CHAINMAIL: 06.03.2024
Including - Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post; Why Fantasy Worlds SHOULD Be Stuck in Medieval Times; and 100 OSR Class Pyramid.
Interesting Social Situations, or The Discourse Post - Rise Up Comus
This is not a post about social mechanics for your D&D game, it's about creating interesting social encounters. You can use social mechanics if that is what you're into, but this post goes a layer deeper into how you can make social encounters dynamic; in the same way you might make a combat encounter more dynamic.
Why Fantasy Worlds SHOULD Be Stuck in Medieval Times - Perseus Grim
Not a video directly related to DMing or D&D, but a really fun break down on why magic, along with other factors, can and should force a civilization to remain in a medieval period.
100 OSR Class Pyramid - The Manse Gaming
This post gives you 100 class examples broken out across a 3 axis graph; the axes being fighter, rogue, and wizard. Even if you don't use them as written for OSR games, this is a wellspring of inspiration for coming up with new ideas for PCs, NPCs, and class/subclass design.
Sorry, I know this was super late and I've missed a couple weeks here and there. My weekends have been spent working on a new project that will be announced hopefully next month, so stay tuned!
I hope these resources inspire you! If you haven't already, the best way to stay up to date with everything hothead-related is to join the discord. See you next week!