Rule One-Half A Rule Zero conversation is where you establish the rules before the rules. The table rules, lines, limits, and things that will get in the way of fun. While the term likely originated with tabletop RPGs it’s also […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shipping & Mangling I’m a big Ravenloft fan and scrimped and saved to buy a Silver edition of van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft from Beadle & Grimm, pumping most of my spare cash from book sales on the DMsGuild into the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft In the fall of 2020, Ray Winninger—the new Executive Producer of D&D—teased that three classic campaign settings were being updated to 5th Edition. The first of these is Ravenloft with the newly released van […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Personal Thoughts on Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft This is a very personal blog. It should almost start it with a content warning… I’m uncertain if I’ll post this as it feels a lot like whining, and I should just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Retromodern Prometheus I love Ravenloft. I’m a HUGE fan of the campaign setting. I own every Ravenloft RPG product released in stores, and a few that weren’t. 1994’s Red Box was the fourth or fifth D&D product I purchased, but […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
