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See More »A few days ago on Twitter, I got to talking about the warlock class of 3.5e’s Complete Arcane, with some remarks that I’ll repeat here as a prelude to offering some new Eldritch Invocations that center on eldritch blast. “Narratively, the warlock has grown so much that one can hardly […]
Today I want to tell you about a Kickstarter that Sharang Biswas is running. He’s writing flash fiction queer erotica about six of the D&D classes in this first volume of the Tome of Dark Delights. I’ve read the previews of the Bard, Paladin, and Cleric stories, and if you […]
Back in this post, I suggested quest shrines as active locations on game sites, where players could go to gain a minor quest with a reward. In this post, I’m getting a little deeper into the nuts and bolts of how it might work, including a collection of sample repeatable […]
Over the past several years of 5e design, we’ve seen per-short-rest timing go away completely as a matter of new, official subclass design. This becomes much clearer in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, in which many non-core races have been updated to operate on more uses, but per-long-rest instead. […]
Anatomists come from a relatively recent branch within the School of Necromancy. They are dedicated to anatomy and all that they can do with superior knowledge of the body. Like other necromancers, they face intense suspicion from society if their practice becomes known. In the most enlightened kingdoms or republics, […]
With some brainstorming help from friends last week, I have a new idea for the Ruby Talon Deeps. The core credit for this idea goes to Geoffrey Fortier. A new treasure type, called remembrances, are consumable items that grant both an effect and a memory relating to the history of […]
Since Sam Dillon and I just finished our conversation on 2e’s Complete Book of Necromancers in Edition Wars, I felt inspired to write some high-level necromancy spells. CBoN has several, though more than a few of them are so niche in effect that I’m not trying for direct translation. Might […]
In a recent post, I drew a side-view map of the Ruby Talon Deeps dungeon, with essentially no other description. At the time it was just about enjoying drawing and getting something out of my head so that I could get to my paying work. Today I’m revisiting it to […]
This yearly update is the closest this blog gets to personal rather than game content or commentary. Eleven years, and this is the blog’s 496th published post. Not too bad – though I’m vain enough to be sad that my daily pageviews have dropped off by about 30%. Maybe someday […]
I’m finally getting around to writing in detail about an idea I proposed over in Tribality, in my Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything breakdown. This is a mechanical framework for processes that don’t end when you reduce one or more targets to 0 hit points – maybe there’s also combat going […]
