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Tribality – Tue, 18 March, 04:01 AM
From Netflix to Tabletop: The Electric State RPG Invites You Into a Stunning, Somber Alternate Reality From the Mind of Simon Stålenhag Journey to the fringes of a dark, unraveling world punctuated by bright colors and striking mascots The Electric State is here. Last week, Netflix released the majo... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Tue, 18 March, 04:00 AM
(The original post appeared here.)And so we come, once again, to an excellent article written by Ed Greenwood – "The Nine Hells, Part I," which appeared in issue #75 (July 1983) of Dragon. In retrospect, it's easy to see why Greenwood would enjoy such success; he was not only prolific but also imagi... read more.
Faxfire's Eyrie – Tue, 18 March, 02:30 AM
The following lore book was written for the players in my ongoing Ptolus campaign to provide some in-game lore to the players on the cult of the Ebon Hand, one of the chaos cults operating in Ptolus. This large tome of battered leather, with metal reinforced corners and spine seems to contain the bo... read more.
Roleplaying Tips – Tue, 18 March, 01:45 AM
Chat GPT recently launched a scheduled tasks feature. One task you can create will email you stuff. I’ve used followupthen.com and task features in my email app for years now to do this. For example, there a neat trick I learned from an HR consultant who did a presentation at the day job in the […] ... read more.
Nerdarchy – Tue, 18 March, 01:13 AM
How to Build Grounded, Adaptable Species for Darker, Wilder Worlds In gritty, post-apocalyptic, or chaos-wracked settings, traditional fantasy races can sometimes feel out of place. Elves who live for 700 years and perfect art forms don’t always mesh well with rusting spires, toxic rain, and...... read more.
Arcane Eye – Tue, 18 March, 12:19 AM
The Warlock class in D&D 5.5e offers a dastardly blend of pact magic, eldritch invocations, and charismatic social skills. Master your patron’s power, choose pact spells, and create your unscrupulous spellcaster with our in-depth Warlock guide!... read more.
Arcane Eye – Tue, 18 March, 12:06 AM
The Warlock’s invocations make them one of the most customizable 5e classes. Optimizing these abilities are paramount to creating a powerfully unique Warlock build.... read more.
Tales of the Lunar Lands – Tue, 18 March, 12:04 AM
As any polyglots out there could probably guess, Baharata corresponds to the Indian Subcontinent in the overworld of Dragon Quest III. It's a large region, with considerable swathes of wilderness, but isolated from the rest of the world, with large mountain ranges separating it from Ashalam and the ... read more.
Tribality – Mon, 17 March, 10:11 PM
Get ready to embark on an epic adventure through the land of Krynn with the ultimate Dragonlance collection of novels, Michael! Wizards of the Coast today announced The World of Dragonlance in partnership with Penguin Random House and Humble Bundle, a collection of ebooks that lets fans experience t... read more.
The Alexandrian – Mon, 17 March, 10:01 PM
Bringing the group together during Session 0 can take a lot of forms, but it ultimately boils down to figuring out why this specific group of PCs is going to stick together and go on adventures / solve mysteries / get in trouble / work with each other week after week. Whatever the modus operandi of... read more.
Behind the Helm – Mon, 17 March, 08:38 PM
Reading Cities Fixed at Last by Nael Fox over at Billhook got me thinking. On one hand, about procedures for building cities, and on the other hand, about the role cities play in campaigns of differing playstyles. Here, I'll tell you how I like to use cities, and then how to make them to suit it bes... read more.
The Kind GM – Mon, 17 March, 05:50 PM
Double humble bundle deals just for you! Before we move on, let me remind you of the ongoing bundles:Iron Kingdoms Collection – 65 items including rulebooks, sourcebooks, and campaigns for a steampunk fantasy setting. Ends around April 5th for about €28.66.Megadungeon Megabundle – 84 items with dung... read more.
One Foot in Fairyland – Mon, 17 March, 05:00 PM
Last week, organizers announced on social media that Big Bad Con (an annual game convention held in the fall Burlingame, Calif.) and Big Bad Online (a TTRPG-related panel discussion series streamed on Twitch) would not be held in 2025. They left unanswered the question of whether the events would re... read more.
Dungeon Master Assistance – Mon, 17 March, 04:23 PM
D&D 5E Character Sheet Many D&D fans are not switching from the previous version (D&D 5e) to the 2024 version (that I call D&D 5.5) and they could use a new, improved version of their character sheet. This is it. It has 4 pages, 2 sheets if printed on both sides. (Note that I will be referring to ... read more.
Dyson's Dodecahedron – Mon, 17 March, 04:17 PM
Building 12 – General Goods Store (300 dpi promo, no commercial license) Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw ... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Mon, 17 March, 04:00 PM
With two more polls closed, let's take a look at the results, starting with when were you first introduced to roleplaying games? When I posted this poll on March 3, my initial guess was that most of my regular readers were introduced to tabletop RPGs sometime between 1979 and 1983. As you can see, ... read more.
Azukail Games – Mon, 17 March, 03:56 PM
10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Europe’s Finance Commission. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks. Audits by the Finance Commission ... read more.
Richard Green | Game Designer – Mon, 17 March, 03:00 PM
Courts of the Shadow Fey was the third 4th Edition Open Design project from Kobold Press. I ran the adventure in 2011 as part of the same Parsantium campaign as Wrath of the River King and Halls of the Mountain King. This is a really fun but tricky adventure to run so hopefully these write-ups will ... read more.
EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Mon, 17 March, 02:16 PM
The Tangled Web and Fallen London join the million-dollar club!... read more.
Blog of Holding – Mon, 17 March, 01:58 PM
One of the more puzzling non-changes in the D&D 2024 edition refresh is that they didn’t make any changes to damage vulnerability. In 5e D&D (both 2014 and 2024), resistance to a damage type means you take half the damage. This is fine. Conversely, vulnerability to damage means you take double the d... read more.
DIY & dragons – Mon, 17 March, 01:30 PM
This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five, which made it easier to give shout-outs to all my runners-up. So here are my favorite things from 2024! If there's a trend, I think it's that I've appla... read more.
Campaign Mastery – Mon, 17 March, 01:00 PM
Introduction by Mike Today, in support of a new RPG product, The Glumdark, I have a guest post by the author, Christopher Drellow. Glumdark is a massive, fully illustrated, painstakingly constructed resource for Game Masters and players of dark fantasy tabletop roleplaying games. Recommended for the... read more.
Kobold Press – Mon, 17 March, 01:00 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 Free City of Zobeck gets all the worldly acclaim for clockwork wond... read more.
A Knight at the Opera – Mon, 17 March, 12:57 PM
Alternative series title: My (Frequently Tested, Yet Still Dubious) Theory of Urban GameplayApparently it's been too long since I last wrote about settlements in D&D (and similar games). I've certainly written a lot on the subject in the past, but the whippersnappers have been discussing it lately a... read more.
Elfmaids & Octopi – Mon, 17 March, 12:46 PM
Also see Mantygre or mantygerIm a bit woozy and not very creative after last big book project so monsters for a whileThese are a mythology classic and changed wildly from ancient Persia, to Greeks and Romans to Medieval Europe and modern fantasy. So good for my treatment for monster stats. I'll prob... read more.
EN World: D&D & Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Mon, 17 March, 12:30 PM
If you're a DM who frequently uses area-of-effect spells, you know the struggle of accurately visualizing those spell ranges.... read more.
A Knight at the Opera – Mon, 17 March, 12:12 PM
This is my best attempt at cataloguing all the sources I've read while trying to learn more about urban gameplay in D&D-like games. This is partly because it may interest you and partly because I don't want people recommending me stuff I've already read. Or if they are recommending me something new,... read more.
From the Sorcerer's Skull – Mon, 17 March, 11:00 AM
I've recently been listening to the audiobook of 24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Yijie Zhuang, part of the 24 Hours in Ancient History series that includes volumes of Rome, Athens, and Egypt by various authors. The conceit of the series is that in a succ... read more.
Playful Void – Mon, 17 March, 09:44 AM
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath.... read more.
Roleplaying Tips – Mon, 17 March, 09:27 AM
Legacy Gems is a set of homebrew rules created by Wizard of Adventure Auke. In his world of Tem, certain gems can be incorporated into magic items to enhance their power. The strength of these Legacy Gems grows alongside the wielder, reflecting their mastery and dedication. Download Auke’s gem homeb... read more.
Skeleton Code Machine – Mon, 17 March, 09:25 AM
Pre-orders for ADVENTURE! Make Your own TTRPG Adventure are open now! Written by the author of the ENNIE-nominated Skeleton Code Machine, ADVENTURE! covers the essential TTRPG adventure-making elements such as hooks, encounters, maps, and NPCs.I could do that!My childhood copies of Ed Emberley’s dra... read more.
Seed of Worlds – Mon, 17 March, 08:50 AM
A fine haul of links from about the interweb. For more, see the previous list found here or on the restored weekly blogroll on r/OSR or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Blogstones shares Thoughts on Folk Gaming Necrotic Gnome gives us Dolmenwo... read more.
Sly Flourish – Mon, 17 March, 06:00 AM
Before we begin, I wanted to let you know that our book for building and running awesome monsters, Forge of Foes, is now available as an audiobook narrated by Colby Elliot! Colby has narrated other Sly Flourish books and each recording is outstanding. Pick up the Audible version of Forge of Foes tod... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Mon, 17 March, 04:00 AM
We've got a very simple poll this week: was your first tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons? I suspect that the vast majority of people who read this blog entered the hobby through D&D, but I'm nevertheless curious about the number who didn't. If you answered "no," please use the comments to indicate the... read more.