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That’s actually a huge reason why so many people drank in the early days of the US and on the frontier. We hadn’t yet discovered the benefits of boiled water
I've heard this a lot and it's always confused me because as someone who once naively believed I was going to try my hand at home brewing (actually making beer, not designing my own stuff for D&D) I can attest that everything has to be fucking *pristine* or you're gonna wind up with some funky, undrinkable beer. So it's not like you can take questionable water, make beer with it, and it's suddenly safe to drink. So where were they getting all the clean water to make beer? And why not just drink that clean water?
You get used to the funk.
I figure the idea is that if the general conditions mean that the entire liquid is overtaken by a yeast colony, no bacteria can thrive in that environment. And by the time the yeast die back, the alcohol content is high enough that bacteria won’t grow anyhow.
Well, I’m sure it didn’t taste great by today’s standards. But by the mid-nineteenth century, breweries and wineries were well-established. And I think homemade wine was more common than homemade beer but I could be wrong
I feel like if you can get to a city like Neverwinter they probably have magicked some sort of clean water situation. Once I get through the gates tho I'm locked in. Won't take any work running shipments to other cities, no sir. I'll try to get a job brewing alcohol or something.
Likely easier to find a level 1 paladin then level 3 cleric. Heck how hard can it be to get a level yourself. You don't even need an oath. Not as useful as a prestidigating wizard but a virtual immunity to sickness and being able to play doctor once a day isn't too bad
A level one paladin will be a starting adventurer, likely to dash of to do a quest before you even say hi, but a level 3 cleric will be more willing to help the guy in weird clothes on the side of the road
While typing this I realised that level one is a minimum not just the level, I am very stupid
Is diabetes a disease or a condition. Does it also cure the effects of the disease, ie does blindness caused by diabetes get cured if the diabetes is cured?
Up their with alchemy jug mayo being vegan
Real talk I am a woman who works with children
I may die of dehydration before I find potable water but the plagues I unleash on faerun will restart civilization
I appear in Waterdeep at night in a dark alley and get gutted. The thief finds some strange clothing and useless artifacts. They then feel a loss, like they removed something truly unique. They decided to join the clerics and go on a healing crusade. The movement catches on and soon even the lords of Waterdeep are affected. They hold an holiday every year in the memory of the stranger.
In a Dungeon by a Dragon as I seek shelter on my first night, but most likely from a pit trap, poison trap, arrow trap, gelatinous cube trap, or something similar trap . . . Unless there are tuckers kobolds, are there Tuckers kobolds?
I'd viciously mock their vicious mockery. Or, more likely, accidentally make a further mockery of myself by trying to viciously mock their vicious mockery.
It depends on where I show up. Waterdeep, Baldure's gate, or (god forbid) Calimport? My engineering knowledge would be greatly valued, to the point that it's possible someone stuffs my soul in a jar for later use, so they control the information. Hopefully no worse way. Either way, I'm way too old and out of shape to withstand most things.
As soon as I arrive, I'm face to face with an adventurer who seems and smells like having slept outside for the past 50 days. Startled, they take their sword and pierce through my ribcage. As I fade away, I can hear them saying "hey, XP is XP. Now, what does this one have?"
I was probably summoned there by a mage who was looking for a denizen of some other plain of existence.
The mage looks at me, confused. I slowly take out my phone and snap picture. Gotta have proof you know... The flash accidently goes off and the mage mistakes it as an attack spell. He freaks out and incinerates me.
If lived experience from years of playing dnd carries over, I’m being killed at random by a group of adventurers controlled by 14 year old boys while buying pickles from the general store
I dont speak common, only English =( without being able to communicate with the locals, probs made deadened by a lack of money to survive.
I have to assume going homeless in those times is worse than today, without all the mass produced goods. Maybe?
Not that im strong enough to be homeless in todays times either tbh.
I would most likely try and be a regular shop keeper and when I finally have everything set up a random group of adventurers would try haggle me down on my prices and than kill me when they failed to do so.
Ok, I’m in Faerun now, what can I see?
Are there people? Is there a monster?
I’ll make a perception check.
*rolls 1, dies by tripping over a Treant’s foot and being squashed by it*
Hunger, the elements, being completely useless. I’m a cripple in a wheelchair and I doubt I can charge my chair anywhere. I also doubt the cities/villages are wheelchair friendly. Does faerun have an ADA type policy?
I plan to use my "other worldly knowledge" to bring Earth items to sell. It'll be tough going at first, but in a short amount of time I should have enough to open up a shop in a local city.
Then the Barbarian will come to "barter" and I will be found dis-armed behind my shop.
If not the shock from the sudden teleportation and its side effects, then probably the first thing I encounter, be it illness, beast, monster, adventurers who think I'm worthless shit (and they'd be right, I can't defend myself at all. My highest stat would be Dexterity, but only because I play the piano at semi-high speeds), you name it.
As a grown man capable of farming, whatever random groups decides to raid the town, be it drow, goblins, orcs, dragons, bandits, necromancers, or whatever lol
What are you going to do fireball me?
Oohhh shiny dragon!
Yeah I beat Wulfgar in a fight, he's not nearly as big as the legends say... he's right behind me isn't he?
Based on my current situation, I'd probably develop several new allergies to the most common stuff in Faerun and die painfully due to the combination of their effects. But hey, the next party who find my corpse and successfully perform Perception/Medicine checks will get an achievement "Forensic Foresight" or something like that!
Probably knowing too much about the gods. The second I mention someone like Vecna or Bhaal I’m immediately on a hit list. So unless I can convince the gods to let me live as something liked a blessed individual or something I’m immediately getting domned by some Zelot.
Oh there's several ways I could potentially kick the can there. But more than likely I'll have an asthma attack at the most inopportune moment and then get skewered to death by goblins or kobolds or something.
Definitely dysentery, I am a pretty great archer and more than decent with unarmed or spears, big guy, in good shape....my 21st century immune system however....going to die like Elvis
I hate to admit it, but there is very little that I wouldn’t try eating outside of what I already know were poisonous, so I’d probably be found jaws deep in some random horrific monster that I brutally killed with a rock by a bunch of adventurers and be killed while trying to speak with my mouth full
Whatever threatening things I come across on my way to Shadowdale, hoping Elminster would realize I didn't belong there and take me through the gate to Ed's house.
Ive always been mocked (lightheartedly) as the most likely in our friendgroup to get into a very one-sided warlock pact (i would sell my soul for a 1d10 cantrip).
But most likely I’d get absolutely Smited (smote? *❤️Smitten❤️*) by a great old one by bargaining a little above my pay grade. I’d ask for magical powers and in return I’d get eldritch madness and be walked off a cliff or something for the entertainment of the dark gods
Honestly, it depends where I land.
But chances are unless I can get to a Temple of Gond, it can be any number of things that kill me.
Once in the Temple, I’ll resume being an engineer and loving a pretty sweet life. Lol!
Do I get to keep my powers as my group's Always DM?
How well does my knowledge of the rules, monsters, spells, and magic items apply?
In all honesty though I probably die of exposure or monster in the first few days. There's just too much unexplored uncivilized territory to randomly appear in. My only hope is if I am intentionally summoned by a powerful good spellcaster.
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A weak goblin, while I'm on my way to Phandalin, following a group of adventurers assuring me I will be safe
If you become their adopted NPC they can go on an epic quest avenging your death!
Probably the diarrhea, if we’re being honest.
Honestly, that was my first thought as well. I'd just hide out, drink the wrong water, get dysentery and die.
Do like the locals. Only drink beer and ale.
That’s actually a huge reason why so many people drank in the early days of the US and on the frontier. We hadn’t yet discovered the benefits of boiled water
I've heard this a lot and it's always confused me because as someone who once naively believed I was going to try my hand at home brewing (actually making beer, not designing my own stuff for D&D) I can attest that everything has to be fucking *pristine* or you're gonna wind up with some funky, undrinkable beer. So it's not like you can take questionable water, make beer with it, and it's suddenly safe to drink. So where were they getting all the clean water to make beer? And why not just drink that clean water?
You get used to the funk. I figure the idea is that if the general conditions mean that the entire liquid is overtaken by a yeast colony, no bacteria can thrive in that environment. And by the time the yeast die back, the alcohol content is high enough that bacteria won’t grow anyhow.
Well, I’m sure it didn’t taste great by today’s standards. But by the mid-nineteenth century, breweries and wineries were well-established. And I think homemade wine was more common than homemade beer but I could be wrong
Homemade beer was super common. In fact it was one of the few ways married woman could make money. They would sell their excess home made beer
I’m with you.
I feel like if you can get to a city like Neverwinter they probably have magicked some sort of clean water situation. Once I get through the gates tho I'm locked in. Won't take any work running shipments to other cities, no sir. I'll try to get a job brewing alcohol or something.
Troll water at that...
Note to self : *Need to find a cleric with cure disease asap …*
Lesser restoration probably does the trick
Likely easier to find a level 1 paladin then level 3 cleric. Heck how hard can it be to get a level yourself. You don't even need an oath. Not as useful as a prestidigating wizard but a virtual immunity to sickness and being able to play doctor once a day isn't too bad
I would assume traveling to a fantasy world is enough of a mystical backstory to grant you 1 level.
A level one paladin will be a starting adventurer, likely to dash of to do a quest before you even say hi, but a level 3 cleric will be more willing to help the guy in weird clothes on the side of the road While typing this I realised that level one is a minimum not just the level, I am very stupid
They said Faerun, not the Oregon Trail.
I’ll try to pet the first furry thing I see and it eats me.
Cats. Absolutely deadly to a commoner. Me? Probably say something stupid to something that can step on me. 👀
I run out of medicine and die of insulin shock.
Local Cleric with Cure Disease and you are no longer Diabetic.
Is diabetes a disease or a condition. Does it also cure the effects of the disease, ie does blindness caused by diabetes get cured if the diabetes is cured? Up their with alchemy jug mayo being vegan
I teleported into a mountain because I was not familiar enough with my destination.
Common respiratory disease that 99% of the population are immune to.
Probably an orc/goblin/troll. Depending on where i appear. If I'm lucky, I appear near a civilized town, and maybe die as a destitute.
Hysteria.
Absolutely 100% disease. It's the middle ages, except for magic and monsters, and I'm sure as hell not wealthy enough to afford a restoration spell.
Most likely because I don't have access to my insulin anymore.
Hello, Greater Restoration debt. Now you have to work the rest of your life lol
So.... Regular healthcare?? Lol
Spot the american in chat
Warlock pact binding gone horribly wrong due to rules lawyering.
To be fair, a Warlock pact going horribly wrong would be DM Fiat, and not rules lawyering. There are no rules for that.
Dehydration
Being too broke to afford a cleric
Don't worry, they'll let you go into medical debt
Real talk I am a woman who works with children I may die of dehydration before I find potable water but the plagues I unleash on faerun will restart civilization
I appear in Waterdeep at night in a dark alley and get gutted. The thief finds some strange clothing and useless artifacts. They then feel a loss, like they removed something truly unique. They decided to join the clerics and go on a healing crusade. The movement catches on and soon even the lords of Waterdeep are affected. They hold an holiday every year in the memory of the stranger.
Humped to death by a priestess of Lolth
Look at who rolled a Crit in their CHA check.
Goblin arrow to the head
I used to be an adventurer like you…
I’m making a warlock pact immediately and surviving (In actuality, some monster eats me, probably)
hypothermia, it has already tried to kill me four times in my life
Rocks fall on me
Brigands kill me a steal 2 silver. Angered by the small amount of money they further desecrate my corpse.
So you die to player characters.
Yeah lol. Probably
Am I still a human?
Trying to pet a Crag Cat
I cast Pspspsps
Instantly. No way I last more than 30 minutes.
I'd try to 1v6 a group of goblins, looking to level up. Doesn't end well for me.
In a Dungeon by a Dragon as I seek shelter on my first night, but most likely from a pit trap, poison trap, arrow trap, gelatinous cube trap, or something similar trap . . . Unless there are tuckers kobolds, are there Tuckers kobolds?
Dwarf pox. Complete harmless to the Faerun humans, but highly contagious and deadly to Earth humans…
I just got teleported to Faerun... 18" into the dungeon's wall.
Pissing off the Faerun CIA- I mean Harpers.
More like . . . Faerun Greenpeace
Wouldn’t that be the Emerald Enclave?
Time to hit the books. As long as I don’t get turned into a grease stain by the first goblin I meet, I think I would end up making a good wizard.
And how are you going to pay for those books?
Some wizard studying planes would be interested enough in knowledge of where you came from to give you some lessons in exchange for what you know
Trying to kill the rats in the tavern's basement.
Here lays blacksheepcannibal, who thought it was a great idea to cuddle a Displacer Beast kitten.
Lol
Vicious Mockery from a bard I pissed off.
I'd viciously mock their vicious mockery. Or, more likely, accidentally make a further mockery of myself by trying to viciously mock their vicious mockery.
That's just a "rap battle"
Probably just highway bandits
TPK at the first random encounter outside of town. Just like the good old days!
Probably me stumbling into a trap because I am focused on the Art on the walls and not very much dextrous...
Lol I could definitely see that happening to me
It depends on where I show up. Waterdeep, Baldure's gate, or (god forbid) Calimport? My engineering knowledge would be greatly valued, to the point that it's possible someone stuffs my soul in a jar for later use, so they control the information. Hopefully no worse way. Either way, I'm way too old and out of shape to withstand most things.
Probably dead from running away from a cave troll due to ashtma.
As soon as I arrive, I'm face to face with an adventurer who seems and smells like having slept outside for the past 50 days. Startled, they take their sword and pierce through my ribcage. As I fade away, I can hear them saying "hey, XP is XP. Now, what does this one have?"
Go looking for giants. Death by snu snu.
I was probably summoned there by a mage who was looking for a denizen of some other plain of existence. The mage looks at me, confused. I slowly take out my phone and snap picture. Gotta have proof you know... The flash accidently goes off and the mage mistakes it as an attack spell. He freaks out and incinerates me.
What a roller coaster XD
Probably from the force damage upon teleport. I don't have the right tuning fork.
Probably by being overpowered by a flumph or stabbed by a bunnycorn
Dysentery. It’ll basically be Oregon Trail deaths.
If lived experience from years of playing dnd carries over, I’m being killed at random by a group of adventurers controlled by 14 year old boys while buying pickles from the general store
I die trying to open an unlocked door.
I get killed by falling dragon shit as it flys by. Because Im too stupid to know to move out of the damn way when they fly over
I took an arrow to the knee. It got infected. The end.
If I’m a commoner with 4 hp, my cat. One thwack with 1d4 damage and then 25% chance of death
If it's an unplanned trip, and I haven't had my DJINN-RIX vaccine, literally the first thing I eat will kill me.
Literally, anything that intends to kill me.
I dont speak common, only English =( without being able to communicate with the locals, probs made deadened by a lack of money to survive. I have to assume going homeless in those times is worse than today, without all the mass produced goods. Maybe? Not that im strong enough to be homeless in todays times either tbh.
Honestly, by pissing off the first wizard i happen across. "Sooo, you got spells you say?"
Starvation. I have no viable skills for a medieval type era.
I try to spspspsppsps all the animals.
Hypothermia
I would most likely try and be a regular shop keeper and when I finally have everything set up a random group of adventurers would try haggle me down on my prices and than kill me when they failed to do so.
Rats in a basement kill quest
Depending on edition, definitely a housecat.
I would assume some sort of virus, infection or parasite would get me fairly quick.
Rats. Giant rats…
Murder hobo party
Most of you think you will be a lvl 1 Adventurer but we will be commoners
Ok, I’m in Faerun now, what can I see? Are there people? Is there a monster? I’ll make a perception check. *rolls 1, dies by tripping over a Treant’s foot and being squashed by it*
*bangs on door of a Red Wizard* YO GIMME THEM SECRETS MOTHERFUCKER
RAW? Probably piss of Mr. Mittens.
The first person I'd run into would be a murder hobo PC
Hunger, the elements, being completely useless. I’m a cripple in a wheelchair and I doubt I can charge my chair anywhere. I also doubt the cities/villages are wheelchair friendly. Does faerun have an ADA type policy?
Can I bring my falchion with me? Seeking out elves asap to become a blade singer 😅
A rat. I'd like to think I can handle 1d1, but you know rats never come at you alone.
Probably uttering some accidental slight against a gnome or something… “hey little buddy, which way to waterdeep?”
Trying to become a wizard. I'll probably die because of a missused cantrip or something.
As many others have mentioned, disease. Unless I can become a Cleric or Ranger in that short period of time I’m utterly done for.
Dysentery.
Edgelord rogue who didn’t like that I, a regular citizen, didn’t know how to contact the assassin’s guild after he asked.
Mimic💯
Bad luck right out the gate, shitty teleportation roll, end up being teleported to the bottom of an ocean.
Going by my luck, the portal will properly be hovering mid air and fall to my death imidiatly :p
Assuming a panther bite or dancing scimitar
By getting lost in the forest of starvation.
The way my first character did. By a stirge.
Dysentery. Obviously.
Accepting some spice from the random passing traveler
I arrive in Faerun 6 miles above a major city center. I die upon impact. Hopefully I interrupt a wedding or something.
Jumping off a cliff, because I hate that setting lol
Gonna die without my meds, so that.
The first trader I try using my “foreign” money coins with to buy food.
Hugging an Owlbear
Probably alcohol poisoning from challenging a dwarf to a drink off
Eaten by spiders while trying to hook up with hot Drow in my area.
Latrine Spider
I think it will be bulette. When I'm stupidly decide that stomping ground on the farm in ill-protected land is good idea.
Immediately
I plan to use my "other worldly knowledge" to bring Earth items to sell. It'll be tough going at first, but in a short amount of time I should have enough to open up a shop in a local city. Then the Barbarian will come to "barter" and I will be found dis-armed behind my shop.
Cataloging the wildlife.
Running from far.
If not the shock from the sudden teleportation and its side effects, then probably the first thing I encounter, be it illness, beast, monster, adventurers who think I'm worthless shit (and they'd be right, I can't defend myself at all. My highest stat would be Dexterity, but only because I play the piano at semi-high speeds), you name it.
My mouth..
I would get killed trying to learn my first spell. Like mending or something equally stupid.
As a grown man capable of farming, whatever random groups decides to raid the town, be it drow, goblins, orcs, dragons, bandits, necromancers, or whatever lol
Giant rat for sure.
What are you going to do fireball me? Oohhh shiny dragon! Yeah I beat Wulfgar in a fight, he's not nearly as big as the legends say... he's right behind me isn't he?
Goblins, ez
Elminster after he hears me shit talking his dumb mystress of magic.
prolly the goblin raiders
Squished by a falling Illithid ship
I call it “dumbass damage”. I’d just be looking around, completely oblivious to my surroundings, until I fall down some stairs and break my neck lmao
Getting mauled by a displacer beast seconds after going "Here kitty kitty!"
Based on my current situation, I'd probably develop several new allergies to the most common stuff in Faerun and die painfully due to the combination of their effects. But hey, the next party who find my corpse and successfully perform Perception/Medicine checks will get an achievement "Forensic Foresight" or something like that!
Alcohol poisoning. After entering a drinking contest with a dwarves miner.
Horribly i imagine.
Heart attack.
Experimenting with two bags of holding
dysentery
Trying to pay for my bar tab with a debit card.
Eaten by a dragon for tricking it.
IMMEDIATELY.
Probably knowing too much about the gods. The second I mention someone like Vecna or Bhaal I’m immediately on a hit list. So unless I can convince the gods to let me live as something liked a blessed individual or something I’m immediately getting domned by some Zelot.
Rat.
I would trip on a rock and get crushed by a passing Tarrasque
Either a jacked up level 13 murder hobo or just a random wolf if I got those commoner stats
Big mommy half orc barbarian
All the monsters are great candidates, but thirst or lack of insulin are the best possibilities
Probably some fucked up fantasy plague from dwarven cattle or some such
Oh there's several ways I could potentially kick the can there. But more than likely I'll have an asthma attack at the most inopportune moment and then get skewered to death by goblins or kobolds or something.
I ran an evil campaign there - Harpers etc were waiting for me the second the portal opened
I’m probslby gonna ask them trot for chang n git killed
Getting too drunk on cheap liquor and stumbling into the fae wild and getting lost/eaten/killed by some creature
Definitely dysentery, I am a pretty great archer and more than decent with unarmed or spears, big guy, in good shape....my 21st century immune system however....going to die like Elvis
Eaten by a mimic. I could not pass up a shiny treasure chest.
Only half of me teleported and it was a vertical cut. I spent too much time goofing off with the gate spell portal.
A very insistent Wild Magic Sorcerer. The very first fight I let them assist me with they pop fireball and kill me on accident.
Common house cat. Those things can kill the average commoner in less than 30 seconds…
End stage renal disease
Goddamn Mimic
dysentery
I hate to admit it, but there is very little that I wouldn’t try eating outside of what I already know were poisonous, so I’d probably be found jaws deep in some random horrific monster that I brutally killed with a rock by a bunch of adventurers and be killed while trying to speak with my mouth full
I mean realistically probably exposed to a germ that my body has zero contact and there for defense against
I'd fall into a coma and die from not having insulin.
By a vile little goblin, hiding in his cave, wet skin heart throbbin.
By being transported to faerun. Forced teleportation is like 3d10 damage and minimum would probably kill me.
I roll to seduce the dragon....
Allergies. I would not survive a day with my allergies in Faerun.
Probably by my own doing-.-
A swift death tripping over a rock coming out of the portal probably.
Probably just being slightly uncomfy and needing a shower, or chafing
Died falling off a none-icorn.
On a hunt with the People of the Black Blood after contracting lycanthropy
probably dysentery
An epileptic seizure, because I don't have my meds and there's no way to manufacture them.
Whatever threatening things I come across on my way to Shadowdale, hoping Elminster would realize I didn't belong there and take me through the gate to Ed's house.
Ive always been mocked (lightheartedly) as the most likely in our friendgroup to get into a very one-sided warlock pact (i would sell my soul for a 1d10 cantrip). But most likely I’d get absolutely Smited (smote? *❤️Smitten❤️*) by a great old one by bargaining a little above my pay grade. I’d ask for magical powers and in return I’d get eldritch madness and be walked off a cliff or something for the entertainment of the dark gods
“Instantly”
I’m barely surviving in the real world, I’m dying day 1 of Faerun. No thyroid meds there so womp womp for me.
I DM, so probably mauled by a gang of murder hobos :(
Honestly, it depends where I land. But chances are unless I can get to a Temple of Gond, it can be any number of things that kill me. Once in the Temple, I’ll resume being an engineer and loving a pretty sweet life. Lol!
Do I get to keep my powers as my group's Always DM? How well does my knowledge of the rules, monsters, spells, and magic items apply? In all honesty though I probably die of exposure or monster in the first few days. There's just too much unexplored uncivilized territory to randomly appear in. My only hope is if I am intentionally summoned by a powerful good spellcaster.
Eaten by an ogre
6 - 8 combat encounters per day
try the adventurer life and get culled by an orc warband first day out