The College of the Sea Singers, 5th edition
Like other bardic colleges, sea singers do not attend an actual university, they gather to learn spells, lore and skills from one another, and of all the bardic colleges, the verbal tradition is most important to sea singers. Sea singers ...
More than a Color, 5th edition Dragonborn, Part 3
Image credit: WotC “Draconians, also called dragonmen, are humanoid beings with dragonlike features created during the War of the Lance. They are originally made from the eggs of good dragons corrupted with dark magic. During that era Draconians served as ...
Interview with Award-Winning Cartographer Christopher West
Christopher West is best known for his work on the d20 Star Wars RPG and miniatures combat line, as well as both Wizards of the Coasts’ Maps of Mystery project, and Monte Cook’s multiple ENnie-winning Numenera RPG (including the 2014 ENnie ...
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A Closer Look at the Cartography of Christopher West
“Chris West loves gaming and expresses that love with an artist’s eye. Luckily for gamers, he shares that eye with the rest of us.” Back in the olden days of roleplaying, maps were crude scribblings on graph paper, dictated to ...
Oriental Adventures – Yakuza
Continuing the Wuxia (WU-she-AH) campaign ideas, I have a Rogue class archetype for D&D 5th edition, the Yakuza! Many think of the Yakuza as murdering gangsters, that may be what they became after the Edo Period, but they originated as ...
The Druid Class, Part Two
In my previous post on druids, we looked at how OD&D established a baseline for the class. Today, we’ll see that 1e doesn’t stray far from that, until we get into Unearthed Arcana’s revision of the class. The 1e version ...
Mundane No More-Texts & Tomes
It’s probably not a surprise that I didn’t start gaming, or even designing, with 5th ed. As my bio says, I started gaming back in the Dark Ages of the 1970s and haven’t stopped. One of the things that always ...
The Kindest of Sharks: Sahuagin (Salenti) for 5th edition
Sahuagin are as focused, tenacious, and predatorial as the sharks they ally with. What few outside a dedicated group of sea elves know, is that sahuagin have an even deadlier secret. When living near sea elf communities, a lucky few ...
D&D Valentine’s Day Cards
Wizard of the Coast is having some fun this week with the DM Support Group video yesterday and now Valentine Cards. Here’s a quick preview of a few from the collection of 10 and a link to the zip file ...
More than a Color, 5th edition Dragonborn, Part 2
“Draconians, also called dragonmen, are humanoid beings with dragonlike features created during the War of the Lance. They are originally made from the eggs of good dragons corrupted with dark magic. During that era Draconians served as assault troops and ...