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Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

#ToddlerDnD
Bedtime Disengage. Roll D20.

Nat 1: You fell asleep. Kid left the room.

2-5: You peek. Child is staring back at you like a tarsier.

6-10: You make a move. Child grabs onto a facial feature of choice.

11-15: Leaving the room you step on a toy. Child bolts.

16-19: You make it to the door when a tiny voice calls you back.

Nat 20: You leave the room. Kid's still asleep. Your remaining Adult Brain Function is hours equal to your Con modifier. Halved. Rounded down.

#parenting #DnD

A good villain is one that is actively driving the plot of the story towards a negative outcome and directly impinging upon the protagonists ability to perform their tasks, either directly or indirectly though other agents.

What's your villain like?

#villains #writing #AmWriting #authodons #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

Elon Musk is what happens when you order a Bond villain from Temu.

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

#ToddlerDnD loot for parents:

Sand Shoes: bonus action to put on when the child bolts from the sandbox

Sturdini: sturdy swimwear that can't be unlaced, untied, unclipped, yanked up or yanked down easily

Safe Jewelry: can't be torn off, slipped off, or swallowed by Small creatures and yet adds Charisma bonus

Bottomless Coffee Bottle: can be opened and closed with one hand, comes with Mage Hand while pushing a stroller

#DnD #parenting

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

#ToddlerDnD
Side quests for the campaign titled Deep Cleaning Your Kid's Room:

- Find Paddington's hat (DC 15)

- Find BOTH birds missing from the bird memory card set (not the same bird) (DC 25)

- Sort the Peppa puzzle pieces from the Little Mole puzzle pieces (DC 15). Sort the Little Mole in the Spring puzzle pieces from the Little Mole in the Summer puzzle pieces (DC 30).

- Decide what to do with all 546 unique crayon drawings (DC 30)

#parenting #DnD #ttrpg

Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️

I've been meaning to make an updated version of this for a while so here it is, every numerically-balanced d20 layout!

Feel free to share, especially with any dice makers you think may be interested!

There is a more detailed explanation video by @henryseg for The Dice Lab (which use layout C, if you're curious!) https://youtu.be/Nh2H_4g6evc

#dice #ttrpg #DnD

An illustration of 12 icosahedron nets where each face is numbered from one to twenty. The nets are labelled from A to F and R(A) to R(F).

Below is the text:
"There are only six number layouts (and their reflections) for a d20 that are optimally fair.

The most common layout (where the 20 is surrounded by 2, 14, 8) is not numerically balanced, apart from by opposite-face sum (Which only helps negate bias from a squashed shape).

d20 dice with the above layouts should roll the expected value (10.5) on average, even if their shape is squashed (common for very old, cheap, or melted dice), their center of mass is offset (common in dice with inserts, multiple materials, air bubbles), or they are not fully isohedral where faces/edges are slightly different (common for handcrafted gem/glass/metal dice, and dice not evenly tumbled).

Key features:
• Opposite-faces always sum 21
(two faces with an average value of 10.5)

• Faces around each vertex always sum 53 or 52

(five faces with average value of 10.6 or 10.4.)

• A face’s three adjacent faces always sum 32 or 31
(three faces with average value of 10.666… or 10.333…)

Feel free to use any of the layouts above for your own dice to make them fairer overall!"

Bad DND Advice

#DnD advice: A basilisk with psychic abilities can be a fierce foe. When I fought one, at first I was afraid, then I was petrified.

Dave Dawkins

Women fought topless as clothing was thought to be a major disease vector. Getting threads of clothing into a wound might cause an infection, so these women definitely wanted to cut each other.

What strange rules exist in your world that might seem odd today?

#WorldBuilding #AmWriting #writing #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #authodons

"I miss the old days when women were quiet, modest and covered up."

The old days: The princess of Lichtenstein and a Countess had a topless sword fight over a disagreement about a floral arrangement.

Dave Dawkins

Do you create original monsters for your stories, or rely on the old standards but with a twist?

#AmWriting #writing #fantasy #horror #ttrpg #dnd #authodons

If giraffe centaurs existed would they have their head atop their long necks, but their arms down by their bodies, or would their arms and head be in a normal relationship, but atop a really long neck?

Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág

Just finished reading the epic of Fatima Dhat Al-Himma.

There is an episode where warrior woman Fatima and her team of heroes get trapped in a cave system. They eventually discover an ancient tomb. When they run out of food, they decide to break down the burial bed to build a ladder.

Inside the bed structure they find a tablet that helps them summon an army of djinn.

If this is not a #DnD dungeon I don't know what is.

#epics #WomensEpics #folklore #storytelling #DnD #ttrpg