four Pig-faced Orcs inked today #osr #ttrpg #art #inkillustration #dnd

The most notable works of American isekai are A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and Homestuck

Ow fuck!!

Why do I like sword & sorcery? The limitless potential of its hodgepodge worlds Its maps are blank, full of liminal spaces Weird mysteries and great wonders lurk around every corner It is the physical space of a dream You engage with it in short bursts, ere that dream crumbles

Sorry but Jack Vance>Fritz Leiber>>>>>Robert E Howard>Michael Moorcock

One mind flayer as a villain is cooler than many mind flayers, but TWO mind flayers? Fire.

Crackpot theory I'm working on: all games are expressions of a single ur-game; our impulse to endlessly hack rules is actually the game-spirit pulling us to toward itself. The peeling away of contingent elements in finite rulesets is an attempt to approach the inexhaustible Form of the ur-game.

watched Nausicaä for the first time last night

I get wanting to make spells feel weirder by introducing elements of uncertainty, but in a world where fate is determined by a literal roll of the dice what's weirder than an effect that just works exactly as intended, every time?

A school-themed sentai team that goes around teaching important life skills and lessons to monsters. Each color is based on a different class subject

Banger thread on the first old school module I ever played in. Pure, uncut high-TSR weirdness

This is good, and ALSO to add a bit: In human complexes where work is one, a *huge* amount of the time, what wandering humans are doing in the halls is moving things around. Food, waste, furniture (it me!), bodies, materials, messages. Any hive of activity is constantly shuffling stuff around.

Using exotic words in spells is as old as civilization. Also Ablanathanalba is better than Abracadabra because it's a palindrome (there should be a theta instead of a th diglyph)

A lot of people conceptualize random encounters as the party encountering the monsters, but they make more sense the other way: the monsters encounter the party. Below is a thread on what most people get wrong about encounter activities and what there is to be done about it. (1/14)

For the first (and maybe only) time ever I got to use the "Shadows are following you pretending to be your actual shadows before they attack" trick last night and learned 1. cliches are cliche for a reason and 2. DMing for non-fantasy people feels like cheating sometimes.

I started adding rumors to my monthly scheduling email and highly, highly recommend it compared to sharing rumors at the table. Saves tons of time and gets players thinking about the game between sessions.

Getting this out of the way now: The Dungeons & Dragons Basic/Expert set (1981) should be abbreviated to BX in all cases. The slash in the common abbreviation "B/X" is unnecessary and leads to the utterly tragic "B/X/OSE." This is a hill I will die on.