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Mark Krawec
@markkrawec.bsky.social
IT guy, translator, tabletop RPG nut, martial arts student, cat coddler, horse attendant, pinko, trying to learn the hurdy gurdy (don't judge me); original posts mostly ideas for RPG creatures & items based on illos or photos

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The Respondent. Skull pommel can answer any one question once its blade has tasted sufficient blood. The more obscure the question, of course, the more blood it demands. Note that the stabbee doesn't have to know the answer; the Respondent will speak it anyway.

#magicitems #ttrpg
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Show me your getaway vehicle
August 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Stonecutter, sword that cuts anything immune to slashing damage. Anything not immune it can only bludgeon. Try to slice a melon with it & you mash it to a pulp; swing at a stone pillar & it'll cut through it like slashing a rope.

#ttrpg
#magicitem
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Percussion pistol-dha, mid 19th century, Burmese

#ttrpg #weapons
July 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Own Hand Amulet. Lets the wearer seize control of someone else's arm for as long as they do nothing but concentrate on puppeting it.

#ttrpg
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Shadecutter. Use as a regular smallsword or to slice off your opponent's shadow. They pale & weaken until it's reattached; if a month goes by without it they fade away entirely, leaving nothing but a sooty smudge behind.

#ttrpg
June 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
May 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Fell Flock - 4th level conjuration. Summons d4 harriers made of steel. Make a Dex save against each of them or they bite a freakin' hand or foot clean off.

from "speculum humanae salvatoris", Germany (Augsburg), early 15th c.

#ttrpg
April 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No flying carpet? You can get by with a sturdy chair, two griffons & a whole paprika dusted roast rabbit on a stick, if you have to.

(from a manuscript of johannes hartlieb's translation of the alexander romance, illustrated by hector mülich. augsburg, c. 1455)

#ttrpg
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Kriegsspork

German, 16th century

#ttrpg #weapons
March 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Bareknuckle Boxer - Arrives looking half asleep, refusing to speak to anyone. Waits for the cry of "toe the line!", then their meat jacket falls away as they rattle into the ring. Ferociously hard hitters; tough to knock out since they can't be concussed or winded.

#ttrpg #monster
March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
More fashion-forward druids mod their Barkskin spells to produce Fiberskin.

(hydrangea armor by hallofstars)

#ttrpg
March 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This woman is clearly some kind of wizard.

Photo by Carly "Scorpion Sorbet" Fridhandler

#characterinspiration #ttrpg
March 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"NPCs backstage, waiting for the GM to call them out"
March 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
They said right at the end of T2:
March 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you see this, post a witch! 🧙‍♀️
February 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Random encounter: alligator sage. They've spent so long in motionless meditation that they've grown a full-body fur coat of algae. Is able to provide in-depth answers about swamp history & local spirits, if you can rouse them from their contemplation & speak the local gator dialect.

#ttrpg
February 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The regard of the Archlich Mataxilla doesn't blast her foes with terror. Instead her half-lidded gaze plunges them into deep meditation - unless they doze off altogether.

photo by Paul Koudounaris

#ttrpg
February 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Ramblewithes prowl barrens & bogs for lone travelers whose bodily hydration they can drain to maintain their own mobility. Fall into their gnarled grasp & there'll be nothing left of you but dry bones & tatters of leathery hide.

(Willow sculpture by Trevor Leat
www.trevorleat.co.uk)

#ttrpg
February 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just what a Trail of Cthulhu investigator needs when the situation's dire but they didn't buy quite enough Fleeing.

1930 Henderson KJ Streamliner

#ttrpg #trailofcthulhu
February 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Helm of Swagger. Grants a +1 bonus to armor, +2 to persuasion. Also permits wearer to get small bands of leaderless fighters to follow their direction, because anyone with a hat that stylin' must be in charge.
February 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Assailed by minions of Ithaqua, Marjory had no choice but to bust out her wing chun.

#ttrpg #callofcthulhu
January 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
High tea at the Circle of the Orangery druid conclave
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sure, bridges that are covered with buildings are cool. So how about a town that's nothing but a bridge & its buildings?

Jacek Yerka, Osadnicy z Marsa, 2019
January 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The Chicken People of the Northern Hills generally seem like a harmless though somewhat twitchy, nervous people. Don't get on their bad side though, or they're liable to go off & peck you in the eye. A dozen of their warriors in a fighting mood? They'll freakin' skeletonize you in minutes.
January 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM