Our table got bigger again this week. Welcome in @goblinsnotebook.bsky.social @tsmag.bsky.social @byfrancita.bsky.social @paippolito.bsky.social @queensfamiliar.bsky.social - pull up a chair, the fire is warm. anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

#SelfPromoSaturday: First Day at Spellhaven. Orientation day at a #magic school, and the prank-construct that tests new students just malfunctioned. Four misfits, one terrified first-year, a clock ticking backward. 5e, 2-3 players. anvilnink.com/first-day-at-spellhaven-magic-school-one-shot/

Battle-map craft for small tables: a good map is not about detail, it is about legibility. In one glance it should answer 3 things - where is cover, where is the exit, what will kill me. Everything else, decoration. What is the best #battlemap you have made? anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

Your party has slain a lich, a dragon, and a demon lord. It has never once beaten the group chat. It is September now - every calendar just filled with school nights and work trips. You beat gods. You cannot schedule a Tuesday. Longest your group has gone between sessions? anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

GM tip for small tables. The fight that wipes a two-player party is almost never the hardest-hitting one - it is the one with the most enemies on the board. Two heroes vs four monsters means the monsters get twice the turns. Fix: fewer, tougher enemies, not more HP. anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpgtips

The Ember Tide: A DnD 5e Wildfire One-Shot Adventure for Small Groups The Ember Tide is a ready-to-run D&D 5e one-shot for 2-3 players. Outrun a spreading wildfire through a doomed valley in one 2-3 hour session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5djb8

The Ember Tide: A DnD 5e Wildfire One-Shot Adventure for Small Groups The Ember Tide is a ready-to-run D&D 5e one-shot for 2-3 players. Outrun a spreading wildfire through a doomed valley in one 2-3 hour session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5djb8

The Ember Tide: A DnD 5e Wildfire One-Shot Adventure for Small Groups The Ember Tide is a ready-to-run D&D 5e one-shot for 2-3 players. Outrun a spreading wildfire through a doomed valley in one 2-3 hour session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5djb8

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Back-to-school pop quiz for your dice bag. The Greeks proved there are only five perfect solids in all of geometry. Five of your dice are exactly those shapes. One die in the set is a mathematical impostor. Which one? Guess before you scroll - answer tonight. anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

The academy admits thirteen students every autumn. Thirteen chairs, thirteen names on the register. This morning the master read all thirteen - and fourteen children said "here." Nobody will say which one is lying. What does your table do? anvilnink.com #dndideas #ttrpgideas #tabletop #DnD

Our table got bigger this week. Welcome in @householdpest.bsky.social @timothygutierrez.bsky.social @dragonwarriorsrpg.bsky.social @sphinxakashaa.bsky.social @doloir.bsky.social - pull up a chair, the fire is warm. Tell us your best DnD story... anvilnink.com #dnd #community

#SelfPromoSaturday. Remember the 1990's film #Tremors? Presenting "Quakes"!! Run this at home: a silent frontier town, blind worms hunting the tremor of your footsteps, and a dread counter the whole table watches climb. - 5e, 2-3 players, 0 -prep. anvilnink.com/quakes-underground-monster-one-shot/

Gen Con opens today. Can't be in Indy? Run the blockbuster at home. A wizard's dinosaur park loses containment - 2 hours before the island sinks. Zero prep, 2-3 players, 5e. ( #JarasicPark NOPE --> ) Cretaceous Park: anvilnink.com/cretaceous-p... #DnD #TTRPG

Trivia for the table. The biggest tabletop convention on earth opens Thursday. So: what does the 'Gen' in Gen Con actually stand for? It is not 'general.' Guess before you look it up - answer in the comments tonight. anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg #gencon

At midnight every door in the village opened at once. No wind. No footprints. Nothing taken. This morning there is one more grave in the churchyard than yesterday - fresh, filled, unmarked. And nobody is missing. Dig it up, or set a watch? anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

Nate Halloway died the way he lived: arguing about a security deposit. He woke up as a glowing rock in the worst dungeon on the block - 28 days to make rent, with one sarcastic goblin on staff. Our first LitRPG novel! Free in Kindle Unlimited. amzn.to/4vH4qh2 #litrpg #dungeoncore

#SelfPromoSaturday. A one-shot built to run AT a bachelor party. The groom plays the groom, total beginners get one-page sheets, 2-8 players, 0 prep. Also: the groom is missing and there is an owlbear in the bathtub, cue the hilarity. Paperback: amzn.to/4vHkhMM Ebook: payhip.com/b/KdgVT #ttrpg

Gen Con weekend math. Books you will buy: 7. Dice you will buy: 40. Adventures you swear you will run: all of them. Adventures you will run: the pile knows. Every table has the pile. It is not shame - it is ambition with nowhere to park. anvilnink.com #GenCon #ttrpg #ThePileOfBooks #DndMemes

Gen Con week: running a con slot or a game night with no time to prep? Roll for Knowledge Vol 2 is 500+ all-new 5e trivia questions in ten ready-to-run quiz nights. You bring the crowd, the book runs the night. Zero prep. payhip.com/b/J5RKv #dnd #ttrpg #gencon

Small-table fix that is not a fudged dice roll: give your party of two, one loyal companion to cover the missing role. The rule that keeps it from taking over - it never makes the plan. It asks what you want, then does it. How do you balance your two-person table? anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

First Day at Spellhaven: A Magic School One-Shot Where the Pranks Bite Back First Day at Spellhaven is a cozy 5e magic school one-shot for 2-3 players: protect a nervous first-year as a prankster construct turns orientation day into chaos. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bz8f

First Day at Spellhaven: A Magic School One-Shot Where the Pranks Bite Back First Day at Spellhaven is a cozy 5e magic school one-shot for 2-3 players: protect a nervous first-year as a prankster construct turns orientation day into chaos. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bz8f

First Day at Spellhaven: A Magic School One-Shot Where the Pranks Bite Back First Day at Spellhaven is a cozy 5e magic school one-shot for 2-3 players: protect a nervous first-year as a prankster construct turns orientation day into chaos. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bz8f

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Trivia for the table. Those snarling stone monsters on old cathedrals - gargoyles - were not carved to look scary. They were doing a job. What was a gargoyle's actual, practical purpose? The word itself gives it away. Guess before you look. anvilnink.com #dnd #ttrpg

It is the middle of summer, and last night the whole lake froze solid. Under the ice, a hundred candles are still burning in neat rows on the lakebed. This morning something down there is knocking to be let out. Does your table cut the ice, or walk away? anvilnink.com #dnd5e #ttrpg #homebrew

The Hangover of Heroes: A Bachelor Party One-Shot for 5e The Hangover of Heroes is a comedy bachelor party one-shot for 5e: wake up, find the missing groom, and reach the altar by noon. For 2-8+ players, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5br6n

The Hangover of Heroes: A Bachelor Party One-Shot for 5e The Hangover of Heroes is a comedy bachelor party one-shot for 5e: wake up, find the missing groom, and reach the altar by noon. For 2-8+ players, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5br6n

The Hangover of Heroes: A Bachelor Party One-Shot for 5e The Hangover of Heroes is a comedy bachelor party one-shot for 5e: wake up, find the missing groom, and reach the altar by noon. For 2-8+ players, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5br6n

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Every Anvil N Ink one-shot has to clear one bar before it ships: two or three players run it cold, one evening, no prep. Four acts. A fight in each. A villain who actually wants something. If it needs an hour of prep, it isn't done. What makes a one-shot sing at your table? #dnd #ttrpg

The miller's boy swears the #scarecrow stood in the north field yesterday. This morning it is in the churchyard, closer to the houses, wearing his missing father's coat. Someone has to look under that hat. What does your table do first - burn it, or talk to it? #dnd #ttrpg

Big table: someone floats a terrible plan and 4 people vote it down. Safe. Table of two or three? No committee. Just you, your friend, and the word 'trust me.' Those are the sessions you still talk about years later. What is the #worst 'trust me' plan your table greenlit? #dnd #ttrpg #trustme

Scary DND Monsters: 15 Creatures That Actually Frighten Players The 15 scariest DND monsters in 5e, why each one actually frightens players, and the principles for making any monster land at your table. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bg6z

Scary DND Monsters: 15 Creatures That Actually Frighten Players The 15 scariest DND monsters in 5e, why each one actually frightens players, and the principles for making any monster land at your table. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bg6z

Scary DND Monsters: 15 Creatures That Actually Frighten Players The 15 scariest DND monsters in 5e, why each one actually frightens players, and the principles for making any monster land at your table. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5bg6z

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A hurricane learned to hunt. It bound itself into a great white the size of a ship, and now it is coming ashore for your town. Sharkicane: a zero-prep 5e one-shot for 2-3 players. anvilnink.com/sharkicane-s... #DnD #TTRPG #sharkweek #sharks #storm #epic #greatwhite #wtf

Running a game for 2-3 players? When a fight feels too easy, do NOT add more monsters - that just focus-fires your smaller party. Keep the count low, give your big threat a second weaker turn mid-round. What is your go-to for balancing a small table? Follow us for more #protips! #DnD #TTRPG

Cretaceous Park: A Dinosaur One-Shot for Small 5e Groups A dinosaur one-shot for 5e: a wizard's island menagerie loses containment, and the apex predator hunting your party is a prisoner, not a monster. Two to three players, one session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5b643

Cretaceous Park: A Dinosaur One-Shot for Small 5e Groups A dinosaur one-shot for 5e: a wizard's island menagerie loses containment, and the apex predator hunting your party is a prisoner, not a monster. Two to three players, one session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5b643

Cretaceous Park: A Dinosaur One-Shot for Small 5e Groups A dinosaur one-shot for 5e: a wizard's island menagerie loses containment, and the apex predator hunting your party is a prisoner, not a monster. Two to three players, one session, zero prep. #ttrpg #dnd vist.ly/5b643

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Trivia time. On the day the Bastille actually fell, how many prisoners were inside? Guess before you look it up. The real number is far, far lower than you think - and it is the best siege twist you can steal for your table. Answer in the comments. #DnD #TTRPG