#Tabletop

[pencilbrony]

Tabletop watgame that has very small minis, but not a lot of minis. Maybe you can even have active missiles as minis.

[2minutetabletop]

The Shattered Rift Battle Map

How much damage does a black hole deal, GM? A good question for our new map… Come see the FULL version on our website, which is 4x as big!

→ The Shattered Rift Battle Map

[careydraws]

I'm SO excited that I got to contribute a full-page illo/comic to How to GM Romance-- here's a little valentine's day sneak peek 💜 it was a real treat to get to work with art director @naladraws and I can't wait to see the entire book!! You can preorder GMROM through backerkit here.

[ahcoffeebeans]

COMING SOON

ENDLESS BLOODFIELDS of PSYCHIC MALICE

a two-player psychic horror ttrpg about the terrors of toxic intimacy!!

play as The Wanderer, a psychic vagrant struggling with her unstable powers in a hostile world filled with SOUL PARASITES!

follow me @ ahcoffeebeans.itch.io for all updates about this game – and more!!!

[krystinaarielle]

This clip is a reminder of why I love table top games so much. You can go from playing a character that is comic relief and probably not taken seriously to that same character delivering an honest moment about grief and loss. This might be one of my favorite moments in seven years of streaming ttrpgs. If you enjoy it take a moment to watch the entire episode on the @thepixelcircus YouTube. 💖

[thesixthduke]

[dt75artblog]

ROGUES OF THE WASTELAND

[jayvikstolemyheart]

I’m trying to organise my thoughts in dungeons and dragons au inspired by @noodles-and-tea but it’s taking too long so I’m just doing the important jayvik part here:

Basically, Viktor the DM is running a campaign that is basically the story of arcane. Jayce is one of the players. Arcane!Viktor is an NPC that was designed to be a twist villain. Starting off as a harmless looking ally for Arcane!Jayce (and a way to help Arcane!Jayce get out of his failed charisma check in front of the council). Arcane!Viktor would eventually use the hextech to create the glorious evolution and be the final boss.

(Viktor may or may not be subconsciously projecting himself onto Arcane!Viktor.)

Viktor miscalculated how into the roleplaying Jayce would be. How quickly Jayce would make Arcane!Jayce go ‘This is OUR dream now. Viktor’s MY partner’. Viktor takes pride in his storytelling so he alters the plan a bit. Make the inevitable fallout be based on outside factors. Arcane!Viktor starts to get sicker. Piltover’s society focuses on Arcane!Jayce more, which creates a divide between PC and NPC.

But Jayce never gives up on his NPC friend. Even when Arcane!Jayce fails his insight rolls and gets manipulated by everyone and can’t tell when Arcane!Viktor is keeping secrets from him. Jayce, and thus Arcane!Jayce never gives up on his partner.

Viktor is furious by how Jayce’s roleplaying is ruining the plot line he planned, but he wants to stay faithful to Arcane!Viktor’s character (remember that projecting I mentioned before?). So as a last ditch effort, he decided that an NPC he introduced for a different character’s story: Arcane!Ambessa for Mel’s pc. Arcane!Viktor was already dying, but Jinx’s pc provides the perfect way to kill off the character with a bang.

A literal bang.

Viktor has that sadistic DM glee when he leaves that session on a cliffhanger. And the feeling returns when he opens the next session and describes what Arcane!Jayce sees slowly revealing all the chaos before finally revealing Arcane!Viktor on the floor.

Jayce is devastated and that reaches his character as well. Arcane!Jayce tries some CPR, takes of the clothes and sees the shimmer/hexcore corruption, but still keeps going.

Jayce rolls well enough to get the heart beating again, which annoys Viktor but he makes clear that Arcane!Viktor’s spine is broken, he’s on death saving throws with disadvantage cuz he’s already ill. This is the end.

But then Jayce does the unthinkable. He asks “Our lab is still in the building right? Where the Hexcore is?”

And Viktor has to watch as Arcane!Jayce uses his homebrewing against him. Viktor has to move on to the next scene so he can take some time to figure out what the HELL to do next.

But this NPC is Viktor’s subconscious right? And Viktor has a lot of self-hate. Specifically for his body but he’s going to use that self-hate to create this villain and watch everyone attack the representation of Viktor’s self-hatred. And no, Viktor is not in therapy even though he should be. He claims he has enough medical conditions to deal with then do any mental health stuff.

So the campaign goes through the events of season 2. Jayce and Ekko’s player characters have to disappear because the real people won’t be able to attend the next few sessions. Jayce will tell anyone who will listen how worried he is for his NPC friend. And Viktor plots.

Viktor finally arranges things to convince both in-game and out-game Jayce that Arcane!Viktor had to be killed. By using the love of the character against him. By showing how Arcane!Viktor will be met with a fate worse than death, along with dooming the rest of the world if nothing is done. Jayce losses hope over saving Arcane!Viktor. Real Viktor refuses to analyse how that makes him feel.

And then it’s near the end of the final battle. While the road was complicated, Viktor finally got the final boss he planned for in the beginning. Unfortunately it’s looking like a TPK for his players but Viktor’s really in the zone. Plus Ekko’s got that broken homebrew z-drive, so it will probably be fine, Viktor reasons.

Then Jayce says; “Look we’re running out of options. Maybe… can I try and reach out to Viktor one more time?”

No one’s really confident but they don’t have a choice. Ekko even uses the help action. And by that, I mean he throws the Z-drive into the Machine Herald’s face to buy Arcane!Jayce more time to talk.

And Jayce makes his speech. We all know it. Nearly everyone at the table is near tears, including Viktor.

“Why do you persist?” Arcane!Viktor asks, but it’s a question from the real Viktor as well.

“Because I promised you.” “Also, I reach out to hug him, and I’m hoping he can read my mind and see the future Vik that I saw.”

Viktor doesn’t even make Jayce roll any charisma checks by the end. He’s so touched by the speech (again refusing to analyse his feelings). He still takes his DMing seriously though and says that Arcane!Jayce must leave or he will perish, and Arcane!Viktor will stay and sacrifice himself to release everyone.

“WHAT?!” Jayce cries from the table, “You mean after everything Viktor still has to die?!”

“He played with powerful forces Jayce.” Viktor explains. “The least he could do is fix his mistakes.”

Jayce furrows his brow. “If that’s really how it is… then my character is staying with him.”

“Pardon?”

“You heard me. They made hextech together. They should finish this together. My character will say that straight to his face.”

“Wait, what?” Jinx comes out from the bathroom. “Jayce is your character dying right now?”

And so Viktor ‘s twist villain who was meant to break everyone’s hearts and be easy to hate, dies trying to reverse his mistakes knowing that he is loved, and has always been loved by the partner that’s right there be his side.

Afterwards Jayce tells Viktor that is DMing broke his heart. Viktor just laughs and pretends that Jayce just didn’t a witness a deep part of Viktor’s psyche and gave it so much kindness and love.

[anim-ttrpgs]

Cooking Write-in Skill from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. This Skill is optional, and if given to your investigator, must be set at a minimum rating of +1.

Cooking (Knowledge) || Cooking is a measure of a character’s knowledge of the culinary arts. Use this Skill when a character needs to prepare a meal of any sort beyond the rudimentary cooking ability that everybody has, such as if impersonating a chef to infiltrate the corrupt mayor’s private party, or to notice when a dish just doesn’t smell or taste quite right, perhaps indicating it’s been poisoned! This Skill may also be used in case the character needs to know anything related to kitchen etiquette or whatever else may fall under the umbrella of culinary knowledge.

[cannibalhalflinggaming]

"Everyone and their mother still seems to want an indie alternative to D&D. You know, the same dungeon crawls and all the fun memes, just without anything designed by Wizards of the Coast. Into this environment comes a new game which started with a solid Kickstarter campaign and only grew from there. The designers weren’t conceited enough to claim to be the next Dungeon World but they definitely wanted to be, and with some solid post-campaign momentum (#1 on DriveThruRPG as of this writing), it’s not entirely out of reach. I am of course talking about Grimwild." -@levelonewonk

[mightofmerchants]

Some people have asked me if I can publish my mapmaking tools. So I developed a software. 🙂

Here is the result:

[quinnydoll]

being a GM is really fun because sometimes you can make your players go through some really traumatic Evangelion bullshit, but other times you can force them to go bowling for no reason

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

life goals

[allisonmckenzieart]

Girls night!

[karagna]

MECHS MECHS MECHS