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[adventuresandshopping]

Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition Quickstart Guide

#TTRPG #DTRPG #Star Trek #modiphius #RPG

[pathfuckery]

Book of the Bizarre hit Best Copper Seller status on DTRPG!

Thank you all for supporting the release, and I really hope you’re enjoying the content! Have you found the hidden clues to the secret inside? There may be more than meets the eye hidden in the pages....

If you haven’t picked it up, you can find it HERE AT DTRPG!

#dtrpg #dnd #5e #witch #magician #occultist #shaper #elements #magic #dungeons and dragons

[hiscursedness]

The incredible winter 20 cent adventure sale!

Get all three of my D&D adventures for the ridiculously low 20 cents each!

That's up to 95% off! Happy holidays, all!

Check below the fold for more info about each adventure.

First up is Dead Ends, my longest adventure. It's a 2-session dungeon crawl for 5th-level players, set in undead-infested sewers. When the townsfolk of Lowharbour die, their bodies vanish in a puff of smoke. Nobody knows where they go, and they're unable to put their loved ones to rest. Can you root out the necromantic evil and save the town?

One of my favourite bits from Dead Ends is the monster design. Check out the devious Passion who can take control of the players and use them against each other!

Next is Purewater, a fantastic adventure for 1st-level players. Your party have been tasked by an alchemist to find the purest water in the land, delving deep into a corrupted forest full of skittering hordes. Chock full of advice on how to run it, this is perfect for new players and DMs alike!

My favourite thing in Purewater was adding rules for hatching your own little pet bloodhawk and taking care of them. While researching this, I learned a surprising amount about how to raise baby eagles!

Explore a cult-ridden village in this adventure for 2nd-level characters. The Ecstasy of Bleakwash Village concerns a blacksmith, Syra Fallbrook, whose execution takes place in three days. Her only crime was trying to prevent the Cult of the Engine from taking and sacrificing her daughter, Ariadne, in a dark ritual beneath the town. Can your party root out the cult and save Ariadne?

My favourite addition to this adventure were the fishing rules, allowing a moment of levity in an otherwise dark and foreboding chapter.

#dnd #dnd 5e #ttrpg #d&d #d&d 5e #dungeons and dragons #drivethrurpg #dtrpg #sale #one shot

[blueberrymess-art]

Hey, if you're a Dungeon Master looking for a nice set of maps, with a game about to begin, if you got to improvise an encounter in the forest or want to prepare just in case, here's a crossroads for you! You can use my maps for virtual tabletops like Roll20 or Foundry and with any rpg if the theme suits you. Check them out here at DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=To%C3%B1i%20Gil/Blueberrymaps Some of them are already at DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/20301/Blueberrymaps

Enjoy!

#TTRPG #maps #encounter map #battlemap #digital art #my art #illustration #blueberrymaps #DM's Guild #DriveThruRPG #DTRPG #DnD #dungeons and dragons

[spaceshipsandstarwyrms]

We wish we could be at GenCon this year, but it wasn’t in the cards. If you’re interested in Spaceships & Starwyrms, you can check out our shop page on DTRPG!

#dnd5e #ttrpg #dtrpg #gencon #sci fi

[diet-poison]

Dunno who’s interested, but there’s an SCP tabletop RPG on Drivethru. Currently the Quickstart Rules are free here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/426008/SCP-The-Tabletop-RPG-Quickstart-rules

The full game is also available through the publisher on DTRPG, but it’s $20

#SCP #ttrpg #SCP foundation #26 letter publishing #drivethru RPG #DTRPG

[nealflitherland]

Boosting the signal for Owen KC Stephens. Yeah, the two funding bundles hit bestseller on DTRPG, but when it comes to knocking out the American healthcare system you need overwhelming numbers on your side.

So grab this bundle if you can! If you can’t (or you already got your copy) share it around to boost the signal!

#cancer #fuck cancer #bundle #TTRPG #Pathfinder #Savage Worlds #Mutants and Masterminds #13th Age #Owen KC Stephens #gaming #RPG #deal #DTRPG #PDFs

[monkeyblooddesign]

DTRPG 50% Off | YouTube Content | CaptCorajus Review

DTRPG 50% Off | YouTube Content | CaptCorajus Review

Lots of things to tell you about on the blog post today! Hopefully, the shape of things to come in 2023. DriveThruRPG Massive 50% Off Sale We are having a MASSIVE 50% OFF sale!I don’t run sales on DriveThruRPG very often, but this is a BIG one! Don’t miss out on some highly-acclaimed and award-winning gaming material including ENnie Award-winning and nominated titles.Ends 7th January 2023. Get…

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#50% #art #captcorajus #cartography #DriveThruRPG #DTRPG #expanded #faecal lands #mapmaking #mapping #midderlands #osr #review #SALE

[enneadgames]

[Misc] Metal Rankings on DTRPG

[Misc] Metal Rankings on DTRPG

I was curious about which of my products on DTRPG had achieved the various metal ratings (copper, silver etc) so have sat down and made a small spreadsheet (see imbed below for all the details). Each tab/section has links to the various products. For now, though, this is the first 200 I have checked. I will add more to this as and when I can as starting at the listings, copying etc hurts hte eyes…

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#DTRPG #metal #news

[local-magpie]

The Gnoll Pack is now available on itch.io and DriveThruRPG for all of your campaign or gnoll-themed project needs! Each gnoll comes with a commercial license and both grayscale and color versions.

Links: [itch.io bundle] [DriveThruRPG]

#hyperion skies studios #gnolls #pf2e #ttrpgs #d&d #stock art #drivethrurpg #itch.io #art #artists on tumblr #idk what else to tag this with #check out my GNOLLS they're so cute you know you want to buy them #sorry the bundle isn't live yet on DTRPG it actually will not allow me to bundle them rn and i have emailed them for assistance #so itll go up Eventually for the same deal as itch ($4.50 each if you get all of them) but for now itch is technically the better deal #sorry #hyperionskies art

[adventuresandshopping]

Sandbox Generator (PDF RPG accessory on DTRPG)

"This book aims to create a pseudo-feudal fantasy world and is meant to be used with your favorite OSR ruleset and bestiary."

Sandbox Generator (PDF RPG accessory on DTRPG)

#DTRPG #TTRPG #solo #Dungeon Master #D&D #sandbox #campaign #world generation

[kaomera]

ASMR: Rolling random treasure for every keyed location in my 127-level megadungeon

#Oh hey Snake Pipe Hollow is a buck on DTRPG today #deal of the day

[impernious]

At the Gates

If you've missed it until now, At the Gate is a high fantasy game inspired by media like final fantasy and books like the Ryiria Chronicles. We have an Ashcan of it live on DTRPG. Please use your dollars to check it out, which will help a girl get some eyeballs on her work! https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/475586/At-The-Gates-Ashcan-Edition?affiliate_id=245791

#ttrpg #ttrpg community #ttrpg stuff #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #jrpg

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played KNIGHT RPG ?

By Antre Monde / Simon Gabillaud & Coline Pignat

Knight: An Avalon RPG is an epic horror game in a dystopian future full of challenging monsters, impenetrable darkness and Knights equipped with meta-armours granting them superhuman capabilities!

In the 2030s, darkness has invaded Earth and with it came the horrors. The world became greyer, art started to fade. The obscurity is filled with monsters, of meat, of beasts, of steel, of frost. And they may not be the only ones. You are humanity's last hope

Arthur meet Mecha (and each armour is named after a dnd classes)

Completed with an Epic ( not a campaign, an Epic, it's 2 big books and 1 book to help navigate them)

A personnal Favorite of the poll runner

Currently Crowdfunding an English translation on Backerkit (quickstart already available on dtrpg)

#ttrpg #tabletop rpg #poll #poll time #2010s #france #Knight rpg

[theinstagrahame]

One of the best things about Crowdfunding is, stuff arrives even when you're cutting way back on spending. A *ton* of stuff arrived in the last month and a bit. Got a bunch of really neat projects in, and it's time to get hype about it!

Why these games rule, under the cut

The Revenant Society: Banana Chan is one of those names that immediately catches my attention when she's on a project. Actually, looking at the list again, the team for this game was stacked, it was a real All-Star Cast. But like, even without the powerhouse designers on the case, this just gets all the things I want in a game: Time loops, murder mysteries, trapped on the Underground. A PbtA game where you solve your own murder is, y'know, a pitch that'll attract my attention.

Hellwhalers: I saw this game coming up through design phases in the Plus One Exp Discord, and it sounded incredible. Using tokens and an old ship betting game, you're part of a whaling crew chasing Moby Dick into actual hell. Maybe Ahab wasn't crazy after all, and maybe we won't survive.

Xenolanguage: I might own everything Thorny Games makes now, because they make games about language. Folks who may not know me might not know that I *love* linquistics. Honestly, if I could repeat college, I'd put more of my time into Linguistics. But due to the linear nature of time, I'll settle for playing games about decoding alien language in a first contact situation. Sorta like that movie Contact. Which, I loved.

Mothership and Desert Moons of Karth: I read through the original version of Mothership a couple of years ago, and it's one I wanted to get more into. When I saw that there was a chance to pick up the full 1e boxset on KS, I jumped. I've also seen tons of people talk about Karth as a really awesome sandbox module for the system, so when I had a little cash on DTRPG from selling books, it was an easy pickup.

Inscrutable Cities: Possum Creek Games told me to back this, so I did (this is a joke, but I do love PCG a whole lot). In reality, I saw Inscrutable Cities on Itch a while ago, and the pitch grabbed me. I love reading solo journaling games (I still haven't found a way I like to play them, if I'm completely honest, but they're really neat reads). Walking through an impossible city is something I'd love to do, so, I have the book for it now.

Reap: Spencer Cambell makes bangers, and bangers only. I'm not *not* on a mission to collect all of his work, but Necromancers? Solo tactical board games, built on Rune? Sure. I'm in.

Luna: Spencer Campbell makes bangers, and bangers only. I also picked up another of his books this month. The Nova universe? Moon cultists trying to destroy the sun? Sure, I'm in.

3 Moonlight on Roseville Beach zines: I played Moonlight on Roseville Beach on my now-defunct podcast, and it's a game that I honestly think about a lot. The dice system was complicated, but in a really neat way that gave the players a ton of really interesting decisions with every roll. What part of my action succeeds? What kinds of complications am I opening myself to?

Anyway, R. Rook put together some characters, mysteries, and monsters for the game, and I really wanted to explore more.

Hiria, In the Margins, A Visit to San Sibilia: I mentioned earlier that I like the notion of exploring weird cities, right? Well, here's two games about that, and a cool bookmark RPG for reading. I listened to San Sibilia played in an episode of Friends at the Table, and it really captured my attention. The questions were fascinating, and they let the players flesh out a city we'd only heard of, but not seen prior to that game. It was a cool coda on a really fantastic and weird season, Sangfielle.

Grandmothership: The title alone had me, but Armanda Haller is a creator I keep an eye on, because she makes really rad stuff. This caught my attention because solving mysteries in a weird, Mothership-esque sci-fi setting, as nosy grandmothers, really just, gets me. I want to do that. I want to live that.

Holdfast Station: I've been watching Stonetop develop through its email updates. It's another PbtA game, but with a robust city-building and city development core loop that, is 100% my jam. (Low-key, one of my favorite games is Dragon Quest Builders 2.) This game takes that concept to space, which is 1000% my jam, in fact.

Spectres of Brocken: Aaron Lim is a designer I got into early on in my foray into games, and I do love Mech Anime. I am eager to see his take on Mech Anime, and I am really intrigued by the way this game handles playsets and worldbuilding as part of the game itself. Really can't wait to dive into this.

Lay on Hands: This is another of those games I've heard about, but never actually checked out. I know Alfred Valley better by reputation than by direct experience, but this is one of those games I hear people constantly telling people to check out. So, I'm gonna!

Penumbra City: Maybe 5 years ago, I read a novella by Margaret Killjoy about anarchists living in an abandoned city, and beset by assholes within their community, and supernatural horrors from without. The world kinda stuck with me, so when I saw she was working on an RPG not in the same world), I was curious to see what that would look like. I haven't cracked Penumbra City open yet, but I'm jazzed to do so.

These two fell off the pile for the big photo, so I forgot:

Deathmatch Island: I enjoyed the Hunger Games and Battle Royale movies a pretty moderate amount, but what really caught my attention here was the promise that players could also break the Reality TV Parody. The use of the Paragon system also caught my attention. After hearing one AP of Agon, I really wanted to see how that would translate into this, and it didn't take me too long reading it to go "Oh, okay, this rules."

Our God is Dead: What if you were a paladin or priest of a faith, and you found out your god was dead? What if you also had like, a bunch of people who really needed that god not to be dead, like this weekend? This sounds hilarious, and I am going to insert it into conversation often to see if people want to play it. Apologies to people who know me.

Eagle eyed viewers may have noticed a second Mothership box. What's that about?

It's a storage box for all my Mothership Zines so far... Except the two that are just slightly too big!

And, some fun comics/graphic novels:

Good Boy Paws: A friend of mine in comics put this together, and it looked extremely cute. A sweet tale of a good boi.

Wine Ghost Goes to Hell: Picked this up because the creator had contributed to Bugsnax, which is a game I enjoyed, and the concept seemed fun. Will have to check it out and report back!

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg #indie ttrpgs #indie comics #crowdfund haul report

[indierpgnewsletter]

And Now For Some Data From DriveThru RPG

If you’re not aware, DriveThru allocates medals to products based on the number of sales. Their highest medal, Adamantine, is given to products that have sold more than 5000 copies. Only 180 products have crossed this threshold. Mithril is the second highest medal you can win. A product at the Mithril level has sold more than 2000 copies (but less than 5000 because otherwise it would be Adamantine). There are 451 products with Mithril status according to DTRPG. That is a shockingly small number in the grand scheme of things.

(I'm not sure how the charts look on Tumblr. If they're not clear, you can see them clearly on the original post at the Indie RPG Newsletter - Part One and Part Two)

I thought it might be cool to classify these products into categories and see what that tells us. Please note that sometimes I’ve put a product in two categories, like Against the Cult of the Reptile God is classified as both “D&D” and “Adventure”.

Here’s a chart showing which categories have the most products with Mithril and Adamantine status. The “D&D” category is first-party products like handbooks, older adventures and settings (Dark Sun) as well as third-party products. “Trad” is a fuzzy category (like all the categories) but it consists of all games that essentially keep the same player-GM relationship as D&D. It includes all the World of Darkness games, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, and so on.

If you’re wondering why there are so many more Trad products than the others, I think the answer is basically Storyteller / Onyx Path Publishing. They are easily the biggest label in the Trad category with so many different games as well as a whole bunch of splatbooks. Also, a lot of D&D products aren’t on DTRPG and are on DM’s Guild so it makes the category seem smaller than it is.

The OSR and the storygame folks have similar numbers. The Misc category is very big because it includes products which are system-agnostic advice and products which are just random tables (d100 treasures, etc).

And since pricing is the only other hard data point I have, here are three charts on pricing. The first one is just the average price of every item in the category and the other two try to identify which are the most common price points for four different categories.

Seems like for most categories, the most common price point (for the PDF, I believe) is 20$. A lot of Trad games seem to be at 25$ and the OSR sells a lot at 10$. IP is the biggest just because it has very few products in it (around 5).

I have some experience with data journalism. I did all of this stuff in excel but if I had more time, I would’ve done it programmatically using R and made something shiny and interactive. Anyway, here’s the data if you want to do something with it.

If you like this kind of stuff, let me know.

#indie rpg #ttrpg #ttrpg community #ttrpg design #ttrpgsolidarity