#dnd 5th edition

[artandstarstuff]

By request, some dinosaur plot hooks! If you like what I do or want to see more tables, Drop a tip here at my Kofi, or follow my Patreon for more!

[dropoutconfessions]

Love brennan and abria to hell and back, but it's starting to itch my asshole how much D20 keeps using DnD 5e as basically their base system for everything. Like, never stop blowing up was pretty popular and I think very well executed, and I think the star wars 5e hack was good for starstruck odyssey, but like. Brennan, you're such a big face for anticapitalist kiddies, why are you using the same system that's desperately trying to monopolize your hobby? DnD 5e being easily hackable doesn't mean we should use the same game system for radioactive stoats, new york urban fantasy, steampunk exploration, and magical victorian intrigue. And I get that most of the people here aren't nerds and making a whole cast of people learn a new game for each season is deeply annoying, but kids on bikes is such a simple system that as a baseline so easy to hack and change they've done it TWICE.

Idk I think they should try using different systems in their seasons, I'm tired of seeing the same game system being used for all stories for the past 7 years. It's not even that there aren't simple games out there that will tell these kinds of stories, like, monster of the week, lasers and feelings, mausritter, girl by moonlight, I feel these are all games that could totally be made into seasons without too much behind the scenes homework

note: like many of the asks going up, this was made before the city council of darkness anouncement

[r-n-w]

DND GIFT SETS 🎁

Gift your players something special this season, or say an extra big thanks to your hard working game master 💖

This year we've got four wonderful themed gift packages bursting with lovely DnD accessories, including journals, notepad and stickers. Each set comes wrapped in its own dice-themed paper, and there's goods for game masters too! Including a whole host of brand new items like initiative pads, map pads and more...

⚠️ We've got limited stock of these sets and with the usual Xmas postal rush, we're advising that you order as soon as possible to avoid disappointment 🙏❤️

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[homebrew-a-la-traumaverse]

The Wildcard Rogue - Homebrew Rogue Subclass

It's hard for your enemies to pin you down when even you don't know what's coming. When you want to roll the dice and feel the fear in your DM's eyes, this is the subclass for you.

[treverscottcameron]

[saul-tortellini]

So to sum up WotC's latest fuckup concerning their new giant themed book

Back during the creator's summit, WotC said this about LLM images

Now more recently, WotC was caught using blatantly LLM images for their new book, along with some category 10 classical Gygax racism and genocide endorsement

As outraged fans investigated, similarities were noticed between earlier concept art, which WAS done by real artists, and the LLM images

Now April Prime was only credited as a concept artist in the book (and not credited at all in that post), so what happened?

Enter Ilya Shkipin: an NFT shill, LLM enthusiast and overall waste of flesh. Ilya took credit for these LLM images, which as you've probably guessed now, were concept art that he stole from concept artists like April, ran through his plagiarism bots and claimed was his own work.

Now, you would think that WotC would admit their error and drop Ilya for this blatant theft of art and credit

And you'd be wrong

WotC not only refused to name or punish Ilya, but they're continuing to work with him and simply having him redo the LLM images he turned in for future printings of the book.

Sounds horrible enough? Here's the bonus round: CATEGORY 10 CLASSIC GYGAX RACISM AND GENOCIDE ENDORSEMENT

Yes, that is a group of people being referred to as an "infestation" to be exterminated. And you have to make sure you ethically put them all to the sword, lest they rise as an icy mummy called a Frostmourn. If the name Frostmourn sounds familiar, that's because it's one letter off from the World of Warcraft sword: Frostmourne. A difference small enough for ActiBlizzard, one of the few game companies worse than WotC at this point, to turn angry copyright lawyers loose in their direction.

And that about sums the whole clusterfuck up. Remember to drop 5e and pick up a ttrpg that doesn't suck, such as Pathfinder, Savage Worlds or Fate: Core

[sparkdew-dnd]

Today I attempted to use artificial intelligence to beat my writers block and it was not entirely successful

[xonnttrpg]

Another campaign I got invited to, another character. This time I went for a fighter! Living Crucible lvl 10 got me some gnarly boosts and survivability.

He is lowkey insane and I love him (stats + some bloody art under the cut)