Masterwork Quality Shout-out to commenter Malcadon for the idea. This was something I remember rolling my eyes at during my 3e and Pathfinder days. I remember sending several groups of advanced mooks at my party, and every one of the grunts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Aftertaste I always find it interesting when monsters prefer one type of humanoid to another. It’s an interesting way of establishing the tactics of a monster without actually giving a purely tactical entry. Elves and halflings seem to be popular […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Large-Sized Problem The vast, vast majority of my miniature collection comes from randomized pre-painted plastic minis. They were so cheap when they started being released nine or so years ago. Although, after two Kickstarters, Reaper Bones is certainly grabbing a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parental Obligation A commonplace activity for adventurers after a lengthy stint of crawling through dungeons is adjourning to the local inn and bedding a barmaid, or for those with a single-digit Charisma, walking into a brothel, coin purse laden with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crawl Like a Snake Dumb monsters are more a convention of video games, where limits on enemy AI require they conveniently forget they layout of a room and dismiss any noise after a certain amount of time. In extreme cases, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A problem of scale I had a DM that had spent a small fortune on Ral Partha and Grenadier miniatures, having gotten into lead and pewter minis early. He had a mini for everything. But the problem was they were […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
