So Very Wrong I keep hearing that “there’s no wrong way to play D&D”. And part of me embraces that. I love that you can make the game your own. And I try reject arguments that postulate that people are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mighty Mite Sometimes what is the most fun and creative choice of options is not the most optimal choice for characters. Personally, I have difficulty when deciding between what would be fun and cool and what would be the mechanical […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Killing Bow In storytelling, a plot element set-up for future payoff is known as “Chekov’s Gun”. The idea being that you don’t introduce a gun in Act I if you don’t intent to fire it by Act III. Magic items […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Muscle Magic There was an internet joke for a while that there needed to be a spellcasting class that used Strength as it’s primary attribute, much like wizards used Intelligence and sorcerers used Charisma. Strength was mostly the purview of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Price of Experience A few adventurers have scars. These tend to be the result of dramatic events during the character’s backstory. After that, no matter how violent and grievous the injury, it doesn’t scar. Critically hit by a falchion, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Negotiator Don’t let the fighter who used Charisma as their dump stat take the lead in talking to, well, anyone. Some fighter archetypes seem like they should be good at persuasion, such as knights trained in courtly etiquette, or […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blessed Brew Coffee has been around for centuries. From the early years of the 15th Century at the latest, and in the mid-1600s coffee spread to Europe through Italy via trade with North Africa. (Italy has had string trading ties […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Duuuude I just blew my own mind. Booooom. But, seriously, heroic adventurers are the best bosses for evil campaigns. But this is super tragic if those adventurers don’t know they’re the antagonists and simply want to save the world.
Something Fishy You can cram a lot of food into a bag of holding. However, time still passes inside the bag. If you don’t rotate through the food stored in the extadimensional space, things at the bottom might get gooey. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Language Barrier My son is currently eight years old. I’ve lightly introduced him to tabletop gaming, including D&D. Mostly one-on-one with my wife occasionally being a guest player. I haven’t introduced him to gaming with a larger group, and it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Weighed Down I don’t know many games that bother to track encumbrance, but for the most part I like the verisimilitude of worrying about having too much stuff or being concerned about what is stored where. Although, in many editions, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Deadliest Caught If you want a character to suffer and feel the hurt of a trap, it shouldn’t go after their hit points and health, it should go after their gear. Losing armor, weapons, or magic items really hurts. It’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
