Best of the Dragon! Let's take a look at the third issue of Best of Dragon Magazine. These great issues took the very best articles, classes, and spells and put them together for easy reference.

Does anyone still use back issues for inspiration?

Here's some text from the back of the book.

Some of the most popular articles and features ever to appear in DRAGON® Magazine have been "buried" in out-of-print issues - until now.

#ttrpg #DnD #dragonmagazine #rpginspiration #dungeonmaster

@drevrpg The mail carrier told me many secrets last Thursday. Every cat already has a secret UFO hidden somewhere nearby. Every dog can communicate telepathically with any other dog they have sniffed in the last few days. #rpginspiration

Keep in mind, the quality of the movie is not the most important (though I would enjoy it if the movies were good). It's about getting inspiration for a scifi #ttrpg set in the near future.

The players will be the scrappy crew of a submarine hire to do jobs for companies doing undersea mining DEEP, deep in the ocean.

#GameMaster #SciFiRPG #FateRPG #rpgInspiration #GameMasterInspiration #FateCore #SciFiMovies #TheAbyss #DeepBlueSea #Leviathan

Mini-Myconid.
(Micronid? Mycronid?)

Source:
https://mastodon.social/@Sardonicus/109750853439645322

#FungalSplendor #RPGInspiration #DnD #Myconid

Found on Reddit:

The prison cell at Narni sotterranea, a series of underground rooms that were discovered at Narni, Italy, in 1979. Its walls are covered in coded writing, drawings and cryptic masonic symbols mainly left by Giuseppe Andrea Lombardini, an inquisition guard imprisoned for heresy in 1759

#History #Esoteric #RPGInspiration

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/10em43u/the_prison_cell_at_narni_sotterranea_a_series_of/

This whole thing makes me think of some sort of tenuous chemical marker that makes giant insects or aliens or zombies or monsters ignore you. But there's always a risk of it washing off or degrading too much.
#RPGInspiration

Need to demonstrate the appearance of old dungeon locks to players?

Source:
https://mastodon.social/@benteh/109654235723710123

#RPGInspiration #AbandonedNorway #AbandonedPlaces

Art by Elaine Lee. Apparently Tommy Rodricks helped with the animation.

I always thought the weird-bat-bodied Avangions (Preserver-dragon equivalent) from the Dark Sun setting looked a little ridiculous.

This thing seems like it would be a more interesting alternative.

The Instagram link has an animated version of this image.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HfWVMg1mr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#Art #RPGinspiration #DarkSun

I always thought the weird-bat-bodied Avangions (Preserver-dragon equivalent) from the Dark Sun setting looked a little ridiculous.

This thing seems like it would be a more interesting alternative.

The Instagram link has an animated version of this image.

Art by Elaine Lee. Apparently Tommy Rodricks helped with the animation.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HfWVMg1mr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#Art #RPGinspiration #DarkSun

I always thought the weird-bat-bodied Avangions (Preserver-dragon equivalent) from the Dark Sun setting looked a little ridiculous.

This thing seems like it would be a more interesting alternative.

The Instagram link has an animated version of this image.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0HfWVMg1mr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

#Art #RPGinspiration #DarkSun

Cool little video on the PBS YouTube channel today about Tiamat, the mother of monsters from Mesopotamian mythology. #mythology #dnd #ttrpg #rpginspiration https://youtu.be/RG6XbNKViIQ

I'm amazed at what we still don't know about our species' time on this planet.

#archaeogy
#history
#rpg
#RPGinspiration

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/top-10-archaeological-discoveries-of-2022

badgertracks@mastodon.gamedev.place - "A quite large Isopod and it's rider survey they area.

More of my traditional ink drawings featuring mounts and their riders."
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badgertracks/109460443973439775

#ink #creaturedesign #isopod #mastoart #illustration #ChitinousGlory #RPGinspiration #Art

Brainstorming for a new DnD character I'm making.. named Sagwa, their concept is a Tabaxi Rogue; treasure hunter/archaeologist type. :RunningEllipsis:

Kind of like Indiana Jones, but I want to find some more updated/better characters for inspiration/ideas.

Anyone out there have input/thoughts? I need help! :blobcatfearful:

#rpgcharacter #rpginspiration

Proof that your urban druid with a bear companion doesn't need to be limited to the fantasy era....

https://www.metafilter.com/182796/He-was-known-as-the-Bear-Man-of-Dushanbe #NPC #rpgInspiration #SuppressedTransmissions

https://www.metafilter.com/181348/Bloomin-ladybirds

I'm not sure how to work a swarm of labybugs so large it shows up on radar into an adventure, but I'm sure there is one in there somewhere. Does anyone have any ideas?

#SuppressedTransmissions #RPGInspiration

https://www.metafilter.com/181414/Tycho-Magnetic-Anomaly

Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That's roughly how much unexpected mass we detected

#SuppressedTransmissions #RPGInspiration

https://www.metafilter.com/181198/cyclopean-design

Need a dwelling for your necromancer? Why not steal one from some of humanities earliest known architecture?

#SuppressedTransmissions #RPGInspiration

Do you want to run a 90s conspiracy game, but your memories of the 90s are growing foggy, or you just want to use modern technology? No worries, UFO reports are coming back in a big way! https://www.metafilter.com/180597/UFO-sightings-by-the-US-Navy

#SuppressedTransmissions #rpgInspiration

Ancient female warrior found in Kazakhstan: This means both you can have female warriors in your historically accurate horse-warrior game, but you can use her undead spirit in your games.

https://www.speroforum.com/a/LRISZUUVJW48/76290-Red-Sonja-ancient-female-warrior-found-in-Kazakhstan

#SuppressedTransmissions #rpgInspiration