As I prepare to jumpstart an ambitious new campaign with my RPG group of six years, I'm excited to explore several optional rules to enrich my players' experience--let's jump into them! 1. Dael Kingsmill's Major Injuries Magical healing can really lower the stakes for your adventuring party. Have a good enough healer, every cut, bruise,... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Make way, make way, coming through! After a short hiatus, I am returned to you, my crazed fans, to once more enlighten you as to the truth behind D&D's myriad playable races. The following words will not be easy to read, they will not be just--they might not even be true!--but they... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Another Monday, another batch of D&D 5e races to make fun of! The time has come to mock a setting near and dear to my heart, even if it is native to Magic: The Gathering. *Groan* Centaur You want to be that guy? The party member whose every attempt to enter a... Continue Reading →
Previous | Next Harken, adventurers! It is time for another edition of "introducing my D&D nerds-to-be to playable races in the worst best laziest possible way"! Today, I turn to the delightful races to be discovered in Volo's Guide To Monsters - what furry, angelic fun awaits us! These races make for excellent divine crusaders,... Continue Reading →
| Next Soon, my party and I will begin a new D&D adventure! There's new blood to be had, and I'm uncertain as to the way I should introduce all the playable races to these new players. The easiest way to do is not to send them to read some dusty tome but to spend... Continue Reading →
Previous || Next Last time, I spoke about the differences between D&D 5e and DIE - the greater degree of collaboration between DM and players, the "narrative first" approach rather than a mechanical stringency, and the accent on complex interpersonal relationships established during the first stage of the game, the persona generation. In DIE, there's... Continue Reading →
|| Next I've written about the first volume of DIE (the comic book) here. After five years of D&D, experimenting with Kieron Gillen’s DIE RPG ruleset this past summer was a revelation. Dungeons and Dragons is largely reactive, in the sense that the Dungeon Master(DM) offers a playground, more or less directed, within which the... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/NY7uuiKcIbc Between the two of us, Baldur's Gate 3 is everything a D&D player might want, especially when his five-year-old group keeps ghosting him. Larian Studios' Early Access title does have a 𝔣𝔢𝔴 bugs. A smattering of them. Tiny, tiny amount. But amusing, most of them - as you will discover for yourselves. Follow me... Continue Reading →
Hello and welcome back to my Dungeon Master's Diary, where I recollect the long and winded tale of my Dungeons&Dragons party, the Assholes. Some time has passed since I last posted about these venerable adventurers. Let's get straight to it! The problem with note-keeping is...sometimes you lose the notes. Others, you're too lazy to write... Continue Reading →
Beginning a D&D campaign is a daunting experience, especially when your entire experience role-playing is in a few Pathfinder games. Dungeons&Dragons' latest edition is by no means an overly complex game. Most of the rules are explained in a clear, forthright way, and both the Player's Handbook(PHB) and Dungeon Master's Guide(DMG) are excellent books, introducing... Continue Reading →
The Grimoire Reliquary 