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I like making funny stupid dice

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Daggerheart released their card making tool and that means: Making all of Guild Wars 2 playable for TTRPG! At first glance, daggerheart seems easy to create for but since you need to put all of the info on a small card, it's actually kind of challenging! Also, the mechanics being simplified means that you can't make complicated mechanics either. So here's my first try for the ancestries!

Please tell me if you have any thoughts on the cards and whether it's balanced. If it's not balanced, please suggest how I can improve! :)

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With the last post I reblogged and added my own opinion on:

I'm planning on redoing all of the Guild Wars 2 homebrew at some point in a different system. I think I'll be most comfortable writing it with Tales of the Valiant or maybe even Daggerheart in mind.

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To add on to this: if you still want to keep playing the same system because that's how you've played for years: look into systems that use the same ruleset.

For example: Kobold Press' Tales of the Valiant uses the 5e engine. Use that instead. Fuck wotc. Fuck hasbro.

Tell people you're playing Tales of the Valiant instead. It works the same. Under a different name.

If you are willing to make a change in systems for your next campaign: look into the publisher. Do they belong to a bigger company? Where does their money go? How do they feel about human rights, AI and intellectual property? How open is their gaming license? How to they contribute to their community and society?

This is something I and other tabletop bloggers like thydungeongal have said repeatedly in the past, but I think it bears repeating.

If you don't like WotC due to the recent scandals they've been involved in (such as the OGL thing and sending the Pinkertons to someone's house) and you are serious about disrupting the economic and cultural stranglehold they have over the entire tabletop hobby, pirating D&D products is infinitely less important than exploring, discussing and platforming games and creators outside of the D&D 5e ecosystem.

A person who pirates every single D&D product but continues to exclusively play, discuss, talk, and blog about Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition is not doing as much as someone who religiously pays for every D&D product but also gives some of their precious time and attention to games that aren't D&D, especially if they have any sort of platform or audience.

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Making plague doctor masks is lots of fun!

This one is available for sale!

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Oh dragon, on your hoard of gold! Why won't you share your wealth? Is it perhaps... Because you are a draconic capitalist pig that doesn't care about the little guys?

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Displacer Babe says she only needs one hand to steal your heart… but she’s got four, just in case. ❤️✨

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When I was a kid, I loved making drawings for my loved ones. As an adult, I never grew out of that behaviour.

If you are my friend, there's a 100% chance I will make some art for you.

Here's Ophelia, my friend's bard/sorcerer

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I absolutely love how this portrait I did of Sophia (my D&D human mercy monk) and her betrothed Bradour came out!

Next game, this weekend, she's going to have to tell her very protective father that she got engaged. I HOPE HE DOESN'T FREAK OUT.

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I have encountered some of the homebrew items and classes I wrote on pinterest. So if you're reposting any of my work (which I don't give permission for) please opt out.

About reposting on pinterest: if you're gonna be reposting my stuff: AT LEAST LINK BACK TO MY DAMN BLOG. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

i hate these kinds of posts (bc no one ever includes links and there's usually paragraphs of useless fearmongering) but heads up that pinterest changed some of their TOS and privacy policy shit and they now auto-opt you in for letting them train generative ai off your data. go to Settings -> Privacy and data and scroll down to GenAI to turn it off (same on desktop & mobile; for the former, settings are now accessible in the bottom left corner). i also recommend turning off all the ads personalization options, which i believe are also automatically checked.

they might've already been doing this for a bit, i know the canvas thing isn't new, but this is the first time they actually updated the privacy policy about it (that i've seen) and that i found the generative ai setting, so.

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I really wanted to play Guild Wars 2 again but with the wrist surgeries I've had, I couldn't do so because of wrist strain. I found this mouse online, second hand for €60. Totally worth it! I bound the joystick to wasd keys so I can walk using the joystick with my thumb!

I also got this keyboard that requires less force to register a key stroke. I'm so happy. I can game again!!

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Why the hell would you say no as a DM! If the player thinks turning into a coral is fun, let them.

They'll discover on their own that being a coral is probably only really useful during underwater stealth missions. Which don't happen very often, I think.

who let biologists play dnd

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This is why I love the Guild Wars 2 world building. This.

The approach to make it stand out more from other fantasy. And it's not even your classic medieval fantasy, noooooo. The visual development is so distinct and unique.

Just the humans get medieval fantasy! The other species don't do medieval fantasy.

They do steam/dieselpunk/mad max aesthetic. (Charr)

They do high tech sci-fi yet also ancient meso-american architecture inspired stuff. (Asura)

They do viking-like shamanism. (Norn)

They do plant-elfs but the opposite way elves are usually written. As OP describes. A very young people. (Sylvari)

And when you put all of these peoples together, it still somehow just... works. You wouldn't expect it to but it does.

guild wars is an insane setting because it's a normal fantasy world but also the closest elf analogue that exists is humanity. what people would at first glance assume to be ""elves"" are actually just vaguely humanoid plant monsters made to serve an unbelievably ancient god-dragon that's also a living jungle and also all of the plant people are at maximum 25 years old because their entire species are basically collectively babies in terms of how long they've existed in-universe. also the orcs are giant cat people. the gnomes are rats. the dwarves are normal but also they're steadily going extinct and also all living rock people now. nobody even knows what a horse is

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I know it's not tabletop related but if you could boost this, please help?

Ngl, I'm really thinking of trying to set up a database of companies in the EU that have trouble finding workers and are open to getting work visas for USAmerican people that need to leave because in the future it might no longer be safe for them to be there.

Is there anyone out there willing to help me set this up, as well as looking into ways that allow people to legally stay in your country with the proper visas?

I'm in the Netherlands, would love help from others in both the Netherlands and other EU countries.

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A pair of dice earrings I recently made! I’ll be making some more, and then doing a little drop on my site.

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Haggered and bloodied from the battle that took place in the cavern, Sophia exited the dark place to find herself staring at the night sky. A flash of light lit up the heavens, and a tear of Prisma fell from the sky and landed in a nearby forest. As Sophia’s friends and the captain of the guard that assisted them exited the cave, she turned around and excitedly told them about the sight she’d seen. She urged her friends to trust her to follow, and that they did.

Sophia neared the edge of the forest and saw a faint light within. As she entered the forest and continued walking to the light, it grew brighter and brighter. Eventually she found the origin of the light: A unicorn prancing in the clearing, next to the statue of the star goddess of healing.

The haggered maiden greeted the creature and curtsied, before engaging in a waltz with the creature. While their physical forms were completely different, they moved in harmonic unison. Once the dance was finished, the unicorn healed her wounds and leapt to disappear in the sky once again.

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This is a personal piece I've wanted to make for a while and I finally got around to it. The scene happened in our campaign and in my head it looked so beautiful I knew I had to try to capture it in a D20! It's more impressive when you actually hold it in your hand though! Each face of this D20 offers another view!

This D20 will not be for sale. Assets used in this D20 are sourced from Thingiverse, by creators: HasenbauDesign, Ecaroth and Terrain4Print. The statue in this scene is Azura from Skyrim.

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I made this chonk for my partner's birthday!

He plays a woodsman turned witch hunter! His peaceful house in the woods was disturbed by the fey and he's got an axe to grind with the hags that set everything in motion.