In the next few months, I want to playtest some procedures for travel and exploration.

In the next few months, I want to playtest some procedures for travel and exploration.

If I was to run two-hour Flailsnails sessions with a short notice, would you want to get the invites? I'd be able to run during the day to accommodate the GMT challenged among you.

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Eric Nieudan can you tease us with hints of what's gonna be in the new version of MM?

Eric Nieudan can you tease us with hints of what's gonna be in the new version of MM?

Everyone's a caster!

Everyone's a caster!

I'm reading a lot of spell books these days, as I like to incorporate weird magicks into my games. I usually let PCs with magic training learn the spells they find on scrolls without having to spend a progression slot for them, but what about other characters? Here's an idea:

Between adventures (1), check INT, WIS, or CHA depending of the type of spell. On a pass, you learn the spell. The scroll is destroyed in any case.

To cast a known spell without magical training:
- you cannot spend more HP than your level
- you always roll with disadvantage
- should you let ambient chaos interfere, the dR is rolled with disadvantage.

(1) if your campaign has strict time records, this should take a number of days proportional to the spell's power. (Like 1 day per spell level if you lifted it from a classic source.)

The Big Traits List

The Big Traits List

You know how hard it is sometimes to come up with a fun trait for your character? Maybe a huge list to choose form or roll on would help. I compiled the traits of all the characters in my campaigns (including the one I'm just a player in), and I'll go through notebooks and convention folders as well. There are already 102 traits - can we make it to 200 with your own contributions?

(I think it would be more fun to have traits that have already been written on a character sheet, whether it has seen play or not. Feel free to disregard, but please specify if you're posting traits you just came up wit.)

Here's the current list:
Alchemist
Anti-undead league
Apprentice castigator
Apprentice necromancer
Archer
Assassin
Astral smuggler
Astral plane explorer
Astral walker
Astrologist
Avatar of Justice and Wisdom
Bearfolk shaman
Black draconian
Blades ace
Bounty hunter
Brain in a jar
Bunker 666 citizen
Caravan guards brotherhood
Celestial Temple Order
Church of the Cross Bun
Den Tah Goul initiate
Diplomat
Docker
Doppelgänger
Elf
Entertainer
Etheral cartographer
Ex-Chained soldier
Exorcist
Explorer
Falotier of the Great Library
Footman
Forgotten Thulian jailer
Former gang member
Former leper
Former priestess of Xtrofor
Frogman of doom
Game keeper
General in the Crimson Crusades
Grave robber
Greyhawk clan
Guild of traveling entertainers
Half-elf
Half-giant
Hawkperson
Healthy carrier of the deathplague
Highwayman
Hunter
Illusionist
Initiate of the Shamanic Brotherhood
Journeyman alchemist of the Cascadine Order
Knight
Lizardfolk
Mantris
Monster hunter
Nobleman
Norseman
Now a stone golem
Orc
Paladin of Assana
Patrolman of Pénitence
Peddler
Penitent
Pilgrim of Saint Gladiolus
Poor lonesome space cowboy
Preacher
Priestess of Lex
Prince of Gox
Psi-knight
Psychopomp genet
Pyromaniac goblin
Ranger
Ratfolk
Renegade Monk
Reptile
Robot
Scavenger
Second-story man
Sergeant of arms
Shapechanger
Shugenja
Son of an alchemist
Sorcerer
Street urchin
Surgeon
Templar of Assana
Thief
Three-headed hellhound
Thulian scout
Thulian standard bearer
Trader
Trappers guild
Trash elf
Traveler of the Carmine Guild
Tribunal's envoy
Troblin
U.G.L.Y. syndicate leader
Unnoticed
Wallpiercer
Winger messenger
Young space cadet
Zealot of Shargaash

There's still room. :-)

There's still room. :-)

Originally shared by Tore Nielsen


''It's the kind of scar on this city we'd like to remove, because it's a symbol for all the wrong things we don't advocate anymore - it's a segregation of the poor, of race, of economics''.

Robert J. Ryan , director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, 198x

It's Halloween in the Columbia Points housing projects. There is little shelter from the chill in the tiny apartments and gray courts. Many of the crumbling buildings are empty now, their windows like blind eyes in the gathering gloom. There will be a new housing project they say. It'll be mixed-income they say. Dollars to donuts that doesn't include your income level

This is the night of masks. A night to forget about the cold and the bleak prospects, with the help of candy, booze, and horror.

Owner of a Lonely Heart is a horror-action one-shot set in the 1980s. It uses Macchiato Monsters and the Espresso Eighties hack.
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If you are in the market for lightweight tool for helping you run RPGs online, you might be interested in Roll For...

Originally shared by Shane Liebling

If you are in the market for lightweight tool for helping you run RPGs online, you might be interested in Roll For Your Party!

Features:
* Just point anyone you want to join to the same URL - no logins necessary.
* You can move the dice around and everyone will see you doing so!
* ROLL ALL THE DICE!!! Support for all standard sized dice, DCC dice (click the checkbox for “funky dice”), and arbitrary die sizes (XdY) (plus support for modifiers)
* Tokens: doubleclick (aka reroll) them to mark them (or change to white color), do it again to undo.
* Playing cards: deal out playing cards openly, or use the “hidden draws” feature to have them hidden from all other users until you select and reveal them.
* Labels: want to label someone’s set of dice? Want to notate someone having a Condition? Create a label!
* Images: want to have pictures of your characters or a map to move tokens around on? Do it.
* Want to use your own set of cards? Float over the “Add custom set” button for info on how to do it.
* Clocks! Running a game for a bunch of scoundrels and you want to make sure they know how much progress they are making on something? Give em a clock. Scoundrels love clocks. (Click to advance, long press to roll back.)
* Safety Tools! Buttons for using John Stavropoulos​' X-Card and Brie Sheldon's Script Change tools (Give a reason, or don’t - but all other browsers will be alerted - and no one has to know who did it.)
* If you are wondering about how something works - float your mouse over the button and wait for the informational tooltip!

If you have any issues or feature requests, head over to https://github.com/shanel/roller/issues
https://rollforyour.party/

Sharing this here in case some of youse don't follow me.

Sharing this here in case some of youse don't follow me. (Which I'm perfectly okay with of course, you fucking monsters.)

Originally shared by Eric Nieudan

I'll be running a point crawl for the next episode of Dangers & Décisions, so I'm looking at the wilderness procedure again. This has less areas than the dungeon template, and I've fiddled with the population types as well.

So far I have (in decreasing encounter probability):
- Faction leader (in charge of the whole place)
- Invaders (outsiders that are hostile to the local faction)
- Faction members
- Locals (whether they are aligned with the faction or not)
- Predators (animals, beasts, monsters...)
- Danger (natural or magical)
- Animals (less dangerous than the predators, can be hunted)
- Visitors (peaceful or non-aligned outsiders)
- Danger (same as above - should I make two different ones?)
- Prisoners (either escaping or still in chain)
- Pests (annoying but not necessarily deadly)
- Rebels (potential ally from the faction)

I have yet to draw a map and see if I can put all these encounters in a location in a believable way. In the mean time, what do you think of the population categories? Am I missing something obvious that you'd find in overground sandboxes.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnsr12ez9klmvaa/Overland%20Template%20v2.pdf?dl=0

Since it is October, I want to run an action-horror Hangout game set in the 1980s.

Since it is October, I want to run an action-horror Hangout game set in the 1980s. I'm thinking somewhere between the 22nd and 31st.

Let me know if you're interested.

Btw, I updated my Espresso Eighties hack-sheet. Now it includes Evlyn M's idea about beliefs and proclivities as armor. I also cleared up some dumb typos.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4XPsApBrOnLQ1dEQVRaSXYwRGM/view?usp=sharing