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Various updates

Hey all,

There have been a slew of minor changes to things in January. Let's just nail down the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

• I've updated the Pantheon of the gods slightly. Agepa (Goddess of the hunt) has had her symbol cha...
  2018-01-26 01:07:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Arcadia Constellation Viewer

Hey yall,

This is very much a work in progress, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway. This is a nighttime view of the sky in Arcadia. You can select what month your characters/players are in and the view will shift to see the sky at that point. There's a check box you can toggle to add or remove labels.

Updates to come with this

2017 End of Year

Hey there,

2017 has been a big year. For the world, for me personally, and for the D&D campaigns that you support. Let's take a look at what happened this year, D&D wise.

• Hardcore Heroes came to an end.
• Frozen Frontier was started.
• Fatal One began.
• Misscliks Devotion had a full and amazing run while ...
  2017-12-31 20:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Regalgoblins Store

Hey ya'll,

For years now people have been asking about Dicing with Death, Hardcore Heroes, and other merch, and today some of these things have been realized. We're starting off with DwD and Fatal One shirts/sweatshirts, an Arcadia mouse pad, and a Dicing with Death apron (for obvious reasons).

I really don't like to push products on people...

Tabletop Audio track updates

Hey guys!

Today we updated the tabletop audio track associations, adding track 118-126. As usual I've hidden the track associations that don't fit a fantasy game, but I want to call one of those out this time. "Car Chase!" is super cool. Doesn't fit with a D&D world, but I wanna watch the movie that the track is based on. 

Bolded t...

Roll20 Skinning Update

So I spent the whole of my day off working on roll20 skins. Here's what I've got.

Dicing with Death: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNctl8cUMAEJNnB.jpg

Frozen Frontier: http...

Roll20 skinning

Hey there,

Monday is normally my off day, but instead I spent all day reskinning Roll20 to fit better with the overlays and themes of our shows. Above is Dicing with Death, but I've posted Frozen Frontier on twitter (and will post others as they come) if ...

Gear price updates

Hey there,

I've made some slight adjustments to the weights and costs of weapons in the economics document.

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VUgNmRpclPZrd9DcBaRG_b3zoqPMvgLX7z_Fygw5ons/edit#gid=122452...

Metal Converter Update

Hey there,

The metal converter on RegalGoblins was broken. Like, super broken. It didn't make any sense. I've fixed it now.

Link: http://regalgoblins.com/converter.html

For those interested in the inner workings of the conversion process, it goes like this....

2.Neal Updates

Hey there folks,

I've made a few slight changes to the 2.neal document. They are as follows

• Updating the formatting to look nicer
• Added Spell Memorization subsection
• Added Spell Switching subsection 
• Added link to 2e spells on RegalGoblins under the Wizard Spell Appendix.

While I have added ...

2e NWP descriptions update

I've made a single change to the 2e NWPs.

Under the survival proficiency, I've added the following blocks of text:

• If one is going to be foraging a lot in one day and wishes to simplify, the following optional system may be used.
• A forager may spend 2 hours searching for food to find 1d6 standard days of food. This requires a...
  2017-10-24 21:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post

2e Character Sheet Update!

Hello folks,

I've made some updates to the 2e character sheet. The change-log is below.

• Removed weapon weight from the weapon table
• Removed weapon size from the weapon table
• Weapon and Nonweapon profs are now one single column
• Equipment weights are now two columns with subtotals on each and text denoting on ...
  2017-10-24 21:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Point Buy System

Recently I've had the desire to have a better understanding of what it means to be an average / above average character. Stats can be quite difficult to compare directly: Is a character with three 3s and three 18s equal to a character with three 10s and three 11s? They both average 10.5, but to say they're of equivalent power would be wrong. I've p...

Fatal One: The Counter Push

Hey everybody

It looks like bits of the community are starting to sit up and take this dungeon seriously. Cjreek over on reddit.com/r/koibu has put together a pretty magical document to help track what's going on in this dungeon. It's this sort of community networking that might, just might, stand a chance against Fatal One.

I, for one, wil...

Fatal One & Frozen Frontier schedule updates

Hey guys,

There's been a problem with scheduling this week, so Frozen Frontier has been pushed back 1 week. Fatal One has been bumped up to replace it.

Fatal One: Sunday the 8th @ 8:00am Pacific

Frozen Frontier: Sunday the 15th @ 10:00am Pacific.

Fatal One will be running with the following comp...

Fatal One Intro Video

Today was the first episode of Fatal One. If you've missed it, the VODs are up on Youtube in the Fatal One Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPV88C9y83a6RY-IO3-5AybcuFJobArU_

Enjoy!

Running a Chase

So I was thinking about how awkward chases have been in my campaigns when I had a moment of clarity! Rather than trying to measure distances and movement speeds, which can make for some interesting rules layering, we should just boil it down to a single opposed roll. The person being chased (the runner) is either trying to out distance or out maneu...

Project T

Short update here guys: Project T will be getting its full announcement this weekend! It won't come from me, but when it's announced I'll link it everywhere.

Patreon / Discord linking for Town Sheriffs

Hey there,

We now have automatic Patreon/Discord account linking support, so I've readded to the Town Sheriff ($5) tier access to a Patreon only discord channel. Of course if you're more than a Town Sheriff you'll also have access to this. All you will need to do is link your Patreon and Discord accounts in the settings here in Patreon and you're...

Koibu's Corner: Outlining your adventures practice! Homework attached.

Hey there everybody, it's time for another Koibu's Corner, but this time we're going to be talking about building adventures and how to plan them. We're going to be looking at a simple way to get the grand outline of your plans to give your story some structure and pacing. This is a pretty loose method which is flexible enough that when things chan...

Moving to Boulder, CO

Greetings Patrons!

I will be moving from Gualala, CA to Boulder, CO starting tomorrow! It's a pretty big move in a lot of ways. 

• 10 days on the road
• 2500 miles of driving
• 5 states
• 4 National Parks (minimum)
• 1 solar eclipse (from Casper, WY in the middle of the path)
• Living away from th...
  2017-08-11 23:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post

KC: On min-maxing characters

Today we're going to be discussing the strengths and disadvantages of a min-maxed character. The core concept is that TTRPGS are based on overcoming challenges, and you want a character that does well in that area without breaking it. I will try to keep this as system-neutral as possible, but it will help if the reader is familiar with an ascending...

Soundcloud restored!

Hey there,

So some of you may have noticed that in the last 6 months, Soundcloud stopped updating with all the good stuff from YouTube. I'll save you the boring technical explanation of what happened, but thanks to one of our viewers, Valentin, we have resolved the issue! Soundcloud should always be up to date from now on - maybe a day or two beh...

Sneak Peak: Project T

I've been keeping the details of Project T very close to the chest. I've tried not to spill details of it, but some really exciting stuff has been happening. So I'm going to attempt to tell you about it without telling you about it.

It's going to be 5e. It's going to be a guest based game. It will probably take place in Caldonia (where Frozen Fro...

Fatal One Update

Hey there,

Fatal One is coming along! 

• Dungeon design: 95%
• Stream overlays: 100%
• Dungeon rules: 85%
• Character creation rules: 85%
• Party creation rules: 50%
• Video intro: 10%

I'm thinking we're going to have a September launch date, although the specifics of that are still up...

KC: Bringing Your Roleplaying to the Next Level

Good morning, and welcome to another Koibu's Corner. If you missed the last one (which contains an intro on what Koibu's Corner is), it can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/koibus-corner-be-12252073

Today's topic will be on how you can...

Frozen Frontier gets an Intro

The wonderfully talented Matthew Burger did all the artwork for this beautiful video while the fine folks (Tim) over at Tabletop Audio produced the audio.

Koibu's Corner: Be bold!

 This is the first of many Koibu's Corner posts I will be making here. Before we hop into the meat of the post, I want to introduce the Koibu's Corner concept to those that might be unfamiliar with it. Koibu's Corner is a opinion/advice blog post centered around TTRPG concepts that should apply universally to all TTRPGs, even if the examples g...

Moving to Boulder, CO

I've mentioned this before, but lets give it a formal place somewhere. I'm going to be moving to Boulder, CO starting on or around August 12th. My wife (Lauren) and I will be doing a 10 day road trip through 6 states (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado) to see some wonderful things like General Sherman, The Grand Canyon, and th...

Project T

Project T has been in the works for a while now. We've talked about it, we've planned some of it on stream (although you thought we were doing something else altogether hahaha), and we've speculated wildly as to what it might be. Let me get a little more info out about it.

Project T has a launch date set for late summer, after I make my move to B...