Character Reference: Return of the Mirror Knight

“You wake on the floor surrounded by shards of mirrored glass. Looking around, you can see that the glass actually came from a large mirror now shattered and littering the room. You slowly stand. As the light entering the room reflects off your armor, it flashes a beam across the room and, as you move,Continue

In the image of my Father: Autognome Character Reference

This month we published an opening campaign pitch for a Spelljammer Cosmic Horror game. Read it first or alongside for it all to make sense. We also dropped a character reference on the Giff gunslinger who was on the hunt for the ultimate prey; a godlike, eldritch being of pure entropy and destruction. But toContinue

CAMPAIGN PITCH: SPELLJAMMER COSMIC HORROR

After dropping my article on playing multiple personalities in D&D, I realized that this whole campaign we’ve been playing for the last six months makes a great pitch. Basically, we jumped headlong into the setting of Spelljammer, adopted most of the classic races you find in the new sourcebooks and our DM, Steps, went allContinue

The Legacy of the Immoths: Knowledge, Curse and Ice

In the process of developing the Campaign Pitch for the Para-Elemental Plane of Ice, Frostfell, we introduced our villain, the fifth wheel among the evil archmentals, Cryonax and his mad dreams of becoming the king of his own icy domain that encompasses the whole of the elemental plane. We also introduced the enigmatic Immoths; elementalContinue

The Abyss has no fury like a Dragon Scorned!

The next bit of fun comes from the mad mind of BDC. In our big campaign pitch, this month, we layed out a great frame work for a great game or series of games. It is simply Xorvindaal, the game that dragons play in order to outsmart their peers and take their hoards. Sounds likeContinue

Warlock Patron: Dragons

This article is an extension of an article written earlier introducing (and reintroducing to some) the Game of Dragons: Xorvindaal. Expanded on in Monster Manual V back in 3.5, the game of Xorvindaal was the sport of Dragons outsmarting each other in a massive game of ‘find the hoard’; pitting their hoard against the hoardsContinue

Campaign Pitch: Xorvintaal, a game of Dragons & Hoards!

Now, to start, this has nothing to do with Game of Thrones or House of the Dragon despite the ideas that ‘Dragon Games’ brings up. It is just one of myriad of old-school D&D lore that I dug up and found to be the perfect backdrop for an ongoing campaign. Dragons live long lives andContinue

Dangerous Minds: Playing a Splintered Personality in D&D

I am by no means writing this article as an expert into what is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder. When I was younger, the term Multiple Personality Disorder or Syndrome was the more prevalent descriptor. But, just to get a definition about the disorder I’m talking about and to define some of the general causesContinue

In a Different Class: Guns Blazing!

For as long as I can remember, the discussion of including firearms in D&D has been a volatile issue at times. DMs fearing that it will imbalance the game or make it ‘less fantasy’ has kept a good many builds from seeing the light of day. And that’s fine if that’s your take, but, ifContinue

Clerics of Amn: Keepers of the Peace

Amn is a place that respects both the Arcane and the Divine; especially the Divine. Where unknown and outsiders who practice the magical arts are viewed with suspicion and MUST be registered and controlled, Clerics and Paladins are welcome and, even, celebrated. Read more about the details of the setting of Amn HERE. In orderContinue