#fantasy roleplaying

[willowwind78]

Wildspire Spellblades: Rock Golem

The WIldspire Spellblades collection has all kinds of cool enchanted monsters. This rock golem is just one example. Let's all take a moment to admire my texturing...

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Ahh... good job Jennifer. (applause)

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[pocgamer]

The Forgotten Gem of 5e: The Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Time to dip back into some D&D with 5e's forgotten gem... The Mythic Odysseys of Theros!

In the summer of 2020, to little fanfare, Wizards released a new Magic the Gather setting port to 5e Dungeons & Dragons. Events at the time conspired to bury this review, banishing it to the back-burner of articles. Today that changes. It’s time to dip back into D&D now and look at one of its most overlooked Magic the Gathering ports… Mythic Odysseys of Theros. Let’s dive in! Continue reading…

[oldschoolfrp]

Can a fantasy roleplaying game be presented as entertainment for an audience?  That question may have been answered first in Chicago in 1983 by the cast of Dungeonmaster, a live interactive improv stage production.  Dungeonmaster ran for four years at the Beacon Street Theater, where it was a side trip offered to attendees of the 1983 World Fantasy Convention:

The show was revived in 2001 in Los Angeles at the Magicopolis Theater (per an article in UCLA’s Daily Bruin) and is still running today at The Vortex (top picture).

[flightyquinn]

Dear Adventurers,

Please stop calling everything a "dungeon". A dungeon is a specific classification of ruin structure, built to contain a creature or creatures. Ruins constructed for other purposes are NOT dungeons. Learn your classifications.

If it's used to store information or useful items, it's a Repository.

If it's used to store a dangerous weapon/weapons, it's an Armory.

If it's used to conduct secret research, it's a Laboratory.

If it's used to conduct religious ceremony, it's a Temple.

If it's used to house the remains of the dead, it's a Catacomb.

If it's used to house a population of undead, it's a Necropolis.

Sincerely,

The Guild of Architects

[probablybadrpgideas]

The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters

[prokopetz]

Ten inessential worldbuilding features for local communities in your fantasy RPG:

A grievance or conflict of interest with a neighbouring community which the community's members feel much more strongly about than the issue's magnitude really warrants

A substance or commodity important to everyday life with no local source, and the complicated and inconvenient arrangement the community has made to obtain it from outside sources

A local practice or custom whose original motivation has been rendered obsolete by changing circumstances, and which is now carried forward out of tradition

Something that's technically illegal, but everyone does it on the sly anyway, with enforcement of its illegality being reserved for people the community's leaders want to mess with for unrelated reasons

An obscure piece of trivia or local history which the community's members regard as obvious and widely known, to the extent of treating outsiders with contempt for revealing their ignorance of it

Some undertaking or realm of achievement in which the community isn't particularly exceptional, but which the community's members believe they're the best around at as a point of civic pride

A mostly harmless thing that nobody talks about because its existence or some facet of its historical context is regarded as an embarrassment to the community

A particular prank that's become traditional to play on visitors to the community, and which occasionally gets taken further than is strictly appropriate

A specific area of the setting's history where what the community's members insist really happened is wildly at odds with the accepted version of events

A genuinely dangerous circumstance that everyone treats with casual disregard because it's always been there, and only a damn fool would actually get hurt by it anyway

[willowwind78]

Wildspire Spellblades: Halfling Farmer, Druid, Gravedigger, whatever

I was so excited when I saw Wildspire had come out with a new set of miniatures available on Amazon. The Spellbaldes collection does not disappoint. It maintains the whimsicalness of the Wildspire Heroes and Animals collection but with a pile of minis that can easily serve as unique player characters with their own personalities and quirks.

You don't see a lot of halfling miniatures let alone of this caliber. She is gorgeous! I don't feel like the base suits her well but you could easy make it dirt with some substrate. The mushroom hat is a fun idea. I'm sure that shovel makes a formidable weapon. The stone indicates it is definitely enchanted or is more of a spellcasting wand. She is just lovely.

Sorry though, she sold right away. But keep checking as I do have another to paint and I've got a lot of other great miniatures too!

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[pocgamer]

Day One Review: Pathfinder's GM Core & Player Core

Pathfinder is changing. Pathfinder has been on my radar since it first released, and the pocket editions of its first edition have a priority spot on my shelf. The second edition showed evolution, and a willingness at Paizo to directly confront a lot of their game’s baggage. Now they’re making necessary changes again to define their game as theirs, not just a D&D clone. This is the review of the…

[flightyquinn]

What's the funniest story off the top of your head from one of your ttrpg sessions?

One of the games I played a few years back, it started with us all captured by bandits, and being taken to be sold as slaves. We managed to make the traditional daring escape, but realized that the bandits who had already left had all of our gear. So we went after them, and came up with a plan to disguise my character and the bard to sneak in, with a couple of the other players' characters splitting off.

While we were bluffing our way past the guards to get into the camp, our Archer (bow-specialized Fighter) decides to snipe the lookout on the watchtower. Clean one-shot kill, but the body lands right by the guys we're talking to. So the Bard and I whip the horses into running them over, and bluff to play it off that they spooked. Proceed to go careening through as much bandit camp as we can while sticking to the "oh no, the horses are out of control!" angle until we Nat 1 a bluff (we agreed that our characters were probably laughing and high-fiving at that point).

In the process, we managed to kill sever bandits, start a fire, and destroy the hitch for the bandits' horses, who are now actually spooked and stampeeding through the camp. And in the middle of all of this, our Mage, who wears a mask at all times, has snuck in from the other side, and comes in under the effects of Enlarge, bellowing,

"I AM THE KOBOLD GOD!"

(He was not a kobold.)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

[probablybadrpgideas]

Circle of protection against capitalism

[sillydumbdoll]

struggling to get into position 😣

[prokopetz]

When I think of musical genres associated with standard fantasy species, it's probably elf rock and orc metal, but gnome music is definitely gnomecore. Gnomes just feel like they'd be about -core.

[willowwind78]

Learning to paint miniatures: Zombie Horde Fatty

Zombicide: Black Plague is my favorite tabletop game (although I have recently discovered Carcasonne and it is climbing the charts). It combines my husband’s interest in zombies and my love of medieval roleplaying into a game we can both enjoy. As a long-time Dungeons and Dragons player, I was looking for a game I could play with just my husband since I don’t have any friends who play. We tried this and I fell in love. Not just with the game itself but with the miniatures.

I did a little research and settled on Vallejo Model Color paints and I have never looked back. Oh, I own some others Games Workshop like their technical paints, but my base set is Vallejo. They are SO much cheaper. I buy mine from Midwest Model Railroad https://midwestmodelrr.com/ $2.67 a dropper bottle. Seriously, cheap. Easy to buy enough to offset having to pay for shipping. Their selection is incredible and shipping is fast and easy.

Zombicide: Black Plague opened up a whole new hobby of miniature painting that I had not gotten into when I played D&D as we didn’t use miniatures, strictly paper, pencil and dice, old school. I’m now obsessed, before long I will have every color Vallejo Model Color makes and I have started venturing into Game, Nocturna, Panzer Aces, etc.

Here’s why I love Vallejo though, you can paint over black with a single coat of white and it’s gone. Smooth even coverage, consistency across bottles. Very rarely have I come across a bottle that was not up to straight-out-of-the-bottle base coat par. Pigmentation is phenomenal. You can dilute it to a wash without losing any quality. It dries insanely fast but wait... there’s more...

Vallejo Model Color was designed for diorama use by model train enthusiasts. While it dries to the touch within minutes, it actually takes a week or more for full drying to set in and once that happens the color becomes far more permanent and is able to withstand a lot more manhandling so it’s perfect for pieces you actually play with not just stick on a shelf.  You may notice the bottle DO NOT say NON-TOXIC on them. While they aren’t lead or alcohol based, try not to over-lick your brushes. There’s no odor and I haven’t died or gotten sick yet, but I suspect this is why they dry and adhere so strongly. Someday I’ll do some research and let you know.

I love Vallejo Model Color it is an incredible way to start miniature painting and you’ll never need to trade in or stop using them because you got better. Absolutely worth the small investment. Buy a starter set on Amazon, primer, and some cheap detail brushes and you are ready to roll.

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