Short version: A while ago there was this, which led to this, and now to this. Long version: The Secret Santicore PDF is finished, courtesy of the apparently-a-genius-at-organizing-spur-of-the-moment-projects Jez Gordon. It’s got forty-two entries on everything from new races to poisons to cults and post-apocalyptic stuff. There are over a hundred pages of […] Read more
So there’s this thing. Perfect excuse to write something interesting and get something interesting; Secret Santa, but with D&D material. The prompt I got: “I would like alternative randomly generated strongholds to encounter in wilderness hexcrawls (or for setting design). Like the ones in The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures, pages 15 an 16. This […] Read more
Do you fear for your life? Do you have a million or so gold lying around? If so, then the best murder deterrence in the world is a simple bronze amulet bought from the Rosharn Vendetta. This trinket represents a promise by the Rosharn that if you are killed, they will hunt down and slay […] Read more
I’m going to talk about horror for a little while, using events from the last session of my D&D campaign as examples. It was the final session before Thanksgiving break, and it was a good one. During it the players broke into the fortified monastery of the Monks of the Ascension and went on a […] Read more
I finally finished a drawing of the party that I’ve been working on. It took a while because I wanted to make sure everyone was satisfied with how I was representing their characters, which meant asking for their opinions multiple times; and since the only time everyone was together and I had my laptop handy […] Read more
The morality of the world is not black-and-white, no matter how much people try to paint it otherwise. There are lots of shades of grey in there, which becomes a problem when dealing with D&D’s alignment system. If a detect evil spell says you’re evil, then you are evil, and have been so condemned by […] Read more
The party in the RIT campaign, having fled the city of Tahmoor after a deal to sell some weapons they stole from a bunch of rebels got complicated, have ended up on the island of Verdan. Verdan is famous for being home to the Monks of the Ascension, a science-cult that believes that their founder […] Read more
I wish I had taken a picture of the map I made for last week’s combat. The party had ended the previous session with a major fight looming, a fight which we spent most of last week playing out. The turns moved quickly and the fighting was brutal; the reason it took so long was […] Read more
Spells invented by the students at the University Arcana, for use by other students. Anyone who went to the University most likely has access to these spells, which are traditionally passed around in the infamous “Hidden Grimoires,” spellbooks that have had their covers replaced with that of boring or outdated alchemical texts. Student Spell […] Read more
Stream-of-consciousness run-through of Saturday’s D&D session: If the players discover something interesting, they will try to connect it to everything else that happens. Awesome moment: barbarian/cleric Marcus Bighammer and necromancer/cleric Sh’vass mud wrestling in the middle of a mass grave, with the dwarven monk Atlas Brulio using some of his fire elixir to breathe flame […] Read more
