Five Tips for Creating D&D Monsters
One of the most iconic things about Dungeons & Dragons is the monsters. Even if your group prefers social encounters or avoids conflict, eventually the heroes will be faced with a foe that must be dealt with through combat. There’s ...
Faction ranks benefits for your players
With all these holiday dates my schedule has tumbled quite a bit. However, here I’ve come again after some great family time while watching the fireworks to bring you new articles. Today, I wanted to continue a bit the article ...
Seven New Ship Upgrades
For Seas of Vodari, we’re including a variety of new ship upgrades. I wrote about another set of them in the long-long ago of 2019 (specifically, a year ago next week); some of those made it into the book, some of ...
Long-Term Pursuit
In a conversation with the inimitable Samhaine, we discussed having PCs lead the overland escape of a large group of NPCs – think of it as the Fellowship shepherding the people of Rohan from Meduseld to Helm’s Deep, the travelogue ...
D&D5e Christmas-Themed Magic Items to Gift Your Players
Introduction We’re finally getting close to the holidays, and what better way to celebrate them than with a great D&D one-shot or holiday-themed session with your family and/or friends? Get the DM’s chair, grab The Darkest Night Adventure or The ...
Even MORE Commonly Confused Rules in D&D 5e
The more I dug into the lesser known or often misinterpreted rules of Dungeons & Dragons, the more material I found to discuss. One article has grown into three. You can view the first two articles here and here. So, ...
Examining Big Hero 6: Character Origins for your games
Big Hero 6 is a movie released on November 7, 2014, from Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film tells the story of a young robotics prodigy named Hiro Hamada who forms a superhero team to combat a masked villain. It ...
Creating a Magic System P4
A roleplaying magic system can be a pretty cut and dry thing: a spell list, damage, area of effect, and so on, but if done correctly, it can do so much more. Properly done, a magic system can be used ...
Creating a Futuristic Campaign Setting P1
When one thought of the future years ago, people envisioned flying cars, intergalactic space travel complete with aliens, and robots everywhere doing the types of things that the average joe didn’t want to do. Since then, the ideas of the ...
The Artificer Class, Part Seven
Now that my review copy of Eberron: Rising from the Last War has arrived, I’m starting my breakdown of it by finishing up the History of the Artificer series. As a reminder, this class went through multiple rounds of public ...