If you're currently a player in the Rings of Isla, don't even bother trying to join this ;)

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I'm looking for players to playtest a puzzle encounter I'm preparing for my home game. The puzzle will:

• Be resolved in combat rounds (it's an exploration puzzle with combat elements)
• Be very difficult (the odds of beating it the first time are very slim, but it's very replayable, and replay it we will)
• Require you to take notes and draw maps as you go (something my home group does all the time)

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If that sounds like your cup of tea (or glass of ice-cold beer), please join me!

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You'll need to create a 4th Level Character:

• All RAW options available, no

Seeking one more player for a homebrew heavy campaign.

I'd repost the original listing but Reddit keeps pulling it down for spam. You can read the details here.

IMPORTANT: Take note of the timezone. If you're in the Americas, this game is in the early morning for you. We've had four players drop because they said they could make it and then discovered they really couldn't.

"Well, it seems that you can do the job." Countenance Spence says. The Golden Hammer guild member pushes up his spectacles and stands to shake your hand.

"Assemble your crew. We depart in the morning. It may be a long time before you're back in Corunna."

The Nedroa Campaign

The Nedroa campaign is set in a world of factions, ferocious monsters and dark cults. Gain power, make friends...make enemies. Do whatever you want, this is your story. Nedroa is part of a homebrew world I've been building out over the past few years as a playground for story-driven adventures.

The campaign starts with your character having just agreed to escort a Golden Hammer guild member back to his home in N

Adrienne slid effortlessly through the third-story window. It had been unlocked. “You can lock the doors all you want,” she chuckled to herself, “but a rope is cheaper than a lock pick.”

She dropped into the room without a sound and took in her surroundings. It was the dressing room, adjacent to the master bedroom. She had extracted the house plans from loose lips with only a handful of silver coins.

*Adrienne padded over to a cupboard on the far wall. She found the sealed envelopes within and switched them with the forgeries she’d brought along. The following morning, the Lord would send them off, none the wiser that the words contained within—received in his name—would restart the ag

I am dumbfounded by the downvote logic of this sub.

Earlier this evening I posed this question about addressing the imbalance between caster and martial classes. It almost immediately got downvoted and I don't understand why.

After mentioning some other options I saw on the sub that I was considering, I asked,

"what else have you done to try balance the utility of casters compared to martials outside of combat?"

Unless someone thinks that's a bad question to ask, I don't see how a downvote is justified.

The only thing reason I can think of is that people thought I was advocating f

Hello everyone!

I’m going to be starting a new campaign soon, and this time round I’m going to expect that players help out with the game.

I’ve got some ideas for how players could help share the preparation and work during the game (note taking, map making) but I’m curious to hear other DM’s experience of trying this and what was truly helpful.

For context, it is a cloak and dagger/intrigue game. Part of me worries that I can’t give players much to do without revealing key plot points.

How have you approaches this in the past, and what helped most?

The post is in the title. More of a curiosity for me than anything else, people ought to play what they enjoy.

5e is all I know. I’ve only scratched the surface of other RPGs and remember almost nothing of them.

I see a lot of people on this subreddit who will want to play anything but 5e. So enlighten me, if you’re set against playing 5e, tell me why!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the replies. It’s been fascinating to read. I can certainly see where many of the criticism come from.

I don’t find 5e as limiting as many of you do. It helps that I want to tell mid-to-high fantasy stories. The mechanics of 5e never really get in my way. Yes, the rules are super combat orientated. I’ve always

tl,dr; looking for a GM to co-create, narrate and play in a duet-format home brew game with an emphasis on story telling and an intention to create short-run story focussed podcasts.

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Why do you play TTRPGs? Really really? For me it’s the story. It must move me, it must move my players.

As a GM, I became increasingly frustrated with the inability to tell cohesive stories and explore character story arcs with large groups.

I started reducing my game size, until eventually I got to the duet. Single player, single GM.

I read a lot about them, and all of it excited me. Take a read through some of these posts. If t

As a DM, I come up with many character ideas that I never get to use. Countenance Spence is a character ripe for plucking as your next NPC/BBEG (if you're a DM) or PC (if you're a player.)

I was inspired to create him when thinking about using flaws as a starting point for character building and in this instance the concept of Avarice and Bad Luck. Subconsciously inspired by my own inability to become a successful entrepreneur.

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From the moment he was born, Countenance Spence has always been unlucky.

Being born the sixth son of a middle-class merchant family in Nedroa meant there wasn't much left of the family trade to inherit.

Quickly nicknamed Sixpence

I’m sure I’m not the only DM and player who comes up with way more NPCs and PCs than I’ll ever get to share around the table.

There are places to share art, and random tables of basic NPCs, maps, everything, but I’m not sure if there’s a place to share fully fledged, ready to play characters.

If I want someone to steal my character, where would I post it?

Fellow DMs!

I have long struggled with how to organise the copious amounts of information that I have to handle as a DM. Compound that issue with multiple campaigns running simultaneously in different settings and it really becomes a nightmare.

A few months ago, I found Workflowy, and it has changed the game for me.

Don't care to read about it?

I made a youtube video about it which I think explains the whole thing much better.

So what is it?

Workflowy is a web-based outliner with a free and paid tier.

The free tier is totally viable, and more info about how to do that later [HINT: it starts with using the referral code below to get more bullets,