Showing posts with label henchmen and hirelings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label henchmen and hirelings. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Free and Pay-What-You-Want 5e DMs Guild Highlights: Week Ending 2.28.21

Every week, talented creators upload Dungeons and Dragons products to the DMs Guild, pricing them as free or pay-what-you-want in order to reach customers and establish their brand. Dozens of new free and PWYW products are added each week alone. It is a lot to sort through. My hope is that highlighting a few of each week's best supplements will help the designers get the attention they deserve.


You can find previous posts in this series HERE.





Papercraft minis are fun to make and are affordable options for GMs. A mimic dice box is a great idea, and I am thinking about doing one for my work desk for paperclips and rubberbands.



Magic Items for New Players from Xhango Games


Fun selection of magic items. This document is especially geared towards new GMs; it features brief design notes that can help GMs understand how the items might affect their games and suggestions for scenarios in which they might make for good rewards.



Henchmen 5e from Seth Kenlon


Interesting and easy-to-use set of henchmen rules. Your possible number of henchmen keys off of your charisma modifier, and you are able to deflect some of the damage you might take onto them. They require upkeep costs. Creative blend of old and new. I was surprised by how much I liked this.





Solo adventures are awesome, especially given the current pandemic. I love having solo gamebooks and other convenient ways to play games without having to navigate online forums, fill out long applications, and/or beg in order to find a game. 



Trade Guilds of Waterdeep from Firblog Factory


This is a really well-developed set of downtime activities based around different guild memberships. You can actually "level up" within guilds, starting off as an apprentice and slowly working your way up to being a master. Probably the best homebrew downtime rules that I have seen on the Guild. Free.


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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Humpday RPG Show 2.3.21

Aside from the actual PLAYING of games, my favorite things about this wonderful hobby are those two bastions of DIY creativity, zines and blogs. Join me each week on the Thought Eater podcast as I share the blogs, zines, and RPG bric-a-brac that caught my eye.

Have you started a new blog recently? Are you working on a zine? Are you a content creator that would like to be considered for an interview on the show? Want to send me review copies of what you're working on? I want to hear from you! Email me at frothsof at gmail or use the contact form on my blog (visible in desktop mode in the right-hand column).

You can join the show by calling in at anchor.fm/thoughteater or via the Anchor app!

CLICK HERE for listening options or use the player below.






MAPS OF THE WEEK



BUY IT HERE (link corrected)








ZINE CLUB: Special Guest James Crane of Crumbling Keep



https://crumblingkeep.com/




































HUMPDAY BLOG-O-RAMA





















RANDOM TABLES








FREE STUFF


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dyQH5URB0-Zpwu8kxvwfwvLZbbU56PfF/view


















THE FINAL TOPIC: ANCESTRY UPDATES IN DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS









OUTRO




D&D Candy Boxes


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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Humpday RPG Show 1.20.21 with Special Guest Logan Dean of The Company RPG

Aside from the actual PLAYING of games, my favorite things about this wonderful hobby are those two bastions of DIY creativity, zines and blogs. Join me each week on the Thought Eater podcast as I share the blogs, zines, and RPG bric-a-brac that caught my eye.

Have you started a new blog recently? Are you working on a zine? Are you a content creator that would like to be considered for an interview on the show? Want to send me review copies of what you're working on? I want to hear from you! Email me at frothsof at gmail or use the contact form on my blog (visible in desktop mode in the right-hand column).

You can join the show by calling in at anchor.fm/thoughteater or via the Anchor app!

CLICK HERE for listening options or use the player below.







MAPS


https://dungeoneering.blogspot.com/2021/01/apom-adventure-design-diary-21-mapping.html









https://www.patreon.com/novaworlds



ZINE CLUB (SPECIAL GUEST: LOGAN DEAN)










RANDOM TABLES








HUMPDAY BLOG-O-RAMA






















FREE STUFF















THE FINAL TOPIC: RULE ZERO

http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-origins-of-rule-zero.html



OUTRO





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