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Last batch of these all together, I promise

I don't remember how this site works. Here, have some campaign memes

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More memes!

I don't remember how this site works. Here, have some campaign memes

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I don't remember how this site works. Here, have some campaign memes

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The elemental flame either transforms or destroys, and we fire bloods have the power to choose which of those it will be.

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Pyre of Blackfeld.

My sweet druid in the Rivélkin campaign.

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took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I'm now finished. going to have it framed soon :)

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The Phoenix Princess Valoria walking away after being transformed into the deity Change.

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What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.

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Online GM tip:

If you use discord, create a "heavy stuff" channel. Your players may appreciate a space to chat about things bothering them outside of the game. They are (hopefully) friends after all.

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I don't know exactly what it is about The Next Right Thing from Frozen 2, but whenever I hear that song, I'm a teenager again listening to Never Alone by BarlowGirl or Beauty From Pain or Crawl or Breathe by Superchick.

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I should really put mine out there. It's playable ish, and fun.

a checklist for making your first ttrpg

Things it must be:

fun

playable (barely playable counts)

Things it does NOT need to be

"good" (whatever that means)

marketable

perfect

finished

balanced

three hundred pages

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The Scorcese film is brilliant, but...

Behind the curtain, what's going on? This type of phenomenon where a nonexistent piece of media is created and then engaged with has happened before on the internet. What is this phenomenon called? I can't really find research or information on the phenomenon in the general sense. Has this kind of thing happened before the internet? I'd like to imagine it has. If anyone has done any research or seen any, please share.

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I'm still working on learning other systems but even when I talk about game sessions that happen to be dnd, I try to keep the comments general instead of dnd focused.

Please reply to this if you post/reblog stuff about tabletop games but NOT PRIMARILY Dungeons & Dragons. I NEED to follow more people who play other games, I need more TTRPG content on my dash, I hate relying on Twitter for my TTRPG stuff. (Also gonna include some of my fave games and games I’m just interested in in the tags)

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I'm reminded of a line one of my favorite ttrpg characters said.

"As far as I'm concerned, my life is forfeit the moment they need it. Until then, I'll keep fighting to survive."

Thorn (Pyracantha) was an angry punchy woman who was deeply afraid of losing everyone she cared about, and hid her fear behind her fists. She was rash with her life and some would say she had a death wish, but she fought desperately to stay alive, to love, to hope. Those two aspects of her warred within her, and she never had peace. I loved that about her though.

y’know as much as self-sacrifice gets made out to be super noble and shit in a lot of fiction, i am. very much more in favor of the message “you can live. you can want to live. it is a good thing to want to live, and it is a good thing that you are alive. you don’t have to feel guilty for being alive.”

idk it’s what i really needed to hear when shit got bad and honestly it’s what i still need to hear sometimes and it’s what i want the people i care about to believe about themselves.

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This ain't legal advice, but:

Look, I'm not your lawyer and I'm not your dad, but y'all, the OGL is about determining what content from a book or SRD is:

Open content

Product identity (stuff that's NOT open content)

Whether or not D&D One releases an OGL-compatible SRD any time in the near (or distant) future, you can still create materials that are compatible with it as long as you don't use Hasbro's text and don't use their trademarks. If you comply with the terms of the OGL (which are actually pretty straightforward), you can even keep using text from the 3e SRD, the 3.5 SRD, and the 5e SRD (and even mix in stuff from other OGL games and SRDs all ya want).

Michael Prescott, who's a pretty cool person, wrote about this a few years ago and it's still worth reading.

Here's my understanding:

The OGL is there to tell you which parts of the various SRDs you can pick up verbatim and mix and match together all you want. While it does require you to agree not to violate Hasbro's trademarks (which includes "D&D"), it doesn't stop you from suggesting that your work is compatible with whatever D&D edition you like.

As I understand it, you also don't need to use the OGL to do any of the following:

Write your own text using concepts from an edition of D&D (as long as you don't copy their text or violate their trademarks)

Discuss or list their six stats by name in any order you want as long as you don't copy their descriptive text without using the OGL.

While the 5e SRD doesn't include info on how to generate those stats, you can write your own (using the same concepts as long as you don't copy their text) or use some from another OGL source.

Create monsters of the same name and similar description to non-SRD monsters as long as those monsters don't have trademarked names (most of the names Hasbro has trademarked are listed in the SRD/OGL itself and you can doublecheck others in the US Trademark Database) and as long as you don't copy Hasbro's texts.

Create monsters that file the serial numbers off Hasbro's TM'd monsters as long as you don't copy their trademarked names and images.

Also, while some other compatibility licenses required that everyone otherwise comply with the OGL and the edition or game's SRD, the last time I looked at the DM's Guild license, it was entirely separate and distinct from the OGL/SRD, giving you more access to Hasbro's IP but fewer options on what you do with it or where you sell it.

Finally, here's a compatibility logo you can use with any project you like, fresh from Canva! I'll charge you nothing from this and won't care what non-fascist projects you use it on.

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gods greatest punishment was putting 1 trillion cool rocks on earth and no one with eyes big enough to see them all