Sean Does Games

This is it! I set out to create a list of 100 gnome encounters and this is the final installment of that collection! I hope you've enjoyed my random musings on possible gnomish adventures. Maybe you've even used a few of them! If you have, I'd love to hear about it. As always, check out my previous posts for the earlier hooks. From here, I'm planning on presenting a series of NPCs covering a wide range of backgrounds, races, classes, and uses. I'll probably also start posting some NPCs from my own campaigns as well. I've got a couple in mind that I'd like to share. Oh, and in case you are or want to follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or Tumblr, I've changed my profile names so that they are consistent across all three. So, basically, look for hokumsean on any of them and you should find me. Okay, on to the encounters! 91. An entity claiming to be a gnome deity has taken to visiting a nearby gnome holy site. Opinion is split as to whether the gr...

Character Concept Package The character concept package is a collection of backgrounds, feats, equipment, and other role playing ideas related to a single concept. Materials in a package can be used by any character of any class. Though a particular concept might be race related, they can generally be used by any race as well. This is the third package I've posted to my blog (the first was for a  toy maker  and the second was the rocktender ) beta testing and feedback. Eventually, I'll be publishing a final product on  DMsGuild . I look forward to constructive feedback. Goblin Sticker* Background They came at night. They swarmed your burrow. They crushed its protectors. They slaughtered the defenseless. You don't remember how you managed to escape the massacre. You used to try, of course, in a desperate attempt to explain your own survival. But those moments had a will of their own. They revealed themselves without warning as disconnected, stinging flas...

Character Concept Package The character concept package is a collection of backgrounds, feats, equipment, and other role playing ideas related to a single concept. Materials in a package can be used by any character of any class. Though a particular concept might be race related, they can generally be used by any race as well. This is the second package I've posted to my blog (the first was for a toy maker ) beta testing and feedback. Eventually, I'll be publishing a final product on  DMsGuild . I look forward to constructive feedback. Gnome Rocktender * Background Rock and stone are not merely a resource to be harvested or treasures to be hoarded. They are ancient entities who form the foundation of the world. From an early age, you intuitively understood this. Perhaps that's why you spent most of your childhood studying and meditating upon the geology in and around your burrow. And why, when those familiar benefactors could teach you no more, you set out ...

The following is the final part in a set of blogs about Theophraxis, the gnome gunslinger I play on  Time2TableTop's  Dungeons & Dragons 5e   The Infinity Tower  live stream. This story picks up where the previous blog left off. Enjoy my ramblings and catch us every Tuesday night 6:30PM Pacific time on  Twitch . The Story Continues If you recall, Grand Ol' Tree was a gnome burrow full of life, hard work, harder play, and deep tradition. It thrived for centuries until orc armies laid waste to it. It's all too common for tightly knit communities decimated by war to scatter across the lands, their populations never to be reunited. This was not the case with the Grand Ol' Tree burrow. In fact, the terrible event only strengthened the bond among its survivors. As a community, they escaped to Tregeria. When they resettled, they did so together. They called their new home New Grand Ol' Tree. This wasn't some misplaced nostalgia for a lost land. I...

The following is the first part in a set of blogs I'll be writing about Theophraxis, the gnome gunslinger I play on Time2TableTop's  Dungeons & Dragons 5e   The Infinity Tower  live stream. In typical gnome fashion his story begins long ago, certainly before his current adventures and in all honesty deeper back in time than any reliable memory can recall. Enjoy my ramblings and catch us every Tuesday night 6:30PM Pacific time on Twitch . In the Beginning Grand Ol' Tree was just a pleasant stroll from Around the Riverbend and an overnight's adventure to "The City." As far as gnome burrows went in those days, it was nothing special but those who called it home loved it exactly as it was. The burrow was so named because of the Ginkgo Tree that served as the community's gathering place. It was beneath this tree that Heranomus Frinkke Rexadalica Wister Klingle Dutterwedge Omnibeard of Spanks Lerone and his family sought refuge from a horde of und...

 I do love creating characters. On computer  and video games I can sink hours into fussing over the clothing. In tabletop RPGs, my character notes are more like origin stories.  That's why when I first started playing Dungeons and Dragons 5e I was tickled...that's right, tickled...to find a whole section of the Players Handbook devoted to backgrounds. It's also why one of my first Dungeon Masters Guild publications was a collection of backgrounds called Great House Servants and why I included a Backgrounds section in my Epic Gnomish Inventing guide. While backgrounds are valuable, especially given the additional game benefits they provide, I find them lacking as a source for a complete character concept. So I hit upon an idea for new content that I could publish to the DMs Guild. I'm tentatively calling it Character Concept Packages. Each package will include:  at least one background New feats  New equipment/weapons/magical items Suggested downt...