Yea, its something I had to put my foot down on

I've also recently found out just how common Chat GPT is being used by some players and at large. Its so disheartening to find out

I've had to say no to GEN AI when it first started getting popular. My players don't send me those anymore.

The ethical issues aside, I make pixel versions of each PC's art for our stream and GEN AI stuff is impossible to use as a reference.

Its one of my favorite improvised bits of lore. A Paladin PC nat 20'd a roll on a near impossible history check untrained so I had to improvise lol

So obviously the globe of this unknown world had to be identical to the stories he was told at as a child. The only idea that came to mind in 10 sec

The Best Historians would be torn between telling stories of the forming of the Searing Order, an Empire ruled for 5000 years by Fire Giants, or talking about the history of the world that came before this one

Many believe there is a conspiracy to hide this lost world's history as a fantasy series

Late Morning - Early Afternoon for me the GM, but for most of my players its a Night game. We have 3 time zones and 5 out of 7 players at +6 hours ahead of me

The weird quirks of running an international game

Its almost always been IRL stuff clouding my head. I've been in a like 6 month long content creator burnout and my energy to GM has been going up and down

My energy levels have been near rock bottom, I used to make 20+ tokens, a few maps, and multiple plot lines in a week, but now i hardly make one

Yup, my personal project has basically been dropped for like 4-5 months and my backlog of stuff to edit is getting huge.

Idk if its the stress of the world, but this year I've had 10% of the energy I've had before and investing the little I have into a hobby feels beyond selfish

uuuuuhhh... It didn't help

I actually do this on the regular because a BBEG just does this for fun all the time and they've had to fight a bunch of odd abominations.

The most obnoxious creation is 100% a house cat being mixed with an unhinged pirate witch, also known as Nickel.

The Ford H-150

But its a centaur named Ford selling his services hauling goods and being a farmer or construction worker, etc

McZajfn? McFaznj?

Its hard with 7 consonants and 1 vowel lol

Zi, Alex, Freddy, Nick, Jerry, Maccy, and Chiara

🤣 I would give you some, but my players keep throwing everyone's stashes away! They are such buzzkills!

We also have a currency called Dream Shards, which are crystalized fragments of the dreams of Cthulhu who sleeps at the center of the world. The dreams would only drive a normal mortal insane but are sources of great power for wielders of the darkest forms of magic

Father Willow is like fantasy weed and is the most traded good on Croth'Duw. Its a boon to elves and casters but clouds the minds of any other. The euphoric bliss it gives is more sinister than just a high. The crop has been divinely cursed at its very roots to hide the dark truth of this world

I constantly can't decide so I like to run long campaigns with one shots for random ideas

My current group has 2 long running campaigns going and a few one shot ideas in the oven. Our 2nd campaign was a one shot that we couldnt let go of. Everything is one setting and I left each effect the other

Making my own content has really made me appreciate the amount of effort that goes into the behind the scenes and just how nice it is to get a pick me up from a random comment

I still want to make the occasional animation just because I know a few people love them

The only PC I made was for a player game that got cancelled

He was going to be a druid that focused on being stealthy and supporting

I always imagined him surprising the other PCs by popping out of the wilderness with advice dressed like a tree or animal to 'blend' in

Oh ya, he ended up with a partial brand of the God's sigil on over his eye that gives him the ability to see other people's souls, but secretly acts as a way for the God to spy on the party.

This was the 1st of BBEG they pissed off that session, the 2nd shoved our ranger's soul into a skunk

Our Necromancer is also a Lawyer so he has MASTERED being LE, and has had some insane ideas. Like using a plague infested hospital as his own warehouse

But my favorite is when he managed to curse a God by using a fraction of that God's soul that he got from drawing out from one of his abominations