Patchwork Newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 36)

Welcome to your Saturday ttrpg newsletter! This week I wrote Origins 5.5e, and the most popular posts on the blog were How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 5e, Dolmenwood Resources for You, Running Red Dragon’s Tale and Dungeon, Inc., A First Review. Subscribe to get this newsletter in your inbox every Saturday! Table of Contents Discord DiscussionsBlog PostsProjects to Download or BookmarkPlay ReportsProjects I’m Working OnPoem Discord Discussions This week on discord there were discussions about collaborative world-building. Collaborative world-building is when the DM asks the players questions like “What does your home town of Homeville look like?” or “Describe this monster for me; what makes it so particularly terrifying?” A lot of the people on the discord said it really throws them out of immersion, making them feel that the world has no reality. But it seemed, on further discussion, that perhaps there was a scale from “come up with this town” through “what distinguishes this…