Building Better Monsters Part 1: Meet Your Maker, Monster
This article is the first in a series of four on designing monsters from scratch, getting the most out of…
Review: Elminster Ascending
Elminster Ascending Ed Greenwood A Forgotten Realms Novel Ed Greenwood's Elminster Ascending: The Sage of Shadowdale omnibus collects three novels –…
D&D Encounters: March of the Phantom Brigade (Week 10)
“Salazar Vladistone is a hero.” At least he was during his lifetime, according to Faldyra. After last week’s battle against…
Exploiting Racial and Class Powers: Dragon Breath
Be All You Can Be. This was the recruiting slogan for the U.S. Army for over twenty years. When you…
Foregoing Short Rest
How important is resting in D&D? The rules allow for characters to rest between encounter in order to heal and…
Designing Social Encounters
Creating combat encounters is a lot easier than creating social encounters in D&D. When it comes to combat most DMs…
Character Catchphrases
“I’ll be back.” “D’oh!” “Go ahead, make my day.” A clever catchphrase is an easy way to make a run-of-the-mill…
D&D Encounters: March of the Phantom Brigade (Week 9)
Salazar Vladistone and the Phantom Brigade burned the village of Inverness to the ground. Two months later Vladistone and his…
Television Scripts As D&D Adventures
Week in and week out the DMs of the nation are writing phenomenal adventures for the players who gather around…
Quitting the Party Mid-Adventure
It’s not often that something happens during a D&D game that I haven’t experienced before, but just a few weeks…