Critical Role’s Candela Obscura is but a pale shadow of its inspiration, Blades in the Dark (www.polygon.com)
Oculi Mundi - a collection of old maps (oculi-mundi.com)
MCDM RPG Crowdfunding Campaign is Live (www.backerkit.com)
Hey folks, Matt “Running the Game” Colville is launching his own RPG, and it is NOT a d20 clone (though it has some similarities to D&D 4), and so it’s not weighed down by legacy mechanics like Armor Class and Ability Scores. The campaign video, and the page, will tell you about the game’s core design, so you can decide...
Of Hidlings - a homily on grounding fantasy, including an implied setting (grislyeye.com)
New DnD Stamps Celebrate Game's 50th Anniversary (dungeonsanddragonsfan.com)
Shin Megami Tensei TTRPG receives first ever official English release in 2024 (www.dexerto.com)
Why "Roll under" Ability checks really are the best of checks (mythlands-erce.blogspot.com)
Announcing Jumpgate: Our Modern Overhaul of the Roll20 VTT - Roll20 Blog (blog.roll20.net)
Learn about our plan to modernize the Roll20 VTT and get it ready for the next decade of online tabletop gaming.
What is PbtA? (by Vincent Baker) (lumpley.games)
PbtA means “Powered by the Apocalypse” — games inspired by Apocalypse World, as self-identified by their creators.
An FKR Resurgence Post (halflingshoard.wordpress.com)
On Character Death and Long-Term Play (attronarch.com)
Critical Role branches out from D&D with its homegrown RPG Candela Obscura: a spooky secret society simulator that wears its influences on its sleeve (www.pcgamer.com)
Diablo is getting a board game and tabletop RPG that will “continue the lore and story” of the video games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
New RPG Roundup: 20+ Book Warhammer RPG Humble Bundle From Cubicle 7 And More (www.belloflostsouls.net)
I hope this is allowed. Seems like a lot of books / content for a steal of a price.
Review: A Rasp of Sand (playfulvoid.game.blog)
If you’re looking for an all-in-one dungeon delve that you can play consistently with minimal prep, a Rasp of Sand is for you. Just keep in mind that you need a table that is happy with high lethality, cautious play (if they want to progress), and that aren’t adverse to an expectation of not playing the same characters...
How Difficulty Class and the D20 engine ruined roleplaying (mythlands-erce.blogspot.com)
The Battle for Safeton (ghoultunnel.wordpress.com)
Here’s a battle report of the Chainmail game at #Cauldron2023, written by one of the participants, that was the result of open table AD&D gaming over several years. -@dereisenhofer
The Adventure-Point Crawl Campaign (sorcerersskull.blogspot.com)
The Well of Frogs (adventure review) (tenfootpole.org)
Truly a great adventure. It feels like an OD&D adventure. It feels like a city adventure. It feels like a place and it’s full, to the brim, with idiosyncratic things. Never going gonzo, ot’s just that sly grin to the writing style that brings the thing to life. Very nearly the platonic ideal of adventure writing.
Under the Hood of the Garden Wall (www.mindstormpress.com)
From the show, we can extract four main structural supports that translate over well to an RPG adventure. These are:...
Soloing Smaug – The Struggle for the Soul of DnD (thealexandrian.net)
d100 things a monster can threaten that aren’t your life (newtwizard.github.io)
Realm of Bastions, a Fantasy Steampunk Tabletop Roleplaying Game (realmofbastions.itch.io)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/244569...
Advent's Amazing Advice: The Haunt, A Halloween-Themed One-Shot fully prepped and ready to go! (ttrpg.network)
Welcome back to Advent’s Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes fully fleshed-out notes, music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the...
Blog posts on how to run a West Marches campaign (arsludi.lamemage.com)
Thought this was pretty interesting, especially in how a West Marches campaign can deal with the problems of having more players interested in a game than you can accommodate at the table, and the dreaded specter of scheduling issues. Might try to run one myself at some point!
