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QsotN:
"Is this a sacrifice town?"
"This is a town that sacrifices food, not people."
"I could sacrifice the heck out of a knucklehead trout."
"We could take this fortress. Could we take this fortress?"
"Wait, I thought you were a waitress?"
" … Just a joke."
Excited for the release of Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games? Let other folks know: Mark it as "Want to Read" on Goodreads and Storygraph!
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"Writhing flesh and gnashing maws": typhon tactics. #DnD https://www.themonstersknow.com/typhon-tactics/
Otherwise, I keep everything stored on my hard drive, because if you don't own the medium, you don't own the content.
@craiggrannell I'd be pretty OK, since I've spent the last six months trying to disentangle myself from them.
The one thing I'd have trouble with is Joplin, since I use Joplin Cloud to sync my notes on desktop, laptop and phone. I'd also lose some of my iTunes music—the songs with password protection on them—but with the upside that I'd never have to log in upon firing up iTunes again.
Every monster is at the center of its own story—but what kind of story do YOU plan to tell? One of predation? Corruption? Compulsion? Poetic justice?
Making Enemies: Monster Design Inspiration for Tabletop Roleplaying Games comes out Oct. 7—and is available for preorder now! https://spyandowl.com/making-enemies
Five heads are more numerous than one: Theran hydra tactics.
I LOVE this video … but especially the bit from 4:16 to 4:47. https://youtu.be/-cJz-ttkrjE?si=OWL003omJ2viihny
Finishing a manuscript draft is a great time to dig through the out-of-control piles of paper on one's desk, and what's this I just dug out?
Recipes for a dwarven feast? https://www.onefootinfairyland.com/dwarven-feast-fine-dwarven-feast/
I draw two conclusions:
1. The Oobit is awesome
2. We need Snek Font
Includes stat blocks for 20 original monsters in multiple game systems, with design notes, and accompanied by splendid old-school illustrations by @jencmars.
Make your players go "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE"!
In Making Enemies, I discuss:
- size, number, and level of challenge
- monster habitats
- monster motivations
- monsters as metaphors
- monsters and magic
- the monstrous anatomy possessed by real-world organisms
- how to customize monsters for your own TTRPG adventuring party to confront
Just three months away from the release of Making Enemies, my deep dive into creating #TTRPG monsters from the ground up, with system-specific advice for #DnD 5E, #Pathfinder 2E, #Shadowdark, the #CypherSystem and #CallOfCthulhu 7E! On sale Oct. 7—preorder today at https://spyandowl.com/making-enemies.
On this beclouded Independence Day, bear in mind:
We are born equal in rights and dignity.
We have government because we consent to its existence.
Its job is to safeguard our rights and improve our lives.
If it doesn't, then we can and must create other systems that will.
AMERICA WILL BE. 
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
And fourth, the first, second and last articles of the UDHR, the foundation and the pediment:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.