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queasyspaceship · 7 months

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Gobtober Day 02 is Rogue and I only have a single Rogue goblin somehow

So here’s Odette (Odd for short) a Rogue/Witch I played in the Shadow of the Demonlord ttrpg.

#oc #goblin #goblin girl #shadow of the demon lord #ttrpg #gobtober2023 #gobtober

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the-lady-auri · 7 months

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Finished commission for my friend Baron for our next campaign of his character. Need to draw my lad too 😁

#art #oc #elf #auri's art #elves #commissions open #fey #lotr #fanart #ttrpg oc #ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #shadow of the demon lord

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impossiblepackage · 4 months

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say, i heard you reblog a post about role playing games. do you happen to know of any ones that i, a beginner, could feasibly get into in this day and age? i tried DnD but a combination of not having anybody to play with (whether irl or online) and a dissatisfaction with low level boringness kind of made it fizzle out for me

oh hey an ask from 3 months ago that I didn't even see. hi.

ANYWAY. First things first, i cannot recommend @theresattrpgforthat enough. Ain't nobody better at recommending rpgs than that blog right there. Now, on to my thoughts.

If you want a DnD-like rpg, Pathfinder 2nd Edition is gonna be my first recommendation. It's harder to find games for on account of being significantly less popular than dnd5e but it's probably the 2nd most popular game. It's also completely free, with everything being hosted on https://2e.aonprd.com/. It's got everything except adventures, those ya gotta buy. For the next 10 days, there's a humble bundle that includes PDFs of lots of the pre-remaster legacy books, and includes a couple adventures, including a whole adventure path going from level 1 to 20. As a whole, the game is different to dnd but it's recognizable. Big fan myself, and paizo isn't a bunch of pricks. The setting is also super gay. There's a potion of trans your gender, and one of the main religions in the world is the worship of 3 gods in lesbian polycule.

Ironsworn: probably my favorite RPG, period. (also has a space version, that works the same way). It is narrative focused, and designed for solo play or in groups with no GM. Works just as well by yourself, as a duo, in a small group, or in a traditional way with a few players and a GM. It's structured around it's vow system. Your character makes a vow, you decide how difficult that vow should be to accomplish, and as you do things that advance it, you mark progress. Eventually, you make a roll to try and fulfill the vow, with the difficulty determined by how much progress you've made. If you fail that roll, it's bad. Cool thing is that just about everything works that way. Undertaking a journey, delving a dungeon, fighting a dude, it's all handled with the same system. It's a game about perseverance and struggle and relationships, both with people and with places. also very fun to play for writing practice. It's mechanics are rooted in it's setting, but there's no reason you couldn't play it in basically any setting. the youtube channel Me, Myself, And Die is, essentially, Critical Role But It's Solo RPGs, and he did a great season where he played Ironsworn, check it out. Also, Basement Fort on youtube did a duo playthrough. I've only seen the first episode but it seems like a fun watch, as well as showing off duo gameplay.

the Witcher RPG: i haven't played this myself or even looked at the books yet, but everything I've heard about this game has me super excited about it. the general consesus seems to be "yo this is wayyyy better than I thought it would be, why aren't more people playing this, what the fuck". If somebody more familiar wants to talk about it, that'd be dope.

gonna ramble about the rest much less, LIGHTNING ROUND OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Dungeon World: same genre as dnd, but much less crunchy gameplay. Much easier to learn.

Kids On Bikes: it's Stranger Things but as a ttrpg.

Call of Cthulhu: get spooky, idiot. The players are investigators unraveling some mystery or another, and trying to keep their sanity in the face of some cosmic bullshit.

Lancer: it's about mechs! closer to anime-style mechs than battletech style, from what I can tell. I've heard good things.

Vampire: The Masquerade: you will NEVER guess what this is about. It's a classic, it's great, it pretty much redefined the way I think vampires should work. The new version of Werewolf: The Apocalypse is coming soon, and I'm real hyped for that, too.

Shadow Of The Demon Lord: my understanding is that this game is basically "DnD 5e, but good".

#ttrpg #ironsworn #pathfinder #dnd #pf2e #dungeon world #kids on bikes #call of cthulhu #lancer #vampire the masquerade #shadow of the demon lord #witcher ttrpg

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rabbitlegs · 5 months

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The Night Crew

This was a comm for a mlp-themed ttrpg group (they're playing Shadow of the Demon Lord). The party is composed of a wild underground pony, a vampire mechanic, a primordial being made out of ice, and the great and powerful Trixie

#commissions #mlp #mlp fim #my little pony #my litte pony friendship is magic #mlp oc #ttrpg #shadow of the demon lord

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calorum-campaign-ideas · 10 months

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i think it would be very cool and slay if the 3rd Crown of Candy campaign (please brennan or aabria or anyone please make it happen please) was set during the apocalypse

bulb gets turned off, hungry one eats everyone, the great beasts come back, something else idk...

i just want to see everything going to shit with no way to stop it, exu calamity but worse

(also maybe they could use Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard when it comes out and follow the 10 session campaign layout, just think it would be neat)

#a crown of candy #calorum #crown of candy #d20 #d20 acoc #dimension 20 #the ravening war #calorum campaign #d20 the ravening war #acoc #shadow of the demon lord #sotdl #exu calamity

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malice-and-meat · 5 months

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my first time GMing went like this:

me: ok, so you guys see this man standing nearby who you would know as marco-

all 4 of my fucking players at once: POLO

me: .... ok so marcus

#dal talks #dungeon master #game master #ttrpg #d&d #dungeons and dragons #shadow of the demon lord #ignore the other tags the actual system was sotdl but nobody knows it fucking exists

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markuami · 6 months

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Pepper, the merchant sorcerer gnome

A mysterious petite figure no more than 3ft tall approaches with a bulky backpack bigger than himself, decorated with the macabre like mummified animal feet, skulls, mysterious potions and much more. But no matter how much light there is; his face will always remain concealed. He emerges from the dark at unlikely times and disappears as quick as he appeared.

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the-crows-codex · 11 months

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So Poison of Prophecy has been canceled, due to production problems.

I meant to update this page earlier, however this situation made me depressed, and I neglected a few things since then. What hasn't been entirely neglected though was games. While Poison of Prophecy was having issues, I got frustrated and started a side project. This is...

Leotmaers of Yarmouth

An Actual Play ttrpg podcast using Shadow of the Demon Lord.

This project is a bit of a love letter to Bloodborne and what got me interested in TTRPG podcasting to begin with. LoY is a story about suffering, a tale of hope and everything we do to cling to it.

Leotmaers of Yarmouth is dark, dangerous and - I cannot stress this enough - absurdly wet.

I have a truly tremendous cast whom I am grateful for, and they truly endure some of the worst descriptions of things I've ever committed to audio. The whole project is incredibly dark and visceral, and early on it was decided that there would be a blooper reel. While we all enjoy a dark and messed up adventure, we also are terribly silly people.

I look forward to editing this audio and getting this production out with some haste.

Till then!

#shadow of the demon lord #Bloodborne #space whale #ttrpg podcast #tabletop role playing

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primaljort · 4 months

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when you only have a 5% chance to hit the enemy but the enemy ALSO only has a 5% chance to hit you

#shadow of the demon lord

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tinyghostdragon · 6 months

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Sticks and Bones - An RPG Player Character Story

Character: Leaf the Changeling

Game: Shadow of the Demon Lord

Summary: How Leaf acquired her current form.

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Leaf walked slowly among the corpses. The air stank of blood, gore and shit and piss. She tried not to think about that. She had a job to do. She did not like it but there was no way around it.

It took her a while. Long enough to get used to the smell. The sight remained disturbing. Severed body parts, bones sticking out of flesh, so much blood... She tried to be thankful for it though. She did not want to become too jaded.

Eventually she found what she was looking for. She looked at his broken body, trembling with rasping breath. His left shin had a jagged bone piercing outward into the air. His chest had contours no human should have. The fingers of his left hand could only be known as fingers due to their location at the end of his arm. He had not even been wearing armor, poor man. So yes, he would die. It would be slow and agonizing. She could change that. She knelt next to him.

He looked at her with confusion clouded in pain. No fear, at least not at her. A scrap of a blessing, for Leaf at least. People usually didn’t like it when her sticks were showing.

“Who… wha… who are you?”

She tilted her head. “I’m Leaf,” she said. “What’s your name?”

“Emmet,” he replied after a while.

“Do you have family, Emmet? Someone you’d like to get a message to?”

Emmet’s breath came out in a staccato rhythm and for a moment she feared he would expire right then and there. But managed to pull through just enough.

“Mama… at Pine Drops village.”

Leaf squeezed his shoulder. A ripple past through her body and his throat constricted as it shifted to accommodate his new voice. “I’ll tell her you love her.”

Emmet smiled. Then the smile froze and his eyes glazed over. His breath stopped.

Leaf sighed. He closed the dead man’s eyes and ‘Emmet’ stood up.

** The Pine Drops village wasn't there anymore. Or, it was but it was smoking ruins for the most part. Only a few lonely cottages were left, silent and empty. Leaf's heart sank. He had thought about what he would find on arrival but he had not truly made the connection between the war waging dozens of miles away and the places those dead soldiers had gone to war for. Unless they had been conscripted. That was always a possibility.

He walked on. Ruin after ruin, some older, some still smoldering, went past. He knew this was the one Emmet had given the name of. But their enemies had gotten there first. Was there anyone left to take his final message?

Muffled wailing drifted to his ears. He turned towards it and walked faster. He didn't think it sounded like a cry of pain or urgency but he wasn't really the best at knowing so he tried not to jump to conclusions.

As he approached the sound, he was more and more certain it was a woman. In moments he caught her in his sight and walked closer with deliberately loud steps.

She started at his approach, letting out a little scream that was half a plea, half a battlecry.

"Emmet!"

The woman rushed him and hugged him tightly. Leaf felt her fingers dig into his back. After a moment of hesitation, he returned the hug.

"Oh, gods, what a relief to see you", she said, rambling on about an attack by unknown soldiers, chaos and shouts, blood and bodies. Leaf tried to keep up but the woman's shock was making her jumble in her explanation.

"We have to run," she went on. "We have to find others. Other people must have survived. They cannot have killed everybody."

Leaf disagreed but running seemed like a fair idea. And he still had a task to find Emmet's mother. This woman might be able to help, given that she clearly knew -- had known -- Emmet.

"Emmet? Are you alright?" She peered at him. "It's me, Eleanor, your neighbour. Remember?"

Leaf bit his lip. He must have been out of character with his silence that the woman's terror gave way to puzzlement and worry. He gave up. He did not know Emmet at all and could not impersonate him. He wasn't much of an actor anyway.

"Emmet sends his love for his mama."

At first, silence. Then, a growing look of horror and confusion. That one Leaf definitely knew. But what would have followed he would never find out, as suddenly there was a triumphant shout from the hill rising just behind the tree line. Leaf couldn't make out what was said but the shout itself was enough to blow Eleanor into a panic.

"We need to run, oh lords and ladies, they're gonna kill us, they'll rape me and gut you, oh Emmet, we have to run."

She stood frozen in place. Leaf, now hearing even more shouting, grabbed her shoulders and shook her gently.

"Look at me," he commanded quietly. She obeyed. Leaf saw a green glow reflected in her eyes, felt the ripple on his body, their body, her body, and finally the confusion on Eleanor's face that almost overrode the terror.

"Run," Leaf ordered. Her voice sounded weird from the inside. She guessed she might someday get used to it.

Eleanor didn't move. Leaf had to give her a tiny push towards the woods to wake her from her daze. Then she ran. A few stumbles later she was off like a hunted hare. Which she probably was, in a sense.

Leaf turned towards the shouts. She now saw people in armor coming towards her. She turned and started running along the road. She would duck into the forest after a while. Hopefully it would lead all the pursuers away Eleanor.

For herself, Leaf wasn't too worried. Most foot soldiers used iron weapons. If she got hit, 'Eleanor' would disappear and after nightfall no one would notice some rustling leaves and muddy sticks among all the rest of the leaves and sticks.

#graphic descriptions of injuries #creative writing #ttrpg #shadow of the demon lord #original character #sotdl #character backstory #changeling #rpg #short story #shapeshifter

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emeraldmakes · 1 year

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𝟱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗗&𝗗 🎮

There are a lot of different TTRPGs that are fun, some of them you may enjoy a lot more than D&D or fit your setting better than 5e will.

Here are five that I know of:

1️⃣ 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿

2️⃣ 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸

3️⃣ 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿

4️⃣ 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱

5️⃣ 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆

If there are more that I'm missing, let me know down below! My experiences are limited so I'm almost definitely missing out on some really good ones.

#dnd #5e #ttrpg #d&d #dungeons and dragons #rpg #dm tips #art #critical role #taz #pathfinder #warhammer #shadow of the demon lord #starfinder #blades in the dark #paizo #boycott wotc

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the-lady-auri · 7 months

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Finished piece for the Shadow of the Demonlord ttrpg! Shared with permission from Rob!

Really had fun with this one and learned a few things in the process.

As always commissions open and you can see my kofi for more ways to support 💜

#art #auri's art #commissions open #fey #witches #witch #shadow of the demon lord #ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #fantasy art

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smiteworks · 10 months

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Steam Summer Sale

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20-30% off through July 13th @ 10 am Pacific

#traveller #shadow of the demon lord #star trek #starfinder #pathfinder #fallout #savage worlds #dungeon crawl classics #vtt #rpg #fantasy grounds #steam summer sale

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laimabynight · 1 year

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Zinnober (???). Of rather jovial nature is young Zinnober, raised in the forest by a friendly druid. Although he is still sometimes a brat, he cares a lot for his fellow men and for nature.

Der Verfluchte Baum

Art by Ko-ja

#shadow of the demon lord #changeling #magician #ttrpg character #ttrpg oc #Zinnober #laima oc #character art

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craigofinspiration · 1 year

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d20 Questions to Get To Know Your PCs

Get To Know Your PCs with evergreen questions to start off your #ttrpg session. #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #rpg #pathfinder #dungeonmaster #gamemaster

I like to start my sessions with a fun ‘get-to-know-you’ question for the player characters. These questions serve two goals. The first is just getting the players to start thinking like their characters. The second is to build some character details that you can use later in the campaign, or even later in that session. Using these small details throughout the campaign will strengthen the…

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#call of cthulhu #d20 #dnd #dnd5e #dungeons and dragons #mörk borg #old school essentials #pathfinder #player characters #shadow of the demon lord #ttrpg

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baku-bin · 1 year

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Clockwork priest of the new cult

#bakuchuhu #art #limedot #digital art #oc art #dnd ocs #character art #shadow of the demon lord #rpg #ttrpg #ttrpg character #ttrpg stuff #tabletop rpg

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