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Your local ttrpg conglomerate. Building the desktop initiative tracker Guidance, making maps, and sharing dungeon master tips from years of experience. https://www.owlbear.xyz/guidance #ttrpg #dnd

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meet our CEO: Barry Stonewing Jr.

Barry Jr. just took over Owlbear Inc. after his father was tragically murdered in his cave by roving "heroic adventurers".

He likes coffee, long walks in the woods alone at night, and his pet "cat" Mittens.

Welcome Barry Jr!

#dnd #ttrpg #daggerheart #owlbear

A slightly depressed owlbear in a red tie holding a coffee mug with his own sad face on it.

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 20h

Due to budget cuts, corporate is restricting miniatures to paper cutouts and folded paper clips.

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 21h

Dm tip: map hazards

Lava
Water
Spikes
Abyss
Traps
Mire
Flora

Add an element to your map and encounter that the players can use or must caution.

Bonus points if the adversary can use it to their advantage! Nothing like a water snake grappling and drowning PCs :)

#dnd #ttrpg #daggerheart

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 1d

Dm tip: npc opposites

Quickly flesh out an encounter by establishing two npc’s who are counter to one another.

Guard and bandit.
Paladin and cultist.
Merchant and thief.
Rebel and soldier.

Pepper these in on a map to add simple story layers and enhance narrative.

#dnd #ttrpg #daggerheart

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 1d

Get your games in now before the holiday season and following winter blues ruins scheduling!

Reposted by Owlbear Inc.

SlyFlourish.com @slyflourish.com · 1d

RPG tip from the archive: Give villains three evocative nicknames and a sidekick who goes around towns talking about how dangerous and awesome they are.

#dnd #ttrpg

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 3d

Actually good advice to incrementally include minions like this as PCs level up. It will make them feel badass and make combat easy to track!

Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 3d

#DnD advice: Need faster combat encounters? Start every fight with only 1 HP per combatant.

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 4d

I’d love to read a devlog!

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 4d

How does it work?

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 4d

Corporate policy excludes excess spell slots from reimbursement policies.

It will also be adversely applied to next quarter’s budgets.

Bad DnD Advice | Working on Rust Moon! @nat1advice.tbm.games · 5d

#DnD advice: Extra spell slots at the end of the day are an embarrassing waste of resources. Use them all immediately at the start of the adventure.

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 5d

Rewatching the Sword in the Stone

The magnificent marvelous mad madame mim is the perfect npc agent of chaos

Evil with fun flair!

a cartoon of a woman in a red dress

ALT: a cartoon of a woman in a red dress

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 6d

A testament to successful gming!

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Passing the #ttrpg gm torch to my 7yo

“So, does your wizard guy have a hat?”

Asking the important questions (and making a map!)

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Highly recommend it!

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Another feature to steal from #daggerheart: Environments

- Restore or drain hp/stress/hope
- Summon monsters/npcs
- Provide advantage/dis
- Increase/limit dice size
- Track clocks

Codifying the location itself as a potential boon or adversary with unique DM moves is an underlooked #ttrpg feature.

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Everytime they reference OSR I read it as Old School Runescape

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Hades 2 has the sauce

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 7d

Corporate is passing along a memo from maintenance that the mimic furniture should only be used for office functions and not for siestas, Dan!

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 8d

Daggerheart continues to satisfy 👌

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 8d

Dm tip: Roll20 dynamic lighting

It's very cool to implement, but there's a high learning curve.

If you like building by example, I highly recommend adding this FREE addon. It includes a template map with every permutation of dynamic lighting! So so helpful to reference. #dnd #ttrpg

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Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 9d

Is this 5e or a board game?

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 10d

So helpful in such a condensed format!

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 14d

Losing a three hour coop board game on the last turn 🫠

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 14d

First time critter, honestly considering beacon because this yt experience is not it.

This does feel like a dark pattern fwiw, so not a great onboarding experience, but that’s corporate media 🤷

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 14d

New corporate policy requires that you stave off nervous energy while in the hall of doom. It’s making the copywriters that work there sad.

Owlbear Inc. @owlbearinc.bsky.social · 14d

Dm tip: it’s okay to be nervous

That means you want to do a good job! Prep what you can, show up, give yourself the grace to make mistakes like the rest of us, and have your own fun.

You are a player, too! You deserve to have fun.

You’ve got this 💪 now go kill some PCs!

#dnd #ttrpg #daggerheart

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