Skill Challenges for 5E, Part 1
.kt-sc_71b1a9-7c .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} In fast, fun combats, everyone participates! But combat is only one of the three pillars of D&D. Roleplaying and exploration sometimes lack that...
View ArticleThat’s the Pits: Down-and-Dirty Pit Fighting Rules
.kt-sc_e516e8-d9 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} Pit fighting is one of the most profitable downtime activities in 5E! Lou Anders explains pit fighting rules that let characters of different levels...
View ArticleDeep Magic: Spells of the Saints, Part 4
.kt-sc_ff403f-60 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} The following spells are the creations of saints, apostles, and other important religious figures that have spread throughout their faith. Most of...
View ArticleIntroducing Players to Roleplaying Games: Making New GMs
.kt-sc_48c1f2-55 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} You might have picked up the mantle of GM because no one else wanted it. Or maybe you enjoyed the creativity and became a “forever GM.” No matter how...
View ArticleDungeon Tables: Critical Hits, Part 3
.kt-sc_d5a1f0-fe .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} We all know it and love it—the thrill of the natural 20. The rush of adrenaline and victory as you fell your foes with astounding displays of power...
View ArticleDungeon Tables: Critical Hits, Part 4
.kt-sc_d5a1f0-fe .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} We all know it and love it—the thrill of the natural 20. The rush of adrenaline and victory as you fell your foes with astounding displays of power...
View ArticleA Magical City!
.kt-sc_6e046f-5b .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns is being edited at the moment. For the curious, here’s a morsel to stave off the hunger. Magic is the wild card...
View ArticleDeep Magic: Pestilent Arcane Spells
.kt-sc_9d2734-c0 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} In the spirit of Deep Magic, your arcane caster can now explore the putrid potential of vermin and plague with Pestilent Magic. This entry presents a...
View ArticleMagical Wastelands: Planar Intrusions
.kt-sc_662282-b2 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} This series looks at the corruption that extended use of violent and uncontrolled magic might cause on the landscape, from pollution to neglect to...
View ArticleFolk Magic: Sailor’s Magic
.kt-sc_8b8485-97 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} Many of us use cars, planes, television, and the Internet daily, without knowing how they really work—it’s almost like magic! In a world suffused...
View ArticleUnique Uses of the Creature Codex: Part 1, Peerless Lords
.kt-sc_3c5958-f0 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} What was the first monster you ever faced in Dungeons & Dragons? What was the first monster that killed one of your beloved player characters?...
View ArticleThe Random GM: NPC Descriptions
.kt-sc_e33cb0-49 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} From the genesis of the D&D game, random lists have been used to create, inspire, and complicate games everywhere. A GM essentially keeps all the...
View ArticleTome Unleashed: Dragon Eel
.kt-sc_9ae991-f5 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} The Tome Unleashed series fleshes out monsters from the Tome of Beasts, giving GMs ways to modify existing monsters to surprise well-prepared players...
View ArticleMagical Wastelands: Abandoned Overgrowth
.kt-sc_662282-b2 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} This series looks at the corruption that extended use of violent and uncontrolled magic might cause on the landscape, from pollution to neglect to...
View ArticleGot the Goods? A Guide to the Smuggler Background 5e
.kt-sc_0625e9-d5 .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} So you want to be a smuggler, eh? You’ve come to the right place. We’ll guide you through the finer points of playing a character with the smuggler...
View ArticleBigger Bads: Fighter NPCs
.kt-sc_68d638-2d .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} Monsters are great enemies, but humanoid NPCs can be the greatest enemies of all! The SRD and Creature Codex provide some useful standard NPCs to...
View ArticleDungeon Tables: Critical Hits, Part 4.5!
.kt-sc_8f4d1b-4c .kt-sc-imgcol {min-height:450px;} We all know it and love it—the thrill of the natural 20. The rush of adrenaline and victory as you fell your foes with astounding displays of power...
View ArticleSkill Challenges for 5E, Part 2
Skill challenges are a great way to bring the same sort of structure and excitement of combat to non-combat encounters. PCs use different skills as a group to tackle what’s in front of them and...
View ArticleChildren of Typhon: Minions
At the center of the Abyssal layer of Tarkoros rises a lone mountain. Chained beneath this peak by the powers of good, Typhon, Father of Monsters, desires escape above all else. Thus far, no known...
View ArticleFrom the Ashes: Reincarnate Super-Table
Lieutenant Hausler and his clanking legionnaires gathered just beyond the altar while the druids worked their magic on Viazo’s lifeless body. The druids slathered scented oils and thick unguents on...
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