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When the zone is in the woods [PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds]

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Be Careful… :))

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A lil’ guide for the nine races in 5th edition! Drawings by @rpgtoons

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The TRPG book that continues to save my campaign(s)!

Showing this off because I’ve gotten a lot of asks for DM advice after my campaign binder post. If you’re a lazy DM like me, this book can potentially reduce the stress of having to track reams of campaign info. It has for me.

Or as the kids like to say, “This [book] cured my depression, cleared my skin, and brought my dog back from the dead!”

It’s called Vornheim: The Complete City Kit. It’s a few bucks for a PDF, but the print version is where it’s at. 

Lemme tell you a story from the last session I ran for my Saturday online group. 

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I woke up with a hangover. 

I slept in past noon, spent a good part of my day cleaning up and coping with living it up on Friday night. I ventured out, got coffee, seriously debating taking a nap in the late afternoon. 

Then I remembered I had a D&D game to run…in not quite an hour!

Oh shit. 

My players had just killed Eshrigel the Medusa at the behest of her half-medusa daughter Absalom. The only prep I’d done is come up with a few adventure hooks, all of which I wouldn’t be able to flesh out and run until next week! 

I had to run a 3-4 hour D&D session with only about 20 minutes or so to prepare! I’ve got nothing ready, and I can’t just pull a dungeon out of my ass either; the PC’s are between adventures, so starting something big isn’t a good option. 

Fuuuuuck. 

Thankfully, the players are currently in a city (Gran Elfheim), and I’ve got this book. 

In less than 15 minutes I was able to generate a dozen assorted NPC’s (with names, genders, quirks, secrets, etc), as well as four decent random encounters:

1d10 (7) face rats (rats with the faces of beautiful humans) attack an attractive NPC on the street. When the PC’s approach, the rats attack them. The rats are used by ugly noblemen to disfigure the beautiful. The scars left by face rats cannot be cured by normal means. 

A large nightingale picks at a corpse. It steals a shiny valuable object from the PC’s, and flies off towards the Immortal Zoo of Ping Feng.

A street vendor sells magically tainted sweets to a hungry crowd. He uses the PC’s in his sales pitch. 

A devoted old half elf servant mistakes [random PC] for his former master, bringing them to a towertop estate, handing them the key to it. It’s now theirs…as is its problems.

Okay, cool…that should fill at least an hour of play if the players are quick/uninterested. It’ll give me time to come up with something else. Shopping maybe? I dunno. 

So I run it. I decide the attractive NPC is the half-elf foreign prince I randomly generated earlier. 

After half the rats are dead, the party Barbarian chases after them. I say the rats disappear into darkness.

The barbarian keeps chasing, splitting the party. He goes down a few more alleys. 

I say the rats scurry into a dark basement window, well and truly gone. 

Barbarian smashes the window, then runs around to see how to enter this building from the front!

Oh shit…now I need to know what this building is. Thankfully, Vornheim is there for me.

In three dice rolls I now have… “A Hatter. Its owner is being bribed by nobles to create more and more ridiculous hats to sell to their rivals. The owner is a random NPC…who turns out to be a dishonest wizard who does shady things”

Wowzers! Things are starting to click!

So, I decide the hatter wizard owns all the rats. He breeds them to attack attractive nobles, and does so at the behest of other rival nobles! That fits. 

Next, I use the book to randomly generate a floorplan, and now I have an adventure site. 

The Barbarian barges into the hat shop and argues with the wizard at the front desk. Barbarian wants in to kill the rats! Wizard refuses, they argue back and forth, ending up going to the basement to investigate. 

Things escalate from there. By the time the rest of the party catches up (with a new half-elf prince NPC in tow), they finish off the rats, banter back and forth with the hatter, and finally head off on their way. 

A single random encounter, plus half a dozen random table rolls, turned into almost a whole session’s worth of adventure!

That’s the kind of play Vornheim provides. It takes what is typically a mundane and skipped over aspect of D&D play (wandering through cities) and makes it into a multi-layered and dynamic adventure…all with less than 20 mins of prep!

That’s a lifesaver for lazy DM’s like me, and it’s why this book is a staple in my campaigns: it fills the gaps between adventures with novel and interesting stuff that’s unlike anything in other D&D books!

If you’re a lazy DM, seriously pick up this book! 

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D&D 30 day challenge - Day 16

Favorite monster (Abberation)

Since I first opened the 3.5 edition Monster Manual, the first creature I saw was the aboleth, and I decided I had to use one, one day. I haven’t yet, because every time I consider one I realize just how devastating it’s going to be if I play it correctly, and chose not to have a TPK.

They just appeal to my sense of storytelling. They’re just dangerous in so many ways. They’re in the water, which is a bad start for any character in armor or with a liking for oxygen, they’re magical, they’re dominating, they can mutate you with a touch and they’ve got a slave army to do their bidding.

But they’re also brilliant, with ancestral memories and they don’t forget, so they can be a reservoir for lost knowledge which may make them, on occasion, a necessary recourse.

There’s just so many beautiful possibilities.

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I’m excited to upload a new, cute monster today because I’ll be DMing in about an hour so here we go!  It’s a Spectator by the amazing @thegorgonist.  Spectators are a type of beholderkin that date all the way back to the first Monster Manual II (well, really before that in a module and I really feel like I might own it somewhere).  They specifically have four eyestalks and are known to create friendships with other creatures, making it unique among beholderkin.  

As always, please feel welcome to use our cute monsters in your campaign if you’ve been searching for that cutest of portraits.  If you do use them, we’d love to hear about it or see pictures!

Please do not repost.  For personal use only.

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Made some miniatures for an upcoming Dungeons and Dragons campaign with my buds @arrispect, @thesunlitgarden, my girlfriend @jalules and my lil bro who has no Tumblr. I’m really happy with them!

Out of curiosity, is this something any of y'all might be interested in as a commission item? And what would you be willing to pay? Just trying to get an idea.

I’ll likely be making more!

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Quite a few people requested some form of trait/personality generator, and here’s the result!  I wanted to keep it vague enough that the options could work for any universe, be it modern, fantasy, scifi, or anything else, so these are really just the basics. Remember that a character is much more than a list of traits, and this should only be used as a starting point– I tried to include a variety of things, but further development is definitely a must.

Could pair well with the gender and sexuality generator.

To Play: Click and drag each gif, or if that isn’t working/you’re on mobile, just take a screenshot of the whole thing (multiple screenshots may be required if you want more than one trait from each category).

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Rations for various RPG Races

[[ Source. Original creator: wats6831. Additional information and images linked under each one. ]]

Universal:

Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.

Discussion thread here.

Dwarf:

Garlic chicken livers, smoked and peppered cheese, spiced pork sausages, hard tack, dried vegetables, dried wild mushrooms.

Discussion thread here.

Elf:

Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Halfling:

From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.

Discussion thread here.

Half-Orc:

Wrapped in cheesecloth and tied in burlap package. Forest strider drumsticks, molasses sweet wheat bread “black strap”, aged Munster, hard boiled eggs, mixed wild nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Orc:

Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Gnome:

Pan fried Delimbyr smelt, spiced goat cheese (paprika crusted hand pressed Fontina), Gnome shortbread (savory pistachio), glass travel jar filled with Secomber Red (wine), hard boiled quail eggs packed in rolled oats (to keep safe), dried figs from Calimshan, and Southwood smoked goat sausage (blood sausage).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Lizardfolk:

Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Drow:

From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

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RPG Character Challenge 2017 - 16 RPG classes!

And this is done! Wow, what a great exercice. Thanks a LOT to Bekki for doing this challenge along me, it was such a nice thing to do together! (Go check out the participations on my tumblr if you want to read the descriptions and attacks of each class!)

What is your favourite RPG class?

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Happy International Tabletop Day!

Be it D&D, Catan, Red Dragon Inn, or whatever your favorite game is! Go meet new friends and game today!

Thanks @geekandsundry!

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I rather enjoy being on the other side of the table for once

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critical cheeto roll

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We do so love our d100 lists, and it was suggested to be brought here, so here it is!

There are already some tasteful and mind-scratching riddles on there, and it’s barely halfway done. 

Be advised: the answers are there too.

Any contributions to an otherwise free resource are appreciated.

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The Settlement of Rochdale, the largest instance of civilization in the Ancasta Flatlands.

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High on the Hill by Alex Brock