This July marks seven years since the release of D&D 5e, though it feels like even longer than that since I’m still running the same campaign I started in D&D Next, with several original ...
2021-02-13 05:58:36 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, we’ve moved out of the fey in this discussion of warlock patrons and the Piety mechanic. Sure, 5e canon indicates that some Archfey are outside the Summer and Gloaming Courts, but I’m mor...
2021-01-22 04:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been a long time since I’ve talked LARP design. Quarantine has of course put games on hold for the last year, though as vaccines roll out, we might be stirring again from that long slumber...
2021-01-05 18:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostToday I’m back to continue my series adapting the Piety and Iconoclast systems from Mythic Odysseys of Theros to the relationship between warlocks and their patrons. In the first article...
2020-12-22 19:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostThis is another rough draft of a subclass for Under the Seas of Vodari, the upcoming aquatic campaign setting that expands on the Seas of Vodari setting. Thanks to, you know, the whole spellbook th...
2020-11-23 16:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostDid you know that it’s been only one year since the last time I did one of these? That doesn’t sound right to me either. It’s been an incredibly rough year for me getting regular con...
2020-11-20 03:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostA tweet by @jorphdan about adapting the Piety system from Mythic Odysseys of Theros into the Forgotten Realms sparked the idea of using the Piety system to reward warlocks for their loyalt...
2020-11-15 23:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostBack in my Enchantment Under the Sea post, I created a spell called gemscribe. It got...
2020-10-10 06:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostFor Under the Seas of Vodari, we’re creating several kaiju-like ultra-powerful monsters. They’re commonly known to exist, but to be bound in slumber by the bards of the College of Deep Dreamers...
2020-10-01 04:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostLet me get something out of the way: this isn’t going to be a review, for two reasons. One, I’m so far behind in my review backlog on the tabletop RPG side that I obviously do...
2020-09-15 13:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs I was settling into bed the other night, the mental image of the staff of the planar tear popped into my mind and wouldn’t go away. I thought you might enjoy seeing stats for that, as...
2020-08-28 03:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs another piece of my work on Under the Seas of Vodari, I’m writing some new spells. We’ll see how it turns out, but my intention going in is to create things that work above the surface just ...
2020-08-08 15:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a lot of commentary online about speeding up D&D fights by tweaking the math – decreasing enemy hit points and increasing damage output. To be blunt, I think this is all wrong...
2020-07-22 19:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may know, I'm working on “Under the Seas of Vodari,” a Kickstarter stretch goal supplement for Seas of Vodari, along with a few other members of the Tribality team.. D&...
2020-07-08 02:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostOver in Twitter, I decided to promote "Fey Gifts & Bargains" with a megathread - for each Like, RT, or new purchase of the PDF, I'd write one tweet of fey NPCs, story hooks, locations, magic it...
2020-06-29 04:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs most of you know, in 4e D&D there is a material called residuum, essentially the same as the various arcane dusts that enchanters create by disenchanting magic items in World of War...
2020-06-11 16:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostOh, wow, I haven’t written about LARP design since December, how about that! Anyway, even before that when I talked about 2020-05-27 19:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's try this again - it's much the same document as last time, but with expanded content and a few more revisions. Many thanks to Stephen Cheney (editor), Dave Jumaquio (layout), and Shawn Ellswo...
2020-05-21 14:47:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me until the quarantine times to do much about the fact that I got a Nintendo Switch for Christmas and dive into Breath of the Wild. In case you started your quarantine and media b...
2020-05-21 04:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to the heroic efforts of Stephen Cheney, Dave Jumaquio, and Shawn Ellsworth, my Fey Bargains PDF is going on the DM's Guild today, in time to join the upcoming 2020-04-30 19:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, all! I'm sorry content has been so slow in the past couple of months - I sent in my final draft on a project, so I've just gotten a lot of my free writing time back.
I don’t know how i...
2020-04-27 04:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostBack in January, I wrote about Fey Contracts, including new charms you can gain from those contr...
2020-04-01 03:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostIn my Aurikesh campaign, the PCs have just gone to a demiplane called the Great Warren, which is purportedly the homeland of the first goblins. It’s tiny and entirely underground – as far as an...
2020-02-29 20:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostIn a recent Tribality article, I mentioned that dragons in Aurikesh are (...
2020-02-21 18:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostNow that initial editing on Seas of Vodari is finished, I'm happy to return to my Patreon. I have another big project that is about to swallow my time, but I hope I'll have at least one mo...
2020-02-16 06:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostI got to thinking about the famous holy avenger swords and how, in 5e, they sort of suggest Oath of Vengeance paladins. Any paladin can use them, of course – even an Oathbreaker, though ...
2020-01-28 03:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The Diabolical Deals section of Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus offers something that… frankly it’s kind of weird that we haven’t seen yet in 5e, where warlo...
2020-01-11 05:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
As part of a Very Special Episode of Edition Wars, Sa...
2019-12-31 06:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostTreasured Patreon backer Ryan McCorkle asked for a guide to writing modules for boffer LARPs. Since I freely acknowledge that there are others out there who can do better at this than I can, I hope...
2019-12-02 06:08:49 +0000 UTC View Post