I have never done a super-sweet barge home base for the PCs, and I am very sad to admit it.

Spent the evening with a buddy of mine, workshopping the warlock he's putting together to join one of my campaigns. I'm pretty excited--none of my players (including him) know that I'm going to use his warlock to introduce an elder goddess that I've been designing for MONTHS. #DnD #TTRPG #D&D

Session 141 of Traversing the Doors was tonight! The party solved a riddle, fought a giant venom-spitting cobra, helped a mad mage with his experiments, and spent some time training with professional gladiators. We had to take a couple sessions off, so it's nice to see the momentum hasn't died! #D&D

Last night, the party split up to head in two very different directions; two players chartered a ship to an island, while the other two took a hot-air balloon on a trip to a frozen mountain range. One group is dealing with a murder mystery; the other is dealing with a white dragon! #DnD #D&D #TTRPG

Capitalists really give capitalism a bad name.

Sorcerer: I need you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that you have ruined my life. It was already objectively awful before. I had a life expectancy of less than a week. And oh, how I long for those sweet and halcyon days. Bard: Okay, so I'm gonna put you down as a 'no,' then. #D&D #TTRPG

Goddamnit. Every single year I think maybe--just MAYBE--the #Raiders are actually going to compete. And EVERY YEAR they manage to prove me wrong.

So I've got the weekly #D&D campaign...and the two bi-weekly campaigns...and the monthly mixed bag game...but if I cut back sleep on Sundays to a strict four hour limit, I COULD theoretically start a #Daggerheart campaign, while still maintaining a relatively healthy 36 hours of sleep a week.

Don't sleep on cliffhangers! A surprise cliffhanger ending to a session can get your players immediately invested and excited for the next game. You don't even have to know what the payoff is--you have a whole week (or longer) to figure it out! #DMtips #DnD #D&D #GMtips #Daggerheart #TTRPG

Oh, look! Another page from the fascist playbook!

Keep a list of all the throwaway NPCs you introduce into your campaign! Reintroducing a familiar character dozens of sessions down the line does a LOT to make the game world seem more real and lived-in, especially if the NPC is not 'important' in the traditional sense. #DMtips #DnD #D&D #GMtips

Man, I wished I lived in IL so I could vote for her!

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Me: (Thinking out loud) Maybe I could do a psychosomatic thing where each one of the players experiences the combat in a unique manner.... Wife: You have a habit of walking into other rooms while you're talking and then I can't understand you Me: Would you have understood if I stayed? Wife: Point

The Slapfight Championship (Boiling Point!) came on after that baseball game I was watching, and these guys are really trying to make it seem like this is a Major Sporting Event when it is very clearly 27 people in a medium-sized room.

When I'm struggling to think of a cool name for a magic item I made, I start looking through my playlists for song titles. From 'Delirium Trigger' for an elemental flintlock pistol to 'Cruel Angel's Thesis' for a life-draining spiked chain, I've had a lot of success with this method! #DMtips #DnD

Sitting down to start Act II of #ClairObscur tonight. I definitely see what all of the hype was about; I'm absolutely hooked! Gustave is a badass--I strongly recommend having him wear the beret and sunglasses.

Eating this bag of stale pretzel M&Ms that the wife rejected but in reality only about half of them are stale so each bite is a fun little surprise.

Sorry for disappearing for a bit! It's been a stressful month so far, but I think I'm back. The wife is doing better; she'd back to her normal day-to-day, but she can't drive until March and she's pretty bummed about that. Thanks so much to everyone who messaged me with well-wishes for her!

In my homebrew #D&D setting, portals preserve relative momentum and velocity, while teleportation does not. Little but consistent 'laws of magic' like this can make your world seem more real, and can give your players a fun mechanic to tinker and experiment with! #DMtips #TTRPG #DnD #GMtips

Bump! Pls help asap

Gee, who could have seen that coming?

Last night's game of Daggerheart came to an abrupt end when my wife had her first-ever seizure. She's all right!--but it was one hell of a scare.

Check in with your players to see how they're feeling about their character's development! Sometimes, they'll have very cool ideas for potential RP encounters, but will keep them to themselves for fear of encroaching on the DM's space. Those ideas can be priceless! #DMtips #GMtips #TTRPG #DnD #D&D

Not gonna lie, I tried this combo a couple hours after reading the comic. It absolutely slaps.

#TedLasso has made me cry more times than I am comfortable admitting. This show is so goddamned heartwarming 😭

Grog became a thing after sailors kept dying because they wouldn't eat a fucking lime. This was, like, the umpeenth time that alcohol ended up saving a ton of lives. Seriously, if you're at a loss for how to explain something, see if "Well, because alcohol" works. #DMtips #DnD #Worldbuilding #D&D

Started watching #TedLasso tonight. I'm less than ten minutes in, and I already get why this show is so beloved. These exchanges are gold. "How do you take your tea?" "Well, usually I take it right back to the counter 'cause someone's made a horrible mistake, but, when in Rome, right?"

Let Gavin cook.., and recognize he can say what he wants and take an approach that women like Kamala & Hillary could not..

Thinking about an enchanted suit of armor that is so gaudy it grants advantage on attacks against the wearer, but so sturdy it gives damage rolls disadvantage. I just can't figure out if it's a fun design, or simply annoying 🤔 #Dnd #D&D #DMproblems #TTRPG

I watched F1 last night and was thoroughly impressed. Brad Pitt manages to Brad Pitt harder than I've ever seen him Brad Pitt before. Good stuff.

Keep a calendar for your game! It doesn't have to be unique--if Tolkien could get away with 'Thursday,' so can you. What IS important is keeping a record of how much time has passed in your game. You don't want to realize your players leveled from 1 to 12 in the space of a week! #DMtips #DnD #D&D

Medieval city life was expensive, and vagrancy was usually illegal. There's likely not a ton of beggars within the walls--you're much more likely to find people that can actually pay the bills. Outside the walls, however, could be a different story. #DMtips #GMtips #TTRPG #Worldbuilding #DnD #D&D

I'm pleasantly surprised by the #CriticalRole announcement. Not gonna lie, I WAS hoping for a #Daggerheart campaign, but this 3-party-campaign premise sounds REALLY cool, and I'm definitely excited to see how it unfolds. #D&D #TTRPG #DnD

Yo, Bluesky, what the fuck? You realize the people here CHOSE to not be on Twitter, right? You wanna do me a solid and stop fucking acting like the other place?

Working on vehicle mechanics for #Daggerheart. I ran the first draft last month in a post-apocalyptic zombie one-shot; now I'm revising and expanding a new draft for the airships in next month's steampunk game! #TTRPG

The members of Phoenix Phyre BLAZED through session 138 of Traversing the Doors last night! They killed a powerful storm giant boss in a round and a half, escaped a 20,000 pound rolling boulder trap, intimidated a group of wererats into retreat, AND discovered an infernal hotel! #DnD #TTRPG #D&D

Excited to get back into Traversing the Doors tonight! Phoenix Phyre hasn't gotten to play in almost THREE WEEKS and they have a legendary storm giant to kill! #DnD #D&D #TTRPG

Session 36 of Building a Nation was tonight! Renesme got a gift from her (dead) father, Odon was tormented by the elder god inside his head, and Farryan learned a little more about the mysterious 'savior box' he recieved from the Far Realms! #DnD #TTRPG #D&D

The dilemma I'm currently facing: do I run #Daggerheart for next month's Mixed Bag session, or #D&D 4e? Decisions, decisions... #Dmproblems #TTRPG

Out of context #D&D quote: "All right, guys. It's now or never. Remember: fascism is only acceptable as a kink." #TTRPG

DMs and GMs--tell me about your worlds! What's weird about it? What's cool about it? What is the DEEP Lore that you don't expect your players to ever discover? I wanna hear about it!* *(And also, potentially, steal your awesome ideas. Shamelessly, no less.) #DnD #Daggerheart #D&D #TTRPG #Shadowdark

Opposites attract! If your fantasy town has a major temple devoted to a good deity, chances are that the cultists in the town are diametrically opposed to that god. If the town worships a god of mercy, the cultists likely follow a god of tyranny! #DnD #DMtips #GMtips #D&D #TTRPG #Daggerheart

One of my favorite ways to insert a recurring villain is to have the PCs return to the scene of a battle and realize that one of the bodies is missing. Who was the warrior who survived? The players have no idea...yet. (At this point, I usually don't know, either.) #DMtips #D&D #DnD #TTRPG #GMtips

Listen, I don't care that I'm a grown man in my thirties. I will never be excited if the reveal at the end of "I got you a present!" is any kind of clothing. The clothes I wear to hide my disgusting mortal form are a gift to the rest of the world, not to me. I want toys! Games! BOOKS, motherfucker!

Somehow I COMPLETELY missed #Daggerheart releasing a Homebrew Kit last week. This is great news! I've had so many class/subclass ideas in the last few months, and the kit makes the prospect of designing them MUCH less daunting! #TTRPG

Whenever I'm designing a town, I like to create a tailored random encounter list for it. Most of the entries on it won't be combat-oriented, but rather notable NPCs, nearby events, and stray pickpockets. It's a small thing that helps each settlement feel unique. #DMtips #GMtips #DnD #TTRPG #D&D

I am absolutely loving Twisted Taverns by #Eldermancy! The book is gorgeous, the taverns are incredibly detailed, and the NPCs are thoroughly interesting. Plus, each one of the Taverns has a unique menu--I'm very seriously considering printing and laminating some for handouts! #DnD #D&D #TTRPG

After I finish prepping a one-shot, I like to go back over it with a hyper-critical lens and try to identify all of the scenes or elements I can potentially cut. Then, when the game runs long (it will always run long), I already know exactly how to speed up the remaining adventure. #DMtips #DnD #D&D

So glad to finally get my hands on these books! The Seeker's Guide to Twisted Taverns somehow flew under my radar, so I was thrilled when the Enchanting Emporium kickstarter launched and they had an option to grab both books at once. These books are gorgeous! #DnD #D&D #TTRPGCA