One Dozen Ways to Make Familiars More Memorable
Before we begin let’s define what a familiar is. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a familiar is: a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve or guard a person According to the Collins dictionary: an evil ...
Residuum and D&D 5th Edition – Enchanting and Disenchanting Magic ...
Oil, water, gems and metals are some of the most precious resources in our world – creating immense wealth for those who possess them. Crimes are committed, the environment is destroyed and even wars are fought to attain these resources ...
Godzilla, Cloverfield, and fighting Kaiju
An in-depth look at Cloverfield and why it's the best model for kaiju in tabletop RPGs.
UA: Three-Pillar Experience Breakdown
The August Unearthed Arcana article addresses an alternate approach to awarding experience. In particular, it promises to promote exploration and palaver as primary providers of XP, to keep up with combat. I would love to see polling on the XP ...
Unearthed Arcana – Three-Pillar Experience
Just finishing up a long weekend here in Canada and I realized it’s time for August’s Unearthed Arcana. Mike Mearls provides an alternative system for awarding experience points that equally weighs all three of D&D’s pillars (combat, exploration, and social ...
How to Run a Circus in your Game, Part 4
(Author’s note: unless someone tells me about a subject that I missed, this will be the last article of this series. Also, keep an eye out for the many links in this article. Enjoy!) Last time we talked about events ...
Music for inspiration
Lyrics can inspire you in creating an adventure, and in some cases the lyrics can be used directly in the adventure. Below are three examples to show you how you can draw upon lyrics from songs. Example 1 – Spoken ...
The Fighter Class, Part One
I listened to your votes in the comments thread of my last article, and promptly ignored them when my wife voiced an opinion. Isn’t democracy great? So today we proceed with the History of the Fighter, which I anticipate to ...
Creating New Prime Worlds for Planescape
A look at generating Prime Material worlds for use in Planescape exploration
How to run a circus in your game part 3
Last time we talked about the travel, finding locations, time needed to set up the circus, battles within the circus, sound in the circus, and circus games and rides, as well as circus food. This time we’ll talk about events ...