July Free Creation Poll! Pick what TTRPG Thing you want!!
- Prehistoric Classic D&D Monsters! 3
- Bloodbending and Breath Stealing Monk 0
- Magical Firearms 2
- A Mole Species 0
Hey everyone!
Apologies, I have had to be on a bit of a hiatus after some recent upheaval in my life! It has felt like every time I have sat down to write, create or generally just make a quip, something has happened that needed me to rush off. Thankfully however everything has... well not fully calmed down, but enough that I can get back to creating and posting weird and wonderful TTRPG content for you all! I am also hoping to get back to creating some paid content in July, so keep an eye out for that as it comes! But for now, please take a look at these ideas for my free July Creation! What ever you pick, I will make it as a free post on here!
Between two books and countless creations shared on this patreon, I have become pretty good at tracking where my ideas come from, for this first option, I entirely sure. I know it was while watching the classic Terra Nova TV show, where the characters are in a prehistoric world, discovering all sorts of prehistoric versions of creatures an plant life, an I wondered, what about Prehistoric Fantasy creatures?!
Now obviously we have dinosaurs, but what came before such creatures as the Beholder? Was there some savage flying dinosaur that was the early genus that spawned both the Dragon and Wyvern? Why did they split! My hope is this will be a collection of 4-5 creatures that answer this question!
Guess what the other show I was binging this month... Now Avatar was hardly the first franchise that envisioned people that could control air and water, controlling blood and the air in peoples lungs, but it was one of the coolest.
To be clear, this Monk subclass isnt going to be full evil, I like the idea of a class that gives players the tools to use the powers to heal, and to hurt, then leave it up to the players an DMs to really explore which way they go.
This was from an idea that was actually developed for my home game! I have a player that is a gunslinger, and he rightly pointed out that they werent any unique magical firearms in the game! You basically have to have a +1 or another version of a pretty straight forward magical item, there were very few unique magical guns.
So as well as the one I plan for him to find in game, I thought why not create a collection of them? These will be more blackpowder type weapons, rather than any of the DMG's modern firearms... unless? (let me know if you want that too!)
A Mole Species
I've done a number of flying species now, and to be fair, quite a few already existed, same goes for climbing and swimming ones... but what about burrowing! I think its a really cool design space to have a species that get bonuses for burying under ground, who perhaps operate more on hindsight that on ordinary sight!
I like the idea of writing the lore for a culture for them too, perhaps some deep animosity towards the dwarves, who need so many tools and equipment to do what they can do in minutes!
Let me know what you think below, I cannot wait to hear your thoughts!
Much loveMat