Bold Text on Roll20? Markdown! and a Few Other Tricks.
Using Markdown to Bold Text in Roll20 I see a lot of people trying to understand how to bold text on Roll20. The trick is using markdown, a markup language used by Roll20 and others. You can find their explanation of the topic here, but in brief, it’s all about the asterisks: *One asterisk one…
Nuisance Monsters: The Lichtfresser
It’s unlikely that any adventurer was ever killed by a lichtfresser. They do present a significant danger though, as their fixation on light makes complicates the use of any light source. Having your driftglobe carried off in the belly of a giant bug to dungeon parts unknown is a real downer too. Watch the video…
A D&D 5e Maze for Your Consideration: Part 2 – My Enemy’s Enemy’s Enemy
The last installment in this series found our heroes (or maybe villains?) climbing down either a well or pit to escape a labyrinthine temple. We resume here having reached the bottom of one of these shafts to find an underground river running through a cavern. The PCs are now level 2, and this module assumes…
A DnD Maze for Your Consideration
A friend of mine brought this great new map editor, Dungeon Scrawl to my attention. I started playing with it and knocked out a map pretty quickly. I’ve had this maze in my head for a few days, and I’d been working on it in Inkscape, but it was taking a lot of time. Dungeon…
The Dungeonsports Coliseum Project
Since October, I’ve been working on building a streaming channel on Twitch. The focus has been the Dungeonsports Coliseum. This project has been eating up so much of my time. It’s something of an evolution of thee pickup games I was running. In addition to running over 12 hours of game a week, I’ve been…
The TV Show Style Intro
One of my favorite ways to start out pickup games or other one shots is by creating a TV show style intro with the players. If the players have trouble understanding what I’m asking for, I describe the beginning of anime, which typically feature the characters in a scene that helps define them. Getting Started I…
Dazzle and Crow Save the Worlds
Over the last few weeks I’ve started an actual play podcast with my daughters, whose handles on the internet are Dazzle and Crow. We’ve started with the game No Thank You, Evil!. In this first game Dazzle is playing Elise the super-smart princess who does magic. Crow is playing Simone, the super-sneaky wizard who flies…
Port Fey Campaign Setting
The Port Fey campaign setting first saw life in the game Soth that I ran. Soth is a game about cultists in a small town working to bring their evil god, the eponymous Soth, to earth. I keep meaning to do a post about this great game; it will show up in my favorites some…