Hey hello!! It's been a while since I've shared some stuff from The Dungeon Archie, but I realized I never posted about these ones I worked on a while back- It's a celestial cultist and a floating mask creature! These were released as part of the Golden Tower adventure, which you can check here for free! (Also the art for the animated tokens was done by me, and animated by Vaank!)

I’ve been wanting to play Calico, it’s supposed to be a cozy cat cafe video game <https://peachykeengames.itch.io/calico>

Inspirisles is a ttrpg that helps learn ASL and/or BSL (sign languages) and it’s been on my wish list for a while! <https://hatchlingdm.itch.io/inspirisles>

Exceptionals is a ttrpg inspired by x-men superheroes and the mutant metaphor for marginalized experiences, punching back and making your own space <https://bramblewolfgames.itch.io/exceptionals>

Girl Underground, a pbta game meant for playing stories like Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland <https://hedgemazepress.itch.io/girlunderground>

a solo ttrpg about a for a coven of witches putting on dinner parties <https://sunflower-wizard.itch.io/coven-dinner-party>

a GMless playset for Agon (an ancient greek heroic rpg about doing great feats and somewhat competing against other heroes to make your fame), but also, this one’s about drinking and telling stories about past glories <https://matteosciutteri.itch.io/tavern-story>

and more gems I keep discovering, that haven’t been in previous bundles :3

The upstairs of the Coronet, a seedy and rundown public house in the industrial district. The pub is under new management, and has been undergoing extensive renovations in the hope of cleaning up its image. Despite the owner’s best efforts, pickpockets and thugs loiter outside. And most nights, a smuggler by the name of Smiley Sam can be found in the barroom, ready to trade in secrets, coin, or illicit goods.

The roof of the Third Regional Bank, an imposing edifice with an atrial dome and a cluster of gold statues above its grand doors. From this height, you can see the sprawl of the whole city, its flickering lights and flares of magic. The night watchman might need paying off, and it’s none too comfortable in rain or snow. But the gargoyles have formed a sketch comedy group, so there’s built-in entertainment.

The Magnolia Pink, a fabulous hotel with genuine silver floors. The suites are worth the expense, from the liveried servants who attend the guests’ every need to the plush, indulgent beds and decadent room service options. But rumor has it that for every night you pass in the Magnolia Pink’s embrace, the less likely you are to come out again — at least until you can no longer scrounge up the cash to afford just one more night.

Under the Bodhi Bridge. This brickwork overpass provides excellent shelter from the elements, particularly because some enterprising vagabond has knocked in part of the supporting wall and created an accessible niche roughly 15x15 ft. in size. In time, other vagrants have left their marks: symbols in thieves’ cant, broken bottles, worn-out boots, and a pile of logs inoculated with a variety of mushrooms.

Inchibald Quingle’s Lodging House, a crooked three-story structure with drafty rooms, narrow hallways, and two hearty meals a day. The elderly Mr. Quingle has handed the reins to his son, Inchie Jr., whose passion for cookery has earned the Quingle Lodging House its place on the map. Inchie’s other passion—taxidermy—does put some guests off their supper, however.

The Asylum of the Ragged Saints, a humble almshouse dedicated to housing the poor, the pensioners, and the downtrodden. Available only to those in need, the Asylum’s rooms are clean and orderly, but offer little privacy and even less comfort. Its patron, Lady Parsimony Cross, is a crotchety and bookish young woman who inherited responsibility for the Asylum from a more kindly and warm relative. She is greatly concerned with the idea that the Asylum is being used by those who do not truly need its services, and has begun imposing increasingly high standards of poverty and desperation to its residents.

An abandoned underground transport station, dating from a time immemorial. A rusting metal wagon rests on a sunken track, its doors jammed into the open position. Moth-eaten seats line an aisle within. The track extends into the darkness of an enclosed tunnel, which emits an eerie buzzing noise. If the wagon doesn’t hold any appeal, you can always remain on the buckling stone platform and examine its illegible signage and explore the chambers lined in cracked, mossy tile which branch from the main cavernous space.

IDK if it will be touched on anywhere else, but I at least wanted for the record's sake to mourn r/DnDBehindTheScreen being frozen.

Since I discovered D&D in 2015, homebrew was what fuelled my imagination, but r/DnDBehindTheScreen's advice was what glued so many of my games together. Just a constant outpouring of amazing insight from other people who love the art of ttrpgs.

In memory of what this subreddit offers even as a frozen archive, I want to go over some of my favourite bookmarked posts:

Shadow of the Colossus - Running Colossal Monsters as Reactive Dungeons rather than statblocks

Alternatives damage vulnerability rules to help keep encounters stay balanced even when a party's playing to its strengths. Combine with Soft Vulnerabilities to really spice your monsters up

Creating Armies: more than statblocks. One of the most creatively-engaging tutorials I've ever seen to get you think about statting out parts of your world. Want to build humanoid soldier statblocks? Take a nation from your campaign, and boil down its army into a few key traits (for me, this was a rabbit-folk nation, so its traits ended up being keen instincts and jumping). Build two CR 1/2 soldiers representing the ranged and the melee infantry, and then simply scale them up into veterans like you're building an upgrade, using your key traits as inspiration for how each soldier rank builds upon the previous (for me, that included building jumping as a disengage action into the rabbit folk archers, and letting veteran bodyguard rabbits hop over towards a target to take a hit for them. Suddenly, I had a novel army identity just off the back of one trait).

Magic Item Swap - Take a magic item, leave a magic item. Don't know what magic item to put next dungeon? Bam, 200 of them in one link. You're welcome.

Let's Build a Monster that Matters: Dragons. Most you could possibly want in a one-source resource for how to think of and imagine dragons in your setting. Fizban's before Fizban's, basically. The same user also made fantastic homebrew dragons under their "Draconomicon" posts complete with lore and encounters. Combine with All the colors of the kobolds, a series that creates entire cultural veins for metallic and chromatic shades of kobold.

Woke: shopkeeper is an employee of the high level dragon who lives under the shop.

Bespoke: shopkeeper is a magic marionette expertly operated by the high level dragon who lives under the shop.

Went on a massive thread bender on Bluesky about the implications of elves with antlers. Turns out you open up a whole can of worms by adding just a simple design choice. - ❤️ Aboleth Eye

ADOPTABLE : winter queen!