Character Archetypes for Quick NPCs
You are halfway through a carefully planned session. The players will travel down the Kingsroad and come across a town filled with zombies and meet the villain. Only they don’t go down the Kingsroad. They go north toward the Dread ...
The Dungeoneer Background (D&D 5e) Available on DMsGuild
Tribality Publishing’s latest release, The Dungeoneer Background, is now available on DMsGuild. A background for Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Yawning Portal, and other dungeon-heavy campaigns. The Dungeoneer background is designed for anyone who is creating a Player Character (PC) ...
First Thoughts: Neverland – The Impossible Island
Thumbnail Art from concept art of the Neverland Theme Park Last week I’ve got the pleasure of being gifted Neverland – The Impossible Island by a friend of its creator (props to @LaTiaJacquise for being awesome). Being this her first product ...
The Spice Domain
The Spice Domain is a domain for those non-combat focused clerics who love to cook or want to be able to use cooking skills in-game. The cleric gets a handful of unique powers that allows them to be useful in ...
How to Create and Use Lore in a Tabletop RPG
Lore — huh! What is it good for? I’m sure that joke has never been used before. Lore refers to the world’s backstory, and it serves to help give the campaign setting its own sense of character. Good lore creates ...
Using Tattoos in your Game, P5
In part 1 we gave a definition of a tattoo,. We also examined how different classes might use tattoos,. Finally, we looked at monster markings and tattoos, as well as tattoo power levels. In part 2, we talked about how ...
Collaborative World Building
Whenever starting out on a new campaign, the setting is often the first thing that I ask about. It’s often some aspect of the setting that really engages me and I can spin that out into a character. Perhaps it ...
Reasons Why a Site Might Be Abandoned P2
(Author’s note: I’m picking up where I left off numerically) One of the classic D&D tropes is a party entering a dungeon. Such places are either abandoned, in the middle of nowhere, or, sometimes, under a bustling city, but forgotten. ...
Monthly Encounter #11: Of Giants and Dragons (lvls 5-10)
Thumbnail art from Wizards of the Coast Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added to your table. I’ll be creating new ones monthly for you to have a big collection to look ...
Crafting Mythologies for Your Campaign
One of my favorite aspects of world-building for a campaign is crafting a pantheon of gods and weaving myths together with visions of my players being enthralled by my epic tellings of how the world was ordered. Of course, the ...