In this room-space you need to know which of the Big Three you want to work with. Groups of humanoids need places to sleep, relax and do family-time. Unlike living creatures, undead, sentient items and golems also need their own kind of spawning rooms. All sentient creatures need some kind of place to connect to […]
Cultural spaces are tricky to explain. You can imagine that some creatures would have many communication-community style chambers and many would have none. Elves, for example (even the drow) would have all of these cultural rooms and more. Giants would have ancient traditions going back as long as their rivals, dragons. Celestials would encourage mortal […]
Randomly Roll What Beasts Do & Where In Seconds Stable - Mountkeep: rideable creatures in water, air or land - or used to propel an object like carriage-chariot-wagon. Owlery - Falconry - Aviary - Roost: Creatures deliver messages - oft stealthy, clever & small. Zoo - Live Menagerie - Showcase: Creatures meant for modelling, display, […]
A Rare Item Worth More Than A Hill Of Beans The expensive rare item Bag Of Beans needs a friend - most of the time it is far worse than an uncommon item. You can roll three beans and it can summon a tea spewing spigot, an angry statue and an off-colour vampire. Fortunately, the […]
Treasure is the ticket to the next adventure. Done right your players will write the game they want to play. Use these tricks & tables to make your next campaign epic.
In Your Closet? These Skeletons Can Do So Much For Your Game! Skeletons in D&D are traditionally a stock-block monster. Ageless, simple A.I. ('they attack anything until destroyed'), have few surprises and many players have abilities for specifically dealing with these comparatively fragile undead. But how to make your skeletons interest, surprise, excite or even […]
For The Mist Elf, Reckoning Is Eternal Topics covered in sections below: The elf vs. orc question: This gives an answer you may not like to hear. Magical evolution: An elf evolved is still elf-like - yet able to defeat orc armies at a safe distance Tricks, Tactics & Techniques: How these deadlier elves work […]
How Can Orcs Be Violent Yet Peaceful? Keeping It In-Game. A few clans of orcs were being relentlessly hunted by better-equipped races and saw their karmic oblivion reward for the suffering and misfortune orc-wars had created. They would have to give up their warmongering ways, but how? Orcs live for combat, love bloodshed and adore […]
Can a kobold do more than skirmish? Yes. But you have to add some lore! Tucker's kobolds (Dragon Magazine issue 127) became famous for their combat prowess and their capacity to leverage their numbers. Techniques included more than slinging stones, sneaking about and other guerrilla tactics. Tucker also had them lay traps, plan ambushes and […]
So you have some Awakened animals & plants! What do they do with their new-found smarts? In previous publications there has been some mention of what an Awakened tree may do if you first shape them into anything that is both really large and made of wood. But what about beasts? You make them average […]
