• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Roll on it.”

    rolls a 1

    “You successfully transform Into an anteater, but it’s that blue Hanna-Barbera one who can’t catch a single ant to save its life.”

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    My rule as DM is that players can freely expend their normally limited resources if it’s done for role playing or fun and doesn’t affect the story, combat, etc.

    Druid wants to spend all evening as an owl in the rafters of the barn? Cool. Wizard wants to create a pocket dimension in which he can then use Wish to create the universe’s best ganja and smoke it in peace? Awesome.

    Artificer wants to … wait, he wants to do WHAT with his pants? Okay fine, but we’re cutting to black for the evening. And there may be assassins in the morning now.

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      7 months ago

      I was wondering why the DM would even need to make a call, but I guess that would be relevant.

      Any DM that said no without a reason for a lack of ants would be a bad DM.

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            7 months ago

            The best DMs will allow it as an immediate reward and remember it for minor consequences later to progress the campaign in some way. “Druid knocked unconscious and taken while eating ants” type stuff

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              “Sure you can.” Later on the druid fails a diplomacy check because they’ve got an ant stuck between their teeth.

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                Druids shouldn’t be engaging in diplomacy anyway. Most of the druids I’ve known, thought that diplomacy = “destroy all cities and allow the forest to grow you humanoid bastards!”