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Stormcaller

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Gamer. I paint miniatures, build worlds, design games, hike, cook, and generally try to enjoy being creative. I'm snarky, irreverent, cynical, supportive, adaptable, and my social skills are meh. Banner courtesy of @andreriveraart.bsky.social

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · Mar 22

Right, so... suppose I should pin something with my released game (eventually games) since people are following me for being a hobbyist game designer now.

stormcaller3801.itch.io/after-the-moon - simple card-based storytelling game about werewolves remembering what they did under the full moon.

After The Moon by stormcaller3801

A Game of Remembering What Happened

stormcaller3801.itch.io

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 13m

Currently debating with myself whether my current idea is you complicated or realistically complicated

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Ginny Di 🎀 @ginnydi.com · 1d

This is a great resource to find your local food bank (whether because you need support, or because you're able to donate or volunteer to support those in your community who need it)

Food banks are under IMMENSE strain right now. Even a small donation can save lives!
feedingamerica.org/find

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 1d

But more likely the conflict will involve the robber barons who have been granted near state-equivalent control over land related to their business, designated as 'necessary for national security.'

1920s megacorps, basically.

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 1d

Largely depends on what people get up to. The most notorious thing is that there's Prohibition in effect, so if the characters decide to do some bootlegging, that'll be a conflict.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 1d

It's a sort of fantasy dieselpunk alt history world so they're about equal to the ones in the 1920-1930 era.

In the US, New Year's, Christmas, Independence, Washington's birthday, Thanksgiving, and Labor Day are the national ones. No Veterans or Memorial days yet.

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Magpie @creativemagpie.bsky.social · 1d

I have a patreon, its free currently, and I plan on using it as a main hub for the sharable materials I need to make myself make for you all.

Magpie @creativemagpie.bsky.social · 1d

Sooo after talking with a few people, I made a thing, mostly cause said thing is easier to make and share stuff as a hub than a whole website, but for the time being, I plan on everything being free. I don't think I make stuff that I wanna put behind a paywall.

patreon.com/CreativeMagp...

Magpie | Patreon

Youtube Videos on TTRPG Topics

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NeauxWai @neauxwai.bsky.social · 1d

Asking for prayers/healing vibes for a friend of mine.

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The Bearded Halfling @thebeardedhalfling.bsky.social · 1d

We are currently at 28 followers on our upcoming KS, the Codex of Celestials!

If this hits 30 before midnight tonight (GMT) I'll share one of the celestials we have made tomorrow!

#jointhefaithful #DnD #Nerdling
#TTRPG

www.kickstarter.com/projects/170...

Coming soon: Codex of Celestials - a Celestial Pantheon for 5E D&D

A Dungeons & Dragons 5E/5.5E compatible supplement that adds in a Celestial pantheon, their lore, and additional worldbuilding.

www.kickstarter.com

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 2d

#2. Borrow from Adventure! There, you'd give players advance knowledge of what NPCs are going to say, so they can have snappy responses ready.

Steal the idea and give players of smart characters some advance knowledge or extra clues (for puzzles) before game, to make it easier on them.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 2d

Two ideas for DMs to help players depict smart characters:

#1. Put puzzles in your games. But not just any puzzles- ask the player what kind they're best at. Put those into the game, in some form. Lean into their skill set. Sudoku, cryptography, etc.

#2. Borrow from Adventure! (cont'd.)

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 4d

This feels like a correct and valid statement that more content creators should use when posting their work

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think there are any that I really fear (I lucid dream in nightmares, so I spend the entire time complaining about the cliches; I'm a bit peculiar) although I expect that would change significantly if they were real.

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, it was an accident. I was just trying to come up with a way to discourage people from using speak with dead that worked with my worldbuilding.

I realize I overshot that a bit.

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 4d

The dead slept in an aquatic afterlife, a la Inside, and anytime someone used magic to communicate with them, they woke up. Once the communication ended, they had to effectively drown to fall back into eternal slumber.

An image from the video game Inside, picturing corpses suspended in a grey aquatic environment and chained to the bottom by the neck.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 4d

Based on others' reactions, I'm going to go with something I've mentioned before: the fact that the god of the dead was also the god of the ocean, and what that meant for the afterlife.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 5d

I mean technically, yes.

Aether exposure can cause goblinization (and high doses can lead to a very painful death due to rapid alterations), but it can also allow for some individuals to develop magical abilities.

So, drink this and you might become a wizard, temporarily. Or a minotaur. Or die.

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 5d

Paleontology has started picking out the pieces and realizing what's what, but of yet 'this used to be a fantasy Earth before there were people' has not been realized.

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 5d

Current one is basically alternative modern fantasy- during the Paleozoic eras the world has high levels of magic fauna and flora. Mass-extinction events eliminate that, and you end up with a magic fossil fuel called aether. The potential of that is discovered in the late 1800s.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 5d

And that's Orctober completed with 'da Rusty Skullz

#miniatures

A group of nine fully painted miniatures. Seven are space orcs with various weapons and wearing various bits of purple camouflage. The other two are a goblin with a grappling hook and a spherical blue bipedal alien that's almost entirely mouth wrapped in various explosives. All skull iconography on the models are an orange rust color.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 5d

There's an emergent species due to aether pollution which is similar- it's a predator which mimics herd animals to hunt. It generally avoids urban areas and humanity, but in more rural areas, people are learning to be very wary of quiet strangers who walk into town...

a ford truck is driving down the road next to a van

Alt: John Rambo walks along a road, looking backwards as traffic passes by in Rambo: First Blood

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 6d

Generally 'fiends' are individuals who have undergone goblinization due to aether exposure and developed traits a particular religion has associated with evil. So it can vary widely, although it tends to be fairly homogenous in a given culture (due to how goblinization works).

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 7d

Have you looked at Canvas of Kings by any chance? That might be of use.

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Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 7d

I would argue that it is in fact highly accurate. Maybe not correct, but highly accurate

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 7d

I need to research some toys I think...

Stormcaller @stormcaller.bsky.social · 9d

At one point I had the idea of using MTG cards drawn randomly as a method for basic worldbuilding, separating them out by general type and then laying them out. Land cards first, then summons, artifacts, etc. for points of interest/populations etc.