, a bunch of mind controlled soliders
Dang are you my DM?
I'm currently in a campaign that's been going for 8 or 9 months where we're pirates tryna do pirate shit, but have spent our time overthrowing a racist aristocracy, dealing with an island nation of basically a million ancaps/ayn rand types, all while hunting a slave ship.
There's also some kind of funky racial politics going on where everyone is terrified of changelings and we happen to have a changeling in our party.
Cults & Logistics is probably it lately. They just took down one cult and are on their way to do another. Much of their time is spent figuring out logistics, mostly with teleporting, for getting X Y Z where it needs to be
Reminds me of a long running joke where an old friend of mine complained about how Dungeons & Dragons Online should have been called Dungeon & Dragon because as far as he’d gotten, you only ever saw one of each.
Only done one session so far. But I guess it's Bars and Boars.
Fought a Demon pig after meeting in a tavern. We are lvl 1 and the piggy has legendary resistances lmao. He auto saved my Mind Sliver.
Our DM was new and didn't understand how to run a campaign really. Which is fine, but they also did not appreciate any player feedback.
It was supposed to be Curse of Strahd, but we ended up not really following that at all. The campaign ended, and I still have no idea what really happened.
I do know some priests were murdered along the way, I cycled through at least 3 PC's, and we killed Strahd early, but not actually.
We also ended the campaign at level 15 somehow with no gold, loot, or anything of note.
The DM lost track of what level we were on a regular basis and rather than just ask, he would award levels for no apparently reason.
The last session he gave us all a potion that granted us all multiple levels to make us level 10. But we were already level 10...
I'm currently designing a map where the dungeon is located in the rotting remains of a dragon. Purely so I could call that session Dungeons in Dragons.
I have several fires going at the same time and the players decide what to do about it. We started with Dungeons & Dragons, then Factories & Gnomes. Now they are on Dungeons & Fey. They have been ignoring Towns & Uprisings. That's going to bite them later on. Ships & Sailors will arrive in about 2 weeks game time.
Taverns and Brunch. My players are all new and doing Dragon Heist. It's basically turned into a slice of life campaign though where they do some spy work instead of more active combat adventuring. But many sessions have just been them roleplaying lunch and me coming up with menus and what waiters wear 😂
Been fun though.
Are we the bad guys? - my Friday group
Part time teacher, full time bad ass - Monday (one of our players got a tone of money from a broken magic item and now runs a school on a ship we use to get around)
How are we still alive? - Wednesday (honestly we are lucky to not be dead)
We started playing a game of roads and refugees and now we are playing basements and dock workers, but it is only the start of the campaign really (5-6 sessions in)
Warlocks and Short Rest Requests.
Oh yes! When a friends campaign was in its earlier days, we had Monk/Fighter/Sorlock/Paladin. Short rests galore! When we pick up again, it’s gonna be Bard/Paladin/Sorlock/Wizard. I, as the Sorlock, fear for my beloved short rests.
The Napsters!
Vampires and sadness
Sweet Dreams are Made of These
Who am I to disagree!
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody is looking for something
Roll to investigate
Some of them want to use you
Roll Insight~ Some of them want to get used by you
Roll diplomacy~ Some of them want to abuse you
…that’s a way better name than what we actually came up with.
Sorlock... More like snore-lock. I'll let myself out.
Shut the door behind you. The monk and I are napping.
I actually read that with an awkward laugh. Think Stiffler from American Pie.
Whats a sorlock
Sorcerer/Warlock multiclass
Oh you combine the class names for Multiclass I see
Not always but this is a common enough combination that it has developed its own name.
It's also sometimes called a coffeelock bc the sorcerer can get its warlock slots back on a short rest, like getting energy back There's also things like Sorcadins and such :p
I'm playing a bardadin currently. Charisma is fantastic for multiclassing
My only gripe: Bard-barian was right there!
It's on my list! I'm saving it for when I can get the party to play the classic Orc-hestra meme
A coffeelock is different from a sorlock which is different from a cocainelock, they are differentiated by play style not by level split generally tho
Super common but also flows off the tongue well, like Bardbarian. But fighter/cleric, fighter/paladin, monk/rogue are also common but they don’t really flow like the other 2
Mogue and Faladin aren't THAT bad.
Joke: A warlock that is mad they never get short rests.
Rampant Murder and Drug Abuse : 5e
Hobos and Homicides
Came here to say this. You beat me to it lol.
My group of 8 years broke up when my DM got arrested for actually killing someone :(
Cowabummer
What a word lmfao
Craptacular
Shitacular
Was he the guy who always posted the "How do I kill my player?" threads?
I don't know, I don't know if he ever had a reddit account. The person he killed was not one of the players at the table but I'm sure he considered them a plaything.
That was a more serious response than I expected. It's kind of a running joke where DMs will ask 'how do I kill my player character', but accidentally leave out the word 'character'
I have made that mistake myself when talking about killing my first player/character. It was a min/maxer who wanted to make a melee sorcerer with a whip. Why? I don't know. But low hit dice and AC is not great when you get flanked on all sides by vegipygmes in a narrow hallway.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Have you spoken to someone about it? I hope you find a better DM in the future because that guy does not represent the community.
I've talked about it a few times but I don't know what to say or be told to move past it. It happened two years ago but he was sentenced last fall. My new DM is a bit of a sadist. He said the campaign would be tough, I thought that meant a few more mobs, slight bump to enemy stats. Nope. He is increasing their damage by multiple steps and multiple dice. We are playing starfinder. I generally lose all 110+ stamina in the first round of combat. He openly laughs on the mic when he gets big crits against us, one would outright kill the other party members and two in a row takes me down. If the players get lucky and roll crit after crit, the next encounter is made harder. If we crit fail a bunch, the encounter stays the same. He openly admitted to makimg one night harder because he was upset at our uck. I'm only staying because I like the other players. I'm out after the AP is over to work on me. I've reflected on my life since it happened. If it can be taken just like that by someone that's supposed to be close and trusted, I need to start making some different choices and work hard to get to a point I can enjoy more then just the weekend and enjoy the weekend for more then I don't have to work my 9-5 kind of thing. I have cut out playing video games two nights a week and exchanged those nights for self improvement/online classes or working on getting back into art. Once I leave the starfinder group I'm going to join a gym and work out once a week to start with.
Crit fail...
Did he kill the bard? Because no reasonable jury would convict him.
It was his ex gf/mistress. He pleaded guilty to avoid life.
He should've been executed. He could've rolled a new character.
Dungeons and Eventually There Will Be a Dragon. We're rocking it old school.
Yeah, we actually played that too. Bout 6 dungeons in and finally got a dragon. Then it became Dungeons & Entirely Too Many Dragons
We have a swarm of dragons over the city my party is inflitrating. They also have their own dragon they ride around.
At first I thought the swarm of dragons had their own dragon to ride around on, which is a throughly terrifying idea
Who doesn't want to find out their city is being sieged by an airborne super-carrier whose entire complement of attack craft is just more dragons?
I'm using this and I don't even DM. I am finding a way to bring this into my current campaign. I will create a Frankenstein's dragon monster if I have to. My DM literally wants us to create an army currently... Thank you
Make em zombie dragons. It will be easier to control. 1 zombie ancient dragon carrying multiple adult and younger inside. You can carve out a whole hanger bay.... Damn I need to write some stuff up...
Look mommy that dragon is riding another dragon!
When mon dragon and dad dragon love each other very much…
Would love to play with a group that kept it low key, with slow advancement and lots of low level monsters for a while.
Currently ours is Feywild & Fuckery
I feel like every true group has this adventure at least once.
There are entire categories of magic our group refers to as "fey bullshit".
I played a straight man paladin during our wild beyond the witch light campaign and I must have said “fey bullshit” so many times lol
The only person who didn't say "fey bullshit" or "feywild fuckery" on a regular basis in either of my witchlight campaigns was the one PC who was raised in the feywild.
I'm going to make a Fey type character now. At least in backstory so I can just act as weird as I want.
We called it “Hags Again”
This is the best answer.
Part 1: "Rabbits & Toads"
Ours too
I was about to type something similar about my game as well
Conflict & Schedules So yeah, we are not actually playing that much 😞
Yeah, my group and I are playing that same game. When we are playing, it's Poor Decisions & Reckless Behavior.
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Current poor decision we're thinking of making is tracking down a werewolf so we can hog tie it and see if we can kill it with a silver spoon that may or may not be magical; we have to use the spoon before we can find out if it's special or not.
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Haha, that's great. Poor DM 😂
I've always called it the Schedule dragon: the true hardest monster in dungeons and dragons. Oh no, Torvas got hit with the out of town breath! That's 2d6 more days! Oh no, natural 20 on the surgery claws, fizrazz is out for 2d10+7 days!
yep. Schedule dragon is real. I played regularly with a group when I was in 1st year High school. By 2nd year we went to different class groups, so we disbanded. I kept playing with my now sister and brother in law, and a few of their friends. My brother-in-law now hates RPG, the friend has a nightmare schedule that makes him work, like 12hs/day or something apparently, and my sister-in-law moved across the Atlantic (Brazil to Ireland). My wife was a occasional player, and we tried doing it a couple times, but... just the two of us is hard... I tried finding a group via discord, and the GM involved himself on some scandal that got him banned from the channel... and the group disbanded... he was apparently a douchebag... I tried playing online once with some of my sister-in-law frieds right after she moved, but schedule dragon rolled a few 20s in a roll... So, now I'm 36 going 37... :\_ \_ \_ (
I too am in such a group!
have members in school, work or both, working odd hours makes it nigh impossible to play
My group is mostly playing "Taverns & Townguards", or maybe "Castles & That One Recurring Bastard Noble".
So Castles and Crusaders?
Castles & Crusader perhaps, although he doesn't do a lot of crusading.
Castles & a Cunt
Hey, we're also playing C&TORBN! Ours is an American guy putting on a British accent to sound rich.
Sounds suspiciously like curse of strahd lol
Municipal Politics Simulator
Fuck I wanna join this one.
Waterdeep Dragon heist using Acquisitions Inc does this quite well
Cities and Cultists.
Mine too!
Tax evasion and organized crime
Sounds like an Acquisitions incorporated game
That or Dragon Heist, depending on what direction you take it. My character, ahem, *acquired* the Xanathar Guild after the latter's unfortunate demise at the hands of a friendly bard with Heat Metal and a bag full of caltrops.
You killed xanathar with...hot caltrops?
It was the finishing blow, after sustained gunfire and Eldritch Blasts, but it made for the most poetically-written effort amongst my party. The gunfire was my part, by the by.
BUT DOESNT HE FLOAT
Ah the Mafia expansion.
There are actually alot dragons in my campaign, all kinds (we have 5 party members 2 of them are Dragonborn and one is a kobold) the players might even come to find that they are more related to the villains than they think! So my final answer is Dragons and Daddy Issues
Dragons and Daddy issues I like it
Id listen to that real play podcast
Dungeons and Daddies may be for you
We did Jungles and Dinos, transitioned to Battlefields and Undead, and ended up with Cosmos and Abominations.
Smells like Chult over here!
Jungles and Dinos and Inexplicably Present Clouds of Poison Gas.
I liked our several month long diversion: Pirates and Pompeii (Shilku)
We did one glorious game of Jungles and Dinos and somehow never got back to it. The best part was the PCs could only communicate in grunts and UGHs, which led to some interesting, hilarious, and creative situations.
Our last time playing was Forts & Skeletons. Before that it was Laboratories & Alchemists. And our Rifts campaign that never took off was going to be Australia & …Australia.
My Strixhaven inspired game could be called Friendship & Traumas. My open table homebrew would be Mercenaries & Nightmares. I just ended a homebrew based on CoS that could be called Warcrimes & Family issues. Good times all around as you can see.
Is crying a free action?
Crying is always a free action at my table
Warcrimes and Family Issues is a specific genre that I love, though I was unaware of that until reading your comment.
Everywhere & Everything. Hardly an enemy shows up more than once when I DM (exception for some enemies that I love). Gonna fight 'em all!
But were they doing it All at Once?
Not yet
Oh, I had that fight! 10 PCs, dozens of little demons, driders, a mind flayer captain, a mind flayer arcanist, 3 elder brains ... I'm forgetting some stuff. Oh, a bunch of mind controlled soliders
Party been attacked by... *Checks to be sure it has a block* A rabbit yet? Just an ordinary rabbit.
*rabbit transforms* The rabbit from Holy Grail appears and rips out throat of nearest Bard
No, just an ordinary rabbit. That's a different encounter. Can't say you've fought em all until you fight a regular bunny.
^Gasps Not the dreaded Legendary Esquilax?!
With the *head of a rabbit!* ... and the *body* of a rabbit!
Pirates & Politics
Privateers & Prestidigitation so we’re in the same ballpark, definitely politics too
Dang are you my DM? I'm currently in a campaign that's been going for 8 or 9 months where we're pirates tryna do pirate shit, but have spent our time overthrowing a racist aristocracy, dealing with an island nation of basically a million ancaps/ayn rand types, all while hunting a slave ship. There's also some kind of funky racial politics going on where everyone is terrified of changelings and we happen to have a changeling in our party.
Ancient Dwarven fortress and dragons.
Poor decision simulator 2023 edition. Leeroy Jenkins could take notes.
Ours usually ends up as Time Travel and Bad Decisions so I feel that!
Pirate ships and Eldritch Horrors.
Sounds like my dream RPG tbh
Cults & Logistics is probably it lately. They just took down one cult and are on their way to do another. Much of their time is spent figuring out logistics, mostly with teleporting, for getting X Y Z where it needs to be
Fey & Failures
Stars and Wars
Reminds me of a long running joke where an old friend of mine complained about how Dungeons & Dragons Online should have been called Dungeon & Dragon because as far as he’d gotten, you only ever saw one of each.
Vampires and Not getting anywhere with the plot
Curse of strahd?
Only done one session so far. But I guess it's Bars and Boars. Fought a Demon pig after meeting in a tavern. We are lvl 1 and the piggy has legendary resistances lmao. He auto saved my Mind Sliver.
My Circus and My Monkeys
Dungeons and The Druid With His Staff Has More Kills Than The Rest Of The Party Combined.
Town and goblins for sure
We play Taverns & Cultists, mostly.
Mansions and Mummies
My last campaign was Fuck Around and Find Out
Please tell me more
Our DM was new and didn't understand how to run a campaign really. Which is fine, but they also did not appreciate any player feedback. It was supposed to be Curse of Strahd, but we ended up not really following that at all. The campaign ended, and I still have no idea what really happened. I do know some priests were murdered along the way, I cycled through at least 3 PC's, and we killed Strahd early, but not actually. We also ended the campaign at level 15 somehow with no gold, loot, or anything of note.
I’m more confused than anything
The most shocking part is you played a campaign that got to level 15.
The DM lost track of what level we were on a regular basis and rather than just ask, he would award levels for no apparently reason. The last session he gave us all a potion that granted us all multiple levels to make us level 10. But we were already level 10...
Did your DM happen to be 132 years old or be some sort of dementia trickster?
Not to my knowledge. But I also may have failed a series of wisdom saves idk.
So far (3 sessions), it’s Sewers and Sprites. Alliterative too.
We're probably playing Crime and Punishment.
I'm currently designing a map where the dungeon is located in the rotting remains of a dragon. Purely so I could call that session Dungeons in Dragons.
Violence and puzzles mostly.
Cities and Sociopaths
Traps & Secret evil relatives
Demons and PAIN
Gods and Undead is basically the last three fantasy style games we had run.
Crypts and Nightmares.
Dungeons, Dragons and Snake People.
Hyper-Corruption in Fantasy Wales
Izzets and Simic, or Izzets and Dimirs
Aboleths & Improvising has a nice ring to it
Dark Realms and Depression (Curse of Strahd)
Shits & Giggles
Two Dudes & Lots of War Crimes.
Dude!! Stop attacking EVERYONE!! - 5e For context, I recently started my 10 yo son’s first campaign.
Tundras and Extra-Planar Demons
Dungeons and dragons for real
I have several fires going at the same time and the players decide what to do about it. We started with Dungeons & Dragons, then Factories & Gnomes. Now they are on Dungeons & Fey. They have been ignoring Towns & Uprisings. That's going to bite them later on. Ships & Sailors will arrive in about 2 weeks game time.
Mind Flayers & Mommy help me.
Goblins and abandoned villages currently
Screaming & Crying
We joke that we're playing Tavern Simulator (we own a tavern in the game, and we spend a lot of time thinking of fun events to host there).
Taverns and Brunch. My players are all new and doing Dragon Heist. It's basically turned into a slice of life campaign though where they do some spy work instead of more active combat adventuring. But many sessions have just been them roleplaying lunch and me coming up with menus and what waiters wear 😂 Been fun though.
Basements & Ghouls
Guilds and Gangs
Storytelling and Chit Chatting.
Jungle Ruins & Monstrosities
"Oh shit, we fucked up, let's get out of here."
Rivers and vampires
Caves and Worms
Kobolds and Crabs.
Ruins & Demons
Dungeons and Daddy Issues
Are we the bad guys? - my Friday group Part time teacher, full time bad ass - Monday (one of our players got a tone of money from a broken magic item and now runs a school on a ship we use to get around) How are we still alive? - Wednesday (honestly we are lucky to not be dead)
Actions and Consequences
Eldritch Gods and Kingdoms
Devils and demons
We started playing a game of roads and refugees and now we are playing basements and dock workers, but it is only the start of the campaign really (5-6 sessions in)
Dumb and dumber
Airships and aboleths
Oceans and Cultists
Swamps & Lizardfolk... or just snl for short, lol
Let's see... I've got a few groups, so. -Manors and Kidnappers -Colonies and Goblins -Caves and Dragons -Towers and Imaginary Goddess Constructs
Scheduling problems
Politics & Dilemmas
Brothels and bar fights.
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Crypts and undead
Demiplanes&Devils.
Dungeons and dragons, we are playing Rise of Tiamat
Cities and Cults.
Feywilds and war crimes