And that, is an Aarokocra. The first creature in a standard monster manual, sorted alphabetically. No I’m not doing some silly alphabet book or even planning on posting about random monsters. Although that would certainly alleviate some of the lack of activity going on here. There are certain occasions where I have a bolt of…
I must be in the mood for staring at spreadsheets for some reason. Well, it’s linked on the Campaign Resources page, or here I guess. There’s quite a few differences in pulling all of the Divine spells into a quicksheet vs doing the Arcane spells. First off, I condensed a bunch of the domains a…
Two posts in a week, I must be feeling generous or something. Maybe it’s just my annual hibernation through the winter months. This is of course just one of the many things I’ve been silently working on in the background, and now that it’s more-or-less finished I can share it with random wanderers of the…
Run a game long enough, and the list of house rules becomes terribly unwieldy. A good DM will know better and try to categorize a vast number of things onto quicksheets so they can make common rulings instead of trying to remember that odd ruling from weeks/months ago. Over the years I’ve watched the game…
Inspiration struck this morning as I was making coffee, still in whatever you would imagine I wear to bed, contemplating whether to cook some eggs. As I let my mind wander it bounces over past and future events with little heed for the present. The present exists currently only to serve coffee, that’s been thoroughly…
For a blog that manages to post as little as I do, I’ve still managed to accumulate around 4000 views this year. So that’s something. 2016 5 Posts, 1 Draft The vast majority of hits have been right on the homepage. To this I attribute mostly people clicking the homepage link wherever it lies,…
As the Dungeon Master in my game, most of the world is mine. I’ve drawn up maps and dungeons, created political structures, enemies, allies, and campaigns. The challenge of a DM is really to make the entire world, every aspect of it, an interaction with players who experience it. Granted, there’s the trap of falling into making…
Saving Throws in 2e have largely been based off of your class, with a general dump for save vs Magic to catch all other things that don’t apply to anything specific. When the d20 system rolled around, it deferred to a much simpler system relating to Fort, Will, and Reflex. Of course this is a…
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3hud2l/remember_that_npc_codex_i_teased_about_a_month/ There’s some great things on Reddit, and there’s some great people out there that not only make content, but happily encourage people to get at it for free. While technically for 5e, it’s a PDF with 13 NPC’s, any of which could be dropped into your game of choice and ran off the cuff…
For some reason Newsblur (my RSS reader of choice) decided to change their username method, eliminating a special character I had in mine, and effective wiping my account. This is pretty frustrating as I went to open up the glorious pile of blogs to find absolutely nothing. I’ve been adding blogs to this for quite…
This project is going rather well. http://www.returnofreckoning.com First and foremost, this is an ALPHA private server. There are a LOT of things that do not work currently. It’s also hosted in EU, so there’s some slight lag and mob pathing is a little funky. There is a handful of dedicated developers that work on the game, along…
The RPG Blog Carnival comes together each month, with a random topic, hosted by one of the member sites. This month it’s time for Summerland at Tales of a GM. Summer evokes grand emotions in most of us that were so fortunate as to take several weeks of summer vacation as kids. Some of us were dropped off at a…
http://thedragonsflagon.blogspot.com/2015/05/re-opening.html Good. There’s all sorts of reasons people go through to close down a blog. Lack of inspiration, lack of attention, feelings of inadequacy. The Dragon’s Flagon has been on my reading list for quite some time, to have it shut down over what appeared to be some sort of meltdown in the comments section…
This one is a bit of a rant, and a reminder to myself to stay away from clickbait Reddit self-posts in /r/DnD. I can hardly believe, or rather for years have been actively conditioning myself to ignore, that people truly treat D&D like it’s some sort of content that needs to be ravaged and handed a dirty…
As part of my ongoing adventures and dealing with new players asking hard questions, one such stumbling point has come across that I’m sure many people have looked at quizzically. With no apparent mechanic to be found, large swaths of players summarily assign their worst score to the most classic dump stat in the game. Please…
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