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d-dplothooks:

This is a monster that behaves more like a living trap: its translucent, its potentially deadly, and involves skill checks to escape. Below are a few examples of the ways you can use gelatinous cube, apart from the other oozes in the Monster Manual. 

• Players are in a maze occupied by several gelatinous cubes. These cubes follow a predictable path that loops. The PCs  can learn the safe routes by following the paths that are dirty or covered in debris. Paths that are spotless are the trails the gelatinous cubes follow, since they digest everything else in their path.
  
• The players stand at the bottom of a steep staircase, unknowingly standing over a trap lid on the floor. When a PC triggers a pressure plate on one of the top stairs, the staircase will fold into a slide and the trap lid will move away to open up to a pit in the floor which contains a gelatinous cube.
  
• A gelatinous cube has a magnet stuck in its body, and PCs that get within 15 ft. of the cube (while holding another magnet-like object) will have to beat a STR DC check or be pulled into the cube.
  
• A gelatinous cube contains a downward-facing sword in the middle of its body. From a distance, the sword appears to be floating as if by magic, though checks to identify magic would fail since there’s nothing there to detect… unless the spell caster picks up the magic of an even smaller magic object instead, like a ring. 

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summertimenecromancer:

Mom: son do your homework

Me: hold on lemme just *rolls for initiative* doesn’t look good

probablyadrpgideas:

How to craft a D&D campaign in 9 steps.

1. Sit down and open up a cold, refreshing Pepsi.

2. Enjoy Pepsi for the doctor recommended amount of time: 3-9 minutes.

3. Get the Dungeon Masters Guide.

4. Open up the Dungeon Masters Guide.

5. Go to page 114, then 97, and speak aloud these three things: Advertising, PEPSI, and 1704.

6. Congrats! You have successfully summoned The Advertiser.

7. Don’t forget to give The Advertiser plenty of money.

8. Sit back, and let The Advertiser take care of everything.

9. Enjoy your campaign!

yourplayersaidwhat:

DM: (looking at my character sheet) Why is your alignment Spooky?

Me: It just fit my character’s morals better than anything on the canon alignments chart.

DM: Please pick an actual alignment. I don’t care if it’s on the chart, it just has to be something that describes morals.

Me: …Neutral Spooky?

(Needless to say, I was not invited to that game when it started.)

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yourplayersaidwhat:

Last week, I was DMing a one-off campaign for a few friends. Two have played before and the third has never played a live role-playing game before, so he was a bit uncomfortable. He decided to be a bard (named Shilo Buff).

I started them off in a stereotypical tavern for everyone to get their bearings and put the ball in the bard’s court, letting him do whatever he wanted.

Bard OOC: I walk up to the bar and lean on it next to a lady standing there and I say…

Bard: Hey, baby, you ever heard a song before?

The Lady (Me): Ummm…yes?

Bard: You wanna hear another?

Bard OOC: And I play this on my bagpipes…

He pulls out his phone and a bagpipes cover of Careless Whisper starts to play.

Me, the DM, through my laughter (everyone else is cracking up as well): Roll a performance check.

…he rolls a 20.

The entire bar is enraptured by his performance and they fill a cup in front of him with gold. The lady hangs on him the rest of the evening.

And that’s still only the second best pick-up line I’ve experienced in a Dungeons & Dragons tavern.

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yourplayersaidwhat:

“I roll to eat the gelatinous cube.”

“You roll to what?”

“I roll to eat it. I roll to take a bite out of it and say ‘karma, bitch’ to it with a mouthful of slime.”

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