Recent content by BookTenTiger

This is a really cool idea for boss battles! I'm glad it worked out, and it's definitely something I'd try in my campaigns.

Here's an amazing collection of public domain landscapes that can be used in both personal and commercial work! Artvee Landscapes Honestly I want to start designing settings and adventures just based on these images.

I was linked to this article, which I found really fascinating: Using Public Domain Art in Tabletop Game Design I think it's an interesting read and resource, especially with the current discourse around AI art. There are a lot of images that would look great in an RPG book, or that could be...

This would be a great way to launch a campaign! Play a few weeks building up the tavern, the nearby dungeon and town, doing some world building. Then roll up some new adventuring characters who meet up in the tavern for their first quest!

This tip isn't necessarily for making combat any more dangerous, but I find it increases the narrative tension: Don't have an enemy attack unless they have advantage. Make them jump up onto higher ground, or flank (if you use the rule), or knock a character down. If they can't get advantage...

I'm in a Science Fiction and Fantasy book club. The last few books we read happened to be pretty depressing, and so I'm looking for a way to switch things up. I have always been curious about Solarpunk and other adjacent, more hopeful sci fi, but I know little about the actual books in the...

This is why we need to start training brittlecone pines for space exploration!

David Foster Wallace gave a memorable speech in which he said we should basically do this same thing when we see people acting in a way that we find upsetting. Try to come up with an empathetic reason that someone is, say, driving too slow on the highway, or cut in front of the checkout line, or...

Thinking more on this, a lot of the times for a new area of the campaign world I'll come up with a theme and then make a big list of mundane details that support the big idea. So for example if this area is under constant threat of undead and home to a fledgling church of light, I might make a...