What a great time to be an #rpg fan! Working on #dnd content for @ghostfireg, ran a #Daggerheart game last night and running one tonight, perusing the Draw Steel books, and planning some notes for my @gameholecon panels. May your dice be kind!
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In my latest blog post, I follow an ancient trail that, when I started, I thought would be obvious and well-trod.
Expansible Egg and Leomund's Tiny Hut
Jack Vance's invention seems a likely antecedent to the Dungeons and Dragons spell.
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-08-15-expansible-egg-tiny-hut/
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Draw Steel RPG at Level 1!
Shawn and Teos discuss their recent Draw Steel game on the D20 Play channel. We discuss our Troubadour and Talent at level 1, and how well the game hits its innovative goals.
Listen or watch:
https://MasteringDungeons.podbean.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDFC73uGs0&list=PLQBK797qeh5zNgBLI6iI3nxR356L2CVYb&ab_channel=MasteringDungeons
#DnD #TTRPG
What's lurking in the shadows?
A Dungeons and Dragons inspired adventure scene for my portfolio.
artificer workshop portrait (2024)
#dnd #illustration #dungeonsanddragons #tiefling #commission #fantasy
Dungeon janitor feeding the monsters.
#ttrpg #dnd #osr #illustration #art #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #artist #monster #nsr #ttrpgart #ttrpgcommunity #dungeonsAndDragons #dungeon #drawing #procreate #fantasy
If there are two things about #DnD Dungeons & Dragons that I dislike that aren't the class-based character development system and the nonsensical magic system, those are the very concepts of "dungeons" and "dragons", in the first place.
A dragon, were it real, would be a gigantic solitary apex predator that would require a vast amount of sustenance, and so there would necessarily not be many of them.
Mike Balles and Spanish Language RPGs!
Mike Balles and Teos examine the state of Spanish-language play and support across companies, conventions, and creator spaces!
Listen or watch:
https://MasteringDungeons.podbean.com
New #dnd / #rpg post from Patchwork Paladin:
Against Against the Cult of the Reptile God
https://patchworkpaladin.com/2025/09/19/against-against-the-cult-of-the-reptile-god/
Birds of a Feather
This set will be in the next restock! ✨
#dice #dicemaking #DiceMaker #dnd #dnddice #ttrpg #handmade #handmadedice #epoxy #art #smallbusiness #fantasy #fae #feathers #peacock
Following the release of the Grim Hollow Player's Guide on D&D Beyond last month, the Grim Hollow Campaign Guide is now available. These books represent a year--and many long days and nights--of design efforts, and I hope they add much to your #dnd games.
Since I get asked a lot about how I got into lockpicking, I figured I'd make a big ol' post about it.
Well, I have the nerdiest backstory for this skill.
So without further ado...
First, the setup:
I helped make 5th Ed. D&D.
I regularly played in a campaign with friends.
I often played some sort of lovable rogue.
I also roll natural 1s *way* too often.
This became a running joke in-game.
Next, the inciting event:
One day, after rolling a natural 1 and failing to pick a lock on a chest, setting off a trap, and then getting taken to death's door by said trap, I decided I was going to figure out how hard it would be to do IRL (with modern locks and homemade tools, which I figured would be *way* more difficult than medieval locks).
So, after game, I drove home, grabbed my kid, and said we're going to the hardware store for SCIENCE!
Now, somewhere in the back of my head was the notion that street sweeper bristles were suitable for making lockpicks (probably from reading the Anarchist's Cookbook, Poor Man's James Bond, or something like that as a little kid). So we looked in the gutters along our walk to the hardware store and managed to find two bristles by the time we got there. I bought like $50 worth of assorted locks, and we walked home.
Once home, I watched a YouTube video just to see what the tools they were using looked like, and then found a small file and some pliers, and made a simple lockpick and turning tool. Then I set to figuring out what the heck I was doing through trial and error.
By the end of the night, I'd opened all of the locks I bought (at least once), and I had my answer—a professional rogue with decent tools should succeed at picking most common medieval locks about as often as they succeed at tying their shoes.
Unbeknownst to me, I'd rolled my own natural 1 on my save vs. falling down the rabbit hole. So now, a decade later, I've taught at conferences, placed in tournaments, been sponsored by a security company, created (and eventually deleted) my own locksport YouTube channel, and have hundreds of locks in my bedroom. Over the years, I branched out to all sorts of locksport-adjacent skills, but picking is still my favorite, and I regularly teach new folx how to pick locks and improvise tools.
So that's it. That's how being a total nerd led me to discover what turned out to be one of my biggest passions in life—defeating other folx' security for fun.
Pictured: (left) my first turning tool, (right) my first lockpick.
Critical Role pra quem tem pressa:
https://critrole.com/critical-recap-critical-role-c4e01-the-fall-of-thjazi-fang/
Nunca acompanhei pq os episódios são gigantes, mas tenho curiosidade de ver essa campanha nova pq vai ser estilo West Marches (vários grupos diferentes no mesmo jogo).
Achei interessante que no site tenha esse resumo pq, primeiro, não sei se vou tankar, e depois pq impossível parar tudo por 4 horas semanais pra dar 100% da minha atenção. Talvez acompanhe algumas coisas por vídeo, e um pouco por esses resumos do site.
I've been meaning to make an updated version of this for a while so here it is, every numerically-balanced d20 layout!
Feel free to share, especially with any dice makers you think may be interested!
There is a more detailed explanation video by @henryseg for The Dice Lab (which use layout C, if you're curious!) https://youtu.be/Nh2H_4g6evc
Tentando voltar a desenhar com mais frequência! Um sketch pra tirar a ferrugem.
e agora sair do PC, pq as dores estão chegando 
Thor is his own bag of holding.
#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #DnD #BagOfHolding #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfPixelfed #Catstodon #Cats #Cat #Caturday #RagdollCats
**Glimmermark Open Table**
Spieler gesucht
Ich leite derzeit jede Woche Labyrinth Lord (B/X DnD) als Open Table auf dem Grenzland-Discord server (Kanal #Glimmermark)
Spiele dauern 2h, Dienstags 20.15 CET, Sprache Deutsch (oder Englisch, nach Absprache)
Grenzland Discord: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/MontagInZ%C3%BCrich/Discord_Server
RPG tip from the archive: Build wilderness encounters from the environment, a fantastic feature, interesting monsters or NPCs, and weather.
RPG tip from the archive: Instead of a random encounter, plan out a fun one-battle side adventure to throw into your game at the right moment.
RPG tip from the archive: Warn characters when it looks like they're about to bite off more than they can chew. The players may not be getting the more subtle warning signs.
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