Good ttrpg critiques to read/watch/listen by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago

The OSR podcast Between Two Cairns does critiques of old school adventures.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6jxIIEDsjAfm5H6n7kcn8f

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Free Dice Roller in CC0 (slyflourish.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
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A little JavaScript dice roller I whipped up released under a CC0 license.

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Your most used RPG books and accessories? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 2 months ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
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This is a question for TTRPG GMs. What RPG books, supplements, or accessories do you find yourself using year after year? Which RPG products provide the biggest regular impact at your table?

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City of Arches Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
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Hi friends!

I wanted you to know about the City of Arches Kickstarter going on right now!

The City of Arches is a 160 page PDF and hardcover high-fantasy city sourcebook built for Lazy DMs and usable with any version of 5e or other fantasy tabletop RPGs. In this book you’ll find

  • a high fantasy city setting surrounded by countless adventure locations.
  • a setting easily dropped into any existing published or homebrewed campaign world.
  • a setting where any race, species, origin, heritage, and culture makes sense.
  • over a dozen adventure “biomes” with hundreds of adventure locations.
  • three 1st to 20th level campaign arcs.
  • an intro scenario, three adventures, and an adventure toolkit for building your own heist or infiltration adventure.
  • beautiful full-color art, dungeon maps, and overland maps.
  • a player’s guide with background hooks and setting-specific backgrounds.

Download the free 42 page preview on the Kickstarter page! I hope you’ll back this fantastic new book.

Thank you so much!

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What does your gaming notebook or binder look like? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
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Show us some pictures of your gaming, notebook or binder. I’m getting back into using a physical binder now that my games are more in person, and I need the inspiration!

Front of my gaming notebook

Tabletop creators struggle to plot their future amidst Twitter’s still-burning ashes by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 14 points 2 years ago

As a guy who used Twitter extensively for more than a decade and had over 40k followers, I can tell you it went from a great place to promote one’s RPG work to a terrible place just about overnight back in 2020 or so – just about the time users focused on algorithmic sorting of tweets over the timeline.

I was lucky to get 400 people to click a link and maybe one would buy something. Engagement was shot.

Luckily I found the social media platform of the future – email! It’s a network I control, can move to the service of my choice, and lets me directly connect with those who expressed interest in what I make.

I’m glad I started building up my email list a few years ago. It takes time but it’s worth it.

I feel like a lot of creators on Twitter simply can’t let go even though the network isn’t the same as all anymore.

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Flee Mortals! MCDMs Monster Book Now Available (shop.mcdmproductions.com)
submitted 2 years ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
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MCDM, Matt Coleville’s company, just released Flee Mortals! This 400 page book includes new takes on existing 5e monsters and a few brand new ones – all in MCDMs style of cool tactics and action-oriented designs. I had the great pleasure of designing the vampires in this book including the monstrous Count Rhodar Von Glaur!

Check it out!

Some laser cut tokens I made, inspired by Sly Flourish by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 10 points 2 years ago

WHO DARES SUMMON ME!

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5.1 SRD in Spanish, Italian, French, and German (www.dndbeyond.com)
submitted 2 years ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
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Wizards of the Coast has released the 5.1 System Reference Document (basically the core rules of D&D 5e) in four new languages alongside English including Spanish, Italian, German, and French.

https://media.wizards.com/2023/downloads/dnd/SRD_CC_v5.1_FR.pdf

https://media.wizards.com/2023/downloads/dnd/SRD_CC_v5.1_IT.pdf

https://media.wizards.com/2023/downloads/dnd/SRD_CC_v5.1_DE.pdf

https://media.wizards.com/2023/downloads/dnd/SRD_CC_v5.1_ES.pdf

All of these have been released under a Creative Commons Attribution License which means creators are free to copy, modify, and use these works – including commercially – by referencing the document and it’s license in their work.

In my opinion, this is an amazing effort and one that helps Wizards of the Coast improve its reputation as a good steward of D&D and good partner of the hobby.

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Open5e.com on Morrus’s Unofficial Tabletop Podcast (morrus.podbean.com)
submitted 2 years ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/dnd@lemmy.world
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I had a great time checking in on various D&D news and talking to Morrus and Jessica about https://open5e.com on Morrus’s Unofficial Tabletop Podcast yesterday. I hope you give it a listen!

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse book details by slyflourish in c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 years ago

I’m putting a lot of hope in the extra 32 pages the sourcebook gets. I’m hoping for more text and tools to help me run my own Planescape adventures.

Narrating Travel by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 years ago

I usually try to drop in one scene or situation along the way usually at the site of a notable landmark. You can roll randomly for the landmark and maybe two groups. Maybe they’re fighting. Maybe one group already beat the other group. Maybe they’re friendly. Just a situation to expose something about the world and it’s history and people.

You can also use it as an opportunity for campfire tales. Ask each player ahead of time to think about what their character thinks of what they’ve done so far and where they’re going. Have each player share their thoughts during a long rest along the journey.

Finally, if the characters are traveling anywhere with risk you can define some traveling roles like who is scouting, who is trailblazing, and who is provisioning. Have them roll checks on these jobs to give you some interesting ideas about what might happen along the journey.

[PC Gamer] Taking your D&D campaign online is a game-changer, and so easy I wish I'd done it sooner by slyflourish in c/dnd@lemmy.world
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 years ago

Nice to see some love for Owlbear Rodeo!

Mike Shea (Sly Flourish) just released a video where he talks about the Fediverse and this instance specifically! by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 years ago

Thanks so much! It's actually a pretty exciting time with the Mastodons and Lemmys and blogs and podcasts!

I also resurrected https://dndblogs.com as a way to bring blogs back together again.

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RPG daily blog summaries at dndblogs.com (dndblogs.com)
submitted 2 years ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/rpg@ttrpg.network
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Hi friends! To do my small part for the TTRPG fediverse, I resurrected an old RPG blog rss aggregator I ran about 10 years ago and refreshed it with some GPT-based summarization. You can find it right here:

https://dndblogs.com/

It updates every morning from the following feed lists.

https://slyflourish.com/sly_flourish_rpg_blogroll.html

If there are any great TTRPG blogs I’m missing, please let me know!

What's your favorite piece of GM advice? by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 years ago

I wrote up my best tips from a wide range of DMs here:

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

If I had to have just one it’d be:

Be a fan of the characters. Be on their side. Focus your prep around them. Help them look awesome. Avoid “gotchas” that characters would have picked up on but players missed.

I wrote a pre-session 0 campaign outline in the style of Sly Flourish for my upcoming 13th Age game. Critique welcome! by slyflourish in c/rpg@ttrpg.network
A Pathfinder 2e mechanic that I will henceforth always use in 5e by slyflourish in c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 years ago

My own groups are trying out the luck system from Tales of the Valiant and like it so far. It's extra bookkeeping but has some fun options and makes a series of bad rolls work out much better. As a GM, I like it a lot because I don't have to keep track of it at all. It's all player-managed.

See Playtest Packet 2 in the playtest packets on https://www.talesofthevaliant.com

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Community Service Announcement – Open5e.com (open5e.com)
submitted 2 years ago by slyflourish@ttrpg.network to c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
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Friends! In case you didn’t know it, there’s an awesome volunteer-run website called https://open5e.com/ that includes tons of OGL-released 5e material. If you’re looking for a quick spell or monster lookup, this is your place. If you’re developing a system of your own, you can access the data there through an API in a structured format. It includes the 5e SRD, a lot of material from Level Up Advanced 5e (including all of their awesome monsters), it includes all four Kobold Press monster books and we’re already working on the new Tome of Beasts 1 2023 edition. It has backgrounds and subclasses from Tome of Heroes. It’s just packed with awesome stuff.

You’ll always get better descriptions, art, and design from the books themselves but if you’re looking to link to 5e material, this is the site for you.

If you like what you see there and want to help out, there are lots of ways you can do so. Join the Open 5e Discord server, introduce yourself, and jump on in!

https://discord.gg/EWgm7CeKek

Sly Flourish's Lazy RPG Talk Show: Reddit's Enshittification by slyflourish in c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 15 points 2 years ago

I really didn’t know anything about Lemmmy. Things are moving fast. I did mention Mastodon, blogs, podcasts, and rss feeds.

Sly Flourish's Lazy RPG Talk Show: Reddit's Enshittification by slyflourish in c/dndnext@ttrpg.network
[-] slyflourish@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the post!

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