Category: homebrew
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5 Memorable Magical Trinkets (And Two Regrettable Items)
Some magic items are memorable because they were the object of a lengthy quest. Some magic items are memorable because they were used in a pivotal moment. And some are memorable because they are dumb…
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Monster: Ethereal Life-Draining Spirits
Picture a black, malevolent spirit with flowing tendrils and stretched-out limbs like a starfish the size of a monkey. Picture it latched on to someone’s back, slowly draining their life force away, feeding the energy to the mother creature to breed more of such spirits. And picture them invisible.
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Better Nature Themed Monsters: More Than Entangle
Friends, we all like a sinister vine that softly creeps up behind someone and snakes around their ankle. I take no issue with this. What I take issue with is that plant monsters have nothing better than entangle…
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House Rules
A game should be alive. It should breathe. Like a recipe, it offers a baseline which can be adjusted to suit one’s taste. And thus was born the house rules. Here are the house rules frequently used at my table.
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Combat System for Text-Based D&D
I am currently running a text-based solo adventure for a friend, and the delay between messages is often several days. If not weeks. This causes a dilemma. Combat in D&D is notoriously time-consuming…
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Low Level Nature Dungeon
From one perspective, every time characters journey through the wilderness, they are in a natural dungeon. The walls are made of rivers, cliff edges, and tree lines, and the traps are predators that lie in wait for easy prey. But for most of us, when we want a dungeon we…
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Two-Headed Snake Stat Block
Here is the two-headed snake that I did not get to use because my players were clever enough to skip the mini boss and head straight into the serpents’ nest…
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Campaign: Rise of the Serpentines
Many years ago the people of the Smoldering Isles were conquered and subjugated by a truly evil people of serpentine form. Here are their stat blocks and an epic adventure outline in which they seek to rule again.
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Making Monster Fights Cool
In a game that is about fighting monsters, it is surprisingly easy to have monster fights that are, well, boring. I would like to focus on making monster fights exciting, suspenseful, and memorable.
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Wilderness Travel at Low Levels
Throughout the ages people have tried to tame the wilderness, and the wilderness fights back. We think we have conquered, but we have merely carved out corners of the world. And security is but an illusion. The players should feel this when they step off the road, especially when their…
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