Ancient D&D: Let’s rewind the implied mythology of D&D until all of the ancient conflicts are erupting all at once and we can make up new ones.
Ancient D&D 2: Spending some time getting their feet wet can allow the players time to engage with the conflicts that are interesting to them and my hope is that being 1st level doesn’t have to mean they are fighting rats in the tavern basement while the planes run red with blood and quite frankly, with far more interesting conflicts.
Bingo XP Variant
I'll just throw together all of my fav D&D houserules.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) November 17, 2018
Might as well put them together in a doc.
Might as well change a few things that vex me.
Resource die, only levels 1-3, no initiative, new spells…
Chargen could use a …
Fuck, I'm writing a game.
/https://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/making-magic-items-inspired-by-apocalypse-world/
Listen, it is just D&D but everyone starts the game with their favorite dinosaur as a mount/pet.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) September 10, 2020
That's it.
Send tweet.
Picture from @britishlibrary https://t.co/3JFOSjBpt7#dnd #dinosaurs pic.twitter.com/BEWybmh90y
D&D Idea: The only way to navigate between worlds is between wyrmhole portals that lead through the cyclopean innards of alien ships.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) January 27, 2019
Delvers lead ambassadors, trade delegates and diplomats through these barely mappable otherspaces so human colonies can communicate.
Strixhaven: Debt, Publishing and Perishing
Completing academic coursework is the only way to level up. Adventuring, while maybe necessary to stop *waves vaguely at evil in the world* fucks up your education and your ability to advance.
Other bits to this setting idea:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) January 28, 2019
Dune-like shields, how much equipment packed is determined by how prestigious a traveler you are guiding is and odd alien powers that only work in these spaces…
Undead born of imbalances in the primal forces of life and death:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) January 26, 2019
Feral
Undead born through ceremony to pursue often fell goals outside the cycle of life:
Ordained
D&D Idea: For every stat you roll you roll on the equipment tables. Otherwise choose your stats and start the game with a dull knife and a burlap sack.#dnd #dungeonsanddragons
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 28, 2018
Intrigued.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 27, 2018
Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs, or, A New OSR Primerhttps://t.co/8hHMbSLXy8#DnD #dungeonsanddragons pic.twitter.com/8jnROwsmro
Chargen Questions for Classes and Hex Describehttps://t.co/naFSBmJh7S#dnd #dungeonsanddragons pic.twitter.com/39MzS1lNMk
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 19, 2018
In which I find a dusty old world of Unicorn Paladins, Rat Rogues and Wizardly former Familiars thanks to @fictionalMammal.https://t.co/QhBxuosdbc #dnd #dungeonsanddragons pic.twitter.com/QUPhD4D3fB
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 13, 2018
D&D Setting Ideas: Caves of Qud-inspired D&D at the table. Magic is lost tech of the ancients, the ability to manipulate demons who are trapped in satellites the gods left circling the earth. Mutants. Bears with guns. AK with a few bullets on your back and sword on your hip.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 13, 2018
D&D setting ideas: World of the Beast Lords. Humans and humanoids are gone. All that's left are upright animals. Want to play an anthropomorphic displacer beast, unicorn or blink dog?
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 13, 2018
Economic Ruin Table
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) December 2, 2018
Lich-King’s zombie labor
Dragon attacks
Pirates
Guilds feuding with ducal council
Gold mines under siege from the deeps (1spiders 2trolls 3drow 4quaggoth 5illithid 6duergar)
What else can fuck up the economy of a fantasy world (to be used in a thing)?
D&D idea: no initiative, attacks happen all at once in a clusterfuck mess unless you ambush your enemies or have Advantage and spend it to get that attack in first.#dnd #dungeonsanddragons
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) November 15, 2018
The Froghemoth Flats, map via Wonderdraft by @Megasploot & random encounter tables w/ setting questions by @jrients answered to flesh it out in my mind.https://t.co/2EeCSDU0oH#dnd #DungeonsandDragons #randomencountertables pic.twitter.com/DTuLnE8XZD
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 28, 2018
Listening to King Arthur: History and Legend by @Prof_Dorsey.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 28, 2018
The ratio she dropped about traveling is SO useful to us gaming geeks who pour over maps of fictional places.
Travel time:
For every
23 days by foot
6 days by horse
1 days by ship
Pic:https://t.co/pze1Tkfnsi pic.twitter.com/AN6bWjH2tK
The Thousand Years War between the giants and the dragons is about to begin. Humans are young and have not yet made their first city; the only city is in this world the giants’ city, Ostoria. #dnd #dungeonsanddragonshttps://t.co/BFWZCVhU8c
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 19, 2018
D&D idea: No feats at chargen. Players can only access feats by learning them from NPC's and monsters. #dnd #dnd5e
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 17, 2018
I'd like to run the game that Planescape boxed set promised, with PC's getting into adventures in the towns and villages in the planar outlands with the results rippling out into the multiverse and Sigil as the base of operations.#notatgencon18 #DnD#planescape pic.twitter.com/tLvgKSVmLg
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 2, 2018
There is an imbalance in a village in the Outlands where the Inner Planes and the Outer Planes meet…
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 13, 2018
Roll 3d8.https://t.co/1N9C3vFCEs#dnd #planescape
Camelot has fallen. The Questing Beast has spawned a thousand young. Knights turn bandit as castles crumble.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) October 12, 2018
You are the bastards pillaging what's left. Will you try to salvage nobility from the wreckage or sell it for profit? https://t.co/Q53r3VtUpW#dnd pic.twitter.com/5hrLFpj4mA
Those Who Fight (lords, ladies, knights, squires, kings and queens) Those Who Pray (nuns, priests, monks, cardinals and popes) are monsters, like right out of the Monster Manual and Fiend Folio. https://t.co/NDDd4UivBv#dnd
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) September 12, 2018
Made a blog post from last week's twitter-thread. pic.twitter.com/VLEmX8VRoO
#DnD Idea: Absent players/PC's can leave a letter at the guild for another character, saying what their character learned & something about the world to investigate further – perhaps allowing for an adv or re-roll under special circumstances.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 14, 2018
Thoughts?
Spelljammer but all of the worlds have broken apart into an eternal asteroid field. Put your favorite fantasy worlds into a blender and grab salvage from the chunks. Players grab parts of the worlds and put together something new.#dnd #notatgencon18
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 3, 2018
Players are Kobolds when the alarm goes up – there are adventurers in the valley, on their way to your lair.#notatgencon18 #dnd5e #volosguidetomonsters
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 2, 2018
Your uncle was going to leave your family his caravans and resources as a Merchant House but upon his death his debtors collected first, leaving you all with one shipment, a few steeds and old maps of Athas' water wells. #notatgencon18
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 2, 2018
The inhuman sorcerer-kings are long gone, having strip-mined this world of whatever it is they desired, but their dangerous labs, towers and feast-halls.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) August 2, 2018
You have a city license to delve and clear them out, full salvage rights to whatever you find…#notatgencon18
I have this odd urge to use #godbound to smash through published WotC hard-cover modules with the Raven Queen, Vecna, Khaz, Asmodeus and Orcus as PC's.#ravenqueen #vecna #orcus #godtyrant #dnd #dungeonsandragons
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) January 29, 2019
Thinking about elements of dungeons:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 1, 2019
*Original fell purpose
*Complication
*Treasure
*Monster(s)
*Countdown to bigger problem/complication/evolution
*Cool name
What else?#dnd #dungeonsandragons
Because deities were banished from Sigil, those who do pray sometimes send those prayers in a direction, towards a concrete place in the planes where answering powers might reside using caravan guards and migratory fauna. #dnd #planescape #sigil #dungeonsanddragons
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 7, 2019
Your clan will be attacked once the snow's melt and you have no weapons while your neighbors have volcano glass spears given to them by their Fire God.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 12, 2019
Where will you all go to get your weapons?#dnd #dungeonsanddragons
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Level advancent via a bingo card on the table. When the group scores bingo they can give a level advance to:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 14, 2019
a player character
a pet
a non-player character
the home base
On the bingo card, the DW advances list w/things written in by the table.#dnd #dungeonsanddragons
Alright, the DM can either leave the middle as auto-filled or can put something specific in there.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 15, 2019
The outer rim should be filled in by all of the players at the table (including the DM).https://t.co/qsJYhh61xT
"Here are my favorite shovels. They can be used to dig pits, graves, latrines or bash your neighbors’ heads in. I beg you to use them with grace and empathy."
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) March 9, 2019
from The Arch-Mage’s Tome#Wizards #archmage #spellbook #mage
I'm writing up spells for my D&D hack.
Other possible deities:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) January 29, 2019
Grumsh, The Cat Lord, Garl Glittergold
Something foul has infested the ancient crypts under Javelin Hill. Weird creatures bearing the bones and grave-goods of princes, priests, and loved ones are crawling up from the depths…https://t.co/46d7NXUdJj pic.twitter.com/9PFaPR4rYo
— Dʏsᴏɴ Lᴏɢᴏs (@DysonLogos) April 18, 2019
For NPC's:
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) June 6, 2019
1. What challenges or reflects something interesting in the PC's.
2. What does the logic and situation of the world already established suggest.
3. What do I want to see more of in fantasy fiction, breaks established tropes and is interesting to me.
D&D Idea: Players are surveyors for the Sigil Railway Company, out in front of the work crews laying rails through the Outlands.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) September 11, 2019
Maps procedurally generated, kinda like:https://t.co/1N9C3vFCEs#dnd #planescapehttps://t.co/7q2fRmEPeJ pic.twitter.com/RAJS5BVRes
D&D Idea: A century after #DescentIntoAvernus and there are 9 infernal highways, one for each of the hells, criss-crossing Faerun like scars.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) September 14, 2019
Players use the new vehicle rules to Fury Road the shit out of the Forgotten Realms.#dnd #witnessme
The Sorcerer-kings mined something from our dreams and left. Only their sealed up and dangerous towers and laboratories are evidence that they were ever here. You are the city's municipal delvers, cleaning up after parasitic rulers.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) February 23, 2020
Flash forward 80 years. That kid hireling is an elder, trying to find your reincarnations by an arcane test.
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) May 21, 2020
You've been locked into some kind of cycle because of your past life's delves. #dnd
adding to ⚡️ “D&D Ideas” https://t.co/kPCkB4YV2G
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D&D CAMPAIGN IDEA: Stone Age humans caught in the midst of the dragon/giant war.#dnd #ttrpg
— @Judd@dice.camp (@Judd_of_Kryos) July 20, 2020
BLOG POST: Bringing it all together quickly with Backgrounds (inspired by a tweet by Rob Donoghue)
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