Players need the 'Facts to Act '. Get your players to invest, choose - and create their story that matters. A DM or GM must give players facts for any room-space: monstrous-NPCs, place-event-settings & thingy-McGuffins. Yet, a 'good' Dungeon Masters keep many factors up whilst describing these adventuring-nouns to players? How can the DM keep […]
Everyone knows what's coming with a Green dragon... or do they? Adventurers are heavily prepared to fight dragons. Why? Dragons live for centuries with low-mobility 'lairs' - thousands of stories exist. What with creatures immune / resist poisons, Green dragons are even at more disadvantage. How do you make this creature impressive? Here are three […]
Goblins of myth deserve to be fun again! Try out these stories and Make Your Adventures Great Again (MYAGA).
Handling 'life-long' contracts in-game. The other day my player character asked: 'what does my patron want?' - i had to admit, it was a good question. This triggered a cascade of yet other very valuable queries: What 'payment' does it / he / she get in return for giving a mortal heroic superpowers? How often […]
The Little Plant That Could The Adorable & Faithful Awakened Shrub & Humble Beginnings These shrubs may be more clever than most - but they have the land speed of a gnome, no ability stat above 11 (average of 8!), and only one language (yes, it does talk) - there is little to say about […]
"Mirror mirror, on the wall - who shall live and who shall fall?" Greek mythology is not always kind. If you look up the story behind Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale and what Poseidon does to them in a sacred temple - and then what their goddess does to them as a 'reward' - you should be upset. […]
That One Spell That Keeps Your Story Alive. Your average dungeon-grind: player's characters discover-hunt the Big Bad - they go to ground, a set of rooms within a building &/or dungeon. Players slaughter minions, super-minions, semi-bosses and finally they get to the key figure - usually in that order. Then these characters slaughter this big […]
Dragons live for ages - just what are they up to when not sleeping? Regardless of age, kind or type of dragon they need a lairs - hopefully with treasure. Putting money into large, hidden spaces is just what they do. That 'home' may be abandoned caves, out of the way castles or great subterranean […]
