A conversation on the bird site a week or so ago got me thinking about a genetic-manipulation artificer subclass. I let the idea sit for a week to see if anything bubbled up as an idea, and… here...
2023-04-14 02:11:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhether you’re using Seas of Vodari and Tribality’s 2023-03-29 17:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
For that upcoming Tribality project that I’ve mentioned, I’m writing traps based on gunpowder and firearms for use in D&D 5e. Er, without just making a numbers-bolted-on collection of gunpo...
2023-03-16 17:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostOn Sunday, 19 February, I ran the 122nd session of the Aurikesh campaign, in which the PCs gathered a rag-tag fleet of ships and led it against the blockade at the mouth of the river that leads to ...
2023-02-20 20:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been awhile since I’ve written new magic items for this blog, huh? Over a year? No, that doesn’t make any sense. But here we are, I guess. Anyway, this is a collection of magica...
2023-02-11 03:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been over a year since my last post in the Villain’s Schemes series, but since it’s gotten a lot harder in the last week to write D&D content with confidence, I’m just wri...
2023-01-24 19:44:26 +0000 UTC View PostOne Leak (with apologies to the Barenaked Ladies)
It’s been one week since you leaked to us
Codega’s article dropped, you said, “We’re greedy”
Five business d...
For my Aurikesh campaign, way back in 2012 for D&D Next, I wrote a Seeker class (several iterations appear in this blog) for a creepy occultist gunslinger concept, very much taken from Torc...
2023-01-01 04:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostJust to be the first kid on the block dipping a toe into homebrewed One D&D design, I’m exploring some new Holy Orders for the Cleric Class, as released in the 2022-12-07 18:32:08 +0000 UTC View Post
What do you know, I actually missed my blog’s birthday! I feel so guilty. Anyway, this is the 527th post in this blog after 12 years of writing. If you’ve been with me since the beginning or jo...
2022-11-22 05:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis post is a compilation and expansion of ideas first discussed in a series of Twitter threads, initially in response to a thread by Enrique Bertran, the NewbieDM, from October 25, 2018. I’ve r...
2022-11-21 22:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostI’m in the place of loving LARP writing and gamerunning, but not knowing if I’ll ever write or run another game, for reasons of time, energy, and the life commitments of having kids. That’s w...
2022-11-07 21:29:10 +0000 UTC View PostOn Saturday, 22 October, 2022, I ran the 117th session of my Aurikesh campaign. I was trying some unusual stuff mechanically, and in this post, I’m going to talk about what worked, what didn’t,...
2022-10-25 02:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostI was looking through my 4e megathread the other day and made a list of the spells and magic i...
2022-10-19 15:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostI got the first draft of a major project done, so I’m giving some time to more bounty-hunting content. Writing and talking about the 2022-10-05 19:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
At 2:45 am on Saturday, September 17, my Dragon Heist group finished the published adventure. It’s not the end of the campaign, just the official material. We’ll be having further conversations...
2022-09-18 19:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been a lot longer than I realized since I last wrote something about the Ruby Talon Deeps dungeon. As a reminder, I’m still in the high-level brainstorming phase, so what I’m offering ar...
2022-09-10 19:26:31 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my big takeaways from the release of Spelljammer: Adventures in Spaaaaace (there’s a misprint in the books and on the slipcase where Spaaaaace is missing four of its ...
2022-08-29 21:16:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy homebrew setting supports the Great Old One warlock pact (while hoping for a serious rework of its features in ’24), but doesn’t use HPL’s Mythos entities or (for the most part) the canoni...
2022-08-12 17:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt has once again been a long time since I’ve touched this series, but I’ve cleared enough other projects to take some time for things I’d like to publish on the DM’s Guild someday. I hope ...
2022-07-29 19:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostAs we make further progress on Under the Seas of Vodari, I got to write some additional location and adventure hook entries, to build in some extra creepy or weird things for our adventure...
2022-07-25 03:55:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis topic comes to mind because, as LARPing reopens in the South (in the summer… we all do things we regret), I’ve gotten to see a surprisinglyeffective new(-to-me) development in dun...
2022-06-27 19:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostA friend of mine, Steve Chambers, is the origin of this idea: a paladin who is a magical bouncer. I’m just running with that and turning it into as cool of a paladin oath as I can, then hoping St...
2022-06-13 23:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostI was playing Minecraft Dungeons with my 5-year-old a couple of weeks ago, and saw some absolutely amazing unique item names, which I commented on in Twitter. Starless Night and <...
2022-05-31 20:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to play with some other areas of folklore, and these new spells came out of it. I was also interested in trying a new mechanical concept that came to me, as you’ll see (create poppet...
2022-05-06 04:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been years since I was an active video game reviewer, but when I was offered a review copy of the roguelike deck builder ROGUEBOOK<...
2022-04-21 12:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a couple of spells that have shown up in Aurikesh for which I promised actual rules “sometime soon,” which apparently means today. Since those two spells don’t a satisfying...
2022-04-07 19:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the best parts of Darkest Dungeon, Pillars of Eternity, and a lot of other RPG video games is building up your home base town over the course of your many adventures. I’m...
2022-04-01 04:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostToday I want to tell you about a Kickstarter that Sharang Biswas is running. He’s writ...
2022-03-14 22:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostA few days ago on Twitter, I got to talking about the warlock class of 3.5e’s Complete...
2022-03-13 05:55:57 +0000 UTC View Post