Proudly announcing my latest labour of love: since a frequent topic of discussion in the virtual ttrpg community was how difficult it is to find non-ai art that gets released for commercial use, I'm taking matters into my own hands and starting my very own token line!
"Nix's Creature Tokens - Deadly Desert Dwellers pack"
is a token pack that contains 45 portrait tokens: 25 base ones, plus 20 extra "special" tokens, inspired to my previous DDD title - you'll find the dune hag, the skin snatcher, people dressed appropriately for desert weather, and also an example of potential "Black Raider" fatigues.
The tokens are released with an ORC notice, on the same grounds as my previous DDD book.
Players of TTRPGs, a question for you.
What is your opinion on third-party content in your game?
I know there's a crapton of bad third-party content out there for most TTRPGs but there are also some truly amazing and non-gamebreaking creations out there, things that are very imaginative and flavorful that "official" ones just cannot capture the feeling of.
I also know it's hard to weed through them and it's thus easier to just say "nope, none at all"
Anyway, if you don't mind, please vote in the poll and expand your own thoughts with a reblog and/or comment! Thank you!
How do you feel about third party content in your TTRPG game
It's the wild west, I'll take anything
I will accept it after it passes my review
I have a list of creators I trust, anything else is a no.
I have a list of creators I trust, anything else requires review
No third party content in my game, please.
I'm willing to consider it, but I really wish you wouldn't ask
So I showed the early stuff off a bit a few months back, but I've finally completed the first draft of Act 1 of my Lancer adventure path, Kindness of Strangers! The deets can be found on the pilot net discord, but:
LRBT-III, otherwise known as Blanche to the locals. This sun-baked dustbowl of a planet has the high honor of being one of the few habitable terrestrial bodies that anyone has discovered in the Long Rim- and probably the only one that's actually any use to anyone. Luckily- or not so luckily, if you ask some people- it was Union that found it first. Well, about 70 years ago when they stumbled across this star system they got it in their heads that the Long Rim's days were numbered. There’s untold millions living out there scattered along the emptiest shipping lane in the known galaxy who'd need a way out once no one needed to pass them by, and by Christ the Buddha Union was gonna be there for them waiting with open arms.
All of that is background, though. You? You’re a bunch of mercenaries who got their hands on a couple of GMSes, decided to make your manna selling violence for pay. Worlds like Blanche don't take to colonies very well, so even two generations in there's still plenty of frontier out there being settled and railroad tracks being laid. The people out there struggle day by day to survive, and people like you are there to protect them from those who got sick of the hard life. Not everyone out there has the guts to stand up for the little guy- that's why you're called Lancers.
A setting and a campaign all in one, Kindness Of Strangers and its (eventual) follow-up Dancing With the Devil are a series of Wild West-themed 2-mission adventures intended to take players from 0-12 as they find themselves embroiled in the midst of a corporate conspiracy to overthrow the Union-backed government of the isolated colony of Blanche and a ploy to seize control over a nearly completed Blinkstation. All the while, a strange religious movement worshipping an eons-dead alien civilization grows ever more influential in the background...
This campaign tackles themes of colonialism, nationalism, corruption, and conflict between indigenous peoples, settlers, and immigrants, all in a world where well-meaning intentions have gone sour and the ghosts of the past have come back to haunt it. It comes with:
- A setting guide for LRBT-III and its weird-as-hell star system!
- A 0-12 campaign split up into two books, Kindness of Strangers and Dancing With the Devil, that are made up of three 2-mission adventures each. And then a final mission to tie things up.
- 4 Alt-Frames: the IPS-N Nemo, the SSC Painted Lady, the Horus Roper, and the HA Grant (still working on these)
- New Reserves! (still working on these)
- New Exotic Gear (still working on these)
- New NPCs! (still working on these)
Things to look forward to:
- Rallying a town to fight off a horde of bandits!
- An epic duel at sunset!
- Accidentally walking into a partial metavault and escaping with the only scars being mental ones!
- A weird amount of references to the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, like a probably legally dubious amount!
- Exploding plants!
- Exploding wildlife!
- The **CHRISTHEBUDDHASAURUS**
- Helping striking miners fight off Pinkertons!
- Investigating the bombing of a water filtration plant!
- AND MORE
...so this is really my first time doing this kind of thing so I don't entirely know what all to put here BUT I've put together first drafts of both the Field Guide to LRBT and Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire. They're not in any state where I can charge for them- I'd call them "playtest and editing ready" rn- but I figure I can share them here so people can give notes. If people think it's cool I could possibly do a kickstarter or something to get the money needed for art and help with editing and lcps and such.
Field Guide to LRBT:
Kindness of Strangers Act 1: A Streetcar Named Desire:
VALDA'S SPIRE OF SECRETS PHYSICAL BOOK FINALLY ARRIVED
Since funding in 2021 and the digital release in Feb 2022, I have adored this book and all the new material inside it. There is not a single D&D game I have played in the last 23 months where there hasn't been a race, class, subclass, feat or spell from this book making an appearance.
if you don't understand the situation right now with dnd and the ogl, i recommend you check this video out. i know not everyone likes dnd shorts content, but this is an excellent video that really breaks down what's going down in laymen's terms.
Dastardly Desert Deeds - "Dastardly Desert Deeds" is a small collection of desert-themed content created for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition,
It's finally here!!! My first release of 3rd party content for a TTRPG.
Dastardly Desert Deeds is a desert-themed supplement for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. Cover art by the wonderful and amazing @luinen-bluewater, interior art by yours truly.
The Desert is an old and angry thing. Very few survive its harsh whims. Fewer still can thrive within it –the ever-shifting Sands conceal secrets, dangers, and oddities beyond imagining.
Dastardly Desert Deeds, the very first release from Nix Alba Designs, offers some tools to enjoy and enrich a biome many people struggle with.
Whether your character comes from such a place, or your campaign is entirely set within the scorched vastness of the Desert, you’ll get a glimpse into the unique nature of the boundless Sands, with resources for both Players and Narrators:
Two new Archetypes: Warden of the Wasteland (Ranger) and Sun Seeker (Adept);
Two new Feats: Sand Glider and Necropolis Expert;
A Feat Chain for nomadic freedom fighters: The Black Raiders;
Four Magic Items: three Magic Masks as utility items, and a more battle-focussed pair of Magic Armbands;
Statblocks for two new Monsters: the Dune Hag and the Skin Snatcher –two CR6 creatures that earned a content warning;
Two more Items to mess with players: the Cursed Manacles of the Obedient Follower and the Mask of the Skin Snatcher
An example of Travel Scenery, to explore how varied Desert landscapes can be –if anyone ever told you all deserts looked the same, they lied to you.
Don’t be fooled by the cloudless, sunlit sky: there’s no such thing as an "empty" Desert.
Foundry module available with the PDF!
