UA: Feats for Skills Breakdown
A new collection of feats is always an interesting proposition in 5e, since good feat design is a demanding proposition in the current environment, and that’s what we get in this week’s Unearthed Arcana article. Specifically, it has feats that ...
Unearthed Arcana – Feats for Skills
This week’s Unearthed Arcana gives players a chance to really improve their character’s ability in one of the games 18 skills. “This week we introduce new feats to playtest. Each of these feats makes you better at one of the ...
Class Concepts Part 2: The Patternist “The Weaver Witches” Part ...
Class Concepts Part 2: The Patternist “The Weaver Witches” Part 2 By: Jesse C Cohoon Class Concepts are a multi-part series on ideas that seem to have escaped many of the game designer’s ideologies when figuring out classes. This ...
Dungeoneer Background (D&D 5e) for Yawning Portal
In the past, I’ve looked at creating variant backgrounds such as the Castaway and Explorer for the Sailor and the Fortune Teller for the Charlatan. This week on the Campaign Trail I thought I’d look at creating a full background ...
Class Concepts Part 2: The Patternist “The Weaver Witches”
Class Concepts Part 2: The Patternist “The Weaver Witches” By: Jesse C Cohoon Class Concepts are a multi-part series on ideas that seem to have escaped many of the game designer’s ideologies when figuring out classes. This series is not ...
Unearthed Arcana: Downtime Breakdown
This is the one I’ve been waiting for, y’all: the rework and expansion of downtime activities in Unearthed Arcana. Between my love of domain rulership and mass combat, which you know about if you’ve been reading my column, and my ...
D&D Adventurers League – Top 20 Adventures
This weekend I volunteered to run some games for a local charity gaming convention. The Save Vs. Hunger 2017 Convention was raising money for the Second Harvest Food Bank in Maryville, TN. They raised much needed funds for children hunger ...
Planescape: Torment and Personal Stories in Tabletop
A look at how one of the best video games of all time used a cosmic setting to tell personal stories, and how to do that in your own games.
UA: Starter Spells Breakdown
It’s Monday, there’s a new Unearthed Arcana, and we also learn that we’re coming close to the end of weekly UAs and returning to monthly or semi-monthly UAs. Today’s document is all cantrips and 1st-level spells, which means I have ...