It’s not even remotely Monday. Like, not even a little bit. But hopefully bringing in a particularly nasty undead critter for you to pit against your party will assuage a little bit of my...
GM Advice / Steal This Magic Item
by Drake · Published February 17, 2020 · Last modified February 18, 2020
People get squicked out by eyes. It’s just a fact of life. You can talk about the Hand of Vecna without getting too many weird looks, but the moment you ask a player to...
GM Advice / Throwdown Thursday
by Drake · Published February 14, 2020 · Last modified February 18, 2020
It’s Valentine’s Day, and as I’ve said, I’m not a huge festive D&D guy. But I made the Heart Collector, so obviously I’m a tremendous liar. If you’ve been paying attention to the blog...
So, Monster Monday is a bit late, and that means that so too is Throwdown Thursday. It’s been a crazy week. My wife had a birthday on Monday and I’ve been trying to get...
GM Advice / Steal This Magic Item
by Drake · Published February 8, 2020 · Last modified February 25, 2020
Some of you might remember back when I spoke about the information economy of Dungeons and Dragons, that weird conceit to the shared fiction that basically goes as follow: The DM knows all there...
I did a search for cool swamp battlemaps to run encounters for my weekly group not too terribly long ago. I had a big section that was supposed to take place in the fantasy...
I like magical beasts. I think that it’s kind of neat that the world of Dungeons and Dragons isn’t just beset by all kinds of conniving, evil and scheming humanoids, but also nature itself–or...
GM Advice / Steal This Magic Item
by Drake · Published February 2, 2020 · Last modified April 30, 2020
Food is a worldbuilding apparatus. We can learn a lot about who a people are, what they value, and what they believe based on what they’re eating and how they deal with food. Are...
You know, it’s really hard to map a liminal space like the Astral Plane, which means that battlemaps are really hard to find. I guess the whole lack of geography makes for uninteresting fights...
More and more, this question gets thrown out at every person who hands out advice on how to run 5e Dungeons and Dragons. With the rise in popularity of D&D 5e and tabletop games...
