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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer)

@ravenquill.bsky.social

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Josh (he/him). I write gun rules and PC species for D&D. Polyamorous, LGBTQ+ ally, anti-fascist 🇺🇦🇵🇸 🚫 AI/NFT/crypto Firearms: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/441768 Species: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/488980 Find more: https://linktr.ee/ravenquill

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Reason #0 - Because you want to 😉

Check out my comprehensive rules in Smoke & Thunder: Firearms For Fifth Edition and it's sequels!

www.dmsguild.com/product/4417...

Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · Aug 26

🧵 Why you should include firearms and other technology in your #dnd game...

1. Because they're historical - Gunpowder is older than many of the common weapons in D&D. Rapier, longbow, and even halberd are more recent inventions than gunpowder.

a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

Alt: a man with long hair is talking about black powder .

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 3h

Heck yeah!

Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent!

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AJ || Pasta_Parade @pastaparade.bsky.social · 8h

Campaign 2 of Choose Your Roll kicks off this October! The Rolls We Choose follows Raphael, Lowell, Lucien, Einar, and Sylvie through the French-inspired realm of Lyon. Join us for Session 0 on Oct 18th at 7PM EST: twitch.tv/choose_your_...

#dnd5e #a5e #ttrpgcommunity #SelfPromoSaturday #ActualPlay

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

This is such a cool mechanic.

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d'Artagnan @dartagnantt.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for the space, Josh!

I've been working on a 5e replacement for about two years. Where I do things like make fighters tactical, give rangers themes, and warlocks spell slots! My patrons get access to the playtest materials!
Check it out, it's awesome!
bsky.app/profile/dart...

d'Artagnan @dartagnantt.bsky.social · 23d

While playing 5e, can you never find a spell worth casting that doesn't eat at that concentration you're already holding?
In #6thDawn I've modified spellcasting where concentration is usually optional, but you might not want to give it up.

#TTRPGRising #TTRPG #DnD
www.patreon.com/posts/6th-da...

Optional Concentration

Some spells have an active component beyond yourself that you must control, but otherwise work without your intervention. If you choose to concentrate on these spells, they work just as concentration spells above. However, you can choose to not concentrate on them, this keeps the spell going with no control over it whatsoever.

Fear

3rd-rank illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot cone)
Components: V, S, M (a white feather or the heart of a hen)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 minute

You project a phantasmal image of a creature's worst fears. Each creature in a 30-foot cone must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or drop whatever it is holding and become frightened of you for the duration. *While concentrating on this spell*, you can use your action to target all creatures in another 30-foot cone, but can't affect a creature again if it has succeeded on a saving throw against this casting of fear.

Invisibility
2nd-rank illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (an eyelash encased in gum arabic)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 hour

A creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends. Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the target's person. The spell ends for a target that attacks or casts a spell.

*While concentrating on the spell* and no creatures currently benefit from the spell, you can use your action to touch another creature to turn it invisible.

Moonbeam
2nd-rank evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (several seeds of any moonseed plant and a piece of opalescent feldspar)
Duration: Optional concentration, up to 1 minute

A silvery beam of pale light shines down in a 5-foot radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range. Until the spell ends, dim light fills the cylinder.

When a creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it is engulfed in ghostly flames that cause searing pain, and it must make a Constitution saving throw. It takes 2d10 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

A shapechanger makes its saving throw with disadvantage. If it fails, it also instantly reverts to its original form and can't assume a different form until it leaves the spell's light.

*While concentrating on this spell*, you can use an action to move the beam 60 feet in any direction.

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Halloween and scalies is a great combination.

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Fiery Discourse @fierydiscourse.bsky.social · 9h

In a couple of weeks, we'll be doing our Halloween special! www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQTONab-Vd57q0dx8XZDftqdKUxwMehi

Fiery Discourse - YouTube

Fiery Discourse is a podcast discussing media that features dragonesses, female dinosaurs and female reptiles of all kinds. Each episode is about an individu...

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for posting!

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KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · 9h

Hi! Thanks for hosting. My name is Cheyn, a versatile artist. Sharing the current project that I'm currently working on with my classmates:

bsky.app/profile/keyc...

KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · 26d

Are you looking for an animation with the themes of:

- Photography
- Aswang
- Kalooban (Inner Self, Desires, and Will)

I and my classmates are currently working on LENTE! Stay tuned!

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Watch the preview on: youtu.be/fq1WEp7J_Rc?...

More clips and upcoming works on: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

LENTE
Second Preview Art
Alejandro Roces, Buenavondre Los Desderios, Pilar Salonga

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Those are so cool!

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Sarah @bags4dice.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Saturday! We have only 25 dice advent calendars ready to ship at the end of October 😁

creatoriq.cc/4q6DZQo

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Oh I love that art!

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Zosimos @zo51m05.bsky.social · 10h

Hey there!

I'm putting the finishing touches on some spooky new linocuts for my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...

Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet

A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates

www.kickstarter.com

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Smoke & Thunder D&D (Joshua Ohmer) @ravenquill.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for sharing!

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The Lashunta from Castrovel (va-vara-varru) @lashunta.bsky.social · 10h

~Samaea!~ - Thanks for the space!
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The Lashunta from Castrovel (va-vara-varru) @lashunta.bsky.social · 11h

A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 9
In which Vaeol and Remaue, in visiting Remaue’s family, learn something of Kaure’s.

www.worldanvil.com/w/castrovel-...

#pathfinder #pathfinder2e #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding #worldanvil #selfpromotesaturday

A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 9

In which Vaeol and Remaue, in visiting Remaue’s family, learn something of Kaure’s.

www.worldanvil.com

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The Aleks (they/them) @thealeks.bsky.social · 11h

Not sure if this is a bit like trying to sell milk to dairy farmers, but it's cool to see what folks are working on.

For my part, I've launched a kickstarter a week back for Shores Of Night - non-lovecraftian cosmic / surreal horror rpg.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Shores Of Night

The hot, new, rules-medium take on weird, surreal, and cosmic horror roleplaying (no gods, no kings, no sanity mechanics, all cubes)!

www.kickstarter.com

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Zosimos @zo51m05.bsky.social · 10h

Hey there!

I'm putting the finishing touches on some new linocuts for my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...

Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet

A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates

www.kickstarter.com

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Fiery Discourse @fierydiscourse.bsky.social · 12h

Check out Fiery Discourse, the only podcast on the internet dedicated to media featuring dragonesses, female dinosaurs and other similar saurians and scalies! www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQTONab-Vd57q0dx8XZDftqdKUxwMehi

Fiery Discourse - YouTube

Fiery Discourse is a podcast discussing media that features dragonesses, female dinosaurs and female reptiles of all kinds. Each episode is about an individu...

www.youtube.com

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TDungeonator @tdungeonator.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks, Tavern Talk!
Added a new chapter to my solo ttrpg novelization! I've been playing my own weird horror game, The Insensate Ones. A disaffected PhD grad returns home and finds everything... the same? Except for some kind of infection from the deep sea.
ko-fi.com/post/Mind-Ma...

Mind Made Up ToC

The Dungeonator published a post on Ko-fi

ko-fi.com

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KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · 12h

Hello! Thanks for hosting. My name is Cheyn, an artist and writer. Sharing the recent video game/film project that I worked on:

bsky.app/profile/keyc...

KeyCheyn @keycheyn.bsky.social · May 27

Sharing some of my artworks that I made for a school project. Me and my classmates are behind Team DAGTUM.

PURAW: a DAGTUM special episode: youtu.be/ytjB1Z9fDUw?...

www.linkedin.com/posts/shane-...

More about DAGTUM: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia crowdfunding now! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for the space!

Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in ttrpg form. The campaign ends next in less than a week!

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition

An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.

www.backerkit.com

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The Lashunta from Castrovel (va-vara-varru) @lashunta.bsky.social · 10h

~Samaea!~ - Thanks for the space!
bsky.app/profile/lash...

The Lashunta from Castrovel (va-vara-varru) @lashunta.bsky.social · 11h

A Castrovel Adventure: Part 6, Chapter 9

In which Vaeol and Remaue, in visiting Remaue’s family, learn something of Kaure’s.

www.worldanvil.com

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AJ || Pasta_Parade @pastaparade.bsky.social · 8h

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Paolo Davolio | Hall of Horrors now on Kickstarter @echidnadesign.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for the opportunity!

🐴🦵 This is Hall of Horrors, now live on Kickstarter!

➡️ bit.ly/45utywj

A whole bestiary with harvestable magic items for #Daggeheart, #5E, and #CandelaObscura.

Everything illustrated with brand new, human-made artworks (no AI) by
@followthefool.bsky.social

Hall of Horrors: Bestiary for Daggerheart, D&D 5E, and CO

A collection of creatures, adversaries and items for Daggerheart, Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (D&D 2024) and Candela Obscura TTRPG

bit.ly

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Ava's Adventures @avasadventures.bsky.social · 12h

This week I've been setting up a website dedicated to my developing #ttrpg Undead Paradise.

The players take on the role of zombies who have regained their sentience/memories and are now navigating a mutated world long after humanity has fallen.

www.undeadparadise.com

Undead Paradise

Visit the post for more.

www.undeadparadise.com

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