DND Blog

A place to keep DND session recaps, from various campaigns.

Meta

Information about how this site works.

Created with Jekyll and the theme tufte-css-jekyll, with modifications inspired by David Flor's Fonts of DND 5e.

Maps

Unicode Art art is plain text.

Image maps have been made using Tiled Map Editor by Thorbjørn, with the Liberated Pixel Cup 2012 base assets plus a plain black tile sheet of my own devise:

A collection of tiles for use in a game designer. They're plain black line art on a 32px grid without much in the way of adornment.

The numbers are in Ubuntu Condensed, a free/libre set of fonts used under the Ubuntu Font License, which is not the SIL Open Font License.

The Jekyll stat_mod filter

State blocks are partially calculated. stat_mod is a Liquid filter, and it works like this:

{{ page.wis | stat_mod }}

Here's the test of it:

stat PHB stat mod calculated
1 -5 -5
2 -4 -4
3 -4 -4
4 -3 -3
5 -3 -3
6 -2 -2
7 -2 -2
8 -1 -1
9 -1 -1
10 0 0
11 0 0
12 1 1
13 1 1
14 2 2
15 2 2
16 3 3
17 3 3
18 4 4
19 4 4
20 5 5
21 5 5
22 6 6
23 6 6
24 7 7
25 8 7
26 8 8
27 9 8
28 9 9
29 9 9
30 10 10

Style guide

If you'd like to contribute a session, or edit an existing session, contact Ben. Provide notes in the form of a plain text file, using Markdown for formatting. (Specifically, the Kramdown variant. Plain HTML is also acceptable.)

Detailed file format description.
---
title: "The Nth Session"
date: YYYY-mm-dd
layout: post
categories: Tod
campaign: tod
excerpt: "A short description"
---

What happened last session?

## The adventure.

The party enters a forest.

Enter combat!

1. Round 1.
	1. Jae Daiz attacks with her longsword for `1d8 = 3 + 3 Str = 6` damage
	2. The ghoul attacks Octavio Rajaratnam, for `3` damage
	3. Octavio runs away.
2. Round 2.
	1. Jae crits the ghoul with her longsword.

Jae runs off to find Octavio; Octavio is up a tree.

## Open questions

- Why were they in the forest to start with?
- Where are they going next?

Rules on copy:

verbs
Present tense for most cases, except when describing the past. The session happens in the now.</dt>
First-person plural for actions that the whole Party does, but use third-person plural for actions that a subset of the Party does.
Party, the
Always capitalized.
Formatting
Spells such as Magic Missile are bold
Abilities such as Trance are bold
Rolls are formatted using `` backticks for Markdown code styling. A twenty-sized die roll to which a three-point Strength ability modifier is added would be 1d20 = 18 + 3 Str = 21, but generally speaking, rolls don't need to be memorialized unless they're exceptionally lucky/unlucky or the actual number is important to the outcome.
</dl>