World Building – Part 2: A History for Your World
Intro | History | Religion | Working Worlds | Geography | Filling Your World | Your Players | Player Options Atlantis, Westeros, Wonderland, Neverland, Oz, Panem, Camelot, Discworld, Barsoon, Pern, Shannara, Middle-earth, Narnia and countless other fantasy worlds provide the ...
The College of the Sea Singers, 5th edition
Like other bardic colleges, sea singers do not attend an actual university, they gather to learn spells, lore and skills from one another, and of all the bardic colleges, the verbal tradition is most important to sea singers. Sea singers ...
System Agnostic: Creating a World from Random Races [Rescentia Part ...
Note: This is the second post about Rescentia, a world I designed with the challenge of using random races. You can read part 1 here. TLDR version is start with a standardish D&D world except orcs manage to kill most everybody. Fanatical ...
5 Avoidable Roleplaying Cliches
Players and Dungeon Masters alike have all experienced a roleplaying cliché at one point or another. The villain cackles wildly before, during, or after a monologue; a village or town is attacked by monsters for no reason other than it ...
More than a Color, 5th edition Dragonborn, Part 3
Image credit: WotC “Draconians, also called dragonmen, are humanoid beings with dragonlike features created during the War of the Lance. They are originally made from the eggs of good dragons corrupted with dark magic. During that era Draconians served as ...
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A Closer Look at the Cartography of Christopher West
“Chris West loves gaming and expresses that love with an artist’s eye. Luckily for gamers, he shares that eye with the rest of us.” Back in the olden days of roleplaying, maps were crude scribblings on graph paper, dictated to ...
World Building – Part 1: The Big Picture
Intro | History | Religion | Working Worlds | Geography | Filling Your World | Your Players | Player Options Atlantis, Westeros, Wonderland, Neverland, Oz, Panem, Camelot, Discworld, Barsoon, Pern, Shannara, Middle-earth, Narnia and countless other fantasy worlds provide the ...
Mundane No More-Texts & Tomes
It’s probably not a surprise that I didn’t start gaming, or even designing, with 5th ed. As my bio says, I started gaming back in the Dark Ages of the 1970s and haven’t stopped. One of the things that always ...
The Kindest of Sharks: Sahuagin (Salenti) for 5th edition
Sahuagin are as focused, tenacious, and predatorial as the sharks they ally with. What few outside a dedicated group of sea elves know, is that sahuagin have an even deadlier secret. When living near sea elf communities, a lucky few ...
Survivalist Gaming – The End of the World
This is the way the world ends, the world ends, the world ends. This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Elliott – The Hollow Men ‘When the sh*t hits the fan’ or ...