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…
