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Dungeon Fantastic – Tue, 23 April, 01:42 AM
In Felltower, we use a little rule buried in the back of Basic Set: Characters (p. B326) that makes critical hits just bypass defenses, no table roll, and a "3" is max damage. One way I thought of speeding combat - thanks to additional lethality - is to make all critical hits maximum damage. Roll a... read more.
Dyson's Dodecahedron – Mon, 22 April, 09:39 PM
Scavengers’ Deep – Map 6 (300 dpi promo) The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted ... read more.
Rascal News – Mon, 22 April, 08:00 PM
This is a community submitted press release.London— April 21, 2024 — Pelgrane Press has announced that on May 7 it will launch the crowdfunding campaign for 13th Age Second Edition, the D20-rolling heroic fantasy roleplaying game by designers Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet with art by Lee Moyer and ... read more.
EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Mon, 22 April, 07:55 PM
Action-Heroes is a cinematic toolkit role-playing game with a D6 dice pool system. The game encourages collaborative play in a group that give players the tools to play characters that are larger than life doing explosive action that roots them as the center of their world. There are no classes in ... read more.
D&D Beyond – Mon, 22 April, 06:21 PM
When Vecna seeks to unleash his will on the multiverse, your party is going to need some help foiling his plots. Meet your allies, the Wizards Three, here!... read more.
Rascal News – Mon, 22 April, 06:00 PM
Combining shared worldbuilding and an antagonistic structure, Elder Mythos is a game driven by the Year Zero Engine and inspired by The Quiet Year. Mana Project Studio, an Italian roleplaying game publisher and distributor has been putting out games like Historia and Not the End—work that focuses on... read more.
Kobold Press – Mon, 22 April, 03:33 PM
It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content you can drop into your campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new inspiration each Midgard Monday! The Midgard Worldbook is packed to the brim with lore and legends of... read more.
Azukail Games – Mon, 22 April, 03:03 PM
10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Night City This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard in or about the Charter Hill district of Night City. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks. Andrew Scyt... read more.
Richard Green | Game Designer – Mon, 22 April, 03:00 PM
Halls of the Mountain King was the second 4th Edition Open Design project from Kobold Press. I ran the adventure in 2010 as part of the same Parsantium campaign as Wrath of the River King. I designed the derro insanity tech items that appear in this session. I think they were meant to go in the 4e c... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Mon, 22 April, 02:00 PM
Does anyone else remember this game? And, by "remember," I mean remember its advertisements from Dragon magazine?I've looked into it and apparently, unlike other games I also saw advertised around the same time, Witch Hunt was actually released in 1983, along with an adventure module for it the foll... read more.
The Alexandrian – Mon, 22 April, 01:00 PM
Go to Table of Contents In addition to the Three Cities attacks in Phase 2 of Storm King’s Thunder, the pointcrawl in Phase 3 of the campaign is filled with a plethora of giant attacks, raids, and other activity. The map above shows the locations of these encounters, color coded by the giant factio... read more.
EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Mon, 22 April, 12:30 PM
Dreams are not an uncommon trope in fantasy settings, but the first recorded nightmare haunts us to this day.... read more.
From the Sorcerer's Skull – Mon, 22 April, 12:04 PM
I think my group will finish up our current campaign in the Land of Azurth this year, and though with months to go some plenty of time to change my mind, I'm in the mood for something different. With a semi-new edition of D&D arriving around that time and other, similar options available (Shadow of ... read more.
Gnome Stew – Mon, 22 April, 10:00 AM
One of my gaming groups plays a mashed up game with three genres: Highschool, Swashbuckling, and Urban Fantasy. We call it Children of the Shroud. In the game we play high school kids in a hidden magic world. As part of our magical learning we are part of the Junior Guardians club. It’s a club for ... read more.
Seed of Worlds – Mon, 22 April, 06:57 AM
Substantial archive dive this week. For more links, see the previous list found here or you can check the RPG Blog Carnival or on Third Kingdom Games news roundup. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Grumpy Wizard gives us Tolkien’s Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits Don’t Belong i... read more.
The Gameatory – Mon, 22 April, 06:50 AM
Descending the stairs—with doughty Elmo and Lion in the lead—the group crept ever downwards. However, stealth was not to be when Lion tripped and scraped his armour and shield along a wall. Whatever lurked below likely knew danger approached.It got noticeably colder as the characters descended the s... read more.
Alphastream – Mon, 22 April, 06:31 AM
The Council of Waterdeep – Art from Tyranny of Dragons On April 3rd, 2023, about 30 community members visited the Wizards of the Coast offices for a Creator Summit. Another 100 joined virtually. The event was prompted by the OGL debacle and was promised to be the first of many, with tangible result... read more.
Sly Flourish – Mon, 22 April, 06:00 AM
Over the past couple of months I've written articles defining adventure types – how we prep them, how we run them, what pitfalls we might run into, and how to mitigate those pitfalls. These articles include: Dungeon Crawls Infiltrations and Heists Investigations and Mysteries Overland Exploration a... read more.
Wyrmworks Publishing – Mon, 22 April, 04:21 AM
Using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to enhance your #DnD game, their limitations & alternative solutions #TTRPG The post 5 DnD ChatGPT Prompts to Make Your Game Better first appeared on Wyrmworks Publishing.... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Mon, 22 April, 04:00 AM
During the Grognardia drinking game, I suspect my readers have thrown back a few whenever the 1977 Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set edited by J. Eric Holmes is mentioned. Because it was my introduction to the hobby, I still have a special affection for it over all the other D&D products I've bought over... read more.
Dungeon Fantastic – Mon, 22 April, 12:32 AM
Updates to Felltower in anticipation of next week's game. Volunteers? For quite a while, no one has delved into Felltower. Those that did, returned battered and usually no better off. But the last group came back talking about beating up some beetles and taking home a nice payoff. That's the kind ... read more.