Clay Sheldon

Author, freelance writer, screenwriter, game master

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

I haven't posted anything here in years, but I should let folks on here know that I have moved over to Bluesky instead. I don't know if I'm deleting my profile here, but I'm just finding Bluesky a LOT better for me personally. Maybe I'll see you there!

[Sam Comerford @RRollplaying]

Shitty Store Idea:

This store sells items from the PC's past, such as childhood toys and other things that they couldn't possibly have. #DnD

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

@Itsjustwitch I've got to agree with the other commenters here. Wordy isn't always bad. Having extra material to draw on when running a game is helpful, even if you don't use it. As long as you have a general idea of how the game gets from A to B, you're golden.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

(9/9)The only way to kill the beast's heart is with fire, which will set the whole manor ablaze. The party will then need to escape back out the front entrance as a burning Wilfred tries to drag them back into the flames.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

Here's another #ttrpg Call of Cthulhu oneshot I ran a while back. Like the previous post, feel free to use all materials in the following posts below. No map this time, but there's a pretty good reason for that as you'll soon see. Welcome to the House of Angles.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

(8/9)Before dying, Gomez figured out that the beast he was trapped within could be killed, and that its heart was hidden somewhere. He searched for it, finding it in the basement. The party finds his digested corpse next to the heart with a jury-rigged unfinished flamethrower.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

#ttrpg DM pranks a party member PC by scamming them into buying shoddy made-for-tv vitamin supplements. Party repackages supplements and sells them as a new product. It sells well, so they make more and start a fake company to sell it in bulk. Starts criminal empire.
Scammed PC:

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

I know that interdimensional storage such as bags of holding are very convenient in a #ttrpg for both the players and the GM, but isn't it interesting that most players like to put all of their worldly possessions into a single, easy-to-steal bag?

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

They say that no plan ever survives an encounter with the enemy. If you've ever been a DM in any #ttrpg, you know this horrible fact to be true.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

In a deadlands #ttrpg campaign I'm in, a buddy and I decided to play Mulder and Scully secret agents, However, since magic in deadlands is very real and very obvious, my character is so delusional that they have to keep coming up with 'logical explanations' for everything.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

If you ever decide to run a #ttrpg in a sci-fi setting, someone is inevitably going to go through the optional races and pick something silly and/or awesome. Examples might include floating psychic brains, assassin stripper robots or a kitten Jedi. Be afraid.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

@FeyEarth You got this! As someone else mentioned, luck and timing can definitely be a factor though, so don't give up if it doesn't work out the first time. For example, I had the misfortune of trying to kickstart an indie game right when the pandemic hit... oof that was rough.

[Clay Sheldon @ClaySheldon1]

@AgentsofD In a villain campaign, I was playing a bond villain that happened to have a secret underground lair. The design for this lair was over ten pages of overly complicated blueprints, trap designs, minion instructions, defense plans, escape routes etc. We ended up never using it...