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    4 Magic Bows

    November 4, 2021 / 1 Comment

    There is always a need for more magic weapons in D&D. Simply having a +1 just doesn’t feel that satisfying a lot of the time. I like items that are little more varied than simply doing more damage.

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    September 21, 2019
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    January 8, 2020
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    A Guild Tale

    February 14, 2016
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    Making Encounter Tables

    July 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Making Encounter Tables

    Making an Encounter table is an interesting exercise. In some ways it is a statement of the tone of your game. Do you have a half dozen silly encounters? Do you have 8 generic wilderness encounters with beasts? Do you have combat encounters? Role playing? Chilling atmospheric encounters? Each says something about the style of game you are running.   Whatever the case, you are generating a list of events you wouldn’t mind showing in your game. You are generating a list of things that fit enough that you don’t care which one shows up. Even having an enormous table says something.   But some folks don’t know where to start.  So…

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    4 Grand Thieves Guilds

    July 22, 2017
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    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012
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    Bringing Tal Dorei races into Fantasy Age

    September 14, 2017
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    Something in the future wants you dead

    May 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Something in the future wants you dead

    I think the Terminator series would make a brilliant D&D adventure idea for a D&D Plot.

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    Elemental Beasts part 2

    June 25, 2020

    Undead Beware the Gravedigger’s Wrath: The Gravedigger Rogue Archetype

    June 11, 2017
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    Different Rules for Death.

    September 23, 2017
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    The Role of Alignment

    August 27, 2020 / Comments Off on The Role of Alignment

    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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    December 17, 2012
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    January 16, 2020

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    February 8, 2021
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    The School of Vitomancy

    August 15, 2020 / Comments Off on The School of Vitomancy

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

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    January 16, 2020
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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 3: The Meta-Settings

    January 1, 2019
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    Defining worlds for the game

    December 19, 2012
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    Elemental Beasts part 2

    June 25, 2020 / Comments Off on Elemental Beasts part 2

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

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    March 3, 2017
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    Setting Project: The People of Ballad

    February 17, 2020

    Undead Beware the Gravedigger’s Wrath: The Gravedigger Rogue Archetype

    June 11, 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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    April 17, 2018

    Rules For Spell Books (Or how I learned to relax and hang out in libraries)

    January 20, 2017
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    Defining worlds for the game

    December 19, 2012
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    Setting Project: The People of Ballad

    February 17, 2020 / Comments Off on 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.

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    Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

    January 24, 2020
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    Beware the Blight Elves

    October 7, 2017
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    A Guild Tale

    February 14, 2016
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    Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

    January 24, 2020 / Comments Off on Monsterous Ecologist: The History of the Tarrasque.

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

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    Inspiration

    February 8, 2021
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    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012

    The Vigilante Rogue: The Justice Found In The Dark

    July 27, 2017
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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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