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Asymmetrical D&D: Ravenloft-ish

Colin McLaughlin — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:00:58 +0000

A work-in-progress look at one potential solution to run an asymmetrical D&D 5e game with local and remote players who are on vastly different time zones.

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Bitheism, Clerics, and the Service Domain

Colin McLaughlin — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:00:30 +0000

I’ve read a lot Neil Gaiman over the years. While I like several of his works a great deal, it’s easy for me to pick my favorite – Anansi Boys. Not only do I love the style and subject, it tells a type of story I simply adore. I’ve been hooked on these tales of dualism – both moral and spiritual – since I was a little kid. Ditheism featured prominently in the live-action game I co-piloted with the estimable Brandes […]

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Better Living Through Scrivenery

Colin McLaughlin — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:33:20 +0000

Today in Tribality we look at making 5e spell and spell book props for everyone at the table thanks to better living through scrivenery.

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Modular Base Construction in D&D 5e

Colin McLaughlin — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:00:08 +0000

If domain management daunts you, take a look at some RTS-inspired guidelines for module base construction for use in D&D 5e.

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Alternative Death and Resurrection Systems for 5e

Colin McLaughlin — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:00:47 +0000

Death in D&D tends to come in two flavors: the salty tang of a total party kill (sometimes called TPK or just a party wipe), and the bittersweet notes of one or several (but not all) fallen comrades. If a party wipe occurs, that’s generally the end of that group of adventurers. If a party member – not the entire party – dies, the party either has the means to resurrect the party member, or doesn’t. As long as the […]

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Plane Shift: Amonkhet Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:21:29 +0000

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 why – other than being a pastiche of a place that isn’t Europe or Asia, even the elevator pitch is dense with D&D-friendly adventure hooks. Amonkhet is also built upon a dark secret – well, secret from the characters at least. Nicol Bolas’s secret control of the whole plane is advertised throughout the document, and players would have a hard time missing it. Anyway, the document is crammed with usable content, so let’s dive in.

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Domain Rulership, Part Thirteen

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 13:00:57 +0000

There I was, confidently announcing the end of the Domain Rulership series, when one of my readers reminded me that not only were there products I had agreed to examine in this series, but I had a copy sitting around gathering e-dust. Then I said, “But my second child is about to be born, so it probably won’t be soon.” But, funny story, if you’re not specifically inducing labor, it might be today or a week from today, so I’m […]

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Domain Rulership, Part Twelve

Brandes Stoddard — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:00:04 +0000

It’s been a good while – longer than intended, but you can blame Unearthed Arcana for that – since I last wrote about domain rulership systems. Today, I’m correcting that, and you are instructed to rejoice. I only know of one product line explicitly intended to add domain rulership to 5e D&D, and that’s Legendary Games’ Kingdoms and Ultimate Rulership. (If you know of others that are specifically for 5e, please let me know in the comments.) Part One | Part Two | Part […]

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Gobble-ins, Centaurkeys,and Thanksgiving One-Shots

Colin McLaughlin — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:10:19 +0000

Happy American Thanksgiving, everybody! I expect most people are reading this on Thursday, because they are drinking as often as possible on Wednesday. This is going to be a hard holiday for a lot of people, and I bet bars and liquor stores are looking forward to Black Wednesday. Let’s assume for a minute that you are woefully hungover and are reading this from your smart device while praying to the porcelain gods. First, I feel your pain, and suggest […]

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Domain Rulership, Part Eleven

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:00:23 +0000

Last time in this series, I wrote about some additional ACKS content and Sine Nomine’s An Echo, Resounding, with full-throated praise for both. Today I’m covering a domain rulership system entirely separate from D&D: Green Ronin’s Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, by Robert Schwalb. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past twenty years, this title tells you that it presents rules for roleplaying in the setting of George R. R. Martin’s series of novels, based […]

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