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I've wanted to give Mothership a try...

Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #11: Thalassophobia/philia Scion of the Deep Title My lungs filled with water and my vision went black. Little did I know my last breath was truly my first. Prerequisite (3rd Echelon): You die underwater in the presence of a powerful aquatic being, such as a kraken. Effect: You are restored to life, but your appearance is permanently altered with clammy skin, extraneous tentacles, fins, gills, scales, sharp teeth, or some other accent determined by the Director. You gain the Waterborn complication and choose one of the following additional benefits: Invocation of Fathomless Will: The first time in an encounter that you become dying, you gain two surges. Invocation of Shared Breath: Each time you finish a respite, you can choose any number of allies who are also finishing a respite. Until you finish another respite, each ally chosen this way can breathe underwater, can automatically swim at full speed while moving, and has lightning weakness 5. Invocation of Surging Tides: Once per turn when you push or pull a creature, you can use a free triggered action to shift a number of squares equal to half the forced movement distance. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel

Had a stacked weekend, but we're catching up with Day 11 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! #promptober #drawsteel #thalassophobia #thalassophilia #kraken

Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #12: Liminal Spaces Shadowslip Ancestry Trait An additional ancestry trait option for polder heroes. Shadowslip (2 Points) Your connection to shadows is so strong, you seem to flicker and disappear from sight in the bink of an eye. Whenever you use Shadowmeld while you have concealment from darkness or shadows, you can first teleport a number of squares equal to your highest characteristic score. You don’t need line of effect to your destination as long as it’s within the same area of darkness or shadow that you started in. Jonas Tintenseher Powered by Draw Steel

Still catching up with #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! Keeping it simple for Day 12 😅 #promptober #drawsteel #liminal #liminalspaces #polder #shadowmeld

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Excellent show tonight with Brennan Lee Mulligan! There was drama, the element of pizza and sensual reverse mermaids. #endlessdungeon

YouTube video by GriffinMuffin Pillars of Eternity | Complete Narrative Breakdown

Speaking of Pillars of Eternity! In a time before yore, I actually did a video essay on PoE 1. Check it out if you're into narrative breakdowns.
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I'm so happy to have met Josh Sawyer at PAX Aus this year. I totally garbled my on-the-spot question about how he creates characters. But it's definitely something I'm grateful for. The Pillars of Eternity games are, well, pillars, to my expectations of stellar worldbuilding and RPG writing.

What an awesome panel! It's great to hear some good advice about world building and insights into video game RPG writing/design.

A stat block for "the Tyrant-Moon", a battlefield terrain modifier for the Draw Steel RPG.

O, swear not by the moon, by the Tyrant-Moon...it's Day 10 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel, and we're getting wacky! #promptober #drawsteel #moon #tyrantmoon #backstagedungeon

I totally gotta get in on the next one!

THE RESULTS ARE IN 🗳️ After loads of voting, we finally have the results of the first #JamsOfTheTimescape!

Congratulations @tintenseher.bsky.social 🥇and @dillbizzle.bsky.social 🥈! You each win a set of hero dice boxes kindly provided by @hellomcdm.bsky.social

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So pumped!

I'm sitting in the theatre RIGHT now! Pumped!

Last day of PAX today. While I'm not running any games, I'll be walking around with my son and going to a worldbuilding panel. And Josh Sawyer will be on it!

Managed to get a seat at the Draw Steel live play at PAX today. Was cool to see lorecaster and mythology aficionado, Dael Kingsmill playing. Seeing the Fall of Blackbottom being played was awesome. Tbh I didn't know they were so many Aussie MCDM playtesters, glad to know.

Even though my Fragged Kingdom 2 game was cut in half by the false fire alarm at PAX today, the group got back together and we continued! Albeit, the adventure was cut in half with a "well if we managed to get past this fight, here's what would've happened" montage.

PAX is outside! Woo! Seriously though, I hope people are okay. Fire alarm has gone off.

Perfect set of dice for my current Viking fantasy campaign.

The Mist Rises

#dice #dicemaking #dnd  #ttrpg #handmade #epoxy #art #smallbusiness #fantasy #gold #fae #fog

I'm so keen for my books, however, down in Australia, so I'll be patient.

⚔️Draw Steel Codex v0.0.596 is live! ⚔️

All classes are now automated for Echelon 1 — including the newly finished Elementalist! 🧙‍♂️

🗒️The Journal tab features encounter templates for montages & combat

💬 Join our Discord community to test DS, report bugs, make feature requests & help shape the Codex!

The funny thing is i reckon the negotiation rules in Draw Steel being rejigged for "bartering" rules could work.

I would also have one that says "don't ask me what every NPC's name is"

Only another day until PAX Aus! I've got my bag packed, and everything else ready for running Fragged Kingdom 2 this weekend. I'm only running a couple of games, but if you wanna meet me in person, I'll be in the ARC area Friday, 7pm-9pm and Saturday 3pm-5pm.

There's a fair few paladins and warlocks in the new CR line up. And I thought about why that is. I think one reason might be because paladins and warlocks are not only mechanically strong as classes in 5e 2024 but also have RP touchstones. An otherworldly patron. A god they swore an oath to. #ttrpg

Draw Steel Promptober ‘25 Day #4: Dark Woods Dimmerwood Trees DTO Originally cultivated on Equinox, dimmerwood trees appear on Orden as oily, liquid shadows, like ink or charcoal drawings made real. They make for a more subtle form of protection and obscurement, favored by denizens of the wode who don’t want visitors. Dimmerwood seeds are prized magical reagents; graduates of the College of Black Ash are known to harvest them for use in their shadow magic. Dimmerwood Grove Level 3 Relic Hexer EV 12 These inky black trees seem to absorb light from the surrounding area, instilling nearby creatures with a constant sense of dread. Stamina: 15 per square Size: 2 Deactivate: The grove must be completely destroyed. Each time one square of the grove is destroyed, the size of the grove’s aura decreases by 2 (to a minimum of 1). Looming Dread: The dimmerwood grove projects a 1 aura of viscous shadow. At the start of each turn while at least one square of the grove is intact, the size of the aura increases by 1. Each creature in the area is frightened of each other creature in the area. When the size of the aura reaches 10, each creature in the area takes 10 corruption damage, and the aura resets to 1. What Was That?! Creatures in the grove’s aura have concealment. Whenever a creature in the grove’s aura hides, they may make a % free strike before hiding and teleport to any other unoccupied space in the aura after hiding.

Beware the dreaded dimmerwood trees of Equinox — it's Day 4 of #ttrpgpromptober in Draw Steel! (No clue how to set EV for DTOs, honestly. But the vibes are right!) #promptober #drawsteel #darkwoods

I've begun plotting out stat blocks for the next Raiders of the Serpent Sea session. Since none of my players are on here, I can talk about my ideas! The frost giants are themed with Roman/Greek roles: hypaspist, myrmidon and peltast. When creatures are more organised, there are more terrifying!

You say this in jest, but my players always ask for a name. Luckily, 90% of the time, I have a prepared list of names.

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It's a good moment, cos you realise your past self is someone you can rely on.