Recent content by Ath'kethin

Saw our first PC death. :( This was in my weekly public DCC game, the the player just grabbed a different pregen and immediately integreated the new character into the group in a very novel and entertaining way, but it was still a bit sad.

OP didn't mention PoD being a factor, true. But if they ever want to do PoD through DrivethruRPG, they can either use Scribus to create the web PDF and a different program to create the print PDF, or they can choose a different program and just use it for everything. This page specifies that...

Hmm. My wife and I have been friends for over 30 years, and she is one of the people who played in the first campaigns I ever ran. She's been a resourceful and innovative player from day one, and she's a delight to have in any group. She tends to think outside the box - big time - which can...

I wouldn't use Scribus. I believe that DMSGuild, and probably Ingram/Lightning Source in general, no longer accepts PDFs made using Scribus for PoD projects. And for my part I had an absolutely awful time using the program to put a book together back when it WAS allowed. If you don't have...

Like many of us, I've been GMing so long it would be shorter to list the mistakes I HAVEN'T made. The one that comes to mind though is from a very early campaign I ran - one of the first if not THE first - back in 1995 or so; this would be AD&D 2nd Edition. The party came acoss a cache of elven...

Kobold now Old Master's herald. (Dungeon Crawl Classics)

I've used this book a few times. I like it. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/323923/101-city-encounters I've also written two urban adventures: one set in the City of Brass on the Plane of Fire and the other set in the metropolis of Huzuz in the Al-Qadim setting. Both include city...

Lots of responses here, and some great points. Thanks, everyone! I feel this. The first harcover I ever produced has slightly oversized text (by which I mean an 11 point font instead of 10 point) and a couple of folks commented on it, but it sure is easier to read. I'm looking at a pair of...

Does the size of a book influence your decision whether or not to buy it? For example, do you prefer (or avoid) zine-sized books as oppposed to full-size (A4/8.5x11") books? Someone recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for a TTRPG book I throught sounded really good, but when I saw that...

My homegrown fantsasy world takes inspiration primarily from Mesopotamia ca. 2000 BCE and the D&D Known World/Hollow World. There are a handful of reasonably well-known nation-states interact with each other as necessary, but culture and geography can vary dramatically in fairly short distances...

I bought an oversized Rick Roll d20 off someone on etsy.

In the three-rogue sub-team, I definitely took charge and was kind of configuring what we were going to do. Now, that's part of any normal game on the player side, of course. But since I normally DM and get to decide what all the monsters and NPCs are going to do, it kind of feels like I was...

I've never had a campiagn that was "short-term" on purpose, either as a player or a game master. There were plenty that came to an end before any of us intended them to, because people were no longer available or whatever, but I don't really plan for finite arcs. What I try to do (since I...

Dude. I'm so all for it. I never cared much about the FF one way or the other, but I love Silver Surfer and I dig everything I'm seeing here. Including the shadow of Galactus. Maybe they'll do it right this time.