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 ...
Oriental Adventures – Yakuza
Continuing the Wuxia (WU-she-AH) campaign ideas, I have a Rogue class archetype for D&D 5th edition, the Yakuza! Many think of the Yakuza as murdering gangsters, that may be what they became after the Edo Period, but they originated as ...
The Druid Class, Part Two
In my previous post on druids, we looked at how OD&D established a baseline for the class. Today, we’ll see that 1e doesn’t stray far from that, until we get into Unearthed Arcana’s revision of the class. The 1e version ...
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 ...
System Agnostic: The City of Salt in Wounds [Part 2]
New Website for Salt in Wounds! The Order of God Butchers Amidst the city, the god butchers are hard to miss. Hugely muscled men and women, grown strong from a working life of toil and a diet of some ...
4 Simple Steps to Creating a Campaign
“How do I create my own campaign?” is a question that gets asked a lot by both players and new DMs alike. Unfortunately, the answer is as varied as their creators. Some DMs like to start with a story, others ...
Magic: The Gathering announces Magic Origins
New Set to Release on July 17 Marks Pivotal Moment in Magic’s History and Lore February 9, 2015 – RENTON, WA – Wizards of the Coast announced today Magic Origins, a new Magic: The Gathering set releasing this July. This ...
More than a Color, 5th edition Dragonborn, Part 2
“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 assault troops and ...