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D&MD - Dice… and More Dice

A dice game for 2-4 players

Everyone brought their dice bags but forgot their character sheets, and the GM doesn’t want to give up on the dungeon crawl fantasy just yet…

SETUP Each player needs: 1d4 (hp tracker), 1d6 (attack die), player token of choice. Each player rolls 3d6 on an 8x8 grid (a chessboard works well!). These remain on the board as minions, and their value is their strength. Each player starts with 4hp. They may start their token on any edge square of the board. Roll to determine the starting player. Play proceeds clockwise.

Each TURN a player can: MOVE - up to two adjacent spaces FIGHT - declare combat against an adjacent minion

Resolving combat: All combat is a raw dice roll against an enemy’s strength. If your value is equal or higher, you defeat the minion. Take the minion die, it is worth points equal to its value. If your value is lower, you take damage. Decrease your health counter by one.

GOAL: Once all minions are defeated or all players have died, the player with the most points wins.

YES to archive!

A quick game intended to be played by ttrpg players who are waiting for the rest of the party to show up. Homebrewing extra rules before each round is encouraged! My playtesters have tried: adding a healing station to the board; adding pvp (to varying success); adding teamwork/alliances.

Roleplay aspects, like describing what each "monster" is like and how the result of the roll works (or fails) to subdue them are also encouraged.

I will say, at 4 players the board gets super busy with 3d6/player. Either the number of die or board size may need to be tweaked to accommodate larger parties.

200 Word RPGs 2024

Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.

This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.

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Today's cat is Sheerstar! She's the current leader of CliffClan and has three lives remaining. She has two living kits and two living grandkits in the Clan.

She's a bit of a mess right now because her mate and one of her sons recently died in an avalanche. Sheerstar was the only survivor, as the three lives she lost bought enough time for her to be dug out. She's trying to hold it together because CliffClan is currently at war with SnowClan, a war CliffClan was getting the worst of, and she knows she can't let her own feelings doom her Clan.

Sheerstar is described as a dark chocolate molly with emerald eyes. I added some white spotting as both her sons were high white, and even with Lichendusk being 90% white, she'd still need a little white spotting to pass down. She is stubborn, selfless, and overconfident.

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I'm trying to draw at least every other evening so here's today's kitty, Leafydusk!

They are a medium-furred black ticked tabby tom with golden smoke dapples and blue eyes. They are a young warrior of ElmClan at 27 moons old and have quite a big family tree with four littermates, two older siblings, and one younger.

They use exclusively they/them pronouns but use masculine relationship words (brother, son, tomcat). They are quiet, good with numbers and mathematics, and are very loyal to their Clan and family.

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I'll kick this off with a magical sparklecat Clan I made called BLOODCLAN (no relation to canon BloodClan) (it's just a really edgy name, okay?)

The premise of the world follows the alchemical elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, along with Light, the magic of royalty and purity. Every cat is born under the influence of one of these elements, which are arranged in a star.

Air is opposite Earth, Water is opposite Fire, and Light is opposite of the cross between Earth and Air, what are known as the "Dark" elements: blood, spirit, osseo, necro, corpus, and the quinary cross, death.

(There are crosses for all adjacent Primary elements in a similar structure to the Water x Earth tree, but as they are mostly irrelevant to the story I was telling, I haven't worked them out yet.)

BloodClan was created to shelter cats born under a Dark element who are hunted by SunClan. They live in a small pocket dimension created by a split magic cat (a cross between two non-adjacent magics; rare, powerful, and often volatile elements). There's no food in this pocket world, so the must send out hunting and gathering parties, clashing often as they're forced to raid the other Clans' territories to sustain their own Clan.

They get their name because their Clan is mostly made of Blood element cats, which are the most common of the Dark elements. The Water and Earth territories are neighbors, practically intertwined in some areas, so there's uh, quite a bit of crossover, meaning plenty of Blood element kits are born around the borders. The tertiary and quaternary elements are rare in the wild, as they require a Blood element cat to survive long enough to have kits with a primary element cat, but they are fairly common inside BloodClan itself, as there's a chance for any Blood x Blood element pairing to produce a tertiary element kit and so forth.

BloodClan also hosts "dark" creatures: vampire cats, were-cats, and cats with devil blood are allowed to stay, so long as they don't cause trouble and follow the Code. Any cat that is hunted by SunClan is welcomed in BloodClan.

It's a very fun little project that has a lot of factions and political intrigue, as well as plenty of magic sparklecats and a splash of action adventure when I want to write a fight scene. It's not horribly unique, but it's a great little sandbox to have little edgy OCs running about hehe

One of my favorite parts of the warrior fandom is how it enables creativity with how easy it is to make fanclans and OC AU. So reblog this and share the most creative (or simply your favorite!) fanclan that you've made!

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One of my favorite parts of the warrior fandom is how it enables creativity with how easy it is to make fanclans and OC AU. So reblog this and share the most creative (or simply your favorite!) fanclan that you've made!

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A slightly cleaner Ichorblaze, from her green side instead

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I love love love edgy sparklecats it's my passion and my vice.

This rendition of my darling Ichorblaze is uh, a little busy with the colors and lines. Her pose doesn't read very well but it's sketchy sketchy hours and I never said I was good at this

Also despite having made this OC at least seven years ago, I have never drawn her before!

Her description is simply "A black molly with pink markings on her right and green on her left, with horns and mismatched eyes." That's it. That's her. She's an absolute mess, a chaotic "punch first, ask questions never" character who tends to be on a revenge arc.

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The second of many Smokestars to come

I really wish I didn't put her right in front of the den entrance. She'd look so much more regal with light stone to outline her dark ruff and a few cave paintings to frame her <3 Alas, part of this artlocke is to improve my composition and backgrounds, so it'll get better on the next moon

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I'm hosting a Clangen artlocke with some friends and this is my claim, Smokestar!! She's a sweetheart, but sees it as the leader's job to act tough to make sure her Clan isn't picked on. She's a black rosetted tabby!

Yall will probably see a lot more of her around here. My goal is to do at least one character art for each month's thought bubble, with the hopes of alternating between a comic scene and short animation/animatic for her patrol/event. We'll see if I can handle that haha I might share a few of the entries over here if I'm proud of them xp

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RindleClan + co

A temp map of RindleClan and the surrounding Clans so I can visualize the territory better (they have five neighbors!). I'm currently on moon 20!

We're at war with HornetClan. Not over territory, but because they attacked my deputy and healer's apprentice when we went to ask them for help when our only full healer was deathly sick. But uh, RindleClan is a Baby Clan and HornetClan is BIG and now they're basically asking for our territory until the bridge to have peace, which we cannot give up (and they know it) so we're suffering a little bit (and AdderClan and SparrowClan are making fun of RindleClan for declaring war and then being unable to deal with the consequences...)

Can you tell I love this world? I love Clangen so much. It's so easy to tell great stories with it ;-;

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A second cat was taken by the Sea.

It called.

She followed.

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More RindleClan raving because I'm having a blast with this eldritch ocean Clangen project.

Three cultural differences between these Clans and canon:

Taking mates in other Clans is not forbidden, and is encouraged by some leaders! The litter stays with their dam until they're weaned (3 moons; the sire is often given open border permissions to visit), and then alternate nurseries about every half moon until they're apprentice age so they can feel a part of both Clans. Kits are given the choice of which Clan they want to live in. Switching Clans after they are made a warrior is discouraged, but not against the Code. Sometimes, parents or leaders will choose which kits go where, but in more recent times this is out of fashion, so to speak, and parents that override their kits' right to choose are often judged harshly by their Clanmates.

Border skirmishes happen almost every time patrols meet. This means little to the Clan politics as a whole, and is seen as cultivating healthy rivalries and loyalties between warriors. Most skirmishes are that of honor and so are fought with sheathed claws; the winning party earns bragging rights and honor for their Clan, but no territory or resources change hands. If the Clans are allied, the participants may even offer advice or compliments after the "skirmish" is over. Unsheathing claws during a border skirmish (without official war or declaration of offense) is a faux pas and allows the opponent to freely use claws in return, or even spark a war.

All the Clans are deeply reliant on StarClan. Gatherings are only held once a season, but take place in the Moonstone cavern where StarClan cats can cross over to the living realm, making their Gatherings a true mingling of all Clans, both living and dead. Occasionally, StarClan turns against a living cat publicly; if this happens, the cat is immediately exiled from the Clans and loses their suffix. They are given one day to leave, and after that are treated as a rogue and are to be attacked on sight. Being shunned by StarClan is rare, and typically only occurs after the cat is revealed as a murderer or traitor.

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Yall my Clangen Clan just took in a father and his three kits and then the next moon a mass extinction killed two of them ;-;

I wanted them to be safe and happy here. ;-; ;-;

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No one has claimed a spot yet!! I should probably add a claim list or smth idk how people usually manage these on tumblr ;-; ;-;

Give me 7 Clangen sprites to draw!

Breaking out a pose sheet for this! But yeah, I want some practice designing cats based on Clangen sprites. Give me a sprite + name + pose number! (DM, reblog, or ask all work!)

I'm also down to draw cats from established comics, though I'd prefer to be given the sprite instead of a pre-designed reference.

(I have the feeling most of the requests will be torties. Which is great because Clangen tortie gens are soooo good!)

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Give me 7 Clangen sprites to draw!

Breaking out a pose sheet for this! But yeah, I want some practice designing cats based on Clangen sprites. Give me a sprite + name + pose number! (DM, reblog, or ask all work!)

I'm also down to draw cats from established comics, though I'd prefer to be given the sprite instead of a pre-designed reference.

(I have the feeling most of the requests will be torties. Which is great because Clangen tortie gens are soooo good!)

CLAIMED SPOTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 - Vineshade (Dew) 7

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Not me starting new projects to procrastinate working on other projects hahaha noooo

I'm such a sucker for "the sea holds eldritch horrors we cannot fathom" trope. It's been one year of RindleClan and so far the sea has:

Eaten my deputy (rip Briarmouse you were my favorite)

Gave many of my cats nightmares

They see dark shadows and odd lights under the water, but only when alone

Whispers in the ear of Sleekseed, causing him to feel guilty for said deputy's death

I haven't gotten to showcase this yet, but I want the sea to be the reason for Midnightleaf's clairvoyance.

Took my healer, cured her festering wounds, and returned her the next morning with no memory of the last season

This Clan has so much PLOT in it. It's got histories and Prophecies and mystery and a little horror. Such a fun little sandbox <3

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I'm gonna preface this with a "haven't read canon in a decade" disclaimer so some of these might be in the new arcs but.

-blade! Using the excuse of grass blades makes this less sparklecat-y, especially as a suffix. It's hard to be anything but edgy as a prefix tho.

Animals + flowers as suffixes! They flow best with an adjective prefix (Pale- Fluffy- Tiny- ect) but can work in other contexts (Breezeswan)

On a similar note, using any prefix from the og series as a suffix will generally sound okay to fans of the series. Those names are so normalized in the fandom that they would be accepted as general suffixes with almost any name. (things like -thorn, -bramble, -shell are gaining a lot of popularity recently)

Clangen also has a lot to do with this shift. Any prefixes or suffixes from that list will be generally accepted as viable names.

Some specific suffixes I think are good and underused:

-path, -trail, -step -rain, -snow, -drop, -drizzle, -fog -pebble, -stone -ripple, -creek, -wave, -wake, -lake -watcher, -stalker, -seer, -gaze (good in moderation, as a suffix earned by merit) -snarl, -growl, -howl, -whisper, -whistle, -call (animal+sound is weak imo. so many bird+call names :/) -fox, -wolf, -hare, -hawk, -swan, -wren (honestly any single syllable bird or any bird of prey) Prefixes I either go and click about the thesaurus for some words or find a plant/animal/mineral list for the region I'm working with and pull from there

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