#ttrpg customization

[legionofmyth]

Absolute Power: Which Weapon Would You Choose?

Unleash your inner hero! 💥 From impossible weapons to sleek armor and high-tech gadgets, Absolute Power’s gear system is packed with iconic items to power up your characters. Whether you’re a player or Game Master, this video is your guide to maximizing the tools of justice—or chaos. What will your hero wield? 📺 Watch now! #AbsolutePowerRPG #TTRPG #SuperheroGear #TabletopRPG #RPGWeaponsAndArmor

Absolute Power: Book 1: System Absolute Power: Book 2: Essentials Tri-Stat Core Unleash the full potential of Absolute Power with a closer look at its incredible weapons, armor, gadgets, and items! Don’t miss this in-depth exploration of the tools your heroes need to succeed. Absolute Power by Dyskami Publishing Company is a superhero RPG packed with iconic gear to enhance your gameplay. In this…

[jbpeony-draws]

my pilot got a new frame! This is a Calendula I modified. It still has Iskander parts and thrown in 1 Sunzi lisence for that accelarator. Got to be my favorite design for her mech yet. I was inspired by Star Nemesis Fiddlesticks and "King of Clowns" sculpture by Arsen Avetisyan.

[helledraws]

Fury always armed against itself

Painted my custom Enkidu mech for a lancer homebrew campaign my pal ran that is at its tail end. I got to bifurcate so many enemies it was so fun! (and scary haha!)

Also featuring Oxton. Don't ask me how he scaled up there. He's a very athletic fella.

The retrograde mini kitbash I made

[dicedragonjo]

'Order of the Lycan'

"For 400 years I looked up at the moon. Not a bad place to go."

Inspired by Chetney from Critical Role - these are available for preorder!

Polished, pick your own paint color, and inedible

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World Map Hex Tiles

Have you mapped your world yet? If not, these hex tiles are for you! Oh, and let us know what to add to Part 2. ;)

→ Download them here!

[dragonkid11]

In this episode of Lancer Custom Werks Encore, made to re-review some of the older frames to see if gears from newer supplements will bring changes to them, IPSN frames from the core book, part I.

[jasontoddsmommyissues]

I’ve seen Rockstar!Eddie, Mechanic!Eddie and Tattoo Artist!Eddie, so let me propose this: Comic Shop Owner!Eddie who hosts a weekly DnD group at the store

[theresattrpgforthat]

How To Find Cool Games: On DriveThruRPG!

So disclaimer upfront: I don’t use the DriveThruRPG website nearly as much as Itch.io. Some of those reasons are practical (there’s no tagging system, the catalogue is rather D&D saturated,), while others are more… well, shallow (the website isn’t as pretty).

However, DriveThruRPG is a very good tool to have in your toolbox when it comes to finding cool ttrpgs, for a number of reasons, the primary one being that it’s for TTRPGS and only TTRPGs! Let’s get started.

The Search Bar / Categories.

You can start by doing a basic search for a game that you already know about, or by searching for a keyword, like “pirates” or “zombies”. You’ll get titles sorted by “relevance”, so things that have the keyword in the name will show up first. One of the biggest downsides of this strategy is that everything kind of gets lumped in here: supplements, maps, expansions, adventures, character sheets… the list goes on. However, you can narrow down what you’re looking for by using the toggles at the top of the website. I personally usually narrow down search results by selecting “Product Type” and then “Core Rulebooks”.

One nice thing DriveThru has compared to Itch.io is that you can combine categories, so if I wanted to brows say, Gothic Horror Core Rulebooks priced under $20, well I can do that! My favourite categories are for genre, but another set of categories that you may find very useful once you’ve familiarized yourself with some games is the Rule System category. There are categories for systems like the Year Zero Engine, Forged in the Dark, BRP (Basic Roleplaying), OSR, and so much more. There’s also “other systems” and “any system” categories if you want to find something that’s unique or that can be used across games.

DriveThru also has a lot of games published in different languages, and you can narrow your results to see what’s been offered in your language. I think there are more options on this website than there are on Itch, although you might benefit by finding one or two publishers in your language on DriveThru, and then check the publisher’s website from there.

The Homepage

Another reason to check out DriveThru regularly is the sales and promotions. The top banner of the homepage will typically advertise a few things: the Deal of the Day, current themed sales, and special offers that DriveThru RPG wants you to know about. Their homepage also has Bestselling Titles, Most Popular Games Under $5, Newest Games, Featured Titles, and, if you scroll down enough, Personalized suggestions. Unlike Itch.io, DriveThru does a lot of work to show you what’s new, what’s hot, and what’s a really good deal right now, which can all be really helpful things!

When you land on a game, you’ll be able to see whether or not DriveThru sells physical copies, some basic information like book size, rule system, publisher & author, and a blurb describing the setting and other general information about the game. DriveThru has a side panel with “Customers also Bought”, which is great for showing you things that you might like, either because they surround the same theme, they work for the same game, or they are in a similar genre. (Another thing that Itch isn’t quite as good at.)

You’ll also be able to see (and leave) reviews for game, including the ratings left by other people who have picked it up. Occasionally I’ll find really useful information in the reviews, as reviewers might talk about mechanics they love or loathe, or recommend styles of play that they feel the game matches.

Finally, like Itch, DriveThru will let you know if you’ve already bought the game, and provide you with a download shortcut.

Publishing House Pages

Larger publishing houses typically have their ttrpg content sorted very nicely for you on their publisher pages, to help you find the things that you want. Modiphius is a great example, sorting Star Trek, Dune, Fallout, and their 2d20 games all in special categories.

Many publishers also have a Community Content section, which is great if you’re looking for assets, new adventures, hacks of a game system and some very reasonably priced (or even cheap) game additions. Similar to Itch, DriveThru has a Pay-What-You-Want feature for many games, although, unlike Itch, most PWYW titles require that you pay a non-zero amount.

Newsletters

When you create an account on DriveThruRPG, you can sign up for various different kinds of newsletters. Some come directly from DriveThru itself: this includes the Follow Your Favourites and Deal of the Day options, as well as weekly/monthly newsletters carrying information about new releases, special promotions, and (often) a free ttrpg product of the month.

However, on top of that, when you purchase a game or follow publishing pages, you can also get emails about new releases specific to those creators, as well as updates if a new version of a game you bought has been added. Often if it’s a game you already bought, this means you own the new version too - something that DriveThru has in common with Itch!

The Follow Your Favourites announcements will line up with whatever you’ve chosen to follow on the website. I’ve asked for updates about new Core Rulebooks, and I also get updates from the Onyx Path and a few other places where I found games I really liked. I also check the Deal of the Day offers fairly regularly; sometimes there are really really good deals offered and if it’s a game you know or like, then you don’t want to miss out on a sale!

Wishlists

DriveThru allows you to add games to wishlists to look at later, and even gives you the ability to sort your wishlists, although the process feels harder to look through than Itch does; I think it might be a UI issue.

However, because it acts like a wishlist, you can move games from the wishlist into your cart and vice versa, as well as move the games to another list. One really nice thing about the wishlist section is that DriveThru will alway show you when something you want is on sale, and how much it is normally - Itch does this too, but in this case, DriveThru is much easier to read!

I mostly sort my wishlists into Core Rulebooks and Supplements, because I don’t have nearly as many games bookmarked on DriveThru. If it exists on Itch, I store it on Itch - but there are plenty of other, “someday’ games, that I want to be able to find again in the future.

Your Library

DriveThruRPG has an app that you can download onto your computer or your phone, and it basically acts as a library that you can look through. In both the webpage and the app, you can sort your purchases alphabetically, from new to old, by publisher, by whether or not they were updated, and using similar categories as the search bar on the store front.

Free things can definitely be found here, even if they’re harder to look for. On DriveThru, most free products are things like character sheets, playtest games, or Quickstarts. However, some publishers do put up their stuff for free. Whenever I can get a Quickstart of something interesting, or if I find something being offered for free, I add it to my library. Free games are how I got started in ttrpgs, and QuickStarts are wonderful introductions to a system that usually give you a good idea of what the game is going to feel like.

Conclusion

Overall, DriveThruRPG is great for folks who like certain big publishing houses, and folks who like a good deal. I personally usually end up on the site because something in my emails caught my eye, which is the opposite of how I navigate Itch. DriveThru was my home base before I discovered Itch.io, so I still have a little fondness for the website, even if looking through it is a little bit of a slog.

One thing that might be a bit of an annoyance is that if you own something from a certain company, they might be able to send you a lot of emails for every sale and new product. If this becomes too much, you can choose to opt out from those publishers.

If you don’t want to have to actively engage with the website as much as say, Itch, DriveThru’s email system is also a big help. You can customize your subscriptions to match what you’re interested in, and then just check your emails once in a while to see what’s on offer. After a while you’ll also learn about yearly events, like the Summer Sale, which often provides big discounts on a lot of different games.

DriveThru is also a great place to start if you’re looking for print versions of games: I don’t know what shipping is like to places outside Canada, but I definitely appreciate that it’s an option, and sometimes all you need to do is find a game or publisher - once you know that it exists, you can google that publisher, check out their website, and figure out the best place to order from there.

[cake-crumbs]

Dance of the Unseelie :: Available here

[scribesofcalamity]

Solomon's dice, "Serpentis" created by rpadventuringcompany. They have real snake skin in them!

[gorjee-art]

discord dnd emote comms for @winterwind4 !

[corsair-mercenary-companies]

CORSAIR-GRUNTWORKS

CORSAIR cannot rely on the big 4 to produce frames when we begin our investigations, our reporting will kick up dust. And reporting from the front will require frames to keep both civilians and our workers safe.

CORSAIR-GW is selling licenses once more, to all those who are willing to purchase them.

Till Legends Bleed.

//Morse\\

OOC: SO! Many people know of the work I've put in, in the background of my custom LCP for Lancer.

7 Frames

4 Core Powers

2 Talents

1 Skill Trigger

1 LL0 Weapon

The art is yet to be done but for now I am excited to unleash the 1.0 drop of the LCP

TILL LEGENDS BLEED

[dicedragonjo]

'Hallowed'

These are available in my shop for preorder!

Shown polished, you can choose your own paint color, and (as usual) they're inedible. Also they glow!

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The DUNGEON MAP TILES

Building a 2MT-style dungeon has never been easier! Please try our new map tiles and let us know what you think. :)

→ Find them here!

[dragonkid11]

In this episode of Lancer Custom Werks, Taraxacum, the flying taxi that can carry the entire team literally and figuratively by seeing the weaknesses of everything around, what else can you do with it?