[DnDStoryTeller]

So not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I hope this is okay!

Hi all, a bit of a recent addition to the site, but looking forward to posting some stuff I find around in the future in a few of the different threads. This particular thread however is to share something I think is pretty cool and that is that I managed to get an ENF mechanic in my DnD game which was really fun to try out!

Now if I do write this out as a story (if anybody cares to hear it), I will write it out more as a character-thing then as the players, but for some context I will cover about the background of the game here.

So for anybody who is new to tabletop games (though I doubt few have not heard of it) DnD stands for Dungeons and Dragons which is effectively a Lord of the Rings-esque game where you and friends play as adventurers going on a quest led by a dungeon master who is the eyes and ears of the player's journey. A lot of the mechanics are made through the books, but players and dungeon masters (from now on DM) can homebrew where they find a make their own rules. This is basically how my ENF rule-set came about.

So for some background on things, I go to a weekly group I met through a friend which is a pretty lax group. There are five players and a DM, which equates to five guys and a girl (though for the first two it was only four of us). We have played a couple of campaigns before which was pretty fun and this time we were allowed to homebrew instead of following the player's guide so long as we are realistic and don't pick something too powerful for the early game (at least not without restrictions). So we all did as such and built our characters on our own with a bit of input from the DM (as he usually makes the beginning and end of the rules).

Now I was interested in something for a while, but mainly because it could be done in a funny, sexy way. I wanted to become a lycanthrope, more specifically a werebear (kind of like a werewolf, but instead a bear). Now there are a bunch of rules to it (I won't bore you with them unless it is in a more detailed second post), but one of them was that the stuff you're carrying doesn't transform and instead falls off leaving you naked (in our game this was something I implied should happen for definite).

Now leading into this I managed to get the okay with a few restrictions and one of them I also kind of suggested was that I would have a time-limit on transformation since lycanthropy is kind of strong and that afterward I would always be naked whether or not I am in combat or any other situation. This was also encouraged by me to have another restriction.

A naked freak-out rule.

Now to elaborate DnD has a few rules with an emphasis on combat. Combat is taken in turns and the player can only act during their turn. During combat statistics that each player has tied to their character is taken into account and allows the player to perform different actions or dodge different things. The rules work something like this. In combat I can transform for three turns during a fight (I get to attack three times), but afterwards I would transform back and since I was naked and exposed I would have to gather my composure whilst the enemies would have to resist being distracted (which will be done with the stat wisdom) on my and their turns respectively. After I gather my composure I would have to run and grab some clothes or something to cover myself before continuing the fight.

This was originally only meant for me but two of the other players who are playing women also wanted to try it out (one is the girl), and so now we include a clothing damage mechanic!

I have done a couple of sessions and would love to chat further about it if anybody is interested in hearing it! I will probably link it to a blog on wordpress just so I can weekly updates as I find it might be easier and if I can draw some art or something will recreate some of the scenes.

Please tell me what you think!