I Was Travelling the Planes and I Found Dragons
Hello and welcome to the first planar dragons article. This article is planned as the first of a series. In this post I’m presenting the 5e stats for adamantine dragons. Please leave comments below on how to improve this article ...
Residuum and D&D 5th Edition – Enchanting and Disenchanting Magic ...
Oil, water, gems and metals are some of the most precious resources in our world – creating immense wealth for those who possess them. Crimes are committed, the environment is destroyed and even wars are fought to attain these resources ...
UA: Three-Pillar Experience Breakdown
The August Unearthed Arcana article addresses an alternate approach to awarding experience. In particular, it promises to promote exploration and palaver as primary providers of XP, to keep up with combat. I would love to see polling on the XP ...
Unearthed Arcana – Three-Pillar Experience
Just finishing up a long weekend here in Canada and I realized it’s time for August’s Unearthed Arcana. Mike Mearls provides an alternative system for awarding experience points that equally weighs all three of D&D’s pillars (combat, exploration, and social ...
The Monk Class, Part Nine
At last, after a month of covering a few other topics, we come to the conclusion of the History of the Monk, with its 5th Edition iteration. (Assuming someone doesn’t suggest another version that I really want to cover. My ...
D&D Beyond Full Launch August 15, 2017
D&D Beyond, the official digital toolset for D&D Fifth Edition, is launching August 15th, 2017. Michael Long of Tribality had a chance to ask Adam some questions about D&D Beyond back in March. Today, we’re seeing some press and lots of ...
Plane Shift: Amonkhet Breakdown
James Wyatt recently released the fourth conversion of a Magic: the Gathering setting to D&D 5e. Amonkhet is an Egyptian-inspired dark fantasy setting, which James describes in the Introduction as “outside the core D&D experience,” but I’m not completely sure ...
Designer Interview: Craig Campbell
Through a mutual acquaintance, I recently met fellow Atlanta-area game designer Craig Campbell, creator of the Murders & Acquisitions tabletop game, part of NerdBurger Games, and co-host of the NerdBurger Show podcast. M&A successfully crowdfunded through Kickstarter last year, delivered in December, ...
UA: Greyhawk Initiative Breakdown
Several weeks ago in Twitter, Mearls explained a variant initiative system that he had been playing round with, and today in Unearthed Arcana, he has explained it in full so that people will stop arguing about a piecemeal presentation of ...
Unearthed Arcana – Greyhawk Initiative
After the flurry of Unearthed Arcana articles this year, we’ve had to patiently survive a short break. This month’s Unearthed Arcana offers a different look at initiative. The ‘Greyhawk Initiative’ variant was inspired by Mike Mearls’ preparing to visit to ...