Star Wars Jedi – D&D 5e Homebrew
Last year I put together a Rules as Written (RAW) character build that could be used for D&D 5th edition to play a Jedi. After putting it together, there were a lot of great comments and critiques, and one that ...
Adventure Time for D&D 5e – Part 3: Alignment, Feats, ...
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 Species and Classes ...
The Rogue Class, Part Two
Last time in History of the Classes, I talked about a few iterations of OD&D thieves. Now we’re on to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons thieves, as well as their close kin – assassins and thief-acrobats. The changes to the Thief ...
Aquatic Allies: Karkinoi (aka What Makes a Race?)
There are a number of excellent blogs and podcasts about creating campaign worlds, from our own Shawn Ellsworth’s World Building series, to James Introcaso’s World Builder blog, and the Dungeon Master’s Block Creation and Inspiration episodes. Not long after joining Tribality I ...
Putting The Fun in Funeral – 8 Weird Ways To ...
Death in D&D can range from the mundane to the downright strange. Maybe your character goes down to something as simple as a club to the head or maybe they get a sword in the guts. Or maybe they breathe ...
D&D Has Proven Timeless In Modern Media
It’s conceivable that to a lot of people Dungeons & Dragons may seem like a dated concept. Tabletop games definitely represent a sort of retro branch of gaming, and though they remain popular they’re not necessarily for everybody. And that’s ...
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 ...