#TabletopRPGs

[dailydungeondelves]

Let the shipping begin!

[denofimagination-blog]

Ratmen Warriors: lurking in the shadows, masters of intrigue, fearless in battle.

Write to service@denofimagination.com to get a quote!

[grimsourgames]

Playing Tabletop Games Alone: Our Backstory, Influences, and Why We Make Solo TTRPGs

When you want to play a tabletop game, but don't have a party, you play solo!

Who are Grim Sour Games?

We are a husband and wife team who love games. Although we usually play solo.

I’m more into Tabletop Games while he plays video games, and we’ll be branching out to video games too, eventually. 

But for now, I enjoy making tabletop tools and solo games.

My biggest influences are:

Ironsworn: Starforged

Brindlewood Bay 

Floating Bookshop

Colostle

Into the Starlit Sky

Pine Shallows

Star/Pathfinder

Troika!

And Cesar Capacle games

Just to name a few. If you like games like these, they will be big influencers on everything we make. 

So, how'd it all begin?

I spent years wanting to play Dungeons & Dragons but didn't have enough players, and at the time I had no idea there was anything else like it, let alone solo games.

I finally got my mom and sister to play but it got too hectic trying to get everyone together. I was yet again… solo.

Determined to play, I did a little poking around and found out that there is more out there and even ways to play solo!

I tried a few resources that helped me, but I still found it lacking. That's when I started making my own resources. An all-in-one solo system to help me move forward in my games. 

Read the rest on our brand new Substack where I'll share:

Game and Tool Updates: Stay up-to-date with the latest developments and features.

Solo Actual Plays: Check out our solo gameplay sessions, which are written in script + prose format and include dice rolls and other information.

Blogs for All Players: Whether you’re new to solo tabletop gaming or an experienced player, our blogs offer helpful insights and tips.

Game Recommendations: Discover new games we think you’ll enjoy.

Content Updates: Be the first to know about upcoming releases and content.

Community Interaction: Share your stories and connect with other soloists.

Discount Codes & Early Access: Gain special discounts, early access to new releases, and top priority for playtesting new games and tools.

[worldanvil]

Horror can be a really fun genre for a campaign, but it’s also tricky. It requires a very specific atmosphere and tone. So, now that spooky season is here, it's a great time to talk about how to run a terrifyingly amazing horror game! (P.S. - #DidYouKnow World Anvil has character sheets for Call of Cthulhu, Alien, and Vampire the Masquerade?)

[hishgraphics]

Star Wars RPG character artwork: Zor Draco from the Atrisian Commonwealth, a former TIE pilot now a Supervisor-Captain of the New Republic Rangers.

[ari-vaults-n-villains]

Hey, hi, howdy! I am one of the players for Vaults and Villains on YouTube, and I wanted to post the master list of our game so far. Feel free to check it out! No pressure. ☺️

Mind you, this is not Bunkers and Badasses. This started as a fan-made passion project in 2020 during lockdowns, and we are hoping to get Gearbox to notice and acknowledge our hard work on this.

Please feel free to ask me any questions, and I will try to answer them to the best of my ability.

Here is the trailer:

Here is a link to our episodes in chronological order:

Enjoy the ride. <3

[abyssgrant]

Imogen Temult, Exaltant Hope of the Red Storm

[hellastrangedice]

New Design: Nisha, goddess of dusk, names, and solitude. A star filled sunset based on one of my deities for my pantheon.

These dice are RAW unpolished and not inked yet

[rustedportal]

[dungeonmapster]

I wanted to make a large, sweeping, double-sized landscape map and take a shot at giving trees a real sense of height and depth, so I put together some new assets and tried to create a frontier-style alpine rocky wilderness type of map. I'm quite pleased with it overall, and hope it presents an interesting locale for your next outdoor encounter!

downloads etc. at patreon.com/dungeonmapster

[angela-maps]

Dead God

Where do gods go when they die? A complex question with deep philosophical and theological implications, but in your setting of choice, perhaps one with a very simple answer. It could be a place, out of time and space, where decaying deific forms wither and rot, forgotten by all and no longer sustained by the power of belief. What manner of treasure, knowledge, or power might be found within such a long dead husk, and what bizarre and alien creatures might make their lair within one? That’s for you to decide, as you dazzle your players with these three maps, all animated, featuring an external and internal view of a massive humanoid carcass floating in a sea of stars. A giant, a god, or maybe just a regular-sized corpse visited by really tiny PCs?! A Fantastic Voyage into Innerspace awaits!

[dailydungeondelves]

Be right back, I need to look over some notes...

[mightofmerchants]

I have revised working with several rooms stacked on top of each other.

In combination with groups, it should now be easier to create multi-storey buildings with a roof. 😊

Feel free to try the demo of Canvas of Kings on Steam!

[vahilor]

Finished a Glowhopper (Dragon Trapper Lodge). I hope you like him.

[hishgraphics]

Star Wars RPG: Dawn of the Rangers

S01E17 "Rangers Refreshed"

Location: New Republic Rangers HQ, Coruscant

After two days of rest, Captain Zor Draco (Martín), Gev Dyson (Edward), Olem (Eric) are summoned by Colonel Tyria Sarkin to the HQ's conference room on Level 3 of the Generis Arcology.

Sarkin introduces them to a new recruit, an Iotran New Republic Security Force officer named Kirino Mak (Carlos). She has been assigned to the team as a law enforcement agent.

The briefing begins. Sarkin recounts the team's experiences. They had been working for Agent Tailgunner at the Rangers branch at Karkbreath Peak on Vandor. The team was collecting (stealing?) materiel for Tailgunner. A Gozanti-class cruiser here. A flight of X-wings there.

Then their informant, old Mrs Stassie McPing, was assassinated by Tora Nuam for passing on an encrypted datacard with a warning about who they were working for. Nuam is their teammate Ordan Vallas' former flame. When they finally decrypted the datacard, via Zor's cousin Tarn Draco on Kitel Phard, they discovered that Tailgunner is one Beru Treedancer, working for the isolationist Imperial enclave known as the Pentastar Alignment of Powers.

Meanwhile, Republic Intelligence have no news of their vanished teammates Ordan Vallas, Pac Vesme and Captain Kin Asa Goddard. This sounds grim for the team.

According to Sarkin, the Pentastar Alignment is led by Moff Ardus Kaine who replaced Moff Tarkin as Oversector Outer Moff after the Battle of Yavin. A year ago, he gathered Imperial and corporate loyalists to unite on Entralla to form the PA. Information about them has been sparse since.

Gev proposed a straight up attack, but Sarkin tells him they don't have the resources and the New Republic takes ponderously long to decide.

Zor's proposed move is to scout for intel on Vandor. He refers to the Republic Sienar Systems star courier they found in a buried Sith Temple (under the old Jedi Temple) during the previous mission to repower Olem's lightsaber with a kyber crystal. That ship could have a cloaking shield they could use for effective intelligence gathering.

Sarkin tells them a 6-personnel tech team has been dispatched. One has been reportedly killed by a Sith War Droid. Another disappeared into a door in the Temple that itself disappeared. The remaining four are huddled together fearfully in the star courier cabin performing their analysis.

The Rangers' mission now is to go to the Sith Temple and protect the tech team long enough for them to assess the courier. But in the meantime, the team has been assigned a new ship down in the Hangar Bay in Level 10.

Before going there, Zor changes into his field uniform. They all meet the Quartermaster droid EV-44L4 for more gear. Kirino asks for a bomb defusing kit. Eve-Four is reluctant to release it, but she persuades the droid effectively.

They reach the Hangar Bay where two ships await in launch position. One is Kirino's Y-Wing fighter Blue One being tended to by R2-BA, her astromech droid.

The other is a dark grey Omicron-class attack shuttle with turquoise stripes across her three S-foils. They name her the Spotchka Starstreak. Everyone boards their crafts and prepares for launch. Gev wonders if the new team member will cut it. Zor replies, this is a good mission to test her skills.

When the Nikto crew chief signals them, they both take off. The two ships fly to their dark destination in formation.

TO BE CONTINUED

[vintagerpg]

The school year is winding down and summer vacation is on the horizon, so I am once again pulled back to 1988, my early days of discovering comic books and my fixation on the Gamer’s Handbook of the Marvel Universe for TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes RPG. The original set of four released in 1988, alphabetically listing a gigantic slice of characters from the Marvel universe, in alphabetical order, featuring full-color model sheets, on loose leaf paper for maximum convenience. You got histories, powers, the whole nine. And because the Marvel comics universe was alive, beginning in 1989, additional Character Update volumes saw release.

This is the first, and largest, of the Updates. The majority is new characters, most of them losers and second-rate villains who appeared in an issue or two, like Meteor Man. I love those folks best, probably. There is a little bit of catch-up, too, fitting in folks like Beta-Ray Bill and Prowler who didn’t make it into the primary reference. Some marquee debuts, too, like Venom and the X-Babies (lol).

Then there are the storyline updates. Hulk turned gray, Inferno was bedeviling the X-folks, Armor Wars was wrapping up. All these events and more needed to be accounted for in the RPG, and so they were. Its this stuff that makes these books an unparalleled resource for the history of the Marvel universe at that moment in time.