#ttrpg tutorial

[kidsoffbrooms]

Kids On Brooms NCPS

Kids On Brooms Homebrew characters! I use these 3 as tutorial characters for showing how to set up a character sheet. You can plug these characters into any school you want to run!

Selena is the most by the book and Morgan is the least. I think these are just some easy, fun NPC’s but you can use them however you want. Maybe your players will befriend Selena and use her pranks as a cover when snooping around. Maybe they’re prefect is Dominic. Maybe you player is one of Morgans favourite students.

Character sheets and class schedules! have fun with my blorbos :)

The Mason’s are a ‘new money’ family in the magical world. They live in Manolinia's capital Soniano. Their grandfather Geribib Mason created the charmed palanquins and his descendant since have been striving to achieve similar accolades. Geribib’s Eldest daughter Ingrid refined and patented a new potions bottle specifically made for better administering medicine to baby’s and toddler’s. Her children are Morgan, Dominic, and Selena.

Morgan is a teacher’s aid, they are studying Astronomy and as part of their course they must spend 3 years learning under a master. Their first apprenticeship didn’t go very well, the master they were working under didn’t want to share their knowledge or help Morgan in any way; the dropped the apprenticeship after just one semester and luckily they were taken in by the Astronomy teacher at Soniano’s Capital College of Manolinian Magics.

Dominic is a Prefect and takes great pride in the accomplishment. Dominic wants to be remembered, he wants something to point at and say ‘Look, I was here. I did something with my life’ And so at 15 he dedicated himself to numerology. It’s his best subject, he tutors younger years, he’s far ahead in his independent study of the subject. He doesn’t quite know what he’s going to do to mark his name in Numerology but he’ll figure it out, he just needs to research more to find it.

Selena doesn’t care for her families forced formalities, nor does she care for he idea that the only achievement that matter are academic. She is unruly and impertinent, a trickster, always pulling pranks. She best so far was summoning a whoopee cushion on the principles chair right before they sat down, and the whole school broke out in laughter. But now she has to find something to top that. In the mean time she will continue to pull pranks and be a general stain on her family, maybe if she can ruin their reputation a little they’ll see there’s more to the world than academics.

[artharakka]

How to Win a Fist Fight

[amingledyarn]

Crochet your own little Mimic Box with this free video tutorial! Designed by Kylie Slee on Ravelry.

[2minutetabletop]

How To Make Hex Maps in Dungeondraft

Here is our step-by-step guide on how to line up your Hex Tiles perfectly in Dungeondraft, using free mods provided by Uchideshi and Hieronymos!

→ Read the Full Guide Here!

[chrissabug]

Hi! I know that many of you have discovered my work for the first time via the new KOTLC portraits! Thank you so much for all of the love on those so far!

Did you know that on top of being an artist I am also a recently published Author!? (It still feels weird calling myself that! Ahh!)

I want to introduce to you that at the same time I was working on those portraits I was also making a HOW TO DRAW book. (Yes, I may have taken on too many projects! lol! It was a crazy time!)

My first Book was published this Spring and it is all about teaching you how to draw your own fantasy characters!

Proportion guides, facial features, fantasy races, and step-by-step example character projects! The book was a labor of love and is packed with many tutorials and tips to help you pick up a pencil and bring your characters to life!

If you are interested, you can order online wherever books are sold! And it is available internationally (at least in the US, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. It may also be available in other areas that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. It's best to just try searching the website of your largest book retailer)

May it serve you well on your adventures!!

🌟Amazon Link (but you can find it online at other bookstores too!)

[sleepingjuliette]

Cons playing dnd remotely: you can't hang out regularly :( Pros: you can celebrate meeting up with loyalty stamps :)

[haru-sketch]

Portrait of my new D&D tiefling, Rellin Trevail.

Graviturgist & lover of magic ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

[clearlygolden]

[introspectres]

I’ve tried to answer this ask many times, but my answer kept bloating into this massive unwieldy text wall. So, I challenged myself to fit as much as I could into an 8-page mini zine—something bite-sized I could just hand out to people—and this was the result!

Resources & Further Reading:

* Looking for Games: [reddit] [roll20] [dndbeyond] * DnD Beyond Character Creation * DnD Youtubers: [Mark Hulmes] [Ginny Di] [D&D Official] * Multiplayer ttrpgs that aren't dnd * Single-player ttrpgs * Shop: [$2 physical copy]

[angelasasserart]

I'm super stoked to share the final version of this portrait! It represents a style experiment and new Fantasy Art direction for me.

Introducing Artorias, our D&D party's Soul Knife Rogue (played by my husband, Kevin).

New head of the Collbrande trade empire after his hostile takeover. Outwardly charming, inwardly growing more heartless by the day.

I've also written up two Secret Sketchbook entries discussing the development of art style, reference gathering, pose planning, painting, & more.

Answering the important questions:

What makes the look of a D&D Rogue?

Why & how did I choose this art style?

How did I come up with the pose & equipment?

What painting techniques did I use?

Available to my Patreon Patrons at all paid tiers or snag each post as a one-off for $3!

Art Links

Art Blog Post with process sneak peeks & character story

1 Min Timelapse

On BlueSky (Give him some Likes!)

Secret Sketchbook entries | Part 1 | Part 2

[annoyingvee]

I hate how my URGE to draw fanart of my and my friend's ttrpg characters is inversely proportional to my drawing skills

Like I'll fucking draw stick people fanart of my babies if i have to BUT OMFG HOW I WISH I COULD DO THEM RIGHT

If you happen to come across this post, everytime i get a like in this i will draw something until I'm minimally able to post some drawing here (likes instead of reblogs cus I don't want to mess your blogs and everything, but if u want to reblog with any kind of advice I'd love to hear some lol)

[of-everything-orbz-star-rpg]

How to create a character blog, for those who miss Tupperbox and others.

Hey! Considering my original audience (three people total :skull:, maybe 5 with two others from HF) is from Discord, you may be interested in how to create something like a tupper from here!

I will be using things like this: Draughtlik: They glare at Hime, eyes piercing through their helmet.

But you may miss that avatar action! Here is a guide on how to make a secondary blog (If you aren't making your primary one, I strongly recommend making your primary your own, so you can follow wonderful artists like @extremely-nervess or @vacuouscanyon!)

Step 1: On the left side of the desktop page, www.tumblr.com, under Account, you have a Blogs button! Press + New

Step 2: It takes you to this menu! Feel free to read any information provided, like the Primary vs. Secondary hyperlink, and then fill out the details! Remember to do that captcha, then you can create!

Step 3: After creating your blog, click on the new tab to switch to managing it, in the same place as step 1 (Under account on the left.)

Step 4: Go to your Blog Settings on the right side!

Step 5: Click Edit Appearance on the top! From there, you can set a banner and a profile picture. You can even hide your profile picture from the main blog to appear like mine does. Make sure to save appearance with the profile picture shown first, that way you do not need to reupload it, then you can go back and hide the profile picture.

Further questions? Feel free to reach out to my messages! I'm happy to help.

For anyone this posts reaches not from Of Everything, feel free to check out my pinned post to join! Everyone is welcome!

[haematinon]

Would you be interested in videos like this one, showcasing the design process for my Patreon? Working on the book prevents me from spending more time on video editing :D

[graveyartblog]

Vitor De Moreira Frietas.. IN THE 3RD DIMENSION (song)

[willows-unnamed-rpg]

Week 2

Overview and thoughts

I decided I want to try to make one post a week with progress on my project, so I figured I should be more transparent on what these posts should look like and some more insight into what I am working towards.

Each post should be up on Monday to highlight what I been working on for this system/game. I intended to release a playtest of the system that will be open to the public. I currently have only myself on the project so progress will be slow but once I have some sort of Alpha test or something I'm comfortable having people run with I'll post a link to a pdf and host it in a pinned post. I know that this will require a lot and my goal is to have a simple adventure module to test out along with some handfuls of additional monsters to play with if you don't want a module. This is ambitious but I need to shoot for the moon

Beginning on the System - TTRPG stuff to be used for my game

I mentioned briefly in last week's post that I wanted to do a point buy based system and I figured I should go into some depth about what I currently have so far.

I like the idea of loosely placing abilities/features into one of three categories based on traditional MMO style features: Tank, Damage, and Support (I am going to change these names, they are not final). I also want some semblance of balance, so trees or pathways make sense, invest more into something and it gets better. I also want things to overlap so it's more a Venn Diagram and less a defined category. I was also thinking to split based on archetypes but that would be limiting I think. I would want my favorite archetypes to work (spell sword, life as a resource) along with other traditional (fighter, ranger) and non traditional styles (using magical objects rather than magic itself, specific weapon oriented builds).

I also think the point buy idea should help with encounter balance since encounters of specified difficulties will be using a specific amount of points and a Game Master can make encounters based on those points (kinda like armies in war games like Warhammer)

The fear here is that the point buy system will lead a player down a rabbit hole of poor build optimization or choice paralysis. I feel poor build optimization can be solved with allowing players to rebuild their character somewhat with a narrative beat (or in game mechanic for when I bring it over to the rpg but a system like that is common across RPGs so it's not a design flaw imo). The choice paralysis is. I think I need to guide players to cool endcap abilities or features along with features that require investing in multiple areas, like let's say applying poisons in combat without taking up turn resources is an investment in some kind of rogue aligned tree and an alchemy based tree. I think I am finding both Pathfinder and Fallout: New Vegas as inspiration for Horizontal Progression.

Now onto what I have so far for Character Creation. I think I am going to be giving the player about 50 total points they can use for creating a character but are required to use 20 for statistics (I am going to be running with D&D/Pathfinder stats) and 10 for Saving Throws as a minimum. I think players should be able to spend more on these if they would like but it would limit how much depth they get at level one. A player's "Heritage" will either cost points, give points, or be point neutral since if one Heritage gives more benefits or Horizontal potential I think it should cost a player and if a Heritage is very flavorful but punishing, the player should be able to try to use their points to help circumvent these issues or play into their strengths.

My issue I see with this could lead into ridiculous brews since how wide the system is. But that also might not be an actual issue. I need to nail down my specific demographic since this is an indie project and won't have wide appeal, I should find a niche and stick to it rather than trying to take on the juggernauts.

Some notes about my research into non-western piracy

I have begun my initial dive into non Caribbean Piracy and I have found some areas of interest I need to dig into, like the Chen Zuyi, a pirate from the 1400 to 1407 and the Wokou. Forgive me for spelling anything wrong as I am so far working off of Wikipedia as a help to find some primary sources.

Chen Zuyi seems like a very interesting character with little info in the West (unsurprisingly). He seemed to rule over Palembang which I happen to know where that is due to EU4 and my love for naval/trade gameplay as I have played the nation of Palembang and I knew they had an event to reform into a pirate republic. So it's really cool to actually learn a bit about this. I need to find some more primary sources about this man but it seems a bit hard with how little there is in English.

The Wokou were pirates who raided Korea and China from the 13th century to 17th. Again similar to Palembang, in EU4 you can play the Daimyo of So on Tsushima and reform into a Pirate Republic with an event referencing the Wokou, so I knew there was something in this region but that was it going into my initial research. Wikipedia has alot more info on this group but it seems to a bit controversial to claim that The Wokou are all Japanese, when there is evidence to point that the early Wokou were from several different ethnic groups where people whole lived on the fringes of society. Which makes me want to draw parallels to pirates during the golden age of piracy but I need to do more research.

Recommended Reading for this week

I noticed that the whole book Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trades in the Greater China Seas show up during my reading about the Wokou so I am going to try to read that this week off of some kinda of online library or archive (or get it from my local library's inter library loan)

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[galacticsabc]

I love spontaneous art projects. This time, I attempted a linocut print...

..Except the process was incredibly jank, as the only thing I bought was the block itself. I used a cuticle trimmer from a manicure set to carve the block, the paper was cheap index cards from school, and the ink was a mixture of india ink, acrylic paint, and water. And y'know what, it actually turned out ok.