#averno dnd updates

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND update

DUE this week

I imagine the tunnels as a a complex labyrinth that only DUE (and anyone with a map) can navigate

I'm thinking to navigate it you have to make a series of wisdom checks (3 passes and you get out)

either DUE students can just, navigate the tunnels no problem, or they are least get advantage (same with map holders)

the DUE are archane tricker rouges (the rouge is mainly because no one knows if they exist, so they must stealthy)

I'm thinking as a DUE student, you get to be proficient in Sleight of Hand and Stealth

if you know Shikasta from Critical role, that's the vibe we're going for with one of the professors (Dimitri Ognassian: Cryptology professor)

and another professor Eliziveta Raskova, has lovely Rosie from Realms Apart vibes (Realms apart is a dnd story pdcats and is SO GOOD. Highly recommend)

we have our first antagonist!

it's a senior who's trying to make a new cryptid (which would be fine if the methods they're using were, unconventional)

and yah. I might take a break from new updates with camp starting up. So we'll be back in two weeks.

#averno #averno dnd updates #I also get a dnd beyond account #so that's exciting #so I'll probaly spend this week figuring it out and transfering stuff to it #still gonna write in my notebook #I like my notebook #but it might be used more for setting and quest planning

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND game update!

DLH this week

so in the Averno Bible, it says the DLH student sleep in what used to be the office and I've always headcannoned that some students just sleep in like, old file cabinets. Ao that's a thing

so I have a folder full of bookmarked websites that she related to this and one such website is just, a list of historical names for cats

speaking of cats, the cats are framilars. They hang out in the library when they hadn't been summoned

so as A DLH student, you get a cat framilar

you can change your cat's form, but the cat really doesn't like not being a cat

as a DLH student, you know Latin.

I love all the DLH professors, they're all just so fun

like there's one who's description on the Averno wiki is literally "Severus Snape, but less gross and weird" and I'm HERE for this character

the head of department's magic item is just boots of Haste, but roller skates

So I think I know what I'm doing for quests (kinda?)

so there's like 4 interconnecting plots (one is the prank war) and each department has like, their own special one

there'll be more as I like, build out into the town and whatnot

and character based plots

but that requires players and I'm no where near ready for that yet

one of the quests in DLH is someone's notebook has bene stolen and I don't know why yet, but I think the notebook contains notes for a DND game (cause we like meta humor in this house)

and yah! That's it for this week (have you streamed buttersummer yet? Go do it)

#averno dnd updates #also known as #Heather makes a dnd campaign despite having never playing a game of dnd before #in other news I've joined a discord server full of people who wanna learn dnd #so that's exciting #averno #dnd

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND Updates

Shorter update this week, but an update non the less. It's DDL time!

So the DDL students are warlocks (mainly because Latin just feels like a launguge an eldrich being speaks)

I imagine that as the character increases in levels and they know more dead launaguges, they're able to like, understand their patron more

like at first it's just, speaking nonsense, but by the end they can interpret them pretty well

all DDL kids get to speak dreamsepak, and one other dead language

I've decided one of the professors looks like Professor Sprout from the first HP movie

also the professors of DDL are either no chill or all chill, no inbetween. I love it

there's a senior who making early learning books about the dead language (you can help them test these books and learn a dead language

#averno #a new school #department of dead languages #averno dnd updates #also known as #heather makes a campaign despite having never played an actual game of dnd

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND updates

So I did do an update on DDL last week, but I didn't get much done on it, so I worked a little more on it this week. Here we go

so I've been thinking so very hard on how dead launguges are gonna work in and I think I've figured it out

I'm think that the traditional DND launguges (celestial, infernal, ect) are gonna be the dead launguges

and the laungues in this world (like, Greek and English and whatnot) are gonna be alive launguges

so the DDL kids are warlock and Im thinking their partons are like, one of the dead language

they start off speaking in just, hisses and creepy noises and you get to understand them more as you advance

and I'm picturing tentacles, cause that's just the vibe I get from dead languages

one of the seniors is making an app that let you learn dead launguges

it's like Doulingo and it's called Dead-lingo (You can try to persuade them to change it, but the DC is gomna be high because I really like the name)

There's one student NPC who's description is just "Gothic Southern Belle" and I love her

she walks around with a parasol and speaks like she's from the 1800 and half the student body think she's a ghost (I'm thinking she's a wild one who found a book on that time period and was like "That, that shall be my aesthetic")

so for the prank war, the npc students have like, prank ideas, and then players can suggest their own

anyway, one of the idea for DDL is translating everything into Latin or something

And yah

#averno #averno dnd updates #also known as #heather makes a campaign despite having never played an actual game of dnd #averno township #dnd #department of dead languages #also we gona start doing bi weekly updates #like every other week

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND update

I'm gonna do weekly-ish updates for this

using 5th edition, mainly cause that's the system I'm most framilar with

as this is the early stages, I'm working with a T.A.R.D.I.S notebook and the notes app on my phone

(speaking of, if you know of any good online dnd campaign building tools or the like, let me know)

I wrote this like, intro thingy? Like the thing the DM says during the first session? It helped get me in the mindset (might post it somewhere, idk)

I also paraprased the welcome speech from September into my book. Partly to get me in the mindset again, partly cause I really like that speech and wanted to keep it

started with DCD (mainly cause it was the first time in that list I made of ANS departments as DND classes)

so first I wrote out a description out about the different main areas of DCD (Barn, Silo, Kitchen, whatnot)

then I moved on to the class part

when I was doing this, my mind sent was "Bards are Creation, artificers are destruction" but it's not really set in stone thing

at the moment I think the departments are gonna closely follow the given class stuff, but with a few like, monitory features

for example, the bardic collage for DCD is collage of creation (was this decision made based on the fact that creation is in the name? a little)

NPC! Mainly did teachers, but also 2 students

I would like to take this time to thank whoever had contributed to the avernotown wiki

it is my favourite resource whenever I make fan content and I love you

so I'm thinking the department heads are each gonna have like a magic item

so far we've got bread that casts lesser restoration and a very breakable potion of explosions

I'm thinking the players would start at freshman orientation

opening speech and whatnot, get shown arround

Also came up with some quest ideas

and yes, one of them is the prank war

also, I made a map of the tunnels. And when I say map, I mean "I try a bunch of lines on a page and connected them"

you know what, I'm just gonna put a picture here

there, map

and that's all for now. Next week, DLH!

#averno ans #averno #a new school #department of creation and destruction #dnd #averno dnd updates #this is fun

[yarn-dragon]

Averno DND Updates

Welcome back everyone! Hope everyone had a great camp. I know I did

This week was DCM, let's get into it

so originally I was gonna make a designated subclass for each department, but I think I'm scrapping that idea

each department is still like a specific class (DCM is monk) but I'm thinking you can pick any subclass

it makes it easier for me planning wise, and gives the ayers more freedom

So since the DCM tunnels intersect with the DUE tunnels, I think the DCM kids get like, advantage on navigating them

a quote the department is probably going to say at some point

"learning should never be painful, anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and not to be trusted"

I have one NPC who is a Sherlock Homes wanna be, they run a little devective agency

I'm thinking they like, make the mysteries they solve, that would be fun

like a Lockheart figure

Also! There's gonna be a senior who's making a cult and is gonna try to get you to join the cult!

there's gonna be a quest involving bones. I don't know why yet, but bones!

#averno #averno township #department of cults and mysteries #averno dnd updates #also known as #heather makes a campaign despite having never played an actual game of dnd