Into the BorderLands This is the first blog in a new series where I will talk about DMing my new 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Writing about the adventure preparation I’m doing and how my game is going. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Amethyst Quintessence Newly released by Dias Ex Machina is Amethyst Quintessence, designed for the 5th Edition of the world’s oldest role-playing game (aka Dungeons & Dragons). Amethyst Quintessence is published under the Open Game Licence at Drive-Thru RPG, as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Castle TPKloft There’s a fine line between playing a monster smart and being a dick. You want boss monsters to be deadly and scary, a challenge to your party, but if you play a monster with the cunning and underhanded […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Curse of Strahd For the fourth storyline/ adventure path for 5th Edition, Wizards of the Coast moved the writing process in-house and brought back the original creators to expand on their creation – almost 33-years after its original publication […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pathfinder Review: Occult Adventures I’m not even going to try and count the number of hardcover rulebooks released by Paizo for the Pathfinder Roleplaying game. Even excluding the ones for the Campaign Setting line it’s a lot. Occult Adventures is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D 5 Review: Dungeon Master’s Guide The Dungeon Master’s Guide is the third and final book of the core rules of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. With its release, the core rules are at long last complete. Or as complete […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pathfinder Review: Occult Adventures Playtest Note: this review is on the playtest material of Occult Adventures. For my review of the final book please click: here. Paizo is doing their annual play testing for their next GenCon hardcover book. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D 5 Review: Monster Manual September is the Month of Monsters, as Wizards of the Coast releases the third product for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons: the terrifying Monster Manual. It’s hyped as “A menagerie of deadly monsters for the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Shadows of Esteren Shadows of Esteren is a French role-playing game (Les Ombres d’Esteren) translated into English, and funded through four different Kickstarters (so far). It’s tagline is “A medieval roleplaying game somewhere between Ravenloft, Game of Thrones and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dungeons & Dragons Turns 40 As close as we can guess, on January 26th, 1974, D&D was released on an unsuspecting world. While no gaming scholar, I believe this would have been the White Box, the edition now known as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
New Living Campaign I spent a lot of 3rd Edition playing Living Greyhawk before it ending at the onset of 4th Edition to make way for Living Forgotten Realms. With 4e winding down I wonder what will replace LFR. In an ENWorld discussion […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy World 1.5: Setting Variables Backstory I’ve recently been reading the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, a book that isn’t so much a step-by-step guide to building a fantasy world (like this blog series) and instead essays on a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
