as far as i can tell, #Downcrawl uses an ideation and convergence technique in session 0. if what i understood is correct, i love it! i learned this technique during my mba and i readily identified it as a great method for other “problem solving” areas.

Sorry for all the #Downcrawl related posts lately, but: I've got a web store up to sell remaining leftover bonus items from the crowdfunding campaign! If you wanted some sweet metal map coins, dice, the Delver's Guide, or other swag, grab it before it's gone! https://aaronareed.net/store/

Oof, tariffs and general trade madness hitting print-on-demand channels today. Looks like starting April 1st, price for printing black and white books from the largest US POD supplier is going up SIGNIFICANTLY, by 40-70+%

#Downcrawl orders will hopefully get in just under the wire of this, but this is going to absolutely *crush* small creators, especially those who already did a crowdfunding campaign and still have to fulfill. to everyone trying to make a living in this space.

If 12-year-old Aaron with his red box D&D Basic set knew that one day he'd be commissioning hundreds of dice for his very own #TTRPG, the velocity of his head exploding might have exceeded the sound barrier. These lovely handmade d6s for #Downcrawl courtesy Dice Extractions: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DiceExtractions

Just put in a print order for 720 #Downcrawl Delver's Guides, 400 Adventure Zines, and a great many Index Bookmarks and blank Folk & Volume cards. Expecting 650 pounds of #TTRPG supplements on my doorstep in three or four weeks

Foraging for mushrooms in the Deep, Deep Down is a delicate balancing act between serendipity and expertise, weird side effects and weirder benefits, with only a slight possibility of terrible, all-consuming addiction. Find out how to forage your own shadow sludge, warty funnels, or prickly trumpets in #Downcrawl 2E:
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Heading to the #GoPlayNW #TTRPG con, one of my faves! Got my new Bag Of Holding (it fits a ton). Going to demo Downcrawl Worlds (a standalone worldbuilding spin-off of #Downcrawl 2E, more soon) and also bringing some other fun games to play (Butter Princess anyone?? More rpgs set at the Iowa State Fair plz

#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek Publisher: Held Sacred, Frosty Edge, Antisocial

The Fumarole Record is the Down's most trusted broadsheet, but where are its offices? Some speak of a buried glacier riddled with vertiginous dropoffs and cloistered tunnels, where mole-faced reporters listen at holes in the ice for mysterious whispers, typesetters toil at steam-powered linotypes, and the Editor never leaves his shack on the edge of the coldest dropoff. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity
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Words I had to add to my spellchecker today because of #Downcrawl #TTRPG:
godsquid
megabeast
reconfigurations
homonculi
batrider
hellgate
undercroft
oozefall
quakemaster
aetherloom
spongelands

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/5df1c73e-d8b8-469b-b855-3dda8add0c8a/landing

#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek Anarchy, Animals, Jagged Meadows

They follow the lava tunnels down to where all meet, an enormous meadow of green & black, mosses & grass over knife-edged obsidian. Animals displaced by miners, monsters, quakes, curses and stranger underworld dangers, funneled into uneasy togetherness. The result is a chaos of interacting species & conflicting biomes, bloody feeding ground amidst strange emergent symbioses: an anarchy of beasts. #ttrpg
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New #Downcrawl #TTRPG blog post: how Dangers evolved from a flat numerical modifier into an evolving set of narratively charged, evocative, specific threats. Before and after rule blocks! #ttrpgcommunity
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#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek Place of Healing, Twisted Canyons, Fungus

The Sisters welcome the injured and diseased. The Sisters know the ways into the mycelial mazes, and the only ways out. They will lay you in a spongy bed where feathery gills will embrace you. And when you emerge, they will judge you healed, or remade. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity

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Working this week on extremely rough mockups for an Encounter Deck for #Downcrawl, which will help you generate memorable random underworld encounters. Pictured: a Challenge wherein the players are tempted to take a zipline to a safe campsite over a chasm containing some sort of kaiju... #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity

#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek #ttrpgcommunity Grand Market, Haunted Labyrinth, Beauty:
The Soul Bazaar is unmissable, even for those only window shopping--if you can find it at all. At the center of a heartstoppingly beautiful living maze grown of sentient coral, demons and spirits of all shapes and sizes come here to trade in the ephemeral.
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In a new post on the #Downcrawl blog, I break down how to use the Downcrawl Deck: an optional supplement coming to the new edition of my underworld-set #TTRPG that lets you generate idea prompts almost instantly. https://buff.ly/4be81Jb

#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek noxious pits, utopia, resource: magic

The violet fumes of the Glittershafts *change* those who breathe them in unpredictable ways, so most go masked. Yet they provide an endless source of magical energy, shared equally with all citizens as decreed by the Effluvium Council; no task is too small or need too trivial to be satisfied by the extragantly glorious application of magic. https://buff.ly/3QLjzfS

#Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek: Land of Grandmas, winding trail

The Trail of Letting Go is guarded by two fierce elder women; only those of a certain age are allowed to pass. None know for sure what land lies at the trail's end, but some say, if you listen closely, you can just make out the distant, raucous laughter of deliciously happy and very old ladies. #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity

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In the #Downcrawl 2E #TTRPG, you generate strange creatures and intriguing places live at the table, just as you need them. More details in the first Downcrawl Digest post: https://buff.ly/4aACwIV

Your #Downcrawl #VolumeOfTheWeek is a lair of altered burrows, abundant with plants. Long ago, the gentle creatures that dug these tunnels were choked out by the Vine, twisting and strangling its way through the underground, forcing vicious tendrils into every crack and crevice, always, always growing... https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/5df1c73e-d8b8-469b-b855-3dda8add0c8a/landing #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity