Watch the interview with Anna (me, I mean) over at Dungeon Master’s Guild House! Matthew Whitby has a lot of hard questions… No, I’m joking. We’re just chatting about Herbalist’s Primer, best ways to do research for your RPG project, methods of building an audience, and other ins and outs of creating RPG content for fun and profit.
It also includes Theon the cat and Trevor, the somehow-still-alive plant.
Give it a look!
by Jakub Wisz
In the previous parts of the blog, I covered two of the seven major Kinships, the Khradi and the Triveni. In this one, I wanted to break away from the pattern before it emerges and bring your attention to another thing entirely – alien, mistborn creatures known as Vila. Their ways are as impenetrable to human minds as they themselves are to the human ships floating freely in the mists.
Read MoreIs it okay if you give somebody a lift? What if you give back answers? Do you get cheek-ache reading the news? Take a look at this curated collection of useful and colorful words and phrases of Victorian slang and make your 19th-century-inspired games more fleshed-out!
Read MoreAn absolute must-read for all street mages and urban shamans who want to put some real occult into their magic roleplay.
Read MoreYew is a highly toxic evergreen tree, with showy, red berries and flat, green needles.
It symbolizes death and rebirth, allowing contact, control, and raising of the dead.
Yes, we’re talking about this ‘Show Your Work‘. I know it’s a well-known book, but it’s a new one for me.
This might be the most useful book I’ve read this year. Admittedly, most books I’ve read were on the topics of botany and occult, which are rather well known to me already. Marketing… Not so much.
Read MoreBored of the standard D&D 5e herbalism kit? Check out the tools and supplies your herbalist and alchemist would really use!
Read MoreForest encounters aren’t always fun. As the player characters grow in power, animals stop being a challenge, and just how many times you can fight bandits? Why not let the characters stray off the path…? Why not let them get lost and wander into the dark part of the forest, where fey, hags, and monsters dwell?
Read MoreWe all just want our PCs to have pretty portraits, right? Years ago, I wrote a post on character portrait generators. For some reason (thanks, Google), it’s the first-page result and brings to this blogs tons of people.
And it’s terribly, terribly out of date. 2018 was a long-past time of very limited options. So, behold. A new, annotated list of portrait generators, which will be updated as new options appear on the market. There are thousands of generators these days, and I’m only showcasing the ones that will be genuinely useful (ie. omitting those that only bring to the table a single female body type and no options for other genders).
Read Moreby Anna Urbanek
I have been given a carte blanche by our lovely dungeon master to do whatever the hell I want with my D&D character, so I made her an absolute menace.
Read Moreby Anna Urbanek
There have been things happening, and as I really didn’t have the time to blog over the last months, I struggle to even find a good place to pick up.
First of all, we did the big step: Double Proficiency is now a registered company, not just two freelancers trying to make a living. Wages, pension, insurance, all the jazz. For us, it makes a massive difference, and the tax office agrees. Also yay, accountants, which means I don’t have to worry about messing up the taxes.
Read Moreby Jakub Wisz
In the previous part of the Aurorae dev blog I talked about the Khradi and their way of life around the frozen isles lost in the mists on the far orbit of the planetoid Maer. In this blog I’m gonna talk about the denizens of Maer, another major culture shaping the outlook on life in Aurorae – the Triveni, constantly dubbed The Mushroom People by Anna.
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