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Hand-drawn map of Sandreach Pier. Ready to be added to Owlbear Rodeo!

Created this in Procreate on my iPad for my Spelljammer campaign.

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Some of the best maps ever! Considering supporting them today!

Summer’s almost here and you know what that means- engaging in deadly combat with the twisted sea people, called the Syrkeg, who seek to drown the land-dwellers beneath their cursed, brackish black waters and feed the broken bodies to their Kraken lord, Grugnosh the Death Tide. Don’t forget to wear sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy, ok?

Download the full resolution image of this map at my Patreon, as well as alternate gridless, night, and outlines-only versions!

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Making a gang? Found this awesome gang name tool!

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it's my first time trying to create a new Pathfinder class, and I think I have a decent first draft, but I'm worried it might be either over- or under-powered, and all my friends I used to play with are away at other schools now, so I can't play-test it. any general advice for creating classes, or resources for getting specific feedback and constructive criticism?

you might find it valuable to share it on the pathfinder subreddit or run a quick adventure on roll20 to find new players!

hope that helps

-mo!

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File under: inspiration!

The Call of Cthulhu - by ömer tunç

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Jester

MuYoung Kim

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d100 carousing table: Lucky Brew

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A mysterious figure, wrapped in a green cloak sits next to you at the inn, and pulls out a bottle of a sparkly emerald-green concoction. You’re spun a tale of tremendous luck, of fortune itself finding those who drink a glass of this beverage. For a price, they can have a drink of it themselves. Once the glasses are poured, and the liquid swallowed, the figure vanishes, never to be seen again. This d100 “carousing” table is full of “positive” and “lucky” results - some very helpful, some not-so-helpful, and some that may only be good for the first few hours. For 1d4 days, the powerful spell of the drink will take hold, transforming the lives of those who consumed it.

Bonus: Included is a little drink making table on the top, to help out if you get stuck on describing what exactly it is they’re downing.

HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY!

These carousing tables are being released for free to the community. If someone tries to stick this in something up for sale, they’re a douchecanoe and should be kicked in the face. Full pdf will be available soon - and will also be free.

If you’d like to support what I do, it’s super appreciated! - By reblogging/sharing these tables around social media! - By dropping a kind donation to my family’s medical fundraiser! - By visiting my Etsy store where I make handmade things!

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Bard: I just inspired you, what you do with that inspiration is up to you. Paladin: You played a single E minor and chanted “hit him, hit him”

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d100 carousing table: The Castle

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Part 4 of 10 of my carousing table series. The Castle is a set of goofy, entertaining outcomes for carousing within a royal palace, or a castle that’s lived in and functional. Can be used with standard carousing rules for nearly any system, or to encourage plot hooks, and character development in your game.

These carousing tables are being released for free to the community. If someone tries to stick this in something up for sale, they’re a douchecanoe and should be kicked in the face. Full pdf will be available soon - and will also be free.

If you’d like to support what I do, it’s super appreciated! - By reblogging/sharing these tables around social media! - By dropping by my Ko-Fi account and buying me a coffee or something! - By visiting my Etsy store where I make handmade things!

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10 cool rocks you probably didn’t know about

1) lepidolite

lepidolite is a variety of mica and is typically pink or lavender colored. when tumbled it is extremely glittery – pictures don’t do it justice!

2) ulexite

ulexite is also called “tv rock” and has a super unique optical effect – when placed over something it displays that image onto the top of the rock. it’s not merely opaque – the fibers within the mineral literally project an image onto the surface of the stone.

3) pietersite

pietersite has chatoyancy – much like tiger’s eye – that creates movement and shine through the surface of the stone. however, unlike tiger’s eye, pietersite’s chatoyancy is in swirls instead of straight lines. it’s incredible to behold – i recommend looking up pietersite on youtube and checking out videos of it under good lighting.

4) optical calcite/iceland spar

this type of calcite is actually completely clear, but refracts the light going through it in ways that create rainbows and other neat optical effects. isaac newton himself actually studied this rock to help better understand the nature of light itself & the phenomenon of optical illusions.

5) alexandrite

alexandrite is a variety of chrysoberyl that exhibits a color change! it changes from a greenish hue to a brilliant red depending on the type of light and the source. the color changes in alexandrite are phenomenal and rarely seen in other stones.

6) spectrolite

don’t let the image fool you – this stone is actually pure black. the brilliant colors it exhibits are just a flash (it’s actually called labradorescence, which is what the stone labradorite is named for). spectrolite is an uncommon form of labradorite mined only from finland. some varieties of high quality labradorite from madagascar can show a spectrolite play, but nothing is as dark with as brilliant a flash as spectrolite.

7) specular hematite

specular hematite is a variety of hematite that has a beautiful, glimmering surface especially when polished. much like lepidolite, the shimmer of specular hematite is caused by mica.

8) boulder opal

boulder opal is ironstone with cracks of brilliant natural opal running through it. these formations are entirely natural. opal has the most brilliant and vibrantly colored flash of any other stone.

9) enhydro quartz

enhydro quartz is a variety of quartz that was formed with naturally occuring water & air bubbles within them! in some specimens the water bubbles will actually move underneath the surface of the crystal.

10) fire agate

fire agate is actually a form of chalcedony, and is well known for having a beautiful rainbow effect caused by schiller, rather than flash or labradorescence. 

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Why am I not surprised?

We were staying in a secret mage town for a few days. A place where extraplanar creatures go to play poker, of all things.

DM: Alright. What are you guys going to do while you’re here?

Our Rogue: I’m going to find me a Sugar Daddy.

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What cheesy movie do you think would make a fun TTRPG session?

Me, personally I think the warriors could be made into a fun one shot

-deo

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TTRPG Dream Team

What 4 people would you pick as your dream group? For me, it would have to be these 4 with me as DM.

- Laura Bailey

-Nika Harper

-Will Wheaton

-Alan Tudyk

deo

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Star Wars RPG - One Shot Adventure

Recovery on Burton Station

The PCs are hired by an old starfarer named Guff to sneak onto a space station that’s set to be blown up in less than a day and recover an item of value that he left behind: an old astromech droid named G2-P3.

Burton Station, rumoured to be a science station studying alien life, is set to be destroyed in a day. A company called Skimworld Demolition has been tasked with the job. Guff doesn’t know that, all he knows is that it’s set to be destroyed in one day.

NOTE: in fact, the station is set to be destroyed on account of an infestation of weird plant beasts, the result of an experiment on recovered alien life that went horribly awry.

PCs need to figure out how to get past the construction crew’s safety perimeter. In addition to the members of the demolition team, there is a small squad of Imperial stormtroopers and an Imperial delegate overseeing the job.

Onboard the space station are signs the plant life has begun to grow over the controls, in the ducts, and through the systems onboard. The PCs discover logs of what happened on the station. The journals describe the delivery to the station of an unknown form of plant life by a old courier named Guff. Guff turned the package over to them, rested at the station for a few hours, and then departed. A few hours later as the plants were transferred to a holding bay for further study they began to demonstrate peculiar activity: they were able to react to touch and sound in a way that implied that they were sentient.

Over the next few days the researchers grew fond of the plants and devoted all of their time to them, forgetting about their previous experiments. Then, their lack of focus caused an accident in a lab that turned the whole station upside down. Fluids that had been feeding the plants became contaminated with an unknown mixture that caused the plants to wither and die. Then, overnight the plants were bright once more, but curiously: they were twice their original size.

The scientists mistook this turn of events to be a positive one. Within an hour the plants’ sentience, mixed with the fluid, caused them to become bloodthirsty. Two of the large plants tore one of the scientists in half. While the others fled, the plants rose up and shambled after them, slaughtering them all.

The last entry in the station’s logs - audio recorded by a terrified scientist named Nesh Sho’ta - describes what appeared to be the deadly plants fused with the bodies of scientists they’d killed, closing in on him.

Amidst the tangle, the PCs find G2-P3 powered down and unresponsive. The only way to get the droid off the station is to carry/drag it. The PCs are racing against the station’s termination clock as well as the plants that begin to threaten their lives and hunt them down.

NOTE: use stats for Gamorrean Villager for plant monsters: http://swa.stoogoff.com/#gamorrean-villager

Once they leave the station, and are on their way back to the old man, the droid suddenly comes to life with a flash and begins mimicking the clicking sounds the plants made. A light on its chest begins to pulse and a nearby computer changes its screen, displaying a readout.

To a trained eye, the readout appears to be a DNA sequence. After a while of showing genomes and markers, a single line appears at the bottom of the screen:

“Primary task initiated: routing DNA sequences through designated channels.”

The droid hums and pulses with a series of friendly-sounding notes and tones. Computer analysis of the droid indicates it’s transmitting a great amount of data to an at first unknown target. With some hacking, the PCs discover it’s being sent to a nearby Imperial shuttle.

Upon returning to Guff, the PCs find his place torn to hell and Guff himself has been battered and left for dead. Before he dies, he coughs up the following info:

“Just a job. Hired… by Goorda… Should’ve known… Imperials cast long shadows... P3 knows where Goorda is. Careful… whole system in trouble.”

Guff dies. If searched, the PCs find a key that can be used to unlock a lockbox in his house. Inside that are the credits he promised to pay initially, plus 400 more. If they miss it, G2-P3 will indicate the location of Guff’s lockbox to the PCs.

Just a quick one-shot that I whipped up for Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars RPG. No real stats for creatures, etc. Just a few details - enough to get you and your party on their way.

- Mo!

PS: let us know if you end up using this (or a version of it) at your table and how it goes! :)

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Oh cool! If you’re like me and need to make up some custom monsters or NPCs for Starfinder, this seems like a pretty awesome - free - resource!

- Mo!

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My son is off sick today so we spent a while building Lego space ships! I’m going to work with him to build a fleet that I can use in Starfinder. Colour inspiration is courtesy of the amazing science fiction artist, Chris Foss. 

- Mo!

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Looking for ships for your game? Check out Brickshelf for ideas!

- Mo!