Tumblr Thread About Playing D&D Is Full Of Feels

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Ada Elder
Mar 20, 2020 8:00 PM EDT

We don't usually expect to get all teary-eyed from a Tumblr writing prompt, but we definitely appreciate surprises. This particular prompt imagines a situation in which Death decides to offer a game in exchange for our protagonist's life. Dungeons and Dragons, a game that can be endless, is quickly chosen. We follow their years-long journey and by the end the sappiness is supreme. 

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    Text - writing-prompt-s Death offers a game for your life. You decide on D&D studioprey "I assume you've never played?" I asked. The cloaked figure across from me shook their head slowly. "Great," I said. "Ill be the DM. I'l walk you through everything. First, character creation." Six hours later Death sat leaned over the table with a mountain dew in one hand and a D20 in the other. Their hood was thrown back to reveal a bleached grinning skull. We were in the company of four infernals from the
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    Text - "Fuck. This is the best time I've had in centuries, but I really should get back to work," they said reluctantly. "Yea..." One of the demons agreed. "I actually have a meeting with some senators in like an hour." "Same time next week?" Death asked. "I'll be here," I agreed. I suspected they knew before we started that this was a game that didn't have to have an end and didn't have a winner.
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    Text - thequantumwritings They came back the next week, and the week after that. After a month of weekly sessions, Death pulled me aside. "Hey," he muttered, shuffling his skeletal feet a bit and rubbing his arm. "I don't want to be That Guy, but this game does have an end, right? I'm having a blast, but this is still technically work for me, and I have to file reports, especially with all the loopholes I had to pull on to get a multi session game approved in the first place." "Oh, yeah, for sur
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    Text - The weeks turned into months, turned into years, and Death stopped his reminders that our game, like everything else in the world, would eventually have to die. He told me, once, that he was determined to see this through to the end because my absurdly long game would make for a good story, but I think he had grown attached to his gnome cleric. Her magic was from the Life domain, and his grin always seemed just a touch wider every time he healed someone. Half a decade after we began, my p
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    Text - He froze, and the demons around the table turned as one to stare at him. Then, slowly, he cocked his head the same way he used to. "But you won," he said. "The object of the game is to tell a story with your friends, and you did." "But so did you!" I cried. "And everyone knows that when Death wins a game, he gets your soul." Death's grin spread wider than it ever had when he saved someone's life in-game. "Didn't you just finish pouring it into a game that you shared with me?" ONTEY Hard a
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