Lord of the Deep: Dire Stomatopods for 5th edition
Life has been crazy over the past two weeks around the Howard household, so please excuse any delays in posting. I’ll be returning to the Enemies & Encounters series next week because I want to give it the time and ...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Treasure
Glistening piles of coin, an enchanted sword shining with elvish runes, a trinket stolen from a dragon’s hoard, all of these things are treasure to your players, and they are vitally important to making a storyline set in a fantasy ...
12 Famous People Who Play D&D
The words nerd, geek, and gamer have come a long way in the past twenty years. Calling a person one of these names back in the 80’s or 90’s was often intended to be hurtful and insulting. Today, the stigma ...
Adventure Building: Part 3 – Backstory, Setting and Hooks
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In the first article in this series I looked at what you should consider when getting started creating your own adventure. This second article in the ...
Oriental Adventures – Vanara
This week I bring the Vanara race to my Wuxia Campaign. The inspiration was watching Wuxia movies a few months ago about Sun Wukong the monkey king. With a little reading, you can find Vanara were in Oriental Adventures and ...
The Paladin Class, Part Seven
To be honest, when I started this series I never would have guessed that I would need seven articles to talk about one class. On the other hand, D&D has a long and nuanced history, including a lot of offshoots, ...
D&D Upcoming Storyline Predictions – Revised
Way back in November 2014, I made some predictions on upcoming storylines between now and 2018. I predicted that they would do an Underdark storyline… but I was way off thinking it would come out in 2018. As we have ...
The Endless Character Stats Debate
Here’s a question that every DM gets asked a hundred times: How do you roll stats/attribute scores? Doesn’t sound like a terribly tough question; but, depending on your players and the kind of avatars they are accustomed to playing, the ...
In the Eye of the Beholder: Paladins
Part 1: Roleplaying a Paladin Last week in the Eye of the Beholder, we looked at evil genies as a tool for dungeon masters running D&D campaigns. This week, we are going to move our lens over to the player’s ...
Star Wars Day: Chewbacca
Glory Glory! Have you seen all the great Star Wars fan work! It is amazing to see all the art, costumes, and creativity of SW Fans. So today, I have to put “forth” my handiwork for Star Wars Day. Previously, ...