CHAINMAIL: 06.03.2024

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Chainmail is a weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing the abundance of excellent content available in the TTRPG space. You'll find YouTube videos, blog posts, quotes from books, and many other forms of media related to improving your skills as game masters and world builders. Enjoy!

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!