Vince Pinton

I managed to get two groups to playtest Praise Mboikangue!
New speedrun record for it is 10 hours from the Saturday playsession

AKA the Fresh Wisp of Bel Air

The PDF of the playtest version of my adventure is free on www.ibir.cc

Praise Mboikangue! is an adventure for #shadowdark and #dnd5e

I mean, you might add a mechanic because you expect it to structure play in a certain way and it doesn't. Then, if it is core to the gameplay it is dominant, and if it is in the background it is just a failed mechanic (submissive mechanic 🤔).

I'm wondering if there is a way for a mechanic to be wanted/needed and not dominant. Mostly, I'm trying to understand what is dominant by understanding what is not.

Ultimately, is a "dominant mechanic" just any mechanic that can quantify/qualify an outcome in an undesired way?

Importante 👇👇👇👇👇👇

And here's a couple of my favorite character portraits in this adventure: The 200-year-old talking snake Ybakyguara, and the High Priest of Mboikangue.

I printed an updated copy of Praise Mboikangue! for upcoming playtests and just wanted to share this lovely spread with arts from my friend Marcos (marcos_machette on Instagram).
I love his characters, so I hired him to do all the portraits for the adventure, plus a couple images of the village.

A IA NÃO FAZ ISSO

YouTube video by Ancient Americas The Tupinambá: From the Amazon to the Coast

What an absolutely amazing video about the Tupinambá people of modern-day Brazil. This is the kind of material I'd love to have access to when I had just started working on my campaign setting.

I still need to make an RPG about pre-Cabral Brazil before I die.

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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Week 1 of #dungeon26 wrapped up yesterday and the new week started with a new adventure location.

The Resolve Dice How I created my favorite D&D house rule and accidentally filled my fridge with beer.

I started a blog to spew some words about #ttrpg and world building.
First post is about my favorite house rule for #dnd and how we've iterated on it at the table for the past almost 2 years.

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Exactly! Any giant insect encounter is immediately a feast 😋

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Anteater-folk adventurer with a torch and sword in a dungeon. In the darkness behind, a jaguar prowls.

A pause from political rage posting to appreciate this piece of art I came home to for my upcoming adventure, Praise Mboikangue!

By @gasparisme.bsky.social

I'm glad we managed to squeeze an anteaterfolk in the adventure even though they are not part of the adventure.

#ttrpg #osr #shadowdark #dnd

i’ve still seen people not take trump seriously on greenland but i’ve never been more certain he really does want to colonize it

Venezuela, the big oil grab and undue compensation A note on extractivist imperialism and why it's an enemy of peace

My notes on Trump's claim that to make up for corporate losses after Venezuela nationalised oil in the 70s, the US gets to take all of the oil reserves. Trump doesn't need democratic excuses for regime change anymore. All it takes is for a US corporation to have lost a dime due to nationalisation.

I have never seen anything more impotent than the EU right now. The US just invaded a nation for its own financial benefit, murdered dozens, disappeared the de facto leader, claimed governance and the oil - and has openly said Greenland is next, and our leaders are here going "oh well yeah haha"

US puppet states atm: "I don't see any problem in foreign nations being forced to abide by US laws, I do that shit anyway."

Very excited to watch the UN and NATO and that ever-disgusting Rutte try to weakly explain why the US can freely invade a nation and kidnap the leader of a nation simply because it doesn't benefit the US that the sovereign leader doesn't like them.

As an American, I’m formerly inviting any outside regime to kidnap or terminate any criminal leaders of this place.

Can we already add Brazil's 2016 to this as well given the CIA ties with the Maringa Mallard and the whole Carwash scandal, or still to early?

You guys have been the bad guys repeatedly since the end of WWII. Stop pretending that the US is only acting this way now that Trump is president, because it's not true. No one besides you believes this bullshit.

Latin American Coups promoted by the United States

Isn't it batshit crazy that the American government can sponsor genocide in Palestine, bomb Nigeria, invade Venezuela, and yet they can't afford giving the Americans proper healthcare? But hey, at least military stocks are up, and EU keeps cutting budgets to invest in weapons to help the war economy

incredibly funny to see americans posting they hope congress will get the president for committing this war crime. what country do you think you live in?

You folks also doing a #dungeon26 around here? 👀

#ttrpg

I'm including a simplified procedure in the adventure for dealing with overland travel which is the next iteration of the Journey system I run in my campaign. One thing led to another and I ended up drawing 9 task icons and this day/night cycle for a handout.