Setting Project: The People of Ballad

More world building for the world of Ballad. This time I look at the native (not human) races of Ballad.

Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

Here is an article revisiting the history of a famous D&D monster, the Tarrasque.

Setting Project: Redefining Humanity for Ballad.

This is my second article exploring the world Ballad. I am going to dig into the thing that started me thinking about the setting in the first place. I started with the notion of a...

Setting Project: The world of Ballad

So, I have had a stressful life of late. I distracted myself by coming up with a new campaign world. Some people drink, I apparently come up with fictional worlds. Ballad is a high fantasy...

Talking about high level play and reasons why it isn’t happening.

I have thoughts on the discussion about why people are not playing high level characters in D&D.

Removing Monks 2 The Paladin option

So, I am trying this again. Another part of my series of blog posts explaining how you might remove the Monk from D&D and keep some of the playstyle intact. The last post caused a...

Removing Monks

I have written previously about the problems embedded with Monks in D&D. I say that as a guy who has always loved the class. Despite my love, there are some deeply problematic cultural stereotyping embedded...