Here we have the last of the headmasters (for now) from Pavan's Academy from my D&D home game. More fantastic art from @samiligia.bsky.social ! Mulch, a male Troll, was the groundskeeper for Pavan's Academy but stepped up to be the temporary acting headmaster on two separate occasions.

Starting the week off with another round of headmasters from Pavan's Academy of the Arcane Arts from my D&D home game! @samiligia.bsky.social did such an incredible job on the art! Here we have the current headmaster, an Orc named Morgenstern. He is widely loved by the students and staff.

Want to spice up combat and give your players a unique encounter? You can always tweak a pre-existing stat block to make something new. Blue dragon encounter in the rain? That's a Thunderstorm Dragon. Only one of it's kind. Can do lightening or thunder damage.

One more shout out to @kahlfrida.bsky.social for the incredible artwork for my D&D game! Solan'ia Mistar, another previous headmaster at Pavan's Academy, was known for her leadership during the Siege of Gundy and her pivotal role in reclaiming the City of Gundy. She is powerful, elegant, and kind.

A huge thank you to @kahlfrida.bsky.social for the fantastic artwork for my D&D game. Here we have Bendek Jager, another previous headmaster at Pavan's Academy of the Arcane Arts. He is known for creating the spell Bendek's Blinding Blizzard, and students reported he was very intense.

Sometimes you spend a lot of time trying to nail down a character's personality and voice before a game, and then in the moment you panic and something completely different comes out of your mouth. And because of that, now I have a character that sounds like Kermit the Frog.

It's D&D night tonight! We will be doing a casual lookback session and covering how far the players have come since we started while they travel to the city of Veledra. It'll be the last real chance to catch their breath before they go undercover to follow members of the Heart of the Dragon cult.

As a TTRPG player, do you have any rituals or techniques to get into your character's headspace? I like to make playlists for my characters. I feel like creating a playlist is also helpful in figuring out and developing the character, and once it's done I can listen to it and get right back in.

I'm mainly a D&D guy but I really want to give Lancer a shot. Piloting a custom mech is a dream of mine, and the little kid inside of me just wants a chance to draw big robots again. Does anyone play Lancer? Can you point me in the right direction on how to learn it?

If my players ask about something specific, or are looking for something specific, but that thing is small, weird, or has no major impact on anything...it just exists now. "Do any of these merchants sell eggs?" "Does this tavern serve cereal?" "Can I buy doll furniture for my pet bug" Always yes!

In my D&D home game, I use a lot of creatures and monsters from @goblincoach.bsky.social. My players recently met a ranger who had a Flora Golem named Rawly as his animal companion. It was a huge hit. Everyone loved the weird little plant guy, and I'm pretty sure they would die for Rawly.

One more huge shout out to @nayomiarts.bsky.social for the artwork she did for my D&D home game. This is Dragomir Cosca, another previous headmaster at Pavan's Academy of the Arcane Arts. He assisted in taking down several Titans during the Titan Crusades, and has a few spells named after him.

A huge thank you to @nayomiarts.bsky.social for the wonderful artwork for my D&D home game! Bergamot Braun, eccentric and paranoid magic school headmaster, turned out perfectly! She is one of many previous headmasters at Pavan's Academy of the Arcane Arts. More artwork to come soon.

If you are running a long-term D&D or other TTRPG campaign, let the players control the speed of the narrative. If they need downtime, give them some downtime and let things breathe for a bit. All action, all the time can be exhausting even in a game.

More D&D NPCs from my home game that I love and you are free to steal. Wagner Gatz, Aleksy Gatz, and Pyotr Gatz, aka The Gatz Boys. Tabaxi triplets that look like Russian Blue cats. All three are students at Pavan's Academy of the Arcane Arts, and each has a different field of magical study.

Taking a break from my usual mid-tier D&D content today to say that, I really want to see Professor Pyg as a live action Batman villain, and I really want Professor Pyg to be played by Jason Segel.

One of the easiest ways to work on customizing a published or pre-written D&D adventure is to find a digital or virtual version of the adventure, and copy and paste the text into a word document or text editor. This way you now have your own working copy where you can highlight, edit, and rewrite!

When creating a D&D or TTRPG character, where do you draw your inspiration from? I've realized over the years that many of my characters are inspired by people I know or knew. I've created characters based on people I went to high school and college with, and one is just my dad as a hobgoblin.

I have been very sick for the past week, but I'm back in action now. And I want to talk about note taking in D&D. As a DM, I've got 3 different notebooks that all serve different purposes, plus I have a few word documents and an excel spreadsheet to track NPCs by city. How do you keep your notes?

If you are into solo journaling or duo RPGs, I highly recommend you give Tangled Blessings and the new Tangled Blessings: Echoes of Lost Electives expansion a shot. I have a copy of the original Tangled Blessings and I love it! I need to buy myself a copy of this new one.

When running published D&D adventures, one way to customize the adventure is to make your own map. You can use apps like Photoshop or sketchbook, open up a picture of the official map, and then trace over it. This way, you can make changes but still have a map that follows the adventure.

Today we are talking about game snacks! What are your go to snacks for game night? At my table, we always have some type of jalapeno chips and an assortment of meats and cheeses. On a good day someone would bring cookies.

One of my biggest problems with pre-written D&D adventures that include dragons, like the new dragon focused Dragon Delves or my current Tyranny of Dragons campaign, is how they name dragons. They always give them weird and unpronounceable names and I always feel like I need to rename every dragon.

It is a dream of mine to run a D&D game for a group of celebrities that would otherwise never hang out or play D&D. Like Al Pacino and Anya Taylor-Joy. Does anyone know Al Pacino? Does he want to play D&D with me?

When running a D&D game or building a world, where do you draw your inspiration from? My biggest inspirations have to be Ogre Battle 64 and Tactics Ogre. Those games have had such a massive impact on me in almost all aspects of story, depth, and how I visualize things when I play.

When working on D&D character backstories, I think most backstory discussions should happen together at the table, either through casual conversation or an official session 0. It allows the players to figure out their relationships together, and gives them an organic reason to adventure as a group.

Another TTRPG supplement shout out! The Compendium of Forgotten Secrets by Genuine Fantasy Press is a hefty D&D supplement that includes a lot of warlock patrons, as well as other assorted subclasses for various classes, plus spells, items, and familiars. It's a supplement I use in my home game!

It doesn't matter where you come from or how your adventure begins. What matters is what you do on your adventure and who you become along the way. And when someone attacks a member of the party, we should all be prepared to fight. #TransRights

As a DM, I love the deep lore and prep for me that players might never even see. In my D&D game there is a sport called Wizard Boxing. The reigning champion is a bugbear named Bogan Chubb a.k.a The Magnificent Bogie a.k.a The Glaszgaard Grizzly Bear. Will this ever come up in a game? Who knows

Home TTRPG games among friends don't need to be professional quality games. You don't have to do unique or wacky voices for everyone, or have every conversation "in character." You don't need a full soundtrack or expensive terrain. These things can be cool but aren't necessary.

Anyone have any favorite long-running jokes or recurring gags in their TTRPG campaigns? In my campaign, my players have decided that real world movies exist in game as plays and musicals. Our gnome has seen both The Matrix and Shrek. I believe Shrek was a musical.

If you are running published D&D adventures, or any other published TTRPG adventure, my recommendation is to change and rewrite the things you don't like. You could go big and change a lot, or you can keep it small and maybe just rename some characters. Either way, make it your own thing.

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We may disagree on what makes a good game, an interesting story, or a fun character. That is fine. Not every game is a good fit for every person. As long as everyone at your table is having fun then your game is a good game.

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Wow! Did not expect the high volume of immediate responses I got on the commission request post. I am going to have to take some time to go through all the responses and DMs to see who might be a good fit for what I have in mind. Thank you all so much, and hopefully we will chat soon.

I'm looking at commissioning some character portrait art for my D&D home game. I'm hoping to find a couple of artists with different styles. Does anyone have any artist recommendations or can anyone point me towards smaller artists who are taking commissions? Any recommendations are appreciated!

I already posted about my players' characters, but today I am talking about my character turned NPC, Tobias. A Tabaxi prince who is first in line for the throne. He is traveling the world to develop the skills needed so he can protect his people and be a great king one day. Art by Nolan McCool.

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When running any TTRPG, I think the two questions you should ask the most are "How do you do that?" and "What does it look like when...?" Those questions are a great way to get the players involved creatively, especially with new players, and it also helps develop the characters in easy ways.

TTRPG supplement shout out! The Herbarium by Crow & Crown is a fantastic plant-focused D&D or other TTRPG supplement filled with plants and their uses, foraging mechanics, craftable potions and poisons, and folklore inspired monsters and subclasses. I actually own and use this one in my home game.

I have Tangled Blessings and I agree that it is both a fantastic stand alone game, as well as a supplement and possible setting for other RPGs. I am actually using it in my D&D game so my players can help build out the magical academy in our universe before their characters get there.

The Wildsea, a sort of nature-oriented/post-apocalyptic sailing-focused TTRPG is on the Bundle of Holding. Honestly a great acquisition if you want something with some really cool flavoring. bundleofholding.com/presents/Wil...

How do you meet people to play D&D or other TTRPGs in person with? I sort of recently moved and I still have my main game going strong online, but it has been so hard to make friends locally. People who have found a local group to game with please tell me your secrets!

If you struggle with writing your own adventure from the ground up, there is nothing wrong with using a published adventure as a base and adjusting things you don't like. My current campaign is based on the Tyranny of Dragons D&D adventure, but I've made so many changes it's almost unrecognizable.

DMs/GMs or Players, do you have any favorite or memorable NPCs from your games? One of my personal favorites from my game is Viliana Broggs, also known as "The Dollmage." She specializes in the animation and control of inanimate objects, and focuses her powers into custom made puppets and dolls.

What is everyone's philosophy on dice? Do you only use one or two sets? Or are you like me and you need to match your dice to your character and game? For me, finding a new set of dice that feels right for the character is 100% part of my character creation process. #TTRPG #D&D #Dice

If you need help fleshing out your world and developing cities for your game or adventure, ask your players about whatever city their character is from. They can help you worldbuild. You can fill up a city with family, friends, enemies, shops, and history long before your players ever get there.

When talking about TTRPG character creation, I really dislike the conversations about "best" and "worst" classes, races/species, etc. Everyone has different ideas and play styles. If a character idea gets you excited then go for it. I personally love making weird support characters. #clerics4ever

D&D DM pro tip. At some point, give your players the chance to get their own pet. It doesn't even need to be useful in combat. Just let them have a pet and give them a chance to train it. Every player will take you up on that. My players have a wolf cub, a racoon, a cat and a beetle.