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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds

@indestructoboy.bsky.social

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Award-Winning TTRPG Designer | DMsGuild Best-Seller | Professor of Guitar | YouTuber Founder of @landoftheblind.bsky.social

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · Sep 1

We're open for business! The Vagabond // Pulp Fantasy Roleplaying Game: Core Rulebook is accepting preorders! I've heard it described as the "Pathfinder of the OSR" due to its deep character building but lightning fast, practical ruleset. Come check it!
landoftheblind.myshopify.com/products/vag...

Vagabond // Pulp Fantasy Roleplaying Game: Core Rulebook

"The system neutral system"; Vagabond is an OSR-like system built for compatibility with most Basic/Expert-derivative monsters and adventures. It plays extremely well with classic TSR adventure module...

landoftheblind.myshopify.com

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 6h

Tip for newer homebrewers: nothing is free. Using art you found with a Google search isn’t kosher. Commissions and stock art purchases are the only way you can guarantee legitimate operations

John Latta Art - TTRPG Illustrator @johnlattaart.bsky.social · 10h

This isn't a thing in any creative circles, ever. The only time you don't need to talk to an artist about using their work in your publication is if you buy their stock art, which comes with a license that covers a conversation about rights, usage. This person's explanation is extra ripe bullshit.

Allie Briggs @alliebriggsart.bsky.social · 11h

NO. IT. IS. NOT.
#art #ttrpg

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 6h

/r/UnearthedArcana is just a cesspit of stolen content. I’ve been dreaming of the day that subreddit stops getting attention. So sorry you’ve had to deal with this

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 1d

For real, I’m feeling more and more like I’m going to have to choose between turd sandwich or douchebag every day

Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 1d

Not a movie but three series: Tales from the Loop, Devs, and Nightflyers.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 2d

☝️Is there a sci-fi movie that you defend tooth and nail, but you feel a little alone in loving it?

When you're sad because you spent three hours defending a movie and clearly you're the only person in the world who likes it.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 2d

I have had the most insane series of events in my afterschool D&D club, leading to a party of 4th and 5th graders having decimated the guards of the Keep on the Borderlands. Seriously, bad rolls from the guards, and them nuking the guard captain just essentially overthrew the keep.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

Nope, I questioned why Candela Obscura thought it was morally wrong to gamify mental disabilities, but physical disabilities were fine.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not trying to start some "movement" like the whole combat wheelchair thing. That was an overreaction and overcorrection fueled by Twitter outrage. The fact that we're still THIS low on a diverse representation of disability and disfigurement goes to show it was all theater.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

It also sucks that the "grimdark" and "edgelord" RPGs are the only ones giving disfigured characters some spotlight. I teach elementary school, do you know how many kids get scared just because my face looks different? It's because disfigurement is always some mark of evil.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

Wheelchairs in fantasy wasn't "cringe lib shit" 10 years ago. Companies performatively rushed books out the door with wheelchaired characters to capitalize on a hot button issue in the scene, rather than show care for disability rep. That performative side of it is the "cringe lib shit".

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

Back on it though, where's those blind monks? The battle scarred veteran fighters? I have a hard time buying their current art direction because they're playing it way too safe. Wheelchairs feel like a compromise. It's like "we can still have a model and just put them in a wheelchair."

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 3d

WotC had paraplegic characters in two books this year. Glad to know they're using Twitter to inform their sensibilities, I guess. It just comes off as hollow and shameless. Same thing happened when they addressed Esmerelda. Zero understanding of why someone might try to keep a disfigurement private.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 4d

Those of us with disfigurements so often only get thrown into horror settings. Like, I haven't made a stink about this because I've honestly got more important stuff happening in my real life, but the wheelchair discourse kicking up again kind of has me thinking I need to finally do a video on it.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 4d

This isn't an "exclude wheelchairs" thing, it's a "I feel like wheelchairs have become a performative virtue signal rather than a sign of meaningful intent." Where are the amputees? The burn victims? The cleft palates? Other disfigurements?

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 4d

The "wheelchairs in D&D" discourse is starting up again because of Heroes of the Borderlands. Look, there's a valid criticism of why publishers have wheelchair art in their fantasy dungeon crawlers and it isn't the one getting made. My question is, why not include other physical disabilities?

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 4d

Spoiler for my Heroes of the Borderlands D&D Starter Kit Review

Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 5d

I'm about to accidentally write another review script that's longer than the thing I'm even reviewing.

What's wrong with me?

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 6d

It costs $4.00 to print a Vagabond Core Rulebook. I’m breaking even on the project if I sell out my first print wave. I’m actually making a profit if I sell even 500 on the second print wave.

Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 7d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 6d

This is literally all just “vibes based refutation”

Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 7d

No, his video is a completely reasonable explanation for why he was confused and unwisely spoke without complete information due to panic. Hanlon’s razor and all

Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 9d

LOVE Ginger Root

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 10d

This is the most straight reasonable explanation of the Open Hand/Completionist controversy. What should have been a misunderstanding and miscommunication got farmed for outrage content. Karl and Mutahar owe Jirard an apology.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDb6...

You Deserve Answers

YouTube video by The Completionist

www.youtube.com

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 11d

“They won and so did we” wound up being more correct than we really thought after all.
youtu.be/1hJnSlBhx5E?...

WotC kinda won the OGL crisis after all...

YouTube video by Indestructoboy

youtu.be

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 12d

I talked on stream yesterday about my issues with the Arcane Archer Unearthed Arcana. I'm big on fixing problems, so I've drafted my D&D 5.5E Arcane Archer Redux, and gave design notes for why I made the changes. You can check it out for free right now!

drive.google.com/file/d/1u_S2...

Arcane Archer _ Land of the Blind.pdf

drive.google.com

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Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 13d

Every time there’s some Rapture prediction, brass players are offered a rare opportunity that seemingly no one takes on.

Taron "Indestructoboy" Pounds @indestructoboy.bsky.social · 14d

The worst kind of D&D player isn't the guy who bails, it's the guy who shows up and does literally anything else other than play and keeps doing anything he can to pull attention away from the game everyone else wants to play.

Think about running a table full of that. That's after school D&D club.

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