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Post by zimthegoblin on Apr 19, 2022 20:09:16 GMT
When you get to town at first glance everything is normal but as you look closer something is wrong people are doing things that look normal but arent.
A lady is cooking soup over a fire in a big pot but as you look closer its just water.
The blacksmith has been hammering on the anvil but they have been hammering the same piece of metal for hours.
The baker is kneading dough for hours, the same piece of dough.
What else would you do to make a town feel off for players to slowly learn over time?
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Post by dmslythytoves on Apr 20, 2022 17:31:11 GMT
Let's just work through the professions, eh?
A carpenter is continuously sawing at the same piece of wood, but not cutting it further.
A gardener is digging up a plot, but the ground is never fully turned out.
A guard is sitting outside the tavern, still sharpening their sword.
Little kids attempt to fly a kite keep running past, but the kite never takes off (this one is more subtle, because that's how I look when trying to fly a kite).
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Post by joatmoniac on Apr 27, 2022 4:55:33 GMT
A group of people around a table listen to someone say a joke and they all laugh. Immediately the person repeats the joke and gets the same laughter again.
Someone walks outside and checks their mail, walks back to the door, walks back to check their mail.
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Post by zimthegoblin on Apr 30, 2022 10:09:36 GMT
A group of people around a table listen to someone say a joke and they all laugh. Immediately the person repeats the joke and gets the same laughter again. pulling that off while a party is at a tavern could be easy and see who pays attention. Dm: as you enter the tavern you see (fluff) (scenario) and (fluff) Player: i sit and order a drink Dm: okay the bar tender gives you a drink as (scenario) what do the rest of you do? Can totally see players missing that the first repeat or brushing it off as the dm found a joke and wants us all to laugh at it because he thinks its hilarious. |
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Post by dmslythytoves on Apr 30, 2022 14:03:52 GMT
What if you had someone reading a book and turning a page, then a moment later, turning the page back?
If you're in a tavern, you could have two NPCs going over a map, and they keep repeating the same steps: "...from there, we work up the slope to the ridge, that should give us a good approach to the field of caves. Then we can approach the forest in the foothills...from there, we work up the slope to the ridge-..."
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Munchiee99
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Post by Munchiee99 on May 7, 2022 5:24:40 GMT
"They just go round and round." - Jim Carey as Truman in "The Truman Show."
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Munchiee99
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Post by Munchiee99 on May 7, 2022 5:48:43 GMT
No matter what food is eaten, it all tastes like chicken... except the chicken. That tastes like fish.
In another community -
- A very subtle thing (probably only noticeable by a bard - at first), but all activities seem to have a rhythm to them. There is a "down-beat" to everything that is happening. People step together. Wagon wheels clickety-clack on the cobblestone in sequence with the jingling of the nearby wind chimes. The laughter from children last for 5 counts, never more, never less. The littler ones, their wails peak every four seconds until subdued. Book pages are turned only on the down-beat. The thrum of the market bears its own cadence, each vendor, depending on their wares carries the melody, the auctioneer seems to trigger the ebb and flow, but for sure its only coincidence, right? The blacksmith's hammer echoes in the background (or is that the sound of other blacksmiths?) for a full four count measure... or is it five or six? It doesn't matter, once you've recognized the syncopation, and the longer you stay, the harder it becomes to not fall in line. The name of the city/town = Harmony _____. The town leaders are known as the quarter master, the figure eight skaters, the wholy ones, the half-breeds, and they determine who is and who is Not(e)worthy.
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Munchiee99
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Favorite D&D Class: Yes
Favorite D&D Race: The one I haven't tried.
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Post by Munchiee99 on May 7, 2022 5:55:11 GMT
Had a DM who created a city that supported the White Tower. The purpose was for each of those within the populace to support any and all adventurers who came through the tower and provide them with any of the tools, equipment, resources, etc. to fulfill the mission of recovering artifacts used for the creation of the universe(s). The mission took the lives of many adventurers. And those who wanted second chances, but still failed, were then to pay back their second chance within the town of the White Tower until the mission was complete.
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Post by letterlost on May 24, 2022 15:05:24 GMT
everyone's voice sounds the same, like the same person speaking out of everyone's mouth.
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Post by dmslythytoves on May 24, 2022 15:20:30 GMT
everyone's voice sounds the same, like the same person speaking out of everyone's mouth. Dude...meta dude...meta.... |
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