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.
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…
You Shall Not Pass I showed this comic to my wife and she just sneered and said, “that wouldn’t stop most women; they’d just march right in. It’s boys that have the problem going into washrooms.” Oh well. I still […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Annihilated True gaming story. I’m running my group through the Tomb of Annihilation adventure and there are quite a few deadly death traps. Traps where if they reduce you to 0 hit points you just die outright, being decapitated or ground […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Appropriately Named When a party get a bag of holding, everything they need gets dumped inside. And some things they might need. As well as a bunch of things they could conceivably need. And a whole pile of stuff that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Change is in the Air The public playtest for Pathfinder 2 dropped the other day, with hard copies for those who pre-ordered and PDFs for everyone else. I’ve been slowly working through the documents and might eventually gets some thoughts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Square Peg, Round Hole Party dynamics are delicate, and there’s few things worse than having a noble lawful good type partnered with ne’er-do-wells. Be it the one sociopathic thief in an otherwise heroic party or the lone paladin in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Search of Non-Adventure Adding forks in the road is a trap for Dungeon Masters. It makes sense sometimes to give a choice for reasons of verisimilitude. A branching path in the road because the map shows one, or a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Handheld GPS Players don’t keep maps anymore. Which might also be the result of dungeons seldom being larger than 3-6 encounter areas and generally fitting onto a single 8×11 page. You seldom spend three or four sessions in a single […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alternate Solution It never fails for rogues. They search the floor. They search the doorway. They search the chest. Each time they get a super high number but find no traps. But the one time they roll a “3”, that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
