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One-Word Prompt #146 - Let's Make Some F'd Up Monsters

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I'm generating the different terrain types for Zalgul-3 as we speak, giving each one its own set of traveling rules. While I'm doing this, I'll need to work in some monsters. Of cour...

Poll #440 - Book Series Title

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As I continue to focus on a holistic content release schedule set in the universe of MEKBORG and STEEL PSALM, the content I'm making here will go out in book form once I've made ...

Poll #439 - Zalgul-3 Stand-Alone Adventure

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Our latest poll asked what sort of content you all wanted for Phase 3. Setting rules is currently dominating with a stand-alone adventure in second.

The Wormfoot detail offere...

[Public] Just Passing Through - The Village of Wormfoot

Perched atop a precarious mound of steel girders, rocks, and sand, is the small community of Wormfoot. Surrounding the encampment is a palisade cobbled together from scrap metal and discarded mater...

Poll #438 - What’s next in Phase 3 of DMDave?

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I’m officially calling this “phase 3” of DMDave. Phase 1 was my “trying stuff out” and Omeria phase. Phase 2 was Dungeons & Lairs. Now we’re on to phase 3, which will...

[All Patrons] Tales of the Great Southern Heaps #1 - Sorrowskull Mine (1st-Level, Insects)

Download the adventure using the attachment link below. A FoundryVTT pack will follow soon.

Oi! Welcome to Zalgul-3, the dump planet where the light of the galaxy barely reaches. We are the H...

Poll #437 - Which feature of the Port Erroneous Region deserves the “Just Passing Through” treatment?

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I’m doubling down on Zalgul-3 and the Steel Psalm setting. While I’m close to dropping the first adventures set there, I thought I might start planning some Just Passing Through ...

Poll #436 - Who/What are the “Heap People”?

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With the new cycle of content focused on the great trash heaps covering Zalgul-3, I figured I’d turn it over to all of you to tell me who the “heap people” are. All I know is t...

Poll #435 - Part two of the Great Southern Heaps MegaDungeon

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Since the other poll is about to finish, and you've already donated one-word prompts, I figured we'd get a headstart on the next bit. I don't know much about it beyond that it'll be ...

One-Word Prompt #155 - Sorrowskull Mine

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In my last poll, I asked you to pick the main monster in the first leg of the new Dungeons & Lairs/MegaDungeon/Zalgul-3 1st-level adventure for Tales of the Valiant/5e/MEK BORG (...

Poll #434 - First Monster Lair of the Great Southern Heaps

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I’ll be posting an adventure in the next couple days that will do three jobs:

1) It’ll introduce Zalgul-3, a sci-fi fantasy setting for MEKBORG and Tales of the Valiant/5e....

[Call for Suggestions] Port Erroneous and its surrounding areas.

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I'm working on the new setting which will tie directly into the MEK BORG and STEEL PSALM lore. We're designing the region around the city of Port Erroneous on the dump planet of Zalg...

[Public] The Dark Menagerie #2 - Gorlak of the Voon

In a filthy, subterranean pool, Gorlak of the Voon lurks. A mass of scales and slime, bloated and grotesque. Milky, sightless eyes peer from a head covered in festering sores. Its maw, a gaping hol...

[Paid Members Only] Dark Menagerie - #1 People-Vulture

In the Wasteland, the people-vultures lurk. Twisted and cunning, they prowl the desolate ruins. Simple-minded and shunned, they lack the spark of true intelligence. Social outcasts, they communicat...

One-Word Prompt: The Vulture Lords of Goerth

Give me a single word in the comments. I’ll turn it into a vulture-person.

[All Patrons] Fire - A Fifth Edition Campaign Setting

The ignans have haunted our world for as long as anyone remembers. Born of evil magic, their creator and incantations are lost to time. Fire is feared. Forbidden. The land lies charred and lifeless...

Community Contributions - The Astral Town of Skrag

Welcome to Skrag, friend. Started out as just a big ol' rock floatin' in the Astral Plane, but we've made it our own. Built this town from all the junk we could find driftin' through the Silver Voi...

Call for July Requests

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Overwhelmingly you voted for “Assistant DM.” So we will try it on.

In the comments below, make a request. Precedence will be given to the higher tiers (Gold+). If I don’...

DMDave, the assistant DM?

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I was reading through the comments on our regular posters, and I saw how folks are interested in all sorts of different things. Would it be helpful if I took your requests each month...

[Poll] Create a world? Or give you the rules to create your own?

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Going forward with this month's Sword and Sorcery theme, would you prefer that I create the world taking ideas from you all, or I give you the resources to create your own?

Let...

[Sword and Sorcery Month] Community Contribution - Let’s make some weird cults…

Tomorrow we’ll be diving into the gods and religions of Sword/Sorcery. And while we may decide that there’s one or two major religions in this new world, I think it’d be fun to come up with s...

[Sword and Sorcery Month] So, what is Sword and Sorcery?

This month's theme is Sword and Sorcery (well, "Dark Sun," but we might as well explain its origins in the genre). Here are the basics of this fantasy sub-genre.

Considerably Less Glamorous ...

2024-07-02 14:04:43 +0000 UTC View Post

[Call for Suggestions] The Wasteland Campaign — How to Create a Grim Dark Sword & Sorcery Post-Apocalyptic Campaign From Scratch

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Thanks for all your feedback on the last Call for Suggestions. I'm just making my way through the list right now, so I'm starting with Shawn Porter's suggestion:

"H...

2024-07-02 00:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Call for Suggestions - Increasing the value of this Patreon account.

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I took some time in June to meditate, recuperate, and think hard about what I want to do with this Patreon (I also published two books, but hey...).

When this page started, it...

[All Patrons] Just Passing Through #5 - 1,000 Forest Encounters for Any Fantasy RPG

Welcome to Just Passing Through: 1,000 Forest Encounters for Any Fantasy TTRPG, your ultimate resource for enriching travel and adventures within the forest. Whether you are a seasoned Game Master ...

One-Word Prompt #143: Space Monsters!

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Since we're winding back a bit on adventures (with DL99 having just appeared), I'm tasking the artists with making some monsters for us. The first theme is going to be SPACE MONSTERS...

One-Word Prompt #143 - The Shadowed Depths

One of the main entrances to the labyrinth beneath Mount Blackstone is through the remnants of an ancient, collapsed tower known as Grimspire Keep. This tower, once a formidable ba...

[All Patrons] Dungeons & Lairs #99 - Necroegg's Tomb (Scalable for 5 to 13)

Heroes, heed the call!

In a time long past, a masterful cult handcrafted a complex, intricately ventilated by grand clay pipes to ensure fresh air flowed through its sacred halls. Ancient b...

[All Patrons] Dungeons & Lairs #98: Palace of the Ice Vampire (Level 8 to 16) - Complete Pre-Proof

Download the PDF at the bottom of the page.

In the frostbitten realm of Glacial Peaks, there exists a legend whispered with shivering breaths and frozen hearts—the...

One-Word Prompt #141 - Blink Dog Forest

Dungeons & Lairs #101 will kick off the next 100 adventures will be an interconnected megadungeon. The entrance to said megadungeon will be a densely forested area guarded by benevolent blink d...