#rpg

[czepeku]

Some say that touching a dragon's skeleton can grant you temporary magical abilities. Let's find out! 🐲

[vulpes-nothus]

I refuse to run D&D 5. I got at least twenty other ttrpgs, including older editions of D&D. If I offer to run any one of those twentyish games, I'm going to be really lucky to get a single new player.

I'm one of the fortunate ones with an established group of dorks.

This not a universal problem.

This is not selection bias.

D&D 5 is just a nat 1 on the culture of the hobby as a whole. On a d30, if my own and my friends game library is anything to go off of.

D&D 5e supposedly has a GM shortage and idk maybe if the player culture of the game didn't treat GMing as a thankless job and the rules of the game as an issue to be fixed by the GM maybe things would be better. Ah well, who knows. Maybe a couple hundred more "we ruined the GM's campaign on purpose" memes will make people enjoy running the game better.

[witchmarsh]

Romance option?? (no)

Wishlist Witchmarsh on Steam now!

[probablybadrpgideas]

Replace the "Good-Evil" and "Lawful-Chaotic" alignments with "left-right" and "up-down". Paladins fall if they turn 90 degrees from their previous alignment.

[dndmultiverse]

[daybreaksys]

that's just how the average Dungeons and Dragons player party plays

I'm not actually going to write this one any time soon because my present graphic design skills aren't up to the challenge, but I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a party game meta-RPG whose premise is you're sitting down with your group to continue playing some esoteric early-access indie RPG after a year-long hiatus due to Real Life Issues, only to realise you remember literally nothing about the rules; however, on no account are you allowed to admit this.

Each player is given a "character sheet" puzzle-pieced together from randomly selected elements, with absolutely no guidance regarding what any of the words, numbers or symbols on it mean; in the middle of the table sits a likewise randomly selected assortment of dice, tokens, and other components with no direction on how they relate to what's on the character sheets. Your task is to verbally invoke elements of your character sheet and physically manipulate the provided components in such a way as to convincingly bullshit the group that you actually understand what you're doing.

[retrogamingblog2]

The Nintendo Switch remake of Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door restores the original dialogue depicting Vivian as Transgender, something that was removed in the original English Gamecube release.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Also, gorgon sculptress who absolutely cannot allow anyone to find out she’s a gorgon not to avoid becoming a science experiment nor for the whole eating people thing but because everyone would always doubt if she really carved her artwork herself and suspect she murdered somebody every time she did a particularly realistic piece.

[alexcreogd]

May Azura guide you

Nerevar Moon-and-Star prints | patreon (print club is Dark Brotherhood themed for this month!!)

[cnthiash]

wunmi mosaku - 1986

credit: cynthia

[dungeonmastersdiary]

How naive I was in that first campaign...

[probablybadrpgideas]

Fuck it.

Untwink the elves.

[dndmonsterencounters]

(when using for d&d 5e)

have you seen the bandit variants doc linked in this reddit comment? my partner and i have both used some of them to make bandit encounters a little more interesting. they're fun!

Bandit Camp is up on Patreon! Download is here.

Looking out across the expansive plains, or from the watchtowers to the South, reveals nothing of this cleverly hidden bandit’s camp, tucked into a gully and laden with the loot of travelers making their way down the King’s Road.

Strange how many bandits one encounters in the countryside, isn’t it? Compared to the peasants, it seems the population is nearly ¼ bandits. How can this medieval economy even support a bandit population of that size?

It doesn’t matter now, in any case, as that contract for their heads is enough to tempt bold adventurers to try their luck.

[vintagerpg]

You know what was a big deal in the ’90s? Trading cards. And not just for sports, there were dozens of lines, for comic books, bands, movies, serial killers, politicians, artists, you name it. My favorite? The Bernie Wrightson cards from FPG, in part because it was so incredibly hard to find Bernie’s work anywhere else at the time. The FPG cards are interesting because unlike other artist series, a lot of the art was new, created specifically for the cards. The first series wound up with 37 classic paintings, 45 Frankenstein illustrations (pretty much the only way to see them at the time without spending an arm and a leg) and 53 brand new paintings.

The cool thing is, FPG let Bernie go wild with the new material. He could paint whatever he wanted, however he wanted and, for two years, he did just that. Bernie Wrightson: The FPG Years (2022) collects all that original material under one cover and presents them in chronological order so you can sort of see the artist in motion. He gets really big on experiments with markers here and there, but you can also see other tangents and investigations. Imagery repeats — lots of people getting eaten by eel-like fish, lots of werewolves, lots of goop monsters. You can see how he warms up over time, gets red hot and then never really cools off, though you can start to sense some fatigue by the end. All the works are finished, but only a handful feel complete, if that makes sense — this isn’t really a criticism, it is super cool to see so much process from an artist over such a long period of time. Most artists generate this much material in a couple years’ time, they just don’t show all of it to you.

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New TYPICAL TAVERN Map Assets

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