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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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    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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    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019 / 0 Comments

    This post was inspired by a question I asked on Twitter. How do you explain clerics in D&D in a world with no gods? There were some excellent responses. I decided it was worth expounding on.

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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 4: Micro-settings

    January 26, 2019 / 0 Comments

    In my 4th article exploring the many settings of D&D, I deal with the Micro-Settings.

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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 3: The Meta-Settings

    January 1, 2019 / 2 Comments

    Alright, I took a little break for family holiday madness. It is time to resume my exploration of the Many official settings of D&D. My previous posts, found here and here, listed the more traditional settings. Today I am going to write about the meta-settings.

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    The many names of spells and how to change them.

    November 7, 2018 / 0 Comments

    In D&D, spells have names. This is based on some fiction and some legendary sources so it didn’t start with D&D. The notion of names having power is actually pretty old. The concept appears in ancient Egypt and Greece by various terms. By naming the spell, they describe its power.   Most of the spell names in D&D are relatively innocuous if descriptive of their effect. A Fireball spell creates a big ball of fire. Simple and easy. Then there are some spells that have little more story to them. They not only describe the effect, but carry the name of the wizard who created it.   This has been…

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    The Way of the Grasping Hand: a Midgard “monastic” Tradition

    June 23, 2018 / 0 Comments

    I am writing this for use in the Midgard setting, but I should state upfront that this can be used for just about any setting. A grappling style Monk would fit in just about any setting that allows monks. I recently wrote a blog post about the weird misconceptions held about martial arts and how they shape their presentation in D&D. One of the reasons I wrote that was because I could see some specific archetypes for Monks in Midgard I wanted to make.

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    Non East Asian Versions of Monks and Martial Arts

    May 22, 2018 / 4 Comments

    So, there is an idea out there that monks have no place in a western European inspired campaign setting.  Settings like Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk owe a lot to western European history, legends, and literature for their basis, and monks are not part of those traditions, or so the argument goes. This came to mind while looking at the Midgard setting and noticing they had many character options for the range of character classes, but not for monks. I asked about this and was directed to this blog post about monk weapons characteristics, which is awesome, but was also told there was not a lot of places for monks in…

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    When Immortals Adventure

    April 17, 2018 / 0 Comments

    I proposed a question a while back. Are immortal PC’s a problem or are they workable? The consensus appears to be that they are workable. I decided to take a pass at setting up a framework for using it in D&D. Death is ultimately just a small challenge after all. Immortality offers a range of cool stories that make the PC’s feel special in the world, which is sort of the point.

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    The Kingdom of Durnham pt 2: The Chapel

    April 9, 2018 / 0 Comments

    Here is another installment of my describing a post apocalyptic fantasy setting called God Thrones.  This is the ruins of Chapel Hill, which is pretty different in the world I am describing. It is a stop on on the way to the capital of Durnham.  If people like these, please let me know. I will keep writing more.

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