Dirty 20 Finding lost dice is tricky. Those suckers can roll and vanish in a blink of an eye. Which is annoying, but it’s a huge problem unless it’s a d4. Those are a hazard to life and limb. Meanwhile, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fear Itself If you looked at this strip and were confused, it’s a sequel to last Tuesday’s strip: http://www.5mwd.com/archives/comic/terrifying-foe Comics are a visual medium, and it is super hard to get the right tone in dialogue. Especially when half the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Terrifying Foe How scary a monster is, is partially determined by their Challenge Rating. Ostensibly, this should be the sole factor: how threatened you feel is based on how much of a threat they are. But a high CR monster […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cursed I don’t think I want to return to the templated werebeasts of 3rd Edition, where you could turn any classed NPC into a lycanthrope. But part of me does miss the ability to have elf and half-orc werewolves be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Heart Attack Campaigns can be silly things. Going dark requires buy-in and coordination from the players. They need to be willing to have serious characters who are played straight rather than slipping into whimsy. Which can be tricky for gamers, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Alive! Weird things happen when you upgrade older adventures. I’ve run a few 1st Editions upgraded to 3e, which was awkward as the scaling of the number of enemies didn’t always work. I’ve run some 3e adventures in 5e, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Border Crossing I’m in the process of revising my guide to Worldbuilding and thinking on improbably world design, such as placing the horrible wasteland of pure evil across from the agrarian nation of peace and nobility. Although, it worked fairly well […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fear the Reaper I just got my backer rewards from Reapers’ Bones 4 Kickstarter. While the first two times I got the full base set, after the 3rd I’ve focused on a few choice pieces and specific expansions. But I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wake Up The spell awaken requires the material component: “An agate worth at least 1,000 gp, which the spell consumes.” Which seems reasonable, as the spell is powerful. Agates can be found in the gemstone tables of the Dungeon Master’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Matter of Balance Having spent much of the last two decades on D&D message boards, I’ve seen a lot of arguments over specific wordings of abilities, usually when something requires a very particular warping of the English language or ignoring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
