Coucou mes p'tites patates! Bon ça y'est, c'est calé! Les affaires reprennent avec les sessions "découverte du jeu de rôle", pour les novices, bien que cela commence à faire quelques groupes finissant par devenir des velu.e.s!

08/01 : CàlT/ Andor!
16/01 : CàlT/ House of the Dragon!
21/01 : CàlT/ Stranger things!
22/01 : Hurlements!
25/01 : ULUJ/ Fables!
28/01 : Blue planet!

#jeuderole #jeuderôle #ttrpg #patatedestenebres #CàlT #roll20

Let's talk irony in the ttrpg space - specifically, the digital side.

D&D Beyond is supposed to the *the* home of D&D on the internet. You can buy books there, set up campaigns, if you have a subscription you can share those books, etc. It's Wizards' thing to try to centralize the whole kit and kaboodle. (DDB didn't start out as owned by wizards - it was licensed. They bought it out in 2022 and made it their own. - https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1221-d-d-beyond-joins-wizards-of-the-coast )

There's a caveat to that, though - and it's called Roll20. One of the biggest places to run games online, with a virtual tabletop and all that. Wizards actually licenses D&D there, and you can buy D&D books on there to to use the books with the game.

(Fun fact: Wizards has been trying *very* to make headway in this space, at least where D&D is concerned. See their Maps VTT, and its predecessor the now-dead Sigil 3d vtt.)

This is where the irony comes in - Roll20 bought out another digital distribution platform called Demiplane, which serves a whole bunch of other games, and used to do only third party 5e content as well... until very recently. Remember, Roll20 owns them. ...and now Demiplane is hosting a small subset of the D&D books, including the big three core books, using official D&D trademarks and such because hey, it's all licensed, I guess?

The long and short is the D&D Beyond for a bunch of other big games has semi-accidentally started hosting D&D official content as well. Considering Demiplane started hosting books after hiring on a few former DDB folks... well.

Irony.

Someone at Wizards has to be incredibly irritated by this twist.

#DND #dnd5e #dndbeyond #roll20 #demiplane

Blog - Xyntillan - more to do because #Roll20 has added useful things.

TL;DR: Map pins have been added which allow you to link to and display handouts to maps, with a tool tip showing key text. This is potentially really useful in play.

#ttrpg #osr #dnd #castlexyntillan

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/12/xyntillan-more-to-do-because-roll20-has.html

Blog - the gates of Castle #Xyntillan beckon (#OSR)

TL;DR: finally (third year of messing around with it), I've finished adding Castle Xyntillan onto #Roll20 so the potential now exists for a drop in casual #DnD game going forward. I've learned a fair bit on building dynamic lighting doing this!

I decided that the #OldSchoolEssentials #ttrpg was the best fit for me for this.

https://delta-pavonis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-gates-of-castle-xyntillan-beckon-osr.html

Just reopened a long dormant #DnD #ttrpg project on #Roll20 to try and finish it, and saw an unusual thing on the light layer. The usual fog/darkness is there, plus the green lines for the light barriers on walls, plus the door icons. However, there is an outlined square in the middle that only shows on the light layer. It is a black line surrounded with light. It's not selectable.

Anyone know what it is?

(PS Answers of 'use Foundry, use Owlbear Rodeo etc' not needed!)

I am not sure what the deal is with roll20 linking up with demiplane to provide some character sheets? I was sort of interested in testing out Starfinder 2e. I was a little shocked that there is some kind of demiplane connection to do that now.

https://www.demiplane.com/launch

I find filling out the options for Starfinder 2e cumbersome, but I am old and a complainer. I kind of wish there was a character generator that just asked a series of questions like...

Do you like to fighting, sneaking, healing, or magic?

Is your character strong, smart, or agile?

And so on...

Maybe a bit like how a gypsy would ask you a series of questions in Ultima to determine what your class was going to be.

#starfinder #rpg #ttrpg #ultima #roll20 #demiplane

Freitag gibt es #pnpde, und zwar online auf #roll20

In meinem jugendlichen Leichtsinn habe ich angeboten, einen #dnd5e One-Shot von vor ein paar Monaten fortzusetzen.

Jetzt sitze ich wieder über dem virtuellen Tabletop und grübel und recherchiere... Normalerweise spielen wir mit dieser Gruppe regelleichtes Erzählspiel, also brauchen wir roll20 nur für hier mal ein handout, da mal nen W20-Wurf.

Jetzt fuxe ich mich erstmal wieder tiefer in die ganzen Battlemap-Charaktertrait-usw Optionen rein.

Bon, pas beaucoup de commandes de jeux de rôles en décembre, un peu normal, et tant mieux, car c'est le mois où je souhaite le plus m'isoler afin d'écrire, pour devenir ensuite riche et célèbre!

08/12 : Everway!
09/12 : CàlT/ Fringe!
16/12 : CàlT/ Downton abbey!
21/12 : Dragonbane!

#jeuderole #jeuderôle #ttrpg #patatedestenebres #CàlT #roll20