Alex Schroeder 🧞‍♂️ @kensanata@tabletop.social

I just learned about tabaxi (D&D 5E cat people). I've been using bugbears as cat people in my game, thinking of them as perfect thieves – like the Khajiit in Skyrim. Bugbears work well in my system because the 5-in-6 chance of surprise can be extended to all thieving activities and a human thief needs to attain level 9 before their thieving skills are at 5-in-6 (2-in-6 at first, 3-in-6 @ 3rd, 4-in-6 @ 6th, 5-in6 @ 9th level).

@gridmapper I like the nonlinearity of this one.

Thirty weird swords that you can replace your +1 swords with. https://spoutinglore.blogspot.com/2019/02/42-magic-swords.html

A series of blog posts starting with this one talking about copyright and stat blocks in the context of Wizards of the Coast and D&D.
#cooyright #dnd
https://gsllc.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/part1statblocks/

Super interesting post on how I don’t prep: John B uses index cards for problems that require decisions and index cards for characters, assigns them to the decision point cards, and then moves from like to pile as the game progresses. Fascinating.

https://retiredadventurer.blogspot.com/2020/01/planning-campaign-as-series-of-decisions.html

I think my Planets are back and all the features I wanted to implement have been implemented! These are simple web pages that refresh once every four hours, pulling in new blog posts from the blogosphere. If you own a RPG blog and would like to see it added, let me know.

This is the all-in-one Planet:
https://campaignwiki.org/rpg

If you're only into OSR:
https://campaignwiki.org/osr
If you're only into indie:
https://campaignwiki.org/indie

I need to eat and prep. Time is running out!

@Judd’s podcast “Episode 44: AP - The Last Case | IG: Mando again” starts out with a little eulogy about gaming – healthy, consistent, fun stuff is rare in some of our lives but gaming can be it, weaving itself into the tapestry of our lives. What a wonderful phrase.
https://anchor.fm/s/7a35e38/podcast/play/9001778/

Love these two customers walking into a gaming store and realizing one doesn’t need to play D&D like they do on YouTube. ❤️
http://www.crossplanes.com/2020/01/counter-culture-badwrongfun.html

Combat mechanic: all combatants in melee roll their attack and deal damage to anybody they beat. That would explain why mooks don't dare fight big shots...

From that Generative Art repo you can get to a Hex Map repo! https://github.com/erdavids/Generative-Art
https://github.com/erdavids/Hex-Map
If you like Python, perhaps it's something for you?

Terrible spellcasters have secrets I don't dare write down for fear of crossing the line. 😨​
https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/spellcasters/Lem.pdf

Maybe is should simply create a folder of nice landscape pictures I took and set my self the goal of repainting them.

Sometimes I wonder whether I should try drawing landscapes so I could illustrate a setting guide. Or maybe just blog posts. Deciding to illustrate my monster manual has led to a clear todo list of drawings, well defined subjects, and a timeline. It was perfect and I became better at it. Not sure how I should frame this task for myself so it will result in a similar push.