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Roleplaying Tips – Thu, 25 April, 01:43 AM
Before I forget…again…this Saturday is the monthly Wizard of Adventure GM chat. Get help from me and smarter GMs to help your prep, encounters, world building, player issues, or any other aspect of your campaign. Wizards of Adventure, the meeting link is here. Roleplaying Tips GMs, if you’d like to ... read more.
Rascal News – Wed, 24 April, 11:30 PM
The Sonny Rollins Quintet precedes the April 2024 Hasbro investor call. The choice of music is a lilting piece of jazz that lets its passion out in the delicate piano melodies and alternating horn solos. It’s contemplative, and as far as slow jazz goes, it’s hard to get better than I’ve Grown Accust... read more.
The Alexandrian – Wed, 24 April, 10:39 PM
APRIL 26-28, 2024 Bloomington, MN, USA I’ll be attending DaveCon this weekend! The convention celebrates “all the Daves who were there at the beginning,” including Dave Megarry (designer of the Dungeon board game), David Wesley (creator of Braunstein, the game that inspired Blackmoor), and, of co... read more.
Monte Cook Games – Wed, 24 April, 06:02 PM
Great ideas and interesting twists sometimes benefit from a little spur-of-the-moment inspiration Need to keep the pace of your game […] The post Weird Deck appeared first on Monte Cook Games.... read more.
D&D Beyond – Wed, 24 April, 05:05 PM
A cloaked figure with innumerable arms harvests the four humors of its victims. Get a sneak peek at this terrifying creature from Kobold Press.... read more.
EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Wed, 24 April, 04:18 PM
Book is near-final and includes psionic subclasses, and illustrations of named spell creators.... read more.
Rascal News – Wed, 24 April, 04:00 PM
This is a community submitted press release. It's 1985, and punk is alive. Does your band have what it takes to save a city from a fate worse than death? Welcome to The Curse of Punk, a Call of Cthulhu scenario set entirely in the beating heart of the punk movement. This scenario blends together the... read more.
Elfmaids & Octopi – Wed, 24 April, 02:34 PM
Possibly some Charginspire leaked onto our new album. Sampler shorthttps://youtube.com/shorts/Yj7jn40iomM?si=dflfJ10EdYYJqMYrMy Gunderholfen solo play has gone well im doing Lv 4 sub levels and realised id not been including rival parties who might be a good source of magic items. Im ruling as our f... read more.
Kobold Press – Wed, 24 April, 02:00 PM
As the creators of the Creature Codex and the Tome of Beasts series, we wanted to give the same love and care for the earliest 5E monsters that we gave to our other monsters. To accomplish that, we noted a few key points we wanted for each monster: Clear Identity. For each creature, we worked t... read more.
Rascal News – Wed, 24 April, 01:12 PM
When you think of a tabletop RPG–the physical product that sits on a hobby store shelf–your mind most likely conjures a book. Thus, it should be hard to argue with the claim that we read tabletop RPGs as much as we play them. Nobody ever refutes that second point (sit down, lyric games), but the fir... read more.
The Alexandrian – Wed, 24 April, 01:05 PM
DISCUSSING In the Shadow of the Spire – Session 37B: An Uneasy City At the gates of the Necropolis, Tee stopped and spoke with the Keepers of the Veil. She inquired after records of those buried in the Necropolis, hoping that they might indicate the location of Alchestrin’s ancient tomb. The knight... read more.
The GM Is Always Right - Dump Stat Adventures – Wed, 24 April, 01:00 PM
Whether your group of adventurers are obsessed with hoarding as much random ‘treasure’ as possible, or just like teasing their troubled GM and asking about every random object they come across, below is a list of 100 odd, funny, gross, and strange items a Goblin might have on their person. d100 Item... read more.
From the Sorcerer's Skull – Wed, 24 April, 11:00 AM
My mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis! This week, I'm looking at the comics at newsstands around April 21, 1983.Brave and the Bold #200: This is the final issue of Brave and the Bold, ending a 28-year run. It also happens to be a comic I bought off the stands (o... read more.
Loot The Room – Wed, 24 April, 10:27 AM
In the last post I talked about some of the fiction that has had an impact on A Dungeon Game. Today I want to talk about some of the other games that have influenced its design. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition is the game that got me started with RPGs, back in 1994 with the rele... read more.
Gnome Stew – Wed, 24 April, 10:00 AM
https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Gnomecast187-LearningAboutOSR.mp3 Ang gets JT and Walt on the mics to learn more about what the OSR (Old School… Renaissance? Revival? Retro? The R varies) actually is. Join us and learn more about this style of roleplaying game. Links: JT’s Amazon ... read more.
ars ludi – Wed, 24 April, 05:58 AM
There was a question in the comments about whether a West Marches GM should tell the players where the dungeons are or make them go out and search. Players having the free will to make decisions–and get themselves into trouble doing “a little light exploring”–is at the very heart of the West Marches... read more.
Seed of Worlds – Wed, 24 April, 05:16 AM
I got to take Stirring the Hornet's Nest at Het Thamsya to one of my open table sessions and it ran pretty well - some squeaks but those were driven by the typical open table stuff - no filtering of play-style, no session zero, ended up with a massive table (nine) of which six were new to me, four o... read more.
Roleplaying Tips – Wed, 24 April, 04:38 AM
Here’s a cool house rule sent to me by Jonathan Hardin from Sojourners Awake: My NEW favorite technique is Push Points. For every natural 1 or 20 you roll, you experience the consequences of the roll as usual, but you collect 1 point for experiencing that event. You can collect up to 10 points at […... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Wed, 24 April, 04:00 AM
I remember being very excited about the imminent release of the Oriental Adventures in 1985. Aside from the obvious reason – the introduction of playable ninja and samurai into Advanced D&D – I was quite keen to see "the Oriental lands of Oerth," as promised in the "Coming Attractions" section of Dr... read more.
Dungeon Fantastic – Wed, 24 April, 01:31 AM
I got a shipping notice for a copy of DFRPG Companion 3! I'd kind of let this one slide out of my awareness. I'm excited to see it in person . . . it's always nice to get a physical copy of something you contributed to. It's available here.... read more.
Rascal News – Wed, 24 April, 12:15 AM
Most of what I know about Tauruses I learned from my brother, who is, I think, the ultimate Taurus. He’s a big old math nerd, mostly stays at home, plays D&D, and goes on frequent walks with his dog. When he does go on trips he goes on trips to places like Morocco, Alaska, Italy. That bastard. I kne... read more.