Nocturnality RPG

She/her. Dice, homebrew, worldbuilding and other tabletop-related crafting!

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Being a dinosaur during the extinction era must've been really rough

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I thought y'all might appreciate more pigeon plague doctor time

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A lil friendly fire pin-up of Jeremiah for Toffeeffi! Someone stole his clothes while he was bathing :o

https://artfight.net/~Toffeeffi

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It's mid artfight but I also made time to illustrate Solenne! Paladin of Devotion, follower of the goddess of language and communication. Mail delivery is her holy quest.

She's been petrified for 200 years, during a mission to bring a letter from one side of a conflict to the opposing side. However, that letter never arrived, and the conflict escalated into full-blown war. Since then, lots of things have happened, and her loved ones have passed. Solenne must now grieve and find a new place and purpose in the world two centuries later.

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Attack on @centennial-centaur for Artfight!

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Guys...how do I get into DnD? Serious question btw

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Hi! There's lots of ways to get into it. There's friendly local game stores and libraries that run sessions, as well as online groups that play. I'd google if there's a game store in your area, or you can ask at your library.

If you have a group of friends in mind to play with, great! You'll need a GM to lead the game though. You can try it for yourself, but for your first time playing the game I would recommend playing as a character.

An easy class to start out with is fighter, rogue or barbarian since you will not have to deal with rules that involve spellcasting. If you do want to do some spellcasting but keep it minimal, I recommend playing a warlock.

If you want to get a better understanding of the rules before you play, watching critical role or dimension 20 can really help.

In case you've got any further questions, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them!

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I'll be doing some art fighting this month! Excited to wind down by being creative!

https://artfight.net/~Nocturnalitea

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I like making funny stupid dice

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Daggerheart released their card making tool and that means: Making all of Guild Wars 2 playable for TTRPG! At first glance, daggerheart seems easy to create for but since you need to put all of the info on a small card, it's actually kind of challenging! Also, the mechanics being simplified means that you can't make complicated mechanics either. So here's my first try for the ancestries!

Please tell me if you have any thoughts on the cards and whether it's balanced. If it's not balanced, please suggest how I can improve! :)

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With the last post I reblogged and added my own opinion on:

I'm planning on redoing all of the Guild Wars 2 homebrew at some point in a different system. I think I'll be most comfortable writing it with Tales of the Valiant or maybe even Daggerheart in mind.

what system will you most likely play once you're able to divorce from D&D 5e

Daggerheart

Tales of the Valiant

Pathfinder 2e

different option (please tell me what system!)

Voting ended onJun 6, 2025

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This is something I and other tabletop bloggers like thydungeongal have said repeatedly in the past, but I think it bears repeating.

If you don't like WotC due to the recent scandals they've been involved in (such as the OGL thing and sending the Pinkertons to someone's house) and you are serious about disrupting the economic and cultural stranglehold they have over the entire tabletop hobby, pirating D&D products is infinitely less important than exploring, discussing and platforming games and creators outside of the D&D 5e ecosystem.

A person who pirates every single D&D product but continues to exclusively play, discuss, talk, and blog about Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition is not doing as much as someone who religiously pays for every D&D product but also gives some of their precious time and attention to games that aren't D&D, especially if they have any sort of platform or audience.

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Sometime last year a relatively tiny tabletop channel randomly decided to make a review and playtest of my solo dungeon-crawling game Pocket Delver.

The ensuing couple weeks were nothing short of a small miracle for me. In a few days I made more money from Pocket Delver (and from being a tabletop creator in general) than I had made in the previous couple years. Even the tiniest bit of attention from anyone with any platform at all can gives us a huge boost. And a lot of us don't get that because most people's attention is focused solely on D&D, even if they haven't given WotC a single dime.

So next time WotC and Hasbro do something naughty it would be so much cooler to see people passing around links for other games to support rather than (or at least *in addition to*) links to where to pirate D&D.

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To add on to this: if you still want to keep playing the same system because that's how you've played for years: look into systems that use the same ruleset.

For example: Kobold Press' Tales of the Valiant uses the 5e engine. Use that instead. Fuck wotc. Fuck hasbro.

Tell people you're playing Tales of the Valiant instead. It works the same. Under a different name.

If you are willing to make a change in systems for your next campaign: look into the publisher. Do they belong to a bigger company? Where does their money go? How do they feel about human rights, AI and intellectual property? How open is their gaming license? How to they contribute to their community and society?

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Making plague doctor masks is lots of fun!

This one is available for sale!

Violet Wing - Plaguedoctor Mask

Graceful. Fierce. Unforgettable. Violet Wing is a handcrafted leather plague doctor mask inspired by the iridescent beauty of the violet sab

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Oh dragon, on your hoard of gold! Why won't you share your wealth? Is it perhaps... Because you are a draconic capitalist pig that doesn't care about the little guys?

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Displacer Babe says she only needs one hand to steal your heart… but she’s got four, just in case. ❤️✨

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When I was a kid, I loved making drawings for my loved ones. As an adult, I never grew out of that behaviour.

If you are my friend, there's a 100% chance I will make some art for you.

Here's Ophelia, my friend's bard/sorcerer

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I absolutely love how this portrait I did of Sophia (my D&D human mercy monk) and her betrothed Bradour came out!

Next game, this weekend, she's going to have to tell her very protective father that she got engaged. I HOPE HE DOESN'T FREAK OUT.