Hasbro has been teasing us with a countdown for HeroQuest for a while now. So the news was released, and we are shown a crowd-funding effort with a $1M USD goal. It took a little time (less than a day), ...

Thumbnail image from Looper movie Last article we talked about how Do Over Time Traveling works, and how it branches into two different categories. These two are The Loop and The Reset, which despite sharing many similarities they provide widely ...

Wizards of the Coast revealed some interesting news at D&D Celebration this past weekend. During Inside the D&D Studio with Liz Schuh and Ray Winninger, they shared that they’ll be focusing a lot more attention on settings. Three settings are ...

Any good story should have conflict, but not every conflict should be resolved with violence. While Dungeons & Dragons offer tons of options for combat, the non-combat ways to resolve conflict are often forgotten. These are harder to make mechanical, ...

Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! This week, we are delving deeper into the mythologies and gods worshipped among the denizens of The Eight Isles. Let’s begin at, well, the beginning.   ORIGIN: ...

Thumbnail Image from the Groundhog Day movie Welcome to my time-traveling series in RPGs. Today we will be covering how to handle the Do-Over method of time traveling. In order to do that, we will need to firstly analyze how ...

So far we have looked at how to create a compelling villain and how to create their organization of evil, so now let’s look at what makes villains sympathetic and compelling to fight against their fatal flaw.  A fatal flaw ...

The trinkets table is used by a variety of backgrounds to give characters something interesting to have in their possession, but at 100… or even 500 more, sometimes you want something unique that doesn’t quite fit. Why not look to ...

Welcome back to the world of STORM EDGE: THE ADVENTURES IN EIGHT ISLES! This week, we are introducing some of the new monsters from The Eight Isles that adventures may encounter near rivers, lakes and seas. See below for more. ...

You may have heard of Chekhov’s gun rule used by many writers. Since I first heard of it I started to notice it everywhere in the media. I even started noticing it in my RPG sessions, one of many appearing ...