Aarakocra (Circle of Air, Storm Lord, Oath of the Winds, ...
The aarakocra were one of my favorite monsters from the original Fiend Folio. They, along with the bizarre and oft-mocked flumph, were one of the only good races in the book and seemed ripe for heroic storytelling. Unfortunately, they weren’t ...
Running a Fantasy Heist – Tribality Writer Shawn on Dungeon ...
I had an awesome time returning as a guest to talk about running heists with DM Mitch and DM Chris on the Dungeon Master’s Block podcast. We discussed what to steal, exotic locations, plot twists and more. “This week we ...
Fate for d20 Dummies & Being a Better GM
Michael recently wrote about his experience jumping into a Fate game. I love D&D and I really can’t see myself running a full campaign in anything else right now. Over the last year, I’ve run a little bit of Fate ...
System Agnostic: The City of Salt in Wounds is Back ...
Hey all you tribality peeps. If you regularly follow this (much neglected) column then you might know about my setting The City of Salt in Wounds that I was writing about regularly before taking a break. If you’re unfamiliar, Salt ...
Level 0 Characters for a Dungeon Crawl
After being introduced to Dungeon Crawl Classics, I decided to add some of that Old School flavor to our Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition Apprentice Character Program (ACP). But these Level 0’s aren’t exactly apprentice characters. They don’t have a ...
The Warlock Class, Part Two
Last time in History of the Classes, I looked at the 3.5 Warlock and Binder classes, as two different approaches to a practice of creepy, forbidden, occult power. Both classes allow and encourage the character to surprise foes with unusual ...
Apex Predators: Aquatic Barbarians for 5th edition
These two Totem Warrior barbarian builds showcase how you can mix-and-match the standard powers in the core rules, re-skin their special effects, and add a few new powers to create the feel you want for your campaign or specific PC. For example, ...
Experiment: How To Play D&D With Two Dungeon Masters
A few years back a friend and I had an interesting thought: what if we co-dungeon mastered a D&D game? That is to say that we would both be DMs at the same time, within the same campaign, to the ...
Paizo’s “The Emerald Spire” for 5th Edition, Part 5
Late last year, Paizo Kickstarted a superdungeon called “The Emerald Spire“. Along with the characteristicly beautiful production value and stunning art, each of the 16 levels of this detailed module has its own fold-out map in the style of Paizo’s other ...
Adventure Building: Part 5 – Filling in the Details
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 After looking at Creating a Threat, developing Backstory, Setting and Hooks and writing our adventure outline it’s time to provide some details for the adventure. I’ll ...