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    My party doesn’t use lemmy so I can drop some setting spoilers

    They don’t know that the adorable orphan they adopted in their time travel adventure is actually the evil lich queen in the modern day, and I’m looking forward to dropping that bomb on them

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        You think you’re going to drop a bomb on them but you just introduced time travel to your plot. That bomb says acme my friend.

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          I kept the hazards in mind, “Time travelling adventure” is short for “Yanked into the past due to an apocalyptic event that cannot be replicated” and the time travel is a problem to be solved, not a solution

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      And is the only way to stop the evil lich queen, to kill the kid with kindness and raise it to be a loving and responsible adult?

      Because if so, your world is fucked. No DnD party is able to properly raise anything but hell and chaos.

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        They’re teaching a kid through example the benefits of powerful people affecting change faster than all that nonsense about “consent of the governed”

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          That’s effecting change

          Effecting in this case means making

          If you affect something you change it, you can affect the trajectory of a ball

          It’s the odd one in the affect/effect series

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    Sometimes it isn’t the one you expect, either. My group fell in love with the magic shopkeeper I improv’d on the fly. He was just a super ancient wizened dude named Mortimer who was always polishing a skull or dusting a stuffed rat or something when they came in.

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    I wondered off on my own while my party argued over something and stumbled upon a room occupied by a dog like creature that eats pretty much anything with a heartbeat. I thought he was cute so instead of preparing for battle I prepared for scritches. When I rolled a 20 I think my dm got excited because it’s my pet now and he can talk.

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    An awakened shrub they found standing under a sewer grate, moving around in the sewer as the beam of sunlight shifted about. Discarded by a wizard as trash, it literally grew up with his roots digesting the town’s shit. It grew good berries, and offered the party some when they encountered it in a session one “rats in the sewers” scenario. They immediately adopted it, and it became their mascot of sorts, named “Stem”. I had a great time RPing Stem, with this child-like wide eyed wonder as the party took it out to explore the world with them.

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    Rat: I got a FRAT!

    Party: You mean you joined a Frat?

    Rat: No, I got a Full Ride Animal Tuition!

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    I made a dog, human intellect, dog voice box. Not fantasy, so no actual speaking with him, but he texts. (Never on screen, so no one knows how)

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      I played this character in Eclipse Phase, LMAO. Except everyone knew how he texted: with his brain implants, which he also used for hacking.

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    Ah yes, Petyr, the retired barbarian who takes care of the various animals the PC’s adopt. I think right now he’s caring for a couple horses, a fluffy cow, and a dinosaur.

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    Damn, played them like a fiddle. These suckers did not even realize this was your dastardly yet wholesome plan from the beginning.

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    I was running a D&D campaign for my son before and the two most liked NPCs were two goblins. One was a snivveling little companion who was actually a decent, though stupid goblin. The other goblin was a conniving, manipulative little shit that would backstab the group at any opportunity, yet they couldn’t ever bring themselves to kill him. Voiced them pretty differently with almost opposite personalities. It’s so great having characters that get that kind of reaction.

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    My NPC was the insane BBEG at the beginning that took a liking to the party and changed his ways because of them. He became something of a patron to them.

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    We adopted a crazy guy who lived in the sewers. We’d check up on him whenever we were back in town. Ended up giving him a neat magical item that let him cast prestidigitation a few times a day or something, and some other amenities hoping he’d clean up his act. We never finished the campaign, but I like to think he got it together.