There may or may not be a method to this madness.

strongermonster:

since i’m dming a modern-era homebrew i needed to come up w a better fitting equivalent to the ~potion seller~ so i made up this little 24hr roadside diner with a numbered menu of things you’d find in a regular diner, but are all basically just renamed potions/statboosters, (hamburger is health, coke is darkvision, fries are speedboost, etc etc), plus a ‘daily special’ that can be whatever i want, like a quest item or something to help them when they’re stuck, or anything i think of that might be cool, and you roll to get something.

plus it’s a nice way to include some npc interactions bc the majority of our gameplay takes place in uninhabited swampland, and you can only have so much fun as a dm when your speaking time is reduced to “no you can’t roll to fuck that”, swamp-related wordpictures, and alligator noises.

HOWEVER, one of my players simply cannot fucking roll anything but the same goddamn number every. mcfreakin’. time., so we had to invent a cooler to hold all the fucking milkshakes (-speed, +strength) she keeps fucking ordering by accident