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I like lizardfolk and all their many scaly-kin cousins. Given the explosion of variety we know happened in our own world back before the unpleasantness with the asteroid I...
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tl;dr: examining the preference for top 14 races shows age-related trends - humans, half-elves, dwarves prefered by older players, tieflings, dragonborn by younger players....
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This is the eleventh weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet, this week there is quite a lot. Previous one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch...
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tl;dr: home-making physical props takes time, some hints to making them useable so your time is not wasted Maybe I just like mucking about with tea but I find distressing...
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For those of you working with cities; d4 Caltrops did this is a cool approach to quickly setting up city crawls with voronoi-tesselations. It took me a little button-mashing...
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Returning once again to Mia Gojaks survey from the 5e Facebook group we want to see if there were any patterns that could be pulled out of the class preference vs age data....
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This is the tenth weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet, this week there is quite a lot. Previous one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End...
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tl:dr; a comprehensive guide on how to run the fabled West Marches campaign style, full of great art and practical examples. What we have is a super interesting campaign book -...
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Maybe you are between portals, maybe you need to cross this desert, maybe your shuttle crashed. In any case, you just noticed: 1. A dessicated corpse, clutching a map. You...
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Picking up an interesting challenge from Jim at d66 Classless Kobolds which goes: 1. Pick a genre, setting, or time period 2. Write one or two paragraphs on context 3. Produce...
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This is the ninth weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet. Previous one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Starting our...
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tl;dr: D&D 5e dominates both; Fantasy Grounds likes Pathfinder, Roll20 likes Call of Cthulu. Fantasy Grounds released its player numbers and I wanted to put the top 10 games...
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tl;dr: tap the stories that rise out of 4X and other games for inspiration at your table I played a lot of Fall From Heaven II a Civilization IV mod and some of the strange...
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tl;dr: preference for play-style changes with age - older players show reduced preference in roleplay. Following up on the observation that new joiners appear to be getting...
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This eighth weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet is a fairly substantial one, lots of interesting things out in the past week. Previous one found...
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Following up on the previous posts about playing through the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine by Evlyn Moreau. Links to the review and part I of play using it, Part II, Part III and...
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tl:dr; multiple surveys across ~ 2013-2019 show an increasing age of new joiners. Originally prompted by pulling apart the D&D Gateway survey data from Necropraxis that showed...
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Following up on the previous posts about playing through the Kobolds Art Exhibition zine by Evlyn Moreau. Links to Part II and Part III. The Kobolds cross paths once more with...
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Seventh weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet. Previous one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Opening with this post on...
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Starting with a d16 block of ideas from old folk tales, family stories and legends from North West Ireland. Near shore graveyard marker, Co. Mayo Mythic seashore encounters: 1....
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Following a request on the OSR discord from Jojiro for "a blog post where they just go through an example of how they roll up an encounter - HD, reactions, morale, and all, and...
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Following stumbling across this article on why Spelljammer is worth saving - adding the concept of 3D hexcrawling to the points mentioned in earlier posts on this blog I wanted...
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Sixth weekly round up of interesting TTRPG things found on the internet - less than last week - previous one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links. Sci-fi...
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tl;dr: How-to notes on using red teams for campaign set up to create day zero motion in your world. What are red teams and why bother? From a recent campaign start-up I...
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Building out from some ideas in response to a reddit question on what would be awesome mounts for a party. All of these are therefore 'full party mounts' - big enough that...
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tl;dr: if you feel the players are missing opportunities to talk and role-play, you can give them either NPCs to talk to, choices to discuss or problems to solve with in-world...
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Fifth weekly round up of interesting things this week to catalog interesting finds from each week. Last one found here. Inspired by weaver.skepti.ch End of Week links....
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Actual play of how the 'party depth crawl' worked. Each paragraph after the second reflects a new roll on the table. The players arrive in a swirl through the snow in the third...
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Responding to A fistful of setting questions post - as another idea spinner for my next session. Which specific NPC do I want to piss off the least? There is a bunch of...
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tl:dr; a great Afrofantasy setting and starter adventure for 5e, super-accessible, definitely check it out. "Wagadu Chronicles: The Child & The Oath" - is a 5e compatible...