The Pacific Mythos – Pacific Deities
This week we have a guest post from Margot Fernandez, who I asked to share her work on bringing Pacific deities into early editions of Dungeons & Dragons. This article outlines the deities and you’ll find a link to a ...
Dragonlance in 5th Edition – Campaign World & Adventures
This week on the Campaign Trail I wanted to take a look at what support is available to run the Dragonlance saga in Fifth Edition. Since the launch of D&D 5e, Wizards of the Coast has been very focused on ...
The Ranger Class, Part Six
Thus far in this series we’ve occasionally seen big shifts in the ranger, as in 2e to 3.0 and 3.0 to 3.5. Those are peanuts compared to the shift to 4e. Every class underwent radical change. Having to strip the ranger ...
Novel Inspiration: Sendrians for 5th edition.
Sendrians are a sea lion-like sentient species from the Star Wars Expanded Universe (SWEU). An aquatic parallel to the centaur, the sendrians have a humanoid torso connected to a sea lion’s lower body. Effectively a marine mammal species, the most interesting aspect of ...
Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide Preview – Duergar
Today we have another preview of the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide unlocked via Extra Life Donations! It is the Duergar Subrace and we get a look at a Gold Dwarf too.
Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide Preview – Disclaimer
WotC always has been having fun with the disclaimers of all of the 5th edition books. This continues with Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide.
Playable Halloween Monster Races for D&D 5th Edition – Part ...
Are you looking to run a Halloween one-shot? This week on the Campaign Trail you’ll find another batch of homebrew monsters to create evil, overpowered PCs to go with the 3 from last week. Crawling an old mansion and throwing ...
The Ranger Class, Part Five
The Ranger Class, Part Five After a week off to write some creepy spells, I’m back to talking about rangers here in History of the Classes. This time around, I’m looking at the Scout class of 3.5’s Complete Adventurer and ...
The Host – Infested Creatures for 5th edition
Inhuman creatures from other dimensions are classic horror tropes. As are temptations of power that encourage the protagonists to walk the line between good and evil. The Host are inspired by the creatures in the classic horror film, “From Beyond“, while their Host Spawn ...
Vin Diesel playing D&D on the Nerdist
Last week Vin Diesel played a game of D&D at The Nerdist to promote The Last Witch Hunter (which you need to see)? Run by excellent DM Matt Mercer, the players included Vin Diesel playing a Witch Hunter character, Dan ...