Throwing Shade Being pale subterranean jellyfish, flumphs shouldn’t just suffer penalties on attacks and perception checks while in the sun, but should wrinkle and shrivel like raisins. They’re even less suited to been removed from their cool damp caves than […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session 25 My last session ended with the Swashbuckler declaring he was going to go through Faerie to report to his liege lord regarding the status of the Soulmonger (i.e. their success in the Tomb of Annihilation). While I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D 5e Review: Out of the Abyss Hot on the heels of GenCon (and just missing the convention season) is the new Dungeons & Dragons tabletop roleplaying game book, Out of the Abyss, which tells the tale of a demonic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Soylent Green Food is an interesting limited resource in dungeons. Most of the time, tracking food and mundane purchases is needless. The cost of a few meals and some arrows is negligible, especially in editions with assumed magical wealth. But […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uncertain Motivations Generally when you see a monster it’s already attacking. On the rare instances when you see a monster before it attacks, there’s a minor moral quandary: do you strike first or do you want to see if it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To The Brim Creatures with odd dietary restrictions can be a little awkward when you think about it. In this case, Mind Flayers. They eat brains. But brains are likely not an easily acquired food product. To get a full-sized […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Set Spells to Stun Sometimes you just want a prisoner. This was tricky in older editions, which killed monsters and NPCs at 0 hitpoints and didn’t have any real mechanics for the knockout. 3e changed this with subdual damage, which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy World XV: Other Realms A detailed fantasy world can be called “complete” when as little as a single region has been detailed, typically a small continent or one side of a larger continent. But even with enough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Into the Deep Vast subterranean worlds have become a big part of D&D but one that is not nearly as prevalent in the source fiction. There are occasionally small kingdoms or lost worlds under the earth, the token race of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
