Strange Breeds I started playing D&D around early November of 1978. I started designing my first dungeon about a week later. I started designing my first RPG around December 1978. (And by "design", I mean, basically copied the randomly incoherent … Continue reading →
Arcane Breath When the Empire of Scales fell, the dragonborn were violently divided over whom to blame. Most blamed every breed but their own. Some blamed the true dragons whose behind-the-scenes squabbling eventually infected the Empire as a whole. Some … Continue reading →
Morgarin’s Chants Continuing yesterday’s theme a bit, we turn to class powers only available to those of a specific race. I really believe that choices ought to matter, that any time you’re asked to spend resources, there should be some … Continue reading →
Multiclass Powers — Fragments From Dulicain’s Scroll OK, first off, to any readers, I shall apologize… this is pretty much "After Dinner Crunch". Today was a holiday, and since I wasn’t getting to get ready for work, my usual schedule … Continue reading →
OK, More Like Saturday Brunch… Well, after two and a half weeks, it was bound to happen. Sorry, folks, I had paying work to do, and then had to actually deal with living players showing up to play, and then … Continue reading →
Zombie Magic I have often wondered exactly how magic items entered D&D. There may be some old-timer recollections about the genesis of them somewhere on the ‘net, but I haven’t seen them. The origin of rust monsters and polyhedral dice … Continue reading →
Half Dead If you can have half-vampires, why not half-zombies? But before we go there, a quick aside. As it turns out, WOTC already has their version of the nom-your-brains zombie, it’s in Open Grave and it’s a template which … Continue reading →
Zombie Fever! Or what All Flesh Must Be Eaten calls "Sharing The Love". While many undead have a spawn creation feature — "Any creature slain by a Darkname Scarything will rise as a Darkname Scarything in RandomRoll rounds" — zombies, … Continue reading →
Z Is For Zombie So I had this brilliant idea that daily stuff would be easier if I had a weekly theme. The hard part then, is finding a theme. As I staggered out of bed this morning, the answer was … Continue reading →
Strange Brew (aka Drinking And Dragons, Part 3) Hey, eight days of Breakfast Crunch! If this were a typical "daily" updated webcomic, this would have taken two months! (It would also have a lot more readers, especially if my main … Continue reading →