Finished Dredge. What a cool little game.

It somehow found the gap somewhere between a cozy fishing game and a nightmarish eldritch horror game. The story is delivered very well.

8/10 Fishing, who knew?

Just fired up Dredge for the first time. So far, so good.

Campaigns:

Shadowdark Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur then Caverns of Thracia.

5e homebrew in FR. Giants returned, at war with each other. Some are deities.

5e homebrew in Greyhawk with Age of Worms worked in.

5e homebrew crazy fey shit.

Daggerheart homebrew based loosely on Mayan myth.

The more I look at Call of Cthulhu, the cooler the game mechanics are.

Chase rules are an action packed point crawl. I have run cool chases in other RPGs where I just make it up, but the best were somewhat similar to these rules in CoC.

IT'S ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!

Clara Daly and I are launching a brand-new TTRPG publishing company, Wildmage Press!

Read all about it in this Polygon exclusive! @eldritchblep.bsky.social @wildmagepress.bsky.social

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Ok, so I am pretty new to TTRPG social media, but...

That is a lot of kickstarters and backerkits. For everything. It seems excessive from the outside.

There is no way this is all playtested. Some of it probably isn't even written.

I don't get it. I usually buy finished books.

Hell yeah!

2024 changed hiding to always be a DC 15 check by the PC. What?

So it is equally difficult to hide from a rat, a panther, an archmage, and a dragon. No difference. No logic.

Plus, level 3 rogues will fail to hide a lot. Like 40% or something.

This makes no sense, and will feel bad for players.

The Magnus Archives by @rustyquill.bsky.social is amazing. It should be listened to. It is just awesome.

Very cool to see this game in the Cypher System, which I will inevitably run at some point.

Ten Bands to get to know me

Tom Waits
Propagandhi
Weather Report
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Bad Religion
Grateful Dead
Queens of the Stone Age
Flogging Molly
Pink Floyd
Tool

Repost if you ARE a person who “doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign development or character development or story ideas.” #DnD

Also, shout out if you’re one of Chris Cocks’s “thirty or forty people” he games regularly with, because I’m pretty sure that’s also bullshit.

One thing modern D&D-likes struggle with is spell bloat.

#Shadowdark solves so many issues by removing goodberry, counterspell, healing word, tiny hut, create food/water, revival spells, and darkvision abilities/spells.

Add slot-based inventory/no skills...what a refreshing combo of old and new.

Dude only knows tech bros. He thinks that's the sample of D&D players on which to base his asinine policies on.

If you have an artisanal role playing rules set you've lovingly and carefully created, now is a GREAT time to announce that you're doing a kickstarter for it, because

FUCK
THIS
SHIT

TTRPG Tip 25. Latency is another aspect of balance. If one player (or even the GM), because of the rules, is taking minutes to resolve actions while another is taking seconds, that can make the discrepancy in latency a balance issue. Some games can work with unequal latency; others might not.

I have lots of fun with 5e, in spite of the many issues.

Unfortunately, Hasbro's corporate approach to the game also sucks. It might be time to move on.

So far, Shadowdark is the clubhouse leader. Familiar to players that only played 5e, but deadlier and less bloated. Roll-to-cast is the best!