(she/her) 🏳️⚧️ trans lesbian faerie queen nonbinary woman, auDHD & disabled, white
i have no idea what i'm doing! been playing and running A5e but constantly dreaming of making a new fantasy ttrpg
eat the rich, ACAB, leftist, free Palestine, listen to black people
avatar was made with Elequinoa's https://www.dolldivine.com/forest-fairy
| pronouns | she/her |
| Content Site | https://ttrpg.chaosfae.com/ |
Today I've got an update to Detect Balance Plus! The premier tool for 5E species balance. Today's is the third-party update, adding scores and features for species by Loot Tavern, KibblesTasty, and myself. Check it out!
I was reading an article at Rascal criticizing 2025 D&D's Monster Manual when someone linked this blog post in the comments:
https://throneofsalt.blogspot.com/2020/08/d-doesnt-understand-what-monsters-are.html
It is an interesting read and the comments have some even better discussion about monsters as a symptom of some evil rather than just being an evil in and themselves.
Something I'd like to keep in mind whenever I end up touching TTRPGs again. But at the rate I am going at that I will probably forget it by then. Oh, well, I bookmarked it anyway.
thank you lovely people who have boosted/answered! we were directed to the fantastic Dare2dream (not on fedi that we know) who has been on Transplanar and does sensitivity reading/consulting
we received some fantastic insights that caught some serious problems in the approach we had been taking
if folks want to continue boosting the original post and dropping names there, that would still be wonderful!
we want to privately chat with an expert about handling speciesism and racism in TTRPG settings.
we're be happy to pay for this, in particular with a black, queer, and disabled expert, but would also be happy to be sent links to read or books to buy written by someone with experience and perspective that we can't have.
if you're the person for us, reply, mentions, DM, etc are all fine, but you also can email us at [email protected]
please boost!
#TTRPG #TTRPGDesign #black #racism #speciesism #DND #writing
helped with uploading some new emojis for the server. made up a node script for bulk upload. https://dpaste.org/hsWMs
tbh, no idea how robust this is, we got it to work and then stripped the auth values to share it. it's not fast, but partially because it has a built-in delay because we bet on there being rate limiting and didn't feel like running into it. maybe it would work without it 🤷
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