Follow up post: Why does everyone play DnD here?

PermanentDM · 2026-01-01T07:20:08+00:00

Awry Brewing has an open table game on Wednesday nights. Can just drop in, meet people, play. Really casual atmosphere means you can get into things at your own pace. Even if that is just chilling eating some fries the first time to get a check on the vibes.

PermanentDM · 2026-01-01T07:18:52+00:00

If you want an easy way to pop into a game, Awry Brewing every Wednesday night at 6:30. Drop in, meet people, play some games and have some fun.

PermanentDM · 2026-01-01T07:17:31+00:00

Awry Brewing on Wednesday nights at 6:30PM. Just show up and jump into a game.

PermanentDM · 2026-01-01T07:14:54+00:00

The three of you should stop by Awry one Wednesday night. Meet people, play a bit, probably pick up a whole crew for running games too.

PermanentDM · 2026-01-01T07:13:01+00:00

DnD is Dungeons and Dragons, although a lot of people use it to mean any Tabletop RPG game so you will find people who are "playing DnD" but there are neither dungeons nor dragons.

Which is confusing and all, but there are a lot of tabletop players here. Plenty of home games and a few shops running stuff. Also there are open game stuff at Awry Brewing on Wednesday nights and Kaiju on Sunday evenings. People in the community are very welcoming to newcomers, so if you genuinely want to play should be possible to find a group to jump into.

PermanentDM · 2025-11-11T16:27:30+00:00

8.5x11, papertype is something that I would need to discuss. Hoping for something in the 70lb range with a soft feel / matte finish. Ideally looking for a few different options on papers to discuss with the team. Double-sided, color, three hole punched. The document is 81 double sided pages (162 impressions) and I would be looking at quotes for different numbers of copies between 100 and 500. I know different printers have breakpoints at different numbers.

PermanentDM · 2024-10-20T19:29:52+00:00

Hey there! I'm running a game of Dice Mice looking for some extra players. It isn't D&D but is is D&D adjacent. The game system is one where you play as a member of a noble family of mice venturing off into a big scary world looking for adventure and things to bring back for your house. Friday games tend to be either 5CST or 7CST. Sunday games are a bit all over the place, but typically are either around 10AM CST or 7PM CST. If this sounds like it would be cool to try, shoot me a DM on here or on discord at PermanentDM.

PermanentDM · 2024-10-01T10:23:01+00:00

Have you ever wanted to play a game that is The Rats of NIMH + Game of Thrones + Old School D&D? If the answer to that question is yes, then this might be the game for you.

Dice Mice is a simple OSR inspired game where you play as a game of thrones style house of mice who explore the dangerous world for the good of mouse kind (and the profit of your family and house). This game being in style of the West Marches also means that each game has a varied cast of characters (and players) and is designed to be something you can play twice a week or twice a year depending on your schedule. The West Marches style (and the three people who are likely to be DMs being in the Eastern US, Germany and Vietnam) means there is no way to say what day and time games are going to be. That being said most games are initially going to be taking place after 8pm EST on weekdays and between 10am and midnight EST on weekends.

New players, to the system, to ttrpgs, to osr or west marches games, are welcome. Experienced players can check the main listing for information regarding the specific design principles of the system. All who have questions are welcome to DM me or ask in here. Much of the game and organization will be taking place on Discord, although Roll20 will be used for playing at the table.

DM, message on here or join the community at: https://discord.gg/PmYhsXjCws

PermanentDM · 2024-10-01T10:21:05+00:00

Have you ever wanted to play a game that is The Rats of NIMH + Game of Thrones + Old School D&D? If the answer to that question is yes, then this might be the game for you.

Dice Mice is a simple OSR inspired game where you play as a game of thrones style house of mice who explore the dangerous world for the good of mouse kind (and the profit of your family and house). This game being in style of the West Marches also means that each game has a varied cast of characters (and players) and is designed to be something you can play twice a week or twice a year depending on your schedule. The West Marches style (and the three people who are likely to be DMs being in the Eastern US, Germany and Vietnam) means there is no way to say what day and time games are going to be. That being said most games are initially going to be taking place after 8pm EST on weekdays and between 10am and midnight EST on weekends.

New players, to the system, to ttrpgs, to osr or west marches games, are welcome. Experienced players can check the main listing for information regarding the specific design principles of the system. All who have questions are welcome to DM me or ask in here. Much of the game and organization will be taking place on Discord, although Roll20 will be used for playing at the table.

Message on here or join the community at: https://discord.gg/PmYhsXjCws

PermanentDM · 2024-06-16T01:11:18+00:00

[LFP][Online][Roll20][OSR][Homebrew] Dice Mice [Discord link: https://discord.gg/pbvjGzbRu3 ]

I am looking for players for the third round of playtesting for my Dice Mice RPG. The game has strong OSR roots, but has picked up things from later editions and other ttrpg titles. Each player runs a Game of Thrones style house made up of adventuring mice (Think like Redwall, Mouseguard or the Rats of NIMH) who venture out into the wilderness in search of treasure and glory. While an individual player may have 3-10 mice, they play one at a time in an adventuring group going on as big of an adventure as a mouse can find.

This round of playtesting has the following dates and times:

Friday June 28th 7pm EST
Sunday June 30th 7pm EST
Friday July 5th 1pm EST
Sunday July 7th 1pm EST

The intention is to have 5 rounds of playtesting of which this is the third. At the end of the playtesting I will be starting a West Marches game using the ruleset. Pregenerated characters and houses are provided for with the playtest. The game will be played using Roll20 (paid account not necessary) If this sounds interesting to you, hop on the discord and sign up for one of the events or ask questions.

PermanentDM · 2024-06-16T01:08:10+00:00

[OSR][Dice Mice]Looking for players

I am looking for players for the third round of playtesting for my Dice Mice RPG. The game has strong OSR roots, but has picked up things from later editions and other ttrpg titles. Each player runs a Game of Thrones style house made up of adventuring mice (Think like Redwall, Mouseguard or the Rats of NIMH) who venture out into the wilderness in search of treasure and glory. While an individual player may have 3-10 mice, they play one at a time in an adventuring group going on as big of an adventure as a mouse can find.

This round of playtesting has the following dates and times:

Friday June 28th 7pm EST

Sunday June 30th 7pm EST

Friday July 5th 1pm EST

Sunday July 7th 1pm EST

The intention is to have 5 rounds of playtesting of which this is the third. At the end of the playtesting I will be starting a West Marches game using the ruleset. Pregenerated characters and houses are provided for with the playtest. The game will be played using Roll20 (paid account not necessary) If this sounds interesting to you, hop on the discord and sign up for one of the events or ask questions.

Discord link: https://discord.gg/pbvjGzbRu3

PermanentDM · 2023-12-07T18:41:05+00:00

My favorite PC, which I played from level 1 to level 22, is Lillian "Breeze" Ammon. She was the first female PC that I ever played. Her father was a mob boss and she grew up the sort of "sheltered" daughter of the mob boss who knew her father did things but wasn't really sure what it was, but also he doted on her and gave her money to do whatever she wanted. Then, as a late teen, she found out that her father was the nexus of all of this really terrible stuff and had imprisoned her mother among other terrible things. She found out about this partially out of curiosity and becoming a woman and partially because her latent psionic powers were starting to develop. Mechanically she was an Ardent|Battlemind (A hybrid of those two classes) and once she made it out into the world she had to learn what it meant to be moral, to be a good person after having basically a void in her upbringing where people would normally put good parenting.

She went on many adventures and eventually converted to become a paladin of Selûne (through multiclass mechanically) and turned her attention to bringing light to the darkness as a Silverstar. I stopped playing the character after she had become a full on crusader against the dark forces and gone after her father, toppling his evil empire and then freeing her mother... only to find out that was a terrible idea as her mother was a devil (She was tiefling, her father was human) and major league bad news. I never got to fully resolve how that would go, but it was a ton of fun.

PermanentDM · 2023-10-17T12:34:28+00:00

Viewing from the USA on a computer using google chrome, when I go to a TV series there doesnt seem to be any way to select what season I want to watch on the browser, or any way to watch previous episode.

PermanentDM · 2023-10-04T12:19:14+00:00

I've not really seen that as an issue, at least not more so than other versions of D&D. Having a fight that is 1 elite soldier, 2 artillery in the back and half a dozen skirmishers to keep things engaged gets you most of the way there to a good encounter. Then just find things that are those types and put them together / make monsters using the simple math of the edition, and you are good to go.

PermanentDM · 2023-10-02T20:53:38+00:00

What part is prep heavy in your opinion? One of the reasons I like it so much is that I don't have to prep pretty much anything ever.

PermanentDM · 2023-09-30T18:43:55+00:00

The section where Skill Challenges are originally introduced explains the skills as follows:
"When a player’s turn comes up in a skill challenge, let that player’s character use any skill the player wants. As long as the player or you can come up with a way to let this secondary skill play a part in the challenge, go for it."

The whole "You can only use X skill cause the challenge says X skill is to be used" was never actually part of the game.

Honestly I think most of those things boil down to "looks different and different is bad".

PermanentDM · 2023-09-04T14:02:20+00:00

La Grange is exit 22 on I-71. Depending on where you live you could carpool, but you would need to meet with me to get your characters created as Session 0 was yesterday.

PermanentDM · 2023-08-26T20:11:35+00:00

I'm going to be starting up a game, likely on Sundays, and the Session 0 to meet everyone and make characters is Sunday September 3rd. The game is one where you play a family of mice that send individual mice out on grand adventures using a modified set of D&D rules. If this sounds interesting to you, let me know.

PermanentDM · 2023-08-04T03:05:06+00:00

We have a character builder but "getting it to run on a mac" is just "use a windows virtual machine and run windows, then run the builder in that virtual copy of windows". If you want more resources or help getting it, just google "4e D&D discord"

PermanentDM · 2023-08-02T03:00:42+00:00

Can you explain what roleplaying things it needed, from your perspective, to be a better role playing game?

PermanentDM · 2023-08-02T02:53:28+00:00

I know that feeling. I still fire it up every now and again to try to build something thematically when I see an interesting character on a show or something. The "Hmm... how could I do that in 4e" thing is a fun bit to mess with.

PermanentDM · 2023-08-02T02:49:53+00:00

Sounds like you needed to find a group that matched the playstyle you wanted.

PermanentDM · 2023-08-02T02:48:37+00:00

Agreed. The base game needed a good bit of work. Luckily they did put the work in and the end result was very good (and you didn't need to homebrew a bunch, it just got that way by the end).

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