Nocturnal Designs

24, She/Her TTRPG Designer, Editor, and Consultant https://linktr.ee/NocturnalDesigns

[nocturnal-designs]

Free Spells for your Homebrew?!

I'm releasing all 40+ of my 5.24 spells in an easy to read/easy to copy format, all under CC for anyone to use and adapt for their games or products!

Just include the legal disclaimer and you're free to do whatever you want with them!

Jay's Spell Compendium

Legal Can I Use These? If you want to include spells from this document in your own work, include a reference, for example: This document i

[nocturnal-designs]

Wall of Radiance is a brand new wall spell that lets you section off your enemies, without restricting your allies' movement at all!

Use it in a chase to cut off your enemies while you can move unimpeded, or have your Barbarian grab an enemy and hold them inside it, there's plenty of uses for it

You can find this, along with 99 other brand new spells in The Midnight Spell Compendium!

Wall of Radiance, alongside all other includes spells is under Creative Commons, so free to use and reprint in your own homebrew

[nocturnal-designs]

100 FREE D&D Spells??

Recently released V2.0 of the Midnight Spell Compendium, which features 100 brand new spells for you to use in your D&D5e games, and it's completely free!

From brand new summon spells like Summon Arcane Automaton, to new smites like Freezing Smite, to brand new spell tags like the Terrain tag used in Ground of Growth or the Slightcraft tag from Lesser Step, this compendium has a whole bunch

And the best part? for my fellow homebrewers out these, these spells are all completely free for you to use in your own homebrew. All the spells and tags included are released under a Creative Commons licence, so you're able to reference and reprint them to your heart's desire!

[nocturnal-designs]

Pactblood and Saintblooded Flavour-Text

Usually I'm not the biggest fan of doing the flavour-text descriptions for D&D races/species', but working on Pactblood and Saintblooded in advance of my Priest class, I really enjoyed doing it for these two, so wanted to share!

Pactblood

When a Warlock gives themself to their patron, this can taint not merely their own soul, but their bloodline. Their children or children's children may be shaped by the result of this ancient pact, physically, spiritually, and sometimes mentally, after all, it's easier to make a deal with someone you've already sunk your claws into.

Pactbloods can be born to any humanoids that have entered into a contract. They resemble their parents, but their lifespans may be altered, and they have features that hint at their otherworldly nature. A pactblood born after a pact with a fiend may have blood red skin and horns, whereas a pactblood born after a pact with an archfey may have vestigial wings and eye color in constant flux.

Saintblooded

When a Priest becomes an incarnation of their deity upon the earth, their soul is forever infused with a small amount of their god’s divine essence. This essence can be passed down the bloodline, often drawing those that gain miraculous abilities from their heritage further down the path of faith.

Saintblooded can be born to any humanoids that have, however briefly, become incarnations of their deities. They resemble their parents, but their lifespans may be altered, and they have features that hint at their divine nature. A saintblooded suffused with the essence of an arcane god may have glowing tattoo like patterns across their skin and a halo that resembles an arcane sigil, whereas a saintblooded suffused with the essence of a night god may have black stained hands and freckles that shine like stars.

[nocturnal-designs]

Weapon Masteries are....

I mean I guess they're fine. They're not really all that interesting though, and with some forcing saving throws on every hit, they can also just really slow down gameplay.

In order to fix that, I've been working today on Weapon Actions. Inspired by Baldur's Gate 3, Weapon Actions would give a unique ability to each weapon. These Weapon Actions can be used by any character, once per Short Rest, with Martial Characters gaining more uses as their level increases.

Mechanics (with some examples) under the cut

What is a Weapon Action?

Once per Short Rest, when a character takes the Attack action, they can replace a single attack with a Weapon Action. This weapon action is dependent on what weapon they are currently holding.

Weapon Action Save DC

Many weapon actions specify that a target makes a saving throw to avoid some or all of a weapon action’s effects. The weapon action specifies the ability that the target uses for the save and what happens on a success or failure. Here's how to calculate the DC for your weapon actions:

Weapon Action save DC = 8 + weapon attack modifier

If your weapon attack modifier includes any dice (e.g. from the Bless spell), roll the dice and add it to your Weapon Action save DC. You can only do this if you have a bonus to all attacks with that weapon (e.g. you cannot increase your Save DC by using Bardic Inspiration).

Weapon Damage

Weapon Damage refers to the damage you would deal to a creature if you hit it with a weapon attack roll. This includes any extra damage your weapon deals to creatures (e.g. from the Divine Favor spell), and any extra damage creatures would take from a weapon attack (e.g. from the Hunter’s Mark spell).

Roll damage separately for each creature targeted.

Critical Failure

If a creature rolls a 1 on the d20 to save against your weapon action, they automatically fail, regardless of any modifiers, and you roll all the Weapon Damage’s damage dice twice for that creature.

Weapon Action List

Greataxe

Cleave Foes

Make two melee weapon attacks, targeting different creatures within your weapon’s reach. On a hit, a target takes double Weapon Damage. On a miss, it takes half damage.

Greatsword

Shockwave

All creatures in a 30-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line  must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking Weapon Damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Longbow

Blot the Sun

Choose a point within your weapon’s long range. All creatures in a 5-foot radius of that point must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking Weapon Damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Longsword

Spin Attack

All creatures within your weapon’s reach must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking Weapon Damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

War Pick

Impair Armor

Make a melee weapon attack against a creature within your weapon’s reach. On a hit, the creature takes Weapon Damage, and its AC is reduced by 1 for 1 minute. On a miss, it takes half damage only.

Warhammer

Heavy Slam

Make a melee weapon attack against a creature within your weapon’s reach. On a hit, the creature takes Weapon Damage and is pushed 30 feet in a direction of your choice. On a miss, it takes half damage only.

[nocturnal-designs]

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You can find Lorem Ipsum, as well as 50+ other spells, free to use in your homebrew, in Jay's Spell Compendium

Jay's Spell Compendium

Legal Can I Use These? If you want to include spells from the Completed Spells tab of this document in your own work, include a reference, f

[nocturnal-designs]

Deathsight - A Free Spell for Your 5e Games and Homebrew

Do you want to know just how healthy a creature is? Well I've got the spell for you!

Deathsight is a new spell that's free for you to use, not only in your home games, but it, along with 50+ other spells, are under creative commons, free for you to use in your own homebrew!

Jay's Spell Compendium

Legal Can I Use These? If you want to include spells from the Completed Spells tab of this document in your own work, include a reference, f

[nocturnal-designs]

Free Spells for your Homebrew?!

I'm releasing all 40+ of my 5.24 spells in an easy to read/easy to copy format, all under CC for anyone to use and adapt for their games or products!

Just include the legal disclaimer and you're free to do whatever you want with them!

Jay's Spell Compendium

Legal Can I Use These? If you want to include spells from this document in your own work, include a reference, for example: This document i

[nocturnal-designs]

Updated this a lot already in the last few days, now at a total of 52 spells!!

[irrevocablecondition]

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[itsatorchwoodthing]

how many times did jack go “and now the doctor is going to show up and save the earth like they always do” but they dont, they dont show up, no blue box, no screwdriver, nothing, and it gets worse, abbadon, no doctor, 456, no doctor, the miracle, no doctor, do they care? do they really love earth, humans, like they say they do? maybe they’re only capable of loving one at the time, show them the beauty of the universe, let them burn bright before they burn out, but do they really love humans like you do? did they spend the last 200 years protecting the human race? not really, not like you did. you spent every waking hour praying to them to show up, because they solve everything with grace and wit, and everytime you try to solve anything you end up covered in blood, you succeed but it’s always at a cost, and they’re nowhere to be seen. do they care? maybe not, but you do, and you’re going to do anything to save the planet you now call home. and it’s ironic, right? they put you in this position, do they know? you’re immortal and stuck there, forever. you’re a fixed point in time because you have to be there, it’s your job, it’s your duty, immortality is not a mistake, it cant be, it has to have a higher purpose, right? right. so you wake up every day, shakes off those feelings of ‘they’re gonna come, one day or another’ and get to work, because no, jack, they’re not gonna show up, you have to save the earth, you have to remember everything they taught you, roll up your sleeves and do it. do it messily, but do it. save the earth, cause they’re not gonna show up. you learned your lesson, you’re alone in this.

[itsatorchwoodthing]

btw you guys enjoying this post means so much to me bc i love writing but i thought no one would care or read more than two sentences, so,, ty ily

[takataapui]

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[silverscalezine]

Welcome to Silver Scale Zine!

Hello and well met, traveler! This is the official blog of the Silver Scale Zine, an upcoming TTRPG zine made by fans, for fans.

Our first issue is going to be released in TBD. We wanted to give ample time for submissions and formatting, as well as to spread the word about our little project! The hope is to release issues every other month, though if it takes off we wouldn't mind increasing to monthly or more!

Are you a writer, artist, or other creator in the Tabletop Roleplaying Game space? We'd love to feature you in our zine!

Submissions do not have to match this theming, but those that do will be given priority! You will own all rights to your work! Submitting simply gives us the rights to publish it in our zine with your permission and any credit/handles/email you wish so readers can discover your work!

We do have the goal to sell each issue in its first few months for around $1-5 pay-what-you-want, which will be dispersed among the contributors to thank them for their submissions. We welcome all thoughts on this and how best to distribute to contributors!

If you are a creator with any thoughts, submissions, or questions, please reach out via our inbox here, or through [email protected]

[nadiaaisyah]

commission open!!

payment via paypal after sketch or upfront dm for more details if you interested 💌

terms of service

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reblogs are very appreciated

[cardstockcaster]

Guess who's broke again.

Hi, nice to meet you, I'm so glad we get to do this song and dance again. I'm Proxy (They/Ze/Xe) And I am an extremely poor disabled queer with no one to fall back on family-wise. I'm living month to month with less than $50 to my name after every bill, and am one bad life event away from being completely in the negative potentially for months.

I need help getting some things for my apartment so I'm able to get through the summer, or generally just handle living here at all.

So far someone has already reached out to cover my name change and the notary for it which has been huge!

If I no longer need something or someone is covered it, you'll see it's been moved to the bottom of the document and crossed out! Thanks for the help in advance! You can find methods to help me at the bottom of the first page of the doc.

Proxy's Broke Bounty Board

Proxy’s Urgent Needs Bounty List Okay this document is basically serving as a bounty document, if there are things I need urgently and I kno

[sunbeargames]

Working on the final read-through of the Oracle class PDF to clean up any remaining typos or wording issues. Ideally it'll be up on our store tomorrow.

[prokopetz]

TTRPGs for Palestine: 643 items for $10.00

A few tabletop RPG creators you might recognise from previous posts on this blog – myself included – are participating in this charity bundle benefiting Medical Aid for Palestinians. The beneficiary has been on-boarded with itch.io, and all proceeds go directly to them without passing through the organisers' hands.

[prokopetz]

A few folks who've picked up this bundle have asked for recommended entries to check out; as I'm sure other posts on the topic have covered the better known ones (e.g., @makapatag's Gubat Banwa, @jdragsky's Wanderhome, my own Costume Fairy Adventures, etc.), I'm going to hit the highlights among those games I've discovered for the first time while browsing what it has to offer.

The Moon Fucking Hates You – A low prep pamphlet-size RPG where the Moon is trying to kill you, because it hates you. Your only stats are your hit points and how much you hate the Moon back. The game's text claims to be both setting-neutral (broadly true, presuming your setting has a moon) and tonally agnostic (absolutely lying).

Skeleton Justice Warriors – A somewhat elaborated Lasers & Feelings hack (it's two whole pages long rather than one!) where you play as sickass skeletons beating up evil wizards. In keeping with the titling conventions of L&F variants, your stats are "Skeleton", "Justice", and "Warrior", which operate about as you'd expect.

You Are a Cat, and You Suck – A one-page game in which you play as a cat, by which I mean all players take on the role of the same cat, competing for control of its single brain cell. Conflict resolution involves a combination of tactical movement on a grid representing the cat's brain, rock-paper-scissors, and meowing at the GM.

I've only gone through a fraction of the bundle's contents at the time of this posting, so I'll probably have more recs later!

[prokopetz]

This Frog is Ruining My Dungeon Crawl – A pamphlet-size solo dungeon crawl (i.e., designed to be run by a single player with no GM) about trying to escape from an underground prison with a semi-omnipotent talking frog as your only weapon. (Is there a good reason the frog was put down there in the first place? Don't worry about it.)

[dungeonofthedragon]

It's such an amazing bundle. Here are a few I think are amazing, that haven't been mentioned thus far!

Maharlika is a science fantasy mecha rpg based in Filipino mythology. I didn't realise until right now that this is the same person who brought us Gubat Banwa- but, well, turns out they produce consistently awesome games!

Gravemire is a neat survival horror game in 1890s Louisiana.

Lordsworn is about soldiers making their way home after losing a campaign, which culminated in the death of their actual god. It's just a really cool idea and I have a lot of feelings about it.

[titanrpg]

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