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suggestions for ttrpgs where the setup is you okay as a band of refugees/escapees/generally people who are starting out with just what they can carry and have lost all their connections? i want something with that specific “left here out of necessity/desperation” vibe

THEME: Refugees / Starting Over

Hi! So I went through a lot of my post-apocalyptic and sci-fi games: I figured for most refugees, their situation is typically one in which the world has already ended for them, and they are simply trying to figure out what happens next. As a result, almost everything on this list is in those two genres: although not all!

24XX: Ancient Apocalypse, by ozmodeuz.

"…at dawn a black cloud came from the horizon; thunderous with wrath. The seven judges of hell raised their torches, lighting the land with their livid flame. The earth cried despair to the heavens as daylight turned to darkness and the land was shattered like glass. For six days and six nights the tempest raged and gathered fury, and poured over the people like the tides of war. All sense and hope was lost, and the gods cowered in heaven…"

2400 BC is a hack of Jason Tocci's 24XX about rebuilding community in the aftermath of an environmental catastrophe, thousands of years in the past.

24XX: Ancient Apocalypse takes place in an apocalypse of a sorts, but in the distant past. The thing that tore your world apart was something environmental, and while you were too young to remember it, your society is still trying to put it back together. I'm interested in the fact that this game is using a system that inherits its rules from a games tradition that does dungeon crawls very well, but in this game, it looks like you could be spending a considerable amount of time dealing with community problems, like budding religions, disagreements, and crimes against each-other. How do you keep your community together in a dangerous new world?

Last Fleet, by Black Armada Games.

The last of humanity are fleeing across space, pursued by the implacable inhuman adversary that destroyed their civilisation. They're outnumbered and outgunned. Supplies are running low. The actions of a brave few could be all that stands between humanity and extinction.

Welcome to the Last Fleet.

Last Fleet is a PBTA tabletop roleplaying game where you play brave pilots, officers, engineers, politicians and journalists struggling to hold the human race - and themselves - together under unbelievable pressure. The game focuses on action, intrigue and drama in this high-stakes situation. You'll fight space battles, search for enemy infiltrators, tackle supply shortages and navigate faction politics. You'll strive against your own self-doubt and sometimes crack under the stress.

Last Fleet is an excellent game about the stress of responsibility, and the fear that comes with being forced to run from your home. It's got tension and drama, although it also comes with it a lot of emphasis on military rule and how it forces people in power to act. If you want a game with heavy themes and the desperation of always being on the run, you might like this game.

Embers of Humanity, by John Hedge.

Embers of Humanity is a game about regular people living through the end of the world. They scratch out a meagre existence living off the land, with the impotent ruins of modern society slowly rusting around them.

Play revolves around a small group of survivors who take charge of a settlement. These survivors head out into what’s left of the world in order to keep their community afloat. They may be gathering supplies, negotiating with others, battling it out against raiders or maybe just the deadly forces of nature.

Another game about the end of the world, Embers of Humanity uses the d100-based BRP system, which I understand is the bones of most games published by Chaosium, the creators of Call of Cthulhu. This iteration asks you what kind of person you were before everything fell apart, and gives you skills that may be able to help you survive in this new reality. You also have an Empathy rating, which determines how easy/hard it is to help or hurt others, and relate to or ignore their pain. You also need to track Exertion, since surviving in a world with no running water or electricity requires a lot of energy, especially if there so happens to be hostile groups who for some reason or another desire your demise.

If you want to play a group of people struggling to take care of each-other in a world full of hostile factions (whatever that means for your table), and if you especially enjoy the percentile system of games like Call of Cthulhu, you might like some things about Embers of Humanity.

Hope against all Odds, by Remko.

During a year in the not so distant future, society has collapsed. You were just in time to realise the warning signs. Now, you and your friends became determined to flee towards wherever there might be a chance of survival.

Hope against all Odds is a Tabletop Role-playing Game for one to three players. Players portray people who have to leave their homes because of societal collapse. They try to travel together to try to find a paradise.

A single-page ttrpg, Hope against all Odds needs a deck of cards, a way to journal, and 6d10 to play. Since the game is solo-friendly, you don't really need a GM for this game: the cards drawn represent various events and details that the group can use to determine what kinds of obstacles stand in the way of your survivors. Your characters will have Needs that they'll be trying to meet during their journey, as well as Health & Hope tracks that determine whether or not they'll be able to continue. If your Hope takes a toll, it deteriorates very quickly, taking inspiration from the Despair mechanic from Polaris, according to the author.

If you want a game where tragedy is a very real possibility for the end of the game, you might like Hope against all Odds.

Moth-Light, by Dissonance.

Centuries ago, humanity fled to Beacon, an alien planet caught in a permanent eclipse. What happened then is lost to the ages. What remains survives in the shadow of giants, worn away by time, bolstered solely by the promise of a better tomorrow.

Enter Moth-Light, a speculative fiction game that imagines a post-fall world plagued by alien predators known as Moths.

In this place players will confront issues of trust, form pacts, and pursue personal goals to further their story and cement the bonds that bind them.

Take flight in a novel fantasy Forged in the Dark and usher in a new age of human achievement.

Playing as refugees isn't necessary in Moth-Light, but it's certainly possible, and I know because I've played it! In the Promise Pact, you are a group of talented individuals who have sworn a binding vow. My group decided that our vow was to escort our disparate clans to a new home, while fighting off the threat of gigantic aliens. The world was unique and exciting, and the conflicts had to do with losing doubt in the cause that all of us had sworn to uphold. If you want a game about hope, and what it's like to fight for it, you might like Moth-Light.

Station to Station, by Goblin Futures.

Station to Station, a fishpunk game of building a better world, is a hybrid card game/tabletop roleplaying game in the vein of The Deep Forest (Avery Alder & Mark Diaz Truman) and A Wood Heart (James Chip).

Using tarot cards to manage travel and rest mechanics, as well as to generate story prompts from Oracles, players collectively create the story of a group's journey across a post-apocalyptic archipelago aboard an ancient sentient bio-train. Along the way, all manner of aquatic events, encounters, and meetings may take place: some wonderful, all strange. At the end of the game, players will be able to choose the utopian community they arrive at, and weave the tale of how their experiences and losses along the way influence their new home.

Station to Station is a game about navigating a journey to a new community; your characters are fleeing the ravages of a post-apocalypse in the hopes of finding a better future, which I think might align quite well with the story threads you're looking to explore. Getting to your final destination is not guaranteed: if you lose enough cards and run out of enough options, your group never makes it. The four tarot suits embody four different attitudes, which will help you determine how characters might act or react to events as they happen throughout the game. The game has a Guide, but much of the storytelling is collaborative, giving plenty of ownership to everyone at the table.

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Settlement: Port Vahlgraun and the mystery of the Gutted Garrison

Couldn’t have happened to a worse bunch of bastards, but still it happened, they’re dead, and that’s a problem for all of us.

- Urdrik, town elder

Sheltered where the jagged spur of a snowy mountain range meets the sea, this frontier settlement is one of the few places where vessels may dock and resupply before setting out to the deep ocean fisheries or returning to the hungry harbours of the homeland.

Provided they don’t mind uncultured neighbours or the pervading stink of tar and fish, Vaulgraun is just the place for an adventurer to make a name for themselves: supply caravans making treks through mountain passes in need of an escort, sailors from parts unknown showing up with unbelievable tales, nearby valleys filled with squabbling noble willing to shill out coin for other people to solve their problems.

Hooks:

The Port’s governance is a rather slapdash affair as business rivalries intermarry with old family grudges, with most folk going about armed and expected to sort out their own problems. The party finds this out the hard way when they get into a bar brawl and end up humiliating the favorite nephew of a an influential local tough, who uses her connections to blacklist the party from a number of businesses and scare away their work. Their potential salvation introduces himself in the form of Barnard Glanner , a charismatic salt merchant who styles himself Vahlgraun’s first mayor… once he can convince the locals to hold their first election. In return for a steady wage he just needs the party to do some good deeds and spread his name around and he’s sure he’ll be able to sway public opinion, especially if they prevent some big disaster and throw him some of the credit.

Old Tallowear is given a wide birth by most Vahlgraun locals, a beachcomber who still hums the tune that a nest of sirens used to draw him and a ship full of his fellow sailors to wreck themselves upon a particularly dangerous stretch of coastline decades back. The fey-addled elder keeps finding excuses to visit those lethal rocks over the years, and has enough secondhand charm-magic to convince a series treasure hunters to employ him as a guide with promises of the fortunes waiting just below the tide. He’s not lying about the latter, and is even willing to sell the party some of his finds to bait the hook.

Everyone knows the local royal garrison for a bunch of brutes and bullies, shipped out to the ass end of nowhere as blanket punishment for any number of offences, they take out their boredom and frustration on the nearby village and local hill-folk, confident that they’re too far from command to ever brook any real reprisal… which surprises everyone when they turn up dead one morning, massacred to a man with the front gate of their fort knocked from its hinges. The military is likely to think the town had something to do with it and come down on the town on a hammer once they find out… unless someone can find an explanation before they catch on.

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reishi-with-the-shorks

this is actually a really fucking cool idea

thecrossedking

For those who like examples, here's two nations using the same rolls:

Military Might (STR): 14

Infrastructure (DEX): 12

Public Health (CON): 7

Education/Magic (INT): 11

Economic Stability (WIS): 14

Diplomacy (CHA): 7

A small-ish nation that has recently asserted its control over all nearby valuable lands; extending its control to various chokepoints in the nearby mountains and its river crossing. A series of forts and watchtowers ensures that all the lands of the kingdom are safe and productive to continue providing supplies for the kingdom’s armies. This authoritative rule has been rough on the land’s populace as many are being worked hard and receive little in terms of care for injuries or illnesses. However, it seems unlikely to change as the King has been antagonizing weaker neighbors and also pushing to colonize the wild lands ruled by druidic tribes. One of the few aspects of the kingdom that has been bolstered, outside of the military, is the Royal Magic Academy where the King’s advisor is training up the future of spellcasters for the King’s armies.

Military Might (STR): 7

Infrastructure (DEX): 7

Public Health (CON): 11

Education/Magic (INT): 14

Economic Stability (WIS): 12

Diplomacy (CHA): 14

The valley is ruled by the Council of Mages, a group of relatively reclusive caster, concocters and magical researchers. The group primarily unites only to defend the valley itself from outside influence, especially those who wish to take control of the wizard’s tower away from the valley.

The populace who lives in the valley is relatively content with the current arrangement. The mages rarely ask for tribute or tax in any form but provide education to the magically and mentally inclined. Further any plagues or illnesses that threaten the valley’s towns and villages are quickly contained and countered by the mages who specialize in healing magics.

The valley is relatively remote and disconnected to other nations, with many of the passes only being safe to travel in the summer months. However, most nearby nations only take advantage of these passes to trade for valuable magical artifacts or to hire on of the mages for a period. Although the nearby Kingdom has been getting increasingly belligerent and the military weak, yet magically valuable, valley may prove a tempting target.

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Faction: Cereburg College

“ Per sapientiam est calamitatis temperatam”

The old college motto meaning “By wisdom is calamity tempered”

Setup: Nearly three centuries ago, a group of scholars came together to thwart an incursion into their world by a dread power from beyond the firmament. The battle was close, and the cost was great, and in its aftermath the survivors pledged that they would do everything in their power to stop the next such attack, even if it occurred beyond their own lifetimes.

Cereburg collage is the manifestation of that oath, an organization dedicated to the study of great truths, such as the nature of the stars, the gods, and the weft of reality, as well as numerous mundane technologies that could provide a defense against future cosmic threats. Though most students are ignorant of the school’s purpose as the collage does not openly proclaim itself the bane of distant and terrible gods, those who have dealings with the unseen world know to expect the custodians of Cereburg to step in should they feel there is any sort of eldritch malfeasance occurring.

Adventure Hooks:

Attendance at Cereburg is available to those who pay several scaling fees and pass the rigorous exams, though exceptions are usually made for those who can prove themselves either academically or financially gifted. Though operating primarily as a traditional academy for middle and upper-class scions looking to receive accreditation in natural philosophy, the College fast-tracks those who the upper faculty feel could be useful to them in their campaign against the horrors of the cosmos. In particular, players may find themselves recruited into the school’s secret should they possess exceptional intelligence or skill, or are in possession of supernatural gifts that could be cultivated into weapons in the College’s arsenal.

Needing to do research for part of their own quest, the party seeks to gain access to the College Library, one of the largest repositories of technical and arcane knowledge on the continent. Doing so will require the donation of several rare artifacts or historical volumes, but will be well worth the trip. On track to find their own answers, the party finds a diary hidden among the shelves which seems to detail a student investigation into the College’s many secrets, including hidden vaults, concealed passages, and the strange rituals conducted by the faculty in their lofty towers. The diary details enough to serve as a map to several of these mysteries, then cuts off violently, the writer apparently never returning to collect their work.

Something valuable has been stolen from Cereburg, a relic apparently pertaining to one of the founders and worth a great deal in financial and historical value. Though the college has agents of its own to do this business, they make a public show of hiring the party without ever expecting them to catch the theif. Schemes like these seldom go to plan, and when the party unexpectedly catches up with the thief, a struggle for the relic ensues. IN the chaos, the relic ( a cumbersome reinforced box of beautifully carved and lacquered wood) is broken, revealing the true relic to in fact be the mummified head of a long dead scholar. Things are on track for the party to return their prize and obtain their reward, when the obviously dead head stirs from slumber, yawns, and then begins groggily hurling accusations at the party regarding who the HELL they are and where in the SEVENTEEN METAPHYSICAL SUPERPOSITIONS they are?

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filibusterfrog

chromatic dragons :)

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trying to think of some piratical adventures that feature trading companies as enemies, any thoughts?

Villain: The Xalorian Royal Oceanic Company

“Let me share with you a great secret, one which will come to define our age: The empires of crown and blood are over, already usurped by those of contract and commerce. It is ledgers, not lieges, that decide where the wars are fought, and the deliberate hand of business that now weighs the fate of nations. That hand will guide this world into the new century, a century of reason, order, and yes, profit. A world without the need for freebooters and scoundrels such as yourself”

Artemis Flek, Colonial Govener and representative of the X.R.O.C.

Setup: Its hard to miss when the Xalorian Company rolls into harbor, with their long necked plesiosauric ships, their masked soldiers, and their frankly improbable hats. It’s also hard to miss when they start shelling the settlement because they disapproved of the per-pound weight of pepper they were given and wished to “Ajust” the market accordingly. Well armed, efficient, and perhaps the most ruthless bunch of bastards plying the waters of this century, the XROC take what they want, where they want, and woe befall anyone who stands in the way.

An enemy of freebooters, pirates, and honest merchants alike, the Company is motivated only by profit, and by the desire to enforce its own brand of order across the waves to ensure that business runs smoothly. Exactly what form this justice takes is largely dependent on whether your home nation happens to be aligned with the Xalorian homeland, or whether you’re a “savage” in need of exploitation. In the former case, the company will use its political tides to hedge out smaller competition, intimidating and leaning on free traders while providing bribes to local officials. In the latter case, the XROC will alternate between sinking your merchant vessels on site, or inserting themselves into your local politics. Finding a desperate and dispossessed claimant to whatever power structure you may hold, they will contrive a reason to put them in charge, using their puppet to remake your lands for their own benefit.

Adventure Hooks:

Unbenknownst to anyone, the company have hired a crew of bloodthirsty raiders to attack independent merchant ships and slaughter their crews, leaving behind grisly testimonials as to the cruelty of their attackers. In addition to turning the populace against the pirates and their proxy traders, this gambit directly harms XROC competitors, and forces wholesalers to chose the safer, but more expensive Company ships if they wish to see their goods reach market. The party may encounter a terrorized survivor of one of these slaughters and hear the ruse first hand, or may be restricted from offloading cargo when the previously friendly harbormaster is forced to turn them away due to public scrutiny. They may be asked by an independent merchant to provide escort, and may face off against the crew of reavers themselves.

More blood is spilled over spices than over any land or crown in history combined, and those who wish to control the flow of spice will result to the most underhanded tactics possible. The Archipeligo nation of Kvali-Benna has for centuries made its fortune in the harvesting and processing of cinnamon, becoming a center of trade throughout the surrounding seas becoming famous for the prosperity of its markets and the taste of its spiced spirits. Recently a plague has broken out in Kvali-Benna, forcing several islands into quarantine and scaring traders away to other markets. This plague originated with indentured laborers bound for a XROC rubber plantation and the decision by the company to “make use” of this defective stock by marooning the infected across the archipelago in the hopes of spreading the sickness to the local population. Hoping to destabilize the nation even further, company agents slip past the quarantine at will, disposing of healers and spreading plague-vectors to uninfected population centers in the hopes of turning the sickness into an epidemic. With the Kvali-Bennans desperate and depopulated, the company plans to sweep in and take control replacing the lost indigenous farmers with their own, purchased from their homeland’s debtor’s prisons and working off a lifelong debt.

Individually purchased as cheap labor by the Company and sent out for transportation , the party meets for the first time in the belly of a XROC brig, on their way to a miserable existence of indefinite servitude in one of the many plantations the company has stake in. When a colossal storm of possibly supernatural origin maroons them on an unfamiliar shore, they must work together to return to civilization and evade the Coperation who still holds their lives in bond.

inkwell-attitude

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

fatal-blow

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water! freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there. Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end. rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains! mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey). a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half. These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact. think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be. coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower). if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

possiblypedanticrpgideas

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

inkwell-attitude

holy shit?

freak-phone

I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)

headspace-hotel

Common misconceptions surrounding the care of monsters

Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT normal for a Cerberus’s heads to fight with one another; this indicates anxiety or lack of proper enrichment.

Giant spiders are actually very social creatures, and should not be housed alone.

Provide your Sphinx with enrichment by answering its riddles. Though Sphinxes can be trained to attack those who answer incorrectly, they actually normally speak in riddles as a form of social play that is essential to their development and well-being.

If you cannot provide brimstone and a large pool of lava for bathing, don’t purchase a Hellhound! They are animals with very specific care needs and their health will suffer if they are not given the proper habitat. Likewise, most Hellhound kibble brands on the market do not meet the recommended daily requirement of damned souls for Hellhounds. Always check the labels!

The practice of putting blinders over the eyes of Basilisks to make them less dangerous is cruel. Basilisks should not be kept in enclosures where people other than expert caretakers normally come into view.

Many hippocampi enjoy pulling sea chariots, boats or inflatable floats and it can be a good source of enrichment and exercise. Make this activity fun for your hippocampus by rewarding it with treats such as fish and allowing it to participate as it wants to.

A labyrinth is NOT an appropriate habitat for a Minotaur!! Minotaurs need fresh grass and shade to lie down in to be happy. Also, a diet of only human flesh will cause malnutrition. Supplement your Minotaur’s diet of kidnapped youths with a source of fiber, such as hay!

Remember, that hatchling Roc is an adorable fluff ball now, but it will eventually become a fearsome elephant-sized bird of prey with a ravenous appetite and very demanding housing requirements. A pet should always be a well-researched commitment, not an impulsive decision.

While going into the wild and gaining a dragon’s trust is often romanticized, there are many dragons in search of a loving family much closer to home! Try looking into dragon rescue organizations near you.

Some Manticores need to be fed live prey; others, however, will accept prey that has been frozen and thawed. It depends on the individual.

Even smaller species of griffin need a lot of space. Domestic rock-griffins, though only the size of a cat, need room to fly and to build large nests. If you live in an apartment, it is better to adopt one of the smallest species, such as one of many types of song-griffins! Humming-griffins, however, though you may have seen cute videos on Instagram, should be avoided because they are not domesticated and their wild populations are endangered by the pet trade. It is best to admire their iridescent feathers in visits to accredited conservation organizations!

a-book-of-creatures

Please don’t keep sphinges as pets, they will constantly try to assert mental superiority over you and will eat you if they decide you’re not smart enough

jedi-anakin

female leaders of the ancient world part 3 | requested by anon

allcapsmadbitch

hey if anyone could send me 30 dollars so i can get some food that be great😭😭😭pls n ty!❤☀️⚘

allcapsmadbitch

i ordered food last night but i havent had food in my house im a while bc ive scared to go grocery shopping w covid n everything happening! if anyone wants to help a black nb raise 100 dollars so they can get groceries for the week that would be life saving😭😭😭pls n ty!!!☀️☀️(venmo)

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wheel-skellington

why this dog look like an nvidia tech demo

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FUCK THIS I SPERFECT, IT SHOWS THE ARM PRONATING AND ALL THE MUSCLES SHIFTING ALONG WITH THE WRIST

IT EVEN HIGHLIGHTS THE ULNA BONE

HEY THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ANATOMY REF, FUCK THOSE MISLEADING TERRIBLE FUCKING “ANATOMY” TUTORIALS THAT GOEAS AROUND TUMBLR, THIS IS ALL OYU NEED, LOOK AT THE LATISIMUS STRETCHING OVER THE SERRATUS, THE PECTORAL MUSCLE MOVESUPWARDS AND OVER THE BICEP AND EXTENDS ALONG WITH THE ARM THERES EVEN THE CORACOBRACHIALIS;. AAAA OMFG I’M SO HAPPYYYYYY

anatomicalart

Admin Kin here: This is one of the most helpful references in our library, but I wondered if any of our followers might be able to help identify the color coded muscles? It would be great to be able to know what is what while practicing from these sheets!

hamaonoverdrive

Sure, @anatomicalart! The colors get reused between the arm/back angles so I’ll separate them.

Arm view: Red = Deltoids (all three heads are in one color) Blue = Latissimus Dorsi Green = Biceps Brachii Yellow = Triceps Brachii

Forearm: Red = One of the wrist flexors Blue = Brachioradialis

Back view, left side: Red = Deltoids (all three heads are in one color) Blue = Latissimus Dorsi Green = Infraspinatus, Teres Minor, Teres Major Yellow = Trapezius (all groups one color)

Back view, right side: Red = Supraspinatus Blue = Serratus Anterior Green = Rhomboids Yellow = Levator Scapulae

songbirde108

Not an artist, I just like cool stuff.

tawnwen

Hold up: this is important

regicide1997

The identification of muscles is probably helpful for writers, too.

probablygoodrpgideas

A campaign about returning magical items from whence they came.

Not in the “plunged into the fires of Mt. Doom” sense.

Artifact repatriation. The heroes work for an international commission aimed at reversing centuries of plunder. Oh, sure, the adventurers of yesteryear may have had solid reasons for looting the Ancient Tomb of the Noonday King, but those justifications have passed, and the Noonday King’s regalia really should be returned home, not sitting in a foreign adventurer’s ancestral manor.

Possible adventures include:

Archaeologically respectful dungeon crawls, aimed at returning items to original context if possible

Consulting and cooperation with host museums in native cultures to provide security and academic collaboration

Liberating artifacts from foreign collections, if imperial governments or plutocrats or nobles initially refuse to return them

Realizing that an ancient conspiracy is modifying paperwork and falsifying academic reports to turn the repatriation committee into a MacGuffin delivery service for an ancient lich-king

Persuading the world to keep going on with the good parts of this program even if the one time an ancient lich-king nearly got most of his ancient rivals’ regalia delivered to his tomb home under false pretenses so he could start some real shit, because, hey, they stopped him, the system worked!

tahere-ravenword

Hi! So my PC's just finished a really hard quest and I decided to reward their hard work with an in game celebration in the form of a carnival/country fete! I ran it yesterday and we all had a tone of fun and they loved it, so I thought I'd share what I set up with everyone 😁

Carnival and celebrations

Chance for players to practice role playing a bit.

Locations

Inn- Arm wrestling, eating and drinking contests

Town square/centre- Find the coin, ring toss, knock over the bottles

Town Green-Target shot, ring the bell, log toss, checkers

Food Ideas

• Candy apples, sweet and crunchy 10 silver

• Shush kabobs, lamb&haloumi, chicken&mushroom, beef&capsicum, halloumi, mushroom&capsicum 10 copper

• Apple pie and other sweet pastries 5 copper

• Hand pulled candy floss 10 silver

• Raspberry/strawberry taffy 10 silver

Drink Ideas

Main price Per Bottle(per cup is 1/4 price)

• Ale 20 copper(5 copper)

• Wine 20 silver(5 silver)

• Spirits 20 gold(5 gold)

• Fruit juice 20 copper(5 copper)

• Sarsaparilla 20 silver(5 silver)

• Sparkling fruit juice 20 gold(5 gold)

GAMES

Town Square

• Knock over the Bottles: Dex DC13, 3 balls for 25 copper knock down the milk bottles. 3 times in a row to get spell scroll animal friendship, 2 wins gets an animal plush and 1 win gets a lolliepop Run by a young halfling girl with blond pigtails and freckles, she has a sweet and cheery disposition and appearance, wearing a simple blue dress, her name is Lizzy.

• Find the coin: Int/perception Dc15. 10 silver per game, watch the cups and find the coin. If you find the coin you win an item from the Magic Item Table A. held at the shrine of luck and run by Sister Ashling, a zealous young elf who worships Tymora

• Ring Toss: Dex Dc18, 3 rings/hoops for 50 copper Throw hoops onto bottles. Win a dagger worth 25 gold. Run by a shady old man named Rowland, who is wearing a rough spun tunic, dc13 insight/perception reveals that this game is rigged and he's very sure no one will win

• Ring the Bell: Dc20. 25 silver for 1 try. Hit the bell and win an item from Magic Item Table B. Run by Falmire a tall human male with huge muscles and and a rough beard, showing off his muscled arms by previously tearing off his sleeves.

Town Green

• Target Shot: Dex DC10-20, 3 bolts for 50 silver. Hit the bulls eye of the targets to win a prize. Easy target Dc10-redbrand ruffian dog toy. Medium Target Dc13 candied apple. Hard target Dc16, bronze engraved light cossbow. Impossible Target Dc20, win 10 special +3 Crossbow bolts/arrows . This game is run by a sharp-tongued human woman Lillian Greyjoy, she seems to be advertising her weaponry and armour.

• Checkers: Int vs opponent, minimum 10 copper to enter, winner takes all. Seems to just be a friendly game set up by a few older townsfolk. 1d4 for opponents.

• Log Toss: Str vs 1d6 opponent dc 15 to succeed. 25 gold to enter. 1st place gets an item from the 250gp art object table. 2nd place prize Morningstar. 3rd place prize decorated iron flask. Run by Torin a lean and balding human male shopkeeper of fifty years with a kindly manner

Inn/Tavern

• Arm Wrestle: Str vs opponent, minimum 25 silver to enter competition.Prize = total coin added to pot.1d6 for number of opponents. Not run by anyone in specific just a congregation of burly men drunkenly having a go

• Eating Contest: Dc10 first to 5 successes wins, 5 fails you're out of the running, 10 silver to play. Prize is 25 gp Art Objects Table and the total of the all participant's entry fee minus 10% for the proprieter. 1d6 opponents. Organised by the innkeeper/bartender

• Drinking contest: Dc15 first to 5 successes wins, 5 fails you're out of the running 10 gold to play. Prize is an itdm from the Magic Item table A and the total of the all participant's entry fee minus 20% for the proprieter. 1d6 opponents. Organized by the innkeeper/bartender.

Feel free to use and change whatever you would like, but I thought this was a good template for any DMs who want to run something similar

lewd-plants

New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.

Okay now what do I name her

systlin

O’sha.

Obviously

lewd-plants

THAT’S PERFECT

systlin

I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR QUALITY WORKPLACE SAFETY REGULATION PUNS

fishmalazahn

That’s my goddess. 👍🏻

systlin

May O’sha bless you with earplugs that are comfortable and respirators that fit perfectly.

lewd-plants

And good steel. Always good steel.

systlin

May your steel deliveries be always on time and your rebar strong

skiptomy

I’m just gonna…. put this here…..

hope you don’t mind

skyfire85

You know how you occassionally find a nugget of gold on this hellsite? Found one.

May the blessings of O'sha give you both strength and flexibility.

probablygoodrpgideas

Experiment with political systems

Sure, having a king/queen is simple, but have you ever tried:

Democracy

Multiple nobles and they all have the same amount of power (lot of conflict potential)

You can become ruler by defeating the current ruler in a fight

The merchants run everything

A noble and a parliament rule

The most intelligent people rule

…

There are thousands of possibilities, be creative!

probablygoodrpgideas

Older post, but I highly encourage it! Try out the weirdest stuff! Try things you think would never work in the real world because this is your world and if you say (insert political system believed to not work) works then it does

probablybanerpgideas

Here’s a list of Society and Government types I’ve stolen directly from the worldbuilding section of some rulebooks:

Anarchy: the social conscience maintains order, but there are no laws

Athenian Democracy: Every citizen can vote on every new law

Representative Democracy: Elected representatives form a congress or government

Clan: Pretty much whoever is older is in charge, traditions are strongly adhered to, and society as a whole is split cross many tribes that are generally similar (and usually allied) but with their own quirks and traditions

Caste: A lot like a Clan structure, but each clan has a set role in society that usually renders them co-dependent. These Castes usually follow a social heirarchy

Dictatorship: One person controls everything, and they will later pass the right to rule to someone else, whether by inheritance, election, duelling, or some other method. Not all dictatorships are bad, especially if they are formed in times of crisis or rebellion, but even those started with the best intentions may quickly corrupt.

Plutocracy: Whoever has money is in charge.

Technocracy: A group of scientists and engineers have complete control and do everything they can to run the country at maximum efficiency. The more competent they are, the more likely this is to be viewed as a good thing.

Thaumocracy: Like a technocracy, but run by a science-like form of magic (like wizards and arcanists rather than shamans and witches)

Theocracy: The Church controls everything, and their religious law is civil law. Whether this religion is real, is fake but knows it, or believes its own lies is up to you.

Corporate State: Powerful mercantile organisations have taken control of entire regions. This is a lot like a Technocracy, but with a corporate structure and a focus on maximum profitability (and no-one else is going to set them a minimum wage)

Feudal: A lot like a dictatorship, but subsidiary lords are assigned their own local power and can enforce their own law without notifying the larger state.

***VARIATIONS***

Bureaucracy: Government runs very slowly and the public has effectively no control. There is a lot of red tape and taxation is high.

Colony: Government is dependent on a mother society

Cybercracy: A computer system is the state administrator. Hopefully the programmers did a good job…

Matriarchy: Positions of authority are female-exclusive.

Meritocracy: Positions of authority require rigorous testing to qualify for.

Military Government: The Military control everything, usually but not always totalitarian

Monarchy: The person in charge may call themselves king or queen, but fundamentally this is either a dictatorship or a feudal society.

Oligarchy: A small organisation is in control, and it elects its own members.

Patriarchy: like a matriarchy, but for guys. what a novel idea

Sanctuary: A society that protects the people other societies hunt (that may be considered criminals or terrorists by other nations)

Socialist: The government directly manages the economy, education is easy to get, the government intervenes to get everyone possible a job. This is likely to collapse quickly without good technology or magic to assist it.

Subjugated: The society as a whole is completely controlled by an outside force.

Utopia: A perfect society where everyone is satisfied and nothing sinister is happening behind the scenes we swear.

frayedcobweb

Ooooh this is a freaking great post :)

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