For Father’s Day, my wife and daughter took me on a book crawl to various Houston independent book stores. I found a few books! 📍 Houston Book Warehouse 📍 Kindred Stories 📍 Basket Books and Art

What are your favorite horror ttrpg systems? There are many out there and we want to hear what you enjoy playing. We will be starting with Mothership and Call of Cthulhu, but plan to do others in the future. It got us curious what others enjoy. #ttrpg #horror #horrorttrpg #actualplaypodcast

NOW! That's What I Call d10 SILLY NPC NAMES YOU CAN STEAL VOL XXIII. 01 - Scotty Kwassant 02 - Speedy Binner 03 - Horace Spotting 04 - Keester LeBeouf 05 - Courgette Beefcastle 06 - Holy Corporate 07 - Grimgol Doings 08 - Virtue Signal 09 - Steve Deebious 10 - Xixi Jabroni #ttrpg

I’ve accomplished almost nothing else I wanted to this week, but I did successfully complete my entry for this contest. There’s still time to get in if you’re interested!

Made a micro ruleset for abstract base building in #daggerheart (also includes rules for armies and warfare). Fairly comprehensive but easy to run (and easy to expand)!

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more! thoughtpunks.com/ope...#TTRPG #OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

The next episode in my Affinity for #TTRPG publishing series is live now 🎉 This episode is talking all about Statblocks, Breakout Boxes, and Tables! Check it out:

The Roll Big or Go Home 2 Humble Bundle is now live, and our games are included! Choose between bundles of 9, 24, 39, or 54 RPGs – up to a $1,243 value. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the @tabletopgaymers.bsky.social charity! bit.ly/humblesjgpc #possumcreek #stevejacksongames #playsjgames

First, I'll answer the question with multiple answers: #Daggerheart and #MothershipRPG Second, I'll anecdotally give my rationale for taking so long to try a different system than D&D 5E - It was all a sunk cost fallacy.

The latest Explorateur is live after some server issues. If you read it in your inbox, it was missing some seriously good links! I'll share a few of my favorites below in a thread 🧵👇 www.explorersdesign.com/explorateur-...

First transmissions coming soon. Are you ready to see what hapless figures will emerge in the void? #ttrpg #actualplay #podcast #mothership #callofcthulhu

THIS IS US is a collection of additional Background and Connection questions for your players to choose from during session zero and character creation. It covers all 18 subclasses of #Daggerheart. It is available for free on Heart of Daggers. https://daggerquill.com/this-is-us-a-free-ressource/

It's been a busy week! I'm currently working on 1. A #daggerheart mini-campaign set in The Witherwild frame 2. A top secret Spooky project for Daggerheart 3. Continuing to read the #dolmenwood rule books 4. Continuing to read the @landofeem.bsky.social rule books So many games to run!

Bastion of Hope is in some great company on this list of campaign frames not in the Daggerheart core rulebook: startplaying.games/blog/posts/t...

Intergalactic Bastionland Playtest Doc Update! - Added Boat Loans for limited freedom during Layover - New intro page - Preparations, Authority, Getting Ahead, and Improvement sections - Added a Boat spread and Mainframe to the Infinitis Wake - General juice additions bit.ly/ibplaytest

I just picked up the @landofeem.bsky.social box set this week, and I'm so excited to run it. The sheer *volume* of campaign material is incredible. I feel like it's going to be extremely easy to keep my daughter entertained over the summer with this one

Sorry for not posting for over a year. I had to read the entire Cosmere and then get super into GMing. Did I miss anything?

d100 - Faction Features Nicknames & Hallmarks for fleshing them out on the fly blog.d4caltrops.com/2025/02/d100... #osr #randomtables #ttrpgs

The Helpers of Honeyhollow started the night on a peaceful shopping expedition. I’m sure it’ll be a nice, quiet #DnD session with my 5 year old.

Question for the GMs, writers, and worldbuilders out there; What's a fun little detail you've added into something typical that you feel makes it just a little bit more interesting? It can be anything that is considered "normal" for your genre, but you've spiced up a bit. #TTRPG

For the #TTRPG DMs/GMs - what are the most useful bits of information on your side of the GM screen? I’ve seen some people who have rules notes, initiative trackers, etc. What’s something you can’t live without on your screen?

Another thing about running a #DnD campaign for a five year old is that she’s not content with just one character. Our pool of PCs/DMPCs includes no less than… 1 Elf Bard 1 Elf Cleric 1 Dragonborn Rogue 1 Tiefling Sorcerer 1 Goliath Fighter Needless to say, combat rounds are chaos

I didn’t need to have this knowledge. Now you can have it against your will, too.

#DnD advice: A balanced combat encounter is easier to create if all the player characters died in the last one.

You can create deep, rich #TTRPG settings with succinct descriptions and minimalist #worldbuilding. Come explore some ideas about simple worldbuilding that leads to complex living worlds that inspire play imaginations. thoughtpunks.com/cra...#TTRPG#worldbuilding.#Blog #RPGAdvice

Hey #TTRPG creators, I have an odd question. Where do you like to host your free content to share out to people? I know there are places like Drive Thru RPG where you can sell it, but I’m looking for somewhere I can just give it away.

A question I sometimes ask the kids in my ttrpg campaigns is: "If not for this, what would your character be doing?" And the follow up: "But they are doing this instead, so how do they feel about that?" And after they've been primed: "If not for this, what do you think the bbeg would be doing?"

I made my first complete #ttrpg map using @inkarnate.com for my daughter’s #DnD campaign! Our party’s home base is the city of Honeyhollow, named for the regionally famous Honeyhollow Apiary and Meadery.

Never done this before, but I think it would be cool to kick off a #DnD campaign sort of like Reservoir Dogs:

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Another free #DnD campaign idea for kids: the village library. In the beginning, it’s home to a modest collection of books that characters may read. From these books, they could 1. Gain hints to solve a puzzle 2. Learn a secret about the BBEG 3. Gain inspiration on a relevant skill check Etc.

For D&D, check out Little But Fierce by @dcbradshaw.com (it's a D&D rewrite made for kids): www.ttrpgkids.com/2024/04/25/r... And... I just reviewed a pre-made D&D starter here too that would be a great first adventure: www.ttrpgkids.com/2024/11/21/r... Also... (ctd)

Random #DnD encounter idea for young kids: While the party is enjoying a short rest, have a small child NPC come up to them and ask for 5GP to buy food for his/her family. If someone from the party does so, the child skips away happily and promises to pay them back later.

One thing I’m quickly learning about DMing #DnD for a kindergartener is that we aren’t playing RAW or RAI. We’re playing “Rules as Determined to Maintain Attention Span.” So…RADTMAS

Instead of an “adventuring party”, my 5 year old and I formed a “helper’s club” in our #DnD game. We go around the town helping people for gold. Gold, I’ve learned, is the biggest motivation for a young player.

I’ve officially begun my DM career running a game for my 5 year old. I’m happy to report that she’s… 1.) Already distrustful of random old women asking adventurers for aid 2.) Quick to look for diplomatic solutions to encounters rather than violence 3.) An absolutely chaotic gremlin #dnd #ttrpg

Did you know that there are *thousands* of high-quality images in the public domain you can use for absolutely free? 🤩 I use this search engine to source images for my game: picryl.com