World Building – Part 8: Providing New Player Options
I wanted to look at some options you can provide your players to really make your homebrew world feel like a someplace new. If you look at the most interesting campaign settings, they usually have some hook that makes them ...
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 ...
Naval Sea Chases & Complications
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Sea Chases & Complications Get the Seas of Vodari at DriveThruRPG › Pre-Order the Hardcover › The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Everything you ...
Unearthed Arcana: Elf Subraces Breakdown
In keeping with the time-honored traditions of D&D, this week’s Unearthed Arcana brings us four more of the Baskin Robbins Thirty-One Flavors of Elf. Yes, I know that we have the good Professor to thank for elves coming in a ...
Creating Variant Backgrounds for D&D 5e – Sailor
This week on the Campaign Trail I thought I’d look at variant backgrounds and share a couple of homebrew variant backgrounds I created back in 2014 (for my Vodari campaign) that I didn’t include in Pirate Adventurers. The Castaway background ...
Tribality Publishing – Pirate Adventurers
Ahoy Lubber! We are very excited to announce that have a new publication on DriveThruRPG.com this afternoon. This is the second product that we’ve released: Pirate Adventurers for 5th edition written by Shawn Ellsworth! Pirate Adventurers has player character options ...
Weapons for a D&D 5e Pirate Campaign Setting
Pirate Weapons | Naval Combat Steampunk Weapons | Steampunk Armor | Steampunk Gear The Seas of Vodari – 5th Edition Swashbuckling & Sorcery Get the Seas of Vodari at DriveThruRPG › Pre-Order the Hardcover › Everything you need to run ...
Faerie Tales: Naiads, Pixies, and Sprites for 5e
A dear friend of mine asked me to run a 5e adventure for his kids over the holiday. It will be their first official D&D game, though since their dad is a video game designer they are more than familiar with ...
Aquatic Allies: Karkinoi (aka What Makes a Race?)
There are a number of excellent blogs and podcasts about creating campaign worlds, from our own Shawn Ellsworth’s World Building series, to James Introcaso’s World Builder blog, and the Dungeon Master’s Block Creation and Inspiration episodes. Not long after joining Tribality I ...
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 ...