Author: Patrick Spriggs

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Our First In-Person D&D Game in 18 months!

We had our first D&D 5E game in a year and a half and I remembered to take a few pictures this time! We were well fed with wine, pizza, and birthday cake. We got to use terrain that has been sitting on the shelf for a while. And we got to kill an evil witch! Special thanks to Anthony for letting us use his Hobby Badger shop as a venue and for supplying pizza and drinks, as well as for Brett and Grant for bringing a chocolate cake so rich that I physically felt myself acquiring diabetes. It was great that everyone was able to show up and play again after so long. I personally had a blast and hope you all did as well!

Playing D&D at Hobby Badger
Matt photobombs my attempt to capture the battle in the swamp with the Evil Witch.
Sam dual wields some knives and gets ready to cut the cake.
Grant’s character failed to avoid the ambush.
Our stats for our characters from like, 2 years ago? Most people are still playing the same character! Pretty cool to think about.
The terrain looked amazing as usual.
The fight as the top of the tower got pretty crowded at one point. This rapidly changed the subsequent round when the crying baby exploded.
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The MPMB Character Sheet for 5E is Awesome!

MPMB’s Character Sheet (Printer Friendly Version) is the most comprehensive character sheet I’ve ever seen for 5E (sorry Andy). To be honest, it’s a full-on program with the skin of a PDF file. It pulls upon all of the source books to fill in information as you need it on your character sheet, such as Class Features, Spells, Feats, etc. without having to look them up manually.

You can only really utilize its functions in Acrobat Reader (which sadly makes you install McAfee Antivirus software you will have to uninstall after you install the main program). Then, if you Right-Click->Save this file then follow these instructions starting at “Step 2” under “How to import a script”, you can get a character sheet that pretty much fills itself out. Great for characters with a ton of spells with descriptions you don’t want to copy-paste. I did it for my cleric Milo earlier and it completely filled out my spellbook without needing to type a thing. Wohoo!

If you’re interested in more information, you can jet over to their official website.

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Downloadable Character Sheets

As we move forward to begin playing in-person again (finally!), character sheets for our various tabletop games have been posted on the Media page. If there are any other resources that you think we might need as we move from computers to paper and pencil, feel free to let me know in Discord.

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Dice Rolling Bot Added to Discord Server

Based upon a suggestion by Sam, a dice rolling bot named Avrae has been added to the discord server. Feel free to mess around with it if you guys like; there are all sorts of cool commands you can learn, found on the official Avrae Bot website. If want want to mess around with the bot, please limit it to the #dnd-session chat channel so as not to clutter up the other channels.

If anyone else has further suggestions on what to add to our Discord server, feel free to contact me (Patrick).

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PSA: Please Make Sure You Have A Discord Account

Google Meet, our go-to conference app for Roll20, is hungrier than Ghandi for Internet bandwidth. Discord is our backup for when Google Meet is too much for our group to handle (it takes fewer Internets to run). Discord runs in-browser, so you don’t need to download anything – just make sure you have an account and the settings are how you like it.

This will all be less important when we start meeting in-person again, but for now, it’s good to keep in mind!

To start your Discord adventures, simply click the “Connect” button on the Discord applet to the right.

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Digital Library Source for TableTop Games

Last game we were discussing the possibility of others DMing and maybe even expanding beyond our currently used rule sets. While I love “Dungeons & Dragons 5E” and “Star Wars Saga”, I know I’m always down for a new game system! For those curious, you can find a great online collection of all of these rule sets online at The Trove. Many of you already know about this website, but it’s good to put that information out there again.

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Podcasts Added to Website

Just started a listing of podcasts we listen to, both tabletop gaming-related and otherwise. Feel free to add to the list, by either direct editing or sending me a message. Also added a menu link to the Facebook page for Hobby Badger Games, a store run by our good friend Anthony. Please support him and his business!

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TableTopGuild Holiday Meet-up!

We had a meetup to exchange gifts and see each other in person for the first time in a while! Thanks to everyone who came.

Meeting at dusk.
Everyone received their own customized mug with a picture of their D&D character, courtesy of Sam and Mikaela!
Andy’s mug with his character Telchur.
Anthony’s mug with his character 111 (aka Rook).
Patrick’s mug with his character Milo Blossombrace.
Grant’s mug with his character Alethra Artemel.
Brett’s mug of his DM appearance.
Mikaela’s mug with her character Enna.
Matt’s mug with his character Drip.
Sam’s mug of her character, Faust.
It got dark fast.
The gang. With Andy photoshopping himself in ?.

Later in the night we got a sword demonstration: