Encounter Building The last couple editions of D&D have put a focus on multiple weaker foes against a party of adventurers. Several enemies make the action economy more favourable for the DM and spreads out damage. More combatants require more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nom de Plumage When you hear the term “owlbear” the image of two very different hybrids is mentally conjured. After forty years what we picture as an owlbear has become refined: an ursine body with a large owl head and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Weird Science There are a good half-dozen monsters called out in various monster books as being the result of mad wizards and their experiments. To justify the bizarre creature that is an owlbear, the books quite literally say “a wizard did it”. Which begs […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Support D&D has a long history of pretty darn silly monsters. Some of them, like the rust monster and the owlbear, exist solely because Gary Gygax has a weird plastic toy that was about the right scale for the miniatures. Others evolved […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
