Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: The Last Ward
I think we can all agree that magic items are pretty neat. I mean, if you’ve clicked on any of my other homebrew items, you probably didn’t need me to tell you that I...
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Throwdown Thursday: Over the Gjol, a Bridge Ambush Battlemap for 5e D&D
Ha ha! With this I am officially back on track and pumping out more high-quality Dungeons and Dragons stuff that you can bring to your table tonight! Only probably not tonight, because it’s Thursday,...
Homebrew 5e Monster Monday: The Rook, an Undead Necromantic Infiltrator and Biological Weapon for 5e D&D
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...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Eye Scream Edition
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...
Throwdown Thursday: Gorsebrook, a floral festival village square battlemap for 5e D&D
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...
5e Homebrew Monster Monday: The Heart Collector, a Valentines Day Devil for D&D 5e
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...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Jug of Bad Ideas
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...
Throwdown Thursday: Bog Hollow, a swampy pool battle map for 5e D&D
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...
5e Homebrew Monster Monday: Bog Gulper, a creepy crawly swamp slug for D&D 5e
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...
Steal This D&D 5e Magic Item: Light Snack
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...
