#dread ttrpg

[dismas-n-dismay]

There’s something so poetic and heartbreaking about Mary not wanting to hurt her mother. It’s not out of pity or wanting to ease the strain of the divorce it’s just purely a daughter’s love for her mother who’s always been there. Her mother who has never tried to make Mary feel outcasted or othered or unloved.

Even when Mary KNOWS that something is wrong in her bones, she cannot force herself to do anything but trail after her mother and try and make her proud even if what she’s doing could get her hurt. She loves her mom. And it sucks that the last she saw of her was her mother trying to kill her.

Mary, you will always be famous, my little dart frog

[fondofthesea]

Dread CHRISTMAS episodes??? I’m SAT

[thecoppercompendium]

As it's halloween, I want to talk about the first thing I ever published!

I've been designing tabletop stuff for years, primarily for D&D 5e, though not exclusively. I just never published any of it. It wasn't good enough, you know? I suspect a lot of aspiring designers can get behind that sentiment.

Anyway, at this point I was playing in a semi-regular game of, you guessed it, D&D 5e. However, our halloween session had a problem - we wouldn't have everyone, so we couldn't play the campaign. Talk of a oneshot sprang up. Dread was suggested - it was easy, designed for oneshot play, and required minimal prep.

I'd seen Dread played on Oxventure a few times and loved the idea, so I volunteered to run it. I wrote that oneshot on the most scrappy piece of lined paper you ever did see. I might still have it somewhere - if I find it I'll reblog this with a picture. I did not expect it to be good. I did not expect the amount of tension as the tower grew taller and taller. I definitely did not expect the amount of praise I got for my scrappy oneshot. It got me thinking.

The sketch in question

Over the next few days I drew up a sketch of the areas the group had explored and sent it to the group. Over the next few months, scrappy piece of lined paper in front of me, I began to type it up, format it. I was in no hurry, this was just for fun.

That was 2022. I published The Depths in April 2023. Since then I've published 17 more games and supplements. If you're looking for a sign to take the leap and publish something, consider this your sign. It's great fun, and the barrier to entry is much, much lower than you think.

All this to say - go make things! You won't regret it!

(If you want to get The Depths, or any of my other system-agnostic horror oneshots, they're all on sale for a few more days. You can also get one of them, Sleepwalking, at whatever price you choose at any point.)

[captiancap]

Exposing myself right now.

Mary from Smosh vs Aliens makes me feel so seen.

A little freak with divorced parents who doesn't shower staying up late reading odd shit. That was so me in elementary school.

I, too, greet people with disturbing frog facts. I, too, was resistant to being kissed by my mother. And I, too, would move toward the silhouetted figure in the dark room, having only the hope in my heart that it may be my mother pushing me forward instead of away.

I would eat all the ice cream and I would scream and drop my flashlight and I would bleed from my nose trying to remember the incomprehensible face of the creature stalking me and my friends because NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT???

Anyway she's me for real she better not die I love that greasy child.

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

love love love love love love love love love love

[domkelly-artist-writer]

"...Who knows what lurks in the tunnels under London..." Some art of my friends characters from the recent game of Dread I ran, as well as some returning characters who came back as NPCs. I love doing these pieces honestly, they're an absolute blast to do.

[relatablepicturesoflukewestaway]

[wiremotherofficial]

i love good Dread gameplay more than real movies

[corviderii]

cherry's island

a fnaf-inspired Dread game. purple: Trixie (mine), red: Eden, green: Basil, pink: Susie (yet again @ eyfelenor's PC), blue: Denise. Trixie was the first to die, but not before she took 1½ animatronics with her. Denise was the only one to survive.

[unofficialweezerbrandaccount]

I don’t know why but this post fills me with so much dread.

Oh so you wanna play an RPG?

Well, sorry.

No dice

[ewwww-what]

The inseparable nature of two cousins who live in different towns and hate each other a little bit.

[cherryaire]

this dread series is a fucking gem

[dismas-n-dismay]

Shoutout to Tampa and please pour one out for her having the honor and dignity of being a final girl- my baby girl only got cut up because her challenge was hard as balls, shout out to my loser CPAP machine dependent warrior <333

[bluffempire]

damien in dread.. i have prayed for times like these

[panksage]

We had to cancel this week’s CoS session so I’ve made a token for my warlock’s Form of Dread

[domkelly-artist-writer]

Some recent character design work that I've undertaken, featuring a mix of friends tabletop characters as well as some of my own NPCs from games. I always enjoy designing characters, and these ones provided a fun challenge overall. I hope you like them as well!