WotC Unearthed Arcana – Light, Dark, Underdark!
The next installment of Unearthed Arcana is out today. This month are ideal additions for a campaign in the Underdark. Mike Mearls gives us two new fighting styles for fighters, paladins, and ranger; Tunnel Fighter and Close Quarters Shooter. A ...
D&D 5e – Magic Item Guide
The Magic Item Guide was one of my favorite guides that was on Wizards of the Coast Community boards. It will soon be deleted along with the rest of them this Thursday (now November 5th)! So I ported it over into ...
Geek & Sundry Announces International TableTop Day 2016!
On April 30, 2016 Geek & Sundry’s International TableTop Day returns. “Gather your friends and join us for a day-long celebration of all things TableTop gaming. From quick card games, to intensive board games, to all-day RPG sessions, any game is ...
D&D 5e – Vampire Class and Custom Backgrounds
Vampire A handsome nobleman with angular features commands his three brides to attack a young man. The man stands paralyzed with fear as the three vampire women surround him and begin to eviscerate him with their sharp claws. By the ...
Dragonlance in 5th Edition – Campaign World & Adventures
This week on the Campaign Trail I wanted to take a look at what support is available to run the Dragonlance saga in Fifth Edition. Since the launch of D&D 5e, Wizards of the Coast has been very focused on ...
The Ranger Class, Part Six
Thus far in this series we’ve occasionally seen big shifts in the ranger, as in 2e to 3.0 and 3.0 to 3.5. Those are peanuts compared to the shift to 4e. Every class underwent radical change. Having to strip the ranger ...
Novel Inspiration: Sendrians for 5th edition.
Sendrians are a sea lion-like sentient species from the Star Wars Expanded Universe (SWEU). An aquatic parallel to the centaur, the sendrians have a humanoid torso connected to a sea lion’s lower body. Effectively a marine mammal species, the most interesting aspect of ...
The Mini-Game Within The Game
As a player or as a DM, I’m sure that you’ve encountered a time when you needed to step out of character a bit and play a mini game. What do I mean by this? Well the classic examples are ...
D&D 5e Character Optimization – Barbarian
There are a lot of character builds that are going to be lost on Wizards of the Coast’s community page this week (or was that last week?). One of my favorite is the Gentleman’s Guide to Proper Barbarism, and there ...
Playable Halloween Monster Races for D&D 5th Edition – Part ...
Are you looking to run a Halloween one-shot? This week on the Campaign Trail you’ll find another batch of homebrew monsters to create evil, overpowered PCs to go with the 3 from last week. Crawling an old mansion and throwing ...