People interested in #dnd and #ttrpg can check out my work on DTRPG here: https://www.drivethrurpg.c...
10:22 PM - Aug 07, 2023
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RPG idea: If you ever find yourself making up a guy in your head to get mad at, that's the avatar of a memetic monster protruding into your reality.
05:02 AM - Apr 11, 2024
NASA has stepped up their game. Literally!
For all my fellow #TTRPG players, I present a new space setting!
For all my fellow #TTRPG players, I present a new space setting!
10:08 PM - Mar 06, 2024
09:36 PM - Feb 19, 2024
Announcing that I'm going to be using 'protlo' as a shortening for 'protologism'
04:12 AM - Feb 14, 2024
What if your TTRPG character was "assortment of sapient magic items trying to expand their hivemind"? https://periaptgames.blogs...
#TTRPG #idea #blog
#TTRPG #idea #blog
03:14 AM - Feb 08, 2024
50% off #TTRPG content sale for the holidays: https://www.drivethrurpg.c...
Best holiday wishes and looking forward to 2024!
Best holiday wishes and looking forward to 2024!
03:34 AM - Dec 21, 2023
Monsters I've been working on lately: Aberrant grazers. Sorcerous byproducts. Beguilers and warpers. Spells escaped from spellbooks. Swarms which actually work the way they ought to. Monsters that are transdimensional portals. Storm callers. The world's largest garden pest. #TTRPG #DnD
03:57 PM - Nov 23, 2023
Spiderclimb? Web? Yeah, but spiders also [Fly] by ballooning, have [Ultravision], spit [Missiles], [Fabricate] trapdoors and nurseries and [Tiny huts], [Jump] huge distances, and [Breathe underwater] with silk diving bells. You can make ALL your spells spider-themed. #RPG
10:58 PM - Nov 13, 2023
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Target numbers! The more thorough the advice a #TTRPG gives on setting them, the better the game. Yes the players can attempt 'any' action, but in practice there'll be a fairly modest set of tasks that will come up over and over again for a given setting.
07:57 PM - Nov 02, 2023
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03:54 AM - Nov 01, 2023
One more day of the great big Halloween sale! 25 percent off Periapt Games digital titles! https://www.drivethrurpg.c...
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#selfpromotion #twodaysinarow #isitgauche
07:37 AM - Oct 31, 2023
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25% off our digital TTRPG titles for Halloween! https://www.drivethrurpg.c...
Check it out now to save 25% on A Fistful of Curiosities, Almanac of the Archaic, Spells: Made More Magical, and Steps to a Hero!
Check it out now to save 25% on A Fistful of Curiosities, Almanac of the Archaic, Spells: Made More Magical, and Steps to a Hero!
10:04 PM - Oct 29, 2023
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Thesis: Your fantasy world should have little curiosities and flourishes that aren't magical and don't have a secret purpose. It should have fairy tales and folklore with no basis in reality, false rumours, pseudosciences (and pseudomagics!) that don't work, and religions for gods that don't exist.
02:55 AM - Oct 26, 2023
Recruiting ad for dungeon delvers that says 'do YOU want YOUR career to be IN RUINS'
04:03 AM - Oct 17, 2023
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The players are just spinning their wheels. What's happened?
1. Insufficient information to decide?
2. Unclear/clashing goals, player disagreement?
3. Tricky moral dilemma?
4. No time pressure? No stakes?
5. Dread of danger?
6. Rookie players want the GM to decide for them?
7. Information overload?
1. Insufficient information to decide?
2. Unclear/clashing goals, player disagreement?
3. Tricky moral dilemma?
4. No time pressure? No stakes?
5. Dread of danger?
6. Rookie players want the GM to decide for them?
7. Information overload?
12:32 AM - Oct 15, 2023
The pile of TTRPGs and game supplements queued up waiting to be read is getting perilously close to needing a third row of icons on my desktop
06:09 AM - Oct 08, 2023
You come across a painting of the great thaumaturge Bertrand The Unrustling, scribbling notes about a bag of holding that is capable of holding all bags of holding that do not hold themselves
08:33 PM - Oct 06, 2023
D&D veteran: Don't put the bag of holding in the portable hole
Me, a nerd: There's no way someone could be smart enough to be an enchanter and not think to include a cyclic redundancy ch- *sound of reality-warping implosion*
Me, a nerd: There's no way someone could be smart enough to be an enchanter and not think to include a cyclic redundancy ch- *sound of reality-warping implosion*
05:08 PM - Oct 06, 2023
Less useful collective nouns:
An acrolith of cockatrices.
A gobemouche of driders.
A lepidote of dragons.
A maunder of mouthers.
A natation of merfolk.
A sagaciousness of naga.
A spartle of halflings.
A tableau of gorgons.
An acrolith of cockatrices.
A gobemouche of driders.
A lepidote of dragons.
A maunder of mouthers.
A natation of merfolk.
A sagaciousness of naga.
A spartle of halflings.
A tableau of gorgons.
10:24 PM - Oct 03, 2023
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I think we can be pretty confident that Elrond didn't own a skateboard. This matters when it comes to things like lockpicking, window panes, maps, burning oil, and doorknobs. Post on 'fantasy pseudo-anachronism': https://periaptgames.blogs...
06:37 AM - Sep 28, 2023
"Last guy who ran off on the pack got choked out by some Givenchy gloves. Last thing he ever saw was the price tag on them - slowly faded into darkness, and I let the archangels take him" (If you know, you know)
10:26 PM - Sep 27, 2023
The English language needs a word for a piece of fruit that's secretly gone mouldy at the bottom of a fruit bowl
03:40 AM - Sep 27, 2023
Quick #TTRPG #GM tip: Answer questions about your world quickly with a single roll of the dice.
https://periaptgames.blogs...
https://periaptgames.blogs...
08:58 PM - Sep 21, 2023
There's an old #DnD /#RPG argument: 'what do hit points represent?' And there's absolutely nothing that can be said about the matter that hasn't been said before.
So here's two thousand words on it I guess. https://periaptgames.blogs...
So here's two thousand words on it I guess. https://periaptgames.blogs...
05:08 AM - Sep 18, 2023
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Pro tip: For wizardly lingo, just steal wholesale from any technical field.
"Why, this is the personal glyph of the foul wizard, Hapax Legomenon, from the Tower of the Syllabary! He must mean to use his distributive aspect to cast Reverse Boustrophedon on the whole town!"
#TTRPG #linguistics #DnD
"Why, this is the personal glyph of the foul wizard, Hapax Legomenon, from the Tower of the Syllabary! He must mean to use his distributive aspect to cast Reverse Boustrophedon on the whole town!"
#TTRPG #linguistics #DnD
03:47 AM - Sep 17, 2023
Love the old-timey language in old RPG books
This kind of character is 'slightly prognathous', that one is 'of joyful demeanor', etc
This kind of character is 'slightly prognathous', that one is 'of joyful demeanor', etc
05:51 AM - Sep 16, 2023
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In a #fantasy world where books can be repositories of ancient and dangerous magical lore, expect library fines to be much higher
12:55 AM - Sep 15, 2023
