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i was thinking about what the cheapest materials would be for a good ttrpg. maybe 2d6? you're likely to have 2d6 lying around if you've played one board game ever, and while it's not as versatile as a full dice set, there are still lots of ways to use it.

is 2d6 good for actions? unlike a d20, it is biased towards less extreme values, so that's a difference for sure. it also has only a 1/36 chance of a maximum value rather than 1/20. i think it would be cool to canonize the "natural 20 means things go absurdly right and natural 1 means absurdly wrong" house rule, except instead of 20 and 1 it's sixes and snake eyes.

i don't really know that much about ttrpgs but i just think this is a fun project. halp?

#dnd#ttrpg#gaming

There's a lot of "modern D&D" that I don't like, but one of the worst is what was done to Kobolds. They're tiny evil dwarfs originally, and in mythology. That's fine. I use them as dungeon trap maintainers.

Weird dog/lizard drawing in Monster Manual.

3E turns them into lizardmen. 4E they're junior Dragonborn.

Dragonborn are also dumb! Draconians in Dragonlance were corrupted dragon eggs, an abomination you'd fight against. Not a reasonable PC species in any other setting.
#ttrpg #dnd #kobold

[zine] Grenzland No. 5 – Science Fantasy

Last week I found Wanderer Bill’s Grenzland 5 in my mailbox. Topic “Science Fantasy”. The zine costs 5 Euros for a hardcopy, but can be downloaded for free.

As the topic goes into the realm of science fiction there’s plenty of that in this issue. Most of the articles are in German, some are English though.

In the appropriately titled article “Piu piu!!” Alex Schroeder gives stats and rules for laser weapons in DnD.

In 46.656 Psychedelic Landscapes lkh gives a table for generating appropriately alien landscapes.

The Mini-OSR-Con Manifesto is a manifesto/advice on organising small mini conventions, some of which the authors of the article have tried to stomp out of the ground by themselves lately.

The German-language article Technosaurier talks about science fictionized dinosaurs, Aus dem Steinbru.ch gives three appropriate random tables, and The Droyne and Update Grenzland Kampagne are giving a faction sheet of the Droyne (from Traveller) as presented for the PBM game in lkh’s home campaign setting (in English), and an update and status report on the same campaign.

Definitely worth a look.

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#DnD advice: Roleplaying lets you step out of your own life and pretend to be someone you're not, like a financially stable extrovert who gets 8 hours of sleep every night and can afford to travel.

My contribution to “Fen’s guide to myriad realms“ - a community DnD book where a lot of artists and writers created a world to play in! I teamed up with writer Jehanne Bell to create a species.
Her name is Diferyn ap Wlith and the species is called Llyscorlun, they are creatures born randomly whenever a liquid is left unattended. In her case she emerged from morning dew sitting on top of Fuchsia flowers.

Campaign link - 24 hours left
kickstarter.com/projects/skaav

🌸 #Ttrpg #MastoArt #DnD #5e