Plant Creatures – Bark worse than their bite
There are many creatures in fantasy genre that can be used in roleplaying games to give variety in encounters. Today’s trio are Plants, ancient species and skilled survivors. Dryads Appearance – Humanoid reclusive plant creatures, either native or from the ...
Fey-Touched Backgrounds, Part Three
It’s been a little while now since I’ve done anything with my series on the fey, so today I’m returning for the fifth and sixth fey background: the Inspired and the Oathsworn. The Inspired are those who receive – or ...
The Plane of Sound
The Plane of Sound, alternatively called “The Plane of Cacophony” or “The Plane of Reverberations” is a “Super Plane,” which exists everywhere on top of, concurrent with all planes simultaneously, anywhere there is sound. Except in areas of magical (and ...
Using Alcohol & Culture in your games
As the members of the party enter the bar, the old gnomish barkeep asks “What’ll it be?” Everyone something standard, a stout beer for the dwarven cleric, an common (but nonetheless costly) elven wine for the party’s mage, a half-elf ...
NAVAL COMBAT for D&D 5e Released
NAVAL COMBAT (5e) – Running Sea Encounters for Ships & Monsters was just released on DriveThruRPG, but all of our patrons who supported our Patreon in February 2018 will be getting a coupon code to grab a copy shortly. We’ll ...
Using Scars in Your Game
An old, heavily scarred grizzled war veteran stands menacingly before you in heavily battered armor wielding an axe. These scars tell the story of his many battles. The outline of a wickedly clawed hand can be seen burned onto his ...
Modern Horror vs Phantom Menace
Today we start a trilogy of movie total conversions into modern supernatural horror. The Phantom Menace Internet Movie Database – ‘Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance ...
Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Ten
I’m plowing back into Chapter Three: Spells of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything this week. I got through the Fs last week, so let’s see what I can get done before I have to click “Publish” this week. Also, many thanks ...
Making the Most of Barbarian Rage, Part 4
D&D (and other such games) have taken the idea of the real life and mythology of the berserker and turned it into the barbarian class that we know and love in the game but for the most part they are ...
23 Types of Elves
What is considered to be an elf/elvish varies widely by culture, time, and setting. Elves can show up as everything from the Tolkien-esque to creatures others would identify as trolls. Here are twenty-three ideas for making interesting elves to your ...