Oh I posted this on Monday. I'm pretty proud of it. Finally used my expensive piece o' paper to make a video. I feel like I've been making strides with both writing for the spoken word and learning how to make motion graphics.

Hope it helps someone here! 😀

youtu.be/Ipm1OymUh4U?...

morning mood

I am a lot distracted at the moment, but I am feeling super duper grateful. DRAW STEEL is out now. drawsteel.com

This is literally what people do when they're not left scrambling for survival every hour of every day. They build communities, create things, contribute. Wikipedia isn't an anomaly, it is a distillation of human nature itself

One thing about this wizard, I like cats in cowboy hats. I see a cat in a cowboy hat, I share it. Simple as.

Hello beautiful people! New vid up advocating for an identity centric approach to monster and encounter design. This is my pet issue ig 😀 youtu.be/zRX0nqD52wY

Mine is that roleplaying is so much more interesting if you haven’t optimized your character within an inch of their life. Failing is often much better for a story than succeeding would be.

New vid out now! In it I discuss how wargames evolved into the world's first* rpg, in D&D! 😀 This is part 1 in a series that will explore how a confluence of people and circumstances sparked the imagination of the world youtu.be/nO7oqPIGpiY?...

What an exciting move. I've been having thoughts on their successors at Wizards and this makes me excited to see what might come next for this dynamic duo.

I wrote down five awesome gifts you can get for your favorite tabletop game designers.

Check it out.

www.explorersdesign.com/2024-gift-gu...

In the grand, cosmic, moorcockian style scheme of law vs chaos. Are undead lawful or chaotic? 🤔

Okay. *deep breath* Here we go.

The Hearth Magazine is now accepting pitches for #TTRPG articles. Please check out our website for our Commitments as well as Artist and Article Submission guidelines, and I look forward to hearing from folks. Please spread the word! www.thehearthmagazine.com

We finally started our Women in TTRPG Starter Pack!

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Go check out this epic list of amazing women, working and creating in the TTRPG space.

We’ll also keep adding to this list over time so make sure you check back.

I was redesigning my thumbnails with lessons I've learned and it dawned on me that I should be posting more of my research that I do for some of these lore videos. If you're interested in how Vecna originally appeared and changed through the editions, read here!
open.substack.com/pub/wizpippy...

Last week, I discussed the trap with using demons in D&D - how easy it is for a DM to lose the identity and core essense of the embodiment of chaotic evil that is the demon. I offered example solutions and we have some great comments on this vid. Check it out!

youtu.be/x6u1YjYCLLo

I recently learned about a new D&D video game had been announced, though I'm not confident these'll be good at all, I am cautiously optimistic about one of them and I wrote about why on substack
open.substack.com/pub/wizpippy/p/why-im-very-cautiously-optimistic