Hand Motions As a quick getaway spell, dimension door is solid, not just moving you to a place still within sight of the enemy. It’s a pretty big “eff you” to the enemy. What other hand motions would be required?
Always Around When Needed If a monster is ravaging a town, chances are a group of heroes will be nearby. Send a lone runner in a random direction to spring until they’re about to pass out from exhaustion, and just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nuking Sometimes you just don’t want to do the rest of the dungeon. The risk is too high and the reward seems too low. It’s just not worth getting yourself killed over, let alone painfully torn apart and eaten. It’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tools of Destruction Loosely inspired by a discussion on using cards for improvised weapons. Although that is much less ludicrous, being a fairly common trope. It wasn’t absurd enough to work as a comic. I considered a few other options. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Epic in Scope Rescuing a kidnapped princess was a trope so overdone, Final Fantasy started with it then wrapped up that story-line with the starting credits. It was the prologue before the story really started. And yet… many video games […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Soul of Darkness I enjoy Dark Souls but am utterly and completely terrible at the game. There’s a good argument for how every game should have a difficulty slider, because I’m missing out on the experience of the game (and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This exists due to a typo in my latest DMs Guild, Legendary Monsters. When describing the owlbear, a descriptor was hit by auto-correct, creating the phrase “karate bear”. I posted it on Twitter and people found it as amusing as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reaching for the Sky An eight-foot tall goliath has the same effective reach as a three-foot-five halfling despite having arms three times the length and potentially swinging a weapon larger than said halfling in a diving position. But that same […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stay On Target The various flavours of D&D are games where you regularly fight monsters two or three times your size, if not even larger. Despite barely being able to tap the kneecaps of your opponent with a particularly long […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Death by Chocolate Like many Dungeon Masters I have a love/hate relationship with fudging rolls. I don’t want fate or luck to completely determine the outcome of the story but neither do I want complete control of events. I try […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gaming History It’s hard separating player knowledge from character knowledge. It can be very easy to “guess” what your opponent is and prepare accordingly, even if the characters shouldn’t know. This sometimes gets dismissed by arguing that folks in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Newest Addition I’ve often said that you can never have too many monsters. Until you have too many monsters. The first two monster books for a game system tend to be excellent, as the best and most iconic monsters […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
