Worldbuilding: Create your own Trinkets table
Thumbnail image from Pirates of the Caribbean While doing some worldbuilding of my own I found a note ...
Why Magic Shops Ruin the D&D Fantasy
Thumbnail art by Robin Olausson Magic shops in D&D and other fantasy games have always been something that ...
Designing a Realistic Map For Your Campaign
When designing your map there are a few rules of thumb to keep in mind. These mostly have ...
A Villain’s Fatal Flaw
So far we have looked at how to create a compelling villain and how to create their organization ...
Creating an Organization of Evil
So you have your big bad evil guy, right? You’ve developed their motivations, their world view and have ...
How to Create a Compelling Villain
Creating great villains for your campaigns has as much to do with their deeds as it does their ...
How to Create and Use Lore in a Tabletop RPG
Lore — huh! What is it good for? I’m sure that joke has never been used before. Lore ...
Crafting Mythologies for Your Campaign
One of my favorite aspects of world-building for a campaign is crafting a pantheon of gods and weaving ...
How to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 3: Verbs
In the previous articles, we looked at how to create phonology for our language and we began creating ...
How to Make A Basic Conlang, Part 2: Nouns
Last week, we tackled the first step in creating a constructed language: choosing the sounds. It was also ...