Either a cosmic visitor or a guest coming from the deepest abyss there is – no one knows for sure. In any case, the so-called cash calf is a thoroughly curious blend of eldritch and ooze. Its shiny face is a mockery of the so valuable currency the mortals name coins. Oddly enough, this slimy critter is drawn to the such, striving to replace its precious head end whenever possible. It is rumored that the cash calf is a most favored pet and companion for tricksters, gamblers, thieves or anyone else who fancies a quite mobile and conscious coin.
🔮 If you like my work, kindly consider to support me on Patreon to gain access to monster pages, tokens & artwork of over 250 quirky creatures as well as dozens of potion & item cards based on their lore.
25% off the entire shop, no minimum order to qualify, from April 15-May 15 2024
[image id: trade offer meme edited to fit dndapothecary's sale: a man with long brown hair and dressed in a blue suit with matching tie has his fingers steepled. The text above him reads Trade offer. I receive: money to pay the IRS you receive: smelling so good everyone falls in love with you. /end id]
Right off the bat, I love the name of Evil Ruins (1983). It doesn’t get more generic than that, and generic is sort of the Role Aid aim, right? Second, the Boris Vallejo cover painting is a favorite. To my knowledge, it was originally used on the Science Fiction Book Club edition of Roger Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber (1979) and it is just as preposterous there as it is here.
The adventure itself is pretty good. The ruins (modeled after the real-world Castle Tintagel for no particular reason) have a rich history of tragedy and betrayal. Unraveling that history is the only way to entirely deal with the pair of evils currently inhabiting the dungeons. The story isn’t super surprising (resentment and murder among the royal residents several generations ago lead to the establishment of a temple of evil in the depths, as well as the haunting by a tormented spirit) but it works as a good puzzle to drive exploration and keep players thinking. I like this one a lot.
Solid interior art by Hannah Shapero. The altar of Arawn is particularly nice.
Only 10 days left to snag this AWESOME TTRPG bundle!! 💛💛
Hey y'all! All of the help you've given me thus far has been truly amazing, and I really wanted to thank you for that 💛 I have used the money this far as a safety net for emergencies and to just enjoy life, whether that means going to the movies once a month or buying an Arizona each day with my walk as I build my strength back up.
We are, however, falling a bit short of our goal. I really want to be able to afford therapy more than anything right now, and visits cost about 100 per visit out of pocket with my insurance. So, if I'm looking to get expensive therapy and psychiatric appointments and official diagnosis, it will cost upward of 2,000+ dollars.
Also, I would really like to have some money to pay off my taxes I owe from 2022. I owe, still, about 3,500+ taxes, which I pay off each month. I pay the absolute minimum so I don't have to dig too deep in monthly costs. If I could pay off a chunk of it in one fell swoop, I could save nearly $500 a year and could nip interest accrued from my taxes in the bud.
Finally, and not as important, I need a new desktop computer. My current one is slowly dying, and the fans are giving out. My power supply is also a bit wonky, and my graphics card is and CPU is outdated, meaning I can't stream games well, nor can I play some games that give me solace. It's not imperative right now, but to have this as an option would be wonderful.
So please, if you would, could you purchase a game bundle? It's countless hours of entertainment with your friends for only $25, almost a FOURTH the cost of a AAA video game with HUNDREDS of hours of content. Not only are you snagging games, but you're also helping out a person in need. It's a win win!!!
Snag the games below, and if you can't purchase anything right now, please kindly reblog!
A while ago, I posted this over on the Indie RPG Newsletter but forgot to also put it here. If you haven't heard of Have You Played This, the blog runs polls about various RPGs and people can reply if they've played, read, just heard of it, or not even that.
Here's the highlights:
On average, these polls get 470 votes.
For the majority of these polls, more than 50% of respondents said they’d never heard of the game.
Out of 81 games that have been polled, only 33 games had even reached the eyes and ears of more than 50% of the respondents. Most people haven’t heard of most of the games!
And here's the chart showing how those 33 games look like based on votes:
The image is a bit compressed. So if you’d like to read it comfortably, you can head to my google sheet and see it at full scale.
While this far from definitive (there’s also a huge variance in the number of votes for each game), it’s interesting to get a sense of what games are relatively popular. For example, Thirsty Sword Lesbians seems to be about as well-known as Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay on tumblr. Would you have guessed that? Actually, maybe, you could’ve. But would you have expected to see that Mouse Guard and Mausritter are roughly as popular – maybe tumblr just loves mice equally.
Also bless everyone who said they’d never heard of Pathfinder.
space mushroom folk I designed for our Beam Saber campaign, All That You Know
*jangles characters at you from under my cloak like an old timey alley salesman* give it a listen....... you know you wanna new ttrpg podcast...... 'specially one with 30 eps out already............. what's da worst that could happen
For the longest time, I've been wanting to release a monster ship pack that would be crewed by various nefarious forces of darkness.
Many of these ships were inspired by settings other than D&D. For example, the Otherworldly and Flesh ships were inspired by pulp horror and the Cthulhu Mythos.
 Along with each ship map, I've made a night variant, an unfurnished map, and a PNG token with a transparent background.
You can download the first three maps for free here.