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Following up on this post on food in settings on Reddit I thought to go deeper on some of my thoughts. Mealtimes plays a big part of the current campaign with quite a few...
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Building the centre-piece city of my last campaign, I tried to spend time prepping the toolkit instead of creating specific detail; for instance in the first post on the city...
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A new survey from D&D Research Wizards (NYU team) is ongoing and they have published some preliminary results. This one is open to all TTRPG players and it is interesting to...
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A few ideas thrown together to challenge high-level PCs. The core assumption being that once the villain is in the clutches of the party, they will be torn down pretty quickly...
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So you, the local thieves guild master have some troublesome adventurers that you cannot go after directly for whatever reason; what are your options to make their lives...
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tl:dr; a walk through of a single-page set up for running sessions with numerous plot lines For background; I played lots and lots of D&D 2e, 3.5e from early teens up to end of...
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I pulled the numbers of members of groups tagged with tabletop gaming tags and spotted 'ttrpg' as the highest level tag. D&D, RPG, and multiple other related tags identify...
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d10 Things the Lizard Aristos are in a twist about this week 1. That someone has bred bees to produce something indistinguishable from moon bee imperial jelly! But the rituals!...
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My contributions to a gygaxian democracy effort on a walled garden discord on 'd8 things the party find as they approach the town that has angered the fey lord?' 1 The proper...
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Reworking a conversation on discord into a table of d12 druidic-themed quest objects 1. A fruit, or seed that has been changed or infected - like the boll of a boll-weevil,...
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tl:dr; links to where all the numbers come from. A long planned master post of sources for future reference. First four are the 'general' surveys with many thousands of...
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tl:dr; Player preference for Roleplaying (1/2), Exploration (1/3), Combat (1/6) stable since 2014. Seeing a twitter poll on the comparative preference for the pillars of D&D I...
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tl:dr; there is a wealth of city building resources, I describe two approaches I use to save heartache as a DM. I find that published books tend to be somewhat 'build up from...
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tl;dr: Kobolds Art Exhibition is a great piece that has dropped nicely into an ongoing campaign - low effort to spin up, great visuals, definitely check it out. I am a...
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tl:dr; ~3/4 of D&D is played in North America but signs point to non-anglophone communities who are not in contact with the online chatter Drawing on a variety of geographical...
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tl:dr; 4-5 players appears as the common group size even where more players available in friend circle or gaming club Older surveys asked how many people were in the broader...
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tl:dr - class preferences correlate to preferred aspects of play, as seen in Reddit 2014 survey Cross checking responses to D&D Survey (N = 1734, 2014) which asked “What are...
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tl:dr; humans are most popular but not under all circumstances nor by huge margins Update: clearer graphics and more recent data can be found here. Following an update by the...
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TL;DR the number of D&D players is expanding rapidly with 50% of players joining since 2015. In the previous post we looked at ages, in this post we look at length of time...
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Comparing the age profiles from many surveys scraped from the web throws out a couple of different profiles: - the contemporary forum user - the old school gamer - Hasbros...
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Splitting sources into Apps (Apps and reports from DnD Beyond) and Forums (surveys from Reddit, Giant in the Playground, etc) and aggregating the results weighted by number of...
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tl:dr - preferred D&D 5e player class shows distinct difference depending on whether sourced from apps/online tools or from forum response. From digging about on the internet I...
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I set off to answer 3 questions: - how to the populations of characters running about map to what the DMG would generate - is there variation between player preferences in...
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Towers of Krshal turned up - had it printed from Lulu and read it avidly. To test run the tables I set out with the tower generator to see what I could create as a spare tower...
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I wrote a draft novel for Nanowrimo this year and short circuited a lot of the world-building by setting it up the road from where my current campaign is set. This had one or...
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From this post on Githyanki Diaspora - tipped off by Throne of Salt, who was set upon the path (just now) by Anne (of DIY & Dragons) And so the challenge: 1) Take your three...Linked by the ring
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The Scaledlands are a melange of all sorts of creatures; more or less living in harmony under the Pax Saurus of the Lizards. To start filling in the cities of the setting,...
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The OSR blossoming has inspired me to participate in what ways I can. This blog will host two things - tidied up old material from the 90's/00's era 2E/3E games I ran and also...