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dungeon-apprentice
watch yourself in the caves - there's lizards
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dungeon-apprentice · 7 days ago
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welcome to my epic fantasy world. we have many developed fantasy kingdoms with 2000 years of rich lore and history. and to the south you can see the evil sand people and to the east theres japanchina.
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dungeon-apprentice · 9 days ago
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Every online joke post about designing dungeon encounters: when in doubt, give them a riddle or puzzle! That will stump them for an hour!
Me: it'll be answered in 2 seconds by my players and I can't even complain because I have also done that to DMs myself
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dungeon-apprentice · 11 days ago
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I mean this kindly, as I agree with the premise, but if you want people to play ttrpgs other than D&D, you need to start talking about why those games are enjoyable, instead of making fun of people for homebrewing in 5e for the umpteenth time
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dungeon-apprentice · 13 days ago
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i can't express how absolutely important it is that when you make an edgy, brooding, badass character who's tough as nails and good at fighting and whatever, you HAVE to give them at least one reason to become completely helpless and pathetic. you have a panic attack quota to fulfill.
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dungeon-apprentice · 14 days ago
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⚔️ Gelatinous Cube tokens on Patreon
D&D 5e Large Ooze, Unaligned | CR 2 Pathfinder 2e Marge Ooze | Creature Level 3
Sages believe these creatures evolved as a specialized advancement of gray oozes. Some beings use gelatinous cubes as protectors of dungeons and underground fortifications, trapping the immense creatures in massive metal crates and transporting them through either slave power or magic to their final guard posts. They make particularly efficient waste disposal mechanisims as well—a tribe that can trap a gelatinous cube in a pit or other area that it cannot climb out of can use it as a midden or even a deadly trap, depending only on the ingenuity of the creatures who caught it. — Pathfinder RPG Bestiary pg. 138
By supporting us on Patreon you will get access to more than 400 creatures, maps and assets! Complement your campaigns with hq hand-drawn tokens and start building the adventure of your dreams with our isometric and 2D assets 🏰!
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dungeon-apprentice · 14 days ago
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my favourite thing about the dragon age ttrpg so far is that it’s possible to roll so badly when casting a spell that you turn into an abomination and that’s it for your character.
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dungeon-apprentice · 15 days ago
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Greetings!
The adventurers managed to get out of the inn and into the burning streets. Being the heroes that they are, they start to help everyone they can along the way.
The commotion is bigger than they imagined, and the destruction of the city even more so. The very ground below was ripped apart, creating rivers of lava in the once-beautiful city.
For now, their only quest is to rescue as many people as they possibly can. Will they be able to do so? Or will a falling beam knock them unconscious?
You can see a preview of this map’s Patreon content by clicking here.
If you liked the map I’d be extremely thankful if you considered supporting me on my Patreon, rewards include higher resolution files, gridless versions, alternate versions, line versions, PSDs and more. Thank you!
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dungeon-apprentice · 22 days ago
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05.10 - Morningstar
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dungeon-apprentice · 24 days ago
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Bustling with color, clamor, and the scent of exotic spices, the city’s marketplace teems with traders hawking wares from distant lands, magical trinkets, and enchanted beasts in cages. Beneath the lively chaos, whispers of black market deals and cursed items linger in the night markets.
Welcome to the Markets Map Pack!
It features 8 market-themed maps, including market stalls, night markets, and other encounters. Patrons get access to gridded/ungridded and watermark-free maps. The grid size of each map is 26x39.
View the full map pack here.
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dungeon-apprentice · 25 days ago
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BTW you can buy prints of my art–>INPRNT
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dungeon-apprentice · 28 days ago
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In the D&D campaign I'm running with my wife's siblings, one of them learned about how trolls regenerate within minutes of any damage not caused by fire or acid, and then asked why people don't just like. Cage them and eat them, forever. Why there aren't troll meat dungeons in the king's castle as a safeguard against sieges or famines.
And you know, I thought it was a fair question, so I said that if you eat enough troll meat, you start getting troll-y. And then I went further and just treated it like troll flesh is a general contaminant - if you eat enough troll, you'll turn into a troll, but if you bury enough dead troll flesh in a forest, the trees will start growing in strange ways, and will scream and heal and bleed when you hit them with axes.
I liked this idea. So as we played further, I just played around with the idea of Troll Origins, and I came up with something sort of like the Odyssey, but instead stealing Helios's cattle, it was Hathor's, and the horrible, awful, unending immortality was her curse of the army that pillaged her lands. A god of healing does not condemn you to die, she condemns you to live.
And then I got this fun idea for maybe the king that led the army is still kind of alive in the troll taint. Like a sort of literal fisher king. The kingdom is sick because he is, literally, the kingdom. The trees that bleed, bleed his blood and their screams are his screams. He is both the faintly green bear running down the mountain and the faintly green deer and there is no way past this without suffering. He is the entire ecosystem, and he eats nothing but himself and he dreams nothing but death and yet still, on and on and on and on, he lives.
Anyway they're traveling next session so I'm throwing this shit at them. I already have some gross ideas for like. Describing everything like it's a body (flowers red as blood, white as bone, pink as meat, grass fine as hair) then finally throwing horrible living things at them. Trees that grow eyeballs that turn and stare at them, or flowers with teeth instead of petals and trolls that speak in long dead tongues about how they wish they'd never tried to rob a god.
Anyway I'm passing this on because this is my new troll lore and I want it to become canonized in the way that all D&D lore becomes canonized: By having eople read it and go "oh, neat" then start doing that too.
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dungeon-apprentice · 28 days ago
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40mm D20s are in!
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dungeon-apprentice · 1 month ago
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Have you played The One Ring ?
By Francesco Nepitello & Marco Maggi
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Enter the world of Middle-earth with The One Ring, the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.
This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardcover manual presents Middle-earth as it was twenty years after Bilbo Baggins’ remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The great events narrated in The Lord of the Rings™ are still fifty years away, leaving plenty of room to narrate stories worthy of an epic.
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dungeon-apprentice · 1 month ago
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Writing a d&d campaign is 5% actually writing and 95% getting lost in the most obscure fandom wikis
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dungeon-apprentice · 1 month ago
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Blizzard Dice Set
All numbers are painted after purchase so each Set can be personalized.
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dungeon-apprentice · 1 month ago
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okay well. i hope the ghost of you that i begin to hallucinate out of guilt after you die suddenly, tragically, and entirely preventably is a better friend than you ever were.
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dungeon-apprentice · 1 month ago
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Villain: The Widow of Lampara. 
Adventure hooks: 
Dark omens fill the countryside: in recent weeks the sun seems unable to part an everpresent gloom that’s settled over the land , ravens and other scavengers swarm in unnatural numbers,  and livestock has begun to collapse in the field riddled with unseen sickness and rot. Landowners and church officials alike seek an origin of this creeping darkness. 
Those traveling through the region are warned away from the Lampara estate, apparently folk in that region have been going missing ever since the old master took ill, and rumors of plague persist. If the party does investigate, they’ll find a perfectly maintained fields and elaborate lawns presided over by a coordinated staff of the withered dead. 
A harrowed youth has sought out the party for their reputation as heroes. Years ago she witnessed the death of her  family at the hands of a mob of dead men, who followed up their tireless massacre by burning her home to the ground.  Staying quiet for many years, she puts the blame squarely on the wicked old man her Aunt was forced to marry, who disappeared shortly after the engagement and hasn’t been seen since.  
A party with a reputation for good results and less than perfect morals may receive a gilded invitation to Lampara, delivered by a withered footman in exquisite livery. The Mistress of the Estate has need of their services 
Setup: The Widow Dahlia Lampara is not your typical necromancer. She cares nothing for raising an army of undead to assert her dominance over surrounding kingdoms, nor is she motivated by a fear of death that drives her to cleave mortal souls in search of eternal life. Raised as a member of the petty landowning nobility, she is more than happy to carry on that genteel existence, using her powers to ensure a life of comfort and routine, without the presence of any servants or social dues that may infringe on her solitude.  Her desire for isolation is such that she is currently seeking a way to carry her estate off to the shadowfell, in the hopes that the lifeless realm will provide less distractions from ignorant farmers or would be dogooders. 
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