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IT HAS FUNDEEEED! 5E, Level Up, Roll20, FoundryVTT, OSE, Shadow of the Demon Lord IT IS NIGH https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/hundred-acre-hell-oh-bother-for-dandd-5e-and-other-ttrpgs

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Hundred Acre Hell is live on Kickstarter!

Pledge for one system (D&D 5E, D&D 2024, Level Up: A5E, Shadow of the Demon Lord, or Old School Essentials) and get them all. PLUS everybody that pledges for a PDF or book also gets virtual tabletop modules to boot!

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What's become of Tigger?

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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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Just in case any of you are confused, TikTok being banned and coming back not even 24 hours later with a giant "we thank President Trump" message is NOT a win. It's a huge red flag and a sign that this was a thousand percent planned.

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dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

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Featuring the Mothman, Black Shuck, the Jersey Devil, drop bears, David S. Pumpkins, and the Cthulhu Gang™.

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Getting down to that nerve-destroying "minutes to go" counter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/mists-of-akuma-5e-eastern-fantasy-noir-steampunk-bonanza

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The algorithm penalizes images with text so naturally the logical thing to do on the last day of this Kickstarter was to put as much text as possible into the banner image.

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bamboo giant is prepared

I'm bored of elemental giants. Use environmental giants instead.

Environmental Giants all start out the same, but their bodies take up the features of the place they live in. They become a reflection of their domain.

Giant takes up residence in the cliffs of dover? Not a stone giant. No, that's specifically The Giant of Dover. Its body is made of chalk. It can create dust clouds of chalk with its breath, its shoulders are padded with tufts of short grasses and blackberry bushes.

Giant takes up residence in the ruins of a highway during an apocalypse? That's the I-95 Giant. It has rebar spines along its back, skin of pavement and concrete, and wears wrecked cars as armor.

And to make this idea more dynamic, the giant's form changes as the ecosystem changes. A river gets diverted away from a Giant's domain? Then the Giant dries up along with its land. Now the Giant has an incentive to protect its dominion, and a weakness that its enemies can exploit.

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More than 400 game creators just signed a letter endorsing @KamalaHarris and @GovTimWalz. I'm among them. For details, check out #Gamers4Harris.

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Part of being a game designer is *playing* games so today I'd like to tell you about Olllllld Man, recently pulled out of the bullpen for an amazing Vault of Splintered Souls dungeon crawl using Talespire.

1) You already know Olllld Man. He's the guy who gives you a sword and says "it's dangerous to go alone, take this." A perpetual trainer of heroes, he's stuck in the same cycle as Link and Zelda.

2) Everyone always pronounces Ollllld Man's name wrong (even when they don't) and Ollld Man corrects them every time (even though he shouldn't).

3) Ollllllld Man knows a little bit about everything (Jack-of-All Trades) and reminds everyone of this as often as he reasonably can do so.

4) The youths are ruining the world today and Ollllld Man cannot be convinced otherwise. Most of his Bardic Inspiration is from yelling how someone is "doing it wrong".

5) Any age-based challenge to Ollld Man is pushed back against (even if he is in fact younger than the person making the challenge). In his mind nobody is older than Ollllllld Man.

6) For all these faults Ollllld Man genuinely wants to help others. He really is a trainer of heroes and he honestly takes his job seriously. Usually too seriously. If a discussion isn't about advancing the group's goals he has little patience for it. Interpersonal affairs are the folly of youth and distract from purpose.

7) Ollllld Man also sucks. He is *not* built for combat. That's not to say he doesn't have a trick or two up his sleeve, but "powerhouse" is not part of his repertoire. Despite his demeanor he's ultimately a catalyst for others. Healing, enhancements, turning failures into successes—these are where Ollllllld Man shines.

8) This character is heavily inspired by and largely emulates Ollllld Man from the Legend of Neil (a parody series of the Legend of Zelda), although Ollld Man is certainly more useful and helpful than his inspiration. If you like Zelda or laughter the series is free on YouTube and worth the ~2 hour watch.

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Finally we have a giant skeleton that bites people's heads off https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verantheacodex/mists-of-akuma-5e-eastern-fantasy-noir-steampunk-bonanza