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Development Diary #8
Greetings adventurers! We’re on the cusp of the next level for the Downtime Manager app! Just a few more tasks and we’ll have enough XP to level up and go live! Here’s what we’re up to: You know how when you put a sofa together and you...
Running Downtime Sessions – Tips and Tricks – Volume 1
Volume 1: The Basics In this new series, we will unearth the arcana of running downtime sessions. In each article, we’ll offer up some exciting tips and tricks, dos and don'ts, and help you expand this often overlooked activity of the TTRPG. With well-thought-out downtime activities,...
Development Diary #7
Hey Downtimers, greetings from the lab! We’re pretty busy with fine tuning the official release of Downtime Manager (DTM) as you saw from our last update! While we are working on making what we have even better, we’re still actively thinking about what will be coming next....
Simple Monsters Made Interesting: the Dryad
Simple Monsters Made Interesting is a series where we take an underutilized or generic creature and flesh them out into something more than their stat block to give you some inspiration for your games. Today, we’re taking a walk in the woods to find a...
Development Diary #6
Hey DMs & Downtimers, greetings from the forge! We’ve been pretty busy lately, fine-tuning the app as we prepare the final version for the official launch! Unfortunately, that meant that regular updates fell by the wayside, but here I am to remedy that situation! What we’ve been...
Development Diary #5
Greetings! It’s me again! WE ARE BACK! We took a seemingly long break, but believe me, it wasn’t intentional...
Adventure Hooks for Downtime #5
Today we came up with two ideas (from our very own Igor v9) which can be easily adapted to any character’s circumstances. „But… you should be dead!” This classic theme has been covered by a lot of books and movies, but the possibilities are endless. The character had...
Development Diary #4
Greetings! It's Igor v9 again! I'm back! We (specially EvilDM) already spread rumours on our Discord channel, but here are the developments: We're working on a more versatile and sustainable back-end for our app to better support the upcoming features You've already seen some of the new...
Downtime Journals 3: Weelor
I, Weelor of the House Dimir, The Undying, Slayer of Kara-Thoth, Commander of the Cold Legion and Justicar of the Damned, well aware that most events of my life have been hopelessly misinterpreted by some lost souls who are better at quick judgments than careful...
How to create a freeform (aka. open world, sandbox) campaigns and keep your players entertained for years?
Chapter 1: Why would you want such a campaign? The loud regards of slower things How to create a narrative-driven campaign and keep your players entertained for years? Chapter 1: Why would you want such a campaign? Well, we’ve all been there. We DM’d the awesome official adventures and...