Making TTRPGs Accessible

[Icon ID: A hand with purple nails holds a set of matching purple dice. /end ID] A blog that wanted to make games more accessible.

[halfsavages-deactivated20200621]

from Andrei Tarkovsky’s diaries, 7 November, 1973

[typodescript]

[ID text: Why are they trying to make me into a saint? Oh God! Oh God! I want to do things. Stop turning me into a saint. end ID]

[luarpice]

Our latest addition to the party: Strock!

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: illustrations of Strock, a kenku swarmkeeper ranger. In a chest-up drawing, Strock holds up a hand for a small, light blue bird spirit to perch on in the other; in a full-body drawing, they slide into a kneeling lunge position as they point their bow and draw back and arrow. Strock is a kenku with a bird’s beak and head, feathery limbs, and clawlike bird feet; they have a humanoid body and hands with long nails. They have blue-black feathers tipped with gold, and they wear earth-toned clothes including striped pants, straw sandals, and a cloak and shoulder armor patterned like orange leaves. They have a sheaf of arrows on their back, and small yellow, blue, pink and orange bird spirits flutter around them.]

[little-bee-draws]

Thi and their bees picking flowers for @swarmkeepers 💛🌻

ID: two images showing an illustration of Thi (they/she) a warforged person in a field of sunflowers. Thi's head is made of smooth silver metal with two glowing yellow eyes, one of which is covered with a grate and dripping honey. Their neck and arms are made of a combination of wood and scrap metal with articulated wooden hands and her chest is made of part of a barrel. They wear beige pants and a dark green hooded cloak with the hood down. She is holding a yellow sunflower in one hand and reaching to touch the petals of another sunflower beside her. Warm light casts an orange glow on the left side of their face and body. Their swarm of bees buzzes around her head. The background in the first image shows a field of sunflowers with a treeline in the distance and a pale blue sky. The second image's background is a simple pale green. End ID.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

*The monk lying on the floor with 0 hp* The Druid: “I’ll cast Healing Word on him.” DM: “What do you say?” The Druid: “… Get the fuck up.”

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Bard: We’re not gonna die. We can’t die. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for the gods to let us die.

[the-griffons-saddlebag]

💍 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Ring of Solar’s Sight Ring, rare (requires attunement) ___

This gilded ring has 4 charges and regains 1d3 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the ring, you can use a bonus action to expend 1 of its charges to cast the "hunter’s mark" spell from it, which lasts for 1 minute. You gain a +2 bonus to weapon attack rolls made against any target you mark with the spell in this way, and on a hit, the attack deals radiant damage instead of the weapon’s normal damage type. ___

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[jackaranda-art]

so that fight was sick as HELL light em up babe

[Image description: A dramatic bust of Imogen Temult from Critical Role, standing side-on facing the camera with her right arm extended. Two fingers point to the camera as purple-tinged lightning sparks from their tips. She has an intense expression, as her eyes glow white and the same lightning sparks around her hair. She stands in the warm hued room of Lord Eshteros. End ID]

[pricklepicklepie]

My friend’s tiefling warlock 😳

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: illustration of a tiefling warlock from the hips up, smirking and holding up a violin and a bow. The illustration is done in shades of purple and green. The warlock is a light green tiefling with long black hair in a long ponytail, curved horns and long floppy ears, a white shirt under a purple laced-up bustier, an askew belt, and striped pants under a flared skirt. Small hearts float around their face.]

[yourplayersaidwhat]

"It was just supposed to be one job."

–The spy, bewildered how over the course of two years it escalated to saving the world.

[weaver-z]

Yes this character is evil but have you considered that the song that plays while they commit atrocities is a fucking banger

[hedgiwithapen]

Very Good Trope: Civillian is told “ stay in the car” while hero goes to confront villain. Hero gets in over head and all seems disaster. Civillian crashes car into villain. 

[unamedwatcher]

Me, watching: ohhohoho! But they stayed in the car! Yesss, this is very good!

[blackdogblues]

Jane’s level 3 outfit!

[ID: A woman with red hair wearing a loose, flowing white shirt, two belts and gloves, brown pants and boots, a sword at her hip, and a ring on a chain around her neck looks at the viewer. Her expression is intense.]

[zhjake]

you’ve heard of owlbears but have you considered aperavens

[makingttrpgsaccessible]

[Image Description: A digital art piece of an ape like body with the claws, feathers, and head of a raven. A short tail of feathers pokes out from the back of the body. End ID.]

[keplercryptids]

help im making an npc that i love dearly already

[yourplayersaidwhat]

The standard D&D party is on the last dungeon of their adventure, facing a horde of undead cultists. After a huge battle, the cleric gets close enough to cast Turn Undead on the cult leader. Upon being hit with the spell, the leader explodes into a pile of gold and treasure. The cleric, stunned, turns to the rogue and says “well, dang, I didn’t expect to turn a profit on this adventure.”

[amatuerdiydungeon]

I love watching two people who can just fight perfectly together, and was like ‘how would you translate this to D&D?’ This is the first attempt, will probably take some tweaking to make it valuble but not overpowered. 

[swarmkeepers]

[id: a piece of dnd homebrew of a feat called “Battle Couple.”

Prerequisite: two characters must take this feat at the same time.

You’ve had so much experience fighting side b y side with your companion, it’s like you can guess what they are going to do. As a result you gain the following.

Your two characters can fight from the same space and gain a +1 to attacks while doing so.

When you are within 10 feet of your partner and they successfully makes an attack on their turn, you can use your reaction to make an attack against an enemy within range.

When you are within 10 feet of each other and are both required to make a a saving throw against an area effect, and only one of you passed the other can add the others base modifier being used to their throw in an attempt to pass.]

[whisperedones]

The Eyes Emoji of Vecna