I suppose you could also do a rouge ancestry that has good attribute boosts for a rogue, so that if someone says they are playing a rouge, you can say "Ah, that makes sense given that I see you are a rogue; that's a good ancestry pick." That said, we have out April Fool's figured out this time!
When I was doing a pass on the poisons for Pathfinder 2nd Edition, arsenic and hemlock were real-world poisons and I wanted to check that the onset times were appropriate... Eventually I found a site for mystery authors who used poison on fictional characters, but the searches...
@herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social have one last challenge for you! Put all the clues together and solve this metapuzzle at puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/13. And check out the Year of Mysteries at www.kickstarter.com/projects/rol...!
Time for the final normal puzzle! Head to puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/12 for instructions and to submit your answer. For next week, you can go through the archives and make sure you've solved them all! And check out the Year of Mysteries at kickstarter.rollforcombat.com!
Professor DM prepares a table of players to face their doom in Deathbringer
Deathbringer panel starting now with a demo of Professor DM's alpha version of the rules!
No plugs at the panel table... but Stephen can't be stopped, so he found a way to improvise.
At dinner with @tectonomancer.bsky.social @bobworldbuilder.bsky.social Roll For Combat, Professor DM, Grace World Destroyer, Linda Zayas-Palmer, and Derik Malenda
Come visit if you are around! It's 4057
The booth is all set up at PAX Unplugged!
It's Wednesday again. Our you ready for our trickiest puzzle so far by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social? Head on over to puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/10 for the rules (or if you're a veteran puzzler, I suppose you can try to guess them just from the diagram below).
New week, new puzzle by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social! Put together the number of syllables in the () to spell a word matching the clue. The first and last letters of each word will lead to the answer. More rules and submit answers here! puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/9
This week's puzzle by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social has five parts, and you'll have to figure out how to use them together to get the final answer! Can you solve it and find out about an upcoming ancestry by Linda Zayas-Palmer? Rules here: puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/8!
It's Wednesday again, time for puzzle 7 by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social! Solve the maze and find the answer (maze instructions are in the link)
Submit your solution at puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/7 and find out more about the Year of Mysteries for D&D and Pathfinder!
Love D&D and Pathfinder playable options? Puzzles? In the sixth puzzle by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social, can you navigate the waterfall of letters and find the answer? Submit your solution at puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/6 and find out more about the Year of Mysteries!
If you like puzzles or mysterious playable TTRPG ancestries I've got another new puzzle for you by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social. The puzzle is in the image, and you can submit your answer here to see how you ranked among other solvers: puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/5
If you like puzzles (or even if you don't), the third Year of Mysteries puzzle is live! If you haven't caught the first two, you can check them out too at the bottom of the page. puzzles.rollforcombat.com/puzzles/3
New Wednesday, New Puzzle! This one is by @herzwesten.bsky.social and @joeadultman.bsky.social! puzzles.rollforcombat.com
Do you like puzzles? We're doing one each week to reveal some new Pathfinder and D&D content, with a leaderboard for solving it! This first one is relatively simple, and it just went up a few minutes ago. Can you solve it? Puzzle by @herzwesten.bsky.social puzzles.rollforcombat.com
That scene where he prebuffs like 50 spells in a row including Body of Effulgent Beryl and Twinned and Maximized spells before engaging in a tough fight made me feel seen as a Pathfinder 1st Edition / 3.0 / 3.5 player. I actually watched it when I saw that clip (you might have sent it to me).
I know your timeline might be full of hoax posts today, but my April 1st tradition is to release a free book that seems like it must be a joke but is actually serious and balanced for your game. I feel like it's more fun that way. This year, why not play as a deity? battlezoo.com/products/fre...
You're welcome! I think it says something that one of the responses was from someone asking for a page ref because their players needed the example 😆
Today in random humorous game design, I learned from Google docs that your attribute flaw is "the Constitution."
Weird and wacky characters can be as memorable in TTRPGs as they are in other games, books, movies, TV shows, and more, but sometimes it can be in all the wrong ways. Join us for tips and tricks on how to build and play a weird and unique character your group will love!
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In TTRPGs, teamwork can allow you to succeed better than selfish loner play. But on the other extreme, you can have groupthink where the party becomes a hivemind and makes poor decisions. In today's video, we examine the pitfalls of teamwork and how you can avoid them! youtu.be/a9NZ5LFQxS8
One of the hardest things to do in a TTRPG, is to back down and change your mind or strategy. This applies in and out of game and can be especially tough when you're sure you have what it takes to win or that you're right. Become a more effective player and GM! www.youtube.com/live/CYoCCUz...
You can rest now? What about Completionist++ 😁
Either way, congrats, I stopped after completing normal Completionist and the Challenges.
Metagaming is a bogeyman of TTRPGs, used to describe the sort of bad behavior in an RPG horror story. But is that all? Join us as we discuss what metagaming is, when it can be beneficial, and how attempting to avoid it can be the start of a different horror story.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggk...
Dungeon Dad had a really fun video on the 5e version of the titan ancestry I wrote for the Year of Titans Kickstarter (also for Pathfinder 2e, but the build in the video is in 5e): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBh_....
I would say generally be very mindful of exactly what a character can and can't do while solo piloting a solo vehicle. Look especially at how fast it can go and if it has unusual Speeds. Then you can make sure the rest of your campaign is appropriately calibrated around that!
In the continuing annals of no context game design text, here we have a triple spell:
"but using the dispelled spell’s spell rank"
