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Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with

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Escape feelies w memes

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uhhhhh i love u

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Griffin McElroy wrote this

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Patches: truth or dare?

Ashen one: truth

Patches: what's your credit card number?

Ashen one: dare

Patches: tell me your credit card number

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Guess i’m feeling the spring vibes, cause I have no idea what this is.

pft enjoy~

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This isn't mine

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The Deadfire Post-Postmortem

Since the video of my Digital Dragons postmortem for Deadfire went up, I’ve seen a few questions and comments that I think are worth addressing.  If you haven’t seen the video yet, you can find it here:

First, it’s worth saying that this talk was only supposed to be 45 minutes, with ~15 minutes left for questions.  I overran the 45 minute mark, so please understand that I couldn’t address every criticism people leveled at the game.  I tried to talk about the things that came up most frequently in player and reviewer feedback.

Keep reading

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Good news everyone! Pillowfort.io plans to reopen registrations on March 28th. With a payment of $5 you’ll be able to get an account in our beta!    Thanks for your interest in the site and we look forward to having you on board soon.

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Can’t say enough just how much this means to me

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Controversial Opinion:

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Campaign setting hangout for my discord games! 

https://discord.gg/YG6WcBT

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ohhhh goin back to ye olde magic items ain’t we?

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RPG Design: Naming Conventions

The first thing I did when I starter designing Lords of Brackas was look at class names. I already knew what would be setting appropriate; class for psionics, class for controlley intelligent casters, class for innocent churchgoers, pickpockets, gunsmiths, etc. My issue was names that fit with the tone of the design.

It’s called Lords of Brackas for a reason; I’m doubling down on adventurers being separate from your average monster statblock (not necessarily in complexity, mind you). 

There are Fighters out there; the player is a Warlord.  Rogues are a thing; your pc is a Guerilla (or insurgent, haven’t quite gotten it).  Rangers exist; you’re DMing for a Warden Pontiff, not Cleric.  Magi, not Wizard or Sorcerer. Templar, not Paladin.  Artificer was actually pretty difficult, and just when I got the perfect name from one of my page followers (Warsmith), I realized I had 3 classes that starter with W, two of which started with the same word! So, artificer stuck around.

You get the idea, though; the names are meant to evoke *authority*.

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A *somewhat* complex example of artifacts enhancing player and class abilities.