World Of Omos

A blog about my D&D campaign in a dark fantasy world.

[the-ipre]

a Mechanisms rpg where your three stats are ‘drunk’, ‘space’, and ‘pirate’

[lotrmusical]

i saw this post and was unable to rest until i’d written it, so here you go... some draft rules for drunk space pirate the rpg! this has literally not been playtested even a little bit. feedback is welcome

[the-ipre]

this is incredible! and the chaos of chucking dice from partway across the room encapsulates the mechs vibes perfectly

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So I’m not sure how closely people on here follow dice drama, but there has been no end of discourse over the Dispel Dice kickstarter since before it even started running. There’s a lot to it, but the one we’re gonna talk about right now is the way Dispel’s designs have turned up on Wish for purchase long before their anticipated ship date of November 2020. People have ordered them and they’ve arrived gorgeous as the pictures, but I had refrained until now for ethical reasons.

A representative from the factory just came forward on Facebook to tell their side of the story–Dispel themselves have been completely silent on the whole matter, by the way.

tl;dr: According to the representative, Dispel came to this factory asking for quality previously unknown to commercial dice-making, basically handmade-level quality. The factory put a ton of time, resources, and effort into R&D to achieve these standards, thinking it a reasonable investment as Dispel had made all sorts of claims as to the amount of product they’d be ordering, and sent a couple of orders (50 and 600 sets respectively) to Dispel. Dispel placed a further order for 2100 sets. Dispel’s owner then asked to tour their factory (a fairly common request for dice companies), but covertly took pictures of the process, and then became very hard to get ahold of. They refused the 2100 set order saying it was unauthorized, and then the factory got word that Dispel was in the process of setting up their own production, using the pictures they’d taken of their machines and process.

Notably, this means we have zero pictures of product from the actual factory that will be fulfilling the kickstarter. That bodes poorly, imo.

Realizing there would be no more orders coming from Dispel, and with COVID-19 halting all production, they decided to sell off the 2100 to recoup their costs. That said, after seeing there was demand for this kind of thing, the factory representative then said in the thread that they were looking at developing more designs and would continue to produce their own dice, which I am very excited about! If anything good came of this, it’s that a new dice company has emerged to sell extremely interesting new product 😀 They’ve been selling on Wish under the name Ice Dice (pictured above), but I don’t know if they’ll be keeping that name.

I’ve ordered the three sets, feeling much more comfortable doing so, and will be posting them when they come in! And naturally, if Dispel decides to comment, I’ll update this–but radio silence so far.

[roboco-san]

found my new favorite d&d character background

[roboco-san]

gonna download the extremely bad 3rd party dnd sex book so I can laugh at it

[roboco-san]

this book's handling of gay characters is surprisingly progressive in an extremely late 90s sort of way

[roboco-san]

oh this is going to be good

[roboco-san]

there's an std chart

[roboco-san]

vampirism is on the std chart

[ostrichmonkey-games]

I think it would be cool to so some sort of “If you like [insert media/game/genre here] then you should try [insert cool ttrpg content here]” type recommendations. 

Like;

If you enjoy Dishonored then you should try Blades in the Dark. 

If you like Breath of the Wild and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind you should try Moth-Light

If you like Deadspace and Alien(s) then you should try Mothership

or even;

If you like Planescape then you should try Troika!

If you like Gundam and 4e D&D then you should try Lancer

So, what sort of stuff do you like?

[viridiandnd]

•°~Dungeon Master Aesthetic ~°•

[thydungeongal]

I'm a simple man: if you give me another euro fantasy setting where people ride around on horses I'll probably miss it

Give me weird riding birds and lizards and you've got my attention

[thydungeongal]

"The kingdom of Galathamea operates on a feudal system, with serfs serving as indentured servants to lords who swear fealty to the king" YAWN

"Okay what if there was a giant crystal in the middle of the city" keep talking

[thydungeongal]

I SWEAR IF I SEE ANOTHER MOTTE AND BAILEY THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES

[axes-and-orcs]

Motte and bailey but living bug carapace

[thydungeongal]

Okay actually that rules

[zarpaulus]

You could at least have some variety in pseudo-medieval settings besides “vaguely English feudalism.”

Like Venetian merchant republics (aside from Ankh-Morpork) or Viking Allthings.

[milkchuggs]

Or, hell, can we get a fantasy Umayyad Caliphate?

[worldofomos]

Dude is it just me or is like the only "Middle Eastern" representation just: mysterious merchant with turban.

[thelootwagonteam]

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

One day I’ll have a week where I don’t deal with someone trying to rationalize nonsense to me.

Today on Gabe Deals With Bullshit

“But The Witcher Canonically has Specism so we need to play that in the tabletop,” They said to Me, the Only POC player in the game. 

So we should have kept something akin to racism in our game, that isn’t canon, because it’s “accurate”. 

[thoughtsfromthegm]

Hey TTRPG players and GMs out there; don’t fuckin do this.

Get consent to deal with difficult and charged issues at your table from all players before you start playing

If a player dissents, doesn’t want to tackle dealing with those issues at the table, don’t bring those issues into your game

If everyone at your table really wants to deal with an issue, except the person who has to deal with it IRL, maybe consider where that desire to include it is coming from

If you try to force people to engage with them, those people have every right to leave the table

Get the PDF of Consent in Gaming for free here

[positively--speculative]

If you are playing a game as a way of practicing escapism (which most people are), you need to allow everyone to temporarily escape. Racism isn’t a tourist attraction.

[rpgsandbox]

Instagram of the week - Feralborn Trading Company

https://www.instagram.com/feralborntrading/

Irregular updates, magic items with description and lore in the notes:

Antimagic Stakes Wondrous item, very rare Magehunter relics of the Gate Wars which can be found scattered across the ruins and ancient battlefields of the Old Kingdom. Sometimes found as solitary items, rare pairs or sets can sometimes be found collecting dust in arcane market stalls. Stories exist of crates of 6 or more being used to trap powerful magic users or to level the playing field against supernatural creatures. ⁣ ⁣ The stake is 3½’ long with a sharp point at one end. As an action, you can activate the stake. Once activated you can hold the stake in one hand or place it on a horizontal surface as part of the same action. The device remains activated until someone uses their action to deactivate it. A single activated device does little more than resonate with a subtle metallic hum. However, the device glows with dim light (5’ radius) when 3 or more are activated and arranged in a polygonal shape with sides no longer than 20’ each (e.g. equilateral triangle, square etc.). Within the polygon formed by the stakes, an invisible antimagic field is created which extends 10’ above and below the area. The polygonal shape of the field is only limited by the number of stakes used and their placement. The field is not obstructed by physical or magical barriers. New stakes can be activated which could adjust the polygons size and shape. ⁣ ⁣ The antimagic field can be moved, while active, if the individual stakeholders carefully coordinate their movement. If a stake is moved, extending a side of the polygon beyond 20’, that side fails and the field will try to default to the next largest possible shape, or shapes, depending on stake placement and availability. If no polygonal shape is possible, the whole field fails until the activated stakes are rearranged. In all other respects the antimagic field created by the stakes is identical to the effects of the 8th level spell, Antimagic Field.  

Scarf of Uncertain Times Wondrous item, rare⁣ ⁣ Worn about the neck and shoulders this scarf can be wrapped to provide protection from potential hazards.⁣ ⁣ As action you can wrap the scarf so that it covers your nose and mouth. While worn in this fashion the scarf provides immunity to poisons, gasses, diseases, and environmental hazards that must be inhaled to cause harm. While the scarf covers your mouth, your voice is inaudible to creatures beyond 5ft of you, and you cannot eat or drink.⁣ ⁣ You can also wrap the scarf around your head to form a cowl or hold. While the scarf is worn in this way you can use your action to conjure an invisible repulsive barrier. The barrier lasts for 1 hour, or until you dismiss it or fall unconscious. While active, no medium sized or smaller creature can approach within 5ft of you. If a creature is within 5ft of you when you conjure this barrier, they are immediately pushed 5ft away from you. Once active the barrier can be interacted with as if it were an extension of your physical form. For example, you may still need to make contested checks in order move a creature blocking your path or to avoid being knocked prone. Once you use this feature, it can’t be used again for 7 days.⁣

Blackfire Torch Wondrous item, uncommon⁣ ⁣ As an action you can speak a command word which alights the torch with a mystical black flame that radiates neither heat or light. Any creature within a 40’ radius of the torch, however, sees as if the visibility was one degree brighter. e.g. total darkness becomes dim light, dim light becomes bright light.⁣ ⁣ Outside the radius the torch’s flame is imperceptible. ⁣ ⁣ The torch remains active until you use your action to end the effect.⁣ (Edit. Optional rare item feature. For the person holding the torch the flame even cuts through magical darkness, making the area appear to them as dim light.⁣)

[rederiswrites]

Okay guys, for writing/general reference, a bit about what a ‘blacksmith’ is and isn’t:

A blacksmith is a generalist, a person who uses tools and fire to work iron.  Some blacksmiths work more specifically, so you get, say, an architectural blacksmith, who focuses more or less exclusively on things like gates, rails, fences, or an artist blacksmith, who makes wacky sculptures or what have you.  These days, though, that’s a pretty blurry line.  ‘Blacksmith’ is a pretty damn broad term, but it’s nowhere near broad enough to cover everything encompassed in ‘metalworker’, which is how I often see it used.  There are a LOT of different skills for working metal, and no one knows them all.  Some other terms:

A farrier shoes horses.  They may make the shoes, or they may buy them and then size them, but they actually do the shoeing.  Unless the blacksmith is also a farrier, they don’t know shit about horses’ hooves and are not qualified to deal with them and probably don’t want to.

A blacksmith works IRON, usually almost exclusively.  They might work with bronze or do a bit of brazing, but those are really separate skillsets.  If you work, say, tin and/or pewter, you are in fact a whitesmith.  You could also be a silversmith or a coppersmith, and so on.

Knifemakers and swordsmiths have their own highly specialized and fairly complex specialties, and usually a blacksmith wouldn’t mess with that unless they want to pick up a new skillset or if they’re really the only game going for a long way around.  By the same token, a swordsmith might never have learned the more general blacksmithing skills.  They’re not the same thing is what I’m trying to say here.  Likewise armorers.  There’s overlap but it’s not the same thing.

If you make metal items via molds and casting, you work at a foundry and are a foundryman.

Look, when metalworkers and individual shops and masters were the height of industry, this shit got REALLY specific.  There were people who spent their whole lives making pins.  Just pins.  Foundries specialized and made only bells, only cannon, only cauldrons, etc.  This is scratching the surface, I just wanted to make the point that ‘blacksmith’ is not the same thing as ‘magical muscly person who knows how to do everything related to metal’.

[swordscomic]

Sickle the Inventor ~ A Recap

[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

[someemochick]

It’s OK, Baby. You’re Safe.

[averycoleman]

Hunger Crazed Mimic

Design for a personal project! A mimic chest that has been chained up has gone completely insane from hunger, and can’t even muster the focus to disguise itself anymore! But someday a daring or idiotic adventurer will unlock its chains, and see it spread its form bigger than imagined just before becoming is first meal in ages.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Use your magic ✨

[worldofomos]

When it's your turn as a spellcaster.

[rollingandstories]

Me, describing my game to a non-D&D player

Me: So my party is hunting a lich.

Friend: What’s a lich.

Me: It’s like a zombie wizard, but super smart, and it doesn’t eat brains.

Friend: So like Voldemort.

Me: Yeah, basically. And we know the lich is in a specific city, so we talk to the guard, and the Marquis and the heads of the magic school.

Friend: Like Hogwarts?

Me: Kinda. If McGonagall was a dragon lady druid and Flitwick was a worshiper of the goddess of knowledge.

Friend: Sounds about right.

Me: So the head of the wizard academy–

Friend: Dumbledore.

Me: Sure. Only if Dumbledore was secretly an ancient Dragon in disguise.

Friend: That wouldn’t surprise me.

Me: So Dumbledore tells us that the lich is probably trying to kill him and that he might be hiding in the secret vault under the school that’s full of magical items.

Friend: A chamber of secrets?

Me: APPARENTLY.

Friend: So you’re at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore sent you into the chamber of secrets to fight Voldemort. You’re basically Harry Potter.

Me: (thinking about my dwarf eldritch knight who dumped wisdom) No. I’m Ron.