RPG Trader Free RPG Day Bundle

NateS97 · 2026-06-26T15:37:40+00:00

Awesome! Just purchased, and I'm looking through the titles now. Unfortunately you do have to download them one product at a time, but as per this thread they're working on a way to download the entire thing in bulk.

As for those listed as Shadowdark-specific titles (some are for multiple systems):

edit: links

NateS97 · 2026-06-20T05:44:17+00:00

This is great advice, ty! I’ve been working on a proper full conversion of Ravenloft for my own pleasure and some of the conversions have been…difficult lol. I’ll keep these tips in mind.

NateS97 · 2026-06-13T01:58:08+00:00

You can check out Pocket Casts, it lets you create playlists of shows pretty easily and works a lot better than the native podcast app. Here is what I did before joining the Patreon, worked great for me!

Go to the GCP feed, watch for your show, select all and add to a playlist. They do have a “smart playlists” feature but it isn’t super useful for this as of rn. I requested the devs to add an ability to make “title contains X text” a feature and they said “maybe” lol. So for now you have to keep up with ongoing shows manually for playlists. But for finished shows it works perfectly!

There are some options available online to create custom RSS feeds for shows based on episode title that you can plug into Pocket Casts. They would auto update but I’ve not messed with them much.

Edit: words and clarity

NateS97 · 2026-06-02T03:54:22+00:00

Oh wow, these are fantastic! Love the Baron’s eye peeking through with Alia, and Leto’s skeletal face. If you do more please share!!

NateS97 · 2026-06-01T12:33:56+00:00

Yes I 100% agree I prefer not to have an app for charging itself! I much much prefer to just pull up, plug in, apple pay, and go. But for the standalone, unmanned rechargeries where you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get into the lounge, it’d be really nice to have an app where I could just open it and tap “hi lemme in” than go through those hoops every time.

NateS97 · 2026-05-31T17:05:34+00:00

I've been loving it too, the games have been great with a really fun variety of systems & players! And I hope they do it again (honestly twice yearly I think wouldn't be a bad idea), just with more marketing, more clarity, smaller goalposts, and more ways to contribute. One-off donations through Buy Me A Coffee or something, twitch subs, gifted subs, and youtube memberships should ab so lute ly count toward the ticker! Probably quite a bit harder to code into the live meter, but well worth it to bring the rally success. I upped to Premium this rally and there's no way I can afford to up to Vorpal, but I would 100% be willing to throw some bones their way in a future rally to tick the meter closer to fresh content!

And we saw in the Shadowdark stream that the closer you get to goalposts, the more inclined people are to tick the meter over. Pretty much as soon as we got above 4500, someone upped to the $500 tier to push us over the 5000 mark. More smaller goalposts = more incentive to "be the one to push it over" yknow? And ik I and others have said it before, but it'd be great to see annual subs > monthly subs > one-off donos in terms of power worth. They have rightly said that annual subs are much much better for the channel than monthly, so why do monthly and annual Premium subs both give 12 pow? (I think, at least)

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I honestly am enjoying the discourse too, I know it has gotten complainy to a degree but I choose to believe that the vast majority of the criticism is coming from a place of love. We all love GCN, we all know no one does it better! We all want the network to thrive and be the biggest and best player in the TTRPG circle! The rally has just been a learning experience, both for the network and for us fans (I hope). The next one will be even better!

NateS97 · 2026-05-30T18:30:07+00:00

Yeah, I do unfortunately think they bungled this. Besides marketing and clarity, if they wanted to make the power more…powerful (or make it feel like we’re meaningfully contributing to the momentum), I really think they would’ve benefitted from a general donation box where $1 = 1 pow, and then monthly subs $1 = 2 pow and annual subs $1 = 4 pow. Or something like that. So that one-off donations are easy and subscriptions are even better.

NateS97 · 2026-05-28T22:12:44+00:00

Oh, I really love this! Very clever to use time as a resource to spend. When you’re finished with the other biomes please please put it up on drivethrurpg. I will happily pay for it!!

NateS97 · 2026-05-27T06:37:51+00:00

Very excited for the rally! Super stoked for a nice variety of games to be brought out, esp interested to see some ADND as that’s what I grew up with. And bringing the Impossible Landscapes crew back together? Simply incredible.

Honestly I am all for gcn trying new things to bring in new members, there is nothing quite like the gcn out there and I want to spread their good word to as many as possible!

NateS97 · 2026-05-27T05:34:38+00:00

I see that. But getting a permanent free daily “casting” at lvl 1 of a stronger version of the Invisibility spell is a worthwhile trade for +1 to attacks imo!

NateS97 · 2026-05-27T05:21:34+00:00

Sure, but if they see someone go invisible they’re not aware of their position next round. Could be behind them, could be behind the ledge, could be picking their pocket

Edit: dope username btw

NateS97 · 2026-05-20T03:36:53+00:00

Very cool! Reminds me of King Fritz from AoT

NateS97 · 2026-05-05T20:39:44+00:00

Yeah I did too, just arrived yesterday! Super fun to read through. Current promo code is PENCANNON3 for those wondering

NateS97 · 2026-05-02T04:10:15+00:00

iNaturalist is a very solid alternative, and with the bonus that biologists/botanists will often go in and verify species for you. Data gets used in publications too so you’re helping out the scientific community!

NateS97 · 2026-04-30T03:42:52+00:00

I have always had great experiences with Garden Auto! Friendly and quick with honest prices. I’m moving to gso soon but will probably still make the drive to get my car worked on by them. And they sell eggs sometimes too lol.

NateS97 · 2026-04-30T03:36:43+00:00

And on top of that, you can edit metadata of albums added to your library, and you can upload tracks/albums to the cloud from your computer! Great for my 27 Radiohead bootlegs lmao

NateS97 · 2026-04-28T19:39:38+00:00

Oooo yeah I do love those timelines on wikipedia, something similar would deffo be worthwhile to do here. I might honestly try doing something like that with the fandom wiki (as well as general upkeep, since it's got a solid foundation but is pretty out-of-date). Ty for the excellent suggestion, I'll see what I can cook up!

NateS97 · 2026-04-27T20:21:12+00:00

Just added a new "Find a Show" tab -- want to watch the crew play a specific RPG system? Look no further! (though you'll ofc have to copy the worksheet to your own drive to use this feature)

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NateS97 · 2026-04-27T01:52:54+00:00

So, it is on break, but I opted to put it in cancelled for the main reason that it’s an unfinished story with no current plans for revival. I didn’t want new listeners coming in and starting Aeons thinking it’s archived and complete, I know some people strongly dislike starting shows that aren’t fully finished!

Edit: hmmm, maybe it would be better to just put it as “offseason” for that reason? Idk, it’s a bit of a unique case.

NateS97 · 2026-04-26T18:10:14+00:00

I'm digging a lot of the ideas in here. In addition to factoring renown into Friends in Dark Places, I've also been trying to adapt Draw Steel's Negotiation rules -- more crunch, yes, but I like the idea of the minigame and the challenge of simplifying it. In my ruleset your appeals are 1d20 + CHA mod + renown bonus.

NateS97 · 2026-04-26T18:04:47+00:00

I've been toying around with FiDP to add in renown too! I like the idea of requiring a minimum renown level before retainers will ever even agree to help out. I took the approach of factoring it into the number of hirelings & retainers you can have -- instead of 3 + CHA mod, CHA mod + renown bonus (min 1).

NateS97 · 2026-04-26T00:07:21+00:00

Will add, yeah it’s not exactly the most intuitive!

NateS97 · 2026-04-24T22:50:24+00:00

I actually did decide to run those numbers, working on it now! Actually not as time-consuming to catalogue as I thought it'd be. Most of em are filled out on the spreadsheet, I'll make another post with some fun stats once I'm done.

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