I love the Pathfinder basic flip mat and bigger basic flip mat. You can use wet and dry erase on them. They’ll last forever. They’re really easy to care for. And they’re inexpensive.

They fold up instead of rolling up but they’re great.

I’ve been using two chessex battle maps for a few months now and they’re great too but dry erase only, more expensive, and need more special care like not leaving anything on them, not folding them, and using the right colors.

If I had to pick one, it would be the Pathfinder basic flip mat.

https://paizo.com/products/btq02eip?Pathfinder-FlipMat-Basic

I wrote an article with my thoughts on running mysteries here:

https://slyflourish.com/running_investigations_and_mysteries.html

I put my top tips here after about 15 years of collecting the best tips from hundreds of GMs:

https://slyflourish.com/top_advice.html

• Let the Story Unfold at the Table
• Set Up Situations and Let the Characters Navigate Them
• Be On the Characters Side
• Use Tools and Techniques that Help You Prepare to Improvise
• Focus on your Next Game
• Build Your World, Campaign, and Adventures from the Characters Outwards
• Pay Attention to Pacing
• Focus on the Fiction First and Mechanics Second

The OSR podcast Between Two Cairns does critiques of old school adventures.

https://open.spotify.com/show/6jxIIEDsjAfm5H6n7kcn8f

The Black Flag SRD also has some simpler spellcaster NPCs.

https://koboldpress.com/black-flag-reference-document/

Thank you!

I’d love a go at Crown and Skull by Runehammer. It looks really interesting. I’d like to play it before I run it and, frankly, just don’t have the time.

I am!

I gave my opinions about it here: https://youtu.be/_v-jnQCTZ1Q?si=yOklCEzs4gkqg4n1

I concur.

Awesome stuff! The one thing I’d consider adding are some random names. They’re the number one improv tool.

I don’t see anything in here about them removing the art.

As a guy who used Twitter extensively for more than a decade and had over 40k followers, I can tell you it went from a great place to promote one’s RPG work to a terrible place just about overnight back in 2020 or so – just about the time users focused on algorithmic sorting of tweets over the timeline.

I was lucky to get 400 people to click a link and maybe one would buy something. Engagement was shot.

Luckily I found the social media platform of the future – email! It’s a network I control, can move to the service of my choice, and lets me directly connect with those who expressed interest in what I make.

I’m glad I started building up my email list a few years ago. It takes time but it’s worth it.

I feel like a lot of creators on Twitter simply can’t let go even though the network isn’t the same as all anymore.

Awesome! Thank you!

WHO DARES SUMMON ME!

I think they’d work fine. You found the icons on gameicons?

These are awesome!!

Regardless of motivation, spending the money to translate the 5.1 SRD into four languages and then putting it out into the CC opens up a lot of expansion of 5e into other countries and people who never would otherwise play. And it does so regardless of what WOTC does in the future. It’s prudent that we don’t trust WOrC. With this out there, we don’t have to trust them.

I just played Shadowdark and my players and I found it refreshingly simple to play. I did a video about it here:

https://youtu.be/mkJCwfzQkfk

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