Last night, Dungeons & Toast celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day with intrepidity. Backgrounds featuring ships of various make and size were chosen, tri-corn hats were donned, and ARRRRS were exaggerated with rakish fervor. Thanks to everyone who turned out, including guest Viranga, and whatever bird is perched on Quest Master Greg’s shoulder.

A Lovecraftian Evening with Kenneth Hite

Did you have to miss the special presentation by author and game designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulu; Vampire the Masquerade, 5th edition; GURPS modules)? Great news: we recorded this forbidden knowledge, including the question-and-answer session which followed. View it below, if you dare:

And from the same evening, we’re pleased to share another installment of “Uggh Speaks,” in which David E serves as translator for the Half-Orc character of Uggh and relates his friend’s motivations for questing after the Lost Lair of the Manticore and the Orb of Davras.

To help mitigate the difficulty of running RPG games with parties in which members are of significantly different level, we are pleased to announce a few changes to the Lost Lair of the Manticore system.

1. Guild Level: A new statistic called Guild Level is calculated using an average of all active members’ total XP and mapped against the level progression for an individual member. For the purposes of participating in Game Night, members whose in-guild character is of a lower level than the calculated Guild Level can instead choose to play their character at the higher level. The goal for this change is to make it easier on GMs trying to balance their games for a specific target. In a roleplay sense, higher level party members provide an Aura of Advancement to their compatriots, through the supportive nature of membership in Dungeons & Toast.
2. Magic Item Progression: To ensure members have the opportunity to acquire magic items uniformly and without having to participate in specific Game Night sessions, 5E magic items (separate from those listed in the Magic Item Shop and not requiring the expenditure of XP to purchase) are now available for selection at levels 3, 5, 7, and 9. Item quality is limited to common and uncommon rarities and are available to select as follows:

During the month of July and August, guild members participated in two playthroughs of the Lost Things pre-adventure as part of our annual RPG campaign event, the Lost Lair of the Manticore. Over the course of two game nights members created and played child versions of their grown 5E Forgotten Realms characters, partaking of the wonders and magic — sometimes dark, sometimes light — of the Witchlight Carnival.

While a write-up like the ones above is strictly optional, each author earns a special achievement for having put forth the effort:

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