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Roll20 Token Status Effects Assets

On one of our recent streams, we made some status effects for Roll20. The link above is to the RegalGoblin's Toolbox page where you can find the "Roll20 Token Status Effects Download". This is a .rar file that when unpacked has the AC tokens we made on stream, plus the other ones I've been using for a time. I'm also attaching the .rar file here, but as I add thing to the sets this file will get...

City Dwarves

The campaign is coming along! We've got art, overlays, and a first play date: This Tuesday (14th) at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, so an evening show in the US and a VOD for the EU.

Final details are still being fleshed out, and things can change up to the last minute, but here's what I'm expect as of this moment.

Our PCs are young dwarves living in a city. They're the children of cobb...

Cartography Timelapse VODs

Hello there Patrons,

What I have linked for you here is a playlist of various cartography sessions, all speed up at 8x or 10x speeds to give an overview of the map making process. As time goes on and more maps are made, this playlist will be updated.

Cartography Timelapse Pla...

Behind the Scenes: Notes, Maps, and more

Greetings!

I've been building up a few things in the background that may be interesting, but aren't worth spamming inboxes for. So here they are in one bigger post collecting lots of little bite size nuggets of back end content creation.

Maps!
I've been working on creating an OG / Ancient Arcadia map, and things are coming along well. You may have caught some of...

5e Rule Cards and House Rules

5th edition D&D is a well packaged and streamlined machine. Its rules are simple and straightforward, which makes it very easy to tightly package reminders for our players. The attached images are ones I give to my players for our 5th edition games to remind of what actions they can take in a combat round, and to keep house rules easily accessible. 

The first card, the one that s...

The Role / Value of NSFW Topics in TTRPGS

This is a delicate topic that could fill a few chapters of a book, but here I'm going to address ~70% of the value with ~10% of the language. 

To start, let's define NSFW topics for the purpose of this conversation. We will specifically be addressing sex, sexuality, and nudity (hereafter abbreviated as SSN). Furthermore, let us specify the assumptions from which we will derive our co...

Abalar: A city on the rise

These notes are for a city our players in The Lazarus Expedition will come across in the first few sessions. It sits on what will one day be known as The Vodan River, but at this time goes by another name. More details about the region to come.

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Abalar is a city on the rise. It has 2 distinct city centers.

The Old City
Fully walled in (save the border ...

Upcoming Campaign: City Dwarves

Coming up soon we've got a campaign that I've been calling "City Dwarves". Below you'll find the pitch for the campaign idea, but between now and then some details are sure to be added, removed, or changed, so think of this as a starting position. There's also a 20% chance that something blows up in the next month and the campaign fails before it even starts. The length of this campaign isn't g...

Good King Arnold and The Lazarus Expedition

This is the backstory for the upcoming Save or Die campaign: The Lazarus Expedition. It is the history of Good King Arnold, of the Stormtide Kingdom on the Western Seaboard of Solumn, the great continent in the east.

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Good King Arnold ruled what is now known as the Stormtide Kingdom from the day of his birth until the day of his death at age 45. He was a ...

Universal Arcadian Calendar

This is the soft release of a project that has been in the works for over a year, and has been surprisingly difficult to do the way that I wanted.

Order your copy today!  

What is it?
What we have here is a full calendar for an Arc...

Light of Illumis: Back end details

Hello there Patrons! Here are some backend details for you. We've got some screenshots of overlays, and a little bit more about the details of the campaign. The only spoilers here are details that will be revealed within the first few minutes of play, so you can read on ahead without problem.

Overlays
I really love the overlays from Embers of the Wilds, and so...

Light of Illumis

Our first new campaign of the year is also going to be our first foray into a series of shorter campaigns. It is called, "Light of Illumis" and centers around 4 clerics who want to use a Philosopher's Stone to render all undead vulnerable to sunlight. We will pick up their story near the end, as their agent is delivering to them the Philosopher's Stone they will use in their ritual. 

New Campaigns for the New Year

Hello there dear Patrons!

The new year is upon us, and it's time to look at what is coming down the pipes! 

Big stuff - Save or Die
The group that has been playing Tides of Death is looking to the future and planning out more campaigns, content, and projects. Everything is still in the works but as part of the transition to more gaming, we're branding under ...

Cleric of X

Below is the short backstory of a wandering cleric PC that I will probably never get to play. I wanted to come up with a reason why a cleric who is ostensibly a good person might have been kicked from their home and never be able to return. This story isn't related to anything in Arcadia, it's just an exercise in understanding motivations, temptations, and personal justifications. There are no ...

The fall of a Paladin - Athena of Glacia

When I work out details of the world, sometime I write backstory or lore for NPCs that never intends to see the light of day. The idea is to build the structure of the world and how things came to be, and then to show the players to consequences of these things. That is to say, I might write many paragraphs explaining how a paladin falls from their station to become a death knight that I use to...

Test Class: Sorcerer - 2e

This test class is very similar to the MP rework for mages, but with some significant differences.

1) Spell casting is limited by encumbrance, so it can be done while wearing armor (in theory)

2) Sorcerers don't pick their spells, they learn them based on the direction of their theme / flavor / what they've been doing. This is a lot more work for the DM.

3) They don't study si...

Discussions amongst the gods when creating the world.

When I'm trying to sort out the how and why of things, it's often useful to me to write out the perspective and conversation of the gods in building things. These conversations aren't cannon and have no place in the history of the world, but it does help me organize my thoughts.

The following is an example of the world making process, a bit of back and forth regarding the interplay of dei...

Patreon Update

Hello there dearest patrons! This winter is bringing with it many changes, including a big and desperately needed update to Patreon. I've long been neglecting the obvious shift in how content creation is financed. Partially because I overloaded myself with work, and partially because I'm an elder millennial and the internet is changing and I'm stubborn. -_-

Anyway, the update does away wi...

Early versions of early Arcadia

One of the maps I'm working on (sometimes on stream, sometimes in the background), is the original formation of Arcadia, pre "The Breaking". This is a WIP (work in progress) for the year 0 map, mostly looking at different biome types.

F = Forest
P = Plains
D = Desert
B = Badlands
H = hills / rough terrain
FH = forested rough terrain / hills
W = wetlands

I'm still...

Side Content

This winter, with may campaigns wrapping up, is a time to do some side projects I've been thinking about for a while. This instruction video on how to change the way you eat your ice cream is just the tip of the iceberg. I'll publicly publish this in a few days, so consider this an exclusive look at upcoming content.

Also upcoming, some non-D&D storytelling things. I won't say any mor...

Tombs of Scoria & Frozen Frontier Merch!

The RegalGoblins Merch section has always been a little... neglected; however, that has changed! We now have a new producer, new products, and new designs, including a sick Tombs of Scoria shirt (designed by Robin 'Silkworm'), a perfect Frozen Frontier shirt with the cast in chibi form, and the most adorable Krewbarb shirt that encourage you to "be bold" (both designed by MatthewBurgerArt). The...

Thoughts on Undead

Undead are abominations. All of the world was created by the gods, and they did not create undead. They should not exist, yet they do. So how do they come about? There are three major ways, and a slew of minor ways, for them to be created.

1) Raised. Necromancy is a different to divine magic (Clerics and Paladins) and arcane magic (Wizards and the like) as the other two a...

Akuban Knights

Hey there,

I'm pretty terrible about keeping Patreon up to date with stuff, but it's a wonder beyond imagination that we've managed to get to the eve of Akuban Knights without having given it a proper mention here. So, both announcing the start of Akuban Knights and reminding you that it starts in 16 hours!

Who: Dan 'NekkaLucifer', Chloe 'FuzzyFreaks', Anna-Sophie 'Feyama4...

Rise of the Dragon Queen

If you haven't heard already, starting on the 13th of September, I will be playing in a new campaign! It is called Rise of the Dragon Queen, and is to be the modules Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and possibly Rise of Tiamat.

Edition: D&D 5e
When: Thursdays, starting September 13th
Where: 2018-09-06 04:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post

New Format: Support your favorite shows!

I was sitting on the porch having a good reflection on what the best way to organize this Patreon account and realized I've been going about this the wrong way. Rather than a series of titles and rewards that mostly go unclaimed and unused, this should be a way for people to fund the specific shows they like.

Do you really like Frozen Frontier? You can now directly support that show in particula...

Changes incoming!

Hey ya'll,

Coming September I'm going to rework how this Patreon account (?) is arranged. I've found that most people aren't taking advantage of the rewards that exist, so I'd like to remove the existing rewards and set things up so that people can support specific shows/programming, which will also help me figure out how much I should budget for production.

Also new in Se...

Desk & Dice management system

I've been working on this idea for a while, but today the solution came to me! The link has all the interesting details so I won't bother to rewrite it all here.

Summer Programming

Wow, it has been some time since I've had some sneak peak stuff for you. So, without further ado, let's talk summer!

Heroes Graveyard is wrapping up. It'll be over and done with soon, and there won't be a 3rd season. Something will be replacing it. Can't say what yet, but something. Maybe. 

Frozen Frontier is going strong and will kee...

Skitersnaps

Skittersnaps, for D&D 2nd edition

S|16 D|16 C|14 I|14 W|7 C|?? P|16

• HD: 4d8+4 (body) | 2d8 (necks/heads)
• AC: 16 (neck), 13 (body / legs)
• Atk: +7, 1d6+1 x 5 (bites) | +9, 1d20+2 (leap and skewer with legs)
• Size: Medium, 3’ tall, 4’ wide, necks are 5’ long
• Speed: 18 (short bursts of chasing, but would be outrun by a horse i...
  2018-04-13 01:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post

XP Calculator Updates

2nd edition D&D has a bit of a wonky XP formula. You can find it in the DMG, but and it's OK, but awkward. With the ease of modern computing, I've put together a better xp formula. This will generally increase the amount of XP monsters give in 2nd edition, which is by design, and allow us to calculate xp t...