WotC Unearthed Arcana – That Old Black Magic
The next installment of Unearthed Arcana is out today. This month we get a Tiefling Variant with 2 subraces (Infernal & Abyssal) and we also see 5 new spells for conjuring.
D&D Monstrous Manual for 5th edition – Part 2
The monstrous manual conversion continues this week with the Aurumvorax. If you have the Monstrous Manual, then you can read about their habitat, ecology and other things.
Adventure Time for D&D 5e – Part 2: Classes
Back in 2014, I ran a 4th edition D&D game set in Adventure Time‘s Land of Ooo. I used a fantastic Adventure Time homebrew mod of D&D 4e, by Bloodghost, to run the game. Last week I wrote about new ...
The Rogue Class, Part One
Now that the History of the Ranger is, er, in the past, I’m moving on to the Rogue. Sorry, I meant the Thief… and the Assassin… and the Thief-Acrobat… oh no, I’ve gone cross-eyed. The rogue’s history is as slippery ...
Novel Inspiration: Scarecrow for 5th edition
This week’s Gameroom is brought to you by the awesome supporters on Patreon! Huge thanks to Nick Hoyt for inspiring, brainstorming, and play testing this new Novel Inspiration! A construct with the mind of a psychopath, Crane Crow was once a respected alchemist trapped in ...
Adventure Time for D&D 5e – Part 1: Species
Back in 2014, I ran a 4th edition D&D game set in the world of Adventure Time. I used a fantastic Adventure Time homebrew mod of D&D 4e, by Bloodghost, to run the game. After writing about post-apocalyptic fantasy settings ...
Tribal Knowledge: The Single-Class Campaign
This post explores the potential of each class for a single-class campaign and similar deviations from “normal” party breakdowns. This article mostly assumes that the reader is a DM looking for a new and unusual campaign concept. I realize that most of ...
Novel Inspiration: Kaminoans for 5th edition
The kaminoan species in the Star Wars universe played an integral role in the fall of the Galactic Republic and rise of the Empire. The victims of a near-genocidal flood after their planet’s most-recent Ice Age, the kaminoans turned to highly ...
5 Things The Legend of Zelda Taught Me About D&D
I can recall getting my hands on The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System within a few months of its North American release in 1987. For the record, I was 8 years old. That shiny gold casing was ...
D&D Monstrous Manual for 5th edition – Part 1
The D&D 5th edition monster manual has a ton of monsters to choose from, and they can be easily tweaked/adapted to different scenarios using the dungeon master’s guide. That is usually what I do. I take a strange creature, change ...