Paizo’s “The Emerald Spire” for 5th Edition, Part 4
Late last year, Paizo Kickstarted a superdungeon called “The Emerald Spire“. Along with the characteristicly beautiful production value and stunning art, each of the 16 levels of this detailed module has its own fold-out map in the style of Paizo’s other ...
Reining in Dexterity: Initiative House Rule Option #3
Michael Long has posted two articles on interesting ways to make Initiative faster and more fluid in 5e. Those articles, plus an ongoing conversation with J.M. Perkins about Strength vs Dexterity in D&D (and roleplaying games in general), inspired the ...
Elemental Evil: Princes of the Apocalypse Review
The new D&D adventure Elemental Evil: Princes of the Apocalypse comes out on Tuesday. I received my copy last week from Wizards of the Coast and started flipping through the book as quick as I could get it out of ...
The Lore of Lost Mine of Phandelver
“Lost Mine of Phandelver” is, at least right now, probably the most widely played adventure in 5th edition D&D. As the adventure promises, you don’t need to be a Forgotten Realms expert to run it – but maybe some of this will ...
Waves of Enchantment: Marine Magic for 5th edition
Even the early days of roleplaying were seeded with aquatic magic items, from the helmet of underwater action to the Apparatus of Kwalish. Almost all of these items were designed for surface races to spend time beneath the waves. In “Waves of Enchantment” I’ll ...
6 Ways to Improve Your Combats
Running a good combat situation involves many things like finding a good match between the characters’ skill level and the foes’ abilities, keeping the action fast-paced, and trying to find that sweet spot where the characters feel challenged but not ...
Westbound, Steampunk Wild West for Pathfinder
I recently backed a Kickstarter campaign for Western setting/rules for the Pathfinder roleplaying game. Westbound is by the same team of the previously kickstarted Pure Steam and takes gaming into a fantasy, weird west with unique races, new classes, archetypes, ...
Paizo’s “The Emerald Spire” for 5th edition, Part 3
Late last year, Paizo Kickstarted a superdungeon called “The Emerald Spire“. Along with the characteristicly beautiful production value and stunning art, each of the 16 levels of this detailed module has its own fold-out map in the style of Paizo’s other ...
The End of the World RPG Line
Fearless commander Shawn actually suggested I add this to last week’s list of 5 Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Games, but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own post. Fantasy Flight Games is in the process of releasing ...
Cast Your Vote – D&D March Madness Creature Competition – ...
“The elemental cults have put forward a number of candidates, vying for the position of Champion Elemental Cultist!” Even Wizards of the Coast have caught March Madness, setting up their very own 5 round bracket elimination tournament of duels between ...