My Dungeons & Dragons reference blog

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Some resources for those writing medieval-type stories:

list of medieval jobs

more medieval jobs

lords of the manor

ladies of the manor

medieval ladies

medieval weapons

medieval names

more medieval names

guide to medieval terms

more medieval terms

how to write sword-fight scenes

armor

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The Last Son of Zaro

- Strahd von Zarovich from DnD for anon-

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If I had a nickel for every time I was simping for a man who looked above 40, was associated with the colour red, had to do with demons, was surrounded by corvids and had a receding hairline, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

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The Treachery of Ravens!

My friends and I made some homebrew for League of Legends! I thought Swain and the demon Raum were really cool so I made piety for them + a group patron based on a massive swarm of all too curious ravens <3

Anyways, I had a lot of fun, hope you think it's neat :3

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5 posts!

November 12th

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I re-designed the map order worksheets during my time at WOTC as manager of cartography. Mainly it was just to make the worksheets completely digital and accessible for anyone who was to design maps for our game worlds. These are the final versions which were being used up till 2003 at WOTC.  The list of map symbols goes back to the dawn of role playing game maps and TSR.  Dave Sutherland and Dennis Kauth were the two people who really started all of the organized nature of making map orders easier to produce for the TSR RPG R&D design department.  

Dennis Kauth was originally from an engineering background, so he even made sure that all of the symbols had a corresponding number in case of the situation where someone was not able to draw things out in a competent manner, they could just simply write a number on the map reference and circle it, thus making “it” the object or feature from the master key.  The mapping standards is one of the first things Dave & Dennis showed me when I started work in the mapping department at TSR in the early 90s.  

In those days the whole thing was a large packet of stuff in a folder,  including several different sized blank map pages, the symbols list and a  blank fold-up poster map sheet printed with a hex grid for the old ‘gazetteer” style maps and a few examples of how to draw a proper map reference.  For the most part everyone in R&D used these map standards to create their map references,  however there were always a few that would come in on cocktail napkins and such but it was really worth it to have a standard  for the map orders.  Fun little bit of history,  Good times and Good gaming!

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op didn’t add a link so here’s a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can

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Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

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Love your wallets

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also 5e.tools is an actively maintained open source dnd 5e repository, that even lets you download your very own offline fully functional copy of the website, just in case it ever goes down

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