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Your guide between the High Road and the Long Road. Do people read blogs anymore? I sure hope so. Mine is at alongthetriboartrail.com 🤠 #DND #DMsGuild #5E #D&D

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween is less than a week away! Drop a free/pwyw @dmsguild.com download into the DM goody bag!

The Festival of Faces: a Halloween-themed adventure to drop into your LMoP / PaBtSO campaign. It also works for DoIP or any other Phandalin-adjacent #D&D adventure.

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The Festival of Faces - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Once each year, the quiet frontier town of Phandalin bursts into laughter and song as the Festival of Faces begins. The streets come alive with contests, food, and friendly rivalries, while the locals...

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween is less than a week away! Drop a free/pwyw @dmsguild.com download into the DM goody bag!

The Festival of Faces: a Halloween-themed adventure to drop into your LMoP / PaBtSO campaign. It also works for DoIP or any other Phandalin-adjacent #D&D adventure.

www.dmsguild.com/en/product/4...

The Festival of Faces - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild

Once each year, the quiet frontier town of Phandalin bursts into laughter and song as the Festival of Faces begins. The streets come alive with contests, food, and friendly rivalries, while the locals...

www.dmsguild.com

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · 25d

I went through and counted ads, and 54% of my Pinterest feed is advertising. Like, WTF. 😕

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · 28d

I tell my players “inconvenience is adventure.” Components. Arrows. Rations. Water. Encumbrance. We use it all. No one has left yet.

I like the dirty details. Adventures are supposed to be uncomfortable nasty things that make you late for dinner. Screw your hankerchief. We’re going on an adventure

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Sep 5

While I am all for more welcoming and accessible #starbucks cafes (as mentioned in the news today), what truly would make these locations more welcoming and accessible is coffee that doesn’t cost as much as a pint of craft beer.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 21

Someone is reading my feed, apparently.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 19

I’m not blaming the rule. I think it’s a nice shield go reign players in when needed. But how can you blame a GM that doesn’t understand the rule, or doesn’t recall it in the moment because they’re herding cats? Not everyone has the same experience learning how to run a game.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 19

With all of the ways some D&D enthusiasts chase the hobby seeking ways to make it a side hustle or career out of their passion, I’m surprised nobody has developed a Dungeon Master certification course by now. The hobby needs more DMs and less accoutrements.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 19

I agree, but it’s often the case DM’s don’t have the confidence or experience to make that kind of call at their table, and allow rolls for everything. It’s why there’s a billion “welp, my players nat 20’d [insert weird thing here] and now my game went off the rails. HELP!” stories out there.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 19

This

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jul 19

I dunno. I feel like you shouldn’t be able to roll a nat 20 and then, regardless of whether you have proficiency in the skill or not, succeed on a DC 20, DC 25, or DC 30 check. There have to be guardrails, or it goes from fantasy to farcical.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Swizzles!

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Jun 3

My latest microfiction. I’ve been having fun with this genre.

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The Assembly Room

The price of curiosity.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · May 29

The bookish athsmatic who is smart and perceptive. Jarton will translate the dwarvish runes on your sword, or the abyssal language on the cover of the ancient tome bound in human flesh.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · May 29

Jesse Welles should be the template for a Harper bard.

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War Isn’t Murder

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · May 28

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · May 20

So much more interesting than a Nothic. How come this one never made into a Monster Manual for any edition of #D&D over the years?

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · May 8

If it’s D&D, sometimes I’ll be bold & ask what adventure they’re playing. They’ll often look at me like I just asked what color their underwear was. 🫠

Can’t help myself. It’s like being a punk in 1988 and seeing some other kid at the mall with a Dead Kennedys shirt and wanting to meet them so bad.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 27

On Gnomengarde: "the gnomes craft minor magic items and useful, nonmagical inventions to pass the time. In these endeavors, their failures outnumber their successes."

In DoIP, we see the successes. What might the failures look like? So glad you asked!

#D&D

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“Their Failures Outnumber Their Successes”

If you get literal with the text in Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak, it can lead you to some fun places. For instance, the background section of El Mop states “Few survive…

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 27

My cat Bofur acts like I am the Dark Lord of his domain, retreating from me at my every approach.

That is, until I’m the first one of the family home after a weekend away. Then, he can’t get enough of me, at least until the others are home. Jerk.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 26

It is! Lots of thoughts on lore and overlooked parts of the adventure (and DoIP). Variants about how to run the game. Stuff like that.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 26

Nobody reads #d&d blogs anymore. BUT, in case you do, here’s my latest.

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The Waters Rise. A Kingdom Falls.

Cragmaw Castle is a remnant of the Kingdom of Phalorm. It’s one of those bits of Forgotten Realms lore that’s mentioned in passing within the pages of Lost Mine of Phandelver, but other…

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Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 23

Is the party about to go full murder hobo at the tavern? Don’t want to run that kind of #D&D game?

Deploy the Mobs mechanic from the DMG.

🪑🍺🍽️🦿💩🧅🍳🫙🪕🎳🚬🏺🧹🪣 all make fine improvised missile weapons certain to hit the hobos x-amount of times each round as the crowd fights back.

Fook around. Find out.

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 22

Guessing: black craft foam with clear epoxy resin domes?

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 21

Is this from Minecraft?

Ticklecorn @ticklecorn.bsky.social · Apr 14

Need an honest answer: if I blow my nose in public, and I issue forth a *HONK!* while doing so, is that viewed by others as just farting through my nose? This only just occurred to me today.