Another banger from the legally-distinct floating eye orb

My new video is up! It's the longest one on my channel so far, clocking in at 39 minutes long! In it, I do a review and then an update to Daggerheart's starter adventure! Patrons also get a 4 hour long Actual Play of it, and a 1 hour long interview session with the players! youtu.be/sZeuYw3dQbc

Daggerheart Tip: Don't Hog the Spotlight (Especially in Combat)! Ft. @trekiros.bsky.social #daggerheart #criticalrole #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity #dnd

I did a small cameo in the latest video by Val from Corkboards & Curiosities! Go watch it, she told me she'll punch me if you don't youtube.com/watch?v=XVgZ...

@dmsguild.com has put out a Humble Bundle for the first time ever! For just over 20 bucks, you can get $270 worth of D&D books - that's over 90% off, on some of the greatest third party supplement 5e has ever seen! Here are my top 3 recommendations for you to check out from the bundle (🧵 )

A gif I exported from tomorrow's video release.

If critical role campaign 4 is set in a tidally-locked world, I will go crazy (bad crazy not good crazy)

I haven't streamed in ages, but right now I'm working on something that lends itself very well to taking input from the crowd: filling up random tables. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lXl...

What I think is the most important takeaway from my Daggerheart review

I honestly hadn’t had any interest in trying Daggerheart until this review. Thanks Trek! Worth a watch for the TTRPG-playing chemists and data analysts out there who don’t consider themselves theatre kids.

New video out now! This a review of @criticalrole.bsky.social's newest game, Daggerheart! I tried to talk about things that surprised me and how the game felt in play, so this is a pretty in-depth review! Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/zOgV_PFDgSU

New video is up! This time we talk about travel encounters, five room dungeons, and how they fit with one another youtu.be/MF1vX9hs9Jc

I buy consoles about 5-7 years after they come out but I’m happy for all of you or sorry that happened.

Whenever I want to try a big mechanics change in Flare Fall, I create a 1-5 page RPG to test the change in isolation Sooo enjoy this 4-page version of Flare Fall, with its upcoming "cascade" style action economy :p

Got a new video out just now! 🥳 This one is about my Top 5 Best D&D House Rules! youtu.be/merH78Weif8

Let's wrap up Flare Fall February... By having a bunch of D&D Youtubers play my game! The last video of the series (...for this year? 👀) is up right now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixpn...

New video is up! 🥳 This one is about the design of the enemies you can throw at your players 😈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=efp0...

New video is live! This one is about the worldbuilding for the game! youtu.be/a91pxGlmoNo

I have been attacked 😡

Fourth video in the Flare Fall February series! This one is about how combat works! youtu.be/Zi1OHAJ6IAI

The third video of Flare Fall February just went live! Today we go over character creation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsVW...

Video 2 out of 10 of Flare Fall February! Today we went over the basic rules: how to roll for stuff, and what "pushing your luck" means www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoBZ...

Video 2 out of 10 of Flare Fall February! Today we went over the basic rules: how to roll for stuff, and what "pushing your luck" means www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoBZ...

📢HUGE Announcement!📢 This month is going to be "Flare Fall February": an event where I will release TEN videos about the sci-fi post-apo game I've been working on for the past couple years! Just released the first video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTR...

📢HUGE Announcement!📢 This month is going to be "Flare Fall February": an event where I will release TEN videos about the sci-fi post-apo game I've been working on for the past couple years! Just released the first video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTR...

New battlemap for Flare Fall's starter adventure

GMs of Bluesky, what are the biggest misconceptions about running a #ttrpg according to you? I have a few of my own, but I wonder what other GMs thought would be a really big deal, but turned out to be completely different in practice.

Last year I made a free 2-page RPG focused on "cinematic" combat where the bad guys create a problem and the good guys scramble to find a solution Ran a single playtest of it, it was good fun!

I'm trying a flowchart-style layout for the locations in my game's starter adventure. People who regularly run TTRPG modules, I need a vibe check on this - does this look easy to use? The 🔎 icon means info the player can get for free if they search. The square icons mean checks.

New video is up! This time I use Arcane as an excuse to talk about stat block design 😄 youtu.be/jWfOclyNlxA

Everyone's sharing their spotify wrap-ups and I'm over here still listening to music on youtube like an absolute barbarian

Just caught covid in the middle of editing my next video :x So huh... You guys will still care about Arcane in a week or two, right? Because I would really appreciate if you did 😅 Anyway here's a teaser

I would like to apologize to everyone who tried to open Bluesky by typing "b" in their search bar and then ended up opening BattleSim instead My b.

In D&D 2024, you can now paralyze an Ancient Red Dragon without it having to fail a saving throw A Warlock's Quasit familiar can inflict the Poisoned condition on hit, without a save. A summoned Undead Spirit can Paralyze a Poisoned creature on hit, without a save either.

Writing Tip: I can never repeat enough that all writers should have a saved copy of their work that isn't on the web/cloud. As safe as you think it might be, outages happen. Technology can glitch. The last thing you want is to lose months of work. Back it up! #writing #writingtips #writingcommunity

I'm waiting for Arc 3 with baited breath (so I can maybe give Ekko his own stat block maybe let's all pray our boi is back with spooky time powers)

This is the best thing Wizards of the Coast has made in the last 5 years, and it isn't even close.

I've gone through my entire Youtube playlist, trying to recreate it on Spotify ...I am ashamed to say, I was able to find every single title. I am a fake hipster. Take away my license to be slightly annoying about music.

(Arcane spoilers) The ending of Arcane was so heartwarming 💖 Ending season 2 with just 5 and a half episodes was kind of short but I loved it 💖💖💖 I’m glad they can be a family again 😊

Is it me or does it feel like Arcane S2 is missing a few scenes? Like, we don't see Jayce learning about the Mel situation. We don't see Vi/Cait discuss the glitch that very much affected them. I feel like these characters would care about those things?

when you score points in sports, they should let you spend those points on upgrades

Oh no. My mother just started taking legal advice from ChatGPT. Her first question that she proudly links to me: "Does [this legal thing] still exist?" ...She's using the free version which is only trained on data up to September 2021. But Wikipedia is untrustworthy m'kay?

arcane so good it makes you forget its source material is league of legends

A tester’s job is to identify issues, not solutions. (For projects that have them, part of a playtest coordinator's job is to act as a filter and make sure that only the issues and not the design ideas go on the bug sheet.)

Cyberpunk 2077 did this in a braindance investigation scene (the Moth XBD one), before either of these idiots did it in real life. And back then I thought to myself "haha nobody would be that dumb, surely" ...but Cyberpunk has an odd streak of predicting reality, dodn't it xD

So huh, I have a confession (and a request) I have taken real good care of my algorithm on Twitter. Ignoring/muting/blocking posts I didn't want to see, & engaging with fun stuff. So it's actually kind of pleasant over there for me, whereas my bsky feed is mostly self-promo posts right now. 1/2

These are all "moderate difficulty" encounters according to the 2024 DMG According to the 2014 DMG, they would be respectively "medium", "deadly", and "deadly" So, it's not like what we had was very good, but this is a step back imo

If you're on Drivethrurpg, there's now a way to filter out AI / set your games as handmade. To batch set your games as handmade, go to Title Management, then Batch Add / Remove Filters. You'll have to click a bunch of boxes, but it's way better than going game page by game page.

Huuuh hello bsky I kind of forgot to check in in a bit Anyway check this out it's an animated dice roller I made for my TTRPG's companion app:

What am I doing in 2024? Come watch this video to find out! 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf8M...