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Freelance TTRPG Writer/Logistics/Customer Service/Strategy guy. #Shadowdark creator and stan. Small-time YouTuber. https://www.youtube.com/@NightNoonGames https://linktr.ee/nightnoongames

A linocut image of a gnome riding a cloud with a Shadowdark stat block beneath:

A trickster whose powers emanate from their flowing white beard which is roughly twice their height. These gnomes almost always float about rather than touch the ground.
AC 12, HP 19, ATK 1 touch +3 (1d6 + charm) and 1 spell +4, MV near (fly),
S +2, D +2, C +1, I +1, W +3, Ch +2, AL N, LV 4
Charm. DC 12 CHA or bewitched for 1d6 rounds.
Blip (WIS Spell). DC 13. Self. Teleport up to 1 mile.
Healing Touch (WIS Spell). DC 12. Heal one creature in close for 2d4 HP.
Magic Bolt (WIS Spell). DC 11. 1d4 damage to one target within far.
Snuff (WIS Spell). DC 12. Extinguish all light sources (even magical) within near.

Nyarlathotep's Liegemen and the Sea Weed zines. Some humanoid lovecraft monsters do the bidding in an Elvira-esque woman commanding them with her claws.

The dragon town boxed set and all of it's goodies.

A "Project We Love" kickstarter badge.

The linocut relief print of the gridless version of the first-floor map from Avenge the White Mare!

The open dragon Town boxed set revealing the book inside.

night noon games stickers featuring a sexy lovecraftian monster wearing a one piece red swimsuit with her ample cheeks on display. tentacles sprout from her face.

Me gesturing to all the good stuff at the booth!

Jigo holding a piece of food in chopsticks, looking at it sternly.

The Sárkány dragon. It's got three heads, a big club, and pukes lava!

A sexy deep one laying down looking back over her shoulder. She's got tentacles coming out of her face and juicy "cheeks."

A chart of visits, downloads, and payments by day. A very pronounced spike happened yesterday in views, a pretty average day on downloads, and 0 sales.

Duffman dancing at Moe's Tavern between two Duff cheerleaders saying "Duffman wants to party down!"

A series of slides about Avenge the White Mare:

Night Noon Games | Designed for Shadowdark
The White Mare is dead
Her Children, Stonecrumbler, Ironmelter, and Treeshaker, are gone
The dragon, its curse spreads
The one thing you must do
Avenge the White Mare

Hand Carved Art
Seventeen page dungeon
Kickstarter Launches July 14
Part of SideQuest

Linocut image depicting stylized adventurers approaching the copper castle

Lifeguard vehicles on the beach. Beachgoers in the foreground, a sailboat on the ocean in the background.

Image of my tabletopper and badge for the glass cannon retreat.

A lifeguard on his stand looking out across the beachgoers when... what is that!? Huge tentacles are reaching out from beneath the waves!

Screen grab of a reddit thread

u/DD_playerandDM
"I think the order of the entries in the rulebook provides a lot of clarity here.

P. 45 introduces the concept of spellcasting Critical Failures. In the 2nd paragraph there, under Wizard Spell, it tells you that, in addition to the regular penalties “You must also roll on the Wizard Mishap table corresponding to the spell’s tier.”

THEN if we look at p. 50, under the Focus rules, it says “if you critically fail on a check to maintain focus, treat it as a standard critical failure.”

To me, this is all cut and dried. You absolutely suffer a Wizard Mishap if you nat 1 on your spellcasting focus check. "

u/thearcanelibrary (kelsey)
"This is the intended interpretation!"

Whpa character sheet and book

The dudes from my Shadowdark playtest

An event description for Avenge the White Mare missing the two "á" characters in Sárkány.

Slices of Whole Foods' berry chantilly cake.

Screenshot of Shadowdark in the library catalog showing it checked out from two of the three branches.

The North Texas RPG Con emblem, a chonky dragon on a hoard of gold with a shield in the design of the Texas state flag.

Linocut print. "Ode to the monster watching me from the woods" above a stylized person in front of the woods with a house in the background.

VHS clamshell case for Hearts and Armour showing a knight battling some dude in a mask

HOW MANY
MONSTERS?
Use the 1:1 Monsters table to
determine what level a monster
should be when there is one of
that monster per character in
a combat. This will result in a
combat of average difficulty.
You can combine these levels
into a different quantity of
monsters. For example, a group
of four 4th-level adventurers
will face a combined 12 LV of
monsters per average combat.
Note that large groups of
monsters (even with lower
levels) can be deadly because
they take many more actions
each round than the characters.
Conversely, a solo monster can
be too easy (even with a high
level) if the characters swarm it.

1:1 Monster table:
Avg. Party Level Monster LV
0-3 | 1
4-6 | 3
7-9 | 5
10 | 7

COMBAT ROLE
Monsters typically fall into one of
the below combat roles.
Mook. Low damage, HP, AC, and
attack bonus. Swarmy.
Soldier. Mid-range damage, HP,
AC, and attack bonus.
Striker. High damage and attack
bonus. Low HP and AC. Often
stealthy and skillful.
Tank. Mid-range damage and
attack bonus. High HP and AC.
Controller. Environment-altering
talents. Mid-range damage and
attack bonus. Low HP and AC.
Legendary. High HP, AC,
damage, and/or attack bonus

Me and Bobby in front of Philadelphia City Hall. (Grace World Destroyer not pictured. )

Event poster for Brennan Lee Mulligan dming for DSA candidates fundraiser.

A ripped lifeguard pulls two people from the water in front of burning wreckage.

Concluding paragraph of the blog post:

How can we use this?
There’s been a fair amount of discussion about when to use advantage/disadvantage and when to adjust DCs up or down a step, and I think this really helps give some guidance on this. The way I interpret the maths here is as follows:

Pre-existing skill or some innate competence is best represented by adjusting DCs.
Situational leverage, or a circumstantial leg-up that still requires skill to capitalise on is best represented by advantage.

A lil cup shaking a d20 die, which lands on a 9.

Text from an interview with Chris Cocks:

"Books will always be an important part of D&D," Cocks explains in response. "It will always be kind of like a special totem that you can collect. I have a big bookshelf of D&D books myself. But we see what's happening – almost everyone who plays D&D uses D&D Beyond, like a super high percentage uses it. A very high percentage use Foundry VTT or Roll20, and so it just makes sense that you should start to migrate your thinking about the way you play to more of a live service where you don't have to wait 18 months for us to build a book. We can start to release components or aspects of that book over time, and you don't have to buy everything all at once. You can buy chapters or segments of it over time. That makes a ton of sense to me. That said we will still have big moments. We will still have like, 'hey, ta da, here's a huge campaign.' You can expect there'll be more around that, both from us and from all the creators in the world that can leverage a platform like D&D Beyond to share their content as well."

just a couple a dudes trying to jump cars

A voluptuous green woman wearing a red one-piece swimsuit with the head of a Cthulhu monster with tentacles coming out of her face.

Star Borg Rebel Handbook cover.

Responses from bakers:

Bone Orchardist: Looks amazing Mark! Thank you and Michael and the rest of the Roll for Combat team, excited o see this monster in full print and the can't wait to see the artwork for it!

Rime Regent: Hello again Mark! Do let Michael know that he smashed it out of the park with the Rime Regent, I love the lore and the stats! They definitely have a good centerpiece boss for an encounter vibe like I was hoping for! Ironically, the 400 years prior is just shy of my own campaign setting’s huge magical upheaval — I got a huge grin reading it as they will perfectly fold into my campaign! Hopefully my players can make it, haha! Excited to see the illustration of them! Here’s to a great spread of books and many, many player encounters! Hope the production and editing has been going well on your all’s end!

Treevenger: Mark this is awesome and so very aligned to what I was wanting to achieve with this. Tell Michael he did a fantastic job bringing this concept to fruition.

A tintype photo of me dressed as a vampire. The photo is coffin-shaped.

A pineapple chunk covered in Tajín "Clásico" seasoning in front of a 4 Noses Brewery michelada beer made in collaboration with The Real Dill (presumably a pickling company).

Joseph Gordon Levit as a bike messenger in the movie "Premium Rush"

Discord message from onlinefatherfigure that reads: "@Michael (Night Noon Games) I ran your Baywatch Cthulhu adventure tonight for my friends. We had a blast"

Spread of the first two pages of the Nyarlathotep's Liegemen & the Sea Weed adventure. It covers the Overview, Background, Important Figures, rules for Gettin' Stoned, and Scene 1: Full Moon Beach Sports Championship!

A very real D&D monster, the Carpet Snake, rearing its many heads at the fancy man standing on it.

Screengrab of the Nyarlathotep's Liegemen & The Sea Weed itch page showing money raised as $420.40.

Portuguese text describing an "Elfo."

The stats of a Buraq, a "horse of heaven." Looks like a normal horse other than having the face of a man with a long mustache.

Shadowdark zombie stat block with "chumbawumba" replacing the name "relentless" that allows a zombie to get back up again when it gets knocked down.

A tall and sketetal "tumbling blocks" Tower

Arora borealis

Northern lights

Dolmenwood shipping confirmation.

Michael sitting in the window seat of a plane.

Graphic showing that the stretch goal for Shadowdark and Mythic Bastionland conversion kits is unlocked!

Old-timey, coffin-shaped tintype photo of me looking good in a vampire costume.

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