nkal

Posting TTRPGs ideas. Daydreaming of Conan, Planescape, DarkSun, FR, CoC, Elric, Dragonlance... Owner of a Gaming Cafe and Forever World Building

[nkal @nkvlands]

Stages of mapmaking: The main city of my current campaign! (so far..)

It's got everything I always wished to see crammed within a fantasy city. Ancient dynasties, a forbidden necropolis, the required blood soaked arena, temples built over sites of purged cults, mega markets, smuggling, outlawed sorcery, and lots of consequences for meddling about 💀

#Mapmaking #ttrpg

[Fugitivehistorian @fugitivehistor1]

Wednesday. No #map-making (although I'm in talks with @ThePaladinForge...), so posting one of my recent faves. Ulthar will need fleshing out, as main party in #dnd5e campaign will probably find it this winter. Glad I have @cawoodpublish's "Monsters of the Underworld"! #art #dnd

[nkal @nkvlands]

@DungeonNoir I still remember entering the contest to send ideas for settings to Wizards of the Coast. I created "Everworld", but don't remember why it was called everworld :P
Then Eberron came out from the contest and in my mind it's still "that new setting".
22 years, unreal.

[nkal @nkvlands]

@GaryD20Games Why even maintain such friendships?

[nkal @nkvlands]

@_readyornot__ I agree completely

[nkal @nkvlands]

I've found after countless times of succumbing to my players' wills and handing out "super powers", that having the campaign close to 'mortal' level is ultimately more fun, even after accounting for all the sulking.
Being in real life, well, lowly mortals, we just subconsciously empathize and relate to low powered situations differently.
Actual risk might be the same with an epic character vs a giant, and a comparatively mundane character vs the guard captain, but in the latter situation the whole mood is different and feels naturally real.

[Dungeons & Dyslexia @adx1974]

Sword, sorcery and savage adventure! In my latest video, I review Barbarians of Lemuria and explore its rules, combat, magic, characters and sword-and-sorcery setting. Is this the ultimate Conan-style TTRPG, and is it worth adding to your collection?

https://t.co/6Y9iE4YfQ2

[Magicman @Magicianman20]

#GM my friends #gm #ttrpg #DnD #dnd #fantasy #fantasyart

[nkal @nkvlands]

@gnomeslair Hahhahahaha... yeah

[Vindicta RPGs @KennethProven]

New website in progress...

[nkal @nkvlands]

@GaryD20Games For some reason my PCs almost never play clerics, for decades now. We had a cleric who just died on our current campaign. They had gotten so used to magical healing for the first time everyone is now in panic mode.

[Shazam Von Doom @ShazamVonDoom]

@TheBasicExpert1 got my Wight Box in today! It’s all pretty dope #dnd #wightbox #odnd #chainmail

[nkal @nkvlands]

@exQUIZitely Hey, another memory unlocked! We had actually bought one of the very first CD "burners" in our city in Greece. I think it was called "single speed", 150kb/second? Can't be sure.
For a brief while people treated us like we had a fusion reactor in our home 😅

[nkal @nkvlands]

My PCs still remember and talk about Ionor, the waitress from the original inn were they met, almost 35 sessions later.
Must have been my amazing DMing and role playing

[nkal @nkvlands]

@urielflame The depth, variety, and origins of so many staples of fantasy in Greek mythology is insane. Even many who studied it are still surprised by various details. What's mostly known is barely the surface.

[nkal @nkvlands]

"Khalkotauroi", Colchis Bulls of King Aietes. Hephaestus himself forged the hooves and muzzles of these massive fire-breathing bulls from bronze, offering them to the King of Colchis.
From my "Awakening of Legends - The Argonautical Campaign" accessory-article for the Adventurer fanzine, in times past.
Art by George S

[nkal @nkvlands]

@Nerdcognito I automatically thought this was an Athasian giant in the sea of silt. Is the artist Baxa? (if I remember correctly my Darksun lore)

[nkal @nkvlands]

@exQUIZitely I have incredible memories of carrying my PC to a friend's to play Diablo LAN, and Baldur's Gate was a revelation, but...

[nkal @nkvlands]

@urielflame @_readyornot__ It helps !

[nkal @nkvlands]

@_readyornot__ Yeah always a good idea to have powerful wizards with you before engaging god-made golems of a legendary king who guards a world-centric artifact 😅