Reviewing random TTRPGs out of the Trans Rights for Texas Bundle No.2 Credits Author: Shawn Pommier Artists: Shawn Pommier, Kiril Tchangov, Lluis Abadias, caffeinsystem, Aekashics Publisher: Eldritch Dream Games Abstract Merfolk is a race expansion pamphlet for Pathfinder 2e. It’s short, about 11 pages, but contains everything you need to play as a mermaid. Including…
Abstract Planar Compass 1 is the first issue in a Zine for an island setting designed to be used with the Old School Essentials ruleset. The focus is a new location; Dreamhaven. A hand-shaped pirate island intended to be a home base for players setting out on a Planescape-style adventure. It’s a big zine, 60…
5 D&D tools to enhance your game (and make it a little easier to run) Are you familiar with Kobold Fight Club? It’s a great online tool for building encounters, you can plug in any creatures from any D&D book and get an idea of how your party would fare against them. Unfortunately, KFC (Kobold…
Vovir Mesk: the Shire Reeve of Brin Shander By Emil This is the second custom NPC from my personal Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. He is a direct response to my players’ frustration about the supposedly lawful good leaders of Ten Towns allowing or even encouraging human sacrifices to Auril. To me, the sacrifices to…
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Playing a video game and you’re deep into a dungeon not opened in centuries, you’ve fought your way past ancient guardians, booby traps and foul odours only to find that, inexplicably, that traveling merchant from earlier has set up shop among the cobwebs and has exactly the items you need. I’m the…
First Floor By Emil Zehra scurried down the empty hallway in a haze. Her claws clicked against the stone floor. Why had she gone to the Yawning Portal? Why was she chasing random adventurers through this dungeon? How had they gotten so far ahead of her? She was distracted. The demon statues at the entrance…
D&D isn’t just fun, it’s actually good for you By Puzzle Lockdowns may have given us the perfect excuse to sit our PJs all day and eat dry cereal straight from the box but they also created a very real lack of connection. Online TTRPGs have helped quite a few of us bridge that gap…
Hif Bidratsk “The Captain” By Emil I’ve had a blast running a Rime of the Frostmaiden game for the past few months. But one problem I’ve run into is Ten Towns feels mostly empty to me. There just aren’t enough everyday NPC’s or locations to make the place feel lived in. I think the expectation…
The lord of war stood facing the window. Dis always felt bigger from this perspective. On the street you could only ever see what was in front of you. Buildings. People. Chaos. You needed distance to understand the scope. From up here, the faces and stench of the crowded streets faded into a thousand-thousand cogs,…
Doing some prep for a Dogs in the Vineyard game and I made a couple of cheat sheets Thought I’d post them here. If you haven’t heard of it look it up! It’s not like any other RPG I’ve ever seen and is a blast to play.“Dogs in the Vineyard” was written by D. Vincent Baker and…