Today's session highlights:
Elf gets "scroll-mogged" by dwarf as they present their intelligence reports
Player announces they're not smoking on 4/20 because of Clavicular
Cleric of Vecna is forced to pick a disease from the table in the book, GM says no to him inflicting Scurvy on a gnome
Today's session highlights:
3-week plan to manipulate the stock market by shorting taxi stock fails, players then use superweapon to detonate a nearby moon
Lengthy discussion on the rising price of pokemon packs and how that relates to Marx
"soft-launching mutiny"
Today's session highlights:
Problematic age-gap between warlock and patron
Wizard conversation with demon ladies leads her to a realization about early-life autism diagnosis.
GM says no to plan from paladin and anti-paladin to rapidly orbit one another to create a battery
To everyone who I promised I would finish the Mothership module I ran at Breakout Con, I must apologize, but first and foremost I'm sorry to the Ballad of the Ripper play testers. A year later (ouch), it's finally fully play-tested, and available for sale on my digital store!
OPERATION HOUSECALL is now available! Set in the aftermath of MAGPIE and the revelation of an internal leak, Threat Response is deployed to extract a Department V.I.P from a private estate, only to find themselves caught in a larger web.
Happy hunting.
#roleplaying #deltagreen
Super excited to finally reveal something @danielhkwan.bsky.social and I have been tinkering away with! Mecha brings me back to being a little kid watching construction vehicles in awe, except now I'm older and these robots have swords.
Hereford and Holstein are proud to offer, for the first time in its entirety and with only minor revision, the Bard's Guide to Lying, Scheming, Cheating, and Murdering your Way to the Throne, including 31 different means of royal elimination.
Desperately in need of some work.
Let me make art for you!
DEFIANCE: A Rebellion RPG is live! Dreamt this one up while watching Andor, it's "definitely" not a Star Wars Derivative game😉.
Available from the link in my bio.
#roleplayinggame #starwars #tabletopgames #tabletoprpg
Ninth creative writing short story submission of the year, going for twelve this year. It's been good to push myself, especially considering all my work up to this point has been novel length or longer.
I have some projects in the pipes coming out soon, but while I procrastinate on those, I wrote a piece on the Rogue/Assassin and why I both love the class but recognize it's a balancing and design nightmare
Beef
Twenty-Four-Hour Video is a piece I wrote in the middle of the pandemic about censorship and mass surveillance, the complexities of balancing freedom of expression and art against abstract notions of common decency, and what happens when tyranny aligns with an individual's values.
I know most people do not want to subscribe to another Substack that reads like LinkedIn so I'm here to tell you that you don't have to! I'm publishing my backlog of printed and submitted fiction, book reviews, and nothing else!
gamewithbeef.substack.com
I'm on a bit of a roll here, Under Ice is now available! This is a favorite of mine, I wrote this two years ago but it got stuck in my backlog of content until now! Happy bug-hunting
#tabletopgames #sciencefictionroleplaying
#spacehorror #colonialmarines
#alienroleplayinggame
"Raise the Black Flag" written on an unfurling banners. Four sabers are crossed behind an illustration of a blindfolded sailor being forced to walk the plank by a pirate crew. "Adventures in the West Isles" is written on a banner beneath it.
Raise the Black Flag is now live! My largest module to date, over forty pages of original setting and rules, covering feats, backgrounds, ship customization, naval combat, forts, prosthetics and piracy.
#dungeonsanddragons #roleplayinggames #pirates #tabletoproleplayinggames
Blades of the Mantis is now live! Thank you to everyone at Breakout con who played it and gave feedback. Module is available on my store through the link in my bio.
#cyberpunk #roleplayinggame #tabletopgames #bladerunner
Goblinz is now live! Available for FREE (or pay what you want) on my Itch.io store, a simple and silly roleplaying game about a group of green gremlins unleashed upon a quiet medieval kingdom.
#goblin #roleplayinggame #tabletopgames
The cover page of the module. It reads: The HEREFORD and HOLSTEIN publishing house is pleased to present the BLACK POWDER CATALOGUE: Detailing information on the acquisition of the newly available FIREARM and their ACCESSORIES for the aspiring adventure seeking to purchase PISTOLS, RIFLES, CANNONS And EXPLOSIVES. Also included in this folio: Practical Techniques on the Application of Firearms in Warfare as well as Methods of Defending Oneself against such Weaponry. A Historical Late Mediaeval Zine
The Black Powder Catalogue is now available! A marriage of love of Dungeons and Dragons with my Medieval University Studies and my time as the Royal Ontario Museum. Available on my Itch.io store, as well as on Dungeon Master's Guild and DriveThru RPG.
A cute goblin dragging a large canvas sack behind him.
If you like being small, green, and enjoy crime, then this might be for you.
GoblinZ! A zany, 2+ player rules-light tabletop role-playing game is finally out of playtests and coming out soon! Featuring such great characters as the...bag goblin, the...the...knife goblin...and the...uh..lucky goblin
I was around during the days of the Google Plus rift, sad to see it happen again but it's for the right reasons. This community is strong and we'll persist through just about everything, looking forward to making this our home with both old and new faces.
Hello! Feels like with everything going on right now I'm making the formal switch to Bluesky.
I'm Angus, a game master, RPG and Board Game Designer active in conventions in Toronto. Check out my modules available on my Itch page (gamewithbeef.itch.io), and stay tuned for more content soon!
