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Yeld's August Monster of the Month! Each Month we ask the Yeld community to come up with a cool Monster that everyone can use in their games! August's theme was "Welcome to Yeld, have a Monster!" Norm the Toothfacer Clerk is this month's Monster of the Month! Norm is designed by Yeld community member Rynelf360 to represent an average Yeld citizen and encourage new adventurers to try non-lethal alternatives. Don't kill Norm! Use your words!

As part of our Monster of the Month event I create an official profile and art for the chosen Monster:

September's Monster of the Month prompt is up now!

Happy little battle maps!

A little something about common questions about TTRPG debates which miss fairly important points. #TTRPG #GM

Disclaimer: The following information is not derived from any scientific study, merely observation of internet forums and my own relatively wide ranging experience of playing with a lot of different groups in a lot of different places. If you don’t recognise yourself in this then that’s OK. Different lives, different experiences. 🙂 A question I often see asked is “What is the best game system in…

I’ve been procrastinating writing this articles for about four hours now. It’s late. Theoretically I have a swim meet in Perry coming up in about 5 hours. I should be asleep.About half of the TTRPG community is at Pax Unplugged in Philadelphia right now. Wish I was there, y’all. Instead I’m here on the Internet watching what was a well-meaning Goodman Games and Backerkit assemble a seminar for…

Urban Arcana is coming from Evil Genius games sometime in the not-so-distant future. It's a spiffy setting for Everyday Heroes with its origins in the early 2000s. Alas, I won't be writing it. Oh well.

Sigh. 200 entries. I mean, I guess I had to expect this. Kind of a bummer, but I’ll survive.Evil Genius Games put out a call for submissions for the new Urban Arcana. Evil Genius makes a TTRPG called Everyday Heroes. It’s a neat game that reboots good old D20 Modern. The new Urban Arcana is a reboot of (you guessed it) the old D20 Modern setting from Wizards of the Coast. The original was a lot…

Part 2 of my design diary. Imposter syndrome and self doubt are setting in. Plans to use OGL/SRD 5.1 have been sacked.

Well, crud.This is the point I hit every time I try to design my own game where things start to break down. I get frustrated, sidetracked, and eventually lose interest. To be honest, Old School Essentials is looking really good right now. Like, I could just design the World of Warcraft character classes and monsters for OSE and call it a day.That’s not my game, though.I have a fabulous idea for…

My technique for reshaping/ resizing magical armor and clothing. Maybe you run it differently, and that's cool too. Here's how I do it in case anyone was wondering. Also encourages the One-Size-Fits-All model.

A couple of things occurred to me when finishing the King article for #ArcaneApril. I know how I prefer to run these things, but I’m not sure if everyone does it the same way. I’m not the expert on all things fantasy TTRPG, so please if you have a different way you’re doing it for your group- do it that way. I’m not suggesting anyone change to the way I’m doing it. Gender Fluid Armor. Similar…