#dnd is a hobby game built on 76% joy, 17% frustration, and 7% pizza and caffeinated drinks. [Your percentages may vary.]
— Shawn Merwin (@shawnmerwin) February 15, 2021
Folk horror art from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft is getting close! I did a lot of work on this one. I got to mine the dark side of @FWesSchneider brain and design some… interesting… things. #dnd #dndart https://t.co/RasyLRi2AS pic.twitter.com/om9WevdYkz
— Shawn G. Wood (@thesgw) April 22, 2021
I did a drawing/creature design demo for some kids through work. We made a Mountain Hook Horror. Think I'll use these guys in my next session… #dnd pic.twitter.com/FbnQau3PrQ
— Shawn G. Wood (@thesgw) April 23, 2021
Burning hands is both a “a thin sheet” and a cone. Which is correct?
Burning hands is both a “a thin sheet” and a cone. Which is correct? Is there an easy way to know how to resolve such contradictions? Burning hands is a 15-foot cone. To reconcile the words "sheet" and "cone" in the spell's text, one solution is imagining a waffle cone: a sheet shaped into a cone.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) February 28, 2021
I also like a triangular sheet that rotates around the center line. Et voila, cone.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 28, 2021
That is the fantasy equivalent of a gangster rotating their hand to hold their gun sideways. Except it would actually increase effectiveness, but sure. 😂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 28, 2021
“let’s see how good our DM is!”
Tonight was Valerie’s Avernus #dnd game and boy was it a thing!
Party, invisible, sneaking through the Duke of Baldur’s Gate’s mansion: “We need a distraction.”
My character: *plants bean from the Bag of Beans in a planter*
Long story short, it ate the butler… Great story. The bag of beans is one of my favorite “let’s see how good our DM is!” magic items. #wotcstaff
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) December 12, 2020
I’m curious as to the origin of Ninemen in Nulathoe’s spell?
I was researching something, and I’m curious as to the origin of Ninemen in Nulathoe’s spell? Does it come from nine man’s morris, or some other archaic usage? Nope. I made it up. ;}
I'd penned a short story in which a wizard used a spell to fix the broken joints of 9 men after a battle; it became "ninemen" and (alliteration's artful aid) got hitched to the spell. I was 6 at the time, and D&D was still a decade away.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 26, 2021
And pronounced “nin-e-men”.👍🏻 Indeed. Confirmed. I didn't want "nine-men," I wanted a 'new word' that sounded like a form of spell or magic ritual, so it could be used again for related magics. I was already a fan of Vancian magic systems, from my voracious fantasy reading. Thanks to my dad's den.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 27, 2021
In this market, skulls, fresh or not, are one a penny
I draw the Sword of Undying Flame—but its flames promptly flicker
And the dragon loses its look of fear, and draws nearer, and starts to snicker— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2021
Send out the jesters, and bring me my viziers obtuse
For of dunderheads I have sudden need of violent yet futile use— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2021
In this market, skulls, fresh or not, are one a penny
I had not thought, in this green land, that death had undone so many— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 5, 2021
Eberron: the ability to play a truly gender neutral character has actively made my life better
the ability to play a truly gender neutral character has actively made my life better. Your setting is a fantastic place where I can feel comfortable for the first time in my almost 50 years in this earth. I'm glad to hear it!
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 17, 2021
A single story world can always be expanded. But Dragonlance began as a single story, as did Star Wars
@HellcowKeith I was talking about the RPGs specifically. Dragonlance seen just as the initial set of adventures does fit the single purpose story, but by the very first dragonlance rpg book that has changed
— Michael Phillips (@roninkakuhito) December 9, 2020
Certainly. But as someone who was there at the very beginning, *I* think of Dragonlance as the modules and stories that started it off; it was five years before Dragonlance Adventures expanded on that.The point in the original discussion was that when you are creating something, you have a choice in that very first initial moment: focus on a single story or focus on multiple stories.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 9, 2020
A single story world can always be EXPANDED. But Dragonlance BEGAN as a single story, as did Star Wars. The fact they were later expanded doesn’t change that. By contrast, there's no one central story to Eberron. From the very beginning it was created with more villains and plots than one campaign could use.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 9, 2020
And that's not being BRAGGY or anything; it's a different approach. My RPG Phoenix is a single-story setting.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) December 9, 2020