good source of art for d&d or pathfinder style games: archives of nethys, especially for their pathfinder 2nd edition. if you go to the bestiary section 7/8 times there will be art of the creature with a nice transparent background
I'm starting to get a table together with some friends to play some ttrpgs and this is a hurdle that has been LOOMING in front of me for a bit. This is a really nice talk on open communication, empathy, and integrity. These are all great tips, I really like the campaign estimates so it's to it's not a completely open-ended sell on "all of the Sundays". And stricter time-boxing on the day of. I previously ran a one-shot that went waaay over time. I really should have gauged it more and talked with my players upfront and during the session. I think I got too attached to it being a ONE-shot. If I tackled the scheduling demon, I think everyone would have had more fun pausing and following up in another session.
Great stuff! Those litko bases look amazing but I cant find anything similar (with the squiggly slot) in my country. Will have to settle for the card holders. If anyone knows of other brands, please let me know!
Dude. DUDE! Duuuuude. This is awesome, and really encouraging for me. I just really, really despise 3d minis and everything to do with them. The storage, the logistics, the PAINT! Hate it all. Paper, though? Man, this is the freaking way. Thank you for the detailed instructions.
I am such a lazy person. Dont You by chance have some ready to print A4 pdfs with kinda a starter army I could just print and cut to skip going one by one from sources and triing to fit them in right size :?) pretty please
just wanted to say a big thank you. I was stressing out trying to make this fancy terrain for dnd. Messing around with XPS foam and all these other crafts. Being able to just hit print and cut some stuff out has been so freeing. I no longer have to dread painting all these terrain bits and can focus on my cool minis. Amazing channel i will subscribe and follow your website !
Any thoughts on Trophy now? I love the gauntlet podcast and am considering grabbing one of the books to support Jason. Dark may be the best fit due to its “one shot nature”. I have a lot of other games that fit the shorter campaign length (Stonetop, BiTD, etc) and forever campaign (ACKS, pathfinder).
You can toss from HF not only front &back but also side and top views into a collab program to make a six sided paper dice. Thats if you want more of a dimension.
What a great video! I've been looking to get into terrain building for D&D and this seems very accessible. I've refused to buy layouts until now, but think tbf it does work way better like this probably 😂
Love this guy's voice and commentary. Could literally listen to him talking about dirt. As it turns out I was interested in learning about paper craft as a first time GM. Great video can't wait to see what else he comes up with.
great video. I loved the teaching style and the informal atmosphere. I hope you continue producing about paper minis and terrain. there is a world of possibilities in DIY and being less dependent on big companies and such. explore the more creative side and allow ourselves to create our hobby. let's go let's go.
Baller. Not gonna lie, paper miniatures saved the hobby for me. After painting about 30 miniatures and still needed a wider variety, I gave them away to a friend and almost just kind of gave up. I like your solution, I'll incorporate some of the aspects for sure. Thanks for posting.
Well the ones from official makers come sized properly for printing on 8.5x11 paper. But you mean for custom jobs? Homie, you’re in luck :) I made a whole video explaining that process: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WCFw-HKV5Ik.htmlsi=9fCzg6k8CMdDGaZG
This video is so awesome! I've been wanting to get into minis/terrain but the price has deterred me. Between your paper terrain video and this one I am so excited to include these in my next campaign. Thank you! :)
lol yeah dog Shawn is a time traveler -- he's actually published a History of Ironswown blog post since I made this video, it's worth reading: www.ironswornrpg.com/post/the-journey-to-ironsworn
Oh GREAT question, yes that's the Wizard of Barge deck. I haven't used Tarot cards as oracles yet because they seem like they would require additional much more time, attention, and interpretive work. After all, if you're using traditional Tarot cards, you'd often have to reference a guidebook! But this is something I think about often. I'm kinda interested though in The Fablemaker's Animated Tarot Deck from Hitpoint Press, which is BOTH based on the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith AND contains a ton of guidebook info on how to use it as a campaign planning and interpretive oracle device.
I have such a love-hate relationship with the open-question type of oracle (e.g. Action/Theme) because sometimes it seems like I block on it more than I should. But as you note, it can be amazingly helpful when used well!
This was great, thanks. I think more instructional solo content from you would be great. There are so many newcomers to the hobby right now, and fitting all these tools together isn't easy for everyone.
@@Jack-gs6sd The person doing the IndieTTRPG newsletter mentioned your video. And I'm glad they did cause I didn't know about this stuff! It's really inspiring.
A trick I like for when you get a result that doesn't spark anything, but you want to sort of honor the initial randomness is to check out what result you get if you flip the digits. It's faster than rerolling too.
Ironsworn was the first time I tried anything with oracles, and it was just magical. Your example of the "Reject Price" oracle result - I instantly had exactly the same idea that you came up with, and it's SUCH a great way for that situation to go. My instincts would have also been along the lines of "everything's fine" or "people are rejecting him" and both of those are so much worse than the oracle prompted idea.
I know I’ve said it in my videos too. Roll on the oracles/tables, but if an idea springs to mind and sparks that creativity within you…roll with it! Do not be beholden and follow a strict adherence to the rules and tables. YOU are playing for YOU. Bend rules, fudge rules, change scenes that make your game amazing. Ignore the people that whine about how you play.
Oh man, did I include that in the video? I should have, that's always sorta the cardinal rule: Do what is coolest, and MOST of the time you will know. Also, man, I LOVE your dice with the bigass numbers on them. I mean, I'm also obsessed with Perilous Wilds and Freebooters and pretty much everything Lampblack & Brimstone makes.
@@Jack-gs6sd you hinted at it around 21 & 25 mins (and you follow it up deeply in the "Listen to your Intuition" section). Your entire section on "Start Slim" is golden as well. Switching to that mindset is what really got me going. I too got the ToAD and it stalled my playing for weeks. I do not play Ironsworn (too heavy for me) but man oh man, do I love those Lodestar Oracles!
Yeah absolutely! An important ingredient here is your intuition and imagination, it's trying to do fun things for you, and you have to make room to let it work without tampering it down :) I gotta ask (I asked one other person) where did you find this video? Someone obviously linked to it on Monday and I can't figure out who...
I don't even attempt to game anymore. It's not worth the effort. Most people are flakes. Everyone in this world is so distracted. Keep in mind, from a psychological standpoint, people MAKE time for things they really want to do regardless of how busy they are. The same goes for people who are perpetually late. What they are saying is my time is more important than yours so you can wait for me. Yeah, I'm done with all that crap. Good video, though!
Wow I don't think any of this is necessarily true! I think if you care about something deeply, there is very little in this world more satisfying or important than finding those people and making the time to see them!
@@Jack-gs6sd well, according to some of the psychology I've studied , the main points I was making are true. if your experience is different, consider yourself lucky.
Overwhelm & Quest. My first thought was the Temple was left abandoned long ago becuase all the folk living, studying, and worshipping there needed to all go on a queast to re sanctify their temple and regain their deities blessings. They were all overwhelmed by the queast they all undertook and died or lost hope and gave up. Now what caused the temple to lose their Gods blessings is a different queastion. 😊
Yeah see!?!?! That's sick, I love that, incredible idea. That's the beauty of these oracles too, which is that these words are like chemistry, or rather alchemy, and they mix with each imagination to produce different results. And you'll never know like, what amazing ingredients are sitting in your OWN imagination until you get into the lab and start cooking!
@@Jack-gs6sd Oh by the way, I've been watching a lot of solo ttrpg content of late and your video just popped up in my recommendations so I thought I would just check out what you had to say on the topic. 😊
