Welcome back to Advent’s Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!...
Came across this video just now and figured I’d share it here. I am sure folks will be happy to see some of the larger creators who are starting to embrace the Fediverse.
Just a little idea I had, think it would be fun. Comment your favourite systems and the rest of us will give you recommendations for something that could possibly fit your interests.
I love dcc and cairn, and currently enjoying shadowdark immensely. Flirting with call of Cthulhu as of yesterday ( played the solo adventure), think I might take an interest in skill based systems now!
Discord ain’t it. There’s got to be folks over on this instance e.g. that would be interested in setting up a Shadowdark community, right? Right?? I don’t want to contribute to enshittified reddit’s bottom line, but the Shawdowdark subreddit is one of the only reasons I still open up that tab every now and then…
The arcane library discord I find quite lively, but i also do miss conversations that are more structured around topics rather than channels. Are there any good blogs you are aware of?
Hi friends! To do my small part for the TTRPG fediverse, I resurrected an old RPG blog rss aggregator I ran about 10 years ago and refreshed it with some GPT-based summarization. You can find it right here:...
This is truly great! I really appreciate the summaries as well, so i don’t have to open tabs for everything to find out if I am even interested. I also realised that the fediverse reemergence goes very well with the reimagining of the web experience that the people working on arc browser are doing! Check it out, it is great for a workflow involving multiple sites bookmarks etc
Funny, just finished scarlet citadel (pretty unsatisfied with the 5e dungeon crawl experience) and currently running a few shadowdark one shots as a result. I love the simplicity, clarity and conciseness of it compared to 5e and the armada of retroclones at the other end of the spectrum. Oh yeah and the speed of combat might be the best thing overall.
I just had a moment where I downsized my RPG book collection. Do you ever weed out your collection? I find myself becoming a bit of a headless chicken, sometimes more interested in what the promise is that a book might hold, rather than diving in deep into the ones I already have. This superficial engagement with many books I...
I have both organised, but I just deem my physical collection "real". I only play the games & adventures I own physically. My digital collection is mostly cheap humble bundle stuff that I browse around in for fun or for inspiration for preparing my next session, just stealing small things here and there.
yeah, I agree with your approach. My collection is maybe 20 books total, but I run 1-2 games a week. 5e core books + tasha & xanathar, plus some adventures (3), monsters (2) settings books (2). Outside of 5e there is Call of Cthulhu, Pathfinder 2e+Bestiary, and DCCRPG + a handful of modules. I recently ran a third party module that drew on a lot of books, it was a nightmare to DM.
Advent’s Amazing Advice: A Most Potent Brew, A one-shot fully prepped and ready to go! (ttrpg.network)
Welcome back to Advent’s Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!...
Mike Shea (Sly Flourish) just released a video where he talks about the Fediverse and this instance specifically! (www.youtube.com)
Came across this video just now and figured I’d share it here. I am sure folks will be happy to see some of the larger creators who are starting to embrace the Fediverse.
Let's play a little game of recommendations
Just a little idea I had, think it would be fun. Comment your favourite systems and the rest of us will give you recommendations for something that could possibly fit your interests.
Where's the Shadowdark folks at?
Discord ain’t it. There’s got to be folks over on this instance e.g. that would be interested in setting up a Shadowdark community, right? Right?? I don’t want to contribute to enshittified reddit’s bottom line, but the Shawdowdark subreddit is one of the only reasons I still open up that tab every now and then…
RPG daily blog summaries at dndblogs.com (dndblogs.com)
Hi friends! To do my small part for the TTRPG fediverse, I resurrected an old RPG blog rss aggregator I ran about 10 years ago and refreshed it with some GPT-based summarization. You can find it right here:...
Zero Prep Session With Shadowdark RPG (castlegrief.substack.com)
Nice session report with Shadowdark. What’s your opinion on this game?
How many RPG books are too many?
I just had a moment where I downsized my RPG book collection. Do you ever weed out your collection? I find myself becoming a bit of a headless chicken, sometimes more interested in what the promise is that a book might hold, rather than diving in deep into the ones I already have. This superficial engagement with many books I...