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We had a few folks in the #StarTrekAdventures group who didn't have mini dice towers. I've fixed that for them by combining three different #3DPrinting models and a little industrial glue. Bonus, it uses up some of my least used filaments. #TTRPG #ChaoticQueer #GeekCrafts
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Photo of three green mini dice towers with a tan Star Trek delta from the monster maroons era on the side; along with the individual names Erica, Sarah, and Aaron on the tops in the same tan.
I think static initiative is an interesting idea for #DnD and #Pathfinder.
1. All monsters have the same static initiative, annouced by the DM.
2. Players roll initiative and note if they're "faster" or "slower" than the monsters.
Each turn, the fast players go first, then the monsters, then the slow players.
You won't have to keep track of initiative order for every single monster and player.
Optionally, players can re-roll initiative before each round to keep it more dynamic.
#TTRPG
Vanishing Blogs From the Old Days
https://followmeanddie.com/2026/08/15/vanishing-blogs-from-the-old-days/
FRESH NEW BLOG POST: Running a Year Zero Engine RPG session for international students from China, Japan and South Korea at the university visiting for a 2 week programme. #ttrpg #ttrpgineducation
Is there no longer a way to export your dwarf fortress maps?!?
How am I supposed to turn this into a dungeon for my RPG campaign?
Ten years ago, I hobbled together my take on FASERIP by taking the public domain 4CS game and changing it to use 1d20 and doing a makeover on the tables and rules. It now has 850+ downloads.
Even the art in the pdf is public domain from comic books that let their copyright expire.
Anyone have an RPG blog want to join in on the poison ring? https://mtb-za.github.io/says-who/thoughts/2026/08/poison-relay-01/
I'm tagged to go up next but I need someone who is willing to go after me before I can put up my post :)
Neither Applesauce nor Cooking With Applesauce includes explicit character-creation rules, but I DID write some. Here they are, as an outtake:
1. Make a character.
2. The GM will let you know if anything needs adjustment.
Applesauce pregens each include the hundred-word text of the game system, along with an example (or two) specific to the character.
For a while I struggled to find a good universal _format_ for the examples.
Then I remembered that I think symmetry is for dipshits. Mantra of mine for most of my life.
The question is how I FORGOT that basic pillar of my design philosophy, in that context, for over a year. 😂
Ah well. Chalk it up to being a numbskull. And a dipshit. 😬
It's fun seeing which early #WorldBuilding choices grow the larger footprints. 🤔
There are four main cultural "buckets" in #Hammondal, one of which is the native Naelish. One of my first firm understandings about the city is that there are no Naelish ghosts in town. Plenty of ghosts, but never Nael.
It was just a bit of melancholy for a specific NPC in the ghost community at first, but it's become a pillar of Naelish understanding.
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A kind of heat-map of prosperity in Hammondal (a city short on prosperity) with brighter greens representing the more prosperous areas.
Bei mir ist das Buch noch nicht angekommen, aber kaufen kann man "Mit fremden Augen" (Rocket Books) ab heute. Wer Aventurien und DSA liebt, kriegt Andergast, Echsen, Dämonen, Havena, Liebe, niederhöllische Bibliotheken und Außenseiter, die zusammenhalten. Wer von all dem keine Ahnung hat, kriegt eine bunte Geschichte um Selbstbehauptung und eigene Wege. Ich freue mich. #dsa #aventurien #pnp #ttrpg #roman
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Titelbild des DSA-Romans "Mit fremden Augen" von Jasper Nicolaisen. Ein Halbork späht um eine Säule in einer gewaltigen Bibliothek. Ein blaues Riesenauge verfolgt ihn ungesehen an der Decke.
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LordStargazer/117092667164733919
Michael is a long-time, like-a-brother friend of mine who writes great, fun, easy-to-learn and easy-to-play games -- all for free! I may even have something to do with several of the games written by various folks and published under his imprint! (Under my necronym, but hey, the perils of transitioning as a mature adult...) You can even find my own game based on his magnificent WyRM System: Resolute, Adventurer & Genius.
Go check out his site, explore the games, and be entertained!
I'm making a resetting Symbol of Exsanguination #Trap for my #Pathfinder1e #Ustalav game.
I haven't decided on what action activates the trap.
A Symbol of Exsanguination has the same triggering condition options as a Symbol of Death, which is one or more of:
look at | read | touch | pass over | pass through a portal bearing
...the rune
It can be multiple. I'm thinking "read," "touch," and "pass over" as the activators.
https://www.aonprd.com/SpellDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Symbol%20of%20Exsanguination
Going to be running one shots of Odin’s Eye 1 & 2 this weekend as part of NSR’s online camp weekend. I’ve got room for more players. Games will be 6pm Pacific, one Sat, one Sun.
One of the things I love about praxis is how you can get different stories from the same set based on what roles are picked.
If someone plays the First Lieutenant but there’s no Captain, you get a story about someone stepping up to leadership during a crisis.
Stadtkarten.
#ttrpg #pnpde #sandbox #citybuilder
https://iam-scire.itch.io/stdte
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Mechanik zur Stadterschaffung auf einer Seite.
Have you had a look at Issue 58 of d12 Monthly, my #DnD zine? It’s an alternate players' guide for @OSE.
So, get your old school #DungeonsAndDragon gear on and grab a copy today! https://yumdm.short.gy/d12Monthly58
Odin’s Eye II: Gate of Light is now out.
In *Gate of Light*, the characters are a space-faring mercenary crew aboard *Thor’s Hammer*, a ship that has seen better days. They have been contracted to uncover the fate of a missing search and rescue team aboard *Odin’s Eye*. But before they can reach them, an emergency landing forces *Thor’s Hammer* onto an unchartered and uninhabited planet…
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/353735/praxis-odin-s-eye-ii-gate-of-light
Ooooh This looks good. Does anyone get these? I might have to snag a few. Issue 30 is on sale, as well. https://yumdm.short.gy/Crusader30
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG
Getting older is also reading the 1st edition of Shadowrun and realizing we were promised a dystopia where the bad guys turned out to be actually interesting.
At least the money hoarding sleazeballs in Shadowrun were supersmart reptiles and not featureless balls of dough.
If you are near #Olympia, WA and enjoy a #ttrpg or #storygame, you ought to check out Heart of the Deernicorn's game night!
https://bsky.app/profile/heartofthedeernicorn.com/post/3msual4c3si24
Even Gary Gygax did not play D&D as written. Here are his house rules for OD&D he wrote about in 2007
• STR > 14: +1 to hit and +1 to damage if a Fighter
• INT > 14: +1 1st level m-u spell
• WIS > 14: +1 1st level cleric spell
• DEX > 14: +1 to AC, and +1 to move silently
• CON > 14: +1 HP per HD (same as a Fighter class gets, +2 if a
Fighter)
• CHA > 14: +1 (positive) on reaction checks
• HPs: Characters are only unconscious at 0 HPs. For each level a
character may have a minus HP total equal to the level, so a 1st level
PC is dead at -2, a 2nd level at -3, etc.
• When taking damage allow -1 HP per character level
EDITING TO ADD
https://cyclopeatron.blogspot.com/2010/03/gary-gygaxs-whitebox-od-house-rules.html
Anyone have any impressions of the Blades in the Dark #ttrpg rules set?
For context, I am familiar with 5E and Pathfinder to eat.
When a special thing like Magic or Technology exists, people will use it for fun as well as serious purposes. Remember to show people doing silly things in your world, otherwise no-one would actually want to live there.
#WorldBuilding #technology #magic #writing #ttrpg #GameDev
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A double exposure sepia plate from the late 1800s, showing a boy cringing on a chair. The transparent figure of a person covered in a sheet holding a knife has been transposed over the top. D'Augibny Hatch, Brighton at the bottom likely signifies the photographic studio.
Finally got to be a player instead of a Forever GM yesterday, in my first session of a Mythic Bastionland campaign.
Mythic Bastionland is a much more interesting game than I thought. I was sort of expecting a much more gonzo setting and system, based on what I'd seen in Electric Bastionland, but it was a lot closer to something like Pendragon - noble knights on a quest over a long period of time.
I'm playing Sir Oswald, the Fanged Knight.
Steve Jackson Games is looking for full-time PDF #Accessibility specialist as a #RemoteWork contractor.
Types of Lightning Rods for D&D and 5e: SlyFlourish.com
More Gencon Thoughts — Lazy RPG Talk Show: SlyFlourish YouTube Video
Some musings on what I like in #ttrpg :
I do like it when player characters get more powerful and competent over time. But the power curve of #DnD and its derivatives is too steep for me - I like it when a campaign has room to breathe.
Thus, some of my favorite RPGs have a middle ground of slow but steady improvement - where the players can pick some minor improvements after each session or two which become impressive over time. #GURPS and #WFRP are some good examples of this style of play - the characters can become very powerful over the course of a long campaign without actually developing into the equivalent of superheroes.
What is your preference when it comes to the power curve in RPGs?
«First Session of Running #MythicBastionland for Others»
The start of a new age and a new campaign for a pair of knight tenants.
https://takeonrules.com/2026/08/10/first-session-of-running-mythic-bastionland-for-others/
My hope is that this article will serve as a single landing-point for folks curious about what I mean by "High-Trust Trad" roleplaying, or HTT.
https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2026/08/whats-forever-for.html
But, I know about hope, and the Internet. 😁
Another Eternal Question for D&D
What D&D initiative system do you use?
If you are not familiar with the phases options, it breaks down initiative into phases of Movement, Missile, Spells, Melee.
And as always, leave a comment if none of them apply.
| individual rolls: | 15 |
| each side rolls: | 5 |
| each side rolls with phases: | 2 |
| simultaneous: | 0 |
Closed
Mahlzeit!
Auf geht’s in eine neue Woche:
Mo #CoC „Die 2-köpfige Schlange“
Mi #dnd5.5 „Die Rückkehr der Drachenkönigin“
Fr #Hexxen1733 „Die Wächter von Tirol“
Schöne Woche euch allen!
#pnpde #ttrpg
RE: https://dice.camp/@geeknative/117061539894574483
I saw this post on Bluesky, and I kind of miss this era. I know Random Tables are not new to RPGs at all, but they have their appeal. AI can make prep faster than before, but it also loses something in translation, if you know what I mean.
Discoverable Terrain in TTRPGs
During the Covid-19 phase, my group went online. We used Roll20 to continue playing.
Some aspects of this transformation were bad, other aspects were good.
Among the things that worked better was the easy handling of discoverable terrain.
You had the complete ma, but revealed only what the players could see. One could easily have "hidden" points-of-interest that awaited their discovery on a second layer.
I have been looking into how I could preserve this discoverability when going onprem again.
For dungeons I was using "Dungeon Blocks" with self-printed blocks.
But for the maps of the region, I was still missing an option until I discovers Masters of the Realm.
This allows me to design a region at the PC and then create 3d-printed hey tiles to make it "physical".
As my printer (Bambulabs P2S) allows color changed per layer, I was able to reduce the "hand painting" of the tiles to a minimum.
Below you see images of the first map I used in an adventure today.
#3dprinting #ttrpg #discoverableterrain
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Fantasy 3D map for a TTRPG in a tilt-shift like perspective.
One can see that the scenario is built from hex tiles. In the map you see roads, buildings, forrests and mountains in the background.
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Fantasy 3D map for a TTRPG. The map is photographed from above.
One can see that the scenario is built from hex tiles. In the map you see roads, buildings, forests, a ruined tower and mountains at the top.
Another itch.io anecdote!
For the last couple of days, 80% of people buying my little hobby games on itch added a tip on top of the asking price. And not just a $1 tip - one person tipped $15!
As usual, my feelings about it are less about the money and more about the vote of confidence. It’s heartening.
DTRPG is the big player in this space but I don’t get warm fuzzies from sales there. Itch feels more like a supportive community than just a storefront.
I'm Lucas. I play a lot of TTRPGs but D&D mostly. I started with 1e & have played every edition since. Now it's 5.5e weekly with the same group from high school & a group w/my son and his pals.
We also play an on-again off-again Planescape PBEM using Savage Worlds + drop into others.
What I build at Embers is for my games. Characters, campaigns, worlds, VTT. Every time I hit a wall, it goes on the list.
I tend to post about what I worked on recently.