Tomás Giménez Rioja, Author at Tribality

Arcadia Issue 27 Breakdown (SHARKADIA)

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:00:54 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Oh man, look at that cover! It’s as if the shark from Jaws had been experimented with and transformed into some sort of eldritch creature from the depths, full of glowing eyes, and covered with kelp. Ok, let’s stop fangirling over that fantastic cover. It’s not even Shark Week and we are getting this amazing special issue. What is it that we may discover if we dive in? Hannah opens the letter from the Editor […]

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Arcadia Issue 26 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Let’s begin with that cover. Weird, right? I really like the faerie aspect of the dragon with deer horns, but butterfly wings. That’s what Arcadia is mostly about, right? Adding weird new things into our games. I dunno, now I want to create a stat block for that thing and make it a guardian of the Archfey palaces. In the Letter from the Editor, Hannah talks about the different ways magic works in each world, […]

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Arcadia Issue 25 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:00:13 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @vorpaldicepress Inspiration has always been a mechanic I forget to implement in my games. I just end up randomly remembering they exist and that’s when I give them away. This article looks to make these points much more important by giving them away through in-game mechanics, as well as giving them other uses. The article talks about ways inspiration can be given away when critical successes or failures occur. I believe these ways of handling […]

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Arcadia Issue 24 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:00:12 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Dungeons… and DRAGONS… When we hear that name the first thing that comes to everyones’ minds if they don’t know much about the game is that we are going to be fighting those giant scaly lizards, but that’s mostly not the case. However, issue 24 offers us this champion impaling a dragon as its cover art, fear coming out of the winged creature’s eyes. This issue is in fact all about dragons! In the letter […]

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Tablestop Nonstop – The Next Big ZineMonth Crowdfundr event

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:45:21 +0000

The Crowdfundr website will be hosting a new event for all you tabletop gaming lovers! This will be taking place January 23 to February 28, 2023. Tabletop Nonstop will be the name of it, which will be a celebration of all things TTRPG and the creators who make them with a goal of shining a spotlight on TTRPG projects that creators are funding through our platform. [Go to site] For those who don’t know, what is Crowdfundr? Crowdfundr is a […]

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Arcadia Issue 23 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:00:16 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @cconowitch My friend Mario is back here again bringing a whole new set of things to do with gemstones. As they are right now, gemstones don’t have much use other than being a replacement for gold. This article looks to change that concept touching a bit on high magic fantasy. It starts giving some ideas on what the different colors of the gemstones could mean, such as black gemstones for darkness, defensive magic, pink gems […]

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Arcadia Issue 22 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:00:10 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Will Doyle comes back from tabletop designing retirement to impress us with his ways of soloing a D&D adventure. In this article, he offers three new classes, made for games with one GM and one player. Attempting to use these classes with other PCs in your party will result in this heroic champion being way too overpowered. Consider that these classes are made to be as powerful as 4 PCs. These are the heroic warrior, […]

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Arcadia Issue 21 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:00:26 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM Wow! That’s a gorgeous, spooky-looking cover! Did that distract you from the fact that I took almost a month to write this article? Sorry, I’ve been invited to my first con in the US and met a whole bunch of amazing people there (Including Hannah Rose, the editor from Arcadia. Hey Hannah! It was so great to meet, chat, and play games with you in person!). I’m intending to write an article about that for […]

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Arcadia Issue 20 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:46:33 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM So we have reached issue 20… Wow… I’m surprised I’ve been doing breakdowns for so long. Still, There’s a lot to like about each of these issues. For instance, let’s take a look at the wonderful cover! This sort of guardian of nature looks rad! It definitely should be your inspiration for your next Paladin Oath of the Ancients! Let’s see what the issue has in store for us, shall we? @wildrosemage Since I’ve begun […]

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Arcadia Issue 19 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:00:27 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM @DeathByMage Jacky’s article presents us with three new magic items. If you didn’t have enough magic items with last month’s issue, then you’ll be happy to know that these have something extra that make them special: they are all cursed. The article starts with an introduction on how to create a great magic item, and what makes them worthwile, using examples like the One Ring. The items need to be worth the curse, so as […]

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