Jacob Rodgers

Using Demiplane's #Daggerheart Nexus led to a favorite moment in season 1: The #softofrope.

We’ve such a good experience that we're partnering with
@demiplane.com to give away 3 core rulebook Demiplane codes to help kickstart your adventure!

All you have to do is like and repost this to win! 1/2

I imagine if you don't have rent to pay, gas is a bit more doable. And I know some van-lifers work at the parks they're staying at, so you're walking to work most days, and need gas only when it's time to move on.

Cold City Hot War Berlin and London. Horror and trust.

Just backed Cold City Hot War!

Looking forward to the second edition!

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Discord is letting folks put user-generated artwork into their "AI"
(scare quotes because LLM isn't really AI) to manipulate and apparently there's no way to opt-out or otherwise protect your work...

Character Creation Progress on the Player-facing Side

Updates on Character Creation for Ashen Frontiers (post-magical apocalypse TTRPG) today:

open.substack.com/pub/ashenfro...

#ttrpg

Further Development News about Ashen Frontiers

My latest news on Ashen Frontiers (post magical apocalypse fantasy #ttrpg) is out now:

open.substack.com/pub/ashenfro...

To be even more clear, screen reader tech uses tech to read the text on the computer screen out loud for someone who can't read the text themselves (sight-impaired, whatnot).

The software only reads actual text, not a picture of text.

That's why alt text is so important.

Mum Chums A slice of life RPG about the people who care for kids

Backed Mum Chums by the great Tanya Floaker!

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What, when they're in your mouth with power tools is not the time for a conversation?

(I love my hygienist, but when she's scrubbing my teeth is not the time for her to be asking what the youngest is up these days.)

Hanging in there, trying to keep my natural optimism going.

We will see what the future holds once we get there, and keep fighting to make things better.

That's my philosophy, more or less.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr Day Today’s the official observance of Martin Luther King Jr in the United States and to celebrate the occasion we thought we’d take a look at a famous person of colour from the period of B…

I’m not really sure what to say, or what I can say with any meaning, about what’s happening in the US right now.

But it is also MLK day today in the States, and so here’s a piece from our blog from a few years back about Hadrian of Canterbury who came from Libya.

handiwork.games/happy-martin...

Bluesky TTRPG Starter Packs Directory – WobbleRocket A directory of TTRPG Starter Packs for Bluesky, compiled by PJ Coffey and Wobblerocket. The packs are organized by category.

I took some time this morning and updated my Bluesky TTRPG Starter Pack Directory, adding 21 new starter packs since the directory was first published.

If you're looking for more people to follow in the tabletop roleplaying space, hit the link. Reposts always appreciated!

#dnd #ttrpg #bluesky

Resolutions News about Ashen Frontiers

News about Ashen Frontiers, my post-magical apocalypse RPG in progress: open.substack.com/pub/ashenfro...

a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of its mouth ALT: a yellow rubber duck with smoke coming out of its mouth

The Three Coins is a great piece of commentary on RPGs, how academic institutions understand RPGs, how a repressive state censors material, and more.

Plus you get to play characters playing characters in a RPG in a RPG.

So where do folks go today to get RPG news and discuss new games?

I know the old standbys (rpg.net, enworld, etc.) but it feels like just us old farts talking to each other, and I can't help but feel there's more out there that's mostly invisible to us.

So, just for clarity, is "leverage the rules fully" reskinning a class, making a new class, multiclassing, or something else?

So, multiclassing in D&D-alikes.

I tend to fall on the side of not allowing multiclassing, seeing a class-based game as a set of tropes to be used.

But others have expressed that multiclassing allows them to make the custom character they want to play.

What say you?

Yep. I had some hesitations after the first playtest packets, but I think the final version will be solid, and I can only imagine that a built-to-spec system will allow them to have even more fun at the table.

TTRPGs even more.

Is the system investment issue seen in the D&D sphere so profound it affects even casual viewers?

Is "Doubles! Critical!" so vastly different than "Natural 20! Critical!" than folks will jump off the train?

"if they're not playing D&D, I'm not watching" and I don't get it.

First off, DH is their project and likely pushed up due to how WotC handled the OGL plus other issues.

Second, I'm in it for the goofballs and their stories. System is far down on the list.

I like 5e. I like D&D. But I like

I started watching Critical Role because it was an opportunity to see how another table ran 5e.

And, in the pandemic, I fell in love with The Mighty Nein. Never latched onto C3.

But every time I see discussion of Daggerheart and maybe it for C4, there's more than an undercurrent of 1/

Scanning through the replies, I'm surprised that "rules light" has so much traction, being so relative.

OSR seems more definitive ("D&D-adjacent, lighter framework), but terms are mostly jargon.

Useful as a short-hand in some cases, but I'd prefer folks to be excited about my ideas, not terms.

Vyrkolat, the undead Foe featured in Ashen Frontiers.

On this day of thanks, a bit about making monsters in Ashen Frontiers: open.substack.com/pub/ashenfro...

As someone whose current project started as a setting for the two most popular d20-based fantasy adventure TTRPGs, I feel seen.

As I started to build Ashen Frontiers, I was inspired by both systems, but also had my own ideas, thus BLEND20 was born.

Sure, it's like them. But it is also mine.

FiveEvil Kickstarter: Final 48 Hours

Final 48 hours for the #FiveEvil Fiendish 5E Horror kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

If you like #TTRPG games, here's five reasons why you don't want to miss out on this one:

Folks, I'm trying to build out my spell list for Ashen Frontiers / BLEND20.

For a traditional adventure fantasy TTRPG what magic do you want to see?

(And, for bonus points, let me know if you see as more Arcane, Divine, Primal, or Psychic magic.)

Got up, had coffee, exchanged my labor for future currency for a time, now getting ready to build up a display board for my sister and her students (they're going to some regional moot and trying to be fancy). Might get some writing done later, but no promises.

Ashen Frontiers News Okay, this will be a grab-bag of various updates about the project and will show off some new drafts.

I put out an update on Ashen Frontiers, my post-magical apocalypse RPG in progress.

Read about it here: open.substack.com/pub/ashenfro...

Update 6: Monday Update! Actual Play Incoming! Exciting Crossover news! · FiveEvil: Fiendish 5e Horror Hello, and welcome new backers! Morgue has been playing FiveEvil with some really talented friends from Aotearoa New Zealand, and we have the video evidence to prove it!Playing with Morgue are• Julz B...

I'm (part of) a stretch goal!

My friends at Handiwork Games are Kickstarting FiveEvil, a horror reimagining of the 5e rules, and, for a future stretch goal, will do a crossover scenario with BEOWULF: Age of Heroes!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...