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 ...
Unearthed Arcana – Starter Spells
It looks like we’re in the homestretch of the current Unearthed Arcana series and it will wrap up at the end of April. This week’s edition of Unearthed Arcana provides a look at some cantrips and 1st-level spells for characters ...
Class Concepts Part 1: The Strength Based Magic Users (“The ...
Class Concepts Part 1: The Strength Based Magic Users “The Strength Mage” 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 ...
UA: A Trio of Subclasses Breakdown
This week’s Unearthed Arcana wasn’t the downtime actions/ways to spend cash post that Mearls has intermittently teased for months now, but that’s okay. Instead, we get three more subclasses – a monastic tradition, an oath, and a ranger archetype – ...
Unearthed Arcana – A Trio of Subclasses
This week’s edition of Unearthed Arcana gives us new looks at subclasses… The Way of the Drunken Master for Monk, Oath of Redemption for the Paladin and the Monster Slayer for the Ranger. With a quick glance and skim, I ...