Ahdok @ ahdok @ttrpg.network

I make comics sometimes: https://linktr.ee/ahdok

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Oh, Scoops has a token, in case your campaign needs a Tabaxi journalist for some reason.

I've found that almost every one-shot I played in took 2-3 sessions.

I've managed to run 100% of my one-shots to time though, Here are some tips that can help with that.

• Always schedule an encounter before the final battle that's an optional scene, take it out if you're over-running.
• Make sure to have NPCs around who can hurry the characters along if they're dawdling too much.
• Write plotlines that contain an element that motivates the characters to solve them soon (e.g. kidnapping, escaping villains, deadlines for results.)
• Make regular sacrifices to Chronos, the god of time.
• Try to run scenarios where the characters start already knowing each other, so introductions can be sorted out in summary during the introduction, rather than at the table during play.
• Release a swarm of ravenous goats into the room 15 minutes before the session is supposed to end.
• Make sure your that your one-shot is planned to take about half the time that your group could spend at the table, so you can over-run a little without trouble.
• Try to keep table-talk to a minimum, request players put their phones away before you start.
• Plan to have food after the one-shot finishes, so people start getting hungry and push the game along.

That's a fair assessment - although Rime of the Frostmaiden takes place just north of the coloured region (the ten towns aren't really on that map at all.)

Of course, one of the advantages of this is that you have a vast amount of "undefined" space to grow your campaign into if you want to make something up. Need to set your game in a kingdom with a monarch and political dealings? Why not Cormyr or Sembia? It's not like there's any published materials on what's been going on there in the last 200 years. Want a place where the Zhentharim are in charge and the local towns and villages are under the control of warring mercenary groups? How about the north Moonsea area, where Zenthil Keep is? Want to convert your game to a steampunk campaign without leaving Forgotten Realms? Boy do I have boat tickets to Lantan that you would love.

While none of this stuff has recent lore, the Forgotten Realms wiki has some surface level detail for everywhere, mostly cribbed from older editions. It's a really good resource if you want to take your campaign somewhere more exploratory, just have a read of what was there, and build your campaign ideas on top of it. Works a treat I think.

It's sort of Tiamat-stuck-to-the-head-of-a-very-large-angry-lady.

If you want a real blast from the past, the old gold box TSR videogames (which have remasters available on modern hardware) tend to take place around the Moonsea area, with Hillsfar and Philan.

I saw this "remembered realms" map about half a year ago, and managed to determine that I have 8 DnD characters for 5e, in various on-and-off campaigns. Currently NONE of them are in the coloured area.

heh, no worries :)

I did already workshop this one through about 20,000 people, so I'm pretty happy with it :D

Unfortunately, I was writing descriptions that a D&D DM might adapt into rules, and "venomous" isn't a damage type.

the ultimate d***head.

It's a good way to get more... :)

Of course!

https://www.socksandpuppets.com/tabletop/Konsi/

This folder contains (I think) every comic in order. At the bottom there's a zip file which will let you download all of them together - it's about 70mb.

The three digit number at the start of each filename is the comic number, so if you sort them in alphabetical order, you can read them in the order they were posted.

Alright, I'll send you a link via DM. Anyone else who needs this, just drop me a message and I'll hook you up.

With the website as it is (we're migrating servers to a setup with more features), your best bet is probably the tumblr archive

https://socksandpuppets.tumblr.com/archive

The archive is "most recent first", so you'd have to open comics in reverse order (and skip over non-Konsi comics) - the first one is in February 2020

However, give me a moment, I can set you up with something that might be easier.

Yeah, it's this kind of content that I think tabletop excels at where nothing else does - you can really get into the weeds when it comes to the wider ranging implications of what you're doing.

These characters started in Dragon Heist (Alexandrian Remix) - having done all of the content in it... The powers that be in the city have good reason to be concerned about these idiots.

One of the reasons that it's only every other week or so is because I space them out with other silliness that also comes into my head....

Like this

The reason the temple of Tymora in Waterdeep is so wealthy is that they uh...

While they don't openly promote a prosperity gospel, they don't prevent the nobles of the city from subscribing to it.

I think I probably forgot to specify during the date, but the promotion there leapfrogged over regular Priestess. She went from Junior priestess to Senior Priestess.

Difficult to get all the little details from campaign events into speech bubble format while also trying to tell a story haha.

Konsi's the most powerful priestess in the temple (she's actually more powerful than the High Priestess)

If you post your stuff to Lemmy... people will meme about it???!?

Konsi wouldn't shame you for that, but she might quietly take you aside and privately ask you to not do that. :)