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

Forgotten gods of the Forgotten Realms: HOAR

Let me take you back about twenty years or so. I’ve just introduced my oldest to The Forgotten Realms and are actually attempting to convert his D6 Starwars character (who has been toying with Sith things) into the realm of Faerun. It was quite an adjustment, but we all soon fell in love with theContinue

Mjenir: Wizard of the Elk Tribe

Spurring from my leading a Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign through Ten Towns and Icewind Dale, I have been inspired. As my players leave Ten Towns to find a way to stop Auril, they venture into the territory of the nomadic barbarian tribes. It is in preparing for this part that I began to contemplateContinue

Becoming the Shadow: Shadowtouched as PCs

Shadows are low level Cr creatures (1/2) used mainly as tests in the early stages of a campaign. Usually easily forgotten although highly elusive and possibly dangerous is luck doesn’t persist. The fact that they can hide as a bonus action, get a +6 to stealth and can, if you are reduced to 0 andContinue

D&D Crossover: Banner/Hulk

NOTE: This is a build that grew from our new Stream on Saturday nights around 7 PM called COLD BREW where we take a subject and do what we do best; brainstorm ideas. This Saturday the 24th we will discuss CLERICS. Come join us with your personal builds and ideas to help us conceive someContinue

Character Reference Special: Barbaric Transformations

Ok, so this weekend we started our COLDBREW series on our stream. We decided to run the list of classes and, not only, look at the optimal builds, but, as is our speciality, get creative and brew some ‘out of the box’ Barbarians. Something we ttouched upon but didn’t really have time to flesh outContinue

Magic goes old school D&D in a new mechanic and set

Magic the Gathering, being owned by the same company that owns the greatest RPG game of all time, Dungeons and Dragons, has taken a few stabs at merging the world in the past with the various Planeshifts to Innistrad, Zendikar, Amonkhet, Dominaria, Kaladesh and Ixilan. And Wizards of the Coast dug even deeper with aContinue

Olzira Roren: Half-Elf Spellcaster on a Journey!

Hello all and welcome to a special edition of CHARACTER REFERENCE! Now, this entry spawned from two things. The first thing that birthed this small piece of insanity was a question of multiclassing.  The group had a long, meandering discussion about the pluses and minus’s of taking on more than one class across the lifeContinue

Character Reference: Aetris

Welcome to our newest ongoing series here at the Tavern! CHARACTER REFERENCE is an ongoing source for DMs to use to create NPCs or for Players to develop extraordinary out-of-the-box characters. This is a jumping off point. It can be taken as is or tweaked to fit your individual needs…