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Thoughts & Things

Collection of tools, ideas, rules, research and other fun stuff we thought we share.

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Savage Worlds

I had put together some rules for running a Wild West setting for D&D 5e one shot and posted it the other day.  I had a lot of comments come back, but one person said I should try out Savage ...
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Evil

Running a campaign for the players can be difficult.  It may be a hard time showing them what Evil creatures are doing, so a lot of times we are throwing monsters at them that are trying to kill them. The player’s kill ...
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Wild West Setting for D&D 5e

I have worked on a Gunslinger class for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition.  I posted my first version on the D&D 5th Facebook group Gun Slinger class link,  and can be found in the files section. Since then, I have ...
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Star Frontiers / D&D 5e Conversion Part 3

So now you should have some mission idea in mind, and how to bring your D&D campaign into a Star Frontiers setting, or vice versa.  If you don’t know yet, maybe the party ends up finding a strange marooned space ship ...
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D&D 5e Combat – Flanking?

So the new Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition has minimized the combat system and veered away from advanced tactical rules and Flanking can not be found in the player’s handbook.   I don’t think placing miniatures on a map exactly ...
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The Angry DM’s Guide to Combat Encounters

There are a lot of guides out there for running encounters, and putting together stories.  I’ve read a bunch and some of them are very helpful, while others are just short lists put together without any real meat on the ...
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Are you switching from Pathfinder to D&D 5e?

I have seen a lot of people jumping over to D&D 5th edition.  Really, trust me, it’s A Lot!  I got this crazy funny picture of a book stabbing another book. I also did this scientific analysis: I saw a ...
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Star Wars Jedi – D&D 5e Build

So I started making this Star Wars Jedi build with my son. He is a Dungeons & Dragons 5e rules guru, and I discussed some things I’d light to see, and ideas I had and we worked on this for ...
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Dungeons & Dragons Dominates?

Roll20 recently did a survey of over 600,000 users, and found out a lot of interesting statistical data of what games are being run. It gives a telling story about all the games being run, and it also seems to ...
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D&D 5e Aerial Combat

So you’re flying that cool Pegasus that just appeared earlier in the forest and it let you ride it.   Coincidentally, your DM had bought a Icon of the Realms Miniatures Booster Pack, and found a Pegasus inside.  He’s now making ...