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  • Sword Chronicle title cover with note about it being a review
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    Review: Sword Chronicle

    September 21, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Here is my review of Sword Chronicle by Green Ronin. Originally recorded on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/basicsofthegame

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    August 18, 2019
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    The Role of Alignment

    August 27, 2020 / 0 Comments

    The concept of Alignment is an artifact of the early game and it is filled with problems. It is time to either radically change it or get rid of it altogether.

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    The School of Vitomancy

    August 15, 2020 / 0 Comments

    My intent here is to create a wizard healer school that is viable and has a flavor that works.

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    Elemental Beasts part 2

    June 25, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Okay, this is my part two of my lists of elemental beasts.

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    October 8, 2019

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    April 12, 2017
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    Elemental Beasts: New Companions for Rangers

    June 18, 2020 / 2 Comments

    I originally intended this for a published product. That may still happen, but I can’t afford a a lot of art, and each beast would likely need new art. When I pitched it a couple of times the people I pitched it to also mentioned the art issue. That said, I may still eventually put this in a product, or they will revise the Beast Master ranger making it irrelevant. Either way, I would like some feedback on these so I am putting them out there for people to see. Beasts are part of the natural world. This is one of the things which helps distinguish them from other creatures…

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    Setting Project: The People of Ballad

    February 17, 2020 / 0 Comments

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

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    July 27, 2017
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    Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

    January 24, 2020 / 0 Comments

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

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    Setting Project: Redefining Humanity for Ballad.

    January 16, 2020 / 1 Comment

    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 where humans were rare and treated with distrust. This would not be unlike how Drow or Tieflings were treated in other settings. What would that kind of setting look like? A thread started by my friend Rabbit over on Twitter certainly contributed to that line of thought.  Before I dig too far in, let me address the history here. 

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    March 9, 2019
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    Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    January 8, 2020 / 0 Comments

    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 setting. It is leaning into a lot of mysterious magic rather than the notion of magic like technology that you find in Eberron or Ravnica for instance. I also started with the premise that humans were rare. The assumption in most settings is that humans are the “us” stand-in and not innately magical. They are the neutral default and all other races are alterations on the human base. This is problematic and should be discussed,…

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

    December 30, 2019 / 2 Comments

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

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