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Folklore read live!
Is Grandma going to Rest in Peace?
Or feast on the neighbourhood?
The Folklore Hallowstreams continue LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/LQr_AmULA-I
#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #ghost #ghoststories #halloween #horrorstories #hallowstream #german #iceland #icelandic #vampire #zombie #dracula #castlevania
For Loria: the Spoken World, I give you the Girtablullû, Scorpion Devils, Guardians of the Gates of the Sun.
Originally from Mesopotamian myth.
#ttrpg
#dnd
#TalesOfTheValiant
#5Efeed #mythology
https://www.ofgodsandgamemasters.com/loria-the-spoken-world/girtablull-the-scorpion-devils-that-guard-the-sun
Art by Kim Holm https://denungeherrholm.smugmug.com/
licensed under a Creative Commons attribution 4.0 International License
I do occasionally write some decent #TTRPG blog posts.
A question: Does anyone have any good ideas for a map symbol for "haunted" that fits with the design aesthetics for 19th century maps (such as the ones on the linked reference sheet)?
The reason for this is that German folklore features numerous locations that were used as "dumping grounds" for onery ghosts and evil spirits which people did not want in their homes - the exorcists simply bound them to a remote swamp, forest, hill, or whatever, where they could no longer bother the living.
So in a world where the supernatural is real and such practices existed, conscientious surveyors would surely mark these sites on their maps...
#ttrpg #dnd #cartography #mapmaking
https://static-cdn.arcanum.com/media/mapire/legend/porosz_b_iva_135_jelmagyarazat.jpg
This is the wrong title. The book is about the systems of county parks, not …
One of many, many books I bought as #ttrpg research material, and then never got around to reading.
I've got mail!
One of many works relevant to #ttrpg research that I really need to get around to reading one of these days.
Now available!
🔍 2 new Hunter playbooks
👯 A new Team playbook
👽 Weird moves, new rules for contacts and more
🆓 84 pages, 100% free
Preview the Slayer's Survival Kit and Hunter's Journal today and drop all of this into your Monster of the Week game tonight! #ttrpg
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/497126/monster-of-the-week-slayer-s-survival-kit-hunter-s-journal-special-preview?affiliate_id=24139
#Kobo Libra Colour arrived AND it's the best performing eInk device ive ever seen in terms of speed rendering #ttrpg PDFs .
In fact flipping through the newest edition Basic Roleplaying, in landscape mode, with the PDF set to fit to width... and just scrolling each page up and down with my finger, and flipping actual pages with the hardware buttons is VERY usable...
AND maybe half a year back a lot of denizens of the #Fediverse helped me test this same PDF on a whole truck load of #eInk and #ePaper devices, and most crashed and burned hard on it. Might be good for some folks to know. Maybe of interest to @libreture
#eReader #eReaders #eBook #eBooks #KoboLibraColour #DriveThruRPG #ttrpgs
An anthology of thirteen stand-alone adventures set in wondrous lands for the world's greatest roleplaying …
I really do appreciate that the authors were trying to explore settings with a different perspective than the pseudo-European/North American cultural base used for most #DnD settings.
But since this 224 page book is split up between 13 adventures and 15 cultures, the glimpses we get of each culture is so frustratingly brief. As someone who wants their settings to come with lots of details, this would make it difficult for me to bring the cultures in question truly come alive. In lieu of further detail, it might have helped if they had spelled out which culture each setting is based on - in some cases it was fairly easy for me to guess, but in others I was unsure.
I also have to admit, I prefer running campaigns where the PCs largely stay in one particular region rather than traveling around - and when they do travel around, there …
I really do appreciate that the authors were trying to explore settings with a different perspective than the pseudo-European/North American cultural base used for most #DnD settings.
But since this 224 page book is split up between 13 adventures and 15 cultures, the glimpses we get of each culture is so frustratingly brief. As someone who wants their settings to come with lots of details, this would make it difficult for me to bring the cultures in question truly come alive. In lieu of further detail, it might have helped if they had spelled out which culture each setting is based on - in some cases it was fairly easy for me to guess, but in others I was unsure.
I also have to admit, I prefer running campaigns where the PCs largely stay in one particular region rather than traveling around - and when they do travel around, there should be a good reason for why they are doing all this traveling. The 13 adventures in this book do not really have any real connection to each other than their presupposed home base (the Radiant Citadel) - the PCs just show up in some place for whatever reason the GM come up with, and solve some local problem.
Still, the brief glimpses I get of all these worlds are intriguing. And I am curious if any of the original authors have developed their miniature settings further on the Dungeon Master's Guild - I would certainly take a closer look! #ttrpg
When it comes to picking #Italian books for improving my skill with the language, obviously I had to include a #ttrpg book in the list.
Especially since I have already read the English translation. And I really appreciate the folkloristic aspects of this setting, although I am less enarmored of using #DnD for the system.
Reading dodgy conspiracy theories for #ttrpg inspiration was rather popular, 10-20 years ago.
Of course, back then most of us weren't as aware of the racism underlying many of these fantasies (I certainly wasn't). And now that conspiracy fantasies have become mainstream thanks to the resurgence of #fascism , this approach has lost a lot of its shine.
This book by @hellcowkeith@dice.camp is not a book that focuses on a specific topic and covers that topic in detail, like the assorted 3.5 books for Eberron did. It is best to see it as a collection of essays on a variety of niche topics - some of which are very niche, such two minor gnome subcultures.
Some of the chapters are broader in scope, and personally I found the chapter on the Overlords, The Dark Six, and the lore and folk-lore about undead the most useful. As an amateur folklorist, I especially appreciated the last one - to run good adventures about monsters, you should not only contemplate their stats, but also what the people within the world know about them, and what kinds of stories they tell.
Fans of Keith Baker's previous work will find plenty to like here, but I see this work to be more for …
This book by @hellcowkeith@dice.camp is not a book that focuses on a specific topic and covers that topic in detail, like the assorted 3.5 books for Eberron did. It is best to see it as a collection of essays on a variety of niche topics - some of which are very niche, such two minor gnome subcultures.
Some of the chapters are broader in scope, and personally I found the chapter on the Overlords, The Dark Six, and the lore and folk-lore about undead the most useful. As an amateur folklorist, I especially appreciated the last one - to run good adventures about monsters, you should not only contemplate their stats, but also what the people within the world know about them, and what kinds of stories they tell.
Fans of Keith Baker's previous work will find plenty to like here, but I see this work to be more for completists rather than a "must have" for Eberron fans.
Still, I suspect that Keith Baker's next work - "Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone" will be more to my liking, since it is a more focused work on a specific topic and region. And as it happened, it is out right now - so excuse me while I download it. 😉
📅 It's Friday the 13th
👽 We announce 2 new Monster of the Week books
🔍 COINCIDENCE??
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...ok yes but like, it's still pretty cool that we've got 600 pages of new #ttrpg rules and material for you. More details here:
https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/00b7299e-8a59-4153-ace1-70e13ae2249e/landing
Day 2 is well underway!
Hope everyone is having a great day playing games! What are you playing? What have you bought?
