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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Jul 22

Learn how to play @daggerheartrpg.bsky.social in my game on @startplaying.bsky.social ! Try out one of six pre-made characters with differing ancestries and classes. Adventure in a strange forest which is home to bandits, hybrid creatures, and odd magic.

Link: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

Join Daggerheart Quickstart Adventure - Learn to Play! - Discord / Demiplane - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games

This is an intro game using the Daggerheart quick-start adventure: "The Sablewood Messengers." If you're looking to learn the rules then this game is for you. We'll go over all of the base mechanics w...

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 5d

1) Dorian (the voice acting made him feel so real)
2) Corypheus ("I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was EMPTY!")
3) I've actually only read Tevinter Nights and some of the comics, but I would have to say either Audric from "Down Among the Dead Men" or Francesca Invidus from "Blue Wraith".

Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 5d

Being a Dragon Age fan is so fun because your favourite characters will be
1. your favourite love interest
2. someone who is in direct opposition to person 1
3. someone who appeared in a book and then was basically never mentioned again

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OpalApparition @opalapparition.bsky.social · 9d

Careful guys the Derpwolf is tryna take down the Veil again

#DragonAgeTheVeilgoob #Gooby #RooksCoffer #DragonAge @dragonagegames.bsky.social

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 12d

Mainly tripped up on DA2 stuff. Which... yeah, that feels accurate. One day I'll go back and play both it and Origins all the way through.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 17d

I'm pretty sure that it's Carolina Ravassa, who also voices Sombra in Overwatch and Teia in Dragon Age Veilguard. Had to look up her name, but it definitely sounds like her!

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 25d

Just finished the last session of a three-year long #5e #DnD campaign that I ran on @startplaying.bsky.social . I've got a lot of thoughts about it I want to talk about, here and maybe elsewhere, but right now I just want to say it was a good and satisfying conclusion, and thank you to my players. 💚

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 28d

I keep thinking of one day writing fan-fic of Rook going to find the missing companion and all that would entail, including what cut content and data mining seems to suggest. Maybe one day.... maybe....

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 29d

1) Star Wars Expanded Universe (Non-Disney canon!)
2) Dragon Age (honestly mostly because of @ghildirthalen.bsky.social )
3) TTRPGs

Caitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · Sep 26

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Dragon Age (lmao)
2.) Sailor Moon
3.) Probably Animal Crossing?

The first two I could easily do 6 hours, so I'm struggling with a 3rd.

julia barcelos 💜 EVERYBODY SCREAM @juliabarceloss.bsky.social · Sep 26

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1.) Dragon Age
2.) The Witcher
3.) Epic

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 29d

Wait, what? I thought they were his nephews! I've thought that since ORIGINAL Animal Crossing!

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · 29d

This is an older memory at this point, but I think one of the things that turned me off from it was the main character and the story for a while just felt shallow? IIRC, the main character was a kid who didn't want to study or something and then just found the grimoire. No sadness, drama, or stakes.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 25

OMG, FFTA was one of the first Final Fantasy games that I ever played! I even tried to do fan-art for a "green mage" idea but it never got far. And I'm in the same boat as you are, never played the original. And I actually own A2 but never got very far. For some reason it felt... weird? Le shrug.

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 20

To the people who complain that nobody wants to work? How can we work if you are GIVING THE JOBS TO COMPUTERS?

GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · Sep 18

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

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Guild Wars 2 @guildwars2.com · Sep 20

🚨Plushie alert! Our pals at Final Boss Bundle are ready to send this adorable Siege Turtle Plushie on a tiny adventure - yours for just $15 until Sept 26! Don’t let it wander off 🐢

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 17

The article mentions the skimmer being able to follow leyline paths... underwater? That's intriguing. And a pinch of hope for underwater content.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 16

I've got a new #Daggerheart campaign starting on @startplaying.bsky.social , and we're starting with a Session Zero where you help to create the setting of the game as well as your character!

Check it out: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

#ttrpg #rpg #startplayinggames #sessionzero

Join Daggerheart Homebrew Campaign - Help Make the World! - Discord / Demiplane - Daggerheart | StartPlaying Games

This one-shot is all about setting up a Daggerheart campaign and discussing what the players want from it. Together we will figure out what kind of campaign it will be, what the setting is like, impor...

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 15

As opposed to rare pears.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 10

Sorry for your loss. Wish I had better words to help.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 4

Is it perfect? No, but no game is! And it's still a good Dragon Age game, especially considering what the developers went through. Hopefully, we'll get more one day. Thank you to the #DragonAgeTheVeilguard devs!
#dragonage #veilguard #bioware

🥀Megwyn Rose🥀 @megwyn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow it's almost like it's actually an objectively well made game and is actually fun with amazing characters and good story telling! 😅😭 #DragonAgeTheVeilguard #DAV

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Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Writing a GM section is hard.

So instead I wrote down every role I could imagine that a GM might play and instructed the reader to kind of figure it out themselves as they go

WHAT DOES BEING A GAMESMASTER INVOLVE?
As Gamesmaster, you’ll have a lot of different roles to play. Here are some of them in no particular order; you’ll adopt all, some, more, or none of these during every single session.

You don’t have to be all of these things all at once, nor do you have to do all of them yourself - when you’re starting out, as long as players are getting the chance to roll dice and mess around they’ll probably still have fun. As you play more, you’ll find which ones you enjoy and which ones you don’t, and you’ll find your style.

FUN ADMINISTRATOR
If it wasn’t for you, this game would never happen. You arranged a time and date. You reserved the back room in the pub to play. You helped everyone make their characters. You’re the first person they talk to if they can’t make it to a game, and you’re the final judge as to whether a session goes ahead as planned or must be rescheduled. You’re taking responsibility for all the background details that let the foreground details - the game - work.

PETTY GOD
This is your world. We just described it in loose terms - it’s coming out of your mouth, and you’re making all the decisions. You can adjust numerical values up and down as you wish. You can wipe cities, countries, concepts off the map entirely if you don’t like them. You alone determine whether things are possible or impossible, and you can dictate how dangerous a given task is with ease. Nothing happens unless you want it to. The player characters are scrubbing about in this world of yours, and you graciously let them do so, because they’re having fun. And so are you; you call the shots, you set the boundaries, you show them the fantastic world you’ve dreamed into being.

ORACLE
You are the sole focus of interaction that the players have with the game. In one direction, you are the source of all information about the fiction at the table: so if they want to know what colour a non-player character’s eyes are, they have to ask you and you’re beholden to tell them, or tell them how their characters could find out. In the other direction, you are the fuzzy authority that stands between every player and us, the designers of the game, and therefore the interpreter of the rules. All fictional and mechanical action goes through you.

A CAST OF THOUSANDS
You are everyone else in the world that isn’t a player character. You invent and then adopt their mannerisms, you spin together obvious motivations and secret desires, and you flip between your charges with ease. Sure: many of their voices might sound …

TOUR GUIDE
We’ve written a guidebook for a world that doesn’t exist, and you’re the tour guide who’s leading slack-jawed holidaymakers around that world. You know everything there is to know about the game world - and if you don’t know, you can make it up, and that’s just as good. You’re relentlessly enthusiastic, you give evocative descriptions, and you clue the players into what’s interesting or important - and you know all the best places to take them, too, so they’ll experience the world as best they can.

WET COMPUTER
At the core of every roleplaying game is a set of rules that power the experience, and you are the fallible, non-silicate computer on which these rules run. You know the rules, you enforce them (or ignore them, as you see fit), and you remind players of how best to interact with them. Players might use some bits themselves - rolling to hit, for example, or keeping track of their character’s health - but you’re the ultimate authority on what rule to use when.

CON ARTIST
Players? Bunch of feckless rubes. Look at them, wide-eyed and open-mouthed: they think this is a living, breathing world. They think that you’ve got this all written down, like some kind of Tolkien; they couldn’t be more wrong. You’re just making it up on the fly. There’s nothing behind the curtain, no master plan, no wheels within wheels: just you, regurgitating some half-remembered details about Bloodborne and talking about bones breaking a lot because that makes them wince. They’ll buy anything you sell ‘em.

WORKSHOP LEADER
You don’t have all the answers, but you know where to find them: inside the players’ heads. You ask them questions like “Who are we meeting here?” “What’s the most dangerous thing that awaits you on your journey?” “Which one of you does this guy hate the most?” and then you listen to the answers and incorporate them into the story. You love it - it saves work, saves time, and means that the players are more involved and engaged than ever. Involved and enga…

DRUMMER
The drummer sets the pace. In a band, they dictate the song’s tempo. In a regiment, they dictate the marching speed. (In a marching band they do both, presumably.) You’re in charge of saying when things begin and end, how long a scene takes to play out, how long a non-player character waffles on about their problems, how descriptive an average description is, and so on. You can cut away from situations and cut back later, you can put the pressure on players to make a decision, or you can leave them to chat to one another unobstructed as the hours roll by.

ABSOLUTE BASTARD
You’re going to kill them. You’ve trapped them in your lair. They dared to step up and try to defeat your monsters, overthrow your villains, and now they’re on the back foot. Smash them to fucking bits. Throw ‘em through a window, rip off arms and legs, take grim pleasure when their luck turns against them. No-one gets anywhere by being nice all the time - and the players don’t want you to be nice all the time. They want their characters to get beaten up, humiliated, murdered, hung-drawn-and-quartered. You know that this is a masochistic endeavour and you are happy to indulge them.

TORTURED ARTIST
You always wanted to be creative, and this is your outlet. You’ve spun a world of torment and tragedy (or light-hearted slapstick, depending on the game) for your players to explore - or crafted a complex story within someone else’s, full of betrayals and comeuppances and juicy details. You’ve taken the time to make something clever and you can’t wait for your friends to admire it; what matters most is getting the artistic intent of your world across to the players so they can react appropriately.

OBSESSIVE FAN
Oh my god. You love the player characters so much. Like your favourite character in your favourite TV show, you’re fascinated to see what they’ll do next - and you can probably take a good guess at what it’ll be, because you know them so well. You get a bit sad when bad things happen to…

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Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm literally getting over back pain and my older cousins' kids are graduating from college. 🪦

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 26

My first Rook, a human mage LoF named Rohan, did a lot of ice magic specifically because he wanted to be able to create walls, stairs, and even life-boats during missions around the coats of Rivain.

DreadRedQueen (🎨Commissions Open🎨) @dreadredqueen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Altara can cook but not anything elaborate, over the years Lucanis taught her how to cook and it became a thing they enjoyed doing together, she especially enjoys baking.

Can you Rook cook?

#rfotd #rookfacts #dragonageveilgaurd #altaraderiva #antivancrow

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hello, congrats on the subscription numbers and hope you're doing well. Not sure if you've ever answered this question before, but was there ever any consideration for DA spin off games, such as a tactics-style game?

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 10

Going alright. Preparing to run my first game of Daggerheart thi evening. Wondering if I should order groceries today or tomorrow. Drinking some Coke Cherry Zero. Very casual.

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is so freaking cute oh my gods

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 5

Ooh, that's a thought. Maybe having a mixed middle weapon skill based on the legends, like thief or weaver? Or perhaps do that for the utility skills instead?

Loremaster Bernard @loremasterbernard.bsky.social · Aug 3

I just watched the video where this was announced and I felt like I was LOSING MY MIND. 🤯

Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hey Gang! I could not be more thrilled to step behind the screen for Campaign 4 of Critical Role, and cannot wait to share all the amazing things me and this incredible team have been cooking up for you! 🐲⚔️🔮