Do your monsters bore you? Are your fights uninteresting? I’ve run into this problem. It is an issue plaguing many DMs. However, it is easy to fix. I stopped doing the minimum. I made a list of criteria, looked at each encounter, and decided if it was missing things from that. So take a page…
Take a Page from my Book: 10 Best D&D Spell Scrolls
Dungeons Masters, have you ever wanted to fill up a hoard, but had no clue what to put in it? Did you stare at the pages and nothing jumped out at you? Sure, you’re adding in more potions now, but it still isn’t quite varied enough. What do you do? What else is there? Let…
Playing to the Hilt: Orcs
Dungeons and Dragons, even fantasy in general, has few villains more iconic than the classic orc. If goblins are the weak fodder, orcs are the monstrous marauders bent on pillaging and plundering. Recent trends have shown an effort to make orcs grow beyond that standard. That’s all well and good, namely for newer settings. However,…
Playing to the Hilt: Goblins
Among fantasy, and Dungeons and Dragons specifically, goblins have played a simple role. Namely, they’re fodder for fledgling adventurers to cut through. They are the mean, crude, destructive little creatures and most common folk would be far happier without them. And yet, there’s a strong appeal to them. A sort of mischievousness is implicit in…
Playing to the Hilt: Elves
In wild forests, in lost towers, and even in the darkest depths of the world (and beyond) live one of the most iconic races in all of fantasy. Elves are as varied as their lifespan is long but all share in common certain magical traits and outlooks that more mundane men lack. It isn’t the…
Catering to 5th Edition: A Mordenkain’s Tome of Foes Review
In the earlier days of Dungeons and Dragons, the first players established many signature characters that are still referenced in D&D today. This is namely due to those initial adventurers asking about spells they could invent. Bigby, Melf, Evard, Tasha, all key characters in D&D lore, though one other eclipses them all. That character was…
Catering to 5th Edition: A Player’s Handbook Review
“Jargon” is not a word one thinks of often, at least not outside of some seemingly complicated profession. But tabletop role playing games have also developed their own jargon. Two broad examples are “flavor” and “crunch.” In the context of a game, “flavor” refers to story elements or lore that gives a certain feel to…
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