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Happy International Game Masters Day!
To celebrate International Game Masters Day I found some ttrpg bundles and sales you should take a look at. Have you played any of these games before? 1. Dungeon Crawl Classics Purple Planet & Dying Earth RPG Collection27 RPG books, boxsets and more from Goodman Games for the dynamic Dungeon Crawl Classics series. Venture into the Purple Planet and the weird world of Dying…
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this week in XP - my top 10 free resources that I use every dnd session. new sales and deals to ring in the new year and 5 dm tips everyone should know.
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weekly tips, resources, and blog posts from around the web about how to make dungeons and dragons combat more fun
If you love D&D, immersive performances, or creative theatre, this one is for you.
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So this is something that I am calling Three Cabinets And A Pie.
Why am I calling it that?
Let's say a guy walks into his kitchen, trips, and hits the ground. That's noteworthy, but not memorable by itself.
Now let's say that same guy walks into the kitchen on a different day, trips, knocks open three cabinets showering pots and pans across the room, and overbalances a pie on the counter so that it falls on his head.
The second one is memorable.
And in games like DnD where the meat of the system is trying to solve puzzles and win (combat is a type of puzzle), it's really easy for the GM to just get lost in the "I need to provide difficulty" sauce and forget that they can also get a really good audience pop out of committing to an error.
And this is because the GM isn't at their most effective just when they're making the scenario hard. They're at their most effective when they're making the situation dynamic.
Here's another example, this one from me GMing.
The party is exploring a ruin and they're about to go through a creepy doorway. One of the PCs, who can speak with insects, stops and calls out "is there anyone in there?" And I, as the giant spider hiding just out of sight above the other side of the doorway, go "yesssss. Yes. Come in come in come in come in."
It's tactically superior for the spider to have kept silent, but it's plausible, interesting, and moreover *memorable* for it to have replied.
And there are times when you don't want an enemy to take a pratfall. When you play them smart, the tension goes up. When they make plausible mistakes, the tension goes down. If your game stays at one specific level of tension all the time it gets stale. Frankly this is also why it's good to have scenes in camp and not just in adventuring and combat.
There's no one right way to GM, and the stuff that I'm describing here won't fit everyone's vibe, but the meme up above does such a good job of pointing out an important GMing technique that I wanted to elaborate on it.
Dungeons & Dragons Takes Center Stage!
Dungeons & Dragons takes center stage during the live show the Twenty-Sided Tavern, blending immersive roleplay and audience-driven adventure.
RJ Christian joins me to break down how this interactive stage production combines roleplaying, comedy, the audience, and D&D chaos into a full theatrical experience.
If you love D&D, immersive performances, or creative theatre, this one is for you.
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the more i learn about the ties between stress and nervous system disregulation and "mental illness" and physical health issues and what things outside talk therapy are therapeutic the more im like. damn many early cultures & indigenous societies had this shit figured out and the modern world is absolutely one big wellbeing shredder
to really boil it down to essentials like ...
childhood trauma is overwhelmingly common
childhood trauma creates long term stress which leads to nervous system disregulation [same source]
nervous system disregulation leads to inflammation in the brain
inflammation in the brain leads to "mental illnesses" like schizophrenia, major depression, and ptsd
these things contribute to stress, ensuring the stress stays chronic as well as the nervous system disregulation, which leads to physical illness and premature death
and then you look at like ...
spending time in green spaces like forests and blue spaces like oceans and rivers are both therapeutic
singing (especially group singing) boosts your immune system, mood, and regulates your nervous system
exercise regulates your nervous system and alleviates "mental illness" symptoms
playing is therapeutic and integrates your emotions and identity even in the face of trauma
and its like. oh okay. as modern cultures we barely have time for and are discouraged from participating in all the things we evolved to thrive with while constantly heaping on the amount of stress we can possibly fit in our day to day lives
and its like well no wonder people love concerts and karaoke and national parks and sports and going to the beach and playing games. these things Literally make us healthier
but also we need to make these things more regular parts of our lives if we're gonna have the endurance to fight rising global capitalism, fascism, and genocide
so my tips for Surviving All This Shit:
go to the park or be around a body of water at least once a week. schedule a time & make it part of your routine
exercise for 20-30 minutes most days, whether its walking around your neighborhood, playing a sport, lifting weights while you watch tv, swimming, etc
sing with your friends. go to local concerts. sing to your pets. sing at religious services. join a choir
play a game at least once a week. obv my recommendation is ttrpgs (anything but d&d 5e, i beg), but this also includes any video game that's not online competitive games against strangers. playing video games for 30 minutes a day but not over 3 hours a day is literally healthy for you
stop looking at traumatic news if youre not going to do anything about it. if you read a news article and then go volunteer, get involved in a community, donate money, or engage in activism, that's awesome!! keep it up. if you read the news regularly and it makes you upset and scared and depressed and then youre too overwhelmed to do anything about it Please Stop For Real you're both not helping the situation and also actively literally killing yourself. find one topic to engage with, find a way to make a difference for that topic, and delete the news app from your phone im being so real right now
read nonfiction by indigenous authors! this is just a general tip but also like. open your mind to other ways of society operating. it was not always like this and does not have to stay this way. if you see a recommendation post on here seriously look at the recs and try to get one from your library. there's a rec list of indigenous nonfiction here and another rec list here for some options that could be good to start with (both very north america focused). you can also search "indigenous nonfiction" in the tumblr search to see what others are reading. i'm currently making my way through braiding sweetgrass and indigenous economics is next on my list
like. we can and will survive this but it's going to be a much harder and longer fight if we're all riddled with so much stress that our bodies and minds break apart. go look at a tree 👍 play a game 👍 sing with your friends 👍 it could literally change your life & the world
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