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See More »This post is an example of revisiting material I wrote many years ago and updating it to the way I would write it now. Editing, if you will, but more than that, examining how my understanding and the technically correct styles have changed. D&D 5e: The Homunculus | Living Clay […]
I haven’t written a collection of magic items for this blog since… oh wow, October of 2024. All of my magic item design has gone toward Avantris projects since then, I guess! We’ve been running a bunch of necromantic storylines over in Citadel LARP, and I thought the D&D crowd […]
I’ve been formulating this post in my head for years. I hope it helps someone run better, kinder games. Including me—I’m talking about lessons that I have learned the hard way and still struggle with at times. This is mostly for the LARP side, as I’m going to talk about […]
February has been very demanding so far, but we just finished the first Citadel event of Season Two, so I’m taking time to remember that this blog exists and its readers are delightful people who deserve content. Thanks for reading, y’all. I’m about halfway through the list of Special Facilities […]
I like naming characters things. I like constructing a set of phonemes into something remotely plausible as a fantasy name and using the sense of it to say something about the region. At the same time, I am given to understand that for some people this is a source of […]
I am so grateful for the positive responses to the last two posts in this series that I’m continuing without delay, before the deadline doom of the next few months eats my head again. Let’s see how many of these I can get through. Improving Bastions | Updated Special Facilities pt 1 […]
I had fun revising the first few Bastion Special Facilities in my previous post, so today I’m doing a few more. I’m still not sure what I want to do with the Barrack, beyond adding an -s to the end as most English speakers would, so I’m starting with the […]
I’ve talked before about what a mess I think the 2024 DMG’s Bastion rules are. With all respect to the designers, I think there are good LEGOs in the pile, but this arrangement of them doesn’t serve the needs of the game or the story. The Issues First, I’ll recapitulate […]
It’s another year of blogging done, even if the last few months have been very thin around here. Some of my big clients have had steady work for me, and Citadel has taken whatever was left over from that. We’ll see how that develops over the next year. Games I’m […]
For Halloween, Kainenchen put together an awesome good-witch costume. Not in, you know, the Oz sense, though she’s also just finished rereading The Wizard of Oz and picked up the next book. Anyway, this subclass hasn’t seen any review from the Worlds Beyond Number team, but it was commissioned by […]
